JP2657918B2 - Card issuing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an improvement of a card issuing device.

[Conventional technology]

In recent years, with the spread of computers, cash cards, telephone cards, credit cards and other various cards have been used.

Necessary data is mainly recorded on these cards by magnetic means, and when used, the data is read by a predetermined input device so that cash is paid out, telephone calls and other services are automatically performed. It is widely used because of its convenience.

In addition to the cashless card as described above, cards are used in very many cases, such as commemorative cards and membership cards issued at various events.

Recently, various kinds of cards such as those described above have been automatically issued by a machine by paying a predetermined fee. However, in order to reliably send out thin cards one by one, various kinds of rollers and A complicated and precise mechanism combining a crank arm and the like and a complicated control means for accurately operating these mechanisms are required, and there has been a problem in that the production and the adjustment at the time of failure are complicated.

In order to solve such a problem, the applicant of the present application
In 62-088713, the cards can be sent out one by one with a relatively simple mechanism and control means,
A card issuing device with low manufacturing cost and easy adjustment at the time of failure has been disclosed.

That is, the device is a card issuing device that sends a card to be issued, which is housed inside a box body, to a card-like outlet by intermittently running a loop-shaped belt running at the center of the bottom surface by a drive device. On the outer surface of the belt, N bulging portions that can come into contact with a card to be sent, a belt support plate that supports the belt from the inner surface side at a position corresponding to a substantially central portion of the card, and an external card issuance Switch on the motor of the device that drives the belt by the command signal,
A control circuit for turning off the switch when the total number of rotations of the motor reaches n times a predetermined number of rotations required for rotating the belt 1 / N (where n is the number of cards to be issued); Card issuance, wherein when the card is issued, the belt comes into contact with the card to be sent out on the surface of the bulging portion, so that a predetermined number of cards are reliably issued. It was a device.

However, in the above card issuing device, the lowermost card sent out from the card storage unit by the belt passes through a gate having a height substantially equal to the thickness of the card, and is separated from the second card from the bottom one by one. Since the card is sent to the card exit, if the card to be sent is mixed with a defective card having a slight warp or a burr, etc., the card cannot pass through the gate when the defective card is sent. However, there is a problem that the card is clogged.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 62-0887.
A card issuing device that further improves the device disclosed in No. 13 so that the card is not jammed at all and the necessary number of cards can be sent out one by one even if the card to be issued includes a defective card. Is to provide.

[Means for solving the problem]

The above object is provided with a loop-shaped belt having a bulging portion that can come into contact with a card to be sent to an outer surface with a predetermined pressing force in the center of the bottom surface of a box housing a card to be issued, and A card issuance device that sends out a card by running the belt intermittently, with a card outlet from the card storage portion in the box facing the card exit, and a fixed second opening that allows simultaneous passage of a plurality of cards. One gate and a second gate that allows only the passage of one card are sequentially provided,
A scraper supported so as to be able to move up and down along a surface of the second gate facing the first gate and one end of which can contact a card passing through the gate, and constantly press the scraper toward the card passage. A spring is provided, and the scraper is pushed up by the lowermost card to be sent out.

(Operation)

With the card issuance device having the above-described configuration, the card is not jammed at all, and even if a defective card having warpage or burrs is mixed in the cards to be issued, a predetermined number of cards can be surely inserted one by one. Can be sent to

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.

1 is a top view showing an embodiment of a card issuing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view thereof, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line CC in FIG. 1,
FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a card sending belt used in the card issuing device according to the present invention, FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a card holding weight, and FIG. 9 is a front view showing one embodiment of the second gate, FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment of the scraper, and FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the second gate and the scraper. FIG. 12 is a side view showing a scraper moving mechanism, FIG. 13 is an enlarged view of a scraper portion in the same CC section of FIG. 5, and FIG. 14 is a view shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram around a control circuit.

