JP2012006345A - Booklet medium handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a booklet medium handling device which performs a stable pushing up of bankbooks even when there is unevenness in the thickness or condition of bankbooks.SOLUTION: A pusher body 110 is supported by a spring 130 consisting of a compressive coil spring. The turning motion of a shaft 190 is transmitted to a pusher guide 120 and the pusher body 110 through the spring 130 which is intervened between the pusher guide 120 and the pusher body 110. The pusher comes into contact with a bankbook which becomes a pushing up object under a state of being advanced from a carrying surface. In this case, if a specified load or higher is applied to the pusher body 110, the turning amount of the pusher body 110 is limited more than the turning amount of the shaft 190 and the pusher guide 120 by the elastic deformation (compression) of the spring 130.

Description

  The present invention relates to a booklet medium handling apparatus.

  ATM (Automated Teller Machine) and passbook issuing machines installed in financial institutions, etc., are page turning devices for printing on specified pages of the passbook or for closing and returning the accepted passbook. Is provided.

The page turning apparatus includes a pressure mechanism that pushes up the passbook from the lower surface side of the conveyance path, and makes the passbook easier by curving the passbook.
For example, FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of pressure operation in a related-page page turning mechanism. The page turning mechanism 80 includes conveying rollers 82 and 86 and conveying rollers 83 and 84 facing each other across the conveying path. Prepare. Further, the page turning mechanism 80 includes a turning roller 81 coaxially with the conveying roller 82 and a pressure 85 between the conveying rollers 82 and 86 and the conveying rollers 83 and 84 on the lower surface side of the conveying path.

  The pressure 85 bends the passbook by pushing up the passbook 90 from below, and facilitates page turning by the turning roller 81. However, since the deflection width of the bankbook 90 varies depending on the thickness of the pushed-up portion of the bankbook 90 pushed up by the pressure 85, it is not necessarily in a suitable state.

  For example, when the thickness of the pushed-up portion of the bankbook 90 is large (for example, 10 sheets including the cover and the inner sheet), the deflection width d3 of the bankbook 90 is relatively large (FIG. 18A). When the thickness of the pushed up portion of the bankbook 90 is small (for example, only one cover), the deflection width d4 of the bankbook 90 is relatively small (FIG. 18 (b)).

  Further, as related technology, there is a proposal for a page turning device that detects the thickness distribution of a page for which page turning is performed, and when the detected thickness distribution of the page is abnormal, the page turning operation is activated by a pusher (for example, Patent Document 1).

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  However, the amount by which the passbook is pushed up by the pressure is constant regardless of the thickness and state of the passbook. Therefore, the relationship between the turning roller and the page to be turned is different every time the turning operation is performed.

  If the amount by which the passbook is pushed up by the pressure is too small, the turning roller may fail to turn, and if it is too large, there is a risk of turning two sheets.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a booklet medium handling apparatus capable of stably pushing up a passbook even if the thickness and state of the passbook vary.

  In order to solve the above problems, the booklet medium handling apparatus includes a pressure mechanism that pushes up the booklet medium from the lower surface side of the conveyance path that conveys the booklet medium, and the pressure mechanism includes a drive unit, a main body unit, a base unit, A displacement amount limiting unit.

  The main body has a contact surface that contacts the booklet medium. The base part is connected to the driving part. The displacement amount limiting unit transmits the displacement of the base portion in the pushing-up operation by the driving unit to the main body portion, and elastically deforms by the push-up load of the booklet medium to limit the displacement amount of the main body portion more than the displacement amount of the base portion.

  According to the booklet medium handling apparatus described above, the bankbook can be pushed up stably even if the thickness or state of the bankbook varies.

It is a perspective view in the conveyance state of the page turning apparatus of embodiment. It is a perspective view in the state where the pressure of the page turning device of an embodiment rose. It is a top view in the state where the pressure of the page turning device of an embodiment rose. It is a principal part schematic diagram for demonstrating the page turning mechanism of embodiment. It is a perspective view of the pressure mechanism of an embodiment. It is a disassembled perspective view of the pressure mechanism of embodiment. It is a cross-sectional schematic diagram for demonstrating the restriction | limiting of the rotation amount of the pressure main body of embodiment. It is a perspective view of a pressure mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is small. It is a perspective view of a pressure mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is large. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is large. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is large. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is large. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is large. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is small. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is small. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is small. It is a figure explaining the operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load concerning the pressure main body of embodiment is small. It is a figure which shows the operation example of the pressure in the page turning mechanism of related technology.

  Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings. First, an overview of a page turning apparatus (booklet medium handling apparatus) will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the page turning apparatus according to the embodiment in a conveyance state. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the page turning device according to the embodiment in a state where the pressure is raised. FIG. 3 is a top view of the page turning device according to the embodiment in a state where the pressure is raised.

  The page turning apparatus 1 has a page turning mechanism, and is mounted on an automatic teller machine or a passbook issuing machine as a page turning unit. Alternatively, the page turning apparatus 1 further has a printing mechanism, and is mounted on an automatic teller machine or a passbook issuing machine as a book printer unit. The page turning device 1 is a device that turns a page of a passbook (booklet medium) placed in a conveyance path.

  The page turning apparatus 1 includes a support housing 2, movable guides 3 and 4, a conveying surface 5, a shaft 20, turning rollers 21a, 21b and 21c, conveying rollers 22a and 22b, a shaft 30, conveying rollers 31a and 31b, and pressures 100a and 100b. , 100c.

  The support housing 2 supports a drive mechanism such as a motor or a solenoid, the shafts 20 and 30, other drive force transmission mechanisms, the conveyance surface 5, and the like. The movable guides 3 and 4 can be switched between a closed state and an open state by a drive mechanism (not shown). The movable guides 3 and 4 form the upper surface of the conveyance path in the closed state and support the page that is turned up in the open state. The movable guides 3 and 4 are disposed on the conveyance path with the shaft 20 interposed therebetween. The conveyance surface 5 faces the movable guide 3 across the conveyance path when the movable guide 3 is closed.

  The shaft 20 pivotally supports the turning rollers 21a, 21b, and 21c and the conveying rollers 22a and 22b. The turning rollers 21 a, 21 b, and 21 c are fixed to the shaft 20 and rotate as the shaft 20 rotates. The turning rollers 21a, 21b, and 21c are driven rollers that are rotated by driving of conveying rollers (drive rollers: not shown) facing each other across the conveying path.

  The shaft 30 supports the conveyance rollers 31a and 31b. The transport rollers 31 a and 31 b are drive rollers that are fixed to the shaft 30 and rotate as the shaft 30 rotates. The conveyance rollers 31a and 31b are opposed to the conveyance roller (driven roller: not shown) across the conveyance path.

  The pressures 100a, 100b, and 100c are pivotally supported by a shaft (not shown) and rotate as the shaft rotates. The pressures 100a, 100b, and 100c advance (protrude) or retract from the conveying surface 5 as the shaft rotates. The pressures 100a, 100b, and 100c are bent by pushing up the bankbook 90 from the lower surface when advancing from the conveyance surface 5, thereby facilitating page turning of the bankbook 90 by the turning rollers 21a, 21b, and 21c. The pressures 100a, 100b, and 100c are arranged on the lines L1, L2, and L3 so as to be within the width of the bankbook 90 that is conveyed along the conveyance path. The pressure 100b is located at the widthwise central portion (line L2) of the bankbook 90, and the pressures 100a and 100c are located at the widthwise end portions (lines L1 and L3) of the bankbook 90. The pressure 100 c is located on the line L 3 on the magnetic stripe 91 of the bankbook 90. The lines L1, L2, and L3 are unequally arranged such that the lines L2 and L3 are narrower than the lines L1 and L2. Further, the turning rollers 21a, 21b, and 21c are disposed on the lines L1, L2, and L3, respectively.

  The passbook 90 used here has a booklet-like configuration in which a plurality of relatively low rigidity (soft) medium sheets are bound to a relatively high rigidity (hard) cover. Shall. The bankbook 90 is in an open state with the seam portion as the center, and a cover is provided with a strip-shaped magnetic stripe 91 having a predetermined thickness. The magnetic stripe 91 can record required information, and information can be read and written by a reader / writer (not shown).

