JP4096566B2 - Ticket separation device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is provided inside a fare storage device installed in a one-man bus, etc., and separates a ticket, a coupon ticket, a numbered ticket, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a ticket) made of coins and printed paper. Relates to the device.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In this type of coin separating device, the ticket inserted into the coin insertion slot is not caught in the pair of inclined rollers for some reason and is led to the coin counting unit side together with the coin, and separated from the coin. There are cases where it is impossible If this happens, not only will the flow of coins and bills inserted subsequently be disturbed, but an error due to a jam will occur and the machine will stop or the bill will enter the coin counting section. This will adversely affect the counting and sorting of coins. For this reason, conventionally, a pair of inclined rollers can be brought into and out of contact with each other, and when a ticket stays on the inclined roller, the inclined tickets are separated from each other so that the stayed ticket is dropped. It was. In addition, a ticket stopper formed in a warm shape with soft and thin rubber is provided above the tilt roller. It was restricted from being led to the coin counting part side.
[0003]
6 to 9 show a conventional coin separating device, FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line VI-VI in FIG. 8, FIG. 7 is a plan view, FIG. 8 is a side view, and FIG. It is an arrow view.
6 and 7, the coin separating device denoted as a whole by reference numeral 1 includes a fixed frame 2 erected in a charge storage device (not shown), and a direction opposite to the fixed frame 2 in the direction of arrow A in the figure. That is, a movable frame 3 is provided which is supported so as to be movable in a direction away from the fixed frame 2 while maintaining a state facing the fixed frame 2.
[0004]
As shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, the front plates 4 and 6 and the rear plates 5 and 7 have horizontal surfaces at the front end portion and the rear portion of the fixed frame 2 and the movable frame 3, respectively, so that the edges are contacted and separated from each other. It is being fixed so that it may incline with respect to. Among these, between the front plate 4 and the rear plate 5 of the fixed frame 2, an inclined roller 9 inclined downward to the left in FIG. 6 is rotatably supported. Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the movable frame 3 is opposed to the inclined roller 9 with a gap 8 separated by a slight distance δ between the front plate 6 and the rear plate 7. An inclined roller 10 inclined at the same angle is rotatably supported. Here, the gap δ of the gap 8 is formed to be slightly smaller than the thickness of the ticket 24 described later.
[0005]
A motor 11 is fixed to the back surface of the front plate 4 of the fixed frame 2, and a gear 12 is pivotally attached to a portion of the motor shaft (not shown) of the motor 11 that protrudes from the front plate 4. The gear 12 is engaged with a gear 13 that is attached to the end shaft of one of the inclined rollers 9. The gear 13 is engaged with a gear 14 that is pivotally attached to the end shaft of the other inclined roller 10. By driving the motor 11, one inclined roller 9 is shown in FIG. It rotates in the clockwise direction, and the other inclined roller 10 rotates in the counterclockwise direction.
[0006]
In FIG. 9, 16 and 17 are guide plates erected so as to face each other. One guide plate 16 is fixed to the front plate 4 of the fixed frame 2, and the other guide plate 17 is the movable plate 3. It is fixed to the front plate 6 and is positioned so as to be close to the upper side of the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 as shown in FIG. Printed wiring boards 18 and 18 are fixed to the guide plates 16 and 17 through sleeves 19 and 19, and a plurality of pairs of light emission are provided on the pair of printed wiring boards 18 and 18 so as to face each other. An element 20 and a light receiving element 21 are provided.
[0007]
As shown in FIG. 6, the light emitting element 20 and the light receiving element 21 are provided over the entire surface of the guide plates 16 and 17 (the guide plate 17 and the light receiving element 21 are not shown). , 17 is detected when it stays between. In FIG. 9, 22 and 22 are flexible sheets fixed to the guide plates 16 and 17 through the presser plates 22 a and 22 a, respectively, and the lower ends are attached to the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10. The ticket 24 is restricted from entering a gap provided between the guide plates 16 and 17 and the inclined rollers 9 and 10.
