JP2021106754A - Conveying method of sheet body, and facilities - Google Patents

Abstract

To send a rectangular sheet body, such as a bill, to a safe of a bank or a safe attached to a bank that is managed speedily, reliably, and safely by using a duct.SOLUTION: A bill discharged from plural dispensers provided in a bank S of a game parlor YJ is sent to a slit passage 1B having a slender section of a duct 1 by a sheet body feeding device 6, and a hollow spherical body B of a ping-pong ball is fed from a ball feeding device 2 in an upstream side to a center passage 1A in a circular section of the duct 1, then an air flow is directed downstream by a blower 3A, the hollow spherical body B is applied to the middle of a short side of a bill that is waiting in the slit passage 1B in a great circle direction, and the bill is pressed against a downstream side by kinetic energy of the hollow spherical body B and is conveyed, and is fed to a bank safe MB via an extension duct 1N and is housed in the safe. The fed hollow spherical bodies are housed in a downstream ball reception part 5, and three hollow spherical bodies are returned to the ball feeding device 2 via the upstream-side extension duct 1N and the duct 1 by an air flow of a blower 3F together so as to be used for feeding a next bill.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a technique for moving a sheet body such as a banknote, a playing card, an admission ticket, a magnetic card, a memo card, etc. having a thin wall shape and a rectangular or rectangular flat shape in a duct by the thrust of an air flow. .. In particular, banknotes inserted at amusement hall rental machines, event halls, amusement venues, shopping mall checkout counters, admission ticket counters, ticket counters, ATM machines, or banknotes used in transactions at financial money handling counters. Can be transported and managed safely.

As shown in Patent Document 1 of the application, the applicant sends banknotes inserted into a plurality of rental machines installed next to the game machine on the island of the amusement park into a passage in a closed duct, and also A bill catching moving body that catches and conveys bills is sent into the duct, and the air force of the air flow sent into the duct is received by the blade-shaped pressure receiving surface to obtain a thrust. , Technology that runs along the guide in the duct, catches the bills that are sent in the middle of the duct and are waiting in the duct while moving, and moves the bills in the duct along the movement guide with the bills caught. Was developed. In this technology, a plurality of plastic banknote catching moving bodies are used as auxiliary tools to catch banknotes discharged from a rental machine in the middle of a transport duct and transfer them in the duct to a predetermined safe or storage on the island. We have developed a technology to send it into the room.

In the present invention, the plastic bill catching moving body has a considerable weight having wings with its wings spread to the left and right, and is guided by a guide in the duct to move in a predetermined posture by friction or perturbation with the guide surface. Resistance was generated and required a strong wind speed air flow. In addition, the strong air flow disturbs the banknotes that are sent into the duct and are waiting, and there are cases where the banknotes are not reliably captured by the banknote capture moving body. In addition, it is necessary to send a strong air flow to the duct, which has a long start-up time and has a problem in quick bill feeding. Further, since the inertial force of the bill catching moving body is large, the control of starting and stopping is complicated, and the bill may be damaged by the large inertial force.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2015-178393

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional banknote transfer technique, to enable quick and reliable banknote feeding with a small wind speed air flow, to reduce damage to banknotes, and to smoothly. The purpose is to be able to send banknotes with less damage. Further, the purpose is to shorten the start time at the start of feeding bills.

