JPH07129840A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an automatic vending machine which is reducible in depth as an automatic vending machine which stores plural article in a column in a stacked state. CONSTITUTION:A rotary shaft 20 is provided at the rear end part of the bottom plate 16 of the column and its front part is slanted down, and, a roller 22 is arranged on the reverse surface of the bottom plate 16 and a cam plate 28 is provided in contact with the roller 20. The lower part of a crank lever 40 is linked with the cam plate 28 and a pressure member 46 supporting the articles T in the 2nd stage from the bottom which is mounted on the bottom plate 16 is arranged behind the bottom plate 16, and, the lower part of the pressure member 46 is rotated around the rotary shaft 20 and coupled with the upper part of the crank lever 40. Therefore, the roller 20 is mounted on the cam plate 28 in a vending wait state to hold the bottom plate 16 horizontally, and, the bottom plate 16 slants in a vending state and the pressure member 46 is rotated by the crank lever 40 to push the article T in the 2nd stage from the bottom.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, it has been required to install a thin vending machine having a small depth in order to prevent the vending machine from sticking out on the road. Therefore, various vending machines have been invented conventionally.

For example, as shown in FIG. 9, a column 11
2 is provided with an opening / closing plate 101 at the bottom thereof, and an opening for pushing in the pusher 102 is provided at the lower rear portion of the column 112, and a storage case 110 for storing a product 111 having a space for moving a product at the end face of the opening, and its storage. The pusher 102 and the lever mechanism 10 that can move at the bottom of the case 110.
There is proposed an automatic vending machine 100 including a solenoid 103 connected to the pusher 102 via 5, 106 and a lever mechanism 107, 108, 109 connecting the pusher 102 and the opening / closing plate 101 (JP-A-2-2786).
issue).

With this vending machine 100, the product 11
1 is pushed out by the pusher 102,
Since the opening / closing plate 101 is inclined downward, a space is not required so much in the depth direction when the product 111 is carried out.

[0005]

The pusher 102 not only pushes out the lowermost product 111 of the stacked products 111, but also serves as a supporting portion so that the second product 111 from the lowermost stage does not drop. Also doubles as this pusher 10
2 is an essential requirement. However, pusher 102
In order to move the
2 retreat space and solenoid 103 must be provided,
This space and the size of the solenoid 103 are the vending machines 1
There was a problem that the depth of 00 became large.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a vending machine which can be made thinner.

[0007]

The vending machine according to the present invention comprises:
In a vending machine that stacks and stores a plurality of products in a column, a rotary shaft is provided at the rear end of the bottom plate of the column, the front part of the column is inclined downward, and a roller is arranged on the lower surface of the bottom plate. Then, a cam plate is provided so as to come into contact with the roller, and a motor that rotates the cam plate by a predetermined angle when a sales command signal is input from a sales standby state is provided. The lower part of the crank lever is connected to the cam plate, A pressing member mounted on the bottom plate and supporting the second lowest product is disposed behind the bottom plate, and a lower portion of the pressing member rotates about the rotation shaft and is connected to an upper portion of the crank lever. The bottom plate is held in a horizontal state in the sale standby state, the bottom plate is inclined in the sale state, and the pressing member is rotated by the crank lever to press the second stage product from the bottom. .

[0008]

[Operation] The operation state of the vending machine having the above configuration will be described.

In the stand-by state for sale, the rollers on the bottom plate are placed on the cam plate, and the bottom plate is held horizontally. Therefore, the products stacked on this bottom plate do not fall.

When a sales command signal is input to the motor in the sales standby state, the sales state is entered, and the cam plate rotates by a predetermined angle so that the roller placed on it moves and the bottom plate tilts. Therefore, the products placed on the bottom of the bottom plate fall. In addition, in the product from the second stage from the bottom, when the cam plate rotates, the crank lever operates and the pressing member is rotated, and the pressing member presses the product from the second stage from the bottom. Therefore, 2 from the bottom along with the bottom product
The products on the second stage do not fall.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An cigarette vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

Reference numeral 12 is a column provided inside the main body 10 of the vending machine, and a plurality of cigarettes T can be stored in the column 12 in a stacked state. Further, at the lower end portion of the front surface 12a of the column 12, a carry-out port 14 for carrying out the cigarette T is provided.

