JPH08161611A - Jig for replenishing canned beverage - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide the jig for replenishing canned beverage and loading easily and quickly cans of beverage to an automatic vending machine. CONSTITUTION: The jig has a box reception section 11 which accommodates a corrugated fiberboard box 9 with cans of beverage 5 stood upright contained side by side therein while one side face 10 of the corrugated fiberboard box 9 is directed downward and is provided with guide sections 13 extended from both side plates 4 of the box reception section 11 while keeping uniformly a distance nearly equal to a height of a can of beverage 5 in front of the box reception section 11, and a hook lock section 6 which supports a delivery control plate 21 suspended from an upper part of a border between the guide sections 13 and the box reception section 11 and rocking forward 7 backward and which hooks a lower ridge of a can deposit port 12 in the automatic vending machine is provided to a front edge of a bottom plate 3.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a can and beverage replenishing jig capable of replenishing an automatic vending machine with can and beverage efficiently and easily.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Today, vending machines for canned beverages are installed everywhere in the city so that beverages can be easily taken anywhere. To replenish the vending machine with products,
It is regularly carried out by canned drinks companies, but the work is becoming more and more difficult year by year due to the rise of buildings, the size of vending machines, and the variety of products sold by vending machines. Regarding the transportation work from the vehicle to the vending machine, various special-purpose carriers designed to facilitate the transportation of cardboard boxes loaded with canned beverages have been introduced, which is one of the help to alleviate the rigor of the work.

[0003]

However, with respect to the work of loading products into the vending machine, it is the current situation that a plurality of cardboard boxes are still picked up and loaded, and repeated flexion of the legs and waist is a problem. Was a major cause of fatigue.

In view of the above situation, the present invention has been made for the purpose of providing a can-beverage replenishing jig capable of quickly and easily loading canned drinks into an automatic vending machine.

[0005]

A can-beverage replenishing jig according to the present invention made to solve the above-mentioned problems is a cardboard box in which canned beverages in a standing state are loaded side by side. Has a box receiving part that can be accommodated downward, and a guide part that extends in front of the box receiving part from both side plates of the box receiving part at a uniform interval substantially equal to the height of the canned beverage. At the boundary between the guide part and the box receiving part, a sending control plate that hangs from the upper part of the boundary part and swings back and forth is supported, and at the front end of the bottom plate, below the can inlet of the vending machine. A tongue that extends forward from the front end of the bottom plate and that can be placed on the lower edge of the can inlet is characterized in that a hook for hooking to the edge is provided.
It may be provided in place of the hooking portion, or the box receiving portion may be provided with expansion / contraction means for changing the distance between the left and right side plates.

[0006]

[Function] The hook portion is hung on the lower edge of the can input port or the tongue piece is inserted into the can input port to fix the tip of the guide part to the can input port and fix the guide part. Continuously replenish the canned beverage that has flowed out of the cardboard box via. At that time, the delivery control plate gently presses the canned beverage flowing out from the cardboard box from above to form a normal flow without stacking of the cans.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An example of a can beverage replenishing jig according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, the jig body 1
By operating a plurality of expansion / contraction means 2 provided in the above, and dividing or rejoining the jig main body 1 in the width direction, the width can be expanded / contracted.

The jig body 1 is formed by vertically arranging side plates 4 and 4 of the same shape at both ends of the bottom plate 3 over the entire length thereof, thereby partitioning the left and right sides of the bottom plate 3. The bottom plate 3 presents two parallel straight lines whose left and right side edges are spaced at an interval equal to the height of the smallest size canned beverage, and has a hook-shaped hooking portion 6 bent downward at the front end. Further, in order to expand and contract the width of the jig body 1, the left bottom plate 3L and the right bottom plate 3R are provided over the entire length thereof.
Is divided into The front part of the side plate 4 is gradually increased from the height smaller than the diameter of the smallest-sized canned beverage toward the rear, and the subsequent rear part is drastically lowered in height, which is almost equal to the front end. It has become. The front part serves as a guide part 13 for guiding the canned beverage 5 separated from the cardboard box 9 to the can slot 12 of the vending machine, and the rear part is
Corrugated cardboard box 9 loaded with canned beverages 5 standing upright
Is a box receiving portion 11 capable of accommodating with one side surface 10 facing downward.

Expansion and contraction means 2 are provided above and below the boundary between the box receiving portion 11 and the guide portion 13 and above and below the rear end of the box receiving portion 11. The expansion / contraction means 2 used in the present embodiment is such that a thin tube is slidably loaded into a thick tube and a fastening means is provided at the tip of the thin tube, and one is fixed and the other is slidable. It is immobile.

