Patent ID: 6980886

Claim:
A vending machine, comprising: commodity carrying-out means for storing commodities and carrying out a commodity; commodity carrying-out control means for executing carrying-out of the commodity from the commodity carrying-out means based on insertion of coins or a paper money and pushing a commodity selecting button; prize carrying-out means for storing prizes different from the commodities and carrying out a prize; prize carrying-out control means for executing carrying out of the prizes from the prize carrying-out means when a predetermined condition is satisfied; and mode selecting means for selecting any one of a mode which makes it possible to carry out the commodity and the prize and a mode which makes it possible to carry out only the commodity, wherein the prize carrying-out means has a transparent plate, which is capable of making an inside of a prize housing chamber visible, at a front face, and the prize carrying-out means is mounted inside a main door so that the transparent plate is exposed outside through an opening of the main door.