JPH06105474B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an automatic vending machine for selling products such as canned beverages, which allows a customer to drink a warm beverage of his / her preference.

[Prior art] In a vending machine that sells canned beverage products as hot beverages, the products are stored in a product rack at room temperature, and in the middle of the product delivery route from the product rack to the product outlet. It is known that an induction heating type product heating device is provided to heat and sell a product each time it is sold.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

By the way, this kind of conventional vending machine heats the product to a certain temperature and carries it out, so even if the customer wants to drink the beverage at room temperature due to the temperature being warm, etc. There was a drawback that I could not satisfy them even if I wanted to drink them.

In addition, the mechanism in which the product inside the induction coil of the heating device provided in the middle of the product transportation path is once received during the delivery and discharged to the product outlet after heating becomes complicated. However, there were drawbacks such that heating failure occurred without coming to a fixed position and the induction coil was damaged by the impact of dropping the product at the time of receiving.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic vending machine that can heat a product to a warmth desired by a customer, has a simple configuration, does not cause heating failure, and has no inconvenience that an induction coil is damaged.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention relates to an automatic vending machine which carries out and sells a beverage product in a cylindrical can to a product take-out port. A heating chamber formed of a recess having a substantially semicircular shape, and an induction coil for heating provided along the back surface of the back surface of the heating chamber,
It is assumed that a commodity heating device including a temperature selection switch for selecting a heating temperature provided on the front surface of the front door adjacent to the heating chamber is equipped.

[Action]

The product delivered to the product outlet is set in the heating chamber and the temperature selection switch is pressed to heat the product, so that the customer can obtain the product having a desired warmth. Also, the back of the heating chamber has a semi-circular shape, and the induction coil is placed on the back side of the heating chamber, so that the product can be easily set in place and there is no drop impact of the product. There is no risk of damage.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the figure, a body case 1 of a vending machine accommodates and installs a product rack inside to store a beverage product in a cylindrical can. A shallow box-shaped front door 2 supported by the main body case 1 and forming the front of the vending machine is provided with a coin slot 3, a commodity sale push button switch 4, a commodity outlet 5 and the like on the front side. Furthermore, the front door 2 has a product insertion opening that is opened at a substantially central position above and below.
11 and a heating device 10 provided with a heating operation push button 12
Is installed.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the commodity heating device 10 is provided with a heating chamber 13 which is a recess having a semicircular inner surface connected to the insertion port 11, and a rear wall of the heating chamber 13 which forms the inner surface. A heating induction coil 14 is mounted along the back surface, and a door 16 is provided at the insertion port 11 and can be locked in a closed state by a door lock 15. Further, a product detection sensor 17 for detecting a product in the heating chamber 13 and a temperature sensor 18 for detecting a heating temperature of the product 7 in the heating chamber 13 and controlling energization to the induction coil 14 are provided. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the heating operation push button 12 includes a heating selection push button 12A, a start push button 12B, and a temperature selection hot push button 12.
H, a push button 12M for foot, and a push button 12L for nullie.

In the above-described configuration, when the coin is inserted and the push button switch 4 is pressed, the normal temperature product 7 is carried out to the product outlet 5, and is taken out by the customer from the product outlet 5. A customer who wants the product 7 at room temperature can directly obtain the desired product.

When the customer wants to heat the product 7, the customer first pushes the push button 12
Press A to open door 16. This door 16 is always a door lock 1
It is locked by 5, and upon receipt of the product sale signal and the signal from the push button 12, the lock is released and it can be opened. Next, the product 7 taken out from the product take-out port 5 is put into the heating chamber 13 through the insertion port 11
Insert toward the back of the. In this case, since the inner cross section of the heating chamber 13 has a semicircular shape, it is easy to set the inserted product at a predetermined position with respect to the induction coil 14, and in this case,
Since the bottom surface is inclined downward toward the back, the inserted product 7 is naturally placed in the position where it is most efficiently heated.
By closing the door 16 and deciding the desired warmth of the product 7, for example, push button 12H and then push button 12B, the induction coil
The product 7 is heated by supplying electricity to 14, and the door 16 is locked during heating. When the product 7 instructed by the push button 12H becomes warm,
The temperature sensor 18 is actuated, the induction coil 14 is de-energized, and the door 16 is unlocked. The customer can then open the door 16 and take out the product 7 and have the beverage heated to the desired heat. When the product 7 is taken out, the product detection sensor 17 operates, the door 16 is locked, and the product heating device 10 returns to the heating standby state again. Product 7 as described above
In this case, it is heated in three stages of hot, hot, and cold depending on the taste of the customer.

As another example, in the case of providing a product at room temperature or a product heated to one temperature according to the taste of the customer, the heating operation push button has a heating selection push button 12A and a start push button 12B. However, the heating temperature cannot be selected, but the structure of the product heating device 10 can be simplified and the cost of the vending machine can be reduced.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, in a vending machine that carries out and sells beverage products in cylindrical cans to the product outlet, the back surface provided at the substantially central position above and below the front door is approximately half. A heating chamber consisting of a circular recess, a heating induction coil provided along the back surface of the back surface of the heating chamber, and a heating temperature selection disposed on the front surface of the front door adjacent to the heating chamber. Since it is equipped with a product heating device that is configured with the temperature selection switch, the customer can easily set the product in the heating chamber and get the product heated to the desired temperature, and also cause heating failure. This has the effect of preventing the induction coil from being damaged.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a vending machine showing an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the commodity heating apparatus, FIG. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the same, and FIG. 4 is a front view of a heating operation push button. 2 …… front door, 5 …… product outlet, 7 …… product, 10 ……
Commodity heating device, 11 ... Insertion port, 12 ... Heating operation push button (temperature selection switch), 13 ... Heating chamber, 14 ... Induction coil.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Kozo Matsushima 1-1, Tanabe Nitta, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-64-76398 (JP, A) JP Shown 55-143692 (JP, A) Shown 55-78287 (JP, U) Shown 57-42483 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine for delivering a beverage product in a cylindrical can to a product outlet for sale, wherein a recess having a substantially semicircular back surface opened at substantially the central position above and below the front face of the front door. A heating chamber, a heating induction coil provided along the back surface of the back surface of the heating chamber, and a temperature selection switch for heating temperature selection arranged on the front surface of the front door adjacent to the heating chamber. An automatic vending machine, which is equipped with a product heating device constituted by.