JPH07118036B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic vending machine for various products, and more particularly to a means for facilitating the input of products when replenishing products.

Conventional technology Conventionally, when loading a product into a product storage section of a vending machine, a product transport case is carried in the front part of the product loading slot, the case is opened and the products are sequentially taken out by hand from the product loading slot. The operation of putting it in the product storage section is repeated.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, it is very hard work to repeat the operation of manually removing the product from the product transport case at the lower position and inserting it into the product insertion port located at the upper part of the main body as described above. There was a problem.

The present invention solves the above problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic vending machine that can easily insert a product from a product case into a product insertion slot.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a pedestal for a product case in a front part of one side where a product insertion port of a main body containing a product storage part is formed, and This pedestal is slidably attached to a movable guide shaft arranged in the lateral direction of the main body, and the movable guide shaft is movable in the height direction of the main body to correspond to the installation height of the product insertion port. It is characterized in that it is attached to the main body so that it can be held.

The pedestal of the product case is slidable in the lateral direction of the main body,
Moreover, it is attached so as to be movable in the height direction of the main body,
The pedestal is held in correspondence with the installation height of the product loading port for receiving the product replenishment, and then the pedestal is slid along the movable guide shaft to the product loading port for the product replenishment to replenish the product.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

In the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 is a main body of a vending machine, which has a product storage unit for storing products for each type and a product dispensing device (not shown) incorporated therein. There is.
On the upper part of the front surface of the main body 1, product insertion ports 2 are formed in parallel vertically and horizontally for each type of product. A front door (not shown) provided with a product display, a product selection unit, a money insertion unit, a product outlet, etc. is provided on the front surface of the main body 1 so as to be opened and closed.

On both sides of the front surface of the main body 1, a screw shaft 3 is provided between an upper portion corresponding to the product inlet 2 and an intermediate position in the vertical direction.
a and 3b are provided. The upper and lower ends of these screw shafts 3a and 3b are rotatably supported by bearings 4 and are rotated in synchronization with each other by interlocking means 5 such as a pulley and a belt or a sprocket and a chain fixed near the lower end. It is interlocked to do. The lower end of one screw shaft 3a is connected to the drive motor 6. A pair of upper and lower screw blocks 7a and 7b are screwed onto the screw shafts 3a and 3b, respectively, and
The lower screw blocks 7a and 7b are connected by a pair of upper and lower horizontal movable guide shafts 8a and 8b, respectively. 9 is a movable body,
Movable guide shafts 8a and 8b pass through the upper and lower parts of the movable guide shafts 8a and 8b so as to be slidable relative to each other, and are supported by the movable guide shafts 8a and 8b so as to be horizontally movable. Further, a fixing means (not shown) such as a click stop for fixing the movable body 9 at a position corresponding to an arbitrary product insertion port 2 in the horizontal direction is provided. A pedestal 10 is attached to the movable body 9. This cradle 10
One end is pivotally supported by a shaft 12 so that it can be switched between a supporting posture shown by a solid line in FIG. 2 and a standby posture standing upright along a front surface of the main body 1 shown by a virtual line.

In this embodiment, swinging means 13 for swinging the pedestal 10 back and forth between a solid line position and an imaginary line position shown in FIG. 1 by pivotally supporting the pedestal 10 on the movable body 9 is provided. It is configured.

According to the above configuration, when replenishing the product storage unit of the main body 1 with the product, the product transport case 14 is carried into the front portion of the main body 1, the front door is opened, and the cradle 10 is moved from the standby position to the supporting position. After that, the drive motor 6 rotationally drives the screw shafts 3a and 3b to lower the movable body 9 through the screw blocks 7a and 7b and the movable guide shafts 8a and 8b, and stops the pedestal 10 at the lower limit position. . Further, the pedestal 10 is moved along the movable guide shafts 8a and 8b to be positioned and fixed below the product insertion port 2 according to the type of product to be inserted. Next, the product transport case 14 is placed on the pedestal 10. At that time, as shown in FIG. 1, an opening for taking out the product 15 at the front of the product carrying case 14.
Forming 16. After that, the drive motor 6 drives the screw shafts 3a and 3b.
To drive the screw blocks 7a, 7b, the movable guide shaft 8a,
8b, the pedestal 10 is raised via the movable body 9, and the upper surface of the pedestal 10 is positioned to face the lower edge of the desired product insertion port 2. next,
When the pedestal 10 is tilted obliquely downward toward the product input port 2 about the shaft 12, the products 15 are sequentially input from the product transport case 14 to the product input port 2. In addition, the product transportation case during transportation
Even when the product 15 is engaged with the unevenness formed on the product 14, the product 15 is dropped by its own weight by swinging the pedestal 10 back and forth around the shaft 12 and the engagement is released. , All the products 15 are smoothly taken out and put into the product slot 2.

After loading the products, the pedestal 10 is lowered by the drive motor 6, the product transport case 14 is removed, the above operation is repeated for another four types of products, and when all the products have been introduced, the standby position of the pedestal 10 Then close the front door.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In this embodiment, the lifting guide shafts 21 are provided on both sides of the front surface of the main body 1.
a and 21b are arranged and both ends thereof are fixed to the main body 1 by the mounting brackets 22, and both ends of the movable guide shafts 8a and 8b are fixed to the slide member 23 movable along the elevating guide shafts 21a and 21b. ing. Further, the slide member 23 is provided with a fixing means 24 such as a click stop so that the slide member 23 can be fixed at a position corresponding to the desired height of the product insertion port 2 on the receiving table 10.

According to the above configuration, the pedestal 10 is manually positioned at a desired height and fixed by the fixing means 24, and then the product transport case 14 is placed on the pedestal 10, and then the same as above. Introduce the product. In this embodiment, it is necessary to mount the product transport case 14 on the pedestal 10 which is fixed to the height corresponding to the product input port 2, but the drive motor 6, the screw shafts 3a and 3b, and the screw block 7 are required.
Elevating and lowering drive mechanisms such as a and 7b are not necessary, and can be constructed at low cost.

In the above embodiment, the product carrying case 14 is used as the product case.
However, it is also possible to use a cradle-dedicated product case separately to transfer the product from the product transport case.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the swinging means is manually swung back and forth, but the same is true even if the pedestal 10 is electrically driven to swing back and forth.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As described above, according to the present invention, since the pedestal of the product case is attached so as to be slidable in the lateral direction of the main body and movable in the height direction of the main body, the pedestal for receiving the product supplement The product can be replenished by holding it corresponding to the installation height of the loading slot and then sliding the cradle along the movable guide shaft to the position of the loading slot for receiving the product replenishment to replenish the products. It is possible to improve the product replenishment work for handling a heavy product case in which products are packed, and it is possible to easily insert the product into the product insertion port.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a cradle which is a main part of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view of the same main body, and FIG. 3 is related to another embodiment of the present invention. It is the whole main body perspective view of a vending machine. 1 …… Main body, 2 …… Product slot, 10 …… stand, 12 ……
Shaft, 13 …… Rotating means, 14 …… Product transport case, 15 …… Product.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pedestal for a product case is provided in a front part of one side of a main body having a product storage part formed with a product insertion port,
Moreover, this pedestal is slidably attached to a movable guide shaft arranged in the lateral direction of the main body, and the movable guide shaft is movable in the height direction of the main body at the installation height of the product insertion port. A vending machine attached to the main body so that it can be held correspondingly.