JPH0431658Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (Field of industrial application) The present invention relates to a safe for use in vending machines, etc., and particularly to a cassette-type safe that has an automatic locking function and compresses and stores banknotes. be.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, various types of banknote safes have been proposed for use in automatic vending machines, etc., and the applicant also proposed a banknote separate storage safe in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 18768/1983. ing. This known banknote separation and storage safe is configured to separate two types of banknotes and compress and store them in the respective safes. FIGS. 4A and 4B are a cross-sectional view and a side view of such a conventional compression-retractable safe. The authenticity and type of the inserted banknotes are identified by a recognition machine (not shown).
The banknotes are carried into the banknote separation space 211. Upper safes 21 are placed above and below this banknote separation space 211.
2 and a lower safe 213 are arranged, and the banknote separation space and these safes are separated by partition plates 203a, 203b and 204a attached to the left and right walls.
204b, and a bill insertion slot narrower than the width of the bill is formed in the center.

A bill separator 215 is arranged near the bill separating space 211 so as to be movable up and down. When incoming banknotes are stored in the upper safe 212, the banknote separator is driven up and down by a drive device so that it is at the bottom of the banknote separation space, and when the banknotes are stored in the lower safe 213, it is at the top. It is configured to For example, if the bills carried in are to be stored in the upper safe 212, the bill separator 215 is waiting below the bill separation space 211, and after the bills are carried in, the bill separator 215 is driven upward. As a result, the banknotes also move upwards.
When the banknote separator 215 passes the partition plates 203a and 203b, the side edges of the banknotes come into contact with the partition plates, are curved, and pass over the partition plates. In this way, banknotes are stored in the upper safe 212. After that, the banknote separator 215 descends and escapes from the upper safe, but the banknotes are removed from the partition plate 203a,
203b in the upper safe. In this way, banknotes carried into the banknote separation space 211 can be stored separately in the upper and lower safes. An upper pressing plate 205 is arranged inside the upper safe 212 to compress the banknotes stored in the upper safe by its own weight. Lower safe 2
A lower pressing plate 206 is disposed on the lower part of the safe and is urged upward by springs 207a and 207b to compress the banknotes stored in the lower safe. In order to easily take out banknotes stored in the upper and lower safes 212 and 213, a front door 208 is removably provided, and the banknotes are taken out in a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction.

In such a banknote separation and storage safe, the banknotes can be compressed and stored within the safe, so there is an advantage that a large number of banknotes can be stored relative to the size of the safe.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) In the above-mentioned known banknote separation and storage safe,
Since banknotes are compressed and stored, if this is applied to a cassette-type safe, there is a possibility that the cassette-type safe can be made smaller. However, in order to compress and store bills, it is necessary to provide a bill insertion slot at the bottom of the safe and push the bills into the safe through this insertion slot, but the conventional compression storage safe described above is a fixed type. Since it is a paper money machine, it is not configured to close this bill insertion slot. In addition, in order to take out stored banknotes to the outside, a banknote ejection port is provided separately from the insertion port, but it is not impossible to take out banknotes through this insertion port, so when using a cassette-type safe, In order to prevent fraud, the cassette-type safe not only has a mechanism that locks the lid that covers the opening through which banknotes are taken out of the safe, but also a mechanism that closes and locks the opening through which banknotes are inserted into the safe before taking them out of the main body of the cassette-type safe. A mechanism to do so is also required. Furthermore, when a cassette-type safe is removed from the main body like a normal cassette-type safe, a mechanism is also required to close and lock the lid and release the mechanism that locks the cassette-type safe from being attached to the main body. The disadvantage is that it is quite complicated.

The purpose of the present invention is to convert the above-mentioned compressible retractable safe into a cassette-type safe, and furthermore, to incorporate a mechanism for locking the lid covering the bill insertion slot, a mechanism for locking the lid covering the bill extraction slot, and a cassette-type safe into the main body. To provide a cassette-type banknote safe having an automatic locking function and having a relatively simple mechanism for locking the banknotes and releasing the lock when the cassette-type safe is taken out from the main body.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The cassette-type safe having an automatic locking function of the present invention has a locking function in a safe part that can be removably inserted in a position adjacent to a bill insertion part provided in the outer case of the main body. A banknote ejection port that can be closed by a door that can be closed, and a banknote insertion port whose width is somewhat narrower than the width of the banknotes to be stored are provided, and the inside of the safe part is configured to press the inserted banknotes toward the banknote insertion port. a press plate is displaceably provided, and the insertion section includes an insertion plate for pushing the bill into the safe section through the insertion opening against the force of the press plate;
a compression storage mechanism that drives the insertion plate, the bill insertion slot of the safe section is configured to be selectively closed by a lid, and the safe section with the bill insertion slot closed with the lid is attached to the outer case. A mechanism is provided between the outer case of the main body and the safe, which is automatically locked when the safe with the bill insertion slot open is inserted, and the bill insertion slot is blocked by the lid. A first locking mechanism is provided between the safe section and the lid, which automatically locks the lid when the bill insertion slot is closed by the lid, and locks the lid automatically when the bill insertion slot is closed by the lid. This device is characterized by being provided with a second lock mechanism that can be released only when the door provided at the outlet is opened.

