JP5125892B2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

  In the present invention, a plurality of main body cabinets that are formed as heat-insulating housings and whose front surfaces are open, and a plurality of product cabinets in the main body cabinet are arranged in the left-right direction and the front-rear direction, and are always stored in the product cabinets of the main body cabinet. And a product storage rack that is drawn forward from the product storage of the main body cabinet when the product is replenished, and the product storage rack stacks and stores products such as canned drinks in the vertical direction and stores the product at the lower end. The present invention relates to a vending machine having a product delivery mechanism for delivering and wiring the harness of the product delivery mechanism in the front-rear direction along the outer side wall of the product storage rack, and in particular, wired along the side wall of the product storage rack. The present invention relates to a vending machine that protects a harness and prevents shaking of a product storage rack.

  As a vending machine that sells products such as canned beverages, a product storage rack that is always stored in the product storage of the main body cabinet as a heat-insulating housing and pulled out from the product storage of the main body cabinet when the product is replenished What you have is known. This type of vending machine makes it possible to visually check the product remaining in the product storage rack when the product storage rack is pulled out from the product storage of the main body cabinet when the product is replenished. Can be confirmed.

  By the way, a product delivery mechanism is provided at the lower end of a product storage rack in which products such as canned beverages are stacked and stored in the vertical direction, and this product delivery mechanism includes a solenoid or a motor as a drive source, a sold-out switch, and the like. The drive source is configured to pay out the stored products one by one by operating in accordance with a payout signal. A delivery signal is given to the drive source of the product delivery mechanism from an electrical box disposed in the main body cabinet. The electrical box and the product delivery mechanism are connected by a harness, and the harness supplies a delivery signal from the electrical box to the drive source of the product delivery mechanism, while information from the sold-out switch of the product delivery mechanism is the electrical box. To be supplied. The harness on the side of the product storage rack connected to the product delivery mechanism is wired in the front-rear direction along the outer walls of the pair of left and right rack side plates constituting the product storage rack so as not to interfere with the product delivered from the product delivery mechanism. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP-A-6-76148

  Now, in order to arrange the product storage rack in the product storage of the main body cabinet so as to be able to be pulled out in the front-rear direction, a rail mechanism that is extendable in the front-rear direction is used. This rail mechanism is generally composed of a fixed rail and a slide rail, and the slide rail is slidably arranged on the fixed rail. The fixed rail is fixedly disposed on the ceiling of the product storage of the main body cabinet, while the upper end of the product rack is fixed to the slide rail. Since the product storage rack is thus suspended from the slide rail, the product storage rack may swing from side to side during transportation of the vending machine. If the product storage rack swings to the left or right, the harness wired on the outer wall of the rack side plate of the product storage rack and the adjacent product storage rack may rub against each other, which may cause electric leakage or disconnection. Such a friction between the harness wired on the outer wall of the product storage rack and the adjacent product rack also occurs when the product storage rack is pulled out from the product storage of the main body cabinet.

  In order to prevent the product storage racks from swinging left and right as described above, it is conceivable to provide anti-sway members spanning back and forth between the product storage racks adjacent in the left-right direction. Therefore, there is a problem that the number of parts increases and the cost increases.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its object is to solve the above-mentioned problems and prevent the swing of the product storage rack while protecting the harness wired along the outer wall of the rack side plate of the product storage rack. It is to provide a vending machine capable of performing the above.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is formed as a heat-insulating housing, and a plurality of main body cabinets whose front surfaces are opened and a plurality of product cabinets in the left-right direction and the front-rear direction are disposed in the main body cabinet. And a product storage rack that is stored in the product storage of the main body cabinet and pulled forward from the product storage of the main body cabinet when the product is replenished, and the product storage rack is defined between the left and right rack side plates. The product passage has a product delivery mechanism for stacking and storing products such as canned drinks in the vertical direction and delivering the product to the lower end, and the harness of the product delivery mechanism is moved back and forth along the outer wall of one rack side plate in vending machines made by wire in a direction, are disposed across each one of the rack side plate of the plurality of commodity storage rack arranged in the longitudinal direction, each product The wire cover for covering the harness accommodated racks article dispensing mechanism is provided, the wiring cover is smaller than the gap dimension between the commodity storage rack a longitudinal sectional U-shaped length of U-shaped legs adjacent to the left and right And, in a mode that accommodates the head of the screw in the U-shaped bottom portion, it is provided with a recess recessed on the rack side plate side, and is fixed to the fixed seat formed by cutting and raising the one rack side plate with a screw, The wiring cover is used as a swing stopper for the product storage rack.

