RU49317U1 - GIFT DISTRIBUTION DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to the field of trade in goods or services and is intended to stimulate consumers to visit goods and services of commercial institutions (shops, restaurants, casinos, etc.) where these goods and services are sold. A device for distributing gifts to visitors to commercial institutions that stimulate them to visit these institutions is characterized in that it contains a housing in which gifts are placed and a mechanism for issuing them, equipped with a device for actuating it at intervals. As a result, the task of creating a device that would ensure the attraction of potential consumers with deferred demand to the commercial institution, who do not purchase anything during this visit, but who select suitable products or services for purchase in the future, is solved.

Description

The utility model relates to the field of trade in goods or services and is intended to stimulate consumers to visit goods and services of commercial institutions (shops, restaurants, casinos, etc.) where these goods and services are sold.

Various means are known for stimulating the acquisition of goods and / or services.

For example, such a means is a cashier's check equipped with an additional coupon placed on its reverse side, US 5413341 (Equipment and method for conducting a bonus game).

Buyers fill out coupons where they provide information to identify them. Then prize checks determined by random sampling are exchanged for prize coupons for certain goods or services.

This tool (cashier's check, equipped with an additional coupon) appears at the visitor of a commercial institution only after the purchase of any product or service. Such a situation cannot attract people to a particular commercial institution who are not currently planning to purchase anything, but would like to look at a potential purchase for the future. Thus, the above technical solution does not attract in a certain

trade institution a significant segment of deferred consumer demand.

There is also a technical solution for stimulating the sale of goods or services, including a set of cash terminals connected to a single network with a computer that collects information about the sequence of payments, assigns a prize determined by the organizers to a participant whose payment sequence is a multiple of any numbers, and gives a command to cash terminal on the right to receive a win, RU 2001132620 A.

The disadvantage of this technical solution is that it stimulates purchases, rather than potential buyers visiting a commercial institution, regardless of whether something is acquired during such a visit or possible purchases for the future are only selected and planned.

Known means of stimulating the purchase of goods or services, which is a solid-state carrier of functional information in the form of magnetic subway cards, other cards, transport or telephone, or credit cards, audio or video cassettes, laser CDs or floppy disks, air or train tickets,

product or advertising labels, tags, inserts in product packages, bottled beverage corks, etc., RU2001128315A.

This technical tool, like the others described above, directly stimulates the current consumption of goods and services and does not in any way induce consumers to make purchases in a particular institution in the future, that is, it does not solve the problem of attracting consumers to a specific commercial institution to select goods for the purpose their consumption later.

The applicant has not identified any known technical solutions to the problem of attracting potential customers to commercial establishments who do not purchase anything during this study visit. Therefore, according to the applicant, the present utility model does not have a prototype.

The basis of this utility model is the solution to the problem of creating a device that would ensure the attraction of potential consumers with deferred demand to a commercial institution who do not purchase anything during this visit, but who choose suitable goods or services for purchase in the future.

According to the utility model, this problem is solved by creating a device for distributing gifts to visitors of commercial institutions, containing a case in which gifts are placed and their mechanism

issuance, equipped with a device for bringing it into action at intervals of time.

The essence of the utility model is illustrated in the drawing, which shows the claimed device in longitudinal section.

A device for distributing gifts to visitors of commercial establishments comprises a housing 1 with a cover 2. Inside the housing 1, gifts are placed in the container 3. In a specific example, this is banknotes, however, it can be art cards, books, cards for free receipt of goods or services, and other items - CDs, containers with drinks, etc. In building 1 there is a mechanism for issuing gifts, which is a a specific example, the motor 4 with the pressure feed roller 5. The roller 5 enters the window 6, made in the bottom of the tank 3. Periodic turning on of the motor 4 at equal or arbitrary time intervals is carried out using the device 7 bring it about in action. In this example, this device is an electromagnetic relay (not shown conditionally in the drawing) that turns the power of the motor 4 on and off and is connected to it by the electric line 8. The time for turning the motor on and off in a specific example is programmed in the microprocessor, the signals from which are fed through the amplifier to on and off relay

electric motor 4.

The device is placed inside the trading room at a place accessible to visitors. The time of issue of the gift is not known to visitors, so waiting for such a moment is impractical. Depending on the value of the gift, the interval can be several hours or even days for valuable gifts (therefore, continuous waiting is pointless), and for inexpensive gifts (for example, postcards) the interval between giveaways can be small, due to the symbolic cost of gifts and their quick distribution There will not be crowds around the device.

However, visitors, aware of the availability of such a device, will have an additional incentive to visit a commercial institution.

The device operates as follows. Gifts are placed in container 3 — banknotes in the form of a stack 9. The lower bill in the stack contacts the roller 5. At predetermined time intervals, the device 7 turns on the electric motor 4, and the roller 5 feeds the bill through the slot 10 in the container 3 and the slot 11 in the housing 1 to to the consumer. A gift can be picked up by a visitor to a commercial institution who is closest to the device at the time of issue.

In principle, the mechanism for giving gifts in the form of sheets or cards in a stack can be more complicated, for example,

which are used in copy machines or in printing.

For filing bulk gifts, mechanisms similar to those used in vending machines designed to sell drinks in cans or glass containers, coffee, tea or juices poured into glasses, etc. can be used.

Claims (1)

A device for distributing gifts to visitors of commercial establishments, characterized in that it comprises a housing in which gifts are placed and a mechanism for dispensing them, equipped with a device for actuating it at time intervals.