| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine equipped with an article carrying-out device which maintains the number of stored article even when a first stopper of the article carrying-out device projects into another article storage passage, and performs stable vending operation. <P>SOLUTION: Article storage passages 43 in which a plurality of articles G are arrayed and stored in a laterally laid attitude and in an array in a front-rear direction are arranged in multiple stages one over another in a slant type article storage shelf 42, and article carrying-out openings 45 of the article storage passages are positioned on the same perpendicular straight line. A first stopper 56 which holds an article G1 in a first sale place of an article carrying-out device 5 arranged nearby an article carrying-out opening has, on its back, a groove 56A in an irregular shape in which a lock pin 55B driven an electromagnetic solenoid 54 slides, and is made by the lock pin sliding in the groove in the irregular shape to enter and exit from the article storage passage, and when the first stopper moves to a standby position, the lock pin is engaged with a clearance groove 56D of the groove in the irregular shape to stably carry the sale article out. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
