JP4898311B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a vending machine that cools and sells products such as cans, bottles or beverages in plastic bottles.

  Conventionally, as this type of vending machine, there are a vending machine main body having an opening on the front surface and a frame extending forward along the periphery of the opening, and a vending machine main body at one end in the width direction. A door that can be connected to the vending machine main body, at least one rear side is rotatably connected to the vending machine main body, and at least the rear surface side is located in the frame, and can open and close the opening of the vending machine main body. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

In this vending machine, the door is made of double-glazed glass, and the inside of the vending machine main body is visible. Further, this vending machine cools and sells products stored in the vending machine body by cooling the inside of the vending machine body.
Japanese Patent No. 3188191

  By the way, with conventional vending machines, the insulation performance of the door is lower than that of the vending machine itself, so the insulation performance depends on the set temperature in the vending machine body and the installation environment of the vending machine. It is necessary to use a high door.

  However, since doors with high thermal insulation performance have different thickness dimensions, in order to attach the door to the vending machine body, a special hinge is used so that the movement path of the door that opens and closes the opening does not interfere with the vending machine body. There was a problem that the door had to be attached to the vending machine with metal fittings, and the number of parts and assembly man-hours increased.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a vending machine capable of easily attaching doors having different thickness dimensions to the vending machine main body.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a vending machine main body having an opening on the front surface and provided with a frame extending forward over the periphery of the opening, and one end in the width direction is the vending machine main body. In a vending machine that is rotatably connected and is provided so that at least the rear surface side is located in the frame part and can open and close the opening of the vending machine body, doors having different thickness dimensions are A connecting member that can be connected to the vending machine main body at the center of rotation, and the thickness of the door connected to the vending machine main body between the inner surface of the frame on one end in the width direction of the opening and the outer surface of the door. A gap is provided in which the door having the largest thickness dimension can rotate.

  As a result, a gap is provided between the inner surface of the frame portion on the one end side in the width direction of the opening and the outer surface of the door so that the door with the maximum thickness can be rotated. The door can be attached to the vending machine body without changing.

  According to the present invention, a door having a large thickness can be attached to the vending machine main body without changing a connecting member such as a hinge metal fitting, so that it is possible to reduce the number of parts and assembly man-hours. Become.

  1 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a front view of a vending machine, FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of the vending machine, and FIG. 3 is a vending machine showing an attached state of an outer door. FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are main part plan sectional views showing the relationship between the vending machine main body and the outer door.

  This vending machine includes a vending machine body 10 having an opening on the front surface, an outer door 20 that can be opened and closed at one end in the width direction of the opening of the vending machine body 10, and an opening of the vending machine body 10. And an operation door 30 capable of opening and closing the other end in the width direction.

  The vending machine main body 10 divides the interior of the vending machine in the width direction by a heat insulating wall, thereby storing a product storage 11 for storing products for sale and equipment related to sales such as a coin identifying device and a bill identifying device. Equipment storage is provided. A machine room 12 for storing refrigeration equipment (not shown) such as a compressor and a condenser is provided below the product storage 11 and the equipment storage. Further, a frame portion 13 extending forward over the periphery is provided on the end surface of the opening, and at least a part of the rear side of the outer door 20 and the operation door 30 is located in the frame portion 13. .

  A plurality of products are stored side by side in the product storage 11, and a product storage column 14 having a product take-out mechanism for enabling a user to take out products located on the front end side is provided in the vertical direction and the width direction. A plurality are provided. In addition, the product storage 11 is provided with a cooler 15 and a cooler blower 16 so that the inside of the product storage 11 is cooled.

