JPH0822558A - Ticket ejector - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the ticket ejector which surely inhibits an erroneous ticket from being used again in the case of abnormality in magnetic data written in the ticket. CONSTITUTION:A switching member 25 which selectively leads the ticket, which is ejected from a ticket carrying path provided with a read head which reads magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe of the ticket, to a normal ejection path 8 or a void ejection path 9 and a discriminating means which discriminates whether magnetic data read by the read head is correct or not are provided, and a cutter 37 driven by a freely rotating void ejecting member 16 which ejects the ticket to the void ejection path 9 is arranged in a position facing the magnetic stripe in the void ejection path 9 if it is discriminated by the discriminating means that magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe is abnormal, and thereby, the ticket is cut in the part of the magnetic stripe when it is discriminated that written magnetic data is abnormal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket ejection device for ejecting a ticket on which a magnetic stripe for writing magnetic data is formed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when issuing an airline ticket,
Predetermined magnetic data is written on the magnetic stripe of the ticket, but if the magnetic data is judged to be correct or incorrect, if it is judged to be normal, it is discharged to the regular stacker, and if it is judged to be abnormal, it is discharged to the void stacker. are doing. in this case,
As shown in FIG. 6, the ticket S that is determined to be abnormal is indicated by "V
Characters such as "OID" are printed or a punching hole is formed in a part of the ticket to distinguish the ticket from the regular ticket. In FIG. 6, S'is a magnetic stripe in which magnetic data is written.

[0003]

The characters "VOID" and punching holes on a ticket judged to be abnormal are not identified by a machine, and since the ticket maintains a fixed size, it is exclusively used by a person. Are distinguished by their visual sense. For this reason, there is a risk of accidental reuse.

[0004]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
A ticket transport path on which a transport member for transporting a ticket having a magnetic stripe is arranged, a regular discharge path and a void discharge path branched from the downstream side of the ticket transport path, and a ticket discharge path. A switching member that selectively guides the ticket to be printed to the regular paper ejection path or the void paper ejection path, and reads magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe of the ticket, which is disposed in the ticket conveyance path. A read head, a judgment means for judging whether the magnetic data read by the read head is correct or not, and the ticket is properly ejected when the judgment means judges that the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe is normal. A rotatable regular paper ejection member that ejects paper to the paper path,
A rotatable void paper discharge member for discharging the ticket to the void paper discharge path when the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe is judged to be abnormal by the judgment means, and the void paper discharge path for discharging the ticket. It is a ticket ejection device that is configured by a cutter arranged at a position facing a magnetic stripe and driven by the void ejection member.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a ticket discharging device in which the cutter is arranged so as to cut the ticket along the carrying direction thereof so as to correspond to the ticket carrying direction. is there.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe of the ticket is determined to be abnormal, the ticket is cut at the magnetic stripe portion to recover the abnormal ticket. It is possible to reliably prohibit reuse even if it is mixed in the used portion.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it becomes possible to permit the ticket ejection operation with the cutter advanced into the void ejection path. As a result, even if the tickets are continuously discharged to the void paper discharge path, it is not necessary to repeat the cutter advancing and retracting operations with respect to the void paper discharge path. It becomes possible to discharge the paper to the paper discharge path. Further, the timing control for advancing the cutter to the void paper discharge path can be simplified.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The ticket S is the same as that described with reference to FIG. 6, and therefore will be described using the same reference numerals. First, FIG. 2 shows the overall structure of the ticket issuing device 1. In the main body 2 of the ticket issuing device 1, a paper feed roller 4 for feeding the continuous paper 3 on which a magnetic stripe is formed, and a paper feed roller 4 for guiding the continuous paper 3 fed by the paper feed roller 4 to a burster 5. Paper path 6,
A ticket transport path 7 for transporting the ticket S in which the continuous paper 3 is cut by the burster 5, and a ticket transport path 7 respectively.
A regular paper discharge path 8 and a void paper discharge path 9 that are branched from the downstream side are provided. A vertical regular stacker 10 is connected to the end of the regular paper discharge path 8, and a horizontal void stacker 11 is connected to the end of the void paper discharge path 9. In the ticket transport path 7, a plurality of pairs of transport rollers 12 that are transport members for transporting the ticket S, a recording head 13 for writing predetermined magnetic data on the magnetic stripe S ′ of the ticket S,
A read head 14 for reading the magnetic data written by the recording head 13 and a thermal head 15 for printing predetermined data on the ticket S are arranged. The discharge roller 1 serving as a normal discharge member and a void discharge member is provided on the inlet side and the outlet side of the regular discharge path 8, respectively.
6, 17 are provided. These discharge rollers 16,
Reference numeral 17 is connected to a motor (not shown) which is rotatable in forward and reverse directions.

