JP5329260B2 - Booklet media handling device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a booklet medium handling apparatus that handles booklet media.

  At a financial institution or the like, a processing mechanism that accepts a booklet medium such as a passbook set by an operator and performs a reading process of an entry, a printing process, a reading and writing process to a magnetic recording unit, and the like is used. In such a processing mechanism, for example, when there is no print space in the middle paper to be processed in the process of printing on the middle paper of the booklet medium, the middle paper is rolled to continue processing on the next middle paper. A processing mechanism for performing a turning operation is prepared (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

The booklet medium turning operation will be described below.
FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining the booklet medium handling apparatus. Further, (A) is a perspective view of the apparatus, (B) is a plan view at the time of transporting the booklet medium B (shown by a broken line in (A)), as viewed from the loading side, FIG. 6 is a plan view of the booklet medium B during a turning operation. In the booklet medium handling apparatus 100 shown in FIG. 14, only components necessary for the turning operation are described. Further, the booklet medium has a pair of covers and a middle sheet bound by the pair of covers.

  The booklet medium handling apparatus 100 includes a transport path 29 and a pair of transport rollers 16, 18, and 20 disposed on the transport path 29 with a part of the outer peripheral surface protruding. The transport rollers 16, 18, and 20 are each supported by a shaft (not shown). In addition, it has a rotatable driven roller 25 that is disposed to face the conveyance roller 18 and a turning roller 24 that turns the booklet medium B on the conveyance path 29. The driven roller 25 and the turning roller 24 are supported by the shaft 23. The transport rollers 16, 18, and 20 and the turning roller 24 rotate by rotating a shaft that supports each of the transport rollers 16, 18, and 20 in a predetermined direction, thereby performing the transport operation and the turning operation of the booklet medium B. For such a booklet medium handling apparatus 100, the booklet medium B loaded in the loading direction I enters between the transport roller 18 and the driven roller 25 (FIGS. 14A and 14B).

  The booklet medium B that has entered between the transport roller 18 and the driven roller 25 is further transported by the rotation of the transport roller 18. At this time, the driven roller 25 rotates following the booklet medium B being conveyed. When the booklet medium B is transported to a predetermined position, a transport mechanism such as a transport roller 18 that transports the booklet medium B is locked. The booklet medium B whose conveyance has been stopped is turned on by the rotation of the turning roller 24. When the turning of the intermediate paper is completed, the transport mechanism is unlocked and the booklet medium B is transported to the loaded side.

  However, in the booklet medium handling apparatus 100, the turning roller 24 is pivotally supported on the shaft 23 together with the driven roller 25 as described above. Since the booklet medium B introduced between the conveying roller 18 and the driven roller 25 is urged from the turning roller 24 toward the conveying path 29 when being rolled, the main surface of the booklet medium B is bent (FIG. 14). (C)).

  Since the deflected booklet medium B has increased rigidity, a large frictional force is required to perform the curling operation with the curling roller 24. Further, when the turning roller 24 having a large frictional force is used for the turning operation of the booklet medium B, dirt gradually adheres to the outer peripheral surface of the turning roller 24. If the outer peripheral surface of the winding roller 24 becomes dirty, the frictional force decreases, and the booklet medium B cannot be stably wound.

  Therefore, in order to suppress the occurrence of bending on the main surface of the booklet medium B to be conveyed, for example, a method has been proposed in which a pressing member is disposed opposite to the turning roller 24 (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

JP 2000-263965 A JP 2003-175688 A

  However, in Patent Document 2, even if the pressing member is disposed opposite to the turning roller, the main surface of the booklet medium is bent in the space between the driven roller and the turning roller. Therefore, there is a problem that the booklet medium cannot be stably read.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and an object thereof is to provide a booklet medium handling apparatus capable of stably winding a booklet medium.

In order to achieve the above object, a booklet medium handling apparatus for handling a booklet medium is provided.
Such a booklet medium handling apparatus has a transport path in which the booklet medium is transported with its outer surface contacting the transport surface, and a first driven to rotate in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the booklet medium. A pair of conveying rollers supported on the shaft of the outer circumferential surface so that a part of the outer peripheral surface protrudes from the conveying surface of the conveying path, and a second disposed parallel to the first shaft on the conveying path side. A pair of driven rollers that are rotatably supported by a shaft at a position facing the transport roller and transport the booklet medium together with the transport roller by rotational driving of the first shaft, and a pair of the driven rollers The booklet medium on the conveyance path is supported by the second shaft at a position sandwiched between the two shafts and rotated by the rotational drive of the second shaft, and the booklet medium is wound by a friction member disposed at a part of the outer peripheral surface. With Laura At between rollers turning the pair of the driven roller when said second shaft being supported respectively said page turning roller is an operation turning at between a pair of the driven rollers and the turning roller An upper guide member that pushes back the portion of the booklet medium that is bent in a direction away from the conveyance surface of the conveyance path in the direction of the conveyance surface .

