JPH10261151A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine where product guide chutes and a cash processing machine fitted to an external door are not interfered. SOLUTION: The automatic vending machine is provided with a product storage case 3 where a rack-type product storage part 19 having plural product racks 17, an elevating/transporting device 18 and a product discharge device discharging the products to the elevating/transporting device from the product racks, which are stacked by vertically leaving intervals, is arranged, an intermediate door 2a forming the side wall of the product storage case and the external door 15 arranged by facing the intermediate door. A product take-out port is arranged in the center of the height direction of the external door and the center part of a lateral direction. Product guide chutes 9 and 11 guiding the products discharged from the product storage part of a gravity drop-type to the product take-out port are arranged by making them face each other. One product guide chute is fitted to the intermediate door and the other product guide chute is fitted to the external door.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to bottled beverages, canned beverages,
The present invention relates to a vending machine for beverages such as PET bottles.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The applicant of the present application has filed Japanese Patent Application No. 8-24805.
In No. 5, an upper compartment and a lower compartment are divided, and a plurality of gravity-falling-type commodity storage units are disposed adjacent to each other in a lateral direction in the upper compartment, and are vertically spaced apart from each other in the lower compartment. A product storage provided with a shelf-type product storage unit having a plurality of stacked product shelves, a lifting / lowering transport device, and a product delivery device for discharging products from the product shelf to the lifting / lowering transport device, and a side wall of the product storage. A middle door to be formed, and an outer door disposed opposite to the middle door, wherein a product outlet is provided at a central portion in a height direction and a central portion in a lateral direction of the outer door, and a gravity drop type product storage portion. Proposed a vending machine in which two product guide chutes for guiding the product discharged from the product to the product outlet are arranged facing each other. In the vending machine, the product discharged from the gravity-falling type product storage unit is transported to the product outlet by sliding on the product guide chute, and the product discharged from the product shelf of the shelf-type product storage unit is The product is transported to the product outlet by the lifting transport device.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned vending machine, the two product guide chutes are disposed at the center of the vending machine in the height direction. Is attached to the outer door in the same manner as a conventional vending machine, a cash processing machine is mounted on one side of the center of the outer door in the height direction. A problem of interference with the machine. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is divided into an upper section and a lower section, and a plurality of gravity-falling-type commodity storage sections are arranged adjacent to each other in the upper section in the lateral direction. Inside, a product provided with a shelf-type product storage unit having a plurality of product shelves vertically stacked at a distance from each other, a lifting / lowering transport device, and a product delivery device for discharging products from the product shelf to the lifting / lowering transport device A storage, a middle door forming a side wall of the product storage, and an outer door disposed opposite to the middle door, and a product outlet is provided at a center in a height direction and a center in a lateral direction of the outer door. A vending machine provided with two product guide chutes arranged to face a product discharged from a gravity-fall type product storage unit to a product outlet, and attached to the product guide chute and an outer door. To provide vending machines that do not interfere with And an object thereof.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the present invention, an upper compartment and a lower compartment are divided, and a plurality of gravity-falling type goods storages are laterally adjacent to each other in the upper compartment. Part is disposed, and in the lower section, a shelf-type product having a plurality of product shelves vertically stacked at intervals from each other, a lifting / lowering transport device, and a product delivery device for discharging products from the product shelf to the lifting / lowering transport device A product storage provided with a storage unit, a middle door forming a side wall of the product storage, and an outer door disposed opposite to the middle door, and a central portion in the height direction of the outer door and lateral A product outlet is disposed at the center in the direction, and two product guide chutes for guiding the products discharged from the gravity-fall type product storage unit to the product outlet are disposed facing each other, and one of the product guide chutes is disposed in the middle. Attached to the door, the other product guide chute is the outer door It is attached to provide an automatic vending machine according to claim. In the vending machine according to the present invention, one of the two product guide chutes is attached to the middle door, thereby avoiding interference between the product guide chute and the money handling machine attached to the outer door.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description,
The directions of arrows I, II, III, IV, V, and VI in FIGS. 1 to 4 are referred to as front, rear, left, right, upper, and lower, respectively. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the vending machine 1 includes a product storage 3 surrounded by a heat insulating wall 2. The product storage 3 is divided into an upper section 3a and a lower section 3b by a heat insulating wall 4. Upper compartment 3a is divided into the small sections 3a ₂ large compartments 3a ₁ and the left side of the right by the insulating wall 5. The large compartment 3a _1, gravity-article storage portion 6 having a serpentine column meandering, are four rows arranged at intervals from each other in the left-right. The small compartment 3a _2, gravity-article storage portion 6 having a serpentine column, are two rows disposed spaced apart from each other in the left-right. Large section 3a ₁
Respectively inner and on the cubicle 3a _2, a cooler 7, a heater 8 is disposed. The gravity-falling type product storage section 6 stores a regular bottled beverage and a canned beverage 100.

