JP2562628B2 - Coin tube coin storage device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a coin storage device for a coin tube in which coins are replenished by switching back and forth in each coin tube arranged in a front and rear direction in a coin mechanism.

(B) Conventional Technology A coin tube for holding coins for change is provided in a coin mechanism that performs a coin processing operation in a vending machine. In this coin tube, a main coin tube in which coins sorted by a coin sorter provided in the coin mechanism are sorted and stored, and a coin with a high payout frequency as change, such as a 10-yen coin, is stored in advance. There is a spare coin tube to prepare for a change shortage. The coins retained in the spare coin tube are sequentially paid out when the coins in the main coin tube are insufficient and used as change.

Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. Sho 60-39181 discloses an example of a device in which such a spare coin tube is arranged on the side of a cassette type coin tube main body in which a plurality of main coin tubes are arranged in parallel.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention By the way, the above-mentioned auxiliary coin tube is not only arranged on one side of the main coin tube as in the device disclosed in the above publication but also the coin mechanism. Depending on the internal space, it may be provided at the rear position of the main coin tube, or it may be arranged in two rows in the front and rear on the side of the main coin tube.

If the auxiliary coin tubes are arranged in two rows in the front and rear, there is no problem as long as coins of the same denomination are stored in each coin tube, but if coins of different denominations are stored, It is absolutely necessary to avoid mistakes such as accidentally inserting coins that should be stored in one auxiliary coin tube into the other auxiliary coin tube.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a coin storage that allows coins of different denominations to be refilled into coin tubes arranged in two rows in the front and rear in a coin mechanism without causing an insertion error. The purpose is to provide a device.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve this object, a coin storage device for a coin tube according to the present invention has a coin mechanism in which two rows are arranged in the front-rear direction in the longitudinal direction and openings for replenishing coins are provided at the upper end. Is provided with a coin tube capable of receiving and storing coins of different denominations from above, and is supported on the upper part of the coin tube so as to be vertically turnable and can be held at the vertically turning position. When the coin tube is replenished with coins, a switching member for closing the opening of the other coin tube is provided.

(E) Operation According to the above-described configuration, by rotating the switching member with the horizontal axis, it is possible to close the upper opening side of the other coin tube while one coin tube is being replenished with coins. No coins are inserted into the coin tube, and there is no replenishment error such that coins of different denominations are accidentally inserted.

(F) Example Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a coin mechanism in which a coin storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided on a coin tube.

In FIG. 1, a coin mechanism 1 for performing an operation related to coin processing in a vending machine is provided with a coin receiving port 2 at the uppermost portion, and coins taken in from the coin receiving port 2 are located in a coin selector 3 below. Are sorted in.

Further, a cassette type coin tube body 7 in which a plurality of main coin tubes 4 and auxiliary coin tubes 5 and 6 for compensating for a change shortage are integrated is detachably attached to a housing 8 of the coin mechanism 1. . A plurality of main coin tubes 4 arranged below the coin sorter 3
The coins sorted and sorted by the coin sorter 3 are stored in the box for change.

Auxiliary coin tubes 5 and 6 provided for the purpose of supplementing when the coins held in the main coin tube 4 are insufficient are arranged side by side on the right side of the main coin tubes 4 in the rightmost column in the figure to assist. Is equipped with a coin tube 5 for
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the auxiliary coin tubes 5 in the front row are arranged, and the auxiliary coin tubes 6 are arranged behind them. These auxiliary coin tubes 5,
6 is a side wall 3a of the coin sorter 3 and a side plate 8a of the housing 8.
The additional tubes 5B, 6B arranged between and are detachably attached to the lower tubes 5A, 6A, respectively. Since the tubes are long, a large amount of spare change can be retained. A change-out mechanism 9 is provided below the coin tube body 7.

A switching member 10 constituting the coin storage device is provided above the auxiliary coin tubes 5 and 6 by being sandwiched by the side wall 3a of the coin sorter 3 and the side plate 8a of the housing 8. . The switching member 10 switches between the front and rear coin tubes 5 or 6 for dropping coins when supplementing coins to the auxiliary coin tubes 5 or 6.

The switching member 10 is shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, and a protruding step portion is provided at the rear portion of the side plate 11 on the coin sorter 3 side.
11a is formed, and the stepped portion 11a comes into contact with the side wall 3a of the coin sorter 3. Further, the side plate 12 on the side face plate 8a side of the housing 8 is provided with an elastic locking piece 13 formed by cutting out the periphery while leaving the base part, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. A boss 15 that engages with a hole 14a at the center of the slit 14 formed in the side plate 8a is provided at the tip of the locking piece 13 so as to project. The rear portions of the side plates 11 and 12 are connected by a connecting portion 16.

In addition, the guide plate 17 that is inclined obliquely downward is
A pair of coin sliding ribs 18, 18 is provided on the guide plate 17 in the frontward direction between the first and the second coins 12, and is provided in the coin inserting direction. The guide plate 17 is formed to have a length enough to cover the upper opening 5a of the auxiliary coin tube 5 in the front row when the switching member 10 is rotated downward. As shown in FIG. 3, the portion comes into contact with the front end edge of the upper opening 6a of the auxiliary coin tube 6 in the rear row.

