JPH1097667A - Coin receiving/dispensing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate access to respective layer parts and to improve maintainability by structuring a coin receiving/dispensing machine in tree layers of upper layer, middle layer and lower layer and constituting this machine so as to be swung for each layer when opening the respective layer, to be drawn and further to combine these layers. SOLUTION: The upper part of a machine body 11 equipped with a coin slot 13 and a slot shutter 14 is composed of an upper cover 26, which is held freely turnably so as to vertically open/close the front side with an edge 25 of a boundary face as a supporting point, extended from side to side while being arranged at a step part 12 of a central part in the longitudinal direction of the machine body 11. At the lower part of the machine body 11, a dispense money storage part 29 and a coffin part 31 are held so as to be drawn from the machine body 11 to the front. Then, a temporary stock part is positioned in the middle layer of the machine body 11, excess coins are temporarily stored in a right-most stock part while mixing denominations, and the coins to be dropped by denominations in order from the smallest coin diameter are respectively temporarily stored in stock parts arranged from the right side.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a desk-type circulating coin capable of sorting and counting coins received from an insertion slot, storing the received coins, and dispensing the stored coins to an outlet. Regarding deposit and withdrawal machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an example of a desk-top circulation type coin receiving and dispensing machine, an apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-249289 is known. This device will be described. In the following, the names and symbols used in the gazette will be used.
When coins are inserted into the coin receiving and dispensing section 2 in the upper center of the front of the fuselage, the inserted coins are fed out one by one by a belt transport mechanism, and deposited coins formed on the upper surface of the fuselage at the front of the fuselage and at the right side of the fuselage It is conveyed at right angles through the identification branch passage 21. While being transported through the coin discriminating portion 37 of the deposited coin discriminating branch passage section 21, the authenticity and the denomination are discriminated, and the discriminated as a legitimate coin is discriminated from the deposited regular coin branch gate on the right rear side of the machine body. From 40, those which are temporarily reserved in the temporary storage unit 51 formed in the right central part of the fuselage and are not discriminated as legitimate coins are transferred from the deposit reject coin branch gate 44 in the right rear corner of the fuselage to the right central part of the front part of the fuselage. Is ejected to the reject coin ejection port 132 of the reject coin. The coins temporarily stored in the escrow unit 51 are stored in the deposited coin storage unit 61 on the left side of the body front by the switching member 57 when the deposit storage is approved. It is configured to be collected and discharged in a tray set in a discharge port below the front of the fuselage. On the other hand, in the rear part of the fuselage, coin-type coin storage and ejection units 111 are arranged in a line in the width direction of the aircraft, and the ejection unit 114 arranged below the coin-type coin storage and ejection unit 111,
A desired number of coins of a desired denomination are configured to be ejected by denomination toward a tray set in a discharge port at the lower front of the machine body. Further, a supply coin sorting passage section 91 connected to the reject coin branch gate 44 is disposed at the rear of the upper part of the fuselage. In the supply coin sorting passage section 91, a sorting hole for each denomination is formed. The lower part is disposed so that the upper opening of the coin type coin storage and ejection part 111 faces. In the deposit coin storage unit 61, a supply coin supply unit 6 for transferring the coins stored in the deposit coin storage unit 61 to the coin receiving and feeding unit 2.
6 is provided, and between the deposited coin storage unit 61 and the coin receiving and dispensing unit 2 are formed a dispensing port 67 and a through port 12 through which coins to be delivered can pass. Thus, after the coins in the deposit coin storage unit 61 are sent to the coin receiving and dispensing unit 2, the coins are conveyed through the deposit coin discrimination branch passage 21 in the upper part of the machine in the same manner as when coins are deposited, and further classified into replenished coins. It is configured to be conveyed through the passage section 91 and replenished to the denomination coin storage and ejection section 111.

[0003]

In such an apparatus, the coin receiving and feeding section 2 and the deposited coin discriminating branch passage section 2 are provided.
1. Since the blocks of the temporary holding section 51, the deposited coin storage section 61, the supply coin classification passage section 91, and the denomination coin storage and ejection section 111 are three-dimensionally combined, they are arranged, for example, at the rear center of the machine. Coin storage and dispensing section 111
In the case of performing maintenance or the like, there is a problem that access to them tends to be difficult and maintainability is poor. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a desk-top circulating coin depositing and dispensing machine that facilitates access to each unit constituting the apparatus and improves maintainability.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the first aspect of the present invention has a three-layer structure of an upper layer, a middle layer and a lower layer, and deposits coins into the upper layer. A coin insertion unit to be fed, a feeding transport unit that separates and throws out the inserted coins one by one, and is provided in the feeding transport unit, a coin identification unit that determines the authenticity and denomination of the transported coin, A coin branching unit that sorts coins according to the identification result of the coin identifying unit, a coin sorting unit that is connected to the coin branching unit, and classifies coins to be conveyed by denomination, and is arranged almost horizontally in the middle class It is composed of a belt conveyor, and coins that are identified as regular coins in the coin identification unit and that are sorted and sorted in the coin branching unit and the coin sorting unit are temporarily stored for each classification, and the temporarily stored coins are transferred to and from the belt conveyor. Alternatively in the direction By doing so, a temporary storage unit to be stored or returned is arranged, and a lower layer is constituted by an inclined belt conveyor and stores coins of a denomination stored in the temporary storage unit, and stores the stored coins. By disposing the belt conveyor in the forward direction, a dispensing storage unit for dispensing on a tray loaded in the lower part of the front of the fuselage, and a safe unit for storing coins of mixed denominations stored in the temporary storage unit are arranged. It is characterized by being constituted. Thereby, since it has a three-layer structure of the upper layer, the middle layer, and the lower layer, when each layer is opened, it can be swingable or drawable for each layer, and further, can be configured by a method combining these. Therefore, access to each layer is facilitated, and maintainability is improved.