In the large section 3a ₁ and below each gravity-falling type product storage section 6, a product discharging chute 9 inclined downward and forward is disposed, and faces the lower end, ie, the front end, of each product discharging chute 9. The product outlet 10 is formed on the front side wall of the product storage 3 composed of the heat insulating wall 2, that is, on the middle door 2a of the vending machine. To and below the two gravity-article storage portion 6 in the small compartment 3a _2, product discharge chute 11 which is inclined downwardly toward the front is disposed, to face the lower end i.e. the front end of the product discharge chute 11, A product outlet 12 is formed in the middle door 2a.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, two inclined product guide chutes 13a are provided outside the product storage box 3, below the product outlets 10 and 12, and facing the plurality of product outlets. , 13b are arranged facing each other.
A product receiving unit 14 is provided below the lower ends of the product guide chutes 13a and 13b so as to face the lower ends of the product guide chutes 13a and 13b. A product outlet 16 is formed at the center of the outer door 15 of the vending machine in the height direction and at the center in the left-right direction, facing the product receiving portion 14. As shown in FIG. 4, the right product guide chute 13a is attached to the center in the height direction of the right half of the outer door 15, and the left product guide chute 13b is the height of the left half of the middle door 2a. It is attached to the center in the direction. The product receiving section 14 is attached to the center of the outer door 15 in the height direction at the center in the left-right direction. In the left half of the outer door 15, a cash processing machine α
Is attached, and below the cash processing machine α, a safe β is attached.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the lower compartment 3 b of the commodity storage 3 is stacked in the right and left halves of the lower compartment 3 b with a space therebetween in the vertical direction. A plurality of product shelves 17 inclined downward toward the center
Are arranged. At the center in the left-right direction of the lower section 3b,
An elevating transport device 18 is provided. Elevating transport device 18
Has a lateral transport device such as a belt conveyor, a roller conveyor, and a swinging plate (not shown) that transports the product to the front along the lower edge of the product shelf 17. The lower edge of each of the product shelves 17 and the lifting / lowering transporting device 18 are provided, for example, in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No.
7, JP-A-4-282797, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 1-1474.
No. 83 or the like is provided with a product payout device. The shelf 17, the lifting / lowering transport device 18, and the product delivery device constitute a shelf-type product storage unit 19. On each of the product shelves 17 of the shelf-type product storage unit 19, four rows of irregular-shaped plastic bottle drinks 200 having different diameters and lengths are placed at an interval in the front-rear direction. Each of the above-described commodity payout apparatuses is attached to each of the four commodity rows. A cooler 20 is provided in the lower section 3 b of the product storage 3. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a product outlet 21 is formed at the center of the middle door 2 a in the height direction and at the center in the left-right direction so as to face the lifting / lowering transport device 18. The product outlet 21 is positioned above the product receiving unit 14. A mechanical unit 22 for supplying a refrigerant to the coolers 7 and 20 is provided below the product storage 3.

The operation of the vending machine according to the embodiment having the above-described configuration will be described below. A cooler 7 which is disposed in the large partition 3a in _1, a heater 8 disposed in the small compartment 3a in ₂
And the cooler 20 arranged in the lower section 3b are operating. When the user presses a product selection button (not shown) and selects the cooled bottled beverage, canned beverage 100,
Through from either gravity-article storage portion 6 of the large compartment 3a _1, the desired chilled bottle beverage, canned beverage 100 is discharged, and a product discharge chute 9 and product outlet 10 and product guide chute 13a Then, it is carried out to the goods receiving section 14.
The user takes out the desired cooled bottled beverage or canned beverage 100 via the product outlet 16. The user presses a product selection button (not shown) to warm the bottled beverage,
Selecting beverage cans 100, from either gravity-article storage portion 6 of the cubicle 3a _2, the desired warmed bottle beverage, canned beverage 100 is discharged, product discharge chute 11 and product outlet 12 And the product guide chute 13b,
It is carried out to the goods receiving section 14. User can take out product exit 1
6, via a desired heated bottled beverage, canned beverage 100
Take out. When the user presses a product selection button (not shown) and selects the cooled plastic bottled beverage 200, the desired cooled product is cooled from any of the product rows in any of the product shelves 17 of the shelf-type product storage unit 19 in the lower section 3b. The discharged PET bottle beverage 200 is discharged, conveyed to the same height as the product discharge port 21 by the lifting / lowering conveyance device 18, conveyed forward by the horizontal conveyance device, and carried out to the product receiving section 14 through the product discharge port 21. You. The user can use the product exit 16
, Take out the desired cooled plastic bottled beverage 200.

