JPS6021877B2 - Automatic booklet page changing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic page changing device for a booklet, and more specifically, in a bank business processing device such as a bank teller device that handles passbooks, an automatic cash deposit dispensing device, an automatic bookkeeping device, etc.
The present invention relates to an automatic passbook page changing device that automatically turns the pages of a passbook.

In this type of bank business processing device, a passbook that opens vertically or horizontally is used, and deposit payment amounts are printed sequentially.

However, in the prior art, when printing has been performed up to the last line of a certain page, this is detected and the passbook is temporarily ejected from the device. Thereupon, the person handling the passbook, such as a bank employee or customer, turns over the next page and inserts the passbook into the device again, thereby performing the remaining printing. As described above, manually changing pages during printing of a bankbook becomes a significant hindrance to automation and labor saving of bank business processing.

In particular, in automatic deposit machines, automatic payment counters, etc. that are operated by customers themselves, not only can mistakes be made in setting the passbook, but the customer may also take home the passbook that was ejected to change the pages. This requires a processing means for incompletely canceling passbook processing, which inevitably reduces operability, processing speed, and reliability. In order to deal with this problem, automatic page changing devices for bankbooks have been proposed.

For example, Tokkan Sho 49-3732 or Tokkan Sho 54-11
This is the technology described in No. 23324. In any case, in this type of technology, a rubber page change roller is attached to a lever, and this lever is rotated to bring the page change roller closer to the page surface of the passbook.
Page changes are performed by rotating this roller in the page change direction. Of course, during the page change, the bankbook is pulled back or moved in a predetermined direction to ensure a reliable page change operation. However, this conventional technique requires a lever and a drive mechanism for rotating the page changing roller, and has the disadvantage that this lever and its drive mechanism are complicated.

Furthermore, if there is an operation to move the passbook during page changes, the page change time becomes longer, which in turn increases the passbook printing time, so it is desirable to further increase the passbook processing speed. In particular, when only one page is to be changed, the above-mentioned page change time does not have much of an effect, but a so-called comprehensive deposit account that has both a savings account and a time deposit account with one bank business processing device. When dealing with bankbooks, it is obvious that this page change takes a long time.
In other words, this type of general deposit account passbook has the first or last 1~
Two pages are for fixed deposit accounts, and the remaining pages are for ordinary deposit accounts. Normally, most of the printing is done on the savings account page, but if you also want to print on the fixed deposit account page, there will be several or one page printed from the savings account page to the fixed deposit account page.
Pages must be changed over several pages, and if the passbook is moved as described above each time a page is changed, the time it takes to change pages becomes extremely long. In addition, if there is a page for a fixed deposit account, especially at the beginning of the general savings account passbook as mentioned above, when printing the page for a savings account, you can check the direction to turn the next page and the normal The direction of turning the page is completely opposite to that when turning the page from the deposit account to the fixed deposit account.

In such cases, in conventional automatic page changing devices, the lever to which the page changing roller is attached has a mechanism that rotates around a predetermined axis. Changing pages in this direction is mechanically difficult. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic booklet page changing device which is mechanically simplified by eliminating the lever to which the page changing roller is attached and its drive mechanism as in the prior art. Another object of the present invention is to shorten the page changing time, especially when changing pages continuously.
An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic booklet page changing device that is significantly faster than conventional techniques.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an automatic booklet page changing device that has a simple configuration and can easily change pages not only in the forward direction but also in the reverse direction.

Thus, the present invention can be preferably applied to bank business processing devices, particularly devices that handle bankbooks with top and bottom openings.

