JPH09237323A - Ticket send out mechanism, ticket issuing mechanism and magnetic printing information recording/ticket issuing device utilizing these mechanisms - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set up the length of a carrier system between a hopper and a magnetic recording head shorter than the lenth of a ticket so as not to generate the jamming of tickets by releasing the depression of a backup plate to a ticket when the tip of the ticket is put on the carrier system. SOLUTION: When a ticket 2 arrives at a carrying roller 16 and is detected by a sensor 17 arranged just behind the roller 16, a motor 7 is stopped, and when the motor 7 is inverted, a pulley 12 is rotationally driven. Since an inner one-way clutch 13 is in a direction for transmitting the rotation of the pulley 12, an eccentric cam 11 and a sensing plate 14 are rotated. When the projecting part of the plate 14 is detected by a sensor 15, the motor 7 is stopped. A peripheral point most separated from the rotational center of the cam 11 comes into contact with a projected part formed on a backup plate 4, so that the plate 4 is depressed and a parallel state is held. Thereby residual tickets in the hopper 1 and tickets jammed in a delivering guide part 10 are dropped downward. Thus only one ticket is delivered from the hopper 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for issuing tickets and the like, and more particularly to a feeding mechanism for feeding out pre-cut tickets one by one, a mechanism for recording and reading magnetic information thereafter, and a thermal transfer printing or printing method. The present invention relates to a magnetic printing information recording ticket issuing device comprising: a mechanism for recording printing information on a ticket surface by thermal printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Known examples of this type of apparatus include Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-2662 (hereinafter referred to as a first example) and Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No.
No. 55276 (hereinafter, referred to as a second example),
9293 (hereinafter referred to as a third example),
192 (hereinafter, referred to as a fourth example), JP-A-2-282.
No. 886 (hereinafter, referred to as a fifth example).

In the first to third examples, the tickets are separated and transported one by one from a hopper storing a pre-cut ticket, and then magnetic information is recorded by a magnetic head.
Further, the ticket issuing device reads whether the recorded contents are correct, prints and records the contents of each ticket on a ticket surface, and discharges the contents to a stacker.

For example, in a first example, referring to FIG.
The lowermost card 102 in the hopper 101 is fed to a feed roller 103, and when a sensor 104 detects a ticket, the rotation of the feed motor 105 is stopped, and
A mechanism is provided for feeding only one sheet while retracting the sheet feeding roller 103 in a direction in which the feeding roller 103 does not contact the card 102.

Next, in a second example, the lowermost card in the hopper is sent out by the first roller, and the card at the lower end of the hopper passes completely through the discharge port through which only one ticket passes. An apparatus is provided which separates the sheets into sheets and conveys the sheets by second and third rollers.

In the third example, as shown in FIG.
The uppermost ticket in the ticket cassette 110 is sent out by the pick roller 111 and is rotated by the separation sheet feeding unit 113 in the sheet feeding direction. When the paper enters the separation unit constituted by the separation roller 115 rotating in the paper feeding direction, the frictional force acts between the separation roller 115 and the ticket in the paper feeding direction by the rotation of the paper feeding roller 114 to separate the ticket into one sheet. It is made to do.

A fourth example is a device for manually inserting a ticket from the outside of the device, not from a hopper, and issuing an inserter part, which is the insertion part of the ticket, between the print information recording part and the discharge stacker. It is merged with the transport system, or is a junction between the magnetic recording head and the transport system between the print information recording section.

Further, in a fifth example, a reject stacker, which is another storage unit other than the hopper, is stored inside the apparatus so that a ticket whose magnetic information has not been recorded normally is not ejected out of the apparatus. It has a mechanism. In this mechanism, characters or marks indicating magnetic recording abnormalities are printed on the face of the card by the print information recording unit, and a transfer system between the magnetic recording head and the discharge stacker is provided with a gate for changing the transfer direction,
A reject stacker is provided.

[0009]

The conventional magnetic printing information recording and issuing apparatus has a mechanism in which the lower ticket stacked in the hopper is fed by a feed roller in the first and second examples. When a part of the ticket remains in the hopper, the weight of the next ticket to be dispensed is applied to the dispensed ticket, and the transport speed of the ticket is not constant until the ticket completely exits the hopper.

Further, in the third example in which a ticket slips through the separating rollers that come into contact with each other, the tickets are separated into one sheet, and the tickets receive frictional resistance because they come into contact with the rollers under pressure. The transport speed of the ticket is not constant until the trailing edge of the ticket has passed.

