JP5437217B2 - Ticketing device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device that issues a ticket, a receipt, and the like using roll paper.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are ticket issuing devices that issue a ticket, a receipt, and the like using roll paper.

  For example, in a railway station or the like, a ticket issuing device that issues a ticket using roll paper is used. This ticket issuing apparatus cuts the length of the boarding ticket for issuing the roll paper set in the main body. This roll paper has a magnetic sheet attached to one surface. The ticket issuing device records the ticket information including the issuing station, issuing date and time, boarding section, etc. as magnetic data on the cut roll paper. The ticket issuing device prints the ticket information on the cut roll paper.

  Since the ticket issuing apparatus cannot issue a new boarding ticket when the roll paper, which is a consumable item, is used up, it is necessary to stop the ticketing operation and wait for the roll paper to be set (supplemented). When there is a user who is seeking a boarding ticket, the ticketing operation is stopped for such a reason, resulting in a decrease in service to the user.

  In view of this, a ticket issuing apparatus that has two storage units for storing roll paper and that can set two roll papers has been proposed (see Patent Document 1). When one of the roll papers is used up, the ticket issuing device continues the ticketing operation using the other roll paper. The station staff sets (supplements) a new roll paper in the storage section where the roll paper is used up when there is no user requesting the ticket.

JP 2005-187151 A

  However, the conventional ticket issuing apparatus capable of setting two roll papers has a configuration in which two roll papers are stored in parallel in the width direction of the apparatus main body. That is, the storage unit for storing the roll paper is provided in parallel with the width direction of the apparatus main body.

  When the station staff sets the roll paper in the storage unit storing the used roll paper, the station staff takes out the paper tube of the used roll paper remaining in the storage unit. For this reason, it is necessary to secure a sufficient space for taking out the roll paper tube used by the station clerk, that is, a space where the station clerk can easily insert a hand. This space can be secured by increasing the distance between the two roll papers stored side by side, that is, by increasing the distance between the two storage parts. However, if the distance between the two roll papers is increased. The main body of the apparatus becomes larger (the length in the direction in which the roll papers are arranged becomes longer).

  An object of the present invention is to suppress an increase in the size of an apparatus main body provided with a plurality of roll paper storage units for storing roll paper, and to avoid the operability of personnel involved in replacement and replenishment of roll paper with respect to the roll paper storage unit. It is to provide a ticket issuing device.

  The ticket issuing apparatus according to the present invention issues a ticket, a receipt, and the like using roll paper stored in any of a plurality of roll paper storage units arranged in a line.

  Some roll paper storage units have roll paper storage directions that are not parallel. An inner door is provided for each roll paper storage unit. The inner door has a lower end attached to the rotation shaft, and rotates in the roll paper storage direction in the corresponding roll paper storage unit.

  Further, the outer door is located outside the plurality of inner doors and has a size covering these inner doors. The outer door also has a lower end attached to the rotation shaft. Each inner door is connected to an outer door. Therefore, a plurality of inner doors can be opened and closed by opening and closing the outer doors.

  In the above configuration, the interval between the adjacent roll paper storage units on the opposite side of the inner door can be narrowed while ensuring the interval between the adjacent storage units on the inner door side, and the enlargement of the apparatus main body can be suppressed. . Moreover, by ensuring the space | interval between the adjacent storage parts in an inner door side, the workability | operativity of the staff member concerning exchange and replenishment of roll paper with respect to a roll paper storage part is securable.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to suppress the enlargement of the apparatus main body and to ensure the workability of a staff member for exchanging or replenishing the roll paper with respect to the roll paper storage unit.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the principal part of a ticket issuing apparatus. It is a front view of a ticket issuing apparatus. It is the schematic which shows the internal structure of a ticket issuing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the state which opened the outer door of the ticket issuing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the rotating shaft of an outer door and an inner door, and the storage direction of roll paper. It is a figure which shows the connection part of an outer door and an inner door. FIG. 7 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 6.

  Hereinafter, a ticket issuing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  Here, a ticket issuing device for issuing a boarding ticket will be described as an example. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of the ticket issuing apparatus. FIG. 2 is a front view of the ticket issuing apparatus. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the internal configuration of the ticket issuing apparatus.

