JP3830042B2 - Goods storage - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an article storage for storing a plurality of article storage racks each storing a large number of articles in a state of being partitioned through a lateral wall heat insulating member, and is particularly suitable for application to a vending machine.

  In vending machines such as various beverages, since it is required to keep the products stored inside at an appropriate temperature, it is common to line the casing with foamed urethane resin with excellent heat insulation. It has become. In particular, in a vending machine that handles products that are preferably cooled and products that are preferably warmed, the airtightness of the refrigerator and the heating chamber is improved, and at the same time, the heat transfer between the refrigerator and the heating chamber is improved. Since it is necessary to reduce as much as possible, for example, as described in Patent Document 1, it is common to form the partition wall between the cooling chamber and the heating chamber with a foamed urethane resin having excellent heat insulating properties. is there.

  When attaching such a highly heat-insulating partition wall to the housing, in Patent Document 1, an engagement groove is cut out in a rack mounting bracket fixed to the ceiling portion of the inner box, and the upper end of the partition wall is formed in this engagement groove. Insert and hold it. Moreover, the heat insulation wall arrange | positioned at the side part of a housing pinches | interposes the upper end part of a heat insulation wall by the side edge part of a rack mounting bracket, and the side part of a housing, and hold | maintains this.

  The product storage rack for storing products is suspended from the ceiling of the inner box via the rack mounting bracket, and the inner box is covered with a heat insulating material.

JP-A-11-306431 JP 2000-163639 A

  In the conventional vending machine described in Patent Document 1, although the inner box formed of sheet metal or the like is partitioned into a cooling box and a heating box by a heat insulating partition wall, the inner box itself is a heat transfer medium. Therefore, it is basically difficult to keep the heat insulating properties of the cooling chamber and the heating chamber good.

  Patent Document 2 proposes a vending machine having a structure that does not have an inner box in order to avoid such a problem of heat insulation due to the presence of the inner box. In a vending machine without such an inner box, when the rack mounting bracket is fixed to the ceiling of the housing, it is important how to avoid interference with the ceiling heat insulating material incorporated inside the ceiling. . However, Patent Literature 2 does not disclose at all about this point.

(Object of invention)
An object of the present invention is to provide an article storage that is partitioned inside by a heat insulating partition wall and has excellent heat insulating properties, and is particularly suitable for use in a vending machine.

  An article storage according to the present invention includes a housing having a pair of left and right sides, a bottom, a ceiling, and a back surface, and a plurality of articles housed in the housing and arranged along the opposing direction of the pair of left and right sides. Between the storage rack, the pair of left and right sides and the article storage rack adjacent thereto, and between the article storage racks adjacent to each other along the opposing direction of the pair of left and right sides. A plurality of horizontal wall heat insulating members, a plurality of horizontal wall holding members fixed to the ceiling portion so as to extend in the front-rear direction, and holding the upper end portions of the horizontal wall heat insulating members, respectively, It is characterized by comprising a hanging tool fixed to each of the horizontal wall holding members spaced apart from each other in the opposing direction of the section and connected to a hanging tool provided at the upper end of the article storage rack.

  In the present invention, because the left and right ends of the suspension to which the hanging device provided at the upper end of the article storage rack is connected are respectively fixed to the horizontal wall holding members, and these horizontal wall holding members are directly fixed to the ceiling portion of the housing. In addition to the function of holding the upper end portion of the horizontal wall heat insulating member, the horizontal wall holding member functions as a connecting member for fixing the hanging tool to which the hanging tool at the upper end portion of the article storage rack is connected to the ceiling portion of the housing. As a result, the article storage rack is suspended from the ceiling of the housing via the suspension and the horizontal wall holding member. When connecting the hanging tool to the hanging tool, the work can be performed with the article storage rack tilted upward.

  In the article storage according to the present invention, the hanging tool may extend in the left-right direction.

  A ceiling heat insulating member incorporated between the ceiling portion and the horizontal wall holding member can be further provided. In this case, a reinforcing member formed on the ceiling portion and having a thickness corresponding to the ceiling heat insulating member may be further provided, and the horizontal wall holding member may be fixed to the ceiling portion via the reinforcing member. It is preferable that they are formed at the front end portion and the rear end portion, respectively.

  The casing may further include an insole portion positioned between the ceiling portion and the bottom portion, and the article storage rack may be accommodated between the insole portion and the ceiling portion.

  A back heat insulating member incorporated between the article storage rack and the rear portion of the housing and a midsole heat insulating member incorporated between the article storage rack and the midsole can be further provided.

