JPH0362875B2 - - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a safe deposit box configured to allow safe cases to be put in and taken out between a safe case handling position in a coupon booth and a safe case storage shelf in a safe room. It is related to equipment.

(Prior art and its problems) In this type of safe deposit box equipment, when the safe case that has been called to the safe case handling position in the coupon booth is returned to the original safe room after being used, there is no need to open the lid of the safe case. Sometimes people forget to take out the key inserted into the keyhole of the safe case.

With conventional safe deposit box equipment of this type, even if you forget to take out the key as described above, the safe case can be taken out to the safe room. Problems have arisen, such as the key falling out and requiring a great deal of effort and time to retrieve it, or the key getting in the way and making it impossible to store the safe case in the safe case storage section of the shelf.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the present invention provides the above-mentioned problem when the lid locking key remains in the safe case at the safe handling position in the coupon booth. The present invention proposes a safe deposit box facility that is provided with a safe case removal prevention means that makes it impossible to transport the safe case from the safe case handling position to the safe case storage shelf.

Further, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a shutter is provided at the entrance/exit of the safe case provided in the coupon booth, and the opening limit position of this shutter is set such that when the lid locking key remains in the safe case, As the position where the safe case cannot be taken out once the key is hooked, the shutter can also be used as the safe case removal prevention means.

Further, when the safe case does not pass through the entrance/exit even after a certain period of time has passed after the transport means is activated to transport the safe case out of the coupon booth, the safe case transporting action of the transport means is automatically stopped. It is also possible to configure

(Function of the Invention) If the above-mentioned safe case removal prevention means is provided, when the safe case called to the safe case handling position in the coupon booth is re-entered into the safe room after being used, If you forget to remove the lid locking key from the safe case, the safe case removal prevention means will make it impossible to transport the safe case from the safe case handling position to the safe case storage shelf. This prevents the safe case with the contents remaining from being carried out from the safe case handling position to the safe room.

In particular, when the shutter also serves as a means to prevent the safe case from being taken out as mentioned above, there is no need for a detector to electrically detect a key that has been forgotten to be removed, and the shutter, which is naturally necessary as a safety measure, is sufficient to achieve the intended purpose. can be achieved.

Furthermore, when the safe case conveyance means is automatically stopped after a certain period of time as described above, it is safe because the conveyance means has stopped when the customer realizes that he has forgotten to remove the key and removes the key.

(Example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the attached illustrative drawings. Figures 1 and 2 show the entire safe deposit box equipment, where 1 is a safe and 2 is a coupon booth. be. In the safe room 1, safe case storage shelves 3a, 3b are installed, and both shelves 3a,
An automatic loading/unloading crane 4 is arranged in the passage between 3b. A conveyor 5 conveys the safe case between the safe case delivery position 5a in the safe room 1 and the safe case handling position 5b in the coupon booth. The crane 4 can run parallel to the shelves 3a and 3b, and a carriage 7 that can be raised and lowered is supported on its support 6, and each safe case on the shelves 3a and 3b is stored on the carriage 7. A safe case push/pull transfer device is provided for delivering the safe case between the safe case transfer section 8 and the safe case delivery position 5a of the conveyor 5. Instead of the conveyor 5, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 1, a safe case transport system runs on a guide rail 9 installed between the safe case delivery position 9a and the safe case handling position 9b in the coupon booth. A trolley 10 can also be used.
In this case, the safe case push/pull transfer device on the carriage 7 can transfer the safe case to and from the transport vehicle 10 located at the safe case delivery position 9a.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, a shutter 13 that can be raised and lowered is disposed in a safe case entrance 12 provided in the surrounding wall 11 of the coupon booth 2. The shutter 13 engages with a pair of left and right guide rails 15 via a pair of upper and lower guide rollers 14 that are pivotally supported on both left and right sides, and is moved up and down by a lift drive means 16. This lifting/lowering drive means 16 includes a vertical rod 17 whose lower end is fixed to the shutter 13, a rack gear 18 formed on the side of the rod 17, a pinion gear 19 meshing with the rack gear 18, and the pinion gear 19. The height of the shutter 13 (lower end height)
can be switched to a lower limit height H1, an intermediate height H2, and an upper limit height H3 as shown in FIG. Detection switches 21a to 21d in Fig. 3
is a cam 22 attached to the upper end of the rod 17.
The height of the shutter 13 is detected and the motor 20 is controlled to stop.

