JPH0666079B2 - Vending machine product unloading device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a product unloading device for an automatic vending machine.

(B) Conventional Technology With the spread of telephone cards in recent years, it is required to sell telephone cards by vending machines. When this telephone card is sold by an automatic vending machine, it can be considered that the telephone card is used exclusively as a telephone card, or is used as a selling machine with other heterogeneous products. For example, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 61-74179, a product delivery device for cigarettes in which box-shaped products are stacked and stored and the lowest product is pushed out by a delivery member, and in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 60-9843. It is conceivable to arrange a sending device for a telephone card, which sends the lowest paper sheets, which are stacked and stored, by a sending roller as shown in the figure, in the mobile vending machine body.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention However, in the conventional vending machine, when different kinds of products are sold by one vending machine, the product unloading device for each different product must be installed separately with a space provided. Even if there is a problem that does not occur and there is a request for changing the product delivery device due to the change of the sold product in the market,
There was a problem that could not be easily done.

Therefore, the present invention provides a product unloading device for an automatic vending machine in which the product unloading device can be easily changed according to the product to be sold.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a product storage column for storing products by stacking products on the bottom surface with an opening for loading products on the front surface, and the lowest product on the bottom surface of the product storage column. In a vending machine provided with a product delivery device for delivering in the exit direction and a control means for driving the product delivery device based on a sales command, with mounting means detachably mounted in the product storage column, A product transporting device for storing a product separately from the bottom surface, allowing connector connection to the control means, and dropping and transporting the stored product on the bottom surface of the storage column based on a sales command of the control means, and the product transporting device. It is provided with a detection means for detecting the conveyed product and a control means for driving the product delivery device based on the detection of the product by the detection means.

(E) Product When the sales command occurs when the product transport device is not installed in the product storage column, the product delivery device moves the lowest product on the bottom of the product storage column that is stacked and stored in the product outlet direction. Send out. Then, when the product unloading device is removably mounted in the product storage column by the mounting means, and the connector is connected to the control means, the product transporting device stores the product stored away from the bottom surface of the product storage column based on the generation of the sales command. The product is dropped and conveyed from the lower end onto the bottom surface of the product storage column. When the detection means detects the conveyed product, the control means drives the product delivery device to deliver the product conveyed on the bottom surface of the product storage column in the product outlet direction.

(F) Embodiments Each of the drawings shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a vending machine body, and a door 3 provided with a commodity outlet 2 is pivotally supported so as to be opened and closed. Reference numeral 4 denotes a substrate, on the upper surface of which a plurality of slits 5 extending in the front-rear direction are arranged side by side at predetermined intervals. A plurality of product storage columns 6 for stacking and storing box-shaped products A such as cigarettes are arranged on the substrate 4 so as to correspond to the slits 5. This product storage column 6 has an opening 7 for loading products on the front surface, an opening 8 at the lower end of the rear wall 6A through which a discharge member 14 of a product delivery device 10 described later can pass, and a storage column 6 at the lower end of the front surface. There is provided a delivery port 9 through which only one lowest-order product stacked and stored on the inner bottom can pass.

10 is the lowest product A based on the sales instruction
A product delivery device for delivering to a drive shaft 11, which is provided with an endless spiral groove 11A on the outer peripheral surface and is installed in the front-rear direction corresponding to the slit 5, and is connected to the drive shaft 11 via a reduction mechanism 12. The drive motor 13 and the carry-out member 14 which is guided by the spiral groove 11A of the drive shaft 11 to move back and forth on the drive shaft 11 and project onto the substrate 4 through the slit 5 are provided. By the predetermined rotation of the drive shaft 11 by the drive of
The carry-out member 14 is moved back and forth by one reciprocation to send the lowest product A in the storage column 6 to the product outlet 2. In other words, the carry-out member 14 is located behind the storage column 6 during standby for sale, and is moved forward and backward by one drive by the drive motor 13 based on the sales command.
The lowest product A in the product is pushed forward from the delivery port 9 and delivered to the product delivery port 2.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a product transfer device that is detachably provided in the product storage column 6, and has mounting holes 17 formed on the upper surface of the board 14 with mounting sides 17 provided at the lower ends of both side walls 16A and 16B of the product storage device 16, respectively.
It is inserted through and locked in 18 and is detachably installed on the bottom surface in the product storage column 6. That is, the product transport device 15 can be installed in the product storage column 6 by detachably locking the mounting piece 17 as the mounting device to the mounting hole 18 which is the mounting device on the product storage column 6 side. .

