JPH0122032B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention distinguishes the size of multiple types of thin plate-like members with different shapes, such as pieces of paper, pieces of metal, coins, etc. according to their shapes, and Therefore, with regard to shape sorting equipment used for sorting work that separates and sorts specific parts, in particular, when the sorted parts fall and are scattered on the conveyance means, many parts stay in one place and it becomes normal. The present invention relates to a member scraping mechanism of a shape sorting device that can forcibly scrape out members that have accumulated in order to prevent them from flowing.

[Conventional technology]

Manually sorting a large number of small-shaped members in which a plurality of different shapes are mixed together according to their shapes is time-consuming and prone to erroneous sorting. Therefore, conventionally, multiple types of mechanical and electrical components have been classified according to their shapes.
Various automatic sorting mechanisms were used to select from. However, with conventional automatic sorting mechanisms, it is relatively easy to construct a sorting mechanism for heavy and thick members such as coins and nuts, but for thin and lightweight members. In the past, it was possible to sort by shape, and no device had been developed that could completely select multiple types of members based on their shape. For example, paper pieces such as tickets and coupons, scraps of cloth, and thin metal pieces must be sorted manually. For this reason,
A hole with a specific shape is opened through the outer periphery of the sorting drum, which has a hollow cylindrical shape, and only members with a specific shape are discharged from the hole among the plurality of kinds of members stored in the sorting drum. Sorting devices for selecting components have also been proposed (for example, patent application in Showa
61308, 1957, etc.).

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In this new shape sorting device, ticket pieces with a specific shape are ejected from the drum to the outside of the drum, fall downwards, and are deposited, so they can be transported for subsequent processing, such as alignment and information reading. There must be. This transfer is carried out by a conveying means such as a belt, but if a large amount of the members are temporarily released from the drum body, they will accumulate in a mountain shape at the starting end of the conveying means. Once the members are piled up on the conveying means, even if the conveying means operates, the underlying members cannot be pulled out and cannot be moved in that state. If this member becomes temporarily clogged,
All the parts that are being transferred one after another stay in that area, which not only makes it impossible to carry out the next process, but also causes some of the parts to bite into the belt or the like in the accumulated parts, causing a malfunction.

[Means for solving problems]

In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks, the present invention provides a cylindrical drum body that is hollow inside and rotatably supported with its axis positioned slightly horizontally, and a drum body provided on the peripheral wall of the drum body to communicate the inner and outer peripheries of the drum body. The shape sorting mechanism is arranged in an annular shape so as not to come into contact with the outer periphery of the drum body, and is hollow so that its cross section is U-shaped, and the shape sorting mechanism is covered with the opening. a collecting means which is arranged at the lower part of the collecting means and near the opening from which the member is discharged, a transporting means which is provided slightly horizontally to transport the member in a fixed direction; A sliding falling means is provided to slide the member in the direction of the conveying means, and the conveying direction of this conveying means is horizontal, and its rotation axis is held obliquely, and a sliding falling means is provided by rotating around it. The object of the present invention is to provide a member scraping mechanism for a shape sorting device, comprising a scraping means and a scraping means having an elastic contact means that comes into contact with the distal end of the scraping means.

[Effect]

In the present invention, when a plurality of types of members are put into the drum body and the drum body is rotated, only the members having a specific cross-sectional shape pass through the shape sorting mechanism and are discharged to the collection means. Next, this discharged member is placed on the starting end of the conveying means and transported in one direction, while the falling member is guided toward the center of the conveying means by a sliding falling means provided on the side of the conveying means. Ru. Further, the rotating contact means contacts the member that does not slide while riding on the sliding/falling means, and is forcibly pushed toward the center of the conveying means by the contact means. For this reason, the falling members do not accumulate on the conveying means and are sequentially conveyed by the conveying means, so that clogging of the members does not occur and occurrence of failure can be prevented.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In this example, the members to be sorted are rectangular pieces of paper,
In other words, the method for sorting regular tickets and common coupon tickets based on the size of their shapes will be explained.

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of the sorting device of this embodiment. The sorting device consists of a sorting section 1, a sorting and reading section 2, and an information processing section 3. The sorting and reading section 2 has a three-dimensional shape. An elongated rectangular sorting section 1 is placed on the upper surface of the sorting/reading section 2 and in contact with one side thereof, and on the side surface of the sorting/reading section 2 (at the rear right in Figure 1) there is a sorting section 1 arranged in the vertical direction. The information processing unit 3, which is a rectangular parallelepiped and has an extended shape, is placed in close contact with the information processing unit 3. In this way, the sorting section 1, the sorting/reading section 2, and the information processing section 3 are connected and molded as one body, and the upper part of the front part in FIG.

