JPH035965Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed explanation of the idea] "Industrial application field" The present invention relates to a coin sorting device.

"Prior Art" Generally, a coin sorting device is provided with a so-called intermediate pool to avoid mixing coins that have already been sorted and are stored by denomination with coins that are currently being sorted.

That is, the intermediate pool is provided below a sorting passage through which coins are passed and dropped downward according to denomination, and the coins are temporarily stored therein, and the coins temporarily stored in this intermediate pool are stored after the sorting is completed. ,
Depending on the operator's judgment, the coins are either sent to a coin storage box and stored there, or sent to a resiject box, where they are sorted again.

As a mechanism of the intermediate pool portion that performs such a function, there is, for example, an "article discharging device" described in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 133868/1983.

This article discharging device rotates a box-shaped rotor with an opening on one side, so that the opening faces upward to receive the article, and the opening faces at least diagonally downward to receive the article in a desired direction. By positioning the contents to be released and by using the bottom plate provided on the opposite side of the opening (rotated 180 degrees in the circumferential direction) as a slope, the content can be released continuously without temporary storage. The position is changed to a position that guides the discharge of the article in the direction.

``Problems to be solved by the invention'' However, when the above-mentioned article discharging device is applied to a temporary storage section in a coin sorting device, etc., due to the fact that the part corresponding to the bottom plate is used as a slope, the following problems occur. I had a problem like this.

B. When changing the attitude from the accepting attitude to the continuous guiding attitude, it is necessary to rotate the rotor nearly 180 degrees, making it difficult to change the attitude quickly. Furthermore, considering the case where a large amount of coins are stored in the temporary storage section, such as in a coin processing machine, an unnecessarily large motor is required to rotate the machine at high speed and change its posture.

(b) When the bottom plate is used as a slope, the opening inevitably faces downward, and therefore coins cannot be temporarily stored.

In other words, in a coin sorting machine, there are rare cases where coins exceeding the capacity of the temporary storage section are thrown into the device. For example, it may be necessary to guide the material to a redirect box. In such a case, the article discharging device inevitably sends the coins in the temporary storage section to the storage section,
It is unable to fulfill the original function of a temporary storage section, which is to "distinguish coins being sorted from coins that have been sorted."

This idea was proposed in view of the above circumstances.
The purpose of this device is to allow quick attitude changes and to guide coins in the required direction while temporarily storing them.

"Means for solving the problem" In order to achieve the above object, the present invention moves coins in a sorting passage and drops them downward according to denomination, and sends the fallen coins to a coin storage box or a redirect box. In such a coin sorting device, between a denomination-specific chute that guides coins falling from a sorting passage downward, and a coin storage box and a redirect box that are arranged horizontally below the denomination-specific chute, An intermediate pool is provided with a storage section for temporarily storing coins that have fallen from the coin sorting passage, and the intermediate pool is surrounded by a bottom plate and a pair of side plates provided on both sides of the bottom plate. It has a housing space and is rotatably supported around an axis that is substantially parallel to the bottom plate and the side plates, and a positioning plate that rotates together with the axis is provided on the axis, and a positioning plate is provided near the positioning plate. A lock lever is provided that restricts rotation by engaging and disengaging from the notch in the plate.
The notch can be placed in a temporary storage position in which the opening faces the denomination chute and faces upward, in a receiving position in which the opening faces diagonally downward in a direction facing the coin storage box, and in a receiving position in which the opening faces diagonally towards the rigid box. In order to fix the temporary storage section in a downwardly directed position and an inclined position in which the end of the side plate closer to the opening is located below the denomination chute, spacers are spaced from each other along the outer periphery of the positioning plate. There is a configuration in which each of these is provided separately.

"Operation" With the above configuration, it is possible to quickly change the temporary storage posture to the other three postures by rotation, and it is also possible to guide the coins in a predetermined direction while keeping them stored.

"Embodiments" Examples of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

1 to 10 show an embodiment of the present invention.

The outline of the structure of the coin sorting device will be explained according to FIGS. 1 and 2. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a hopper, and coins C
(It is assumed that this coin is a mixture of different denominations) falls onto the rotating disk 2 and is sent out in the tangential direction by the centrifugal force of the rotating disk 2,
While moving within the sorting passageway 3, the denominations with smaller diameters are sequentially dropped downward, passing through denomination-specific chutes 4A to 4F to the denomination-specific storage sections 6A to 6F of the intermediate pool 5.
Coin storage boxes 7A~
It is designed to be stored on the 7th floor or in the redirect box 8 (see Figure 7).