[0005] A coin depositing and dispensing machine according to a second aspect of the present invention comprises:
With respect to the above, the coin branching section is constituted by a coin branching section at the front stage and a coin branching section at the rear stage along one side of the body,
The coin sorting unit is arranged in a line in the width direction of the fuselage on the rear side of the fuselage, and the temporary storage unit is configured so as to have a storage unit having the number of denominations plus 1 in the width direction of the fuselage,
The former coin branch unit is configured to pass coins identified as legitimate coins by the coin identification unit, and to drop and drop abnormal coins not identified as legitimate coins. Of the normal coins that have passed through the preceding coin branching section, for each denomination, the number of regular coins that can be temporarily stored in the storage section or the number that can be stored in the dispensing storage section, whichever is smaller, is reached. Is passed through, and the other normal coins are configured to be dropped and sorted, and abnormal coins that have been dropped and eliminated at the preceding coin branching section are along the one side of the fuselage, and are removed at the front opening of the fuselage. Regular coins that were guided and dropped and sorted at the later coin branch,
In the denomination-mixed state, the regular coins guided to the storage section on the one side of the fuselage in the storage section having the number of denominations of the temporary storage section plus 1 and passing through the coin branch section at the subsequent stage are the coins. The classification unit is configured to be guided to each of the remaining storage units of the temporary storage unit for each coin denomination. As a result, abnormal coins that were not identified as legitimate coins can be dropped and eliminated along the one side of the fuselage at the front exit of the fuselage, and can be temporarily stored in regular coin denomination storage units. Temporary coins that exceed the minimum number of coins or the number that can be stored in the withdrawal storage unit are temporarily stored in the storage unit on one side of the fuselage, and the other regular coins are stored for each denomination The coins can be temporarily stored in each section, and each coin can be efficiently stored in a limited space.

[0006]

FIG. 1 is a schematic external perspective view of a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the present invention. In the following description, directions such as up and down, front and rear, and left and right are directions in the body 11 when the robot is placed on a horizontal plane and used by an operator. Indicated by The body 11 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which a step portion 12 is formed on the upper rear surface side. An upper opening type coin insertion slot 13 is formed on the front side of the upper part of the machine body 11, and below the coin insertion slot 13, an insertion slot shutter 14 for opening and closing the coin insertion slot 13 is slidable in the front-rear direction. It is supported by. On the front surface of the machine body 11, a display unit 16 for displaying a count value of a denomination of a coin processed by an operator or a display for guiding an operation and an operation unit 17 for inputting an operation by the operator are arranged. Have been. An outlet 18 for discharging abnormal coins is formed in the center of the right end of the front of the body 11. A discharge port 20 into which a separate receiving tray 19 for receiving coins to be dispensed is formed at a lower portion of the front of the body 11. At the right end of the lower part of the front surface of the machine body 11, a safe for collecting coins not stored in the storage sections 22a to 22f (see FIG. 8) of the adjacent payment storage section 29 and coins in the storage sections 22a to 22f. A safe section 31 having a safe setting section 24 to which the drawer 23 (see FIG. 8) is attached so as to be able to be pulled out is disposed on the front side.

An upper portion of the body 11 provided with the coin slot 13 and the slot shutter 14 is provided with an edge 25 of a boundary surface extending in the left-right direction and disposed on the step 12 at the center of the body 11 in the front-rear direction. The upper cover 26 is rotatably supported so that the front side can be opened and closed up and down. The upper cover 26 is automatically locked by the closing operation, and the operator is provided on the operation unit 17. By inserting a management key into the management key section 27 and performing a predetermined unlocking operation such as rotation, the lock is released and the opening operation is enabled. In addition, the lower part of the body 11 has a dispensing storage unit 2.
9 and the safe section 31 are supported so as to be able to be pulled out toward the body 11 in the front direction. The dispensing storage section 29 and the safe section 31 are also automatically locked to the body 11 by being inserted into the lower part of the body 11 to a predetermined lock position, and the lock is released by the unlocking operation of the management key section 27. It is released and can be pulled out from the body 11.

FIG. 2 is a partial plan view for explaining a driving mechanism of the insertion shutter 14. A shutter unit 32 is attached to the lower surface of the upper cover 26, and a slide shaft 33 having an axis in the front-rear direction is fixed to the shutter unit 32, and a shutter mounting member 34 is attached to the slide shaft 33.
Are slidably supported. Shutter mounting member 3
The rear end of the input shutter 14 is attached to 4, and the front end of the input shutter 14 is supported so as to be guided by the shutter guide 35 of the shutter unit 32 in this state. The shutter guide 35 is provided for the input shutter 1.
4, a substantially square frame portion 36 centered on the coin slot 13 is formed on the outside, and a gap between the frame portion 36 and the upper cover 26 corresponds to the thickness of the slot shutter 14. A hopper portion 37 is formed inside the frame portion 36 and is inclined in a tapered shape so as to have a smaller diameter toward the lower side. The front and left and right outside the frame portion 36 of the shutter guide 35 are
Enclosure 3 projecting above frame 36 by the thickness of slot shutter 14 and surrounding the outside of slot shutter 14 in the closed state
8 are formed.

The inlet shutter 14 is further formed with convex portions 39 protruding forward on both sides of a front end moving in the front-rear direction.
The insertion shutter 1 is inserted into the enclosing portion 38 so that the projection 39 of the insertion shutter 14 can enter each.
Concave portions 40 are formed on both sides corresponding to the shape of the front end portion 4 and are recessed forward. Input shutter 14
Are located at positions where the smallest coin C to be handled can be scraped to the center side of the coin slot 13 when the smallest coin C to be handled enters the gap between the upper cover 26 and the frame portion 36 of the shutter guide 35. Provided. On the other hand, a rack member 42 extending along the slide shaft 33 is fixed near the slide shaft 33 of the shutter mounting member 34. And
Drive gear 4 driven by a shutter motor (not shown)
3 is arranged at a position where it meshes with the rack member 42, whereby the shutter 14 is opened and closed by driving the shutter motor. The open / closed state of the input shutter 14 is checked by using a sensor piece 44 formed at one end of the shutter mounting member 34 with an open position detection sensor 45 for an open state and a closed position detection sensor 46 for a closed state. This is done by detecting. Of course, the open position detection sensor 45 is located at a position where the sensor piece 44 is detected when the input port shutter 14 is at the open position, and the closed position detection sensor 4
Reference numeral 6 denotes a position where the sensor piece 44 is detected when the input shutter 14 is at the closed position.

FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing the coin receiving / counting / transporting sorter 48 located at the upper layer of the body 11 when the upper cover 26 of the body 11 is opened. In a substantially central part of the upper layer of the fuselage 11, a coin insertion part 50, which is located immediately below the coin insertion slot 13 and receives a deposited coin, and is constituted by a rotating disk 49 which rotates horizontally, is arranged. I have. Rotating disk 49 of coin insertion unit 50
A coin identification passage 51 extending horizontally along the front surface of the body 11 is formed between the one-step higher guide members 52, 53 arranged on both sides so as to surround the guide members 52, 53, etc. A coin sorting passage 54 extending horizontally along the right side surface of the vehicle body 11 is formed therebetween. Subsequently, the coin sorting passage 54 extends horizontally along the rear surface of the vehicle body 11 inside the rear surface side portion of the vehicle body 11 such as the guide member 52. An existing coin sorting passage 55 is formed. Between the rotating disk 49 and the coin identification passage 51,
A coin feeding port 57 is formed, the coins are separated one by one by a gap restricting member (not shown), and the separated coins are accelerated by a take-in roller 58 immediately afterward, so that the coin identification passage 5
Send to 1. The coin discriminating passage 51, the coin sorting passage 54, and the coin sorting passage 55 extend over the starting ends of these passages 5.
A coin receiving / transporting belt 59 is wrapped in a substantially U-shape with a slight gap between the coin receiving / transferring belts 1, 54, and 55. It is configured to be transportable. The coin feeding outlet 57, the gap regulating member, the take-in roller 58, and the coin receiving / conveying belt 59 constitute a feeding / conveying unit 56. At a substantially central portion of the coin identification passage 51, a coin identification unit 60 for determining the authenticity and denomination of the conveyed coin is disposed. Coin identification unit 60
As is well known, for example, coin diameter discriminating means using an optical sensor, coin material discriminating means using a magnetic sensor, and further, if necessary, coin thickness discriminating means, coin surface pattern discriminating means, coin surface discriminating means It is constituted by a stained state discriminating means, a coin peripheral edge discriminating means, and the like.

In the coin sorting passage 54, two sets of coin branching units 61 and 62 having the same structure, which sort coins according to the identification result of the coin identifying unit 60, are arranged at a front stage and a rear stage. Each of the coin branching portions 61 and 62 has a reference passage wall 63 that is one step higher than the coin sorting passage 54 and an individual displacement member 64. The displacement member 64 is provided in the coin sorting passage 54 of the reference passage wall 63. Vertical wall 6 which becomes a part of the side reference passage wall 63a
4a, an arc wall 64b protruding into the coin sorting passage 54 from the reference passage wall 63a by rotating horizontally. The coin branching portions 61 and 62 each have a solenoid 65 and a link mechanism that switch the displacement member 64 between a position where the vertical wall 64a coincides with the reference passage wall 63a and a position where the arc wall 64b projects into the coin sorting passage 54. 66,
A drop port 67 formed in the coin sorting passage 54 for dropping coins displaced by the displacement member 64;
And a timing sensor 68 disposed in the coin sorting passage 54 upstream of the coin sorting passage 54. Former coin branch 61
The coin discriminating unit 60 allows the coin identified as a legitimate coin to pass further downstream, and passes abnormal coins not discriminated as legitimate coins on the arc wall 64b of the displacement member 64 from the reference passage wall 63a. By projecting into the sorting passage 54, coins conveyed along the reference passage wall 63a collide with the displacement member 64, and the center of the conveyed coin is displaced in a direction away from the reference passage wall 63a. Drop from 67. The coin branch 62 in the latter stage is, for each denomination, of the regular coins passing through the coin branch 61 in the former stage,
Regular coins until the number of sheets that can be temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 70 to be described later or the number of sheets that can be stored in the storage sections 22a to 22f, whichever is smaller, are passed further downstream, and other normal coins are passed. As described above, a coin (hereinafter, referred to as a surplus coin) is configured to be dropped and sorted from the drop port 67. With these control configurations,
The coin guided to the temporary storage unit 70 is controlled so as not to overflow from the temporary storage unit 70, and is further stored in the storage units 22a to 22f.
The control is performed so as not to overflow from a to 22f.

In the coin sorting passage 55, sorting holes 71a to 71f as a coin sorting unit 69 for sorting coins to be conveyed into denominations and dropping the coins are arranged in ascending order of coin diameter. A coin sorting / conveying belt 72 that extends with a slight gap from the coin feeding route 55 and conveys coins on the coin sorting passage 55 is provided. In addition, each classification hole 7
Sensors 73 are arranged corresponding to immediately before each of 1a to 71f, and the difference in the number of coins that have passed through adjacent ones of the sensors 73 is classified into the classification holes 71a to 71f positioned between them. It is configured to be counted as the number of sheets. The coin receiving / counting / transfer sorting unit 48 shown in FIG. 3 is unitized, and is centered on a shaft (not shown) extending in the left-right direction of the rear edge when the upper cover 26 is opened. In addition, it is supported so as to swing upward on the front side integrally, and is configured to be able to open the upper part of the temporary storage part 70 immediately below, which will be described later.

FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view showing a temporary storage section 70 located in the middle layer of the fuselage 11, and FIG. 5 is a schematic left side view of the temporary storage section 70 as viewed from the left. Temporary storage unit 7
0 has storage portions 76A, 76a to 76f, and each of the storage portions 76A, 76a to 76f extends substantially horizontally in the front-rear direction, and is arranged in parallel in the left-right direction (width direction). It is composed of a belt conveyor 74 and a plate-like partition member 75 arranged so as to partition between these adjacent ones. It should be noted that the belt conveyer 74 is divided by the number of denominations so that the storage portions 76A, 76a to 76f formed of the individual belt conveyors 74 and the partition members 75 on both sides thereof have the number of denominations plus one in the left-right direction. I have one. In addition, these belt conveyors 74
Are driven by a single common drive motor, and rotate in the same direction in the same direction. In the rightmost storage section 76A, surplus coins dropped and sorted by the coin branch section 62 at the subsequent stage are temporarily stored in a denomination mixed state. In the following, coins falling in denominations in order of smaller coin diameter corresponding to the classification holes 71a to 71f of the coin classification passage 54 are temporarily stored in the storage units 76a to 76f arranged from the right side, respectively. Has become. Specifically, the 1-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71a is stored in the second storage portion 76a from the rightmost, and the 50-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71b is stored in the storage portion 76b next to the storage portion 76b. A classification hole 71 is provided in the adjacent storage section 76c.
c from the storage unit 76d
Is a 100-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71d, and the storage unit 76e adjacent to the coin is a 100-yen coin dropped from the classification hole 71e.
A zero-yen coin is placed in a storage hole 76f next to the classification hole 71f.
The 500 yen coins dropped from are temporarily stored. Further, further to the right of the rightmost storage section 76A, the abnormal coin dropped and eliminated by the coin branching section 61 in the preceding stage is transferred along the right side surface of the body 11 to the removal port 18 at the front of the body 11. A guiding chute 77 is provided.

