JPS6025649Y2 - Refrigerated goods vending machine - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a vending device for cooling products such as canned soft drinks.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of automatic vending machine is known to have a cooling mechanism that circulates cold air throughout a storage chamber for selling items to cool the selling items.

However, in this type of device, the entire storage room is cooled, so although there is an advantage that all the items to be sold are cooled evenly, it takes a long time for the items to be sold to be properly cooled. Therefore, there is a drawback that the goods for sale near the sales outlet, which are stored in the storage room and sold immediately, are sold without being properly cooled.

For this reason, it is conceivable to send the cold air from the cooling mechanism into the storage area for sales items near the sales outlet to cool the sales items that are to be sold immediately in a short time, but if you do this, the sales items that are lined up relatively far back may be considered. is not sufficiently cooled, so if a plurality of sales items are sold in succession, there is a drawback that the sales items released later may be sold without being sufficiently cooled.

In addition, sales items are usually stored in multiple rows according to type, but simply applying cold air to sales items near the sales outlet will not reach the upper rows, and the sales items in the upper rows will be affected. There was also the drawback that it was not cooled properly.

This idea was made in consideration of these points,
To provide an automatic vending device for cooled articles, which reduces the risk of selling articles in an insufficiently cooled state and can effectively cool the articles for sale in the upper row.

Hereinafter, embodiments of this invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The box is a box for the main body of the device, and the front opening of this box 1 is covered by an opening/closing door, and a sales port 11 is formed at the bottom of this opening/closing door, and this sales port 11 is covered by a sales port door that can be opened and closed. There is.

In addition, on the top of this box 1, 1 is arranged in a meandering manner.
An article storage chamber 4 is formed along a column consisting of a pair of rails 2, 2, in which a plurality of sales articles 3, 3, . 6,
Air cooling fan motor 7 of this condenser 6, evaporator 5
and an air supply fan motor 9 for delivering the air cooled by the evaporator 8 to the article storage chamber 4.
A cooling mechanism 10 is provided.

The sales items 3 stored in the columns of the item storage room 4 are released one by one into the sales outlet 11 in response to a sales operation such as inserting a coin or operating a selection switch.

As shown in FIG. 2, shielding plates 12 and 13 are attached to the sale article outlet ports 4a and 4b formed at the lower end of the column in the article storage chamber 4, respectively.

Each of these shielding plates 12 and 13 is connected to the column rail 2,
Support 14.15 attached to the upper tip of 2
When the sales item 3 is released, the sales item 3 is rotated forward by the weight of the item 3 and released into the sales outlet 11.

The cold air blown from the cooling mechanism 10 is transmitted from the back side of the article storage chamber 4 to the storage chamber through a first air passage 16 formed on the back surface of the article storage chamber 4, as shown by the solid line arrow in the figure. The product is sent throughout the product storage chamber 4 through the second air passage 17 formed at the bottom of the product storage chamber 4, as shown by the dotted line arrow in the figure, to the sales article discharge ports 4a, 4b at the lower end of the column in the article storage chamber 4. It is designed to be sent to nearby areas.

A cold air circulation path is formed between the sales outlet door and the shielding plate 12.13, and the cold air passing through the first airflow path 16 cools the sales items 3. After that, it is sent to the evaporator 8 through this circulation path, and is sent to the article storage chamber 4.
It is configured to circulate throughout the interior.

In addition, the distribution ratio of the cold air from the cooling mechanism 10 to the first air blowing path 16 and the second air blowing path 17 is controlled by the air distribution control body 18 attached to the lower back of the article storage chamber 4. It is controlled by suppressing the cold air flowing through the passage 16.

With such a configuration, the sales articles 3 stored in the article storage chamber 4 are gradually cooled as a whole by the cold air sent from the back side through the first air passage 16.

On the other hand, the sales article outlet 4 at the lower end of the column in the article storage chamber 4
The sales articles 3 near a and 4b are cooled by the cold air sent from below via the second air passage 17.

In this case, the sales article outlet 4a, 4b has a shielding plate 12.1.
3 is attached, the cold air sent from the second air passage 17 does not escape to the sales outlet 11, and the next sales article near the outlet is efficiently and rapidly cooled down.

Therefore, even if the sales items 3 are not completely cooled down immediately after they are stored in the storage room 4, the sales items to be sold next can be efficiently cooled to a state where they can be sold sufficiently. Can be done.

Therefore, even if an article is sold immediately after being stored in the article storage chamber 4, there is no risk that the article will be sold due to insufficient cooling.

Then, in a relatively short period of time, the sales items stored in the item storage chamber 4 will be sufficiently cooled over the entire area centering around the sales item discharge ports 4a and 4b, so that after that, multiple sales items will be stored in succession. Even if the product is sold, there is no risk that the product will be sold with insufficient cooling.

In addition, the cold air sent from the second air passage 17 flows upward along these shielding plates 12.12, so even if the column stores items for sale in multiple rows, the cold air reaches all the way to the upper rows. The sales articles in the vicinity of the sales article outlet 4a in the row are also effectively cooled in a short time.

Moreover, the shielding plates 12.1 located at the sales article outlet 4a, 4b
3, even if a hand or the like is inserted through the sales opening 11, it can be prevented from being inserted into the article storage chamber 4.

Furthermore, the shielding plates 12 and 13 are provided separately from the sales outlet door of the sales outlet 11, and form a circulation path for cold air between them and the sales outlet door. The sent cold air is effectively circulated within the article storage chamber 4 through this circulation path, thereby uniformly cooling the entire article for sale.

In this way, in this apparatus, it is possible to sell sufficiently cooled sale articles even immediately after the sale articles are stored in the article storage chamber, and furthermore, sufficiently cooled sale articles can be sold continuously in a relatively short period of time.

In addition, the cold air is guided by these shielding plates and reaches the sales items in the upper row, effectively cooling these and evenly cooling the entire item, which has great effects.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the main parts of the same embodiment. 3... Goods for sale, 4... Goods storage room,
1o... curved cooling mechanism, 12, 13... shielding plate,
16...First air passage, 17...Second
ventilation duct.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] An article storage room whose front opening is openable and closable with an opening/closing door and a sales outlet door, and an article storage chamber provided within this article storage chamber to store and hold sales items and sequentially transfer sales items in response to sales operations. a plurality of columns arranged in parallel in the vertical direction for discharging goods to a sales outlet formed at the lower end of the column, and a door that is provided to be openable and closable at the sales article outlet formed at the lower end of these columns and between the opening and closing door. A shielding plate that constitutes a cold air circulation path;
a cooling mechanism for sending out cold air; a first air passage formed at the back of the sales article storage chamber to guide the cold air upward into the sales article storage chamber; and a second air passage formed at the bottom of the column.
and an air distribution control body disposed in the first airflow path to suppress circulation of cold air to the first airflow path and distribute cold air to the second airflow path. A vending machine for cooling products.