As shown in FIG. 6, the sorting passage 3 is arranged so that coins are sorted in descending order of diameter (for example, 1 yen) by moving the coins with their edges supported by a pair of mutually parallel rules 9A and 9B. , 50 yen, 5 yen, 100
yen, 10 yen, and 500 yen) through the gap between the rails 9A and 9B to denomination-specific chutes 4A to 4F, and then to these denomination-specific chutes 4A to 4F.
Denomination-specific storage units 6A to 6F of the intermediate pool 5 via
I am trying to send them to each of them.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 7, the intermediate pool 5 has partition plates 10 and 10 provided parallel to each other.
The side plates 11A, 11B and the bottom plate 1 are installed between...
2 and the denomination specific storage section 6A between them.
~6F, which is rotated around the shaft 14 (see FIG. 6) by the rotation mechanism 13 provided on the right side in FIG. The provided positioning mechanism 15 allows the opening 16 to be opened as shown in FIGS. 7 to 10.
It is designed to be positioned in the circumferential direction in various postures facing in various directions.

The rotation mechanism 13 is composed of a drive motor 17 and gears 18 to 20 that transmit the rotation of the drive motor 17 to the shaft of the intermediate pool 5, as shown in FIG.

Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the positioning mechanism 15 has a notch 21a provided in a positioning plate 21 that rotates around a shaft 14 together with the intermediate pool 5.
-21d is engaged with the lock lever 22 to hold the intermediate pool 5 in a predetermined position. The lock lever 22 is rotatably supported around a shaft 23 and biased clockwise in FIG. 5 by a tension spring 24. Further, at the tip of the lock lever 22, the notches 21a to 2 are formed.
An engaging portion 25 is formed to be engaged with the solenoid 2 d, while a base end portion of the lock lever 22 is engaged with the solenoid 2 .
6. Also, Fig. 5 marks 27a to 2
Reference numeral 7d denotes a transmitting section of a position detection sensor, and these transmitting sections 27a to 27d operate the receiving section 28 to detect the position (orientation) of the intermediate pool 5.

In addition, the symbols 29A and 29B in FIGS. 5 and 6 are overflow detection sensors, and these sensors 29A,
29B is a storage section 6 for each denomination depending on whether the light beam can pass from one end side of the intermediate pool 5 to the other end side.
It is detected that any one of A to 6F is full.

The coin sorting machine configured as above is ()
Used in either acceptance mode or () screening mode. The operation of the coin sorting machine will be explained below for each mode.

() Acceptance mode The lock lever 2 is inserted into the notch 21a of the positioning plate 21.
When the engaging portions 25 of 2 are engaged, the intermediate pool 5
However, as shown in FIG. 7, it stops in a temporary storage position with the opening 16 facing upward. At this time, when coins C are put into the hopper 1 and the rotating disk 2 is rotated, the coins C are counted, sorted by denomination in the sorting passage 3, and fall downward into the intermediate pool 5.
The denominations are sent to the denomination-specific storage sections 6A to 6F. Next, while the coins C are temporarily stored in the intermediate pool 5, the operator compares the counting results with standard data (for example, total sales amount, etc.), and if it is determined that the coins C can be sold, as shown in FIG. The intermediate pool 5 is rotated so that the opening 16 faces diagonally downward, and the coins are placed in the coin storage boxes 7A to 7.
On the other hand, if it is determined that it is not acceptable (for example, if it is determined that re-counting is necessary, or if the intermediate pool 5 is full), the intermediate pool 5 is sent to F as shown in Figure 9. The pool 5 is rotated to take the reject position, and coins are fed into the reject box 8.

() Sorting mode If it is acceptable for the coins currently being counted to be mixed with coins already stored in the coin storage box, the coins are guided to the side plate 11A in an inclined position as shown in Fig. 10. The coins dropped from the sorting passage 3 are then sent directly to the coin storage boxes 7A to 7F.