(Function) In the above-mentioned cassette-type safe having an automatic locking function of the present invention, the safe is locked by attaching the safe to the outer case of the main body without covering the bill insertion slot with a lid. a first locking mechanism that is released when the bill insertion slot is closed by the lid; and a first lock mechanism that locks the lid when the bill insertion slot is closed by the lid, and is released only when the bill extraction slot door is opened. Second
Since only the locking mechanism is provided, the configuration can be simplified. That is, since no special member is required to unlock the lid covering the banknote insertion slot, the structure can be simplified accordingly.

Moreover, since the banknotes are compressed and stored, a large number of banknotes can be stored even if the safe section is small, making it highly convenient to use. Furthermore, when attaching the cassette-type safe to the main body's outer case, the safe will not be locked to the main body's outer case unless the lid covering the bill insertion slot is removed, which may lead to malfunction or breakdown. There isn't. Furthermore, since the safe can only be removed from the outer case of the main body after the bill insertion slot is covered and locked with a lid, there is no possibility of fraud.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 1A is a side view showing the safe installed in the insertion part, Figure 1B is a front view, Figure 1C is a side view showing the main parts, and Figure 1D is a sectional view showing the main parts. and
FIG. 1E is a side view showing a state in which the safe section is taken out from the insertion section.

1 is a safe part, 2 is an insertion part, 3 is a banknote conveyance port,
A banknote validator (not shown) is attached to this part, and the banknotes whose authenticity has been identified are conveyed by a conveyor. Reference numerals 4a and 4b are U-shaped partition plates, which are attached to the left and right side plates 15a and 15b constituting the outer case so as to hang backward, and together with the vertically movable insertion plate 5, form a banknote loading space 6. The distance between the left and right side plates 15a and 15b is set to be slightly wider than the width of the banknote, and the distance between the upper and lower open ends of the left and right partition plates 4a and 4b is set to be slightly narrower than the width of the banknote.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a drive unit for the insertion plate 5, which drives a pulley 8 using a small motor (not shown), and drives a pulley 10 via a timing belt 9. Pulley 10
A cam plate 11 is coupled to the cam plate 1.
Since the roller 12 attached to the insertion plate 1 is loosely fitted into the channel 13 attached to the insertion plate mounting member 14, the rotation of the cam plate 11 moves the insertion plate 5 up and down. When in the standby state, the insertion plate 5 is on the same plane as the lower part of the partition plates 4a and 4b.

The inserted banknotes are identified and transported to the banknote carry-in space 6. The motor rotates, and the insertion plate 5 moves upwards to insert the banknotes into the safe section 1 over the tops of the partition plates 4a and 4b. . Since the banknote carry-in space 6 and the safe section 1 are tilted rearward, the transported banknotes are carried backwards by their own weight, and are aligned rearward within the safe section 1 as well.

The safe section 1 is configured into a box shape with left and right side plates 21a, 21b, a top plate 22, and a back plate 23, and has a bill insertion slot formed at the bottom. A front plate 2 that acts as a door that covers the banknote outlet on the front side of the safe section 1
5 is bent on both sides, and a recess 26 is formed at the lower end of this bent portion, and is hooked onto protrusions 27 attached to both side plates of this recess 26. A padlock L (FIG. 1 C) or the like is inserted through a hole made in a horizontally bent part 29 of the upper part of the front plate 25 and a hole made in a member 28 horizontally attached to the side plate 21b. Can be locked.

The lower parts 30 of the side plates 21a, 21b are bent inward, the distance between them is equal to the distance between the partition plates 4a, 4b, and a member 32 made of a material such as synthetic rubber is attached to the upper surface of the lower part 30 to prevent inserted banknotes. This increases the friction between the banknotes and the banknotes to prevent the inserted banknotes from bulging into the insertion slot.

