JP2561417Y2 - Price box structure - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a structure of a toll box used for a vending machine or a public telephone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, the structure of a toll box of this type is a box-shaped safe body having an opening on the upper surface, and a lid having a storage window for opening and closing the opening of the safe body and storing coins on the upper surface. And a safe room having an opening for loading the safe main body and having a drop window on the upper surface for dropping coins corresponding to the storage window, and a cover for opening and closing the storage window on the lid. A plate and a lock mechanism for locking the shield plate are provided, and when the safe body is in the safe room, the shield plate opens a storage window to allow coins to be stored, and the safe body is secured to the safe. When the locker is removed from the room, the lock mechanism locks the storage plate so that the storage window is kept in the shielded state, preventing unauthorized removal of coins from the storage window, and then unlocking and opening the lid from the safe body , Automatically unlock the lock mechanism, the safe body again safe Shielding plate when it is loaded is to be ready to open the housing window swings, i.e. a preset state.

[0003] As a fee box having this structure, for example,
There is one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 53-14233. The toll box disclosed here includes a shutter plate 22 for opening and closing the money storage slot 1, an operation plate 25 for operating the shutter plate 22, a push plate 29 fixed to the device main body for pressing the operation plate 22, A lock plate 36 for locking the shutter plate 22 and a lock auxiliary lever 39 for operating the lock plate 36 are provided. The lock plate 36 for locking the shutter plate 22 is moved by the cam of the lock auxiliary lever 39 when the lid substrate 20 is opened. When the portion 39 'is engaged with the U-shaped projecting piece 40, the lock assist lever 39 operates the lock plate 36, and the shutter plate 22 is set to the preset state.

[0004]

However, in the conventional toll box having the above structure, the vertical operation of opening the lid substrate 20 is converted into the horizontal operation by the cam portion 39 ', so that every time the lid substrate 20 is opened. The rotation shaft 38 of the lock assist lever 39
However, there is a drawback that excessive force is applied to the mechanism and the mechanism is easily damaged. Further, the lock plate 36 and the shutter plate 22
There are disadvantages in that the number of components such as the lock assist lever 39, the operating plate 25, and the L-shaped lever 32 is large, and the configuration is complicated. Further, since the lid substrate 20 has a structure rotatably supported with respect to the toll box main body 41, there is also a problem that the coin is stolen easily and the coin is stolen.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional disadvantages or problems,
The aim is to provide a toll box structure that simplifies the structure, reduces failures by preventing excessive force from being applied to the components, and has a robust structure that prevents coin theft. It is in.

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, the structure of the toll box according to the present invention comprises a box-shaped safe body having an opening on the upper surface and a slidable opening in the opening of the safe body. A lid having a storage window for opening and closing the opening and storing coins on the upper surface, and a drop window having an opening for loading the safe main body and dropping coins corresponding to the storage window on the upper surface are formed. A toll box comprising a closed vault, wherein the cover body is swingably supported and has an engagement claw and an engagement portion, and the storage window is openable and closable to shield the normal storage window. A shielding plate to which a biasing force is applied in the direction, a locking claw that engages with an engaging claw of the shielding plate to hold a shielding state of the storage window of the shielding plate, and an engaging protrusion. A lock member whose position is freely reversible, and when the lid is slid open. An actuating section is provided on the safe main body to engage with the engaging protrusion and swing and invert the lock member to release the engagement between the lock claw and the engaging protrusion of the shielding plate and to set a preset state. When loading into the vault, the shielding plate is swung against the urging bias to open the storage window, and the locking member is swung and inverted by the engagement protrusion of the shielding plate to lock the lock claw. An operating rod is provided in the safe room to return to a position where it can be engaged with the engaging claw of the plate.

[0007]

In the present invention, an engaging projection is provided on a locking member having a locking claw that engages with the engaging claw of the shielding plate to hold the storage window of the shielding plate in a closed state. When the lid is slid and opened, the engagement projection of the safe body engages with the engagement projection of the safe body to swing and invert the lock member, so that the locking claw is provided. Is released from the engagement with the engagement projection of the shielding plate, and a preset state is established.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a charge box in the structure of the charge box according to the present invention, FIG.
FIG. 3 is an overall perspective view of the vault. In these figures, the charge box 1 includes a charge box main body 10 and a lid 20, and the charge box main body 10 has an opening 13 on the upper surface,
Guide rails 11a, 12a having a U-shaped cross section are formed at the upper edges of both side plates 11, 12, and an operating piece 11b is provided at the rear end of one of the guide rails 11a.
1 and is fixed to the inner surface of
A locking piece 15 having a locking hole 15a and a handle 16 having a U-shape in a plan view are fixed below the locking piece 15, respectively.

