JPH0716662Y2 - Banknote feeder with adjustable length in banknote conveyor - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill feeding device having a length adjustable in a bill feeding device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Patent Application No. 1-99693 proposes that a banknote carried out from a ball lending machine or the like via a merging guide is sandwiched by two belts arranged in parallel and carried into a stacker device. .

[0003]

With the above-described transport device, after the bill inserted into the bill insertion slot of the ball lending machine is discriminated, it is carried into the unit conveyor from the back of the ball lending machine through the merging guide. . A sensor detects that the banknotes are being conveyed on the unit conveyor and prohibits the banknotes from being inserted from the next ball lending machine so that the banknotes do not overlap. In the above-described bill transfer device, the island widths at each game hall may be different, and in that case, the distance between the ball lending machine and the bill transfer device changes depending on the size. If the island width changes in this way, the banknote dispenser of the ball lending machine must be equipped with different sizes. Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to obtain a bill supply device that can cope with a change in the distance between the ball lending machine and the bill conveyance device depending on the island width.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a bill feeding device in which the length of the bill feeding device is adjustable as follows. That is, in a case where a banknote conveyed from a ball lending machine or the like through a merging portion is sandwiched by two belts arranged in parallel and carried into a stacker device, a path from the ball lending machine to the merging portion is long. Depending on the size, it is formed by selectively combining the number of connecting pieces,
The single connecting piece has a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion, and the ring portion is suspended from a guide post that is erected on a ball lending machine or the like. It is a bill supply device whose length can be freely adjusted in a bill conveyance path in which the small-diameter portion is joined to the large-diameter portion to be joined.

[0005]

By changing the number of connecting pieces, the length can be freely adjusted even if the distance from the ball lending machine to the bill conveying passage is changed.

[0006]

[Embodiment] In the embodiment, a description will be given of a case of carrying a bill carried in from a pachinko machine ball lending machine, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other bills for a game metal automatic metal lending machine, for example. The same applies to the transport device and the paper transport device other than the bill. In FIG. 6, A is a conventional unit conveyor, and a plurality of unit singular unit conveyors (A) are arranged via a merging guide (1) to form a conveying device.
(A ') is a unit conveyor formed shorter than the unit conveyor (A), and the unit conveyor (A)
The banknotes conveyed by (1) are carried into the stacker (2) through the short unit cover (A '), but the combination can be arbitrarily performed.

The unit conveyor (A) as described above is arranged inside an island to which a large number of pachinko game machines (3) are mounted, and (4) is a ball lender arranged between the pachinko machines (3). Machine, and the bill slot (4) of this ball lending machine (4)
After the bill inserted into a) is discriminated, it is carried into the unit conveyor (A) from the rear surface of the ball lending machine (4) through the merging guide (1). When bills are being conveyed on the unit conveyor (A), the sensor (5) detects that they are being conveyed, prohibits bill insertion from the next ball lending machine (4), and the bills do not overlap. To do so. As shown in FIG. 7, these unit conveyors (A) are attached to a stay (7) of an island frame (6) to which a ball lending machine (4) is attached, and are continuously provided by a connecting member (8). 7,
As shown in FIG. 8, two flat belts (10) and (11) are stretched inside the unit conveyor (A). On the entrance side of the unit conveyor (A), (12) and (13) are rollers that drive flat belts (10) and (11), respectively.
On the exit side, (14) and (15) are flat belts (1
0) A roller that rotates according to (11). The flat belts (10) and (11) are made of rubber magnets, and the two flat belts (10) and (11) are stretched so that their polarities are different from each other. It is designed to sandwich. In order to make the polarities of the two belts different from each other, the same belt may be shifted so that the N and S poles face each other alternately as shown in FIG. 12, but belts having different polarities may be used from the beginning. . Alternatively, a steel belt may be used on one side and a rubber magnet belt magnetized on the other side may be used. In either case, the bills are nipped and conveyed by the attraction force of both belts.

As shown in FIG. 7, the unit conveyor (A)
The drive box (16) is attached to the upper surface on the entry side of the motor, and the rotation of the motor (17) shown in FIG. 11 is caused by the rotation of the timing belt (18) and the timing pulley (19).
Transmitted to the shaft (20) of the roller (13).
As the motor (17), for example, a synchro motor is used to make the transport speed of each unit uniform. Shaft (20) of Roller (13) and Shaft (21) of Roller (12)
Are meshed with gears (22) (23) and therefore the rollers (12) (13) rotate in opposite directions.
At the exit side of the unit conveyor (A), a flat belt (1
The guides (24) and (25) are shown in FIG.
It is arranged like 8. As shown in Fig. 8, the guide (2
4) (25) has openings (26) (27) formed in a funnel shape so that the top and bottom of the bill front end conveyed by the flat belts (10) and (11) can be easily introduced. The leading ends of the bills thus formed are the guide plates (28) (29) and (3
0) and (31) are introduced and guided. Vertical grooves (32) are formed at the tips of the guide plates (28) to (31) as shown in FIG. 9, and these vertical grooves (32) are formed on the protrusions (43) on the back surface of the confluence guide (1). Engage and guide plates (28) (29) and (30) (31)
The distance between is not narrowed. A photoelectric sensor is attached to the tip of the upper guide (24) to detect the passage time of the bill.