Next, based on FIG. 1, the regular paper discharge path 8
The structure around the void paper discharge path 9 will be described. The upstream half of the regular paper discharge path 8 is formed by the guide plates 19 and 20, and the downstream half is formed by the guide plate 19 and the upper part of the guide plate 21. The guide plate 21 has an inverted V-shape, and the lower part of the guide plate 21 and the guide plate 20.
Another paper discharge path 22 is formed between and. At the branch point of the paper discharge path 22, a switching member 23 that selectively connects the upstream side of the regular paper discharge path 8 to the downstream side of the regular paper discharge path 8 or the paper discharge path 22 is centered around the support shaft 24. It is rotatably provided.

A switching member 25 is rotatably provided by a support shaft 26 at a branch point between the upstream side of the regular paper discharge path 8 and the void paper discharge path 9. The switching member 25 integrally has a weight 27 at the rear end, and the weight 27 causes the tip portion 28 to move.
Is urged in a clockwise direction so as to project upward from below the regular paper discharge path 8. Further, the regular paper ejection path 8
A transmission type sensor 29 for detecting the passage of the ticket S and controlling the operation of the forward and reverse motors that drive the paper discharge rollers 16 and 17 is provided in the middle portion of the void discharge path 9
A movable guide 30 is rotatably provided by a support shaft 31 on the inlet side of the. The movable guide 30 is connected to a plunger 33 of an electromagnet 32 via a spring 34. A ratchet-shaped gear 35 that presses the ticket S toward the void paper discharge path 9 is fixed to both ends of the shaft of the paper discharge roller 16, and the ticket S is lifted to both ends of the shaft of the paper discharge roller 17. A ratchet type gear 36 that presses against is fixed.

As shown in FIG. 1, a cutter 37 for cutting the ticket S is rotatably provided in the void discharge path 9 along the conveying direction of the ticket S. The cutter 37 is rotated by using the rotational force of the paper discharge roller 16 as a power source, and the normal paper discharge path 8 and the void paper discharge path 9 are changed depending on the rotation direction of the paper discharge roller 16.
It is set up to move back and forth. That is, as shown in FIG.
A gear 41 received via 8, 39, 40 is rotatably held at a fixed position by a support shaft 42. A support body 43 that rotates by frictional force against the gear 41 is attached to the support shaft 42.
One end of the support 43 is supported, and the other end of the support 43 is connected to the gear 41.
A planetary gear 44 meshed with is supported so as to rotate integrally with the cutter 37.

Further, there is provided a judging means for judging whether the magnetic data read by the read head 14 is right or wrong. This determination means is s in the flowchart shown in FIG.
t. Although not shown in the drawing as hardware, for example, normal magnetic data to be written by the recording head 13 is stored in a memory, and the magnetic data stored in this memory and the reading head 14 are used. It is realized by a method such as comparing the read magnetic data.

The operation of issuing the ticket S in such a configuration will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. First, st. 1, the continuous paper 3 fed by the paper feed roller 4 is st. In 2, the burster 5 cuts the ticket S into units. This ticket S is s
t. 3 in the process of being conveyed by the conveying roller 12, st. In step 4, predetermined magnetic data is written by the recording head 13, and st. Read head 14 at 5
Read by. This reading result is st. In step 6, it is judged whether it is right or wrong. If judged to be normal, s
t. At 7, the thermal head 15 prints predetermined regular data. At least until the end of this printing, st. In FIG. 8, since the paper discharge rollers 16 and 17 are driven in the forward direction, the ticket S is discharged to the regular stacker 10 via the regular paper discharge path 8. st. When the sensor (not shown) detects that the ticket S is discharged to the regular stacker 10 in FIG.
17 is stopped.

