JP3435905B2 - Vending machine vending machine - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention mainly relates to a vending machine for a vending machine that sells canned products and bottled products such as juice and beer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional vending machine, one described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-253083 is known. This vending machine is provided with a main door that can be opened and closed at the front part of the vending machine body, and the main door is provided with a selling port device for taking out products. This sales outlet device includes a sales outlet provided on the front surface of the main door, a sales door for opening and closing the sales outlet, and a sales outlet box provided inside the sales outlet. Further, a shock absorbing member for a sales door is fixed to a lower edge portion of the sales opening, and a shock absorbing plate for a falling product is fixed to an inner surface of the sales opening box. Therefore,
By using the cushioning member when closing the sales door, it is possible to absorb the shock when closing the door, and by using the shock absorbing plate, it is possible to absorb the shock of the product slipped off the chute. It is like this. As a result, the sound generated from the vending machine when the product is sold is minimized.

[0003]

In the vending machines which have tended to be thin in recent years, the vending door is long in the horizontal direction and the vending box tends to be narrow in the front-rear direction. As the sound becomes louder, the shock absorbing plate has to be made thinner, and there is a problem that it is difficult to reduce the sound generated when the product is sold. Further, since the shock absorption when the sales door is closed and the shock absorption when the product is dropped are performed by separate members, respectively, there is a problem that the number of parts increases and the number of assembling steps increases, resulting in a high cost.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is possible to reduce the closing sound of the vending door and the dropping sound of the product with the same member without violating the thinning of the vending machine. It is an object of the present invention to provide a vending machine vending machine device that can be achieved at the same time.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention of claim 1 is to provide a sales opening provided on the front surface of the main door,
In a vending machine equipped with a sales door that opens and closes the sales opening, a sales opening box provided inside the sales opening, and a chute that guides the dispensed product to the sales opening box, a cushion member is used at the lower edge of the sales opening. The cushion member is formed so that the outer side of the cushion member faces the sales door and the inner side of the cushion member is positioned approximately on the sliding line of the product sliding on the chute.

In this case, the cushion member is fixed to one end of the spring body, and the other end of the spring body is fixed to the main door.
It is preferable that the cushion member is supported by a spring body.

Further, it is preferable that an elastic tongue projecting toward the sales door is provided on the outer side of the cushion member, and a plurality of cut portions are formed on the tongue.

[0008]

According to the vending machine vending machine of claim 1,
When closing the sales door, by utilizing the outer side of the cushion member forming the lower edge of the sales opening, it is possible to absorb the shock when closing. In addition, the product that has slipped off the chute absorbs the impact caused by the product falling by directly colliding with the inner side of the cushion member that forms the lower edge of the selling port. Therefore, the cushion member that forms the lower edge of the sales opening can simultaneously have the function of reducing the closing sound of the selling door and the function of reducing the falling sound of the product, which simplifies and reduces the cost of the selling opening device. Will be possible. Further, it is not necessary to provide a member for absorbing a drop impact of the product in the selling port box.

According to the vending machine of the vending machine of the second aspect, since the cushion member can be supported by the spring body, a hard-soft double elastic structure is achieved, and the shock can be efficiently buffered. At the same time, it is possible to reliably prevent the deterioration of the elastic characteristics of the cushion member. Moreover, since the deformation of the sales port can be extremely reduced against the theft such as putting a hand through the sales port, the antitheft function is not impaired.

According to the vending machine of the vending machine of the third aspect, the elastic tongue can suitably prevent the cushion member from sagging when the selling door is closed, and moreover, due to the notch of the tongue. The sales door can be evenly applied to the tongue, and the impact sound when the sales door is closed can be further reduced.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of a vending machine for a vending machine according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view showing the appearance of a vending machine. As shown in the figure, the vending machine 1 includes a vending machine body 2 having a product column (not shown) inside, and a main door 3 that is attached to the front part of the vending machine body 2 so as to be openable and closable. ing. On the front surface of the main door 3, a large number of selection buttons 4, a display unit 5, a bill insertion slot 6, a coin insertion slot 7, a return lever 8 and the like are arranged. Further, on the front surface of the main door 3, there is disposed a sales outlet 9 at a lower portion thereof, and the sales outlet 9 is formed wide so as to achieve a thin vending machine 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the main door 3 is provided with a wide sales door 10 which rotates around a support shaft 11,
The sales door 10 is openably and closably attached so as to close the wide sales opening 9. Further, inside the sales opening 9, a sales opening box 12 is provided.
A chute 13 is provided in the vending machine body 2 so as to guide the product to the. This chute 13 is a product storage 14
The product A, which is located below a product column (not shown) provided inside and is discharged from the product column, is guided to a chute port 15 formed in the front surface of the product storage case 14.

A chute port 15 is provided in the product storage box 14.
An inner door 30 for opening and closing is provided. The product rolling on the chute 13 pushes the inner door 30 away and drops from the chute port 15 into the selling port box 12. The inner door 30 is arranged close to the sales door 10 and is provided at a position that substantially closes the sales opening 9 when opened toward the front. Therefore, since the sales door 9 is narrowed by the inner door 30, it is difficult to insert the hand into the back from the sales opening 9, which contributes to the prevention of theft of the product.