In FIGS. 3 and 4, a spring or the like provided on the outer surface of the side surface is omitted to prevent the drawing from being complicated.

Thus, in the figure, 1 is a box, 1a is a card outlet, 1b is a bottom plate, 1c is a belt running path, 1d is a card storage portion, 1e is a scraper insertion hole, 2 is a card sending belt, 2a, 2a is a serrated bulge formed on its outer surface, 3 is a belt driving pulley, 4 is a motor, 5 is a timing belt, 6 is a guide pulley, 7 is an idler, 8 is a belt support plate, 9 is a pressing roller, 10 is a shutter, 11 is a micro switch, 12 is a weight, 13 is a first gate for controlling a card exit, 14 is a second gate having a scraper 15, 15 is a scraper, 16 is a spring, 17 is a card, and 18 is a control. The circuit, 19 is a card issue command circuit, 20 is a power supply for driving a motor, and 21 is a casing front plate.

Thus, the bottom plate 1b is attached to the box body 1 so as to cross the substantially central portion in the vertical direction substantially horizontally, and the central portion of the bottom plate 1b is cut out to form a belt running path 1c. I have.

Further, a first gate 13 for controlling a card outlet is mounted so as to cross a substantially central portion in the horizontal direction of the box 1 substantially vertically, and is partitioned by the bottom plate 1b and the first gate 13 for controlling the card exit. A card accommodating portion 1d is formed in the area where many cards 17 are stacked and sent out one by one.

Thus, below the bottom plate 1b, the card sending belt 2 and its driving mechanism are accommodated. That is, the belt 2
Is driven by a belt driving pulley 3 that rotates clockwise in FIG. 2 by driving a motor 4, and is linearly stretched between a guide pulley 6 and a driving pulley 3.
It moves along a belt running path 1c formed on the bottom plate 1b. A belt support plate 8 is provided between the guide pulley 6 and the driving pulley 3 at a position substantially corresponding to the center of the card and in contact with the inner surface of the belt in a state parallel to the lower surface of the card. When the bulging portions 2a, 2a pass while contacting the card, the belt 2 is prevented from hanging down, and the card is prevented from rolling.
The contact pressure with the cards a and 2a is kept constant.

The motor 4 has a mark 4a for detecting the number of revolutions on a part of the outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft.
A control circuit that stops the supply of power for driving when the passage of the mark 4a is detected by 18a and the total number of rotations of the motor reaches a predetermined number of times necessary to rotate the belt by half.
The rotation is intermittently controlled by 18.

The control circuit 18 has a sensor 18a as shown in FIG.
And a controller 18b and a switch 18c.

The sensor 18a is provided at a position close to the rotation path of the mark 4a of the motor 4, and emits one pulse to the control unit 18b every time the mark 4a passes in front of the sensor 18a.

The controller 18b turns on the switch 18c when the card issuance command signal is input from the card issuance command circuit 19, and supplies the power from the motor drive power supply 20 to the motor 4 to drive the motor 4. At the same time, the total number of rotations of the motor 4 is calculated by integrating the pulses from the sensor 18a, and when the number of pulses reaches an integral multiple of a predetermined number, the switch is turned on.
18c is turned off, and the supply of electric power to the motor 4 is stopped.

The card issuance command circuit 19 sends a command for issuing a card to the control circuit 18 when a predetermined charge is input to a charge input device (not shown).

Power transmission between the motor 4 and the belt driving pulley 3 is performed via a timing belt 5 suspended between pulleys 4 'and 3' attached to the respective rotating shafts (see FIG. 1).

As shown in FIG. 6, the card delivery belt 2 has teeth 2b, 2b formed on the entire inner peripheral surface thereof.
When this tooth profile rotates while meshing with the tooth profile on the outer periphery of the driving pulley 3, it functions as a timing belt.

