JPH0423308B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (b) Industrial application fields The present invention relates to a product delivery device for a vending machine.

(b) Prior Art With the recent spread of telephone cards, there is a demand for the sale of telephone cards through vending machines. When selling this telephone card in a vending machine, it is conceivable to use a machine exclusively for telephone cards, or a machine that sells the machines together with other different types of products. For example, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 61-74179, there is a product delivery device for cigarettes that stores box-shaped products in a stack and pushes out the lowest product by a delivery member, and Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 60-9843. It is conceivable to install a telephone card delivery device, as disclosed in the publication, in the main body of the vending machine, which sends out the lowest stacked paper sheets using a delivery roller.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention However, if such a combined selling machine is used, the number of cigarette delivery devices installed will be reduced and a telephone card delivery device will be installed, resulting in a decrease in the number of cigarettes sold. In addition to the problems, managers of cigarette vending machines do not necessarily want to sell telephone cards at the same time, and it also varies greatly depending on the location of the vending machine. There was a problem where we had to prepare a vending machine.

Therefore, in a configuration in which the cards are transported by a product delivery device that stacks and stores box-shaped products and pushes out the lowest card by a delivery member, it is preferable to include a regulating portion in which the upper part of the delivery member projects forward. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a product dispensing device for a vending machine that can reliably dispense cards.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a vending machine that carries out a card stored in the main body to a product outlet, and is provided with an opening for loading products. A storage container, a spiral arranged vertically inside the product storage container, and a spiral connected to the upper end of the spiral, the spiral is rotated for each sales command, and the cards stored in the gaps of the spiral are carried out one by one from the bottom end. a product conveyance device comprising a drive motor, a bottom surface for placing and receiving a card carried out from the product transportation device in a substantially horizontal state, and a bottom surface that protrudes onto the bottom surface to push out and carry out the card on the bottom surface in the direction of a product removal port. The carry-out member is provided with a regulating portion protruding forward and capable of locking the upper surface of the rear end of the push-out card at the upper portion thereof.

(e) Effect: By rotating the drive motor based on the sales command, the cards stored in a spiral manner are carried out from the lower end onto the bottom surface, and the card carried out and placed on the bottom surface is pushed out toward the product ejection port by the carrying out member. At this time, even if the card jumps up, the upper surface of the rear end of the card is locked in the restriction part, so that the feeding operation is performed reliably.

