JP2962853B2 - Vending machine product unloading device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine product carrying device for stacking and storing products.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a prior art prior to the present invention, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 1-222396 discloses a storage column having a delivery port opened on the lower surface in which goods are stored in a directly stacked manner, and a storage column located at a lower portion of the storage column. A rotatable sending member for placing and supporting the lowest product, a locking member rotatably provided corresponding to the second lowest product position, and a drive shaft that rotates predetermined when sending the product And a control cam for pressing and rotating the locking member to the second product to lock and hold the product at the time of sending out the lowest product by the sending member. I have.

[0003]

In recent years, various products have been put on the market by food and beverage manufacturers. In particular, paper-shaped conical beverage products and the like, like canned beverages and bottled beverages, have been sold as well. Has appeared.

[0004] Here, the above-described prior art vending machine product unloading device usually lays down a relatively durable packaged product made of metal, such as a 250 ml can or a 350 ml can, in the same direction. It is piled up, stored and sold. When this product is used to store and sell a product with a circular cross section in which a taper is formed on a paper side surface, that is, a product in which the upper end of a cone is cut off horizontally, the special product shape is used. Stacked alternately from. However, even if the storage state of the product is as described above, when the second product is locked and held by the locking member at the time of the product selling operation, the side surface of the product is tapered and staggered. Due to the storage, not only the locking member cannot sufficiently lock and hold the product, but also the product may be deformed. Further, in the case of the product shape, since the products are stacked and stored alternately in a horizontal position, when a larger number of products are placed on the product whose spread bottom surface comes to the opening side of the storage column, the bottom surface side is the opening side. There was a product coming to me. For this reason, there is a problem that a product collapse such as a product above the protruding product collapses.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and provides a vending machine product delivery device capable of selling products made of paper and having a tapered side surface and a circular cross section.

[0006]

As means for achieving the above object, there are provided an opening for alternately stacking and storing products having circular cross-sections whose opposing surfaces have different diameters, and delivering the products. A vending machine having a product storage column having a delivery port for carrying out, and sequentially discharging the lowermost products from the delivery port, the vending machine being attached to the inner wall surface of the storage column and being substantially the same as the taper on the side of the product. A guide member having the same angle of inclination formed in the opening direction and the back wall direction, and the guide member is provided on the same side as the guide member, and a large-diameter surface faces the opening. A stopper member that locks a part of the surface of the vending machine, and a product unloading device of a vending machine, wherein the stopper member and the guide member are detachably provided.

[0007]

In order to sell a product having a circular cross section having a different diameter on the opposite surface, a contact area with the product side is secured by the guide member to securely hold and hold the second product. . Further, since the product can be prevented from protruding by the stopper member provided on the storage column for storing the product, the product does not collapse when the product is stored. Also,
Since these guide members and stopper members are detachable, it is possible to sell products other than the products having the above-mentioned shapes.

[0008]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

3 and 4 has an opening 2 for filling the product on the front surface, and a delivery port 3 for the product at the lower end, and is divided by a central partition plate 1C, and two rows on the left and right sides. This is a product storage column having a U-shaped cross section that can store products in a vending machine main body. Reference numeral 4 denotes a drive shaft vertically rotatably provided between the partition plates 1C of the side-by-side product storage columns 1, and has an upper end connected to an electric motor (not shown). At the lower part of the drive shaft 4, a semi-circular delivery control cam 5 and a locking control cam 6 are provided above the delivery control cam 5, and the delivery control cam 5 includes a delivery member 7 corresponding to both sides. The locking and control cams 6 are positioned corresponding to the locking members 8 on both sides, and control the locking members 8. The delivery member 7 is axially supported by the side wall 1B of the product storage column 1 corresponding to the delivery control cam 5, and extends substantially horizontally into the product storage column 1 when the lower surface is supported by the delivery control cam 5. The lowermost products of the products stacked and stored in a single row in the storage column 1 can be placed and locked, and when the support by the delivery control cam 5 is released, the lowermost products are rotated downward to drop and deliver the lowermost products. It has become. Further, the locking member 8 is provided with a shaft support 8A at the upper end, and provided with a lock 8B at the lower part for pressing the product, and the shaft support 8A is protruded from the front surface of the back wall 1A and inserted therethrough. It is suspended and supported so as to be rotatable. The locking member 8 rotatably mounted on the support shaft 9 is provided so as to be finely adjusted in the vertical direction according to the size of the product. This is a range in which the stop control cam 6 can control the locking member 8.

Next, a description will be given of a product P which can be sold by the product carrying device of the present invention. The sales product P is a product P whose side surface is formed by a taper, and the upper surface P1 is a product P having a circle smaller than at least the bottom surface P2, that is, a product P having a truncated cone. This product P is hereinafter referred to as a conical product.
Now, in this conical product P, the product P is placed side by side and stacked alternately and stored and sold. However, since the shape of the product P is as described above, the guide member 10 and the stopper member 11 are Attach and deal with it. Hereinafter, the guide member 10 and the stopper member 11 will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, a guide member 10 is provided such that the lower side of the trapezoid is attached to the side wall 1B of the storage column 1 and the upper surface is opposed to the partition plate 1C. The storage column 1 corresponding to the shape of the product P
Has an inclined portion 10A extending toward the back wall 1A and an inclined portion 10B extending toward the opening 2. The angle of inclination of the inclined portions 10A and 10B is the same as the angle of the taper on the side surface of the product. Also, the guide member 10
Is the product of the lowermost layer and the second product P.
To approach. The guide member 1
0 is detachable, and this detachment is
And a hole 13 formed in the side wall 1B of the storage column 1.