According to the vending machine according to claim 1 of the present invention, a plurality of main body cabinets that are formed as heat-insulating housings and whose front surfaces are open, and a plurality of product cabinets in the main body cabinet are provided in the left-right direction and the front-rear direction. And a product storage rack that is stored in the product storage of the main body cabinet and pulled forward from the product storage of the main body cabinet when the product is replenished, and the product storage rack is defined between the left and right rack side plates. The product passage has a product delivery mechanism for stacking and storing products such as canned drinks in the vertical direction and delivering the product to the lower end, and the harness of the product delivery mechanism is moved back and forth along the outer wall of one rack side plate in vending machines made by wire in a direction, are disposed across each one of the rack side plate of the plurality of commodity storage rack arranged in the longitudinal direction, each product storage The wire cover for covering the harness click the article dispensing mechanism is provided, the wiring cover is smaller than the gap dimension between the commodity storage rack a longitudinal sectional U-shaped length of U-shaped legs adjacent to the left and right And, in a mode that accommodates the head of the screw in the U-shaped bottom portion, it is provided with a recess recessed on the rack side plate side, and is fixed to the fixed seat formed by cutting and raising the one rack side plate with a screw, By using the wiring cover as a swing prevention for the product storage rack, the wiring cover has a function to prevent the swing of the product storage rack in addition to the function of protecting the harness of the product delivery mechanism of the product storage rack. It is possible to prevent the drawer-type product storage rack from shaking without increasing the amount of the product. In addition, each product storage rack can be integrally connected by a wiring cover arranged across a plurality of product storage racks arranged in the front-rear direction, and coupled with the anti-sway function, the product storage rack of the product storage rack It has the advantage that it can be smoothly pulled out and stored in the product storage.

Hereinafter, a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention showing the entire configuration of the door, FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the wiring cover of the vending machine shown in FIG. The assembly drawing which attached the wiring cover to the commodity storage rack, (b) is an exploded view of (a).

  As shown in FIG. 1, the vending machine includes a main body cabinet 1 having an open front surface and an outer door 9 supported on the front surface of the main body cabinet 1 by a hinge so as to be opened and closed. The main body cabinet 1 is configured as a heat insulating casing by disposing heat insulating boards made of urethane foam on the inner side of the outer box made of steel plate, that is, on the upper wall, the left and right side walls, the back wall, and the bottom wall 1a. The inside of the product storage box surrounded by the heat insulation board of the main body cabinet 1 is partitioned into a plurality of product storage chambers 3, 4, 5 by the heat insulation partition plate 2 in the left-right direction. Each of the product storage chambers 3, 4, 5 stores a product storage rack 6 having a product delivery mechanism for storing the products and discharging one product at a lower end thereof (in this example, the product storage chamber 3 has two rows on the left and right sides, 1 row in the chamber 4 and 2 rows on the left and right in the product storage chamber 5), and a chute 7 that is inclined forward and downward is disposed at the bottom of the product storage rack 6.

  The product storage rack 6 is a product storage rack called a serpentine type in this example. As is well known, the commodity storage rack 6 is arranged so that the segment rows composed of the curved segments 62 spanned between the left and right rack side plates 61 and connected in the vertical direction are shifted to each other by half a pitch in the vertical direction. A product path which is meandering and is connected to the upper end of the product path, and a top tray 63 for product input is arranged on the upper side of the product path, and the product outlet is arranged on the lower outlet end side of the product path. A product carry-out mechanism 64 (indicated by a chain line) is arranged. The product carry-out mechanism 64 includes a solenoid as a driving source and upper and lower flappers, and is configured to carry out the product by causing the upper and lower flappers to alternately protrude into the product passage by the operation of the solenoid. In this example, the product storage racks 6 are arranged in three stages in the front-rear (depth) direction.

