JPH1063797A - Used card destruction and recovery device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To destroy a used card hackedly and to make its reproduction impossible, by providing a destruction means for destroying the card and making its reproduction impossible in a route for sending the used card from a card reader to a housing box. SOLUTION: The card recovery device is provided with a feeding port 11 for feeding a used card K, the sending mechanism 2 of the card K, a residual number presence/absence read sensor 9, the card reader 3 for reading the magnetic record of the card K and the housing box 4, etc. Then, the housing box 4 stores the used card K judged as having no residual number in the card reader 1 and sent out. In the route for sending the used card K from the card reader 1 to the housing box 4, the gears 6 of a prescribed width are arranged facing the upper and lower parts of the card K. Then, a driving device 8 is driven, the teeth of the gears are gnawed into the front and back of the card K when the card K is passed between the gears 6, recessed and projected parts A are formed on the card K, the card K is destroyed and prevented from entering a reproducing equipment and the reproduction of the card K is made impossible.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card recovery apparatus for recovering used cards such as prepaid cards for purchasing pachinko balls used in pachinko halls, such as prepaid cards, so that the recovered cards are not illegally reproduced and used. To a used card destruction and recovery device for making used cards unrecyclable.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, in pachinko halls, a player has to use a prepaid card for pachinko, for example, 2,000 yen,
A so-called CR machine of a type in which a card of 000 yen, 5000 yen, or the like is purchased, and the card is inserted into a card insertion hole provided on a side surface of a pachinko machine stand to play a game has been widespread. The used cards used in this pachinko machine are collected in a collection box at the hall side. However, a fraudster collects or illegally obtains a particularly expensive card of this used card, and closes the hole of the used card, cuts off the hole, and replaces another card with that card. A large amount of balls are played back by bonding them to parts or rewriting magnetic recordings with a playback device, and using them in halls to obtain a large number of balls, causing a huge loss to card companies It has become a problem and a problem. There is no effective means for preventing a fraudulent person from reproducing the used prepaid card by the fraudulent acts as described above, and this is a problem.

[0003]

However, as the magnetic card is used in the future, the above-mentioned illegal use is considered to occur. Japanese Patent Application No. 169267 proposes a used card collecting machine, and gives a used card player a game opportunity by inserting a card to give a prize or the like, thereby giving an interest and improving a used card collection rate. However, in order to eliminate the possibility that the recovered card will be reused, the present invention uses a destruction means to break a used card inserted by a player or the like into a device for recovering the card. It is another object of the present invention to provide a used card destruction and recovery device that makes reproduction impossible.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a used card destruction and recovery apparatus comprising: a card reader having a feeding mechanism for a used card and a card reader for reading magnetic recording; In a card collection device provided with a storage box 4 for storing used cards K sent from the card reader 1, the card K is destroyed on the path for sending the used cards K from the card reader 1 to the storage box 4 and cannot be reproduced. This is provided with a destruction means 5 for performing the operation.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, as the breaking means 5, gears 6, 6 having a predetermined width driven by a driving device are disposed facing each other at appropriate positions above and below a path for sending the card K, and the card is interposed between the gears. The non-reusable jagged irregularities A are provided.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention include a slot 11 for a used card K in a card reader 1, a feed mechanism 2 for a card K, a sensor 9 for reading the number of remaining cards, a sensor 10 for reading the type of a card, and the like. A storage box 4 for storing a used card K sent out when the card reader 1 determines that there is no remaining number and sends out the card.
In the card collecting apparatus provided with the gears, gears 6 having a predetermined width are arranged above and below the card K in a path for sending the used card K from the card reader 1 to the storage box 4, and the gear is driven by a driving device 8. When driving between the gears 6 and 6, the teeth of the gears are bitten into the front and back of the card to form jagged irregularities A on the card to break the card and prevent the card from entering the playback device. Disables playing cards.

