Vending machine
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsHidekazu Yajima, Akira Sugawara
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Abstract
There is disclosed a vending machine in which a plurality of article columns are slant to be directed to a plurality of vending mechanisms, respectively. Each of the article columns is composed of a plurality of shelves for accommodating a row of articles. Each of the article columns is provided with a vending mechanism, so that articles of different kinds can be sold dependent on the number of the article columns. For this structure, at least one vending mechanism is set for an arbitrary one of article selection buttons. Thus, when the number of the article columns for accommodating the same kind of articles is set in accordance with the sales amount of the articles, different kinds of articles are sold out at an approximately same time.
Claims3
A vending machine, comprising:
- a transparent thermal resistance door for an article storage;
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- an article display having a thermal transparent panel through which articles stored in said article storage is visible;
- wherein said article storage is separated into a heating storage for storing heated articles and a cooling storage for storing cooled articles;
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- said thermal resistance door comprises two transparent panels for forming an air layer in an interior space therebetween to be opened and closed on a front plane, said interior space having a partition member preventing thermal flow between a portion of said air layer facing said heating storage and a remaining portion of said air layer facing said cooling storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.