Above the front and rear ends of each belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage section 70, a gate member 79 for regulating coins temporarily stored on each belt conveyor 74 so as not to fall from the front and rear of each belt conveyor 74, 80 is fixed to support shafts 82 and 83 rotatably supported by the unit side plate 81, and the support shafts 82 and 83 rotate to move the gate members 79 and 80 from the belt conveyor 74. The belt conveyor 74
The upper coin can be ejected back and forth. Further, the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 is integrated with the coins on the belt conveyor 74 in the discharging direction so that the coins on the belt conveyor 74 are easily ejected when the coins on the belt conveyor 74 are ejected. It is configured to incline downward.
That is, the conveyor unit 84 that supports all the belt conveyors 74 is supported by a support shaft 85 that is supported along the left-right direction at the center of the unit side plate 81 in the front-rear direction.
It is supported so as to swing up and down in the front-rear direction around the center.

An oscillating drive shaft 86 is disposed above the rear portion of the unit side plate 81 along the left-right direction.
A swing cam 87 is fixed to 6. A link 8 is provided between one end of the swing cam 87 and one end of the conveyor unit 84.
When the swing cam 87 rotates back and forth, the link 88 is moved up and down, and accordingly, the conveyor unit 84 swings up and down around the support shaft 85. At a position substantially above a support shaft 85 that supports the conveyor unit 84, a shaft 89 is provided along the unit side plate 81 in the left-right direction.
The interlocking cam 90 is swingably supported on the shaft 89. An interlocking link 91 extending from the upper end of the swing cam 87 is connected to the upper end of the interlocking cam 90. In addition, swinging links 94 and 95 connected to one ends of links 92 and 93 further fixed to supporting shafts 82 and 83 for fixing gate members 79 and 80 are provided at the front and rear ends of the interlocking cam 90, respectively. Are connected so as to cross each other. As a result, the swing cam 87 swings back and forth, so that the interlocking cam 90 swings back and forth.
Swings back and forth, so that the swing links 94 and 95 swing the front and rear gate members 79 and 80 back and forth, so that the coins on the belt conveyor 74 can be easily ejected. It is open. FIG. 6 shows that the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 is tilted downward toward the front by swinging the swing cam 87 by the rotation of the swing drive shaft 86, and Gate member 7
FIG. 9 is a state explanatory view showing a state in which the belt 9 is opened in the front direction. By driving the rocking cam 87 and driving the belt conveyor 74 so that the upper surface thereof moves forward, The loaded coin is dropped from the front end. FIG. 7 shows the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70.
Is tilted downward toward the rear by swinging the swing cam 87 by the rotation of the swing drive shaft 86, and the gate member 80 in the rear direction is opened rearward. It is a state explanatory view showing a state, by driving the rocking cam 87 and driving the belt conveyor 74 so that the upper surface thereof moves backward, the coins placed on the upper surface are moved to the rear end. Drop from

The sensor 96 shown in FIGS. 4 to 7 is used to temporarily store coins sorted from the coin sorting passage 55 on the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 so that the coin sorting passage 55 is positioned rearward. The belt conveyor 74
Since the temporary storage is biased rearward on the upper surface of the belt, the state of the temporary storage is monitored, and the belt is moved so that the optical axis of the sensor 96 that passes through a hole (not shown) formed in the partition member 75 is blocked. When coins are temporarily stored on the conveyor 74, the belt conveyor 74 is controlled so that the upper surface thereof is driven forward until the optical axis of the sensor 96 is not interrupted by the coins. Here, the above-mentioned temporary storage unit 70 is unitized and fixed in position to the body 11 as a whole.

FIG. 8 is a schematic plan view showing the dispensing storage section 29 and the safe section 31 located in the lower layer of the body 11. FIG. 9 is a schematic right side of the dispensing storage section 29 viewed from the right side of the body. FIG. First, the structure of the dispensing storage unit 29 will be described below. The dispensing storage section 29 includes storage sections 22a to 22a.
These correspond to the storage units 76a to 76f of the denominations of the temporary storage unit 70, and are located immediately below the temporary storage unit 70 dropped from the rear end of the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70. The coins are arranged by denomination so that stored coins can be stored. The safe 23 set in the safe setting section 24 of the safe section 31 is disposed below the storage section 76A of the temporary storage section 70 for temporarily storing the surplus coins in the denomination mixed state via the storage chute 99. Is done. Storage unit 22 by money type
a to 22f are arranged in the front-rear direction with the upper surface being inclined such that the rear side is downward and the front side is upward,
Belt conveyors 101 of the same number as the number of denominations, plate-shaped partition members 102 arranged so as to partition between adjacent ones thereof, and a rear side of the belt conveyor 101 located upward from the upper surface on the rear end side Rear wall 103 that tilts to make
And Note that the rear end of the temporary storage unit 70 is disposed substantially above the boundary between the belt conveyor 101 and the rear wall 103. In addition, above the front end of the belt conveyor 101, a gap with the belt conveyor 101 is provided at intervals of one or more coins and less than two coins, preferably about one and a half coins, in the conveying direction of the belt conveyor 101. A reverse roller 104 that rotates in a direction opposite to (forward) is disposed.

Belt conveyor 101 and reverse roller 104
On the front side of the feeding portion 105 formed by the above, a plate 106 that supports coins fed from the feeding portion 105 with its upper surface positioned substantially on an extension of the upper surface of the belt conveyor 101, and an upper surface of the plate 106 At the opposing position, the gap with the plate 106 is less than one coin,
Preferably, at intervals of about half the thickness of one coin,
Hold the fed coin between the plate 106 and
Dispensing roller 10 that accelerates and feeds in the feeding direction (forward direction)
7 are arranged. As shown in FIG.
04 and the dispensing roller 107 are collectively driven by a shared motor (not shown) via a drive belt 108 disposed on the right side of the dispensing storage unit 29. On the other hand, as described later, each of the belt conveyors 101 of the storage units 22a to 22f of each denomination has a drive motor 109 for each denomination, and is individually driven and controlled. As shown in FIG. 9, between the reverse rotation roller 104 and the dispensing roller 107, for each denomination,
An optical timing sensor 110 for driving and controlling each belt conveyor 101 is provided, and an optical payment counting sensor 111 is provided in front of the payment roller 107 for each denomination. On the front side of the plate 106 and the dispensing roller 107, a cylindrical coin chute 113 having a guide space in the vertical direction is further arranged, and a lower end portion of the coin chute 113 is arranged with a receiving tray 19 for receiving coins to be discharged. It is opened to the discharge port 20 to be discharged.

