JPH08171665A - Paper money and coin processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a paper money and coin processor capable of easily dissolving the jamming of paper moneys and coins. CONSTITUTION: A movable guide 21 is made approachable and separable to/from a fixed guide 11. It comes close to the side of the fixed guide 11, the ticket is held between the movable guide 21 and a feed roller 12, and the ticket is sent downwards and the jamming is dissolved. On the other hand, the movable guide 21 is separated from the fixed guide 11 and the jamming of the coins is dissolved. Further, a movable frame 2 is separated from the fixed guide 11, a movable paper money and coin separation roller 20 mounted to the movable frame 2 is separated from a fixed paper money and coin separation roller 10, a clearance is provided between the fixed paper money and coin separation roller 10 and the movable paper money and coin separation roller 20, the coin is dropped from there and the jamming is dissolved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a money handling apparatus mounted on a bus or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In buses and the like, fare payments are sometimes made with coupons or with coins, and there is a money handling device that can handle these tickets and coins in the same device. Widely used. The bill processing device is configured to separate a bill and coins inserted by a passenger, and store the coin and the bill in different storage units.

[0003]

However, in the conventional note handling apparatus, when a problem occurs such that the ticket is bent and cannot be sent or a coin is jammed, a work to open the machine each time to remove the jam, etc. However, there is a drawback that it hinders the operation when installed on a bus or the like. The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the bill handling apparatus of the present invention comprises a pair of rollers which are placed close to each other so that only bills pass and coins do not pass. There is at least one of the coin separating roller which is movable and can form a predetermined gap between the other roller, and a fixed guide which is located above the coin separating roller and guides the coin. It is necessary to provide a predetermined gap between a feed roller that is provided on the fixed guide and that rotates so as to feed the ticket downward, and a fixed roller that is provided so as to face the fixed guide and to guide the bill. A movable guide capable of moving the fixed guide direction and feeding the ticket downward in cooperation with the feed roller, and moving it in the anti-fixed guide direction to increase the gap when necessary. It is characterized by having One of the bill separating rollers is movable, and when a coin or the like is jammed, the roller can be moved to easily clear the jam. A movable guide provided above the currency separating roller presses the unfed ticket toward the feeding roller side to forcibly feed it toward the currency separating roller. Further, it is possible to clear the jam of coins by separating from the fixed guide.
It is desirable that the movable guide and the movable coin separating roller can be moved by a single moving mechanism. In a preferred embodiment, the movable guide is moved first and the movable guide is moved to a predetermined position. When it reaches, the roller is pushed by the movable guide and moves. Further, it is desirable that the movable guide can also be moved manually so as to increase the interval, and thus a driver or the like can easily clear the clogging manually. It is also possible to install the bill separating roller in a tilted manner, drop a coin that cannot pass between the rollers downward, and count the number of coins. It is also possible to install a conveyor belt below the currency separating roller so that the currency conveyed by the conveyor belt can be visually recognized by the driver and passengers.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view, and FIGS. 2 to 5 are schematic views. The fixed coin separating roller 10 is mounted on the fixed frame 1 side, and the movable coin separating roller 20 is mounted on the movable frame 2 side. The fixed coin separating roller 10 and the movable coin separating roller 20 are provided so as to be substantially in contact with each other, and are installed so as to be inclined downward as illustrated. Further, the bill separating rollers 10 and 20 are rotated downward as shown in FIG. 2, and the bills are passed between them and dropped onto the conveyor belt 5. Coins that cannot pass between the coin separating rollers 10 and 20 move along the inclination of the coin separating rollers 10 and 20, and between the coin sensors 4 provided at the ends of the coin separating rollers 10 and 20. And is dropped onto the conveyor belt 5. A partition plate 6 is provided on the conveyor belt 5 so that the money is not mixed on the conveyor belt 5. The tickets and coins carried by the conveyor belt 5 are configured to be sent to the next processing unit such as a storage unit.

A fixed guide 11 is provided above the bill separating rollers 10 and 20, and a feed roller 12 is installed therein. The fixed guide 11 is mounted on the fixed frame 1 side, and the feed roller 12 partially projects from the surface of the fixed guide 11. The feed roller 12 is the fixed guide 1
A plurality of coins are installed at an appropriate location of one, and rotate downward to send the coins toward the coin separating rollers 10 and 20.

A movable guide 2 facing the fixed guide 11
1 is provided, and as shown in FIG.
A predetermined gap is formed between the coin and the coin separating roller 1
It is configured to guide in 0 and 20 directions. A coin slot 7 is provided above the fixed guide 11 and the movable guide 21.
Is installed, and passengers can insert coins into the coin slot 7.

The movable guide 21 is attached to the movable frame 2 via a guide shaft 26, and the movable frame 2
It is movable with respect to. That is, the guide shaft 26 penetrates the movable frame 2, and the tension spring 2 is normally placed.
It is pressed by 2 in a direction away from the movable frame 2.

A ball screw 24 rotated by a motor 25 is mounted on the fixed frame 1, and a drive piece 23 is engaged with the ball screw 24, and the rotation of the ball screw 24 by the motor 25 causes the drive piece 23 to be placed on the ball screw 24. To move. The driving piece 23 is configured to engage with the movable guide 21 and move the movable guide 21 in the movable frame 2 direction.

Although the movable guide 21 is pressed by the spring 22 in the direction away from the movable frame 2, that is, toward the fixed guide 11, the movable guide 21 is locked by the drive piece 23 at a predetermined position and is fixed between the movable guide 21 and the fixed guide 11. It is designed to guide the money at intervals. Then, if necessary, as shown in FIG. 3, the ticket is put close to the fixed guide 11 and sandwiched between the feeding roller 12 and the ticket separating roller 10,
It is configured so that it can be sent to 20. Also, as shown in FIG. 4, retract in the direction of the movable frame 2,
The gap between the fixed guide 11 and the fixed guide 11 can be increased to eliminate clogging of coins.

