JPH0797433B2 - Money handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a cash processing apparatus such as a cash register machine installed in various stores or the like for totaling product transactions or a cash machine installed in a bank or the like. Regarding

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an increasing number of stores such as boutiques and cafe bars have a unified interior design including equipment installed in the store. Therefore, cash register machines installed in such stores are required to have various designs according to the interior of each store.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a typical prior art cash register 1. The cash register 1 includes a main body 7 in which electronic circuits and the like are stored in an upper housing 9 and a lower housing 10, and a drawer storage unit 14 that stores money and a drawer 12 that is a money box. including. The main body 7 is composed of an operating portion 6 provided with a key switch 11 on the surface 3 facing upward, and a projecting portion 5 projecting upward from FIG. 7 from the operating portion 6. A display portion 8 for displaying transaction information is provided on the front side surface of the protruding portion 5, and a printer 4 for issuing receipts and journals is provided on the left side of the display portion 8 in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the cash register 1 as viewed from the section line VIII-VIII in FIG. 7, and the main body 7 and the drawer storage section 14 of the cash register 1 are as shown in FIG. Independently configured. That is, the drawer storage unit 14 is usually a rectangular parallelepiped casing made of metal or the like, and the main body 7 is configured to include an upper casing 9 and a lower casing 10 made of synthetic resin or the like.
Through the through holes 16a, 16b provided at the bottom of the lower housing 10,
Boss 1a, 15b is installed on the top of the drawer 14
The main body 7 and the drawer accommodating portion 14 are fixed by being fitted into 17a and 17b.

The printer 4 needs to store the journal paper 19 and the receipt paper, which are roll papers, and the journal paper 20 printed and wound by the printing mechanism 18, and therefore has a relatively large volume. Need. The cash register 1 is provided with a projecting part 5 projecting upward from the operation part 6 to secure a space for accommodating the journal papers 19, 20 and the like.

FIG. 9 is a schematic sectional view of the cash register 1 taken along the section line IX-IX in FIG. 7. In the cash register 1, the width W2 of the drawer storage unit 14 is larger than the width W1 of the main body 7, and therefore the cash register 1 is large.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention In the above cash register 1 of the prior art, the drawer storage
Since 14 is made of metal, its weight increases, and since the width W2 of the drawer accommodating portion 14 is larger than the width W1 of the main body 7, the outer shape becomes large and gives a heavy feeling to the customer.

In addition, when changing the design of the cash register 1, it is often the case that only the main body 7 is modified, and thus the overall design of the cash register 1 cannot be renewed. . Therefore, it is difficult to change the design of the cash register to a novel one as the times change. Furthermore, since the drawer storage unit 14 and the main body 7 are configured independently, there is a problem that the number of parts increases and the production cost increases.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above technical problems, to provide a money processing apparatus that can be reduced in weight and size, and can be reduced in production cost.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention constitutes a housing of an apparatus main body with an upper housing and a lower housing, and an operating means for inputting and operating money processing information into this housing, and printing money processing information on roll paper. In the money processing apparatus for housing interior parts such as a printer and a power supply unit for performing the above, the lower housing has bulging portions that are spaced apart from each other on the left and right sides so that the bottom surface of the lower housing is projected to the lower outside. , The synthetic resin is integrally molded, and a drawer storage portion is formed between the left and right bulging portions, and a drawer for storing money is stored from the front of the drawer storage portion. It is a processing device.

In the present invention, the lower housing has a bulging portion for an interior part formed by bulging a bottom surface of the drawer accommodating portion outwardly at a lower portion in the rear part of the drawer accommodating portion. It is characterized by containing interior parts.

Operation According to the present invention, the case forming the outer shell of the apparatus main body is composed of an upper case and a lower case, and the lower case is different from the later-described embodiment in which the drawers are accommodated in the drawer storage unit 110.
a, 110b bulging part is integrally molded with synthetic resin,
The bottom surface of this lower housing is projected to the outside of the lower part, and between the bulging parts on the left and right of the upper part, a drawer storage part for storing a drawer for storing money is formed from the front, so that the bulging part is integrated with the lower housing. And a compact design can be applied to the money handling apparatus. Therefore, the pressure feeling described in connection with the conventional technique is reduced and the weight is reduced. In this way, the size of the housing can be minimized. Further, it is possible to prevent the internal structure for accommodating the drawer from becoming complicated.