The configuration of the present invention that solves this problem is
1) A method of transferring a sheet body such as banknotes, playing cards, magnetic cards, memo cards, cash cards, etc., which has a thin wall shape and a rectangular flat shape, is moved by the thrust of an air flow.
A hollow sphere having a diameter shorter than the length of one side on the short side side of the sheet body having a rectangular planar shape is formed in a central passage having a circular cross section through which a narrow gap can pass with the inner peripheral surface of the passage. Has a long width and extends radially across the central portion of the circular cross section of the central passage through an elongated rectangular region having a length longer than the length of one side of the sheet body. The slit passages through which the sheet bodies arranged so as to project in the radial direction in the overhanging portions formed on both the upper and lower sides from the circumference of the cross section are integrated so that the internal spaces of the two passages communicate with each other. A transfer duct having a transfer passage having an outer shape space formed inside is provided between the transfer of the seat body, and the sheet body to be transferred is sent from the outside of the duct to the slit passage inside the duct, and the seat body is sent. By sending the hollow sphere into the central passage portion in the duct on the upstream side in the direction and sending the air flow flowing in the direction of the sheet body from the further upstream side of the fed hollow sphere into the transfer passage of the duct. The hollow sphere is moved toward the seat body at a predetermined speed along the central space portion in the duct by the air force from the air flow, and the peripheral edge of the short side of the seat body sent into the slit passage of the transfer passage moves. The seat body is pressed by the kinetic energy of the hollow sphere so as to abut toward the substantially large circular direction of the hollow sphere, and the seat body is forcibly fed downstream along the slit passage in the duct. 2) The slit passage of the duct is arranged side by side so as to be in the same transfer direction as the transfer direction of the central passage of the duct, and the transfer direction of the central passage is substantially horizontal. In the above 1), the sheet body transfer method 3) the transfer passage of the duct, which has a structure in which the slit passage is arranged so that the short side of the sheet body fed into the slit passage is accommodated in a substantially vertical direction. In the curved duct region where is curved or twisted left and right and up and down, at the boundary position between the internal space of the overhanging portion of the transfer passage and the internal space of the central passage, the sheet body is inside the central portion of the central passage having a circular cross section. In addition, regulating protrusions for holding the seat body position are provided on the inner facing surfaces of the overhanging portion at the boundary position so that the seat body position can be held closer to the circular center of radius, and the bending is caused by the pair of facing regulating protrusions. Restrict the seat body closer to the circular center of radius of the central passage in the duct area Then, the sheet body is more reliably brought into contact with the hollow sphere so as to face the large circle direction, and the hollow sphere presses the sheet body from the center of the radius of the hollow sphere to hold the sheet body regardless of the curvature or twist of the duct. The method for transferring a sheet body according to 1) or 2) above, wherein the sheet body can move stably and the frictional resistance between the sheet body and the road surface of the slit passage is reduced so that the sheet body can be transferred at high speed. 4) The entire duct area of the duct. At the boundary position between the internal space of the overhanging portion of the transfer passage and the internal space of the central passage in the duct of the entire area of the duct, the sheet body is in the central portion of the central passage and has a circular radial center. Regulatory protrusions that hold the seat body position so that they can be held in close positions are provided on the inner facing surfaces of the overhanging portion at the boundary position, respectively, and the pair of opposed regulating protrusions causes the seat body to be circular in the central passage in the entire duct region. The position is restricted so that the seat body is closer to the center of the radius of the hollow sphere, and the sheet body is brought into contact with the hollow sphere so as to be more surely directed toward the large circle direction of the hollow sphere. The seat body can be stably transferred, the frictional resistance between the seat body and the road surface of the slit passage is reduced, and the long side direction of the seat body and the transfer direction of the duct are the same so that high-speed transfer can be performed in a stable posture. 5) The above-mentioned method of transferring the sheet body according to 1) or 2) described above. The length of the overhanging portion in the radial direction is longer than the length of the overhanging portion in the area where the duct is linearly transferred so that the sheet body fits in the slit passage in the curved duct area and can be smoothly transferred. 1) to 4) The method for transferring the sheet body according to any one of 6) The sheet body fed into the slit passage in the duct is one sheet body from the fed position to the destination position of the duct of the sheet body. The above-mentioned, which is abutted against and pressed against a specific hollow sphere corresponding to one-to-one with, and is transferred to the destination without overtaking another sheet body in transfer and another hollow sphere in transfer on the downstream side. 1) to 5) Transfer method of sheet body according to any one of 7) After feeding one sheet body into the slit passage of the duct, ball feeding which can temporarily store a plurality of hollow spheres provided at an upstream position of the duct. One hollow sphere is sent from the device to the central space of the duct and transferred downstream by the air flow from the blower upstream of the ball feeding device. The air sphere is brought into contact with the seat body sent in the middle of the slit passage and pressed to be transferred along the duct, and the transferred seat body is separated from the slit passage in the duct at a predetermined position downstream to the outside. After sending to the specified destination, the hollow sphere after the transfer is completed in the central passage in the duct is temporarily stored in the ball receiving part on the downstream side, and then the sheet body and the hollow sphere do not exist in the transfer passage of the duct. An air flow in the upstream direction is given to the hollow spheres stored from the ball receiving portion, and one or a plurality of hollow spheres are collectively sent upstream along the central passage of the duct, and a ball provided at the upstream position thereof. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of 1) to 5) above, wherein one hollow sphere can transfer a plurality of sheet bodies by repeating returning to the feeding device and transferring the sheet body downstream again. When there are multiple seats to be sent into the slit passage of the duct in a predetermined time zone
In a transfer facility in which a plurality of N hollow spheres are used for transferring the sheet body in the duct between the ball feeding device and the ball receiving portion, the number of the plurality of sheet bodies to be delivered is N or less. The seats are divided into multiple groups, and each group is sent out to one slit passage of the planned sheet body and one hollow sphere stored is sent from the ball feeding device to the central space, and the blower is operated to operate the sheet. Sending the body to a predetermined destination and storing the used hollow spheres in the ball receiving section is repeated for all the sheet bodies of the group, and after sending all the sheet bodies of the group to the predetermined destination, they are stored in the ball receiving section. After collecting all the hollow spheres of N or less and storing them in the ball feeding device by back-feeding in the duct by the air flow toward the upstream, the transfer of the sheet body of the next group is repeated in the same manner as the transfer of the group. After completing the transfer of the sheet bodies of all the groups, the sheet body is fed in the same group as described above in the next time zone. The sheet body transfer method according to 7) 9) The duct After sending out one sheet body to the slit passage of the duct, one hollow sphere is sent to the central space of the duct from a ball feeding device that can temporarily store a plurality of hollow spheres provided at an upstream position of the duct, and the air flow causes the one hollow sphere to be sent to the central space of the duct. The hollow sphere is transferred downstream, and the hollow sphere is brought into contact with the sheet body sent in the middle of the slit passage and pressed to transfer the sheet body along the duct, and the transferred sheet body is moved to a predetermined position downstream. After detaching from the slit passage in the duct and sending it to a predetermined destination, the hollow sphere after the transfer is completed in the central passage in the duct is temporarily stored in the ball receiving part on the downstream side, and then the next sheet body is stored. It is fed to the slit passage of the duct, the next hollow sphere is fed downstream from the ball feeding device, and the sheet body is repeatedly fed to a predetermined destination in the same manner as described above. It is characterized in that the stored hollow spheres are sent to a ball feeding device by another ball feeding duct to replenish the hollow spheres, and the hollow spheres are circulated in each predetermined time zone to repeatedly feed a plurality of sheet bodies. 1) to 5) The sheet body feeding device according to any one of 1) to 5). A plurality of hollow spheres are arranged along the duct, and a plurality of hollow spheres are stored upstream of the sheet body feeding device located at the uppermost stream, and each one is in the duct. It is a method of transferring a seat body in a sheet body transfer facility provided with a blower for arranging the ball feeding device for feeding into the central passage and blowing an air flow into the central passage from a position further upstream than the ball feeding device.
When there are a plurality of sheet bodies scheduled to be fed into the slit passage of the duct in a time zone between a predetermined time while the seat bodies are made to stand by in the devices of the plurality of sheet body feeding devices.
One sheet body is sent out into the slit passage of the duct from any one of the plurality of seat body feeding devices in which the seat body is kept on standby, and one hollow sphere is sent from the ball feeding device into the central space of the duct. The air flow from the blower is blown to the central space, one hollow sphere is sent by the air flow from the ball feeding device, and the sheet body and the hollow sphere are predetermined by contacting the sheet body in the middle of the central passage. The transfer passage to the destination is set as a dedicated passage state for one sheet body and one hollow sphere, and high air force is maintained in the hollow sphere so that the sheet body can be sent at high speed and reliably, and the sheet body and the hollow. After transferring the sphere to a predetermined destination, the next one sheet body that is waiting for the rest of the sheet body sending device is sent into the slit passage of the duct, and the next one hollow sphere is sent from the ball feeding device. Is sent to the next seat body and the hollow sphere as a dedicated passage state to a predetermined destination, which is repeated for all the seat bodies scheduled to be fed, which are waiting in the time zone. 7) to 9) The method for transferring the sheet body according to any one of the above 7) to 9) 11) The sheet body is a bill discharged from a plurality of rental machines on the island of the amusement park. The sheet body feeding device is a device that feeds the bills discharged from each lending machine to the slit passage in the duct, and the final destination of the bills by the duct is a duct extended through the end of the island. It is an island safe in the centralized bill management room of the amusement park connected by, and the passage that becomes the dedicated passage state is the island safe of the final destination of the bill management room from the ball feeding device located upstream of the island and the said. The method of transferring the sheet body according to the above 10) to the position in front of the ball receiving portion 12) The sheet body is a bill discharged from a plurality of rental machines on the island of the amusement park, and the sheet body feeding device is It is a device that sends out the bills discharged from each lending machine to the slit passage in the duct.
The final destination of the banknotes by the duct is a dedicated island safe for each island in the centralized banknote management room of the amusement park connected by an extension duct extending from the end of the island, and the dedicated passage. The passage in the state is from the ball feeding device at the uppermost stream of the duct of the island to the end of the island, and when the seat body arrives at the end of the island, the next seat body and the hollow sphere are sent to the passage in the dedicated passage state. At the same time as sending in and making the next transfer in the passage that becomes a dedicated passage state, the seat body that arrived at the end of the island and the hollow sphere that pressed it were sent to the extension duct and provided at the end of the island and in the middle of the extension duct. The new air flow blown by the auxiliary blower is used to send the sheet to the island safe in the banknote management room at the final destination. The bills discharged from the machine, the sheet body feeding device is a device that feeds the bills discharged from each lending machine to the slit passage in the duct.
The final destination of the bills by the duct is the island attached safe provided at the end of the island, and the passage in the dedicated passage state is from the ball feeding device at the uppermost stream of the duct of the island to the end of the island, and is a sheet body. When it reaches the end of the island, the next seat body and hollow sphere in the standby state are sent to the dedicated passage, and the next seat body is sent to the island attached safe at the end of the island repeatedly in the dedicated passage to complete the total amount of the seat body. Sending, the method of transferring the sheet body according to the above 10) 14) The sheet body to be fed into the slit passage of the duct is made to stand by in the apparatus, and the sheet body is fed to the sending position in the slit passage in the duct by a required feeding signal. A plurality of devices are arranged along the duct separated by a predetermined period, and a ball feeding device is arranged in which a plurality of hollow spheres are stored upstream of the sheet body feeding device located at the uppermost stream and sent to the central passage in the duct one by one. However, it is a method of transferring a sheet body in a sheet body transfer facility equipped with a blower that blows an air flow into the central passage from a position further upstream than the ball feeding device.
The corresponding hollow spheres that press the sheet body on the downstream side from the ball feeding device in the order in which they are lined up from the downstream side at the feeding position in the slit passage of the duct of the sheet body that the sheet body feeding device is scheduled to send out are in the downstream order. The feeding time of each hollow sphere is calculated by the ball feeding device based on the calculated data or the actually measured data so that the hollow sphere corresponding to each sheet abuts on each sheet at approximately the same time while being fed to the central passage of the duct according to the above. The ball feeding device is controlled so as to determine and feed the ball, and the seat body that has been waiting from each sheet body feeding device before the arrival of the corresponding hollow spheres that the sheet bodies come into contact with each other at approximately the same time is placed in the duct. The sheet body feeding device is controlled so as to simultaneously feed the sheet body to a predetermined feeding position of the slit passage, and at about the same time, the corresponding hollow spheres are in contact with each sheet body in a paired state, and the order is downstream of the feeding position. 6) The method for transferring a sheet body according to the above 6) The sheet body to be fed into the slit passage of the duct is made to stand by in the apparatus, and a required feed signal is obtained. A plurality of sheet body feeding devices to be fed to the feeding position in the slit passage in the duct are arranged along the duct separated by a predetermined period, and a plurality of hollow spheres are stored upstream of the sheet body feeding device located at the uppermost stream. A method for transferring a sheet body in a sheet body transfer facility equipped with a blower that sends air flow to the central passage from a position further upstream than the ball feeding device by arranging a ball feeding device that feeds each piece into the central passage in the duct. There,
When there are a plurality of sheet body feeding devices having a sheet body scheduled to be fed into the slit passage of the duct within a predetermined time by making the sheet body stand by in the devices of the plurality of sheet body feeding devices.
The center of the duct is a hollow sphere that presses the sheet body on the upstream side from the ball feeding device in the order in which the delivery position in the slit passage of the duct of the sheet body to be sent out is arranged from the upstream side to the downstream side. While sending to the aisle
The ball feeding device ducts the hollow sphere with an interval of length L (l + 2R + δ), which is the sum of the length l of the long side of the long side of the flat rectangular sheet body, the diameter 2R of the hollow sphere, and the margin dimension δ. The sheet body feeding device, which is scheduled to be fed into the central passage of the above, is a predetermined sheet body feeding device before the hollow sphere corresponding to the seat body to be fed reaches the feeding position of the seat body in the slit passage in the duct. The sheet body sending device was controlled so as to send the sheet body that had been waiting before the time to the slit passage, so that the pair of the sheet body to be transferred and the corresponding hollow sphere could be sent at an equal pitch of the length L. 6) The method for transferring a sheet body according to the above 6) At the end or in the middle of the duct, the slit passage in the passage space in the duct is extended in the feeding direction, separated from the passage space in the duct, and branched to the outside of the duct. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of 1) to 15) above, wherein a passage is provided and the sheet body sent through the slit passage in the duct is discharged from the branch slit passage to separate or collect the sheet body. 17) The duct is connected to a ball receiving portion capable of accommodating a plurality of hollow spheres in the central passage on the downstream side of the duct at the position where the branch slit passage is provided, and balls enter and exit the connection port between the ball receiving portion and the duct. A ball stopper that can brake the ball is provided, and an air outlet that sends an air flow that sends a hollow sphere in the upstream direction of the duct is provided at the end of the ball receiving part. The hollow sphere housed in the ball receiving part is returned to the duct by feeding the air flow from the air outlet of the ball receiving part and opening the ball stopper at a required time, and the ball feeding on the upstream side thereof. The method for transferring the sheet body according to any one of 7) to 16) described above, which allows the hollow sphere to be used repeatedly by returning it to the device 18) The hollow sphere is a ping-pong ball used in table tennis. 1) to 17) The method for transferring the sheet body according to any one of the above 1) to 17) 19) The method for transferring the sheet body according to any one of the above 1) to 10) or 14) to 18) 20) The sheet body is a bill. The method for transferring a sheet according to any one of 1) to 10) or 14) to 18) described above, which is made of plastic, thick paper, or thin metal and has rigidity and shape retention 21) on the outer periphery of a spherical surface of a hollow sphere. The above 1) to 20), wherein a thin buffer layer is formed to reduce damage to the outer peripheral surface of the hollow sphere and damage to the sheet body due to contact with the sheet body. 22) A sheet body transfer facility that moves thin-walled, rectangular-shaped sheet bodies such as banknotes, playing cards, magnetic cards, memo cards, and cash cards by the thrust of an air flow. There,
A hollow sphere having a diameter shorter than the length of one side on the short side side of the sheet body having a rectangular planar shape is formed in a central passage having a circular cross section through which a narrow gap can pass with the inner peripheral surface of the passage. Has a long width and extends radially across the center of the circular cross section of the central passage through an elongated rectangular region having a length longer than the length of one side of the sheet body. The slit passages through which the sheet bodies arranged so as to project in the radial direction in the overhanging portions formed on both the left and right sides from the circumference of the cross section are integrated so that the internal spaces of the two passages communicate with each other. A transfer duct having a transfer passage having an outer shape space formed inside is provided between the transfer of the seat body.
A plurality of sheet body sending devices for sending the sheet body to the duct from the standby state in the device into the slit passage in the duct by a sending signal are arranged along the duct, and the sheet body located at the uppermost stream is arranged. A ball feeding device that stores a plurality of hollow spheres and feeds each of them to the central passage in the duct is arranged upstream of the feeding device, and is equipped with a blower that sends an air flow to the central passage from a position further upstream than the ball feeding device.
In addition, the operation stop of the sheet body feeding device, the ball feeding device, and the blower is controlled, and the data of the standby state of the sheet body of the sheet body feeding device is input and stored together with the device ID, and a predetermined time zone is set. Equipped with a control unit using a computer that controls the delivery to the slit passage of the duct of the sheet body to be transferred at a predetermined time point and the hollow sphere corresponding to the sheet body to be sent out to the central space of the duct at a predetermined timing. 23) Sheet body transfer equipment 23) The duct slit passages are arranged side by side so as to be in the same transfer direction as the central passage of the duct, and the short side of the seat body fed into the slit passage is the duct. 22) The sheet transfer facility according to 22) described above, which is accommodated so as to be in the vertical direction in a horizontal region. At the boundary position between the internal space of the overhanging portion of the transfer passage and the internal space of the central passage, the seat body position is set so that the seat body can be held in the central portion of the central passage and closer to the circular radial center. The regulating protrusions to be held are provided on the inner facing surfaces of the overhanging portion at the boundary position, respectively, and the seat body is positioned closer to the circular radial center of the central passage in the curved duct region by the pair of facing regulating protrusions. By restricting, the seat body is more reliably brought into contact with the hollow sphere in the direction of the large circle, and the hollow sphere presses the seat body from the center of the radius of the hollow sphere, regardless of the curvature or twist of the duct. 22) or 23) The sheet body transfer equipment 25) The bending duct according to the above 22) or 23) In the region, the length of the overhanging portion on the side where the center of curvature of the curvature of the duct is located is longer than the length of the overhanging portion in the region where the duct is linearly transferred, and the sheet body is slit through the curved duct region. 24) The sheet body transfer facility according to 24) described above, which fits in the duct and is made to be able to be smoothly transferred. A branch slit passage that separates from the duct and branches to the outside of the duct is provided, and the sheet body sent through the slit passage in the duct is discharged from the branch slit passage to separate or collect the sheet body. 27) The duct The central passage of the duct at the position where the branch slit passage is provided is connected to the ball receiving portion accommodating a plurality of hollow spheres, and a ball sensor for detecting the inflow and outflow of balls is provided at the connection port between the ball receiving portion and the duct. Also, at the end of the ball receiving part, an air outlet for sending an air flow that sends the hollow sphere in the upstream direction of the duct is provided, and a plurality of hollow spheres sent from the duct are housed in the ball receiving part, and the hollow sphere is stored by the ball sensor. By sending an air flow from the air outlet at a required time after the number of items reaches the set number, the hollow spheres housed in the ball receiving portion are returned to the duct and returned to the ball feeding device on the upstream side for temporary storage. 26) The sheet body transfer facility described in 26) 28) The hollow sphere is a ping-pong ball used in table tennis, 22) to 27) any of the above. 29) The sheet body transfer facility described above 29) The sheet body is a bill, 22) to 28) The sheet body transfer facility 30) The sheet body is a pachinko ball / medal or a card that can be played in the amusement park. 29) The sheet body transfer facility according to the above 29) The sheet body transferred by the duct is a banknote, and the destination of the banknote is connected to the slit passage at the end of the duct. 28) to 30) The sheet transfer facility 32) The rental machine is provided for each island of the amusement park, and is provided for each island of the amusement park. A specific safe or a specific safe provided at a predetermined place in the amusement park away from the island by the duct provided along the island and the extension duct connected to the duct at the end of the island for all the bills inserted into the rental machine. 30) The sheet-type transfer equipment described in 30) above, in which the ducts are transferred to the duct management room and the ducts are centrally stored by island. 33) The rental machines are a plurality of rental machines arranged on the same island in the amusement park. The sheet transfer facility 34) according to the above 30), wherein the bills inserted into the rental machine in island units are sent by the duct and sent to the island attached safe provided at the end of each island to manage the bills in island units. At the central space position of the duct in front of the air outlet on the upstream side of the duct, the ball feeding device centers a cylindrical sphere receiving pit having an inner diameter slightly longer than the outer diameter of the hollow sphere with respect to the central passage. A plurality of rows are provided along the duct so as to communicate with the passage, and an electric cylinder is provided in the sphere receiving pit to move the pistons forward and backward toward the central passage to move the hollow sphere in the receiving pit up and down. Top of pit Each is equipped with a pit standby stopper device that puts in and out a pit standby stopper that prevents the top hollow sphere in the pit from moving to the central passage, and further, in front of the front row of multiple sphere receiving pits, with the central passage of the duct. The structure is provided with a ball sensor that detects the entry and exit of the hollow sphere from the sphere receiving pit, and further, the ball feeding device, the sheet feeding device, the blower, the ball receiving portion, the electric cylinder of the piston of the sphere receiving pit, and the pit standby. Starts and stops and controls equipment such as stopper devices, and waits for the seat body. The sheet body transfer equipment according to any one of 22) to 33) above, which has a control unit using a computer that calculates and stores the storage of the sheet body to be sent out in a predetermined time zone, the delivery order, the feeding time of balls, and the like. 35) In addition to the blower of the upstream ball feeding device and the blower of the downstream ball receiving part, a plurality of auxiliary blowers for blowing air flow into the duct or the extension duct are provided in the middle of the duct or in the middle of the extension duct, 22). ~ 34) Transfer equipment for the sheet body described in any of the above 36) The auxiliary blower is provided with a ball sensor that detects the passage of a hollow sphere that passes through the central space of the duct or extension duct, and the ball sensor passes through the hollow sphere. The sheet body according to 35) above, which activates an auxiliary blower when it senses, sucks air outside the duct, blows it into the central passage of the duct, and gives air force to follow the hollow sphere that has passed through, so that it can be sent to a long distance. It is in the transfer facility of.

