ARTICLE STORAGE DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

PURPOSE:To smoothly operate a harness from an article carry-out device even when a right and a left article storage devices are provided in the main body of the automatic vending machine adjacently to each other. CONSTITUTION:Each article storage device 1 is equipped with an article passage which extends vertically and provided with an article carry-out device 9 at an article discharge opening formed at the lower end. A holder 41 is fitted to the lower end part of the article carry-out device 9, an upper chamber 46 which stores and holds the harness 31 for energization led out of the article carry-out device 9 from below and also guides it sideways is formed in the holder 41, and a lower chamber 47 where a harness 31A from another article carry-out device 9 can pass in the right-left direction is formed below the upper chamber 46.