JP3226985B2 - Coin separator - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coin separator which is used, for example, in a fare box of a shared bus and separates coins such as rearranged tickets from coins.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various types of conventional coin separators have been proposed. However, coins such as rearranged tickets and bills cannot be reliably separated from coins. Often occurs and is not actually used. For this reason, in the related art, the bills and the coins are configured to be inserted into different slots.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to insert coins and coins into the same slot so that these coins and coins can be reliably separated from each other and clogging is unlikely to occur. The present invention is to provide a cash separator.

[0004]

According to the first or second aspect of the present invention, a ticket and a coin are inserted into one insertion slot, and a passage through which the inserted coins and coins fall from the insertion slot. An endless belt is provided, which is extended in a direction substantially perpendicular to the passage and rotates, and one end of a linear body of elastic material is fixed to the endless belt, and the linear body is arranged in the extending direction of the belt. The arrangement linear body is made to pass through the passage of the inserted object, and a guide plate is provided between the inlet and the arrangement linear body, and the ticket inserted into the insertion opening is provided. Classes and coins hit the guide plate, they are guided along the guide plate, and as they fall, they approach the belt side from the free end of the array linear object, and coins passing through the array linear object are coins It is stored in the storage unit, placed on the array linear body, and sent by this. Ticket class is housed in the ticket class housing portion.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first or second aspect , a slope plate extending obliquely downward in the moving direction of the array linear body is further provided between the input port and the array linear body. Provided,
The bills and coins inserted into the insertion slot hit the sloped plate and fall along the moving direction of the arrangement linear object on the arrangement linear object. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the guide plate is constituted by an endless guide belt, a width direction of the guide plate is a direction of an array linear body from an input port, and a longitudinal direction is the belt The direction of rotation.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the fourth aspect of the present invention, the guide belt as the guide plate is extended under the endless belt, and is arranged in the moving direction in contact with the extended portion extended below the endless belt. A second array linear body is provided. According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect , a spiral substantially parallel to the belt is provided on the linear array.

[0007]

1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention. An input port 12 is provided on one end of an upper plate of the housing 11. A ticket 13 such as a numbered ticket and a coin 14 are inserted into the insertion slot 12, and the falling direction of the input material is directed, and the two sheets approaching each other as they go downward so as to slow down the falling speed. The inclined plates 15 and 16 are provided in the inlet 12, and one inclined plate 15 is shortened and the other inclined plate 16 is provided.
Is extended further downward with a relatively small interval from the lower end of the inclined plate 15.

The bills 13 and coins 1 inserted into the insertion slot 12
An endless belt 17 is provided in the housing 11 so as to be close to the path where the 4 falls and extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the path.
The endless belt 17 has both ends hung on a pulley 18 and is not shown in the figure, but the pulley 18 is rotated by a motor to rotate the belt 17. The width direction of the belt 17 is a case where it is slightly oblique to the vertical direction. Belt 1
One end of an elastic linear body 19 that is perpendicular to the belt surface is fixed to the outer surface of 7, and the linear bodies 19 are arranged in the extending direction of the belt 17. Senjotai 19 in this example is fixed at about 100 to 200 present the belt 17 as a bundle, the bundle are arranged in the longitudinal direction of at a distance D ₁ belt 17. The interval D ₁ is made smaller than the length of the short side of the square tickets 13. As the linear body 19, a relatively soft and elastic material is preferable, and human hair is preferable. However, a thin wire such as a brush or an elastic resin material or a carbon fiber may be used, and one or a plurality of rubber wires may be used. May be bundled. Also significantly lighter coins such as 1 yen coin may also be when the interval D ₁ in order to pass this sequence linear body 19 slightly larger than the diameter of the light coin.

A guide plate 21 is provided between the inlet 12 and the linear array 19. The guide plate 21 guides the bills 13 and coins inserted into the insertion slot 12 so as to fall on the free ends of the arrayed linear bodies 19 while falling along the guide plate 21 and falling along the guide plate 21. That is, as shown in FIG. 2B, the guide plate 21 is located immediately below the lower end of the inclined plate 16, and the guide plate 21 extends downward from above and extends below the belt 17. It is almost parallel to the width direction.
The distance D ₂ between the belt 17 and the guide plate 21 is slightly smaller than the length of the linear array 19, and the leading end of the linear array 19 is in elastic contact with the guide plate 21.

A coin accommodating portion 22 for accommodating coins 14 which have been inserted into the insertion slot 12 and guided by the guide plate 21 and dropped through the array linear member 19 is provided at a lower portion in the housing 11.
In addition, the bills are inserted into the insertion slot 12, guided by the guide plate 21, placed on the arrayed linear bodies 19, and the bills accommodating part 23 for accommodating the bills 13 sent thereto is moved in the transport direction of the endless belt 17. Is provided at a lower portion in the housing 11 at a lower portion of a tip portion of the housing. A part of the top plate and a part of the front plate of the housing 11 are opened, and the opened part is closed by the glass window 24 and the coins and the arrayed linear objects 19 which fall from the outside. The tickets 13 to be sent can be viewed.

