Title:
CUP SUPPLY DEVICE OF CUP TYPE AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3111810
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To take out first cup of first-in to plural cup taking-out openings from plural cup storage parts
CONSTITUTION: When a changeable column 1 which has been emptied, is replenished with cups 2, whether or not cups are present in respective changeable columns 1 and their cup sizes are detected with switches 13-15. Then, the cup presence/absence results and cup sizes of the detected changeable columns 1 are written in a memory and even the detection order of a changeable column 1 whose cup presence is newly detected is also written in the memory. When the number of the remaining cups in each of drop ring columns 6-8 becomes small as the vending is carried on and a cup replenishment command is outputted, the memory is retrieved to select and move the changeable column 1 which has the corresponding cup size in the cup presence state and has the oldest detection order to the position of one of the corresponding columns 6-8 as a column for replenishment, and the column is shifted to the column by one of corresponding push-out mechanism parts 9-11. Consequently, even when plural changeable columns 1 are replenished with cups of the same size at mutually different periods, the first-in, first-out operation is performed.
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Inventors:
Manabu Tachibana
Application Number:
JP15148394A
Publication Date:
November 27, 2000
Filing Date:
June 09, 1994
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
G07F13/10; (IPC1-7): G07F13/10
Domestic Patent References:
| JP4275700A | ||||
| JP6170694A | ||||
| JP2227797A | ||||
| JP62197890A | ||||
| JP62109194A | ||||
| JP2227798A | ||||
| JP63250795A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yuichi Morita