The conveyor 5 has a pair of left and right conveyor belts 23a, 23b that are driven in any forward or reverse direction by a drive motor (not shown), and the conveyor belts 23a, 23b have a fixed flat support on the conveyance path side. It slides on the plate 24. Reference numeral 25 denotes side guides that regulate both sides of the safe case transport path.

The safe case 26 has inverted L-shaped locking tools 27a and 27b on both front and rear end faces (to which the retracting tool of the push-pull transfer device installed on the elevating carriage 7 of the crane 4 engages), and a lock on the upper side. It has a one-sided opening/closing lid 28. 29 is a key insertion portion of a lock provided on the top surface of the opening/closing lid 28. When the safe case 26 is carried by the conveyor 5 to the safe case handling position 5b in the coupon booth 2, a safe case stopper 30 is provided that covers the locked tool 27a located on the front side thereof.
Furthermore, when the shutter 13 is lowered to the intermediate height H2 in this state, the stopper plate 31 that covers the locked tool 27b located on the rear side of the safe case 26 is projected forward from the lower end of the shutter 13. ing. When the shutter 13 is raised to the upper limit height H3, the lower end stopper plate 31 of the shutter 13 is at a position slightly higher than the upper end of the safe case 26, that is, the upper surface of the opening/closing lid 28, as shown by the solid line in FIG. The safe case 26 is allowed to pass through the doorway 12, but if the key 32 remains inserted into the key insertion part 29 on the top surface of the safe case opening/closing lid 28, the key 32 will be locked. It collides with the par plate 31 and prevents the safe case 26 from being carried out.

A pair of front and rear photoelectric detectors 33a, 33b and 34a, 34b shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 detect whether or not the safe case 26 has passed through the safe case entrance 12 in the removal direction.

The safe case 26 is delivered to the safe case delivery position 5a of the conveyor 5 by the automatic loading/unloading crane 4, and is conveyed by the conveyor 5 to the safe case handling position 5b in the coupon booth 2.
Thereafter, the pinion gear 19 is rotated by the motor 20, and the rod 17 is lowered via the rack gear 18, thereby lowering the shutter 13 to the intermediate height H2. As a result, safe case 2
The stopper plate 31 of the shutter 13 covers the rear locked tool 27b of the conveyor 5, and the safe case stopper 30 covers the front locked tool 27a. It cannot be removed from the safe case handling position 5b. In this state, the customer opens and closes the lid 2 using the key 32.
The user can unlock the lock 8, open the opening/closing lid 28, and perform the required work.

After completing the work, close the lid 28 of the safe case 26,
After locking with the key 32, the key 32 is removed from the key insertion portion 29 (it cannot be removed unless the key is locked). After this, the work completion button installed in the coupon booth 2 is pressed, but if the subsequent control (program control by computer, control by sequence circuit, etc.) is explained according to the flowchart in Fig. 6, the work completion button is pressed. As a result, the shutter lifting/lowering driving means 16 is automatically activated, and the shutter 13 is raised and opened to the upper limit height H3 shown by the solid line in FIG. Next, the conveyor 5 is automatically driven, and the safe case 26 at the safe case handling position 5b begins to be conveyed toward the safe case delivery position 5a. At this time, a necessary and sufficient time is set in advance for the safe case 26 to move normally and pass through the doorway 12, and within this set time, the safe case 26 passes through the doorway 12 in the unloading direction, and the pair of front and rear Photoelectric detector 33a, 3
3b, 34a, and 34b detect the passage of the safe case, the shutter elevating drive means 16 automatically operates, and the shutter 13 reaches the lowering limit height H1.
The doorway 12 is closed. When it is detected that the safe case 26 has reached the safe case delivery position 5a of the conveyor 5, the conveyor 5 automatically stops.

However, if the work completion button is pressed while the opening/closing lid 28 of the safe case 26 is forgotten to be closed, or even if it is closed and the key 32 is forgotten to be removed after the lock is locked, the shutter will not be activated. 13
After opening the conveyor 5 to the maximum height H3,
is driven and the removal of the safe case 26 is started, but the open/close lid 28 of the safe case 26 that has been forgotten to close or the key 32 that has been forgotten to be removed collides with the stopper plate 31 of the shutter 13, causing the safe case 26 to be removed. It will be prevented. Therefore, the state in which both the front and rear pair of photoelectric detectors 33a to 34b, or the photoelectric detectors 33a and 33b, continue to detect the safe case 26 which is in a stopped state on the conveyor 5 continues. If the detection state in which the safe case 26 has not passed through the entrance 12 in the discharge direction continues even after the set time has elapsed, a conveyor emergency stop command is issued and the conveyor 5 is automatically brought to an emergency stop. Necessary measures are automatically taken, such as notifying the customer of the abnormal situation with a buzzer or lamp, or displaying a message on an appropriate display means.