As described above, in the process in which the ticket S printed by the thermal head 15 passes through the regular paper discharge path 8, the switching member 25 resists the urging force of the weight 27 and the tip portion 28.
Rotates counterclockwise so as to be displaced downward by the thrust of the ticket S, returns clockwise after the passage of the ticket S by the urging force of the weight 27, and closes the regular paper discharge path 8. Further, in this state, the discharge roller 16 rotates in the forward direction (counterclockwise direction) to drive the gear 41 in the clockwise direction as shown in FIG. To rotate clockwise. As a result, the planetary gear 44 and the cutter 37 are driven counterclockwise, but the normal paper ejection path 8
And, it is maintained in a state of retracting below the void discharge path 9.

In addition, st. If the reading result is judged to be abnormal in step 6, st. At 11, the characters "VOID" are printed on both sides of the magnetic stripe S'of the ticket S. Then, st. At 12, the ticket S is rotated by rotating the discharge rollers 16 and 17 in the forward direction.
When the ticket S is once conveyed to the regular paper discharge path 8 and the rear edge of the ticket S passes through the sensor 29 after the ticket S blocks the optical axis of the sensor 29, st. Since the sensor 29 is turned on in step 13, the st. At 14, the paper discharge rollers 16 and 17 rotate in opposite directions. At this time, the ticket S is voided along the lower edge of the tip 28 of the switching member 25 because the tip 28 of the switching member 25 blocks between the regular paper ejection path 8 and the ticket carrying path 7. Guided to paper path 9 and sent to void stacker 11, s
t. At 15, when the sensor (not shown) detects that the ticket S is discharged to the void stacker 11, the discharge rollers 16 and 17 are stopped. By driving the movable guide 30 shown in FIG. 1 counterclockwise by the exciting action of the electromagnet 32 at a predetermined timing, the leading end of the ticket S can be guided to the movable guide 30 to the void stacker 11.

In the process in which the ticket S is sent to the void paper discharge path 9 as described above, the paper discharge roller 16 rotates in the reverse direction (clockwise direction) to move the gear 41 counterclockwise as shown in FIG. 3B. Therefore, the support body 43 rotates counterclockwise due to friction with the gear 41. As a result, the planetary gear 44 and the cutter 37 are maintained in the state of advancing above the regular paper ejection path 8 and the void paper ejection path 9 while being driven clockwise. As a result, the ticket S is cut along the magnetic stripe S ′ as shown in FIG. In this case, the cutter 37 rotates in the clockwise direction along the ejection direction of the ticket S, but the reduction ratio defined by the gears 38 to 41 and the planetary gear 44 causes the cutter 37 to rotate more than the ejection roller 16.
Rotates at a low speed, the ticket S sent to the void discharge path 9 by the discharge roller 16 at a high speed is brought into contact with the cutter 37 rotating at a low speed with a predetermined pressure. As a result, the ticket S can be reliably cut off.

Further, by cutting the ticket S at the magnetic stripe S ', even if the abnormal ticket S is mixed in the reuse processing portion, the magnetic data cannot be read, so that the ticket can be surely reused. Can be prohibited. This is the effect corresponding to the invention of claim 1.

Here, considering the case where the cutter 37 is arranged orthogonal to the conveying direction of the ticket S, the advance of the ticket S is hindered when the cutter 37 is advanced to the void discharge path 9, so that the void discharge is performed. It is necessary to accurately determine the timing of the forward / backward movement of the cutter 37 with respect to the road 9. However, according to the present embodiment, by disposing the cutter 37 along the transportation direction of the ticket S, the paper ejection operation of the ticket S can be permitted in a state where the cutter 37 is advanced to the void paper ejection path 9. It will be possible. As a result, even when the abnormal tickets S are continuously discharged, it is not necessary to repeat the forward / backward movement of the cutter 37 with respect to the void discharge path 9 each time, and the discharged sheets can be discharged to the void stacker 11 at high speed. . Further, the timing control for advancing the cutter 37 to the void paper discharge path 9 can be simplified.

