JP2005275864A - Coin handling apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dispense with troublesome work of pulling out coins discharged into a coin removal part by hand and to eliminate vexatious complication of storage of a collecting container. <P>SOLUTION: On a bottom 30 of a removal part 3, an opening 32 permitting passage of coins is formed and a cover body 34 capable of opening/closing the opening 32 is provided. A coin changer is provided with the collecting container 6 attached in a state of being housed inside a case 1 at a lower position of the removal part 3. The collecting container 6 can be drawn forward from the front face of the case 1 and is removable from the case 1. The collecting container 6 has a container body 60 whose upper part is open and six small containers 62 which are detachably attached in the container body 60 in a state arrayed in the drawing direction and have open upper parts. By continuously discharging coins housed inside the case 1 into the removal part 3 with the opening 32 open, coins inside the collecting container 6 are directly collected through the opening 32. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a coin handling apparatus such as a coin change machine, for example, and more particularly to an improvement for improving convenience when collecting coins stored therein.

  A coin handling device such as a coin changer generally stores coins received from a coin receiving port according to denomination and pays the stored coins to a coin take-out unit as needed for withdrawal or collection. It is configured to issue. The coin take-out unit accumulates the paid-out coins and is open at the top so that the accumulated coins can be scraped out by hand.

  A coin change machine as a coin handling device is widely used mainly in the distribution industry, but is installed outdoors especially in a business state such as a gas station. In that case, from the viewpoint of crime prevention, it is common to release and collect all coins stored in the change machine at the end of business, and to collect the collected coins to a predetermined storage location for storage. ing.

  By the way, the number of coins that can be accumulated in the take-out portion is normally about 50 in consideration of the number of change coins to be paid out and the ease of taking out. On the other hand, the number of coins stored in the change machine at the end of business is usually about 150 per denomination. In this case, the complicated work of scraping the coins released to the take-out part by hand and transferring them to another container (collection / transport container, bag, etc.) 3 times per denomination, 18 times in total (500 Yen, 100 yen, 50 yen, 10 yen, 5 yen and 1 yen 6 denominations x 3 times).

In order to eliminate such complicated work, for example, a technique described in Patent Document 1 has been proposed. That is, Patent Document 1 describes a system in which a collection container is mounted at a position corresponding to a coin take-out portion (payout port) of a coin change machine and a coin is directly collected in the collection container. In this case, coins to be discharged to the take-out portion are guided into the recovery container through the coin passage formed in the cover of the recovery container. The collection container is mounted outside the housing of the coin change machine, and is removed from the housing of the coin change machine so as not to get in the way except during the collection of coins.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-270071 (abstract, FIGS. 1, 3, 5, etc.)

  In the technique described in Patent Document 1 described above, there is a problem that storage of the collection container removed from the casing of the coin change machine becomes complicated and is not easy to use.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a coin handling apparatus that eliminates the complicated work of manually scraping out coins that have been discharged to a coin take-out section and that can eliminate the complexity of storing recovery containers. .

  The first invention is a coin handling device configured to store coins received from a coin receiving port in denominations and to pay out the stored coins to a coin take-out unit as necessary. And a housing in which the take-out portion is provided and stores coins therein, and is attached to the housing in a state of being housed inside the housing at a position below the take-out portion, and from the housing A detachable coin collecting container, wherein the take-out portion has an opening through which a coin can pass and a lid that can open and close the opening. It is a handling device.

  According to the first aspect of the invention, the collection container is attached in a state of being housed in the housing, and the coins housed in the housing are continuously removed to the take-out portion in the state where the opening of the take-out portion is opened. The coins can be directly collected in the collection container through the opening of the take-out portion. After the coins are collected, the collection container removed from the casing is transferred to a predetermined coin storage place, the coins are transferred, and the empty collection container is attached again to be stored inside the casing.

  Therefore, the complicated operation of scraping out the coins released to the coin take-out part by hand is unnecessary, and the complexity of storing the collection container can be eliminated.

  “Continuously paying out coins to the takeout part” does not necessarily require that the coins come out without interruption, and at least does not depend on the number of coins that can be accumulated in the takeout part. This means that you can continue to issue coins (the same applies to the other “continuously”).

  In a second aspect based on the first aspect, the collection container is attached to the casing so as to be able to be pulled out in a horizontal direction.

  According to the second aspect of the invention, the coin inflow position (through the opening of the take-out portion) with respect to the collection container can be adjusted by adjusting the drawing position of the collection container with respect to the housing. Thereby, for example, when coins of all denominations are collected in a lump, for example, it is possible to prevent the coins from being biased in the collection container and to efficiently collect the volume of the collection container.

  According to a third invention, in the second invention, the collection container is detachably mounted in the container body in a state in which the collection container is arranged in the drawing direction of the collection container and the collection container is opened. And a plurality of small containers opened.

