JP3320989B2 - Coin depositing and dispensing machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a desk-type circulating coin capable of sorting and counting coins received from an insertion slot, storing the received coins, and dispensing the stored coins to an outlet. Regarding deposit and withdrawal machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an example of a desk-top circulation type coin receiving and dispensing machine, an apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-249289 is known. This device will be described. In the following, the names and symbols used in the gazette will be used.
When coins are inserted into the coin receiving and dispensing section 2 at the upper center of the front of the fuselage, the inserted coins are fed out one by one by a belt transport mechanism, and the deposited coins formed on the upper surface of the fuselage at the front of the fuselage and at the right side of the fuselage. It is conveyed at right angles through the identification branch passage 21. While being transported through the coin discriminating portion 37 of the deposited coin discriminating branch passage section 21, the authenticity and the denomination are discriminated, and the discriminated as a legitimate coin is discriminated from the deposited regular coin branch gate on the right rear side of the machine body. From 40, those which are temporarily reserved in the temporary storage unit 51 formed in the right central part of the fuselage and are not discriminated as legitimate coins are transferred from the deposit reject coin branch gate 44 in the right rear corner of the fuselage to the right central part of the front part of the fuselage. Is ejected to the reject coin ejection port 132 of the reject coin. The coins temporarily stored in the escrow unit 51 are stored in the deposited coin storage unit 61 on the left side of the body front by the switching member 57 when the deposit storage is approved. It is configured to be collected and discharged in a tray set in a discharge port below the front of the fuselage. On the other hand, in the rear part of the fuselage, coin-type coin storage and ejection units 111 are arranged in a line in the width direction of the aircraft, and the ejection unit 114 arranged below the coin-type coin storage and ejection unit 111,
A desired number of coins of a desired denomination are configured to be ejected by denomination toward a tray set in a discharge port at the lower front of the machine body. Further, a supply coin sorting passage section 91 connected to the reject coin branch gate 44 is disposed at the rear of the upper part of the fuselage. In the supply coin sorting passage section 91, a sorting hole for each denomination is formed. The lower part is disposed so that the upper opening of the coin type coin storage and ejection part 111 faces. In the deposit coin storage unit 61, a supply coin supply unit 6 for transferring the coins stored in the deposit coin storage unit 61 to the coin receiving and feeding unit 2.
6 is provided, and between the deposited coin storage unit 61 and the coin receiving and dispensing unit 2 are formed a dispensing port 67 and a through port 12 through which coins to be delivered can pass. Thus, after the coins in the deposit coin storage unit 61 are sent to the coin receiving and dispensing unit 2, the coins are conveyed through the deposit coin discrimination branch passage 21 in the upper part of the machine in the same manner as when coins are deposited, and further, the supply coin classification It is configured to be conveyed through the passage section 91 and replenished to the denomination coin storage and ejection section 111.

[0003]

In such an apparatus, the dispensed coins ejected from the coin type coin storing and ejecting section 111 are discharged through a dispensing chute 124 at the lower front of the machine body. Toward the tray 122 set at 125,
It is configured to be guided. The dispensing chute 124 is a cylindrical guide and is formed with its lower part opened, so that the discharge port
It is necessary that the tray 122 is securely set at 5.
Further, if for some reason the dispensing means 114 disposed below the coin type coin storing and dispensing section 111 has failed and coins cannot be dispensed, the coins are manually dispensed in order to release the coins. When the device 114 is operated, the stored coins may be erroneously fed out by the dispensing device 114 and discharged through the dispensing chute 124. The present invention is a desk-top circulating coin that can prevent coins from being accidentally ejected outside the machine and being scattered even when the payout mechanism of the dispensing unit is manually driven during a dispensing jam or the like. It is intended to provide a deposit and withdrawal machine.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises a coin inserting portion into which a deposited coin is inserted, and a coin inserted by one. A feeding unit that separates and feeds, a coin identification unit that is provided in the feeding conveyance unit and determines the authenticity and denomination of coins to be conveyed, and sorts coins according to the identification result of the coin identification unit A coin branching section, a coin sorting section connected to the coin branching section, and classifying coins to be conveyed by denomination, and a coin is identified as a regular coin in the coin identifying section, and sorted and classified in the coin branching section and the coin sorting section. A temporary storage unit for storing and returning temporarily stored coins, storing coins of each denomination stored in the temporary storage unit, and storing the stored coins in the forward direction. By driving, in front of the fuselage And a dispensing storage unit for dispensing on a receiving tray mounted at a lower portion, wherein the coin dispensed from the dispensing storage unit is disposed on the front side of the dispensing storage unit and discharged downward. A coin chute to guide towards the exit,
A chute shutter that opens and closes a lower end opening of the coin chute, is opened by a tray loaded in a discharge port below the coin chute, and is closed by removing the tray from the discharge port below the coin chute. And then
The shutter closes the opening at the lower end of the coin chute.
It is configured to open and close by sliding
The shutter opens the lower end opening of the coin chute.
Slides in the direction
Pan lock member that swings so as to protrude, and pan lock
Push the member down below the chute shutter during the coin dispensing operation.
And a tray lock mechanism for holding the tray in the extended state . Thus, when the tray is loaded in the outlet below the coin chute, since the chute shutter opens the lower end opening of the coin chute, coins dispensed from the dispensing storage unit are moved to the coin chute. You will be guided and paid out in the saucer. When the tray is not loaded in the discharge port below the coin chute, the chute shutter closes the lower end opening of the coin chute. Even the coin is not ejected from the coin chute and does not scatter. Release below the coin shoot
When a pan is loaded at the exit, the pan triggers the chute shutter.
Slide to open the bottom opening of the coin chute.
At the same time, the pan lock member moves below the chute shutter.
Into the tray and lock the tray during dispensing.
The member is below the chute shutter by the pan lock mechanism.
The pan is held out, so the pan can be pulled out from the discharge port.
The coins dispensed will not be taken, so
To the saucer.

[0005]

[0006]

FIG. 1 is a schematic external perspective view of a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the present invention. In the following description, directions such as up and down, front and rear, and left and right are directions in the body 11 when the robot is placed on a horizontal plane and used by an operator. Indicated by The body 11 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which a step portion 12 is formed on the upper rear surface side. An upper opening type coin insertion slot 13 is formed on the front side of the upper part of the machine body 11, and below the coin insertion slot 13, an insertion slot shutter 14 for opening and closing the coin insertion slot 13 is slidable in the front-rear direction. It is supported by. On the front surface of the machine body 11, a display unit 16 for displaying a count value of a denomination of a coin processed by an operator or a display for guiding an operation and an operation unit 17 for inputting an operation by the operator are arranged. Have been. An outlet 18 for discharging abnormal coins is formed in the center of the right end of the front of the body 11. A discharge port 20 into which a separate receiving tray 19 for receiving coins to be dispensed is formed at a lower portion of the front of the body 11. At the right end of the lower part of the front surface of the machine body 11, a safe for collecting coins not stored in the storage sections 22a to 22f (see FIG. 8) of the adjacent payment storage section 29 and coins in the storage sections 22a to 22f. A safe section 31 having a safe setting section 24 to which the drawer 23 (see FIG. 8) is attached so as to be able to be pulled out is disposed on the front side.