The lid 20 includes an upper plate 21, both side plates 22,
23, a front plate 24 and a rear plate 25. A rectangular storage window 21a for storing coins is provided substantially at the center of the upper plate 21. The lower ends of both side plates 22, 23 are inwardly bent guides. Pieces 22a and 23a are formed, a pair of rectangular windows 24a are provided at lower portions on both ends of the front plate 24, and a U-shaped cross section having a locking hole 27c with a pin 27a as a pivot shaft is provided at the center. A locking lever 27 having a hook portion 27b at its tip is provided, and a slit-like insertion port 25a is provided in the center of the rear surface portion 25.

The lid 20 guides the guide pieces 22a, 23a from the windows 24a, 24a into the guide rails 11a, 12a to guide the upper surface of the safe body 10 back and forth so that the opening 13 can be opened and closed. The locking lever 27 can be slid in the direction
Pivot the hook portion 27b downward about the hook portion 27b.
Is engaged with the locking piece 15, and both locking holes 15 a and 27 c are sealed with the locking sealing tool 18, thereby forming the lid 20.
Is locked to the safe body 10.

A shield plate 29 and a lock lever 32 are provided in the lid 20. The shield plate 29 is supported by a pin 30 as a swing center, and is swung counterclockwise in FIG. A habit is given, and a rectangular coin storage opening window 29a inclined in the center is provided, and a groove 29b is formed in the lower center corresponding to the insertion slot 25a, and a lower left corner is provided in the lower left corner. , An engaging claw 29c and an engaging portion 29d are provided vertically. The lock lever 32 has an upper portion provided with a lock claw 32b which engages with the engagement claw 29c, and a lower portion provided with an engagement protrusion 32c which engages with the operating piece 11b. The fan-shaped long hole 3 is swingably supported about the provided pin 32a, and the integrated pin 32d is formed in the cover 33.
The lock lever 32 is regulated so that the inside of the long hole 33a can be swung by sliding into the long hole 33a by fitting into the long hole 33a.

The pin 32 of the lock lever 32
A coil spring 34 is stretched between a and a pin 34a implanted in the cover 33, and the coil spring 34 acts on the lock lever 32 as a tumbler mechanism. That is, an external force is applied to the lock lever 32, and 32d, which is a moving fulcrum of the spring 34, is located above a boundary line K connecting the swinging fulcrum 32a of the lock lever 32 and the fixed fulcrum 34a of the spring 34. When it is in the position, the pivot 32d is biased toward the upper end of the elongated hole 33a, the lock lever 32 is biased counterclockwise around the pin 32a, and the pivot 32d is positioned below the boundary line K. In this case, the pivot point 32d is biased toward the lower end of the elongated hole 33a, and the lock lever 32 is provided with a clockwise swing bias centered on the pin 32a. 32 is swingable and reversible.

An opening 41a for loading the toll box 1 is provided at the front of the vault 41.
A drop window 42 for storing coins falling from a coin processing unit (not shown) disposed above the coin box 1 in the charge box 1 is provided corresponding to the storage room 21a of the charge box 1, and An operating rod 43 having a pin 43a at the end thereof protrudes from the portion corresponding to the insertion opening 25a of the lid 20.

The structure of the toll box of the present invention is as described above, and the operation will be described below. First, the operation of loading the toll box into the vault and storing the toll will be described mainly with reference to FIG. The toll box 1 loaded in the vault 41 to store the tolls is set in advance by a preset operation described later.
The fulcrum 32d of the lock lever 32 is located below the boundary line K, the engagement of the lock claw 32b with the engagement claw 29c is released, and the swinging regulation of the shielding plate 29 by the lock lever 32 is released. ing.

In this state, when the toll box 1 is loaded into the safe room 41, the pin 43 of the operating rod 43 is moved as shown in FIG.
a enters the lid 20 from the insertion opening 25a, and the pins 25a
Abuts against the vertical portion of the groove 29b of the shielding plate 29, and rotates the shielding plate 29 clockwise around the pin 30 against the leaf spring 31. At the same time, with the rotation of the shield plate 29, the engaging portion 29d of the shield plate 29 is engaged with the fulcrum 32d of the lock lever 32, and the lock lever 32 is rotated counterclockwise about the pin 32a. .

Further, the toll box 1 is loaded into the vault 41, and when the loading is completed, the coin storage opening window 29a of the shielding plate 29 is located at the storage window 21a of the lid 20, as shown in FIG. At the same time, the storage window 21a is positioned at the falling window 42 of the safe room 41, so that the storage coins from the coin processing unit (not shown) can be stored in the toll box 1. At the same time, the fulcrum 32d of the lock lever 32 moves beyond the boundary K
a lock claw 32b and engagement projection 3
2c are positioned so as to be engageable with the engagement claws 29c of the shielding plate 29 and the operating piece 11b of the safe body 10, respectively.
As described above, since the pin 43a of the operating rod 43 is brought into direct contact with the groove 29 of the shielding plate 29 to swing the shielding plate 29, a complicated structure is unnecessary and the number of parts can be greatly reduced. .