The shelf-type product storage section 19 is suitable for storing irregular-shaped plastic bottle drinks 200 having different diameters and lengths, and the gravity-falling type product storage section 6 stores fixed bottled drinks and canned beverages 100. Suitable to do. Shelf type product storage section 1
A cooler 20 is disposed in the lower section 3b in which the lower section 9 is disposed, and an upper section 3 in which the gravity-falling type product storage section 6 is disposed.
Since a cooler 7 and a heater 8 are provided in a,
This vending machine is used for cooling undefined plastic bottled beverages 2
00, cooled or heated regular bottled beverages, canned beverages 10
0 can be sold at the same time.

[0011] to divide the upper section 3a of the large compartment 3a ₁ and the left side of the right side in the small compartment 3a _2, large sections 3a ₁ and the small compartment 3a
_{Since the} cooling machine 7 and the heater 8 are disposed in the vending machine ₂ and the vending machine 2, the vending machine 200 includes:
The cooled fixed bottled beverage and canned beverage 100 and the heated fixed bottled beverage and canned beverage 100 can be sold at the same time. In addition, by cooling and heating both the cooling section and the heating section alternately, or by cooling or heating both sections, a cooled fixed bottled beverage, canned beverage 100, and a heated fixed bottle The quantity ratio of the beverage and the canned beverage 100 can be made variable. As a result, it becomes possible to provide services that better meet the needs of the user according to the season or the region.

In the upper section 3a, a gravity-falling type commodity storage section 6
And the merchandise discharge routes from each gravity-falling type product storage unit 6 are aggregated via the product guide chute 13 and the shelf-type product storage unit 19 is disposed in the lower section 3b. It is possible to take out all the products in the product storage via a single product outlet 16 provided at the center in the height direction and at the center in the left-right direction.

The product guide chute 13a on the right side which does not interfere with the money handling machine α which is mounted at the center in the height direction of the left half of the outer door 15 even when it is mounted on the outer door 15 is mounted on the outer door 15 as before. 15 and cash processing machine α
Since the product guide chute 13b on the left side, which interferes with the above, was attached to the middle door 2a, interference between the product guide chute and the cash processing machine α attached to the outer door 15 was avoided.

[0014]

As described above, in the vending machine according to the present invention, one of the two product guide chutes is attached to the middle door, so that the money handling machine attached to the product guide chute and the outer door. And avoid interference.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, from which an outer door and a front side wall of a product storage are removed.

FIG. 2 is a view as viewed in the direction of arrows aa in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view taken in the direction of arrows bb in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the vending machine according to the embodiment of the present invention in a state where an outer door and a middle door are opened.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Vending machine 2, 4, 5 Insulated wall 2a Middle door 3 Commodity storage 3a Upper compartment 3a ₁ Large compartment 3a ₂ Small compartment 6 Gravity fall type commodity storage part 7, 20 Cooler 8 Heater 9, 11 Commodity discharge chute 10 , 12, 21 Commodity outlets 13a, 13b Commodity guide chute 14 Commodity receiving unit 15 Outer door 17 Commodity shelf 18 Elevating / conveying device 19 Shelf-type merchandise storage unit 22 Machinery unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An upper compartment and a lower compartment, wherein a plurality of gravity-falling goods storage units are disposed adjacent to each other in a lateral direction in the upper compartment, and are vertically spaced from each other in the lower compartment. Storage having a shelf-type product storage unit having a plurality of stacked product shelves, a lifting / lowering transport device, and a product delivery device for discharging products from the product shelf to the lifting / lowering transport device, and a side wall of the product storage And an outer door disposed opposite to the inner door, and a product outlet is provided at a central portion in a height direction and a central portion in a lateral direction of the outer door, and a gravity drop type product storage is provided. Two product guide chutes for guiding the product discharged from the section to the product outlet are arranged facing each other, one product guide chute is attached to the middle door, and the other product guide chute is attached to the outer door. Vending machine.