摘要 |
PURPOSE:To make it possible to cope with a sellout, fault and exhaustion of change immediately by checking collection of money definitely by centrally controlling several automatic vending machines which are linked to a center through a telephone station. CONSTITUTION:It is made possible to transfer information between several subordinate stations A to A<n>' and common center C via telephone station B. Subordinate stations A to An' consist of automatic vending machine groups 1 to 1<n>' interfaces 2 to 2<n>' control parts 3 to 3<n>' and circuit connection parts 4 to 4<n>' and center C makes access to subordinate stations A to A<n>' via telephone station B according to a prescribed program and then obtains information stored in control parts 3 to 3<n>' on the sale, sellout, exhaustion of change, etc., of vending machine groups 1 to 1<n>' thereby processing them adequately. |