When the customer or bank staff removes the key 32 or takes other abnormality avoidance measures and presses the restart button, the conveyor emergency stop is canceled and the conveyor 5 is driven again, causing the conveyor 5 to move around the entrance/exit 12. The safe case 26 that has been stopped at the safe case 26 is then conveyed by the conveyor 5 to the safe case delivery position 5a.

The safe case 26 conveyed to the safe case delivery position 5a of the conveyor 5 is automatically received by the automatic loading/unloading crane 4 into the safe case storage section 8 located at a predetermined position within the safe case storage shelf 3a or 3b, and then work is completed. Note that even when the conveyor 10 is used instead of the conveyor 5, the shutter 13 and the conveyor 10 can be automatically controlled in the same manner as described above. Furthermore, if there are safe cases 26 to be handled with different heights, the height H3 of the shutter 13 may be automatically changed in accordance with the safe case type signal. Detection switch 21c in Fig. 3
is the shutter lift limit height H corresponding to a safe case whose height is lower than the safe case 26 shown in FIG.
3 to automatically stop the shutter 13. Of course, even if the heights of the safe case 26 are different, the heights of the locked tools 27a and 27b are constant.

In addition, the shutter is not limited to the elevating type,
A lateral-motion shutter or other type of shutter may also be used.
Further, as a method for determining whether the safe case 26 has not passed through the entrance/exit 12 even after a certain period of time has elapsed, the safe case 26 has not passed through the entrance/exit 12 within a certain period of time.
It is also possible to use means for detecting whether or not the safe case 26 has passed a specific position on the transport route closer to the safe case delivery position 5a, or whether the safe case 26 has reached the safe case delivery position 5a within a certain period of time. I can do it.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the safe deposit box equipment of the present invention, even if you forget to take out the key, you will not have to carry out the safe case to the safe room.
There are inconveniences such as it takes a lot of time and effort to retrieve keys that have fallen out during transportation to the safe or inside the safe case storage shelf, and cases where the key gets in the way and the safe case is stored in the safe case storage section of the shelf. This eliminates the inconvenience of not being able to do things.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of the entire safe deposit box facility, Figure 2 is an elevation view of the safe deposit box, Figure 3 is a vertical front view of the main parts, Figure 4 is a vertical side view of the same, and Figure 5 is the same. The cross-sectional plan view, FIG. 6, is a flowchart showing the control procedure. 1...Vault, 2...Coupon booth, 3a,
3b...Safe case storage shelf, 4...Automatic loading/unloading crane, 5...Safe case conveyor, 8...
...Safe case storage section, 10...Safe case transport vehicle, 12...Safe case entrance/exit, 13...Shutter, 15...Guide rail, 16...Shutter elevation drive means, 18...Rack gear, 19...
... Pinion gear, 20 ... Drive motor, 26
...Safe case, 27a, 27b...Locked tool,
28... Opening/closing lid, 30... Safe case stopper, 31... Stopper plate at lower end of shutter, 32... Key for locking/unlocking opening/closing lid, 33a-3
4b...A pair of front and rear photoelectric detectors.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a safe deposit box facility configured to allow a safe case to be put in and taken out between a safe case handling position in a coupon booth and a safe case storage shelf in a safe room, the safe in the coupon booth A safe deposit box facility comprising a safe case removal prevention means that makes it impossible to transport the safe case from the safe case handling position to the safe case storage shelf when the lid locking key remains in the safe case at the handling position. . 2. A shutter is provided at the entrance/exit of the safe case provided in the coupon booth, and the opening limit position of this shutter is set so that when a key for locking the lid remains in the safe case, the key is hooked and the safe case cannot be taken out. The safe deposit box equipment according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is also used as the means for preventing the safe case from being carried out. 3. When the safe case has not passed through the doorway even after a certain period of time has passed after the conveyance means is activated to carry the safe case out of the coupon booth,
3. The safe deposit box equipment according to claim 2, wherein the safe case carrying out action of the conveying means is automatically stopped.