JPH09204564A - Prepayment controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a prepayment-controller which can prevent the coins flying out at a coin return part in a simple constitution and also improves its operability. SOLUTION: A prepayment controller includes a coin slot 1 and a coin return part 2, and a vertically oblong coin return outlet 11 is formed on the rear wall 23 of the part 2. At the same time, a coin collision wall 8 is formed at the opening edge side of the part 2 and along one of both side walls of the part 2 so as to counter to the outlet 11 and also to secure a coin take-out space. The slot 1 and the part 2 are linking each other via a guide path that has a vertically oblong coin slot and the outlet 11 at its upper and lower parts respectively. Then a space D2 larger than at least the width DI of the slot 1 is secured between the wall 8 and the bottom part of the part 2. Furthermore, a coin throw-down projection 27 is formed on the side wall of the part 2 located near the wall 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coin return portion of a deposit control device such as a vending machine or a coin-type game machine, and more particularly to a coin return portion located at an upper portion of a main body and a coin return portion located at a lower portion. The present invention relates to an apparatus suitable for a simple advance payment control device that communicates with a guideway in a main body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A deposit control device such as a vending machine or a coin-type game machine is provided with a coin return section for returning change or inappropriate coins. In order to prevent the coin from jumping out, it is desirable to provide a flap that can be freely opened and closed on the front of the coin return unit. However, this is a factor of cost increase, and the coin and the flap may be entangled with each other. Is bad.

In particular, in the case of a simple type vending machine that does not use electric control for discharging goods and counting coins, low cost and compactness are required. For coin vending machines and game machines that basically do not require change, coin return units use only those coins that have been ejected as inappropriate for use. It will be provided to receive.

[0004] For the purpose of simplification of the structure, it is preferable that the unsuitable coin ejection mechanism ejects the coin without changing the guide direction. However, when the coin slot is vertically long, the coin is returned to the coin return section as it is vertically long. The structure for preventing the coin from popping out, such as the flap, is particularly indispensable.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a prepayment control device which has a simple structure, prevents a coin returning portion from jumping out of a coin, and has improved handleability.

[0006]

For this purpose, the present invention provides
In a deposit control apparatus provided with a coin insertion slot and a coin return section, a vertically long coin return exit is opened on a rear wall of the coin return section, and the coin return section is opposed to the coin return exit on an opening edge side of the coin return section, In addition, a coin collision wall is formed along one side wall of the coin return portion so as to secure a coin take-out space.

[0007]

With this configuration, coins ejected in a vertically long state hit the coin collision wall and fall to the bottom of the coin return section. Since the coins are ejected in a vertically long state, the coin collision wall may be slightly wider than the coin thickness. Therefore, the coin take-out space of the coin return section is not obstructed by the coin collision wall, and the user has to eject the coin. Coins can be taken out smoothly.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a coin-type article vending machine according to the present invention, in which a vertically long coin slot 1 is provided at an upper portion of a main body, and a coin return section 2 is provided at a lower portion of the main body. Reference numeral 3 denotes an article take-out port, and reference numeral 4 denotes an article take-out button. The user inserts coins into the coin insertion slot 1 and presses the button 4 so that articles can be taken out from the ejection slot 3.

The main body 40 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and a first level confirmation mark 41 is printed above the front and both side surfaces. Second level confirmation marks 42 and 43 are printed at the positions where these level confirmation marks 41 hang down. The second level confirmation marks 42 and 43 are present at two points at a predetermined distance on both sides from vertically below the first level confirmation mark 41, and the two points are within an angle α in the first level confirmation mark. Is the effective tilt range, and is set to 6 degrees in this embodiment. Therefore, when the thread attached with the weight starting from the first level confirmation mark 41 in a state where the main body 40 is inclined by 3 degrees or more, on the second level confirmation mark side,
The yarn will be located outside the effective range outside both marks,
It can be confirmed that the main body is tilted 3 degrees or more.

[0010] Since these level confirmation marks are necessary only at the time of installation, they are displayed as small as possible so as not to disturb the whole design by printing.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a coin guide path 5 is formed inside the main body, and a vertically long coin entrance 1 is formed above.
0, vertically long coin return exit 11 and regular coin exit 1
Two. Reference numeral 6 denotes an article storage section for storing articles in a stacked manner.

