JPH08273031A - Card exchanging device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To surely exchange a card and to shorten working time. CONSTITUTION: A placing member 11 for placing a card storage box 29 for storing unrecorded magnetic cards 28 is pivotally supported by a shaft 9 so as to invert the card storage box 29. A card supply box 3 is formed in the shape of a rectangular cylinder composed of two side face plates 20 and 21 whose cross section is L-shaped, one side is pivotally attached by a hinge 22 each other, and the other side is freely opened and closed. Ball catchers 26 and 27 to be freely engaged/disengaged for coupling the side face parts 20 and 21 are provided on the side face parts 20 and 21. A ball catcher 14 to be freely engaged/disengaged with the ball catcher 26 on the side face part 20 is provided on the placing member 11.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card supply box used for supplying an unrecorded magnetic card to a magnetic card issuing machine, and more particularly to an unrecorded magnetic card stored in the card storage box. The present invention relates to a device for transferring cards.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a card supply box of this type is formed into a rectangular tube having a large portion of the bottom and an opening of the top. An unrecorded magnetic card is loaded and stored in the card supply box. Is installed in the card supply mechanism section of the card issuing machine, and the vertically movable card push-up member of the card supply mechanism section is positioned at the bottom opening of the card supply box. When the card push-up member is raised, the loaded cards are supported by the card push-up member so that the uppermost card can be taken into the magnetic card issuer one by one by the take-in roller arranged so as to face the upper opening. It is configured. On the other hand, an unrecorded magnetic card delivered from a card maker or the like is stored in a card storage box which is a paper box whose one side is open. Therefore, it is necessary to transfer the cards from the card storage box to the card supply box. This work
Hold a large number of cards from the card storage box by hand,
The openable door provided in the card supply box was opened, and the card was transferred from here.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional card supply box used for transferring cards has a structure in which one of four side walls forming a side wall is a door that can be opened and closed. Therefore, the width of the entrance portion where the door is opened is formed at substantially the same interval as one card. On the other hand, the card storage box generally stores about 1,000 unrecorded magnetic cards, and at the time of transfer, 10 cards are stored at a time.
Since about 0 cards are held by hand and divided into multiple times, it takes time to transfer them, and it is easy to bring the cards into contact with the both edges of the narrow entrance and drop them on the floor, making the work complicated. Was becoming. Moreover, when picking up an unrecorded card that has been dropped and storing it in the card supply box, if you accidentally transfer it inside the card supply box while turning it over or inverting it,
When the card is taken into the card issuing machine, it is erroneously judged as a defective card by the card issuing machine although it is a normal card. Therefore, after the card issuance is completed, a normal card that is erroneously determined as a defective card must be stored again in the card supply box and the card issuance work must be performed again, resulting in a decrease in work efficiency and an extra working time. There was such a problem.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to reliably transfer cards and shorten the working time. It is to provide a transfer device.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, a card transfer device according to the present invention is a mounting member for mounting a card storage box in which cards are horizontally stacked along one opening. A receiving member for receiving the mounting member and pivotally supporting the mounting member so as to invert the card storage box mounted on the mounting member; and two side plates bent and formed in an L-shaped cross section. A card supply box which is formed into a rectangular tube by being pivotally attached to each other at one side and detachably attached to the other side so as to transfer cards from the card storage box, and the card supply to the mounting member. An engaging portion that is detachable from one of the engaging portions of the box is provided.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the card storage box is mounted on the mounting member pivotally mounted on the receiving member, the two side plates of the card supply box are opened, and one engaging portion of the card supply box is mounted. The card supply box is attached to the engaging part of the member to cover the card storage box on the mounting member, and when the mounting member is inverted with the card supply box in this state, the card storage box supplies the card from the mounting member. It can be replaced in the box. When the card storage box is removed by removing the engagement with the mounting member and the two side plates of the card supply box are joined and closed by the engagement parts, the card supply box is formed into a square tube and the card is supplied with this card. It is stored in the box.

