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A coin-operated vending machine for bottles or cans of a moderate capacity, including a plurality of side-by-side storage chutes for feeding bottles or cans to openings in the front wall of the vending machine and a cradle in each of the openings forming a row of adjacent cradles for receiving the b

A coin-operated vending machine for bottles or cans of a moderate capacity, including a plurality of side-by-side storage chutes for feeding bottles or cans to openings in the front wall of the vending machine and a cradle in each of the openings forming a row of adjacent cradles for receiving the bottles or cans from the chutes. A refrigeration system directs chilled air by convection toward the next-to-be-vended cans in each of the cradles. The chilled air is directed by an air foil toward the cradles and the cradles have stand-off ribs therein to permit the free flow of chilled air under and around the next-to-be-vended cans.

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A convection refrigeration system for a cylindrical product vending machine comprising: a thermally-insulated cooling compartment for housing the cylindrical products on side-by-side vend chutes; evaporator means included within a mechanical refrigeration assembly disposed adjacent to a rear wall of

A convection refrigeration system for a cylindrical product vending machine comprising: a thermally-insulated cooling compartment for housing the cylindrical products on side-by-side vend chutes; evaporator means included within a mechanical refrigeration assembly disposed adjacent to a rear wall of the compartment for chilling air therein; each of said vend chutes including means for storing and feeding the cylindrical products to a discharge opening in a front of the vending machine including, a pair of sidewalls; a bottom shelf between said sidewalls sloping downwardly from the rear of said chute toward the front of said chute adjacent the discharge opening, a bottom surface of said bottom shelf directing chilled air from said evaporator means toward the discharge opening, whereby said cylindrical products roll along a serpentine path defined by said first and second shelves, said path beginning at the front of said top shelf and terminating at the discharge opening adjacent the front of said bottom shelf; and air foil means disposed opposite to the bottom surface of said bottom shelf for concentrating and directing chilled air toward said discharge opening and the next-to-be-vended cylindrical product.