JP2001130715A - Automatic slip issuing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic slip issuing system which can surely deliver books sorted by book stores to appropriate book stores, and which can surely and rapidly issue slip by book stores. SOLUTION: An automatic reading line 3 is composed of a hand barcode reader 11 for reading a book store code and a circulation label code written on an address sheet 31, an automatic reading device 17 for reading a commodity code written on a book, and conveyer 21 for sorting books into satisfactory ones and unsatisfactory ones. When books are introduced one by one on the upstream side of the line, commodity codes written on the books are read by the automatic reading device 17 so that the books are sorted into satisfactory ones and unsatisfactory ones in accordance with the results of the reading. The sorted books each are separately conveyed to a manual input line 7. Data for the unsatisfactory books are inputted by a hand scanner 6. Further, a booking terminal 5 automatically issues delivery bills adapted to be applied on books delivered to the book stores.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic billing system for automatically creating a delivery slip attached when delivering a multimedia product such as a video or magnetic disk, or a book or magazine to each delivery destination.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in a book agency and sales company, books received from a publisher are sorted by each bookstore as a delivery destination, a slip for each sorted book is created, and the slip is sorted. It is attached to books and delivered to each bookstore. The slip includes information such as the name of the book to be delivered, the number of copies, the price, the total amount of the bill, and the like.
You can know the number of copies and the amount to pay.

[0003] Such a slip is created by a drafting device. That is, since a book has a product code having information such as the name and price of the book, by reading this information, the information of each book is recognized. Can be created.

[0004] The product code in the present invention is I
A barcode corresponding to the SBN code (usually a two-level barcode), an OCR-B font corresponding to the ISBN code, and a barcode corresponding to the common magazine code (usually 1 barcode)
OCR-B corresponding to common magazine code)
It is a general term for various codes and fonts such as fonts, JAN codes or ITF codes used for multimedia products.

There are various types of books, such as paperback books and specialized books, and the sizes and thicknesses are also various. Therefore, the reading operation as described above must be individually input for each book. Therefore, as a device for automatically performing such a reading operation, a conventional device is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent No.
An article sorting apparatus (hereinafter, referred to as a conventional example) described in 736001 has been proposed and put to practical use.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an article sorting apparatus 100 described in the conventional example. The article sorting apparatus 100 is previously assembled for each bookstore to be delivered from the upstream side of the carry-in conveyor 101. When the read books are sent out one by one, a product code described in the book is read, and a slip is automatically created based on the read result.

When the operator sends out the article classification identification tag from the upstream side of the carry-in conveyor 101, the required data described on the article classification identification tag is automatically read by the code reading device 102.
And the bookstore code to be the delivery destination is recognized. Next, when the books destined for the bookstore are sent out one by one from the upstream side of the carry-in conveyor 101, the product code described in the book is read by the automatic code reader 102, and the bookstore code to be the delivery destination and the bookstore Is associated with the data. Then, this book (OK product)
Is sent to the non-defective conveyor 103 side.

[0008] Further, depending on the book, there may be a case where a product code is not described, and even if a book has a product code described therein, a reading error may occur in the automatic code reader 102. ) Is sent to the defective conveyor 104 side. Since the data of the NG product has not been input yet, the data of the book is manually input by the handy code reading device 105.

[0009] When data input for all books to be delivered to the bookstore is completed, a slip is automatically created by the processing of the processing unit 106 based on these data.
Therefore, the slip can be automatically created without requiring much manual labor. Further, when the input of the book to one bookstore is completed, the article classification identification tag corresponding to the next bookstore is continuously sent out, and then the book addressed to this bookstore (to the next bookstore) is input. Thus, it is possible to continuously and continuously put the books on the conveyor. That is, since the article classification identification tag is inserted each time the destination of the book changes, the processing device can divide the book data for each destination, and create a slip without confusing the book data of each destination. it can.