In this booklet medium handling apparatus, the booklet medium is conveyed by contacting the outer surface on the conveyance path, and a pair of conveyance rollers are arranged so as to protrude part of the outer peripheral surface from the conveyance path, and rotate to convey the booklet medium on the conveyance path. and, turning the roller is arranged between a pair of driven rollers, rotated by turning the booklet medium conveying path, it is placed on the side of the turning the upper guide roller, when they are the operating page turning roller is turning The main surface opposite to the outer surface of the booklet medium to be transported is pushed toward the transport path.

  In the booklet medium handling apparatus, the booklet medium can be picked up stably.

It is a functional block diagram of the book printer of an embodiment. It is a perspective view of the booklet medium handling device of an embodiment. It is a perspective view of the conveyance path of the booklet medium handling apparatus of an embodiment. It is a top view of the conveyance path of the booklet medium handling device of an embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the guide member which the booklet medium handling apparatus of embodiment has. It is a side view (the 1) for demonstrating each the conveyance operation and turning operation | movement of a passbook performed with the booklet medium handling apparatus of embodiment. FIG. 6 is a plan view (No. 1) for explaining a passbook carrying operation and a turning operation performed by the booklet medium handling apparatus according to the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a side view (No. 2) for explaining the passbook transporting operation and turning operation performed by the booklet medium handling device of the embodiment; FIG. 6 is a plan view (part 2) for describing a passbook carrying operation and a turning operation performed by the booklet medium handling device of the embodiment. FIG. 10 is a side view (No. 3) for explaining the passbook carrying operation and turning operation performed by the booklet medium handling device of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a side view (part 4) for explaining the passbook transporting operation and turning operation performed by the booklet medium handling device of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a side view (No. 5) for describing the passbook transporting operation and turning operation performed by the booklet medium handling device of the embodiment; It is another figure for demonstrating the guide member which the booklet medium handling apparatus of embodiment has. It is a figure for demonstrating a booklet medium handling apparatus.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings.
In this embodiment, ATM: the bookkeeping printer incorporated in (Automated Teller Machine automated teller machine) or the like booklet medium handling apparatus is installed. The case of a passbook as a booklet medium will be described as an example.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the book printer according to the embodiment.
The book printer 1 includes a passbook slot 2, a magnetic stripe unit 3, an image scanner 4, a printing unit 5, a control unit 6, and a booklet medium handling device 10. The passbook includes a front cover, a back cover, and a plurality of middle sheets that are bound to the front cover and the back cover with stitches.

  The passbook entry port 2 is used to input a passbook with the inside paper opened by the user, and to discharge a passbook for which a predetermined process performed in the book printer 1 has been completed. The bankbook entry port 2 is provided with a sensor (not shown), and when the bankbook entered by the sensor is detected, the other components are notified to that effect.

  The magnetic stripe unit 3 reads magnetic information (for example, customer account number, previous book record, etc.) from a magnetic stripe (MS) added in advance to the bankbook, or newly creates a magnetic stripe (MS) for the bankbook. To write magnetic information.

The image scanner 4 confirms whether the printing start position on the passbook and the turning of the middle paper by the turning operation described later have been appropriately performed.
The printing unit 5 has a print head, and writes transaction information such as deposit, withdrawal, transfer, etc., made by the user to the ATM in the passbook.

The control unit 6 controls the above configuration and the operation of the booklet medium handling apparatus 10.
The booklet medium handling apparatus 10 can turn the inner sheet and close the passbook for the passbook that has been subjected to the predetermined processing by the above configuration. Details of the booklet medium handling apparatus 10 will be described later.