The product transfer device 15 includes a spiral 19 extending vertically in a product storage 16 and a drive motor 20 connected to the upper end of the spiral 19 to rotate the spiral 19 once for each sales instruction. The card as the product B is stored in the gap of the spiral 19, and when the card is attached to the product storage column 6, the product B is stored away from the bottom surface of the product storage column 6. Then, by rotating the drive motor 20, the card is sequentially dropped from the lower end of the spiral 19 and conveyed onto the substrate 4, which is the bottom surface in the product storage column 6. Further, a storage door 22 for opening and closing a product loading opening 21 for storing the product B in each gap of the spiral 19 is provided on the front surface of the product storage container 16, and the lower end of the rear surface is the discharge member 14 described above.
It is positioned so that it does not interfere with the reciprocating movement of the. That is, the product transport device 15 is mounted in the product storage column 6 when the product B is sold. When the sales command is delivered, first, the drive motor 20 of the product transfer device 15 operates to rotate the spiral 19 once, and the product B stored in the lowest position of the spiral 19 is dropped and transferred onto the upper surface of the substrate 4. When this dropped and conveyed product B is detected by a card sensor as product detection means provided at the lower ends of both side walls 16A, 16B of the product storage unit 16, a sales command is issued to the drive motor 13 of the product delivery device 10.
Be delivered to. As a result, the drive motor 13 rotates the drive shaft 11 to reciprocally move the carry-out member 14 forward so that the product B dropped onto the substrate 4 and carried out is sent from the sending port 9 to the product taking-out port 2. There is.

Therefore, in the product storage column 6 in which the product A is sold, the product delivery device 10 sells the products directly stacked in the product storage column 6, and the product B in the product storage column 6 wants to sell the card. The product transport device
By installing 15, the product transport device 15 and the product delivery device 10
The product B can be sold by the linking operation of.

When the product transport device 15 is mounted in the product storage column 6, the product control device (not shown) sends a sales command to be delivered to the drive motor 13 of the product delivery device 10 to the product transport device.
The product transport device is configured to deliver the sales command to the drive motor 20 of the product delivery device 10 when the card sensor 23 detects the dropped and transported card.
15 is connected to the sales control circuit by a connector.

(G) Effect of the Invention Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to easily change the product carry-out device according to the change of the product to be sold, and it is also possible to easily change the product to be sold in the market. Becomes

[Brief description of drawings]

Each drawing shows an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a vertical side view of a vending machine, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a product storage column portion, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a product transfer device. FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of the vending machine with the product transport device mounted in the product storage column. 6: product storage column, 10: product delivery device, 15: product transport device, 17: mounting piece, 18: mounting hole, 23: card sensor.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A product storage column having an opening for loading products on the front surface and stacking and storing products on the bottom surface, and a product delivery device for delivering the lowest product on the bottom surface of the product storage column in the product outlet direction. In an automatic vending machine having a control means for driving the product delivery device based on a sales command, a mounting means for detachably mounting the product storage column is provided, and the product is stored separately from the bottom surface. In addition, a connector that can be connected to the control means, and a product transporting device that drops and transports a stored product on the bottom surface of the storage column based on a sales command from the control device, and a detection device that detects the product transported from the product transporting device. And a control means for driving the commodity delivery device based on the detection of the commodity by the detection means.