Here, the front end of the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage section 70 is arranged corresponding to the upper end of the coin chute 113, whereby the temporary storage section 70
When the temporarily stored coins thrown into the upper surface of the belt conveyor 74 are not stored in the storage units 22a to 22f and are collected outside the machine body 11, the belt conveyor 74 is inclined so that the front is on the lower side, and the upper surface thereof is Is driven in the forward direction, so that the discharge port 2 is
It is configured such that it can be guided to the tray 19 set to 0. With the above configuration, the storage units 22a to 22f
When coins of the denominated coins stored in the temporary storage unit 70 are stored by denomination, coins dropped from the rear end side, and when dispensing the stored coins, first, a common motor (not shown) reverses the rotation. The roller 104 and the dispensing roller 107 are driven. Next, a drive motor 109 for each denomination described later is driven, and the corresponding belt conveyor 101 is driven forward. Thereby, the coins stored in the storage units 22a to 22f are moved forward by the belt conveyor 101. When a large number of coins approach the reverse roller 104 by the belt conveyor 101, the belt conveyor 101
The coins superimposed on the lowermost coins that are in surface contact with the coin are returned to the storage units 22a to 22f by the reverse rotation roller 104, and as a result, one coin is
1 and the reverse rotation roller 104. The coins separated one by one as described above,
It was sent onto the plate 106, sandwiched between the plate 106 and the dispensing roller 107, accelerated and sent out toward the front thereof, dropped inside the coin chute 113, and inserted into the discharge port 20. It is discharged to the pan 19. The coins separated one by one as described above are detected by the timing sensor 110, and when the coins pass through, the number of coins is counted.
By passing through 10, the driving of the belt conveyor 101 is stopped. The coins sandwiched between the plate 106 and the dispensing roller 107 and accelerated and sent out are detected by the dispensing counting sensor 111, and the final check of the number of dispensed coins is performed. When the coins of all the denominations corresponding to the set number are discharged, the drive of the common motor (not shown) that drives the reverse rotation roller 104 and the payment roller 107 is stopped for the first time.

A shaft 115 is supported on the front upper portion of the coin chute 113 on both sides of the coin chute 113 so as to extend in the left and right direction. In the retracted position (solid line position in the drawing) and coin chute 1
The coins in the storage portions 22a to 22f, which are swingably supported between the insertion position (indicated by one-dot chain line in the drawing) and the rotation position toward the retreat position, are described below. Chute 11 for collection in safe 23
6 are arranged. The collection chute 116 has an upper end opening 116A and a lower end opening 116B at the upper and lower positions at the evacuation position, respectively. At the entrance position, the upper end opening 116A opens rearward and the lower end opening 116B opens at the front upper end opening 116A. An inclined surface 116 </ b> C whose front is on the lower side is disposed between the lower ends of the upper end port 116 </ b> A and the lower end port 116 </ b> B, opening slightly below. When the tray 19 is not inserted into the discharge opening 20 immediately below the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113, the coin chute 113 is urged forward by a spring (not shown).
The lower end opening 113A is closed at the horizontal surface portion 117A, and the downwardly extending hanging portion 117B is pushed backward by the tray 19 inserted into the discharge port 20 and pushed toward the rear side, and is moved rearward. Is provided with a chute shutter 117 (further described below) that opens the lower end opening 113A.

FIG. 10 is a schematic partial plan view for explaining a driving mechanism of the belt conveyor 101 of each of the storage sections 22a to 22f. The roller 119 around the front side of the belt conveyor 101 is divided into three in the axial direction, and the rollers on both sides of the divided roller 119 are supported as the large-diameter rollers 120 having the same diameter to support the belt conveyor 101 and divided into three parts. Remove the remaining central roller to the small diameter roller 1
As 21, the drive belt 122 is disposed inside the belt conveyor 101 wrapped around the large-diameter roller 120 so as to be wrapped around. That is, the two large-diameter rollers 120 and one small-diameter roller 121 divided into three parts are supported so as to rotate integrally, and as shown in FIG.
A drive motor 109 is disposed inside the belt conveyor 101 supported by the rear roller 123 and the lower central roller 124, and the small diameter roller 121 and the drive roller 12 attached to the drive shaft 125 of the drive motor 109.
And 6 around the drive belt 122. Moreover,
As shown in FIG. 10, the size of the drive motor 109 is larger than the width of the belt conveyor 101 of the denominations in the storage portions 22a to 22f.
The position is shifted in the front-rear direction between adjacent objects to prevent interference.

As shown in FIG. 9, the storage portions 22a to 22f
A belt conveyor 101 is further provided at the lower end on the rear side of
At the lower end portion of each of them is provided a push-out mechanism 128 for preventing coins from remaining. 11 to 1
FIG. 3 is a partial side view or a partial front view for explaining the details of the pushing mechanism. A support shaft 129 is fixed along the left and right direction further behind the rear roller 123 around which the belt conveyor 101 is wound.
9 has a concave portion 1 which is partially cut out in a plane.
The release cam 130 and the one end of the torsion spring 131 are fixed to each other.
Further, the support shaft 129 has a notch 1 adjacent to the release cam 130 and capable of engaging with a part of the torsion spring 131.
32 and a ratchet roller 133 formed integrally with the ratchet roller 133,
A driven roller 134 that is driven to rotate by the driving force of the belt conveyor 101 in frictional contact with the peripheral surface of the belt conveyor 101 wrapped around 3 is disposed.

On the other hand, the other end of the torsion spring 131 is disposed so as to extend above the support shaft, and the rear end of the pushing member 135 is swingably connected to the front end thereof. The tip of the crushing member 135 protrudes into the storage units 22a to 22f through openings 136 formed in the rear wall 103 of each of the storage units 22a to 22f. With these configurations, when the belt conveyor 101 is driven,
The driven roller 134 rotates in conjunction with it, and rotates the ratchet roller 133 integrally. When the ratchet roller 133 rotates, the notch 132
When it reaches the concave portion 130A of the release cam 130, it engages with a part of the torsion spring 131, rotates it against the biasing direction of the torsion spring 131, and moves the pushing member 135 into the storage portions 22a to 22f. Move backward from inside. By further rotating the ratchet roller 133,
The notch 132 of the ratchet roller 133 is
From the concave portion 130A to the convex portion 130B. At this time, since a part of the torsion spring 131 is forcibly moved outward by the convex portion 130B, the engagement with the notch 132 of the ratchet roller 133 is released, and the torsion spring 131 is released. The urging force causes the pushing-out member 135 to move toward the inside of the storage sections 22a to 22f, and acts to push down coins that stand vertically and roll at the lower ends in the storage sections 22a to 22f. In order to efficiently perform the crushing action by the crushing mechanism 135, the rear wall 103 on the rear side of the storage sections 22a to 22f is, as shown in FIGS. Is formed in a curved shape in plan view so as to be located at
35 may be arranged.

