JPH074705Y2 - Rental locker device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial field of application] The present invention can not only be used by inserting a predetermined coin as in the conventional case but also can purchase a substitute coin with a card such as a prepaid card when not having a coin. The present invention relates to a coin locker / replacement locker device that can also be used by doing.

[Conventional technology]

Currently, the locker lockers that are installed in the liquid premises and used by customers are coin lockers that can be used when only a predetermined number of coins are inserted (Act No. 61-6539, No. 61). -See the publication such as No. 11831).

There are many users of such coin-operated rental lockers,
Although it is widely used in Japan, it has the drawback that locker lockers cannot be used when waiting for a predetermined coin.

Therefore, a centralized control locker device (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-239893) that can be used for other types of coins and banknotes,
Further, a locker device (see Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 53-16719 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-267889) that can be used with a card has been proposed.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

It is desirable that rental lockers can be used not only with specific coins but also with other types of coins and banknotes.Also, it is possible to lend with a card so that you can purchase with a card or purchase a ticket for a station without carrying coins. The availability of lockers is desired.

However, coin-insertion type lending lockers are prevailing in the country at present, and replacing them with lending lockers that can be used with a card causes a problem that the replacement cost becomes extremely large.

In addition, the current coin lockers have a large number of users, and for users who are familiar with the use of current coin lockers, they are unfamiliar with the card-type lending lockers that have different usage methods. Is an obstacle.

The present invention was made in order to solve the above problems, and it is possible to reconstruct coins and substitute coins at extremely low cost without removing existing lockers that are popular throughout the country. We provide rental lockers that can be shared.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a coin slot having a size that does not allow a coin having a diameter larger than a predetermined coin to pass through, a cradle for sorting coins inserted through the coin slot according to an outer diameter, and the cradle. In the rental locker equipped with a magnet for discriminating the predetermined coin by the material from the coins selected by, the notch groove having a diameter larger than the predetermined coin and having a notch formed on the outer peripheral surface, through which the substitute coin can pass, is provided. Formed at the inlet.

[Action]

The operation of the coin / substitute coin locker lending locker configured as described above is as follows.

(Use with coins) Although a partial cutout groove is provided in the coin slot, it is the same as the conventional one in that a coin with a diameter larger than the predetermined coin cannot pass through the coin slot, and it also passes through the coin slot. Of the possible coins, coins other than the predetermined coins are eliminated by the cradle and the magnet inspection mechanism as in the conventional case.

Therefore, it is used in the same manner as a conventional coin locker.

(Use with substitute coins) Insert substitute coins purchased with a card into the coin slot.

Although the substitute coin has a larger diameter than the conventional coin insertion slot, it can pass through the coin insertion slot having the cutout groove because the cutout portion is formed on the outer peripheral surface.

Also, if the material of this substitute coin is selected as the material selected by the coin inspection mechanism, the substitute locker device can use the substitute coin.

〔Example〕

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

The coin locker device installed on the premises of the station,
There is a group of lockers arranged in the horizontal direction and stacked in the vertical direction, and a lock case is provided beside each locker door.

On the surface of the lock case, as shown in FIG.
1, a cylinder lock 2 and a coin return port 3 are provided.

The coin insertion slot 1 regulates coins that can be inserted according to the diameter of the coins, so that coins having a diameter larger than a predetermined coin cannot pass through.

For example, when the predetermined coin is a hundred-yen coin, a ten-yen coin and a five hundred-yen coin having a larger diameter than the one-hundred-yen coin can be excluded, and a hundred-yen coin and a smaller-yen coin can be inserted.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a locking rod that locks the door by protruding from the lock case or retracts into the lock case by unlocking the door by rotating a key inserted in the key hole 2a of the cylinder lock 2.

Inside the lock case, as shown in FIG.
Six are provided.

The guide plates 5 and 6 are composed of two plates 5a, 5b and 6a, 6b which face each other with a space therebetween.

The plate 5a is provided with substantially L-shaped vertical walls 7, standing upright at two positions on the right end edge thereof, and the vertical wall 7 has a groove 8 into which a shaft 23 described later is fitted.
Is provided.

