JP2891686B2 - Card collection device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card collection device for collecting and storing cards, and more particularly, to a card collection device that can sequentially collect cards from below.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as this type of card collection device, there has been a card collection device that sequentially collects and stores collected cards by dropping the conveyed cards. That is, a card collection device as shown in FIG. In FIG. 12, W is a stored card. The card W is a lending ball card in a pachinko game in this conventional example. Reference numeral 100 denotes a card collection device, which is composed of a main body 101, a transporting unit 110, and a storage unit 120. The transport unit 110 is capable of transporting the card W, which is located above the card collection device 100 and is inserted from the insertion slot 111, by sandwiching the roller 112 and rotating the roller 112.

The storage unit 120 is installed adjacent to the end of the conveying means 110 where the rollers 112 convey the main body 101.
The storage space 121 is provided in the shape of a card inside, and when the card W accumulates, the card W can be separated from the main body 101 and the card 101 can be collected. When the card W is inserted from the insertion slot 111, the card W is moved to the storage section 120, which is the terminal side, by the roller 112, and
2 freely falls into the storage section 120 from the terminal side. Then, since the storage space 121 has the same shape as the card shape, the card W is stored. Similarly, the card W is sequentially inserted into the insertion slot 111.
When the storage space 121 is full, the storage unit 120 is removed from the main body 101 and the card W is collected.

[0004]

However, in the conventional method, the free space of the card W causes the storage space 1 to fall.
Since the card W was stored in the storage space 121, the card W was not uniformly dropped, and the card W could not be stacked properly in the storage space 121 in some cases.

That is, when the card is dropped from the end of the roller 112, the card W falls first from one end. However, since the card has a large surface area, it cannot be dropped smoothly during the fall, and the card W is stored obliquely in the storage space 121. Had the problem that In order to solve this, a method such as making the shape of the storage space oblique has been adopted, but it has not been solved, and there are not a few problems described above. In addition, since the storage space must be located below the card W after the card W is conveyed from the roller 122 in order to drop the card W freely, there is a problem that the volume of the entire apparatus becomes large, When installed on an existing counter, the card insertion slot 111 is located at a considerably high position, so that it is difficult to use the counter, and the height of the counter must be reduced only at the installation position of the card rotating device 100. Had a point. Therefore, in view of the above problems, in the present invention, the card collecting device can be correctly stacked in the storage space sequentially without exception, the volume can be reduced to reduce the installation space, and the card collection device can be installed and used in an existing counter or the like. The task is to provide

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems Therefore, the present invention provides

[0007] An insertion guide having a card insertion port, and a storage space capable of storing a plurality of cards in a stack therein, an opening is provided on the side of the bottom of the storage space, and the storage space is accommodated from above. It has a pressing means that always presses toward the bottom of the space, a card storage portion provided so that the storage port is adjacent to the card insertion port of the insertion guide, and a roller that can freely rotate around an axis, and the upper part of the roller is A card roller provided below the card accommodating portion so as to be located above the accommodating opening, and a receiving surface on the insertion guide side of the card accommodating portion, which has a sending surface formed of a part of a cylindrical surface rotatable around an axis. When the other surface other than the sending surface is located on the card storage unit side, the other surface is located below the accommodation opening, and when the sending surface is located on the card storage unit side, the sending operation is performed. Has a roller portion provided so as to be located above the accommodation opening, and comprises a delivery roller capable of delivering the card from the insertion guide side of the card storage portion to the opposite side by rotating the delivery surface. Card collection device,

[0008] and

An insertion guide having a card insertion opening, and a storage space in which a plurality of cards can be stacked and stored therein, and a storage opening on the insertion guide side at the bottom of the storage space have a storage opening. The storage opening is provided adjacent to the opening, and the storage space bottom is provided so that the storage opening side is higher and the other is lower, and the highest portion of the storage space bottom is positioned lower than the storage opening, and is stacked and stored. A card storage portion having a pressing means for constantly pressing a card from the top toward the bottom of the storage space in the storage space; The card has a sending surface formed of a part of a cylindrical surface rotatable around the center, and is provided below the receiving opening on the insertion guide side of the card receiving portion, and other surfaces other than the sending surface are used for storing the card. Side has a roller portion provided so that the other surface is located below the storage opening, and when the delivery surface is located on the card storage portion side, the delivery surface is located above the storage opening. A card collecting device, comprising: a sending roller capable of sending a card from an insertion guide side of a card storage portion to an opposite side by rotating a sending surface.

The above-mentioned problem is solved by providing the above.

