JP2710539B2 - Ticket ticket discharge device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for discharging tickets, and more particularly, to an automatic ticket gate which inserts a plurality of tickets in one ticket gate processing, such as an ordinary ticket and an express ticket. Machine,
The present invention relates to what is incorporated in a so-called multiple ticket ticket type automatic ticket gate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 58-78280
As shown in the official gazette, regular tickets and limited express tickets (hereinafter referred to as
An automatic ticket gate that can insert a plurality of tickets and perform one ticket gate processing is proposed.

In such a multi-ticket type automatic ticket gate, when the tickets are returned from the discharge port in the order of insertion into the insertion port, the user (passenger) leaves before receiving the entire ticket. The problem arises.

[0004] To prevent such inconveniences, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 56-74786,
A proposal has been made in which all tickets are discharged collectively to an outlet.

[0005] However, in the above-mentioned conventional collective discharge device, a small-sized ticket (for example, a width of 30 mm and a length of 57.5 m) is placed under a large-sized ticket.
m (Edmonson ticket)) is stacked and ejected, the user misunderstands that all the tickets have not been returned and stops for a long time in the ticket gate passage, reducing the efficiency of ticket gate processing. There is fear.

Accordingly, the applicants will explain later with reference to the drawings. However, even if tickets of different sizes are inserted in the insertion slot in any order, and no matter how the front and back surfaces of the ticket are inserted, An automatic ticket gate that can be conveyed to the exit side in order from a ticket whose surface is upward and the size is large is proposed.

[0007]

However, in an automatic ticket gate corresponding to a plurality of tickets, a previous ticket is temporarily held inside the automatic ticket gate until the last ticket is inserted into an insertion slot. Since processing such as writing and printing of ticket gate data is performed only when all tickets are determined to be valid, compared to when ticket processing is performed with a single ticket,
There is a disadvantage that the ticket processing time is inevitably increased.

For this reason, in order to collectively discharge the tickets,
The need for more time must be avoided as much as possible.
For this reason, the emergence of a discharge device that can quickly collectively discharge with a simple mechanism has been expected.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to meet the above-mentioned demand, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for discharging a ticket which can collectively discharge a plurality of tickets with a simple mechanism.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a transport mechanism having a holding section for temporarily holding a ticket between an insertion slot and a discharge slot of a main body of an automatic ticket gate. While the plurality of tickets inserted from the insertion slot are transported to the outlet by the transport mechanism, while performing arithmetic processing based on data recorded on the tickets and performing ticket gate processing, A discharge device for a ticket in an automatic ticket gate that sequentially transports a large-sized ticket from the holding section toward the discharge port side, wherein the discharge mechanism has a discharge direction directed to the discharge port side. A belt conveyor provided below the transportation end side of the road, a stopper provided between the transportation end portion of the belt conveyor and the discharge port, and stopping movement of a ticket by the belt conveyor, and the belt A wing provided on the discharge conveyance path, facing the conveyance start end of the conveyor, and a pinch roller provided movably in the direction of the belt conveyor facing the conveyance end of the belt conveyor. said wing Gosuru with <br/> system to direct only the first ticket conveyed to the conveyance start end side of the belt conveyor by the transport path, it is transported after its initial ticket
The incoming ticket so that it is on top of that first ticket.
A wing control means that controls the wings, as well as releases the stopped state of the stopper when all tickets on the belt conveyor is mounted, the stopper for biasing the pinch roller on the belt conveyor side And control means.

[0011]

In the above construction, the largest-sized ticket first conveyed from the discharge conveyance path is guided to the conveyance start side of the belt conveyor by the wing and placed on the belt conveyor. Then, the next ticket sent from the discharge conveyance path is guided to the conveyance end side of the belt conveyor by the wing, and is placed on the first ticket.
When all the tickets are placed on the belt conveyor, the stopper is released from the stopped state, and the pinch roller is urged toward the belt conveyor. Thereby, the ticket stacked on the belt conveyor moves to the discharge port side while maintaining the stacked state.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a main body (hereinafter, referred to as a main body) a of an automatic ticket gate incorporating an apparatus according to an embodiment, and a ticket is inserted into an upper part of one end side (right side in FIG. 1) of the main body a. A mouth 1 is provided, and a discharge port 2 for returning a ticket to a user is provided on the upper surface on the other end side.