  In the book printer 1 having the above-described configuration, when the bankbook is inserted from the bankbook slot 2 with the center sheet opened, the magnetic stripe unit 3, the image scanner 4, and the printing unit 5 perform predetermined processes. Then, it is conveyed to the booklet medium handling apparatus 10. For example, the booklet medium handling apparatus 10 can cause the image scanner 4 and the printing unit 5 to perform processing on the intermediate paper by feeding the intermediate paper by a desired amount. At the same time, as will be described later, when the passbook is finally discharged, the passbook can be transported with the front cover and the back cover closed.

Next, the booklet medium handling apparatus 10 will be described.
2 is a perspective view of a booklet medium handling apparatus according to the embodiment, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a transport path of the booklet medium handling apparatus according to the embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a transport path of the booklet medium handling apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. Note that FIG. 3 shows the main components that perform the transfer operation and the turning operation of the bankbook Pb around the transfer path 29 in FIG. FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG.

  The booklet medium handling apparatus 10 includes a top plate 11, a conveyance path 29 disposed opposite to the top plate 11, a cam motor 12 disposed on both sides of the apparatus, a conveyance motor 14, and a turning motor 22.

  Inside the conveyance path 29, shafts 15, 17, 19 (see FIG. 6) are arranged in parallel in this order. Further, the transport rollers 16, 18, and 20 are partly supported on the shafts 15, 17, and 19 by protruding part of the outer peripheral surface of the transport path 29. The shaft 15 is connected to the transport motor 14. Further, the shaft 15 is connected to the shaft 17 and the gear 21b by the shaft 19 and the belt 21a. Therefore, when the shaft 15 is rotationally driven by the drive of the transport motor 14, the rotational drive of the shaft 15 is transmitted to the shafts 17 and 19 via the gear 21b and the belt 21a, respectively. Actually, the driven rollers 16a and 20a are pivotally supported by the shafts 15a and 19a and are arranged to face the conveying rollers 16 and 20, respectively (see FIG. 6 and the like). Omitted.

A lower guide member 30 is integrally formed in the conveyance path 29 between the conveyance rollers 18 and on both sides of each conveyance roller 18.
On the other hand, the shaft 23 is disposed to face the shaft 17. The turning roller 24 and the driven roller 25 are supported on the shaft 23, respectively. The turning roller 24 is disposed between the driven rollers 25, and a high friction member is disposed on a part of the outer peripheral surface. The driven roller 25 is disposed so as to face the conveying roller 18 and is rotatably supported on the shaft 23.

  Further, panels 27 and 28 are disposed in the transport path 29 so as to be openable and closable with the shaft 23 therebetween (see FIG. 6). The panels 27 and 28 are opened and closed on the shaft 23 side with the shafts 15 and 19 as fulcrums via the cam 13 by driving of the cam motor 12.

  A pressure 31 (see FIG. 6) is disposed between the shafts 15 and 17 of the transport path 29, and the bankbook Pb that is transported to the transport path 29 through the cam 13 by driving the cam motor 12. Is pushed up and retracted inside the conveyance path 29.

Next, the upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30 will be further described.
FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a guide member included in the booklet medium handling apparatus according to the embodiment. 4A is an enlarged view of the periphery of the upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30 in FIG. 4, and FIG. 4B is a cross-sectional view taken along the alternate long and short dash line XX in FIG.

  As described above, the upper guide member 26 is integrally formed on the shaft 23 between the turning roller 24 and the driven roller 25. Similarly, the lower guide member 30 is disposed so as to face the turning roller 24 and is formed integrally with the conveyance path 29 so as not to overlap the upper guide member 26. The upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30 are plate-shaped, for example. Further, by using a material having a small friction with the bankbook Pb, it is possible to reduce the friction with the bankbook Pb to be transported and smoothly transport the bankbook Pb (FIG. 5A).

  The cross-sectional shape of the upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30 is a mountain shape in which the shafts 15 and 19 are rounded. For this reason, as will be described later, the bankbook Pb is smoothly transported between the upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30 and is rolled (FIG. 5B).

Next, the conveying operation and turning operation for the passbook Pb input to the booklet medium handling apparatus 10 will be described.
6, 8, and 10 to 12 are side views for explaining the passbook transporting and turning operations performed in the booklet medium handling apparatus of the embodiment, and FIGS. 7 and 9 are the embodiments. It is a top view for demonstrating each of the conveyance operation | movement and turning operation | movement performed with a booklet medium handling apparatus.

