JPH09208117A - Medium issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To issue a plurality of mediums, which are varied in sort, in the integrally bound condition by arranging a movable butting member to which a medium collides in front of a discharge port, a stacking means stacking the second medium and the following mediums on the back face side of the first medium in the conveyance order, and binding means binding the stacked mediums together. SOLUTION: The first medium collides against a butting member 41 so as to be stopped. Then, a pushing-up member 48, which is moved in the arrow B direction when a solenoid 57 is turned on so as to suck a link 58, pushes the rear end of the first medium upward. Under this these conditions, the conveyed second medium collides against the pushing-up member 48. When the second medium collides against the pushing-up member 48, the pushing-up member 48 is moved in the arrow B' direction, and the second medium is slid in beneath the first medium by means of the drive of a conveying belt 47 so as to collide against the butting member 41 and stopped. In this way, all the issued mediums are piled up on the conveying belt 47 in the conveyance order, and then, their binding parts are bound together by means of a stapler 43.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medium issuing device for issuing a ticket, a seat reservation ticket, a coupon ticket, various planning tickets, etc., which are handled by a railway or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a medium issuing device for issuing train tickets, seat-designating tickets, coupon tickets, various planning tickets, etc., handled by railroad, etc., is designed such that predetermined media are sequentially supplied to the media fed one by one from a hopper. There is a type which performs processing and discharges the processed medium from the discharge port. A ticket issued by such a medium issuing device is printed with the ticket type, the time of the train to be used, etc. on the front surface, magnetic data is written on the magnetic stripe on the back surface, and is handed to the customer by the operator. .

[0003]

In the conventional medium issuing device, since the processed media are ejected one by one from the ejection port, it is suitable for a customer who needs a plurality of types and a plurality of tickets. However, the operator has to bind the issued tickets one by one with staples or the like and hand them over, and there is a problem that the workability is poor.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the medium issuing device of the present invention, a movable abutting member with which the medium abuts in front of the discharge port and a medium after the second sheet are combined. A stacking unit that stacks the medium in the order of conveyance and a binding unit that binds the stacked media are provided on the back side of the first medium.

When the leading end of the first medium hits the abutting member with the abutting member of the medium issuing device configured as described above blocking the discharge port, the laminating means moves the first medium to the first abutting member. Since the rear end is pushed upward, the second and subsequent media are stacked on the back surface side of the first media in the transport order, and when a predetermined type and number of media are stacked, the binding means loads the media. The binding and abutting members move in the direction to open the discharge port, and the medium is discharged.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Elements common to the drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals. 2 is a perspective view showing the ticket issuing printer of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view showing an internal mechanism of the ticket issuing printer of the present invention, FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an interface procedure between a host device and the ticket issuing printer, and FIG. It is a block diagram showing a printer system of the present invention. In FIG. 2, the ticket issuing printer 1 is used at a ticketing counter of an airline company or a railway company when a staff member releases a boarding ticket, a boarding ticket, a seat reservation ticket, a coupon ticket, various planning tickets, etc. to passengers. It is something.

The ticket printed in the ticket issuing printer 1 and having the magnetic data written therein is ejected from the ejection stacker 2 provided on the front surface of the ticket issuing printer 1 and passed to the customer through a staff member. Further, on the front surface of the ticket issuing printer 1, there are provided a display unit 3 for displaying the maintenance status of the apparatus in characters, and an operation unit 4 having a switch such as a power supply.

In FIG. 3, a hopper cassette 5 is loaded in the bottom of the ticket issuing printer 1, and an unprinted medium 6 is stored in the hopper cassette 5. The medium 6 is a hopping roller 7 provided near the hopper cassette 5.
By rotating in the direction of arrow A, the sheets are fed one by one. The transport path 10 indicated by a dotted line is a plurality of transport rollers 12, 13, 1
It is composed of 4, 15 and the like. Further, a write head 16 for writing magnetic data, a read head 17 for reading and checking the written magnetic data, and a print head 18 for printing by a line thermal method are provided at positions facing the transport rollers 12, 13, 14, respectively. Has been. A collective handling unit 62 is provided in front of the ejection stacker 2 of the ticket issuing printer 1. The batch handling unit 62 is laminated with an abutting member 41 that is movable in the direction of arrow BB ′, and a laminating means 42 that laminates the second and subsequent media on the lower side of the first media in the order of conveyance. And a staple 43 for binding the medium.