A transport mechanism 3 is provided in the main body a of the insertion port 1 and the discharge port 2. The transport mechanism 3 is for sequentially reading the data such as the size and the like from the inserted ticket from the inserted ticket to the aligned transport path 3a for arranging the tickets inserted from the insertion port 1 in order from the insertion port 1 to the discharge port 2. The read transport path 3b having the magnetic heads H ₁ and H ₂ , the main transport path 3c having the temporary holding section 4, and writing, printing,
Post-processing conveyance path 3d having post-processing unit 5 such as punching
And the discharge conveyance path 3e in which the apparatus 10 of this embodiment is incorporated.
It is composed of

Although the details of the temporary holding section 4 are omitted since it has been separately proposed by the present applicants, the temporary holding section 4 is inserted first before the last one of a plurality of tickets is inserted. And the wings W ₁ , W ₂ , W ₃ , and W ₄ are appropriately selected and driven, and are reserved in the retaining portions 4 a, 4 b, and 4 c with the upper, middle, and lower stoppers S. When the ticket is valid, the post-processing section 5 writes the ticket data and the like and discharges the ticket to the outlet 2. If there is even one invalid ticket, the ticket can be returned from the outlet 2 without writing the ticket data. Like that.

When the ticket is inserted into the insertion slot 1 with the front side (the surface on which the boarding section or the like is printed) facing up, the temporary holding section 4 is set in the discharge slot 2. Drive in the direction of the solid arrow to send the ticket to the main transport path 3c.
When inserted into the insertion slot 1 with its back side up, that is, turned upside down, the temporary holding section 4 is driven in the direction of the chain line arrow to reverse the ticket and send it out to the main transport path 3c. I have. Therefore, even a ticket that is inserted upside down into the insertion slot 1 can be sent to the post-processing unit 5 with the front side up,
Therefore, only one type of printing unit or the like of the post-processing unit 5 when inserted with the front surface facing upward is sufficient, and the post-processing unit 5 can be simplified.

Further, each stopper S, S,
S is selected and driven as appropriate, and the upper, middle and lower holding sections 4a, 4b and 4c are selected and driven as appropriate, and are sent to the post-processing section 5 (discharge port 2) side in order from the largest ticket. It is configured to be able to.

In FIG. 1, C is a controller mainly composed of a microcomputer that controls the main body a. The discharging device 10 according to the present embodiment is also controlled by the controller C. FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the discharge device 10, and FIG. 3 is a diagram in which three types of large, medium, and small tickets A, B, and C are stacked and discharged from the discharge port 2. FIG.

The discharge device 10 has a belt conveyor 11 provided below the discharge end of the discharge conveyance path 3e. Then, the conveyance direction of the belt conveyor 11 is directed to the discharge port 2 side.

The wing W ₅ is applicable to the wing of the present invention, provided in the discharge conveyance path 3e facing the conveyance start end side of the belt conveyor 11 moves as indicated by the two-dot chain line by a solenoid (not shown) It is provided as follows. Also, the pinch roller 12 is a belt conveyor 12.
And is biased toward the belt conveyor 12 by a solenoid (not shown) as shown by a two-dot chain line.

The stopper 13 is provided between the end of conveyance of the belt conveyor 11 and the discharge port 2, and can stop a ticket moving by the conveyance force of the bell conveyor 11, and is not shown. The stopper 13 is configured to be driven by a solenoid to move to a position where the stop state is released.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described. Now, the insertion slot 1 has three sizes, large, medium, and small.
When the tickets i, b, and c are inserted, the discharge conveyance path 3e
From, the first ticket, that is, the largest ticket A is conveyed. In this case, the wing W ₅ is set to the solid line position.

Therefore, the ticket a is the belt conveyor 1
1 is guided onto the belt conveyor 11 from the transport start end, and the leading end in the transport direction is received by the stopper 13 and placed on the belt conveyor 11 (see a chain line arrow in FIG. 2).

