AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine which enables even a rectangular article to smoothly be carried out. SOLUTION: The automatic vending machine is equipped with an article carrying-out device which has an auxiliary stopper and a main stopper 13, enabled to freely move and retract between a stop position projecting into an article passage 4 and a retraction position off the article passage 4, arranged vertically and carries the bottom article out of the article passage 4 by putting the main stopper 13 at the retraction position when putting the auxiliary stopper at the stop position and also putting the main stopper at the stop position when putting the auxiliary stopper at the retraction position. The wall surface of the article passage 4 which faces the article carrying-out device 5 is formed in such a step shape that the lower part is put back behind the upper part, and the bottom article B1 held by the main stopper 13 is displaced to the side below the article B2 right above it.