Here, when performing magnetic recording, the transport speed of the ticket needs to be constant. Therefore, in the first and second examples, the transport system length between the hopper and the magnetic recording head must be reduced. , Third
In the example, the transport system length between the separation roller and the magnetic recording head needs to be longer than the length in the transport direction of the ticket.

Further, in the fourth example, the inserter unit is joined to the transport system between the print information recording unit and the discharge stacker, or is joined to the transport system between the magnetic recording head and the print information recording unit. Therefore, a transport system from the inserter section to the junction is required separately from other transport systems.

On the other hand, in the fifth example, even when a magnetically abnormal ticket is stored in the reject stacker, characters or marks indicating abnormal magnetic recording are printed on the ticket surface by the print information recording unit, and the magnetic recording head is used. Since the reject stacker is provided with a gate for changing the transport direction in the transport system between the discharge stacker and the reject stacker, the length of the transport system from the print information recording unit to the discharge stacker becomes longer.

Therefore, in the conventional magnetic printing information recording ticket issuing apparatus, since the length of the transport system of the entire apparatus is long, the number of parts of the transport system is large, and the apparatus is expensive and large. Furthermore,
There is a problem that much power for driving the transport system is required, power consumption is increased, and there is a high possibility that a ticket jams in the transport system.

[0015] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to eliminate the influence of the weight of the remaining bills in the hopper and the frictional resistance of the separation portion when the bills are fed out from the hopper, which makes the ticket transport speed unstable, and eliminates the problem with the hopper. An object of the present invention is to provide a ticket feeding mechanism capable of making the length of a transport system between magnetic recording heads shorter than the length of a ticket.

Another object of the present invention is to partially share an inserter transport system between an inserter section and a main transport system and a reject transport system between a reject stacker and a main transport system so that the total length of both transport systems can be reduced. Is to provide a ticketing mechanism that can shorten the time.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a ticket feeding mechanism and a ticket issuing mechanism, thereby shortening the entire length of the transport system, reducing the number of parts of the transport system, and reducing the cost and size of the apparatus. It is an object of the present invention to provide a magnetic printing information recording ticket issuing device capable of achieving low power consumption.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic printing information recording ticket issuing apparatus which can reduce the jam rate of a ticket in a transport system.

[0019]

According to the present invention, a hopper for stacking and storing notes, a pick roller for feeding the notes from above the hopper, and a one-way clutch coaxial with the pick roller are incorporated. A pick roller shaft, a roller provided immediately after the pick roller for transporting a fed-out ticket, a sensor provided adjacent to this roller for detecting the leading end of the ticket, and A backup plate that presses against a roller, a backup plate lowering mechanism that incorporates a one-way clutch in the opposite direction to the one direction and uses rotational force, a delivery guide portion that changes the delivery direction of the ticket, and a forward / reverse motor. And means for transmitting the rotational drive of the motor to the pick roller shaft and the backup plate lowering mechanism, wherein the ticket in the hopper is backed up by the backup. By pressing against the pick roller, rotating the motor in one direction, transmitting the drive only to the pick roller shaft, paying out the uppermost ticket of the stacked tickets in the hopper with the pick roller, the feeding direction Is separated by changing the feeding guide portion, and then, when the tip of the ticket is detected by the sensor, the motor is reversed to transmit the rotation drive only to the backup plate lowering mechanism. By lowering the backup plate, a ticket feeding mechanism is provided in which a ticket remaining in the hopper other than the feeding one is not subjected to a transport load.

According to the present invention, a printing mechanism for printing and recording on a ticket and a discharging stacker for discharging and stacking printed tickets are arranged, and the discharging stacker is arranged immediately after the printing mechanism. It is possible to obtain a ticket issuing mechanism characterized in that the inner portion of the discharge stacker is narrowed to the extent that fingers cannot be inserted to prevent the ticket from being accidentally pulled out during printing.

According to the present invention, there are further provided the feeding mechanism, the ticket issuing mechanism, a magnetic head for recording and reading magnetic information on the ticket, and a transport system from an inserter for inserting the ticket from other than the hopper. The inserter transport system is merged with the transport system between the hopper and the magnetic head via a transport gate, and the transport system of the reject stacker that stacks the magnetic recording abnormal tickets is merged with the inserter transport system at the merge point. A magnetic printing information recording and ticket issuing apparatus provided with a transfer gate can be obtained.

[0022]

According to the present invention, when the pick roller feeds the ticket from the upper part of the hopper and detects that the leading end of the ticket has shifted to the transport system by the sensor provided immediately after the transport roller, the pressing by the backup plate is released.