  A passbook Pb in a state where a predetermined center sheet is opened by the user is inserted from the passbook slot 2 of the book printer 1. The passbook Pb that has undergone predetermined processing by the magnetic stripe unit 3, the image scanner 4, and the printing unit 5 is loaded into the booklet medium handling apparatus 10 along the loading direction I (FIG. 1).

  The inserted passbook Pb contacts the outer surface of the front cover and the back cover with the transport path 29, and is transported through the transport path 29 by the rotation of the transport roller 20 and the driven roller 20a, and enters between the transport roller 18 and the driven roller 25. . The bankbook Pb is further transported along the transport path 29 by the rotation of the transport roller 18. Further, the bankbook Pb is conveyed to a predetermined position where the turning operation is performed by the rotation of the conveying roller 16 and the driven roller 16a. And the conveyance rollers 16, 18, and 20 are locked, and the bankbook Pb stops at the said position. The driven rollers 16a, 20a, and 25 are rubbed from the opened inner paper surface of the bankbook Pb to be transported, and rotate following the bankbook Pb to be transported (FIGS. 6 and 7).

  Next, the panel 27 is retracted from the conveyance path 29. In order to roll up the middle paper Pc of the bankbook Pb, the winding roller 24 starts to rotate counterclockwise (solid arrow) in the figure (FIG. 8). In FIG. 8, the description of the sensor 32 to be described later is omitted.

  At this time, the upper guide member 26 is urged toward the conveyance path 29 so as to correct the deflection of the passbook Pb in the space between the driven roller 25 and the turning roller 24 toward the shaft 23. At the same time, the lower guide member 30 biases the deflection of the passbook Pb toward the conveyance path 29 by the turning roller 24 so as to correct the shaft 23 (FIG. 9).

  In this manner, the passbook Pb is corrected in parallel with the conveyance path 29 by the upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30, so that the passbook Pb is stably rolled up by the turning roller 24. When the intermediate paper Pc rises to a predetermined height, it is detected by the sensor 32 (FIG. 10).

  Although illustration is omitted, when the middle paper Pc that has been rolled up is detected by the sensor 32, the high-friction portion member disposed on a part of the outer peripheral surface of the turning roller 24 is positioned upward in the drawing. Thus, the shaft 23 rotates and stops.

  The intermediate paper Pc is sprung up on the curling roller 24 when the curling roller 24 rotates again and is further curled up. Thereafter, the panel 27 approaches the transport path 29 side, and the intermediate paper Pc that is flipped up by the panel 27 is urged toward the transport path 29 side. At this time, the state of the flipped up intermediate paper Pc is detected by the sensor 32 (FIG. 11).

  Next, the transport rollers 16, 18, and 20 are unlocked, and the panel 27 is retracted again. Then, the transport rollers 16, 18 and 20 are respectively rotated in the counterclockwise direction (solid arrow) in the drawing. At this time, the driven rollers 16a, 25, and 20a rotate in the clockwise direction (broken arrow (b)) in the drawing according to the rotation of the transport rollers 16, 18, and 20, respectively. Then, the bankbook Pb is rolled up while the bankbook Pb is conveyed in the direction of the arrow Y (FIG. 12).

  The passbook Pb on which the intermediate paper Pc is rolled is again conveyed to the passbook input port 2 side and discharged to the outside. Alternatively, predetermined processing or the like is performed by the magnetic stripe unit 3, the image scanner 4, and the printing unit 5 while being transported to the passbook input port 2 side, and if necessary, is transported to the booklet medium handling apparatus 10 again.

  In the booklet medium handling apparatus 10, the upper guide member 26 is bent toward the shaft 23 side of the passbook Pb between the driven roller 25 and the turning roller 24 with respect to the passbook Pb entering between the transport roller 18 and the driven roller 25. Is urged toward the conveyance path 29 side. Similarly, the lower guide member 30 urges the deflection of the passbook Pb toward the conveyance path 29 side by the turning roller 24 toward the shaft 23 side. Thereby, it is possible to stably lift up the deflection of the transported bankbook Pb by correcting it horizontally with respect to the transport path 29.

Therefore, in order to bias the passbook Pb in place of the upper guide member 26 and the lower guide member 30, for example, the same effect can be obtained even in the following cases.
FIG. 13 is another diagram for explaining a guide member included in the booklet medium handling apparatus according to the embodiment.