However, in the article sorting apparatus 100 described in the above-mentioned conventional example, since the required data described on the article classification identification tag is read by the code reading apparatus 102, a reading error occurs. If a book to be delivered to the "A" bookstore is mistakenly recognized as the "B" bookstore, a slip is created with the wrong delivery destination, causing a major trouble.

Although books to be delivered to each bookstore are separated by an article classification identification tag and put on a conveyor, if an operator mistakes the work of collecting the books on the downstream side of the conveyor, the bookstore “A” is originally booked. The book to be delivered to the bookstore may be mixed in a group of books addressed to the bookstore “B”. In this case, the book to be actually delivered does not match the data of the book described in the slip, which again causes a trouble.

Further, in the article sorting apparatus 100 described in the above-mentioned conventional example, the line for reading the commodity code described in the book by the automatic code reading apparatus 102 and the NG
There is a drawback that the efficiency of work is poor because the line in which the handbook reading device 105 reads the book as a product corresponds one-to-one. That is, usually, in the book sales and distribution company, the article sorting apparatus 100 shown in FIG.
Often, not only one system but a plurality of systems are installed. Therefore, for example, in the first system, many NG products are generated, and manual input work increases, and in the second system, N
If there are few G items and few manual input operations,
There is a disadvantage that the work balance between the first system and the second system is poor, and the work efficiency is reduced.

[0013]

As described above, in the article sorting apparatus 100 described in the prior art, the code automatic reading apparatus 102 mistakenly recognizes the code written on the article category identification tag. In some cases, this cannot be checked, and in this case, a trouble occurs that the delivery destination of the book is wrong.

[0014] Further, in the case where books for each delivery destination are placed on a conveyor in a state of being separated by article classification identification tags, books sent to the downstream side of the conveyor are mixed into a group of different destinations due to a work error. There is a cause of trouble.

Further, since the line for automatically reading the product code of the book and the line for manually inputting the book correspond one-to-one, the efficiency of work is reduced when operating a plurality of systems for sorting articles. There was a problem of getting worse.

The present invention has been made to solve such a conventional problem, and an object of the present invention is to ensure that books sorted for each bookstore are delivered to a desired bookstore. It is another object of the present invention to provide an automatic drafting system capable of improving efficiency of work and generating a slip for each bookstore reliably and quickly.

[0017]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an automatic reading line having an automatic reading line and a manual input line connected to the automatic reading line by a relay conveyor. In the automatic drafting system for creating a slip for a plurality of products stored in each of the supply boxes, the automatic reading line may include a delivery destination described on an address sheet corresponding to each of the supply boxes. code,
And a manual reading means for manually reading a circulation label code described on a circulation label corresponding to the supply storage box, and a delivery for displaying a name of a delivery destination obtained from the information read by the manual reading means on a screen. A destination information display means, and an automatic reading means for sending out each product in the supply storage box after the address sheet is read to the downstream side and reading a product code of each product in the middle of the route are provided. A conveyor for reading, a delivery destination code read by the manual reading means, a circulation label code, and a data storage means for storing the commodity code read by the automatic reading means in correspondence with each supply storage box, Sorting means for sorting products whose reading result by the automatic reading means is OK and products whose reading result is NG An end confirmation switch for confirming, on the downstream side of the reading conveyor, that the delivery of all the goods in the one supply storage box has been completed, and the goods determined as OK, and NG. Are sorted and stored in a transport storage box, and the address sheet and the circulation label are attached to the transport storage box. Further, the transport storage box is The manual input line is supplied to the manual input line via a conveyor, and the manual input line is stored in a transport storage box transported from the relay conveyor, and a product code and a circulation label of the NG product. A hand scanner device for reading the cyclic label code described in the above, a product code read by the automatic reading device and a product code read by the hand scanner device. It is characterized equipped with slip forming means for forming a slip of the destination, the.

Further, in the invention according to claim 2, the automatic reading lines are arranged in m series (m = 1, 2,...),
The manual input lines are arranged in n series (n = 1, 2,...), And information inputted in each of the m series automatic reading lines and the n series of manual input lines is comprehensively managed. Data management means.