As described above, the unit conveyor (A)
The upper and lower sides of the banknotes conveyed by being sandwiched between the flat belts (10) and (11) on the exit side of the guide (2
4) When (25) guides and carries in to the next unit Coveer (A) through the merging guide (1), and when some trouble occurs and the bill is jammed in the guide Since the passage time detected by the photoelectric sensor becomes long, the jam of the bill is notified to the outside and the operation of the unit conveyor (A) is stopped. Next, the merging guide (1) has a vertically long bill passage slit (42) in the center of the main body (40), and the bills conveyed by the unit conveyor (A) pass through the bill passage slit (42). It has become. A protrusion (43) is formed on the back surface of the confluence guide (1), and the vertical grooves (3) of the guides (24) and (25) arranged on the exit side of the unit conveyor (A).
2) just engages with this protrusion (43) so that the space between the guide plates is not narrowed. Confluence guide body (4
The banknote passage (44) is formed between the right and left sides of (0) and the merging guide bar (41) so that the banknotes carried out from the rear surface of the ball lending machine (4) can pass through the banknote passage (44). ing. Therefore, the front surface of the merging guide (1) is provided with the roller (1
2) The banknotes that are forwardly projected to guide the banknotes just before (13) and are transported by the unit conveyor (A) and the banknotes delivered from the backside of the ball lending machine (A) are Next unit conveyor (A) and stacker (2)
It will be delivered to. Next, unit conveyor (A)
And the stacker (2) are connected as shown in FIG. That is, the unit conveyor (A) is fixed to the stay (50) extending from the stacker (2), and the vertical grooves (32) at the tips of the guides (24) and (25) are the protrusion guides () of the stacker (2). 51) The guide plates are prevented from being narrowed by engaging with (51). There is a bill retractor (52) inside the stacker (2), and bills carried between the protrusion guides (51) (51) are retracted into the stacker (2) to stock the bills.

[0010] However, in the case of the above, the unit conveyors (A) are arranged in an arbitrary combination inside the pachinko island through the confluence guide (1) and are arranged between the pachinko machines (3). The banknotes ejected from the coin lending machine (4) constitute a banknote transfer device such that the banknotes transferred from the merging guide (1) to the unit conveyor (A) and transferred are transferred to the stacker (2). The banknotes thrown into the ball lending machine are nipped by the belts (10) and (11), successively taken over by the unit conveyors, conveyed, and collected by the stacker device.

The present invention has been devised so that the above-described carrier device can cope with a change in the distance between the discharge port of the ball lending machine and the carrier device depending on the width of the island. That is, in FIG. 1, reference numeral (49) is a guide post that is planted on the rear surface (46) of the ball lending machine (4), and the connecting piece (59) is fitted and connected thereto. The connecting piece includes a ring part (53) fitted to the guide post (49), a connecting part (52) integrated with the ring part, and a piece part body (48) integrated with the ring part (53).
The piece main body (48) has a vertically elongated bill passage (54) formed in the center and is rectangular in its entirety, with a front portion having a large diameter portion (50) and a rear portion having a small diameter portion (51). Thus, the large diameter portion (50) and the small diameter portion (51) are fitted to each other. Therefore, the large diameter portion (50) and the small diameter portion (51)
There is a slope (55) that connects with and the large diameter portion of the piece main body (48) at the starting end is the rear surface (4) of the identification machine in the ball lending machine.
It is designed to be fitted onto the bill discharge port (47) of 6). Therefore, the connecting piece (59) is attached to the guide post (49).
The main body (48) of any number is suspended by the ring portion (53) by fitting the large diameter portion (50) and the small diameter portion (51) to each other.
The bill passage (54) can be formed by. In addition, (5 in FIG.
6) (57) (60) (61) are rollers of the unit conveyor, and (58) is a belt. Guide post (4
The position of 9) is off-centered from the main body 48, so that even if the front and rear surfaces face each other on the island, the guide posts 49 do not abut each other. As described above, as a merging guide between the ball lending machine (4) and the unit conveyor (A), the bill supply path (5 whose length can be adjusted depending on the number of pieces)
4) is formed so that the width of the island can be adjusted at any time.
If the hinge part (62) that can swing with the joint part of 6) is used, even if the discharge port of the ball lending machine and the confluence part of the conveyor unit are slightly misaligned, the posture can be changed accordingly and it can be attached conveniently. is there.

[0012]

According to the present invention, even if the distance between the ball lending machine and the unit conveyor changes, the length of the discharge port of the ball lending machine can be changed by arbitrarily selecting the number of connecting pieces. Not only can it be done, but by changing the attitude of the connecting piece, there is an effect that the facility can be installed even if there is a positional deviation between the discharge port of the ball lending machine and the unit conveyor joining section. Then, the connecting pieces are joined by fitting the large diameter portion and the small diameter portion, and the connection is made by suspending the ring portion of the connecting piece on the guide post which is set up in the ball lending machine. Since it serves as both the guide body and the coupling body, the coupling can be easily performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of the device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the above.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the cd section of FIG. 2 with a connecting piece omitted.

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line ab of FIG.

5 is an abbreviated oblique view showing the relative relationship between the connecting piece and the unit conveyor of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a conventional unit conveyor.

FIG. 7 is a rear view of a conventional unit conveyor.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional unit conveyor.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a combined state of conventional conveyors.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a connected state of a conventional unit conveyor and a stacker.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional drive unit.

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of a conventional rubber magnet belt.

FIG. 13 is a rear view showing a state in which a conventional merging guide and a ball lending machine are engaged with each other.

[Explanation of symbols]

 49 Guide post 48 Piece main body 50 Large diameter portion 51 Small diameter portion 53 Ring portion 59 Coupling piece

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A passage from a ball lending machine to a confluence section, in which a banknote conveyed from a ball lending machine or the like through a confluence section is sandwiched by two belts arranged in parallel and carried into a stacker device. Is formed by selectively connecting the number of connecting pieces according to the length thereof , and the single connecting piece has a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion.
The ring part is suspended from the guide post that is planted on the ball rental machine.
The plurality of connecting pieces have their small diameter parts
Banknote supply device with adjustable length in a banknote transport passage that is joined by fitting into a large diameter part