EP0044754B1 - Verkaufsautomat und dazugehörige Einrichtung zum Sammeln des durch den Automaten kassierten Geldes - Google Patents

Verkaufsautomat und dazugehörige Einrichtung zum Sammeln des durch den Automaten kassierten Geldes Download PDF

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EP0044754B1
EP0044754B1 EP81400898A EP81400898A EP0044754B1 EP 0044754 B1 EP0044754 B1 EP 0044754B1 EP 81400898 A EP81400898 A EP 81400898A EP 81400898 A EP81400898 A EP 81400898A EP 0044754 B1 EP0044754 B1 EP 0044754B1
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  • the present invention relates to machines for dispensing objects or for obtaining prepayment services, as well as to an associated collection device making it possible to periodically pick up the coins collected in payment for them and temporarily stored in the machines. .
  • Vending machines of this kind are used, for example, for the delivery of various objects (food, stamps, tickets, etc.), or for obtaining services (right of way, transport tax, etc.) , in exchange for coins.
  • a more specific application relates to machines issuing parking tickets intended to be displayed on the windshield of vehicles in certain urban areas with paid parking.
  • Prepaid vending machines generally include, in a box fixed to a support sealed in the ground, means for evaluating the coins introduced by the user into the machine, means for distributing objects according to the sum introduced. , and a chest, or piggy bank, in which are guided the coins which gave rise to the distribution of objects.
  • the sums thus collected in the boot of a machine are periodically collected by personnel responsible for this collection operation.
  • the subject of the invention is therefore a vending machine and an associated collection device which does not have the drawbacks which have just been mentioned and in which genuinely effective protections against theft are provided to make the trunk immovable, inviolable and inaccessible unless to have been previously emptied.
  • the dispensing machine according to the invention essentially comprises the combination of characteristics mentioned in claim 1.
  • the housing 10 is made of welded sheet steel and comprises, in addition to the external walls, two vertical internal partitions 11 and 12, also welded to the housing, the partition 11 being parallel to the front door, the partition 12 perpendicular thereto. , so as to constitute with the corresponding external walls, lateral 13 and rear 14, the bottom of a receptacle 15 intended to serve partially as a safe for the machine and to receive the coins introduced in exchange for the distribution of tickets.
  • an orifice 17 for example of circular shape, visible in FIGS. 2 and 3, for the collection of coins thus collected in the machine, this orifice being disposed approximately at the center of the bottom of the receptacle 15.
  • the wall 11 has a slightly inclined rim 18.
  • the bottom of the receptacle 15 is arranged to receive a cover 20, with three flat faces provided with a rim on the side of the partition 12, shown in perspective on the life of FIG. 4, so as to form with the bottom 15 a closed enclosure constituting the boot of the machine.
  • the machine housing 10 is fixed to a vertical pillar 70 by means of bolts 19, some of which are located inside part 15.
  • angles 21, 22 are welded internally to the respective walls 13 and 14.
  • the cover 20 can be locked on the bottom 15 by means of a rod 23 with a large head (FIG. 5) passing through the cover through a hole 19 and passing inside a guide tube 24 welded to the partition 12, this locking being ensured, as will be explained below, by means of a shutter 25 (fig. 6) closing the collection orifice 17.
  • a shutter 25 (fig. 6) closing the collection orifice 17.
  • the collection orifice 17 at the bottom of the receptacle 15 is normally closed (that is to say except during the collection operation) by the shutter 25, shown in plan fig. 6, which is constituted by a movable slide having an opening 27 of the same dimensions as the orifice 17.
  • the opening 27 can be brought into coincidence with the orifice 17 by operating the slide 25 under conditions which will be explained in more detail away, to allow coins to pass from the trunk of the machine into the collection device.
  • FIG. 9 shows the bottom of the receptacle 15 seen from above revealing the slide 25 in the closed position.
  • the latter is held captive against the lower wall 16 of the housing 10 by a set of lateral slides 28 and by a plywood 29 screwed onto the wall 16.
  • the plywood 29 also has an opening 30 of slightly smaller dimensions and in coincidence with the orifice 17.
  • the slide 25 can however slide longitudinally in the direction indicated by the arrow F, when it is not locked in the closed position, so that its opening 27 comes to coincide with the other two openings 17 and 30.
  • slides 38 are also fixed for guiding the head of the collection device under the orifice 17.
  • the slide 25 also has the additional function, when it is in the closed position of the orifice 17, to lock the cover 20 on the bottom 15 by means of the rod 23: for this purpose, the slide has another notch 39 at its end opposite to the direction of arrow F, the notch 39 coming to engage in a groove 23 A (fig. 4) formed at the lower end of the rod 23 in the manner of a keying , so that in the closed position of the slide, it is not possible to remove the cover 20 to access the interior of the trunk, even from the interior of the machine after opening the service door.
  • the head 50 comprises a frame 51 whose width corresponds to the interval between the outer slides 38 of the housing 10 so that it can be engaged between them.