Next, a schematic configuration of the page turning mechanism included in the page turning apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a main part for explaining the page turning mechanism of the embodiment.
The page turning mechanism 10 includes a conveyance surface 5, conveyance rollers 31, 51, 61 as drive rollers, and conveyance rollers 41, 22, 71 as driven rollers as a conveyance mechanism of the bankbook 90. The transport roller 61 faces the transport roller 71 across the transport path, the transport roller 51 faces the transport roller 22 across the transport path, and the transport roller 31 faces the transport roller 41 across the transport path. .

  Further, the transport path is formed by the transport path upper surface and the transport path lower surface, the transport path upper surface is formed by the movable guides 3, 4 and the guide 6, and the transport path lower surface is formed by the transport surface 5 and the pressures 100 and 200. It is formed by.

  The page turning mechanism 10 includes a movable guide 3, a conveying surface 5, a guide 6, a turning roller 21, conveying rollers 22, 31, 41, 51, and a pressure 100, and one page turning mechanism (first page turning mechanism). Configure. The page turning mechanism 10 includes a movable guide 4, a conveyance surface 5, a guide 6, a turning roller 21, conveyance rollers 22, 51, 61, 71, and a pressure 200, and another page turning mechanism (second page). (Spinning mechanism). That is, the page turning mechanism 10 has two page turning mechanisms that share the turning roller 21 and the conveying rollers 22 and 51.

  Hereinafter, for the sake of brevity, description of the second page turning mechanism that performs the same operation will be omitted, and the first page turning mechanism will be described. Note that one of the first page turning mechanism and the second page turning mechanism is responsible for page turning for page turning, and the other is for page turning for page return. For example, the first page turning mechanism shares page turning as page turning, and the second page turning mechanism shares page turning as page returning.

  The conveyance roller 51 is rotatably fixed to a shaft that transmits a driving force from a motor. The conveyance roller 51 can be moved up and down with respect to the conveyance path. When the conveyance roller 51 is conveyed, the roller surface is brought into contact with the book 90, pressed between the conveyance rollers 22, and rotated to move the bankbook 90 along the conveyance path. To move.

  The conveyance roller 22 is pivotally supported on the shaft and is driven by the rotation of the conveyance roller 22. The turning roller 21 is rotatably fixed to a shaft that transmits driving force from the motor. The turning roller 21 is fixed to a shaft that supports the conveying roller 22. The curling roller 21 is made of an elastic material such as rubber having a relatively high frictional force, and the main part thereof has a substantially fan-shaped cross-sectional shape, and the fan-shaped curved surface part serves as a friction contact surface with respect to the curling target page. . As the shaft rotates, the turning roller 21 causes the curved frictional contact surface to contact the page to be turned and rubs. A plurality of (for example, three) turning rollers 21 are provided on the shaft at the same mounting angle, and simultaneously press the bankbook 90 at a plurality of locations (for example, three locations on the left and right). Further, the distance from the friction contact surface to the center of the shaft is made larger than the radius of the conveying roller 22. Further, the transport surface 5 has a recess in the vicinity of the turning roller 21 so as not to interfere with the turning roller 21.

  The conveyance roller 31 is rotatably fixed to a shaft that transmits a driving force from a motor. The transport roller 31 moves the passbook 90 along the transport path by bringing the roller surface into contact with the passbook 90 during transport, pressing between the transport rollers 41 and rotating. The transport roller 41 is pivotally supported on the shaft, can be moved up and down with respect to the transport path, and is driven by the rotation of the transport roller 22.

  The pressure 100 is rotatably fixed to a shaft that transmits a driving force from the motor, and can be moved up and down with respect to the conveyance path. The pressure 100 pushes up the bankbook 90 by turning the pressure body and bringing the pressure body into contact with the back cover of the target page as the shaft rotates. Details of the pressure 100 will be described later.

  The movable guide 3 can be switched between a closed state and an open state by a drive mechanism (not shown), and forms the upper surface of the conveyance path in the closed state. The movable guide 3 avoids interference with the bankbook 90 pushed up by the pressure 100 in the open state. Further, the movable guide 3 supports the page that has been turned up by the turning roller 21. The conveyance surface 5 and the guide 6 are fixed passbook sliding surfaces. The fixed passbook sliding surface is provided in the front-rear direction of the transport path to avoid an interference area with the movable member, thereby forming a transport path.

