JP2006164104A - Article delivery outlet of vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cope with the delivery of large-sized articles at the time of the continuous selling of such articles as for an article delivery outlet comprising a straw box and to prevent a vending trouble such that a small-sized article delivered into the article delivery outlet comes under the straw box thus preventing viewing from the outside at the time of selling of such articles. <P>SOLUTION: In this article delivery outlet 5 of a vending machine, an article delivery door 7 is arranged on the upper level front side of a box-type tray 6 for receiving articles which are delivered through a middle-door article delivery outlet 9, and the straw box which also serves as a theft preventing partitioning frame is provided in the delivery outlet. The straw box 12 is installed at a position spaced upward from the bottom of the tray, a rising part 16 having soft slopes to right and left is formed of a protruding seat 6a and a cushion mat 15 on the surface area of the tray bottom opposing the bottom of the straw box, and an interval h through which a large-sized article 11 can pass is secured between the top of the rising part and the bottom of the straw box. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a product outlet of a vending machine that sells various products such as cans, bottles, plastic bottles, and paper packs, and in particular, a product provided with a straw box for storing a straw (supplied product) inside the outlet. It relates to the structure of the outlet.

First, an external view of the entire vending machine mentioned above is shown in FIG. In the figure, 1 is a main body cabinet of a vending machine in which a product storage rack is housed in a warehouse, 2 is an outer door, 3 is a display room displaying product samples, 4 is a product selection button, 5 is a lower part of the outer door 2 The product outlet deployed in The selling operation of such a vending machine is well known, and a product paid out from a product storage rack in the warehouse in accordance with a sales command is taken out to a product take-out port 5 shown in the figure through a product carry-out shooter (or carry-out conveyor).
Further, in the vending machine described above, there is conventionally known a configuration in which a box for storing supplies such as straws used for eating and drinking such as paperback products is provided inside the product outlet (for example, , See Patent Document 1).
Next, FIGS. 4A and 4B show the conventional structure of the product outlet 5 described above. That is, the product outlet 5 is composed of an assembly of a box-shaped tray 6, a flapper-type product outlet door 7 provided at the upper front thereof, and an anti-theft flapper 8 disposed behind the tray 6. A product exit 9 with a flapper 9a opened in the middle door is opened side by side, and a product exit shooter 10 (or an exit conveyor) is laid on the inner side of the main body cabinet 1 toward the product exit. ing.

With this configuration, a product 11 (a product shown in the figure is a product in a plastic bottle) paid out from a product storage rack (not shown) based on a sales command rolls on the inclined surface of the product delivery chute 10 and moves to the product delivery port 9. The flapper 9a is pushed open and rolled down into the product outlet 5 as it is and is received by the tray 6. Here, in order for the purchaser to take out the product 11 carried out to the product outlet 5, the product outlet door 7 is opened to the front, and after confirming the product in the tray 6, a hand is placed at the product outlet. Insert and grab it.
In addition, a straw box 12 for storing a straw 13 (supplied product) is provided inside the product outlet 5. This straw box 12 is used to steal goods illegally from the inside of the cabinet by inserting the arms sideways into the anti-theft partition frame (opening the flapper 9a of the product outlet 9 from the back side of the anti-theft flapper 8 by hand). In order to have the function of preventing theft of the mouth), it is installed in the middle position of the product outlet 9 that is open behind the product outlet 5 side by side, and the inner space of the product outlet 5 is left and right. It is fixed with bolts 14 so as to divide into two, and a straw 13 is placed in the straw box 12 to be provided to the product purchaser. Reference numeral 15 denotes a cushion mat that is laid on the bottom surface of the tray 6 to mitigate the drop impact of the product 11.
JP-A-9-102070

By the way, in the vending machine provided with the product outlet having the conventional structure shown in FIG. 4, the product 11 (for example, a large plastic bottle product having an internal capacity of 500 ml) is continuously sold (a plurality of products are purchased continuously). Then, as shown in FIG. 4 (b), the products 11 successively taken out from the product storage rack in the warehouse are blocked by the straw box 12 and accumulated in one side space of the product take-out port 5, and are sold continuously. If the number is too large, it will not fit in the product take-out port 5 and the subsequent sale product will not be able to be taken out (inhibited by the taken-out product and the flapper 9a of the product carry-out port 9 will not open). There is. In such a state, the anti-theft flapper 8 interferes with the product and cannot be pushed in, and the product may not be taken out from the inside even if the product take-out door 7 is opened.
Therefore, in order to avoid such a sales trouble, the straw box 12 is installed at a position spaced apart from the bottom surface of the tray 6 and a large size is provided between the bottom wall of the tray 6 and the bottom surface of the straw box 12. If a product (for example, a plastic bottle product with an internal capacity of 500 ml) is secured in a space where it can pass through and one side space of the product outlet becomes full due to continuous sales, the product will be stored in the product outlet 5 Some measures have been taken so that the product take-out door 7 is opened, a hand is inserted from the empty space on the left side of the straw box 12, and the product 11 staying in the right space can be pulled out through the lower space of the straw box 12. It is used in vending machines.