According to the present invention, since a lightweight hollow sphere such as a ping-pong ball can be used as the propulsive force for transferring a sheet body such as a banknote into the duct, the mass of the hollow sphere can be greatly reduced, and thus the flow velocity of the air flow can be increased. It is possible to obtain sufficient thrust for feeding banknotes even at low speeds, shorten the start-up time until the transfer, and enable high-speed banknote movement.
The hollow sphere passes through the inner peripheral surface of the central passage in a narrow gap, and the hollow sphere always smoothly passes through the center of the central passage due to the light contact between the sphere surfaces with the inner peripheral surface of the central passage and the outer peripheral air flow. can. Since the air flow acts on the hollow sphere having a diameter slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the central passage, the kinetic energy of the air flow mostly acts as a pressing force on the hollow sphere and efficiently sends the hollow sphere at a predetermined speed. Therefore, the sheet body can be transferred with a low-speed air flow. Moreover, since the seat body is guided by the elongated slit passage and crosses the central portion of the hollow sphere, the seat body has a position structure such that it hits the great circle direction of the hollow sphere. Therefore, when the moving hollow sphere hits the seat body, the pressing force from the hollow sphere presses the center of the short side of the seat body from the substantially radial center thereof, and the seat body is surely pressed in the longitudinal direction of the duct. The seat body can be fed along the duct while being restrained in the slit passage. In particular, if the sheet is fed so that the short side of the sheet is vertical, the sheet is less deformed and tilted and is transferred along the longitudinal direction of the sheet, so that a stable thrust is generated. The contact between the sheet body and the inner surface of the overhanging portion is a line contact, and the frictional force is reduced.
In this way, the sheet body is restrained by the slit passage / overhanging portion or the regulating protrusion so that the sheet body can pass through the central portion near the center of the radius in the great circle direction of the hollow sphere, so that the sheet body is in the great circle direction of the hollow sphere. When hit, the thrust in the longitudinal direction is effectively and surely applied from the hollow sphere to the short side of the sheet body. This avoids a situation in which the seat body is deformed so as to be biased toward the left / right surface or the upper surface / lower surface of the hollow sphere and come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the central passage along the spherical surface, so that no pressing force is generated on the seat body. Can be done (see FIG. 10).

The slit passage is provided so as to be in the vertical direction, and when the short side of the seat body fed into the slit passage is vertical, it is in the substantially large circular direction of the moving hollow sphere, and the hollow sphere is the short side of the seat body. The seat body is brought into contact with the central portion of the peripheral edge, and the seat body is continuously pressed smoothly to transfer the seat body toward the duct. Since the hollow sphere presses the central portion of the short side peripheral edge of the sheet body, the deformation due to the pressing of the sheet body is much smaller than that of pressing the central portion of the long side peripheral edge. Therefore, the seat body can be smoothly transferred only by restraining the upper and lower portions of the overhanging portion. Further, even if the long side peripheral edge of the sheet body abuts on the end surface of the slit passage, the thickness of the sheet body (thickness of the lower peripheral edge) is extremely small, so the frictional resistance due to contact friction is also small, and the frictional resistance does not become resistance and is aerodynamic. It can be transferred smoothly.

In particular, if the seat body is provided with a regulating protrusion at a position facing the boundary between the overhanging portion and the central passage, the seat body can be passed through the central passage even in a curved duct region where the passage space of the duct is curved or twisted vertically and horizontally. It hits the hollow sphere in the direction of the great circle in the direction closer to the center of the radius of the central passage at the center of the center, and the pressing force is surely applied to the seat body, so that the seat body is left / right or above / below the hollow sphere. It is displaced in the direction so that it does not deform along the spherical surface.

Further, in the invention in which the length of the overhanging portion on the curvature center side of the curvature of the duct is lengthened in the radial direction in the inflection duct region, the slit body passing through the overhanging portion of the slit passage in the inflection duct region A part of the long side may come into contact with the inner end surface of the overhanging part to deform the seat body, the speed of the seat body may decrease due to high frictional force, or the seat body may become stationary and cause clogging in some cases. I try not to.

The hollow sphere that presses a specific sheet body has a one-to-one correspondence with the sheet body in the transfer of the sheet body in a predetermined time zone, thereby determining the delivery timing of the hollow sphere body into the central passage in the duct. It is easy to do with the computer of the control unit. The position of the hollow sphere in the duct is determined by the time of delivery in the memory of the computer control unit, the distance and speed data to the seat body that corresponds one-to-one with the hollow sphere, or by various detection sensors, etc. Since the time when the seat body hits the hollow sphere can be measured and determined, it is easy to establish a relationship (one-to-one correspondence) between the fixed delivery position of the seat body in the slit passage and the position of the corresponding hollow sphere. , Easy computer control.

There is a method of attaching a magnetic mark / identification character symbol to the hollow sphere and determining the position in the duct from the ID of the hollow sphere with a reading sensor, but since the reliability / speed of the sensor signal and difficult control are required, the control unit Computer processing is preferred in the memory space of. Alternatively, there may be a calculation process that includes computer processing and ID measurement.
Here, the one-to-one correspondence is the correspondence between the sheet body and the hollow sphere for each transfer when a plurality of sheet bodies are sent by a plurality of hollow spheres in a predetermined time zone, and is a time zone. It means that the one-to-one correspondence between the sheet body and the hollow sphere is set for each case, and it does not mean that the hollow sphere and the sheet body have an absolute one-to-one correspondence.

The upstream ball feeding device enables the hollow sphere to be fed in the downstream direction at a predetermined time for transferring the sheet body, and the ball receiving portion on the downstream side sends the transferred hollow sphere to the upstream side at a predetermined time. Hollow spheres can be replenished to the upstream ball feeding device, and the hollow spheres can be used to feed multiple sheets by reciprocating in the duct, and a large number of sheets can be fed with a small number of hollow spheres. to enable.

The seat body transferred along the slit passage of the duct extends the branch slit passage, which is the extension direction of the slit passage in the duct, to the outside of the duct at a place close to the destination of the duct, so that the seat body can be sent to the predetermined destination. It can be separated from the duct in front of the duct and moved to the vault etc. by the branch slit passage to collect it.
When connecting the central passage of this branched duct to the ball receiving part, the hollow spheres transferred in the duct are collected by the ball receiving part, and the balls are collected during the time when there are no sheet body or hollow sphere in the duct. By sending an air flow toward the upstream from the air outlet of the receiving part, the hollow sphere collected in the ball receiving part is sent upstream by the central passage in the duct, and the ball feeding device at the uppermost stream also sends the ball receiving part. It can be delivered to a ball feeding device having a temporary storage structure for a plurality of hollow spheres similar to the above, and can be reused as a hollow sphere for transferring the next sheet body. As described above, since the small number of hollow spheres can be used repeatedly a plurality of times, the number of hollow spheres can be reduced and the sheet body can be efficiently transferred.

When there are a plurality of seat bodies to be transferred in a predetermined time zone, the method of moving the seat body to the feeding standby position in the slit passage and feeding the hollow sphere is as follows.
(B) There is only one pair of sheet body and one hollow sphere in the transfer passage from the ball feeding device to the end of the island or the transfer passage to the final destination, and it is used as a dedicated passage for that pair. How to do and
(B) A method of controlling the time when the hollow spheres are sent out and the time when the seats are sent out to the slit passage so that the hollow spheres having a one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of sheet bodies come into contact with each other at substantially the same point.
(C) The hollow sphere is the center of the duct from the ball feeding device at regular intervals of the total length L of l + 2R + δ, which is the sum of the length of the long side of the sheet body, the diameter of the hollow sphere 2R, and the length δ to prevent contact with it. A method of sending out to space and controlling to send out the corresponding sheet body just before the corresponding hollow sphere arrives,
As the final destination, there are a method of centrally managing the safe / storage room for storing the sheets in a fixed place, or a method of collecting and storing them in a safe provided for each group such as an island. Methods other than the above are also possible. In both cases, the sheet body outputs a signal of delivery from the "standby" of the sheet body delivery device before the time when the corresponding hollow sphere arrives, and outputs the signal of delivery before the predetermined time before the contact, and the seat body is before the scheduled contact time. To the slit passage.
In the above feeding methods (a), (b), and (c), the method of using the dedicated passage of (a) is adopted when the interval between the seat feeding devices is short or when the transfer speed of the hollow sphere is high. There are many. In this case, the pair of the sheet body and the hollow sphere is in a state of dedicated use in which the transfer passage in the duct is only for the movement of the pair, which is a safe and reliable method, and the banknotes of the rental machine between the islands of the amusement park are used. Suitable for transport.
The transfer methods (b) and (c) are suitable for use when the interval between the sheet body feeding devices is long or when the transfer speed of the hollow sphere is slow. In this case, it is required that the sheet body delivery time and the hollow sphere delivery time have high accuracy, and the high accuracy of these delivery or the accurate determination of the arrival time with the position in the duct of the hollow sphere or the sheet body delivery position. Need to be. The methods (b) and (c) are effective for maintaining the feed order of the sheet body or shortening the feed interval of the sheet body, and depending on the sheet body and its feed status, (a), (b), ( Judge whether the plan of c) is suitable and decide to adopt it. Further, the present invention can be used for other transfer methods.