In the above-described embodiment, in order to discharge the ticket S to the void discharge path 9, the ticket S is once discharged from the ticket transport path 7 to the regular discharge path 8 and then the discharge roller 1
Since the rollers 6 and 17 are reversely rotated and returned to the void paper discharge path 9, when the magnetic data read is judged to be normal by the normal discharging paper rollers 16 and 17, the ticket S
A normal paper discharging member for discharging the sheet to the normal paper discharging path 8 is realized, and when the written magnetic data is judged to be abnormal by the reverse discharging rollers 16 and 17, the ticket S is discharged to the void paper discharging path 9. Although a void paper discharge member for discharging paper is realized, a normal paper discharge path and a void paper discharge path branched from the downstream side of the ticket carrying path 7 are provided, and the ticket is directly sent from the ticket carrying path 7 by the switching operation of the switching member. The ticket S may be guided to the regular paper ejection path or the void paper ejection path. In this case, the regular sheet discharge member arranged in the regular sheet discharge path and the void sheet discharge member arranged in the void sheet discharge path may be sheet discharge members which rotate only in one direction.

[0020]

According to the first aspect of the invention, the ticket discharged from the ticket conveying path provided with the reading head for reading the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe of the ticket is properly discharged or void discharged. A switching member that selectively guides to the paper path and a determination unit that determines whether the magnetic data read by the read head is correct or incorrect are provided, and when the determination unit determines that the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe is abnormal, Since the cutter driven by the rotatable void paper ejection member that ejects the ticket to the void paper ejection path is arranged at the position facing the magnetic stripe in the void paper ejection path, the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe of the ticket is If it is determined that the ticket is abnormal, the ticket on the magnetic stripe is cut with a cutter so that the abnormal ticket can be reused. It can also be inhibited reliably reused as mixed, also because it is possible to drive the cutter by voids sheet discharge member can trowel to simplify the driving structure of the cutter.

According to the invention of claim 2, in the invention of claim 1, since the cutter is arranged so as to correspond to the ticket transport direction so that the ticket is cut along the transport direction of the ticket, the void is formed. It is possible to allow the ticket ejection operation with the cutter advanced into the ejection passage, so that even if the ticket is continuously ejected to the void ejection passage, It is not necessary to repeat the cutter advancing and retracting operations, and therefore abnormal tickets can be ejected continuously to the void paper ejection path at high speed, and the timing control for advancing the cutter to the void paper ejection path is simple. Can be

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional side view showing a structure around a regular paper ejection path and a void paper ejection path in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional side view showing the internal structure of the ticket issuing device.

3A and 3B show a connecting structure of a void paper discharge member and a cutter. FIG. 3A is a side view showing a state in which a ticket is discharged to a regular paper discharge path, and FIG. It is a side view of a state where paper is printed.

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of a cut ticket.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing ticket issuing processing.

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of a conventional ticket.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 ticket transportation path 8 regular paper ejection path 9 void paper ejection path 12 transportation member 14 reading head 16,17 regular paper ejection member, void paper ejection member 25 switching member 37 cutter S ticket S'magnetic stripe st. 6 judgment means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A ticket transport path in which a transport member for transporting a ticket having a magnetic stripe is arranged, a regular paper discharge path and a void paper discharge path branched from a downstream side of the ticket transport path, respectively. A switching member that selectively guides the ticket discharged from the ticket transport path to the regular discharge path or the void discharge path, and is written in the magnetic stripe of the ticket disposed in the ticket transport path. A read head for reading the magnetic data, a judgment means for judging the correctness of the magnetic data read by the read head, and the magnetic data written in the magnetic stripe when the judgment means judges that the magnetic data is normal. The rotatable regular paper ejection member for ejecting the ticket to the regular paper ejection path, and the magnetic data written on the magnetic stripe are A rotatable void discharge member that discharges the ticket to the void discharge path when it is determined to be abnormal by the disconnecting means, and the void discharge position that is arranged at a position facing the magnetic stripe in the void discharge path. A ticket discharging device comprising a cutter driven by a paper member. 2. The ticket ejection device according to claim 1, wherein the cutter is arranged so as to cut the ticket along the carrying direction of the cutter so as to correspond to the ticket carrying direction.