The above-mentioned coin insertion slot 1, the coin return section 2 and the regular coin outlet 12 are communicated by the guide path 5, and coins inserted in a vertically long state are guided while maintaining that state. Become.

A regular coin K (500 yen coin in the present invention)
Is inserted through the coin slot 1, the coin passes through the coin opening 10 of the taxiway 5, passes through the first opening 20 of the coin sorting section 9, passes through the second opening 21, falls into the regular coin passage 13, and falls into the regular coin passage 13. The coin is discharged from the coin outlet 12 (see FIG. 3). Immediately below the regular coin exit, there is a receiving portion 31 of a lock piece 14 of the article pushing body 15 which will be described later. The lock is released by the impact of the falling coin, and the coin is stored in the coin storage 1.
6 is stored. The lock piece 14 is constantly applied with a force in the direction E around the shaft 33 by a spring (not shown).

The article extruding body 15 is provided with the above-mentioned article storage section 6.
Is normally located under the article so that the article does not descend to the position of the take-out port 3 and enters the position just below the article to obstruct it. When the lock is released, the spring force of the spring 17 is applied to the operating piece 3.
2 is pulled in the direction A, and the extruded body 15 acts in the direction B for retracting the extruded body 15 about the axis 18 so that the extruded body 15 is not obstructed and the lowermost layer of the stacked articles is the take-out opening 3.
Descend to the position.

At this time, since the button 4 projects more than usual, the user pushes the button 4 against the spring force of the spring 17 to move the operating piece 32 in the C direction, and the pushing member 15
A forward input centering on the axis 18 is applied to the D direction. With this advance input, the article is pushed out from behind and can be taken out from the take-out port 3. The extruded body 15 is locked again by entering, and waits for the next unlocking opportunity.

Next, coins K 'other than regular coins (for example, 1
00 coins), the coins enter the coin entrance 1 of the taxiway 5
After passing through 0, the coins pass through the first opening 20 of the coin sorting section 9 and are sorted to the return passage 19 side. In this embodiment, 500
The diameter of the coin is used for sorting the yen coin and other coins, and coins smaller in diameter than the 500 yen coin are allowed to pass through the first opening 20. Therefore 500
Only coins larger than the diameter of the yen coin reach the second opening 21,
In addition, since only the coins having a diameter of 500 yen or less are allowed to pass through the second opening 21, only 500 yen is dropped from the regular coin drop slot 13.

In this embodiment, if the coin K 'having a smaller diameter than the 500-yen coin has momentum, the coin K' may pass through the first opening 20 and reach the second opening 21. The positional relationship between the coin slot 1 and the coin inlet 10 of the taxiway 5 is set as shown in FIG.

That is, the center line S1 of the coin insertion slot 1 is shifted above the center line S2 of the coin entrance 10 of the taxiway 5, and a wall 22 is provided for hitting coins to be inserted. Therefore, even a coin that has been thrown in vigorously hits the wall 22 once and is killed, and is guided to the coin sorting unit 9, thereby eliminating the above-mentioned fear.

Next, details of the coin return unit 2 will be described.
FIG. 4 is a partially transparent perspective view of the coin returning unit 2, which shows the rear wall 23.
An opening communicating with the vertically long coin return outlet 11 is formed closer to one side wall 24. Coins other than regular coins are discharged from the coin return outlet 11 to the coin return portion 2. The coins that are formed and ejected surely collide with the coin collision wall 8. Note that the coins fall down reliably to the bottom 26 of the coin return section 2 by the coin overturning projections 27 formed on the side wall 24.

As shown in FIG. 4, the projections 27 are tapered on the coin return outlet 11 side so as to prevent the coins from being caught and to gradually apply the acting force to the coin thickness direction components. Also, since the height H of the projection 27 is desirably in contact with the upper side of the coin to be returned, in the present embodiment, the height H is set slightly higher than the radius of a one-yen coin having the minimum diameter among the expected return coins. I have.