  According to the article storage of the present invention, a plurality of horizontal wall holding members that extend in the front-rear direction and hold the upper end portion of the horizontal wall heat insulating member are fixed to the ceiling portion of the housing, and are provided at the upper end portion of the article storage rack. Since the left and right ends of the suspension to be connected are fixed to these horizontal wall holding members, the conventional inner box can be omitted, and in combination with the weight reduction, the heat insulating property due to the presence of the inner box can be reduced. A decrease can be prevented. Moreover, when connecting the hanging tool to the hanging tool, the work can be performed with the article storage rack tilted upward, and the workability can be improved significantly more easily than the conventional one.

  When the hanging tool extends in the left-right direction, the contact area between the hanging tool and the hanging tool can be increased, and the article storage rack can be stably hung on the hanging tool.

  When the ceiling heat insulating member is incorporated between the ceiling portion and the horizontal wall holding member, the heat insulating property between the ceiling portion and the ceiling portion of the housing can be improved to prevent the heat radiation from the article storage rack upward.

  When a reinforcing member having a thickness corresponding to the ceiling heat insulating member is formed on the ceiling portion and the horizontal wall holding member is fixed to the ceiling portion via this reinforcing member, the ceiling heat insulating member is improved at the same time as improving the strength of the ceiling portion. Space for incorporation can be secured. In particular, when the reinforcing member is formed at the front end portion and the rear end portion of the ceiling portion, the ceiling heat insulating member can be incorporated between the front and rear reinforcing members.

  In the case where the housing further has an intermediate bottom portion located between the ceiling portion and the bottom portion, and the article storage rack is accommodated between the intermediate bottom portion and the ceiling portion, in particular, the article storage rack and the rear portion of the casing. In the case where the back heat insulating member is incorporated in between and the midsole heat insulating member is incorporated between the article storage rack and the midsole, it is possible to further improve the heat insulation of the articles stored in the article storage rack.

  One embodiment in which the product storage according to the present invention is applied to a vending machine will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, but the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and these may be further combined Any change or modification included in the concept of the present invention described in the claims can be made, and can be naturally applied to any other technology belonging to the spirit of the present invention.

  The vertical cross-sectional shape of the vending machine in the present embodiment is schematically shown in FIG. 1, the enlarged cross-sectional shape of the upper end portion is shown in FIG. 2, and the external appearance of the main part is schematically shown in FIG. A part is extracted and enlarged and shown in FIG. That is, the housing 11 having the opening 10 at the front portion is composed of a pair of left and right side portions 11a, a bottom portion 11b, a ceiling portion 11c, and a back surface portion 11d, and the housing 11 is vertically divided above the bottom portion 11b. A bottom 11e is incorporated. A door member (not shown) is attached to one side portion 11a so as to be openable and closable via a hinge (not shown) so as to close the opening 10 at the front portion of the housing 11. The upper portion of the casing 11 partitioned vertically by the middle bottom portion 11e is further divided into three in this embodiment by a plurality of (two in the illustrated example) heat insulating partition members 12 disposed in parallel with the side portion 11a. It is partitioned into two rooms 13a, 13b, 13c. In each of the rooms 13a to 13c, a plurality (three in the illustrated example) of product storage racks 15 in which a large number of products 14 are packed up and down in a meandering state are stored. The left and right rooms 13a and 13c are formed of a pair of left and right side heat insulating members 16 interposed between the product storage rack 15 and the casing 11, a middle bottom heat insulating member 17 provided on the middle bottom portion 11e, and a ceiling portion 11c. Surrounded by a ceiling heat insulating member 18 provided, a back heat insulating member 19 provided on the back surface portion 11d, and a front heat insulating member (not shown) incorporated in the door member, and sandwiched between these left and right rooms 13a and 13c. The central chamber 13b is surrounded by the heat insulating partition member 12, the middle bottom heat insulating member 17, the ceiling heat insulating member 18, the rear heat insulating member 19, and the front heat insulating member of the door member described above.

  A heating / cooling unit 20 for blowing warm air or cold air to the product 14 located at the lower end of the product storage rack 15 accommodated in each of the rooms 13a to 13c is provided on the middle bottom portion 11e of the housing 11. The heating / cooling unit 20 is connected to a condenser of a refrigeration unit (not shown) installed on the bottom 11b of the casing 11 below the middle bottom 11e via a refrigerant pipe (not shown). These heating / cooling units 20 can switch between hot air and cold air according to the product 14 stored in the product storage rack 15, and the hot air is supplied by the fan 20a for each of the rooms 13a to 13c. Or the circulation supply of cold air is performed intermittently.

  The above-described casing 11, door member, product storage rack 15, and the like are formed of sheet metal. The heat insulating partition member 12, the pair of left and right side heat insulating members 16, the mid-bottom heat insulating member 17, the ceiling heat insulating member 18, and the front heat insulating member are formed mainly of foamed hard urethane resin or the like, and will be described below. The detailed configuration of the vending machine itself is basically the same as the conventional one, except for the structure for attaching the commodity storage rack 15 to the 11 ceiling portions 11c.

