CARD TYPE AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

PURPOSE:To miniaturize a card type automatic vending machine, to lower the price of the machine and to improve reliability by executing the abatement processing of a card for each card and exhausting the card when a commodity is bought by using the plural cards. CONSTITUTION:In a ticket issuing machine, when the held amount of the used card does not reach the price of a train ticket to be bought, the other card is inserted and the ticket can be bought by the held amount for which the amounts of the two cards are summed up. However, when the total amount of the two cards does not reach the amount to buy the ticket, a button 5 is depressed according to the operation guide of a display panel 8. Then, the button is turned on and it is possible for the machine to accept more than three cards. Afterwards, the cards are successively put in until the amount reaches the amount to buy the ticket. Finally, the ticket can be bought. In that case, the card is received and the abatement processing of the held amount is executed for each card. Afterwards, the card is returned from an inserting/discharging port 2. Thus, for the card type automatic vending machine, a lot of the cards can be put in correspondence to the lack of the held amount in the inputted card. Then, the machine can be miniaturized and the cost of the machine can be lowered.