The Coca-Cola Company
Automatic vending machine

Abstract:

Automatic vending machine which cools products for sale. Sale of products not in an appropriate temperature state is prevented. A cooling device executes a partial cooling operation for cooling the product located on a lower side of the plurality of products stored in a product storage chamber when lower space temperature T1 inside the chamber becomes higher than upper-limit value TS.sub.u of set temperature range (S1.fwdarw.S2). Then, when the lower space temperature T1 is decreased to a lower-limit value TS.sub.L of the set temperature range, the automatic vending machine executes an entire cooling operation for cooling all the plurality of products (S3.fwdarw.S4). Furthermore, when the lower space temperature T1 becomes higher than upper-limit value TS.sub.u of the set temperature range during execution of the entire cooling operation, the automatic vending machine stops the entire cooling operation to execute the partial cooling operation (S5.fwdarw.S6).