(F) Embodiment Each figure shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a vending machine main body, and a door 3 having a product outlet 2 on the front is pivotably supported to be openable and closable. Reference numeral 4 denotes a substrate, and the upper surface has a slit 5 extending in the front-back direction.
A plurality of are arranged in parallel at predetermined intervals. A product storage column 6 for stacking and storing box-shaped products A such as cigarettes is placed on the substrate 4 through the slit 5.
Several are installed in parallel corresponding to the above. This product storage column 6 has an opening 7 for loading products on the front side, an opening 8 on the lower end of the rear wall 6A through which a delivery member 14 of a product delivery device 10 (to be described later) can pass, and the storage column 6 on the lower end of the front surface. A delivery port 9 is provided on the bottom surface of the container through which only the lowest item stored in a stack can pass.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a product delivery device for delivering the lowest product A to the product takeout port 2 based on a sales command, and an endless spiral groove 11A is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the slit 5.
A drive shaft 11 installed in the front-rear direction corresponding to the drive shaft 11, a drive motor 13 connected to the drive shaft 11 via a speed reduction mechanism 12, and a drive shaft 11 guided by the spiral groove 11A of the drive shaft 11 to move back and forth on the drive shaft 11. and a carry-out member 14 protruding onto the substrate 4 through the slit 5, and the carry-out member 14 is moved back and forth once by a predetermined rotation of the drive shaft 11 driven by the drive motor 13 during one selling operation. The lowest product A in the storage column 6 is delivered to the product takeout port 2. That is, the carry-out member 14 is located at the rear of the storage column 6 when it is on standby for sales, and moves forward once and back by driving the drive motor 13 based on the sales command, and during the forward movement, it picks up the lowest product A in the storage column 6. The product is pushed forward from the delivery port 9 and delivered to the product exit 2. Further, the carrying-out member 14 has a
A regulating portion 14A that protrudes forward is provided so that it can be locked on the upper surface of the rear end of the card B when the card B is pushed out after being dropped onto the board 4 from the product conveyance device 15, which will be described later. This is to prevent the rear end from jumping up.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a product transport device removably installed in the product storage column 6, and mounting pieces 1 are provided at the lower ends of both side walls 16A and 16B of the product storage container 16, respectively.
7 is inserted into and locked into a mounting hole 18 opened on the upper surface of the substrate 4, and is removably installed on the bottom surface of the product storage column 6. This product conveyance device 15 includes a spiral 19 installed to extend vertically within a product storage container 16, and a drive motor 20 connected to the upper end of this spiral 19 to rotate the spiral 19 once for each sales command. Cards B as products stored in the gaps 19 are sequentially dropped from the lower end of the spiral 19 onto the substrate 4 on the bottom surface of the storage column 6. In addition, on the front side of the product storage device 16, there is an opening 21 for loading the product to store the card B in each gap of the spiral 19.
A storage door 22 that can be opened and closed is provided, and the lower end of the rear surface is positioned to an extent that does not impede the reciprocating movement of the carrying out member 14. That is, the product conveyance device 15 is installed in the product storage column 6 when selling the card B. When the sales command is delivered, first, the drive motor 20 of the product conveyance device 15 operates to rotate the spiral 19 once, and the card B stored at the lowest position of the spiral 19 is dropped and conveyed onto the upper surface of the board 4. When this dropped and conveyed card B is detected by the card sensor 23 provided at the lower end of both side walls 16A, 16B of the product storage device 16, a sales command is sent to the drive motor 13 of the product delivery device 10. As a result, the drive motor 13 rotates the drive shaft 11 to reciprocate the carry-out member 14 forward, and sends out the card B dropped onto the board 4 from the outlet 9 to the product outlet 2. There is. When the card B is pushed out by the carry-out member 14, the rear end of the card B is positioned below the regulating portion 14A and is prevented from jumping upward.

Therefore, cigarettes are directly stacked and stored in the product storage column 6 for selling cigarettes as product A.
Furthermore, by installing a product transport device 15 in the product storage column 6 in which it is desired to sell cards as product B, it is possible to change the sale of tobacco cards. Note that when the product transport device 15 is installed in the product storage column 6, a sales command to be sent to the drive motor 13 of the product delivery device 10 from a sales control circuit (not shown) is delivered to the drive motor 20 of the product delivery device 15. and card sensor 23
The connector is connected so as to send a sales command to the drive motor 13 of the product delivery device 10 upon detection of the card that has been dropped and carried out.

(G) Effects of the Invention Since the present invention is configured as described above, even when pushing out a thin product such as a telephone card, it is possible to prevent the product from jumping up, etc., and to perform a reliable product feeding operation. I can do it.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Each figure shows an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a vertical side view of a vending machine, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a product storage column, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a product conveyance device, and FIG. The figure is a vertical sectional side view of the vending machine with the product conveyance device installed in the product storage column, and FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the operation. 2... Product takeout port, 4... Board, 6... Product storage column, 14... Export member, 14A... Regulatory section, 15... Product conveyance device, 16... Product storage container, 19... Sviral, 20... drive motor,
21...Opening.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a vending machine that takes out a card stored in the main body to a product outlet, there is a product storage container provided with an opening for loading products, a spiral arranged vertically within this product storage container, and a spiral A product conveyance device that is equipped with a drive motor that is connected to the top end of the spiral and rotates the spiral according to each sales command, and carries out cards stored in the gaps in the spiral one by one from the bottom end, and the cards that are carried out from the product transfer device. It is equipped with a bottom surface that is placed in a horizontal state and receives the card, and an ejecting member that protrudes onto the bottom surface and pushes out the card on the bottom surface toward the product ejection port, and the ejecting member has an upper part that engages the upper surface of the rear end of the extruded card. A product dispensing device for a vending machine, characterized in that a restricting portion that can be stopped is provided in a manner that protrudes forward.