  The ticket issuing apparatus 1 includes a control unit 2, a transport unit 3, a magnetic data processing unit 4, a print processing unit 5, a cut unit 6, an operation unit 7, and a display unit 8. The ticket issuing device 1 records the ticket information as magnetic data and prints the ticket information for the ticket to be issued.

  The control part 2 controls operation | movement of each part of the ticket issuing apparatus 1 main body.

  The transport unit 3 transports a boarding ticket along the medium transport path 3a. As shown in FIG. 3, the medium conveyance path 3 a connects a roll paper storage unit 10 that stores the roll paper 10 a and a ticket issuing port 11 on the front surface of the apparatus main body. Further, the medium transport path 3a also has a branch path that leads to the ticket insertion slot 12 on the front surface of the apparatus main body. The roll paper 10a has a magnetic sheet attached to one side (back side).

  Although details of the roll paper storage unit 10 will be described later, two are arranged in the width direction of the ticket issuing apparatus 1 main body. That is, the ticket issuing apparatus 1 is configured to store two roll papers 10a. Further, the path for pulling out the leading end of the stored roll paper 10 a to the cut unit 6 is different for each roll paper storage unit 10. The medium conveyance path 3 a between the cut unit 6 and the ticket issuing slot 11 is common regardless of the roll paper storage unit 10.

  The cutting part 6 cuts the roll paper 10a according to the length of the ticket (passage ticket) to be issued. The transport unit 3 transports the roll paper (hereinafter also referred to as a ticket) cut by the cut unit 6 along the medium transport path 3a.

  The print processing unit 5 prints characters, symbols, and the like (ticket information) according to the issued ticket on the surface of the ticket transported along the medium transport path 3a (the surface on which the magnetic sheet is not attached). To do. The print head 5a of the print processing unit 5 is, for example, a thermal head, and is disposed at a position facing the surface of the ticket being conveyed along the medium conveyance path 3a. When performing printing, the print processing unit 5 presses the print head 5a against the surface of the ticket that the transport unit 3 is transporting along the medium transport path 3a.

  The magnetic data processing unit 4 records magnetic data corresponding to the issued ticket and records the magnetic data on the magnetic sheet attached to the back surface of the ticket transported along the medium transport path 3a. Read data. The magnetic data processing unit 4 has two magnetic heads 4a arranged at positions facing the back surface of the ticket conveyed along the medium conveyance path 3a. One is a recording magnetic head 4a used for recording magnetic data, and the other is a reading magnetic head 4a used for reading magnetic data. When recording magnetic data, the magnetic data processing unit 4 presses the recording magnetic head 4a against the back surface (magnetic sheet) of the ticket that the transport unit 3 transports along the medium transport path 3a. Further, when reading the magnetic data, the magnetic data processing unit 4 presses the magnetic head 4a for reading against the back surface (magnetic sheet) of the ticket that the transport unit 3 transports along the medium transport path 3a.

  The operation unit 7 has a key for performing an input operation on the ticket issuing device 1. The display unit 8 controls display on the display 8a provided on the front surface of the apparatus main body.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, an outer door 20 that opens and closes when the roll paper 10 a is replaced or replenished with respect to the roll paper storage unit 10 is provided on the front surface of the apparatus main body.

  The ticket issuing device 1 is connected to an operation terminal operated by a station attendant, and issues a boarding ticket in accordance with an instruction from the operation terminal. Moreover, this ticket issuing apparatus 1 may be provided with the punch part which opens a punch hole in a boarding ticket, the collection | recovery part which collects a boarding ticket, etc. Here, description of these configurations is omitted.

  Here, the ticket issuing operation of the ticket issuing apparatus 1 will be briefly described.