An upper portion of the body 11 provided with the coin slot 13 and the slot shutter 14 is provided with an edge 25 of a boundary surface extending in the left-right direction and disposed on the step 12 at the center of the body 11 in the front-rear direction. The upper cover 26 is rotatably supported so that the front side can be opened and closed up and down. The upper cover 26 is automatically locked by the closing operation, and the operator is provided on the operation unit 17. By inserting a management key into the management key section 27 and performing a predetermined unlocking operation such as rotation, the lock is released and the opening operation is enabled. In addition, the lower part of the body 11 has a dispensing storage unit 2.
9 and the safe section 31 are supported so as to be able to be pulled out toward the body 11 in the front direction. The dispensing storage section 29 and the safe section 31 are also automatically locked to the body 11 by being inserted into the lower part of the body 11 to a predetermined lock position, and the lock is released by the unlocking operation of the management key section 27. It is released and can be pulled out from the body 11.

FIG. 2 is a partial plan view for explaining a driving mechanism of the insertion shutter 14. A shutter unit 32 is attached to the lower surface of the upper cover 26, and a slide shaft 33 having an axis in the front-rear direction is fixed to the shutter unit 32, and a shutter mounting member 34 is attached to the slide shaft 33.
Are slidably supported. Shutter mounting member 3
The rear end of the input shutter 14 is attached to 4, and the front end of the input shutter 14 is supported so as to be guided by the shutter guide 35 of the shutter unit 32 in this state. The shutter guide 35 is provided for the input shutter 1.
4, a substantially square frame portion 36 centered on the coin slot 13 is formed on the outside, and a gap between the frame portion 36 and the upper cover 26 corresponds to the thickness of the slot shutter 14. A hopper portion 37 is formed inside the frame portion 36 and is inclined in a tapered shape so as to have a smaller diameter toward the lower side. The front and left and right outside the frame portion 36 of the shutter guide 35 are
Enclosure 3 projecting above frame 36 by the thickness of slot shutter 14 and surrounding the outside of slot shutter 14 in the closed state
8 are formed.

The inlet shutter 14 is further formed with convex portions 39 protruding forward on both sides of a front end moving in the front-rear direction.
The insertion shutter 1 is inserted into the enclosing portion 38 so that the projection 39 of the insertion shutter 14 can enter each.
Concave portions 40 are formed on both sides corresponding to the shape of the front end portion 4 and are recessed forward. Input shutter 14
Are located at positions where the smallest coin C to be handled can be scraped to the center side of the coin slot 13 when the smallest coin C to be handled enters the gap between the upper cover 26 and the frame portion 36 of the shutter guide 35. Provided. On the other hand, a rack member 42 extending along the slide shaft 33 is fixed near the slide shaft 33 of the shutter mounting member 34. And
Drive gear 4 driven by a shutter motor (not shown)
3 is arranged at a position where it meshes with the rack member 42, whereby the shutter 14 is opened and closed by driving the shutter motor. The open / closed state of the input shutter 14 is checked by using a sensor piece 44 formed at one end of the shutter mounting member 34 with an open position detection sensor 45 for an open state and a closed position detection sensor 46 for a closed state. This is done by detecting. Of course, the open position detection sensor 45 is located at a position where the sensor piece 44 is detected when the input port shutter 14 is at the open position, and the closed position detection sensor 4
Reference numeral 6 denotes a position where the sensor piece 44 is detected when the input shutter 14 is at the closed position.

FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing the coin receiving / counting / transporting sorter 48 located at the upper layer of the body 11 when the upper cover 26 of the body 11 is opened. In a substantially central part of the upper layer of the fuselage 11, a coin insertion part 50, which is located immediately below the coin insertion slot 13 and receives a deposited coin, and is constituted by a rotating disk 49 which rotates horizontally, is arranged. I have. Rotating disk 49 of coin insertion unit 50
A coin identification passage 51 extending horizontally along the front surface of the body 11 is formed between the one-step higher guide members 52, 53 arranged on both sides so as to surround the guide members 52, 53, etc. A coin sorting passage 54 extending horizontally along the right side surface of the vehicle body 11 is formed therebetween. Subsequently, the coin sorting passage 54 extends horizontally along the rear surface of the vehicle body 11 inside the rear surface side portion of the vehicle body 11 such as the guide member 52. An existing coin sorting passage 55 is formed. Between the rotating disk 49 and the coin identification passage 51,
A coin feeding port 57 is formed, the coins are separated one by one by a gap restricting member (not shown), and the separated coins are accelerated by a take-in roller 58 immediately afterward, so that the coin identification passage 5
Send to 1. The coin discriminating passage 51, the coin sorting passage 54, and the coin sorting passage 55 extend over the starting ends of these passages 5.
A coin receiving / transporting belt 59 is wrapped in a substantially U-shape with a slight gap between the coin receiving / transferring belts 1, 54 and 55, and the coins are transported by the coin receiving / transporting belt 59 on the coin identification passage 51, the coin sorting passage 54, and the coin classification passage 55. It is configured to be transportable. The coin feeding outlet 57, the gap regulating member, the take-in roller 58, and the coin receiving / conveying belt 59 constitute a feeding / conveying unit 56. At a substantially central portion of the coin identification passage 51, a coin identification unit 60 for determining the authenticity and denomination of the conveyed coin is disposed. Coin identification unit 60
As is well known, for example, coin diameter discriminating means using an optical sensor, coin material discriminating means using a magnetic sensor, and further, if necessary, coin thickness discriminating means, coin surface pattern discriminating means, coin surface discriminating means It is constituted by a stained state discriminating means, a coin peripheral edge discriminating means, and the like.

In the coin sorting passage 54, two sets of coin branching units 61 and 62 having the same structure, which sort coins according to the identification result of the coin identifying unit 60, are arranged at a front stage and a rear stage. Each of the coin branching portions 61 and 62 has a reference passage wall 63 that is one step higher than the coin sorting passage 54 and an individual displacement member 64. The displacement member 64 is provided in the coin sorting passage 54 of the reference passage wall 63. Vertical wall 6 which becomes a part of the side reference passage wall 63a
4a, an arc wall 64b protruding into the coin sorting passage 54 from the reference passage wall 63a by rotating horizontally. The coin branching portions 61 and 62 each have a solenoid 65 and a link mechanism that switch the displacement member 64 between a position where the vertical wall 64a coincides with the reference passage wall 63a and a position where the arc wall 64b projects into the coin sorting passage 54. 66,
A drop port 67 formed in the coin sorting passage 54 for dropping coins displaced by the displacement member 64;
And a timing sensor 68 disposed in the coin sorting passage 54 upstream of the coin sorting passage 54. Former coin branch 61
The coin discriminating unit 60 allows the coin identified as a legitimate coin to pass further downstream, and passes abnormal coins not discriminated as legitimate coins on the arc wall 64b of the displacement member 64 from the reference passage wall 63a. By projecting into the sorting passage 54, coins conveyed along the reference passage wall 63a collide with the displacement member 64, and the center of the conveyed coin is displaced in a direction away from the reference passage wall 63a. Drop from 67. The coin branch 62 in the latter stage is, for each denomination, of the regular coins passing through the coin branch 61 in the former stage,
Regular coins until the number of sheets that can be temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 70 to be described later or the number of sheets that can be stored in the storage sections 22a to 22f, whichever is smaller, are passed further downstream, and other normal coins are passed. As described above, a coin (hereinafter, referred to as a surplus coin) is configured to be dropped and sorted from the drop port 67. With these control configurations,
The coin guided to the temporary storage unit 70 is controlled so as not to overflow from the temporary storage unit 70, and is further stored in the storage units 22a to 22f.
The control is performed so as not to overflow from a to 22f.