The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that the manual reading means can read a delivery destination code corresponding to the next delivery destination after detecting that the end confirmation switch is turned on. I do. The invention described in claim 4 is
The automatic reading line, on the reading conveyor, comprises a marker detecting means for detecting the passage of the end confirmation marker to be sent out after all the sending of goods in one supply storage box, the manual reading means, After the passage of the end confirmation marker is detected, the delivery destination code corresponding to the next supply storage box can be read.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the product is a book, and the product code is an ISB described in the book.
It is either a barcode corresponding to the N code or an OCR-B font corresponding to the ISBN code. In the invention according to claim 6, the product is a magazine, and the product code is either a barcode corresponding to a common magazine code described in the magazine or an OCR-B font corresponding to the common magazine code. There is a feature.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the automatic reading means includes: a bar code reader for reading a bar code corresponding to the ISBN code and / or a bar code corresponding to a common magazine code; An automatic character recognition device for reading a corresponding OCR-B font and / or an OCR-B font corresponding to the common magazine code.

In the present invention configured as described above, first,
The address sheet attached to the supply storage box conveyed to the upstream side of the automatic reading line is taken out, and the delivery destination code described on the address sheet is read by the manual reading means. Further, an arbitrary circulating label is taken out, and the circulating label code is read by a manual reading means. This allows
On the delivery destination information display means, the name of the delivery destination is displayed on the screen, and the delivery destination code, the circulation label code, and the supply storage box are associated with each other.

Next, the commodities in the supply storage box are taken out one by one, and these are put in from the upstream side of the automatic reading line. Each inserted product passes through the automatic reading device to read the product code, and
Products classified as K and products classified as NG are sorted.
Then, when all the automatic reading operations of the products in one supply storage box are completed, the operator inputs the end confirmation marker from the upstream side of the automatic reading line, and confirms the completion at the downstream side of the automatic reading line. Pressing the switch, this confirms that all the automatic reading operations of the goods in this supply storage box have been completed, and on the upstream side of the automatic reading line, start putting the goods into the next supply storage box. Can be.

Here, the NG product is a product for which the product code cannot be read, or a product which is set in advance so as not to use the data of the read product code. This means that the product code has been read normally and that the product is not NG.

The goods for which all the automatic reading operations have been completed are
The products are classified into OK products and NG products, and are further stored in a transport storage box with an address sheet and a circulation label attached thereto, and are supplied to a manual input line via a relay conveyor. You.

In the manual input line, the hand-scanner device manually reads the circulating label code described on the circulating label, and further reads the merchandise code of the merchandise that could not be read by the automatic reading device (the NG product). The operation of reading is performed.

The slip creating means creates a slip based on the merchandise information read by the automatic reading device and the merchandise information read by the hand scanner, and outputs this as a hard copy. In this way, a slip for each supply storage box is automatically created. When there are a plurality of supply storage boxes for the same delivery destination, a slip is created for each supply storage box.

[0028]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of an automatic drafting system 1 according to the present invention. In the automatic billing system 1, when packing multimedia products such as video and magnetic disks, books and magazines and delivering them to each delivery destination, it is possible to automatically create a delivery slip attached to these products. it can. In the following, an example will be described in which a book is taken as an example of merchandise, and a delivery slip attached to the book is created when the book is delivered from an agency sales company that handles book delivery to each bookstore that is a delivery destination. I do.

As shown in FIG. 1, this automatic drafting system 1 includes a plurality of (m) series of automatic reading lines 3.
(3-1 to 3-m) and a plurality of series (n series) of manual input lines 7 (7-1 to 7-n). The line 7 is connected to a relay conveyor 8.

A unit server 4 (4-1 to 4-m) is arranged on each automatic reading line 3, and a billing terminal (slip creating means) 5 (5) is provided on each manual input line 7. -1
To 5-n), which are connected to a section server (data management means) 2 which is a control center of the entire system. The section server 2 is a unit server 4
And a data storage unit 2a for storing information input by each of the billing terminals 5. Note that the unit server 4 described above does not necessarily have to correspond one-to-one with the automatic reading line 3, and may be configured so that one unit server 4 is also used for some automatic reading lines 3. good. That is, assuming that the number of unit servers 4 is m ', there is a relationship of m'≤m.