The operation is as follows. That is, the card is inserted from the card insertion slot of the insertion guide. At this time, the leading end of the card is inserted up to the accommodation opening of the card storage unit and is located above the delivery roller, but the delivery surface consisting of the cylindrical surface of the delivery roller is not located above, so the delivery roller is attached to the card. Not in contact with Then
The delivery roller rotates. Then, the delivery surface of the delivery roller moves upward, eventually reaches the inserted card and comes into contact with the card. When the card is further rotated, the sending surface is located above the storage port, so that the card is sent out with the rotation of the sending roller while being lifted upward by the sending surface, and moves into the storage space of the storage unit. Then, the moved card is eventually stored in the storage space while being guided by the card roller on the card roller positioned below the card storage section. When the second and subsequent cards are accommodated, the cards are sent out of the accommodating opening into the accommodating space while being lifted up by the sending roller. Is moved along the bottom surface of the previously accommodated card, and is accommodated between the bottom surface of the accommodation space and the already accommodated card. When the card is stored, the pressing means always presses the stored card from the top to the bottom so that the already stored card is not pushed up and moved from the proper storage position. Next, the operation of the card collection device without using a card roller is as follows. The card is inserted from the card insertion slot of the insertion guide. At this time, the leading end of the card is inserted up to the accommodation opening of the card storage unit and is located above the delivery roller, but the delivery surface consisting of the cylindrical surface of the delivery roller is not located above, so the delivery roller is attached to the card. Not in contact with

Next, the delivery roller rotates. Then
The delivery surface of the delivery roller rotates upward and eventually reaches the inserted card and comes into contact with the card. When the card is further rotated, the sending surface is positioned above the storage port, so that the inserted card is sent out with the rotation of the sending roller while being lifted upward by the sending surface, and moves into the storage space of the storage unit, and is eventually stored. Housed in space. And the second
When the second and subsequent cards are inserted and accommodated, the cards are sent out from the accommodation opening into the storage space while being lifted by the sending roller, and are moved along the bottom surface of the card previously stored in the storage space. Are accommodated between the bottom of the storage space and the bottom of the card already stored. When the card is stored, the pressing means constantly presses the stored card from the top to the bottom so that the already stored card is not pushed up and moved from the normal storage position. Therefore, a card newly stored in the storage space is always stored below the previously stored card.

[0013]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective explanatory view showing a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is an assembly view showing the first embodiment of the present invention. 2, FIG. 3, which is an explanatory view of the central longitudinal section of FIG. 1, FIG. 4, which is a state diagram in which a card is stored in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 5, which is an explanatory view of a roller portion of the first embodiment, FIG. 6, which is an explanatory view of the card storage section of the first embodiment, FIG. 7 showing a partially enlarged view of FIG. 6, FIG. 8 showing another embodiment of the card roller of the first embodiment, and a second embodiment of the present invention. An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 9 which is an explanatory view showing an assembly drawing of the embodiment, and FIG. 10 which is an explanatory view of a central longitudinal section of the second embodiment.

The following is an explanation of the first embodiment. 1
Is a card collection device according to the present invention, and W is a card accommodated in the card collection device 1. In this embodiment, the card W is a lending ball card used in a pachinko game having a rectangular shape of about 78 mm × about 49 mm and a thickness of about 0.4 mm. Of course, the present invention can be applied to any card as long as it is a thin hard card W such as a telephone card. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the card collection device 1 has a hollow and vertically long rectangular parallelepiped main body 2, a card W can be stored inside the main body 2, and an insertion guide 10 into which the card W is inserted; The storage unit 20 includes a storage unit 20 provided adjacent to the insertion guide 10, a roller unit 30 provided below the insertion guide 10 on the insertion guide 10 side of the storage unit 20, and a driving unit 40 for driving the roller unit 30.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the insertion guide 10 has a card insertion slot 11 into which a card W can be inserted, and one end of the card W inserted from the card insertion slot 11 is provided adjacently. It has a placement section 12 that can be placed on a roller section 30 provided below the storage section 20.
A guide roller 13 is provided above the mounting portion 12.
Is provided so as to be freely rotatable at a position where a slight gap having a thickness of approximately one card W is provided. Reference numeral 14 denotes an operation switch. The operation switch 14 is a photoelectric switch, and is installed so that the card W can be inserted into the U-shaped gap 15 when the card W is inserted into the card insertion slot 11, and the card W is inserted into the gap 15. And detects that the card W has been inserted into the insertion guide 10, and turns on. When the card W is not detected, the motor 41 is not energized.