The transport system from the hopper through the magnetic recording head and the print recording unit to the discharge stacker is a main transport system, and an inserter transport system between the inserter unit and the main transport system is provided between the hopper and the magnetic head. Merge.

Further, a gate is provided in the middle of the inserter transport system, and the reject transport system, which is the transport system from the reject stacker, is joined.

That is, immediately after the ticket is fed out from the hopper and the tip of the ticket is transferred to the transport system, the influence of making the transport speed of the ticket unstable due to the weight of the other tickets and the frictional resistance of the separating portion can be excluded. When the ticket is fed out from the upper portion of the hopper and the sensor provided immediately after the transport roller detects that the leading end of the ticket has shifted to the transport system, the pressing by the backup plate is released. As a result, the transport speed becomes constant immediately after the ticket has been transferred to the transport roller, so that magnetic recording can be performed immediately thereafter, and the transport system between the hopper and the magnetic head can be shorter than the length of the ticket.

The transfer system from the hopper to the discharge stacker through the magnetic head and the print recording unit is the main transfer system, and the inserter transfer system between the inserter section and the main transfer system is the transfer system between the hopper and the magnetic head. By merging in the system and merging the reject transport system by providing a gate in the middle of the inserter transport system, there is a common part in the inserter transport system and the reject transport system, and it is possible to shorten the total length of both. Become.

Therefore, it is possible to shorten the length of the transport system of the entire apparatus, to reduce the number of parts of the transport system, to reduce the cost of the apparatus, to reduce the size and power consumption, and to reduce the size of the transport system. The jam rate of the ticket can be reduced.

[0028]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of a magnetic printing information recording ticket issuing apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a drive system around the hopper 1. The hopper 1 accommodates stacked tickets 2 and these tickets 2
Is pressed by a pick-up roller 5 for feeding out a ticket by a backup plate 4 urged by a spring 3.
A pulley 6 is provided coaxially with the pick roller 5, and a motor 7 capable of normal rotation and reverse rotation is provided inside the pulley 6 from a belt 8.
A one-way clutch 9 that rotates the pick roller 5 only when it receives a rotational force in the direction in which the ticket is sent out through the hopper is built in.

The hopper 1 is provided with a feed-out guide section 10 just below the pick roller 5 so as to change the conveying direction. An eccentric cam 11 is provided on the side of the backup plate 4.
A pulley 12 is provided coaxially, and a one-way clutch 13 for rotating the eccentric cam 11 via the belt 8 when the motor 7 rotates in a direction opposite to the direction in which the pick roller 5 rotates is provided therein. Further, a sensing plate 14 is provided on the axis of the eccentric cam 11 so that a point farthest from the center of the outer periphery of the eccentric cam 11 can be detected, and the convex portion 14-1 thereof is detected by the sensor 15.

Immediately after the pick roller 5, the transport roller 16
And driven by the motor 36 to rotate. Immediately after the transport roller 16, there is a sensor 17 for detecting that the ticket has been transported. A magnetic head 18 for recording and reading magnetic information is provided behind the sensor 17 in the transport direction.
Immediately before and immediately after the magnetic head 18, a sensor 19 and a sensor 20 for detecting the timing of magnetic recording and reading are provided. Further, a thermal head 21 for performing thermal transfer printing, a platen 22 and a transfer film 23 are provided at the rear,
The transfer film 23 is driven by a motor 24. A sensor 25 for detecting a print timing is provided on the transport system immediately before the platen 22. Immediately after the platen 22, there is a discharge stacker 26 for storing discharged tickets.

When a ticket other than the ticket in the hopper 1 is issued, an inserter 27 for inserting a ticket from the outside of the apparatus is merged with a transfer system between the hopper 1 and the magnetic head 18 so as to be merged. And the transfer gate 29 is urged by a spring 30 at the junction. Further, a transfer gate 31 is provided in the middle of the inserter transfer system 28 so that the solenoid 3
2 to switch the direction. In the switched direction, a reject stacker 33 for storing a badly written magnetic ticket or a revoked ticket is connected through a reject transport system 34.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to FIGS. First, referring also to FIG. 3, the tickets 2 stacked in the hopper 1 are in contact with the pick roller 5 by the backup plate 4 pressed by the spring 3. Here, the motor 7 is rotated forward (in the direction of arrow A), and the belt 8 is rotated.
When the pulley 6 is rotated via the pulley, the one-way clutch 9 in the pulley 6 is fitted in the direction of transmitting the drive, so that the pick roller 5 rotates and the ticket is pushed out. Then, the conveyance direction of the ticket is greatly changed by the feeding guide unit 10, and only the ticket in contact with the pick roller 5 continues to be conveyed, and the other tickets stay at the place due to the feeding resistance of the feeding guide unit 10. I do.