In the former method (a), since the duct serves as a dedicated passage during the movement of the pair of the sheet body and the hollow sphere, the duct can be reliably and safely transferred without contact with a plurality of sheet bodies / hollow spheres.
(B) maintains the initial interval of the sheet body fed from the sheet body feeding device to the slit passage, and transfers the seat body to the downstream side. In the latter (c), the seat bodies are brought close to each other at a predetermined interval δ in the form of a pair of the seat body and the hollow sphere that presses the sheet body, and are transferred so as to form a line. In these feeding methods (a) to (c) and the like, the computer of the control unit is used to start and stop the ball feeding device, the sheet body feeding device, and the blower at a predetermined time. Control is performed using calculated values and measurement data such as the distance to the feeding device and the transfer speed. The methods (b) and (c) require the accuracy of the feeding timing of the hollow sphere and the high-speed feeding of the sheet body feeding device, which makes it difficult to transfer banknotes and has shape-retaining sheets such as cards and plastic bodies. Easy to use on the body. Further, the hollow sphere on the spot is suitable to be slightly heavier than the ping-pong ball.

As for the delivery order of any of the hollow spheres, the corresponding hollow spheres are sent out in order from the one on the downstream side of the initial delivery position of the slit passage of the one-to-one correspondence sheet body in that time zone. As a result, the seat body and the hollow sphere can be transferred in an orderly manner without collision or confusion. In the method (a), there is a method in which only a pair of a single sheet body and a corresponding hollow sphere is used as a dedicated passage from the ball feeding device to the end of the island or to the final destination.

As the hollow sphere, a lightweight and durable one is preferable because the blowing speed can be lowered and the hollow sphere can be moved at a high speed. In particular, the celluloid ping-pong ball used in table tennis is extremely lightweight and weighs about 2 g, and is most preferable because it has a hard shell and high strength and impact strength.

The final destination of the sheet body of the present invention varies depending on the use of the sheet body, but in the case of banknotes, the destination of the sheet body is often a safe safe safe or a banknote centralized storage room without theft.

In particular, when the present invention requires pachinko balls / medals or game cards for game media in the amusement park, the destination of the banknotes (10,000 yen bills / 1,000 yen bills) of the rental machine that rents the game media is each island. In some cases, it may be a safe safe / storage device provided for each island, or in some cases, the banknotes collected on each island may be sent to the safe centrally managed banknote storage room of the amusement park and centrally stored in a safe for each island. be. The banknotes of the amusement park may be stored in the safe of each island, or the banknotes of all the islands may be mixed and stored in the safe without identifying the island. By island, the total sales amount by island can be calculated, which is useful data for management.

The feeding direction of the sheet body of the slit passage in the duct of the present invention is the same as the feeding direction of the hollow sphere in the central passage, and both passages are arranged side by side. Although the body may be fed sideways, a slit passage having a vertical slit for feeding the seat body vertically is preferable because the friction between the seat body and the slit passage is small and the seat body can be moved with a small pressing force.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a duct and a device in the game hall of the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of a duct and an apparatus in the island of the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of the duct connecting the rental machines on the island of Example 1 and the device as viewed from the side. FIG. 4 is a plan view showing the arrangement of the duct and the device connecting the rental machines on the island of the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a duct and a device for centrally managing banknotes from each island of the game hall of the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing the cross-sectional shape of the duct of the transport line of the first embodiment and the feeding state of the bill and the hollow sphere. FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a cross-sectional shape of the duct used in the first embodiment and a form example of the central passage and the slit passage. FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing the cross-sectional shape of the duct and the feeding state of the ping-pong ball and the bill. FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing the shape of the inflection point of the duct. FIG. 10 is a comparative explanatory view of the state of the seat body when the spacing between the regulating protrusions in the overhanging portion of the inflection duct portion of Example 1 is wide and when the spacing between the regulating protrusions is narrow. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing a passing state of a bill having a broken ear in the slit passage in the first embodiment. FIG. 12 is a perspective view showing that the length of the overhanging portion is increased in the inflection duct portion in the first embodiment. FIG. 13 is an explanatory view showing a change in the length of the overhanging portion in the inflection duct portion of the first embodiment and a change in the distance between the duct cross section and the regulation protrusion. FIG. 14 is a partially cutaway explanatory view of a vertically bent portion of the duct of the first embodiment. FIG. 15 is a partially cutaway explanatory view of a vertically bent portion of the duct of the first embodiment. FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional explanatory view showing the internal structure of the vertical bend of the duct of the first embodiment. FIG. 17 is an explanatory view showing a moving state of the seat body and the ping-pong ball in the inflection duct portion of the first embodiment. FIG. 18 is a partially cutaway explanatory view showing a seat body insertion port portion of the duct of the first embodiment. FIG. 19 is an explanatory view showing the structure of the bill feeding portion of the duct. FIG. 20 is an explanatory diagram showing a rotation mechanism of the guide roller for feeding banknotes according to the first embodiment. FIG. 21 is an explanatory diagram showing the drive of the rotation mechanism shown in FIG. FIG. 22 is an explanatory diagram of a bill feeding process in the bill feeding device of the first embodiment. FIG. 23 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation of pushing the final stroke into the slit passage of the bill by the bill feeding device of the first embodiment. FIG. 24 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing the structure of the ball feeding device and the blower according to the first embodiment. FIG. 25 is an explanatory view showing the accommodation and delivery of the hollow sphere by the piston of the ball feeding device of the first embodiment. FIG. 26 is an explanatory diagram showing a holding state of the feeding position of the ball feeding device of the first embodiment. FIG. 27 is an explanatory diagram showing a process of feeding each hollow sphere into the central space of the hollow sphere by the ball feeding device of the first embodiment. FIG. 28 is an explanatory diagram showing a process of receiving and temporarily storing the hollow sphere in the ball feeding device of the first embodiment. FIG. 29 is an explanatory diagram showing the arrangement of island safes dedicated to each island in the centralized control room of the game hall of the first embodiment. FIG. 30 is an explanatory view showing the internal structure of the vault and the ball receiving portion of the banknote safe for each island of the first embodiment. FIG. 31 is an explanatory view showing a structure of separating the branch slit passage and the ball receiving portion of the duct of the first embodiment. 32 (a), (b), and (c) are explanatory views showing a structure of separation of the passage of the branch slit passage of the duct of the first embodiment. FIG. 33 is an explanatory diagram showing a process of separating the ball receiving portion of the duct of the first embodiment and the bill. FIG. 34 is an explanatory view showing a process of returning the hollow sphere stored from the ball receiving portion of the first embodiment into the duct. FIG. 35 is a perspective view showing a feeding state of the bill and the hollow sphere near the island safe in the first embodiment. FIG. 36 is a duct central longitudinal explanatory view showing a separated state between the banknote and the hollow sphere of the first embodiment. FIG. 37 is an explanatory view showing the auxiliary blower of the first embodiment. FIG. 38 is a side view showing a duct mounting state of the auxiliary blower of the first embodiment. FIG. 39 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 38. FIG. 40 is an explanatory diagram showing an apparatus arrangement and a control unit of the first embodiment. FIG. 41 is a perspective view of an island showing another second embodiment provided by the banknote safe for each island. FIG. 42 is an explanatory diagram showing an apparatus arrangement of the second embodiment. FIG. 43 is a side view showing a duct, a ball feeding device, a ball receiving portion, and an island safe on the island of the second embodiment. FIG. 44 is a plan view showing the arrangement of the ball receiving portion and the island safe according to the second embodiment. FIG. 45 is a perspective view showing the arrangement of the ball receiving portion and the island safe at the branch portion of the duct of the second embodiment. FIG. 46 is an explanatory view of an example having a hollow sphere return ball duct from the ball receiving portion to the ball feeding device of the present invention.

The hollow sphere of the present invention is preferably lightweight, has high strength and is resistant to impact, and a celluloid ping-pong ball for table tennis is suitable. Its weight is about 2 g / piece and its diameter is about 3.8 cm, the air flow velocity of the blast is low, and it is preferable that it can be sent at high speed. In particular, since the striking force at the contact with the bill is not large and only the pressing force can be generated, the bill is not damaged, which is preferable.

In the present invention, when a plurality of seat bodies are waiting in a predetermined time zone and there are a plurality of seat bodies to be fed into the duct, the seat body feeding order is the oldest order of the time when the seat bodies are in the standby state. There is a method of feeding the sheet body with the above method, or a method of feeding the sheet body downstream of the sheet body feeding device to be fed out first. The oldest order of the time when the former is in the standby state reduces the number of seats held by the rental machine in the rental machine that can hold only a small number of seats, and enables the seats to be put into the rental machine. This is useful when you want to keep the rental machine in use. In the latter method of ordering on the downstream side, the sheet body on the downstream side is sent out early from a section of the sheet body sending device and sent to the destination, and the sheet body on the upstream side is after the seat body sent out earlier. Since it follows, it is possible to reduce the possibility that the seat body catches up and contacts in the downstream region of the duct.

The dedicated passage in which only one sheet body and one hollow sphere of the present invention exist can be used in the case where the duct section of the island from the ball feeding device to the most downstream sheet body feeding device or the end of the island is used as the dedicated passage. In some cases, the extension duct from the ball feeding device to the distant destination of the seat body or the upstream position near the final destination (almost all duct sections) passes through the end of the island. In both Examples 1 and 2 of the present invention, a dedicated passage is provided up to the duct position at the end of the island. In the extension duct area from the end of the island to the island safe in the banknote management room, there can be multiple pairs of seats and hollow spheres that press them, and in particular, the moving speed of the pair on the downstream side depends on the multiple hollow spheres on the upstream side. As the air flow velocity decreases, the air force becomes weaker, the transfer speed becomes slower, and the accommodation speed in the island safe is slow, so the pair of sheet and hollow spheres catch up near the island safe and come into contact with each other. They tend to line up in front of the island safe (see Fig. 35). As a method of avoiding this, a plurality of auxiliary blowers are placed in the middle of the duct or in the middle of the extension duct following the duct, and when the hollow sphere passes through the duct, the air outside the duct is sucked so as to chase the hollow sphere that has passed from the auxiliary blower. It is preferable to blow a high-speed air flow toward the downstream side of the duct to add kinetic energy to the hollow sphere to increase the feeding speed of the hollow sphere. As a result, the pair of the bill MA and the hollow sphere B is sent serially along the extension duct 1N at high speed while maintaining a constant gap. In the first embodiment of the present invention, in order to send the banknotes to the island safe MB of the banknote management room MR far away from the amusement park, the auxiliary blowers 3B, 3C, 3D, 3E, one place near the end of the island, and the middle of the extension duct. A total of four auxiliary blowers 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E are arranged at three locations (see FIGS. 1 to 4).

If the dedicated passage is the entire section from the ball feeding device to the duct position in front of the island safe, one sheet body can send a pair of hollow spheres to the entire section to the destination, so a strong air flow is sent. So, high air force can be maintained in all sections, and the transfer time of one sheet can be shortened, but after the previous pair has traveled in all sections, the next sheet and hollow sphere are sent to send the entire section. As a result, there is no contact between the sheet body and the hollow sphere, but the ability of the sheet body transfer amount cannot be increased. If the entire section is a dedicated passage, safety and certainty are high, and there are cases where it is preferable to use this dedicated passage.
Further, in a method in which a plurality (N) of hollow spheres are sequentially sent to a duct, N sheets are sent, and then N hollow spheres are returned as one cycle, which is predetermined in a method of sending in multiple cycles. When the sheet body sending device 6 plans to send out M sheets of numerical value M larger than N in the time zone, the sheet body (3,) is scheduled to be sent out when N is 3 and M sheets (for example, 17 sheets) are to be sent out. It is efficient to divide into groups of 3,3,3,3,2), send them with three hollow spheres, and return the three spheres together in 6 cycles.