In the coin sorting passage 55, sorting holes 71a to 71f as a coin sorting unit 69 for sorting coins to be conveyed into denominations and dropping the coins are arranged in ascending order of coin diameter. A coin sorting / conveying belt 72 that extends with a slight gap from the coin feeding route 55 and conveys coins on the coin sorting passage 55 is provided. In addition, each classification hole 7
Sensors 73 are arranged corresponding to immediately before each of 1a to 71f, and the difference in the number of coins that have passed through adjacent ones of the sensors 73 is classified into the classification holes 71a to 71f positioned between them. It is configured to be counted as the number of sheets. The coin receiving / counting / transfer sorting unit 48 shown in FIG. 3 is unitized, and is centered on a shaft (not shown) extending in the left-right direction of the rear edge when the upper cover 26 is opened. In addition, it is supported so as to swing upward on the front side integrally, and is configured to be able to open the upper part of the temporary storage part 70 immediately below, which will be described later.

FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view showing a temporary storage section 70 located in the middle layer of the fuselage 11, and FIG. 5 is a schematic left side view of the temporary storage section 70 as viewed from the left. Temporary storage unit 7
0 has storage portions 76A, 76a to 76f, and each of the storage portions 76A, 76a to 76f extends substantially horizontally in the front-rear direction, and is arranged in parallel in the left-right direction (width direction). It is composed of a belt conveyor 74 and a plate-like partition member 75 arranged so as to partition between these adjacent ones. It should be noted that the belt conveyer 74 is divided by the number of denominations so that the storage portions 76A, 76a to 76f formed of the individual belt conveyors 74 and the partition members 75 on both sides thereof have the number of denominations plus one in the left-right direction. I have one. In addition, these belt conveyors 74
Are driven by a single common drive motor, and rotate in the same direction in the same direction. In the rightmost storage section 76A, surplus coins dropped and sorted by the coin branch section 62 at the subsequent stage are temporarily stored in a denomination mixed state. In the following, coins falling in denominations in order of smaller coin diameter corresponding to the classification holes 71a to 71f of the coin classification passage 54 are temporarily stored in the storage units 76a to 76f arranged from the right side, respectively. Has become. Specifically, the 1-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71a is stored in the second storage portion 76a from the rightmost, and the 50-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71b is stored in the storage portion 76b next to the storage portion 76b. A classification hole 71 is provided in the adjacent storage section 76c.
c from the storage unit 76d
Is a 100-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71d, and the storage unit 76e adjacent to the coin is a 100-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71e.
A zero-yen coin is placed in a storage hole 76f next to the classification hole 71f.
The 500 yen coins dropped from are temporarily stored. Further, further to the right of the rightmost storage section 76A, the abnormal coin dropped and eliminated by the coin branching section 61 in the preceding stage is transferred along the right side surface of the body 11 to the removal port 18 at the front of the body 11. A guiding chute 77 is provided.

Above the front and rear ends of each belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage section 70, a gate member 79 for regulating coins temporarily stored on each belt conveyor 74 so as not to fall from the front and rear of each belt conveyor 74, 80 is fixed to support shafts 82 and 83 rotatably supported by the unit side plate 81, and the support shafts 82 and 83 rotate to move the gate members 79 and 80 from the belt conveyor 74. The belt conveyor 74
The upper coin can be ejected back and forth. Further, the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 is integrated with the coins on the belt conveyor 74 in the discharging direction so that the coins on the belt conveyor 74 are easily ejected when the coins on the belt conveyor 74 are ejected. It is configured to incline downward.
That is, the conveyor unit 84 that supports all the belt conveyors 74 is supported by a support shaft 85 that is supported along the left-right direction at the center of the unit side plate 81 in the front-rear direction.
It is supported so as to swing up and down in the front-rear direction around the center.

An oscillating drive shaft 86 is disposed above the rear portion of the unit side plate 81 along the left-right direction.
A swing cam 87 is fixed to 6. A link 8 is provided between one end of the swing cam 87 and one end of the conveyor unit 84.
When the swing cam 87 rotates back and forth, the link 88 is moved up and down, and accordingly, the conveyor unit 84 swings up and down around the support shaft 85. At a position substantially above a support shaft 85 that supports the conveyor unit 84, a shaft 89 is provided along the unit side plate 81 in the left-right direction.
The interlocking cam 90 is swingably supported on the shaft 89. An interlocking link 91 extending from the upper end of the swing cam 87 is connected to the upper end of the interlocking cam 90. In addition, swinging links 94 and 95 connected to one ends of links 92 and 93 further fixed to supporting shafts 82 and 83 for fixing gate members 79 and 80 are provided at the front and rear ends of the interlocking cam 90, respectively. Are connected so as to cross each other. As a result, the swing cam 87 swings back and forth, so that the interlocking cam 90 swings back and forth.
Swings back and forth, so that the swing links 94 and 95 swing the front and rear gate members 79 and 80 back and forth, so that the coins on the belt conveyor 74 can be easily ejected. It is open. FIG. 6 shows that the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 is tilted downward toward the front by swinging the swing cam 87 by the rotation of the swing drive shaft 86, and Gate member 7
FIG. 9 is a state explanatory view showing a state in which the belt 9 is opened in the front direction. By driving the rocking cam 87 and driving the belt conveyor 74 so that the upper surface thereof moves forward, The loaded coin is dropped from the front end. FIG. 7 shows the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70.
Is tilted downward toward the rear by swinging the swing cam 87 by the rotation of the swing drive shaft 86, and the gate member 80 in the rear direction is opened rearward. It is a state explanatory view showing a state, by driving the rocking cam 87 and driving the belt conveyor 74 so that the upper surface thereof moves backward, the coins placed on the upper surface are moved to the rear end. Drop from

The sensor 96 shown in FIGS. 4 to 7 is used to temporarily store coins sorted from the coin sorting passage 55 on the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 so that the coin sorting passage 55 is positioned rearward. The belt conveyor 74
Since the temporary storage is biased rearward on the upper surface of the belt, the state of the temporary storage is monitored, and the belt is moved so that the optical axis of the sensor 96 that passes through a hole (not shown) formed in the partition member 75 is blocked. When coins are temporarily stored on the conveyor 74, the belt conveyor 74 is controlled so that the upper surface thereof is driven forward until the optical axis of the sensor 96 is not interrupted by the coins. Here, the above-mentioned temporary storage unit 70 is unitized and fixed in position to the body 11 as a whole.