This page changing of the passbook is performed by a page changing roller that is directly or indirectly connected to a rotating shaft of a rotational drive source such as a motor. The rotation axis of this page changing roller is
The page change is performed by rotating this roller in the forward and reverse directions, instead of rotating toward or away from the page surface where the page change is to be made, as in the prior art. In the present invention, the page changing roller has a characteristic configuration. That is, this page change roller installed on the passbook conveyance path is composed of a roller main body fixed to a rotating shaft and teeth provided along approximately half the circumference of the roller. The tooth portion is made of a material having a large coefficient of friction, such as rubber, in which a plurality of concave and convex portions are sequentially provided, and the main body portion has a pair of constricted portions. Further, the peripheral surface facing the front tooth portion has a slope shape with a predetermined curvature.
Normally, when a bankbook is fed through the conveyance path, the slope portion of this page change roller faces the bankbook surface side, so that the bankbook can be fed smoothly. When turning the pages of a passbook in the forward or reverse direction, this page change roller rotates in the forward or reverse direction, the teeth contact the page-turning surface, and the page surface is pulled in the direction of the binding of the passbook. Turn the page. That is, the pages of the passbook are turned over one by one each time the page changing roller rotates once. In this case, in the prior art, the passbook was moved as the corresponding pages were drawn toward the binding of the passbook, but when changing the pages of the passbook according to the present invention, the passbook is moved while the page is being changed. does not require moving. Therefore, when changing pages continuously over multiple pages, it is only necessary to rotate the page changing roller multiple times while the passbook is stopped, so the time required to move the passbook can be reduced, and the time required to change pages can be significantly shortened. . this is,
The page change roller according to the present invention has a characteristic configuration as described above, and is based on the fact that page change is reliably performed for each page. In other words, even if the edge of the page surface of the passbook is bent or curled, this edge may get caught in the recess of the teeth or the constriction of the main body while changing the page. This is because the pages are pulled in the direction of the binding. As described above, according to the present invention, page changes in a booklet can be performed accurately and quickly with a simple configuration.

Furthermore, by changing the rotation direction of the page changing roller, pages can be changed in the daily direction and in the reverse direction. DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments in which the present invention is applied to an automatic page changing device for a bankbook that opens vertically will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The passbook used in this embodiment is a passbook with a magnetic recording section on the back side and a top-bottom opening with a different barcode attached to each page. This type of passbook is well known. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic page changing device for a bankbook according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this figure, a bankbook 5 that opens vertically (hereinafter simply referred to as a bankbook) is fed into a transport path 51 in an open state. Although not shown, the conveyance path 51 passes through a passbook printing section, and this printing section is provided, for example, at the bottom of this figure. The conveyance path 51 is provided with conveyance rollers 52 for the passbook 5 . As shown in the side view of FIG. 6, these rollers 52 are arranged to face the conveyance path 51, and the distance between the 52 pairs of rollers above the conveyance path 51 and the 52 pairs of rollers below the conveyance path 51 is wide. shorter than the length of a passbook. Then passbook 5
is supported by these transport rollers 52 and fed downward or upward. Two page change rollers 2 are provided at an intermediate position between the upper roller 52 and the lower roller 52 of the conveyance path 51.
is provided.

These page changing rollers 2 are fixed to a shaft 1 directly connected to the rotating shaft of a motor 12, and a shingle plate 10 having a slit is attached to the end of the shaft 1. Therefore, the motor 12 is controlled by a control section (not shown).
When the page change roller 2 rotates in the forward or reverse direction, the page changing roller 2
Then, the board 10 rotates in that direction, and the page is changed. Further, a photoelectric element 11 is arranged corresponding to the rotation locus of the slit of the plate, and this photoelectric element 1
Rotation, stopping, etc. of the motor 12 are controlled by the detection output from the motor 1. Here, with reference to FIG. 2, the configuration of the page change flow 12 will be explained in more detail.

In order to simplify the explanation, illustration of the other page change roller 2 attached to the shaft is omitted. Basically, the page changing roller 2 is
2 and teeth 31.

The body part 32 is fixed to the shaft 1 and is made of aluminum or solid wood, for example. This main body portion 32 is
It is composed of a slope part 6 having a predetermined curvature and a constriction part 7 connected thereto, and furthermore, a tooth part 31 is provided over approximately half the circumference of the position facing the slope part 6. Teeth 31
is made of an elastic member such as rubber having a large coefficient of friction, and its outer periphery has an uneven shape. In normal times, that is, when the passbook is simply conveyed and the pages of the passbook are not changed, the slope portion 6 faces the conveyance path 51, and the end of the passbook 5 is placed on the page change roller 2, as shown in FIG. The passbook 5 can be transported smoothly without any hitches.