An opening/closing door 4 is attached to the side surface of the sorting section 1 so as to be able to rotate freely in the horizontal direction, and a shutter 5 with a large upward opening is attached to the opening/closing door 4. A hatch 6 that can be used is attached. A rotatable hatch 7 is also attached to the top surface of the sorting/reading section 2, and an opening/closing door 8 for inspection is rotatably attached to the front side. moreover,
A keyboard 9 for control, a printer 10 for output, etc. are attached to the front panel of the information processing section 3.

FIG. 2 also shows that the door 4 in FIG. 1 is opened horizontally, the hatches 6 and 7 are opened upward, and the door 8 is opened horizontally. This shows a state in which the interior of the organizing/reading section 2 is opened to the outside.

Figures 3 and 4 explain in detail the internal configurations of the sorting section 1 and sorting/reading section 2. A sorting drum 11 as a drum body is housed in the sorting section 1 with its axis horizontal. . This sorting drum 11 is formed by winding a thin metal material into a pipe shape.
The interior is hollow, with a large opening at one end (left side in the figure), and a donut-shaped stopper plate 12 is attached to this opening, and the other end (right side in the figure)
is closed, and a drive shaft 13 is located in the center of the other end.
are connected. The drive shaft 13 is connected to a motor 14. The sorting drum 11 is installed so that its axis is horizontal, and rollers 15 and 1 are provided at the lower left and right sides at both ends of the sorting drum 11, respectively.
6 is pivotally supported on the main body 1, and each roller 15,1
6 is brought into contact with the outer periphery of the sorting drum 11 and holds the sorting drum 11 rotatably.

On the outer periphery of the sorting drum 11, two types of shape sorting mechanisms 17 and 18 are arranged annularly at intervals in the circumferential direction, and in this embodiment, the shape sorting mechanisms 17 are arranged in three annular rows. The shape sorting mechanism 18 has two annular rows sandwiched between the shape sorting mechanisms 17.

Collection guides 19 and 20 as collection means in the shape of inverted water droplets are inserted alternately at intervals on the outer periphery of the sorting drum 11. The guides 20 are located on the outer periphery of the shape selection mechanism 18, respectively. The recovery guides 19 and 20 are composed of ring parts 23 and 24 having openings 21 and 22 with an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the sorting drum 11, and chute parts 25 and 26 that are continuous below the ring parts 23 and 24. The outer enclosure is a hollow structure made of thin sheet metal. Ring part 2
3 and 24 are respectively formed into a U-shaped bucket shape in cross section near the openings 21 and 22, and these ring portions 23 and 24 are connected to the shape sorting mechanism 1 of the sorting drum 11.
7 and 18 are placed close together so as to cover each other. Further, the chute portion 25 is formed along an extension line tangent to the outer circumference of the ring portion 23, one side is vertically directed downward, and the other side is formed to be inclined toward the one side, A rectangular discharge port 27 is opened at the bottom thereof. Further, the chute part 26 is formed along the extension line of the outer circumference tangent of the ring part 24, both sides of which are inclined so as to approach each other, and the discharge port 28 opened at the lower part is connected to the sorting drum 11.
It is located vertically below.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a part of the shape sorting mechanisms 17 and 18 described above, and each shape sorting mechanism 17,
18 is assembled by forming a notch in the peripheral wall of the sorting drum 11 and inserting and fixing the guide body 29 into this notch, and the shape sorting mechanisms 17 and 18 are arranged so as to face in opposite directions. There is.

FIG. 6 shows an exploded configuration of one shape sorting mechanism 17, 18.
18 is composed of a sorting drum 11, a guide body 29, and a fixing band 30. The sorting drum 11
A notch 31 having a width approximately equal to the wall thickness of the guide body 29 is machined in the top portion 3.
2. It consists of three sides: side parts 33 and 34.
The top portion 32 and the side portions 33 and 34 are each linear, and the top portion 32 is located perpendicular to the rotational direction of the sorting drum 11, and one end of each side portion 33 and 34 is connected to both ends of the top portion 32, respectively. The other ends of each side portion 33, 34 are open so as to separate from each other. For this reason, the top portion 32, side portions 33, 34
As a result, a trapezoidal notch 31 was formed, and a trapezoidal tongue portion 35 was formed in the center left by this notch 31.
The tongue portion 35 is slightly bent toward the outside of the sorting drum 11.

Next, the guide body 29 is formed by punching out a thin sheet metal using a press or the like, and this guide body 29 is made up of a trapezoidal holding plate 36 and a band-shaped slide standing up on the left and right oblique sides of the holding plate 36. Moving plate 3
7, 38. The holding plate 36 is trapezoidal and has the same size as the tongue piece 35,
The center portion of the tongue piece 35 is bent by pressing so that it has the same radius as the radius of curvature of the tongue piece 35 so that it can be closely attached to the tongue piece 35. Sliding plate 37, 3
8 stands upright at right angles to the oblique side of the holding plate 36, and has the shape of a long and narrow strip with the same width.
7 and 38 are formed in a straight line. The length between the adjacent ends of the sliding plates 37 and 38 is set to V or W. (W is the set length for the shape sorting mechanism 17, and V is the set length for the shape sorting mechanism 18.) The respective lengths V and W are set to predetermined lengths, and the width V is set to be slightly larger than the width X of the common ticket A and slightly smaller than the width Y of the regular ticket B. There is. The fixing band 30 is made by bending a long thin sheet metal strip, and is bent into a U-shape so that the outer diameter of the top of the guide body 29 is almost the same, and both ends of the U-shape are bent outward. The legs 39 and 40 are formed by bending the legs 39 and 40, respectively.