Reference numeral 8 is a passage vertically provided in front of the column 12 and connected from the carry-out port 14 to a product outlet (not shown). Depth dimension A of this passage
Is set to be slightly larger than the thickness A of the cigarette T in order to make the depth dimension of the vending machine as small as possible.

Reference numeral 13 is a base provided on the column 12 and fixed to the main body 10. This base 13 is a motor 32
And a side wall 13b of the mounting portion 13a.

Reference numeral 16 is a bottom plate of the column 12. Hinge portions 18 and 18 project from the rear end portion of the bottom plate 16. The rotary shaft 20 is inserted into the hinge portions 18, 18. One end of the rotating shaft 20 is the main body 1
0, and the other end is attached to the side wall 13b of the base 13.

Reference numeral 22 is a roller provided below the bottom plate 16, and is rotatably attached to a pair of roller support portions 24, 24 protruding from the lower surface of the bottom plate 16.

Reference numeral 26 denotes a rear wall extending upward from the rear end portion of the bottom plate 16 to prevent the cigarette T from falling behind the bottom plate 16.

Reference numeral 28 is a disc-shaped cam plate disposed below the roller 22, and is provided with a fan-shaped notch 28a. The rotating shaft 30 of the cam plate 28 is connected to the rotating shaft of the motor 32. Further, the cam plate 28 has a protrusion 3
4 are provided.

Reference numeral 36 is a rectangular hole penetrating the bottom plate 16.

Reference numeral 38 is a protrusion bar projecting upward from the mounting portion 13a of the base 13. The protruding bar 38 projects from the hole 36 of the bottom plate 16.

Reference numeral 40 is a crank lever. The upper portion of the crank lever 40 is attached to the rotary shaft 20 and rotates about this. An elongated hole 42 is provided in the lower portion of the crank lever 40 along the longitudinal direction thereof.
The protrusion 34 of the cam plate 28 is engaged. As a result, when the cam plate 28 rotates, the crank lever 4
0 moves around the rotation axis 20. Further, an extending portion 41 is provided from the upper end portion of the crank lever 40.

Reference numeral 44 denotes a micro switch provided below the front part of the bottom plate 16 and fixed to the base 13. The micro switch 44 operates by contacting the lower end of the crank lever 40.

Reference numeral 46 is a pressing member arranged behind the bottom plate 16. The lower end of the pressing member 46 has a rotary shaft 20.
It is attached to and rotates around this. A rubber 48 is attached to the upper end of the pressing member 46. The height of the rubber 48 is set to be substantially the same as that of the state where the cigarettes T are stacked in two stages.

Reference numeral 50 is a first spring which is a torsion coil spring mounted around the rotary shaft 20. One end 50a of the first spring 50 is attached to the extending portion 41 of the crank lever 40, and the other end 50b is attached to the lower portion of the pressing member 46. Then, the first spring 50 urges the upper portion of the pressing member 46 to rotate forward.
This operating state will be described later.

Reference numeral 52 is a second spring, which is a torsion coil spring attached to the rotary shaft 20. The second spring is provided between the rear wall 10a of the main body 10 and the bottom plate 16 and always biases the rear wall 26 of the bottom plate 16 forward (see FIG. 8).

Reference numeral 54 is a prevention plate made of a film suspended from the front wall 12 of the column 12. As a result, the bottommost cigarette T is prevented from falling from the carry-out port 14.

The operating state of the vending machine having the above structure will be described.

(1) Standby state for sale (see FIG. 2) In this state, the roller 22 is provided on the outer peripheral portion of the cam plate 28.
Are placed, and the bottom plate 16 is positioned in a substantially horizontal state. Further, the crank lever 40 contacts the micro switch 44 and is in the OFF state.

(2) Sales state (see FIG. 3) When a sales command signal is input to the motor 32, the motor 32 rotates the cam plate 28 in the clockwise direction. Cam plate 28
When the roller rotates, the roller 22 rotates along the outer peripheral portion of the cam plate 28.

The roller 22 has a notch 28 in the cam plate 28.
When it comes to the position of a, it falls into the notch 28a,
The bottom plate 16 tilts, and the cigarette T1 placed at the bottom of the column 12 tilts. In this case, since the protruding rod 38 projects from the hole 36 of the bottom plate 16 to separate the cigarette T from the bottom plate 16 and increase the inclination angle thereof, the inclination is promoted.