Separately, a member 31 is attached below the lower part 30 of the side plates 21a, 21b to form a space 39a into which a lid 36 covering the bill insertion slot is inserted. Reference numeral 33 denotes a pressing plate, which is made of a thick metal plate, and has a protrusion 34 attached to the lower part of the rear part that slides in a space 35 between the side plate and the back plate and moves up and down.
The inserted banknotes are compressed and stored by their own weight. This pressing plate 33 is held by a helical spring (not shown) so that it does not fall out of the insertion opening of the safe when the safe 1 is installed in the outer case.

The lid 36 covering the banknote insertion slot of the safe section is attached to the safe section 1.
When the is attached to the outer case, there is a handle 3 on the top of the safe.
The member 37 formed with 8 is attached to the upper plate 22 and stored in the space 39b created.

When attaching the safe section to the outer case, attach and lock the front plate 25 of the safe section 1, remove the cover 36 of the insertion port, and insert the safe section into the upper storage space 39b, so that the height to the top of the safe section is reached. The protrusion 43 of the safe part is inserted into the recess 42 formed at the lower part of the bent side surface of the back plate 41 of the outer case, and the protrusion 46 of the safe part is inserted into the recess 45 of the member 44 attached to the bill insertion part. A member 49 is attached to the back plate 23 of the safe, and an L-shaped member 51 with a key-shaped tip is attached to this member 49 so as to be rotatable about the axis S.
A U-shaped leaf spring 50 is inserted between 9 and 51 to rotationally bias the member 51 in the direction of the hour hand.

When the safe part 1 is inserted into a predetermined position of the outer case against the resistance of a leaf spring 48 (described later), the tip of the member 52 attached to the back plate 41 and the L-shaped member 51
The member 51 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction against the force of the leaf spring 50, and the key-shaped portion at the end engages with the member 52 and cannot be removed.
In this way, the leaf spring 50, the L-shaped member 51, and the member 52 constitute a first locking mechanism.

When the safe section 1 is inserted, the microswitch 16 inserted into the drive motor circuit of the insertion plate is pushed by the projection 43 and turned on, making it possible to insert banknotes.

When removing the safe section 1 with banknotes inserted,
When the lid 36 of the insertion port is inserted into the space 39a between the members 30 and 31, the protrusion at the tip of the lid 36 becomes L.
The L-shaped member 51 is brought into contact with the letter-shaped member 51 and rotated in the counterclockwise direction against the resistance of the leaf spring 50, and the engagement between the members 51 and 52 is released, so that the safe part 1 can be removed from the outer case. be able to. At this time, the protrusion 54 attached to the lid 36 of the insertion slot engages with the leaf spring 53 attached to the front plate 25 of the safe, and the lid 36
It won't come off. These leaf springs 53 and projections 54 constitute a second locking mechanism.
This second locking mechanism can be released by removing the front plate 25, so the lid 36
No special release mechanism is required to release the lock, and the configuration can be simplified.

If the insertion port is inserted with the lid 36 closed, the L-shaped member 51 is pushed by the projection at the center of the lid as described above, so the safe 1 will not be locked. In addition, a member 47 attached to the back plate 41 of the outer case
It comes into contact with the leaf spring 48 attached to and is pushed back,
Since the micro switch 16 is not turned on, the insertion operation does not start even if a banknote is inserted. The leaf spring 48 also has the effect of pushing the entire safe 1 forward when the first locking mechanism is released.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention, in which A is a side sectional view, B is a top view of the insertion portion, and C is a front sectional view. 61 is a banknote identification section, 62 is an insertion section, and 63 is a safe section. When the device is in standby mode waiting for banknotes to be inserted,
Insertion arms 65 and 66 that drive the insertion plate 64 are folded together, and the surface of the insertion plate 64 is at the position of the conveyor belt 67. When a bill N is inserted from the bill slot 68 in this state, the authenticity of the bill is identified, and the bill is transferred to the conveyor belt 67 by the conveyor pulley 69.
is driven and guided by guides 112, 113, 114 and rollers 115, 116, and the bill enters the waiting space. The pulley 69 is the identification part 61
gears 71, 72, 7 by a motor (not shown)
3. When a banknote enters the standby position, it is detected by sensors 117 and 118, and small motor 74 is activated to rotate cam disk 77 via bevel gears 75 and 76. When the cam disk 77 rotates, two sets of arms 65 attached on the left and right,
66 is pushed open to move the insertion plate 64 upwardly. The partition plates 79 and 80 of the insertion slot are installed so that the interval between them is slightly narrower than the width of the banknote, so when the insertion plate 64 moves, the banknote is bent and inserted, and is sandwiched between it and the pressing plate 81.
It is compressed by leaf spring 78. When the insertion is completed, the cam disk 77 rotates and the helical springs 65',
66', the insertion plate 64 returns to the standby position,
The small motor 74 is stopped by the cam 119 and the micro switch 120.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of the automatic locking mechanism of this example.