Further, in the present invention, by arranging the detection sensors of the sheet body or the hollow sphere at a plurality of positions of the duct, the positions of the sheet body and the hollow sphere are measured with high accuracy from the detection signal of the detection sensor, and the feed control with high accuracy is performed. It is preferable because it can be used.

The present invention will be described with reference to the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 40 and the second embodiment shown in FIGS. 41 to 45.
Both Examples 1 and 2 have a large number of islands S in the throttle playground as shown in FIG. 5, and each island has a throttle game machine P and a rental machine K as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 38, and 39. The present invention relates to a transfer facility for the sheet body MA and a method for transferring the banknotes to be inserted from the lending machine K into the sheet body MA and the hollow sphere B of the ping-pong ball. The first embodiment is an example in which the sheet-type banknotes inserted on each island are transferred to the island safe on each island in a distant banknote management room that is safely monitored in the amusement park.

The first embodiment is an example in which the banknotes collected in the ducts of each island are separately stored in the island safe MB provided for each island in the banknote management room MR, which is strictly managed safely in the amusement park YJ. This is an example in which the destination is the island safe MB of the banknote management room MR. This is an example in which banknotes are sent from the end of the duct 1 of the island S to the island safe MB of the banknote management room MR by the extension duct 1N. The transfer method (a) using the dedicated passage is adopted, and the section of the dedicated passage is the transfer space 10 of the duct 1 from the ball feeding device 2 to the end of the island, and the extension duct 1N from the end of the island has a plurality of seat bodies MA. And a plurality of pairs of hollow sphere B can exist. In particular, just before the island safe, the safe warehousing speed is slow, so multiple pairs are lined up. Moreover, in the first embodiment, a total of four auxiliary blowers 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E are provided near the end of the island of the duct and in the middle of the extension duct 1N so that the banknotes can be reliably transferred to a distant place at high speed. This is an example.

In the second embodiment, the final destination is a short transfer to the island safe FB provided at the end of the island, and the dedicated passage of the transfer method (a) is from the ball feeding device 2 to just before the end of the island in both the first and second embodiments. Is.

Further, in both Examples 1 and 2, except for the duct bending portion 1H of the duct 1, the duct 1 on the island is substantially horizontal, the slit passage 1B is provided vertically, and the banknote of the sheet body MA is vertically oriented with the short side vertically. Be sent in. Further, the ball feeding device 2 connects a cylindrical receiving pit 21 having an inner diameter slightly longer than the outer diameter of the hollow sphere B to the end of the central passage 1A of the duct 1, and a piston 22 is provided below each cylindrical receiving pit 21. An electric cylinder 23 that moves up and down toward the receiving pit 21 is provided, and a pit standby stopper 25 and a pit standby stopper 25 that control the entry / exit of sending the hollow sphere B to the receiving pit 21 that leads to the central passage 1A are provided above each cylindrical receiving pit 21. A pit standby stopper device 24 for advancing and retreating the cylinder is provided. Further, a ball sensor 26 for detecting the entry / exit passage of the hollow sphere B is provided between the receiving pit 21 above the receiving pit 21 and the central passage 1A in front of the receiving pit 21.

In the first embodiment, the duct 1 at the end of the island is directly connected to the extension duct 1N. An auxiliary blower 3B is provided at the duct 1 position immediately before the end of the island, and three auxiliary blowers 3C, 3D, and 3E are provided in the middle of the extension duct 1N.
The hollow sphere B sent to the end of the island is the extension duct that is lifted upward and the long extension duct that follows it. Then, there is a possibility that the hollow sphere B cannot be propelled. Therefore, the auxiliary blowers 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E are activated by the passage detection signal of the hollow sphere B of the ball sensor 35, and a new air flow is sent from the left and right outlet ducts 34 to the duct 1 and the central passage in the extension duct 1N. It blows into 1A, blows out a new air flow so as to chase the passed hollow sphere B, adds new aerodynamic force to the passed hollow sphere B, and reliably sends the hollow sphere B and the sheet body MA to the target destination. I try to continue. In the bill management room MR, the bill of the sheet body MA is divided into the island safe MB connected to the branch slit passage 1S, and the hollow sphere B is divided into the ball receiving portion 5 connected to the duct body side, and the bill of the sheet body MA is divided. It is sent to the island safe MB and stored, and the hollow sphere B is temporarily housed in the ball receiving pit 51 of the ball receiving portion 5. Then, at a predetermined time point, an air flow is blown toward the ball receiving pit 51 of the ball receiving portion 5 and the extension duct 1N and the duct 1 by the blower 3F on the downstream side, and the hollow sphere B temporarily accommodated is sent to the upstream ball feeding device 2 I am trying to return to. In the first embodiment, there are a case where one hollow sphere B is returned and a case where all three hollow spheres B are returned together, and these are shown in Table 1.

In the second embodiment, the air is sent to the island safe FB at the end of the island S through the branch slit passage 1S, which is the final destination, and the hollow sphere B is the ball receiving portion 5 having the same structure as that of the first embodiment after the branch slit passage 1S. Is temporarily housed in the ball receiving pit 51, and is returned to the ball feeding device 2 upstream of the duct via the duct 1 by the air flow of the blower 3F on the downstream side at a required time. In both Examples 1 and 2, the ping-pong balls of the hollow sphere B reciprocate between the ball receiving portion 5 of the final destination and the ball feeding device 2 of the upstream so that the sheet body MA can be transferred a plurality of times with a small number of ping-pong balls. ing. The ping-pong ball weighs 2 g and has a diameter of about 3.8 cm.

(Explanation of Codes of Examples 1 and 2)
Common reference numerals are given to the configurations common to both the first and second embodiments.
G1 and G2 are the sheet body transfer equipments of Examples 1 and 2, 1 is a duct, 10 is a transfer space in the duct, 1A is a central passage having a circular cross section of the transfer space, and 1A1 is an inner peripheral surface of the central passage. 1B is a slit passage, 1C is an overhanging portion which is an outer duct portion of the slit passage, 1C1 is a widening portion of the overhanging portion 1C in the duct bending portion 1H, and 1D is an internal passage of the overhanging portion 1C and a central passage 1A. A pair of regulatory protrusions provided at the boundary, 1S is a branch slit passage at the branch of duct 1 or extension duct 1N, 1N is an extension duct from the end of island S to the bill management room MR, and 2 is a ball located upstream of duct 1. The feeding device, 21 is a receiving pit that accommodates the hollow sphere B of the ball feeding device, 22 is a piston that moves up and down in the receiving pit, 23 is an electric cylinder that moves the piston up and down, 24 is a pit standby stopper device, and 25 is. The pit standby stopper that advances and retreats with the same device, 26 is a ball sensor that detects the hollow sphere B entering and exiting the receiving pit 21 of the hollow sphere B and the central passage 1A of the duct 1, and 3A and 3F are the ball feeding device 2 or the upstream side ball feeding device 2 or Blowers of the ball receiving portion 5 on the downstream side, 3B, 3C, 3D, 3E are auxiliary blowers provided near the end of the duct 1 and at an intermediate position of the extension duct 1N, 31 is the blower of the blower or the auxiliary blower, and 32 is the duct. The hollow spherical stop plate 33 that separates the end of the central passage 1A of 1 and the blower port 31 is the air suction port of the blower or the auxiliary blower, and if the blower is not operating, the duct 1 / extension duct is inside. It also serves as a partial exhaust port for the air flow. 34 is connected to the air flow outlet duct of the auxiliary blower, 35 is connected to the hollow sphere detection sensor (ball sensor) of the auxiliary blower, and 36 is connected to ducts 1 (1N) provided before and after the auxiliary blowers 3B, 3C, 3D and 3E. It is a connection coupler for this purpose, and can be connected in an airtight manner by fitting the pipe end of the duct 1 or the extension duct 1N. 5 is a ball receiving portion at a downstream position, 51 is a ball receiving pit of the same ball receiving portion, 52 is a ball sensor of a hollow sphere B provided on the upstream side of the ball receiving pit 51, and 6 is arranged along the duct 1. A sheet body sending device that sends out the bills discharged from the lending machine K to the central passage 1A, 61 is a sheet body insertion port for sending bills opened in the duct 1, 62 is a sheet body sending roller, 63 is a sheet body sending arm, 64. Is the pivot of the seat delivery arm, 65 is the rotation motor of the seat delivery roller, 66 is the rotation transmission belt, 67 is the rotation gear mechanism, and 68 is the seat intake sensor for confirming the delivery of the seat to the duct 1. , 7 is a sheet body feeding guide for feeding bills between the slit passage 1B and a safe for storing and storing bills, and reference numeral 78 is a sheet body taking-in sensor provided in the sheet body feeding guide.
B is a hollow sphere using a ping-pong ball, and is also partially expressed as a "ping-pong ball" or an "operating sphere". B1 is the great circle direction to the hollow sphere B with which the short side M1 of the seat body MA abuts, B0 is the center of the hollow sphere B, YJ is the game field, P is the throttle game machine, K is the rental machine, and S is the game field. YJ's island, MR is the banknote management room in the amusement park YJ, MB is the island safe that stores the banknotes in each island in the same banknote management room in Example 1, and FB is the banknote provided at the end of each island in Example 2. The island attached safe that houses and stores, MA is a sheet body that is a banknote, M1 is the short side of the sheet body, M2 is the long side of the sheet body, CON is the operation / stop and timing of each device / equipment of the embodiment. It is a control unit using a computer that controls and controls the delivery order of the sheet body MA and the delivery timing of the ping-pong balls which are hollow spheres.

(Explanation of structure and operation of Example 1)
In the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 40, the throttle game machine P and the rental machine K are arranged side by side along the duct 1 arranged on each island S, and 10 to 20 units are arranged in a row in the front-rear direction. Further, the banknote (sheet body) MA from the rental machine K of each island S of the amusement park YJ is transferred to the banknote management room MR, which is safely managed, by the duct 1 and the extension duct 1N of the island S. Then, the ball feeding device 2 is arranged on the upstream side of the island S, and the bill MA discharged from each lending machine K is received by the sheet body feeding device 6 and sent to the standby state or the slit passage 1B. Then, the control unit CON divides the island operation time into predetermined times and calculates the standby / delivery timing of the seat body MA of the sheet body delivery device 6 and the delivery timing of the hollow sphere B of the ping-pong ball in each time zone. To control the operation.

In the first embodiment, the control unit CON determines the order of sending to the slit passage 1B in the duct 1 of the waiting seat body MA scheduled to be sent in the time zone. As a method of determining the order, for example, there are downstream order, upstream order, oldest order of waiting time, group of number N of hollow spheres, and the like. Next, the sheet body (banknote) waiting from any of the sheet body feeding devices 6 is fed into the slit passage 1B from the sheet body insertion port 61 opened in the duct 1. Further, in the upstream ball feeding device 2, the first three ping-pong balls (hollow spheres) B are inserted into the receiving pit 21 of the accommodation space communicating with the central passage 1A of the duct 1. Alternatively, the three ping-pong balls (hollow spheres) B returned from the ball receiving portion 5 are accommodated in the receiving pit 21 of this accommodating space. After that, in order to make only one ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) in this accommodation space, the two pistons 22 are lowered, and the two ping-pong balls (hollow sphere) B in the receiving pit 21 are submerged in the piston cylinder space. , Only one ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) is used in the receiving pit 21 of the accommodation space (the process is shown in FIG. 28).

