| 摘要 |
A commodity accommodating unit of an automatic vending machine, capable of properly accommodating and dispensing commodities without deforming or damaging them, having a compact configuration, and able to reliably detect the sellout of the commodities. A commodity accommodating unit (1) of an automatic vending machine, comprises a commodity rack (10) which is housed in an automatic vending machine body (3) and has a commodity passage (11) and on which many commodities (S) are arranged horizontally in the longitudinal direction, a stopper (12) provided in front of the commodity passage (11) movably between a holding position where it holds the commodities (S) by facing the commodity passage (11) and a dispensing position where commodities (S) are dispensed by moving away from the commodity passage (11), a pusher (15) provided in the commodity passage (11) to push commodities (S) and provided movably in the longitudinal direction between the foremost position and the rearmost position, and a drive mechanism (20) connected to this pusher (15) and having tensile coil springs (30, 30) for biasing this pusher (15) forward. <IMAGE> |