As shown in FIG. 6, the card storage unit 20
A storage case 22 is provided adjacent to the insertion guide 10 and has a storage space 21 in which a card W can be stored in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped hollow portion. And storage case 2
The bottom 2 has an opening smaller than the card W to be accommodated at the bottom center, and can be accommodated in the main body 2, and has a substantially card W-shaped cross section. The card storage unit 20 has a plate-shaped rectangular cartridge base 25 fixed to the main body 2.
Is placed. An approximately box-shaped card base 26 is fixed to the center of the upper surface of the cartridge base 25, and a card roller 27 having a cylindrical shape is fixed to the card base 26. The card W is positioned above and freely rotatable, and is juxtaposed and attached so that the rotation of the card roller 27 assists the movement of the card W inserted from the card storage slot 11 in the insertion direction. In this embodiment, the storage case 22
Is a box-like shape having a vertically long rectangular parallelepiped storage space 21 therein as shown in FIG.
An accommodation port 24 is provided on the side to open. Accommodation opening 24
Is inserted for insertion of one end of the inserted card W while being guided by an adjacent insertion guide 10, and further, the inserted card W is moved and a plurality of cards W are stacked and stored in the storage space 21. It is an opening. The bottom 23 is
As shown in FIG. 7, when the card W is accommodated, the accommodation port 24 side of the accommodated card W is raised, and
The accommodation port 24 side is configured to be one step higher so as to be accommodated obliquely. Therefore, the bottom portion 23 is formed by providing a step so that the end of the accommodated card W on the accommodation port 24 side is located higher than the accommodation port 24 and the other end of the card W is lower than the accommodation port 24 side. In the storage case 22, a weight 28 as a pressing means is provided so as to be constantly pressable from above toward the bottom 23 which is the bottom surface of the storage space 21. The weight 28
The bottom surface is a flat plate having the shape of a card W and has a convex shape with its center upper part protruding, and is always located at the top of a plurality of stored cards W in the storage case 22 and is stored below. The pressed card W can always be pressed downward. When the card W is stored in the storage case 22 sequentially from the bottom portion 23, the weight does not hinder the storage.
Is configured to have such a weight that it does not violate in the storage case 22. The weight 28 exists on the bottom 23 because the card W is not stored in the initial state. In this embodiment,
Although the card roller 27 has a cylindrical shape, it is sufficient that the card roller 27 can freely rotate around an axis. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, a spherical roller that can freely rotate around an axis passing through the center of the sphere is used. A card roller 27 or the like may be used.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the roller portion 30
A delivery roller 31 having a shape in which two large and small cylinders having different radii cut out in the cylinder axis direction are adjusted so that the respective cylinder axes are the same, and a rotation shaft 32 which is a cylinder shaft serving as a rotation center is provided. It is rotatable around the center. And the delivery roller 3
Reference numeral 1 denotes a sending surface 33 for sending out the card W when rotating, and a cylindrical surface having a small radius is the other surface 34. In this embodiment, the other surface 34 is configured to be a cylindrical surface having the rotation center as the rotation axis 32 and smaller in diameter than the sending surface 33. However, the other surface 34 is not particularly required to be a cylindrical surface. The distance from the axis 32 is the sending surface 3
3 is smaller than the turning radius R and does not have to come into contact with the card W during rotation. Delivery roller 31 configured as above
In the initial state, the other surface 34 is located above, the card 34 is located below the card insertion slot 11 of the insertion guide 10, and one end of the card W inserted from the card insertion slot 11 of the insertion guide 10 is When the delivery roller 31 rotates about the rotation shaft 32 and the other surface 34 comes to the card W side, the delivery roller 31 is not in contact with the card W, and the delivery surface 33 is placed on the card W side. When it comes, it is attached to the main body 2 so that the sending surface 33 comes into contact with the card W and pushes the card W slightly upward. The delivery roller 31 is rotatable so as to move the card W inserted from the card insertion slot 11 to the card storage unit 20 provided on the opposite side of the roller unit 30 from the insertion guide 10. 35 is a kick roller pulley.
The kick roller pulley 35 is fixed to the tip of the rotating shaft 32, has a cam portion 36, and is a pulley that can rotate with the rotation of the delivery roller 31.
The stop switch 46 described later can be turned ON or OFF according to the position of the sending surface 33.

The driving section 40 includes a motor 41 having a reduction gear therein and driving the roller section 30, a driving pulley 43 fixed to the end of a rotating shaft 42 of the motor 41, and a timing belt 44 transmitting the driving force of the motor 41. And a stop switch 46 for detecting the state of the cam portion 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 and stopping the rotation of the motor. The timing belt 44 is stretched over the driving pulley 43 and the kick roller pulley 35, and can transmit the driving force of the motor 41 to the delivery roller 31. The stop switch 46 is fixed to a position in the body 2 near the position where the kick roller pulley 35 of the roller unit 30 is attached, and in a position where the cam unit 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 can be contacted to detect a change when the cam unit 36 rotates. Is done. Then, when the cam portion 36 rotates together with the delivery roller 31 and the other surface 35 is located above and the card W is stored in the storage case 32, the cam portion 36 presses the stop switch 46 to turn the switch O.
In the FF state, the power supply to the motor 41 is stopped and the motor 4
Stop the rotation of 1. Therefore, the stop switch 46 energizes the motor 41 in other positions. As described above, when the card 41 is inserted into the insertion guide 10, the operation switch 14 detects that the card W has been inserted and starts energizing the motor 41. The motor 41 is energized and the stop switch 46 is energized. Detects the power supply stop position and stops the power supply to the motor 41.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described.
The card collection device 1 is in a state where the card W is not stored therein, the delivery surface 33 of the delivery roller 31 is located below, and both the operation switch 14 and the stop switch 46 are in the OFF state. The state where is described as an initial state, and the operation will be described from this state.

