JP2004188271A - Rice vending machine and rice polishing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice vending machine and a rice polishing machine with which even a user who has not decided to purchase or polish rice and visits with nothing in the hand can purchase or polish rice without fail. <P>SOLUTION: This rice vending machine or this rice polishing machine is provided with a rice bag paying-out means 2 for paying-out a take-out rice bag 1 of a size equivalent to the amount of the rice to be processed by feeding the proper charge and then performing a switching operation before or after the processing is completed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a rice vending machine and a rice milling machine that automatically sells rice (brown rice or white rice) or mills rice according to the price when the price is input.
[0002]
[Prior art]
2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a so-called coin milling machine has been known which automatically mills rice according to the price when the price is input. Recently, the demands of users have diversified, and there are requests to bring back freshly polished white rice without bringing brown rice, and requests to bring home brown rice, and Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-267768 and Techniques such as 2000-24528 are known.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, with the conventional coin milling machine described above, although it is possible to bring back white rice and brown rice without bringing brown rice, customers who do not bring brown rice tend to forget to bring a rice bag to bring home rice after polishing. is there. Even if a rice bag is provided in a rice-milling place, it is difficult for the user to always take stock when the user brings it back more than necessary, and after all, there are many cases where the stock is not effective regardless of the field.
[0004]
The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and a rice vending machine that can purchase or mill rice without any problem even for a user who visits by air, regardless of the purpose of purchasing or milling rice. And to provide rice milling machines.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A rice vending machine and a rice milling machine according to the present invention made to solve the above-mentioned problem are provided with a take-out rice bag necessary for the amount of rice to be processed, and a switch before or at the end of the processing accompanied by the input of consideration. A rice bag dispensing means for dispensing by operation is provided.
[0006]
Note that the processing is a series of operations performed by a rice vending machine or a rice milling machine with the insertion of coins, and a payout processing, a rice milling processing, and a premise that brown rice is sold regardless of whether rice is milled or not. Refers to the transfer of brown rice or white rice accompanying this. The consideration includes not only cash but also use of a prepaid card or the like. The phrase "consideration of the consideration" means that a switch operation is performed on condition that the consideration is entered.For example, there may be a case where the switch operation is designed to be internally performed by inputting the consideration. In some cases, a certain type of payout switch that functions on condition of input of a consideration is artificially operated. Further, it is also possible to set a lower limit of the price at which the switch operation is performed. The rice bag dispensing means may be designed so that the rice bags are dispensed in a fixed container.
[0007]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of a rice vending machine and a rice milling machine according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings, taking a coin milling machine having both functions as the rice vending machine and the rice milling machine as an example.
[0008]
In the example of the rice milling machine shown in FIG. 2, a sales operation panel 4, a carry-in operation panel 5, a brown rice input port 6, and a stone removal means 7 for setting functions required by a user and inputting the price. , A storage tank 8, a measuring means 9, a rice milling means 10, a white rice tank 11, and an elevating means 12 for transferring rice between them. By controlling them as a computer system (see FIG. 5), the function of milling brown rice brought in by a user to a desired degree of milling and the measurement of brown rice in the storage tank 8 by the metering means 9 are performed. Thus, a function of milling brown rice sold to a desired degree of milling (including a case where milling is not performed at all) is realized.
[0009]
As shown in FIG. 2, the rice bag dispensing means 2 in the example of the rice milling machine is provided in a sales operation panel 4 which is operated when the sold brown rice is milled to a desired degree of milling (rice milling as necessary). May be installed at another location on the machine or rice vending machine.) The rice bag dispensing means 2 in this example includes a cylindrical hopper 13 for vertically stacking a relatively flat rectangular container 3 containing the folded rice bag 1 and a lowermost position of the hopper 13 as a fixed position. The standing container 14 pushes the side of the fixed container 3 located at the lowermost position, and the fixed container 3 is horizontally moved so as to protrude from a rice bag payout port 15 provided on the panel of the operation panel 4 for sale. It comprises a payout table 16 to be transferred, a driving means 17 for horizontally moving the payout table 16 and a control means 27 (see FIG. 5). In this example, a drive mode using a rack and pinion using the servomotor 22 as a power source is adopted.
[0010]
The control means 27 of the rice bag dispensing means 2 also functions as a control means for the whole rice milling machine, and selects a rice milling function and sets details of the rice milling function by a sales operation panel panel shown in FIG. When purchasing brown rice at the milling location, the user selects a variety of brown rice to be purchased using the operation panel for sale, and then inputs the price of the brown rice into the bill insertion slot 18. When the bill discriminating means 19 (see FIG. 5) of the rice milling machine detects the detection, the carry-in operation panel 5 is set in a reception prohibited state such as turning off an indicator light or returning a coin.
[0011]
While counting the number of bills inserted by the counter of the bill recognizing means 19 and displaying the count on the fee display lamp 20, when a predetermined fee is reached, the counter issues an operation command and the milling degree switch 21 of the operation panel for sale is turned on. Flashes and enters the selection standby state. The operation command is a switch operation for starting the process of dispensing the take-out rice bag 1 to the control means 27, and from the steady state shown in FIG. Then, the dispensing table 16 is transferred toward the rice bag dispensing port 15 and the rice bag containing box 23 is escaped by a certain amount outside the rice bag dispensing port 15 (see FIG. 1B). The servo motor 22 immediately starts reversing after satisfying the prescribed transfer stroke of the payout table 16 and partially lays down the transported rice bag box 23 without transferring the transported rice bag box 23. As shown in FIG. 1C, the empty payout table 16 is returned below the stacked rice bag boxes 23 (hereinafter, this series of operations is referred to as a payout operation). The transfer stroke of the payout table 16 may be controlled by a position detection sensor installed on the transfer trajectory or the like, or the rotation angle or the number of rotations of the servomotor 22.