To assemble the shape sorting mechanisms 17 and 18 shown in FIG. 33,3
4, the sliding plates 37 and 38 of the guide body 29 are respectively fitted, the outside of the tongue piece 35 and the inside of the holding plate 36 are brought into close contact, and both are fixed by spot welding or adhesive. Then, attach the fixing band 30 to the guide body 2.
9 from the outside of the trapezoidal top, fixing the center of the fixing band 30 to the guide body 29, and attaching the leg pieces 39,
40 is fixed to the outer periphery of the sorting drum 11. At this time, the separated end surfaces a and b of both sliding plates 37 and 38 protrude to the inner periphery of the sorting drum 11 (top surface in FIG. 6), and the close end surfaces c and d of both sliding plates 37 and 38
protrudes from the outer periphery of the sorting drum 11 (bottom surface in FIG. 6), and thereby the long sides e,
f has an angle inclined with respect to the inner circumferential surface of the sorting drum 11. Then, the sliding plates 37 and 38 stand up at right angles on both sides of the tongue piece 35, forming a trapezoidal shutter. Sides c, d, top 32
As a result, rectangular discharge ports 41 and 42 are formed, and the width of the discharge port 41 is W, and the width of the discharge port 42 is V. Then, the collection guides 19, 2
The ring portions 23 and 24 of 0 are each shape sorting mechanism 17,
It is positioned on the outer periphery of the sorting drum 18 and held by a support means separate from the sorting drum 11.

Next, returning to FIGS. 3 and 4, the internal configuration of the sorting/reading section 2 will be explained.

Below the discharge port 27 of the collection guide 19, two elongated holding plates 45, 46 are arranged with a gap between them.
The holding plates 45, 4 are parallel to the axis of the sorting drum 11, and their length is slightly longer than the sorting drum 11.
A belt 47 is installed horizontally between the two. Then, the ends of the holding plates 45 and 46 (the motor 14
A pair of elongated holding plates 48 and 49 are spaced apart from each other at right angles to the holding plates 45 and 46, and a belt 50 is installed between the holding plates 48 and 49. . One end of the holding plates 48, 49 is located below the holding plates 45, 46, and the other end is long enough to approach the front panel of the organizing/reading section 2. Further, a wide belt 51 is installed below the rear end of the belt 50 in parallel with the sorting drum 11, and the length of this belt 51 is approximately the same as that of the holding plates 45, 46.
Below the end of 1 is a shredder 5 that crushes the paper side into small pieces.
2 is placed. Therefore, belts 47, 50,
51 so as to form a horizontal U-shape.

Furthermore, elongated first transfer mechanisms 53 are provided below the discharge ports 28 of the recovery guide 20, and each transfer mechanism 53 is disposed perpendicular to and parallel to the axis of the sorting drum 11. This transfer mechanism 5
A second transfer mechanism 54 as a transfer means is provided below the transfer mechanism 53 at a position slightly shifted from the transfer mechanism 53. A chute 55 is installed at an angle between the first and second transfer mechanisms 5.
A chute 56 bent into a dogleg shape is installed between each end of the transfer mechanism 54, and a reader 5 containing a magnetic head etc. is installed at the end of the transfer mechanism 54.
7 are connected, and the terminal end of this reader 57 is positioned on the belt 51 (in FIG. 3, only one set of transfer mechanisms 53, 54 is shown, and the other sets are omitted). , transport mechanisms 53 and 54 are connected to each recovery guide 20, respectively). This transfer mechanism 53 is provided with a removal mechanism 58 for removing booklets and folded ticket pieces of a certain thickness or more, and a distribution mechanism 59 for separating ticket pieces of a predetermined length into chutes 55 and 56. 54 is provided with a scraping mechanism 95 as a scraping means for forcibly scraping the ticket pieces, an aligning mechanism 60 for orienting the ticket pieces in a specific direction, and a peeling mechanism 61 for separating the ticket pieces one by one.

