JPH0737125A - Ticket issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a ticket issuing device which can alternately use a pair of roll paper with a simple constitution. CONSTITUTION:Two rolls of paper 23 and 24 are stored in the ticket issuing device 21. Respective rolls of paper 23 and 24 are supported so that they can be rotated by holding shafts 23a and 23b. The tips of the respective rolls of paper 23 and 24 are respectively unwound. Belt-like paper 25 and 26 are respectively guided to positions where they are brought into contact with the side where a pair of feeding rollers 29 and 30 are opposed to each other through guide rollers 27 and 28. A pinch roller 35 is provided between the feeding rollers 29 and 30 so that it can reciprocate between the feeding rollers 29 and 30.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device, and more particularly to a ticket issuing device having two rolls of paper stored therein, and when one roll of paper is used up, the other roll of paper is used.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Ticket issuing devices are used to provide tickets such as boarding tickets and boarding tickets for various transportation means. As a ticket issuing device in the prior art, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-18
There is a ticket issuing device disclosed in 6495. This ticket issuing device 1 has a housing 2 and two
One roll paper 3, 4 is stored. The leading ends of the roll papers 3 and 4 are respectively unwound, and the belt-shaped papers 5 and 6 are guided via guide rollers 7 and 8 to positions where the delivery roller 9 is sandwiched therebetween. The delivery roller 9 is rotationally driven by a motor 10 in the forward rotation direction or the reverse rotation direction. That is, one of the roll papers 3 and 4 is currently used, and the other is a spare. When the roll paper in use is exhausted, the spare roll paper is used. One of the strip-shaped papers 5 and 6 sent out by the sending-out roller 7 is cut into a predetermined size by a cutter 12 arranged immediately before the transport mechanism 11, and a printer 13 prints a predetermined entry.

[0003]

In the ticket issuing device 1, since the two roll papers 3 and 4 are sent out by one sending roller 9, as described above, the sending roller 9 is used.
Need to be rotated in both directions. The ticket issuing device 1 rotates the motor 10 in the normal direction or the reverse direction by rotating the motor 10 in the normal direction or the reverse direction, or between the motor 10 rotating in a fixed direction and the delivery roller 9. By providing the power transmission means for switching, the feeding roller 9
It has achieved normal rotation and reverse rotation.

[0006] Even if the forward rotation and the reverse rotation of the feed roller 9 are realized by any of the above configurations, the ticket issuing device 1 has a problem that the configuration for that is complicated and the cost is increased. .

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a ticket issuing device which can alternately use a pair of roll papers with a simple structure. .

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A ticket issuing apparatus according to the present invention includes a pair of roll body holding means for individually holding a pair of roll bodies and a pair of roll bodies which are rotationally driven in a single direction. A first roller capable of transporting a belt-shaped member unwound from one side in a delivery direction, and a belt-shaped member which is rotationally driven in a direction opposite to the single direction and is unwound from the other of the pair of roll members. A second roller that can be conveyed in the delivery direction, a one-way rotation clutch that is provided on one of the first roller and the second roller, and a first roller that is disposed between the first roller and the second roller. Reciprocating movement is possible between a first rotation position near the second roller and a second rotation position near the second roller, and pinch rollers sandwiching the strip between the first roller and the second roller are provided. Used in a pair of rolls The strip from the roll is sandwiched between one of the first roller and the second roller and the pinch roller, and the first roller and the first roller corresponding to the strip from the roll that is not used. The other of the two rollers and the pinch roller are separated from each other, whereby the above object is achieved.

[0007]

According to the present invention, in the ticket issuing device, the pair of roll bodies are held by the pair of roll body holding means.
The first roller is rotationally driven in a single direction, and conveys the strip-shaped body wound from either one of the pair of roll bodies in the feeding direction. The second roller is rotationally driven in the opposite direction to the single direction, and conveys the strip-shaped body unwound from the other of the pair of roll bodies in the delivery direction. The position direction rotation clutch is provided on either one of the first roller and the second roller. The pinch roller is disposed between the first roller and the second roller, and reciprocates between a first rotation position near the first roller and a second rotation position near the second roller to move the first roller and the second roller. The strip is sandwiched between the second roller and the second roller.

Of the pair of rolls, the strip from the roll that is used is sandwiched between one of the first roller and the second roller and the pinch roller. The strip from the unused roll is spaced apart from the other pinch roller of the first roller and the second roller corresponding to the strip not used,
The structure does not sandwich the strip.

With this, the two rollers can be alternately used with a simple structure by the first roller, the second roller and the pinch roller.

[0010]

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention will be described below. 1 is a system diagram of a part of a ticket issuing device 21 according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a one-way rotating clutch used in the ticket issuing device 21, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the ticket issuing device 21. is there. The ticket issuing device 21 has a housing 22, and the two roll papers 23 and 24 in the housing 22 are stored therein.
The roll papers 23 and 24 are rotatably supported by holding shafts 23a and 23b. The leading ends of the roll papers 23 and 24 are unwound, and the belt-shaped papers 25 and 26 are guided by the guide roller
The rollers 7 and 28 are guided to positions where the pair of feed rollers 29 and 30 are in contact with each other.

