Container for electronic device that allows multiple functions over a vending machine

• US 8,240,573 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2008
• Issued: 08/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pranasys SA
• Original Assignee: Pranasys SA
• Inventors: Cardozo Martinez, Alvaro Alejandro
• Primary Examiner(s): Frech, Karl D
• Application Number:
  US12/343,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20090236953A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,329 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380, 235/483
• US Class Current: 235/483
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 29/02 Framework
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/02 Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/10 Casings or parts thereof, e.g. with means for heating or cooling
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

A holding device which holds components of an electronic device, which is able to perform multiple functions on a vending machine is described. The device safely holds the components to ensure their proper performance even under hostile conditions. In one embodiment the holder includes a support for the printer paper, a lower back cover, an upper back cover, a main body and an anti-vandal front panel. The anti-vandal front panel protects the inner components from attack from the outside. The device also provides a display and permits the issuance of printed tickets.

Claims

1. A holder of an electronic device which allows for multiple functions on a vending machine, comprising:

a support for printer paper;

a back lower cover;

an upper back cover;

a main body;

an anti-vandal front panel; and

an antenna located in an inner frontal and central part of the holder.

2. The holder of claim 1, further comprising a paper guide having a first conic section inside the main body and a second conic section on the anti-vandal front panel, wherein the two conic sections are unaligned.

3. The holder of claim 2, wherein the anti-vandal front panel includes a paper exit slot connected to the second conic section.

4. The holder of claim 1, wherein the main body is removeably fixed to the back lower cover, the upper back cover, and the anti-vandal front panel via clip-like sockets and the main body protects and holds a plurality of internal components.

5. The holder of claim 1, wherein the anti-vandal front panel includes a consumer interface.

6. The holder of claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a mother board and wherein two screws fix the printer paper support to a printer, four screws fix the anti-vandal front panel to the vending machine, and four rivets fix the mother board in position.

7. A holder of an electronic device which allows for multiple functions, comprising:

a support for printer paper having a base and a plurality of side parts, wherein the base and side parts indicate a location for insertion of a paper roll;

a back lower cover;

an upper back cover;

a front panel;

a main body, wherein the main body is removeably fixed to the back lower cover, the upper back cover; and

the front panel; and

an antenna located in an inner frontal and central part of the holder,

wherein the holder is a fixed and independent unit of a vending machine.

8. The holder of claim 7, wherein the upper back cover pivots relative to the back lower cover to allow access to support for printer paper.