JPH0241725Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Field of industrial application] This invention is suitable for implementation in bill storage safes used in vending machines and ticket vending machines for various products, automatic fare adjustment machines in parking lots, etc. Regarding shutter devices.

[Conventional technology]

The banknote storage safe used in the above-mentioned vending machines etc. can store the banknotes inserted into the insertion slot (payment slot) one on top of the other in order, and when removed from the case body, the banknote reception slot is It is configured to be automatically closed by a shutter so that stored banknotes cannot be removed from outside the receiving opening.

In addition, in conventional banknote storage safes, as a means for opening and closing the shutter, a milled round bar (key bar) is installed inside the storage chamber into which the safe (storage box) is fitted, as seen in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 55-50785. ) is protruding, and when the safe is inserted, this round bar pushes a lever to open the shutter.

However, the opening/closing means with the lever structure described above has a problem in that the shutter can be easily opened by inserting another round rod through the insertion hole of the round rod after the safe has been drawn out. −50785
As seen in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 54-108698, a special locking device was attached to the shutter to prevent the shutter from being easily opened after the safe was withdrawn.

[The problem that the idea aims to solve]

However, the above-mentioned shutter lock devices have complicated configurations as described in each publication, so they increase the cost of the safe and are prone to breakdowns due to repeated opening and closing operations, so the shutter may remain open. Or, conversely, there was a problem where the safe remained closed and the safe became unusable.

Therefore, the technical problem of the present invention is to provide a shutter device for a banknote storage safe that is difficult to open from the outside, has a very simple overall configuration, can be provided at low cost, and is less likely to malfunction. It is.

[Means to solve the problem]

The measures taken in the present invention to solve the above technical problems are as follows.

A banknote storage box having a banknote receiving opening on the top surface can be inserted into the inside of the case body, and a banknote reader is provided on the top surface of the case body to read whether the inserted banknotes are correct or not. , only the banknotes that are determined to be genuine by this banknote reader,
In the banknote storage safe configured to send and store banknotes into the inside of the banknote storage box through the banknote reception port, (1) A shutter for opening and closing the banknote reception port is slid on the ceiling of the banknote storage box. The shutter has a guide length whose starting end is formed into a circular arc portion that gradually bends away from the banknote receiving port, and whose leading end is parallel to and close to the banknote receiving port. In addition to drilling a hole, an opening/closing lever is also provided on the circumferential surface of the ceiling of the banknote storage box, and a guide pin is attached to the opening/closing lever to fit loosely into the guide slot. Install the gear so that it can rotate freely.

(2) Install a spring on the opening/closing gear that pulls the opening/closing gear so that the guide pin is located at the starting end of the guide slot and keeps the shutter always closed.

(3) As the bill storage box is fitted into the inner wall of the case body, the opening/closing gear is meshed and rotated to move the guide pin to the tip of the guide elongated hole and open the shutter. Provide a protruding rack that can be used.

[Effect]

The above means works as follows.

The factor (1) above is that when the opening/closing gear is rotated and the guide pin of the opening/closing lever is moved from the starting end of the guide slot to the leading end, the shutter is pulled toward the opening/closing gear and the bill storage box is moved. While the bill receiving port can be opened, if the opening/closing gear is reversed and the guide pin is moved to the starting end side of the guide elongated hole, the shutter can be pushed back and the bill receiving port can be closed.

The element (2) above is such that the spring always positions the guide pin on the starting end side of the guide elongated hole to keep the shutter always closed, while the guide pin has the same rack as the opening/closing gear. Unless the shutter is inserted and the opening/closing gear is rotated against the traction force of the spring, the shutter cannot be moved to the tip of the elongated guide hole and opened, making it possible to prevent easy opening using a round bar, screwdriver, etc. .

The above element (3) enables the rack to automatically open the shutter and accept banknotes simply by fitting the banknote storage box inside the case body.

Each of the above elements (1), (2), and (3) consists of a shutter in which a long guide hole is drilled through the entire shutter device;
Since it can be constructed from a total of four members consisting of an opening/closing gear with a protruding guide pin, a spring, and a rack, the entire construction can be easily manufactured at low cost.

As described above, the above-mentioned technical problem can be solved by the above-mentioned means, and the problems of the conventional technology can be solved.