Due to such a configuration, the bills 13 and coins inserted into the insertion slot 12 fall on the guide plate 21 and slide along the guide plate 21 to reach the arrayed linear bodies 19. ,
Since the tickets 13 are light on the array linear body 19, the tickets 13 are put on the array linear body 19 without bending the array linear body 19, and the tickets 13 are moved by the movement of the array linear body 19. 13 is moved and sent, and when it reaches the sending end, the ticket storage section 23
And fall into it. On the other hand, the coins 14 that have reached the arrangement linear body 19 are elastically bent by the weight of the coins and fall below the coins, and are accommodated in the coin accommodating portion 22.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the second or third aspect of the present invention, and portions corresponding to those in FIGS. 1 and 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals. In the present invention, a slope plate 26 is provided between the inlet 12 and the array linear body 19 and extends beneath the oblique line in the moving direction of the array linear body 19. Tickets 1 inserted into the slot 12
The coins 3 and the coins 14 fall on the inclined plate 26, slide on the inclined plate 26, and reach the arrangement linear bodies 19 in a posture along the moving direction of the arrangement linear bodies 19. In this case, the tickets 13 are rounded as shown in the figure, that is, they are shaped like a scroll, and the diameter of the tickets 13 is the distance D ₁ between the arrayed linear bodies 19.
Even if it is made smaller, the roll-shaped ticket 13 reaches the arrangement linear body 19 in a posture such that the axial direction thereof is along the moving direction of the arrangement linear body 19, that is, it is rounded. There is no danger that the tickets 13 ride on the array linear body 19 in a horizontal position and fall below the array linear body 19.

As shown in FIG. 3B, the width direction of the belt 17 may be correctly set to the vertical direction, and the lower end of the guide plate 21 is The partition 21a may be provided directly above the end, bent from the position in the direction in which the end of the array linear body protrudes, and further bent vertically downward to be integrally provided below the guide plate 21. A protection plate 27 which extends obliquely upward in a direction substantially perpendicular to the guide plate 21 from a position relatively close to the guide plate 21 and the array linear body 19 is provided along the extension direction of the belt 17 and is provided along the guide plate 21. The dropped tickets 13 and coins 14 are in some way wrong and not on the linear array 19 but on the belt 17.
Even if it is flipped to the side, it can be prevented by the protection plate 27 and always reach the arrangement linear body 19. As a matter of course, in the case where the slope plate 26 is provided, the coin accommodating portion 22 is located near the lower end of the slope plate 26 in the moving direction side of the array linear body.
That is, the coin accommodating portion 22 is provided so as to be displaced from the position immediately below the insertion slot 12 in the movement direction of the belt as compared with the case of FIG.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the present invention according to claims 4 and 5 , in which parts corresponding to those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals. In this embodiment, the slope plate 21 is arranged linearly in the longitudinal direction.
Endless belt guide belt 28 in the direction of movement 9
It is a case where it is comprised as. Both ends of the guide belt 28 are stretched around a pulley 29, and one of the pulleys 29 is rotated by a motor (not shown) at a speed lower than the moving speed of the arrayed linear members 19. The one side surface of the guide belt 28 is used as a guide plate, and the width direction of the guide belt 28 is extended to the lower side of the belt 17 according to the invention of claim 4, and the width of the guide belt 28 is lower than the belt 17. The end of the fixed array linear body 31 is elastically contacted with the extension 28a. That is, the mounting rod 32 is provided to extend in the longitudinal direction of the guide belt 28 in opposition to the extension 28a, and the extension 28 of the guide belt 28 of the mounting rod 32 is provided.
The one end of the fixed linear body 31 is fixed to the surface opposing a, and the other end of the fixed linear body 31 is elastically contacted with the extension 28a of the guide belt. In this case, a plurality of fixed linear bodies 31 are used in which a plurality of bundles are arranged at appropriate intervals.

[0015] With this configuration, the input port 1
2 are conveyed on the array linear body 19 and stored in the ticket storage unit 23, and coins are stored in the coin storage unit 22 after passing through the array linear body 19, but are bent. The folded papers, that is, the folded papers and the paper-wound papers, change their posture while moving along the guide belt 28 as the guide plate 21, and the longitudinal direction is changed to the horizontal direction. In this case, the coins are stopped on the arrayed linear members 19 or stopped on the fixed linear members 31 even when they are not caught on the array linear members 19, so that these coins are prevented from entering the coin accommodating portion 22.

