JP2003276924A - Bill carrying device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bill carrying device in which system failure is not generated even when jamming of bills occurs, and in which restoration work can be conducted as desired in accordance with conditions of a customer. <P>SOLUTION: This device is provided with a bill storage part communicated with a carrying passage of a carrying passage part to contain bills through a passage switching plate to form a storage passage to guide bills being carried to a bill storage chamber, and a bill detection sensor to detect jamming of bills in the carrying passage. Normally, the bills being carried from the upstream side are carried to the downstream side. When jamming of bills occurs in the carrying passage, the passage switching plate is switched to store the bills charged into a bill charger to the bill storage part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill transfer device for transferring bills inserted from a plurality of bill input machines to a collection section. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a bill transfer device for transferring bills from a bill insertion machine provided on a plurality of gaming machines such as pachinko machines and slot machines to a collecting section provided at one end of the gaming machine row. Has been widely proposed. [0003] However, customers use (insert) various kinds of banknotes. That is, bills that are stiff and stiff, banknotes that are strongly bent, curled banknotes that are curled, and the like often cause paper jams (jam) during the transport of bills. [0004] When the banknote jam occurs, the entire banknote transport device must be stopped until the hall employee repairs the jammed banknote. This means
The lending of pachinko balls and medals by banknotes was suspended. In addition, the restoration by the employee cannot perform the work without leaving the seat for the customer playing the game there, which is interesting for the customer enjoying the game. Not only was it damaged, but it also caused inconvenience and caused problems, such as missing out customers. [0005] Therefore, the present invention does not cause a down of the bill transport device even if the bill is jammed,
It is another object of the present invention to provide a banknote transport device that can perform a repair operation arbitrarily according to a customer's condition. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned problems, a bill transporting device according to the present invention has a transport passage for transporting a banknote from an upstream side to a downstream side while holding the banknote, and inserts the banknote into a banknote inserting machine. With the merged transport bank having a drive source, the banknotes are merged into the transport path unit, a bill transport device installed in a game store, contacting the transport path of the transport path section, It has a banknote storage unit that stores banknotes through a passage switching plate that forms a storage path that guides the transported banknotes to the banknote storage unit, and a banknote detection sensor that detects banknote jams in the transport path, and is normally transported from the upstream side. When the banknotes are conveyed to the downstream side and the banknotes are jammed in the conveyance path, the path switching plate is operated to store the banknotes inserted into the banknote insertion machine in the banknote storage unit. [0007] According to such a configuration, the bills inserted into the bill insertion machine downstream of the location where the bills are jammed are
The bill is transported and stored by the bill transport device to the collecting section at the end of the game island. Further, the banknotes inserted into the banknote insertion machine on the upstream side of the location where the banknotes are jammed are stored in the banknote storage unit via the storage passage communicating with the transport path of the transport path unit. As a result, even if a trouble such as a banknote jam occurs in the bill transporting device, the operation of the bill transporting device is not stopped, that is, the problem of stopping the lending of the bill feeding machine is solved. Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration in which a plurality of bill transport devices as one embodiment for transporting bills from a bill input machine to a bill storage unit are connected. The banknote transport device 1 according to the embodiment includes a merging transport driver 10 and a transport path unit 20. A joint member 30 is attached to the tip of the transport passage section 20 and the bill storage section 4
0 is provided. Then, a plurality of the bill transporting devices 1 are connected to each other to constitute the entire bill transporting device installed in the game island. As shown in FIG. 1, each of the bill transport devices 1, 1
Are arranged on the back side of the seven rows of gaming tables, arranged so as to be in a position where the bills S2 inserted into the banknote insertion machines 8 on both sides of the merging and transporting drive unit 10 can be received, and are adjacent via the joint member 30. Is connected to the banknote transport device 1 of FIG. [0010] The merging / conveyance drive section 10 includes a banknote S1 sent from the banknote conveyor 1 on the upstream side and a banknote insertion machine 8
The banknote S2 is loaded with the banknote S2 and transported to the transport path section 20, and the first receiving guide member 12 and the second
The receiving guide member 13 is fixed. The first receiving guide member 12 includes a first passage forming plate 12a for forming a first passage A for receiving and guiding the bill S1 from the bill conveying device 1 on the upstream side,
A curved second passage B is formed in the middle of the first passage forming plate 12a to form a second passage B for receiving and guiding the bill S2 from the bill insertion machine 8 on the side.
