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Title:
ARTICLE STORAGE CABINET
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2021/039461
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
[Problem] To enable multiple articles to be loaded onto a placement part of a conveyance mechanism and carried together to an article removal position while suppressing any impacts on the articles when conveying the articles from a shelf to the placement part. [Solution] A vending machine stores articles in multiple columns arranged in the up-down and left-right directions, and comprises a bucket that moves in front of the columns in the up-down direction and a control unit 90 that controls the up-down movement of the bucket, the vending machine allowing bulk buying in which multiple articles are conveyed from the columns and loaded in the bucket and then carried together to an article removal opening, wherein the control unit 90 controls a bucket up-down movement mechanism 81 during bulk buying when a first article has been conveyed to the bucket and then a second article is to be conveyed from a column in the same row as the column from which the first article was conveyed, so that the up-down position of the bucket is positioned to be lower, by an amount equivalent to the height dimension of the first article, than the up-down position in a case in which no first article is present in the bucket.

Inventors:
OKUBO MASARU (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2020/030961
Publication Date:
March 04, 2021
Filing Date:
August 17, 2020
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Assignee:
SANDEN RETAIL SYSTEMS CORP (JP)
International Classes:
B65G59/00; G07F5/22; G07F9/00; G07F11/00; G07F11/60
Foreign References:
JPH11238172A1999-08-31
JP2004192600A2004-07-08
JPH0525580U1993-04-02
JP2001155234A2001-06-08
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