  When the ticket issuing device 1 is instructed to issue a ticket from the operation terminal, the transport unit 3 pulls out the roll paper 10a and cuts the drawn roll paper 10a into a length corresponding to the ticket issued by the cutting unit 6. . The transport unit 3 transports the boarding ticket (roll paper 10a) cut by the cutting unit 6 to the ticket issuing port 11 via the print head 5a and the magnetic head 4a. The print processing unit 5 presses the print head 5a against the surface of the boarded ticket cut by the cutting unit 6 and prints it on a boarding ticket that issues characters and symbols related to boarding ticket information. Further, the magnetic data processing unit 4 presses the magnetic head 4a against the back surface of the ticket cut by the cutting unit 6 and records the ticket information as magnetic data on the ticket for issuing the ticket information. In the transport unit 3, the print processing unit 5 prints the ticket information, and the magnetic data processing unit 4 releases the ticket in which the ticket information is recorded as magnetic data to the ticket issuing port 11. When the transport unit 3 releases the ticket to the ticketing slot 11, the ticket issuing device 1 ends the ticket issuing operation for the current ticket.

  In addition, if the conveyance part 3 cuts the roll paper 10a into the length according to the boarding ticket which issues a ticket by the cut part 6, it will stop drawing | drawing-out of the roll paper 10a.

  When the roll paper 10a stored in one roll paper storage unit 10 is used up, the ticket issuing apparatus 1 uses the roll paper 10a stored in the other roll paper storage unit 10 to issue a ticket. continue.

  Next, the roll paper storage unit 10 will be described in detail.

  FIG. 4 is a view showing a state where the outer door of the ticket issuing device is opened. The ticket issuing apparatus 1 includes two roll paper storage units 10 as described above. The two roll paper storage units 10 are arranged in the width direction of the ticket issuing apparatus 1 main body.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the two roll paper storage units 10 are not parallel in the storage direction of the roll paper 10a. Specifically, the two roll paper storage units 10 have an eight-letter shape in which the apparatus main body front side (outer door 20 side) is wide and the apparatus main body back side is narrow. More specifically, the roll paper storage unit 10 on the right side of the apparatus main body tilts the storage direction of the roll paper 10a by 2 ° to the left with respect to the front surface of the apparatus main body, and the roll paper storage unit 10 on the left side of the apparatus main body has the roll paper 10a. Is tilted 2 ° to the right with respect to the front of the apparatus main body. Therefore, the distance between the roll papers 10a stored in the two roll paper storage units 10 becomes wider as the position is closer to the front of the main body.

  Therefore, when the roll paper 10a is set in the roll paper storage unit 10 that has stored the used roll paper 10a, the paper tube of the used roll paper 10a remaining in the roll paper storage unit 10 is taken out. Enough space, that is, a space where a station staff can insert a hand without difficulty. Moreover, since the space | interval between the two roll paper storage parts 10 becomes narrow in the back | inner side of the roll paper storage part 10, the enlargement of an apparatus main body is suppressed.

  Here, the case where both the two roll paper storage units 10 have the storage direction of the roll paper 10a not perpendicular to the front surface of the apparatus main body is taken as an example. The storing direction may be a vertical direction.

  An inner door 21 is provided for each roll paper storage unit 10. The inner door 21 is connected to the outer door 20.

  The rotation axis of the inner door 21 is perpendicular to the storage direction of the roll paper 10 a of the corresponding roll paper storage unit 10. That is, each inner door 21 rotates in the storage direction of the roll paper 10 a of the corresponding roll paper storage unit 10. The rotation axes of the two inner doors 21 are not parallel.

  On the other hand, the rotation axis of the outer door 20 is parallel to the front surface of the apparatus main body. The outer door 20 has a size that covers the entire two inner doors 21.

  The rotation axis of the outer door 20 and the inner door 21 is located at the lower end as illustrated.

  Further, the inner door 21 has its both sides folded back toward the roll paper storage unit 10 so as to hold the roll paper 10 a stored in the roll paper storage unit 10. The width of the folded sides is a little wider than the width of the roll paper 10a to be stored. That is, the inner door 21 has a shape including a holding unit that holds the roll paper 10a on the roll paper storage unit 10 side. In addition, when the inner door 21 is shifted from the open state to the closed state, the holding unit slides the roll paper 10a being held along the folding of both side portions. The roll paper 10a slides in the direction in which the inner door 21 rotates in the corresponding roll paper storage portion 10 as described above, so that the roll paper 10a in the corresponding roll paper storage portion 10 is rotated. This is the storage direction. Therefore, when setting the roll paper 10a in the roll paper storage unit 10, the clerk causes the opened inner door 21 to hold the roll paper 10a and closes the inner door 21 (the outer door connected as described later). 20 is closed).