However, it has been found that a sales trouble as described below newly occurs in the configuration of the product outlet in which the straw box 12 is installed to be spaced upward from the bottom surface of the tray 6 as described above. That is, when a small product (for example, a lactic acid bacteria beverage with an internal volume of 65 ml) is sold among various products sold by the vending machine, the product released into the product outlet 5 rolls on the bottom surface of the tray 6 and is a straw box. May sink under 12. In such a state, even if the customer opens the product take-out door 7, the product he / she purchased is hidden under the straw box 12 and cannot be visually recognized, and there is a possibility that the customer will misunderstand that the product has not been sold normally.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and to deal with the removal of products at the time of continuous sale of large products, while the products carried to the product outlet at the time of selling small products are straw boxes An object of the present invention is to provide an improved vending machine product outlet so that small products sold while preventing them from entering underneath can be seen with certainty.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, the product storage rack in the warehouse is arranged at the product outlet of the vending machine which is arranged at the lower part of the outer door of the main body and takes out the product delivered from the product storage rack in the warehouse. A product take-out door is placed on the upper front of the box-type tray that receives the product delivered forward through the product exit of the middle door, and a straw box that also serves as an anti-theft partition frame is provided inside the take-out exit. ,
After the straw box is installed at a position spaced upward from the bottom surface of the tray, a raised portion having a slope toward the left and right is formed in the surface area of the tray bottom surface facing the bottom surface of the straw box. It shall be constructed so as to secure an interval through which a large-sized product can pass through between the top and the bottom of the straw box (claim 1), specifically, a convex base on the tray bottom of the product outlet Then, a cushion mat is laid thereon to form the above-described slope-like raised portion (Claim 2).

According to the above configuration, the adjacent empty space partitioned by the straw box even when the products that are successively carried out from the warehouse to the product outlet during continuous sale of large size products can no longer fit in the space on the tray The product can be pulled out through the space under the straw box.
In addition, by forming a raised portion on the bottom of the tray that faces the lower side of the straw box, small-sized products carried to the product outlet are blocked by the slope of the raised portion and are formed on the lower surface of the straw box. There is no stagnation in this position while being submerged, so that the purchaser can surely visually recognize and take out the product taken out to the product outlet, thereby preventing an unexpected sales trouble.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on the examples shown in FIGS. In the figure, members corresponding to those in FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted.
That is, the product outlet 5 is basically the same as the conventional structure shown in FIG. 4, but the straw box 12 provided inside the product outlet 5 is installed at a position spaced upward from the bottom surface of the tray 6. Further, on the bottom surface of the tray 6, a mountain-shaped ridge 16 having a gentle slope toward the left and right is formed in the surface area directly below the bottom surface of the straw box 12 by the following means. ing. That is, a roof-shaped convex pedestal (sheet metal product) 6a having a triangular cross-sectional shape is welded to the bottom wall of the tray 6 and then the cushion mat 15 is placed over the entire bottom surface of the tray 6 so as to cover the pedestal 6a. Lay down. As a result, the cushion mat 15 is raised in a mountain shape in the region directly below the straw box 12 to form a slope on the left and right. Further, an interval h through which a large-sized product 11 (for example, a plastic bottle product having an internal volume of 500 ml and an outer diameter of φ60 mm) can pass between the top of the raised portion 16 and the bottom surface of the straw box 12 is provided. It is assumed that the installation height of the straw box 12 is set so as to ensure.

Next, the product take-out function by the product take-out port having the above-described structure will be described with reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B separately for the continuous sale of large products and the sale of small products.
First, as shown in FIG. 2 (a), with the continuous sale of large-sized plastic bottle products, the products 11 carried out from the inside of the warehouse to the product outlet 5 one after another through the right product outlet 9 are stagnated. When the right side space of the box 12 is full and the product can no longer be taken out, the product take-out door 7 is opened, a hand is inserted from the empty space on the left side of the straw box 12, and the arrow (shown through the lower space of the straw box 12) As shown in (→), the products 11 can be pulled out and taken out one by one in the left space, thereby eliminating the sales troubles associated with the continuous sales described above.
On the other hand, at the time of selling the above-mentioned small-sized product (for example, a lactic acid bacteria beverage having an internal volume of 65 ml), the product 11a released into the product outlet 5 is placed under the straw box 12 as shown in FIG. The product 11a does not stop at the position where it has entered, but rolls on the side of the straw box 12 by rolling the slope of the raised portion 16 as shown by the arrow in the figure. Therefore, by opening the product take-out door 7 after the sales operation, the purchaser can visually recognize and take out the stop position of the product 11a he / she purchases, and the product can be visually recognized because the product sinks under the straw box. Trouble can be prevented.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a block diagram of the goods outlet by the Example of this invention, (a) is sectional drawing of a side view of the whole goods outlet, (b) is XX sectional drawing in the arrow in (a). FIGS. 2A and 2B are explanatory diagrams of a product take-out function according to the configuration of FIG. 1, in which FIG. 1A shows a continuous sale of large products, and FIG. Overall view of vending machine The block diagram of the product outlet in the past, (a) is a cross-sectional side view, (b) is a front view of the product outlet schematically showing a state in which the product is retained by continuous sale of large products

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body cabinet of vending machine 2 Outer door 5 Product outlet 6 Tray 6a Convex base 7 Product take-out door 10 Product carry-out shooter 11 Product 12 Straw box 15 Cushion mat 16 Raised part

Claims (2)

It is a product outlet of a vending machine that is placed under the outer door of the main unit and takes out the product delivered from the product storage rack in the warehouse, and it is paid out from the product storage rack in the warehouse through the product exit of the middle door In a structure that has a product take-out door on the upper front of the box-type tray that receives the product and a straw box that also serves as an anti-theft partition frame inside the take-out port,
After the straw box is installed at a position spaced upward from the bottom surface of the tray, a raised portion having a slope toward the left and right is formed in the surface area of the tray bottom surface facing the bottom surface of the straw box. A product outlet of a vending machine characterized by securing a space through which a large size product can pass between the top and the bottom of the straw box. 2. A product take-out port for a vending machine according to claim 1, wherein a convex base is provided on the bottom surface of the tray, and a cushion mat is laid thereon to form a raised portion. .

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