JPH0668782B2 - Automatic ticket gate - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate installed at, for example, a boarding gate at an airport or a ticket gate for station service, and more specifically, for an airline ticket or a boarding ticket. The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate that can speed up ticket processing operations.

(B) Conventional Technology Conventionally, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, this type of automatic ticket gate is provided between a ticket slot 41 on the front side and a ticket slot 42 on the rear side. Are connected by a ticket transport path 43 configured by a transport belt, a transport roller and the like, and a magnetic head 44 for reading the recorded information of the boarding pass inserted between the ticket transport paths 43.
And a stub cutting part 45 composed of a rotary cutter that cuts the boarding pass into stubs, cuts the boarding pass inserted at the time of ticketing into stubs, and cuts this one cut stub There is known an automatic ticket gate configured to convey and collect the undelivered stub with the other seat number printed on it to the ticket ejection section 42 side, and to hand it to the passenger. ing.

In the figure, 47 is a slot shutter, 48 is a shutter solenoid thereof, 49 is a touch roller for holding an uncut ticket, 50 is a collecting / collecting roller.
A discharge distribution flapper, 51 is a take-in / convey motor, 52 is a discharge / convey motor, and 53 to 57 are ticket detection sensors.

By the way, in the stub cutting part 45 by the rotary cutter described above, a cutting stub collecting path 58 is provided on the rear side of the cutting part 45.
A branch path is formed between the uncut left stub discharge path 59.

Then, one of the cut stubs can be collected as it is from the cut stub collection path 58 side into the ticket collection unit 46.
The remaining uncut stub must be returned to the original position of the rotary cutter of the cutting section 45 before it can be conveyed through the uncut stub, and as a result, the recovery processing after cutting is performed. Until the operation is completed, the uncut uncut tickets are in a standby state and cannot be discharged. It takes a long processing time at the ticket gate due to the structure of processing each of these stubs separately, and the processing capacity of the ticket is limited. Was occurring. In particular, passengers are concentrated in a short time at the boarding gates of airports, so that the passengers are very crowded, and it is desired to shorten the processing operation at the ticket gate.

As another means, there is a ticket gate device disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-225989. This device temporarily conveys the rear sill of the stubs divided into the front and back to the sorting section, switches the flapper of this sorting section to the transport path on the ticket outlet side, and It is a structure that leads to the ticket outlet.

However, in the case of this conventional structure, since the rear half ticket is conveyed in the reverse direction, the conveyance path becomes long, and accordingly, the rear half ticket controls the switching of the conveyance direction between the forward and reverse directions, and the processing time becomes longer. Therefore, there is a problem that it is not possible to obtain a sufficiently satisfactory time reduction.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention In the present invention, in the course of cutting the inserted bill, one of the cut stubs is collected and the other uncut stub is released at the same time as the cutting is performed. An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate that can process stubs in parallel to shorten the processing time and shorten the transportation path.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a switching conveyance path in front of a stub cutting section, which switches the conveyance direction from the cutting section side to the ticket ejection side by tilting at a fixed angle, and this switching is performed. The automatic ticket gate is provided with a switching control means for controlling switching to the ticket outlet side after cutting the transport path.

(E) Operation According to the present invention, after the inserted bill is cut into the front and rear stubs by the stub cutting unit, one cut stub is collected by the stub collecting unit and the other stub is collected. The remaining stubs are discharged to the ticket discharge port via the switching conveyance path tilted from this.

(F) Effect of the invention Therefore, even when one of the cut stubs is in the process of being collected, the other uncut stub is immediately transferred to the ticket release port side without waiting and not being conveyed backward. It is possible to lead, efficient parallel processing for both stubs after cutting becomes possible,
As a result, the conveyance path is shortened because it is not conveyed backward, and at the same time,
The processing time at the ticket gate can be surely shortened, and the automatic ticket gate has high-speed processing capability.

(G) Embodiment of the Invention One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawing shows an automatic ticket gate installed at a boarding gate of an airport. In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the automatic ticket gate 11 has a ticket gate 13 mounted on an upper surface of a base 12, and an inclined front surface of the ticket gate 13. A boarding pass slot 14 is formed on the side, and a discharge port 15 is formed on the upper surface on the rear side.

As shown in FIG. 2, the ticket gate 13 described above includes a ticket loading / unloading path 16 provided corresponding to the slot 14 and one collecting / transporting path connected to the sending end of the ticket via a switching / transporting path 17. Road 18
And the other delivery path 19 and the other delivery path 19 are internally configured.

The above-mentioned ticket loading / unloading path 16 is provided by vertically and horizontally contacting the first transport belt 20 and the second transport belt 21, and connecting the external loading slot 14 and the internal switching transport path 17 to each other. A magnetic head 22 that reads the recorded information of the boarding pass that was inserted in the middle
Is provided so that a genuine bill can be taken into the cutting position, and if the bill is a fraudulent bill, it can be sent back and returned.

Then, the switching conveyance path 17 is connected to the sending end portion of the ticket loading / unloading path 16.

The switching conveyance path 17 is composed of a third conveyance belt 23 and a nipping roller 24 supported in contact with the third conveyance belt 23. Of these, the start end pulley shaft 25 of the third conveyance belt 23 serves as a fulcrum, and the end pulley shaft 26. The side is provided so that it can be tilted upward by a certain angle from the horizontal direction, and a switching solenoid 27 is connected to this side, and when the solenoid 27 is turned on, the normal horizontal transfer direction corresponding to the recovery transfer path 18 side of the subsequent stage. From this state, the switching conveyance path 17 is tilted upward by a certain angle, and switching connection is made in the inclined conveyance direction corresponding to the discharge conveyance path 19 side of the subsequent stage.

