JPS60700Y2 - Vending machine product storage shelf - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to an improvement that ensures that products are removed one by one from a product storage shelf in a vending machine that sells paper packaged products such as milk drinks.

2. Description of the Related Art So-called paper pack products, in which drinks such as milk drinks are sealed in rectangular parallelepiped paper packs, are sold in vending machines.

The product storage shelf of this vending machine includes a shelf board on which a large number of the paper package products are placed in a row adjacent to each other, and a pusher that pushes the products forward.

Then, in response to a sales command, the products are pushed forward by a pusher, and the first product is pushed off the shelf board, falls, and is delivered to the product outlet.

By the way, the surface of the paper packaged products is often wetted by ice droplets or drinking liquid during cooling before being stored on the product storage shelf, and the products are often stored in the product storage shelf as they are.

However, in the above-mentioned product storage shelves, when a product with a wet surface is stored, a sticking phenomenon occurs between adjacent products.

For this reason, when the first product falls from the shelf board due to the sales command, the next product also falls with it.

The object of this invention is to provide a product storage shelf for a vending machine that eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks and ensures that products are removed one by one when the products are removed.

According to this invention, the purpose of this is to create a vending machine in which a large number of products arranged adjacent to each other on a shelf are pushed forward by a sales order, and the first product falls off the shelf one after another and is carried out. In this product storage shelf, a substantially T-shaped member is provided, the upper end of which is supported so as to be rotatable back and forth, and which is made up of a vertical piece that hangs down in front of the product, and a diagonal piece that projects downward and rearward from the vertical piece, and carries out the product. When the product is pushed out, the product comes into contact with the vertical piece, causing the T-shaped member to rotate, and this rotation causes the diagonal piece to push down the product at the top, thereby allowing the product to be moved further away.

Hereinafter, embodiments of this invention will be described based on the drawings.

1 and 2, 1 is a well-known chain elevator type product storage shelf, 2 is an upper and lower sprocket shaft 3
A pair of endless chains are stretched vertically in the front and rear, 4 is a rack between the pair of endless chains 2, and shelf boards are provided at predetermined intervals; 6 is a drive motor connected to the sprocket shaft 3 and runs the chain 2 to lower the shelf boards 4 one after another to the unloading position in an elevator style; 7 is the shelf board 4 at the unloading position.
This is a pusher that pushes the products 5 on top a forward in response to a sales command and pushes the first product 5a off the shelf board 4a and causes it to fall.

This pusher includes a drive motor 71, an endless chain 72 that is driven by the motor 71, and a pusher plate 7 that is coupled to the endless chain 72 and pushes the product 5 forward.
It has 3.

8 is a substantially T-shaped member provided according to this invention, and is formed by a vertical piece 81 and a diagonal piece 82.

A vertical piece 81 hangs down in front of the product 5a and is rotatable back and forth, and its upper end is attached to the front plate 1a of the product storage shelf 1.
The support shaft 11 is supported by a support shaft 11 protruding from the support shaft 11 .

Further, the diagonal piece 82 projects downward and rearward from the back surface of the vertical piece 81.

In the above-mentioned product storage shelf, when all the products 5 on the shelf board 4a at the carry-out position have been carried out, a switch (not shown) detects this.

Then, the motor 6 is rotated, the chain 2 is run, and the next shelf board 4 is sent to the unloading position.

When selling a product, the pusher 7 is activated by a sales command, and the product 5 on the shelf board 4a is pushed forward by the pusher plate 73.

The first product 5a pushed out from the shelf board 4a comes into contact with the vertical piece 81 of the T-shaped member 8, causing the T-shaped member 8 to rotate forward in the direction of arrow A.

Along with this rotation, the lower end of the diagonal piece 82 rotates as shown by arrow B and touches the leading product 5a, pushing this product 5a downward as shown by arrow C.

The leading product 5a that has been pushed out and pushed down from the shelf board 4a in this way is completely separated from the next product 5b on the shelf board 4a, falls, and is sent to the product outlet.

As described above, according to this invention, a substantially T-shaped member consisting of a vertical piece that hangs down in front of the products on the shelf and a diagonal piece that projects downward and rearward from the vertical piece is provided so as to be rotatable back and forth. When carrying out the product, the first product pushed out from the shelf comes into contact with the vertical piece and rotates the T-shaped member, and this rotation causes the diagonal piece to push down the first product, so that the product is not pushed off the shelf. The first product is reliably separated from the next product on the shelf and carried out.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle diagram of a chain elevator type product storage shelf according to an embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the T-shaped member in FIG. 1. 4...Shelf board, 5...Product, 7...
...Pusher, 8...T-shaped member, 81.
... Vertical piece, 82... Diagonal piece.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A product storage shelf of a vending machine in which a large number of products lined up next to each other on a shelf is pushed forward by a sales command, and the first product falls off the shelf and is carried out, and can be rotated back and forth. A substantially T-shaped member is provided, the upper end of which is supported and which hangs down in front of the product, and a diagonal piece that projects downward and rearward from the vertical piece, so that the product pushed out when the product is carried out comes into contact with the vertical piece. A product storage shelf for a vending machine, characterized in that the T-shaped member rotates, and this rotation causes the diagonal piece to push down a leading product.