JPH0866295A - Automatic mail receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent robbery and fire by driving a driving motor with the operation of an inserting port lid and automatically stopping the rotation of the motor after a mailed object is completely received. CONSTITUTION: An inserting port lid 4 pivotally supported by a hinge is hung and fitted by a supporting shaft 3 near the upper part of an inserting port 2. A cam 5 is provided at one terminal part of this supporting shaft 3 supported by the hinge, when the mailed object is put in, the inserting port lid 4 is internally turned from the vertical position to the horizontal position, the cam 5 is turned as well together with that turn, and a contact is switched by operating a door switch 6 of a limit switch. When the door switch 6 is switched, a fixed roll 8 and a movable roll 9 of receiving rolls arranged while being supported by a bearing 7 adjacently to the inserting port 2 are respectively driven by driving motors 10 and 11, and the mailed object is received. When the mailed object is completely received, the inserting port lid 4 recovers the original position. Thus, the contact in the door switch 6 is moved to the original position and the driving motors 10 and 1 1 stop turning.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to automated mailboxes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional domestic mail box, the object to be mailed is often left in a state of partially protruding from the mail opening. In addition, there is also known a mailing port having a structure for picking up a mailed object by a rotating roll (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 52-35038).
However, this is a device that requires the mailer to rotate the gears himself, and it is difficult for a mailer who is unfamiliar with the mailing port to handle it, and it has not been put into practical use.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The automatic mail receiver of the present invention is
This is to provide a mail receiver that can completely pick up the mailed goods during the mail reception, and even a person who is unfamiliar with the handling of the mail need not perform any special operation, and is extremely easy to handle. Automatically and reliably pick up the deposited items and secure them inside, enabling theft prevention and fire prevention.
In addition, it provides an automatic mail box that makes it easy to store a large amount of mailed items.

[0004]

The present invention provides: The front side of the box is provided with an input port having an input port cover for postal items such as mail, and a take-up roll driven by a drive motor is arranged close to the input port, and the drive motor is operated by the operation of the input port cover. Is driven, the pick-up roll is rotated to start picking up the deposited article, and after completion of picking up the deposited article, the rotation of the drive motor is automatically stopped. Receiving, and

[0005] 2. A front side of the box is provided with an input port for postal items such as mail, and a loading port lid pivotally supported near the upper part of the loading port is attached to the loading port, and a support shaft pivotally supporting the loading port lid. Is provided with a limit switch that is operated by the rotation of, and a take-up roll that is driven by a drive motor connected through a relay provided with a delay circuit is arranged close to the throw-in port. When the object is thrown into the box, the limit switch is actuated to drive the drive motor to rotate the take-up roll to start picking up the boxed object. The automatic mail receiver is characterized in that the rotation of the drive motor is automatically stopped after a lapse of a predetermined time, and the article is taken out from the article taking-out port on the back side of the box body. , A.

The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The automatic mail receiver according to the present invention is provided on the front side of the main body 1 of the box body for postal matter.
It has an input port 2 for throwing articles such as newspapers, and a dropping port lid 4 which is pivotally supported by a hinge by a spindle 3 near the upper side of the dropping port 2 hangs down to the input port 2 for throwing items such as mail and newspapers. It is attached. There is a cam 5 at one end of the support shaft 3 supported by this hinge,
When the thrown object is thrown in, the throw-in lid 4 is turned inward from the hanging position toward the horizontal position, and the cam 5 is turned accordingly, and acts on the door switch 6 which is a limit switch to switch the contacts. When the door switch 6 is switched, the fixed roll 8, which is a take-up roll, and the movable roll 9, which are arranged close to the input port 2 and supported by the bearings 7, 7.
Are driven by drive motors 10 and 11, respectively, to pick up the objects. Here, the surface of the take-up roll is preferably rubber-lined or rubber-lined.

The movable roll 9 is the adjustment guide 1
2 and spring 13 are elastically supported downward, but by the introduction of the object to be deposited, the object moves in the movable groove 14 in the bearing 2 upwards against the spring 13 in accordance with the thickness of the object, and the object is fixed roll 8 While being sandwiched between the movable rolls 9 and the movable rolls 9, they are smoothly sent along the guide plate 15 to the inwardly-stored article-holding part 16 to be deposited and held.

When the feeding of the objects to be boxed is completed, the loading port lid 4 returns to the previous position, whereby the contacts in the door switch 6 move to the original position and the drive motors 10 and 11 are moved.
Stops rotating. The boxed article held in the boxed article holding section 16 is appropriately taken out from the take-out port section 17 provided on the entire surface side or the rear surface side of the box body.

A wiring diagram of the automatic mail receiver of the present invention is shown in FIG. FIG. 3 shows a transformer 18, a rectifier 19, a changeover switch 6, drive motors 10 and 11, a timer relay 20, a contact 21, a relay coil 22 and a contact 2.
3 is wired. Further, in the present invention, the means for using two driving motors has been described, but it is also possible to use only one driving motor. The automatic mail receiver of the present invention can, of course, be mounted in combination with the automatic mail receiver of the present invention at the same time by combining a known box notification device, lighting device, locking device, intercom device, rainwater control device, and the like.

