JP2932055B2 - Public telephone structure - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a structure of a public telephone provided with a processing unit for processing coins and the like, a control board, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a public telephone of this type includes a box body formed of metal and having a front opening and a box shape, and a door capable of opening and closing the opening of the box body. ,
A coin processing unit that sorts positive and false coins inserted from the coin insertion slot and stores regular coins in a safe by a coin storage signal, and a control board mounted with a control unit that controls storage of regular coins etc. It is stored in the housing body. The coin processing unit and the control board are fixed inside the housing body via dedicated brackets.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional public telephone, when a bracket attached to a side surface inside the housing main body is screwed, the tip of the screw is exposed from the side surface of the housing main body to the outside, and the appearance is improved. They were attached by welding to damage them. In order to mount by welding in this manner, skill is required for the mounting operation, and the positioning of the brackets is complicated. In addition, since the brackets are individually mounted on the housing body, the adjustment time required for the positioning takes an extra time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a structure of a public telephone which improves workability at the time of assembly and shortens adjustment time. It is in.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, a public telephone structure according to the present invention comprises a housing body formed in a box shape with an open front surface, and an opening and closing of the opening of the housing body. A public telephone comprising a flexible door, and a processing unit for processing coins and the like and a control board for controlling the apparatus body in the housing body, wherein the door, the processing unit and the control board are mounted. And an inner box made of a detachable synthetic resin inside the housing body.
Therefore, the position of the processing unit, the control board, and the door is adjusted via the inner box.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1A and 1B show the appearance of a public telephone according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 1A is a side view, FIG.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a disassembled state, FIG. 3 is a front view showing a state where the door is also removed, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV. In these figures, a public telephone generally designated by reference numeral 1 has a housing main body 2 formed in a box shape by a metal having a front opening and five screw holes 5 screwed in a rear portion, and a housing main body. The housing 3 includes a door 3 formed in a shallow dish shape by a metal that allows the opening of the opening 2 to be freely opened and closed, and an inner box 4 formed of a synthetic resin fitted into the housing body 2.

[0007] Support brackets 6 and 6 having a pivot pin 7 extending downward are fixed to the upper and lower sides of one inner side of the door 3, and an inverted L-shaped 3 is mounted to the other inner side. Lock levers 8 are provided, and these lock levers 8 are rotated in conjunction with each other by rotating a key (not shown) inserted into a lock 9 provided on the other side of the door 3. I do. A slot member 10 having a coin slot 10a formed thereon is attached to an upper portion of the door 3, and a plate 11 provided with a dial 11a is attached below the slot member 10. A coin return slot 12 is located below the plate 11.
Are provided, and a hook 14 is provided on the side of the plate 11.
The handset 13 is hung.

The inner box 4 is made of a synthetic resin as a whole and has a box shape having an opening only at the front face, and each outer dimension is slightly smaller than the inner dimension of the housing main body. The interior is partitioned into a storage room 16 and a safe room 17 by an integrally formed partition plate 15. Five mounting holes 18 corresponding to the screw holes 5 of the housing main body 2 and two holes 19 are formed in the rear surface of the inner box 4. The inner box 4 is attached to the inside of the housing body 2 by fitting the screw 20 into the hole 18 and screwing it into the screw hole 5 from the front opening of the housing body 2.

At a position corresponding to the partition plate 15 on the rear surface of the inner box 4, a pair of L-shaped mounting pieces 22, 22 are integrally formed to protrude. Reference numeral 23 denotes a control board on which a control unit for controlling the apparatus main body is mounted.
Are provided, and a pair of notches 25, 25 are provided at both ends of the lower end.
Are formed. The control board 23 places the notch 25 on the mounting piece 22, and inserts a pin 26 with a flange through the hole 24 and press-fits it into the hole 19 of the inner box 4.
Attached to the back of.