  The outer door 20 is rotatably supported at one end in the width direction of the vending machine main body 10, and opens and closes the front surface of the product storage 11 when the user takes out the product. The outer door 20 is provided on the rear surface of the frame member 21, a plurality of transparent plates 22 made of a member such as glass or resin attached to the frame member 21, and the frame member 21. And an air layer is provided between the transparent plates 22. The outer door 20 can improve the heat insulation performance by increasing the thickness dimension of the air layer. That is, the thickness of the outer door 20 increases as the heat insulating performance increases. In the present embodiment, the outer door 20 having a thickness dimension T1 or a thickness dimension T2 (T1 <T2) having different heat insulation performance is attached to the vending machine main body 10. The outer door 20 is attached to the vending machine main body 10 via a hinge bracket 24 as a connecting member at the upper end and the lower end on one end side in the width direction by screwing. The hinge bracket 24 includes a member 24a on the vending machine main body 10 side, a member 24b on the outer door 20 side, and a support shaft 24c that rotatably connects the member 24a and the member 24b. The outer doors 20 having the thickness dimension T1 and the thickness dimension T2 can be attached to the vending machine main body 10 by the same hinge bracket 24, respectively. That is, the position of the rotation center of each of the outer doors 20 having the thickness dimension T1 and the thickness dimension T2 is the same position. The corner on the front side of one end in the width direction of the outer door 20 having the thickness dimension T1 moves on the circumference of the radius R1. Further, the corner on the front side of one end in the width direction of the outer door 20 having the thickness dimension T2 moves on the circumference of the radius R2 (R1 <R2).

  In addition, a gap is provided between the outer surface of the outer door 20 in the width direction at one end and the inner surface of the frame 13 at the one end of the opening so that the outer door 20 having a thickness dimension T2 can rotate. That is, the distance L from the rotation center of the outer door 20 to the inner surface of the frame 13 on one end side of the opening is the rotation center of the outer door 20 and the corner on the front side of one end in the width direction of the outer door 20 having a thickness dimension T2. It is formed to be larger than the distance R2 between the two.

  The operation door 30 is rotatably supported at the other end in the width direction of the vending machine body 10 and opens and closes the front surface of the equipment storage. In addition, a product selection button, a coin slot, a bill slot, a money amount display unit, and the like are provided on the front surface of the operation door 30.

  In the vending machine configured as described above, for example, when the outer door 20 with the thickness dimension T1 is replaced with the outer door 20 with the thickness dimension T2 depending on the environmental conditions of the installation location, the set temperature in the product storage, or the like. Therefore, it is possible to replace only the outer door 20 without replacing the hinge bracket 24. The distance L from the rotation center of the outer door 20 to the inner surface of the frame 13 on one end side of the opening is a corner on the front side of the rotation center of the outer door 20 and one end side in the width direction of the outer door 20 having a thickness dimension T2. Therefore, the opening / closing operation of the outer door 20 having the thickness dimension T2 is not hindered by the frame portion 13.

  As described above, according to the vending machine of the present embodiment, the connecting member that can connect the outer door 20 having the thickness dimension T1 and the thickness dimension T2 to the vending machine body 10 at the position of the predetermined rotation center is provided. The gap between the inner surface of the frame 13 on one end side in the width direction of the opening of the vending machine main body and the outer surface of the outer door 20 is provided so that the outer door 20 having the thickness dimension T2 can rotate. The outer door 20 having a large size can be attached to the vending machine main body 10 without changing the hinge bracket 24, and the number of parts and the number of assembling steps can be reduced.

The front view of the vending machine which shows one Embodiment of this invention Side view of vending machine Perspective view of the main part of the vending machine showing the mounting state of the outer door Plan sectional view of the vending machine showing the positional relationship between the vending machine body and the outer door Plan sectional view of the vending machine showing the positional relationship between the vending machine body and the outer door

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Vending machine main body, 13 ... Frame part, 20 ... Outer door, 24 ... Hinge bracket, 24c ... Spindle.

Claims (1)

A vending machine main body having an opening on the front surface and provided with a frame portion extending forward over the periphery of the opening, and one end in the width direction are rotatably connected to the vending machine main body, and at least the rear side is in the frame portion In the vending machine provided with a door that can be opened and closed and can open and close the opening of the vending machine body,
A door having different thickness dimensions is provided with a connecting member that can be connected to the vending machine main body at a predetermined center of rotation,
A gap is provided between the inner surface of the frame on one end in the width direction of the opening and the outer surface of the door so that the door with the maximum thickness among the doors connected to the vending machine can rotate. Vending machine characterized by that.

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