  Behind the chute 7 disposed in the lower part of the product storage chambers 3, 4, 5, the products stored in the product storage rack 6 by cooling or heating the product storage chambers 3, 4, 5 are cold-hot. A cooling unit or a cooling / heating unit for storing the state is provided. A lower part of the bottom wall 1a of the main body cabinet 1 is formed as a machine room 8, in which a cooling unit of the cooling / heating unit, a condensing unit of a refrigerator constituting a refrigeration cycle, and an electrical box are disposed. Has been. The product storage room in which only the cooling unit is disposed is a cold dedicated room, and the product storage room in which the cooling / heating unit is disposed is a hot / cold combined room. In the example shown in FIG. The dedicated room and the product storage rooms 4 and 5 are hot / cold rooms, and the product storage room 3 as a cold dedicated room is installed with a heat exchanger that functions as an evaporator for cooling the product and an internal fan as a cooling unit. The heat exchanger is connected to a condensing unit of a refrigerator comprising a compressor, a condenser, an external fan and the like disposed in the machine room 8, while being a product as a hot / cold combined room In the storage chambers 4 and 5, in addition to the heat exchanger, a heater for product heating is installed as a heating unit.

  In addition, what uses the heat exchanger installed in each goods storage chamber 4,5 instead of the said heater as a heating unit is also known. In this case, in addition to the circuit constituting the refrigeration cycle of the condensing unit of the refrigerator, the heat exchanger condenses the high-temperature refrigerant gas from the compressor via the heat exchanger in the condensing unit of the refrigerator. In the hot operation mode, the heat exchanger of each of the product storage chambers 4 and 5 is configured to function as a condenser. Moreover, what installed the heat exchanger only for heating as a heating unit in addition to the heat exchanger installed in each goods storage chamber 4 and 5 is also known.

  In order to dispose the product storage rack 6 in the product storage of the main body cabinet 1 so as to be able to be pulled out in the front-rear direction, a rail mechanism R that is extendable in the front-rear direction is used. The rail mechanism R includes a fixed rail R1 (the fixed rail is hidden behind the main body cabinet 1 and cannot be seen) and a slide rail R2. The slide rail R2 is slidably stored in the fixed rail R1. The fixed rail R1 is fixed to the ceiling of the product storage of the main body cabinet 1, while the upper end of the product storage rack 6 is fixed to the slide rail R2. In the figure, the left product storage rack 6 of the left and right product storage racks 6 in the product storage room 5 is pulled out from the product storage of the main body cabinet 1 via the rail mechanism R, and the other product storage racks 6 are the products. The state stored in the storage is shown.

  As is well known, a display room for a product sample placed on a display base is formed on the front surface of the outer door 9 that is openably and closably mounted on the front surface of the main body cabinet 1, and covers the front surface of the display chamber. A product selection button unit having product selection buttons provided corresponding to each product sample is disposed on the transparent plate. Further, on the front surface of the outer door 9, a coin slot, a bill slot, a change return slot, a product outlet, a return lever, a handle lock device with a cylinder lock, and the like are assembled. Reference numeral 10 denotes an inner door that closes the front surface of the product storage in the main body cabinet 1. In this example, the inner door 10 is divided into upper and lower parts, and the lower inner door 10 includes lower parts of the product storage chambers 3 to 5. A product exit 31 having a delivery door is provided at a position facing the chute 7 for delivering the product delivered from the product storage rack 6. The carry-out door is pivotally supported at the upper end, and always closes the merchandise carry-out port 31 to prevent the outflow of cold air or warm air, and is formed so as to be pushed open by the merchandise delivered through the chute 7.

