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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vending machine that surely conveys articles and stores many articles. SOLUTION: In the vending machine equipped with an article conveyance unit which conveys an article array to a head article side and a bucket which has an article acquisition opening facing the heat article side of the article conveyance unit and moves in a conveying direction orthogonal to the article array to acquire the head article in the article array; the article conveyance unit has a position-restricting member which is pivoted on the head article side and elastically energized upward, at right angles to the conveyance direction to rotate the direction of crossing the conveyance direction and restricts the position of the head article; and the bucket has a driving mechanism which rotates the position restricting member downward in a direction crossing the conveyance direction, according to the driving force of a driving source. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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