  That is, a front reinforcing member 21 having a so-called hat-shaped cross section that extends along the left-right direction is joined to the front end portion of the ceiling portion 11c of the casing 11 to form a box-shaped cross-section reinforcing structure with the ceiling portion 11c. . Similarly, the rear reinforcing member 22 of the groove-shaped cross section is integrally joined along the intersection of the rear end of the ceiling portion 11c of the housing 11 and the upper end of the back surface portion 11d.

The front and rear end portions of the lateral wall holding members 23 ₁ and 23 ₆ having a mountain-shaped cross-section that hold the upper end portion of the side heat insulating member 16 with the upper end portion of the side portion 11a of the case 11 are held at the front end portion and the rear end portion, respectively. Are joined to the lower end of the front reinforcing member 21 and the lower end of the rear reinforcing member 22 along the intersection of the upper end of the side portion 11a and the side end of the ceiling portion 11c. Similarly, in order to hold the heat insulating partition member 12 at a predetermined position in the housing 11, a plurality of pairs (two pairs in the illustrated example) of horizontal wall holding members 23 ₂ , 23 ₃ that hold these upper end portions in between. And the front end portion and the rear end portion of 23 ₄ , 23 ₅ are respectively joined to the lower end portion of the front reinforcing member 21 and the lower end portion of the rear reinforcing member 22 in parallel with the horizontal wall holding members 23 ₁ , 23 ₆ described above. Yes. The distance between each pair of horizontal wall holding members 23 ₂ , 23 ₃ and 23 ₄ , 23 ₅ sandwiching the heat insulating partition member 12 substantially corresponds to the thickness of the upper end portions of these heat insulating partition members 12. Each of the horizontal wall holding members 23 ₁ to 23 ₆ has a horizontal fixing portion 23 a parallel to the ceiling portion 11 c of the housing 11 and a vertical pressing portion 23 b parallel to the side portion 11 a of the housing 11. 23a is formed with three notches 25 in the front-rear direction at predetermined intervals for hooking left and right ends of a hanger 24, which will be described later.

Side wall holding for the side heat insulating member 16 disposed between the two side wall holding members 23 ₁ , 23 ₂ and 23 ₅ , 23 ₆ located in the left and right rooms 13 a, 13 c, that is, the side 11 a of the housing 11. Two lateral wall holding members 23 ₃ located between the members 23 ₁ and 23 ₆ and the horizontal wall holding members 23 ₂ and 23 ₅ for the heat insulating partition member 12 adjacent to the side heat insulating members 16 and in the central chamber 13b. , 23 ₄ , three hanging tools 24 extending in the left-right direction are spanned at predetermined intervals in the front-rear direction. The hanger 24 includes a horizontal connecting portion 24a parallel to the ceiling portion 11c of the housing 11, a vertical wall portion 24b extending from the horizontal connecting portion 24a in parallel with the back surface portion 11d of the housing 11, and the vertical wall portion 24b. A receiving portion 24c extending substantially in parallel with the horizontal connecting portion 24a from the lower end of the receiving portion, and a locking portion 24d rising upward from the tip of the receiving portion 24c. The heights from the receiving portions 24c of the respective suspension tools 24 to the upper ends of the individual locking portions 24d are all set to be the same, and are sufficiently lower than the height of the vertical wall portion 24b between the horizontal connecting portion 24a and the receiving portion 24c. It is set. Further, in this embodiment, three types of suspension tools 24 having different heights of the vertical wall portions 24b are provided so that the height of the vertical wall portion 24b is higher as the suspension device 24 is closer to the back surface portion 11d of the housing 11. Used (see FIG. 1). The direction of these suspensions 24 is set so that the locking part 24d is located on the opening 10 side of the casing 11 with respect to the vertical wall part 24b, and the left and right ends of the horizontal connection part 24a of these suspensions 24 integral part by using a known method such as the transverse wall retaining member 23 _{1-23 6} aforementioned notch 25 through by transverse wall retaining member 23 _{1-23 6} spot welding or caulking or screwing in a horizontal fixed part 23a of the It is joined to.

Thus, by fixing the horizontal wall holding members 23 ₁ to 23 ₆ and the hanging tool 24 integrally to the ceiling portion 11c of the housing 11 via the front reinforcing member 21 and the rear reinforcing member 22, the conventional inner member It is not necessary to incorporate the box into the housing 11, and the weight reduction and the heat insulation of the entire vending machine can be intended.