Here, the one-way clutch 13 in the pulley 12, which is rotationally driven by the belt 8, is configured so that the rotational direction in which the drive can be transmitted is opposite to that of the one-way clutch 9, so that the eccentric cam 11 and the sensing plate 14 is not driven. Therefore, the backup plate 4 is
While being urged by the eccentric cam 11, it is not pushed down.

Referring also to FIG. 4, when the ticket 2 reaches the transport roller 16 driven by the motor 36 and is detected by the sensor 17 located immediately after that, the motor 7 is stopped.

Next, referring also to FIG. 5, when the motor 7 is rotated in the reverse direction (in the direction of arrow B), the pulley 12
Receives the rotational drive, and this time the internal one-way clutch 13 transmits the rotational drive, so that the eccentric cam 11 and the sensing plate 14 rotate. When the projection 15-1 of the sensing plate 14 is detected by the sensor 15, the motor 7 is stopped. At this time, the point of the eccentric cam 11 farthest from the center of rotation on the outer periphery comes into contact with the convex portion 4-1 provided on the backup plate 4 and pushes the backup plate 4 down to be in a parallel state. Then, the remaining tickets in the hopper 1 and the tickets stagnated in the feeding guide unit 10 fall down. As a result, only one ticket is fed from the hopper 1.

Further, referring to FIG. 6, when the fed-out ticket 2 is detected by the sensor 19 by the conveying roller 16, the magnetic head 18 is conveyed to the magnetic recording start position after a conveying time to the magnetic recording start position.
When the magnetic recording ends and the trailing end of the ticket 2 is detected by the sensor 20, the magnetic recording is further advanced by a predetermined distance, the motor 36 is stopped, and the transport system is stopped. Here, regarding the length of the transport system between the sensor 17 and the sensor 19, when the leading end of the ticket 2 is detected by the sensor 17, the backup plate 4 is lowered by the above-described operation, so that the pressing is performed by the ticket remaining in the hopper 1. Ticket 2 paid out because it is not received
Is not subject to transport resistance. Therefore, the transport speed of the ticket becomes constant immediately after the leading end of the ticket passes the sensor 17, and at this moment, the sensor 19 can detect the speed and start the magnetic recording operation. Therefore, the distance between the sensor 17 and the sensor 19 can be shorter than the length of the ticket in the transport direction.

Referring also to FIG. 7, when the motor 36 is rotated in the reverse direction and the leading end of the ticket in the reverse direction is detected by the sensor 20, the magnetic head 18 is moved from the end of the magnetic information to the magnetic head 18. A reverse reading of the magnetically recorded content is performed to confirm whether the information has been correctly recorded. When the sensor 19 detects the trailing end of the ticket in the reverse transport direction, the motor 36 is stopped to stop the transport system. Here, a transfer gate 29 is provided at a confluence portion with the inserter transfer system in the middle of the reverse transfer while being biased clockwise by a spring 30 in the drawing. This is provided in order to prevent the ticket from being jammed at the junction by always conveying the ticket to the inserter conveyance system at the junction. When the ticket is transported from the hopper 1 in the direction of the magnetic head, the ticket overcomes the force of the spring 30 and is pushed away from the transfer gate 29 to be transported.

Referring also to FIG. 8, when the magnetic information recorded on the ticket is normal, the motor 36 is rotated again toward the thermal head 21 for printing and recording, and the tip of the ticket is
5, the thermal head 21 is moved to the platen 22.
, And the transfer film 23 is transported by the motor 24 in the direction of the arrow. When the ticket reaches a predetermined position where printing is performed, a voltage is applied to the thermal head 21 to perform printing and recording. Immediately after the platen 22, there is a discharge stacker 26 for storing the tickets to be discharged, and the discharge of the tickets is completed immediately after the end of the printing. After the ejection of the ticket, the motor 36 is stopped.

Note that the shape of the discharge stacker 26 is such that even if the tip of the ticket comes out to the discharge stacker 26 during printing, it is prevented that the finger is inserted into the back of the discharge stacker 26 in order to prevent accidental removal by fingers. So narrow.