[0010]

Next, the operation of the automatic mail receiver of the present invention will be described. The AC power source transformed by the transformer 18 is turned into direct current by the rectifier 19, and the current normally flows through the B contact of the door switch 6 to the timer relay coil 20 and the timer relay contact 21 is opened, so that the drive motors 10 and 11 are opened. No current flows through. Now, when the boxed article is put into the slot 2 of the automatic mail receiver, the slot cover 4, the support shaft 3, the cam 5 and the door switch 6 are sequentially operated, so that the door switch 6 is switched from the contact point B to the contact point A. Moving.

As a result, an electric current flows through the relay coil 22, and as a result, the relay contact 23 is closed, and the drive motor 1
An electric current passes through 0 and 11 and picks up the object. When the collection of the boxed items is completed, the insertion port lid 4 returns to its original position,
As a result, the door switch moves from the conduction of the contact A to the conduction of the contact B, and at the same time, the timer relay 20 is set and after a designated time, the timer relay 20 is turned on,
The contact 21 of the timer relay separates, and the contact 23 of the relay coil 22 separates. When the contact 23 of the relay coil 22 separates, the current to the drive motors 10 and 11 stops flowing after a certain period of time designated by the timer relay, and the motor stops rotating. The timer relay may be a known one, and the timer setting time can be freely set as desired. Here, the designated constant time is a time sufficient for the thrown object to be completely fed to the end of the take-up roll, and therefore the thrown object leaves the take-up roll and is held inside the box body 1. It is held in the section 16.

The above is an example of wiring using a household AC power source, but it is needless to say that although not shown separately, a battery can be used to prepare for a power failure. Here, the movable roll 9
Means to ascend or descend along the groove of the movable groove 14 according to the thickness of the boxed object, and is always receiving the pressure of the spring 12. Further, in the event of a power failure or when electricity cannot be used, the movable roll 9 can be moved to the pool at the upper end of the movable groove 14 to be used as a conventional ordinary mail box.

[0013]

Embodiment 1 The automatic mail receiver according to the present invention uses a household AC 100V as a power source and a DC 24V by a transformer and a rectifier.
Then, using an Omron H3FA-A24 timer relay, the timer was set to 5 seconds, and the newspaper was posted. The newspaper was completely received during automatic mail reception and kept safely. .

[0014]

Since the present invention has the above-mentioned structure and operation, a mailer using the automatic mail receiver of the present invention can simply drop the mailed article in the same manner as in the conventional case without being particularly familiar with the method of use. It can be used simply by inserting it into the mail receiving box, and the deposited article is automatically collected without remaining in the mail receiving box, and the picking roll is automatically stopped after it is completely secured inside the mail box. In addition, the contents can be blocked from the outside by the take-up roll provided close to the container 2 so that the contents can be taken out from the outside, or the contents can be prevented from causing a fire. In addition, it is possible to prevent the raindrops from getting wet due to rainfall, and to increase the size of the wastebox holder to hold a large amount of wasteboxes, which can store the wasteboxes for a considerable period of time. Can be eliminated, which is advantageous.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an example of a schematic front view of an automatic mail receiver that can be used in the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic side view example of an automatic mailbox that can be used in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an example of a wiring diagram of an automatic mail receiver exemplified in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main Body 2 Input Port 4 Input Port Cover 6 Limit Switch 8 Fixed Roll 9 Movable Roll 10 Drive Motor 11 Drive Motor 13 Adjust Guide 17 Take Out Port 20 Timer Relay 21 Timer Relay Contact 22 Relay 23 Relay Contact

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A front side of a box is provided with a loading port having a loading port lid for postal items such as mail, and a take-up roll driven by a drive motor is arranged close to the loading port. By the operation, the drive motor is driven, the take-up roll is rotated to start the picking up of the deposited article, and the rotation of the drive motor is automatically stopped after the completion of the picked up article. Characteristic automatic mailbox. 2. A front side of the box is provided with an input port for postal items such as postal items, and an input port lid pivotally supported near the upper part of the input port is attached to the input port, and the input port lid is pivotally supported. A limit switch that is operated by the rotation of the supporting shaft is attached, and by disposing a take-up roll that is driven by a drive motor connected through a relay provided with a delay circuit, close to the input port, When a throwing thing is thrown into the throwing thing throwing mouth, the limit switch is operated and the drive motor is driven to rotate the take-up roll to start picking up the thrown thing and when the picking up of the thrown thing is completed. The rotation of the drive motor is automatically stopped by the action of the delay circuit after a lapse of a certain period of time, and the box-shaped article is taken out from the box-shaped article taking-out port on the back side of the box body. To Dynamic postal receive.