FIG. 8 is a schematic plan view showing the dispensing storage section 29 and the safe section 31 located in the lower layer of the body 11. FIG. 9 is a schematic right side of the dispensing storage section 29 viewed from the right side of the body. FIG. First, the structure of the dispensing storage unit 29 will be described below. The dispensing storage section 29 includes storage sections 22a to 22a.
These have been dropped from the rear end of the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 immediately below each of the storage units 76a to 76f corresponding to the denominations of the temporary storage unit 70, respectively. The coins are arranged by denomination so that temporarily stored coins can be stored. The safe setting section 2 of the safe section 31 is provided below the storage section 76A of the temporary storage section 70 for temporarily storing surplus coins in a denomination mixed state via a storage chute 99.
The safe 23 set to 4 is arranged. Each of the storage units 22a to 22f of each denomination has an upper surface and a rear side (FIG. 9).
The direction opposite to arrow X) is directed downward, and the front side (arrow X in FIG. 9).
Side), and a plate-like partitioning member (which is disposed so as to partition between adjacent ones of the belt conveyors 101, the number of which is the same as the number of denominations, which is disposed in the front-rear direction with the upper side inclined). Side wall) 102 and the rightmost storage section 22a
Side walls (side walls) 102a provided on the right side and left side of the leftmost storage section 22f for preventing coins from dropping to the side, and the upper side from the upper surface on the rear end side of the belt conveyor 101 is upward. And a rear wall 103 for preventing coins from falling off from the rear end side of the belt conveyor 101. Note that the rear end of the temporary storage unit 70 is disposed substantially above the boundary between the belt conveyor 101 and the rear wall 103. Here, of course, the upper surface of the belt conveyor 101 is not inclined in the left-right direction, but is inclined only in the front-rear direction. The both surfaces in the left-right direction of all the partition members 102 and the inner surface of the side wall 102a are slightly inclined so as to be located outward in the left-right direction as they are located on the upper side.
The thickness of 02a is formed so that the upper side is thicker and the lower side is thinner. In other words, in other words, the distance between the two partition members 101 or the side walls 102a that are arranged to face each other so as to sandwich the belt conveyor 101 is described. Is inclined so that the lower side is wide and the upper side is narrow, so that the coins on the belt conveyor 101 are
Alternatively, even if the user wants to stand along the side wall 102a, the user stands on the belt conveyor 101 from the upper side. Therefore, coins do not stand on the belt conveyor 101 along the partition member 102 or the side wall 102a, so that the coins do not roll and remain with the movement of the upper surface of the belt conveyor 101. Note that this inclination is at least caused by the belt conveyor 101 and the rear wall 103.
It is sufficient that the coin is formed in a range where the coin can be defeated when it is supported and supported. Above the front end of the belt conveyor 101, a belt conveyor 10 is provided.
The gap with 1 is 1 or more coins and less than 2 coins, preferably 1
A reversing roller 104 that rotates in a direction opposite to the conveying direction (forward direction) of the belt conveyor 101 (a direction in which the lower side moves backward) with an interval of about half a sheet is provided with an axis disposed in the left-right direction. I have.

Belt conveyor 101 and reverse roller 104
A plate (supporting means) 106 for supporting the coins fed from the feeding section 105 on the lower side in front of the feeding section 105 constituted by And this plate 1
06, the gap between the plate 106 and the plate 106 is placed at an interval of less than one coin, preferably about half the thickness of one coin.
And a delivery roller 107 which is accelerated in the feeding direction (forward direction) (ie, at a speed higher than the transport speed of the belt conveyer 101) and fed out, is provided with its axis arranged in the left-right direction. . In addition, one plate 106 is disposed so as to extend over all the storage portions 22a to 22f. As shown in FIG. 8, the reverse rotation roller 104 and the dispensing roller 107 are collectively driven by a common motor (not shown) via a drive belt 108 disposed on the right side of the dispensing storage unit 29. On the other hand, as described later, the belt conveyors 101 of the storage units 22a to 22f of the denominations respectively
9 and are individually driven and controlled. As shown in FIG.
Between the reversing roller 104 and the dispensing roller 107, passing coins are detected for each denomination and the respective belt conveyors 1 are detected.
Optical timing sensor 1 for controlling the drive of the motor 01
In front of the dispensing roller 107, an optical dispensing counting sensor 111 for counting dispensing coins by detecting passing coins is provided for each denomination. On the front side of the plate 106 and the dispensing roller 107, a cylindrical coin chute 113 having a guide space in the vertical direction is further arranged, and a lower end portion of the coin chute 113 is arranged with a receiving tray 19 for receiving coins to be discharged. It is opened to the discharge port 20 to be discharged.

Here, the front end of the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage section 70 is arranged corresponding to the upper end of the coin chute 113, whereby the temporary storage section 70
When the temporarily stored coins thrown into the upper surface of the belt conveyor 74 are not stored in the storage units 22a to 22f and are collected outside the machine body 11, the belt conveyor 74 is inclined so that the front is on the lower side, and the upper surface thereof is Is driven in the forward direction, so that the discharge port 2 is
It is configured such that it can be guided to the tray 19 set to 0. With the above configuration, the storage units 22a to 22f
When coins of the denominated coins stored in the temporary storage unit 70 are stored by denomination, coins dropped from the rear end side, and when dispensing the stored coins, first, a common motor (not shown) reverses the rotation. The roller 104 and the dispensing roller 107 are driven. Next, a drive motor 109 for each denomination described later is driven, and the corresponding belt conveyor 101 is driven forward. Thereby, the coins stored in the storage units 22a to 22f are moved forward by the belt conveyor 101. When a large number of coins approach the reverse roller 104 by the belt conveyor 101, the belt conveyor 101
The coins superimposed on the lowermost coins that are in surface contact with the coin are returned to the storage units 22a to 22f by the reverse rotation roller 104, and as a result, one coin is
1 and the reverse rotation roller 104. The coins separated one by one as described above,
It was sent onto the plate 106, sandwiched between the plate 106 and the dispensing roller 107, accelerated and sent out toward the front thereof, dropped inside the coin chute 113, and inserted into the discharge port 20. It is discharged to the pan 19. The coins separated one by one as described above are detected by the timing sensor 110, and when the coins pass through, the number of coins is counted.
By passing through 10, the driving of the belt conveyor 101 is stopped. The coins sandwiched between the plate 106 and the dispensing roller 107 and accelerated and sent out are detected by the dispensing counting sensor 111, and the final check of the number of dispensed coins is performed. When the coins of all the denominations corresponding to the set number are discharged, the drive of the common motor (not shown) that drives the reverse rotation roller 104 and the payment roller 107 is stopped for the first time.

A shaft 115 is supported on the front upper portion of the coin chute 113 on both sides of the coin chute 113 along the left and right directions. A collection chute 116 for collecting a coin 22f in a safe 23 described later is arranged. The collecting chute 116 is separated from the dispensing roller 107 and the plate 106 and is located at a retreat position (solid line position in the drawing) substantially retreating outward in front of the coin chute 113. It is swingably supported between a state where it is located at an entry position (a dashed line position in the drawing) close to the gold roller 107 and the plate 106, and is rotationally biased toward the retracted position. The collection chute 116 is formed with an upper end opening 116A and a lower end opening 116B at the upper and lower positions at the evacuation position, respectively. The upper end opening 116A faces rearward at the insertion position and faces the position between the dispensing roller 107 and the plate 106. And the lower end opening 116B is connected to the front upper end opening 116.
Opening slightly below A, the surface portion 116C between the upper end opening 116A and the lower end opening 116B is inclined so that the front is on the lower side. Here, when the surface portion 116 </ b> C is located at the retracted position, the cutout formed in the coin chute 113 is supplemented to constitute a part of the coin chute 113. Also, the length and position of the upper end opening 116A of the collection chute 116 in the left-right direction are opened over the front positions of all the storage sections 22a to 22f, in other words, the coins fed from all the storage sections 22a to 22f. The opening is set so as to cover the outside of the feeding area immediately after the feeding. In addition, the lower end 116 of the collection chute 116
The length in the left-right direction of B also matches the length in the left-right direction of the upper end opening 116A. In addition, the coin chute 113 has a lower end opening 113A, a discharge port 20 directly below the coin chute 113, and a tray 19.
Is not inserted, the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 is closed at the horizontal plane portion 117A by being urged forward by the spring 160 (see FIG. 17) and located at the forward movement limit position. The downwardly extending hanging portion 117B is pressed and moved rearward by the tray 19 inserted into and pushed rearward, and the coin chute 113 is moved at the rearward movement limit position.
Shutter 11 that opens the lower end opening 113A of the shutter
7 (further described below) are provided.