A stub cutting device 28 is arranged between the horizontal connecting portion of the switching conveying path 17 and the collecting conveying path 18.

The above-mentioned stub cutting device 28 includes a rotary cutter driven by a cutter motor M1, and cuts the boarding pass guided therein into stubs. In this case, the cut front stubs that have been cut are conveyed to the ticket collection section 29 side of the subsequent stage through the collection conveyance path 18 and collected, and the rear uncut stubs on which the seat numbers are printed are collected. The particles are discharged to the discharge port 15 side through the discharge conveyance path 19 and handed to passengers.

The above-described collecting and conveying path 18 is a combination of the fourth conveying belt 30 and each of the pinch rollers 31 ... Forming a horizontal nipping and conveying path for the cut stubs after cutting to form a stub cutting device 28 and a ticket collecting section. It is connected to 29.

Further, the discharge conveyance path 19 is formed by contacting the fifth conveyance belt 32, the sixth conveyance belt 33, and the like in a slanting direction with each other so as to form a sandwiching conveyance path in the slanting direction with respect to the uncut uncut bill after cutting. 17 and the discharge port 15 are connected.

Then, the above-mentioned transfer paths 16 to 19 are interlocked with the drive pulleys 34, 35 of the drive motors M2, M3 via the respective transmission belts 36, 37, etc., and when the motors M2, M3 are normally rotated, these transfer paths 16 ~ 1
9 is configured to be driven in the direction of the arrow in FIG.

Further, a closing port shutter 39 which is opened and closed by a shutter solenoid 38 is arranged at the above-mentioned closing port 14.

Further, the first sensor S1 is provided inside the slot 14, the second sensor S2 is provided at the sending start end of the ticket loading / unloading path 16, and the ticket loading / unloading path.
A third sensor S3 is arranged at the sending end of 16, a fourth sensor S4 is arranged at the collecting and conveying path 18, and a fifth sensor S5 is arranged at the sending end of the discharging and conveying path 19.

Each of the first to fifth sensors S1 to S5 is a photoelectric detection sensor configured by arranging a light emitting element and a light receiving element so as to face each other, and detects loading / unloading of a boarding pass.

The processing operation of the automatic ticket gate constructed as described above will be described below with reference to the time chart of FIG. 3 and the operation explanatory view of FIG.

Now, when the passenger inserts the boarding pass into the slot 14, the second and third motors M2 and M3 are normally driven based on the input detection signal, and the inserted boarding pass is passed through the ticket loading / unloading route 16. To the position of the magnetic head 22, where the magnetic record information of the boarding pass is read, and if it is normal, it is guided to the stub switching position 28 in the subsequent stage (see FIG. 6A). Drive in reverse and return.

Then, the boarding pass A that is determined to be normal is the stub cutting device 28
After being cut into both front and rear stubs A1 and A2 (see FIG. 6B), the front cut stub A1 is recovered and conveyed to the ticket recovery section 29 through the recovery and conveyance path 18, and Simultaneously with the collecting and conveying process, the switching solenoid is operated while the uncut uncut stub A2 with the rear seat number printed is sandwiched in the switching conveying path 17.
The boarding pass is tilted upward via 27 (see FIG. 6C), and by this tilting, the boarding pass is discharged to the discharge port 15 via the corresponding discharge conveyance path 19 and taken out by the passenger.

Therefore, even when one of the cut stubs A1 is in the process of being collected, the other uncut stub A2 can be immediately led to the discharge port 15 side without waiting, and the two halves after cutting are cut off. Ticket A1, A
As a result, efficient parallel processing for 2 is possible, and as a result, the processing time at the ticket gate can be surely shortened and it can be used as a high-speed automatic ticket gate.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described one embodiment, the ticket slot of the present invention corresponds to the slot 14 of the embodiment, and hereinafter, the ticket slot corresponds to the slot 15. The ticket transport path corresponds to the ticket loading / unloading path 16 and the discharge transport path 19, the switching control means corresponds to the switching solenoid 27, the stub cutting part corresponds to the stub cutting device 28, and the collecting part Corresponds to the ticket collecting unit 29, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

In addition, it is needless to say that the ticket handled by this automatic ticket gate is not limited to the boarding pass illustrated above, but can be applied to the ticket for station service, boarding, entrance to various facilities, and other ticket gates. .

[Brief description of drawings]

 The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of an automatic ticket gate, FIG. 2 is an internal side view of the ticket gate, FIG. 3 is a time chart during parallel processing of stubs, and FIG. Is a side view of the inside of a conventional ticket gate, FIG. 5 is a time chart during processing of a conventional stub, and FIGS. 11 …… Automatic ticket gate, 14 …… Inlet slot 15 …… Ejection slot, 16 …… Ticket loading / unloading path 17 …… Switching transport path, 18 …… Collection transport path 19 …… Discharging transport path, 27 …… Switching solenoid 28 …… Bill cutting device, 29 …… Bill collection unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A stub cutting part which divides the inserted ticket into front and rear parts and cuts into stubs is provided between the ticket conveying paths which connect the ticket input port and the ticket output port. An automatic ticket gate that collects one of the cut stubs cut by a section into a collection section and discharges the other uncut stub into a ticket outlet, which has a fixed angle in front of the stub cutting section. An automatic ticket gate equipped with a switching conveying path for switching the conveying direction from the cutting portion side to the ticket discharging side by tilting, and a switching control means for controlling switching to the ticket discharging side after cutting the switching conveying path. .