  Next, details of the pressure mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the pressure mechanism of the embodiment. FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the pressure mechanism of the embodiment. FIG. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view for explaining the limitation of the rotation amount of the pressure body of the embodiment. The pressure mechanism includes a pressure 100 and a drive unit that drives the pressure. The drive unit includes a motor (drive device) (not shown) and a shaft (drive unit) 190 that transmits the driving force of the motor.

  The pressure 100 includes a pressure main body 110, a pressure guide (base portion) 120, and a spring 130. The pressure body 110 is rotatably supported by the shaft 190 through the shaft 190 through the shaft insertion hole 116. The pressure main body 110 has a contact surface 111, a transport surface 112, a tapered surface 113, a transport surface 114, and a tapered surface 115 on the surface facing the transport surface 5. The conveyance surface 112, the tapered surface 113, and the conveyance surface 114 are substantially flush with the conveyance surface 5 in a state where the pressure 100 is retracted from the conveyance surface 5. The tapered surface 113 and the tapered surface 115 have a predetermined inclination with respect to the conveyance surface 114 in order to reduce the conveyance resistance of the bankbook 90. The contact surface 111 contacts the passbook 90 to be pushed up in a state where the pressure 100 has advanced from the transport surface 5.

  The pressure guide 120 is a bent plate-shaped sheet metal member having a U-shaped first recess 123 at the center and a U-shaped second recess 124 at one end adjacent to the first recess 123. And has a tongue-shaped spring mounting portion 125 at the other end. The 1st recessed part 123 equips both sides with the stopper part 121 in a recessed part bottom face. The 1st recessed part 123 avoids interference with the drive shaft (shaft) of another movable member in the state where the pressure 100 does not protrude from the conveyance surface 5. The second recess 124 includes a guide hole 122 on the bottom surface of the recess. The pressure guide 120 is fixed to the shaft 190 by inserting the small screw 140 into the guide hole 122 through the shaft 190 through the second recess 124 and screwing with the screw hole 2. The spring placement portion 125 places (supports) the spring 130.

  The pressure body 110 is supported by a spring 130 made of a compression coil spring. The rotational movement of the shaft 190 is transmitted to the pressure main body 110 via the pressure guide 120 and a spring 130 interposed between the pressure guide 120 and the pressure main body 110. At this time, if the load more than a predetermined load is applied to the pressure body 110, the rotation amount R2 of the pressure body 110 is limited by the elastic deformation (compression) of the spring 130 more than the rotation amount R1 of the shaft 190 and the pressure guide 120. . Therefore, the spring 130 functions as a rotation amount (displacement amount) limiting unit that limits the rotation amount of the pressure body 110. The spring 130 may be another spring such as a torsion spring or a tension coil spring, and may be an elastic member such as rubber or urethane as long as the amount of displacement is limited by elastic deformation.

  The restriction amount restricting portion 117 is a window frame opened to the pressure main body 110, and restricts the relative rotation amount R3 of the pressure main body 110 with respect to the pressure guide 120 by contacting the stopper portion 121 moving in the window frame. To do. The limit amount restricting portion 117 contacts the stopper portion 121 at the lower end of the window frame when no pressure is applied to the pressure main body 110, and contacts the stopper portion 121 at the upper end of the window frame when a predetermined load or more is applied to the pressure main body 110. .

  The stopper portion 121 that is in contact with the limit amount regulating portion 117 at the upper end of the window frame while supporting the pressure body 110 together with the spring 130 in a state where the spring 130 is compressed by a predetermined amount or more. Therefore, the spring 130 does not compress beyond a predetermined amount. As described above, the restriction amount restricting portion 117 has a function of restricting the rotation restriction amount of the pressure main body 110 restricted by the spring 130 within a predetermined range.

  As described above, the pressure main body 110 increases the relative rotation amount R3 with respect to the pressure guide 120 in accordance with the load applied to the contact surface 111, so that the deflection amount of the bankbook 90 pushed up by the pressure main body 110 is set within a predetermined range. Can do. Specifically, when the thickness of the bankbook 90 pushed up by the pressure main body 110 is small, the load applied to the contact surface 111 is small, so that the pressure main body 110 rotates to the same extent as the pressure guide 120. When the thickness of the bankbook 90 pushed up by the pressure body 110 is large, the load applied to the contact surface 111 is large, so that the pressure body 110 rotates less than the pressure guide 120.