When turning the pages of the bankbook 5 in the daily direction or in the reverse direction, the page change roller 2 is rotated in the x direction or the x2 direction. Then, the teeth 31 come into contact with the paper surface of the passbook 5 and turn up the paper surface, and when the roller 2 rotates once, the paper surface is completely turned over. In particular, in this embodiment, since the tooth portion 31 of the page changing roller 2 is made of uneven rubber,
It comes into contact with the paper surface of the passbook 5 with even more frictional force. In addition, since the constricted part 7 is provided, even if the edge of the paper surface of the passbook 5 is bent, this edge will catch on the constricted part 7 during page changing, ensuring a reliable page change operation. It will be held in Note that this operation will be described in detail later. Of course, in this embodiment, the constriction part 7 is connected to the main body part 3 on the premise that pages are changed in the forward and reverse directions.
Although the constricted portions 7 are provided on both sides of the constricted portion 2, it is sufficient to provide one constricted portion 7 when pages are to be changed in only one direction. Now, returning to the original explanation and referring to FIG. 1 again, shutters 141 and 142 are provided above and below the page changing roller 2 of the conveyance path 61. These shutters 141 and 142 are attached to the rattan 54 and are connected to the solenoid 13 via links 531 and 532, respectively. Although not shown, the link 531 is also a solenoid.
This is connected. Normally, when transporting the passbook 5, these sleeves 141 and 142 are closed to ensure smooth transport of the passbook 5, but when changing the passbook, the solenoid 13 is energized. These shutters 141 or 142 are opened. That is, when turning the pages of the bankbook 5 in the forward direction, a solenoid (not shown) is provided and the shutter 14 is connected via the link 531.
1 is opened. On the other hand, when the page is turned in the opposite direction, the solenoid 13 is energized and the shirt cover 142 is opened via the link 532. It is easily understood that for a device that turns the pages of the bankbook 5 in only one direction, either shutter is unnecessary. The operation of the automatic page changing device for a bankbook having such a configuration will be described below.

First, with reference to FIG. 4, the operation when turning the pages of a passbook in the forward direction will be described.

Although not explained in detail in this embodiment, as described in detail in Tokukan Sho 54-123324, a printing section is provided below the page changing mechanism, and printing is done on the passbook here. Ru. Then, if printing is performed up to the last line of a certain page, for example, the second row, and there is still print data, the page of the passbook must be changed and the next page must be printed. In this case, the passbook 5 is conveyed to the page changing mechanism and stopped at a position where the pages are turned over in the forward direction (FIG. 4A). When passbook 5 is stopped, solenoid (
(not shown) is driven, and the shutter 141 is opened via the link 531. Next, the motor 12 is rotated in the direction of arrow x, and the page changing roller 2 is rotated in the direction of arrow x. Then, the teeth 31 of the roller 2 touch the page surface 51 of the passbook 5.
The page surface 15 is caught by the frictional force and gradually turned over (Figure 4), and finally the page surface 15 is flipped off from the teeth 31 (Figure 4C). At this time, the shield provided on the shaft 1, the board 1
The photoelectric element 11 detects the 0 slit. In other words, the motor 12 is stopped when the roller 2 rotates one rotation after starting (
Figure 4 2). Next, the conveyance roller 52 is activated and the passbook 5 is conveyed in the direction of arrow A. Then, after a predetermined time has elapsed after the start of conveyance of the passbook 5, the solenoid is shut off and the shutter 141 is closed. In this way, forward page changing operations are performed. Furthermore, when the page change operation ends,
In order to check whether the page change has been performed reliably, the barcode attached to the page of the passbook is detected by an optical detection means. This is disclosed, for example, in Tsubaki Seki Sho 54-123324.
Next, with reference to FIG. 5, the operation when turning the pages of a bankbook in the opposite direction will be described.

The reverse page change is opposite to the forward page change described above, in which the page is changed in the direction in which the page number decreases. In this case, the passbook 5 is transported to the page changing mechanism and stopped at a position where the pages can be turned in the opposite direction (
Figure 5 a). When the bankbook 5 is stopped, the solenoid 13 is driven and the shutter 142 is opened via the link 532. Finally, the motor 12 is rotated in the direction of the arrow, and the page change roller 2 is rotated in the direction of the arrow. Then, roller 2
The teeth 31 of the passbook 5 come into contact with the page surface 15 of the passbook 5, and the page surface 15 is caught by frictional force and gradually turned over (Fig. 5). Finally, this page surface 15 becomes the tooth part 3.
1 (Fig. 5 C). At this time, the photoelectric element 11 detects the shield provided on the shaft 1 and the slit in the plate 10. In other words, the motor 2 is stopped after 11 rotations from the start of the roller 2 (FIG. 5-2). Next, the conveyance roller 52 is activated and the passbook 5 is conveyed, for example, in the direction of arrow B. Then, after a predetermined time has elapsed after the start of conveyance of the passbook 5, the solenoid B is shut off and the shutter 142 is closed.
is closed. In this way, a page change operation in the opposite direction is performed. In the present invention, the page changing roller 2
A page change is performed by rotating the roller 2 once in the forward or reverse direction, and by rotating this roller 2 several times in succession, continuous page changes are performed over several pages.

