Patent ID: 6067898
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
A rice vending machine comprising:a housing formed with at least one taking opening, a coin slit, a heat radiating opening and a supplementing opening, the taking opening being communicated with a taking receptacle, the heat radiating opening being disposed with a fan driven by a power source;a rice container for containing rice therein, a releasing port being disposed on lower side of the rice container, multiple cooling units being disposed on outer side of the rice container, the rice container being enclosed by a thermal retardation layer;a packing unit including a belt reel on which a packing belt is disposed, multiple rollers and a sealing cutter disposed at a rear section of a travel of the packing belt, a pair of transferring arms being disposed on one side of the sealing cutter for transferring, clamping, planing, cutting, stretching and sealing the packing belt; anda controlling unit including a metering section and an operation section, the metering section counting a number of coins inserted into the coin slit and transforming the number into a amount of rice, the metering section also controlling the amount of the transferred packing belt to manufacture different packing bags with different sizes for packing different amounts of rice, the operation section coordinating the packing operation, after the rice is packed, the packed rice falls into the taking receptacle.