Each billing terminal 5 has a hand scanner device 6 (6-1 to 6-1) capable of manually inputting a product code described in a book.
6-n) and a printer 9 (9-1 to 9-n) for printing the created delivery slip.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the structure of the automatic reading line 3. The automatic reading line 3 is pre-sorted for each bookstore serving as a delivery destination, inputs books stored in the supply storage box 41 one by one, and automatically reads the product code described in each book. Line for
As shown in the figure, at the upstream end of the line, a hand bar code reader (manual reading means) 11 for manually reading a bar code described on an address sheet and a circulation label, which will be described later, Code reader 11
And a display (delivery destination information display means) 12 for displaying the information read in step (1) on the screen.

At the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3, a loading conveyor 13 for sending out the books to be loaded one by one to the downstream side is arranged. A conveyor 14, a marker detection sensor (marker detection means) 15 for detecting that a marker described later has been inserted, a start sensor 16 for detecting the start of book insertion, and a rear stage of the start sensor 16. A reading conveyor 28 and an automatic reading device (automatic reading means) 17 located on a conveyance path of the reading conveyor 28 are installed.

Below the feeding conveyor 13, a control panel 29 and a control computer 30 for controlling the automatic reading line 3 are provided. Further, a sorting sensor 20 for detecting passage of a book after passing through the automatic reading device 17 is disposed at a stage subsequent to the reading conveyor 28, and a sorting conveyor (which can be tilted up and down) is provided at a stage subsequent to the sorting sensor 20. Sorting means) 21 is provided. The sorting conveyor 21 includes the automatic reading device 1.
7, when the passage of a book whose reading result is OK (hereinafter referred to as an OK product) is detected, the conveyor angle becomes upward, and the reading result of the automatic reading device 17 is NG. When the passage of a book (hereinafter referred to as an NG product) is detected, the conveyor angle is controlled to be downward.

Here, the NG product is the automatic reading device 1
7, a book whose product code could not be read, a book that was read but a response from the unit server 4 was delayed, or a book set to be treated as an NG product by the unit server 4 for other reasons That is. Also, the OK product is an automatic reading device 17.
Is a book whose product code has been read, and is not an NG product.

The rear side of the sorting conveyor 21 is 2
It has a stepped conveyor structure, of which the upper side is O
An OK product chute conveyor 18 for sending out K products and an NG product chute conveyor 19 for sending out NG products on the lower side are provided. Therefore, the book which is determined to be an OK product is sent to the downstream side of the OK product chute conveyor 18 via the sorting conveyor 21, and the book which is regarded as the NG product is sent to the downstream side of the NG product chute conveyor 19 via the sorting conveyor 21. Will be.

At the downstream end of the OK product chute conveyor 18, a completion button (end confirmation switch) 22 is provided for notifying the upstream side that all books have been sent to one supply storage box 41. I have. Also, O
At the upstream end of the K-product chute conveyor 18, a passage confirmation sensor 27 for detecting the passage of a book sent to the OK-product chute conveyor 18 is mounted.

The automatic reading device 17 includes a bar code reader 23 for reading a bar code (usually a two-stage bar code) corresponding to an ISBN code, among product codes described in a book, and an ISBN code. O
OC for reading CR-B font as image information
An R camera 24, an image processing device 25 for recognizing character information from image information read by the OCR camera 24, and a lighting device 26 are provided.

The information read by the automatic reading device 17 and the information read by the hand bar code reader 11 are transmitted to the section server 2 via the unit server 4 shown in FIG. The data is stored and stored in the storage unit 2a.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described. At the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3 is a supply storage box 4 for storing books to be delivered to each bookstore.
1 is supplied from the upstream side of the automatic reading line 3. Further, an address sheet 31 as shown in FIG. 3 is attached to the supply storage box 41. Address sheet 31
Indicates the name of a bookstore that delivers books in the supply storage box 41, and the bookstore code (delivery destination code) is described as a barcode 31a.

