JPH10188046A - Ticket vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable printing in plural colors on one ticket by printing the specified range of thermosensitive paper with a thermal head enabling printing at a temperature different from the thermosensitive temperature of the other range while using the thermosensitive paper to generate different colors more than two corresponding to thermosensitive temperatures. SOLUTION: When printing an ordinary meal ticket, a rubber roller 46 is rotated by a motor 48 and while conveying rolled thermosensitive paper 42 at prescribed speed, a desired menu to be purchased is printed by a thermal head 44. The thermosensitive paper 42 uses thermosensitive paper to generate the different colors corresponding to the temperatures applied to it. In the case of such thermosensitive paper, printing is enabled in two colors (black and red) corresponding to the temperature to be applied. In the case of printing in black, the impression energy of thermal head 44 is set to 120mJ/dot and in the case of red, it is set to 50mJ/dot. Thus, the impression energy is controlled only for the dot designated in red on the surface of desired ticket to be printed so that the meal ticket in double colors can be issued.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket vending machine such as a meal ticket or a ticket.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In conventional ticket vending machines for meals and tickets, characters written on the surface of issued tickets are displayed in one color. That is, the color of the characters printed on the front of the ticket is
In most cases, it was black, and it was difficult to make the described method unique.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a ticket vending machine having a printing device capable of printing a single ticket in a plurality of colors.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a ticket vending machine comprising: a plurality of commodity selection buttons; a money processing means for processing coins and bills; and a case where a predetermined amount of money is inserted into the money processing means. A printing machine for printing, on paper, a product name corresponding to the selected product selection button from among the plurality of product selection buttons, wherein the paper has two or more different colors depending on the heat-sensitive temperature. Is a thermal paper that develops a color, and the printing unit is a thermal head that can print only in a specific range of the thermal paper at a temperature different from the thermal temperature in other ranges.

[0005] In the above-mentioned ticket vending machine, the printing means is a thermal head which prints a specific range of the thermal paper at a temperature different from the dry heat temperature of the other range, and the thermal paper varies depending on the thermal temperature. Since the color is developed, a specific range of the thermal paper is printed in a color different from other ranges. For example, other areas can be printed in black and only that particular area can be printed in red.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a ticket vending machine 10 for selling meal tickets of this embodiment.

On the front of the ticket vending machine 10, a plurality of product selection buttons 12 on which menus are described are provided. The product selection button 12 will be described later.
On the upper surface of the commodity selection button 12, a digital display 14 for displaying the amount of money inserted, a coin insertion slot 16, a return lever 18, a bill insertion slot 20 for inserting bills, a meal ticket And an outlet 22 for taking out change
Further, an enter button 24 described later is provided.

Next, the product selection button 12 will be described. The product selection button 12 is composed of three types of buttons. Hereinafter, description will be made in order.

The first type of product selection button 12 is a case where the menu described on the surface of the product selection button 12 is sold as it is as a meal ticket. For example, Yakisoba,
Curry and rice.

The second type of product selection button 12 is a case where one product is printed by selecting a plurality of product selection buttons 12.

For example, in the case of ramen, there are miso ramen and soy sauce ramen, and the ingredients in the ramen may include char siu, corn, butter, egg and the like. Therefore, the main menu (Ramen),
There is a product selection button 12 for separately selecting the type (miso or soy sauce) and the ingredients (charshoo, corn, butter, egg) to be put therein (see FIG. 1). Thus, for example, if you want to buy a meal ticket of miso ramen with char siu, corn and butter,
The product selection buttons 12 for "Miso", "Ramen", "Charshoo", "Corn" and "Butter" are selected.

Then, a second type of product selection button 12
When a plurality of are selected, the confirmation button 24 is finally pressed to inform the ticket vending machine 10 that the selection is final.

A third type of product selection button 12 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (1), "Tanuki" is displayed in one display window, and product selection buttons 12 of "Soba" and "Udon" are arranged in each of the display windows. In this way, "tanuki udon" or "tanuki soba" can be selected at a glance.

Next, an electrical configuration of the ticket vending machine 10 will be described with reference to FIG.

A bill processing device 30 for processing bills around the control device 28, a coin processing device 32 for processing coins, a plurality of commodity selection buttons 12, a confirmation button 2
4, a return lever 18, a display 14, an input device 54 used by an operator, a power supply device 56, and a printing device 40 for printing a meal ticket are connected. The memory 52 of the control device 28 stores a repair method corresponding to a failure occurring in the ticket vending machine 10.

Next, the printing apparatus 40 will be described.

The printing device 40 comprises a thermal paper wound in a roll and a thermal head 4 for printing on the thermal paper 42.
4, a rubber roller 46 for transporting the thermal paper 42 in the form of a roll, a motor 48 for rotating the rubber roller 46, and a cutter 50 for cutting the thermal paper 42 into predetermined lengths. .

