JP2514478Y2 - Card feeding device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a card payout device incorporated in a vending machine that sells various cards used for purchase of train tickets, for example. .

(Prior art) Recently, magnetic cards such as prepaid cards can be used in ticket vending machines, telephones, etc. as a means of paying charges for using railways, telephones, etc. In many cases, it is possible to carry multiple coins or a large number of coins, and it is not necessary to carry coins such as coins, which bears a heavy burden on possession, and it does not take time to settle this type of transaction. So it is in the trend of becoming quite popular. And such magnetic cards such as prepaid cards have various denominations, that is,
A 500 yen card, a 1000 yen card, a 3000 yen card, etc. are prepared to allow various selections depending on the usage pattern of the customer such as the difference in distance. The area is greatly increased. Therefore, when selling various types of magnetic cards such as prepaid cards as described above, a relatively low-cost and space-saving card transport mechanism is required.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) However, this type of transport mechanism is generally relatively expensive, such as one using a plurality of driving means, and thus there is a limit to selling magnetic cards of various denominations. was there.

In view of the above, the present invention has an object to provide a card payout device that enables the sale of various types of magnetic cards such as prepaid cards, is inexpensive, has a simple structure, and has no problems. .

(Means for Solving the Problem) A card feeding device according to the present invention has a card located at the bottom of the stocker along the card surface at the end edge of the bottom of the stocker for storing the cards in a stacked state. Further, a card outlet for feeding in one direction is provided, and a feeding roller for feeding the card located at the lowermost portion is provided in the card conveying path connected to the card outlet at the bottom surface portion, and in the conveying path. Is provided with a discharge roller for discharging the card fed from the card outlet by the feeding roller to the downstream side of the conveyance path, and above the card outlet, the number of the cards passing through the card outlet is set. A stopper for regulating is provided, and below the stopper, a carrying roller for carrying the card is provided, and the card in the stocker is provided. When a card-less detector for detecting the presence or absence of the carrier roller is provided, the carrying roller and the discharging roller are simultaneously driven to rotate by a driving means, and a driving disk that rotates together with the carrying roller is provided on the rotating shaft of the carrying roller. A driven disk, which is stopped and is drivingly connected to the driving disk by a driving connection / disconnection means so as to be intermittently connected, is pivotally supported independently of the driving disk, and is provided at a downstream end of the card transport path. And a discharge detector for detecting that the card has passed through the discharge section (mouth), and allows the card conveyed from the upstream side of the conveyance path to pass while being inserted from the discharge section side. In order to prevent the card from passing through, a reverse insertion blocking means having a tip part that advances and retreats into a notch provided in the discharge part is provided facing above the notch. It is what is.

(Function) When a customer who purchases a magnetic card such as a prepaid card has a face value of the prepaid card, for example, a 1000 yen card, the purchase price of 1000 yen is selected at a place where the 1000 yen card is sold. Insert it into the coin insertion part provided separately, and then press the card face value selection button. When the prepaid card purchaser operates as described above, the card payout device of the present invention operates as follows. First,
If the cardless detector does not detect the absence, drive means,
That is, for example, the DC motor is put into operation, which causes the discharging roller and the conveying roller to rotate. At almost the same time, the drive connecting / disconnecting means is activated. The connecting wheel connects the driving disk and the driven disk by rotating a connecting lever having a connecting wheel at one end and a solenoid at the other end, with the pin 19 serving as a fulcrum by the operation of the solenoid. The connected driven disk transmits the drive from the drive means to the feeding roller provided below the stocker on which the cards are stacked. By the rotation of the feeding roller through the stopper, one card is fed, the coupling wheel is separated from each disk, and the rotation of the feeding roller is stopped. The card is conveyed downstream by the feeding roller, and is conveyed toward the card ejecting portion by the conveying roller, the ejection roller and the like which continue to rotate. The card lifts the reverse insertion blocking means from the conveyance path by the tip thereof, and is held by the weight of the reverse insertion blocking means when the discharge rollers have been carried out. When the customer removes the held card, the card ejection detector detects it and the sale ends, and the reverse insertion prevention means is inserted into the notch provided in the transport path by its own weight to prevent reverse insertion. To do.

(Embodiment) Next, a card payout device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings showing an embodiment thereof.

FIG. 1 is a front view of an essential part of a card payout device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the essential part of the card payout device, and FIG. 3 is a magnetic card such as a prepaid card. FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a main part of FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. 2 showing a state where a magnetic card such as a prepaid card is accommodated and one of them is about to be ejected.

