Patent ID: 7647865
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G07F,H05B

Abstract:
1. SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND EXTRACTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS IN AUTOMATIC DISPENSING MACHINES, being of the type of automatic dispensing machine which is provided with cold equipment for maintenance of food products at a suitable conservation temperature until their consumption, being stored on a series of parallel trays and which upon their extraction are first of all transported to a transversal tray which is transverse to said series of parallel trays, and likewise have means of heating the products based on a microwave oven, the series of storage trays for the products being housed in a cubicle closed by an internal door, wherein the system comprises means of handling the products in their heating and extraction phase, said means of handling being connected by a an access hatch with a cubicle for the housing of storage trays for the products, and the means of handling the products in their heating and extraction phase being defined by: a vertical duct, open above and below, formed in relation to the access hatch for the products to dispense made in an internal door for closing and separating the cubicle for the housing of trays with the stored products; a body internal to the vertical duct with its upper base closed for the depositing of products to be dispensed via the access hatch of the internal door, said internal body being displaceable in the ascending-descending direction; a platform, horizontally displaceable, for closure of the open upper base of the vertical duct and sweeping of the upper base of the body internal to the vertical duct; a microwave oven with a lower opening of similar section to the body internal to the vertical duct, in relation to which it has been made, wherein following the dispensing, via the access hatch of the internal door for closing and separating the cubicle for housing the trays with the stored products and the depositing of the corresponding product on the upper base of the body internal to the vertical duct, the body ascends with the product to be heated deposited on its upper base as far as the interior of the microwave, said body closing the lower opening of the microwave.