[0007]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a perspective view showing the entire card transfer device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same, and FIGS. 3 to 6 are views for explaining the transfer operation.
It is a line sectional view. In these figures, a card transfer device generally designated by reference numeral 1 includes a base 2 as a receiving member to which a mounting member 11 described later is pivotally attached, and a card issuing device for recording magnetic data on an unrecorded magnetic card. Machine (not shown)
And a card supply box 3 for supplying a card to the. The base 2 has, on its upper surface, a horizontally formed first receiving portion 4 and a second receiving portion 5 that is continuously provided with the first receiving portion 4 via a step portion 5a and has an inclination of an angle α. , And a third receiving portion 6 that is formed horizontally and is continuous with the second receiving portion 5 via the recess 7. The base 2 is mounted on a work table (not shown) or the like with an angle β by a stand 8 attached to one side of the bottom.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a shaft support plate which is attached to both sides of the first receiving portion 4 on the second receiving portion 5 side so as to face each other, and a shaft 9 is horizontally mounted. Reference numeral 11 denotes a mounting member formed in a flat plate shape, which is pivotally mounted around the shaft 9 via a bearing portion 12 and has a locking portion 1 on one side and a swing end side.
1a and 11b are bent and projected upward. Reference numeral 13 is a sleeve fixed to the shaft 9 for restricting the axial displacement of the mounting member 11. Reference numeral 14 is a well-known male type ball catcher that functions as an engaging member attached to the mounting member 11 on the side of the swing center. 15 and 16 are rubber bushes as cushioning members, and the rubber bush 15 is the mounting member 1
The rubber bush 16 is attached to the back surface of the first receiving portion 4 and the rubber bush 16 is attached to the front surface of the first receiving portion 4. Reference numeral 18 is a receiving plate that is erected on one side of the second receiving portion 5, and 19 is a rubber bush attached to the third receiving portion 6.

The card supply box 3 is composed of two side plates 20 and 21 which are bent and formed into a substantially L-shaped cross section. One side of these side plates 20 and 21 is connected to each other by a hinge 22. The other side can be opened and closed freely as the center of rotation. A female ball catcher 26 that is detachable from a ball catcher 14 of the mounting member 11 and a ball catcher 27 described later is attached to the outer side of the side plate 20 on the side of the rotation end. A male ball catcher 27, which is detachable from the ball catcher 26, is attached to the inside of the side plate 21 on the side of the rotation end. In the card supply box 3 having such a structure, the both side plates 20, 21 are fixed by closing the pivot end sides of the side plates 20, 21 with the hinge 22 as the center of rotation and engaging both ball catchers 26, 27. A square tube having four side plates and having an upper portion 23 and a bottom portion 24 opened is formed. Reference numeral 25 denotes a card mounting portion having a triangular shape in plan view, which is attached to the corners of the side plates 20 and 21 on the bottom portion 24 side. 28 is an unrecorded magnetic card,
The cards are stacked horizontally in a card storage box 29 having an open top. The height L of the card supply box 3 is set longer than the width 1 of the card storage box 29.

Next, the operation of card transfer in the card transfer device having such a configuration will be described. First,
As shown in FIG. 3, the card storage box 29 storing the unrecorded magnetic card 28 is mounted on the mounting member 11 in the direction of arrow D with its opening facing upward. The mounted card storage box 29 is locked to the engaging portion 11a of the mounting member 11 because the card transfer device 1 is inclined by the angle β.
Further, by engaging with the engaging portion 11b, the mounting member 1
It is placed in a state in which it is positioned on 1. The card supply box 3 is in a state in which both ball catchers 26 and 27 are disengaged and the other side of both side plates 20 and 21 are opened. In this state, the ball catcher 26 of the card supply box 3 is attached to the ball catcher 14 of the mounting member 11, and the ball catcher 14 is rotated in the E direction around the rotation center, as shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure. One side plate 2
0 is placed on the unrecorded magnetic card 28. At this time, since the height L of the card supply box 3 is set to be longer than the width 1 of the card storage box 29, the side plate 20 covers the entire unrecorded magnetic card 28.

Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 4, the mounting member 1 is held with the engagement of both ball catchers 14, 26 being held.
1 is rotated together with the card supply box 3 in the F direction so as to invert the card storage box 29 with the shaft 9 as the rotation center.
One side plate 20 of the card supply box 3 is placed on the second receiving portion 5 of the base 2. Since the card supply box 3 is inverted so that the opening faces downward, the card 28 is replaced by the mounting member 11 on the side plate 20 of the card supply box 3. At this time, the one side plate 20 of the card supply box 3 is engaged with the receiving plate 18 and the step portion 5a and positioned and placed in the second receiving portion 5. Further, the other side plate 21 is provided with the third receiving portion 6
Is placed on the rubber bush 19 of FIG.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, only the mounting member 11 is rotated in the direction of arrow G about the shaft 9 as the center of rotation so that the rubber bush 16 of the first receiving portion 4 of the base 2 is placed. Place on.
At this time, since the card supply box 3 is still placed on the second receiving portion 5, the ball catcher 26 of the card supply box 3 and the ball catcher 14 of the placing member 11 are engaged with each other. The clothes are released. After that, only the card storage box 29 is taken out in the direction of the arrow H and removed from the unrecorded magnetic card 28. Then, the other side plate 21 of the card supply box 3 is rotated in the direction of arrow I around the hinge 22 as the center of rotation, and as shown in FIG.
The ball catcher 27 of the other side plate 21 is attached to the ball catcher 26 of the one side plate 20.

