JPS6013232B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a vending machine that quickly heats and sells heated items such as canned coffee and milk.

As a conventional vending machine of this type, the Utility Model Publication No. 48-3335
Some vending machines that use high-frequency power, such as the one disclosed in Publication No. 6, can be seen.In this type of vending machine, a distribution chute is interposed between the outlet of the storage chamber in which goods are stored and the heating device, and the The falling articles were distributed as appropriate, either unheated and discharged into the vending outlet, or heated and discharged into the vending outlet.

Further, the heating device includes a lower waveguide and a waveguide for accommodating an article for sale, and rotates the waveguide to guide the article to an outlet for the article. Therefore, since the distribution chute is moved, it is necessary to increase the distance between the outlet of the storage chamber and the vending outlet, and since the waveguide also rotates, the height of the vending machine body has to be adjusted to the dimensions of the heating device, etc. I had to make it bigger. The present invention eliminates the disadvantages of the above-mentioned secondary structure, and provides an article sales port and an article discharge port substantially parallel to each other, and the article is guided to the article sales port at a position lower than the opening □ on the top surface of the article induction heating coil. A vending machine This prevents the height dimension from increasing.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

1' is a vending machine body which stores goods such as canned coffee and milk inside, and is equipped with a storage chamber 2 and a goods supply device 3 for supplying the goods one by one.

Furthermore, a cooling device 4 is placed inside the storage chamber 2 to cool and preserve the articles. Reference numeral 5 denotes a door body that is opened when storing articles in the storage room 2. On the front surface of the door body 5, a push button W for operating the article supply device 3 and an article sales opening 6 are formed, and a coin mechanism is provided inside. It's decorated.

7 is a lower part of the door body 5, and an article discharge port 8 of the storage room 2 is provided.
This is an article heating device located below.

This article heating device 7 has an induction heating coil 9 having a cylindrical shape and a planar shape with a top surface, and a support plate portion 10 that moves up and down the center of the induction heating coil 9 and slopes toward one side at the upper end. The working punch 11 is made up of a rotary plate 13 which is rotated by the drive of the motor 2, and this rotary plate 13.
The vertical drive is controlled via a connecting punch 14 connected to the . 1
Reference numeral 5 denotes a substantially L-shaped article guiding punch provided below the article discharge port 8, and a supporting part 15 that supports the article rolling and falling from the article discharge port 8 at a position off the center. ′ is provided.

The article guiding member 15 has a central portion rotatably supported by a shaft 15a so as to move vertically on a frame 16, which will be described later.
The other end is connected to the connecting punch 14 by a link 15b. Further, the contact portion 15' projects from a vertical hole 16a formed in the frame 16 into the movement trajectory of the article.
Since this article guiding village 15 is connected to the connecting village 14, it moves with the working village 11 by the drive of the motor 12 and swings in the vertical direction. do. In other words, the saddle section 15' of the article guidance village 15
is located above the hole 16a, the support plate portion 10 of the operating punch 11 is located below the induction heating coil 9, and the supporting plate portion 15'
is located below the hole 16a and below the upper end of the induction heating coil 9, the support slope 10 of the working village 11 is located at the upper end of the induction heating coil 9.

The article heating device 7, motor 12, and rotating plate 13
, the connecting punch 14, the article guiding punch 15, etc., are connected to the article discharge port 8.
and an article discharging window 8' corresponding to the article discharging window 8' and an article sales window 6' corresponding to the article sales opening 6, respectively.
This frame body 16 is attached to the lower part of the inner surface of the door body 5. Further, the article sales port 6 is positioned substantially parallel to the article discharge port 8, and the article sales port 6 is formed vertically larger than the article discharge port 8. Reference numeral 17 denotes an article receiving stand located near the article sales window 6' of the frame 16, and is provided at a position lower than the gate on the upper surface of the induction heating coil 9.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be explained.

A predetermined coin is inserted into the coin slot of the vending machine main body 1 and a selection button is pressed.

Now, when you press the position of a cold item (canned coffee) that does not require heating on the plurality of selection buttons, the item supply device 3 in the storage room 2 is activated, and one cooled item is discharged from the discharge port 8. It is led out to the discharge window 8'.

At this time, the working punch 11 and the induction punch 15 of the heating device 7 are in the state shown by the chain lines in FIG.
1 The side away from the article holder 17 comes into contact with the article holder 17
The cooled articles can be taken out from the sales outlet 6 because the articles are directly transferred and dropped by their own weight in the direction of .

Next, when you want to heat the article to obtain a warm article, press the button at that position, and the article supply device 3 in the storage room 2 operates as described above, and one cooled article is delivered to the discharge port 8.
At the same time, the motor 12 is driven to rotate the rotary plate 13 in the direction of the arrow in FIG. The induction heating coil 9 is pushed down to the lowest position to stop the motor 12 from being driven.

Further, the article guiding village 15 also moves in the direction opposite to the arrow EO in FIG. 3 in conjunction with the connecting village 14 and stops above.

Therefore, the articles led out to the discharge window 8' are received inside from the upper surface closed part of the induction heating coil 9 by contacting the side part 15' of the article transfer village 15 and the side remote from the induction heating coil 9. be done.

At this time, when it is confirmed that the article is accommodated in the induction heating coil 9, a timer (not shown) is activated to energize the induction heating coil 9 for a predetermined period of time to heat the article, and when the predetermined period of time has elapsed, The timer turns off the electricity to the induction heating coil 9 and drives the motor 2 again to push up the actuating village 11 and lower the article guiding village 15 downward.

Since the supporting slope section 10 is inclined, the article falls over and is guided by its own weight toward the article holder 17 from the entrance section on the upper surface of the induction heating coil 9, and can be taken out as a warm heated article from the sales outlet 6. . As described above, the present invention is achieved by providing the article sales port and the article discharge port at substantially parallel positions, and by arranging the article receiving stand provided at the article sales port at a position lower than the opening on the top surface of the concession heating coil. By simply changing the direction of movement of the article from the article discharge port, the article can be easily guided by its own weight, eliminating the need for a separate mechanism for moving the article. Therefore, the height of the gravity vending machine does not increase due to the addition of a new mechanism.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a side cross-sectional view taken along the line □' in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged explanatory view taken along the line mm--m' in FIG. 2. 1... vending machine body, 3... article supply device, 6... door body, 6... article sales port,
6'... Goods sales window, 7... Goods heating device, 8'...
... Goods discharge window, 9 ... Induction heating coil, 10.
...Support slope section, 11...Operating punch, 12...
... Motor, 13 ... Rotating plate, 14 ... Connecting pestle, 15 ... Goods guidance village, 16 ...
Frame body, 17... Goods holder. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An article discharge port for storing articles therein and discharging the articles supplied from the article supply device; and an article sales port for receiving the articles supplied from the article supply device to the outside, approximately parallel to the article discharge port; An article heating device having a cylindrical induction heating coil having at least an open upper surface between the two openings;
an article guiding device that moves the article to a position where the article is introduced into the induction heating coil of the article heating device and a position where the article is guided to the article sales outlet without passing through the article heating device; and the article guiding device moves the article into the induction heating coil. When the induction heating coil is in the lower part of the induction heating coil and is in the position to lead the article to the article sales outlet, the article is pushed up through the opening on the top of the induction heating coil and the article is delivered to the article sales outlet. The operating rod that guides the
A vending machine comprising: an article receiving stand for receiving articles led to an article vending outlet at a position lower than the opening on the upper surface of the induction heating coil.