The pit standby stopper 25 is projected so that the two sunk ping-pong balls B do not rise to the receiving pit 21, and the rising of the ping-pong balls B is stopped.
After that, the blower 3A is operated, air fluid is sent into the receiving pit 21 of the accommodating space through the hollow sphere stop plate 32 at the air vent 31, and one ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) in the receiving pit 21 of the accommodating space. ) One of B is propelled downstream by the receiving pressure from the air flow blown into the accommodation space, and the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B is transferred downstream through the central passage 1A (see FIG. 28). Then, a ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) sent at the predetermined speed to the center position of the short side M1 of the vertical bill (sheet body) MA that has been sent to the predetermined position of the slit passage 1B of the duct 1 and is waiting. When B hits, the banknote (sheet body) MA is pressed by its kinetic energy and transferred along the slit passage 1B while being pressed by the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B. Since this pressing is applied to the middle portion of the short side M1 of the bill MA from the great circle direction, the bill MA is less deformed and the aerodynamic force becomes the pushing pressure. Further, the long side M2 of the banknote (sheet body) MA is stable because it is along the slit passage, and the long side is in contact with the inner peripheral surface (bottom surface) of the overhanging portion because the short side M1 is vertical. Since the area is line contact, the frictional force is small.
In this transfer, one bill (sheet body) MA is transferred by one ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B from the upstream ball feeding device 2 to the end of the island as a dedicated passage for only one pair of transfers. Since there is only one pair up to the end of the island, the aerodynamic force of the air fluid always acts directly on only the pair of ping-pong balls (hollow spheres) B, so there is little decrease in pushing pressure, giving high propulsion, and other bills (sheets). By pressing with a high propulsive force without contacting the body) MA and the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B, the duct 1 is sent to the end in a short time (about 3 seconds in the experiment). In front of the end of the island, the seat body MA and the hollow sphere B are sent to the extension duct 1N at high speed by receiving additional aerodynamic force with a new air flow by the auxiliary blowers 3C, 3D, 3E between the auxiliary blower 3B and the extension duct 1N. Sent.

In the first embodiment, the banknote MA is sent out to the island safe MB of the banknote management room MR ahead of the extension duct 1N. When the previous sheet body MA reaches the end of the island, the next sheet body MA is sent out to the slit passage 1B of the duct 1 by the sheet body sending device 6, and the next ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B is sent from the ball feeding device 2. (Method a). As another method at the time of sending, the banknote (sheet body) MA is further delivered from the end of the island to the island safe MB of the banknote management room MR of the final destination by the extension duct 1N, and then the sheet body sending device 6 in the duct 1 is used. There is also a method b of a method b in which the next sheet body is fed from the ball feeding device 2 and the next ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) is sent out from the ball feeding device 2. Which method a or b is used is determined so that the control method of the control unit can be selected from either a or b.

In the first embodiment, the above-mentioned feeding method (a) is adopted. The transfer time is 3 seconds until the bill (sheet body) MA is sent out, the sheet body MA taken out is detected by the sheet body take-in sensor 68, input to the ball feeding device 2 to operate the blower 3A, and the hollow sphere. It takes 3 seconds to fire one B (ball), the hollow sphere detection sensor (ball sensor) 35 of the auxiliary blower 3B before the end of the island detects it, activates the fan of the auxiliary blower 3B, and ducts from the suction port 33. 1 The outside air is sucked and a new air flow is sent from the left and right outlet ducts 34 to the central passage 1A of the duct 1, and the seat body MA and the hollow sphere B are sent to the duct 1 or the extension duct 1N. At the same time, the blower 3A is stopped. The time is 3 seconds, and a new air flow is blown into the middle of the extension duct 1N by the auxiliary blowers 3C, 3D, 3E having the same structure as the auxiliary blower 3B, and the hollow sphere B (ping-pong ball) and the bill are billed at high speed. Send to the island safe MB of the management room MR. It takes 12 seconds from the extension duct to reach the island safe MB and be taken in in total in 21 seconds.

Then, the bill transfer capacity of the first embodiment varies depending on when one or a plurality of hollow spheres B received by the ball receiving portion 5 on the downstream side are collectively returned to the ball feeding device 2 on the upstream side. In the first embodiment, one hollow sphere that delivers one bill to the island safe MB is housed in the ball receiving portion 5, and then one hollow sphere used each time is returned to the ball feeding device 2 upstream of the duct. Type α of each return ball and the three hollow spheres B used after sequentially sending three banknotes MA and storing them in the island safe are put together from the ball receiving part 5 by the blower 3F and the ball feeding device upstream of the duct. There is a type β that returns to 2.

Table 1 shows the operation and time schedule of each device of the first embodiment in the case of the type α having one return ball and the case of the type β of three return balls in the first embodiment.
-In the case of type α, it takes 33 seconds to feed one bill and return the ball of one hollow sphere B, whereas in the case of type β of three-sheet feed and bulk feed, it takes 51 seconds.
Therefore, for the case of sending three same bills,
・ In the case of type α, 33 seconds x 3 cycles = 99 seconds is required.
-In the case of type β, 3 sheets can be sent in 51 seconds.
Therefore, the type β has a banknote transfer capacity of about twice that of 99 seconds / 51 seconds = 1.94 as compared with the case of the type α.

Table 1 shows a comparison of the strokes and times of type α and type β of Example 1.

If the dedicated passage is the entire section from the ball feeding device 2 to the front of the island safe MB, it takes 21 seconds for one cycle of feeding each sheet. This is also divided into a type γ that returns one hollow sphere used for each bill sent, and a type δ that returns the three used hollow spheres together to the ball feeding device 2 after sending three bills sequentially. Comparing the transfer capacities, when all sections are dedicated passages,
-Type γ takes (21 seconds + 12 seconds) x 3 = 99 seconds.
-Type δ takes 21 seconds x 3 + 12 seconds = 75 seconds.
Therefore, type γ is the same as type α, type δ is 99/75 ≈ 1.3 times, and transfer capacity is 1.3 times that of type α, which is slightly inferior to type β. Comparing the transfer capacities, type β = 1.94> type δ = 1.3> type α = γ = 1.0.
In this way, a dedicated passage is provided in the section of the duct where a large number of seat delivery devices are provided, which gives a high transfer capacity. Then, it is preferable that a plurality of the used hollow spheres are returned together.

In the extension duct 1N in the first embodiment, as can be seen from Table 1, a plurality of pairs of bills and ping-pong balls B are sent in parallel at regular intervals. However, if it takes time for the island safe MB to take in and store banknotes, a multiple pair queue is formed in front of the island safe MB so that the pairs come into contact with each other.

Further, in both the first and second embodiments, the central passage 1A through which the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B passes and the slit passage 1B are the sheet body (banknote) MA sent into the slit passage 1B at the center of the circular cross section. Since it is in the great circle direction passing through the center of the radius of the passage 1A or near it, the sheet body (banknote) MA is always in the great circle direction of the ping pong ball (hollow sphere) B, and the duct is twisted left and right and up and down. Since it is held so that it is in the great circle direction like the straight part of the duct even if it is changed, the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B is stable and surely stabilizes the sheet body (banknote) MA even in the bent part of the duct. Press and transfer.

Further, in the duct inflection point 1H, as shown in FIGS. 12 to 17, the overhanging portion 1C of the duct 1 is elongated in the direction of the center of curvature thereof. The rectangular sheet body (banknote) MA can move smoothly without the banknote) MA strongly contacting the inner end surface of the slit passage.

Moreover, in this duct bending portion 1H, the regulating protrusion 1D inside the overhanging portion regulates the sheet body (banknote) MA so as to pass near the center of the radius of the circular central passage 1A in the center of the slit space, so that the sheet body (banknote) MA is passed through the center of the radius. (Banknote) MA can be smoothly transferred in a distorted space (see FIG. 10).

Further, as shown in FIGS. 32 and 33, when the sheet body (banknote) MA is close to the end of the duct 1 or the end of the extension duct 1N, the duct 1 and the extension duct 1N are provided with a branch slit passage 1S at the branch portion. The sheet body (banknote) MA pressed by the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B is branched and separated, and sent to the island safe MB or the island safe FB via the sheet body sending guide 7, and is stored in these safes. Stored safely. On the other hand, the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B moves to the ball receiving portion 5 via the central passage 1A and fits in each ball receiving pit 51 in which the piston of the ball receiving portion 5 is lowered. The three housed ping-pong balls (hollow spheres) activate the blower 3F on the downstream side to blow air toward the ping-pong balls (hollow spheres) B housed in the ball receiving portion 5, and the air flow is used for 3 The ping-pong balls (hollow spheres) B are transferred to the upstream side through the central passage 1A of the duct 1, the pit standby stopper of the ball feeding device 2 on the upstream side is opened, and the piston casing below the sphere receiving pit 21 is opened. Contain inside. This prepares for sending out the sheet body (banknote) MA in the next time zone.

(Example 2)
In the second embodiment shown in FIGS. 41 to 45, the extension portion for sending the sheet body (banknote) MA from the island end of the first embodiment to the island safe MB of the banknote management room MR by the extension duct 1N is eliminated, and the duct 1 is used for each island. This is an example in which the banknote (sheet body) MA sent in 1 is sent to the island safe FB provided at the end of the island with an abbreviated structure, and the banknotes are stored in the island safe FB for each island. The structure of storing in the island safe FB from the island end via the branch slit passage 1S of the branch portion and the sheet body sending guide 7 is the same as the moving structure to the island safe MB in the banknote management room MR of the first embodiment. Also, the structure in which the ping-pong ball (hollow sphere) B is housed in the ball receiving portion 5 from the end of the island has the same structure and action as in the first embodiment, and thus is omitted.
In the second embodiment, the banknote MA is stored and stored in the island safe FB at the end thereof via the duct 1, and three banknotes (sheets) MA are stored at high speed in one cycle as in the first embodiment. It can be stored in about 27 seconds, and it can be transferred and stored in a safe at high speed in about 33 seconds in 6 seconds for returning three balls. However, since there are many islands S, a plurality of island safes FB are dispersed and collected and stored. Others are the same transfer method, structure, and operation as in the first embodiment, and thus the description thereof will be omitted.

The embodiment of the present invention is an example of transfer and storage of banknotes handled in a game hall, but it is also useful in finance, large-scale outdoor amusement parks, and admission ticket sales offices that handle banknotes.