The cover 82 of the insertion port operates like a shutter and is made of a thin plate of elastic metal, such as stainless steel.
A camera 83 at one end and a hook 98 (described later) at the other end.
Attach a member 84 to release the lock. This shutter 82 is a semicircular member 8 whose one end is convex.
5, 86, concave semicircular member 87, member 85,
86 lid 88, members 79, 8 forming the insertion port
0, the safe part outer frame 89 and the insertion slot outer frame 90 move within a space. A long hole 91 is formed in the safe outer frame 89 to open and close the shutter lid 82. FIG. 3 shows the insertion opening in an open state, and when closing the insertion opening, pull the shutter 83 of the shutter lid 82 along the long hole 91 to the other end. When installing the safe section 63 above the insertion section 62, the shutter lid 82 is attached by a method described later.
Unlock the lock, pull the camera 83 to open the insertion slot, and open the safe cover 9, which rotates around the fulcrum 92.
3 to cover the banknote outlet, and a hole 94 provided in the safe cover and a hole 95 provided in the outer frame 89 of the safe.
Lock it with a padlock, etc. Next, the notch 9 of the safe part is inserted into the stopper 96 of the insertion part.
7 and crimp the safe to the insertion part. At this time, the hook 98 rotates about the fulcrum 100 against the elasticity of the spring 99, and when the safe is set in a predetermined position, it returns to its original position, and the hook 98 hooks on the member 90 to attach it. is completed. This is the operation of the first locking mechanism. At this time,
If the shutter is not opened, the shutter lid 82 will hit the member 108 held in the position shown and cannot be installed.

Once installed, the safe cannot be removed in its current state. When the banknote insertion is completed and the safe is to be removed, when the camera 83 is pulled to the other end of the elongated hole 91, the member 84 attached to the tip of the shutter lid moves against the elasticity of the spring 110 and moves to the member 108. The insertion opening is closed by the shutter lid 82. At this time, member 84
When the user presses the hook 98, the lock is released and the safe can be removed. At this time, a hole (not shown) is drilled at the position of the lock rod 102 which is pressed by the lid 82 and the spring 101, so the lock rod passes through this hole and then the member 1
03 and the lid 82 is locked. Second
The lock mechanism operates as described above.

When taking out banknotes from the safe, the banknotes can be easily taken out by unlocking the padlock or the like and opening the safe cover 93. Shutter lid 82
To release the lock, press member 104.
A member 1 that engages with this and rotates about 105 as a fulcrum
06 pushes the lock pin 107 attached to the lock rod 102, the lock rod moves, the lock rod comes out of the hole in the lid and the member, and the lock is released.

In the second embodiment, a flexible thin metal plate was used as the shutter constituting the lid, but it goes without saying that a shutter-type shutter may also be used.

(Effects of the invention) As explained above, according to the safe of the invention,
Since banknotes can be compressed and stored, a large amount of banknotes can be accommodated even if the banknotes are small, and since the banknotes are stored together, they are easy to handle. If such a compression storage safe is made into an auto-locking cassette type, the work of collecting money from automatic vending machines, ticket vending machines, etc. becomes safe and easy, and the results are truly great.