  Now, 11 is a wiring cover provided by the present invention. The wiring cover 11 is made of a thin steel plate, is formed by being folded into a U-shape in a longitudinal section as shown in FIG. 2, and is disposed across a plurality of product storage racks 6 arranged in the front-rear direction. The length of the leg pieces of the wiring cover 11 (height of the wiring cover 11) is determined to be slightly smaller than the gap between adjacent product storage racks. A recess 111 is formed in the bottom of the wiring cover 11 by drawing, and the recess 111 has a size to accommodate the head of the screw S. Further, a hole through which the screw S passes is formed in the bottom surface of the recess 111. The recess 111 is provided corresponding to a fixed seat 65 formed by cutting and raising the rack side plate 61 of the product storage rack 6 arranged in the front-rear direction. The seat portion of the fixed seat 65 is formed with a female screw that is screwed into the male screw of the screw S. Therefore, the wiring cover 11 is attached after the wiring cover 11 is put on the fixing seat 65 and then the screw S is applied to the fixing seat 65 through the recess 111 with the recess 111 of the wiring cover 11 facing the fixing seat 65. This is done by screwing. In this way, by locking the wiring cover 11 to the fixed seat 65 of each product storage rack 6, each product storage rack 6 is integrally connected by the wiring cover 11.

The harness 12 (see FIG. 2) is temporarily fixed (for example, fixed with an adhesive tape) to the outer wall of the rack side plate 61 of the product storage rack 6 in the front-rear direction, and the wiring is connected to the temporarily fixed harness 12. What is necessary is just to cover the cover 11. In addition, a groove (not shown) through which the harness 12 passes is formed in one leg piece (the lower leg piece in the figure) of the wiring cover 11, and the harness 12 drawn downward through the groove is provided. It is introduced into a harness holding frame attached to the lower part of the product carry-out mechanism 64 . Further, each leg piece of the wiring cover 11 has grooves 112 (for curling outward) that are formed at both ends of the rack side plate 61 of the product storage rack 6 in the front-rear direction. 2) is formed.

  A plug (not shown) is connected to the rear end of the harness 12 covered with the wiring cover 11, and this plug is fixed to the rear part of the last product storage rack 6. The machine room 8 below the bottom wall 1a of the main body cabinet 1 is provided with an electrical box having a power supply unit and a control unit, and a harness connected to the electrical box passes through the front end of the bottom wall 1a. Is routed inside the product storage. A socket is connected to the harness connected to the electrical box, and the socket is fixed to the back surface of the product storage (the back wall of the main body cabinet 1). Here, a plug fixed to the rear portion of the product storage rack 6 is inserted into the socket, and the plug is inserted into the socket in a state where the product storage rack 6 is stored in the product storage (normal state). When the product storage rack 6 is pulled forward from the product storage, the plug is pulled out from the socket.

  FIG. 1 shows a state in which the wiring cover 11 is attached to the product storage rack 6 pulled out from the product storage, that is, the left product storage rack 6 of the left and right product storage racks 6 in the product storage chamber 5. However, the wiring cover 11 is similarly attached to the remaining product storage rack 6, that is, the product storage rack 6 stored in the product storage. Therefore, in the state where each product storage rack 6 is stored in the product storage, a gap between the product storage racks 6 adjacent to the left and right can be filled with the wiring cover 11. Therefore, it is possible to prevent each product rack 6 from swinging left and right by the wiring cover 11 that protects the harness 12 connected to the product delivery mechanism 64 of the product storage rack 6. It should be noted that a dummy wiring cover can be attached to the outer wall of the rack side plate 61 on the left end side of the product storage rack 6 on the left side of each of the product storage chambers 3, 4, 5.

  As shown in FIG. 1, when the product storage rack 6 is pulled forward from the product storage of the main body cabinet 1 to replenish the product, and when the extracted product storage rack 6 is stored in the product storage, the wiring cover is used. 11 functions as a swing stopper for the product storage rack 6 and is integrally connected to the three-stage product storage rack 6 in the front-rear direction. Storage in the storage can be performed smoothly.