G1 Sheet body transfer equipment of Example 1 G2 Seat body transfer equipment of Example 2 1 Duct 1N Extension duct 1X Hollow sphere return ball duct 10 Transfer space 1A Central passage 1A1 Inner peripheral surface 1B Slit passage 1C Overhang 1C1 Widening part 1D regulation protrusion 1S branch slit passage 1H duct bending part 2 ball feeding device 21 receiving pit (accommodation space)
22 Piston 23 Electric cylinder 24 Pit standby stopper device 25 Pit standby stopper 26 Hollow sphere detection sensor (ball sensor)
3A Blower attached to ball feeding device 3B, 3C, 3D, 3E Auxiliary blower 3F Blower attached to ball receiving part 31 Blower 32 Hollow sphere stop plate 33 Suction port 34 Blow-out duct 35 Hollow sphere detection sensor (ball sensor)
36 Coupler 5 Ball receiving part 51 Ball receiving pit (accommodation part)
52 Hollow sphere detection sensor (ball sensor)
6 Seat body feeding device 61 Seat body insertion port 62 Seat body feeding roller 63 Seat body feeding arm 64 Axis 65 Motor 66 Rotation transmission belt 67 Rotating gear mechanism 68 Seat body feeding sensor 7 Seat body feeding guide 77 Feeding roller 78 Seat body feeding Insertion sensor B Hollow sphere (ping-pong ball)
B1 Great circle direction B0 Center of hollow sphere MA sheet body (banknote)
M1 Short side M2 Long side YJ Playground P Game machine K Lending machine S Island MR Banknote management room MB Island safe FB Island safe CON control unit

Claims (36)