A cushion member 16 extending over the entire length is provided at the lower edge of the selling port 9, and the cushion member 16 appropriately forms the lower edge of the selling port 9. Has been done. In addition, the cushion member 16
Is made of an elastic body made of soft vinyl chloride, rubber, or the like, and is formed in a semicircular cross section having a cavity 17 inside so as to bulge upward. Therefore, the hollow portion 17 can improve the shock absorbing characteristic of the cushion member 16.

The front and rear lower ends of the cushion member 16 are in contact with the upper ends of a pair of support pieces 18 extending over the entire length of the selling port 9. Each support piece 18 is fixed to a rising portion 3 a provided on the main door 3 and extending to the vicinity of the cushion member 16. In addition, the startup unit 3
The locking protrusion 3b formed by bending is provided at the top end of a, and the hook portion 18 having a U-shaped cross section is provided at the top end of the support piece 18.
a is provided. Therefore, each support piece 18 is attached to the rising portion 3a by fitting the hook portion 18a into the locking projection 3b or inserting the hook portion 18a from the fore edge direction, and the supporting portion 18 reinforces the rising portion 3a. There is.

Further, the cushion member 16 is located substantially on the sliding line of the product which faces the sales door 10 on the outer side and slides (rolls) the chute 13 on the inner side.
Further, by bringing the cushion member 16 close to the tip of the chute 13, the width of the selling port box 12 in the front-rear direction is narrowed and the thickness of the main door 3 is reduced. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3, the lid portion AS (in some cases, the body portion) of the product A sliding down from the chute 13 directly collides with the inner side of the cushion member 16, and the sales door 10 is cushioned. It will collide with the outer side of the member 16.

As shown in FIG. 2, on the outer side of the cushion member 16, an elastic tongue piece 20 protruding toward the sales door 10 is integrally formed over the entire length of the cushion member 16. There is. Further, the tongue piece 20 is formed with a plurality of notches 21. By using the elastic tongue piece 20 in this way, it is possible to suitably prevent the cushion member 16 from sagging when the selling door 10 is closed, and the notch portion 21 allows the selling piece 10 to be attached to the tongue piece 20. By evenly applying, the impact noise when the sales door 10 is closed can be further reduced.

Further, the top of the inner wall surface of the cushion member 16 is fixed to the upper end of a plate-shaped spring body 22 extending over the entire length thereof, and the lower end of the spring body 22 is the rising portion 3a of the main door 3. It is fixed by welding. Therefore, the cushion member 16 can be supported from the inside by the spring body 22, and a double elastic structure is achieved by the relatively soft elastic cushion member 16 and the relatively hard elastic spring body 22. . In addition, the cushion member 1 is formed by the spring body 22.
By reinforcing 6, the elastic characteristics of the cushion member 16 can be reliably prevented from deteriorating, and the deformation of the selling port 9 is extremely reduced against the theft such as putting the hand through the selling port 9. You can The spring body 22 may be a leaf spring or a torsion spring.

As described above, the large-sized sales door 10 described above is used.
When the door is closed, the elastic tongue piece 20, the hollow portion 17 of the cushion member 16, and the spring body 22 absorb the shock of the sales door 10 in this order, so that the shock when closing can be extremely effectively absorbed. Also, the product A dropped from the chute 13
Is dropped into the selling port box 12 after the drop impact is absorbed in the order of the hollow portion 17 of the cushion member 16, the spring body 22, and the selling door 10. As described above, the cushion member 16 and the spring body 22 provided at the lower edge of the sales port 9 can effectively attenuate both the impact sound caused by the closing of the sales door 10 and the impact sound caused by the fall of the product A. it can.

[0021]

As described above, according to the vending machine of the vending machine of the present invention, the lower edge portion of the vending machine is formed by the cushion member, and the outer side of the cushion member faces the sales door. Since the inner side of the cushion member is located substantially on the downline of the product, the same member can simultaneously achieve the function of reducing the closing sound of the selling door and the function of reducing the falling sound of the product. Simplification and cost reduction are possible.
Moreover, it is possible to further promote the thinning of the vending machine.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing the external appearance of an automatic vending machine having a sales outlet device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a sales outlet device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where a product collides with a cushion member.

[Explanation of symbols]

A product 1 vending machine 2 Vending machine body 3 Main door 9 sales outlets 10 sales door 12 sales box 13 shoots 16 Cushion member 20 elastic tongue 21 notch 22 Spring body

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sales outlet provided on the front of a main door, a sales door for opening and closing the sales outlet, a sales outlet box provided inside the sales outlet, and a chute that guides the dispensed product to the sales outlet box. In the vending machine including the above, the lower edge of the selling port is formed of a cushion member, the outer side of the cushion member faces the selling door, and the inner side of the cushion member is on the chute. The vending machine's vending machine is characterized in that it is positioned approximately on the sliding line of the sliding product. 2. The cushion member is fixed to one end of a spring body, and the other end of the spring body is fixed to the main door,
2. The vending machine of a vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the cushion member is supported by the spring body. 3. An elastic tongue projecting toward the sales door is provided on the outer side of the cushion member, and a plurality of notches are formed in the tongue.
Or, the vending machine of the vending machine according to 2.