Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Takashi Uzawa

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hajime Erikawa

Naoto Fukushima

Nobutoshi Migishima

Yasuhiko Miyata

Yoshiyuki Kato

A sales volume for at least a cup of syrup is secured in a down-stream side of a sold-out case of a syrup supplying system, whereby the cup type automatic vending machine can be provided which has excellent washability and inspection ability of syrup existence, and in which construction of the syrup supplying system is simplified.

Cup type automatic vending machine

Cups stored in the automatic vending machine are released and dropped from a cup supply unit to a cup holding unit one at a time and drink is injected thereinto as selected by a customer. The cup holding unit holding the cup filled with drink is transported approximately horizontally by a front/back cup transport unit to a vertical cup transport unit. As the vertical cup transport unit lifts the cup upward, the vending door is opened to expose to the customer the upper portion of the cup out of the cup outlet, as if the cup were sitting on a counter table in the front of the vending machine.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Uzawa