It is a method of transferring a sheet body such as banknotes, playing cards, magnetic cards, memo cards, cash cards, etc., which has a thin wall shape and a rectangular flat shape, and is moved by the thrust of an air flow.
A hollow sphere having a diameter shorter than the length of one side on the short side side of the sheet body having a rectangular planar shape is formed in a central passage having a circular cross section through which a narrow gap can pass with the inner peripheral surface of the passage. Has a long width and extends radially across the central portion of the circular cross section of the central passage through an elongated rectangular region having a length longer than the length of one side of the sheet body. The slit passages through which the sheet bodies arranged so as to project in the radial direction in the overhanging portions formed on both the upper and lower sides from the circumference of the cross section are integrated so that the internal spaces of the two passages communicate with each other. A transfer duct having a transfer passage having an outer shape space formed inside is provided between the transfers of the seat body, and the sheet body to be transferred is sent from the outside of the duct to the slit passage inside the duct, and the seat body is sent. By sending the hollow sphere into the central passage portion in the duct on the upstream side in the direction and sending the air flow flowing in the direction of the sheet body from the further upstream side of the fed hollow sphere into the transfer passage of the duct. The hollow sphere is moved toward the seat body at a predetermined speed along the central space portion in the duct by the air force from the air flow, and the peripheral edge of the short side of the seat body sent into the slit passage of the transfer passage moves. The hollow sphere is in contact with the hollow sphere so as to be oriented in a substantially large circular direction, and the seat body is pressed by the kinetic energy of the hollow sphere to forcibly feed the seat body in the downstream direction along the slit passage in the duct. A characteristic method for transferring a sheet body. The slit passages of the duct are arranged side by side so as to be in the same transfer direction as the transfer direction of the central passage of the duct, and the short length of the sheet body fed into the slit passage in the duct region where the transfer direction of the central passage is substantially horizontal. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 1, wherein the slit passage is arranged so that the sides are accommodated in a substantially vertical direction. In a curved duct region where the transfer passage of the duct is curved or twisted left and right and up and down, the sheet body has a circular cross section at a boundary position between the internal space of the overhanging portion of the transfer passage and the internal space of the central passage. A pair of the above-mentioned regulations facing each other are provided on the inner facing surfaces of the overhanging portion at the boundary position by providing regulation protrusions for holding the seat body position so that the seat body position can be held in the center of the central passage and closer to the circular radial center. The protrusions restrict the seat body to a position closer to the circular radial center of the central passage in the curved duct region so that the seat body more reliably abuts toward the large circular direction of the hollow sphere. The hollow sphere presses the seat body from the center of the radius of the hollow sphere so that the seat body can move stably regardless of bending or twisting of the duct, and the frictional resistance between the seat body and the road surface of the slit passage is reduced to transfer at high speed. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 1 or 2, which is made possible. In the entire duct region of the duct, at the boundary position between the internal space of the overhanging portion of the transfer passage and the internal space of the central passage in the duct of the entire duct region, the sheet body is in the central portion of the central passage. In addition, regulating protrusions for holding the seat body position are provided on the inner facing surfaces of the overhanging portion at the boundary position so that the seat can be held at a position closer to the center of the circular radius, and the pair of facing regulating protrusions provides the seat in the entire duct region. The hollow sphere regulates the body so that it is closer to the center of the circular radius of the central passage so that the seat body more reliably abuts toward the large circle direction of the hollow sphere. The seat body can be stably transferred by pressing from the center of the radius, the frictional resistance between the seat body and the road surface of the slit passage is reduced, and the long side direction of the seat body and the transfer direction of the duct are the same, which makes it stable. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 1 or 2, which enables high-speed transfer in a posture. In the curved duct region where the transfer passage of the duct is curved or twisted left and right and up and down, the radial length of the overhanging portion on the side where the center of curvature of the curved duct of the duct is located is the region where the duct is linearly transferred. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the sheet body is made longer than the length of the overhanging portion so that the sheet body can be smoothly transferred by fitting in the slit passage in the curved duct region. The sheet body fed into the slit passage in the duct is abutted against and pressed against a specific hollow sphere corresponding to one sheet body from the fed position to the destination position of the duct of the sheet body. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein another sheet body being transferred and another hollow sphere being transferred on the downstream side are transferred to the destination without overtaking. After feeding one sheet body into the slit passage of the duct, one hollow sphere is sent out to the central space of the duct from a ball feeding device provided at an upstream position of the duct to temporarily store a plurality of hollow spheres. The hollow sphere is transferred downstream by the air flow from the blower located upstream of the feeding device, and the hollow sphere is brought into contact with the sheet body fed in the middle of the slit passage and pressed to be transferred along the duct and transferred. After the seat body is separated from the slit passage in the duct at a predetermined position downstream and sent to a predetermined destination, the hollow sphere after the transfer is completed in the central passage in the duct is temporarily stored in the ball receiving portion on the downstream side. After that, air flow in the upstream direction is given to the hollow spheres stored from the ball receiving portion during the time when the sheet body and the hollow spheres do not exist in the transfer passage of the duct, and one or a plurality of hollow spheres are put together in the duct. One hollow sphere can transfer a plurality of sheet bodies by repeatedly sending the air upstream along the central passage, returning it to the ball feeding device provided at the upstream position, and transferring it downstream again. , The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 5. When there are multiple seats to be sent into the slit passage of the duct in a predetermined time zone
In a transfer facility in which a plurality of N hollow spheres are used for transferring the sheet bodies in the duct between the ball feeding device and the ball receiving portion, the number of the plurality of sheet bodies to be sent out is N or less. The seats are divided into a plurality of groups, and each group is sent out to one slit passage of the planned seat body and one hollow sphere stored is sent from the ball feeding device to the central space, and the blower is operated to operate the seat. Sending the body to the specified destination and storing the used hollow spheres in the ball receiving part is repeated for all the sheet bodies of the group, and after sending all the sheet bodies of the group to the specified destination, they are stored in the ball receiving part. After collecting all the hollow spheres of N or less and storing them in the ball feeding device by back-feeding in the duct by the air flow toward the upstream, the transfer of the sheet body of the next group is repeated in the same manner as the transfer of the group. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 7, wherein after the transfer of the sheet bodies of all the groups is completed, the sheet body is fed in the same group as described above in the next time zone. After sending one sheet body into the slit passage of the duct, one hollow sphere is sent into the central space of the duct from a ball feeding device provided at an upstream position of the duct to temporarily store a plurality of hollow spheres to provide air. The hollow sphere is transferred downstream by a flow, and the hollow sphere is brought into contact with the sheet body sent in the middle of the slit passage and pressed to transfer the sheet body along the duct, and the transferred sheet body is transferred downstream to a predetermined value. After detaching from the slit passage in the duct at the position and sending it to the specified destination, the hollow sphere after the transfer is completed in the central passage in the duct is temporarily stored in the ball receiving part on the downstream side, and then the next sheet. The body is sent out to the slit passage of the duct, the next hollow sphere is sent downstream from the ball feeding device, and the sheet body is repeatedly sent to a predetermined destination in the same manner as described above. The hollow spheres stored in the section are sent to the ball feeding device by another ball feeding duct to replenish the hollow spheres, and the hollow spheres are circulated in each predetermined time zone to repeatedly feed a plurality of sheet bodies. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 5. A plurality of sheet body delivery devices for delivering the sheet body from the standby state in the device to a predetermined delivery position in the slit passage in the duct by a delivery signal are arranged along the duct, and the sheet body delivery device located at the uppermost stream is delivered. A seat equipped with a blower that stores a plurality of hollow spheres upstream of the device and feeds each of them into the central passage in the duct, and blows air flow from a position further upstream than the ball feeding device to the central passage. It is a method of transferring a sheet body in a body transfer facility.
When there are a plurality of sheet bodies scheduled to be fed into the slit passage of the duct in a time zone between a predetermined time while the seat bodies are made to stand by in the devices of the plurality of sheet body feeding devices.
One sheet body is sent out into the slit passage of the duct from any one of the plurality of seat body feeding devices in which the seat body is kept on standby, and one hollow sphere is sent from the ball feeding device into the central space of the duct. The air flow from the blower is blown to the central space, one hollow sphere is sent by the air flow from the ball feeding device, and the sheet body and the hollow sphere are predetermined by contacting the sheet body in the middle of the central passage. The transfer passage to the destination is set as a dedicated passage state for one sheet body and one hollow sphere, and high air force is maintained in the hollow sphere so that the sheet body can be fed at high speed and reliably, and the sheet body and the hollow are hollow. After transferring the sphere to a predetermined destination, the next one sheet body that is waiting for the rest of the sheet body sending device is sent into the slit passage of the duct, and the next one hollow sphere is sent from the ball feeding device. Is sent to the next seat body and the hollow sphere as a dedicated passage state to a predetermined destination, which is repeated for all the seat bodies scheduled to be fed, which are waiting in the time zone. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein all of the sheets are sent to a predetermined destination. The sheet body is a bill discharged from a plurality of rental machines on the island of the amusement park, and the sheet body feeding device is a device for sending bills discharged from each rental machine to a slit passage in the duct. The final destination of the banknotes by the duct is an island vault in the centralized banknote management room of the amusement park connected by a duct extended through the end of the island, and the passage that becomes the dedicated passage state is upstream of the island. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 10, wherein the ball feeding device in the banknote management room is located in front of the island safe and the ball receiving portion of the final destination of the banknote management room. The sheet body is a bill discharged from a plurality of rental machines on the island of the amusement park, and the sheet body feeding device is a device for feeding the bill discharged from each rental machine to a slit passage in the duct.
The final destination of the bills by the duct is a dedicated island safe for each island in the centralized bill management room of the amusement park connected by an extension duct extending from the end of the island, and the dedicated passage. The passage in the state is from the ball feeding device at the uppermost stream of the duct of the island to the end of the island, and when the seat body arrives at the end of the island, the next seat body and the hollow sphere are sent to the passage in the dedicated passage state. At the same time as sending in and making the next transfer in the passage that becomes a dedicated passage state, the seat body that arrived at the end of the island and the hollow sphere that pressed it were sent to the extension duct and provided at the end of the island and in the middle of the extension duct. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 10, wherein a new air flow blown by an auxiliary blower is used to send the sheet to the island safe in the bill management room at the final destination. The sheet body is a bill discharged from a plurality of rental machines on the island of the amusement park, and the sheet body feeding device is a device for feeding the bill discharged from each rental machine to a slit passage in the duct.
The final destination of the bills by the duct is the island attached safe provided at the end of the island, and the passage in the dedicated passage state is from the ball feeding device at the uppermost stream of the duct of the island to the end of the island, and is a sheet body. When it reaches the end of the island, the next seat body and hollow sphere in the standby state are sent to the dedicated aisle, and the next seat body is repeatedly sent to the island attached safe at the end of the island in the dedicated passage to complete the total amount of the seat body. The method for transporting a sheet body according to claim 10. A plurality of sheet body delivery devices that are made to stand by in the device to be fed into the slit passage of the duct and are fed to the delivery position in the slit passage in the duct by a required feed signal are arranged along the duct by isolating them for a predetermined period of time. Then, a ball feeding device that stores a plurality of hollow spheres and feeds each of them to the central passage in the duct is arranged upstream of the sheet body feeding device located at the uppermost stream, and the central passage is further upstream from the same ball feeding device. It is a method of transferring a sheet body in a sheet body transfer facility equipped with a blower that blows an air flow into the air flow.
The corresponding hollow spheres that press the sheet body on the downstream side from the ball feeding device in the order in which they are lined up from the downstream side at the feeding position in the slit passage of the duct of the sheet body that the sheet body feeding device is scheduled to send out are in the downstream order. The feeding time of each hollow sphere is calculated by the ball feeding device based on the calculated data or the measured data so that the hollow spheres corresponding to the seats come into contact with the seats at approximately the same time while being fed to the central passage of the duct according to the above. The ball feeding device is controlled so as to determine and feed the ball, and the seat body that has been waiting from each sheet body feeding device before the arrival of the corresponding hollow spheres that the sheet bodies come into contact with each other at approximately the same time is placed in the duct. The sheet body feeding device is controlled so as to simultaneously feed to a predetermined feeding position of the slit passage of the above, and at about the same time, the corresponding hollow spheres are in contact with each sheet body in a paired state, and the order is downstream of the feeding position. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 6, wherein each sheet body can be sent to the serial number of the above. A plurality of sheet body delivery devices that are made to stand by in the device to be fed into the slit passage of the duct and are fed to the delivery position in the slit passage in the duct by a required feed signal are arranged along the duct by isolating them for a predetermined period of time. Then, a ball feeding device that stores a plurality of hollow spheres and feeds each of them to the central passage in the duct is arranged upstream of the sheet body feeding device located at the uppermost stream, and the central passage is further upstream from the same ball feeding device. It is a method of transferring a sheet body in a sheet body transfer facility equipped with a blower that blows an air flow into the air flow.
When there are a plurality of sheet body feeding devices having a sheet body scheduled to be fed into the slit passage of the duct within a predetermined time by making the sheet body stand by in the devices of the plurality of sheet body feeding devices.
The center of the duct is a hollow sphere that presses the sheet body on the upstream side from the ball feeding device in the order in which the delivery position in the slit passage of the duct of the sheet body to be sent out is arranged from the upstream side to the downstream side. While sending to the aisle
The ball feeding device ducts the hollow sphere with an interval of length L (l + 2R + δ), which is the sum of the length l of the long side of the long side of the flat rectangular sheet body, the diameter 2R of the hollow sphere, and the margin dimension δ. The sheet body feeding device, which is to be fed into the central passage of the seat body and is scheduled to be fed out, is a predetermined position before the hollow sphere corresponding to the seat body to be fed out reaches the feeding position of the seat body in the slit passage in the duct. The sheet body sending device was controlled so as to send the sheet body that had been waiting before the time to the slit passage so that the pair of the sheet body to be transferred and the corresponding hollow sphere could be fed at the same pitch of the length L. The method for transferring a sheet body according to claim 6. At the end or in the middle of the duct, the slit passage of the passage space in the duct is extended in the feeding direction to separate from the passage space of the duct and a branch slit passage is provided, which is branched to the outside of the duct, and is sent by the slit passage in the duct. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 15, wherein the sheet body is discharged from a branch slit passage to separate or collect the sheet body. The duct is connected to a ball receiving portion capable of accommodating a plurality of hollow spheres in the central passage on the downstream side of the duct at the position where the branch slit passage is provided, and the ball is blocked from entering and exiting at the connection port between the ball receiving portion and the duct. A ball stopper that can be used is provided, and an air outlet that sends an air flow that sends hollow spheres in the upstream direction of the duct is provided at the end of the ball receiving part, and a plurality of hollow spheres sent in the duct are partially accommodated in the ball receiving part. Then, when an air flow is sent from the air outlet of the ball receiving portion and the ball stopper is opened, the hollow sphere housed in the ball receiving portion is returned to the duct and reaches the ball feeding device on the upstream side thereof. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 7 to 16, wherein the hollow sphere can be used repeatedly by allowing it to be returned. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein the hollow sphere is a ping-pong ball used in a table tennis ball game. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 10 or 14 to 18, wherein the sheet body is a banknote. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 10 or 14 to 18, wherein the sheet body is made of plastic or thick paper or thin metal and has rigidity and shape retention. The method for transferring a sheet body according to any one of claims 1 to 20, wherein a thin buffer layer is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the spherical surface of the hollow sphere to reduce damage to the outer peripheral surface of the hollow sphere and damage to the sheet body due to contact with the sheet body. .. It is a transfer facility for sheet bodies such as banknotes, playing cards, magnetic cards, memo cards, cash cards, etc. that are thin and have a rectangular flat shape and are moved by the thrust of the air flow.
A hollow sphere having a diameter shorter than the length of one side on the short side side of the sheet body having a rectangular planar shape is formed in a central passage having a circular cross section through which a narrow gap can pass with the inner peripheral surface of the passage. Has a long width and extends in the radial direction across the center of the circular cross section of the central passage through an elongated rectangular region having a length longer than the length of one side of the sheet body. The slit passages through which the sheet bodies arranged so as to project in the radial direction in the overhanging portions formed on both the left and right sides from the circumference of the cross section are integrated so that the internal spaces of the two passages communicate with each other. A transfer duct having a transfer passage having an outer shape space formed inside is provided between the transfer of the seat body.
A plurality of sheet body sending devices for sending the sheet body to the duct from the standby state in the device into the slit passage in the duct by a sending signal are arranged along the duct, and the sheet body located at the uppermost stream is arranged. A ball feeding device that stores a plurality of hollow spheres and feeds each of them to the central passage in the duct is arranged upstream of the feeding device, and is equipped with a blower that sends an air flow to the central passage from a position further upstream than the ball feeding device.
In addition, the operation stop of the sheet body feeding device, the ball feeding device, and the blower is controlled, and the data of the standby state of the sheet body of the sheet body feeding device is input and stored together with the device ID, and a predetermined time zone is set. Equipped with a control unit using a computer that controls the delivery to the slit passage of the duct of the seat body to be transferred at a predetermined time point and the hollow sphere corresponding to the seat body to be sent out to the central space of the duct at a predetermined timing. Also, a sheet body transfer facility. The slit passages of the duct are arranged side by side so as to be in the same transfer direction as the central passage of the duct, and the short side of the sheet body fed into the slit passage is in the vertical direction in the region where the duct is horizontal. The sheet body transfer facility according to claim 22, which is accommodated in the above. In the curved duct region where the transfer passage of the duct is curved or twisted left and right and up and down, the seat body is at the center of the central passage at the boundary position between the internal space of the overhanging portion of the transfer passage and the internal space of the central passage. Restriction protrusions for holding the seat body position are provided on the inner facing surfaces of the overhanging portion at the boundary position so that the seat body position can be held in the portion and closer to the circular radial center. In the curved duct region, the seat body is regulated so as to be closer to the center of the circular radius of the central passage, and the seat body is more reliably brought into contact with the hollow sphere so as to face the large circular direction of the hollow sphere. By pressing the body from the center of the radius of the hollow sphere, the seat body can be stably transferred regardless of the curvature or twist of the duct, and the friction between the seat body and the inner peripheral surface of the slit passage is reduced so that high-speed transfer is possible. The sheet body transfer facility according to claim 22 or 23. In the inflection duct region, the length of the overhanging portion on the side where the center of curvature of the curvature of the duct is located is longer than the length of the overhanging portion in the region where the duct is linearly transferred, and the sheet is formed in the inflection duct region. The sheet body transfer facility according to claim 24, wherein the body fits in a slit passage and can be smoothly transferred. At the end or in the middle of the duct, the slit passage of the passage space in the duct is extended in the feeding direction to provide a branch slit passage that separates from the passage space of the duct and branches to the outside of the duct, and is sent by the slit passage in the duct. The sheet body transfer facility according to any one of claims 22 to 25, wherein the sheet body is discharged from a branch slit passage to separate or collect the sheet body. A ball sensor that connects the central passage of the duct at the position where the branch slit passage is provided from the duct to a ball receiving portion that accommodates a plurality of hollow spheres, and detects the inflow and outflow of balls at the connection port between the ball receiving portion and the duct. Also, at the end of the ball receiving part, an air outlet for sending an air flow that sends a hollow sphere in the upstream direction of the duct is provided, and a plurality of hollow spheres sent from the duct are accommodated in the ball receiving part, and the ball sensor is used. By sending an air flow from the air outlet at a required time after the number of hollow spheres reaches the set number, the hollow spheres housed in the ball receiving portion are returned to the duct and returned to the ball feeding device on the upstream side thereof. The sheet transfer facility according to claim 26, wherein the hollow sphere can be used repeatedly so that it can be temporarily stored. The sheet transfer facility according to any one of claims 22 to 27, wherein the hollow sphere is a ping-pong ball used in table tennis. The transfer facility for a sheet body according to any one of claims 22 to 28, wherein the sheet body is a banknote. The transfer facility for a sheet body according to claim 29, wherein the sheet body is a banknote inserted into a lending machine that lends pachinko balls / medals or cards that enable games to be played at the amusement park. The sheet according to any one of claims 28 to 30, wherein the sheet body transferred by the duct is a banknote, and the destination of the banknote is a safe connected to a slit passage at the end of the duct or a strictly controlled banknote monitoring room. Body transfer equipment. A plurality of the rental machines are provided for each island of the amusement park, and all the banknotes inserted into the rental machines on each island are provided by the duct provided along the island and the extension duct connected to the banknote at the end of the island. The sheet transfer facility according to claim 30, wherein the banknotes are transferred to a specific safe or banknote management room provided at a predetermined place in a game hall away from the island, and the banknotes are centrally stored for each island. The rental machines are a plurality of rental machines arranged on the same island of the amusement park, and the banknotes inserted into the rental machines on an island-by-island basis are sent by the duct and sent to the island safe provided at the end of each island. 30. The sheet transfer facility according to claim 30, which manages the islands. At the central space position of the duct in front of the air outlet on the upstream side of the duct, the ball feeding device centers a cylindrical sphere receiving pit having an inner diameter slightly longer than the outer diameter of the hollow sphere with respect to the central passage. A plurality of rows are provided along the duct so as to communicate with the passage, and an electric cylinder is provided in the sphere receiving pit to move the pistons forward and backward toward the central passage to move the hollow sphere in the receiving pit up and down. A pit standby stopper device is provided at each upper end of the pit to enter and exit the pit standby stopper that prevents the highest hollow sphere in the pit from moving to the central passage, and a duct is provided in front of the front row of a plurality of sphere receiving pits. The structure is provided with a ball sensor that detects the entry and exit of a hollow sphere between the central passage and the sphere receiving pit, and further, the ball feeding device, the sheet body feeding device, the blower, the ball receiving portion, and the electric cylinder of the piston of the sphere receiving pit. , Starts and stops and controls equipment such as pit standby stopper device, and waits for the seat body, feed operation, correspondence of hollow spheres in contact with the seat body, position of the hollow sphere, feed state of the seat body, and seat body 2. Transfer equipment. Claims 22 to 34, in which a plurality of auxiliary blowers for blowing air flow into the duct or the extension duct are provided in the middle of the duct or in the middle of the extension duct in addition to the blower of the upstream ball feeding device and the blower of the downstream ball receiving portion. The sheet body transfer equipment described in any of the above. The auxiliary blower is provided with a ball sensor that detects the passage of a hollow sphere that passes through the central space of the duct or extension duct, and when the ball sensor detects that it has passed through the hollow sphere, the auxiliary blower is activated to suck the air outside the duct. The sheet body transfer equipment according to claim 35, wherein air force is applied so as to follow the hollow sphere that has been blown into the central passage of the duct so that the sphere can be sent to a distant place.

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