Next, the stopper member 11 will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. This stopper member 11
Is a lower end portion 11A corresponding to a place where a lowermost commodity P and a second commodity P placed thereon are located;
An upper end 11B corresponding to a conical product stacked above the third product. The lower end 11 </ b> A of the stopper member 11 extends at least to a position where the lower end 11 </ b> A of the guide member 10 overlaps the circle of the bottom surface P <b> 2 of the conical product P after the guide because the product P is guided to the locking member 8 side. The space formed by the lower end portion 11A of the stopper member 11 and the center partition plate 1C of the storage column 1 has at least the conical product P in order to prevent the conical product P from protruding. Is formed smaller than the diameter of the bottom surface P2. For this reason, the lowermost layer or the second conical product does not come out due to the weight of the product P stacked thereon. In addition, the correspondence of the protruding conical products P stacked upward from the second position is determined by the lower end 11
The protrusion is smaller than that of A. This is because the lower end portion 11A protrudes so that the conical product P does not protrude as described above, so that the conical product P cannot be stored. For this reason, a space large enough to store the product P, that is, a space larger than the diameter of the bottom surface P2 of the conical product P is formed in the opening 2. However, the upper end portion 11B of the stopper member 11 is formed on the premise that the lower surface P2 of the conical product P is stored close to the side wall 1B. The stopper member 11 is detachable. The attachment and detachment are performed by a hook-like projection 12 formed on the stopper member 11 and a hole 13 formed on the side wall 1B of the storage column 1. .

According to the above configuration, the conical product P
Is stored in the lower end portion 11 of the stopper member 11.
The product P is stored from the opening 2 in which the upper end 11B located above A is formed. This is because, as described above, since the products cannot be stored from the opening 2 where the stopper member 11 is located, the lowermost product P and the second product P have the upper end 11B. The product P is stored from Step 2.

In addition to the conical product P, a regular 2
50ml or 350ml can beverage products
Also, it is possible to sell products made of metal. Hereinafter, this is referred to as a cylindrical product P. When selling this cylindrical product P, the guide member 10 and the stopper member 1
1 is removed to secure a storage space that allows the cylindrical product P to be sold. That is, the storage column 1 that sells the conical product P is the storage column 1 that originally sells the cylindrical product P, and has the guide member 10 and the stopper member 11 attached thereto.

Next, the selling operation of the present invention having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. The state shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 is a commodity sale standby state, and FIG.
As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 8, when the drive shaft 4 rotates 90 degrees, the support of the sending member 7 on the left side in the figure is released, and the sending member 7 rotates downward to drop and carry out the commodity. Further, along with this operation, the locking control cam 6 attached to the drive shaft 4 and positioned above the delivery control cam 5 rotates leftward and is positioned on the left side and conforms to the conical product. The locking member 8 having the locking portion 8B is pressed. For this reason, the product 2 on the lowermost product P
The third product P can be reliably held and held. After the unloading of the product P is completed by this operation, the drive shaft 4 further rotates leftward, and the delivery control cam 5 also rotates in the same direction. As a result, the delivery control cam 5 is connected to the delivery member 7.
Is pressed and rotated upward to return to a horizontal state.
At the same time, the pressing of the locking member 8 is released, and the product locked and held by the locking member 8 is released. The released product falls and returns to a state where it is placed on the delivery member 8 which is in a horizontal state, that is, the state shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. The above operation is one selling operation, and the goods are sequentially carried out by the rotation of the drive shaft 4.

Further, a product storage column 1 equipped with the present invention
Since there are two product storage spaces, there may be cases where sales products stored on the left and right are different. In this case, by attaching and detaching the guide member 10 and the stopper member 11 according to the product to be sold, the storage column 1 corresponding to the product for sale P
Becomes As a result, it is possible to sell various types of products, and it is possible to quickly respond to the sold products.

[0017]

The present invention has the following effects. By attaching the guide member and the stopper member to the storage column, it becomes possible to sell a modified conical product from a normal cylindrical product. Thereby, various kinds of products can be sold.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional side view of a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an overall perspective view of a storage column provided with the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a storage column for selling canned beverage products.

FIG. 5 is a front view of the storage column provided with the present invention in a standby state.

FIG. 6 is a top view of the storage column provided with the present invention in a standby state.

FIG. 7 is a front view of the storage column equipped with the present invention during a selling operation.

FIG. 8 is a top view of the storage column equipped with the present invention during a selling operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Storage column 2 Opening 3 Outlet 10 Guide member 11 Stopper member P Product

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A product storage column having an opening for alternately stacking and storing products having circular cross-sections whose opposite surfaces have different diameters in a horizontal direction, and an outlet for sending out the products, In a vending machine which sequentially takes out the lowermost commodities from a delivery port, the vending machine is attached to the inner wall surface of the storage column, and a slope having substantially the same angle as the taper on the side of the commodities is formed in the opening direction and the back wall direction. And a stopper member provided on the same side as the guide member and locking a part of the large-diameter surface with respect to a product having a large-diameter surface facing the opening. A vending machine, wherein the stopper member and the guide member are detachably provided.