JPH09326062A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a customer from inserting his or her hand into a window and to improve the safety by making a shutter open the window and expose it when a card paper money processor is fitted to the main body or door of the automatic vending machine, and closing the window with the shutter when the processor is detached from the main body or door. SOLUTION: The door of the main body is provided with a display rack, a coin insertion slot, etc., and a paper money insertion slot 28 is exposed in the window by the display rack. When the door is closed, a roller 44 of the shutter 36 is positioned at a guide piece 34 of a paper money processor 26 and presses the shutter 36 down against the energizing force of a spring 52 to pen the window, thereby exposing the insertion slot 28 of the paper money processor 26. For periodic inspection, etc., on the other hand, when the door is opened so as to detach the paper money processor 26 which is made freely detachable from the main body, the shutter 36 fitted to the door leaves the paper money processor 26, the roller 44 rotates roller guide pieces 34 and 32, and the spring 52 lifts the shutter 36 to close the window with a blocking plate 38.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine having a card bill processing device for processing cards such as prepaid cards and bills.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An automatic vending machine is equipped with a card bill processing device for processing cards such as prepaid cards and bills.

This card bill processing device is a separate body from the door and the main body of the vending machine, and can be detached from the main body and the door. The reason for having such a structure is that the serviceman needs to remove the card banknote processing device for repair and inspection when the card banknote processing device fails or in the case of periodic inspection.

In order to make it detachable, the insertion opening of the card bill processing apparatus is exposed through a window opening on the front surface of the door.

[0005]

In the mounting structure of the card bill processing apparatus as described above, when the service person removes the card bill processing apparatus, the window provided on the front surface of the door remains open. Therefore, the customer might put his / her hand inside the vending machine through the window.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides an automatic vending machine which closes a window provided on a front surface of a door when the card bill processing device is detached from the automatic vending machine.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a vending machine which has a door on the front surface of the main body of the vending machine, and which has a card bill processing apparatus for processing cards such as prepaid cards and bills. In a vending machine that is detachably provided on the main body or the door, a window is provided on the front surface of the door, a shutter for closing the window is provided on the rear surface of the door, and a card or a bill is provided on the front surface of the card bill processing apparatus. Is provided with an insertion opening for inserting the card bill processing device to the main body or the door to expose the insertion port from the window, and when the card bill processing device is attached to the main body or the door, The shutter closes the window when the shutter opens the window and the card bill processing device is removed from the main body or the door.

An automatic vending machine according to a second aspect is the automatic vending machine according to the first aspect, wherein the card bill processing device is provided in the main body, and when the door is opened, the door is separated from the card bill processing device. The shutter closes the window.

[0009]

[Operation] With the vending machine according to claim 1, when the card bill processing device is attached to the main body or door of the vending machine, the shutter opens the window, so the insertion opening is exposed from the window. . On the other hand, when the card bill processing device is removed from the main body or the door, the shutter closes the window.

In the automatic vending machine according to claim 2, when a service person opens the door for periodical inspection,
The door moves away from the card and bill handling machine and the shutter closes the window.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A cigarette vending machine 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

Reference numeral 14 is a door provided on the main body 12 and capable of opening and closing. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the door 14 is provided with a display shelf 16 for displaying a cigarette sample, a coin slot 18, a money return button 20 and a cigarette outlet 22. Further, a window 24 is opened at the side of the display shelf 16, and an insertion port 28 for inserting a bill through the window 24 is exposed.

Reference numeral 26 is a bill processing device. The banknote handling apparatus 26 is detachably fixed to the main body 12 and can be detached from the main body 12 for periodic inspection and repair.
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the banknote handling device 26 has a cubic shape, the above-mentioned insertion port 28 is opened on the front surface, and a guide piece 30 projects on the right side surface. This guide piece 30
Is composed of a first guide piece 32 which is provided so as to incline downward from the uppermost position on the right side surface, and a second guide piece 34 which extends horizontally from the rear end portion.

Reference numeral 30 is a shutter provided in the vicinity of the rear side of the window 24 of the door 14. This shutter 3
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, reference numeral 6 denotes a closing plate 38 for closing the window 24, a right side plate 40 extending rearward from a right side portion of the closing plate 38, and an upper side of an upper end portion of the right side plate 40. Mounting plate 42 that is attached. The upper end of the mounting plate 42 is bent to the left. Further, one roller 44 is attached to the left side of the right side plate 42. Further, a first elongated hole 46 is opened in the front part of the mounting plate 42, and a second elongated hole 48 is opened in the rear part of the mounting plate 42 in the vertical direction.

