Self-picking space safety protection structure for vending machine

By installing a shell and transparent material containers inside the vending machine, the space for users' hand movements is restricted, solving the safety problem caused by minors accidentally touching the equipment and achieving higher safety and personal safety protection.

CN223712226UActive Publication Date: 2025-12-23HUAXIN (DEZHOU) INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202520192932.4
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-02-07
Publication Date
2025-12-23
Estimated Expiration
2035-02-07

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Technical Problem

Minors are prone to accidents when using ice cream vending machines due to accidental contact with the internal equipment, and current technology lacks effective safety protection measures.

Method used

An internal casing is installed inside the vending machine. The side walls of the casing are made of panels, perforated plates, or mesh structures to restrict the user's hand movement space and prevent contact with mechanical and electrical structures. The casing is equipped with a viewing window and operating device. The material container is made of transparent material, and the goods enter the self-service space through the casing.

Benefits of technology

This improves equipment safety, protects customer safety, avoids hand contact with internal structures, and enhances safety during use.

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Abstract

The utility model relates to a self-fetching space safety protection structure for a vending machine, which comprises a vending machine body, a door body of the vending machine body and a self-fetching space, the self-fetching space is positioned in a shell, and the shell is mounted in the vending machine body; the front side of the shell is of an open structure and corresponds to an object taking opening of the door body, and a hand can enter the self-taking space for use. The bottom of the shell is of an open structure, and the shell is used for enabling commodities to enter the self-taking space for use. The automatic vending machine is reasonable in structural design, the shell is additionally arranged in the automatic vending machine, when the hands of a user enter the automatic vending machine to obtain commodities, the movement space of the hands of the user can be effectively limited, the possibility that the hands of the user make contact with a mechanical structure and an electrical structure in the automatic vending machine is effectively blocked, and the service life of the user is prolonged. The safety coefficient of the equipment is greatly improved, and the personal safety of customers is guaranteed.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to automatic vending machine technical field especially, it is a kind of self-taking space safety protection structure for automatic vending machine. BACKGROUND

[0002] Ice cream vending machine becomes the common automatic vending equipment of places such as shopping mall, entertainment, public transport, and it realizes the automatic supply function of article after customer payment through internal automation mechanical structure, electrical structure.

[0003] Taking ice cream vending machine as an example, in the customer use process, the hand of customer enters the self-taking space inside ice cream vending machine to obtain ice cream, this action makes customer contact with ice cream vending machine, for customer, some adult customers have good safety consciousness, can use normally, but for some minors, for the equipment inside full of curiosity, it is easy to cause safety accident with internal equipment due to miscontact, not only cause damage to equipment, seriously it can also threaten the personal safety of customer, based on this consequence, manufacturer needs to be more rigorous in the safety protection of equipment, more comprehensive in product design. SUMMARY

[0004] In order to solve the deficiency in the prior art, the utility model provides a self-taking space safety protection structure for automatic vending machine for increasing the safety of automatic vending machine in use.

[0005] The technical scheme adopted by the utility model to solve its technical problems is:

[0006] A self-taking space safety protection structure for automatic vending machine, comprising automatic vending machine body and its door body, self-taking space, characterized in that:

[0007] The self-taking space is located inside a shell, and the shell is installed inside the automatic vending machine body.

[0008] The front side of the shell is an open structure, and is arranged corresponding to the taking opening of the door body, for hand to enter the self-taking space for use.

[0009] The bottom of the shell is an open structure, for goods to enter the self-taking space for use.

[0010] The side wall of the shell adopts panel structure or hole plate structure or mesh structure.

[0011] The upper portion of the shell is further provided with a mounting chamber, and the top of the mounting chamber is provided with a cover body detachably connected with the shell.

[0012] The side wall of the front side of the mounting chamber is provided with a visual window communicating with the inside thereof.

[0013] At least one group of material containers is arranged in the installation chamber, and the material containers are made of transparent material.

[0014] The housing is further provided with a working device, which is installed at the bottom end of the side wall of the housing and located at the upper part of the commodity walking mechanism of the vending machine body.

[0015] The beneficial effects of the present application are: the structure is reasonable, by increasing the housing inside the vending machine, when the customer's hand enters the inside of the vending machine to get the goods, the activity space of the user's hand can be effectively limited, and the possibility of the customer's hand contacting the mechanical structure and electrical structure inside the vending machine is effectively blocked, the safety factor of the equipment is greatly improved, and the personal safety of the customer is ensured. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0016] The present application will be further described below in combination with the drawings and examples.

[0017] Fig. 1 is a structural schematic diagram of the present application.

[0018] Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of the present application.

[0019] Fig. 3 is a structural schematic diagram of the housing.

[0020] In the figure: 100 is a vending machine body, 101 is a door body, 102 is a taking opening, 200 is a housing, 201 is a cover, 202 is a lower open mouth, 203 is a front open mouth, 204 is a visible window, 300 is a machine head, 400 is a cup holder, 500 is a commodity walking mechanism, 501 is a cup holder, 600 is a material container, 700 is a working device. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0021] The embodiments of the present application will be described below by specific examples, and those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present application from the contents disclosed in the present specification.