Further, according to the present invention, the space formed in the concave portion of the drawer housing portion of the lower housing can be effectively utilized for housing interior parts. This makes it possible to more effectively reduce the size of the housing.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a cash register 170 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The cash register 170 is installed in a store and collects money transactions related to product sales and the like. The cash register 170, which is a money processing device, is configured by housing an electronic circuit, which will be described later, in a housing 171, and the housing 17
1 is composed of an upper housing 120 and a lower housing 100. The lower housing main body 101 and the drawer storages 110a and 110b are integrally molded of synthetic resin to form the lower housing 100, and the lower housing main body 101 and the upper housing 120 form a main body.

The upper surface 103 of the upper housing 120 has numerical keys and various control keys of the cash register 170, and has an operation input unit 140 as an operating means and a hemispherical appearance, and is displayed inside. A display means 130 for accommodating elements and the like and a discharge port 302 for discharging a receipt are formed. As will be described later, a part of the upper housing 120 in the vicinity of the discharge port 302 is configured by a cover 301, and inside the cover 301, a printer 160 including receipt roll paper and journal roll paper, which are recording paper, is housed. ing. When replacing the receipt roll paper and the Shannar roll paper, the cover 3 that can be detachably attached to the remaining part of the upper housing 120
01 is configured to be removed.

The drawer 150, which is also referred to as a drawer, stores money in the same manner as described in connection with the above-described conventional technique, and has a drawer storage section 110a and a drawer storage section 110b on both sides thereof, which have a configuration described later. , It is instructed from the front that the drawer can be moved.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the cash register 170. The upper housing 120, the lower housing 100, and the drawer 150 are shown in FIG.
It is arranged and assembled as shown at 0,81.

The upper housing 120 is manufactured by molding a synthetic resin, and the operation input unit 140, the cover 301, and the display cover 300 of the display unit 130 are attached to the upper housing 120. The display cover 300 is made of, for example, translucent acrylic.

The operation input unit 140 includes various key switches formed on the base body 308, and the board 308 is attached to the upper housing 120 by a fitting mechanism (not shown).

Further, the cover 301 is formed with a receipt discharge port 302 extending below the receipt discharge unit 320 for discharging the receipt roll paper 311 of the printer 160 arranged below the cover 301 as described later. Further, the cover 301 is formed with a claw 304 for fitting with the upper housing 120. The upper housing 120 is provided with a loose insertion hole (not shown) into which the claw 304 is loosely inserted. In addition, the upper housing 120 has an engagement claw 303 for fitting with a protrusion (not shown) provided on the cover 301.
The cover 301 is detachably attached to the upper housing 120 in this manner.

The lower housing 100 is manufactured by integrally molding a synthetic resin or the like, and on the lower housing 100, an electric circuit board 420 on which a semiconductor element or the like is mounted and a display element 313 such as a light emitting diode are mounted. Substrate 314,
A printer 160 and a printer 160 are attached.

The bottom surface 450 of the lower housing 100 projects to the outside of the lower part of the lower housing 100 and has a length l corresponding to the depth l3 of the drawer 150.
The bottom is raised over 4 to form a space for housing the drawer 150. At both ends of this bottom surface 450,
Drawer accommodating portions 110a and 110b for projecting downward from the bottom surface 450 to cover the side surface of the drawer 150 and for supporting the support chassis 440 of the drawer 150 are formed. The drawer storage portions 110a and 110b of the lower housing 100 are bulging portions which are spaced apart from each other on the left and right sides and bulge, as clearly shown in FIG. 3, and a bottom surface 450 of the lower housing 100.
Is protruding outward from the lower part as in the previous surgery.

Further, at the rear part of the lower housing 100, there is provided a recessed portion 460 formed in a recessed shape up to the substantially bottom surface position of the drawer 150, and the printer 160 which requires a relatively large volume in this recessed portion 460.
A storage section 412 for storing the receipt roll paper 311 and the journal roll paper 312 is provided. A power supply unit 430 is housed in the recess 460. At the rear part of the drawer storage parts 110a, 110b in the lower housing 100, the bulging part for the internal parts for storing the internal parts by bulging the bottom surface outward of the lower part is formed as described above.

The bottom surface 450 of the lower housing 100 shown in the right rear portion of FIG.
Step-shaped projections 419 for arranging 4 near the display unit 130 of the upper housing 120 are formed. A pair of substrate locking portions 405 and a pair of engaging claws 404 are formed on the upper surface of the step-like protrusion 419, and as a result, the display substrate 314 is forwarded as shown by an arrow 82 in FIG. It is fixed by tilting to.

