PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an automatic vending machine to be hardly suffered from such an unfair practice that a bottled commodity on which a trick is played is returned to a commodity passage or left in the space between a bucket and a commodity stopper so that the next purchaser may purchase the commodity. ;SOLUTION: A commodity carrying-out device is provided with a commodity package 3 which is extended in a downwardly inclined state from its rear end to its front end, a semicylindrical bucket 6 which is rotatable at the front end section of the passage 3, and a bucket driving device 7. The carrying-out device is also provided with a commodity stopper 8 in front of the bucket 6. The stopper 8 is positioned with respect to the bucket 6 in such a way that more than the half portion of a bottled commodity may protrude forward from the bucket 6 when the commodity is delivered from the bucket 6 at a position where the released end of the bucket 6 is directed forward and comes into contact with the stopper 8. In addition, the carrying-out device is also provided with a rotational position detecting device which detects the rotational position of the bucket 6 and a controller which displays a warning when the bucket 6 does not reach a rotational position where the released end of the bucket 6 is directed backward even when a prescribed period of time has elapsed after the bucket 6 starts to move to the rotational position from the rotational position where the released end of the bucket 6 is directed forward.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2000,JPO
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