JP4960006B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

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

Conventionally, as this type of vending machine, it is provided in a product storage compartment partitioned by a partition plate into a cooling compartment and a heating compartment, and an inner door that covers the front of the commodity storage compartment, and in the cooling compartment and the heating compartment It is equipped with a payout outlet for carrying out the stored goods and a product receiving box for receiving the goods in the outer door on the front of the vending machine main body. There is known a product in which a product in a product receiving box can be taken out from a product outlet of a door (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2005-228113 A

  However, since a conventional vending machine has a payout opening for each storage room, the outer door can be matched to the width of the discharge outlet by combining the number, width, position, etc. of the storage rooms (hereinafter referred to as the storage room pattern). There is a problem that the position and width of the product outlet provided in the box must be changed.

  In addition, when a door that can be opened and closed is provided at each payout opening, the payout door may interfere with other equipment such as a safe provided at the outer door. There was a problem that it was necessary to arrange the door side or above.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and the object of the present invention is that there is no need to change the width of the product outlet according to the storage room pattern, and there is no need to change the door of the outlet and other equipment. The object is to provide a vending machine capable of preventing interference.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a product storage compartment partitioned into a plurality of compartments by a partition plate, and an inner door that covers the front surface of the product compartment, and the products contained in each compartment are provided as inner doors. In the vending machine carried out from the payout opening provided in the product, the partition plate is provided with a passage port through which the product can pass from one of the adjacent storage rooms to the other, and the product carried out from the other adjacent storage room A vending machine having an inclined portion that inclines so as to guide the product to the payout opening, and a chute plate that inclines so as to guide the product carried out from one adjacent storage room to the inclined portion by passing it through the passage opening suggest.

  According to this vending machine, the goods carried out from one of the adjacent storage rooms pass to the other storage room through the passage opening of the partition plate and are guided to the payout port by the chute plate. There is no need to provide a payout port for each.

  According to the present invention, since it is not necessary to provide a payout opening for each warehouse, there is no need to change the width of the product outlet according to the warehouse pattern, and the width dimensions of the goods outlet are made common. be able to. In addition, since there is no need to provide a payout opening for each warehouse, the width of the payout opening can be reduced, so that interference between the payout door and other equipment such as a safe can be prevented. Therefore, it is not necessary to change the structure, arrangement, etc. that have been conventionally performed.

  1 to 4 show an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vending machine, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which an outer door of the vending machine shown in FIG. 1 is opened, 3 is a front sectional view of the vending machine shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a right sectional view of the vending machine shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 1, an outer door 20 is provided on the front surface of the vending machine main body 10 so as to be freely opened and closed.

  A decorative panel 22 is provided in the upper part of the front surface of the outer door 20, and a large number of product samples 22 a and advertisements 22 b such as product names and product manufacturer names are displayed inside the decorative panel 22. In addition, on the front surface of the decorative panel 22, product selection buttons 22c corresponding to the product samples 22a are respectively arranged.

  In the center of the front surface of the outer door 20, a lock operation lever 23, a coin slot 24, a return lever 25, a money amount display unit 26, and a bill slot 27 are provided.

  The lock operation lever 23 is used to open and close the outer door 20 by operating a lock mechanism (not shown) provided in the outer door 20, and can be unlocked by a dedicated key.

  A coin return port 28 and a product outlet 29 are provided in the lower front portion of the outer door 20, and an open / close door 29 a that can be manually opened is provided in the product outlet 29.

  As shown in FIG. 2, a vending machine main body 10 has a product storage 11 and a machine room 12 at the top and bottom. A product insertion slot 13a for replenishing products is formed in the product storage box 11, and four serpentine-type product storage racks 13 for storing and transporting the replenished products are juxtaposed in the left-right direction. ing.

  Each merchandise storage rack 13 has a pair of side plates 13b facing in the width direction. A plurality of arc plates 13c are opposed to each other in the front-rear direction between the side plates 13b, and a merchandise storage section 13d described later that extends in a meandering manner. Is forming. Each of the product storage racks 13 has a gap A between the adjacent product storage racks 13, and a partition plate 15 (to be described later) is interposed in the gap A, so that the product storage 11 is left and right. It is divided into.

  A safe 21 is provided on the inner surface of the outer door 20, and stores coins inserted through the coin insertion slot 24 and banknotes inserted through the banknote insertion slot 27.

  The front surface of the product storage 11 is opened and closed by a heat-insulating inner door 14, and a discharge outlet 14 a for carrying the product in the product storage 11 to the product outlet 29 is provided below the inner door 14. Yes. Further, the payout opening 14a is arranged at substantially the center in the width direction of the inner door 14, that is, substantially at the center in the width direction of the outer door 20, and the width of the payout opening 14a allows a product stored in the product storage 11 to pass through. The width is set. As a result, the product outlet 29 can be arranged at the center in the width direction of the outer door 20 in accordance with the payout opening 14a.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the product storage 11 is cooled by the cooling device 17 and heated by the heater 18, the three right product storage racks 13 are cooled, and the left one product storage rack 13. A heat insulating partition plate 15 is inserted into the gap A so as to heat.

