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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1993
Seizo Ishine, Kanagawa, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A commodity delivering device for automatic vending machines in which both thick commodities and thin commodities are sorted out automatically without manually adjusting the commodity passage width. The automatic vending apparatus includes: a commodity feed mechanism in which the commodity mechnism is equipped with: first stopper for freely switching between an activation position and a no-activation position, the activation position thereof being projected into a commodity passage so as to support the thick commodity and the no-activation position being retreated from the commodity passage; second stopper, disposed right under the first stopper, for freely switching between an activation position and a no-activation position; and feed stopper for switching between an activation position interlocked with the first or second stopper so as to thereon support the commodity, and a feed position for transferring the commodity downward.