[0008]
6 and 8, reference numeral 23 denotes a coin slot member formed in a substantially rectangular tube shape, and is provided above the inclined rollers 9 and 10 so that the lower end portion is connected to the guide plates 16 and 17. It has been. A ticket 24 and a coin (not shown) inserted from the coin insertion port member 23 are guided between the guide plates 16 and 17 and fall onto the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10. , 10 and is dropped into the ticket storage unit 25 provided below. On the other hand, coins slide or roll on the inclined rollers 9 and 10 to the left (in the direction of arrow C) in FIG. 6 along the inclination of the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 to select and count the coins. It falls to the counting unit 26. The coin counting unit 26 includes a pair of coin aligning rollers 26a and 26a (one coin aligning roller 26a is not shown) for aligning a large number of coins dropped from the inclined rollers 9 and 10 one by one. One is provided on the guide plate 16 side and the other is provided on the guide plate 17 side.
[0009]
In FIG. 7, reference numeral 30 denotes a motor fixed to the back surface of the fixed frame 2, and the drive of the motor 30 is a drive shaft 32 horizontally mounted on the fixed frame 2 and the movable frame 3 via a pulley and a belt 31. Is transmitted to the rotation. A screw portion 32a is provided on the lower side of the drive shaft 32 in the figure, and a moving element 33 screwed into the screw portion 32a is sandwiched between the movable frame 3 and the guide plate 17 and fixed so that the rotation is restricted. ing. Therefore, when the motor 30 is driven in the forward and reverse directions, the drive shaft 32 rotates in the forward and reverse directions, and the movable element 33 moves in the direction indicated by the arrow AB in the figure. It moves in the B direction, and the inclined rollers 9 and 10 can be contacted and separated. In conjunction with the contact / separation operation of the inclined rollers 9, 10, the distance between the pair of coin aligning rollers 26a, 26a can also be freely contacted / separated.
[0010]
In FIG. 6, reference numeral 36 denotes a bill stopper formed in a warm shape, and its upper end is fixed to the fixed frame 2 via a bracket (not shown), and is orthogonal to the axial direction of the inclined rollers 9 and 10 in a side view. Is positioned to do. The ticket stopper 36 is provided with a plurality of slits 36 a so that the lower side has a comb-like shape, is formed of a flexible thin rubber as a whole, and the lower end is in contact with the peripheral surfaces of the inclined rollers 9 and 10.
[0011]
Next, the separation operation of the voucher 24 and the coins in the voucher separating apparatus 1 having such a configuration will be described.
In advance, as shown in FIG. 9, the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 are opposed to each other with a slight gap δ, and the motor 11 is driven to rotate one inclined roller 9 in the clockwise direction. The inclined roller 10 is rotated counterclockwise.
[0012]
In this state, as shown in FIG. 6, when a ticket 24 and coins (not shown) are inserted from the ticket insertion slot member 23, the tickets 24 and coins are guided by the guide plates 16 and 17, Fall on the inclined rollers 9 and 10. When the lower end of the ticket 24 comes into contact with the circumferential surface of the inclined rollers 9 and 10, the inclined rollers 9 and 10 rotate in the direction in which the ticket 24 is wound, so that the ticket 24 falls from the gap 8 to the ticket storage unit 25, The coin slides or rolls on the inclined rollers 9 and 10 and falls to the coin counting unit 26. If for some reason the ticket 24 does not fall from the gap 8 into the ticket storage unit 25 and slides down on the inclined rollers 9 and 10 in the direction of the arrow C, the upper end of the ticket 24 abuts on the ticket stopper 36, thereby this ticket stopper. The sliding is regulated by 36. At the same time, by detecting the bill 24 retained by the light emitting element 20 and the light receiving element 21, the motor 30 is driven and the movable frame 3 is moved in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 8, so that one inclined roller 10 in FIG. The voucher 24 that is separated from the other inclined roller 9 and stays falls into the voucher storage unit 25.
[0013]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As shown in FIG. 10, in the conventional bill separating apparatus described above, when a ticket 24 whose section is bent in a V shape is inserted, the ticket 24 bent in a V shape is as shown in FIG. The bent portion 24a easily enters between the inclined rollers 9 and 10. When entering, the ticket 24 does not get caught in the gap 8 between the both inclined rollers 9 and 10 in spite of the rotation of the both inclined rollers 9 and 10. There was a problem that it stays or falls into the coin counting section 26 together with coins.