And a passage forming plate 12b. The second receiving guide member 13 has a passage forming plate 13b curved along the second passage forming plate 12b of the first receiving guide member 12. As described above, the first passage forming plate 12a of the first receiving guide member 12 forms the first passage A for receiving and guiding the bill S1 from the bill conveying device 1 on the upstream side. The second passage forming plate 12b of the first receiving guide member 12 and the passage forming plate 13b of the second receiving guide member 13 form the second passage B for receiving and guiding the bill S2 from the bill insertion machine 8. Have been. A drive shaft 17 is vertically rotatably mounted between the lower surface and the upper surface of the merging / conveyance drive unit 10, and a gear 17a is fixed to the lower end thereof. The rotation of the drive motor 14 is transmitted to the drive shaft 17 by meshing with the fixed gear 14b. Similarly, two driven shafts 18 and 19 are vertically rotatably mounted between the lower surface and the upper surface of the merging / transporting drive unit 10. The drive shaft 17 and the driven shaft 18 are fixed with gears 17c and 18c having the same number of teeth engaged with each other, and the driven shaft 18 rotates in the opposite direction at the same speed. Also,
The driven shaft 19 includes a pulley 1 fixed to the driven shafts 18 and 19.
The driven shaft 1 is driven by the belt 11 attached to the driven shafts 8a and 19a.
8 in the same direction and at the same speed. The drive shaft 17 is located slightly outside the passage forming plate 13b of the second receiving guide member 13 of the second passage B, and has a drive pulley 15
a is fixed so as to protrude into the second passage B.
The drive pulley 15 a is provided with an endless belt 21 that is located in the transport path portion 20 and is bridged between the plurality of pulleys 22.
Is installed. The driven shaft 18 is similar to the drive shaft 17.
The drive shaft 1 is located slightly outside the passage forming plate 13b of the second receiving guide member 13 of the second passage B.
The take-in pulley 15b is fixed at the same height as the drive pulley 15a of No. 7 and protrudes into the second passage B. The take-in pulley 15b has an annular groove at the center in the vertical direction, and an endless ring 15d made of a friction body such as rubber is attached to the annular groove. The driven shaft 19 is located on the upstream side of the merging / transporting drive unit 10, and has a take-in pulley 15c fixed at an intermediate portion. An endless ring 15e similar to the intake pulley 15b of the driven shaft 18 is attached to the intake pulley 15c so as to protrude outward, and protrudes into the first passage A. Then, the feed roller 1 faces the endless ring 15e.
5h is rotatably mounted. Thereby, the banknote S1 transported from the upstream banknote transport device 1 becomes the first banknote S1.
End ring 15e of intake pulley 15c in passage A of
And between the feed roller 15h. Feed rollers 15f and 15g are rotatably pressed against the endless belt 21 of the drive pulley 15a and the endless ring 15d of the take-in pulley 15b.
As a result, the bill S2 sent out from the bill input machine 8 to the second passage B is nipped and conveyed, and the take-in becomes reliable. A plurality of pulleys 22, 22,... Are rotatably mounted along one side of the transport passage section 20 and at an intermediate portion in the vertical direction, and drive of the drive shaft 17 in the combined transport drive section 10. The endless belt 21 is stretched over the pulley 15 a, the tension roller 16, and the pulley 22. Further, on the other side of the transport passage section 20, pressure contact rollers 23, 23,... Are attached rotatably and urged toward the pulley 22 side. For this reason, the banknotes sent out from the merging / conveyance drive unit 10 are sandwiched between the endless belt 21 and the pressure roller 23 in the thickness direction, and are smoothly conveyed downstream. The joint member 30 is provided with a pair of opposing light emitters 51 and light receivers 52 which are bill detecting sensors 50. The bill detecting sensor 50 is for monitoring a bill carrying state in the carrying path L of the bill carrying device 1, and determines a time required for the bill to pass through the bill detecting sensor 50. When the bill detection sensor 50 detects passage of a bill, the passage timer is reset and a bill detection signal is output. If the bill does not pass between the bill detection sensors 50 within the passage timer time and the time is over, it is determined that a jam (jam) has occurred in the bill transport device 1 and the occurrence of trouble and its position are determined. Notify. When the bill input machine 8 detects the sending of the bill to the bill transport device 1, it outputs a sales signal and starts the passage timer. Thereafter, as described above, if the bill passes within the predetermined time, the passage timer is reset. If the bill does not pass, on the contrary, it is determined that the bill is jammed in the bill transport device 1, and the trouble occurrence and its position are notified. . In the transport passage section 20, a bill storage section 40 is provided.