  According to the third aspect of the invention, the collection is performed while sequentially changing the drawing position of the collection container with respect to the housing so that the small container that differs for each denomination of the coin to be collected corresponds to the opening of the extraction unit It becomes possible to classify and collect coins of different denominations in small containers.

  Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 5 are views showing an embodiment of a coin handling device according to the present invention. Hereinafter, the configuration, operation procedure, operational effects, modification, and the like of the coin handling device of the present embodiment will be sequentially described.

[Constitution]
FIG. 1 shows a coin change machine configured integrally with a banknote change machine as an embodiment of a coin handling device according to the present invention. Description of parts other than those related to the coin change machine is omitted, and It will be described as a coin change machine.

  The coin change machine shown in FIG. 1 stores the coins received from the coin receiving port 2 in denominations, and changes the coins stored in the coin take-out unit as needed for withdrawal or collection of change coins. 3 is paid out. This coin change machine includes a housing 1 for storing coins in denominations. A receiving port 2 is provided in the approximate center of the front portion of the housing 1, and an extraction portion 3 is provided at a position one step lower on the left side.

  An operation unit 5 is provided on the right side of the receiving port 2 for issuing a coin collecting instruction or the like. In the operation unit 5, either a denomination mode for collecting coins by denomination or a collective mode for collecting coins of all denominations at a time is selected and a recovery instruction is issued. Be able to.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, a coin discharge port 4 that opens to the front side of the housing 1 is provided above the rear portion of the take-out unit 3. The discharge port 4 is for discharging coins fed out from the inside of the housing 1 to the extraction unit 3. The take-out unit 3 receives coins paid out by discharge from the discharge port 4 and accumulates them, and the upper part is opened so that the accumulated coins can be scraped out by hand.

  A substantially rectangular opening 32 through which a coin can pass is formed at the bottom 30 of the take-out portion 3, and a substantially rectangular lid body 34 that can open and close the opening 32 is provided. The lid 34 is rotatable between a horizontal position where the opening 32 is closed and a vertical position where the opening 32 is opened, with a rotation axis corresponding to the front edge of the opening 32 as a center. That is, the opening 32 is opened by opening the lid 34 by pulling it up from the horizontal position.

  Further, the coin change machine includes a rectangular parallelepiped coin collecting container 6 attached in a state of being housed inside the housing 1 at a position below the take-out portion 3. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the collection container 6 can be pulled out horizontally from the front of the housing 1 in the forward direction, and can be completely pulled out from the housing 1 and removed. As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the collection container 6 has a container body 60 with an open top, and is detachably attached to the container body 60 while being arranged in the direction in which the collection container 6 is pulled out. It has six small containers 62 opened.

  It should be noted that the withdrawal position of the collection container 6 relative to the housing 1 can be positioned in six steps so that each small container 62 of the collection container 6 can be easily adjusted to the position corresponding to the opening 32 (see FIG. 3). A click stop mechanism (not shown) is provided.

[Operating procedure]
Next, the operation procedure at the time of coin recovery of the coin change machine configured as described above will be described separately for (1) money type recovery mode and (2) batch recovery mode. In addition, the following collection | recovery operation will be performed about all the change machines, when the some coin change machine is installed in the shop etc. FIG.

(1) Money type collection mode First, as shown in FIG. 2, in a state where the collection container 6 is completely pushed into the housing 1, the lid 34 of the extraction unit 3 is pulled up to a vertical position to open the opening 32. Keep it. Next, the operation unit 5 is operated to select a denomination mode, and among the six denominations of 500 yen, 100 yen, 50 yen, 10 yen, 5 yen and 1 yen, the denomination to be collected first. Is specified. For example, when 500 yen is designated, 500-yen coins stored in the housing 1 are continuously drawn out and discharged from the discharge port 4 to the take-out unit 3. The 500-yen coin released to the take-out unit 3 falls through the opening 32 of the take-out unit 3 and falls into the foremost small container 62 in the collection container 6 (see FIG. 3).

  Subsequently, after the collection container 6 is pulled out from the housing 1 by one stage, the denomination to be collected second is designated. For example, when 100 yen is specified, 100 yen coins stored in the housing 1 are discharged to the take-out section 3 and enter the second small container 62 from the front of the collection container 6 through the opening 32 of the take-out section 3. Dropped and collected. By repeating the same operation, all coins can be collected in each small container 62 by denomination.

  When the coins of all denominations are collected, the collection container 6 is completely pulled out and removed from the housing 1, and the removed collection container 6 is transported to a predetermined coin storage place. At the storage place, each small container 62 is taken out from the container main body 60 of the collection container 6, and the collected coins in each small container 62 are transferred to, for example, coin storage bags prepared for each denomination. Thereafter, each emptied small container 62 is returned into the container main body 60 of the collection container 6, and the collection container 6 may be reattached to a state in which the collection container 6 is accommodated in the housing 1 (completely pushed in).