Referring also to FIG. 9, when a ticket is issued by manual insertion from the inserter 27, the motor 36 is rotated in the direction of the arrow to insert the ticket into the inserter 27, and the ticket is transported by the inserter transport system 28, and the sensor is After the detection at 19, the subsequent operation is the same as the ticketing operation from the hopper 1. Also,
If the reading of the magnetic information from the magnetic head 18 becomes abnormal, the reverse transport is continued as it is, a voltage is applied to the solenoid 32, and the transport gate 31 is switched by a link mechanism (not shown). In this case, the ticket passes through the reject transport system 34, is stored in the reject stacker 33, and stops the motor 36. Thus, a series of ticket issuing operations is completed.

In another embodiment, the ticket to be issued is made of thermal paper, and the transfer film 23 and the motor 24 are used.
The heat-sensitive printing method may be used without the above.

[0042]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The transport system between the hopper and the magnetic head and the transport system between the printing unit and the discharge stacker can be shortened, and the transport system of the inserter and the reject transport system can be partially shared. The length of the transfer system can be shortened, the size of the apparatus can be reduced, the jam rate of tickets in the transfer system can be reduced, and the number of rollers can be reduced, so the driving force can be reduced and power consumption can be reduced, and the number of parts in the transfer system can be reduced. Because it is possible, the apparatus can be inexpensive.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a drive system around the hopper shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining an operation when a ticket is fed from a hopper in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a state that serves as a trigger for moving the motor 7 to reverse rotation in the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining an operation when the backup plate is lowered in the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an operation of recording magnetic information in the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining an operation of reading magnetic information in the device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a view for explaining an operation of discharging a ticket immediately after printing in the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an operation of inserting a ticket from an inserter and issuing a ticket in the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an operation of rejecting a ticket in the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional ticket issuing device.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing another example of a conventional ticket issuing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 hopper 2 ticket 3, 30 spring 4 backup plate 5 pick roller 6, 12 pulley 7, 24 motor 8 belt 9, 13 one-way clutch 10 feeding guide unit 11 eccentric cam 14 sensing plate 15, 17, 19, 20, 25 Sensor 16 Transport Roller 18 Magnetic Head 21 Thermal Head 22 Platen 23 Transfer Film 26 Discharge Stacker 27 Inserter 28 Inserter Transport System 29, 31 Transport Gate 32 Solenoid 33 Reject Stacker 34 Reject Transport System

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A hopper for stacking and storing bills, a pick roller for feeding the bills from above the hopper, a pick roller shaft coaxial with the pick rollers and incorporating a one-way clutch, and immediately after the pick rollers. A roller provided to convey the fed-out ticket, a sensor provided adjacent to the roller for detecting the leading end of the ticket, a backup plate pressing the ticket against the pick roller, A back-up plate lowering mechanism that incorporates a one-way clutch in a direction opposite to the direction and uses the rotational force, a feeding guide portion that changes the feeding direction of the ticket, a forward / reverse motor, and a pick-up mechanism for rotating the motor. A roller shaft and means for transmitting to the backup plate lowering mechanism, wherein the ticket in the hopper is pressed against the pick roller by the backup plate. And, by rotating the motor in one direction,
The uppermost ticket of the stacked tickets in the hopper is fed by the pick roller by transmitting the drive only to the pick roller shaft, and is separated into one by changing the feeding direction by the feeding guide unit. When the tip of the ticket is detected by the sensor, the motor is reversed to transmit rotational drive only to the backup plate lowering mechanism to lower the backup plate,
A ticket dispensing mechanism, wherein a transport load is not applied to tickets that are dispensed and remaining in the hopper other than the dispensed tickets. 2. A printing mechanism for printing and recording on a ticket, and a discharging stacker for discharging and stacking printed sheets, wherein the discharging stacker is arranged immediately after the printing mechanism,
A ticket issuing mechanism characterized in that the inner portion of the discharge stacker is narrowed to the extent that fingers cannot be inserted to prevent the ticket from being accidentally pulled out during printing. 3. The feeding mechanism according to claim 1, the ticket issuing mechanism according to claim 2, a magnetic head for recording and reading magnetic information on the ticket, and conveyance from an inserter for inserting the ticket from other than the hopper. The inserter transport system, which is a system, is merged with the transport system between the hopper and the magnetic head via the transport gate, and the transport system of the reject stacker that stacks the magnetic recording abnormal tickets is merged with the inserter transport system. , A magnetic printing information recording ticket issuing device with a transfer gate at the confluence.