JPH06139436A - Paper object conveyer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the meandering movements of the paper objects like the paper memory, etc., and to easily get rid of the jammed paper money, etc., in regard of a paper conveyor. CONSTITUTION:Plural follower endless belts 14 are provided for each medal lending machine and revolve with the touch kept to a main endless belt 13 of a conveyor 1 in the same direction as the belt 13. The conveyor 1 revolves by a driving part 11 over the entire length of a conveyor main body 12. A transmitting part 15 transmits the driving force of the belt 13 to the belts 14, and a paper money receiving part 17 is provided between the belt 13 and an upstream end 16 of the belts 14. In such a constitution, the paper money 18 is held between the belts 13 and 14 and sent to the downstream side.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper-like material conveying conveyor for conveying a paper-like material put in a medal lending machine, which is a plurality of paper-like material receiving machines arranged in a line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A game machine in a game arcade is a paper material receiving machine, for example, a medal lending machine is sandwiched in a sandwich form to form one gaming machine row, and these gaming machines and medal lending machines are arranged. They are placed back to back and are under one management system, commonly known as an "island." Then, these islands are gathered together to form one game hall.

It is known that the coins inserted into these medal lending machines are collected by a carrying device provided at one end of the gaming machine row (Actual No. Sho 52-14637).
(See Japanese Patent Publication). It is known that paper money, which is a paper-like object, cannot be handled like coins due to its characteristics and is stored in a safe provided for each medal lending machine (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 53-3399). . However, in this case, since the banknotes must be collected from the banknote collecting safe for each medal lending machine, the clerk is burdened and the customers are inconvenienced.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 7, each medal lending machine
Banknotes are received from the front side 51 side of the 50, sent out to the back side 52 with the paper surface in the vertical direction, received by the banknote transport conveyor 53, and collected in a banknote collection safe provided at one end of the row 54 of the gaming machine. It is known (see Japanese Patent Publication No. 4-5620). The banknote transporting conveyor 53, which is the sandwiching / conveying device, is configured such that the sandwiching / conveying path has a plurality of conveying units continuously installed along the 54 rows of the gaming machine, and the sandwiching / conveying path of each of those conveying units. Is composed of one endless rotating belt provided at substantially the same height in the vertical direction and a plurality of holding wheels for holding the banknotes in cooperation with the belt. The endless rotating belt is driven to drive the banknotes. While the paper is being sandwiched, a regulating portion is provided along the sandwiching and conveying path of these conveying units to regulate the collapse of the non-sandwiching portion of the bill being conveyed.

[0005]

However, in the above-described conventional banknote transport conveyor 53, since the banknotes are transported in a posture in which the paper surface is along the vertical direction, the endless rotating belt and the meandering of the banknotes due to the deadweight of the banknotes, etc. A problem occurs,
It becomes necessary to provide a regulation unit that regulates the collapse of the non-sandwiched portion of the bill.

[0006] Further, the bill transport conveyor 53 is constructed by connecting a plurality of transport units in series along the row of the gaming machine 54, and a drive motor is provided in each of these transport units, so that the structure is Is complicated, and the banknote is difficult to remove when the banknotes are jammed, as well as the above-mentioned regulation unit.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a conveyer for a paper-like material, which has no meandering or the like of paper-like material such as banknotes, has a simple structure, and can easily remove a jammed paper-like material. The challenge is to provide.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a paper-like material conveying conveyor of the present invention comprises a driving endless belt which is rotated by a driving unit over the entire length of the conveyor body, and is in contact with the driving endless belt. A plurality of driven endless belts that rotate in the same direction and are provided for each of the paper sheet receiving machines, a transmission unit that transmits the driving force of the first driving endless belt to the plurality of driven endless belts, and the first driving unit. And a paper-like material inlet provided respectively between the endless belt and the upstream ends of the plurality of driven endless belts, and the paper-like material is sandwiched between the main drive endless belt and the driven endless belt to the downstream side. It is preferable that the main body of the conveyor is provided with the driven endless belt and the driven endless belt such that the belt surfaces thereof are horizontal and the paper-like material is conveyed horizontally.

[0009]

According to the above structure, when a paper-like material is inserted from the paper-like material receiving port, the leading end of the paper-like material contacts the driving endless belt,
It bends in the running direction of the driving endless belt, and the leading end of the paper-like material is sandwiched between the driving endless belt and the upstream end of the driven endless belt 1, and the paper-like material is conveyed to the downstream side as it is, and successively passes through the driven endless belt. The paper-like material is conveyed to the most downstream end of the driving endless belt, and is moved to the next step.

Since the paper-like material is sandwiched and conveyed by the driving endless belt and the driven endless belt with the surface of the paper-like material horizontal, there is no meandering of the paper-like material due to the self-weight of both endless belts. The jammed paper can be removed by slightly stretching the endless belt.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. 1 is a plan view showing a state where the paper-like material conveying conveyor of the present invention is installed in a gaming machine row, FIG. 2 is a side view showing the gaming machine row, and FIG. 3 is a drive unit side of the paper-like material conveying conveyor of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a side view showing the driven part side of the paper-like material conveyor. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 denotes a paper-like material carrying conveyor, and this paper-like material carrying conveyor 1 is a gaming machine row configured by arranging a plurality of game machines 2 and medal lending machines 3 which are paper-like material receiving machines in parallel. It is installed every four. That is, the paper-like material conveyer 1 is arranged in the upper front part of the gaming machines 2 and the medal lending machine 3.

The gaming machine row 4 has gaming machines 2 at both ends thereof.
Are arranged one by one, the medal lending machines 3 are arranged next to these gaming machines 2, and further, one medal lending machine 3 is arranged for every two gaming machines 2 so that one gaming machine row is formed. This gaming machine row 4 is supported by a main pillar 5 (see FIGS. 5 and 6) that is firmly erected on the floor surface. The gaming machine rows 4 are arranged in two rows with the gaming machines 2 and the medal lending machines 3 back to back to form one management system commonly called "island". This island 6
Are gathered together to form a game hall.

The medal lending machine 3 is a so-called inter-machine medal lending machine, and when a banknote or a coin is inserted, a medal is ejected according to the amount. The customer can play the game by inserting this medal into the game machine 2.

The paper conveyer 1 is provided with a drive unit 11
One continuous endless belt 13 that rotates over the entire length of the conveyor main body 12 and a plurality of driven endless belts that are in contact with the mainless endless belt 13 and rotate in the same direction and that are provided for each medal lending machine 3.
14 and one of the plurality of driven endless belts 14
It is composed of a transmission portion 15 for transmitting the driving force of each of the driving members 13, a paper-like material receiving port 17 provided between each of the one driving endless belt 13 and the upstream ends 16 of the plurality of driven endless belts 14, and horizontally. A bill 18 which is a paper-like object is sandwiched between the installed drive endless belt 13 and driven endless belt 14 and the bill 18 is conveyed horizontally to the downstream side.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the drive endless belt 13 has a belt surface horizontally hung between a drive pulley 21 and a driven pulley 22, and a return roll is provided on the driven pulley 22 side.
23, a tension roll 24 is hung, and the main force endless belt 13 is stretched by the spring force of a spring 25 so as to have a constant tension. A required number of rolls 26, 27 for applying a rotational force to the driven endless belt 14 via the transmission portion 15 are provided in the middle of the main drive endless belt 13. Further, the pulleys provided on the shaft of the drive pulley 21 and the motor 28 of the drive unit 11 described above.
A belt 30 is hung on 29 and a driving endless belt 13 is adapted to rotate.

The driven endless belt 14 has a length corresponding to two game machines 2, and has a head pulley 31 and a tail pulley 32 at the ends thereof, and the belt surface is hung horizontally on them. Then, the plurality of driven endless belts 14
Is the above-mentioned transmission part that is hung on the above-mentioned driving endless belt 13.
Head pulley 31 via drive roll 33 and belt 34 of 15
To rotate.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the bill transporting conveyor 1 configured as described above has a U-shape provided on the upper front portion of the gaming machine 2 and the medal lending machine 3, that is, outside the main pillar 5. It is mounted on the mounting base 41.

Further, the paper-like material conveying conveyor 1 is provided with a paper-like material receiving port 17 for receiving the banknotes 18 above the position where the medal lending machine 3 is installed. The machine 42 is directly connected, and the bill validator 42 is attached to the U-shaped mount 41 described above.

In this paper-like material transfer conveyor 1, a cover 43 is provided on the conveyor main body 12 and a mirror surface 43a is formed on the inside so that it can be opened and closed. Further, the paper-like material conveyer 1 is covered with a curtain plate 44, and the curtain plate 44 is attached to a bracket 45 attached to the main pillar 5 so as to be openable and closable. Therefore, the banknote transport conveyor 1 is
When 18 is clogged, by opening the curtain plate 44 and further opening the cover 43, the inside can be seen well by the mirror surface 43a even at a high position, so that it can be easily dealt with. Further, a stock box 46 for storing medals can be accommodated in the U-shaped mount 41.

1 and 2, 47 indicates a banknote collecting safe for storing the banknotes 18, and 48 in FIG. 5 indicates a banknote slot. Next, the operation of the paper-like material transfer conveyor 1 having the above configuration will be described.

A person who wants to play a game on any of the gaming machines 2 in the gaming machine row 4 on the island 6 must first insert a bill into the medal lending machine 3 to borrow a medal. For example, when a bill 18 is inserted into the bill validator 42 of the medal lending machine 3 from the bill insertion slot 48, the bill 18 passes through the bill validator 42 and a payout signal is transmitted to the medal lender 3 according to the amount. Then, the medals are dispensed from the medal lending machine 3 based on the payout signal.

On the other hand, when the bill 18 passes through the bill validator 42, the bill 18 enters from the bill receiving port 17 of the paper-like material conveying conveyor 1. At this time, since the motor 28 of the driving unit 11 is powered on, the drive pulley 21 rotates via the pulley 29 and the belt 30, and the drive endless belt 13 rotates. Due to the rotation of the driving endless belt 13, this rotational force causes the driven endless belt 14 to rotate via the transmission portion 15. Therefore, the bill 18 that has entered from the bill receiving port 17 contacts the driving endless belt 13, and the bill 18 bends in the rotation direction of the driving endless belt 13 and advances to the upstream end 16 of the driven endless belt 14. , 14 banknote collection safe at the end of island 6
Delivered to 47. When the bill collecting safe 47 is full, the curtain plate 44 is opened, the bill collecting safe 47 is opened, and the bills 18 therein are
Collect money.

When the bills 18 being conveyed are jammed in the middle of the paper-like material carrying conveyor 1, the curtain plate 44 and the cover 43 located at that position are opened, and the inside of the paper-like material carrying conveyor 1 is covered by the mirror surface 43a of the cover 43. It looks good and is within the reach of ordinary adults, so recovery work can be facilitated.

[0024]

As described in detail above, according to the paper-like material conveying conveyor of the present invention, when a paper-like material is inserted from the paper-like material receiving port, the leading end of the paper-like material contacts the driving endless belt. , The driving endless belt bends in the running direction, and the leading end of the paper-like object is sandwiched between the driving endless belt and the upstream end of the driven endless belt 1, and the paper-like material is conveyed to the downstream side as it is, and successively passes through the driven endless belt. Then, the paper-like material can be conveyed to the most downstream side of the driving endless belt and moved to the next step. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a drive motor for each paper material receiving port, and the structure is simplified. This fact is added, and the paper material is simply sandwiched between the main endless belt and the endless driven belt. Because it is only, the jammed paper-like material can be easily removed and maintenance becomes easy.

Further, since the paper-like material is sandwiched and conveyed by the driving endless belt and the driven endless belt with the surface of the paper-like material horizontal, there is no meandering of the paper-like material due to the self-weight of both endless belts, Since there is no fall of the object, no device for regulating the fall is required, and the structure is simplified accordingly. Therefore,
Even if the paper-like material is hardly clogged, the maintenance becomes easier, and even if the paper-like material is jammed, the jammed paper-like material can be removed by slightly extending both endless belts.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a state in which a paper-like material conveyor of the present invention is installed in a gaming machine row.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a row of gaming machines.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing the drive unit side of the paper-like material conveyor according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the driven portion side of the paper-like material transfer conveyor.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing an installed state of a paper-like material conveyor.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a maintenance state of the paper-like material transfer conveyor.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 5 showing a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Paper Conveyor 3 Medal Lending Machine (Banknote Receiving Machine) 11 Drive Unit 12 Conveyor Main Body 13 Main Endless Belt 14 Driven Endless Belt 15 Transmission Part 16 Upstream End 17 Paper Inlet 18 Banknote (Paper)

Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁵ Identification number Office reference number FI technical display location B65H 5/36 7111-3F

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A single drive endless belt which is rotated by a drive unit over the entire length of a conveyor main body, and a plurality of driven endless belts which are in contact with the drive endless belt and rotate in the same direction to be provided for each paper material receiving machine. A transmission unit that transmits the driving force of the first driving endless belt to the plurality of driven endless belts, respectively.
A paper-like material receiving port provided between each of the first driving endless belt and the upstream ends of the plurality of driven endless belts; and a paper-like material between the driving endless belt and the driven endless belts. A paper-like material conveyer characterized by conveying to the downstream side of the scissors. 2. The conveyor main body is provided with the driven endless belt and the driven endless belt such that their belt surfaces are horizontal, and the paper-like material is conveyed with the paper-like material surface horizontal.
The paper-like material conveying conveyor described.