JPS6258037B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a vending machine.

[Prior art]

In general, there are two types of vending machines: cold and hot-only types that are used for cooling or warming purposes, and cold and hot-use types that can perform both cooling and warming at the same time. Since there is no need to partition the inside of the main body, there is no insulating partition wall, and in the case of cold and hot storage types, the inside of the main body is partitioned with a heat insulating partition wall so that adjacent storage chambers do not interfere with each other in terms of temperature. are doing.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Therefore, two types of main bodies are required: one for cold and hot use only, and one for both cold and hot use.
The drawback is that one main body cannot be used in common for both cold and hot types and cold and hot types, resulting in high production costs.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention makes it possible to obtain main body compatibility when manufacturing a cold/warm type and a cold/warm type. An opening is provided at the bottom of the board, and an externally operable opening/closing door is provided in the opening, and this heat-insulating partition board can be inserted into and removed from guide plates provided on the upper and lower walls of the product room.

[Effect]

Therefore, when manufacturing a vending machine for both cold and hot use, it is sufficient to remove the insulating partition wall from the inside of the main body, and when manufacturing a vending machine for both cold and hot use, the main body It can be used by attaching a heat insulating partition wall to the internal guide plate, and one main body can be shared by two different types of vending machines. Furthermore, even if the machine is used as a vending machine for both cold and hot use by installing an insulating partition plate, both chambers can be used for cold or hot use by opening the opening/closing door provided on the above-mentioned insulating partition plate by external operation. It can also be easily switched to a vending machine.

〔Example〕

Figures 1 and 2 are a front open view and a side sectional view of the vending machine of the present invention. In the figures, 1 is the main body, which is divided into a compartment wall 2 and a product compartment 3 in the upper part and a machine compartment 4 in the lower part. It is divided into.

Equipment such as a compressor 5 is housed in the machine room 4, and the product room 3 is further divided into left and right rooms 3A and 3B by a heat insulating partition plate 6. The heat insulating partition plate 6 is slidable in the front and back direction by means of upper and lower guide plates 7 and 8 fixed to the top and bottom of the product compartment 3, so that it can be pulled out from the main body 1 when the door of the main body is opened. It is configured.

9A and 9B are product storage shelves arranged at the upper part of the rooms 3A and 3B, and store a large number of drinks, for example.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a cooler installed in the lower part of the room 3B, which together with the compressor 5 and the like constitutes a refrigeration mechanism. Reference numeral 11 is a blower which, together with a baffle plate 12, blows the air cooled by the cooler 10 to the upper and lower product storage shelves 9B.

13 is a heater disposed at the lower part of the room 3A, and 14 is another blower disposed slightly below the heater 13.

15A and 15B are cold air ports opened at both the front and rear ends of the lower end of the heat insulating partition plate 6, and the opening/closing door 16
It is configured to be opened and closed at A and 16B. The opening/closing doors 16A, 16B are designed to close the warm air port 17 at the bottom of the air guide plate 12' provided to surround the blower 14 in the room 3A when the cold air port is opened. It is configured.

By the way, these opening/closing doors 16A and 16B both have the same configuration, so in order to simplify the explanation, only the former door 16A will be explained in detail once again.

That is, as shown in the enlarged view of the main part in FIG.
8A and is pivotally supported by a drive shaft 19A. A connecting arm 20A extending in the opposite direction to the support arm 18A is fixed to this shaft 19A, and an arcuate pivot arm 21A is pivotally attached to the tip of this connecting arm 20A. One end of the spring 24A is fastened 23A to the periphery of the cold air port 15A, and the other end of the spring 24A is fastened 25A to the tip of the arm 21A.

Therefore, with this configuration, the drive shaft 19A is rotated and the opening/closing door 16A is connected to the cold air outlet 15A.
When the warm air vent 17 is closed as shown by the solid line in the figure, the spring 24A works together with the pivot arm 21A to maintain this state, and when the warm air vent 17 is closed as shown by the dotted line, this state is maintained. do. That is, the opening/closing door 16 is
This means that A has two stable points.