That is, when the opening 16 is directed upward as shown in FIG. 7, the notch 21a and the engaging portion 25
and the transmitting section 27a engages with the receiving section 2.
8, it is detected that the opening 16 is facing upward. From this state, for example, when feeding coins into the coin storage boxes 7A to 7F as shown in FIG. 8, first,
The lock lever 22 is operated by the solenoid 26 to remove the engaging portion 25 from the notch 21a, and then the intermediate pool 5 is moved to the fifth position by the drive motor 17.
The driving motor 1 is rotated counterclockwise in the figure, and the transmitter 27b activates the receiver 28.
7, the solenoid 26 is deenergized, the lock lever 22 is rotated by the biasing force of the tension spring 24, and the engaging portion 25 is engaged with the notch 21b, thereby forming the intermediate pool 5 as shown in FIG. It is stopped by the posture. Note that in the case of the attitude shown in FIG. 9, the transmitting section 27C is
8 is activated, the engaging portion 25 engages with the notch 21C, thereby positioning is performed.Furthermore, when the tilted posture shown in FIG. Positioning is performed by engaging the engaging portion 25 with the notch 21d on the condition that it is activated.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, operation is possible in two modes: () acceptance mode and () sorting mode. 1
As shown in the other embodiments of Figure 1, the denomination-specific shoot 4
It is also possible to use the mode (hereinafter referred to as counting mode) in which the liquid is sent directly from A to 4F to the reject box 8. In this case, the intermediate pool 5 is the first
By providing the positioning plate with a transmitting part that activates the receiving part 28 when the position is tilted as shown in FIG. can be done.

"Effects of the Invention" As is clear from the above explanation, the present invention has the following effects.

a) By having the intermediate pool have both the coin storage function and the coin sorting function, it is possible to effectively utilize the space inside the coin sorting machine.

b By tilting the side plate of the intermediate pool, coins can be guided from the denomination chute to the redirect box or coin storage box, so coins can be changed from the temporary storage position to the position by simply turning a small angle. can be changed,
Therefore, posture changes can be made more quickly. Also,
Since the energy required to rotate the intermediate pool is reduced, a predetermined function can be achieved even if a drive source (motor) with a small capacity is used, and the entire coin sorting machine can be downsized.

c Since the coins are guided using the side plate of the temporary pool part, the coins are placed in a position with the opening facing upward, that is, with a certain amount of coins temporarily stored, subsequent coins are placed in the storage box or in the rigid storage box. Since it can be guided to the ECT box, the device can be operated flexibly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 10 show an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a schematic configuration of an effect sorting device, FIG. 2 is a view taken along the - line in FIG. Figure 3 is a perspective view of the intermediate pool, Figure 4 is a front view of the coin sorting device seen from the same direction as Figure 2,
Fig. 5 is an enlarged view taken along the - line in Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is an enlarged view taken along the - line in Fig. 4, and Fig. 7 is an enlarged view taken along the - line in Fig. 4.
10 through 10 are explanatory diagrams of the operation of the intermediate pool, and FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the intermediate pool in another embodiment of the present invention. 3... Sorting passageway, 5... Intermediate pool, 6A~6
F...Reservoir by denomination, 7A-7F...Coin storage box, 8...Redirect box, 10...Partition plate, 11A, 11B...Side plate, 13...Rotating mechanism, 14...Shaft, 15 ...Positioning mechanism, 16...
...Opening, 21...Positioning plate, 21a to 21d
... Notch, 22 ... Lock lever, 27a-2
7d... transmitting section, 28... receiving section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] In a coin sorting device that moves coins in a sorting passage and drops them downward according to denomination, and sends the fallen coins to a coin storage box or redirect box, a coin that guides the coins that have fallen from the sorting passage downward. An intermediate pool having a storage portion for temporarily storing coins dropped from the coin sorting passage is provided between the type chute and the coin storage boxes and redirect boxes arranged horizontally below the denomination type chute. The intermediate pool has a coin storage space surrounded by a bottom plate and a pair of side plates provided on both sides of the bottom plate, and is rotatable about an axis substantially parallel to the bottom plate and the side plates. The shaft is supported by a positioning plate that rotates integrally with the shaft, and a lock lever is provided near the positioning plate to restrict rotation by engaging and disengaging from a notch in the positioning plate. , the notch has a temporary storage position in which the opening faces the denomination chute and faces upward, a receiving position in which the opening faces diagonally downward and faces the coin storage box, and a receiving position in which the opening faces the redirect box. In order to fix the temporary storage part in a rigid position facing diagonally downward, and in an inclined position in which the end of the outer surface of the side plate near the opening is located below the denomination chute, the outer circumference of the positioning plate is fixed. A coin sorting device characterized in that the coin sorting devices are provided at intervals along the same line.