Normally, since the amount and type of the pachinko card are recorded on the upper side and / or lower side of the card, the gears 6 and 6 are provided on the upper and lower sides or on one side of the front and back sides of the card in order to destroy the magnetic recording portion and the like. It is preferable to dispose a groove on the upper and lower sides or one side of the card so as to make jagged unevenness A due to the tooth shape of the gear to make reproduction impossible. The destruction means 5 is replaced with the above-mentioned gears. For example, a cylindrical body provided with a large number of needles and projections on the peripheral surface is opposed to each other, and a card passing between the cylindrical bodies is provided with innumerable holes and irregularities, making it impossible to reproduce the card. It can also be.

The card collection device is provided with the card reader 1, and a card remaining number reading sensor 9, a card type reading sensor 10, a driving device 13 and the like in the body thereof are connected to a control board to read the remaining number. When the sensor 9 sends a signal indicating that the number of remaining cards is "none", the driving device 13 drives the used card to the storage box 4, and prepares the collection device based on a signal indicating the type of the amount of the card by the type sensor. Activate the game number determination device, and play the game for the number of games indicated in the determination, give a prize by hitting, so that the player can be encouraged to insert a card into the card collection device, and the collected The used card "with no remaining number" is destroyed by the destroying means 5 of the present invention in a jig and stored in a storage box.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a card reader having a used card K insertion port 11 on the front face, a used card K feeding mechanism 2 for sending the used card K therein, and a card reader for reading magnetic recording. The device 3 is provided. In the feed mechanism 2 of the embodiment, the rollers 12 are disposed so as to face upper and lower entrances and exits of the card, and a motor speed reducer,
The card is driven by a driving device 13 composed of a pulley, a belt, and the like so that the card can be rotated forward and backward.
Can be returned to the slot 11 from the port. The card reader 3 includes a sensor 9 for reading the remaining number of cards and a sensor 10 for reading the type of the card.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a prepaid card K dedicated to pachinko machines. In the case of Card K with a purchase price of 2000 yen,
Numbers 0, 5, 10, and 20 indicating the amount of money are displayed on the lower side of the back surface, and a bar code indicating the amount of money for purchasing the card is printed. Thus, when used in a pachinko machine, a punch hole P is inserted on the number according to the use of the card, and the number "0"
Becomes used when the punched hole Po enters the position.

In FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, reference numeral 5 denotes a destruction means for destroying the card K so as to make the card K unreproducible. The destruction means 5 is provided on the path from the card reader 9 of the body of the card reader 1 to the storage box 4. As an example of this destruction means 5, in the embodiment, the amount and type of the pachinko card are magnetically recorded on the upper side and the lower side, so that the gears 6 and 6 are placed on both sides of the card K so that the upper and lower sides are jagged. The gears are driven by a driving device 8 including a motor, a speed reducer, a pulley, a belt, and the like, and the teeth of the gear 6 are bitten into upper and lower surfaces on both sides of the card passing between the gears. The unevenness A is provided. It is preferable that the width of the gear 6 be a wide width suitable for making the pachinko prepaid card K jagged over a suitable width and making it unreproducible. In the embodiment, irrespective of the magnetic recording section, irregularities are formed on both sides of the card so that reproduction cannot be performed. However, the present invention is not limited to this. May be provided with irregularities.

In the above embodiment, the gear 6
However, the present invention is not limited to this.For example, an infinite number of needles on the peripheral surface, a cylindrical body provided with protrusions are opposed to each other, and a card is passed between them to form an infinite number of holes, irregularities. It may be provided. Further, if a cylindrical body provided with a disk blade on the peripheral surface is opposed to the destruction means 5, the disk blade may be driven to rotate by the driving device 8, and the card K passing between the disk blades may be cut. it can. Reference numeral 7 denotes a guide plate for guiding the jagged card K to the storage box 4 below the gears 6, 6.

A sensor 14 for detecting a used card sent from the card reader 1 is provided near the exit of the card reader 1. The sensor 14 is associated with the driving device 8 and sent from the card reader 1 by the sensor 14. When the used card K is detected, the driving device 8 is automatically
To drive the gear 6. The driving device 8 rotates the gear 6 via a motor, a speed reducer, a pulley, a belt, and the like, causes the card to bite the teeth between the two gears, feeds the card with jagged irregularities A, and sends the card through the guide plate 7. And store it in the storage box 4.