As an initial setting, the worker located at the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3 first sets the bookstore code 31a of the address sheet 31 to the hand bar code reader 1 shown in FIG.
Read using 1. The bookstore name to be the destination and the bookstore code 31a described in the address sheet 31 are registered and stored in the data storage unit 2a of the section server 2 in advance so that the display 12 is displayed on the display 12 by the processing of the unit server 4. Then, the same bookstore name as the bookstore name described on the address sheet 31 is displayed.

For example, if "A" bookstore is described in the address sheet 31, "A" bookstore is also displayed on the display 12. If the bookstore name described on the address sheet 31 is different from the bookstore name displayed on the display 12, the operator can recognize that an erroneous input has occurred.

At the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3, a circulating label 32 having a sheet shape as shown in FIG.
Are installed, and the operator can use the circulation label 3
2 is taken out and a bar code (circulating label code) 32a written on the circulating label is read using the hand bar code reader 11. Note that different numbers are assigned to the plurality of circulation labels 32, respectively. Thus, in the data storage unit 2a of the section server 2, the name of the bookstore to which the book is delivered and the number of the circulation label are stored in association with each other. Further, even when a plurality of supply storage boxes 41 are assigned to the same bookstore, data for each supply storage box 41 can be differentiated.

Subsequently, the operator takes out a plurality of books stored in the supply storage box 41 one by one and places them on the loading conveyor 13 with the surface on which the product code is written facing upward. . The placed book is sent to the downstream side by the separation conveyor 14, and the start sensor 16
, The operation of the automatic reading device 17 is started.

Then, the bar code corresponding to the ISBN code is read from among the product codes described in the sent book by the bar code reader 23 of the automatic reading device 17. In addition, the OCR camera 24
The OCR-B font corresponding to the SBN code is imaged, and the image processing device 25 recognizes the number of the OCR-B font.

At this time, if the bar code is not described or the bar code cannot be read for some reason, the OCR-B font recognized by using the OCR camera 24 is adopted as the reading result. .
If both the barcode and the OCR-B font are recognized, and they match, the matching recognition result is adopted as the reading result of the automatic reading device 17. Furthermore, the bar code reading result and the OCR-
If the reading result of the B font is different, the reading result of the barcode is prioritized and adopted as the reading result of the automatic reading device 17.

Then, the book whose product code has been read by the above-described method is regarded as an OK product by the unit server 4.
Will be recognized. At this time, as described above, a book set in advance to be recognized as an NG product is recognized as an NG product even when the product code is read normally.

Information on a book recognized as an OK product is transmitted from the unit server 4 to the section server 2 and stored in the data storage unit 2a. In addition, the automatic reading device 17 reads the barcode and the OCR-B font for a book or the like in which neither the barcode nor the OCR-B font is described.
Books that could not be read with fonts or NG
A book set to be handled as a product is recognized by the unit server 4 as an NG product.

When a book recognized as an OK product is sent, the sorting conveyor 21 sends out the book to the OK product chute conveyor 18 side with the inclination angle directed upward, and the NG product. When the recognized book is sent, the book is sent out to the NG product chute conveyor 19 side with the inclination angle directed downward. As a result, after the passage of the book which is determined to be OK is confirmed by the passage confirmation sensor 27,
The OK product is sent to the downstream end of the chute conveyor 18. NG
The book which has been classified as a product is sent to the downstream end of the NG product chute conveyor 19.

Information on the OK product confirmed by the passage confirmation sensor 27 is transmitted to the section server 2 and stored in the data storage means 2a in association with the delivery destination information (bookstore code) and the cyclic label code 32a. .

At the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3, when all books for one supply storage box have been flown,
The operator puts the address sheet 31 and the circulation label 32 on the binder 33b of a rectangular marker (completion confirmation marker) 33 as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG.
A reflective tape 33a is stuck on the four circumferences of the marker. When the marker 33 passes near the side of the marker detection sensor 15, the sensor 15 receives the reflected light from the reflective tape 33a, and the marker 33 It is recognized that the document has passed, and it is confirmed that the automatic reading operation of the book for one supply storage box 41 has been completed.