[0014]
Further, as shown in FIG. 11A, when a ticket 24 bent in a U-shape is inserted between the guide plates 16 and 17, the bent portion 24 a of the ticket 24 has both inclined rollers 9 and 10. Abut. Accordingly, the ticket 24 is not caught in the gap 8 between the two inclined rollers 9 and 10 in spite of the rotation of the two inclined rollers 9 and 10 in the same manner as the ticket bent in the V shape described above. 24 stays on both inclined rollers 9 and 10. By detecting this by the light emitting element 20 and the light receiving element 21, the guide plate 17 moves in the direction of arrow A as shown in FIG. The distance between the two inclined rollers 9 and 10 is naturally limited from the viewpoint of preventing the apparatus from becoming large, and even if the two inclined rollers 9 and 10 are separated from each other, both ends of the bill 24 are connected to the two inclined rollers 9 and 10. In this case, the ticket 24 does not fall between the two inclined rollers 9 and 10 into the ticket storage unit 25. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 5C, it is necessary to repeatedly perform the opening / closing operation between the guide plates 16 and 17, which takes a lot of time, which is inconvenient and troublesome for the user. In addition, even if the opening / closing operation between the guide plates 16 and 17 is repeatedly performed, if the ticket 24 does not fall from between the two inclined rollers 9 and 10 to the ticket storage unit 25, the ticket 24 is erroneously counted as a coin counting unit. In this case, not only can the coins not be counted, but even if the opening / closing operation between the guide plates 16 and 17 is performed, the tickets that have fallen into the coin counting unit 26 may not be removed. there were.
[0015]
Further, in the above-described conventional coin separation device, the slipping of the ticket 24 on the both inclined rollers 9 and 10 is regulated by the ticket stopper 36. The ticket stopper 36 is a lightweight coin such as a one-yen coin. Since the passage must be allowed, it is not always sufficient to restrict the slipping of the ticket 24 by the ticket stopper 36. Further, when the ticket 24 enters the slit 36a of the ticket stopper 36, the ticket 24 is held by the ticket stopper 36. Therefore, even if the interval between the inclined rollers 9 and 10 is widened, the ticket 24 remains in the ticket storage section. There was also a problem of not falling to 25.
[0016]
The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a coin separating device that can reliably separate a coin and a coin that are put together in the device. It is in.
[0017]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve this object, the inventions according to claim 1 are both inclined at the same angle, opposed to each other with a slight interval, and the coins are slid down along the inclination, and rotate in the direction in which the coins are wound in cooperation with each other. In the coin separating device for separating the coins and coins inserted from the coin slot by a pair of inclined rollers, the air separating means is provided for blowing air toward the inclined rollers in a direction substantially opposite to the coin sliding direction. Is.
Therefore, by blowing the first air, it is possible to restrict the ticket staying on the inclined roller from sliding down on the inclined roller, and to reverse the V-shaped ticket.
[0020]
Further, the invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, wherein one end of the pair of inclined rollers in the axial direction is formed to have a large diameter and gradually decreased toward the other end. One end of the inclined roller is opposed to the other end of the other inclined roller, and the other end of the one inclined roller is opposed to one end of the other inclined roller.
Therefore, an angle is formed without the air blowing direction being parallel to the longitudinal direction of the bills on the two inclined rollers.
[0021]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II in FIG. 3, FIG. 2 is a plan view, and FIG. 3 is a side view. FIG. 4 is a plan view for explaining the separation operation of a ticket folded in a V-shape. FIG. 5 is a side view for explaining the separating operation of the V-folded ticket. In these drawings, the same or equivalent members described in the prior art shown in FIGS. 6 to 11 described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted as appropriate.
[0022]
The first feature of the present invention is that, as shown in FIG. 4, large diameter portions 9a and 10a are provided at one end of a pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10, and the diameter gradually decreases toward the other end. Small diameter portions 9b and 10b are provided at the ends, and the whole is formed in a truncated cone shape. Further, the large diameter portion 9a of one inclined roller 9 and the small diameter portion 10b of the other inclined roller 10 are opposed to each other, and the small diameter portion 9b of the inclined roller 9 and the large diameter portion 10a of the inclined roller 10 are opposed to each other. And the axis of the inclined roller 10 are arranged so as to be parallel to each other. Further, the second feature is that, as shown in FIG. 1, the first air 45 is blown onto the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 in a direction substantially opposite to the direction in which the coin slides down. . The third feature is that, as shown in FIG. 1, the second air 46 is blown in the direction in which coins fall from the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10.