  • the frame 51 is hollowed out internally and supports a pull tab 52 having at one end an operating handle 53 and at the other end a shutter in the form of a circular disc 54, substantially of the same dimensions as the collection orifice 17.
  • the shutter 54 closes a cylindrical and concentric part 67, integral with the frame 51.
  • the pull tab 52 rests on an axis 55, so that it can slide longitudinally, a leaf spring 56 acting to keep it in oblique position by relative to the plane of the frame 51.
  • the shutter 54 is normally held in this oblique position by a lever 57, mounted on the frame 51, pivoting about an axis 58 and pushed under the action of a spring 59 which prevents the zipper 52 and the shutter 54 to come into the plane of the frame 51. It is only when the head 50 is inserted into the slides 38 that the lever 57, pushed back by the adjacent slide 38, pivots and disappears to leave the shutter 54 come in horizontal position when the handle 53 is pressed.
  • the shutter 54 carries an actuating stud 60 which, when the shutter 54 is brought into a horizontal position, can engage in a corresponding housing 61 provided in the slide 25.
  • the engagement of the stud 60 in this housing 61 allows then, by acting on the pull tab 52, to maneuver the slide 25 from the outside of the machine, provided of course that the latter is unlocked.
  • the frame 51 also carries a gusset 63 on which is mounted a barrel 64 used for retaining a key 65 intended to actuate the lock 32 of the trunk.
  • the key 65 is normally connected to the gusset 63 by a leaded fastener 65 A short enough to prevent its release from the barrel 64.
  • the key is left removable, which makes it possible to associate any collection device and any key and to store only the keys in a safe to prevent their theft or reproduction.
  • the cylindrical part 67 of the head 50 is also integral with a flexible tube 66, connecting it to a collecting chest mounted on a mobile carriage (not shown) and forming with the head the whole of the collection device.
  • the head 50 may also include a rod of "cleaning fitted on a ball joint and making it possible, by sliding, to reach the interior of the trunk, when the collection orifice is open, to move and drop the coins which tend naturally to make a stopper and close off this orifice by themselves.
  • the collecting head 50 is firstly introduced into the slides 38 under the wall 16, which has the effect of releasing the auxiliary lock 34 from the slide 25.
  • the key 65 introduced into the barrel 64 allows actuate the lock 32 and erase the bolt 31, which completely releases the slide 25.
  • the introduction at the bottom of the head 50 into the slides 38 having also pushed the lever 57, the pull tab 51 can be manually tilted in a horizontal position by pressing on the handle 53 with the consequence of introducing the stud 60 into the housing 61 of the slide.
  • the slide 25 hooked to the stud 60 of the shutter 54 is then moved in the direction indicated by the arrow F and, at the end of the race, at its opening 27 in coincidence with the collection orifice 17 and the opening 30 of the plywood 29, thus allowing the coins accumulated above the hopper 40 of the boot of the machine to fall by gravity into the mobile boot of the collecting device, via the flexible 66, through the opening released by the shutter 54 in the frame 51.
  • the trunk produced in accordance with the invention offers maximum security against burglary attempts suffered by this type of machine and against fraud attempts.
  • its sheet steel structure makes it practically inviolable to mechanical tools; the collection orifice, chosen of relatively small dimensions and closed by the slide which can be given a suitable thickness, does not constitute a place of least resistance either.
  • An operation of the slide is, as has been described, impossible unless you have the key to the lock and a collection head to operate its unlocking.
  • Another security consists in preventing the use of the key 65, when the latter is sealed on the head of the collecting device, as has been previously indicated, without the head having been inserted into the slides under the orifice of collection (assuming that the auxiliary lock 34 may have been fraudulently neutralized).
  • a stud 41 is provided for this purpose, welded externally next to the lock 32 on the wall 16 of the housing, the stud 41 preventing the collection head from being approached close enough for the key to be able to be inserted into the lock.
  • Another security is to make it impossible to remove the head from the collection device without the collection orifice having been closed beforehand: in fact, the key 65 locking the head on the machine, it is impossible to remove the head without having previously closed the lock, which implies that the slide must have been pushed back to the closed position so that the bolt can return to its locked position and the key in turn released.
  • the invention further provides for increased safety against an attempt to dismantle the machine from its support by arranging all, or at least a certain number of the bolts (19, fig. 1), or nuts for fixing the machine to its support (70, fig. 1), inside the trunk, this arrangement making them inaccessible even after breaking in the service door, and requiring prior opening of the trunk to be able to dismantle them.
  • the invention is not limited to the single embodiment which has just been described by way of example for the issue of parking tickets, and it can be applied to all prepayment machines in which the 'introduction of coins allows the distribution of any objects or frees access to obtaining any services.