FIG. 10 is a schematic partial plan view for explaining a driving mechanism of the belt conveyor 101 of each of the storage sections 22a to 22f. Rollers 119 arranged along the left-right direction and wound around the front side of the belt conveyor 101 are:
Roller 1 divided into three in the axial direction
The rollers on both sides of the belt 19 are supported as a large-diameter roller (large-diameter portion) 120 having the same diameter as the large-diameter roller 120.
Small-diameter roller (small-diameter portion) 12 coaxial with and smaller than 0
As No. 1, the drive belt 122 is arranged to be wound around the inside of the belt conveyor 101 wound around the large-diameter roller 120. That is, two large-diameter rollers 1 divided into three parts
20, and one small-diameter roller 121 are supported so as to rotate integrally, and as shown in FIG. 9, a large-diameter roller 120, a roller 123 along the rear side in the left and right direction, and a roller 124 along the left and right direction in the lower center portion. A drive motor 109 is arranged inside the supported belt conveyor 101 along the left-right direction, and the small-diameter roller 121 and the drive motor 109 are arranged.
A drive belt 122 is wound around a drive roller 126 attached to the drive shaft 125 along the left and right direction.
Here, the diameter difference between the large-diameter roller 120 and the small-diameter roller 121 is set so that the drive belt 122 does not interfere with the belt conveyor 101. Furthermore, the storage parts 22a-
Since the length of one drive motor 109 in the left-right direction is longer than the width of one belt conveyor 101 of the metal type 22f in the left-right direction, as shown in FIG.
The positions are shifted in the front-rear direction between adjacent ones so as to be staggered to prevent interference. In this case, since there are six belt conveyors 101 in the storage sections 22a to 22f, the two storage sections 22c and 22d in the center are provided.
Drive motor 109 is disposed closest to the roller 119 in a state where the driving rollers 109 are coaxial and the respective drive rollers 126 are opposed to each other. Also, the drive for the second storage section 22b from the right and the leftmost storage section 22f is performed. With the motor 109 coaxial and the respective drive rollers 126 reversed,
The drive motors 109 for 2c and 22d are arranged close to the roller 119 on the opposite side, and the drive motor 109 for the second storage portion 22e from the left and the rightmost storage portion 22a is coaxially arranged. In a state in which the respective drive rollers 126 are opposite to each other, the drive rollers 109 of the drive motors 109 for the storage sections 22b and 22f are arranged close to the opposite side to the rollers 119. In this case, as shown in FIG. 9, all the drive motors 109 are provided with their axes arranged on a plane located on the bisector of the angle formed by the two sides of the belt conveyor on the roller 119 side. However, by alternately shifting the position of the drive motor 109 adjacent to the roller 119 in the direction away from the roller 119 in the vertical direction with respect to the plane, the drive motor 109 is
Further, it is also possible to bring the roller closer to the roller 119 side.

As shown in FIG. 9, the storage portions 22a to 22f
A belt conveyor 101 is further provided at the lower end on the rear side of
At the lower end side of each of them, there is provided a breaking mechanism 128 for preventing coins from remaining. 11 to 13 are a partial side view and a partial front view for explaining the details of the push-out mechanism. A support shaft 129 is fixed along the left and right direction further behind the rear roller 123 around which the belt conveyor 101 is wound.
9 has a concave portion (concave cam portion) 1 which is formed in a disk shape and partially cut out in a plane shape parallel to the axis.
The other arc portion is a convex portion (convex cam portion) 130A.
The release cam 130 designated as B and one end of the torsion spring 131 are fixed. Further, the support shaft 129 has
A ratchet roller 133 having a notch (engaging portion) 132 that can be engaged with a part of the torsion spring 131 is provided adjacent to the release cam 130, and the ratchet roller 133 is formed integrally with the ratchet roller 133, and A driven roller 134 that is driven to rotate by the driving force of the belt conveyor 101 in frictional contact with the peripheral surface of the belt conveyor 101 that is wrapped around is disposed.

On the other hand, the other end of the torsion spring 131 is
30A and the concave portion 1
It is urged to be located at the front end of 30A, and furthermore, it is arranged to extend above the support shaft 129, and the rear end of a rod-like push-out member 135 is swingably connected to the front end thereof. I have. The tip end of the pushing member 135 projects into the storage portions 22a to 22f through openings 136 formed in the rear wall 103 of each of the storage portions 22a to 22f, and the lower edge side is supported by the opening 136. I have. With these configurations, when the belt conveyor 101 is driven, the driven roller 134 rotates in conjunction with the friction and rotates the ratchet roller 133 integrally. When the ratchet roller 133 rotates, the notch 132 of the ratchet roller 133 is
When the torsion spring 131 is reached, it engages with a part of the torsion spring 131, rotates it rearward against the biasing direction of the torsion spring 131, and moves the push-out member 135 out of the storage sections 22a to 22f. Is moved toward the rear side so that is reduced.
When the ratchet roller 133 further rotates, the notch 132 of the ratchet roller 133 reaches the convex portion 130B from the concave portion 130A of the release cam 130, and at this time, a part of the torsion spring 131 is forcibly moved outward by the convex portion 130B. As a result, the engagement of the ratchet roller 133 with the notch 132 is released, and the urging force of the torsion spring 131 moves the crushing member 135 toward the inside of the storage sections 22a to 22f so as to increase the amount of protrusion, thereby causing the storage section to move. 22a-22f
It works to break up coins that stand upright at the lower end of the inside and roll. At this time, the pushing member 135 is connected to the torsion spring 1 that has been disengaged from the ratchet roller 133.
The opening 13
6 swings up and down within the range of the width in the height direction. Here, at the retreat end position, for example, the push-out member 135 does not fall out of the opening 136 while being completely separated from the coins stored in the storage portions 22a to 22f, for example, once completely rearward. The phases of the ratchet roller 133 and the release cam 130 are set as described above. Here, the rear wall 10
3, the length of the opening 136 in the front-rear direction is increased, or the like, so that the push-off member 135 is completely retracted once into the storage portions 22a to 22f at the retracted end position, and the storage portions 22a to 22f It is also possible to make it appear and disappear freely. In order to efficiently perform the crushing action by the crushing mechanism 135, the storage portions 22a to 22
As shown in FIGS. 8 and 10, the rear wall 103 on the rear side of f is formed in a curved shape in plan view such that the center in the left-right direction is located at the rearmost side, that is, protrudes. The push-out member 135 is provided.