If the tickets inserted into the insertion slot 1 are all the same size, the order in which the tickets are ejected from the temporary holding section 4 is not particularly limited. ticket is guided by the wings W ₅ to the transport starting side of the belt conveyor 11.

Next, wing W ₅ is set to the two-dot chain line position. Therefore, next ticket b sent to the discharge conveying path 3e is ticket is transported to the tip portion of the conveying direction through the upper surface of the wing W ₅ is thrown by aiming at the stopper S (See the dashed line arrow in FIG. 2). Further, the next ticket C is similarly placed on the ticket B.

When it is detected by a sensor (not shown) that all the tickets A, B, and C have been placed on the belt conveyor 11, the stopper S moves backward in the direction of the arrow.
The pinch roller 12 advances in the direction of the arrow. That is, the stopper S releases the stop state, and the pinch roller 12 applies a conveying force to the tickets A, B, and C on the belt conveyor 11.

Accordingly, the ticket A, B, and C are transported in the transport direction of all the tickets A, B, and C with the largest ticket A down and the smallest ticket C up. Can be sent out to the discharge port 2 side (see FIG. 3).

For this reason, the user can check all returned tickets and can immediately take out the ticket from the outlet 2 and leave the ticket gate passage.

[0028]

According to the present invention, there is provided a belt conveyor provided below a conveyance end side of a discharge conveyance path of the conveyance mechanism whose conveyance direction is directed to a discharge port side, and a conveyance end portion of the belt conveyor. A stopper provided between the belt conveyor and a stopper for stopping the movement of the ticket by the belt conveyor, a wing provided on the discharge conveyance path, facing the conveyance start end side of the belt conveyor, and facing the transfer terminal end side, and a pinch roller provided movably in the belt conveyor direction, only the first ticket conveyed by the discharge conveying path so as to guide the conveying starting end side of the belt conveyor to control the wing
Along with, the boarding that is carried after the first ticket
Position the ticket so that it is on top of that first ticket
A wing control means that controls the grayed, with releases the stopped state of the stopper when all tickets acids on the belt conveyor is mounted, the stopper for biasing the pinch roller on the belt conveyor side since consisting of a control means, with a simple configuration, collectively a plurality of tickets, tooth
In the stacked state with the largest size ticket on the bottom
Ki de be discharged from the exhaust outlet, riding is returned by the user
Confirmation of the ticket can be facilitated .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a main body incorporating a device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of a discharge device.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a stacked ticket on a discharge port side.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 the body of the outlet 3 transport mechanism 3e discharge conveyance path 10 discharging device 11 belt conveyor 12 the pinch roller 13 stop a automatic ticket gate (body) W ₅ Wing Lee, B, C ticket

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Miki Komori 11-2, Hirade Industrial Park, Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Pref. Nippon Signal Co., Ltd. Utsunomiya Office (56) References JP-A-5-62039 (JP, A) Kaihei 4-120160 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A transport mechanism having a holding section for temporarily holding tickets is provided between an insertion slot and a discharge slot of a main body of an automatic ticket gate, and a plurality of tickets inserted from the insertion slot are provided. While being transported to the outlet by the transport mechanism, the ticket processing is performed by performing arithmetic processing based on the data recorded in the tickets, and the size of the ticket increases from the holding section toward the outlet. What is claimed is: 1. A ticket ejection device for an automatic ticket gate that sequentially conveys tickets from a ticket, the belt being provided below a conveyance end side of a discharge conveyance path of the conveyance mechanism whose conveyance direction is directed to the discharge port side. A conveyor, a stopper provided between the conveyance end of the belt conveyor and the discharge port, for stopping movement of tickets and the like by the belt conveyor, facing a conveyance start end side of the belt conveyor, and A wing provided on a conveyance path, a pinch roller opposed to the conveyance end side of the belt conveyor, and movably provided in the belt conveyor direction, and first tickets and the like conveyed by the discharge conveyance path only the wings Gosuru with braking to direct the conveyance starting end side of the belt conveyor, after the initial ticket class
On the first ticket
A wing control means that controls the wings to be positioned, said with all tickets acids on the belt conveyor to release the stopped state of the stopper when it is placed, the conveyor belt side the pinch roller And a stopper control means for urging the ticket.