摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a trouble of carrying in a machine by taking in a commodity entering a bucket while standing it into the erect attitude from the falling- forward attitude at the time of transferring the commodity, which is discharged from a commodity storage rack, to a bucket unit mounted on an X-Y carrying mechanism. SOLUTION: This vending machine is provided with a pair of guide rolls 14, which are unevenly laid in a front upper stage and a rear middle stage in a bucket 7, as attitude control means, which allows a commodity 5 discharged from the commodity storage rack to land on a conveyor 13 in the erect attitude, in the bucket 7 besides the carrying conveyor 13 laid on the bottom side. In the process of taking-in operation of the commodity 5 discharged from the rack, the commodity entering the bucket unit in the falling-forward attitude is stood up into the erect attitude by the feed operation of guide rolls 14 after being received between guide rolls 14, and then, it is landed on the carrying conveyor 13 laid on the bottom in the bucket and is received and held in the erect attitude.</p> |