Next, the safe section 31 will be described. FIG.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of storing the surplus coins temporarily stored in the rightmost storage 76A of the temporary storage 70 in the substantially rectangular parallelepiped safe 23. As shown in FIG. 8, when storing the surplus coins temporarily stored in the rightmost storage unit 76A of the temporary storage unit 70 in the safe 23, the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 is driven rearward. Then, the rear gate member 80 is opened rearward, and the temporarily stored coins are discharged. The temporarily stored coins that are released are passed through the storage chute 99,
Rectangular storage opening 1 formed on the upper surface of safe 23 in plan view
From 38, it is stored in the safe 23. The safe 23 has a recess 139 formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape of the box-shaped safe set portion 24.
The safe setting portion 24 is pulled out upward from the recess 139 in a state where the safe setting portion 24 is pulled out to the front side of the body 11 as described later. Note that the safe 23 is loaded in the recess 139 of the safe setting section 24.
Is outside the pull-out direction (ie horizontal and downward)
Is restricted. Safe set part 24
As shown in FIG. 8, on the right side of the lower layer of the body 11, a slide shaft 140 fixed in position arranged in the front-rear direction can slide only in a state where rotation around the slide shaft 140 is restricted. Is supported via a supporting member 141 supported by the supporting member 141. That is, a support shaft 142 is attached to the support member 141 along the vertical direction, and the safe setting unit 24 is configured such that the recess 139 is opened vertically upward on the support shaft 142 and one end in the length direction. Are rotatably supported. As a result, safe set part 2
4 is supported by the support member 141 so that only horizontal rotation is possible. The safe setting section 24 is mounted on the body 11 in a state where the length direction is along the slide shaft 140, and the length direction is set on the slide shaft 140 as described later.
Is guided by the slide shaft 140 together with the support member 141 while being pulled out, and is pulled out to the limit position of the drawer, and is horizontally turned to the front side of the body 11 to abut on the front side. Is done. At this time, the contact is confirmed with the safe set sensor piece 143 (see FIG. 21) protruding to the front side, and the lock to the body 11 is performed via the lock pin 144 protruding to the front side. (Described later). The safe section 31 includes a slide shaft 140, a support member 141, a safe setting section 24, and a safe 2
3 is comprised.

The safe 23 is provided with a safe setting section 24 on the body 11.
A storage port 138 is formed at the upper surface position on the rear side in a state of being loaded and set together, and the storage port 138 is slidable in the front-rear direction when the safe set section 24 is inserted into the body 11. Is provided with a substantially rectangular shutter 145. Shutter 1 of safe 23
Reference numeral 45 denotes a storage port 1 which is usually controlled by a lock mechanism (not shown).
38 is locked in a closed state. That is, the safe 23 is loaded into the safe setting section 24, and further, is slid and inserted into the inside of the machine body 11 to unlock the lock mechanism (not shown), and the shutter 145 opens the storage port 138. It is configured to be. On the other hand, the safe 23 is
When it is pulled out in front of the body 11 in a state where it is loaded, the shutter 145 is closed by this pulling-out operation,
Further, it is configured to be locked. In addition,
As shown in FIG. 14, a concave handle 146 is formed at the front end of the safe setting section 24 in the pulling-out direction so that the safe setting section 24 can be easily pulled out. Although not shown, the bottom of the safe 23 is centered on the front side when the safe setting section 24 is slid and inserted into the body 11, and the rear side, that is, the side near the storage port 138. When the coins are stored in the safe 23 from the storage port 138 on the rear side, the coins are tilted downward toward the front side by the rocking bottom. Are also stored on the front side of the safe 23 on average. When the amount of stored coins increases, the weight of the coin exceeds the urging force of a spring (not shown), and the swinging bottom descends toward the bottom of the safe 23, thereby securing the maximum amount of stored coins. I do.

Next, the configuration on the front side of the dispensing storage section 29 will be described. FIG. 15 shows that the safe setting section 24 loaded with the safe 23 is pulled out to the front of the body 11, and is further horizontally swung to the front side of the body 11 to lock along the front side of the body 11. It is a diagram for explaining safe collection in which the coins of the storage sections 22a to 22f are collected in the safe 23,
FIG. 16 is a right side sectional view showing the arrangement of the storages 22a to 22f, the collection chute 116, and the safe 23 at the time of collecting the safe. After pulling out the safe setting section 24 loaded with the safe 23 along with the support member 141 along the slide shaft 140 to the front of the body 11, the safe set section 24 is horizontally turned to the front side of the body 11, and is brought into contact with the front side of the body 11. Lock and fix to the body 11. In such a locked state, the safe 2
3 is brought into contact with the front side of the collection chute 116, and the collection chute 116 is swung rearward in the body 11 around the shaft 115 against the urging force of a spring (not shown) to be positioned at the above-described entry position. In this state, the upper end 116 of the collection chute 116
A is a dispensing roller 10 of all the storage sections 22a to 22f.
It is arranged so as to face between the plate 7 and the plate 106 so as to cover a payout area of coins to be fed from these. At this time, the lower end 116B of the collection chute 116 is
Port 14 formed in the upper part of the collection chute 116 side
Matches 7. Here, the position and length of the collection port 147 in the left-right direction are determined by the lower end port 1 of the collection chute 116 at this time.
16B. This allows
The dispensing roller 107 and the reverse rotation roller 104 are driven, the belt conveyors 101 of all the storage units 22a to 22f are simultaneously driven, and the coins in all the storage units 22a to 22f are put into the safe 23 through the collection chute 116. Collected. As described above, in order to collect the coins in the storage sections 22a to 22f into the safe 23, the safe 23 is
It is necessary to lock the safe 23 so as to keep the safe 23 along the front side of the body 11 so as not to leave the front of the body 1. Hereinafter, the safe lock mechanism 149 at the time of collecting a safe will be described.
Share a drive source with a tray lock mechanism 150 that locks the tray 19 so that it cannot be pulled out of the outlet 20 at the lower front of the body 11 when coins are discharged to the tray 19. Therefore, the tray lock mechanism 150 will be described first.

FIG. 17 shows the discharge port 2 into which the pan 19 is inserted.
The pan lock mechanism 150 disposed on the upper surface of the outlet cover 152 formed so as to surround the upper surface, the rear surface, and both side surfaces of the tray 0.
And a plan view showing the safe lock mechanism 149, showing a state in which the chute shutter 117 closes the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 in a state where the tray 19 is not inserted into the discharge port 20. FIG. 18 is a left side view showing a state where the chute shutter 117 is opening the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 (not shown in FIG. 18) while the tray 19 is being inserted into the discharge port 20. ing. FIG. 19 corresponds to FIG. 17, in which the tray 19 is inserted into the discharge port 20 and the chute shutter 117 is moved to the lower end opening 11 of the coin chute 113 (not shown in FIG. 19).
3A shows a plan view of a state where 3A is opened. FIG.
Shows a left side view of the state corresponding to FIG.

An outlet cover 152 for molding the outlet 20
A notch 153 is formed at the center of the front side of the body 11 so as to be recessed rearward, and a slide guide 154 extending in the front-rear direction is attached to the center. A long hole (not shown) extending in the front-rear direction is formed in the slide guide 154, and guide pins 155, 156 which are inserted in the long hole along the left-right direction while being shifted back and forth. The mounting member 157 is movably supported. The mounting member 157 has a chute shutter 117 having a horizontal surface portion 117A extending horizontally so as to compensate for the notch 153 of the concave portion of the discharge port cover 152.
Are fixed, so that the shoot shutter 1
Reference numeral 17 is supported so that the guide pins 155 and 156 can slide in the front-rear direction by moving in the longitudinal direction in the elongated holes. A pulley 159 is disposed at the front end of the body 11 of the slide guide 154 in a state where the pulley 159 extends along the axis in the left-right direction, and a spring 160 having one end hooked on a part of the slide guide 154 is once directed forward. The intermediate portion is extended around the pulley 159 and then extended rearward, and the other end is engaged with the guide pin 155 of the chute shutter 117.
17 is always slidably biased so as to be located at the forward movement limit position of the body 11 and to close the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113.