[0012]
At this time, the stacked rice bag boxes 23 are dropped by their own weights one by one, triggered by the removal of the rice bag boxes 23 from the rice bag payout port 15, but usually the rice bag Before the take-out table 16 is taken out from the exit 15, the pay-out table 16 returns, and even if it becomes the underlay of the stacked rice bag boxes 23 in the middle of the return, the pay-out table 16 remains at the tip of the upright piece 14 of the pay-out table 16 in the return direction. By the provided slope 26, the payout table 16 can smoothly pass under the stacked rice bag boxes 23.
[0013]
The hopper 13 of the rice bag dispensing means 2 is provided with an inventory detection sensor (a limit switch or the like) 25 for detecting the presence or absence of the rice bag box 23 at the lowest position. Is determined by the control means 27, the control means 27 turns on the sold-out lamp 28, stops accepting operations by the operation panel 4 for sale, and sets a state in which rice sales and rice polishing operation are not performed.
[0014]
The rice bag 1 dispensed as described above is attached to the discharge port of the white rice tank 11, and the rice is literally discharged by receiving the function as a rice milling machine by adjusting the milling degree by the milling degree switch 21 of the operation panel for sale. White rice or brown rice discharged by the function of a rice vending machine in which rice is not polished at all is put in the rice bag 1 and brought back.
[0015]
The material (synthetic resin or paper) and the shape of the rice bag 1 are appropriately adopted by an administrator of the rice mill. The size (capacity) may vary up to about 10 to 15 kg in view of practicality, and it is not easy to dispense one or a predetermined number of rice bags having different surface textures and shapes. In this regard, as in this example, if the container is stored in the fixed container 3 and paid out as the box 23 with rice bags (see FIG. 4), no matter what kind of bag is contained in the fixed container 3, the container containing the bag is included. Since it is set in a fixed shape (fixed form), the rice mill manager can select and use any kind of rice bag 1 without any problems, let alone adjust the existing equipment, let alone design a new dispensing mechanism. There is a merit that can be used without.
[0016]
The number of times that the dispensing operation of the rice bag 1 is performed is usually only one if the rice bag of about 10 to 15 kg is used, but the amount of rice to be purchased is determined by converting from the number of inserted bills. By referring to a data table stored in advance in the control means 27, the capacity required to bring back the amount of purchased rice is automatically adjusted so as to be the number of times secured by the dispensed rice bag 1. May be set.
[0017]
It is also possible to provide the rice bag dispensing means 2 in a rice vending machine that does not have a rice milling function. In this case, as an example of the configuration, a function required by the user is set and the price is input. It consists of a control panel for sale, a brown rice (or white rice) inlet for storage, a quarrying machine, a storage tank, a weighing machine, a white rice tank, and an elevator for transferring rice between them, and these can be controlled as a computer system. Good.
[0018]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the rice vending machine and the rice milling machine of the present invention, it is possible to bring back white rice or brown rice without bringing brown rice, as in the conventional coin rice milling machine. You can also secure a rice bag to take home. In addition, since a certain number of bags are paid out by a switch operation accompanied by a charge, the problem that it is difficult to always stockpile when the user brings back more than necessary is solved, and the effect of the stockpile of rice bags is ensured. Can be obtained.
[0019]
Furthermore, by using a configuration in which the rice is stored in a fixed-sized box and dispensed as a box with rice bags, the existing rice bag dispensing means can be applied to the rice-milling machine administrator regardless of the material and form, regardless of which bag is selected and used. I can do it.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 (a) (b) (c)
It is an explanatory view showing an example of the structure of the rice bag dispensing means used for the rice vending machine or the rice mill according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an example of a rice vending machine or a rice mill according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 (a) (b)
It is a schematic diagram showing an example of an operation panel of a rice vending machine or a rice mill according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing an example of a bag and a regular container used for a rice vending machine or a rice mill according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an example of control means used in a rice vending machine or a rice mill according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 rice bag, 2 rice bag dispensing means, 3 containers,
4 Operation panel for sale, 5 Operation panel for carry-in, 6 Brown rice input port, 7 Stone removal means,
8 storage tank, 9 measuring means, 10 rice polishing means, 11 white rice tank,
12 lifting means, 13 hopper, 14 standing piece, 15 rice bag payout port,
16 payout table, 17 driving means, 18 bill slot,
19 banknote identification means, 20 fee indicator light, 21 milling degree switch,
22 servo motor, 23 box with rice bag,
25 inventory detection sensor, 26 slope, 27 control means,
28 Sold Out Lamp

Claims (4)

A rice vending machine provided with a rice bag dispensing means (2) for dispensing a take-out rice bag (1) required for the amount of rice to be processed by a switch operation before or at the end of processing involving the input of consideration. The rice vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the rice bag dispensing means (2) dispenses the rice bags (1) in a fixed container (3). A rice milling machine provided with a rice bag dispensing means (2) for dispensing a take-out rice bag (1) necessary for the amount of rice to be processed by a switch operation before or at the end of processing involving payment of value. 4. The rice mill according to claim 3, wherein the rice bag dispensing means (2) dispenses the rice bags (1) in a fixed container (3).

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