FIGS. 9 and 10 show the above-mentioned transfer mechanism 53 in detail, and the skeleton of this transfer mechanism 53 is thin frames 63, 63 arranged in parallel at a distance. Between the frames 62 and 63, rollers 64 and 65 are pivotally supported, respectively, in the center of the end (on the left side in the figure and below the discharge port 28). is belt 66
The frame bodies 62, 63 are stretched between the two frame bodies 62, 63 and are located between the rollers 64, 65.
An adjustment plate 67 is attached in a direction perpendicular to. A roller 6 is provided between the frames 62 and 63 near the center and at the end (on the chute 55 side).
8 and 69 are pivotally supported, and both rollers 68 and 69
A belt 70 is stretched between them. This belt 6
The upper surfaces of belts 6 and 70 are both at the same height, and this belt 6 is located at the position where belts 66 and 70 touch.
A long and thin sliding plate 71 having the same height as the frame body 6 and 70
It is attached to 2,63.

Further, between the adjustment plate 67 and the sliding plate 71 of the frame body 63, a U-shaped discharge groove 72 is cut out from above. Bearings 73 and 74 are respectively fixed on the side surfaces of the frames 62 and 63 at positions close to the roller 68, and each bearing 73 and 74 is provided with a pulley 7 parallel to the frames 62 and 63, respectively.
5 and 76 are pivotally supported, and both pulleys 75 and 76
A removal belt 77 is stretched between them. The removing belt 77 is located above the sliding plate 71, and the lower surface of the removing belt is spaced a little apart from the sliding plate 71. And the end faces of the frames 62, 63 (Fig. 9,
A chute 55 is connected to the right side in Fig. 10, and this chute 55 has side plates 78 and 79 on both sides facing downward, and a chute 80 that slopes downward is provided between the side plates 78 and 79. There is. The top of the shooter 80 is slightly flat, and its tip g is placed at an appropriate distance from the belt 70 (slightly longer than the length of the common ticket A, which will be described later).

A feed roller 81 is pivotally supported between the frames 62 and 63 at the top of the shooter 80, and further between the frames 62 and 63, the roller 81 is rotatably supported.
A threading plate 82 is fixed above the feed roller 9, and the threading plate 82 is elastic and has its tip extended to a position approaching the feed roller 81. Further, between the side plates 78 and 79, a flip-up prevention piece 83 bent into an arc is fixed in the middle. The chute 55 is composed of two members formed into a tub shape by being bent into a U-shape, and one chute 84 is inclined from the end j of the chute 80 in a direction opposite to the chute 80,
Another shooter 85 is provided at a little distance from the lower end of this shooter 84.
4 and 85 form a dogleg shape.

Next, FIGS. 11 and 12 explain the second transfer mechanism 54 in detail.

This transfer mechanism 54 has an outer frame formed by two frames 86 and 87, and a pair of elongated frames 86 and 87.
are arranged parallel to each other at intervals, and rollers 88 and 89 are pivotally supported between the frames 86 and 87 at their respective ends.
A belt 90 is stretched between 8 and 89. A side groove 91 that has a large U-shaped cut upward is formed between the vicinity of the roller 88 and the center of the frame 86, and a table 92 is fixed horizontally to the lower part of this side groove 91. An operating shaft 151 is provided above the table 92 and close to the roller 88 in parallel with the roller 88. One end of the operating shaft 151 is supported by the frame 87, and the other end is connected to the motor 152. It is connected. At a position on the belt 90 of this operating shaft 151, two thin-walled, elongated, rectangular blade plates 153 are fixed at a distance in the axial direction, and these blade plates 15
3 is made of elastic material such as rubber,
The length near the tip is set to be such that it can come into contact with the surface of the belt 90 during rotation.

Further, a second operating shaft 154 is provided on the table 92 at an angle in the horizontal direction with respect to the operating shaft 151, and the tip of this operating shaft 154 is connected to the belt 9.
0, and a motor 155 is connected to the other end. Near the tip of the operating shaft 154, two elastic strip-shaped vanes 156 are fixed at intervals in the axial direction as contact means and are long enough to contact the surface of the belt 90. be. Two cylindrical alignment rollers 93 and 94 are vertically supported on the table 92 at a distance from each other. On the upper surface of the table 92, a drop plate 103 in the form of an elongated thin plate serving as a sliding drop means is provided with one side parallel to the belt 90 and inclined in the direction of the belt 90.

This drop plate 103 has two operating ports 105 and 104 opened at intervals, and these operating ports 1
The alignment rollers 93 and 94 are inserted through the holes 05 and 104, and most of the alignment rollers 93 and 94 protrude above the drop plate 103. Furthermore, two peeling rollers 96 and 97 are positioned between the frames 86 and 87 and close to the roller 89 with a distance between them, and their lower ends are positioned close to the upper surface of the belt 90. , each peeling roller 9
6,97 has a small diameter in the center. Further, between the frames 86 and 87, a presser tongue piece 9 having an elongated shape is provided.
8 is fixed thereto, and this presser tongue piece 98 is bent into an L-shape, and its horizontal end approaches the belt 90 slightly parallel to each peeling roller 96,
It is passed through the lower part of the small center diameter part of 97.