As shown in the left side view of FIG. 18, a mounting member 157 at the center of the chute shutter 117 is further provided with a shaft 162 extending in the left-right direction. The shoot shutter 11 is extended through a long hole 163 extending in the front-rear direction of the shutter 117.
A receiving pan lock member 164 that swings so as to be able to protrude further downward from the lower surface of 7 is supported by a torsion spring 165 while being constantly urged to swing above the lower surface of the horizontal surface portion 117A. Note that a chute shutter 117 is provided at a central portion on the rear side of the chute shutter 117.
A hanging part 117B extending right below from the rear end of the head is formed,
The tray 19 inserted into the discharge port 20 is configured to abut. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 18, above the discharge port cover 152 and the chute shutter 117, the pan 1
9 is inserted into the discharge port 20, the pan lock member 164 that moves together with the chute shutter 117 when the chute shutter 117 slides rearward while contacting the hanging part 117B comes into contact with the pan lock member 164.
There is provided a pushing member 166 for rotating the torsion spring 165 downward against the urging force of the torsion spring 165. FIG.
9. As shown in FIG. 20, when the pan 19 is completely inserted into the discharge port 20 and the chute shutter 117 is located at the movement limit position on the rear side of the body 11, the pan lock member 1
The rocking tip 64 is located below the upper end of the outer peripheral edge of the tray 19 and is positioned inside the outer peripheral edge in the horizontal direction, that is, on the bottom side, and enters the tray 19 in this state. The pan lock member 164 is locked by the pan lock mechanism 150 (described later). When the chute shutter 117 is located at the movement limit position on the rear side of the body 11 in this manner, the tray 19 is also naturally restricted from moving further backward, and the tray 19 is locked from this state. In the range during which the tray 19 is pulled out until it comes into contact with the tray lock member 164 in the state, the lower end opening of the coin chute 113 is located at the inner position in the horizontal direction, regardless of the position of the tray 19 in the left-right direction of the discharge port 20. 113A will be present in its entirety. Also,
At the lower end of the coin chute 113, a slide guide 154, a mounting member 157, a pulley 159,
0, a shaft 162, a pan lock member 164, a torsion spring 165, and the like, a mountain-shaped guide body 185 (see FIG. 8) that covers the coins so as not to drop them and guides the coins to the sides. Accordingly, the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 is divided into two in the left-right direction.

The chute shutter 11 which moves in the front-back direction
A lock piece 169 that rotates horizontally around a support shaft 168 is provided on the upper surface of the discharge port cover 152 at a position facing the slide guide 154 with the center at 7. The right end of a slide member 170 slidably supported in the left-right direction is connected to the rear end of the lock piece 169. The slide member 170 is slid to the right by a spring (not shown) and is connected to a solenoid (drive source) 171.
It is arranged so that it can slide leftward against a spring (not shown) with one driving force. Note that the shoot shutter 11
As shown in FIG. 18, a notch 172 capable of engaging with the lock piece 169 is formed in the mounting member 157 of No. 7. As a result, the receiving tray 19 is completely inserted into the discharge port 20, and the coin dispensing / dispensing machine of the present invention is given a dispensing command by the operation unit 17 (not shown), so that the storage units 22 a to 22 c are received.
To start dispensing coins from 22f, first, the solenoid 171 is driven. As shown in FIG. 19, when the slide member 170 is slid to the left by driving the solenoid 171, the lock piece 169 is pivoted counterclockwise through the support shaft 168, and the shoot shutter 117 is moved. In the notch 172 formed in the mounting member 157 of FIG. Thereby, the shoot shutter 1
17 is prevented from returning to the front, and as shown in FIG.
The pan lock member 164 is maintained in a state of protruding inside the pan 19. Therefore, from this state, the operator sets the pan 1
9, the chute shutter 117 cannot move forward, so that the pan lock member 164 moves the pan 1
9 to prevent its withdrawal. On the other hand, when the ejection of coins from the storage units 22a to 22f based on the withdrawal command ends without error, the solenoid 17
1 is released, the slide member 170 moves rightward by a spring (not shown), and the engagement between the lock piece 169 and the notch 172 of the mounting member 157 of the chute shutter 117 is released. When the pan 19 is pulled out from the discharge port 20, the pan 19 moves forward, and at the same time, the pan lock member 164 retreats upward.
The pan 19 can be easily taken out from the discharge port 20.

Returning to FIG. 17, the safe lock mechanism 149 will be described. One end of a connecting member 174 swingably supported by a support shaft 173 having an axis in the front-rear direction is provided at the left end of the slide member 170 slid in the left-right direction by the solenoid 171 via a shaft 175 along the front-rear direction. A hook-shaped safe lock member 176 is provided at the front end of the support shaft 173.
4 and supported swingably while being connected and fixed.
FIG. 21 shows a state in which the safe 23 is set in the safe setting section 24 on the front side of the body 11 and the safe lock member 1 is provided.
76 is a plan view illustrating a state in which 76 is engaged with a lock pin 144 of the safe setting section 24. FIG. FIG. 22 shows the slide member 17.
0 is a partial front view illustrating a connection state of the connection member 174 and the connection member 174;
FIG. 23 detects the turning position of the safe lock member 176,
Together with the output state of the sensor 177 for safe setting detection,
Sensor piece 178 and sensor 1 to determine safe lock state
FIG. 24 is a partial front view illustrating the relationship between the safe lock member 176 and the lock pin 144. FIG.

As in the case of the tray lock mechanism 150, with these configurations, the safe 23 together with the safe setting part 24 is pulled out forward from the body 11 to the movement limit and then horizontally turned as it is so as to follow the front surface. Check that the safe set sensor piece 143 is correctly set to sensor 1
The detection is performed by the detection of the lock pin 144 (at this time,
In addition, when a coin withdrawal command is given to the coin depositing and dispensing machine of the present invention by the operation unit 17 (not shown), when coins are withdrawn from the storage units 22a to 22f, First, the solenoid 171 is driven. As shown in FIG. 21, when the slide member 170 is slid to the left by driving the solenoid 171, the connecting member 174 rotates clockwise in FIG. 22 around the support shaft 173. By rotating the connecting member 174 clockwise in this manner, the safe lock member 176 is also integrally swung clockwise in FIG. 24, and the lock portion 180 formed at the front end is lowered. The safe setting unit 24 that has moved and is in contact with the lower part on the front side of the body 11
In the groove 181 of the lock pin 144. This prevents the safe 23 from being separated from the front of the machine body 11 together with the safe setting section 24. Here, at this time, the pressing member 182 provided on the upper part on the front side of the body 11 is
It comes into contact with the upper surface of the safe 23 in the safe setting section 24, thereby making it impossible to remove the safe 23 from the safe setting section 24. The fact that the lock portion 180 is correctly engaged with the groove portion 181 of the lock pin 144 means that the sensor piece 1 formed on the other end of the safe lock member 176 in this engaged state.
It is confirmed by the detection result of the sensor 179 attached to the discharge port cover 152 that detects 78. The state at this time is as shown in FIG. On the other hand, when all coins are ejected from the storage sections 22a to 22f based on the safe collection command, the solenoid 171 is released and the slide member 170 is moved rightward by a spring (not shown), and the safe lock is released. Lock pin 1 of member 176 and safe setting section 24
44 is disengaged, and the safe setting section 24 is
Is turned away from the front face of the
2 and therefore the safe 23 from the safe set section 24
Can be pulled out upward. The safe 23 thus taken out is carried to a predetermined place. Note that the dispensing storage unit 29 and the safe unit 31 constituting the lower layer of the above-mentioned body 11 can be individually pulled out from the body 11 at the time of maintenance, and in a state where these are loaded into the body 11. The safe setting section 24 can be pulled out independently for safe collection.

