JPS6029146B2 - Automatic ticket vending machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic ticket vending machine, such as a ticket vending machine installed at a station, for example.

Automatic ticket vending machines for railway tickets sell tickets with fares depending on the section the passenger travels, and usually have a number of account selections on the front of the machine for selecting the desired fare. Switches are arranged.

In this automatic ticket vending machine, a memo is stored in advance of the fare corresponding to the account selection switch, and when the fare is revised, the memory is rewritten.
However, it is inevitable to confirm whether this memory rewriting work has been performed correctly. Conventionally, this confirmation work was done by instructing the account number using a switch installed on the back of the automatic ticket vending machine, then retrieving the fare corresponding to the account number from memory, printing out a trial ticket for the amount, and checking the amount. This was done by matching the fare printed on the trial ticket with the amount on the account selection switch for the specified account number.
This process of checking the memory contents has the disadvantage that it requires a lot of manpower and effort.

This invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and allows account charges, account numbers, etc. to be displayed in a predetermined order by one operation of the trial printing switch provided on the staff operation section. To provide an automatic ticket vending machine capable of printing and issuing printed amount trial tickets for all account selection switches arranged on a customer service surface, including reserve accounts.

According to this invention, since the account fee and account number are printed on the issued trial ticket, the configuration of the account selection switch for customer service can be easily determined, and moreover, the trial ticket can be operated only once. Since trial amount coupons are printed and issued for all accounts, there is no need to forget to confirm the contents of the memory, and the confirmation work is simplified.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing the main parts of an automatic ticket vending machine of the present invention. A plurality of account selection switches 2 are arranged in correspondence with account charges on a customer service surface 1 provided on the front side of the automatic ticket vending machine. ing.

It is assumed that this account selection switch 2 is given an account number shown below each switch in FIG. Reference numeral 3 denotes a memory in which information necessary for printing a ticket and a price trial ticket is stored, 4 a printing device that prints the information from the memory 3 in dots, and 5 a printing switch that instructs the issuance of a price trial ticket. , 6 is a central processing unit.

This automatic ticket vending machine usually operates after the passenger inserts a predetermined amount of money.
When the central processing unit 6 detects that the account selection switch 2 for the fare you wish to purchase has been pressed, the central processing unit 6 retrieves from the memory 3 information necessary for printing a ticket, such as the fare corresponding to the pressed account selection switch 2. Extract information and print device 4
and print and issue a ticket as shown in Figure 3.

The ticket shown in Figure 3 has the date of issue 31 and the name of the station where it was issued 32.
, fare 33, and issue number 34, which advances 11 steps for each ticket issued, are printed. Also, if the fare of this automatic ticket vending machine is revised, the fare date stored in memory 3 will be changed.
All you have to do is rewrite the evening.

Next, with reference to FIG. 2, the operation of this automatic ticket vending machine when issuing a price-adjusted ticket in order to confirm the revised fare data stored in the memory 3 will be described.

First, the trial printing switch 5 connected to the central processing unit 3 is pressed (step 21).

As a result, the following series of trial ticket issuing operations are automatically performed. When the central processing unit 6 detects that the trial printing switch 5 is pressed, it turns off the ticket issue number update flag stored in the memory 3 (step 22). As a result, the issue number will not increment during subsequent issuance of denomination trial tickets. Next, set the account number N to "1". (Step 23) The central processing unit 6 retrieves from the memory 3 the data necessary for printing the amount trial print ticket corresponding to the account selection switch 2 indicated by the account number N, and creates the amount trial print ticket data. (Step 2
4) As shown in Figure 4, there are two types of trial tickets: ticket a, which indicates a valid account, and ticket b, which indicates a reserve account.In the case of a valid account, the name of the station where regular tickets are sold is shown in Figure 3. ``Kenprint''32' which indicates that it is a trial price U ticket at the printing position 32'
In addition to printing the characters ``invalid'' and issuing the issue number 3.
The account number N is printed at the printing position 4. In addition, in the case of a reserve account, only the account number N is printed without printing a single character or the fare. When the data creation in step 24 is completed, the central processing unit 6 sequentially gives this data to the printing device 4, and An amount trial ticket corresponding to the account selection switch 2 indicated by the number N is printed.

(Step 25) When the issuance of the ticket is completed, it is checked whether the amount printing ticket for all accounts has been issued (Step 26),
If all accounts have not been completed, the account number N is incremented by 1 (step 27), the process returns to step 24, and the above ticket issuing operation is repeated for the next account. In this way, just by pressing the ``test storm'' switch 5 once, the amount-of-amount banknotes for all accounts are issued continuously, and there is no need to press the account selection switch 2 at all. When the issuance of test-value U-tickets for all accounts is completed, the central processing unit 6 stores them in the memory 3 and executes them in step 23.
The issue number update flag that was turned OFF is turned OFF (step 28), the automatic ticket vending machine is restored to a state in which it can issue normal tickets, and the series of operations ends. FIG. 5 shows the amount trial print tickets issued as described above and the tickets issued before and after the trial printing. The issue number was not printed on this 5-value trial ticket, which was issued in 1 batch.

Instead, an account number N (1 to 16) is printed in that position. In addition, the issue number does not increment while the trial amount ticket is being issued, and therefore, the issue number does not increment between the ticket 51 that was sold immediately before the issue of the trial amount ticket and the ticket 52 that was released immediately after the issue of the trial amount ticket. There is no mana. In other words, the value trial ticket can be treated as invalid in terms of data processing, and there is no need for the clerk to waste it.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the main parts of an automatic ticket vending machine, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the amount trial seat U ticket issuance operation, and FIG. Ticket face layout, Figure 4 is the face layout of the amount trial ticket, Figure 5
The figure shows a series of issued U-tickets. 2...Account selection switch, 3...Memory, 4...Printing device, 5...Trial printing switch, 6...Central processing Device. Figure 3 Dormitory Figure 4 Longevity S Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of account selection switches provided corresponding to account charges, a memory that stores information necessary for printing the bill such as account charges, a printing device that extracts information from the memory and prints it on the bill, and stores it in the memory. It is equipped with a trial printing switch that instructs the issuance of trial printing coupons for checking account charges, and a central processing unit that controls these devices. Accordingly, an automatic ticket vending machine that continuously issues trial coupons for all accounts on which at least account charges and account numbers are printed.