A protruding strip 27 is integrally formed on one inner side of the inner box 4, and a metal fitting 28 having an L-shaped cross section and having a support hole 28a formed therein is attached to the protruding strip 27. . As shown in FIG. 3, at both ends of the upper part of the back part of the inner box 4,
A pair of ball-shaped holes 29 are formed.
When the public telephone 1 is mounted on a wall, the hook mounted on the wall is engaged to suspend the public telephone 1. Reference numeral 30a denotes a protruding strip integrally protruding from the upper portion of the rear portion of the inner box 4 so as to extend left and right, and 30b denotes the hole 2
9 is a pair of ridges having an L-shaped cross-section and integrally protruding directly below 9. These ridges 30a, 30b are located above the control board 23 attached to the back of the inner box 4, and are for protecting the control board 23 from rainwater or the like entering the inside of the housing. is there.

At the front end of the other inner portion of the inner box 4, three locking blocks 31 are integrally formed, and two opposing support blocks 32 and one support block 33 are integrally formed. Is formed. Reference numeral 35 indicates whether coins inserted from the coin insertion slot 10a are correct or false, pseudo coins are returned from the coin return slot 12, and regular coins are stored in the safe vault 17 in the safe room 17 according to a coin storage signal. (Not shown) is a flat rectangular coin processing unit.

In such a configuration, the inner box 4 is fitted into the housing main body 2 from the opening of the housing main body 2 and attached to the rear surface of the housing main body 2 by screws 20. Next, the pivot pin 7 of the door 3 is engaged with the hole 28 a of the metal fitting 28 of the inner box 4, so that the door 3 is pivotally mounted on one side of the inner box 4 to freely open and close the opening of the inner box 4. And And the control board 23
The notch 25 is placed on the mounting piece 22 of the inner box 4 and the pin 26
The control board 23 is attached to the back surface of the inner box 4 by inserting the control board 23 into the hole 24 and press-fitting the hole into the hole 19 of the inner box 4.

After assembling, the coin processing unit 35 is attached to the inner box 4. That is, the coin processing unit 35 is attached to the flat rotating plate 36 via a bracket (not shown). At one end of the rotating plate 36, a pair of arms 37, 37 facing the upper and lower portions and one arm 38 at the lower portion are formed by bending, so that the rotating plate 36 is attached to the arms 37, 37. The arm 38 is pivotally connected to one end of a first link member 40 having a U-shaped cross section via a shaft 39 supported therebetween.
And is pivotally connected to one end of the second link member 42 via the second link member 42.

Next, a shaft 4 supporting the other end of the first link member 40 between a pair of support blocks 32, 32 of the inner box 4.
3 pivotally attaches to one side of the inner box 4. Then, the other end of the second link member 42 is pivotally attached to one side of the inner box 4 by a shaft 44 supported on the support block 33 of the inner box 4. The shaft 43 and the shaft 44 are fixed to the inner case 4 with their positions shifted from each other in plan view as shown in FIG. 4, and the rotating plate 36 and the first and second link members 40 and 42 are rotated by four nodes. A mechanism is constituted, and the coin processing unit 35 is rotatable in the AB direction in FIG. 4 so as to be able to be inserted and withdrawn from the opening of the inner box 4.

Thereafter, the coin processing unit 35 is moved to the position shown in FIG.
Then, as shown in FIG. 4, it is housed in the inner box 4 through the opening of the inner box 4 and fixed to the inner box 4 by fixing means (not shown). Then, after the door 3 is rotated about the pivot pin 7 as a rotation center to close the opening on the front surface of the inner box 4, the lock 9 is rotated by a key to rotate the lock lever 8 to rotate the locking block 31. , The door 3 is locked.

In the public telephone 1 assembled in this way, only the tip of the screw 20 is exposed on the back surface of the housing body 2 irrespective of appearance, facing the wall, and the tip of the screw is exposed on the side surface. Is not exposed, so that the appearance is not impaired. In addition, since the control board 23 and the coin processing unit 35 are attached to the housing body 2 via the inner box 4, the control board 23 and the coin processing unit 35 can be individually attached to the housing body 2 as in the related art. It is not necessary to fix the bracket or the like to the housing body 2 by welding, so that the assembling work is simplified, the hinge for pivotally connecting the door 3 is not required, and the locking block 31 for locking the lock lever 8 is synthesized. Since it is formed integrally with the inner box 4 made of resin, the number of parts can be reduced.

