ARTICLE STORAGE RACK FOR VENDING MACHINE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent any erroneous setting in setting article passage width, and to finely set the setting position of a member to guide a deformed container. SOLUTION: This article storage rack is provided with a top guide 90 slide-moving right and left on a top tray 8 linking an article input port and the upper edge of the article passage of a serpentine type article storage rack for setting article passage width. A curl part 90b formed at the front edge of the top guide 90 is loosely fitted with a curl part 8b formed at the front edge of the top tray 8, and an engagement claw 90a is engaged with an engagement hole 8a of the top tray 8 so that the article passage width can be set. The top guide is provided with a pair of front and rear sawtooth-shaped engagement grooves and a pair of front and rear guide grooves. A rail member is arranged on the upper face of the top guide, and equipped with engagement protrusions to be engaged with the pair of front and rear sawtooth-shaped engagement grooves in the top guide and guide grooves faced to the pair of front and rear guide grooves of the top guide. A guide pin 82 fixed to the top tray is inserted into the guide grooves of the top guide and the guide grooves of the rail member. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI