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CA 2222894

A vending machine (100) for serving a plurality of customers, each having a payment card, which includes a vending unit (102) for storing and displaying an accessible inventory (112A-112N) and for selectively enabling and barring free access of a customer to aplurality of items therefrom (106), a card payment unit (103) which upon receipt of a payment card from a customer, validates, prior to said enabling, that the payment card can be charged for the value of the accessible inventory, and which charges, after the barring, the payment card with a sum in accordance with items removed from the accessible inventory by the customer and a control unit (105) for coordinating the operation of said vending unit (100) and said card payment unit (103).

Cette invention concerne un distributeur automatique (100) pouvant être utilisé par une pluralité de clients qui possèdent chacun une carte de paiement. Ce distributeur comporte une unité de distribution (102) qui permet de stocker et d'exposer un stock de marchandises accessibles (112A-112N) et qui autorise ou interdit à un client l'accès libre à une pluralité d'articles (106), une unité destinée aux cartes de paiement (103) qui, lorsqu'elle reçoit la carte de paiement d'un client, vérifie, avant d'autoriser l'accès, que la carte de paiement peut être débitée de la valeur du stock de marchandises accessibles, et qui débite, après avoir rendu l'accès impossible, ladite carte de paiement d'une somme correspondant aux articles qui ont été retirés du stock de marchandises par le client, et enfin une unité de commande (105) qui sert à coordonner le fonctionnement de ladite unité de distribution (100) et de ladite unité (103) destinée aux cartes de paiement.

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