Note that 26A is a frame fitted to the cold air port 15A, and is made of a material that does not undergo qualitative changes due to heat and is compatible with the opening/closing door 16A.

In addition, 27 in the figure is a control switch installed near the cold air outlet 15A in the room 3B,
Switch rod 2 linked to the opening/closing of the opening/closing door 16A
8, and when the opening/closing door 16A closes the cold air port 15A, the circuit of the cooler 10 (including the compressor 5) is solidified and the heater 13 is closed.
When the circuit of the heater 13 is closed and the cold air port 15A is opened and the warm air port 17 is closed, the circuit of the heater 13 is opened and the circuit of the cooler 10 is closed. There is.

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, its operation will be explained below.

Now, both rooms 3A and 3B can be "cooled" by operating the opening/closing doors 16A and 16B via the drive shafts 19A and 19B and closing the warm air vents 17A and 17B.

That is, when the warm air vent is closed in this manner, the circuit of the heater 13 is opened by the operation of the control switch 27, while the circuit of the cooler 10 (including the compressor 5) and the blowers 11 and 14 are opened. The circuit is closed, and therefore, on the side of the room 3A, the air cooled by the cooler 10 by the action of the blower 14 passes through the cold air vents 15A and 15B as indicated by the dotted arrows to the product storage shelf 9.
A is reached, the products stored here are cooled,
On the other hand, on the room 3B side, cool air reaches the product storage shelf 9B by the action of the blower 11 and cools the products stored there.

Unlike this situation, when the room 3A side is set to "warm" and the room 3B side is set to "cool", the opening/closing doors 16A, 16B are moved to the drive shaft 19A,
19B, and close the cold air ports 15A, 15B and open the warm air ports 17A, 17B as shown by the solid line in the figure.

That is, when the opening/closing doors 16A, 16B are positioned in this way, the circuits of the heater 13, the cooler 10, and both the blowers 11, 14 are closed by the action of the control switch 27, and therefore, the blower is closed on the side of the room 3A. After the air taken in from the warm air vents 17A and 17B is heated by the heater 13 due to the action of 14, the product storage shelf 9 is heated.
A is reached, the product stored here is heated, and on the other hand,
On the room 3B side, air is cooled by a cooler 10 by the action of a blower 11, and then sent to a product storage shelf 9B to cool the products stored on this shelf 9B.

Note that the drive shafts 19A and 19B may be rotated manually or automatically based on an external operation, and the automatic vending machine to which the present invention is applied may be used. It may be selected appropriately depending on the structure of the machine.

Further, in the above embodiment, both the rooms 3A and 3B are cooled at the same time, but the structure is not limited to this, and may vary depending on the structure of the vending machine to which the present invention is applied and the location where it is installed. , both rooms may be heated at the same time, or both rooms may be heated at the same time or both rooms may be cooled at the same time depending on the selection as necessary. In this case, this can be done by appropriately arranging the cooler and heater.

Next, when manufacturing a cold and hot vending machine, by removing the heat insulating partition plate 6 from the product compartment 3 along the guides 7 and 8, the product compartment 3 can be combined into one room. It can be used as a standard, and maintenance and inspection can be easily carried out.

〔effect〕

Since the present invention is configured as described above, one type of main body can be applied to both cold and hot type vending machines or cold and hot type automatic vending machines. Even when it is being used as a vending machine, it can be easily switched to a cold or hot vending machine by opening the opening/closing door provided on the insulated partition plate by external operation. Since it is pre-assembled into the partition plate, the workability is extremely improved, which is a remarkable effect.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 and 2 are a front open view and a side sectional view of a vending machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of main parts. 3A, 3B: Room, 5: Compressor, 6:
Heat insulation partition plate, 7, 8: Partition plate, 10: Cooler, 1
3: Heater.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A guide plate in which an opening is provided at the bottom of an insulating partition plate that divides the product room into multiple rooms in the main body, an externally operable opening/closing door is provided in the opening, and the insulating partition board is provided on the upper and lower walls of the product room. A vending machine that is characterized by being able to be inserted and removed freely.