Furthermore, the terminal ends of the frames 86 and 87 (FIG. 11,
A pair of shaft support plates 99 are provided at the right end of FIG.
are connected, and two rollers 100 and 101 are pivotally supported between the parallel shaft support plates 99 and at the same height position as the roller 89,
A delivery belt 1 is provided between the rollers 100 and 101.
02 is attached. Further, support rods 106 are installed between the two shaft support plates 99 and above the rollers 100 and 101, respectively.
A curved sliding plate 108 is attached to the lower end of the connector 107 inserted into the belt 102, and the lower surface of the sliding plate 108 is positioned close to the upper surface of the belt 102.

Next, FIG. 13 shows in detail the configuration of the rotational force transmission of the second transfer mechanism 54 mentioned above.

A motor 110 is installed at the bottom of the frames 86 and 87.
is provided, and the output shaft 111 of this motor 110
A pulley 112 is fixed to the roller 8.
A pulley 1 is attached to one side of the shaft 113 that supports the
44 is fixed, and both pulleys 112, 114
A transmission belt 115 is wound between them. The rollers 89 and 101 and the peeling roller 96 have pulleys 119, 120 and 121 fixed to one side of the shafts 116, 117 and 118, respectively. ,123
is wrapped around it. And another peeling roller 97
is supported by a shaft 124, pulleys 125, 126 are fixed to the other ends of the shafts 117, 124, respectively, and a transmission belt 127 is wound between the pulleys 125, 126.

Now, an intermediate shaft 128 is pivotally supported at a slightly lower center of the belt 90, close to the motor 110, and pulleys 129 and 130 are fixed to the other sides of the shaft 113 and the intermediate shaft 108, respectively. A belt 131 is wound between both pulleys 129 and 130.

The above-mentioned alignment rollers 93 and 94 are provided with support shafts 132 and 133 facing downward, respectively.
Pulleys 134 and 135 are fixedly attached to 2 and 133, and a transmission belt 136 is wound around both pulleys 134 and 135. Bevel gears 137 and 138 are meshed with one side of the intermediate shaft 138 and the lower end of the support shaft 132, respectively.

Further, the aforementioned presser tongue piece 98 is formed by bending an elastic material, and includes a main body 144 in the shape of a baseball home base plate, and a main body 144 in the shape of a baseball home base plate.
The main body 14 consists of screw fixing pieces 145 bent in a U-shape on both sides of the main body 144, and an elongated pressing plate 146 extended from the lower part of the main body 144 and turned.
4 is fixed to the frames 86 and 87 with screw pieces 145 so as to be slightly perpendicular to the belt 90. With the main body 144 fixed to the frames 86 and 87, the pressing plate 146 is positioned between the pair of peeling rollers 96 and 97, and its lower surface is in light contact with the upper surface of the belt 90.

Further, FIG. 14 shows the vicinity of the falling plate 103. The thin falling plate 103 has two protruding claw pieces 150, 151 formed in a convex shape on its lower surface.
The upper edge of the drop plate 103 has two screw-fastening pieces 152 erected thereon, and these screw-fastening pieces 152 are inserted into the insertion opening opened on the surface of the table 9
It is screwed to an L-shaped shroud 154 vertically erected on top of 2.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 16, a case will be explained in which common tickets A and regular tickets B of different sizes are sorted, and the width of the short side of common tickets A and regular tickets B is are set to X and Y, respectively.

First, in order to select the common ticket A, the sorting device is set to the state shown in FIG. It is housed inside the drum 11. Once a predetermined amount of common tickets A and ordinary tickets B have been stored in the sorting drum 11, when the switch on the panel of the information processing section 2 is turned on, the motor 14 is started and the drive shaft 13 is rotated to remove the sorting drum 11. Rotate in the direction of arrow F in Fig. 5.

For this reason, the sorting drum 11 has a shape sorting mechanism 18.
The enlarged ends a and b of the sliding plates 37 and 38 are used as the tips of rotation, and the discharge port 42 is used as the rear end of the rotation, and the mixed common coupon A and regular ticket B are transferred to the sorting drum. 11 will be slid and stirred on the inner peripheral surface. The common ticket A and the regular ticket B slide due to the rotation of the sorting drum 11, and are always positioned below the sorting drum 11 due to their weight, and are brought into contact with the sliding plates 37 and 38. It will be scraped up in the direction of the discharge port 42. That is, the common ticket A and the regular ticket B slide on the inner circumferential surface of the sorting drum 11 regardless of their shape, and their flow direction is regulated by the sliding plates 37 and 38, which have large openings on the left and right. Both sliding plates 3
7, 38 toward the gradually narrowed center. In this way, the common ticket A and the regular ticket B flow toward the center of each shape sorting mechanism 18, and both are always collected between the pair of sliding plates 37, 38.