  In the above-described embodiment, the serpentine type product storage rack has been described as the product storage rack. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a product delivery mechanism called a direct stacking type (a motor as a drive source, an upper flapper, and the like) The upper flapper and the lower flapper, and the upper flapper and the lower flapper are alternately projected toward the product storage column by the operation of the control cam connected to the drive shaft of the motor. The present invention can also be applied to a product storage rack that stacks and stores products. Thus, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, a plurality of main body cabinets 1 that are formed as heat-insulating housings and that are open at the front surface, and a product storage case of the main body cabinet 1 are disposed in the left-right direction and the front-rear direction. A product storage rack 6 that is stored in one product storage and is pulled forward from the product storage of the main body cabinet 1 when the product is replenished. The product storage rack 6 is provided with left and right rack side plates 61, 61. A product passage such as a canned beverage is stacked and accommodated vertically in a product passage defined therebetween, and a product delivery mechanism 64 for delivering the product at the lower end is provided. The harness 12 of the product delivery mechanism 64 is connected to one rack. in vending machines made by wire in the longitudinal direction along the outer wall of the side plate 61, respectively one rack side plate of the plurality of commodity storage rack 6 arranged in the longitudinal direction Disposed across 1, Product wiring cover 11 that covers the harness 12 of the dispensing mechanism 64 is provided, the wiring cover 11 is a length of the U-shaped leg a longitudinal sectional U-shaped for each product storage rack 6 Is smaller than the gap between the left and right adjacent product storage racks 6 and 6 and has a recess 111 that is recessed toward the rack side plate 61 in a manner that the head of the screw S is accommodated in the U-shaped bottom. Since the wiring cover 11 is locked and fixed to the fixed seat 65 formed by cutting and raising the rack side plate 61 with a screw S , and the wiring cover 11 is used to prevent the commodity storage rack 6 from shaking, the wiring cover 11 is attached to the commodity storage rack 6. In addition to the function of protecting the harness 12 of the product delivery mechanism 64, the product storage rack 6 has a function of preventing the swing of the product storage rack 6. Therefore, the drawer-type product storage rack 6 can be prevented from shaking without increasing the number of parts. It is what it is. In addition, the product storage racks 6 can be integrally connected by the wiring cover 11 disposed across the plurality of product storage racks 6 arranged in the front-rear direction, and coupled with the anti-sway function, the product storage rack 6. Can be smoothly drawn out from the product storage and stored in the product storage.

It is a perspective view of the door open state which shows the whole structure of the vending machine of embodiment of this invention. FIG. 1 is an enlarged view of a wiring cover of the vending machine in FIG. 1, (a) is an assembly drawing in which the wiring cover is attached to a product storage rack, and (b) is an exploded view of (a).

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body cabinet 6 Goods storage rack R Rail mechanism 9 Outer door 11 Wiring cover 12 Harness 64 Goods delivery mechanism 65 Fixed seat

Claims (1)

A main body cabinet that is formed as a heat-insulating housing and has a front opening, and a plurality of products are arranged in the left-right direction and the front-rear direction in the product storage of the main body cabinet, and the products are always stored in the product storage of the main body cabinet. A product storage rack that is drawn forward from the product storage of the main body cabinet when replenished, and the product storage rack vertically moves products such as canned drinks in a product passage defined between left and right rack side plates. In a vending machine having a product delivery mechanism for stacking and storing and delivering a product at the lower end, and wiring the harness of the product delivery mechanism in the front-rear direction along the outer wall of one rack side plate , the vending machines are arranged in the front-rear direction. disposed across each one of the rack side plate of the plurality of commodity storage rack, wiring mosquito covering the harness article dispensing mechanism of each product storage rack The provided over the wiring cover is smaller than the gap dimension between the commodity storage rack a longitudinal sectional U-shaped length of U-shaped legs adjacent to the right and left, and the head of the screw in a U-shaped bottom portion A recess that is recessed toward the rack side plate in a manner to accommodate the portion, and is fixed to the fixed seat formed by cutting and raising the one rack side plate with a screw, and the wiring cover is fixed to the swing of the product storage rack. Vending machine characterized by that.

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