〔Example〕

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A preferred embodiment of a shutter device for a banknote storage safe according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the figure, 1 is a case body fixed to the machine body (not shown) of a vending machine or a payment machine, etc. The inside of this case body 1 is a storage chamber 1a in which a banknote storage box 2 can be inserted freely. It has become. Reference numeral 3 denotes a bill reader provided on the upper surface of the case body 1, and the authenticity of the bill T inserted into the insertion slot 3a is read by a reader (not shown) provided in the reader 3. , only genuine banknotes are transferred to the first bank by a conveyor (not shown).
It is designed to be fed toward the outlet 3b on the bottom as indicated by the arrow X shown in the figure. Further, 4 is a rack for operating the shutter fixed to the inner wall of the storage chamber 1a, and when the banknote storage box 2 is inserted into the storage chamber 1a, this rack 4 is inserted into the banknote storage box 2 through the insertion hole 2a. It plunges in and rotates the gear for operating the shutter, which will be described later. Reference numeral 2b denotes a bill T receiving port opened on the top surface of the bill storage box 2. When the bill storage box 2 is inserted into the storage chamber 1a, this receiving port 2b is aligned with the bottom exit port 3b of the reader 3. It is composed of

5 is a drive cam provided at the inner bottom of the storage chamber 1a;
When the bill storage box 2 is inserted into the storage chamber 1a, this cam 5 is projected into the bill storage box 2 through the notch hole 2c, and is activated by the actuation lever of the bill aligning device provided inside the bill storage box 2 (Fig. (not shown) and actuates the actuating lever each time a banknote T is fed in, so that the fed banknotes T can be stacked and aligned. 6 is a drive motor for the cam 5, and 7 is a box containing a drive mechanism for the operating lever.

Next, a specific configuration of the shutter device according to the present invention will be explained.

In the figure, 10 is a mounting board for the shutter device installed on the internal ceiling of the banknote storage box 2, and 11 is a guide plate fixed at intervals on this board 10. Holes 10a and 11a are provided in the portions corresponding to the receiving openings 2b, respectively, for receiving banknotes T, and a center slide elongated hole 11 is provided in the center of the guide plate 11.
In addition, both sides of the hole 11a are formed into guide edges 11c, 11c, respectively.

12 is a shutter that is slidably attached to the upper surface of the guide plate 11 so that the intake port 2b can be opened and closed from the inside; 12a is a shutter that is slidably attached to the upper surface of the guide plate 11;
The center roller 12b is loosely fitted into the center slide long hole 11b, and the side rollers 12b and 12b are pressed against the guide edges 11c and 11c of the hole 11a. Further, reference numeral 13 denotes a guide elongated hole bored along the distal edge of the shutter 12, and the starting end side 13a of this elongated hole 13 has a circular arc shape centered on the opening/closing gear, which will be described later, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. The distal end side 13b connected thereto is formed linearly.

Reference numeral 14 denotes an opening/closing gear rotatably mounted on the substrate 10, and this gear 14 is a so-called pin gear in which a plurality of (three in the drawings) pins 14a are mounted at intervals in the circumferential direction on the bottom surface. , 14b indicates an opening/closing lever protruding from the circumferential surface of this gear 14, and a guide pin 15 attached to the tip of this lever 14b.
is loosely fitted into the guide elongated hole 13 of the shutter 12. 16 is the second guide pin 15.
As shown in the figure, it is located at the starting end of the guide slot 13,
A spring is shown stretched between the mounting pin 14c of the opening/closing gear 14 and the mounting pin 10b of the base plate 10 so that the shutter 12 always closes the receiving port 2b. In addition, the opening/closing gear 14 configured as described above has its pin 14a positioned on the path of the rack 4 that enters from the insertion hole 2a,
When the rack 4 comes in, the rack tooth 4a and the pin 1
4a mesh with each other to rotate the opening/closing gear 14 in the clockwise direction as shown in FIG.
, and slide the shutter 12 to the right in the drawing to open the receiving opening 2b of the banknote storage box 2.

Since the banknote storage safe shutter device according to the present invention has the configuration described above, when the banknote storage box 2 is removed from the storage chamber 1a of the case body 1,
The opening/closing gear 14 is opened and closed by the traction action of the spring 16.
In order to position the guide pin 15 attached to the opening/closing lever 14b at the starting end 13a of the guide elongated hole 13 by rotating the opening/closing lever 14b, the receiving opening 2b of the banknote storage box 2 is connected to the shutter 12 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4. Therefore, it is closed from the inside, and therefore, the banknotes T stored in the banknote storage box 2 cannot be extracted from the receiving opening 2b. Further, the guide pin 15 is located at the starting end 13a of the guide long hole 13 bent into an arc shape, that is, at the starting end 13a of the guide long hole 13 bent along the opening sliding direction of the shutter 12. For this reason, even if you try to open the shutter 12 with your fingertips or other tools, the guide pin 15 will not move as far as the starting end 13 due to the pulling action of the spring 16.
The shutter 12 is now locked because it is locked to the point a and does not move. Furthermore, even if you try to open the shutter 12 by inserting a tool such as a screwdriver through the insertion hole 2a and rotating the opening/closing gear 14, the opening/closing gear 14 is a so-called pin gear with a plurality of pins 14a provided at intervals. When you insert a screwdriver etc. and push the first pin 14a to rotate the opening/closing gear 14, the next pin 14a rotates and pushes the inserted screwdriver etc. sideways or drops it. Shutter 12 cannot be opened.

