(19)
(11) EP 0 261 677 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
29.06.1988 Bulletin 1988/26

(43) Date of publication A2:
30.03.1988 Bulletin 1988/13

(21) Application number: 87113962

(22) Date of filing: 24.09.1987
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE ES FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 24.09.1986 US 911152
01.07.1987 US 68936

(71) Applicant: The Coca-Cola Company
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(72) Inventor:
  • Groover, Phillip Benson
     ()

   


(54) Increased column/selectivity vender


(57) A space-to-sales vend rack including a plurality of adjacent vend columns having a wide range of respective storage capacities, said columns including means for supporting products in vertical stacks therein and being arranged in groups to provide space for respective products commensurate with the anticipated sales of such products. Some of these columns are fixed within the vending machine which certain of these columns are mounted for at least partial removal from the interior of the vending machine to provide access to all of the columns for loading them with the products to be dispensed and for maximizing the numbers of groups of columns which can be placed within a given interior space of a vending machine.







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