Patent ID: 9710992
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. An automatic product dispensing machine, comprising: a frame delimiting at least a housing chamber; a magazine, operatively arranged internally of the housing chamber, the magazine being configured to contain a plurality of products; at least a display associated to the frame and interposed between the housing chamber and an environment external to the dispensing machine; a control unit acting on the display and configured to enable visualisation of images and/or items of information on the display; wherein the display is transparent, enabling direct visual access to the magazine and to the products contained therein and to be dispensed, the control unit being configured to be selectively active on at least a portion of the display in order to visualise images and/or items of information on the display itself, wherein the control unit is configured to be active on at least the portion of the display in order to switch the display between at least two of following three conditions: a visualising condition, in which the display reproduces on at least a portion thereof an item of information and/or an image which is visible externally by a user and there is no substantial visual access to the housing chamber through the portion; a transparent condition, wherein at least a product contained in the magazine is visible through the portion of the display; a superposing condition in which at least a portion of the display reproduces an item of information and/or an image which is visible externally to a user and at least a product contained in the magazine is at least partly visible through the portion, and wherein the display is a touch-screen, the contact with an area of the touch-screen display in the superposing condition enables activation of a release unit, enabling dispensing of the product aligned in the view of the user to the selected area.