  As described above, each inner door 21 is connected to the outer door 20. Therefore, each inner door 21 can be opened and closed by opening and closing the outer door 20. Here, the connection between the outer door 20 and the inner door 21 will be described.

  Each inner door 21 is connected to the outer door 20 at the upper end. FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a connecting portion between the outer door and the inner door. FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a portion surrounded by a broken line in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the inner door 21 is formed with a long hole 21 a on both side portions that are folded and erected. In addition, the outer door 20 is provided with a pin 20 a to be inserted into the long hole 21 a for each long hole 21 a of the inner door 21.

  As described above, the inner door 21 and the outer door 20 are different in the position and inclination of the rotation axis. Therefore, the relative positional relationship between the outer door 20 and the inner door 21 changes when opening and closing. Specifically, the relative positional relationship between the outer door 20 and the inner door 21 changes in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction with respect to the rotation axis of the outer door 20.

  As described above, the pin 20a is inserted into the elongated hole 21a of the inner door 21 and connected. Therefore, when the connected outer door 20 and the inner door 21 are opened and closed, the pin 20a follows the elongated hole 21a provided in the inner door 21 in accordance with a change in the relative positional relationship between the outer door 20 and the inner door 21. And slide. Further, the collar 25 is fitted to the pin 20a, and the collar 25 is rotated so that the inner door 21 slides smoothly with respect to the outer door 20. In order to prevent the collar 25 from falling off, an E-ring 26 is attached to the tip of the pin 20a.

  Further, the length of the pin 20 a is longer than the amount of change in which the inner door 21 changes in the horizontal direction with respect to the rotation axis of the outer door 20. Therefore, the pin 20a does not come out of the long hole 21a when opening and closing.

  Furthermore, since the inner door 21 changes in relative position with respect to the outer door 20 on both sides at the time of opening and closing, the shapes of the long holes 21a on both sides are different.

  Moreover, since the notch is provided at the tip of the long hole 21 a of the inner door 21, the pin 20 a of the outer door 20 can be easily pulled out from the long hole 21 a of the inner door 21 using this notch. . Therefore, workability for assembly and maintenance can be sufficiently secured.

  Moreover, since this ticket issuing apparatus 1 can also open the inner door 21 by opening the outer door 20, the workability | operativity concerning replacement | exchange and replenishment of the roll paper 10a is not reduced.

  Here, the inner door 21 is configured to be coupled to the outer door 20 at both side portions, but may be configured to be coupled to the outer door 20 only at one side portion.

  Further, the roll paper storage unit 10 is not limited to two, and may be two or more. As described above, the inner door 21 is provided for each roll paper storage unit 10.

  The invention of the present application is applicable not only to a device that issues a ticket, but also to a device that issues a receipt or the like using roll paper.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Ticket issuing apparatus 10 ... Roll paper storage part 10a ... Roll paper 20 ... Outer door 20a ... Pin 21 ... Each inner door 21 ... Inner door 21a ... Long hole 25 ... Color 26 ... Ring

Claims (4)

In the ticket issuing device for issuing a ticket using roll paper stored in any of a plurality of roll paper storage units arranged in a row,
In the plurality of roll paper storage units, there is one in which the storage direction of the roll paper is not parallel,
A plurality of inner doors provided for each roll paper storage unit;
A plurality of outer doors located outside the inner doors, and having an outer door with a size covering these inner doors,
The inner door has a lower end attached to the rotation shaft, and rotates in the roll paper storage direction in the corresponding roll paper storage unit,
The outer door has a lower end attached to the rotating shaft,
Furthermore, the said inner door is the ticket issuing apparatus connected with the said outer door.   The ticket issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the rotation axis of the outer door is an axis parallel to the width direction of the apparatus main body.   The ticket issuing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the inner door is erected by folding both side portions toward the roll paper storage unit.   The ticket issuing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the inner door has a long hole into which a connecting pin fixed to the outer door is inserted.

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