Further, by attaching the door 3, the control board 23, and the coin processing unit 35 to the inner box 4, these three members are positioned by the inner box 4, so that individual adjustment is unnecessary as in the conventional case. Therefore, the adjustment time is shortened. In addition, the coin processing unit 35
The door 3 is pivotally attached to the other side of the inner box 4 to which the pivot 3 is attached, and the rotating plate 36, the first and second link members 40,
Since the structure is such that it can be inserted into and removed from the inner box 4 via a four-section rotating mechanism consisting of 42, the opening on the front face of the inner box 4 is opened, which facilitates maintenance and inspection work of the coin processing unit 35 or the control board 23. Become.

In this embodiment, a coin-type public telephone has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a card-type public telephone may be used. What is necessary is just to adopt the card processing unit which discriminate | determines the good or bad of a card, and rewrites data according to the frequency of a call to a good card. In addition, the present invention can be applied to a public telephone using both coins and cards. In this case, a processing unit in which a coin processing device and a card processing device are unitized may be employed. Although the door 3 is pivotally connected to one side of the inner box 4 by the pivot pin 7, the door 3 may be detachably attached to the inner box 4.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a housing body formed in a box shape with an open front surface, and a door capable of opening and closing the opening of the housing body. A public telephone containing a processing unit for processing coins and the like and a control board for controlling the apparatus main body in the main body, wherein the door, the processing unit and the control board are mounted, and are detachable inside the housing body. Since the inner box made of synthetic resin is provided, it is not necessary to fix the control board and the coin processing unit to the housing body by welding, such as a bracket, as in the conventional case. Work becomes easy. Also, by attaching these doors, control board and coin processing unit to the inner box,
Since the members are positioned by the inner box, individual adjustments are not required as in the related art, and thus the adjustment time is reduced.

Further, according to the present invention, a support portion for pivotally attaching the processing unit to the opening of the housing main body so as to be freely inserted and removed is integrally formed on one side of the inner box, and the door is pivotally supported. By providing a support hole for receiving the pin on the other side of the inner box and integrally forming a support portion for supporting the control board in the inner box, a hinge for pivotally connecting the door is not required, and the number of parts is reduced. And the front opening of the inner box is opened, which facilitates maintenance and inspection work of the coin processing unit or the control board.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1A and 1B show the appearance of a public telephone according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 1A is a side view and FIG. 1B is a front view.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing the public telephone according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the public telephone according to the present invention with a door removed.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV in FIG. 3;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Pay telephone, 2 ... Housing body, 3 ... Door, 4 ... Inner box, 7
... Pivot pin, 8 lock lever, 9 lock, 22 mounting piece, 23 control board, 28a support hole, 31 locking block, 32, 33 support block, 35 coin processing unit.

Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-9-181807 (JP, A) JP-A-9-186754 (JP, A) JP-A-6-350267 (JP, A) Jpn. , U) Actually open sho 57-34655 (JP, U) Really open sho 57-14557 (JP, U) Really open sho 59-99572 (JP, U) Really open 1-26886 (JP, U) Really open 59-128873 (JP, U) JP-A-3-92092 (JP, U) JP-A-4-75204 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) H04M 1/02 -1/23 H04M 17/00-17/02 H05K 5/00-5/06

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A housing main body formed in a box shape with an open front surface, and a door capable of opening and closing the opening of the housing main body,
A public telephone containing a processing unit for processing coins and the like and a control board for controlling the apparatus body in the housing body, wherein the door, the processing unit and the control board are attached, and the inside of the housing body. A public telephone structure comprising an inner box made of a detachable synthetic resin. 2. A structure of a public telephone according to claim 1, wherein a support portion for pivotally connecting the processing unit to an opening of the housing body so as to be freely inserted and removed is integrally formed on one side of the inner box, A structure of a public telephone, wherein a support hole into which a pivot support pin of a door is engaged is provided on the other side of the inner box, and a support portion for supporting the control board is integrally formed in the inner box.