(2) Collective collection mode In this case, the collection container 6 in a state in which all the six small containers 62 are removed to become only the container main body 60 has a substantially central portion corresponding to the opening 32 of the extraction portion 3. The drawer position is set (for example, in the second to third stages). Further, the lid 34 of the take-out part 3 is pulled up to a vertical position to open the opening 32.

  Next, the operation unit 5 is operated to select the collective collection mode. In response to this, coins of all denominations stored inside the housing 1 are successively and continuously drawn out and discharged from the discharge port 4 to the take-out unit 3. The coins released to the extraction unit 3 fall into the container body 60 of the recovery container 6 through the opening 32 of the extraction unit 3 (in the denomination mixed state) and are recovered.

[Function and effect]
Next, the effect of this embodiment comprised as mentioned above is demonstrated.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the collection container 6 is attached in a state of being housed in the housing 1, and is housed in the housing 1 with the opening 32 of the extraction portion 3 being opened. The coins can be directly collected in the collection container 6 through the opening 32 of the extraction unit 3 by continuously paying out the existing coins to the extraction unit 3. And after collect | recovering coins, the recovery container 6 removed from the housing | casing 1 is carried to a predetermined coin storage place, a coin is transferred, and the empty collection | recovery container 6 is again accommodated in the housing | casing 1 inside. You can attach to.

  Therefore, the complicated work of scraping out the coins released to the coin take-out unit 3 by hand becomes unnecessary, and the complexity of storing the collection container 6 can be eliminated.

  In addition, by adjusting the drawing position of the collection container 6 with respect to the housing 1, the coin inflow position (through the opening 32 of the extraction unit 3) with respect to the collection container 6 can be adjusted. Thereby, for example, when collective collection is performed, as described above, the coins in the container main body 60 are biased by keeping the substantially central portion of the collection container 6 at the drawing position corresponding to the opening 32. Therefore, it is possible to carry out the recovery using the volume of the container body 60 efficiently.

  Further, when performing denomination collection, as described above, the withdrawal position of the collection container 6 with respect to the housing 1 so that the small container 62 that is different for each denomination of the coin to be collected corresponds to the opening 32 of the extraction unit 3. By sequentially collecting the coins, it is possible to classify and collect coins of different denominations in the small containers 62.

[Modifications, etc.]
(1) The direction of withdrawing the collection container 6 from the housing 1 is not necessarily limited to the forward direction described above. For example, depending on the layout of the apparatus, the housing 1 can be drawn leftward from the left side surface.

  (2) The lid that opens and closes the opening 32 of the take-out portion 3 may be of another type such as a horizontal slide type. However, the above-described type of lid 34 that is pulled up to the front is advantageous in that the coins discharged from the discharge portion 4 are dammed and easily dropped into the opening 32.

  (3) The volume of each small container 62 in the collection container 6 is set so that at least the maximum number of coins of the corresponding denomination can be collected can be accommodated. However, from the viewpoint of manufacturing and handling convenience, it is preferable that all the six small containers have the same dimensions. In that case, the capacity of each small container 62 is determined with reference to a denomination coin (usually a 500 yen coin) having the largest volume (maximum recovery volume) that can be recovered with a margin. It is desirable to set to about 3 times the volume.

The perspective view which shows one Embodiment of the coin handling apparatus by this invention in the partial drawing-out state of a collection container. The figure which shows the coin handling apparatus shown in FIG. 1 in the full pushing state of a collection container. The longitudinal cross-sectional view which shows only the coin extraction part periphery of the coin handling apparatus shown in FIG. The perspective view which shows the collection container of the coin handling apparatus shown in FIG. 1 in the attachment state of each small container. The perspective view which shows the collection | recovery container shown in FIG. 1 in the removal state of each small container.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Case 2 Coin receiving port 3 Coin taking-out part 30 Bottom part 32 Opening 34 Cover body 4 Coin discharge port 5 Operation part 6 Collection container 60 Container main body 62 Small container

Claims (3)

In the coin handling device configured to store the coins received from the coin receiving port by denomination and to pay out the stored coins to the coin take-out unit as necessary,
A housing that is provided with the receiving port and the take-out portion and stores coins therein;
A coin collecting container that is attached to the housing in a state of being housed inside the housing at a position below the take-out portion, and removable from the housing;
With
The said handling part is provided with the cover body which can open and close the said opening while the opening which can pass a coin is formed in the bottom part, The coin handling apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned.   The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the collection container is attached to the housing so that the collection container can be pulled out in a horizontal direction. The collection container is
A container body with an open top;
A plurality of small containers open at the top, which are detachably attached in the container body in a state arranged in the pull-out direction of the collection containers;
The coin handling device according to claim 2, comprising:

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