Reference numeral 50 indicates a door 1 as shown in FIGS.
4 is a fixing portion that protrudes from the rear surface to the right side of the window 24. A coil-shaped spring 52 is attached between the upper end of the fixed portion 50 and the upper end of the mounting plate 42. In addition, the first protrusion 52 and the second protrusion 54 protrude from the fixing portion 50, and the first protrusion 52 engages with the first elongated hole 46 and the second protrusion 54 as shown in FIGS. The portion 54 is engaged with the second elongated hole 48. As a result, the first protruding portion 52 and the second protruding portion 54 are connected to the first elongated hole 4
6 and up and down along the second elongated hole 48,
The shutter 36 can move up and down along the fixed portion 52. The spring 52 constantly biases the shutter 36 upward.

The attachment / detachment state of the banknote processing device 26 having the above-described structure will be described.

First, a state in which the bill processing device 26 is attached to the main body 12 will be described.

The bill processing device 26, as shown in FIG.
It is fixed to the main body 12.

When the door 14 is closed with respect to the main body 12, the roller 44 of the shutter 36 is positioned on the second guide piece 34 of the banknote handling apparatus 26, so that the spring 5
The shutter 36 is pressed downward against the biasing force of 2. Therefore, since the window 24 is in an open state, the insertion port 28 of the banknote processing device 26 is exposed from the window 24 (see FIGS. 1.3, 5 and 7).

A state in which the bill processing device 26 is removed from the above state will be described.

To remove the banknote handling device 26, the door 14
10 is opened as shown in FIG.
, The shutter 36 attached to the door 14 moves away from the banknote handling apparatus 26. In this case, the roller 44 rotates below the second guide piece 34 and the first guide piece 32, and as shown in FIG.
It moves away from the front end of the guide piece 32. Therefore, the spring 52 biased downward by the guide piece 30 pulls the shutter 36 upward by its own biasing force.
In this case, the shutter 36 is pulled up along the fixed portion 52. When pulled up, the closing plate 38 closes the window 24 where the outlet 22 has been exposed (FIGS. 2, 4, and 4).
6 and 8).

As a result, the service person can remove the bill processing device 26 only by opening the door 14, and the window 24 is automatically closed by the shutter 36. Therefore, the customer does not put his / her hand through the window 24.

A case will be described below in which the banknote processing device 26 is re-attached to the main body 12 and the door 14 is closed after the periodical inspection and the repair of the banknote processing device 26 are completed.

When the door 14 is closed with respect to the main body 12, the roller 44 reaches the front end portion of the first guide piece 32 of the banknote handling machine 26, and when the door 14 is further closed, the roller 44 causes the first guide piece 32 and the second guide piece. It rotates below the piece 34 and reaches the rear end portion of the second guide piece 34. As a result, the shutter 36 is urged downward against the urging force of the spring 52, and the closing plate 38 moves downward, so that the window 24 opens. Window 2
When the opening 4 is opened, the insertion opening 28 is exposed through the window 24 (see FIGS. 1.3, 5 and 7).

By simply closing the door 14 as described above, the window 2
The shutter 36 of No. 4 opens, and the insertion port 28 of the banknote processing device 26 is exposed.

Although the bill processing device 26 for handling bills has been described in the above embodiment, the same structure can be adopted in a card reader / writer for handling cards such as prepaid cards instead.

[0027]

As described above, in the vending machine of the present invention, when the card bill processing device is removed from the main body or the door, the shutter closes the window, so that the customer does not put his / her hand through the window.

In the vending machine according to the second aspect, the window is closed by the shutter just by opening the door, so that the window will not be forgotten to be closed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a cigarette showing an embodiment of the present invention with a banknote handling device attached.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the same, with the banknote handling device removed.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the banknote handling apparatus with a shutter opened.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the banknote handling apparatus with a shutter closed.

FIG. 5 is a front view of the banknote handling apparatus with a shutter opened.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the banknote handling apparatus with a shutter closed.

FIG. 7 is a right side view of the banknote handling apparatus with a shutter opened.

FIG. 8 is a right side view of the banknote handling machine with a shutter closed.

FIG. 9 is a partially cutaway plan view of the vending machine with the door closed.

FIG. 10 is a partially cutaway plan view with a door opened.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Vending Machine 12 Main Body 14 Door 24 Window 26 Banknote Processing Device 28 Insertion Port 36 Shutter

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine having a door on the front of a main body of the vending machine, wherein a card bill processing device for processing cards such as prepaid cards and bills is detachably provided on the main body or the door. A window is provided on the front surface of the door, a shutter for closing the window is provided on the rear surface of the door, an insertion port for inserting a card or a bill is provided on the front surface of the card bill processing device, and the card bill processing device is the main body. Or, when the card bill processing device is attached to the door to expose the insertion opening from the window and the card bill processing device is attached to the main body or the door, the shutter opens the window, and the card bill processing device is the main body or The vending machine, wherein the shutter closes the window when removed from the door. 2. The card banknote processing device is provided in the main body, and when the door is opened, the door is separated from the card banknote processing device and the shutter closes the window. Item 1. The vending machine according to item 1.