In this way, as described above, the card supply box 3 is formed into a rectangular tube, the unrecorded magnetic card 28 is transferred into the card supply box 3, and the card supply box 3 is located on the base 2 of the base 2. It is taken out from the second receiving portion 5 in the direction of the arrow J and installed in the card supplying portion of the card issuing machine (not shown) with the upper portion 23 facing upward. When the card supply box 3 is installed, a card push-up member (not shown) advances from the opening of the bottom 24 to support the unrecorded magnetic card 28, and the uppermost unrecorded magnetic card 28 is taken in by a roller. (Not shown), one by one is sequentially taken into the data writing unit of the card issuing machine. The card push-up member is intermittently raised so that the highest unrecorded magnetic card always comes into contact with the take-in roller as it is taken in.

As described above, the card supply box 3 is composed of the side plates 20 and 21 bent to have an L-shaped cross section, and one side of these side plates 20 and 21 can be opened and closed on the other side by the hinge 22. Therefore, the unrecorded magnetic card 2 mounted on the mounting member 11 by keeping the other side open.
8 can be covered. Further, since the card supply box 3 is provided with the ball catcher 26 that can be engaged with and disengaged from the ball catcher 14 of the mounting member 11, the mounting member 11 is inverted from the card storage box 29 with the shaft 9 as the rotation center. When it is rotated, the card supply box 3 can also be integrally rotated. Therefore, the unrecorded magnetic card 28 is dropped from the card storage box 29 into the card supply box 3 at once without dropping the magnetic card 28 on the floor or the like. Can be transferred. further,
Since the square card supply box 3 is formed by engaging the ball catchers 26 and 27 provided on both side plates 20 and 21 of the card supply box 3, the transferred unrecorded magnetic card 28 is a card. It can be stored in the supply box 3 and installed as it is in the card supply unit of the card issuing machine.

In this embodiment, in consideration of workability, the second receiving portion 5 and the third receiving portion for placing the side plates 20 and 21 of the card supply box 3 on the base 2 in a substantially horizontal state. Although 6 and 6 are provided, they are not particularly required if the cards are simply transferred.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, the card supply box is composed of the two side plates bent to have an L-shaped cross section, and the two side plates are pivotally attached to each other on one side thereof. The other side can be opened and closed, and the other side can be engaged and disengaged to form a rectangular tube, and the card supply box can be attached to the mounting member for mounting the card storage box. By providing the engaging part that can be engaged and disengaged with respect to one of the parts,
The card storage box mounted on the mounting member can be covered with the card supply box having the other side opened. Since the mounting member is pivotally supported so that the card storage box is inverted, the card storage box is also integrally rotated by rotating the mounting member by engaging the engaging portions with each other. As a result, all cards in the card storage box can be transferred to the card supply box at once in a reliable manner, so that the working time can be shortened and the working efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an entire card transfer device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a card transfer device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line III-III in FIG. 2 for explaining the transfer operation in the card transfer device according to the present invention, showing a card storage box mounted on a mounting member.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG. 2 for explaining the transfer operation in the card transfer device according to the present invention, in which the card storage box is transferred.

5 is a sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG. 2 for explaining the transfer operation in the card transfer device according to the present invention, in which the card storage box is removed.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG. 2 for explaining the transfer operation in the card transfer device according to the present invention, showing a card housed in a card supply box.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Card transfer device, 2 ... Base, 3 ... Card supply box, 11 ... Mounting member, 14, 26, 27 ... Ball catcher, 20, 21 ... Side plate, 22 ... Hinge, 28 ... Unrecorded magnetic Card, 29 ... Card storage box.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A mounting member for mounting a card storage box in which cards are stacked horizontally along one opening, and a card storage box which receives the mounting member and is mounted on the mounting member is inverted. A receiving member that pivotally supports the mounting member so that
A card which is formed into a rectangular tube by pivotally attaching two side plates bent to have an L-shaped cross section to each other at one side thereof and detachably attached to the other side thereof to transfer the card from the card storage box. A card transfer device comprising: a supply box, wherein the mounting member is provided with an engagement portion that is detachable from one of the engagement portions of the card supply box.