Coin rails 9 and 10 are fixed to the plate 5a with screws, and a coin passage is formed between the coin rails 9 and 10.

Reference numeral 11 is an inclined wall for receiving coins, the tip of which is outwardly inclined, and fan-shaped hollow holes 12, 1 are formed below the inclined wall 11.
3 is provided.

The plate 5b has bearings 14 and 14 that are bent at the right end, and a square opening 15 is provided near the center.

Also, a sloped wall for receiving coins whose tip is inclined outward
16 is provided, and the shaft 18 of the cradle 17 is provided below the inclined wall 16.
(See FIG. 3) is rotatably inserted, and pins 21 and 22 that are provided in the cradle 17 and project toward the plate 5a are inserted into the recessed holes 19 and 20 provided in the plate 5b. .

The distance d between the pins 21 and 22 is a dimension that prevents passage of a predetermined 100-yen coin and a coin having a similar outer diameter, but is a size that allows 1-yen coin and 50-yen coin D to pass ( (See FIG. 8), the cradle 17 on which a hundred-yen coin or a five-yen coin is placed is rotated clockwise about a shaft 18 as a fulcrum to eject the coin onto the coin rail 10.

The assembled state of the plates 5a and 5b is shown in the front view of FIG. 3, the vertical sectional view of FIG. 4 and the plan view of FIG.

In the figure, coil rails attached to plate 5a
Plates 5b are stacked on 9, 10 and a magnet case 24 is pivotally attached to a shaft 23 fitted into the bearing 14 of the plate 5b.
The intermediate portion 25a of the spring 25 wound around the outer periphery of the spring is locked to the plate 5b and both ends thereof are locked to the magnet case 24, and the magnet case 24 is urged in the direction overlapping with the plate 5b.

The gap between the magnet case 24 and the plate 5a can be adjusted by the machine screw 26 screwed on the magnet case 24 (see FIG. 5).

The magnet case 24 is provided at its free end with a pin 27 that projects toward the plate 5b and restricts the rotation of the cradle 17, and at the center, a magnet housing chamber that projects into the opening 15 of the plate 5b and houses a magnet 28 inside. 29 are provided.

Below the magnet 28, a sorting piece 30 whose position can be horizontally adjusted between the plates 5a and 5b is provided.

This magnet 28 is provided in the passage of coins discharged from the coin rail 10, and the 5-yen coin E has a braking effect due to the eddy current generated by the magnetic field of the magnet 28 and falls to the left side of the sorting piece 30 to return the coins. Although returned to the mouth 3, the hundred-yen coin C has a small brake coin due to the generation of an eddy current and drops to the right side of the sorting piece 30 for sorting (see FIG. 9).

Although the coin inspection mechanism configured as described above has the same configuration as the conventional coin locker, the configuration of the present invention is different in the following points.

FIG. 1 shows a notch groove in the center of the upper and lower surfaces of a conventional coin insertion slot, which has a size such that a 100-yen coin C, which is a predetermined coin, can be inserted, but a coin having a larger diameter than the 100-yen coin C cannot pass. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a coin slot 32 provided with 31, a substitute coin 33 having a diameter that cannot pass through the conventional coin slot and having notches 33a at both ends on the outer peripheral surface, and a hundred-yen coin C.

The cross-sectional shape of the substitute coin 33 is substantially the same as that of the coin slot 32, and has a size that allows the coin to pass through the coin slot 32.

FIG. 2 shows another embodiment in which the shape of the coin slot is different. Notch grooves 31 are provided at both ends of the upper and lower surfaces of the conventional coin slot.
A substitute coin 35 having substantially the same shape is shown with a coin insertion port 34 provided with a notch portion 35a formed between both end portions and having a size that can pass through the coin insertion port 34.

The outer diameter of the substitute coin 33 is made larger than that of the hundred-yen coin C because it is used as a pseudo coin that can be used in machines other than the locker device of the present invention, such as vending machines, in the same manner as the hundred-yen coin. This is to prevent the harmful effects.

In addition, a lending machine for lending substitute coins 33 or 35 with a paid card is installed near the locker device having this locker group.

The operation of the coin / substitute coin type rocker device configured as described above will be described.