[0022] According to Figs. 1 to 3The embodiment provides a self-taking space safety protection structure for a vending machine, which comprises a vending machine body 100, a door body 101 of the vending machine body 100, a self-taking space, a mechanical structure and an electrical structure of the vending machine body 100 which are mainly installed in the interior of the vending machine body 100, the door body 101 is located at the front side of the vending machine body 100, and the self-taking space is arranged in the interior of the vending machine body 100 and close to the door body 101 at the front side. In order to guarantee the safety of the hands of a customer at the position of the self-taking space, a shell 200 is further arranged in the interior of the vending machine body 100, the self-taking space is located in the interior of the shell 200, the side wall of the shell 200 adopts a panel structure, the hands can be prevented from entering a position with a safety risk through the shell 200, of course, the side wall of the shell 200 can also adopt a hole plate structure or a mesh structure, and only the opening size of the side wall needs to be limited. The specific implementation structure of the shell 200 is described below.

[0023] The shell 200 is similar to a cuboid in shape, the shell 200 is arranged close to a taking opening 102 of the door body 101 and is located at the inner side of the taking opening 102, the left side wall of the shell 200 is connected and fixed with the inner wall of the vending machine body 100, and the right side wall of the shell 200 is connected and fixed with the inner wall of the vending machine body 100.

[0024] The front side of the shell 200 is a front opening 203 of an open structure, the size of the front opening 203 covers nearly half of the area of the front side wall, the front opening 203 is square in shape and covers the edge of the taking opening 102, is used for the hands to enter the self-taking space from the taking opening 102 and use, and can also be used for the hands to freely leave the self-taking space when goods are obtained.

[0025] The bottom of the shell 200 is a lower opening 202 of an open structure, the lower opening 202 is circular in shape, the front side edge of the lower opening 202 is in communication with the front opening 203, and the size of the lower opening 202 is slightly larger than the size of a product cup in a cup holder 501 and is used for goods to enter the self-taking space and use.

[0026] The upper portion of the shell 200 is further provided with a mounting cavity, the internal space of the mounting cavity is independently arranged, a cover 201 which is detachably connected with the shell 200 is arranged at the top of the mounting cavity, a visual window 204 in communication with the interior of the mounting cavity is arranged on the side wall of the front side of the mounting cavity, two groups of material containers 600 are arranged in the mounting cavity, the material containers 600 are arranged side by side in front of and behind each other, and the material containers 600 are made of transparent material; meanwhile, two groups of operation devices 700 are arranged on the shell 200, the operation devices 700 are shower head assemblies, the operation devices 700 are arranged at the bottom end of the right side wall of the shell 200 and are located at the upper portion of the product walking mechanism 500.

[0027] In the structure, the shell 200 is installed based on certain installation conditions, can be integrated with other components, the material container 600 and the operation device 700 are integrated on the shell 200, the material container 600 uses the shell 200 as an installation platform and is protected by the cover 201, so that the material container 600 is effectively prevented from being interfered and polluted by external components, and the operation device 700 component is installed on the side wall of the shell 200, the material container 600 is communicated with the operation device 700 through the conveying component and the conveying pipeline, so that chocolate color needles and decorative sugar beads in the material container 600 can be uniformly arranged on ice cream, and each component does not need to be separately provided with an installation component, thereby saving assembly space and cost.

[0028] A self-taking space safety protection structure for the vending machine can meet the horizontal and vertical movement of the cup holder 501 in the initial position, can obtain the product cup at the cup holder 400, and can move the product cup to the ice cream below the machine head 300 of the vending machine body 100 to obtain the ice cream, then decorates in the operation device 700 position in the process of moving to the lower opening 202 position, and finally enters the inside of the shell 200 to be taken away by the customer for eating, in the process, the hand of the customer can only contact the inside of the shell 200 when obtaining the ice cream, and cannot contact the internal mechanical structure and electrical structure of the vending machine, so that the safety factor of the equipment is greatly improved, and the personal safety of the customer is ensured.

[0029] The above only describes the preferred embodiments of the present application, and any technical solution achieving the same purpose by basically the same means belongs to the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A self-taking space safety protection structure for an automatic vending machine, comprising an automatic vending machine body and a door body thereof, and a self-taking space, characterized in that: the self-taking space is located inside a shell which is installed inside the automatic vending machine body; a front side of the shell is an open structure and is arranged in correspondence with a taking opening of the door body, for a hand to enter the self-taking space for use; a bottom of the shell is an open structure, for goods to enter the self-taking space for use; a side wall of the shell adopts a panel structure or a hole plate structure or a mesh structure; an upper portion of the shell is further provided with a mounting chamber, a top of the mounting chamber is provided with a cover which is detachably connected with the shell; a side wall of a front side of the mounting chamber is provided with a visual window which is in communication with an inside of the mounting chamber; at least one group of material containers is arranged in the mounting chamber, and a material of the material containers is a transparent material; and an operating device is further installed on the shell, the operating device is installed at a bottom end of the side wall of the shell and is located at an upper portion of a goods walking mechanism of the automatic vending machine body. ​ ​ ​ 2. The self-service space security protection structure for the vending machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: ​ 3. The self-service space security protection structure for the vending machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: ​ 4. The self-service space security protection structure for the vending machine according to claim 3, characterized in that: ​ 5. The self-service space security protection structure for the vending machine according to claim 4, characterized in that: ​ 6. The self-service space security protection structure for the vending machine according to claim 1 or 3, characterized in that: ​