CONTROLLER FOR AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the setting of the alternate selling device of columns housing the same products from being forgotten to be changed when the products are replaced in the same products housed in the plural columns by making a selling possibility display means corresponding to the stored column flicker at the time of delivering all the housed products of the column. SOLUTION: This controller is composed of a control means 1a for making the selling possibility display means 4 corresponding to the column stored in an alternate selling column storage means 2 flicker at the time of delivering all the housed products of the column by using a test selling input means 3. Then, at the time of delivering all the housed products of the column by the test selling input means 3 so as to replace the products housed in the column, in the case that the column is stored in the alternate selling column storage means 2, the control means 1a makes the selling possibility display means 4 corresponding to the column stored in the alternate selling column storage means 2 flicker. Thus, the presence/absence of alternate selling setting are reported.