In FIG. 5, the main control section 19 of the ticket issuing printer 1 is provided with a reception buffer and a RAM (random access memory) not shown. Main control unit 19
Is connected to the host device 21 via the interface control unit 20, and the host device 21 is further connected to the host 8. Further, the main control unit 19 includes the mechanism control unit 2
2. The print control unit 23 and the magnetic control unit 24 are connected.

The mechanism control unit 22 is connected to a conveyance control unit 25, a feeding control unit 26, and a discharge unit 28, and the print control unit 23 is connected to the print editing unit 32 and the print head control unit 3.
3 are connected. The print data is transmitted to the print editing unit 32, and printing is performed based on this data. Further, the print head 18 is connected to the print head controller 33. A read head 17 and a write head 16 are connected to the magnetic control unit 24.

The ticket issuing operation by the printer system according to the above-described first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. 4, the higher-level device 21 shown in FIG. 5 issues a ticket issuing instruction to the ticket issuing printer 1 together with ticket type data, image data for printing, magnetic data and the like. Interface control unit 20 of ticket issuing printer 1
Receives this ticketing instruction and sends it to the main control unit 19.
The main control unit 19 stores the received image data in the RAM.

The mechanism controller 22 causes the feeding controller 26 to rotate the hopping roller 7 in FIG.
The medium 6 is fed out. Further, the transport controller 25 rotates the transport rollers 12, 13, 14, 15 to transport the medium. The magnetic control unit 24 receives the magnetic data from the main control unit 19 and drives the write head 16 to write the magnetic data in the magnetic stripe on the medium 6. Also, the written magnetic data is read by the read head 17 to check whether the magnetic data is correctly written.

The main control section 19 sends the image data stored in the RAM to the print editing section 32 of the print control section 23. The print head controller 33 drives the print head 18 to print on the medium 6 based on the image data. The medium 6 for which printing has been completed is conveyed through the conveyance path 10 and is ejected to the ejection stacker 2. When the medium 6 is ejected and the ticket issuing is completed, the main control unit 19 notifies the host device 21 of the completion via the interface control unit 20 as shown in FIG.

In the ticket issuing printer 1 as described above, when one medium is issued, the medium 6 on which printing is completed
Are transported through the transport path 10 and are directly discharged to the discharge stacker 2. Here, a case where a plurality of media are collectively issued to one customer will be described. 1 is a side view showing a batch handling unit of the present invention, FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing a medium stacking operation of a stacking unit, FIG. 7 is a top view showing an example of media, and FIG. 8 is another example of a ticket issuing printer. It is a schematic explanatory drawing. In the figure, an abutting member 41, a stacking unit 42, and a staple 43 are provided in front of the discharge stacker 2.

The abutting member 41 is movable in the direction of arrow BB 'by a solenoid 44, and the abutting member 41
The discharge port 45 is opened and closed by the movement of. Laminating means 42
Is mainly composed of a pair of conveyor belts 46, 47 and a push-up member 48. The conveyor belts 46 and 47 are wound around pulleys 49 and 50 and 51 and 52, respectively. The conveyor belt 46 is movable in the direction of arrow BB ′ by the solenoid 53, the links 54 and 55 connected to the solenoid 53, and the mounting member 56. The push-up member 48 is movable in the direction of arrow BB ′ by the solenoid 57 and the links 58 and 59 connected to the solenoid 57.

When ejecting the processed medium 6, the solenoid 44 is turned off and the abutting member 41 moves the spring 6
It is projected in the direction of arrow B by the pressing force of 0 to close the discharge port 45. Also, the solenoid 53 is turned on and the link 54
Is sucked, the mounting member 56 and the conveyor belt 46 are moved in the direction of arrow B, and are separated from the conveyor belt 47. Here, the leading edge of the first sheet of medium 6a transported along the transport path 10 by the rotation of the transport roller 15 hits the abutting member 41 and stops.