The common ticket A and regular ticket B collected between the sliding plates 37 and 38 flow on the tongue piece 35 and flow to the discharge port 42, which has a predetermined length V. Only the small-sized common ticket A passes through the discharge port 42 and is discharged to the outside of the sorting drum 11. However, common coupon A
The regular ticket B, which has a larger shape, uses this outlet 42.
Because the cross-sectional shape is larger than the cross-sectional shape of It will remain within 11. A discharge port 4 is provided on the outer periphery of this sorting drum 11.
The common coupon A released from 2 is collected by the collection guide 20.
The belt 66 enters the space of the U-shaped cross section of the ring part 24, slides down the inner peripheral surface of the ring part 24, falls, flows to the chute part 26, and due to its own weight is released from the discharge port 28 opened at the lower part of the chute part 26. to fall.

Next, the first and second transfer mechanisms 53 and 54 are moved and rotated by the drive source in the directions of the arrows shown in FIGS. 9 to 12, and the common coupon A dropped onto the belt 66. It is transferred to the right in the figure.

The common coupons A on the belt 66 move toward the adjustment plate 67 and pass through the gap between the lower side of the adjustment plate 67 and the top surface of the belt 66, but when many common coupons A are piled up, collides with this adjustment plate 67, and an appropriate number of tickets A is sequentially supplied to the right from the bottom thereof, so that a large number of common coupon tickets A will not be processed at once. The common ticket A that has been sequentially transferred on the belt 66 slides over the sliding plate 71 and is transferred onto the belt 70, and is again sent to the right by this belt 70, but does not approach above the sliding plate 71. A removal belt 77 is provided, and the removal belt 7
7 is moving perpendicular to the belt 66, so
Since the common ticket A, which has been folded or stacked to form a booklet, is thick, it comes into contact with the removing belt 77 and is pulled out in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the belt 66, and is removed from the discharge groove 72 by the conveyance mechanism. 53 is released outside. Therefore, the common coupon A passed through the sliding plate 71 and fed into the belt 70 is not deformed and only a flat one is selected.

The common ticket A on this selected plane has the first
As shown in Figure 7, there are two types of tickets: the ticket shown in (a) and the ticket shown in (b) are connected horizontally to form multiple common coupon tickets A.
There is a double ticket that has a straight line, and the connected multiple tickets can be separated at the break and used as a single ticket, but as a double ticket, it can be used as is for the number of people.
Or you can use the amount. This common coupon A is fed by the belt 70 and inserted below the threading plate 82, and the ticket is ejected downward from the end of the belt 70 to the shooter 8.
4,85 and is placed on the belt 90,
Since the double ticket is pushed out while being held between the belt 70 and the threading plate 82, it reaches the upper surface of the shooter 80, and the double ticket slips down the shooter 80 and is placed on the belt 90 just in front of the presser tab 98. Ru.

The ticket of the common ticket holder that slipped down the shooters 84 and 85 and fell into the second transfer mechanism 54 is placed on the belt 90, and is transferred to the 11th
It is transferred from the left to the right in FIGS. 12 and 13. The belt and rollers in the transfer mechanism 54 rotate and move in the directions of arrows in each figure.

If the common ticket A that has slipped from the lower end of the shooter 85 has a small amount remaining, the belt 90
A temporarily large amount of common coupon tickets A is placed on top of the ticket.
If the common tickets A slip down the shooter 85, these common coupon tickets A will accumulate on both side walls of the shooter 85 or between the lower end of the shooter 85 and the belt 90, and will stay at the bottom of the shooter 85.

Now, the operating shafts 151 and 154 are rotating in the direction of the arrow in the figure, and the blade plates 153 and 156 are interlocked below them in the same direction as the moving direction of the upper surface of the belt 90. The common coupon tickets A are forcibly pushed out in the conveying direction of the belt 90, and the accumulated tickets are sequentially dismantled. Next, the vane plate 156 is turned obliquely with respect to the conveying direction of the belt 90, and slides the common ticket A, which is deviated in the direction of the side groove 91, toward the frame 87, thereby moving the belt 90 as much as possible. Modify so that the common coupon A is placed in the center of the .

The common tickets A that have been scraped out and corrected in the direction of the frame body 87 are still scattered in the direction in which they are lined up, and as they are, the belt 9
0, this belt 9
0, the end surface comes into contact with the alignment rollers 93, 94, so the common coupon A is pushed out in the direction of the frame 87 as the alignment rollers 93, 94 rotate, and each common coupon A has its long side. is sent to the next peeling mechanism 61 with its long side parallel to the moving direction of the belt 90 while contacting the side surface of the frame body 87 .

Next, the common ticket A is held between the presser tongue piece 98 and the belt 90, is pressed against the belt 90 by the elasticity of the presser tongue piece 98, and is transferred toward the peeling rollers 96 and 97, but this peeling Since the rollers 96 and 97 each rotate in the opposite direction to the belt 90, even if the common coupons A are stacked double or triple, the upper common coupon A is rotated by the peeling roller 96. , 97 in the opposite direction to the conveyance direction of the belt 90, and only the lowest common ticket A is conveyed by the belt 90, and is held between the next delivery belt 102 and the sliding plate 108, and is then pushed back as a single ticket. It is sent out one by one and sent to the magnetic reader 57.