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1. Automat für vorherige Bezahlung, enthaltend in einem einzigen Gehäuse (10) Mittel zur Bewertung von Geldstücken, Mittel zur Verteilung von Gegenständen oder zur Freigabe des Zugangs zu Dienstleistungen ; eine Kassette für die vorübergehende Aufnahme von Geldstücken, die von dem Automat gesammelt wurden, bevor sie in eine dem Automat zugeordnete Sammelvorrichtung überführt wurden ; und eine Sammelöffnung (17) für die Geldstücke mit einem beweglichen Verschlußglied (25) sowie ersten Verriegelungsmitteln zum Halten des Verschlußgliedes in einer ersten Stellung, in welcher es diese Öffnung verschließt, wobei die Verriegelungsmittel nur freigegeben werden können, um die Bewegung des Verschlußgliedes in eine zweite Stellung zuzulassen, bei welcher die Öffnung freigegeben ist, wenn wenigstens das Kopfstück der genannten Sammelvorrichtung angekoppelt ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die genannte Kassette durch Wände (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20) begrenzt ist, von denen wenigstens eine (15), welche einen Boden bildet, integrierender Bestandteil der Wände (16) des Gehäuses (10) ist und mit der genannten Sammelöffnung (17) versehen ist, während andere von ihnen (11, 12, 20) innerhalb des Gehäuses liegen, um den Innenraum der Kassette von dem Rest des Innenraums des Gehäuses zu trennen, mit Ausnahme einer Öffnung (26), welche in einer der genannten inneren Wände (20) für den Durchgang der Geldstücke angebracht ist, wobei wenigstens eine der inneren Wände (20) bezüglich des Bodens (16) des Gehäuses entfernbar ist, und daß er zweite Verriegelungsmittel (23, 39) auf der Innenseite der genannten entfernbaren Wand an der Kassette umfaßt, die durch das Verschlußglied (25) so gesteuert werden, daß die genannte entfernbare Wand (20) fest mit dem Boden verbunden wird, wenn das Verschlußglied sich in der Stellung zum Verschließen der genannten Öffnung (17) befindet, und daß die genannte entfernbare Wand (20) von dem genannten Boden (15) freikommt, wenn das Verschlußglied (25) sich in seiner Stellung zum Öffnen der genannten Öffnung (17) befindet.
2. Automat nach Anspruch 1, bei welchem das Verschlußglied durch einen Schieber gebildet ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Schieber (25) eine Öffnung (27) besitzt, die in Deckung mit der Sammelöffnung (17) des Gehäuses gebracht werden kann.
3. Automat nach Anspruch 1 und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die genannten Blockiermittel durch eine Stange (23) gebildet sind, welche eine Nut (23A) in der Nähe ihrer Enden aufweist, und daß der genannte Schieber (25) einen Ausschnitt (39) an seinem Umfang aufweist, der in der Stellung zum Verschließen der Sammelöffnung in die genannte Nut nach Art einer Keilverbindung eingreift.
4. Automat nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der genannte Schieber (25) einen Aufnahmeraum (61) aufweist, in dem ein entsprechender Manövrierzapfen (60) aufgenommen werden kann, welcher fest verbunden ist mit einem verschwenkbaren Betätigungszug (52), der in dem Kopfstück der Sammelvorrichtung (50) enthalten ist.
5. Automat nach Anspruch 1, mit einem Schloß für den Zugang zu der Sammelöffnung, dessen Riegel in der Verriegelungsstellung das genannte Verschlußglied blockiert, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er ferner einen federbelasteten Riegel (34) enthält, der normalerweise das genannte Verschlußglied (25) blockiert und nur durch Ankoppeln des Kopfstücks der Sammelvorrichtung (50) an das Gehäuse (10) freigegeben wird.
6. Automat nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er Schiebebahnen (38) außenseitig von dem Gehäuse (10) aufweist die so angeordnet sind, daß das Kopfstück der Sammelvorrichtung (50) in Deckung mit der Sammelöffnung (17) des Gehäuses gebracht wird.
7. Automat nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die genannten Schiebebahnen (38) derat gestaltet sind, daß sie die Entriegelung eines Riegels (57 bis 59) hervorrufen, der an dem Kopfstück der Sammelvorrichtung (50) angebracht ist und den Manövrierzapfen (60) in einer Stellung hält, die seine Einführung in den entsprechenden Aufnahmeraum (61) des Schiebers (25) verhindert, wobei die Entriegelung nur möglich ist, wenn das genannte Kopfstück mit den Schiebebahnen auf der Außenseite des Gehäuses in Eingriff ist.
8. Automat nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Sammelöffnung (17) unter dem Automat im unteren Teil des Gehäuses (10) angeordnet ist.
9. Automat nach Anspruch 1, mit mehreren Befestigungselementen zur demontierbaren Befestigung des Gehäuses auf einem feststehenden Träger, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß wenigstens bestimmte dieser Elemente (19) in demjenigen Teil (15) der Kassette angeordnet sind, der durch das Gehäuse (10) gebildet ist.
10. Automat nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das genannte Schloß (32) innenseitig von der Kassette angebracht ist.
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