The user inserts the card W into the insertion guide 10.
The guide roller 13 is inserted from the insertion opening 11 and is placed on the placement unit 12. The guide roller 13 and the placement unit 12 are guided by the gap between the guide roller 13 and the placement unit 12. Then, the insertion-side tip of the card W reaches the upper portion of the roller unit 30. At that time, the operation switch 14 is turned on after passing through the gap between the operation switches 14 provided on the insertion guide 10. At this time, since the roller unit 30 is in the initial state, the other surface 34 is located in the direction of the inserted card W, and the sending surface 33 is located on the opposite side of the other surface 34. The pressed operation switch 14 is turned on, and the motor 41 is turned on.
, And the motor 41 rotates. The rotation of the motor 41 causes the roller unit 30 to be rotated via a timing belt 44 which is stretched over a drive pulley 43 fixed to a rotating shaft 42.
Kick roller pulley 3 fixed to the end of rotating shaft 32 of
5 rotates and the driving force is transmitted to the roller unit 30. Then, the driving roller 31 of the roller unit 30 is rotated by the driving force, so that the sending surface 33 located in the opposite direction to the card W rotates in the card W direction, and the other surface 34 rotates downward. When the rotation further proceeds, the card is mounted on the main body 2 so that the card W on which the sending surface 33 is inserted and placed is slightly pushed upward, so that the end of the sending surface 33 reaches the card W. Then, the card W is slightly pushed up. Then, as the rotation proceeds, the card W is conveyed and moved from the insertion guide 10 side to the card storage unit 20 side by friction with the roller unit 31. At this time, since the storage port 24 side of the bottom portion 23 provided in the card storage portion 20 is configured to be one step higher, and the storage port 24 side of the bottom portion 23 is located above the storage port 24, the card W is positioned below the weight 28. Is transported. When the leading edge of the conveyed card W reaches the card roller 27 provided on the card base 26 of the card storage unit 20, the card W is conveyed while being guided by the weight 28 and the lower surface by the card roller 27. . Therefore, the transported card W is stored in the card storage unit 20.
Are sequentially stored from below in the storage case 22.

At this time, since the card W has already been pushed upward by the sending surface 33 and the card W has already passed through the gap 15 of the operation switch 14, the operation switch 14 is in the OFF state. However, energization of the motor 41 is continued. Then, when the transport further proceeds, the card W is eventually stored in the card storage unit 20. When the card W is stored in the card storage section 20, the delivery surface 33 of the delivery roller 31 has already been positioned below and has returned to the initial state. When the delivery surface 33 is positioned below (initial position), the cam portion 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 fixed to the tip of the rotating shaft 32 that rotates together with the delivery roller 31 rotates to the position where the stop switch 46 is pressed. The cage stop switch 46 is pressed. Depressed stop switch 46
Is in the OFF state, the power supply to the motor 41 is stopped,
The rotation of the motor 41 is stopped. As described above, the transport roller 30 returns to the initial position, the motor 41 is not energized, and the card W inserted from the insertion slot 11 is stored in the storage case 22 in the storage space 21 of the card storage unit 20. A series of operations is completed in a state where the housing is stored below the weight 28.

Next, the second card W is stored in the storage guide 1.
When the card W is inserted through the card insertion slot 11, the same operation as described above is repeated, and the second card W is moved to the lower part of the already stored card W by the roller unit 31 and stored in the storage case 22. You. Thus, the card slot 11
Are sequentially inserted into the storage case 22,
When the storage case 22 is full and is stored so as to be located at the lowermost portion of the already stored card W, the storage case 22 is withdrawn from the storage space 21 upward, the weight 28 is removed from the storage case 22 upper part, Further, the accommodated card W is removed. Then, the storage case 21 is returned to the storage space 21 again, and the card W is used again in a state in which the card W can be stored. Next, a second embodiment will be described. Reference numeral 1 denotes a card collection device according to the present invention, and W denotes a card accommodated in the card collection device 1. The card W is about 78 mm similarly to the first embodiment.
A lending ball card used for a pachinko game having a square of about 49 mm and a thickness of about 0.4 mm. Of course, the present invention can be applied to any card as long as it is a thin hard card W such as a telephone card. As in the first embodiment, the card collection device 1 is hollow and has a vertically long rectangular parallelepiped main body 2 as shown in FIG. 9, and a card W can be stored inside the main body 2, and the card W is inserted. An insertion guide 10, a storage section 20 provided adjacent to the insertion guide 10, a roller section 30 provided below the insertion guide 10 on the insertion guide 10 side of the storage section 20, and a driving section 40 for driving the roller section 30. .