On the downstream side of the automatic reading line 3, OK
The address book sheet 3 is stored in the same cardboard box (transport storage box) (not shown) in a state where the book which has been classified as an article and the book which has been classified as an NG article are distinguished from each other.
1 and the circulation label 32 are attached to the cardboard box and sent out to the relay conveyor 8 shown in FIG. Then, the operator presses the completion button 22 to indicate that the automatic reading of books to be delivered to one bookstore has been completed.
Notify the upstream worker.

When the worker on the upstream side receives this notification,
The loading of the next book in the supply storage box 41 is started. Further, under the control of the control computer 30, the hand bar code reader 11 sends the next address sheet until the input signal of the completion button 22 is input and the marker detection sensor 15 detects the passage of the marker 33. An interlock is applied so that the reading of the label 31 and the circulation label 32 cannot be performed. That is, until all the automatic reading operations of the books in one supply storage box 41 are completed, the books in the next supply storage box 41 cannot be loaded onto the loading conveyor 13; This prevents books in the supply storage boxes 41 from being mixed.

Next, the cardboard boxes sent to the relay conveyor 8 are connected to the manual input lines 7 (7-1 to 7-1) shown in FIG.
7-n). And
When the operator located on the manual input line 7 receives the cardboard box, first, a circulation label code 32 described on a circulation label 32 attached to the cardboard box is sent.
a is read using the hand scanner device 6.

In the storage means 2a of the section server 2,
Since the code 32a of the circulating label 32 and the bookstore code 31a described on the address sheet 31 are stored in association with each other, the circulating label code 32a is read to determine the delivery destination of the book stored in the cardboard box. The bookstore name is specified, and the bookstore name is displayed on a display (not shown) of the billing terminal 5. The operator confirms that the bookstore name displayed on the display matches the bookstore name described on the address sheet 31 attached to the cardboard box.

Then, the NG stored in the cardboard box
The product is taken out and the product code described on the NG product is read one by one by the hand scanner device 6. Further, for a book in which a product code is not described, necessary information such as the publisher, the number of copies, and the price of the book is manually input. Further, for books for which special conditions are set, information that meets the conditions is manually input.

Thus, input of information on all books to be delivered to one bookstore is completed. After that, under the control of the section server 2, based on these input information,
A delivery slip to be attached to a book to be delivered to the bookstore is created and output as a hard copy by the printer 9. The shipping slip will include the name, number of copies, price,
Information such as the total amount is described. Also, in the shipping slip,
The total number of the number of OK products counted by the passage confirmation sensor 27 of the automatic reading line 3 and the number of NG products input by the hand scanner device 6 are described.

Then, at the time when the delivery slip is created, the correspondence between the address sheet 31 and the circulating label 32 is released, and the circulating label 32 is returned to the upstream side of the automatic reading line 3 and a new supply is performed. It is possible to respond to the storage box 41.

The operator returns the circulation label 32 to the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3 and stores both the book read by the automatic reading line 3 and the book read by the manual input line 7 in a cardboard box. And a printer 9
The output slip and the address sheet 31 output from the cardboard box are attached to a cardboard box and sent to the subsequent process. In this way, a delivery slip for delivery to each bookstore is automatically created and delivered to each bookstore along with the book.

As described above, in the automatic drafting system according to the present embodiment, information of a book in one supply storage box 41 can be read by the automatic reading line 3, and further, can be read by the automatic reading line 3. For the missing items, the reading operation is performed again on the manual input line 7 to create a delivery slip. Therefore, it is possible to reliably and quickly create a delivery slip.

At the upstream end of the automatic reading line 3, before the books in one supply storage box 41 are loaded on the loading conveyor 13, the books are written on the address sheet 31 using the hand bar code reader 11. Since the bookstore code is read, and the bookstore name is displayed on the display 12 based on the read bookstore code, it is possible to prevent a trouble that the bookstore to be delivered is erroneously named.

