COMMODITY PICKING AND CONVEYING DEVICE IN VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a practical commodity picking and conveying device hardly causing a commodity conveying mistake for surely picking and conveying a commodity for an easily accessible vending machine. SOLUTION: A bucket 6 moving vertically between a lowered position for receiving a commodity from a commodity ejecting hole 52 and a lifted position matching a height position of a commodity receiving table 2 is arranged and driven to be moved upward and downward by means of an elevating means. A belt conveyor 15 conveying the commodity in the horizontal longitudinal direction is installed in the bucket 6. When the bucket 6 receives the commodity in the lowered position, the commodity is conveyed once by means of the belt conveyor 15 toward a commodity arrival detection microswitch 23. When arrival of the commodity is detected by the commodity arrival detection microswitch 23, the bucket 6 is lifted, and in the lifted position, the commodity is conveyed toward the commodity receiving table 2 by means of the belt conveyor 15. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO