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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial field of application] The present invention is typified by an automatic vending machine or a money changer that takes out a bundle of coins that are stacked by stacking a plurality of coins by inserting a bill or the like. Related to the exchange.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of exchange, when the stock of the extract in the main body of the exchange has reached the bottom, or when it is necessary to replenish the stock, the amount of the extract in the storage inside the main body of the exchange is higher than the outlet. I put them one by one from the supply port located in the place. This is because such a replenishment method is adopted because gravity is used to drop the taken-out matter when the take-out port is taken out by inserting a bill or the like.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

For this reason, in the past, when replenishing the ejected substance, the ejected substance dropped from the replenishment port to the vicinity of the ejection port, and the replenishment item was impacted, and for example, in the case of a vending machine, the can of juice or beer might be damaged. There is a problem in that a dent or the like occurs, and in the case of a money changer, a bundle of coins wrapped in paper or the like collapses.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an exchange in which the ejected product is not subjected to a large impact when the ejected product is replenished.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention is an exchange machine for exchanging money and other items, which is provided with an inlet for inserting money and the like, and an outlet for taking out items corresponding to the currency, and is provided in the exchange. A storage section for storing items and a stack extending from above the outlet for stacking the articles to be taken out, an opening at the rear, and a vertically long article waiting space and an opening side of the article waiting space. A carrier that is movable along the longitudinal direction of the taken-out product standby space and that conveys the taken-out product from the storage section to the taken-out product waiting space; and the carrier along the longitudinal direction of the taken-out product waiting space. A first driving device for vertically moving, a second driving device for driving and driving the carrier in a substantially horizontal direction, a first driving device arranged between the carrier and the pick-up product standby space, and a vertical direction of the carrier. Up and down with movement A movable member that opens and closes the opening of the picked-up object standby space by moving, and the picked-up object carried by the transfer body is moved as the transfer body moves upward along the picked-up object standby space. It is characterized in that the material is sequentially supplied into the picked-up object standby space by the conveyance drive of the second drive device.

[Action]

The first drive unit moves the carrier upward along the longitudinal direction of the picked-up object standby space. Along with this, the movable member also moves upward. Further, at the same time that the transport body moves upward, it is also moved substantially horizontally by the second drive device. With the movement of the carrier in the substantially horizontal direction, the picked-up items on the picked-up member are sequentially stacked in the picked-up object standby space. At this time,
The taken-out products sequentially stacked in the taken-out product standby space are prevented from collapsing by the movable member that moves up and down integrally with the carrier.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 are a front view and a side view of a coin exchange machine as an exchange. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is an exchange main body, and an opening / closing door 3 on the front surface of the exchange main body 1 is provided with a bill insertion slot 5 and an outlet 7 for taking out a bundle of coins as an output. A bundle of coins is made by stacking 40 coins and wrapping them in a bar shape with paper.

FIG. 3 shows the inside of the exchange main body 1 in which the opening / closing door 3 is omitted. At the bottom of the exchange main body 1, a coin storage case 11 which is a storage portion for storing a large number of coin bundles 9 is arranged. One side of the coin storage case 11 (right side in the figure)
The first to send out on the carrier 13 on the opposite side of the bundle 9 of coins
The moving body 15 is provided so as to be movable in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the carrier 13, a wide belt 23 is wound endlessly in a substantially horizontal direction on a driven pulley 17 and a drive pulley 21 driven by a first motor 19 which is a second drive device. It is a belt conveyor type. The belt 23 is provided with stoppers 25 and 27 which are provided on both sides of the belt 23 in a state where one bundle of coins 9 is placed. This stopper 25, 27
A row of coins 9 in the coin storage case 11 is pushed out by the first moving body 15 onto the conveying body 13 in between, and is sent out via the roller 29 shown in FIG.

The carrier 13 is supported by a second moving body 33 that moves up and down along a guide rail 31 that extends vertically in one side of the exchange body 1. The moving body 33 has rolling wheels 35 that run along both sides of the guide rail 31, and is supported by a chain 37.

The chain 37 is hooked around sprockets 39 and 41 arranged above and below the guide rail 31. One end of the chain 37 is coupled to the lower portion of the second moving body 33, and the other end is coupled to the upper portion of the second moving body 33, and the lower sprocket 41 is rotated normally.
It is driven by a reversible second motor 43. The second moving body 33 rises when the second motor 43 rotates in the forward direction and descends when it rotates in the reverse direction. The uppermost positioning of the carrier 13 is the first shown in FIG.
Limit switch 45 of. The lowest position of the carrier 13 is determined by a limit switch (not shown). In this way, the first drive device for moving the carrier 13 up and down is configured.

The extract 7 that opens to the outside of the exchange main body 1 communicates with an extract waiting space 47 having a U-shaped cross section whose rear (right side in FIG. 4) is open.

A delivery mechanism 49 is provided in the vicinity of the outlet 7 of the retrieval item waiting space 47. The feeding mechanism 49 is provided with two symmetrical cutout recesses 53 into which a bundle 9 of coins is inserted in a rotating body 51 rotatable by a drive motor (not shown).
After inserting a bill from the insertion slot 5, the bill rotates in response to a command from a control unit (not shown) that receives an identification signal from an identification unit (not shown). The rotating body 51 is a rotating body.
The cam projection 57 mounted on the rotary shaft 55 of the 51 presses the contact 59a of the second limit switch 59, so that one notch recess 5
When 3 is in the standby position (upper side in FIG. 4), the other notch recess 53 is positioned in the discharge position (lower side in FIG. 4).

The stack 9 of coins on the carrier 13 is sequentially fed so as to be stacked in the pick-up product waiting space 47 as the carrier 13 moves up. Then, when all the bundles 9 of coins on the carrier 13 are sent out to the picked-up object standby space 47 (two-dot chain line in FIG. 4), the rear stopper 25 on the belt 23 moves up and down together with the carrier 13. The contact 61a of the limit switch 61 is pressed. The front stopper 27 has a small protrusion amount so as not to come into contact with the contact 61a when passing through the third limit switch 61. The third limit switch 61 has its contact 61a
Is pressed to drive the second motor 43 to lower the carrier 13 to the lowest position, and the stoppers 25, 2
It has the function of correctly positioning 7 to the side of the coin storage case 11.

The presence or absence of the bundle 9 of coins in the pick-up item waiting space 47 is detected by the fourth limit switch 63. The fourth limit switch 63 is mounted on a rear plate 65 that is a vertically movable movable member that closes the rear opening of the picked-up object standby space 47, and its contact 63a is when the bundle 9 of coins is not detected. When the coin bundle 9 is detected, the second motor 43 is actuated and is not pressed by the arm 67 that protrudes toward the picked-up object standby space 47 and is rotatable about the lower end as a fulcrum.
13 raises the rear plate 65 to a position where the arm 67 does not contact the coin stack 9, that is, a position where the arm 67 does not press the contact 63a. When the pressure on the contact 63a of the arm 67 is released, the first motor 19 operates to move the belt 23 of the carrier 13 to feed the bundle 9 of coins into the pick-up object standby space 47. Carrier
The feeding of the bundle 9 of coins from the 13 to the pick-up item waiting space 47 is a repetition of this.

The rear plate 65 moves up when the projecting piece 69 attached to the lower part of the transporting body 13 engages with the projecting body 71 of the rear plate 65 when the transporting body 13 rises. The rear plate 65 is the rear plate 65.
A stopper 73 provided on the upper end of the is locked by being suspended by the uppermost stack 9 of coins. The rear plate
65 descends by its own weight together with the stack 9 of coins.

The position of the rear plate 65 is such that when the carrier 13 is raised, the carrier 13
The fifth limit switch 75 on the rear plate
It is detected by contacting the protrusion 71 of 65.

In FIG. 5, the cover 77 rotatably provided on the second moving body 33 prevents the bundle of coins 9 from falling when the carrier 13 is raised, and when the carrier 13 is at the lowest position. When the tip of the coin comes into contact with the main body 1 of the exchange, the carrier 13 is rotated, so that the carrier 13 can receive the bundle 9 of coins from the coin storage case 11.

In the money changer having such a configuration, the coin storage case 11
The carrier 13 that has received the bundle 9 of coins between the stoppers 25 and 27 on the belt 23 moves upward by the first drive device and moves in the horizontal direction by the second drive device while taking out the bundle 9 of coins. Replenish in the standby space 47. For this reason, unlike the conventional case, the stack of coins is not dropped from a high place, and thus the stack of coins 9 does not collapse without any impact at the time of replenishment.

When the carrier 13 moves to the uppermost position and supplies all the bundles 9 of coins on the carrier 13 into the pick-up product waiting space 47, the rear opening side of the pick-up product waiting space 47 is closed by the rear plate 65. Bunch 9 of will not collapse.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment.
For example, an automatic vending machine that sells juice, beer or the like may be used as the exchange machine instead of the money exchange machine.

[Effect of device]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the extract is sequentially replenished to the extract standby space as the carrier moves upward, it is not necessary to drop the extract from a high place. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the picked-up object from being greatly impacted at the time of replenishment, and to prevent the occurrence of scratches or dents or the collapse of the stack of coins.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a front view of a money changer, FIG. 2 is a side view of the money changer, FIG. 3 is a front view of the inside of the money changer, and FIG. 4 is a carrier and a delivery mechanism. And FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a transfer portion between the carrier and the coin storage case, FIG.
The figure is a diagram for explaining the operation of the carrier. 5 ... Banknote insertion slot 7 ... Takeout product 9 ... Coin bundle 11 ... Coin storage case (storage unit) 13 ... Conveyor 19 ... Motor (second drive device) 47 ... Takeout product standby space 65 ... Rear plate (movable member)

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Creator Susumu Ozawa 2-2-2 Niiza-shi, Saitama Examiner Mimi Takahashi (56) References Japanese Patent Publication Sho 56-38993 (JP, B2)

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Claim: What is claimed is: 1. An exchange, comprising: an inlet for inserting money and the like, and an outlet for taking out the extract corresponding to the currency, the exchange being provided for exchanging the currency and the extract. A storage section for storing the taken-out items and a stack of the taken-out items that extends above the take-out port and has an opening at the rear side, and a take-out item waiting space that is long in the vertical direction, and is provided on the opening side of the take-out item standby space. At the same time, a carrier that is movable along the longitudinal direction of the taken-out product standby space and that conveys the taken-out product from the storage section to the taken-out product waiting space, and the carrier along the longitudinal direction of the taken-out product waiting space. A first drive device for vertically moving the carrier, a second drive device for driving the carrier to move in a substantially horizontal direction, and a second drive device arranged between the carrier and the pick-up product standby space, and Up with vertical movement A movable member that opens and closes the opening of the picked-up object standby space by moving in the direction, and the picked-up object carried by the transfer body along with the upward movement of the transfer body along the picked-object standby space. Is sequentially supplied into the picked-up object standby space by the conveyance drive of the second drive device.