  In order to suspend the individual product storage racks 15 from the above-described suspension tools 24, hooks 26 extending in the left-right direction are provided at the upper end portions of the individual product storage racks 15 in a protruding state. Each of the hanging portions 26 includes a vertical wall portion 26a that protrudes upward from the upper end surface of the product storage rack 15, and a mounting portion 26b that extends substantially parallel to the upper end surface of the product storage rack 15 from the upper end of the vertical wall portion 26a. It has the latching | locking part 26c bent downward from the front-end | tip of this mounting part 26b. The orientation of the hanging tools 26 is set so that the locking portion 26c is located on the rear surface portion 11d side of the casing 11 with respect to the vertical wall portion 26a. When the hook is correctly hooked, the locking portion 26c of the hanging tool 26 is positioned between the vertical wall portion 24b and the locking portion 24d of the hanging tool 24, and the vertical wall portion 26a and the locking portion 26c of the hanging tool 26 are located. As long as the latching portion 24d of the hanging tool 24 is positioned between them and the commodity storage rack 15 is not lifted upward against its own weight, the latching portion 26d of the hanging tool 26 is locked from the latching portion 24d of the hanging tool 24. It is designed not to come off.

  As in this embodiment, the height of the vertical wall portion 24b of the hanger 24, that is, the position of the receiving portion 24c of the hanger 24 is lower than the lower end of the horizontal wall holding member 23 toward the back surface portion 11d side of the housing 11. By being positioned at the position, it is possible to improve the workability for hanging the hanging part 26 of the product storage rack 15 located at the back of the housing 11 by hanging on the hanger 24. In this case, as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 1, the product storage rack 15 is tilted so that the upper part of the product storage rack 15 is tilted toward the back surface 11 d side of the housing 11. Combined with the fact that the hanging tool 26 can be hooked on the hanging tool 24, the operability for the long product storage rack 15 can be greatly improved as compared with the conventional one.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION This invention can be utilized for vending machines, such as a soft drink which accommodates the goods which should be cooled, and the goods which should be heated.

It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view showing the internal structure of one Example which applied the articles | goods storage by this invention to the vending machine. It is an extraction expanded sectional view of the part of the upper end part of the vending machine shown in FIG. FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the vending machine shown in FIG. 1, omitting a product storage rack and the like. It is a see-through | perspective three-dimensional figure of the upper end part of the vending machine shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Opening 11 Housing | casing 11a Side part 11b Bottom part 11c Ceiling part 11d Back part 11e Middle part 12 Heat insulation partition member 13a-13c Room 14 Goods 15 Goods storage rack 16 Side heat insulation member 17 Middle bottom heat insulation member 18 Ceiling part heat insulation member 19 Back part Heat insulating member 20 Heating / cooling unit 20a Fan 21 Front reinforcing member 22 Rear reinforcing member 23 ₁ to 23 ₆ Horizontal wall holding member 23a Horizontal fixing portion 23b Vertical pressing portion 24 Lifting tool 24a Horizontal connecting portion 24b Vertical wall portion 24c Receiving portion 24d Stop part 25 Notch part 26 Hanging tool 26a Vertical wall part 26b Mounting part 26c Locking part

Claims (7)

A housing having a pair of left and right sides, a bottom, a ceiling and a back;
A plurality of article storage racks housed in the housing and arranged along the opposing direction of the pair of left and right sides;
A plurality of horizontal walls respectively disposed between the pair of left and right side portions and the article storage rack adjacent to the pair of left and right sides and between the article storage racks adjacent to each other along the opposing direction of the pair of left and right side portions. An insulation member;
A plurality of horizontal wall holding members that are fixed to the ceiling portion so as to extend in the front-rear direction and hold the upper end portions of the horizontal wall heat insulating members, and
Both left and right end portions are respectively fixed to the horizontal wall holding members spaced apart in the opposing direction of the pair of left and right side portions, and a hanging tool to which a hanging tool provided at the upper end of the article storage rack is connected is provided. Characteristic article storage.   The article storage case according to claim 1, wherein the hanging tool extends in the left-right direction.   The article storage case according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a ceiling heat insulating member incorporated between the ceiling portion and the horizontal wall holding member.   4. A reinforcing member formed on the ceiling portion and having a thickness corresponding to the ceiling heat insulating member is further provided, and the horizontal wall holding member is fixed to the ceiling portion via the reinforcing member. Item storage.   The article storage case according to claim 4, wherein the reinforcing member is formed at each of a front end portion and a rear end portion of the ceiling portion.   2. The housing according to claim 1, further comprising a midsole portion positioned between the ceiling portion and the bottom portion, and the article storage rack is accommodated between the midsole portion and the ceiling portion. The article storage case according to claim 5. The article storage case according to claim 6, further comprising a back heat insulating member incorporated between the article storage rack and the back surface portion of the housing and an intermediate bottom heat insulating member incorporated into the midsole.

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