As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the insertion guide 10 has a card insertion slot 11 into which a card W can be inserted, and one end of the card W inserted from the card insertion slot 11 is provided adjacently. It has a placement section 12 that can be placed on a roller section 30 provided below the storage section 20.
A guide roller 13 is provided above the mounting portion 12.
Is provided so as to be freely rotatable at a position where a slight gap having a thickness of approximately one card W is provided. Reference numeral 14 denotes an operation switch. The operation switch 14 is a photoelectric switch, and is installed so that the card W can be inserted into the U-shaped gap 15 when the card W is inserted into the card insertion slot 11, and the card W is inserted into the gap 15. And detects that the card W has been inserted into the insertion guide 10, and turns on. When the card W is not detected, the motor 41 is not energized.

The card storage section 20 is the same as that of the first embodiment, and as shown in FIG. 6, is a storage space adjacent to the insertion guide 10 and capable of storing the card W in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped hollow portion. It comprises a storage case 22 having 21. The storage case 22 has a bottom center opening smaller than the card W to be stored, is capable of being stored in the main body 2, and has a substantially card W-shaped cross-sectional shape.
In the card storage unit 20, a plate-shaped rectangular cartridge base 25 is fixed to the main body 2, and when the storage case 22 is stored, the storage case 22 is placed on the upper part. In this embodiment, the storage case 22 is As shown in FIG. 6, it has a box shape having a vertically long rectangular parallelepiped storage space 21 inside, and a storage port 24 is provided in the bottom portion 23 on the side of the insertion guide 10 so as to open. One end of the inserted card W is inserted into the accommodation opening 24 while being guided by the adjacent insertion guide 10, and the inserted card W is moved and a plurality of cards W are stacked and accommodated in the accommodation space 21. It is an opening for making. As shown in FIG. 7, when the card W is stored, the bottom portion 23 is provided with a storage port 24 for the stored card W.
The accommodation port 24 side is configured to be one step higher so that the side is higher and is accommodated diagonally. Therefore, the bottom 23
Indicates that the end of the accommodated card W on the accommodation port 24 side is the accommodation port 2
4 and a step is provided so that the other end of the card W is lower than the storage port 24 side. A weight 2 serving as a pressing means is provided in the storage case 22 so as to be constantly pressable from above toward the bottom 23 which is the bottom surface of the storage space 21.
8 is provided. The weight 28 is a flat plate having a bottom surface in the shape of a card W and has a convex shape with a central upper portion protruding. The weight 28 is always located at the top of the plurality of cards W stored in the storage case 22, The card W stored below can always be pressed downward. When the card W is stored in the storage case 22 sequentially from the bottom portion 23, the weight does not hinder the storage, and the card W already stored at the time of storage is stored in the storage case 22. It is configured to have a weight that does not cause a rampage. The weight 28 exists on the bottom 23 because the card W is not stored in the initial state.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 9, the roller portion 30 is formed by cutting a part of two large and small cylinders having different radii which are notched in the cylinder axis direction as shown in FIGS. It has a delivery roller 31 shaped so as to be able to rotate, and is rotatable about a rotation shaft 32 which is a cylindrical shaft serving as a rotation center. The sending roller 31 has a large-diameter cylindrical surface as the sending surface 33 for sending out the card W during rotation, and a small-radius cylindrical surface as the other surface 34. In this embodiment, the other surface 34 is configured to be a cylindrical surface having the rotation center as the rotation axis 32 and smaller in diameter than the sending surface 33. However, the other surface 34 is not particularly required to be a cylindrical surface. It is sufficient that the distance from the shaft 32 is smaller than the turning radius R of the sending surface 33 and the card W does not contact the card W during rotation. In the delivery roller 31 configured as described above, the other surface 34 is located above in the initial state, is located below the card insertion slot 11 of the insertion guide 10, and
When one end of the card W inserted from the card insertion slot 11 is positioned above the delivery roller 31 and the delivery roller 31 rotates about the rotation shaft 32 and the other surface 34 comes to the card W side, the card W When the sending surface 33 comes to the card W side without contacting with the W, the sending surface 33 comes into contact with the card W and is attached to the main body 2 so as to be in a position to push the card W slightly upward. The delivery roller 31 applies the card W inserted from the card insertion slot 11 to the roller unit 3.
It is rotatable so as to be moved to the card storage unit 20 side provided on the opposite side to the insertion guide 10 of No. 0. 35 is a kick roller pulley. Kick roller pulley 35
Is a pulley that is fixed to the tip of the rotating shaft 32, has a cam portion 36, and is rotatable with the rotation of the delivery roller 31,
The cam portion 36 rotates together with the delivery roller 31 and the delivery surface 33
The stop switch 46 described later is turned ON or
FF is possible.