In the card payout device 1 of the present invention shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 4, reference numeral 2 denotes a drive means for rotationally driving the card payout device, which has a drive wheel 3. And is composed of, for example, a small DC motor.
Reference numeral 4 denotes a first drive belt, which transfers the rotating action of the drive means 2 to the discharge vehicle 5 and the transport vehicle 6 via the drive vehicle 3. The discharging wheel 5 is coaxial with the discharging roller 7. The top of the discharge roller 7 is slightly upward from the discharge roller opening 10 formed in the conveying path 9, and the press roller 11 is provided above the discharge roller opening 10. The transport vehicle 6 is coaxial with the transport roller 12 and the driving disk 14 of the drive connecting / disconnecting means 13. The transport roller 12 also has a transport roller opening 15 in the transport path 9.
It is supposed to go up from.

The drive connecting / disconnecting means 13 is composed of the driving disk 14, the driven disk 16 and the connecting wheel 17. When the connecting wheel 17 is separated from the drive disk 14 and the driven disk 16, the drive disk 14 and the driven disk 16 are in a free state, and the drive disk 14 and the driven disk 16 are connected to each other.
When 17 is frictionally coupled or pressure-contacted, the driving disk 14 and the driven disk 16 are integrally driven. The coupling wheel 17 is frictionally coupled to the driving disc 14 and the driven disc 16 by the action of the solenoid 20 about the pin 19 of the coupling lever 18 as an axis.

Reference numeral 21 is integral with the driven disk 16 of the drive connecting / disconnecting means 13, and transmits power to the delivery wheel 23 via the second drive belt 22. The feeding wheel 23 is coaxial with the feeding roller 24, but this is an eccentric wheel or a cam so that the outer peripheral top portion intermittently comes out above the feeding roller opening 25 formed in the conveying path 9. .

Reference numeral 26 is a stopper whose lower space can be adjusted so that one magnetic card 27 such as a prepaid card is discharged to the card discharging portion 36 at a time. Reference numeral 28 denotes a cardless detector, and when the prepaid card or the like is stored in the stocker 29, the detection lever 30 is in a pressed state, and when it is not stored, it is in an open state. The presence or absence of etc. is detected. A card ejection detector 31 detects the ejection of the prepaid card 27. Reference numeral 32 is a reverse insertion preventing means, which prevents, for example, a card-shaped object from being pushed in.

The operation of the card feeding device of the present invention will be described below.
First, when coins are thrown in, then the type of magnetic card such as a prepaid card is selected and the selection button is pressed,
The driving means 2 such as the DC motor and the solenoid 20 are in the operating state, whereby the discharging roller 7 and the conveying roller
12 and the payout roller 24 rotates, one prepaid card 27 is paid out from the stocker 29, and then the payout roller 24 first stops, and then the discharge roller 7 and the transport roller
12 still rotates and is paid out from the stocker 29, and the prepaid card 27 is discharged to the discharging portion 36.

(Effect of device) This device has the configuration as described above,
The drive means in the drive system can be suppressed to a small number,
It is therefore possible to provide this type of device at low cost,
At the same time, the space occupied by the device is reduced and the occupied blocks can be put together in a simple and compact form. As a result, the above-described effects are industrially significant such that the spread of magnetic cards such as various prepaid cards is promoted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an essential part of a card payout device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the essential part of the card payout device, and FIG. 3 is a magnetic card such as a prepaid card. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 shows a state in which a magnetic card such as a prepaid card is accommodated and one of them is about to be ejected.
It is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. In the figure, 1: card conveying device, 2: driving means, 7: ejection roller,
12: Conveyor roller, 24 feeding roller, 29: Stocker.

Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code Office reference number FI Technical display location B65H 7/04 B65H 7/04 G06K 13/103 G06K 13/103 G07F 9/00 109 G07F 9/00 109B

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A card outlet for feeding a card located at the bottom of the stocker in one direction along the card surface at the edge of the bottom of the stocker for accommodating stacked cards. The bottom surface portion is provided with a feeding roller that feeds the card located at the lowermost part in a card transport path connected to the card outlet, and the transport path feeds the card exit from the card outlet by the delivery roller. A discharge roller for discharging the stored card to the downstream side of the transport path is provided, a stopper for restricting the number of the cards passing through the card exit is provided above the card exit, and below the stopper. Is provided with a carrying roller for carrying the card, and a card-less detector for detecting the presence or absence of the card in the stocker is provided. The conveying roller and the discharging roller are simultaneously driven to rotate by a driving means, a driving disk rotating together with the conveying roller is axially fixed to a rotation shaft of the conveying roller, and a feeding interrupting means is provided to the delivery roller. A driven disk, which is discontinuously drivingly connected to the driving disk, is pivotally supported independently of the driving disk, and discharges for detecting that the card has passed through a discharge section provided at a downstream end of the card transport path. A detector is provided, and is provided in the ejection unit to allow passage of the card conveyed from the upstream side of the conveyance path while preventing passage of the card inserted from the ejection unit side. A card feeding device, characterized in that a reverse insertion preventing means having a tip portion that moves forward and backward in the notch is provided so as to face above the notch.