  Next, changes in the amount of rotation due to a load on the pressure body 110 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the pressure mechanism when the load applied to the pressure body of the embodiment is small. FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the pressure mechanism when the load applied to the pressure body of the embodiment is large.

  When the load applied to the pressure body 110 is small when the pressure body 110 pushes up the bankbook 90, the spring 130 is hardly compressed (FIG. 8). Therefore, the pressure main body 110 rotates about the same as the pressure guide 120 with the shaft 190 as a rotation axis.

  When the pressure main body 110 pushes up the bankbook 90 and the load applied to the pressure main body 110 is large, the spring 130 is compressed (FIG. 9). Therefore, the pressure main body 110 rotates about the shaft 190 as a rotation axis, but the rotation amount of the pressure main body 110 is smaller than the rotation amount of the pressure guide 120.

  It should be noted that the stopper body 121 of the pressure guide 120 may contact the limit amount restricting portion 117 to support the pressure body 110 when there is no load or when the load is extremely small. In this case, the spring 130 supports the pressure body 110 when there is a load within a predetermined range, that is, when the stopper portion 121 does not contact the limit amount regulating portion 117.

  The case where the load on the pressure body is small includes, for example, the case where the passbook 90 is opened around the stitch portion and the number of pages on the push-up side is small, or the paper thickness of the passbook 90 is small. On the other hand, when the load on the pressure body is large, for example, when the passbook 90 is opened with the seam at the center and the number of pages on the push-up side is large, the paper thickness of the passbook 90 is large, the cover is magnetic There are cases where stripes and stickers are applied and the cover is thick.

  Next, an operation example of the page turning mechanism 10 when the load on the pressure 100 is large will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 to 13. 10 to 13 are diagrams for explaining an operation example of the page turning mechanism when the load applied to the pressure body of the embodiment is large. As an example when the load applied to the pressure 100 is large, a page turning operation performed by the page turning mechanism 10 when the bankbook 90 lifted by the pressure 100 is thick is illustrated.

  The page turning mechanism 10 conveys the bankbook 90 from the left to the right in the figure to a predetermined position suitable for page turning (FIG. 10A). At this time, the page to be turned of the passbook 90 is located under the turning roller 21. On the pressure 100, the side including the page to be turned of the passbook 90 opened with the binding portion at the center is located. The bankbook 90 shown in the figure has a relatively large thickness on the side including the page to be turned of the bankbook 90 opened around the binding portion.

  The page turning mechanism 10 locks the transport roller 31 (FIG. 10B). The page turning mechanism 10 holds a bankbook 90 between the conveyance roller 31 and the conveyance roller 41 facing the conveyance roller 31. As a result, the page turning mechanism 10 prevents the bankbook 90 from escaping to the right when the bankbook 90 is pushed up by the pressure 100. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 switches the movable guide 3 to the open state (FIG. 10B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 avoids interference between the passbook 90 pushed up by the pressure 100 and the movable guide 3. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 retracts the transport roller 51 from the transport path (FIG. 10B). As a result, the page turning mechanism 10 avoids the conveyance roller 51 from preventing the passbook 90 from being bent. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 advances the pressure 100 from the conveyance path and pushes up the bankbook 90 (FIG. 10B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 bends the bankbook 90 and facilitates page turning by the turning roller 21.

  At this time, since the side including the page to be turned of the passbook 90 has a relatively large thickness, the load applied to the pressure 100 is relatively large as compared with the case where it is thin. The pressure 100 suppresses the lifting amount of the bankbook 90 by compressing the spring 130 according to the load.

  Thus, even if the lifting amount of the passbook 90 is suppressed, the page turning mechanism 10 bends with the conveyance roller 22 and the pressure 100 as a fulcrum because the side including the turning target page of the passbook 90 has a relatively large thickness. The deflection width d1 of the bankbook 90 is in a suitable range.

