Merrill J Krakauer

US Patent:

39412792, Mar 2, 1976

Filed:

Apr 30, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/465679

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

International Classification:

B65G 3304

US Classification:

221 86

Abstract:

A vending apparatus includes a plurality of divider members each adapted to advance and discharge individual articles disposed upon a shelf by means of a feeder assembly including a driveable element having advancing means engaging the dividers. Upon actuation, the feeder assembly advances all dividers carried thereby until that divider immediately behind the forwardmost article reaches a discharge point at which time switch means are operated by that divider to cease actuation of the feeder assembly.

US Patent:

40870200, May 2, 1978

Filed:

Jul 1, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/701881

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

International Classification:

G07F 1182

US Classification:

221 84

Abstract:

A merchandising machine made up of a plurality of generally vertical panels extending from adjacent to the top of the cabinet to a location adjacent to the cabinet delivery opening and each of which panels supports upper and lower generally circular merchandise supply carriers having a plurality of radially extending article storage compartments and each of which carriers is adapted to be driven in the course of a cycle of operation of the machine to position a compartment to deliver its article to an escrow assembly adapted to be actuated to deliver an article from a display surface positioned behind a window in the cabinet to the delivery mechanism at the delivery opening. Each carrier is provided with an ejector adapted to be moved into the compartment positioned adjacent to the escrow assembly positively to move an article from the compartment to the display surface. A lock is provided for locking the delivery door of the delivery mechanism closed during a cycle of operation of the machine.

US Patent:

48421618, Jun 27, 1989

Filed:

Jun 4, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/058611

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

Assignee:

Rowe International, Inc. - Whippany NJ

International Classification:

G07F 1152

US Classification:

221 76

Abstract:

A countertop snack vendor in which a drum having a plurality of groups of circumferentially spaced article-receiving compartments is mounted within a cabinet for rotary movement around a generally horizontal axis with the groups disposed respectively behind normally locked elongated transparent doors, each of which spans a plurality of compartments of its associated group to afford a potential customer a view of a large number of articles. Each door is freed upon the deposit of money in the vendor for limited movement from a normally closed position to an open position at which a single compartment of the associated group is accessible.

US Patent:

D3126390, Dec 4, 1990

Filed:

Mar 8, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/320531

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ
Joseph J. Krestakos - Grand Rapids MI
Douglas F. Wolff - Marshall MI

Assignee:

Rowe International, Inc. - Whippany NJ

US Classification:

D14173

US Patent:

43913881, Jul 5, 1983

Filed:

Apr 30, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/258937

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

International Classification:

G07F 1154

US Classification:

221 76

Abstract:

A merchandising machine of the type in which a merchandise carrier comprising a plurality of levels of compartments, each adapted to receive merchandise, is mounted within a cabinet for movement as a unit around a vertical axis with the compartment levels at heights corresponding to respective cabinet access openings closed by normally locked doors. Respective controls corresponding to the levels are adapted to be set alternatively to cause the levels to operate in a first-in, first-out mode or in a shopper mode. In the first-in, first-out mode, upon actuation of the selection button corresponding to the level, the carrier is driven until the next full compartment of the level is behind its associated door and then stops. In the shopper mode, the selecting button corresponding to the level causes the carrier to be driven until any desired compartment of that level is behind its associated door.

US Patent:

41767624, Dec 4, 1979

Filed:

Jul 19, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/926001

Inventors:

Frank T. Scalera - Maplewood NJ
Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

International Classification:

G07F 1100

US Classification:

221 81

Abstract:

An improved drive system for a merchandising machine having a plurality of removable modules each including an upper and a lower rotary merchandise carrier adapted to be driven successively to position the compartments thereof adjacent to an escrow mechanism actuated in response to movement of the carrier first to release an article and then to receive an article from a compartment positioned adjacent thereto, each unit having a product pusher adapted to be moved into a positioned compartment positively to force an article out of the compartment to the escrow mechanism, said drive system including a plurality of sliders mounted on the modules adjacent to the respective carriers for vertical reciprocating movement to carry a drag link having a pawl thereon along a path defined by cam and follower means successivly to step the carrier through a distance equal to the extent of one compartment and then to operate said pusher. The drive system includes a vertically reciprocating frame mounted on the module receiving cabinet which frame moves upwardly with a dwell for product delivery and which carries a plurality of selectively actuatable plates each of which is movable between an inactive position at which it clears its associated slider as the frame moves upwardly and an active position at which it engages its associated slider as the frame moves upwardly to drive the corresponding merchandise carrier and to operate the corresponding pusher.

US Patent:

43176046, Mar 2, 1982

Filed:

May 5, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/146313

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

International Classification:

A47F 100
A47B 4900

US Classification:

312 971

Abstract:

An all-purpose merchandiser for vending articles of merchandise, such as platters of food, desserts and the like, having a wide variety of shapes and sizes in which a generally circular merchandise carrier having a plurality of storage levels each of which is divided into a plurality of compartments having transparent walls and bases is mounted for movement around a vertical axis to carry the compartments past a cabinet door window and past a plurality of transparent access doors disposed for sliding movement in superposed relationship on the cabinet door. The dimensions of the windows and the doors and the transparency of compartment walls and bases afford a potential customer with a view of more than half the compartments on the carrier without moving the carrier so that he is able to determine the presence of articles therein. Preferably the windows and the doors are in planes extending slightly rearwardly from the midpoint of the cabinet door.

US Patent:

D2657457, Aug 10, 1982

Filed:

May 16, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/150346

Inventors:

Merrill Krakauer - Short Hills NJ

International Classification:

D2001

US Classification:

D20 4