As can be seen from the front view of the coin return portion 2 shown in FIG. 5, the coin collision wall 8 and the bottom portion 26 of the coin return portion 2 are provided with an interval D2 wider than the width D1 of the coin insertion slot. Coins that have fallen to the bottom 26 can pass through the interval D2 and be taken out without being disturbed by the coin collision wall 8. The width W1 of the coin collision wall 8 is the coin return exit 1
The width W3 may be slightly wider than the width W3 of the first coin. Therefore, a sufficient coin take-out space can be secured without making the area of the open rim of the coin return portion 2 so large. The open end side of the coin collision wall 8 is formed with a curved line to prevent finger damage.

[0022]

6 to 9 show another embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 shows an embodiment in which no space is provided between the coin collision wall and the bottom 26. FIG. With such a configuration, it is desirable that the width W2 of the coin return portion is larger than the diameter of the coin. However, if the width W1 of the coin collision wall is wider, the coin can be taken out smoothly, and the width W2 of the coin return portion does not need to be increased so much. .

Even if the width W2 of the coin return portion is reduced, the coin K 'remains obliquely inclined as shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 shows still another embodiment, in which the position corresponding to the coin return exit at the bottom of the coin return portion is inclined instead of the above-mentioned coin overturning projection. Even in this case, the coins can fall over and be taken out smoothly. Alternatively, the coin overturning means may be realized by slightly tilting the vertically long state of the coin return exit 11 without making it strictly vertical as shown in FIG. In this case, in order to smoothly guide coins while maintaining the simplified structure of the taxiway, the inclination angle is preferably 10 degrees or less in terms of the configuration of the taxiway, but is not limited to this value.

[0025]

As described above, the deposit control apparatus according to the present invention is a deposit control apparatus provided with a coin insertion slot and a coin return section, wherein a vertically elongated coin return exit is opened on the rear wall of the coin return section. In addition, a coin collision wall is formed on the opening edge side of the coin return portion along one side wall of the coin return portion so as to face the coin return outlet and secure a coin take-out space. With this configuration, coins can be prevented from jumping out, and the coin collision wall has to be narrow and compact because it only needs to correspond to coins ejected from a certain position in a vertically long state.The coin removal space at the opening edge of the coin return section It is convenient without obstructing.

In particular, in order to simplify the structure of the apparatus itself, the coin insertion slot and the coin return section are useful for those connected by a guideway having a vertically long coin inlet and a vertically long coin return outlet below. Cost can be reduced. In addition, when the coin collision wall and the bottom of the coin return portion are provided with at least a gap larger than the width of the coin insertion slot, the effective width of coin removal of the coin return portion is not hindered by the width of the coin collision wall, and the user can smoothly. Coins can be taken out. Further, when a coin overturning means such as a coin overturning projection is formed on the side wall on the side of the coin impaction wall, there is an effect that it is possible to surely prevent the coin impaction wall from remaining in a vertically long state after impacting the coin impaction wall.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the inside of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing the inside of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partially transparent perspective view of a coin return unit of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a coin return unit of the advance money control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing another embodiment of the coin return unit of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing another embodiment of the coin return unit of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a front view showing another embodiment of the coin return unit of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a front view showing another embodiment of the coin return unit of the advance payment control device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Coin insertion slot 2 Coin return part 5 Taxiway 8 Coin collision wall 10 Coin entrance 11 Coin return exit 27 Coin overturn projection

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A deposit control apparatus comprising a coin insertion slot 1 and a coin return section 2, wherein a vertically elongated coin return exit 11 is opened in a rear wall 23 of the coin return section 2 and an opening port of the coin return section 2. A deposit control device characterized in that a coin collision wall 8 is formed on the edge side along one side wall of the coin return portion 2 so as to face the coin return exit 11 and secure a coin take-out space. . 2. The coin insertion slot 1 and the coin return section 2 have a vertically elongated coin inlet 10 above and a vertically elongated coin return outlet 11 below.
2. The advance payment control device according to claim 1, wherein the control device is communicated with a guide path 5 having the following. 3. The coin collision wall 8 and a bottom portion of the coin return portion 2 are provided with an interval D2 wider than at least the width D1 of the coin insertion slot. 3. The advance payment control device according to claim 2. 4. The advance payment control device according to claim 1, wherein a coin overturning projection 27 is formed on a side wall on the side of the coin collision wall 8.