It has. The bill storage unit 40 has a hollow rectangular shape,
A passage switching plate 42 is arranged in parallel with the frame 41 at a predetermined interval, and a bill storage chamber 40 a is formed between the frame 41 and the passage switching plate 42. The passage switching plate 42 is rotated by a rotary solenoid 44 via a shaft 43. Thus, when it is determined that a paper jam has occurred in the paper money transporting device 1, the rotary solenoid 44 of the paper money storage unit 40 upstream from the location is excited, and one end of the passage switching plate 42 is moved to the transport passage. It rotates to the position facing L, and guides the transported bills onto the passage switching plate 42. Then, while bills were detected by the light emitter 61 and the light receiver 62 of the stack timing sensor 60 provided on the upstream side of the transport passage portion 20, the rotary solenoid 44 was not operated, and the passage switching plate 42 was rotated. It is as it is. Next, after a predetermined period of time has passed after the stack timing sensor 60 no longer detects a bill, the rotary solenoid 44 is operated to move the bill guided on the passage switching plate 42 by the rotation of the passage switching plate 42. The bill is stored and stored in the bill storage room 40a. Thereafter, the rotary solenoid 44 is operated again to rotate the passage switching plate 42. During this time, the banknotes inserted into the banknote insertion machine 8 are temporarily waiting in the banknote insertion machine 8. Thereafter, when the operation of removing the jammed banknotes by the hall employee is completed, the banknote transport apparatus 1 resumes the normal operation. Then, for example, after the store is closed, the bill storage unit 40
Collect bills inside. As described above, according to the bill transporting device of the present invention, even if any one of the bill transporting devices becomes jammed, the bills fed into the bill feeding machine on the upstream side and the banknote loading machine on the banknote loading machine. Are stored and stored in the bill storage unit. In addition, the banknotes inserted into the banknote input machine downstream from the location where the banknotes are jammed are transported to the island management device at the end of the game island by the banknote transport device and aligned and stored, so the banknote input device is used. The system down which cannot be performed is avoided. Therefore, since the use of the bill input machine is stopped (lending is stopped), the customer is not inconvenienced, and the sales of the game store are not reduced.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view showing an overall configuration in which a plurality of banknote transport devices of the present invention are connected. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a combined transport driving unit. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the inside of the bill conveying device of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. DESCRIPTION OF THE SYMBOLS 1 Banknote transfer device 8 Banknote insertion machine 10 Merge transfer drive unit 12 First guide member 13 Second guide member 20 Transfer passage unit 30 Joint member 40 Banknote storage unit 42 Passage switching plate 50 Banknote detection sensor 60 Stack timing sensor

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. A transport path for transporting a banknote from an upstream side to a downstream side while sandwiching the banknote, a banknote inserted into a banknote insertion machine into the transport path section, and a driving source. And a merging conveyance drive unit having a merging conveyance drive unit, which is installed in a game arcade and communicates with the conveyance passage of the conveyance passage portion, and a passage switch that forms a storage passage that guides the conveyance banknote to the bill storage room. It has a banknote storage unit that stores banknotes via a board, and a banknote detection sensor that detects banknote jams in the transport path, and normally transports banknotes that are transported from the upstream side to the downstream side,
A bill transport device, wherein when a bill is jammed in the transport passage, the passage switching plate is operated to store the bill inserted into the bill input machine in the bill storage unit.