The drive unit 40 includes a motor 41 having a reduction gear therein for driving the roller unit 30, a drive pulley 43 fixed to the end of a rotating shaft 42 of the motor 41, and a timing belt 44 for transmitting the driving force of the motor 41. And a stop switch 46 for detecting the state of the cam portion 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 and stopping the rotation of the motor. The timing belt 44 is stretched over the driving pulley 43 and the kick roller pulley 35, and can transmit the driving force of the motor 41 to the delivery roller 31. The stop switch 46 is fixed to a position in the body 2 near the position where the kick roller pulley 35 of the roller unit 30 is attached, and in a position where the cam unit 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 can be contacted to detect a change when the cam unit 36 rotates. Is done. Then, when the cam portion 36 rotates together with the delivery roller 31 and the other surface 35 is located above and the card W is stored in the storage case 32, the cam portion 36 presses the stop switch 46 to turn the switch O.
In the FF state, the power supply to the motor 41 is stopped and the motor 4
Stop the rotation of 1. Therefore, the stop switch 46 energizes the motor 41 in other positions. As described above, when the card 41 is inserted into the insertion guide 10, the operation switch 14 detects that the card W has been inserted and starts energizing the motor 41. The motor 41 is energized and the stop switch 46 is energized. Detects the power supply stop position and stops the power supply to the motor 41.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described.
The card collection device 1 is in a state in which the card W is not stored therein, the delivery surface 33 of the delivery roller 31 is located below, and both the operation switch 14 and the stop switch 46 are OFF. Is the initial state,
The operation will be described from this state. Card W by the user
Is inserted from the insertion slot 11 of the insertion guide 10 and
Guide roller 1 installed on top while being mounted on 2
The insertion-side tip of the card W reaches the upper portion of the roller unit 30 from the gap between the mounting unit 3 and the placement unit 12 while being guided by the guide roller 13 and the placement unit 12. At that time, the insertion guide 10
The operation switch 14 is turned on after passing through the gap between the operation switches 14 provided in the first position. At this time, since the roller unit 30 is in the initial state, the other surface 34 is located in the direction of the inserted card W, and the sending surface 33 is located on the opposite side of the other surface 34. The pressed operation switch 14 is turned on, energizing the motor 41, and the motor 41 rotates. When the motor 41 rotates, the kick roller pulley 35 fixed to the tip of the rotating shaft 32 of the roller unit 30 rotates via the timing belt 44 stretched over the driving pulley 43 fixed to the rotating shaft 42, and the driving force is reduced. The power is transmitted to the roller unit 30. Then, the drive roller 31 of the roller unit 30 is rotated by the driving force, and the delivery surface 33 located in the opposite direction to the card W is rotated in the card W direction, and the other surface 34 is rotated.
Rotates downward. When the rotation further proceeds, the card is mounted on the main body 2 so that the card W on which the sending surface 33 is inserted and placed is slightly pushed upward, so that the end of the sending surface 33 reaches the card W. Then, the card W is slightly pushed up. Then, as the rotation proceeds, the card W is conveyed and moved from the insertion guide 10 side to the card storage unit 20 side by friction with the roller unit 31. At this time, the accommodation port 24 side of the bottom portion 23 provided in the card
The bottom 23 has a storage port 24 side.
Since the card W is located above, the card W is transported below the weight 28. When the leading end of the conveyed card W reaches the lower surface of the weight 28, the conveyed card W slightly pushes up the weight 28, and the conveyed weight 28
It is conveyed while being guided to the bottom of the storage case 22 along the lower surface. Therefore, the cards W to be conveyed are sequentially stored from below in the storage case 22 of the card storage unit 20.

At this time, since the card W has already been pushed upward by the sending surface 33 and the card W has already passed through the gap 15 of the operation switch 14, the operation switch 14 is in the OFF state. However, energization of the motor 41 is continued. Then, when the transport further proceeds, the card W is eventually stored in the card storage unit 20. When the card W is stored in the card storage unit 20, the delivery surface 33 of the delivery roller 31 is already located below and returned to the initial state, and when the delivery surface 33 is located below (initial position),
The cam portion 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 fixed to the tip of the rotating shaft 32 that rotates together with the delivery roller 31 rotates to a position where the stop switch 46 is pressed, and presses the stop switch 46. The pressed stop switch 46 is
In the F state, the power supply to the motor 41 is stopped, and the motor 4
1 is stopped from rotating. As described above, the transport rollers 30
Returns to the initial position, the motor 41 is not energized, and the card W inserted from the insertion slot 11 is positioned below the weight 28 in the storage case 22 in the storage space 21 of the card storage unit 20. A series of operations is completed in the housed state.

