초록 ▼

This gift certificate has information recorded thereon for identifying a total face value vendible by the gift certificate and a predetermined base amount equal to or smaller than the total face value. The information recorded on a deposited gift certificate is read by a reading device. A validation

This gift certificate has information recorded thereon for identifying a total face value vendible by the gift certificate and a predetermined base amount equal to or smaller than the total face value. The information recorded on a deposited gift certificate is read by a reading device. A validation device validates the total face value and the base amount of the deposited gift certificate in response to the read information. A vending permission judgement device prohibits, in reponse to an output of the validation device, at least vending of an article to which a vend price below the base amount has been assigned. By virtue of this arrangement, a purchaser of an article from a vending machine by using a gift certificate is not forced to make purchase of the entire total face value but has only to make purchase above the base amount in which case a change preferably is paid out.

대표청구항 ▼

A control device for vending machine comprising: reading means for reading, responsive to deposition of a gift certificate, information recorded on the gift certificate, said gift certificate having information recorded thereon for identifying a total face value vendible by the gift certificate and

A control device for vending machine comprising: reading means for reading, responsive to deposition of a gift certificate, information recorded on the gift certificate, said gift certificate having information recorded thereon for identifying a total face value vendible by the gift certificate and a predetermined base amount equal to or smaller than the total face value; validation means responsive to an output of said reading means for validating the total face value and the base amount on the basis of said information recorded on the deposited gift certificate; and vending permission judgment means responsive to an output of said validation means for prohibiting vending of at least an article to which a vend price below the base amount has been assigned; wherein said vending permission judgment means prohibits vending of an article of a vend price below the base amount on the condition that the total face value and the base amount validated by said validation means are not equal to each other.