Next, the safe section 31 will be described. FIG.
4 is an explanatory diagram of storing surplus coins temporarily stored in the rightmost storage unit 76A of the temporary storage unit 70 in the safe 23.
As shown in FIG. 8, when storing the surplus coins temporarily stored in the rightmost storage unit 76A of the temporary storage unit 70 in the safe 23, the belt conveyor 74 of the temporary storage unit 70 is driven rearward. Then, the rear gate member 80 is opened rearward, and the temporarily stored coins are discharged. The temporarily stored coins released are stored in the safe 23 through the storage chute 99 through the storage opening 138 formed in the upper surface of the safe 23. The safe 23 is removably mounted in a recess 139 of a box-shaped safe set 24 having an upper opening. As will be described later, the safe 23 is pulled out to the front side of the body 11 and 139 is pulled upward.
As shown in FIG. 8, the safe setting section 24 includes a support shaft 142 of a support member 141 slidably supported by a position-fixed slide shaft 140 disposed in the front-rear direction on the lower right side of the body 11. As described later, it is guided by the slide shaft 140 together with the support member 141 and is pulled out forward, and in this state, it is horizontally turned to the front side of the body 11. The contact is confirmed by a safe set sensor piece 143 (see FIG. 21) which is brought into contact with the front side and protrudes to the front side, and the lock pin 14 which protrudes to the front side.
The lock to the body 11 is performed via the control unit 4 (described later). The safe section 31 includes a slide shaft 140, a support member 141, a safe setting section 24, and a safe 23.

The safe 23 is provided with a safe setting section 24 on the body 11.
A storage port 138 is formed at the upper surface position on the rear side in a state where the safe set section 24 is inserted into the body 11 in a state where the safe setting section 24 is inserted into the body 11. 145 are provided. The shutter 145 of the safe 23 is normally locked by a lock mechanism (not shown) with the storage port 138 closed. That is, the safe 23 is loaded into the safe setting section 24, and further, is slid and inserted into the inside of the machine body 11 to unlock the lock mechanism (not shown), and the shutter 145 opens the storage port 138. It is configured to be. On the other hand,
When the safe 23 is pulled out in front of the machine body 11 with the safe 23 loaded in the safe setting section 24, the shutter 145 is closed by this pulling-out operation, and furthermore the lock is made. As shown in FIG. 14, a concave handle 146 is formed at the front end of the safe setting section 24 in the pulling-out direction so that the safe setting section 24 can be easily pulled out. Although not shown, the bottom of the safe 23 is centered on the front side in a state where the safe setting section 24 is slid and inserted into the body 11, and the rear side, that is, the side on the storage opening 138 side, The storage opening 13 has a swinging bottom that is urged upward by a spring and is located on the rear side.
When the coins are stored in the safe 23 from 8, the coins are also stored on the front side of the safe 23 on average by the swinging bottom inclined downward toward the front side. Also,
When the amount of stored coins increases, the weight of the coin exceeds the urging force of a spring (not shown), and the swinging bottom descends toward the bottom of the safe 23, thereby securing the maximum amount of stored coins.

Next, the configuration on the front side of the dispensing storage section 29 will be described. FIG. 15 shows that the safe setting section 24 loaded with the safe 23 is pulled out to the front of the body 11, and is further horizontally swung to the front side of the body 11 to lock along the front side of the body 11. It is a diagram for explaining safe collection in which the coins of the storage sections 22a to 22f are collected in the safe 23,
FIG. 16 is a right side sectional view showing the arrangement of the storages 22a to 22f, the collection chute 116, and the safe 23 at the time of collecting the safe. After pulling out the safe setting section 24 loaded with the safe 23 along with the support member 141 along the slide shaft 140 to the front of the body 11, the safe set section 24 is horizontally turned to the front side of the body 11, and is brought into contact with the front side of the body 11. Lock and fix to the body 11. In such a locked state, the safe 2
3 is brought into contact with the front side of the collection chute 116, and the collection chute 116 is swung rearward in the body 11 around the shaft 115 against the urging force of a spring (not shown) to be positioned at the above-described entry position. In this state, the upper end 116 of the collection chute 116
A is disposed so as to face between the dispensing roller 107 and the plate 106. At this time, the lower end 116B of the collecting chute 116 coincides with the collecting port 147 formed in the upper portion of the safe 23 on the collecting chute 116 side. This allows
When the dispensing roller 107, the reverse rotation roller 104, and the belt conveyor 101 of the storage units 22a to 22f are driven, the coins in the storage units 22a to 22f are collected in the safe 23 through the collection chute 116. As described above, in order to collect the coins in the storage sections 22a to 22f into the safe 23, the safe 23 is not separated from the front of the body 11 during the collection.
It is necessary to lock the safe 23 in a state along the front side of the body 11. Hereinafter, the safe lock mechanism 149 when the safe is collected
The safe lock mechanism 149 at the time of collection of the safe includes a tray lock mechanism 150 that locks the tray 19 so that it cannot be pulled out from the outlet 20 at the lower front part of the body 11 when coins are discharged to the tray 19, The drive source is shared. Therefore, the tray lock mechanism 150 will be described first.

FIG. 17 shows the discharge port 2 into which the pan 19 is inserted.
The pan lock mechanism 150 disposed on the upper surface of the outlet cover 152 formed so as to surround the upper surface, the rear surface, and both side surfaces of the tray 0.
And a plan view showing the safe lock mechanism 149, showing a state in which the chute shutter 117 closes the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 in a state where the tray 19 is not inserted into the discharge port 20. FIG. 18 is a left side view showing a state where the chute shutter 117 is opening the lower end opening 113A of the coin chute 113 (not shown in FIG. 18) while the tray 19 is being inserted into the discharge port 20. ing. FIG. 19 corresponds to FIG. 17, in which the tray 19 is inserted into the discharge port 20 and the chute shutter 117 is moved to the lower end opening 11 of the coin chute 113 (not shown in FIG. 19).
3A shows a plan view of a state where 3A is opened. FIG.
Shows a left side view of the state corresponding to FIG.