Each side plate 4 is provided with pipe receiving portions 14 and 15 extending downward at the boundary portion and the rear end portion of the box receiving portion 11 as a set of left and right, respectively. Both ends of the expansion and contraction means 2 are fixed, and the side surface of the thick tube is fixed to the back surface of the left and right bottom plates 3L and 3R, whichever is wider, so that the expansion and contraction direction of each expansion and contraction means 2 is securely fixed. Further, a pair of left and right pipe receiving portions 16 are provided above the boundary portion of each side plate 4 to fix both end portions of the expansion / contraction means 2. Further, a vertical frame 18 reinforced slightly thicker is fixed to the rear end portion of each side plate 4 upward, and a pipe receiving portion 17 provided on the upper portion of each vertical frame 18 also serves as an expanding / contracting means. Fix both ends of 2. As a method of fixing both ends of the expansion / contraction means 2, for example, end covers 19 are attached to both ends of the expansion / contraction means 2 (one end of the thick tube and one end of the thin tube) so that they cannot rotate relative to the thick tube or the thin tube. It suffices to sandwich the pipe receiving portions 14, 15, 16, 17 from the left and right sides of the side plate 4 without rattling by the female member and the male member that form the end cover 19.

A sleeve 20 extending over its entire length is rotatably mounted on the thick tube of the expansion / contraction means 2 fixed to the tube receiving portion 16 located above the boundary portion, and the delivery control plate is provided along the longitudinal direction of the sleeve 20. 21 is fixed. The delivery control plate 21 is provided with a length that extends slightly above the bottom plate 3 at least in a suspended state, is swung by the canned beverage 5 that is detached from the cardboard box 9, and swings, and canned beverages that are stacked in a plurality of upper and lower stages. It is desirable to set the weight so that 5 can be evenly leveled.

The present invention is used only for the corrugated cardboard box 9 in which the standing canned beverages 5 are loaded side by side, and one side of the unsealed surface 22 of the corrugated cardboard box 9 is opened by about half, and the side surface on the opened side. 10 face down and unsealed surface 22
Is brought into contact with the sleeve 20 and is loaded into the box receiving portion 11 in which the expansion / contraction of the width is free, and the expansion / contraction means 2 is adjusted and fixed according to the size of the loaded cardboard box 9. The hook portion 6 of the jig loaded with the cardboard box 9 is connected to the can slot 1 of the vending machine.
If it is hooked at the lower edge of 2 and tilted, the canned beverages 5 are released from the inside of the cardboard box 9 one after another, and are quickly filled into the canned beverage holder (not shown) of the vending machine while being leveled by the delivery control plate 21. It

In the above embodiment, the shape of the jig body 1 and the mounting position of the expanding / contracting means 2 are not particularly limited as long as they have appropriate strength when the cardboard box 9 is mounted. However, in the front end portion of the jig body 1, a tongue piece 23 that can be inserted into the can insertion port 12 may be extended instead of the hook portion 6. Further, in the embodiment, the expansion and contraction means 2 which can be adjusted steplessly by the thick tube and the thin tube is used.
For example, as shown in FIG. 4, a butterfly screw 26, which is composed of a slide guide 24 and a plate-shaped slide body 25 that slides along the slide guide 24, and is screwed into a screw hole of the slide body 25. The bottom plate 4 of the jig body 1 may be pressed and fixed in position by the tip, and the main canned beverage 5 has an internal capacity of 200 ml, 250
Since it is ml or 350 ml, it may be in a form that can be adjusted stepwise according to the height of these canned beverages 5.

[0014]

As described above, by using the can-beverage replenishing jig according to the present invention, even canned beverages of different sizes can be easily replenished in the vending machine, and due to its simple structure, Since it is extremely easy to exchange a cardboard box having a different type, it has an extremely excellent practical effect in eliminating the complexity of the work of loading products into the vending machine.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a canned beverage replenishing jig according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the jig in a steady state.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the jig in a widened state.

FIG. 4 is a bottom view showing an example of expansion / contraction means that can be adopted in the jig according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a usage example of the jig.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of an essential part showing an example in which a tongue piece is provided on a front end portion of a jig according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Expansion / contraction means 3 Bottom plate 4 Side plate 5 Canned beverage 6 Hanging part 9 Corrugated cardboard box 10 Side surface 11 Box receiving part 12 Can insertion port 13 Guide part 23 Tongue piece

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A box receiving part capable of accommodating a cardboard box (9) loaded with standing canned beverages (5) side by side with one side surface (10) of the cardboard box (9) facing downward. 11) having a guide and extending in front of the box receiving part (11) from both side plates (4) of the box receiving part (11) at a uniform interval substantially equal to the height of the canned beverage (5). A part (13) is provided, and at the boundary between the guide part (13) and the box receiving part (11), a delivery control plate (21) that hangs down from the upper part of the boundary part and swings back and forth is supported. A canned beverage replenishing jig, characterized in that a hooking portion (6) for hooking to a lower edge portion of a can input port (12) of a vending machine is provided at a front end portion of (3). 2. A tongue piece (23) which extends forward from the front end of the bottom plate (3) and can be placed on the lower edge of the can inlet (12),
The canned beverage replenishing jig according to claim 1, wherein the jig is provided in place of the hooking portion (6). 3. A can drink replenishing treatment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the box receiving portion (11) is provided with expansion / contraction means (2) for changing the distance between the left and right side plates (4, 4). Ingredient