When the solenoid 57 is turned on and the link 58 is attracted, the link 59 rotates about the fulcrum 59a in the direction of arrow C and the push-up member 48 moves in the direction of arrow B. The push-up member 48 pushes up the rear end of the first medium 6a as shown in FIG. In this state, the conveyed second medium 6b hits the push-up member 48.

When the second medium 6b hits the push-up member 48, the solenoid 57 is turned off and the link 58 is released. As a result, the link 59 rotates in the arrow C'direction around the fulcrum 59a, and the push-up member 48 moves in the arrow B'direction. The second medium 6b slides under the first medium 6a by the driving of the transport belt 47, hits the abutting member 41, and stops.

In this way, the media 6 are stacked on the lower side in the order of transport, and all the numbers of the media 6 to be issued are the transport belt 47.
When stacked on top, the binding portion 61 of the medium 6 shown in FIG. 7 is bound by the staple 43. Next, the solenoid 53 is turned off to release the link 54, the mounting member 56 and the transport belt 46 are moved in the direction of the arrow B ′, and the medium 6 is sandwiched between the transport belts 46 and 47. Further, the solenoid 44 is turned on, the abutting member 41 is sucked against the pressing force of the spring 60, moved in the direction of arrow B ′, and the discharge port 45 is opened. Finally, the transport belts 46 and 47 are driven to bind the bound medium 6 to each other.
Is discharged onto the discharge stacker 2.

In the present embodiment, the batch handling unit 62 of the present invention has been described as an example of being used for a ticket issuing printer which issues one type of medium 6 stored in one hopper 5. However, as shown in FIG.
It is also effective for a ticket issuing printer having a, 7b, and 7c.
These hoppers 7a, 7b, 7c have different types of mediums 6a, 6 such as train tickets, limited express tickets, and accommodation tickets.
b and 6c are stored. The higher-level device 21 transmits data to the ticket issuing printer 1 in the order of the itinerary of the customer, for example. Based on the data, the ticket issuing printer 1 feeds out the media 6a, 6b, 6c from the hoppers 7a, 7b, 7c and performs a predetermined process, and then the batch handling unit 62 binds the media and issues them collectively. To do.

In this way, the stacking means for stacking the movable abutting member 41 on which the medium 6 abuts in front of the discharge port 45 and the second and subsequent mediums 6b on the lower side of the first medium 6a in the transport order. 42 and a staple 4 for binding the stacked media 6
By providing 3 and 3, when issuing a plurality of types of media, all the tickets are issued in a bound state, so that workability at the time of issuing the media is improved.

[0022]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects. That is, a movable abutting member on which the medium abuts before the discharge port, a stacking unit that stacks the second and subsequent media on the back side of the first media in the order of conveyance, and a binding device that binds the stacked media. By providing the means, when a plurality of types of media are issued, all the tickets are issued in a state of being bound together, so that workability at the time of issuing the media is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a batch handling unit of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a ticket issuing printer of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view showing an internal mechanism of the ticket issuing printer of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an interface procedure between a host device and a ticket issuing printer.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a printer system of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a medium stacking operation of a stacking unit.

FIG. 7 is a top view showing an example of a medium.

FIG. 8 is a schematic explanatory view showing another example of the ticket issuing printer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ticket issuing printer 5 hopper 6 medium 41 abutting member 42 stacking means 43 staple 45 discharge port

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. In a medium issuing device for sequentially performing a predetermined process on a medium fed one by one from a hopper and ejecting the treated medium from an ejection port, the medium can be moved to abut before the ejection port. A medium issuing device, comprising: an abutting member, a stacking unit that stacks the second and subsequent media on the back side of the first medium in the order of conveyance, and a binding unit that binds the stacked media. apparatus. 2. The medium issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the mediums are stacked and bound in the order of use by a customer.