An outlet cover 152 for molding the outlet 20
Has a notch 1 at the center of the front side of the
53 is formed, and a slide guide 154 extending in the front-rear direction is attached to a central portion thereof. The slide guide 154 has an elongated hole (not shown) extending in the front-rear direction. The guide pin 1 is inserted into the elongated hole while being shifted back and forth along the left-right direction.
An attachment member 157 having 55 and 156 is movably supported. The mounting member 157 includes the outlet cover 1
A shoot shutter 117 having a horizontal surface portion 117A extending horizontally so as to compensate for the cutout 153 of the concave portion of the 52 is fixed, and thereby the shoot shutter 117 is supported movably in the front-rear direction. Slide guide 1
A pulley 159 is disposed at the front end of the airframe 11 along the left-right direction, and a spring 160 having one end hung on a part of the slide guide 154 extends once forward. After the intermediate portion is hooked around the pulley 159, it extends rearward and the other end is hooked on the guide pin 155 of the chute shutter 117.
The chute shutter 117 is urged to slide so as to always be located on the front side of the body 11.

As shown in the left side view of FIG. 18, a mounting member 157 at the center of the chute shutter 117 is further provided with a shaft 162 extending in the left-right direction. The shoot shutter 11 is extended through a long hole 163 extending in the front-rear direction of the shutter 117.
The pan lock member 164 that swings so as to project downward from the lower surface of the bottom 7 is supported by the torsion spring 165 in a state of being urged to swing so as to always be located upward. In addition, a hanging part 117 </ b> B extending right below the rear end of the chute shutter 117 is formed at the rear central part of the chute shutter 117 so that the tray 19 inserted into the discharge port 20 abuts. . On the other hand, FIG.
As shown in the figure, above the discharge port cover 152 and the chute shutter 117, when the pan 19 is inserted into the discharge port 20, the chute shutter 117 is brought into contact with the hanging part 117B and slides rearward. The receiving member locking member 164 that moves together with the chute shutter 117 comes into contact with the pushing member 1 that rotates the receiving device locking member 164 downward against the urging force of the torsion spring 165.
66 are provided. As shown in FIGS. 19 and 20,
When the pan 19 is completely inserted into the discharge port 20, the swinging tip of the pan lock member 164 is located below the upper end of the outer peripheral edge of the pan 19, and the inner side in the horizontal direction from the outer peripheral edge, that is, the bottom side. And enters the tray 19.

The chute shutter 11 which moves in the front-back direction
A lock piece 169 that rotates horizontally around a support shaft 168 is provided on the upper surface of the discharge port cover 152 at a position facing the slide guide 154 with the center at 7. The right end of a slide member 170 slidably supported in the left-right direction is connected to the rear end of the lock piece 169. The slide member 170 is urged to slide to the right by a spring (not shown) and the solenoid 1
The solenoid 171 is slidable to the left against a spring (not shown) by the driving force of the solenoid 171. As shown in FIG. 18, a notch 172 that can be engaged with the lock piece 169 is formed in the attachment member 157 of the chute shutter 117. By these,
When the receiving tray 19 is completely inserted into the discharge port 20 and the dispensing command is given to the coin depositing and dispensing machine of the present invention by the operation unit 17 (not shown), coins are dispensed from the storage units 22a to 22f. To start, first, solenoid 1
71 is driven. As shown in FIG. 19, when the slide member 170 is slid to the left by driving the solenoid 171, the lock piece 169 is rotated via the support shaft 168.
Is pivoted in the counterclockwise direction in the figure, and the shoot shutter 11
7 is engaged with a notch 172 formed in the mounting member 157. This prevents the chute shutter 117 from returning forward, and as shown in FIG.
64 is maintained so as to protrude inside the pan 19. Therefore, even if the operator attempts to pull out the pan 19 from this state, the chute shutter 117 cannot move forward, so that the pan lock member 164 engages the inside of the pan 19 to prevent the pan from being pulled out. Become. On the other hand, when the ejection of coins from the storage units 22a to 22f based on the dispensing command is completed without error, the drive of the solenoid 171 is released, and the slide member 170 is moved rightward by a spring (not shown), and the lock piece is moved. 169 and the notch 172 of the attachment member 157 of the chute shutter 117 are released, and the chute shutter 117 moves forward in conjunction with the withdrawal of the pan 19 from the discharge port 20, and at the same time, locks the pan. The member 164 is retracted upward, and the tray 19 can be easily taken out from the discharge port 20.

Returning to FIG. 17, the safe lock mechanism 149 will be described. One end of a connecting member 174 swingably supported by a support shaft 173 having an axis in the front-rear direction is provided at the left end of the slide member 170 slid in the left-right direction by the solenoid 171 via a shaft 175 along the front-rear direction. A hook-shaped safe lock member 176 is provided at the front end of the support shaft 173.
4 and supported swingably while being connected and fixed.
FIG. 21 shows a state in which the safe 23 is set in the safe setting section 24 on the front side of the body 11 and the safe lock member 1 is provided.
76 is a plan view illustrating a state in which 76 is engaged with a lock pin 144 of the safe setting section 24. FIG. FIG. 22 shows the slide member 17.
0 is a partial front view illustrating a connection state of the connection member 174 and the connection member 174;
FIG. 23 detects the turning position of the safe lock member 176,
Together with the output state of the sensor 177 for safe setting detection,
Sensor piece 178 and sensor 1 to determine safe lock state
FIG. 24 is a partial front view illustrating the relationship between the safe lock member 176 and the lock pin 144. FIG.

As in the case of the tray lock mechanism 150, with these configurations, the safe 23 together with the safe setting part 24 is pulled out forward from the body 11 to the movement limit and then horizontally turned as it is so as to follow the front surface. Check that the safe set sensor piece 143 is correctly set to sensor 1
The detection is performed by the detection unit 77, and the operation unit 17 not shown
Accordingly, when the coin collecting and dispensing machine of the present invention is provided with a safe collection command, when the coins are to be dispensed from the storage units 22a to 22f, the solenoid 171 is driven first. As shown in FIG. 21, when the slide member 170 is slid to the left by the drive of the solenoid 171, the connecting member 174 is rotated about the support shaft 173 in FIG.
Rotate clockwise. By rotating the connecting member 174 clockwise in this manner, the safe lock member 176 is also integrally swung clockwise in FIG. 24, and the lock portion 180 formed at one end on the front side is moved to the body 11 Lock pin 1 of safe setting part 24 in a state of contact with the lower part on the front side of
44, and engages with the groove 181. This prevents the safe 23 from being separated from the front of the machine body 11 together with the safe setting section 24. At this time, the holding member 182 provided at the upper part on the front side of the body 11 is
4 against the upper surface of the safe 23, thereby
Cannot be taken out of the safe setting section 24. The fact that the lock portion 180 is correctly engaged with the groove portion 181 of the lock pin 144 means that the sensor portion 178 formed on the other end of the safe lock member 176 in this engaged state is attached to the discharge port cover 152 which detects the sensor piece 178. It is confirmed by the detection result of the sensor 179 obtained. The state at this time is as shown in FIG. On the other hand, when all coins are ejected from the storage sections 22a to 22f based on the safe collection command, the solenoid 171 is released and the slide member 170 is moved rightward by a spring (not shown), and the safe lock is released. Member 1
When the lock 76 is disengaged from the lock pin 144 of the safe setting section 24 and the safe setting section 24 is turned away from the front of the body 11, the safe 23 is separated from the holding member 182,
Therefore, it is possible to draw out the safe 23 from the safe setting section 24. Safe 23 taken out in this way
Will be carried to a predetermined place. Note that the dispensing storage unit 29 and the safe unit 31 constituting the lower layer of the above-mentioned body 11 can be individually pulled out from the body 11 at the time of maintenance, and in a state where these are loaded into the body 11. The safe setting section 24 can be pulled out independently for safe collection.