  The page turning mechanism 10 turns the turning roller 21 counterclockwise to turn up the page to be turned (FIG. 11A). As a result, the page turning mechanism 10 holds the page to be turned by the turning roller 21. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 retracts the pressure 100 from the conveyance path (FIG. 11B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 prevents the turning of two sheets by releasing the bending of the pushed passbook 90 other than the turning target page.

  The page turning mechanism 10 further rotates the turning roller 21 counterclockwise to flip the turning target page onto the turning roller 21 (FIG. 12A). Further, the page turning mechanism 10 advances the conveyance roller 51 evacuated from the conveyance path to the conveyance path (FIG. 12B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 holds the bankbook 90 between the transport roller 51 and the transport roller 22 facing the transport roller 51. Then, the page turning mechanism 10 conveys the bankbook 90 from the right to the left in the figure (FIG. 12B).

The page turning mechanism 10 switches the movable guide 3 to the closed state and rotates the transport roller 31 clockwise to return to the initial position (FIG. 13).
As described above, the page turning mechanism 10 can suitably turn the passbook 90 having a relatively large thickness on the side including the page to be turned.

  Next, an example of the operation of the page turning mechanism 10 when the load on the pressure 100 is small will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 to 17. 14 to 17 are diagrams for explaining an example of the operation of the page turning mechanism when the load applied to the pressure body of the embodiment is small. As an example when the load applied to the pressure 100 is small, a page turning operation performed by the page turning mechanism 10 when the bankbook 90 lifted by the pressure 100 is thin is illustrated.

  The page turning mechanism 10 conveys the passbook 90 from the left to the right in the drawing to a predetermined position suitable for page turning (FIG. 14A). At this time, the page to be turned of the passbook 90 is located under the turning roller 21. On the pressure 100, the side including the page to be turned of the passbook 90 opened with the binding portion at the center is located. The bankbook 90 shown in the figure has a relatively small thickness on the side including the page to be turned of the bankbook 90 opened around the binding portion.

  The page turning mechanism 10 locks the transport roller 31 (FIG. 14B). The page turning mechanism 10 holds a bankbook 90 between the conveyance roller 31 and the conveyance roller 41 facing the conveyance roller 31. As a result, the page turning mechanism 10 prevents the bankbook 90 from escaping to the right when the bankbook 90 is pushed up by the pressure 100. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 switches the movable guide 3 to the open state (FIG. 14B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 avoids interference between the passbook 90 pushed up by the pressure 100 and the movable guide 3. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 retracts the transport roller 51 from the transport path (FIG. 14B). As a result, the page turning mechanism 10 avoids the conveyance roller 51 from preventing the passbook 90 from being bent. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 advances the pressure 100 from the conveyance path and pushes up the bankbook 90 (FIG. 14B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 bends the bankbook 90 and facilitates page turning by the turning roller 21.

  At this time, since the side including the page to be turned of the bankbook 90 has a relatively small thickness, the load applied to the pressure 100 is relatively small as compared with the case where it is thick. The pressure 100 lifts the bankbook 90 without compressing the spring 130 because the load is small. At this time, the pressure 100 lifts the bankbook 90 without suppressing the lifting amount.

  In this way, the page turning mechanism 10 does not suppress the lifting amount of the passbook 90 even if the side including the page to be turned of the passbook 90 has a relatively small thickness, so that the conveyance roller 22 and the pressure 100 are used as fulcrums. The bending width d2 of the bankbook 90 which bends is in a suitable range.

  The page turning mechanism 10 turns the turning roller 21 counterclockwise to turn up the target page (FIG. 15A). As a result, the page turning mechanism 10 holds the page to be turned by the turning roller 21. Further, the page turning mechanism 10 retracts the pressure 100 from the conveyance path (FIG. 15B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 prevents the turning of two sheets by releasing the bending of the pushed passbook 90 other than the turning target page.

  The page turning mechanism 10 further rotates the turning roller 21 counterclockwise to jump the turning target page onto the turning roller 21 (FIG. 16A). Further, the page turning mechanism 10 advances the transport roller 51 evacuated from the transport path to the transport path (FIG. 16B). Thereby, the page turning mechanism 10 holds the bankbook 90 between the transport roller 51 and the transport roller 22 facing the transport roller 51. Then, the page turning mechanism 10 conveys the bankbook 90 from the right to the left in the drawing (FIG. 16B).