Next, the second card W is stored in the storage guide 1.
When the card W is inserted through the card insertion slot 11, the same operation as described above is repeated, and the second card W is moved to the lower part of the already stored card W by the roller unit 31 and stored in the storage case 22. You. Thus, the card slot 11
Are sequentially inserted into the storage case 22,
When the storage case 22 is full and is stored so as to be located at the lowermost portion of the already stored card W, the storage case 22 is withdrawn from the storage space 21 upward, the weight 28 is removed from the storage case 22 upper part, Further, the accommodated card W is removed. Then, the storage case 21 is returned to the storage space 21 again, and the card W is used again in a state in which the card W can be stored.

[0030]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 11, which is an explanatory diagram showing the embodiment. In this embodiment, the card collection device 1 described in the first and second embodiments is used for collecting a prepaid card (hereinafter, referred to as a card W) for recording the number of balls obtained in a pachinko machine. This is an embodiment in which the information in the card W is read at the time of collecting the card W, and the information such as the number of obtained balls is used in a card collecting device capable of printing. Therefore, the card collection device in this embodiment is referred to as a collection device 5, and the collection device 5 reads the contents stored in the card W in addition to the card collection device 1 described in the "embodiment of the invention". The apparatus includes a reader 6 capable of outputting signals, a printer 7 capable of printing based on information read by the reader 6, and a control unit 8 for processing or working on the information. In this embodiment, in the card W, the number of winning balls stored at the end of the game on the pachinko machine is stored as important information.

As shown in FIG. 11, the collection device 5 has an insertion slot 51 into which a card W is inserted from the outside, and has a card collection device 1, a reader 6, a printer 7, and a control unit 8 therein.
And sealed. Then, the storage case 22 is opened and closed by the attendant, and the storage case 22 is taken out of the card collection device 1. The card collection device 1 is the card collection device 1 described in the first embodiment and the second embodiment described in “Embodiments of the Invention”, and has the functions described in the description of each embodiment. It is provided with.

As shown in FIG. 11, the reader 6 is capable of transporting the card W inserted from the insertion port 61 to the discharge port 63 located on the opposite side of the insertion port 61 by being transported by the transport means 62. Further, it has a read section 64 that can read and write information recorded on the card W during movement.
In this embodiment, the conveying means 62 is provided with a plurality of rollers 65 at the upper part so as to be freely rotatable, and is supported by a spring so as to always press downward. Conveyor 66 consisting of belts
The gap between the roller 65 and the conveyor 66 is set to be substantially the same as that of the card W, and the card W is conveyed on the conveyor 66 by being pressed by the rollers 65 from above while being supported by the conveyor 66 at both ends in the conveyance direction. Configured as possible. Then, the insertion slot 61 is located at the same position as the insertion slot 51 of the collection device 5, and the ejection slot 63 is set so as to be adjacent to the card insertion slot 11 of the card collection device 1.
The lead section 64 is located in the middle portion of the conveyor 66, reads information such as the number of balls stored in the card W to be conveyed, and is connected to the control section 8 so that the read information can be output to the control section 8 as a signal. In this embodiment, since the contents read by the lead unit 64 are printed by the printer 7 and received by the user, the stored contents become unnecessary, so that the system has a function of deleting the stored contents.

The printer 7 is mounted in the collection device 5 and is connected to the control unit 8 and can print out necessary items based on information stored in the card W read by the lead unit 64 under the control of the control unit 8. It is. The control unit 8 is connected to the reader 6 and the printer 7 so as to be able to input and output signals. The control unit 8 can select necessary items from the content read by the reader 6 and can control the printer 6 to print out. Of course, the control unit 8
However, it may have other functions. The user inserts the card W from the insertion slot 61 into the collection device 5 thus configured.
Insert Then, the card W is placed on the conveyor 66 of the transport means 62 by the insertion of the card W into the insertion port 61, and the discharge port 63 is set by the rollers 65 and the conveyor 66.
Conveyed in the direction. Then, during the conveyance of the card W, the number of winning balls stored in the lead portion 64 provided below is read. The read unit 64 outputs the information read at this time to the control unit 8 as a signal. The control unit 8 outputs a signal to the printer 7 to print a predetermined item based on the signal from the lead unit 64, and the printer 7 prints.

