JP3227922B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine for selling goods such as canned beverages and the like, and to an improvement in transportation and replenishment of goods for replenishment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Vending machines for selling products such as canned beverages are already known. This type of vending machine stores a predetermined number of products in a product rack in the machine, and is installed not only at a storefront but also on a roadside away from a house. One routeman travels around a number of vending machines by car to carry out operations such as replenishment of goods and collection of money.

[0003]

However, among vending machine users, it is difficult to replenish products in a timely manner due to recent traffic conditions such as traffic congestion and expansion of parking prohibited areas. There is a demand for a vending machine that can reduce the influence of the transportation of goods, such as bringing back the goods when the sales of the goods are small, and reducing the influence of the goods. An object of the present invention is to provide a vending machine that can meet the above demand.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a vending machine according to the present invention has a product rack housed and installed in a heat insulating room formed in a main body case, and a product housed in the product rack. In a vending machine in which products are taken out one by one based on a sales signal, a product storage room for storing replenishment products at room temperature is formed in the main body case, and a suitable space is provided on the inner surface of the back plate of the product storage room in the lateral direction. And a concave portion that is provided in the depth direction and runs up and down. Further, the vending machine of the present invention is a vending machine in which a product rack is housed and installed in an insulating room formed in a main body case, and products stored in the product rack are carried out one by one based on a sales signal. A product storage space for storing refill products at room temperature in the main body case is formed above the heat insulating chamber in the main body case, and an outer door for opening and closing the front of the main body case, and an upper outer door for opening and closing the front of the product storage space. And a lower outer door provided on the front surface of the main body case below the upper outer door, and a translucent illuminating plate facing the front surface is provided on the upper outer door. (Claim 2).

[0005]

According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the transportation of goods by storing refilling goods in the goods storage room without taking them home and by delivering the goods to the goods storage room.
In addition, it is possible to take charge of the transportation of the goods, the filling of the goods in the goods rack, the collection of the payment, etc., so that the influence of the traffic situation can be minimized.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the figure, a main body case 1 of a vending machine includes an outer door 2 on a front surface, and the inside is largely divided into three. The lower section is the condensing unit 31 of the cooling device.
The upper left section is formed with an insulating room 4 having an insulating door 41 on the front side in the same manner as a conventional vending machine, and the product is filled in the insulating room 4. Then, a merchandise rack 42 for carrying out the merchandise one by one toward a merchandise outlet provided on the front surface of the outer door 2 according to a sales signal and a cooling unit of the cooling device are housed and installed.
According to the present invention, the product storage room 5 is provided in the upper right section.
Is formed. This product storage room 5 is provided with a receiving table 51 in the partition 11 of the main body case 1 to reinforce the bottom plate, and as shown in FIG. 6, the back plate 52 of the product storage room 5 has irregularities in the thickness direction alternately continuous. It is formed by using a plate material to be processed so that the irregularities run up and down. The recess 53 is so that the hand can easily enter.
The depth A is formed to be approximately 10 mm, and the width B is formed to be 50 to 250 mm. A plurality of shelves 54 are provided in the room at appropriate intervals and the intervals can be adjusted.

[0007] In the above-described configuration, the routeman who has loaded the product on the car can use the product 10 in which the product rack 42 has been filled with the product in accordance with the sales of the product in the product rack 42, by itself or by a predetermined number of products. Each packed case 10A is stored in the product storage room 5. At this time, the products in the case are stored with a hand-accessible space at the top so that they can be easily taken out. The stored case 10A is easily pulled out by inserting an arm into the upper space, inserting a fingertip into the recess 53 as shown in FIG. When the parking of the car is restricted, the filling of the product rack 42 is omitted and the product is delivered to the product storage room 5 quickly. This makes it possible for the routeman to leave the surplus product 10 in the car, but to omit it, and also allows a worker other than the routeman to take charge of the replenishment of the product 10 to the product rack, and the routeman has a bad traffic situation. Even when it is not possible to patrol as scheduled, products can be replenished in a timely manner to avoid a sold-out state. Therefore, the vending machine can continue to sell the goods and maintain the operation rate at a high level even when the transportation of the supplementary goods is stagnant or when the sales are rapidly increased.

