JPH0240770A - Automatic charge paying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To raise the processing speed by printing a paid date stamp on a part of a receipt of a payment form which has been inserted, and sealing a paid stamp thereon. CONSTITUTION:A bill which has been inserted from an insertion port 2 is carried on a carrying path 10 and an OCR head 12 reads the mentioned contents of the bill and checks them. When its contents are normal, a stamp unit 11 affixes a tax office approval stamp in a receipt part, in case its check is normal, and also a necessary charge has been thrown in. Subsequently, a paid day and a received date are printed by a printer unit 13, and each paid and received stamp is affixed by a stamp unit 14. Next, a cutter 9 cuts the bill to three pieces, only the receipt part is sent back, and other two pieces of bill parts are distributed and received in receiving boxes 17, 18 through branch carrying paths 15, 16.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (a) Industrial application field This invention is applicable to public funds such as taxes, pensions, fixed asset taxes, etc., or utility charges such as utility charges and telephone charges, where payment information for these is recorded. Regarding Nameno's new automatic toll payment machine that automatically makes payments using a payment form, in more detail, the receipt section of the payment form used for automatic payment must be stamped with a receipt stamp or tax office approval stamp, and the date of receipt must be stamped. This invention relates to an automatic toll payment machine that has a function of printing a tag.

(b) Conventional technology Currently, personal utility bills are automatically deducted each month at banks and other financial institutions by following the prescribed procedures, and a receipt notification is sent by mail. There is no longer a need to go to a financial institution and complete payment procedures. However, in large customers such as companies and factories, bills for water, electricity, telephone, etc. are often made by department, and in this case, the accounting department who oversees all departments is responsible for contacting financial institutions. Individuals must also complete payment procedures at a financial institution for public funds such as taxes and pensions.

By the way, the payment procedure at the above-mentioned financial institutions is not automated, and the payer has to submit the payment form to the clerk at the counter and wait for the clerk to process it, which is time-consuming and complicated. It is. Therefore, like the automatic transfer machines currently in use, if you insert the payment form and payment fee into the machine, the machine will automatically check the payment information, and if it is complete, the payment form and the payment amount will be sent to the machine. An automatic toll payment machine is being devised and proposed in which the receipt is separated from the payment form and returned with a receipt stamp, receipt date, and tax office approval stamp printed on it.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention However, in the above-mentioned automatic toll payment machine, the payer (
It is desirable to affix a receipt stamp and a tax office approved stamp to the receipt returned to the customer (customer) to prevent forgery and to ensure authenticity.

Therefore, the receipt date written on the received egg is also stamped, so in order to update this receipt date on a daily basis, the staff member replaces the date part of the stamp before operating the automatic toll payment machine every day. must be carried out,
This will increase the burden on financial institutions.

The object of the present invention is to provide an automatic toll payment machine that can eliminate such problems.

(d) Means for solving the problem The present invention provides a means for solving the problem.
It includes a first stamp unit that stamps a receipt stamp on the paper, and a second stamp unit that stamps a tax office approved stamp on the paper, and prior to the operation of stamping the receipt stamp by the first stamp unit, The automatic toll payment machine is characterized by being separately equipped with a printer unit that prints the date of receipt at the position where the received stamp is affixed.

(E) Function According to this invention, the receipt date is first printed on the receipt portion of the inserted payment form by the printer unit, and then a receipt stamp is stamped on it by the first stamp unit. .

(F) Effects of the Invention Therefore, since the receipt date is printed separately from the stamp unit, there is no need to replace the receipt date on the stamp unit every day, which reduces the burden on the financial institution. Moreover, since the receipt seal and the tax office approval seal themselves are stamped, they have the advantage of being evidence-based and useful for preventing forgery.

In addition to the receipt stamp, if it is necessary to stamp the payment form with the toll receipt □ payment stamp, the storage date should also be printed in the storage stamp position in advance when printing receipt date number 1 by the printer unit mentioned above. By doing so, processing speed can be increased.

Furthermore, since a printer unit is used, messages such as serial numbers and text can be printed, thereby expanding the operational functions of the automatic toll payment machine.

(g) Examples An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows an external view of an automatic toll payment machine, with a CRT l on the front panel that guides customers (payers) to operate the machine.
A bill insertion slot 2, a banknote inlet 3 and a coin outlet 4 for inserting payment charges, and a handling indicator 5 are provided. 6 is a call button for the customer to call the staff, 7 is the staff/manager's key, and 8 is a customer approach detection sensor.