[0023]
That is, as shown in FIG. 2, a sirocco fan 42 as air blowing means is attached to the inside of the movable frame 3, and the air sucked into the sirocco fan 42 by driving the sirocco fan 42 is generated by the movable frame 3. It is led into a duct 43 fixed to. The duct 43 is formed in an L shape in a plan view in FIG. 4, and the right end of the blow-out portion 43 a and the rear end face in the drawing are opened, and the first is directed toward the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 as shown in FIG. 1. And the second air 46 is blown toward the coin aligning roller 26a of the coin counting unit 26.
[0024]
The first air 45 is blown from the duct 43 above the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 and behind the ticket stopper 36 (in the direction of arrow C). Further, the spraying direction is oriented in the horizontal direction in FIG. 1, and the pair of inclined rollers are inclined with respect to the axial direction of the pair of inclined rollers 9, 10 by the inclination angle α of the inclined rollers 9, 10. 9 and 10. Therefore, the first air 45 is blown to the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 from slightly above. Further, the strength of the blowing of the first air 45 restricts the slip on the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 and does not restrict the falling of coins on the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10. Is set.
[0025]
Next, the separation operation of the bill and the coin in the coin separation device having such a configuration will be described.
As shown in FIG. 1, since the first air 45 in the direction substantially opposite to the sliding direction is blown onto the ticket 24 </ b> A put on the pair of inclined rollers 9, 10, the ticket 24 </ b> A is paired with the pair of inclined rollers 9. , 10 is restricted from sliding down in the direction of arrow C. Accordingly, the ticket 24 </ b> A is restricted from falling from the pair of inclined rollers 9, 10 to the coin counting unit 26, and the ticket 24 may be reversed by the first air 45. And is separated from coins by being stored in the ticket storage unit 25 through the gap 8 between the inclined rollers 9 and 10.
[0026]
Further, in this case, the first air 45 is blown above the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10, and the blowing direction is inclined by an angle α with respect to the axial direction of the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10. It sprays on the inclined rollers 9 and 10. Therefore, air in the direction opposite to the sliding direction is blown onto the ticket 24A on the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10, and at the same time, air is also dropped in the direction of dropping the ticket 24A from the gap 8 between the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10. Be sprayed. For this reason, slipping of the ticket 24A can be prevented, and at the same time, the fall of the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 from the gap 8 can be promoted.
[0027]
Further, since the first air 45 is also blown to the ticket stopper 36, even if the ticket enters and holds the slit 36a of the ticket stopper 36, the ticket can be released from the holding of the slit 36a. In some cases, the ticket 24 can be stored in the ticket storage unit 25. In addition, since the ticket is separated from the coin by blowing air, the structure is simplified and the durability is improved because there is no mechanical contact between the members.
[0028]
Further, as shown in FIG. 1, when the ticket 24B is accidentally dropped from the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 onto the coin counting unit 26, the interval between the guide plates 15 and 16 is increased, so that the pair of coin alignment rollers 26a. , 26a is also opened. At this time, since the second air 46 is blown toward the coin counting unit 26, the bill 24B is removed from the coin counting unit 26 without staying on the coin alignment rollers 26a, 26a.
[0029]
Next, with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, the separation operation of the voucher folded in a V shape will be described.
As shown in FIG. 5A, when the voucher 24 folded into a V shape is put on the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10, as described above, the bent portion 24a of the voucher 24 becomes a pair of these. The two sides 24b and 24c sandwiching the bent portion 24a of the ticket 24 come into contact with the inclined roller 9 and the inclined roller 10, respectively, entering the gap 8 between the inclined rollers 9 and 10.
[0030]
Since the diameter of the part in contact with the side 24c of the inclined roller 10 is larger than the diameter of the part in contact with the side 24b of the inclined roller 9, the peripheral speed of the part in contact with the side 24c of the inclined roller 10 is increased. It becomes faster than the peripheral speed of the part which contacts the side 24b. Accordingly, the side 24c is accompanied by the rotation of the inclined roller 10 and is reversed as shown in FIG. 5B, so that the end of one side 24c enters between the gaps 8 between the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10. The ticket 24 is wound between the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 from the end of the side 24c and stored in the ticket storage unit 25.