Further, on the right front portion of the bottom surface 450 of the lower housing 100, a pair of board engaging portions 407 for fixing the electric circuit base body 420 and a pair of engaging claws 408 are formed. Further, columnar protrusions 409 and 410 are provided on the bottom surface 450, and the columnar protrusion 410 is loosely inserted into the opening 421 provided in the electric circuit board 420. With the configuration described above, the electric circuit board 420 is aligned with a predetermined position of the lower housing 100 as shown by an arrow 83,
Fixed.

The upper ends of the cylindrical projections 409 and 410 abut the substrate 308 of the operation input unit 140 described above from below in FIG.
It is possible to prevent the operation input section 140 from rattling due to the bending of the.

A storage portion for the printer 160 is formed by the shielding wall 411 at the left rear portion of the bottom surface 450 of the lower housing 100. As described above, the storage portion 412 for the receipt roll paper 311 and the journal roll paper 312 is formed in the rear portion of this storage portion. In the printing unit 160, a mechanism for carrying and printing the receipt roll paper 311 and a mechanism for carrying and printing the journal roll paper 312 are connected to each other to form a printing mechanism 310. A pair of locking claws 431 are formed on the front surface of FIG. This locking claw 431 is a shield wall
It is fitted to a support portion (not shown) formed on 411. Further, the rear portion of the printing mechanism 310 is fitted into the locking portion 415, and the printer 160 is fixed to the lower housing 100 at the position indicated by the arrow 84 by such a configuration.

The shield wall 411 is provided to prevent foreign matter from entering the electric circuit unit when the journal roll paper 311 and the receipt roll paper 312 are replaced, and the shield wall 411 is provided.
It is configured to mesh with a shielding wall (not shown) formed at a position corresponding to 0.

The storage unit 412 for storing the receipt roll paper 311 and the journal roll paper 312 has a plurality of arc-shaped so that the receipt roll paper 311 and the journal roll paper 312 are rotated by the tension of the paper feeding mechanism provided in the printer 160. A protrusion 432 is formed, and the receipt roll paper 311 and the journal roll paper 312 are placed on the protrusion 432 as indicated by the arrow 85.

In connection with the connection between the upper upper housing 120 and the lower housing 100, an inwardly projecting engagement claw 307 is formed on the front inner wall of the upper housing 120. The engaging claws 307 are the engaging portions 40 of the lower housing 100.
Mates with 1. Further, the guide protrusion 306 provided on the upper housing 120 and the guide protrusion 406 provided on the lower housing 100.
Thus, the upper casing 120 and the lower casing 100 are aligned with each other. In this state, bolts are fitted into the bosses 305 of the upper housing 120 via the insertion holes 402 provided in the lower housing 100, and the bosses of the upper housing 120 (not shown) are inserted through the insertion holes 403 of the lower housing 100. The bolt is inserted into the upper housing 120
And the lower housing 100 are fixed.

The drawer 150 is manufactured by molding a synthetic resin, and is slidably supported by a metal support chassis 440 as described later. Threaded grooves 451 are formed on the upper surfaces of both sides of the support chassis 440, and bolts and the like are fitted through holes (not shown) provided at the bottom of the recess 414 of the lower housing 100. By this, the drawer 150 is fixed to the lower housing 100. The drawer housing portions 110a and 110b of the lower housing 100 fix the support chassis 440 and cover both side surfaces of the drawer 150, respectively.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the cash register 170 taken along the section line III-III in FIG. In the lower housing 100, the lower housing 10 is provided above the recess 414 forming the drawer storage portions 110a and 110b.
A draft is provided in connection with the 0 being produced by molding. That is, the width of the recess 414 is narrower in the lower part of FIG. In order to keep the wall thickness d of the lower housing 100 constant in this recess 414, the drawer storage unit 1
10a and 110b have a double structure including a recess 414 as shown in the third drawing. Similarly, the cylindrical protrusions 409 and 410 described above
Is also provided with a draft, the cylindrical projections 409,41
The width of 0 is narrower in the upper part of FIG. Drawer 1
A pair of rollers 441 are provided at both ends of FIG. 3 in FIG. 3, whereby the drawer 150 is slidably supported by the support chassis 450.