The bill A used in this automatic toll payment machine is as shown in Fig. 3 as an example, so it is a payment in which both the bill parts al, a2 and the receipt part a3 of the income amount receipt and the payment notice are integrated. As will be described later, the invoice is stamped with stored marks bl and bl on both invoice parts at and a2,
Receipt part a3 with receipt stamp b2 and tax office approved stamp b
3 is stamped, the receipt is cut into three pieces by a cutter, and only the receipt part a3 is returned to the customer, while the other two pieces are stored separately in the device. This bill A is mailed to users of public facilities (telegraph and telephone facilities in the case of Figure 3) from the relevant public facilities company, and contains various payment information such as the billed amount required for payment. has been done.

Figure 2 shows a schematic internal configuration of the automatic toll payment machine, and the bill conveyance path 10 by upper and lower belt conveyors 10a and 10b is approximately from the bill insertion slot 2 at the left end of the drawing to the cutter 9 installed inside the device. It is configured in a straight line.

From the bill insertion slot 2 to the cutter 9, this bill conveyance path 10 includes a tax office approved stamp unit 11, an OCR head 12, a printer unit 13,
Each element is arranged in the order of the receipt and stored stamp unit 14.

The OCR head 12 optically recognizes the characters on the bill A. The inserted bill A first advances to the OCR head 12, and the head reads and checks the contents of the bill.

The tax office approved stamp unit 11 is for invoice A.
If the written contents are correct according to the above check and the required fee has been paid, a tax office approved stamp b3 is stamped on the receipt part a3 as shown in Fig. 3.

After the stamp is affixed, the bill A is conveyed to the right in the drawing toward the receipt and storage stamp unit 14, but passes through the printer unit 13 on the way. This printer unit 13 prints the receipt date C2 and storage date CI shown in FIG. It is applied by selecting a location that fits inside the area.

The receipt and storage stamp unit 14 has the receipt date C2 and storage date C1 printed in advance,
A received mark b2 and a stored mark b1 are stamped around these.

The cutter 9 then cuts the bill A into three pieces, and after cutting, only the receipt part a3 is sent back and returned to the customer. The other two bill parts a1. A2 is sorted and stored in separate storage boxes 17.18 via a branch conveyance path 15.16 downstream of the cutter. This distribution is for storage, so branch conveyance path 1
A flapper 19 that switches between 5.16 and 16 is equipped.

Further, since the customer may forget to take the receipt part a3 sent back to the bill insertion slot 2, in that case, the customer takes in the receipt part a3 again and stores it in the collection box 20. flapper 2
1 is for switching the conveyance route for storing the receipt portion a3 in the collection box 20.

As described above, the stamp unit 14 prints the receipt mark b2 and the storage mark b1, but the receipt date C2 and the storage date C1, which should normally be printed by the stamp unit 14, are printed in a printer separate from the stamp unit 14. 13, the automatic toll payment machine can be operated by simply updating the date on the printer unit 13, and there is no need to replace the date on the stamp unit every day to update this date. .

Also, since the receipt date C2 and the storage date C1 are printed all at once, the received mark b is placed above the receipt date C2.
After stamping the bill A, there is no need to once return the bill A to the printer unit 13 to print the receipt date CI, so the processing speed is improved accordingly.

In the correspondence between the configuration of this invention and the above-described embodiments, the payment form of this invention corresponds to bill A of the embodiment, and similarly, the payment form conveyance path corresponds to the conveyance path 10 and the The first stamp unit corresponds to the stamp unit 14 for receipt and received stamps, the second stamp unit corresponds to the tax office approved stamp unit 11, the printer unit corresponds to printer unit 13, The stored stamp and the tax office approved stamp correspond to the received stamp b2, the stored stamp b1, and the tax office approved stamp b3, respectively, and the receipt date and storage date are the receipt date C2 and the tax office approved stamp, respectively.
Although this corresponds to the storage date C1, the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

Furthermore, it goes without saying that the structure of bill A is not limited to the example shown in FIG.

Furthermore, even if the payment fee is paid in cash, the payment fee will be charged to Bill A.
The withdrawal may be made using the customer's financial institution account number listed in .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; Figure 1 is an external view of an automatic toll payment machine, Figure 2 is a schematic internal configuration diagram of the automatic toll payment machine, and Figure 3 is a surface diagram showing an example of a bill. be. 10... Conveyance route 11... Tax office approved stamp unit 13.
...Printer unit 14...Stamp unit A for receipt and stored stamps...Bill bl...Stored stamp b2
...Received stamp b3...Tax office approved stamp C1...Receipt date C2...Receipt date is the first
Diagram showing the appearance of the automatic toll payment screen

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In an automatic toll payment machine that handles payment forms with payment information such as utility charges written on them, a first stamp that affixes a receipt stamp to the paper during the payment form conveyance path inside the payment machine. unit, and a second stamp unit that also stamps a tax office approval stamp on the paper, and prints a receipt date at the position of the received stamp before the first stamp unit stamps the receipt stamp. An automatic toll payment machine equipped with a separate printer unit.