[0031]
In this case, as shown in FIG. 4, the ticket 24 in which the bent portion 24 a enters the gap 8 between the pair of inclined rollers 9 and 10 is blown by the extending direction of the bent portion 24 a and the first air 45. The angle β is formed without being parallel to the direction. Accordingly, since the amount of air blown onto the ticket 24 by the first air 45 is absolutely increased, not only the slip of the ticket 24 is further regulated, but also the above-described difference in the peripheral speeds of the two inclined rollers 9 and 10. Since the reversing operation of the ticket 24 can be facilitated, the separation of the ticket is performed more reliably. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 5 (a), since it is not symmetrical, the amount of the gap between the inclined roller 9 and the side 24b and the amount of the gap between the inclined roller 10 and the side 24c are different. The amount of air blown between these two gaps also becomes unbalanced, and the reversing operation of the ticket 24 is further promoted.
[0032]
In the present embodiment, the bill separating apparatus 1 is shown that includes all of the first air 45 blowing, the second air 46 blowing, and the inclined rollers 9 and 10 formed in a truncated cone shape. May be combined depending on the situation, or may be provided individually. Further, without forming the inclined rollers 9 and 10 in a truncated cone shape, the inclined rollers 9 and 10 and the guide plates 15 and 16 are not parallel to the axial direction of the inclined rollers 9 and 10 but are angled. An angle may be provided between the direction in which the first air 45 is blown and the ticket 24.
[0033]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the voucher erroneously falls on the coin counting section by restricting and reversing the voucher staying on the inclined roller from sliding down on the inclined roller. Since this is prevented, the separation of the ticket and the coin is performed reliably. In addition, since the ticket is separated from the coin by blowing air, the structure is simplified and the durability is improved because there is no mechanical contact between the members.
[0036]
Further, according to the invention according to claim 2 , since the air blowing direction and the longitudinal direction of the bills on both the inclined rollers are not parallel, but an angle is formed, the absolute amount of air received by the entire bill is increased. The slipping of the tickets on both inclined rollers is more reliably regulated. Further, since the amounts of the gaps between the two inclined rollers and the respective sides of the ticket are different from each other, the amount of air blown between the both gaps is also unbalanced, and the ticket reversing operation is further promoted. Therefore, the separation between the ticket and the coin becomes more reliable.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II in FIG.
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the coin separating apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a side view of the coin separating apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a plan view for explaining the separating operation of a ticket folded in a V shape in the coin separating apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a side view for explaining a separating operation of a ticket folded in a U-shape in the ticket separating apparatus according to the present invention.
6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line VI-VI in FIG.
FIG. 7 is a plan view of a conventional coin separation device.
FIG. 8 is a side view of a conventional ticket separating apparatus.
FIG. 9 is a view taken in the direction of an arrow VIIII in FIG.
FIG. 10 is a plan view for explaining a separating operation of a V-folded ticket in a conventional ticket separating apparatus.
FIG. 11 is a front view for explaining the separation operation of a ticket folded in a V shape in a conventional ticket separation apparatus.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Coin separation apparatus, 2 ... Fixed frame, 3 ... Movable frame, 9, 10 ... Inclined roller, 9a, 10a ... Large diameter part, 9b, 10b ... Small diameter part, 16, 17 ... Guide plate, 23 ... Coin Insertion member, 24, 24A, 24B ... ticket, 24a ... bent portion, 24b, 24c ... side, 25 ... ticket storage portion, 26 ... coin counting portion, 26a ... coin alignment roller, 36 ... ticket stopper, 42 ... Sirocco fan, 45 ... first air, 46 ... second air.

Claims (2)

  A ticket that is inclined from the coin slot by a pair of inclined rollers that are inclined at the same angle and face each other with a slight gap, slide the coin along the inclination, and rotate in the direction of winding the ticket in cooperation with each other. A coin separating apparatus for separating coins, comprising: an air blowing means for blowing air toward an inclined roller in a direction substantially opposite to a coin sliding direction. 2. The coin separating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one end of the pair of inclined rollers in the axial direction is formed to have a large diameter, gradually formed to have a smaller diameter toward the other end, and one end of the one inclined roller is set to the other inclined roller. The other end of the inclined roller and the other end of one inclined roller are opposed to one end of the other inclined roller.

Images