On the other hand, when the card W is conveyed to the discharge port 63 of the reader 6, the leading end of the card W is inserted from the insertion port 11 of the card collection device 1 adjacent to the discharge port 63, and When the leading end of the card W reaches, the operation switch 45 is pressed and the motor 41 is energized. The motor 41 starts rotating because it is energized. In the following operation, as described in the embodiment of the present invention, the delivery roller 31 rotates by the driving force of the motor 41, the delivery surface 33 rotates in the upward card W direction from the initial state, and eventually reaches the card W. The card W is conveyed while being slightly pushed up, and is moved from the storage port 24 into the storage case 22. And weight 2
8 and is stored in the storage case 22 while being guided by the card roller 27 attached to the card base 26. When the card W is stored, the delivery surface 33 of the delivery roller 31 at that time is located below, and the delivery roller 3
The cam portion 36 of the kick roller pulley 35 attached to the tip of the one rotating shaft 32 rotates to the position where the stop switch 46 is pressed, and presses the stop switch 46. Since the stop switch 46 has been pressed, the power supply to the motor 41 is terminated, and the storage of the card W is terminated.

Next, when the second card W is inserted through the insertion slot 51, the same operation as described above is repeated, and the card W in which the second card W has already been stored is conveyed by the transport means 62 and the roller unit 31. Of the storage case 22
Housed within. As described above, the storage contents of the card W inserted from the insertion slot 51 are read, and the control unit 8 causes the printer 7 to print the information, erase the storage contents as necessary, and When the storage case 22 is full, the storage case 22 is taken out from the storage space 21 and the weight 28 is removed from the upper part of the storage case 22 when the storage case 22 is full. Is removed, and the accommodated card W is further removed. Then, the storage case 21 is returned to the storage space 21 again, and the card W is used again in a state in which the card W can be stored.

[0036]

Therefore, in the present invention, since the card collection device is configured as described above, a newly stored card is always stored at the lowermost position, and a card which becomes upper at the time of storage or a card which is stored by the weight is stored. Unnecessary movements are regulated, so that cards can be stably stacked one after another and stored. Further, since the card is always stored from below, even if the card is installed on the existing counter, the card insertion slot is located below the counter, so that there is no trouble in the operation for storing the card.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective explanatory view showing a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an assembly view showing a first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a central longitudinal section of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state where a card is stored in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a roller unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the card storage unit.

FIG. 7 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 8 is an embodiment diagram of another card roller.

FIG. 9 is a perspective explanatory view showing a second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory view of a central longitudinal section of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 W card 1 Card recovery device 2 Main body 10 Insertion guide 11 Insertion port 12 Placement section 13 Guided roller 20 Card storage section 21 Storage space 22 Storage case 23 Bottom section 24 Storage port 27 Card roller 30 Roller section 31 Sending roller 32 Rotating shaft 33 Transfer surface 34 Other surface

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An insertion guide having a card insertion slot, a storage space in which a plurality of cards can be stacked and stored therein, an opening is provided on a side surface of a bottom of the storage space, and an upper side is provided in the storage space. A card storage portion provided with a pressing means for constantly pressing the storage space from the bottom toward the bottom of the storage space, and a storage portion provided so that the storage opening is adjacent to the card insertion opening of the insertion guide; and a roller freely rotatable about an axis. A card roller provided below the card storage portion such that the upper portion is located above the storage opening; and a delivery surface formed of a part of a cylindrical surface rotatable about an axis. It is provided below the accommodating opening, and when the other surface other than the sending surface is located on the card accommodating portion side, the other surface is located below the accommodating opening,
When the sending surface is located on the card storage portion side, a roller portion is provided such that the sending surface is located above the storage opening, and the card is opposed from the insertion guide side of the card storage portion by rotating the sending surface. And a delivery roller capable of delivering to the side. 2. An insertion guide having a card insertion slot, a storage space in which a plurality of cards can be stacked and stored therein, and a storage opening on the insertion guide side at the bottom of the storage space. The accommodation slot is provided adjacent to the card insertion slot, the accommodation space bottom surface is higher on the accommodation opening side and the other is lower, and the highest portion of the accommodation space bottom surface is provided lower than the accommodation opening, and are stacked. A card storage unit that can store cards so that the storage opening side of the lowest card to be stored is positioned above the storage opening, and has a pressing unit that constantly presses the storage space from above toward the storage space bottom surface; The card has a sending surface that is part of a cylindrical surface rotatable about an axis, and is provided below the receiving opening on the insertion guide side of the card receiving portion. When located in parts side is located below the other face receiving port,
When the sending surface is located on the card storage portion side, a roller portion is provided such that the sending surface is located above the storage opening, and the card is opposed from the insertion guide side of the card storage portion by rotating the sending surface. And a delivery roller capable of delivering to the side.