Further, behind the guide plate 17, there is provided a drop opening 19 for dropping coins into the auxiliary coin tube 6 at the rear when the switching member 10 is rotated downward.
The opening 19 is larger than the opening 6a of the coin tube 6.

Further, a guard plate 20 stands down on the front edge of the guide plate 17, and when the switching member 10 is rotated downward, the lower end of the guard plate 20 is the opening of the coin tube 5 in the front row.
It contacts the front edge of 5a. The guard plate 20 is for preventing coins from dropping into the coin tubes 5 in the front row when the coin tubes 6 in the rear row are replenished with coins.

With the above structure, the switching member 10 is tightly held between the side wall 3a of the coin sorter 3 and the side plate 8a of the housing 8 with the boss 15 engaged with the hole 14a of the slit 14. ,
It has a horizontal axis passing through the boss 15 and is rotatable up and down.

When the switching member 10 is switched and, for example, coins are replenished to the auxiliary coin tubes 5 in the front row, the switching member 10 is rotated fully upward as shown in FIG.
At this time, the hook-shaped engaging portions 21, 21 on the upper front ends of the side plates 11, 12
Engages with the front edge of the side plate 8a of the housing 8 and the switching member
Ten holds are made.

In this state, the coin is not dropped into the coin tube 6 in the rear row by being blocked by the guard plate 20 and the lower surface of the guide plate 17 of the switching member 10, and the opening of the auxiliary coin tube 5 in the front row from below the switching member 10 is prevented. The coin M can be put into the portion 5a.

When supplementing coins to the auxiliary coin tubes 6 in the rear row, the switching member 10 is rotated fully downward as shown in FIG.

In this state, the guard plate 20 prevents the coins from being inserted into the coin tubes 5 in the front row.
The coin M thrown in from 17 slides down on the guide plate 17 and is dropped into the auxiliary coin tube 6 in the rear row from the upper opening 6a.

By using the switching member 10 as described above, it is possible to easily switch which of the front and rear spare coin tubes 5 or 6 is supplemented with coins, and the front and rear coin tubes have coins of different denominations. For example, when replenishing coins, there is an advantage that mistakes in replenishing coins can be prevented.

Next, the operation of removing the switching member 10 will be described with reference to FIG. In this case, for example, a coin 22 is applied to the slit 14 from the outside of the side plate 8a of the housing 8 and the boss 15 is pushed inward. Since the boss 15 is provided at the tip of the elastic locking piece 13, the locking piece 13 is pushed inward at this time and the boss 15 is easily removed from the hole 14a in the central portion of the slit 14. In this state, if the switching member 10 is pulled out to the front, the switching member 10 can be easily removed from the housing 8.

The switching member 10 has a simple mounting structure in which the boss 15 is simply engaged with the hole 14a of the side surface plate 8a and is sandwiched by both side walls to be mounted. Since no screw is used, mounting workability is improved. Can be achieved.

As described above, the coin storage device of the present embodiment uses the coin tubes arranged in two rows in the front and back, which require coins of different denominations to be replenished, and replenishes coins of different denominations. Suitable in some cases.

(G) Effect of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, above the coin tubes arranged in the front and rear two rows in the coin mechanism,
Since a switching member is provided that can switch coin replenishment between the two front and rear rows of coin tubes, it prevents the coins that should be replenished in one coin tube from being accidentally inserted into the other coin tube. can do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a coin mechanism in which a coin storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention is arranged on an upper portion of a coin tube, and FIG. 2 is a first view for explaining the operation of the coin storage device.
A partial cutaway AA line sectional view of the figure, FIG. 3 is a partial cutaway AA line sectional view of FIG. 1 for explaining the operation of the coin storage device, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a switching member used in the apparatus, FIG. 5 is a plan view of the switching member, and FIG. 6 is a sectional view for explaining a detaching operation of the switching member. 1 ... Coin mechanism, 4 ... Main coin tube,
5, 6 ... Auxiliary coin tube, 5a, 6a ... Upper opening, 7 ... Cassette coin tube body, 8 ... Housing, 8a ... Side plate, 8b ... Top plate, 10 ... Switching member , 11, 12 ... Side plate, 13 ... Engaging piece, 14a ... Hole, 15 ...
… Boss, 17 …… guide plate, 19 …… falling port, 2 …… guard plate, 21 …… hook-shaped engaging part.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Mitsuharu Yasukawa 2-18 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (56) References 50-40291 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A coin tube provided in the coin mechanism in two rows in the front-rear direction and capable of receiving and storing coins of different denominations from an opening for replenishing coins at an upper end, and an upper portion of the coin tube. And a switching member that is rotatably supported up and down and that can be held in the up and down rotation position and that closes the opening of the other coin tube when refilling one coin tube. A coin tube coin storage device.