Furthermore, since the markers 33 are sent out after the books in one supply storage box 41 have been loaded into the loading conveyor 13, the division of the book in each supply storage box 41 is performed. In addition, after all the automatic reading operations of the books in one supply storage box 41 are completed and it is detected that the completion button 22 is pressed, the next supply storage box 41 Since the introduction of books is configured to start, it is possible to reliably prevent the books in the supply storage boxes 41 from being mixed with each other.

Since each unit server 4 and the drafting terminal 5 are connected to and controlled by the section server 2, the automatic reading line 3 and the manual input line 7 are in one-to-one correspondence. There is no need for correspondence, and m-to-n correspondence can be achieved. Therefore, the number of activations of the automatic reading line 3 and the number of activations of the manual input line 7 can be appropriately set according to the operation status of the system.

For example, in the case where the number of books to be processed is small and many NG products are generated, the number of activated automatic reading lines 3 and the number of activated manual input lines 7 can be increased. Good, if the total number of books processed is large and NG products are not generated very often,
It is also possible to set such that the number of activated automatic reading lines 3 is increased and the number of activated manual input lines 7 is decreased.

In the above-described embodiment, an example is described in which the automatic reading line 3 is arranged in the m series and the manual input line 7 is arranged in the n series. However, the automatic reading line 3 and the manual input line 7 are arranged one by one. It is good also as composition.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, a book is described as an example of a product for creating a delivery slip. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and various multimedia products such as a video and a magnetic disk can be used. Or for magazines and other products. In the case of a magazine, a barcode and an OCR-B font corresponding to the common magazine code can be automatically read as a product code.

In the above-described embodiment, an example has been described in which an automatic slip device is used to create a slip attached to a book when the book is distributed from a book sales agency to each bookstore. The present invention is not limited to this, and can be used for creating a slip when returning a book from each bookstore to an agency sales company.

[0068]

As described above, in the automatic billing system according to the present invention, the merchandise code described in each merchandise is read by putting the merchandise in one supply storage box into the automatic reading line. For products that could not be read on the automatic reading line or for products (NG products) that were previously set not to perform automatic reading, a manual input line located downstream of the automatic reading line was used. Since the product code is input, a delivery slip can be created quickly and reliably.

Further, if the automatic reading operation of the goods in one supply storage box is completed and it is not detected that the operator has turned on the end confirmation switch, the address sheet of the next supply storage box is written. Since the delivery destination code cannot be read, it is possible to prevent the products in the supply storage boxes from being mixed with each other.

Further, the automatic reading line and the manual input line are respectively set in the m: n series (m = 1, 2,..., N =
1, 2,...), The number of activated automatic reading lines and the number of activated manual input lines can be set as appropriate in accordance with the situation of the work for creating a delivery slip. Good operation becomes possible.

Further, if the configuration is such that a marker for confirming completion is put on the automatic reading line after all the automatic reading operations of the goods in one supply storage box are completed, the goods in each supply storage box can be read. Can be surely divided,
By preventing the delivery destination code written on the address sheet of the next supply storage box from being read until the marker detection means confirms the passage of the end confirmation marker, the inside of each supply storage box can be read. Products can be reliably separated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration of an automatic drafting system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a configuration of an automatic reading line.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of an address sheet.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a circulation label.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a marker.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an article sorting apparatus described in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic drafting system 2 Section server (data management means) 2a Data storage means 3 Automatic reading line 4 Unit server 5 drafting terminal (slip creation means) 6 Hand scanner device 7 Manual input line 8 Relay conveyor 9 Printer 11 Handbar Code reader (manual reading means) 12 Display (delivery destination information displaying means) 13 Loading conveyor 14 Separating conveyor 15 Marker detecting sensor (marker detecting means) 16 Start sensor 17 Automatic reading device (automatic reading means) 18 OK product chute conveyor 19 NG product chute conveyor 20 sorting sensor 21 sorting conveyor (sorting means) 22 completion button (end confirmation switch) 23 barcode reader 24 OCR camera (automatic character recognition device) 25 image processing device 26 lighting device 27 Passage Confirmation Sensor 28 Reading Conveyor 29 Control Board 30 Control Computer 31 Address Sheet 31a Bookstore Code (Delivery Code) 32 Recycling Label 32a Recycling Label Code 33 Marker (End Confirmation Marker) 33a Reflective Tape 33b Binder 41 Supply Storage Box 100 Article sorting device 101 Carry-in conveyor 102 Automatic code reading device 103 Good-quality conveyor 104 Defective product conveyor 105 Handy code reading device 106 Processing device