Next, the operation of extracting the toll box from the vault in order to collect the toll will be described mainly with reference to FIGS. When the toll box 1 starts to be extracted from the vault 41, the pin 43a of the operating rod 43 that has advanced into the lid 20
Starts to retreat, the shielding plate 29 starts to rotate counterclockwise around the pin 30 by the urging force of the leaf spring 31, and the engaging claw 29c is moved to the lock claw 32b as shown in FIG. The lock lever 32 abuts and pivots clockwise around the pin 32a against the spring 34. The swinging operation at this time is not so much that the fulcrum 32d crosses the boundary line K. After the swinging, the swing fulcrum returns to the counterclockwise direction again, and as shown in FIG. When the lock claw 32b is completely removed from the vault 41, the lock claw 32b is engaged with the engagement claw 29c.
, And the shielding state of the storage window 21a of the shielding plate 29 is maintained.

The locking between the locking lever 27 and the locking piece 15 of the toll box 1 removed from the safe room 41 is released, and the lid 20 is slid rearward along the guide rails 11a and 12a, thereby obtaining the safe body 10 The opening 13 is opened to collect the fee. At this time, as shown in FIG.
, The engagement projection 32c of the lock lever 32 engages with the operating piece 11b, and the lock lever 32 is rotated clockwise around the pin 32a against the spring 34, thereby moving the fulcrum. 32d is positioned below the boundary line K, the lock lever 32 swings and reverses, and when the lid 20 completely opens the opening 13 as shown in FIG. The claw 29c is disengaged from the lock claw 32b, and the shielding plate 29 is swingable about the pin 30. When the above-mentioned toll box 1 is loaded into the safe room 41, the pin 43a of the operating rod 43 is used. To make the shielding plate 29 swingable, that is, a preset state.

As described above, the pin 32a of the lock member 32
And the locking member 32 is swung by the sliding operation of the lid upon collection of the fee, so that the shielding plate 29 is swung.
Since the engagement between the engagement claw 29c of the lock member 32 and the lock claw 32b of the lock member 32 is released and the preset state is established, the swing operation of the lock member 32 and the external force applied to the lock member 32 are in the same plane. Unreasonable external force is not applied to the lock member 32, so that breakage and failure of the lock member 32 can be reduced.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a lock claw and an engagement projection which are engaged with the engagement claw of the shielding plate to hold the storage window of the shielding plate in a shielding state, and are swung by the tumbler mechanism. A lock member which is capable of reversing the movement position, and when the cover is slid and opened, the lock member is rocked and inverted by engaging with an operating portion provided on the safe body and an engagement projection of the cover. Since the engagement between the lock claw and the engagement projection of the shielding plate is released to set the preset state, no excessive external force is applied to the lock member to set the preset state, so that a failure can be reduced. Further, when the safe body is loaded into the safe room, the operating plate provided in the safe room swings the shielding plate against the swinging bias to open the storage window. The plate can be brought into contact with the plate, so that the number of parts can be significantly reduced without requiring a complicated structure. In addition, since the lid that allows the opening of the safe main body to be opened and closed is slidable in the opening of the safe main body, the lid is firmly attached to the safe main body, so that the lid is hardly broken, If the toll box is fraudulently removed by,
It is possible to prevent coin theft.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a charge box in the structure of the charge box according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan cross-sectional view of the lid in the structure of the toll box according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an overall perspective view of the vault in the structure of the toll box according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan sectional view showing an operation of loading the toll box in the vault in the structure of the toll box according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a plan sectional view showing the operation of extracting the toll box from the vault in the structure of the toll box according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a plan sectional view showing an operation of collecting a charge and setting a preset state in the structure of the charge box according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Price box 10 Price box main body 11a Guide rail 12a Guide rail 20 Lid 21a Storage window 29 Shield plate 29a Coin storage opening window 29b Groove 29c Engagement claw 29d Engagement part 32 Lock lever 32b Lock claw 32c Engagement projection 32d Moving fulcrum 34 coil spring 34a fixed point 41 vault room 42 drop window 43 operating rod

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Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A box-shaped safe main body having an opening on the upper surface, a lid having a storage window for storing coins on the upper surface by slidably opening and closing the opening at the opening of the safe main body,
A toll box having an opening for loading the safe main body, and a vault in which a drop window for dropping coins corresponding to the storage window is provided on an upper surface; A shielding plate movably supported, having an engagement claw and an engagement portion, capable of opening and closing the storage window, and being provided with a swinging bias in a direction for shielding the normal storage window; and an engagement claw of the shielding plate. A lock member having an engagement projection and a locking claw having an engagement projection and capable of reversing a swing position by a tumbler mechanism, and slidingly opening the lid body At this time, the safe main body is provided with an operating portion which engages with the engaging protrusion of the lid, swings and inverts the lock member, releases the engagement between the lock claw and the engaging protrusion of the shielding plate, and sets a preset state. When the safe body is loaded into the safe room, the shielding plate is swung against the swinging bias and stored. And an actuating rod is provided in the safe room for releasing the lock member and swinging and reversing the lock member by the engagement protrusion of the shield plate to return the lock claw to a position where the engagement member can engage with the engagement claw of the shield plate. Characterized by the structure of the fee box.