The bottom plate 16 of the cigarette T1 slides down, and the cigarette T1 is half projected from the bottom plate 16 (tobacco T1 of FIG. 3).
0 state). In this state, the bottom plate 16 starts to return horizontally, and the bottom plate 16 operates so as to kick off the cigarette T10. Therefore, the cigarette T10 changes its posture in the vertical direction (state of the cigarette T11 in FIG. 3) and falls through the passage 8. As a result, even if the width A of the passage 8 is narrow, the tobacco T
11 can slide down from the inclined bottom plate 16 into the passage 8.

The crank lever 40 also rotates the cam plate 28 while performing the states of
Rotate around 0. Then, the lower end portion that is in contact with the micro switch 44 is separated from that position and is in the ON state. Further, as the crank lever 40 rotates downward, one end 50a of the first spring 50 is pressed downward, and at the same time, the other end 50b of the first spring 50 also starts to rotate forward. In this case, as shown in FIG. 6, the rotation angle is θ.
During the period 1, the one end 50a rotates without attracting the other end 50b, but as shown in FIG.
Then, the urging force acts, and the other end 50b is pressed by the pressing member 4
Tilt 6 forward. When the pressing member 46 inclines forward, the rubber 48 hits the cigarette T2 in the second lowest stage, and the cigarette T2 is sandwiched between the front wall 12a of the column 12 and the rubber 48. Therefore, the cigarette T1 at the bottom
The second-stage cigarette T2 does not fall even if is dropped. Further, when the bottom plate 16 is rotated forward, it is also rotated by the biasing force of the second spring 52.

(3) Returning state After the bottommost cigarette T1 is dropped, the motor 32 further rotates in the clockwise direction to return the bottom plate 16 to the horizontal state. At the same time, the crank lever 40 also rotates, and the pressing member 46 also releases the pressed state of the second-stage cigarette T2. Therefore, the bottom plate 16 that has returned to the horizontal state has two
The tobacco T2 at the stage falls. Also, the crank lever 4
0 comes into contact with the microswitch 44 and is turned off, and the motor 32 stops. This returns to the sales standby state.

As described above, in the vending machine according to the present embodiment, the bottom plate 16 is inclined so that the lowermost tobacco T is dropped and the second tobacco T is prevented from falling by the pressing member 46. is doing. Therefore, the depth of the vending machine can be reduced, and the vending machine can be made thin.

[0035]

As described above, in the vending machine of the present invention, the bottom plate is inclined by the cam plate to drop the lowermost product, and the second product is pressed by the pressing member. Is blocked. As a result, the depth of the vending machine can be reduced, and the vending machine can be made thinner.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a product unloading portion showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of a product unloading portion in a sales standby state.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a product unloading portion in a sale state.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a product unloading portion in a sales standby state.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a product unloading portion in a sales standby state.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged side view of a main part of a rotary shaft in a standby state for sale.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged side view of a main part of the rotary shaft in a sale state.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged side view of a main part of a second spring in a standby state for sale.

FIG. 9 is a side view of a conventional product unloading unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Vending machine 11 Main unit 12 Column 16 Bottom plate 20 Rotating shaft 22 Roller 28 Cam plate 32 Motor 34 Projection 40 Crank lever 46 Press Element

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine for stacking and storing a plurality of products in a column, wherein a rotating shaft is provided at a rear end portion of the bottom plate of the column, and a front portion of the rotating shaft is inclined downward. A roller is arranged on the lower surface, a cam plate is provided so as to come into contact with the roller, and a motor for rotating the cam plate by a predetermined angle when a sales command signal is input from the sales standby state is provided. And a pressing member mounted on the bottom plate and supporting the second-stage product from the bottom is arranged behind the bottom plate, and a lower portion of the pressing member rotates around the rotation shaft and the crank lever. Connected to the upper part of the, the bottom plate is held in a horizontal state in the sales standby state, the bottom plate is tilted in the sales state, and the pressing member is rotated by the crank lever to press the second stage product from the bottom. Vending machine, characterized in that there.