The coin locker can be used for one hundred-yen coin, and the shape of the coin slot is shown in FIG.

(Usage with coins) This is exactly the same as the conventional method of using a coil locker, and the 100-yen coin C may be inserted into the coin slot 32.

The inserted 100-yen coin C is guided by the inclined walls 11 and 16 and locked on the pins 21 and 22 of the cradle 17, and the 100-yen coin C is inserted.
The cradle 17 which receives the weight of the gyro rotates in a clockwise direction around the shaft 18 as a fulcrum and rolls along the coin rail 10.
The hundred-yen coin C that has passed the magnetic field 28 and dropped to the right of the sorting piece 30 releases the restraint of the locking rod 4 (see FIG. 9).

When a five-yen coin E is inserted, the cradle 17 is rotated to roll on the coin rail 10 like the one-hundred-yen coin, but the magnetic field of the magnet 28 does not generate it, and the eddy current causes a braking effect to select the coin. It drops to the left of the piece 30 and is returned to the coin return port 3.

If 1-yen coin or 50-yen coin D is inserted,
As shown in the figure, it passes through between the pins 21 and 22 of the cradle 17 and is returned to the coin return port 3 (see FIG. 8).

Therefore, the coin locker is used only by inserting a predetermined coin of 100 yen, as in the conventional case.

(Use with substitute coins) Purchase substitute coin 33 from the lending machine with a prepaid card.

The substitute coin 33 is partially larger than the hundred-yen coin but can pass through the coin slot 32, and passes through the same course as the one-yen coin C.

If the substitute coin 33 is made of a material that drops to the right of the sorting piece 30, the lock on the locking rod can be released in the same manner as the hundred-yen coin C.

Alternatively, the substitute coin 33 may be made of a material having a larger eddy current brake coin than the 5-yen coin E, and a reflecting piece may be provided in the drop passage of the substitute coin 33 so that the coin 33 is repelled to the right side of the sorting piece 30. Good.

Thus, a locker device can be used even by a customer who has no money and carries only a prepaid card.

[Effect of device]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects.

(A) The existing locker can be used as a coin / substitute coin with the minimum modification cost for replacing the coin slot of the existing locker and the cost of installing one lending machine near the locker group. You can switch to a locker.

(B) Even if it is a general customer who is familiar with the current coin lockers and wants to continue using the coin lockers in the same way in the future, or even when these general users do not have 100-yen coins, Alternatively, even customers who prefer to use a Pyripayd card rather than money can use the locker.

In addition, even if a person who is familiar with the conventional coin locker usage method uses the card, there is no great difference in the usage method, so that there is no confusion due to unfamiliarity.

(C) Even in the distant future, when the number of card-only coin lockers will prevail, it is possible to prevent confusion by using the coin / card dual-purpose locker in the transitional period when switching.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 3 and 9 are drawings for explaining a conventional coin locker used in the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a coin slot and a substitute coin. And a perspective view of a hundred-yen coin, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of a coin slot and a substitute coin, FIG. 3 is a front view of a coin inspection mechanism, FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, 5 is a plan view of FIG. 3, FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a guide plate, FIG. 7 is a front view of a lock case, FIG. 8 is an explanatory view of a cradle type coin inspection mechanism, and FIG. 9 is an eddy current type. It is explanatory drawing of a money inspection mechanism. C: Hundred-yen coin, 5,6 ... Guide plate, 5a, 5b ... Plate, 9, 10 ... Coin rail, 11, 16 ... Inclined wall, 17 ...
… Cradle, 18 …… axis, 21,22 …… pin, 28 …… magnet, 30 …… sorting piece, 31 …… notch groove, 32,34 …… coin slot, 33,35 …… substitute coin, 33a , 35a ... Notch.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A coin slot having a size such that a coin having a diameter larger than a predetermined coin cannot pass through, a cradle for sorting coins inserted through the coin slot by an outer diameter, and a material selected from the coins sorted by the cradle. According to the rental locker equipped with a magnet for discriminating the predetermined coin, a notch groove having a larger diameter than the predetermined coin and having a notch formed on the outer peripheral surface and through which a substitute coin can pass is formed in the coin slot. Rental locker device.