AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE WITH MOVABLE PARTITIONING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make usable an elevator for carrying out commodities both in a heating area and a cooling area, to make the interrupting member of an elevator passage unnecessitate an opening/closing driving mechanism, and to enable a partition to change over between the heating area and the cooling area. SOLUTION: This movable partitioning device for interrupting the elevator passage is provided at the front end part of the partition 6 to be fixed to a boundary between the heating area and the cooling area in a housing. This movable partitioning device is formed of a table-state substrate 13, a front panel 14 and a rear panel 15 both of which are mounted forming mutually different levels at the upper part of the substrate 13, and an operation level 16 provided inside of the substrate 13 and is formed so as to make it extensible and contractible forward and backward. When the elevator 9 moves up, the movable partitioning device is pushed up by the elevator to be raised in a connected state and when the elevator moves down, the movable partitioning device is stopped at the front end position of the partition and detached from the elevator to return into its original position.