FIG. 5 shows a used card K provided with jagged irregularities A on both sides by the breaking means 5.

FIG. 6 shows a card recovery device provided with the card destruction recovery device of the present invention. This collection device includes a monitor 21 for displaying information such as presence / absence of the number of remaining cards, the number of games, a game, a hit or miss, return of a card, and an image on a front surface of a body 20, and a body of a card reader below the monitor 21. And a start port 22, a stop button 23, and a prize payout port 24 for a game to be displayed on a monitor. A control board (not shown) of the collection device is provided with a sensor 9 for reading the remaining number of card readers, a sensor 10 for reading the type of card, and a driving device 13.
In addition, a monitor 21, a start button 22, a stop button 23, a game frequency determination device, a game, a prize payout device, a hall computer and the like are connected.

According to this embodiment, the input port 1 of the collection device
When the used card K is loaded into the roller 1, the roller 12 is driven by the driving device 13 to be pulled in, sent to the reading device 3, and the reading device 9 of the reading device 3 detects the presence or absence of the punch hole Po of the card by the reading sensor 9 of the card. When you do,
When "there is no remaining number", the used card K is sent to the storage box 4 by driving the roller 12, and is passed through the gears 6, 6 along the path to form jagged irregularities A and stored in the storage box 4.
Also, when the punch hole Po “absence” of the card is detected,
"Remaining number" is displayed on the monitor 21 and returned to the slot 11, and returned to the player who has inserted.

A game number judging device (not shown) reads a bar code on a magnetic card with the type reading sensor 10, detects the type and notifies the control card via the bar code. The number of games determined in advance is determined. For example, 2000 yen, 300
One time when detecting 5 barcodes of 0 yen 4 of 5000 yen
At the time of detecting a barcode of a book, the number of games is set to three times. The number of games determined by the number-of-games determination device is displayed on the monitor 21 and displayed on the monitor, for example, a number matching game of one horizontal or diagonal line (commonly called 5 lines) or a pattern matching game The player who has used the card presses the start button 22 and the stop button 23 to play the game. When a game is played, receipts, cards, and the like that are exchanged for prizes or prizes in the hall are paid out from the payout port 24. Therefore, rather than throwing away the used card, the player, when he / she uses up the card in the pachinko machine, is interested in playing the game and paying out prizes when hitting the card collection device. The recovery rate of used cards can be improved, and the recovered cards can be destroyed by destruction means and made unrecyclable, making it difficult for fraudsters to collect used cards, Can be reduced.

[0018]

According to the used card destruction and recovery apparatus of the first aspect of the present invention, when the used card inserted into the card reader is collected in the storage box, the card is destroyed by the destruction means so that it cannot be reproduced. Since the card is collected, the collected card cannot be reproduced by a reproducing device, and fraudulent acts can be prevented.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the gears are used as the destruction means, the used cards are provided with jagged irregularities with the teeth of the gears, and the cards are completely destroyed. By making reproduction impossible, fraudulent acts can be prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a used card destruction and recovery device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of the same.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged side view of a gear that jaws a card.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a card before being destroyed.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the card after being destroyed.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a card collection device.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Card reader, 2 ... Feed mechanism, 3 ... Card reader, 4 ... Storage box, 5 ... Destruction means, 6 ... Gear, K ... Card, A ... Jigging unevenness.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A card reader (1) provided with a feeding mechanism (2) for a used card (K) and a card reader (3) for reading magnetic recording, and a used card sent from the card reader (1) In a card collection device provided with a storage box (4) for storing (K), the card (K) is destroyed and reproduced in a path for sending the used card (K) from the card reader (1) to the storage box (4). A used card destruction and recovery device comprising destruction means (5) for making it impossible. 2. A gear (6) having a predetermined width, which is driven by a driving device, is disposed at an appropriate position above and below a path for feeding the card (K) as the breaking means (5). The used card destruction and recovery device according to claim 1, wherein the card is provided with non-reusable jagged irregularities (A).