A part of the outer peripheral surface of the belt 2 is formed with a saw-tooth-shaped bulging portion 2a having a large surface friction coefficient.
The surface of 2a comes into contact with the lower surface of the lowermost card stacked in the card accommodating portion 1d, and the card is sent out.

That is, when the belt 2 rotates and runs while the bulging portion 2a is in contact with the lower surface of the card, the card is fed rightward in FIG. 2 by friction. At this time, the belt supporting plate 8 prevents the belt 2 from hanging down,
Increase the contact pressure between 2a and the bottom of the card. Also,
The weight 12 plays a role of ensuring a sufficient contact pressure even when the number of cards in the card storage unit 1d is reduced.

Thus, the card drawn from the card storage unit 1d
Move on the belt 2 to the right in FIG.
13. Passing under the scraper 15 and the second gate 14, the shutter 10 rotatably attached to the side plate of the box 1 is pushed up and moved until the leading end of the card is exposed to the outside from the card outlet 1a. I do.

At the lower end of the first gate 13, as shown in FIG.
a, 13a are formed, and a gap is formed between the lower end thereof and the bottom plate 1b of the box 1 such that two or three cards 17, 17 can pass therethrough as shown in FIG. The tip of not only the lowermost card sent by the bulging portion 2a of the use belt 2 but also the upper two or three cards can pass through the first gate 13.

At the lower end of the second gate 14, projections 14a, 14a are formed as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 13, there is formed a gap which allows only one card 17 to pass therethrough.
Only the bottom card sent by can be passed through.

Thus, a scraper 15 is attached between the first gate 13 and the second gate 14 at a position substantially in contact with the second gate 14. The scraper 15 has both ends inserted into a scraper insertion hole 1e formed in the side wall of the box 1, and one end of a spring 16 attached to the side wall is inserted into holes 15a, 15a opened near both ends of the scraper, thereby forming a twelfth. In FIG. 13 and FIG. 13, it is attached so as to be able to move up and down along the second gate 14 and to be biased downward by a spring.

Therefore, the lowermost one of the two or three cards sent by the card delivery belt 2 and passing through the first gate 13 pushes up the scraper 15 because the frictional force with the bulging portion 2a of the belt is large. Going out through the gate 14, the second card from the bottom cannot advance until the scraper 15 is pushed up due to relatively little friction with the bottom card, and is separated from the bottom card. And the second gate 14
It is left more inside. When the next bulge 2a arrives after the belt 2 has made a further half turn, it becomes the lowermost card and is sent out through the second gate 14 in the same manner as described above.

If there is no scraper 15 that can be moved up and down, the second card from the bottom reaches the second gate 14 together with the lowermost card. It must be set, and card jams tend to occur due to bad cards and the like. In the case where a fixed type scraper is provided as in the ticket issuing apparatus described in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 55-19227, a card jam problem occurs for the same reason.

Therefore, as in the present invention, a first gate that permits simultaneous passage of a plurality of cards from a card storage section in the box toward a card exit, and a second gate that does not permit simultaneous passage of a plurality of cards. Gates are sequentially provided, and the second
A scraper supported vertically so as to be able to move up and down along a surface of the gate opposite to the first gate and having one end contacting a card passing through the gate; and a spring for constantly pressing the scraper toward a card passage. Is provided, even if there are some defective cards, each card can be transmitted exactly one by one.

The pressing roller 9 is urged toward the belt driving pulley 3 by a spring mechanism, and pushes the card drawn from the card accommodating portion 1d onto the belt 2 with an appropriate pressure to advance the card. Is shutter 10
A sufficient pushing force is generated so as not to be hindered.

The card 1 is disposed in the casing such that the card outlet 1a is close to the casing front plate 21, so that the card that has passed through the shutter 10 can be immediately pulled out by the customer.

At this time, the shutter 10 plays a role of holding the card conveyed to the card exit 1a so as not to fall, and the card is reversed from the card exit 1a by the shutter being lowered by its own weight after the customer pulls out the card. Plays a role in preventing intrusion and other mischief.