The page turning mechanism 10 switches the movable guide 3 to the closed state and rotates the transport roller 31 clockwise to return to the initial position (FIG. 17).
As described above, the page turning mechanism 10 can suitably turn the passbook 90 having a relatively small thickness on the side including the page to be turned.

Further, the page turning mechanism 10 can push up the passbook stably even if there are variations in the thickness and state of the passbook, thereby realizing suitable page turning.
Further, the page turning mechanism 10 has a range of correspondence to variations in the thickness and state of the passbook, for example, the movable range (rising range) of the pressure 100 is conventionally 3 mm to 5 mm, but can be 2 mm to 8 mm. Expand.

  In addition, although the spring 130 showed the example which restrict | limits the rotation amount of the pressure main body 110, when a pressure main body carries out the linear motion of an up-down direction, for example, it is made to restrict | limit the movement amount (displacement amount) of a linear direction. May be.

The above-described embodiment can be variously modified within a range not departing from the gist of the embodiment.
Further, the above-described embodiments can be modified and changed in many ways by those skilled in the art, and are not limited to the exact configurations and application examples described.

1 page turning device 2 support housing 3, 4 movable guide 5 transport surface 6 guide 10 page turning mechanism 20, 30 shaft 21 page turning roller 22, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71 transport roller 100, 100 a, 100 b, 100 c, 200 Pressure 110 Pressure body 111 Abutting surface 112, 114 Conveying surface 113, 115 Tapered surface 116 Shaft insertion hole 117 Restriction restricting portion 120 Pressure guide 121 Stopper portion 122 Guide hole 123 First recessed portion 124 Second recessed portion 125 Spring mounting portion 130 Spring 190 shaft

Claims (7)

A booklet medium handling apparatus comprising a pressure mechanism that pushes up the booklet medium from the lower surface side of a conveyance path for conveying the booklet medium,
The pressure mechanism is
A drive unit;
A main body having a contact surface that contacts the booklet medium;
A base portion coupled to the drive portion;
Displacement that transmits the displacement of the base portion in the pushing-up operation by the driving portion to the main body portion, and that is elastically deformed by the pushing-up load of the booklet medium and restricts the displacement amount of the main body portion from the displacement amount of the base portion. A quantity limiting unit;
A booklet medium handling apparatus comprising:   The said base part is provided with the restriction | limiting amount control part which transmits the displacement of the said base part to the said main-body part in the state which the said displacement amount restriction | limiting part carried out the elastic deformation more than predetermined amount. Booklet media handling device. The drive unit is a shaft,
The main body is pivotally supported by the shaft,
The base is fixed to the shaft;
The displacement amount limiting portion transmits the rotation of the base portion in the rotation operation of the shaft to the main body portion, and is elastically deformed by a push-up load of the booklet medium to thereby determine the rotation amount of the main body portion. The booklet medium handling device according to claim 2, wherein the booklet medium handling device is limited by the amount of rotation.   The base portion is a plate-like member having a length in the rotational radius direction, one end is fixed to the shaft, the other end is a support portion that supports the displacement amount restriction portion, and the restriction amount is provided at an intermediate portion. The booklet medium handling device according to claim 3, further comprising a restriction unit. A first conveying roller pair facing up and down across the conveying path;
A winding roller that is coaxial with a transport roller located above the transport path in the first transport roller pair, and winds the booklet medium;
With
The contact surface is
Together with the transport roller located above the transport path in the first transport roller pair, with the transport roller located below the transport path in the first transport roller pair retracted from the transport path The booklet medium handling device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the booklet medium is in contact with the booklet medium. A second conveying roller pair that is vertically separated from the first conveying roller pair by a predetermined distance in the conveying direction and sandwiches the conveying path;
The booklet according to claim 5, wherein the contact surface is in contact with the booklet medium between the first transport roller pair and the second transport roller pair sandwiching the booklet medium. Medium handling device. The booklet medium has a portion having a different thickness in the width direction,
The booklet medium handling apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of the pressure mechanisms are provided corresponding to portions having different thicknesses in the width direction of the booklet medium.

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