FIG. 5 shows an embodiment of the invention according to claim 6 , in which parts corresponding to those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals. In this example, the spiral 3 extended in parallel to the extension direction of the belt 17
3 is arranged above the array linear body 19, and the spiral 33 of the spiral 33 is rotated by a motor (not shown) so that each part of the spiral 33 is sent in the moving direction of the array linear body 19. Direction. The spiral 33 is formed by spirally winding one side edge of a ribbon around an axis 33a.
3 and the guide plate 21 are spaced apart from each other so that the coin 1
4 and the tickets 13 usually pass between them, and
9, the ticket folded in half cannot pass between the spiral 33 and the guide plate 21 as shown in the figure, and is caught by the spiral 33, and the spiral 33 is rotated. The folded tickets are sent to the ticket storage unit 23 side and dropped and stored in the ticket storage unit 23. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the folded tickets from reaching the array linear body 19 and falling down along the interval. Similarly, although not shown in the figure, the bills rolled into a scroll are also hooked by the spiral 33 and sent to the bill storage unit 23. Note that, also in this example, a slope plate 26 may be provided as shown in FIG.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the arrayed linear bodies 19 are not limited to the case where the bundled objects are arranged at equal intervals. In this way, a light object such as a one-yen coin can be bent by passing the array linear body 19 by its own weight, but the tickets 13 are prevented from passing by the array linear body 19. And you will be sent over it. Also, in the case where the linear bodies 19 are bundled, it is preferable to select various numbers of the bundles according to the weight of the bills and coins, the interval between the linear bodies, and the like. Alternatively, the coins may be accommodated by being passed through a denomination discriminator for selecting a denomination of the coin without being directly accommodated in the coin accommodating portion 22. Similarly, the present invention is not limited to the case where the tickets are directly stored in the ticket storage unit 23, and may be stored by passing through a reader that reads the number of the tickets.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the slot is used only for a ticket and a coin, and there is no need to distinguish between them, which is convenient for passengers. Moreover, the coins and coins inserted in the same place reach the moving linear array 19, and the coins are bent in the linear body by their weights and accommodated in the coin accommodating portion, and the coins are arranged linearly. The coins can be separated from the coins without fail because the coins can be reliably separated from the coins by being moved on the top and accommodated in the ticket accommodating portion.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

2A is a front view schematically showing the embodiment of FIG. 1, and FIG. 2B is a side view schematically showing the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the invention according to claim 2 or 3 ;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the invention according to claims 4 and 5 ;

FIG. 5A is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the invention of claim 6 , and FIG.
FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a side cross section thereof.

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Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. An insertion slot into which bills and coins are inserted, and a passage through which the bills and coins inserted from the insertion slot fall, and are rotated in a direction substantially perpendicular to the passage. An endless belt is provided below the inlet, and the lower side is closer to the endless belt.
It is slanted with respect to the vertical so that it approaches
Tickets and coins extended along the above slot
Guide them to the endless belt side
Guide plate and one end fixed to the endless belt, and how to extend the belt
The other end is extended toward the guide plate side.
Of elastic material that moves in elastic contact with this
Body, a coin accommodating section for accommodating coins passing through the array linear body, and a ticket accommodating section for accommodating tickets sent on the array linear body. Money separator. 2. A slot into which bills and coins are inserted, and a passage through which bills and coins fall from the slot.
Approached, extended in a direction substantially perpendicular to the passage and rotated
Endless belt, which is provided below the input port, and the lower side is closer to the endless belt side.
It is slanted with respect to the vertical so that it approaches
Tickets and coins extended along the above slot
Guide them to the endless belt side
Guide plate and one end fixed to the endless belt, and how to extend the belt
The other end is directly below the lower end of the guide plate.
Of elastic material extended to be located close to
And a coin storage unit for storing coins passing through the array linear body
And the tickets that are sent on the linear array are stored
And a bill storage unit . 3. A slanted plate extending obliquely downward in the moving direction of the array linear body is provided between the slot and the array linear body, and a ticket or the like inserted from the slot is provided. Coins
The coin separator according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the coin separator collides with the slope plate, and is dropped on the array linear body along the moving direction of the array linear body along the slope plate. 4. The guide plate is formed by an endless belt rotating in a width direction from the input port to the arrangement linear body and a longitudinal direction in a rotation direction of the belt. The coin separator according to claim 1 or 2 . 5. The guide plate extends in a width direction below the belt, is provided to intersect with an extension of the guide plate extended below the belt, and is arranged in the moving direction. The coin separator according to claim 4 , further comprising an array linear body. 6. ticket Qian separator of the belt substantially parallel to the helix claim 1 or claim 2 wherein, characterized in that provided on the upper side of the arrangement line-shaped body.