The movable frame 2 is supported by a slide shaft 3 mounted on the fixed frame 1 side, and is movable on the slide shaft 3. The driving piece 23 moves the movable guide 21 in the direction of the movable frame 2, and further pushes the movable guide 21 even after the movable guide 21 comes into contact with the movable frame 2 to move the movable guide 21 and the movable frame 2 together. Has been done. By the movement of the movable frame 2, as shown in FIG. 5, the movable coin separating roller 20 mounted on the movable frame 2 also moves and can be separated from the fixed coin separating roller 10. This makes it possible to completely clear the jam of coins. In this embodiment, the coin sensor 4 is provided facing the fixed guide 11 side and the movable frame 2 side, and is separated by the movement of the movable frame 2.

Next, the operation will be described. Passenger has a ticket slot 7
When you insert the money from the fixed guide 11 and the movable guide 2
It passes through the gap 1 and falls on the currency separating rollers 10 and 20. The coins are placed along the inclination of the coin separating rollers 10 and 20,
It moves and falls on the conveyor belt 5 through the coin sensor 4. The coin sensor 4 counts the coins that have passed, determines the type of coins, and transmits the data to an arithmetic processing unit (not shown) or the like. The ticket is sandwiched between the currency separating rollers 10 and 20 and falls on the conveyor belt 5.

If the ticket does not drop, the driver or the like drives the motor 25 to move the driving piece 23 in the direction opposite to the movable frame 2 to unlock the movable guide 21. As a result, the movable guide 21 is pressed in the direction of the fixed guide 11 by the force of the spring 22, and the ticket is sandwiched between it and the feed roller 12 as shown in FIG. Since the feeding roller 12 is rotating downward, the ticket is fed to the money separating rollers 10 and 20, is sandwiched, and drops toward the conveyor belt 5. As described above, the jam of the ticket can be cleared.

When the coin is jammed, the driving piece 23 is driven in the movable frame 2 direction, and the movable guide 21 is moved in the movable frame 2 direction as shown in FIG.
Increase the gap between and. As a result, the jammed coins drop on the coin separating rollers 10 and 20 and move downward along the slope. The movable guide 21 can be moved by pushing it with a hand, and the clogging can be easily eliminated by a manual operation of a driver or the like.

In the case where the clogging cannot be eliminated only by moving the movable guide 21, the movable guide 21 is further moved to the movable frame 2.
The movable frame 2 is moved together with the movable guide 21 as shown in FIG. As a result, the movable coin separating roller 20 is separated from the fixed coin separating roller 10 and a large gap is generated between the fixed coin separating roller 10 and the movable coin separating roller 20, and the jammed coin falls from here.
It falls on the conveyor belt 5 and is sent to the subsequent process together with the ticket. Even if a ticket and coins are mixed, the amount of money can be confirmed by the driver, because it is visible on the conveyor belt 5.

As described above, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the jam of the bills and the jam of the coins can be easily removed, and the operation such as opening the cover of the device is not required. Further, since the movable guide 21 can be manually moved, it is also possible to manually clear the jam of coins. Further, since the movable guide 21 and the movable frame 2 can be moved by a single drive mechanism, the device can be simplified. Further, since coin sensors 4 are provided at the ends of the bill separating rollers 10 and 20 and the number and type of coins can be identified, the inserted amount can be grasped. Further, the bills and coins are dropped on the conveyor belt 5 and can be visually recognized. Even when the fixed bill separating roller 10 and the movable bill separating roller 20 are separated from each other to clear the jam, the bills and coins are also kept on the conveyor belt 5. It is possible to visually check the coins that are mixed with the ticket and confirm the inserted amount.

[0017]

As described above, according to the bill handling apparatus of the present invention, when a coin, a bill, or the like is clogged, it can be easily eliminated, which hinders the operation of a bus or the like. There is nothing to do. According to the second aspect of the invention, the device can be simplified. Further, according to the invention of claim 3, it is possible to easily clear the jam manually, and in the invention of claim 4, it is also possible to count the number of inserted coins. Further, according to the invention of claim 5, it is possible to make a ticket conveyed by the conveyor belt visible to a driver or a passenger.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the operation of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Fixed frame, 2: Movable frame, 3: Shaft for slide, 4: Coin sensor, 5: Conveyor belt,
6: partition plate, 7: coin slot, 10: fixed coin separating roller, 11: fixed guide, 12: feed roller, 20: movable coin separating roller, 21: movable guide, 22: spring, 2
3: drive piece, 24: ball screw, 25: motor, 26:
Guide shaft.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A pair of rollers which are installed close to each other so as to pass only a ticket and not a coin,
At least one of the coin separating roller which is movable and can form a predetermined gap between the other roller, a fixed guide which is located above the coin separating roller and guides the coin, and the fixed guide And a fixed roller which is provided to face the fixed roller, which rotates so as to feed the ticket downward, and guides the money by providing a predetermined gap between the fixed guide and the fixed roller. A movable guide capable of moving in the fixed guide direction to feed the ticket downwards in cooperation with the feed roller, and moving in the anti-fixed guide direction to increase the gap when necessary. A note processing device characterized in that 2. The money handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the movable guide and the movable money separating roller are movable by a single moving mechanism. 3. The money handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the movable guide is manually movable so as to increase the interval. 4. The money handling apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a counting device that is installed by inclining the money separating roller and counts coins passing below the roller. 5. The money handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a conveyor belt is installed below the money separating roller so that the money conveyed by the conveyor belt can be visually recognized.