For example, when performing continuous page changing in the reverse direction, the page changing roller 2 is rotated several times in the even direction as shown in FIG. This is accomplished by repeating the operations of the embodiment of FIG. 5 described above. Of course, in this case, the rotation of the roller 2 does not stop during the page change, but rotates for the required number of page changes and ends the operation. According to this embodiment, since page changing is performed reliably for each page, it is not necessary to move the passbook in a predetermined direction or change the direction of rotation of the page changing roller during page changing unlike in the prior art. Since special control is possible, continuous page changes can be performed faster than in the prior art.

In addition, as shown in FIG.
is provided, so even if the page surface 15 of the passbook 5 is bent or extremely curved, the lower end 5a of the page surface 15 will be constricted even if the page surface 15 of the passbook 5 is not blown away by the teeth 31 of the page changing roller 2. Since it falls into the section 7, it does not enter into the conveyance path 51.

Therefore, jamming is prevented from occurring when the passbook 5 is subsequently transported. Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention may be implemented with various modifications.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, two page change rollers 2 are installed on the shaft 1, but the present invention is not limited to this, and only one page change roller 2 may be provided at the center position of the page surface of the passbook. . Of course, three or four may be provided. Further, as another modification, the shaft 1 to which the page changing loaf 2 is attached may have a mechanism in which rotation is indirectly transmitted from the rotating shaft of the motor 12 via a gear or the like.

Of course, the rotation direction of the shaft 1 may not be changed by rotating the motor 12 in the braking direction and the opposite direction, but the rotation direction of the shaft 1 may be switched via a known clutch or intermediate gear. Various other modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, unlike the prior art, the booklet does not need to be moved during the page changing operation, or the page changing roller can be oscillated or reciprocated to cause the booklet to escape from the page surface.
With a simple configuration, pages can be changed at high speed by simply rotating the page change roller in the forward and reverse directions while the booklet is stopped.

Further, continuous page changes can be performed in the forward and reverse directions. Furthermore, pages of a booklet or the like whose pages are folded or extremely bent can be changed stably and reliably.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic page changing device for a bankbook according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing details of a page changing roller, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the conveyance of a bankbook in the automatic page changing section of a bankbook. A side view showing the situation, Figures 4 and 5 are diagrams for explaining the automatic page changing operation of the passbook, Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of the operation for turning the pages of the passbook in the opposite direction, and Figure 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation for turning the pages of the passbook in the opposite direction.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the operation for turning the pages of a passbook in the forward direction, FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the operation when the pages of the passbook are continuously turned, and FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining another example of the operation of turning the pages of the passbook. 1 is a shaft, 2 is a page changing roller, 31 is a tooth portion, 3
2 is the main body, 7 is the neck, 12 is the motor, and 5 is the passbook. O figure 2 figure figure 3 figure figure 5 figure figure 4 figure O figure S figure 7 figure

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An automatic page changing device for a booklet that turns a certain page of a booklet consisting of a plurality of pages in the direction of the binding line, comprising a conveyance path and a device for conveying the booklet in a predetermined direction along the conveyance path. a conveying roller, a shaft mounted facing the conveying path and rotating at a fixed position, and a long diameter portion and a short diameter portion, at least one of which has a recessed surface capable of engaging with the edge of the page. comprises a page change roller attached to the shaft so that the surface of the short diameter portion faces the conveyance path, and when the surface of the booklet to be changed comes to the position of the page change roller, the conveyance roller is By stopping the shaft and then rotating the shaft in the forward or reverse direction, the page surface that is in contact with the long diameter portion of the roller is pulled in the direction of the binding line during one rotation of the page change roller, and the above-mentioned operations are performed. After the edge of the page is kicked out by the concave surface and the page changing roller rotates a predetermined amount to complete the page changing operation, the conveying roller rotates and the booklet is conveyed. Automatic booklet page changing device. 2. The page changing roller is composed of a main body fixed to a shaft, and a toothed part formed of a member with a high frictional force and having an uneven surface and extending approximately half a circumference of the main body, 2. The automatic page changing device for a booklet according to claim 1, wherein the tooth portion serves as the long diameter portion and comes into contact with the page surface of the booklet, and turns the page surface in the direction of the binding line. 3. The main body portion includes a slope portion having a predetermined curvature at a position facing the tooth portion, and a constriction portion located at a connecting portion between the slope portion and the tooth portion, and the slope portion 3. The automatic booklet page changing device according to item 2, wherein the diameter portion faces the conveyance path during booklet conveyance. 4. The transport path has first and second shutters facing each other with the shaft at the center, and one of the shutters is selectively opened depending on the page changing direction. Automatic page changing device for booklets as described in item 1.