JPH085977Y2 - Storage box for thin media stacking device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to an improvement of a thin medium collecting device in a thin medium handling device for printing a receipt used in financial automation equipment.

[Prior Art] FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a conventional receipt printing apparatus, in which 1 is a receipt, 2 is a storage box, 4 is a print head, 5 is a cutter, 6, 8, 10, 12 are Feed rollers, 7, 1
Reference numerals 1 and 13 are guides, 9 is a switching guide, 9a is a shaft, and 14 is a storage box.

The foldable continuous receipt 1 stored in the storage box 2 is
The sheet is fed by the feed roller 3, printed by the print head 4, and then cut by the cutter 5. Next, the receipt 1 is conveyed by the feed roller 6 and is sent to the switching guide 9 via the guide 7 and the feed roller 8. The switching guide 9 is swung around a shaft 9a by a driving means (motor, solenoid, etc., not shown), and at the position shown by the solid line in the figure, the receipt 1 is sent to the storage box 14 by the feed roller 10 and stored in the storage box. Then, at the position indicated by the alternate long and short dash line, the receipt 1 is separately processed (for example, handed to the customer).

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, when the receipts 1 are accumulated in the storage box 14 by the above-described method, the storage box 14 becomes full soon as shown in FIG. 4 due to curling of the individual receipts 1. Will end up.

In order to prevent such a phenomenon, as shown in FIG.
It is proposed that the storage box 14 be provided with a holding guide 15 and a lever 16. That is, after the receipt 1 sent by the feed roller 10 is received by the holding guide 15, the lever 16 is rotated by the rotary shaft 17.
Is rotated about the rotation center, and the receipt 1 is knocked down into the storage box 14. As a result, since the receipt 1 is pressed by the lever 16, many receipts 1 can be accumulated in the storage box 14.

However, in this configuration, since the receipt 1 is forcibly knocked down, wrinkles are likely to occur on the receipt 1 between the lever 16 and the holding guide 15, and particularly, the receipt 1 curled in the traveling direction as shown in FIG. In this case, the waist may be generated on the receipt 1 and the receipt 1 may be broken when hit by the lever 16. Furthermore, the receipt 1 fed to the holding guide 15 can easily move to the left or right, and even after being hit with the lever 16,
Receipt 1 remains in one of the holding guides 15 and storage box 14
Since it does not fall inside, the receipt 1 that is subsequently fed may get stuck in the holding guide 15. As described above, the conventional integrated device has some problems.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems of the conventional device, and prevents the occurrence of wrinkles on the receipt and
It is an object of the present invention to provide a storage box for a stacking device that can reliably drop receipts into the storage box and stably collect the receipts.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, in the thin medium stacking device according to the present invention, a protrusion is formed in the center of the lower surface of the lever for knocking off the receipt provided in the storage box, The protrusion has an inclined surface that protrudes below the holding guide and obliquely abuts the tip of the thin medium during feeding.

[Operation] Since the protrusion 18 is formed at the center of the lower surface of the lever 16, the receipt 1 fed into the holding guide 15 of the storage box 14 by the feed roller 10 has its center slightly moved downward by the protrusion. Can be bent. For this reason, the receipt 1 is likely to fall downward. Therefore, when the lever 16 is operated and the receipt 1 is hit downward, the receipt 1 easily falls into the storage box 14. That is, an unreasonable force is not applied to the receipt 1 such that the receipt 1 is wrinkled or scratched.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a thin medium stacking device showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the details of the storage box,
b is a side sectional view, c is a front sectional view, in which 1 to 17 are the same or corresponding parts as the conventional device, and 18 is a protrusion.

As shown in the figure, a protrusion 18 is formed at the center of the lower surface of the lever 16. As a result, when the receipt 1 sent by the feed roller 10 is fed to the holding guide 15, the central portion of the receipt 1 is pushed by the protrusion 18 of the lever 16 and bent downward as seen in FIG. 2B. As a result, when the receipt 1 held by the holding guide 15 is knocked down by the lever 16, the receipt 1 is already in a state of being easily dropped. Collected in box 14. When the receipt 1 is knocked down, the receipt 1
Since the rear end portion and the central portion are pressed simultaneously, the receipt 1
The accumulation operation of will be smooth.

Although not particularly described in the present embodiment, it is more convenient to provide an optical sensor or the like for notifying the fullness of the receipt 1 in the storage box 14 when the storage box 14 is full.

[Advantages of the Invention] Since the present invention has the protrusion in the center of the lower surface of the lever of the storage box in the thin medium stacking device, the following advantageous effects can be achieved.

(1) The receipt is easier to drop than the holding guide, and the receipt can be stably accumulated.

(2) Even if the receipt has a habit of curling in the direction of travel,
The curl in the traveling direction is corrected by the protrusions which are curled at right angles to the traveling direction during the traveling process.

(3) In addition, the projections cause the receipt to have a directionality in the traveling direction, and the receipt guide is not biased to the left or right,
The phenomenon that the receipt remains in the holding guide has disappeared.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for accumulating thin media which is an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the storage box, a is a side sectional view, b is a front sectional view, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a conventional stacking device, FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the storage box thereof, FIG. 5 is a plan view of a conventional storage box having a lever, a is a side sectional view, b is a front sectional view, and FIG. The figure is a sectional view showing a curled receipt. In the figure, 1 is a receipt, 10 is a feed roller, 14 is a storage box, 15 is a holding guide, 16 is a lever, 17 is a rotating shaft, and 18 is a protrusion.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A box body having an open upper part, a pair of holding guides formed to hold both ends of a thin medium fed to an upper part inside a side wall of the box body, and an upper end part of the box body. In a storage box of a thin medium stacking apparatus, which comprises a rotating shaft arranged in a pair and a lever rotatably mounted between the pair of holding guides, a protrusion is formed at the center of the lower surface of the lever, A storage box for a thin medium stacking device, wherein the protruding portion has an inclined surface that protrudes below the holding guide portion and a tip of the thin medium obliquely abuts during feeding.