The magnetic reader 57 reads the information stored on the magnetic stripe of the common ticket A, and reads the information stored on the magnetic stripe of the common ticket A.
The belt 51 transfers the common ticket A placed on the upper surface in the direction of the arrow, and transfers it to the shredder 5.
2, and cut these common coupon tickets A so that they cannot be reused.

In addition, the connected shooter 80 slipped (b)
The common coupon A is peeled off by peeling rollers 96 and 97 in the same way as the single common coupon A, and the information stored in the magnetic stripe is read.

To explain the operation of the transmission mechanism in the second transfer mechanism 54 described above, the rotational output of the motor 110 is transmitted through the output shaft 111, the pulley 112, and the transmission belt 11.
5. It is transmitted to the pulley 114, shaft 113, and roller 88, and causes the belt 90 to be transported. The roller 89 is rotated by this belt 90, and the shaft 11
6. Transfer to belt 102 via pulley 119, transmission belt 123, pulley 121, shaft 118, and roller 101. As this belt 102 is transferred, the contacting belt 105 is driven, and the belt 102 is transferred in the direction of the arrow.

Further, the rotation of the shaft 116 is transmitted to the peeling roller 96 via the pulley 119, the transmission belt 122, the pulley 120, and the shaft 117.
The rotation of
The belt 97 rotates with its lower surface facing in the opposite direction to the transport direction of the upper surface of the belt 90. The rotation of the shaft 113 is controlled by the pulley 129 and the transmission belt 13.
1. It is transmitted to the intermediate shaft 128 via the pulley 130, rotates the support shaft 132 via the bevel gear 137 and the bevel gear 138, and the pulley 1
34, the support shaft 133 is rotated via the transmission belt 136 and the pulley 135, thereby causing the alignment rollers 93 and 94 to rotate simultaneously in the same direction. The rotation direction of each alignment roller 93, 94 is made to coincide with the direction in which the side closer to the belt 90 is the same as the conveying direction of the belt 90.

Next, the operations of the scraping mechanism 95 and alignment mechanism 60 will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 15.

The common coupons A stacked on the left end of the belt 90 are sequentially moved toward the magnetic reader 57 by the conveyance of the belt 90; However, some of the common coupon tickets A are not corrected even by the wing plate 156 and land on the falling plate 103. Since the falling plate 103 is inclined in the direction of the belt 90, the common ticket A moves on the falling plate 103 in the direction of the belt 90 by its own weight. When a part of the common ticket A comes into contact with the belt 90, the frictional force causes the common ticket A to move to the 15th
It is dragged in the direction k in the figure and moves in the direction of the belt 90. Among the common coupons A that have moved to the center of the belt 90 or fallen from the shooter 85 due to this acting force k, the long sides of the common coupons A have been moved along the length of the belt 90 as shown in FIG. Those that are parallel to the width direction and located exactly in the center of the belt 90 are transported by the belt 90 as they are.

However, as shown in FIG.
The common ticket A, which is placed on the top and moves with its long side deviated at a certain angle with respect to the length direction of the belt 90, moves vertically while moving on the falling plate 103. It will come into contact with the protruding alignment roller 93. Since this alignment roller 93 is rotating as described above, the common coupon A that has come into contact with it follows the rotational direction of the alignment roller 93, exerts an acting force in the m direction, and is pushed toward the center of the belt 90, and the common coupon A is pushed out toward the center of the belt 90. is forced to have its long side aligned with the length direction of the belt 90 at the center of the belt 90.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 15, in the case of the common ticket A where the angle between the long side and the length direction of the belt 90 is shallow, the long side does not come into contact with the alignment roller 93 but does come into contact with the alignment roller 94. The common coupon A is then urged in the n direction, and the common coupon A is aligned in the center of the belt 90 with its long side parallel to the longitudinal direction of the belt 90. Therefore, even if the common ticket A falls onto the belt 90 in any orientation, the alignment rollers 93 and 94 will cause the common ticket A to be aligned at the center of the belt 90 with its long side parallel to the belt 90. The subsequent processing will be standardized.

When the position of the common ticket A is corrected in the direction of the belt 90 by the above-mentioned alignment rollers 93 and 94, a part of the common ticket A is placed on the falling plate 103, and this falling plate 103 is moved in the direction of the belt 90. Since the common tickets A are tilted, they slide down on the falling plate 103 due to their own weight, and are aligned by the belt 90 by the action of direction change by the alignment rollers 93 and 94 and the frictional force of the belt 90. In some cases, these three forces work together, allowing for a smooth change in direction.