According to the coin dispensing and dispensing machine described above, when the tray 19 is loaded in the discharge port 20 below the coin chute 113, the chute shutter 117 opens the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113. Because
Coins dispensed from the dispensing storage unit 29 are coin shoots 1
13, the money is dispensed into the receiving tray 19. When the tray 19 is not loaded in the discharge port 20 below the coin chute 113, the chute shutter 117 closes the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113. Even if a coin is ejected by mistake from the coin 29,
Is not emitted to the emission port 20 and does not scatter.
Therefore, at the time of withdrawal jam or the like, the withdrawal storage unit 29
Can be prevented from being erroneously ejected out of the machine body 11 and scattered even if is manually driven. When the tray 19 is loaded into the discharge port 20 below the coin chute 113, the tray 19
17, the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 is opened, and at the same time, the pan lock member 164
Protrudes below the chute shutter 117 and enters the pan 19, and during the dispensing operation, the pan lock member 164 is held by the pan lock mechanism 150 so as to protrude below the chute shutter 117. 2
The coins to be dispensed are not guided out of the receiving tray 19 without being removed from zero. As described above, since the receiving tray 19 cannot be removed during the dispensing, it is possible to prevent the coins to be dispensed from being separated into the receiving tray 19 and the coin chute 113.

[0034]

[0035]

As described in detail above, claim 1 of the present invention
According to the coin depositing and dispensing machine described, the discharge below the coin chute
If a pan is loaded at the exit,
Is open at the bottom opening of the coin chute.
Coins dispensed from the gold storage section are guided to a coin chute.
Is dispensed into the saucer. Lower exit of coin chute
When the pan is not loaded in the
Closes the opening at the lower end of the coin chute.
Coins from the withdrawal compartment by mistake
If issued, the coin must be ejected from the coin chute
There is no scattering. Therefore, in the case of withdrawal jam
Even if the payment mechanism of the withdrawal unit is manually driven,
Prevents accidental release outside the aircraft and scattering
Can be If pan to outlet below the coins chute is loaded, saucer slide the chute shutter, opens the bottom opening of the coin chute, at the same time, saucer locking member in pan protrudes below the chute shutter During the dispensing operation, the pan lock member is held in a state protruding below the chute shutter by the pan lock mechanism, so that the pan is not pulled out from the discharge port, and thus the coin to be dispensed is It is surely guided to the saucer. As described above, since the receiving tray cannot be removed during the dispensing, it is possible to prevent the coin to be dispensed from being separated into the receiving tray and the coin chute.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic external perspective view of a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial plan view illustrating a driving mechanism of a slot shutter.

FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing a coin receiving / counting / conveying sorting unit located in an upper layer of the fuselage.

FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view showing a temporary storage unit located in a middle layer of the fuselage.

FIG. 5 is a schematic left side view of the temporary storage section as viewed from the left.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state where the belt conveyor of the temporary storage unit is inclined downward toward the front.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a state where the belt conveyor of the temporary storage unit is inclined downward toward the rear.

FIG. 8 is a schematic plan view showing a dispensing storage section and a safe section located in a lower layer of the machine body.

FIG. 9 is a schematic right side view of the dispensing storage section viewed from the right side of the machine body.

FIG. 10 is a schematic partial plan view illustrating a driving mechanism of each belt conveyor of the storage unit.

FIG. 11 is a partial side view of the pushing mechanism.

FIG. 12 is a partial front view of the pushing mechanism.

FIG. 13 is a partial side view of the pushing mechanism,
(A) is an arrow view along line aa shown in FIG. 12, (b) is an arrow view along line bb shown in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing a configuration in which surplus coins temporarily stored in the rightmost storage unit of the temporary storage unit are stored in a safe.

FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing a state in which the safe setting section loaded with the safe is locked along the front side of the machine body.

FIG. 16 is a right side sectional view showing the arrangement of the storage unit, the collection chute, and the safe when the safe is collected.

FIG. 17 is a plan view showing a tray lock mechanism and a safe lock mechanism arranged on the upper surface of the discharge port cover.

FIG. 18 is a left side view of a state in which the chute shutter is opening the lower end opening of the coin chute while the saucer is being inserted into the discharge port.

FIG. 19 is a plan view showing a state where the tray is inserted into the discharge port and the chute shutter opens the lower end opening of the coin chute.

FIG. 20 is a left side view of the state corresponding to FIG. 19;

FIG. 21 is a plan view showing a state in which the safe lock member is engaged with a lock pin of the safe setting section.

FIG. 22 is a partial front view illustrating a connection state between the slide member and the connection member.

FIG. 23 is a partial front view illustrating the relationship between a sensor piece and a sensor.

FIG. 24 is a partial front view illustrating the relationship between the safe lock member and the lock pin.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Body 19 Receiving tray 20 Discharge port 22a to 22f Storage section 29 Deposit storage section 50 Coin insertion section 56 Feeding and transporting section 60 Coin identification section 61, 62 Coin branching section 69 Coin sorting section 70 Temporary storage section 113 Coin chute 113A Lower end opening 117 Chute shutter 150 Pan lock mechanism 164 Pan lock member

Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-61-58096 (JP, A) JP-A-8-212411 (JP, A) JP-A-62-210599 (JP, A) JP-A-60-39179 (JP, A) , U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 1/00 G07D 5/00

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A coin insertion unit into which a deposited coin is inserted, a feeding conveyance unit for separating and feeding out the inserted coins one by one, and a true coin provided in the feeding conveyance unit, the coin being fed. A coin identification unit that discriminates fake and denominations, a coin branching unit that sorts coins according to the identification result of the coin identification unit, and a coin classification that is connected to the coin branching unit and classifies coins conveyed by denomination. And a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing coins classified and classified in the coin branching unit and the coin classifying unit in the coin discriminating unit, sorted and classified in the coin branching unit, and storing or returning the temporarily stored coins. , A coin storage unit that stores coins of the denominations stored in the temporary storage unit, and that drives the stored coins in the forward direction to dispense the coins on a tray loaded in the lower part of the front of the aircraft. Coin depositing and dispensing machine A coin chute arranged on the front side of the withdrawal storage section for guiding coins dispensed from the withdrawal storage section toward a lower discharge port; opening and closing a lower end opening of the coin chute; A chute shutter which is opened by a pan loaded in a discharge port below the chute and is closed by removing the pan from the discharge port below the coin chute , wherein the chute shutter has a lower end opening of the coin chute. ,
It is configured to be opened and closed by riding, and a chute shutter is opened at the lower end of the coin chute.
Slide in the direction to open the
Pan lock member that swings so as to protrude below the cutter
And the pan lock member, during the coin dispensing operation, the shoot shutter
And a pan lock mechanism that holds the
A coin depositing and dispensing machine characterized by being used.