A second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In this embodiment, the product storage room 5 is formed in the upper part of the main body case 1 similarly to the second embodiment,
Conventionally, one outer door for opening and closing the front surface of the main body case 1 is configured differently from the conventional case. That is, the front of the main body case 1 is divided into an upper outer door 2A that opens and closes the front of the product storage room 5 and a lower outer door 2B that opens and closes the front of the main body case 1 below the product storage room 5. Two outer doors are provided. The lower outer door 2B has a pair of upper and lower hinges 21 similarly to the conventional outer door.
A product sample 10B is displayed facing the front surface, and a product selling push button 23, a product outlet 24, a coin slot (not shown), and the like are provided on the front surface. . On the other hand, the upper outer door 2A is rotatably mounted in the up-down direction via a hinge 25, and an electric illuminating plate 26 on which a pictograph for advertisement is displayed is mounted on a front surface portion in a detachable manner. A fluorescent lamp 27 for illuminating the electric illuminating plate 26 is installed on the front surface of a back plate that forms the back surface of the upper outer door 2A and that can be opened and closed. The illuminating plate 26 is rotated by turning the upper outer door 2A to the open state and the back plate is opened, and is replaced with a pictogram suitable for the season or the product to be sold in a timely manner.

In this embodiment, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained by providing the product storage room 5 in this embodiment, and in this embodiment, the heat insulation chamber 4 is made as large as the width of the main body case 1. Since it is formed, there is an advantage that the number of accommodated product racks (FIG. 3) can be increased and the number of types of sold products can be increased. Also, in a vending machine having one outer door 2 (FIG. 2), the entire front surface of the main body case 1 is opened at the time of replacing the lighting plate. Although it takes some time, in the vending machine of this embodiment, the upper outer door 2A is opened and the illuminating plate 26 is removed with the lower outer door 2B closed, that is, with the vending machine in the selling state. Replacement is performed. Therefore, in addition to the above effects, an effect of increasing the sales chance of the product can be obtained.

[0010]

According to the present invention, the loss of the transportation of goods by the routeman is greatly reduced, and the division of labor between the transportation of the supplementary goods and the filling of the commodity racks with the supplementary goods becomes possible. Vending machines are operated at a high level of operation rate even if the sales are stagnant. According to the first aspect of the present invention, even in a case where a product in a case is stored in the product storage room and the product in the case is stored and stuck to the back plate of the product storage room, the fingertip may be placed on the back plate. Therefore, there is an advantage that the product in the case can be easily pulled out. According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the transported replenishment product is stored in the product storage room, only the relatively small upper outer door needs to be opened and closed with respect to the lower outer door. It has the advantage of improving.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a vending machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention with an outer door removed.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the vending machine of FIG. 1 taken along the line 2Y-2Y.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the vending machine of FIG. 1 taken along line 3X-3X.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a cradle;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a cradle;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a product storage room.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining removal of a product.

FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of a vending machine showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a front view of the vending machine shown in FIG. 8;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body case 2 Outer door 2A Upper outer door 2B Lower outer door 4 Insulated room 5 Product storage room 10 Product 26 Lighting plate 42 Product rack 53 Recess

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-4-181398 (JP, A) JP-A-2-263289 (JP, A) JP-A-63-247581 (JP, A) JP-A-5-181 28349 (JP, A) JP-A-5-89352 (JP, A) JP-A 55-44345 (JP, U) JP-A 2-104477 (JP, U) JP-A 61-23674 (JP, U) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07F 9/00-9/10

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A vending machine in which a product rack is accommodated and installed in a heat insulating room formed in a main body case, and goods stored in the product rack are carried out one by one based on a sales signal. A product storage room for storing replenishment products at room temperature is formed, and on the inner surface of the back plate of the product storage room, recesses are provided at appropriate intervals in the left-right direction, are recessed in the depth direction, and run up and down. vending machine. 2. A vending machine in which a merchandise rack is housed and installed in a heat insulating room formed in a main body case, and the merchandise stored in the merchandise rack is carried out one by one based on a sales signal. A product storage space for storing replenishment products at room temperature is formed above the heat insulating chamber in the main body case, an outer door for opening and closing the front of the main body case, an upper outer door for opening and closing the front of the product storage space, A vending machine, wherein the vending machine is divided into a lower outer door provided on a front surface of a main body case below the door, and a translucent illuminating plate is provided on the upper outer door facing the front surface.