  The partition plate 15 is provided with a passage port 15a so that a product can pass between adjacent storage rooms partitioned by the partition plate 15. The passage 15a is provided with a heat-insulating door 15b that can be opened and closed. The door 15b can be opened and closed only from the left warehouse (heating chamber C) to the right warehouse (cooling chamber B). It has become. Thereby, even if it provides the passage port 15a in the partition plate 15, the airtightness of the cooling chamber B and the heating chamber C is maintained.

  The cooling device 17 includes a compressor 17a and a condenser 17b installed in the machine room 12, an evaporator 17c installed on the lower side of the product storage rack 13 on the right side of the product storage 11, and an expansion valve and a cooling blower (not shown). It is composed of By circulating the internal air blown by the cooling blower to the evaporator 17c, the cooling chamber B is cooled, and the products in the right three product storage racks 13 are cooled.

  The heater 17 is disposed on the right side of the commodity storage 11 and heats the heating chamber C by circulating the internal air blown by a heating blower (not shown) attached to the heater 17 to the heater 17. The product stored in the product storage rack 13 is heated.

  The cooler thermometer 19a and the heating chamber thermometer 19b are made of known thermistors or the like, and are arranged in the cooling chamber B and the heating chamber C, respectively. Each is measured.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the product storage rack 13 has a plurality of product storage portions 13d, and stores products X replenished from the product input ports 13a. A product unloading mechanism 13e is provided at the lower part of each product storage unit 13d, and the product X in each product storage unit 13d is locked and is transported downward when the product X is sold.

  As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the chute plate 16 is provided below each product storage rack 13, and the product X carried out from the cooling chamber B and the heating chamber C is provided to the front door 14. The vending machine main body 10 is inclined substantially in the center and forward so as to lead to the payout opening 14a. Thereby, since the product X carried out from the heating chamber C passes through the passage port 15a of the partition plate 15 to the cooling chamber B and is guided to the discharge outlet 14a by the chute plate 16, each warehouse chamber There is no need to provide the outlet 14a.

  The product X carried out from the payout opening 14a is received by a product receiving box 29b provided on the outer door 20 through a payout door 14b that opens and closes the payout opening 14a, and is taken out from the product takeout port 29 through the open / close door 29a. It is supposed to be.

  In the present embodiment, the inside of the product storage 11 is divided into two storage rooms by the partition plate 15, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be partitioned into three or more storage rooms. Further, the present invention is not limited to the case where only one payout opening 14a is provided, and as shown by a dotted line in FIG. 3, other devices such as a safe 21 provided with the payout door 14b provided at the payout opening 14a provided at the outer door 20. A plurality of payout openings 14a and payout doors 14b may be provided as long as they can be arranged so as not to interfere with each other.

  Thus, according to the present invention, the product X carried out from the heating chamber C passes through the passage port 15a of the partition plate 15 to the cooling chamber B and is guided to the payout port 14a by the chute plate 16. Therefore, since it is not necessary to provide the payout opening 14a for each storage room, it is not necessary to change the width of the product outlet 29 according to the storage room pattern, and the width dimension of the product outlet 29 is made common. Can do. In addition, since it is not necessary to provide a payout opening 14a for each storage room, the width of the payout opening 14a can be reduced, so that interference between the payout door 14b and other equipment such as the safe 21 can be prevented. Therefore, it is not necessary to change the structure, arrangement, etc., which has been conventionally performed to prevent interference.

  Furthermore, since the payout opening 14a is provided at the substantially center of the inner door 14 in the width direction, the product outlet 29 can be arranged at the center of the outer door 20 in accordance with the payout opening 14a. It is possible to save the trouble of searching for the inside of the product outlet 29 when taking out and to improve the take-out property.

  Furthermore, since the heat insulating door 15b that can be opened and closed only from the heating chamber C to the cooling chamber B is provided at the passage 15a, the cooling chamber B and the heating chamber C are provided even if the partition 15 is provided with the passage 15a. Air tightness is maintained, and it becomes difficult to open the passage port 15a from the cooling chamber B to the heating chamber C by putting in the product outlet 29 and the outlet 14a, thereby preventing fraud to the product storage 11 be able to.

  In addition, the structure of this invention is not limited only to the said embodiment, You may add a various change in the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention.

Perspective view of vending machine The perspective view which shows the state which opened the outer door of the vending machine shown in FIG. Front sectional view of the vending machine shown in FIG. Right sectional view of the vending machine shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Commodity storage, 14 ... Inner door, 14a ... Discharge outlet, 15 ... Partition plate, 15a ... Passage port, 15b ... Door, 16 ... Chute board, B ... Cooling room, C ... Heating room, X ... Goods

Claims (3)

A product storage compartment partitioned into a plurality of compartments by a partition plate and an inner door that covers the front of the product compartment, and automatically carries the goods stored in each compartment from a payout opening provided in the inner door In the vending machine,
A passage opening provided in the partition plate, through which goods can pass from one of the adjacent storage rooms to the other;
Inclined so that the product carried out from the other adjacent storage room is inclined so as to guide it to the outlet, and the product carried out from one adjacent storage room is passed through the passage opening and led to the inclined part. A vending machine characterized by having a chute plate. The vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the payout port is provided at substantially the center in the width direction of the inner door. The vending machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a heat insulating door that can be opened and closed only in one direction is provided at the passage opening.

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