When printing a normal meal ticket, the rubber roller 46 is rotated by a motor 48 to convey the roll-shaped thermal paper 42 at a predetermined speed while printing the menu to be purchased by the thermal head 44, Cut at 50 to a predetermined length.

The thermal paper 42 of the present embodiment uses a thermal paper that develops a different color depending on the temperature applied thereto. That is, the ticket in the conventional ticket vending machine is a single color (in most cases, black), but in the case of the thermal paper of the present embodiment, it can be printed in two colors (black and red) depending on the applied temperature.

That is, when printing in black, the applied energy of the thermal head 44 is set to 120 mJ / dot, and when printing in red, it is set to 50 mJ / dot. Thus, by controlling the applied energy of only the dots designated as red on the surface of the ticket to be printed, a two-color meal ticket can be issued. For example, in the meal ticket shown in FIG. 5, the date, rice, time, price, and dining room name are printed in black, and only the average or large characters are printed in red. Thus, the features of the meal ticket can be grasped at a glance.

In the above embodiment, printing is performed in two colors. However, it is also possible to issue a meal ticket in three or more colors by applying a plurality of kinds of applied energy or more.

A description will be given of a state of selling a meal ticket of the ticket vending machine 10 having the above configuration.

When the first type product selection button 12 is selected, the selected menu (curry rice, yakisoba) is printed by the printing device 40 and issued.

The case where the second type product selection button 12 is selected will be described.

In order to add char siu, corn and butter as ingredients in miso ramen, the buttons of "miso", "ramen", "char shou", "corn" and "butter" were pressed as the product selection buttons 12. After that, the enter button 24 is selected. Thereby, the control device 28
Judge that miso ramen with char siu, corn and butter was selected, calculated the sum of the price of each component and the total price of the miso ramen, and added the miso ramen and char siu to the meal ticket as shown in Fig. 4. , Corn, butter and the total price (520 yen) are printed and issued.

As a result, conventionally, as shown in FIG. 8, it is necessary to issue one meal ticket for miso ramen and one meal ticket for char siu, corn and butter to issue a total of four meal tickets. However, in the case of the present embodiment, 1
Since everything is described in one sheet ticket, the ticket issuing efficiency is improved.

The case where the third type product selection button 12 is selected will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, the display window 2 of "Tanuki"
When the product selection button 12 indicating “soba” of No. 6 is selected, “tanuki soba” is printed and issued.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 9, there is no need to provide a large number of the conventional product selection buttons 112.

FIG. 7 shows a modification of the third type of product selection button shown in FIG. 2, in which "udon" or "soba" is displayed on the display window 26, and "3" is displayed as the product selection button. "Tanuki" or "fox" is displayed. Thereby, the same menu as the contents shown in FIG. 2 can be easily selected.

Next, a case where a device in the ticket vending machine 10 breaks down will be described.

The plurality of commodity selection buttons 12, the display 14, the bill processing device 30, the coin processing device 32, the input device 54, and the power supply device 56 provided on the ticket vending machine 10 are each provided with a failure detection sensor. The control device 28 is informed whether or not each device is operating normally. Then, for example, in the coin processing device 32, when a coin jam occurs and an abnormality occurs in coin payout, the following operation is performed.

As described above, the failure detection sensor of the coin processing device 32 detects the failure and notifies the controller 28 of the failure.

When this content is transmitted to the control device 28,
A repair method corresponding to the failure is called from a memory 52 provided in the control device 28, and the contents are printed on the printing device 40. The printed contents are shown in FIG. 6, and the contents of the failure and the repair method are described.

Thus, the operator can know the repair method of the failure only by looking at the printed printed matter.
Therefore, there is no need to read and confirm the instruction manual as in the related art, and the operation can be performed quickly.

[0037]

As described above, according to the ticket vending machine of the present invention, a specific range can be printed on the thermal paper in a color different from the other ranges. For example, only the portion desired to have a characteristic is printed in red. can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a ticket vending machine showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a product selection button.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a ticket vending machine.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a meal ticket when selected with a second type of product selection button.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a two-color printing meal ticket.

FIG. 6 is a front view of paper on which a method for repairing a failure is printed.

FIG. 7 is a modified example of a third type of product selection button.

FIG. 8 is a front view of a meal ticket in a case where ingredients are purchased in a conventional miso ramen.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a conventional product selection button.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Ticket vending machine 12 Commodity selection button 24 Confirmation button 28 Control device 30 Bill processing device 32 Coin processing device 52 Memory 54 Input device 56 Power supply device 40 Printing device 42 Thermal paper

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of commodity selection buttons, a money processing means for processing coins, bills and the like, and when a predetermined amount of money is inserted into the money processing means, the plurality of commodity selection buttons are selected from the plurality of commodity selection buttons. A printing machine for printing a product name corresponding to the selected product selection button on paper, wherein the paper is a heat-sensitive paper in which two or more different colors are developed depending on a heat-sensitive temperature; Is a thermal head capable of printing a specific range of the thermal paper at a temperature different from the thermal temperature of the other range.