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Kenji Morioka 2124 Nakao Urawa-Nakao, Urawa-shi, Saitama 401 ) Inventor Yasuhiro Kito 3-10-23 Tsudanuma, Narashino-shi, Chiba B201 F-term (reference) 3F022 CC02 EE05 LL31 MM03 MM11 MM36 PP04 QQ13

Claims (7)

[Claims] An automatic reading line and a manual input line connected to the automatic reading line by a relay conveyor are used to create a slip of a plurality of products stored in each supply storage box. In the automatic billing system, the automatic reading line is a delivery destination code described on an address sheet corresponding to each of the supply storage boxes, and a circulation label code described on a circulation label corresponding to the supply storage box. Manually reading means for manually reading the address, delivery destination information display means for displaying a destination name obtained from the information read by the manual reading means on a screen, and a supply storage after the address sheet is read. A reading conveyor equipped with automatic reading means for sending each product in the box to the downstream side and reading the product code of each product along the route. A data storage unit for storing the delivery destination code read by the manual reading unit, the circulation label code, and the product code read by the automatic reading unit in correspondence with each supply storage box; Sorting means for sorting the goods for which the reading result is OK and the goods for which the reading result is NG; and a downstream side of the reading conveyor that all the delivery of the goods in the one supply storage box is completed. And an end confirmation switch for confirming the instruction in the above. The goods that are OK and the goods that are NG are separated and stored in the transport storage box, and the transport storage box Inside, the address sheet and the circulation label are attached, and further, the transport storage box is supplied to the manual input line via the relay conveyor. A hand scanner device that reads a circulation label code described in a commodity code and a circulation label of the NG product, which is stored in a transport storage box transported from the relay conveyor, From the product code read by the automatic reading device and the product code read by the hand scanner device,
And a slip creating means for creating a slip of the destination. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the automatic reading line is an m-series (m =
1, 2,...), The manual input lines are arranged in n series (n = 1, 2,...), And the automatic reading lines of the m series and the manual input lines of the n series are arranged. 2. The automatic invoicing system according to claim 1, further comprising a data management means for comprehensively managing the information input in step (1). 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the manual reading means is capable of reading a delivery destination code corresponding to a next delivery destination after detecting that the end confirmation switch is turned on. 2. The automatic drafting system according to any one of 2. 4. The automatic reading line includes a marker detecting means for detecting the passage of an end confirmation marker to be sent out after all the products in one supply storage box have been sent out, on the reading conveyor, The manual reading means, after the passage of the end confirmation marker is detected,
4. The automatic billing system according to claim 1, wherein a delivery destination code corresponding to the next supply storage box can be read. 5. The product is a book, and the product code is either a barcode corresponding to an ISBN code described in the book or an OCR-B font corresponding to the ISBN code. An automatic drafting system according to any one of claims 1 to 4. 6. The product is a magazine, and the product code is either a barcode corresponding to a common magazine code described in the magazine or an OCR-B font corresponding to the common magazine code. The automatic drafting system according to any one of claims 1 to 4. 7. The ISBN according to claim 1, wherein
A bar code reader for reading a bar code corresponding to the code and / or a bar code corresponding to the common magazine code, and an OCR-B font corresponding to the ISBN code and / or an OCR-B corresponding to the common magazine code
7. The automatic billing system according to claim 5, further comprising an automatic character recognition device for reading a font.