ARTICLE PASSAGE RESTRICTION DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the increase of manufacture cost and to easily change settings to a proper attitude even at the time of article switching. SOLUTION: A guide-in passage restricting means 40 which stops a small- diameter article 4B from passing while allowing a large-diameter article 4A to pass as to articles 4 which are guided in an oblique guide-in passage 6 is composed of a large-diameter article abutting member 42 which is guided by a 1st long hole 41 and a 2nd long hole 43 and an abutting member 44 for both articles which is fitted integrally with the abutting member 42. Consequently, the structure is simplified and an increase in the manufacture cost can be minimized.