Further, the width W3 of the lower housing body 101 of the lower housing 100 is set to be longer than the width W4 in the drawer storage portions 110a and 110b. That is, in FIG. 3, the left side surface of the lower housing body 101 protrudes leftward in FIG. 3 by a length l1 from the left side surface of the drawer housing portion 110a, and the right side surface of the lower housing body 101 is the right side surface of the drawer housing portion 110b. It protrudes to the right in FIG. 3 by a length l2. This allows the cash register 170 to be installed as shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the cash register 170 when cut along the section line IV-IV in FIG. A storage portion 412 of the recess 460 is provided behind the position where the drawer 150 of the lower housing 100 is stored. Journal roll paper 312 that is part of printer 160
Are placed on the arcuate projections 432 provided in the storage portion 412. The journal roll paper 312 is printed by the printing mechanism 310 and wound as the journal roll paper 313. This journal roll paper 312 is on the bottom of the lower housing 100.
The printer 160 is located below the 450 in FIG. 4, so that the storage space for the printer 160 can be provided without providing the protruding portion protruding upward from the operating portion of the cash register described in the related art. Can be secured.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view when the cash register 170 is installed on the table 210, and FIG. 6 is a front view when the cash register 170 is installed on the table 210. The table 210 is provided with a recess 200 having a width larger than the width W4 of the drawer storages 110a and 110b and smaller than the width W3 of the lower housing body 101. As a result, the bottom surface 230 of the lower housing body 101 is brought into contact with and supported by the front surface 220 of the table 210, and the drawer 150 is placed on the table 2.
It can be installed so as to fit in the recess 200 of ten.
As a result, the cash register 170 can be installed so that the height protruding from the table surface 220 is reduced by the height l5, and the feeling of heavy pressure due to the installation of the cash register 170 is further reduced.

Thus, in the cash register 170, by integrally molding the lower housing main body 101 and the drawer storages 110a, 110b as the lower housing 100, it is possible to reduce the weight of the cash register and yet have a compact design. Can be realized. Moreover, the number of parts can be reduced,
The production cost can be reduced.

Although the cash register has been described in this embodiment, it is not necessary to limit the cash register to a cash register.
If it is a terminal device in (point-of-sale system) or a device that performs monetary processing on transaction information involving money transfer such as a cash machine installed in a financial institution such as a bank,
The present invention can be implemented in other devices.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, in the lower housing in the housing of the apparatus main body composed of the upper housing and the lower housing, the bulging portions that are spaced apart from each other and that form the drawer storage portion are provided.
It is molded integrally with synthetic resin, and the bottom surface of this lower housing is made to project to the lower outside, so that the housing of the device main body and the bulging portion that forms the drawer storage part can be made into a compact design. It is possible to reduce the weight and size. Further, it is possible to prevent the internal structure for accommodating and supporting the drawer from being complicated, and it is possible to simplify the configuration.

Further, it is possible to reduce the heavy feeling of the money processing device.
In addition, since the internal structure can be prevented from becoming complicated as described above, the number of parts can be reduced and the production cost can be reduced.

Further, according to the present invention, since the interior part swelling portion is formed in the rear part of the drawer housing part of the lower housing to accommodate the interior parts, the space generated in the rear part of the drawer housing part is reduced to the interior parts. It can be effectively used for storage,
It is possible to more effectively reduce the size of the housing of the device body.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cash register 170 according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is an exploded perspective view of the cash register 170, FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the cash register 170 taken from section line III-III in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is section line IV-IV in FIG. FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the cash register 170 as viewed from above, FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the cash register 170 when the cash register 170 is installed on the table 210, and FIG.
Fig. 7 is a front view of the cash register 1 when it is installed in the, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the conventional cash register 1. Fig. 8 is a section line VIII-VI of Fig. 7.
FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the cash register 1 seen from II, and FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the cash register 1 seen from section line IX-IX in FIG. 100: lower housing, 101: lower housing body, 110a, 110b ...
… Drawer storage, 120 …… Upper housing, 140 …… Operation input, 150 …… Drawer, 160 …… Printer, 170 …… Cash register, 171 …… Housing, 311 …… Receipt roll paper, 312…
… Journal roll paper, 440 …… Supporting chassis, 414,460
...... Concave

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An upper housing and a lower housing constitute a housing of an apparatus main body, and an operating means for inputting and operating money processing information into the housing, a printer and a power source for printing the money processing information on roll paper. In a money processing device for housing interior parts such as a unit, in the lower housing, the bulging portions that are spaced apart from each other on the left and right are made to protrude integrally with a synthetic resin by projecting the bottom surface of the lower housing to the lower outside. A money handling apparatus characterized in that it is formed and formed with a drawer accommodating portion between the left and right bulging portions, and accommodates a drawer for storing money from the front of the drawer accommodating portion. 2. The lower housing has a bulging portion for an interior part formed by bulging a bottom surface of the drawer accommodating portion to the outside of the lower part in the rear part of the drawer accommodating portion. The money processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein interior parts are stored.