Each of the delivery rollers 29 and 30 has gears 31 and 32 coaxially with each other. The gear 31 is the motor 3
It is rotated in the arrow A1 direction by the gear 34 that is connected to 3 and is driven to rotate in one direction. The gear 32 is the gear 31
And is driven to rotate in the arrow A2 direction opposite to the arrow A1 direction. Here, the gear ratios of the gears 31 and 32 are selected so that the weekly speeds of the feed rollers 29 and 30 are such that V1 and V2 satisfy V1 ≧ V2.

A pinch roller 35 is provided between the delivery rollers 29 and 30 so as to reciprocate between the delivery rollers 29 and 30. The gear 31 is provided with a one-way rotation clutch 36 shown in FIG. The delivery roller 29 is fixed to the rotary shaft 37, and a one-way rotary clutch 36 is provided between the rotary shaft 37 and the gear 31. Accordingly, when the pinch roller 35 is driven by the rotation of the delivery roller 31, the delivery roller 29 is rotationally driven by the driving force of the gear 31. On the other hand, when the delivery roller 29 is pulled by a member downstream of the roller 38 at a speed of V1, the rotation shaft 3 rotates in response to rotation of the gear 31 in the direction of arrow A1.
7 and the delivery roller 29 relatively idle in the direction opposite to the arrow A1 direction.

The strip-shaped papers 25 and 26 that have passed the position where the pinch roller 35 is disposed are guided by the guide roller 38, are in contact with each other, and are sandwiched by the pair of delivery rollers 39 and 40 which are rotationally driven by the motor 41. Sending roller 3
The strip-shaped papers 29 and 30 that have passed 9 and 40 are cut into predetermined lengths by a cutter 42. Strip paper 29, 30 after cutting
Is detected by the sensor 43 and is rotated and driven by the motor 41, and the printing mechanism 4
It is conveyed to and from 5.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the ticket issuing device 21. The ticket issuing device 21 has, for example, a control unit 46 including a microcomputer, and the control unit 4
6, the sensor 43, the motors 33 and 41, and the printing mechanism 4
5 is connected.

The operation of the ticket issuing device 21 will be described below. It is assumed that the roll paper 23 is in use and the roll paper 24 is on standby. At this time, the pinch roller 35 is in contact with the delivery roller 32. It is detected that the roll paper 23 has been used up, for example, by the sensor 43 detecting that the band-shaped paper 25 has run out.

At this time, the motor 33 is activated and the feed roller 31 is rotationally driven in the direction of arrow A1. Banded paper 2
6 is sandwiched between a delivery roller 31 and a pinch roller 35, passes through a guide roller 38, and delivery rollers 39, 40.
Proceed to the position sandwiched by. Alternatively, the belt-shaped paper 26 advances to a position where it is sandwiched between the platen roller 44 and the printing mechanism 45. After that, the motor 33 stops and the motor 41 continues to drive.

When the belt-shaped paper 26 is used up, the administrator sets a new roll paper 23 on the holding shaft 23a and brings the pinch roller 35 into contact with the delivery roller 30 side. The roll paper 23 is now in the standby state. Sending roller 2
Any one of the band-shaped papers 25 and 26 sent out by the printer 9 and 30 is cut into a predetermined size by the cutter 42, and the printer 4
In step 5, the specified items are printed. Such processing is
This is alternately performed on the roll papers 23 and 24.

As described above, in this embodiment, the pair of roll papers 23 and 24 can be used together. Moreover, a simple structure can be realized.

[0019]

By using the ticket issuing apparatus of the present invention,
The following effects can be achieved.

Of the pair of roll bodies, the strip from the roll body being used is sandwiched between one of the first roller and the second roller and the pinch roller. The strip from the unused roll has a spacing between the pinch roller and the other of the first roller and the second roller corresponding to the strip not used, It is a structure that does not sandwich. Thereby, the first roller,
With the second roller and the pinch roller, the two roll bodies can be alternately used with a simple structure.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a one-way rotating clutch according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the ticket issuing device 21 of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the ticket issuing device 21.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a ticket issuing device 1 according to the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21 ticket issuing device 23, 24 roll paper 23a, 23b holding shaft 25, 26 strip paper 29, 30 delivery roller 31, 32, 34 gear 33, 41 motor V1, V2 peripheral speed 35 pinch roller 36 one-way rotating clutch

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pair of roll body holding means for individually holding a pair of roll bodies, and a belt-shaped body which is rotationally driven in a single direction and is unwound from one of the pair of roll bodies. A first roller that is capable of being conveyed in a single direction, and a second roller that is rotationally driven in the opposite direction to the single direction and that is capable of conveying a strip-shaped body unwound from the other of the pair of roll bodies in the delivery direction. A one-way rotation clutch provided on either one of the first roller and the second roller, a first rotation position near the first roller, disposed between the first roller and the second roller, and a second roller It is reciprocally movable between a second rotation position nearer to the second rotation position, and is provided with a pinch roller that sandwiches the strip-shaped body between the first roller and the second roller, and is used among the pair of roll bodies. The strip from the roll is the first Pinch roller sandwiched between one of the roller and the second roller and the pinch roller and corresponding to the other belt-shaped body from the unused roll body and the other of the pinch roller and the pinch roller. Is a ticketing device that is spaced apart.