Next, the sorting drum 11 is rotated in the direction of arrow F for a predetermined period of time, and when all the common tickets A are ejected and ordinary tickets B remain, the drive of the motor 14 is stopped by a timer or the like, and then the motor 14 is stopped by a timer or the like. 1
4 is driven in the reverse direction, the sorting drum 11 is reversely rotated in the direction of arrow G, and the regular ticket B is slid and stirred within the sorting drum 11. Therefore, the regular ticket B flows toward the center of the shape sorting mechanism 17 in the same manner as described above, and the regular ticket B flows between the pair of sliding plates 37 and 38.
The regular tickets B are collected during the process and are ejected to the outside of the sorting drum 11 through the discharge port 41, enter the space of the U-shaped cross section of the ring portion 23 of the collection guide 19, and enter the space inside the ring portion 23. It slides on the circumferential surface and flows to the chute part 25, and due to its own weight, the chute part 25
The regular ticket B is discharged downward from the discharge port 27 opened at the lower part of the seat, and the discharged regular ticket B is placed on the belt 47, and as the belt 47 is transferred,
It is discharged onto the belt 50 from the end of the belt 7 .

The regular ticket B placed on the belt 50 is the third
The shredder is transported in the direction of the arrow in the figure, discharged and placed on the belt 51 from the end thereof, and transported and discharged from the belt 51 in the direction of the shredder 52.
2, the regular ticket B is cut so that it cannot be used again.

In this way, by rotating the sorting drum 11, the common ticket A and the regular ticket B are sorted and separated, the individual information stored in the common ticket A is read, and the read information is transferred to the information processing section. 3, the results are sorted and tallied, and the results are printed out as numerical values by a printer.

After driving the motor 14 for a predetermined period of time, when no ordinary ticket B remains on the sorting drum 11, the motor 14 is stopped and the sorting and reading work is completed. When the rotation of this sorting drum 11 is stopped,
Items that cannot be sorted, such as paper waste, banknotes, and defective tickets, remain in the sorting drum 11.

After completing a series of sorting operations, the equipment must be cleaned in order to perform another sorting operation. First, the opening/closing door 4 is rotated horizontally and laterally to expose the side surface of the sorting drum 11 as shown in FIG. Unsortable members are taken out from the sorting drum 13 using a suction machine. Further, since paper dust is scattered in various parts of the device, the hatches 6 and 7 are opened and the opening/closing door 8 is inserted laterally to remove these dust, pieces of paper, paper dust, etc.
Then, by closing the opening/closing door 4, hatches 6, 7, and opening/closing door 8, and returning to the state shown in FIG. 1, preparations can be made for the next sorting operation.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, the members sorted by the drum body are discharged and allowed to fall downward from the collecting means. Then, the fallen member is placed on the conveying means, and even if the members temporarily accumulate, they are slid and guided in the direction of the conveying means by the sliding falling means. Further, even if the members cannot be slid under their own weight, the contact means scrapes out the accumulated members and transports them in the direction of the conveying means while breaking up the accumulation. Therefore, the members do not accumulate in one place, allowing smooth transfer, eliminating the occurrence of equipment failure due to clogging of members, and eliminating the need to monitor accumulation.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the present invention;
The figure is a perspective view showing a state in which the above collection box is pulled out and the input body is flipped upward, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an outline of the sorting mechanism and ticket processing mechanism, and FIG. Figure 5 is an enlarged perspective view showing a part of the sorting drum, Figure 6 is an exploded perspective view showing the shape sorting mechanism in detail, Figure 7 is a sectional view of the same, Figure 8 is a plan view of the same, and Figure 9. is a plan view showing the first transfer mechanism;
FIG. 10 is a side view of the same as above, FIG. 11 is a plan view showing the second transfer mechanism, FIG. 12 is a side view of the same as above, and FIG. 13 is a transmission structure near the scraping mechanism, alignment mechanism, and peeling mechanism. FIG. 14 is an exploded perspective view showing the vicinity of the falling plate, FIG. 15 is an explanatory view showing the scraping and alignment action in FIG. 17, and FIG. 16 is a plan view showing the types of tickets to be sorted. 11... Sorting drum as a drum body, 17,
18...Shape sorting mechanism, 54...Second transfer mechanism as conveying means, 95...Scraping mechanism as scraping means, 103...Dropping means as sliding falling means, 156...As contacting means s siding.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A shape sorting mechanism that has a hollow cylindrical drum body that is rotatably supported with its axis positioned slightly horizontally, and a hole provided in the peripheral wall of the drum body that communicates the inner and outer peripheries of the drum body. and a collection means arranged in an annular shape so as not to contact the outer periphery of the drum body, formed hollow so that its cross section is U-shaped, and whose opening covers the shape sorting mechanism, and this collection means. A conveying means is provided at the lower part of the means and close to the opening from which the member is discharged, and is provided slightly horizontally to convey the member in a fixed direction; The conveying direction of this conveying means is the horizontal direction, and the axis of rotation is held obliquely, and around it there is an elastic member that rotates and contacts the sliding falling means at its tip. 1. A member scraping mechanism for a shape sorting device, comprising: a scraping means having a contact means.