According to the safe of the present invention, when the safe section is removed from the insertion section of the outer case, if the bill insertion slot is covered with the lid, the lock between the safe section and the outer case is released, and at the same time, the lid is locked onto the safe section. Since this lid can only be released by opening the safe cover that covers the banknote outlet of the safe, safety can be ensured and the structure can be simplified.
In addition, by attaching the safe with the lid of the bill insertion slot open to the outer case, the safe will be locked to the outer case.If the safe is attached without opening the cover, it will not be locked, so it will effectively prevent malfunctions. It can be prevented.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the two embodiments described above, it goes without saying that the bill insertion method and the structure of the automatic locking mechanism are not limited to the embodiments described above, but that there are various modifications.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a block diagram of the first embodiment of the safe of the present invention, in which the lid of the safe's insertion slot is made of a non-flexible metal plate, and Figure 2 is a diagram of the first embodiment of the safe, in which the lid of the safe is made of a thin, flexible metal plate. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the auto-lock mechanism of the second embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the construction of a conventional banknote separation and storage safe. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Safe section, 2... Insertion part, 3... Bill entry port, 4a, 4b... Partition plate, 5... Insertion plate, 6...
...Banknote carry-in space, 7...Insertion plate drive unit, 8,
10... Pulley, 9... Timing belt, 11
...Cam plate, 12...Roller, 13...Channel, 14...Insertion plate mounting plate, 15a, 15b...
Insertion part side plate, 16...Micro switch, 21
a, 21b...Safe side plate, 22...Top plate, 23
... Rear plate, 25 ... Front plate, 26 ... Recess, 2
7... Protrusion of the side plate, 28... Hole drilled in the front plate, 29... Hole drilled in the side plate, 30... Bent part at the bottom of the side plate, 31... Member forming the bottom of the safe,
32... Member made of synthetic rubber etc., 33... Pressing plate, 34... Protrusion attached to the pressing plate, 35...
Space between the side plate and the back plate, 36... Cover of the insertion port, 37... Member attached with a handle forming a storage space for the cover of the insertion port, 38... Handle, 39
a, 39b...Space for storing the cover of the insertion port,
41... Back plate of the mounting part, 42... Projection on the side surface of the fitting plate of the mounting part, 43... Protrusion that engages with the recess, 4
4... Member attached to the insertion section, 45... Recessed portion, 4
6... Protrusion of the safe part that engages with the recess, 47... Member attached to the back plate, 48... Leaf spring, 49...
Components attached to the back plate, 50... Leaf springs, 51...
... L-shaped member, 52 ... Member that presses the member attached to the insertion section, 53 ... Leaf spring, 54 ... Protrusion attached to the lid of the insertion slot, 61 ... Bill identification section, 62
...insertion section, 63 ... safe section, 64 ... insertion plate,
65, 66...Arm, 67...Transport belt, 6
8...Banknote slot, 69,70...Pulley, 7
1, 72, 73...Bevel gear, 74...Small motor, 75, 76...Bevel gear, 77...Cam disc,
78... Leaf spring, 79, 80... Partition plate, 81...
...Press plate, 82...Shutter lid, 83...Photography,
84... Lock release member, 85, 86... Safe frame, 87... Concave semicircular member forming shutter space, 88... Safe lid, 89... Safe part outer frame, 90... Insertion. Outer frame, 91... Hole for pulling the shutter made in the outer frame of the safe, 92... Fulcrum, 93
...Safe cover, 94...Lock hole drilled in the safe section cover, 95...Lock hole drilled in the side plate,
96... Stopper, 97... Recess that engages with the stopper, 98... Hook, 99... Spring, 1
00...Fully point, 101...Spring, 102...
...Lock rod, 103...Lock fitting, 104...
... Lock release metal fitting, 105 ... Fulcrum, 106 ...
Lock release metal fitting, 107...Lock pin, 108
... Shutter detection fitting, 109 ... Fulcrum, 110
... Spring, 111 ... Stopper, 112,
113,114...Guide, 115,116...
Guide roller, 117, 118...sensor.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] 1. A safe that can be removably placed in a position adjacent to the bill insertion section provided in the outer case, has a bill ejection port that is closed by a lockable door, and a bill that should be stored. A banknote insertion slot having a width somewhat narrower than the width of the banknotes is provided, and a press plate for pressing the inserted banknotes toward the banknote insertion slot is displaceably provided inside the safe, and the insertion part includes: An insertion plate for pushing banknotes through the insertion slot against the force of a safe closing valve pressing plate and a compression storage mechanism for driving this insertion plate are provided, and the banknote insertion slot of the safe can be selectively opened by a lid. A mechanism is provided to prevent the safe from being attached to the outer case, and the banknote insertion slot is provided between the outer case and the safe. A first locking mechanism is provided that is automatically locked when the open safe is inserted and automatically released when the bill insertion slot is closed by the lid, and a first lock mechanism is provided between the safe and the lid. , automatically locks the lid when the bill insertion slot is blocked by the lid,
A cassette-type safe having an automatic locking function, characterized in that a second locking mechanism is provided that can be released only when the door provided at the banknote outlet is opened. 2. A cassette-type safe having an automatic locking function, wherein the cover of the bill insertion slot is made of a non-flexible plate, as claimed in Claim 1 of Utility Model Registration. 3. The cassette-type safe according to claim 1, wherein the cover of the banknote insertion slot has an automatic locking function and is constituted by a shutter-type plate housed in the safe section. 4 Utility Model Registration Claim 1: The cassette-type safe having an automatic locking function, wherein the cover of the bill insertion slot is constituted by a flexible plate housed in the safe.