When the banknote storage box 2 is fitted into the storage chamber 1a to receive banknotes T, the rack 4 forcibly rotates the opening/closing gear 14 as shown in FIG.
moves toward the tip 13b of the guide elongated hole 13, the shutter 12 slides to the right as shown in the figure to open the receiving opening 2b, making it possible to receive the banknotes T. Furthermore, when pushing out the inserted banknote storage box 2 from the storage chamber 1a, the opening/closing gear 14 is rotated in the opposite direction by the rack 4, and the guide pin 15 is moved toward the starting end 13a of the guide slot 13. Then, the shutter 12 slides to the left in the drawing to close the receiving port 2b.

〔effect〕

As described above, according to the shutter device for a banknote storage safe according to the present invention, when the banknote storage box is removed from the machine body side of a vending machine, etc., the shutter closes the banknote reception opening from the inside and removes the banknotes. Also, when the banknote storage box is inserted into the machine body,
Since the rack rotates the opening/closing gear and slides the shutter to open the above-mentioned receiving port, it is possible to store the legitimate banknotes sent from the reader side into the warehouse one by one. especially,
The guide pin of the opening/closing gear is loosely fitted into the guide slot drilled at the edge of the shutter, and the shutter is directly opened/closed as the opening/closing gear rotates, so the opening/closing of the receiving port by the shutter is not possible. In addition to being able to perform the process accurately without errors, it also has the advantage of being extremely simple and requiring a small number of parts, resulting in high mechanical reliability, fewer failures, and a significant reduction in manufacturing costs. Therefore, it is suitable for implementation in a safe such as a vending machine, a ticket vending machine, or a payment machine.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of the overall configuration of a banknote safe equipped with a shutter device according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan sectional view of the main part showing the shutter in the closed state, Fig. 3 is a plan sectional view of the main part showing the shutter in the open state, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged front cross-section of the main part. It is a diagram. 1 is a case body, 1a is a storage chamber, 2 is a bill storage box, 2b is a receiving port, 3 is a reader, 4 is a rack, 1
1 is a guide plate, 12 is a shutter, 13 is a guide slot, 13a is a starting end, 13b is a tip, 14 is an opening/closing gear, 14a is a pin, 14b is an opening/closing lever,
15 is a guide pin, 16 is a spring, and T is a banknote.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) A bill storage box with a bill receiving opening on the top surface can be inserted into the inside of the case body;
A banknote reader is installed on the top of the case body to read whether the inserted banknotes are correct or not, and only banknotes determined to be genuine by the banknote reader are sent to the banknote receiving slot. In a banknote storage safe configured to send banknotes into the inside of the banknote storage box for storage, a shutter for opening and closing the banknote receiving opening is slidably attached to the ceiling of the banknote storage box, and the shutter , the starting end side is formed into a circular arc portion that is bent in a direction gradually moving away from the bill receiving port, and the leading end side connected to this is provided with a guide elongated hole formed parallel to the bill receiving port, and An opening/closing lever is provided on the ceiling of the banknote storage box protruding from its circumferential surface, and an opening/closing gear equipped with a guide pin that loosely fits into the guide slot is rotatably attached to this opening/closing lever. A spring is attached to this opening/closing gear to pull the opening/closing gear so that the guide pin is located at the starting end of the guide slot and to maintain the shutter in a normally closed state, while a spring is attached to the inner wall of the case body. As the banknote storage box is fitted, the opening/closing gear is meshed and rotated to move the guide pin to the tip side of the guide elongated hole, and a rack is protrudingly provided to open the shutter. Features: Shutter device for banknote storage safe. (2) The utility model registration claim 1, wherein the opening/closing gear is a gear in which a plurality of protrusions that can be easily engaged are provided at intervals on either the upper or lower surface. Shutter device as described. (3) The shutter device according to claim 1, wherein the starting end circular arc portion of the guide elongated hole is formed along a circumference centered on the opening/closing gear. .