Although omitted in the figure, near the card exit 1a,
It is recommended that a count sensor composed of a photocoupler or the like be provided so that the number of cards issued can be counted.

The micro switch 11 detects when there is no more card in the card housing 1d. That is, the contact 11a of the microswitch 11 is pushed down by the weight of the card when the card is in the card accommodating portion 1d, but when the card is lost, the contact 11a is lifted and the microswitch 11 is operated to activate the signal. Is issued to inform that the corner is gone. When the weight 12 is placed on the card, a notch 12a is formed in the side of the weight 12 as shown in FIG.
Is formed, and when the card is exhausted, the contact 11a of the microswitch 11 is lifted up through the notch 12a, so that it is possible to detect that the card is exhausted in the same manner as described above.

With the above configuration, when the motor 4 rotates a predetermined number of revolutions and the belt 2 makes a half turn, even if a defective card is sent out, the card is not jammed and is issued one by one without fail.

〔The invention's effect〕

Since the present invention is configured as described above, according to the present invention, the card jam problem is completely eliminated.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but encompasses all modified embodiments that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art from the above description within the scope of the present invention.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a top view showing one embodiment of a card issuing device according to the present invention, FIG. 1 is a side view thereof, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line CC in FIG. 1,
FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a card sending belt used in the card issuing device according to the present invention, FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a card holding weight, and FIG. 9 is a front view showing one embodiment of the second gate, FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment of the scraper, and FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the second gate and the scraper. FIG. 12 is a side view showing a scraper moving mechanism, FIG. 13 is an enlarged view of a scraper section in a CC section similar to FIG. 5, and FIG. 14 is a view in FIG. FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram around a control circuit shown in FIG. 1. Box 1a Card outlet 1b Bottom plate 1c Belt path 1d Card storage unit 1e Scraper insertion hole 2 Card belt 2a Serrated bulge 2b , 2b ... tooth shape 3 ... belt drive pulley 4 ... motor 4a ... mark 5 ... timing belt 6 ... guide pulley 7 ... idler 8 ... belt support plate 9 ... holding roller 10 ... shutter 11 … Micro switch 11a… Contact element 12… Weight 12a… Notch 13… First gate 13a… Projecting part 14… Second gate 14a… Projecting part 15… Scraper 15a… Hole 16… … Spring 17… Card 18… Control circuit 18a… Sensor 18b… Control part 18c… Switch 19… Card issue command circuit 20… Motor drive power supply 21… Casing front plate

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A card feeding port is provided at one end of a bottom portion, a running path of a card sending belt is provided at the center of the bottom surface, and a box housing a card to be issued therein, and a running direction on an outer surface thereof. N bulges that can be in contact with the card are formed at equal intervals along the path, and the surface of the bulge contacts the card to be sent out and travels in a running path provided at the center of the bottom of the box. Loop-shaped belt, a belt support plate parallel to the lower surface of the card that supports the belt by contacting the inner surface of the belt at a position corresponding to substantially the center of the card to be delivered, and a motor of a device that drives the belt The number of rotations is detected, and the motor is switched on by a signal for issuing a card input from the outside, and the total number of rotations is n times the predetermined number of rotations required to rotate the belt 1 / N times. (However, n is the issue And a control circuit for switching off the switch when the number of cards reaches the number of cards, and for intermittently driving the belt and issuing a predetermined number of cards in response to an issue command. A fixed first gate (13) forming an opening that allows simultaneous passage of a plurality of cards from the card storage section (1d) to the card exit (1a), and the passage of only one card And a second gate (14) which allows the first gate (13) to be connected to the first gate (13).
A scraper (15) supported so as to be able to move up and down along a surface opposite to and having one end contacting a card passing through a gate; and a spring for constantly pressing the scraper (15) toward the card passage. (16) The card issuance device described above, comprising: