CA2041298A1 - Computer controlled system for vending personalized products - Google Patents

Computer controlled system for vending personalized products

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CA2041298A1
CA2041298A1 CA2041298A CA2041298A CA2041298A1 CA 2041298 A1 CA2041298 A1 CA 2041298A1 CA 2041298 A CA2041298 A CA 2041298A CA 2041298 A CA2041298 A CA 2041298A CA 2041298 A1 CA2041298 A1 CA 2041298A1
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Stephen Philip Buckley
Michael Lynn Vandemark
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Hallmark Cards Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q30/00—Commerce
    • G06Q30/02—Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/26—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for printing, stamping, franking, typing or teleprinting apparatus

Abstract

This invention relates to a vending machine and more particularly to an interactive machine which is usable to dispense a variety of personalized products including greeting cards and/or visual and audio media as selected by a customer. It is arranged to accept inexpensive stock products and to effect modifications such as to provide highly attractive personalized products. A
machine constructed in accordance with the invention preferably includes an enclosure with selection and payment means on the outside thereof and with storage and handling means on the inside thereof, all coupled to a computer equipment which is on the inside of the enclosure and which is programmed to facilitate a customer's creation from among types of products to be delivered and the desired mode of personalization thereof and to deliver a completed personalized product to d respectable from which it may be removed by the customer. An important feature of the invention relates to the provision for manufacture of personalized greeting cards from "white paper", i.e. paper stock of any color and of any weight and in sheet or roll form, particulary including, for example, heavy paper stock or cardboard such as 59 pound stock used for high quality greeting cards, to provide a completed card, the machine imprints on such stock both graphics and text as selected by a customer to provide a personalized card of very high quality. With this arrangement, all stock is used. There are no expensive preprinted forms which might go unused and waste is eliminated. Another very important advantage is that a great many graphics and text formats may be permanently stored in digital form as on hard discs, tape or CD ROMs, to provide customers with much wider selections of graphics and text formats.
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US07/602,439 US5561604A (en) 1988-12-08 1990-10-22 Computer controlled system for vending personalized products
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