  A box-shaped upper guide member 26 a is integrally formed on the shaft 23 between the turning roller 24 and the driven roller 25. On the other hand, a box-shaped lower guide member (not shown) is also formed in the conveyance path 29. In this case, as compared with the above case, the urging area against the deflection of the passbook Pb is widened, so that the passbook Pb can be surely straightened (FIG. 13A).

  As another example, a steeple-shaped upper guide member 26b and a steeple-shaped lower guide member (not shown) may be formed between the turning roller 24 and the driven roller 25 in the same manner. (FIG. 13B).

  Even with such upper guide members 26 a and 26 b and lower guide member, it is possible to correct the bending of the inner paper surface of the bankbook Pb being conveyed so as to be parallel to the conveyance path 29 as described above. In addition, it is preferable that the cross-sectional shape of the upper guide members 26a and 26b and the lower guide member is a mountain shape as described above.

  As described above, in the booklet medium handling apparatus 10, the upper guide members 26, 26 a, and 26 b are disposed on the shaft 23 between the turning roller 24 and the driven roller 25, and the upper guide member 26 is disposed on the conveying path 29 so as to face the turning roller 24. , 26a, 26b, the lower guide members 30 are formed so as not to overlap each other. As a result, when the passbook Pb enters between the conveyance roller 18 and the driven roller 25 and rolls the passbook Pb, the upper guide member 26 conveys the deflection of the passbook Pb between the driven roller 25 and the turning roller 24 toward the shaft 23. On the side of the path 29, the lower guide member 30 suppresses the deflection of the passbook Pb toward the conveyance path 29 by the turning roller 24 on the shaft 23 side. With the upper guide members 26, 26 a, 26 b and the lower guide member 30, the passbook Pb is stably wound by the turning roller 24 in a state where the deflection of the passbook Pb is corrected to be parallel to the transport path 29.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Book printer 2 Passbook slot 3 Magnetic stripe unit 4 Image scanner 5 Printing part 6 Control part 10 Booklet medium handling apparatus 11 Top plate 12 Cam motor 13 Cam 14 Conveyance motor 15, 15a, 17, 19, 19a, 23 Shaft 16, 18 , 20 Conveying rollers 16a, 20a, 25 Driven rollers 21a Rotating belt 21b Gear 22 Turning motor 24 Turning rollers 26, 26a, 26b Upper guide member 27, 28 Panel 29 Conveying path 30 Lower guide member 31 Pressure 32 Sensor B Booklet medium Pb Passbook Pc inside paper

Claims (5)

In a booklet medium handling device that handles booklet media,
A transport path in which the booklet medium is transported with its outer surface contacting the transport surface ;
A pair of transport rollers supported on a first shaft that extends in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the booklet medium and is rotationally driven so that a part of the outer peripheral surface protrudes from the transport surface of the transport path ; ,
The transport roller is rotatably supported at a position facing the transport roller by a second shaft disposed on the transport path side in parallel with the first shaft, and the transport roller is driven by rotation of the first shaft. And a pair of driven rollers that convey the booklet medium between them,
The booklet medium on the conveyance path is arranged on a part of the outer peripheral surface by being supported by the second shaft at a position between the pair of driven rollers and rotated by the rotational drive of the second shaft . A rolling roller that rolls with a friction member ;
Between the pair of driven rollers and the page turning rollers , when the page turning rollers are supported by the second shaft between the pair of driven rollers and the page turning rollers , respectively. An upper guide member that pushes back the portion of the booklet medium that is bent away from the transport surface of the transport path in the direction of the transport surface ;
A booklet medium handling apparatus characterized by comprising: At least a portion of the booklet medium that protrudes from the transport surface of the transport path facing the curling roller and is bent toward the transport surface by the curling operation of the curling roller is received from the transport surface side. The booklet medium handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a lower guide member that suppresses bending of the booklet medium. Second and third page turning rollers which are respectively supported by the second shaft outside the pair of driven rollers and sandwich the booklet medium together with the page turning rollers positioned between the pair of driven rollers; 3. The booklet medium handling device according to claim 2, further comprising another lower guide member protruding from the conveyance surface of the conveyance path facing the second and third winding rollers . 2. The booklet medium handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a shape of a cross section of the upper guide member is a mountain shape protruding in a direction in which the friction member is disposed on the turning roller and having a rounded apex. . 3. The booklet medium handling apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a shape of a cross section of the lower guide member is a mountain shape protruding in a direction away from the transport surface of the transport path and having a rounded apex .

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