What types of vending machines are there and how do I choose the right one for me?

Writer： Zhongda vending machines Time：2022-05-21 17:08 Browse：℃

Vending machines are essentially retail and interactive terminals. After decades of development, vending machines are now very common and the technology is becoming increasingly mature. To meet the demand for different products, manufacturers have developed many types and sizes of vending machines, which are generally divided into four main categories of vending machines from the distribution of the aisles: spring-loaded aisles, serpentine (S-shaped) aisles, tracked aisles and lattice cabinet aisles Vending Machines.

Vending machines are unmanned retail and service terminals that sell and service products through machine storage, automated mechanical shipping, circuit board control devices, software information systems and mobile communication technology.

From the birth of the vending machine, the attribute standard is unmanned retail and service, replacing manual labor with machines; the core value lies in convenience. As product types continue to be enriched, technology continues to innovate, and customer needs become increasingly diverse, a wide variety of vending machines are created. Especially with the development of mobile Internet and mobile operating systems, vending machines have been given more possibilities, but the business operation always revolves around the two attributes of unmanned and convenient. After the rise of e-commerce, vending machines also come with the commercial marketing value of promotions and offers.

Spring Cargo Lane Type.
Spring-loaded aisles are the most common type of vending machine on the market. This type of aisle has a simple structure, low cost, and low technical threshold, making it a good choice for manufacturers to develop vending machines.
The structure of the aisle is mainly divided into springs, drive rotation motor, drawer shelves, etc. The way of shipment is driven by the motor spring rotation a week, and then the goods fall through gravity to ship, and replenishment is pulled out of the drawer shelves, in order to place a single piece of goods in between the spring partition.
The disadvantage is that different sizes and sizes of goods need to customize the different width of the aisle and different partition spacing of the spring (pre-purchase must be noted); the spring aisle is not set reasonably easy to cause card goods, reducing customer buying experience, and later easy to cause the midnight card goods processing and so on when the trouble. Internal temperature is generally room temperature, can be with cooling function, auxiliary heat function is very little.

Serpentine (S-shaped) goods channel class.
Serpentine (S-shaped) goods channel type vending machine is currently the most used and the most stable one in beverage vending. However, this type of aisle design is complex, expensive, high technical threshold, heavy machines, mostly manufactured by large companies in the industry, and need to be on a large volume.
The structure of the cargo channel is electromagnetic control valve, cargo channel tube, and overall storage shelf. The shipping method is through the electromagnetic control valve switch, with the help of stacking gravity, along the cargo channel tube fall shipping. It is convenient and fast to replenish the goods by simply placing the drinks at the inlet according to the size.
The disadvantage is that it can only sell bottled and canned beverage machine food, and cannot be fragile bottle (can) goods. The internal temperature is generally room temperature, and the cooling and auxiliary heat functions can be customized.

Crawler aisles.
Crawler aisle type vending machines are the least common type on the market, but along with the development of the fresh fruit and drug markets, these vending machines have begun to gradually increase. This type of aisle has a simple structure, more control components, higher costs, and a medium technical threshold, and is currently produced by relatively few manufacturers. The structure of the aisle has tracks, motors, and drawer shelves (similar to springs, with different movement directions). There are two ways of shipping, one is to make the goods fall by gravity after the crawler turns to the end, and the other is to rely on the lift device or crawler device to move the goods (for fragile, fresh, etc., but also for high-value goods to avoid damage to the appearance). The replenishment method is to place a single piece of goods on the crawler in turn (generally placed on the large pieces) can be.
The disadvantage is that there is no partition and baffle on top of the track, so a commodity tilted easily cause other tilted together, not suitable for high height of bottles, cans of goods, the replacement of the goods channel is more cumbersome. Internal temperature is generally room temperature and cooling function, auxiliary heat function less.

Latticework aisle type.
This type of vending machine is a common type of vending machine on the market, generally used in conjunction with spring vending machines and serpentine (S-shaped) vending machines, mostly in adult, beauty, food and other retail businesses.
This type of aisle has a simple structure, few control parts, low cost and low technical threshold, and can be produced by most sheet metal manufacturers. The cargo aisle structure has only cabinet door control valves and lattice cabinets. The shipping method is to open the door and pick up the goods after payment, and close the lattice cabinet door after picking up the goods. Replenishment way is placed in turn single goods in the lattice cabinet (generally placed single large items or sets, the specific size can be customized according to the goods to choose the corresponding size of the lattice for the whole machine).
The disadvantage is that changing the goods channel is more trouble, generally customized, it is recommended not to change the type of goods sold frequently. The internal temperature is generally room temperature, with little cooling function and auxiliary heat function.

Summing up.
The choice of which kind of cargo channel to use as their own business needs to be based on the products they operate. In general, the choice of beverages with spring or serpentine channel, bulk sales of sets of choice with lattice cabinets; electronics, beauty, food single-piece general choice of spring channel, large, bulk sets of choice with a lattice cabinet; fresh, fruit class flat low boxed products using crawler vending machines, with lattice cabinets can also be. And fragile, anti-bump products generally choose crawler type vending machine with lift device, if you choose gravity fall shipping, in the pickup bin location arrangement buffer sponge or other soft materials. We can manufacture three other types of vending machines in addition to the S-type snake channel vending machine, welcome customers to come into the store to buy.