The coin dispensing and dispensing machine described above is internally divided into a three-layer structure of upper, middle, and lower layers, each of which has a substantially constant thickness, and a coin input unit 50 for inputting deposited coins into an upper layer. A transport unit 56 that separates the fed coins one by one and transports the delivered coins. A coin identification unit 60 provided in the delivery transport unit 56 to determine the authenticity and denomination of the transported coins, a coin identification unit 60 Coin branching unit 6 that sorts coins according to the identification result of
1 and 62, a coin depositing / conveying and sorting unit 48 having a coin sorting unit 69 for sorting coins to be conveyed into denominations, which is connected to the coin branching units 61 and 62, is provided. The coin discriminating unit 60 identifies the legitimate coin, and the coin discriminating unit 6
The coins sorted and classified by the coin sorting units 69 and 62 are temporarily stored for each classification, and the temporarily stored coins are stored or returned by selectively driving the belt conveyor 74 in the front-rear direction. The temporary storage unit 70 is further constituted by a belt conveyor 101 which is inclined and arranged in a lower layer, and stores coins of a denomination stored in the temporary storage unit 70, and stores the stored coins in the belt conveyor 10.
1 is driven in the forward direction, so that coins of mixed denominations are stored in the withdrawal storage unit 29 and the temporary storage unit 70 having the storage units 22a to 22f for dispensing on the tray 19 loaded in the lower part of the front of the machine body. Is disposed. Therefore, by swinging the upper cover 26, the upper part of the coin deposit counting and transporting sorting section 48 of the upper layer is opened, and by swinging the upper cover 26 and swinging the coin depositing and counting sorting section 48. The upper part of the temporary storage part 70 of the middle layer is opened, and the upper part of the dispensing storage part 29 and the safe part 31 of the lower layer are opened by being pulled out from the body 11. Accordingly, access to the coin deposit counting / transporting sorting section 48 in the upper layer, the temporary storage section 70 in the middle layer, the dispensing storage section 29 and the safe section 31 in the lower layer becomes easy, and the maintainability is improved.

Along the one side of the body 11, there are provided a coin branching section 61 at the front stage and a coin branching section 62 at the rear stage, and the coin sorting section 69 is provided on the rear side of the body 11. The temporary storage units 70 are arranged in a line in the width direction, and the temporary storage units 70 are stored in the width direction of the body 11 in the storage units 76A, 76 of the denomination number plus one
a-76f, the coin branching section 60 at the preceding stage allows coins identified as legitimate coins to pass through the coin discriminating section 60 and drops and drops abnormal coins not discriminated as legitimate coins. The coin branching section 61 of the rear stage is configured to store the number of coins or the storage section 22a that can be temporarily stored in the storage sections 76a to 76f for each denomination of regular coins that have passed through the coin branch section 60 of the previous stage. Unusual coins which are configured to pass regular coins up to the smaller number of sheets that can be accommodated in the first to 22f, and to drop and sort other regular coins. Is guided along the one side surface of the fuselage 11 to the discharge port 18 at the front of the fuselage 11, and the regular coins dropped and sorted at the coin branch 62 at the subsequent stage are in a denomination mixed state,
The number of denominations in the temporary storage unit 70 plus one of the storage units 76A and 76
a to 76f of the storage unit 76 on the one side surface of the body 11
The regular coins guided to A and passed through the coin branching section 62 at the subsequent stage are guided by the coin sorting section 69 to the remaining storage sections 76a to 76f of the temporary storage section 70 for each coin denomination. Have been. Thereby, the abnormal coin that has not been identified as a legitimate coin is moved along one side of the body 11
The coins are dropped and eliminated in the exclusion opening 18 in the front part of the body 11, and among the regular coins, the storage units 76a to 76 of the temporary storage unit 70 for each denomination.
f or the number of storage units 22a to 22f
The temporary coins exceeding the smaller number of coins that can be stored in the storage unit 76A are temporarily stored in the storage unit 76A on one side of the body 11, and the other normal coins are stored in the storage unit 76a for each denomination.
７６76f, and the coins can be efficiently stored in a limited space.

In the above description, the upper portion of the coin depositing / conveying / sorting portion 48 of the upper layer is swung to open the upper portion of the temporary storage portion 70 of the middle layer, and the upper portion of the deposit storage section 2 of the lower layer.
9 and the safe section 31 are configured to be opened upward by being pulled out from the body 11, but the form of opening may be swingable or drawable for each layer.
Furthermore, it is possible to configure by a method combining these. For example, the coin deposit counting and transporting sorting unit 4 in the upper layer
8 is fixed in position with respect to the fuselage, so that the middle-layer temporary storage unit 70, the lower-layer dispensing storage unit 29, and the safe unit 31 can be pulled out from the unit 11, respectively.
In addition, it is possible to fix the position of the safe section 31 and to make the coin deposit counting / transporting sorting section 48 of the upper layer and the temporary storage section 70 of the middle layer swingable.

[0036]

As described in detail above, claim 1 of the present invention
According to the coin depositing and dispensing machine described, the upper layer, the middle layer and the lower layer have a three-layer structure, so when opening each layer, each layer can swing or can be pulled out, furthermore,
It can be configured by a method combining these, so that access to each layer is facilitated and maintainability is improved.

According to the coin depositing and dispensing machine of the second aspect of the present invention, abnormal coins that have not been identified as legitimate coins are dropped and eliminated along the one side of the body into the discharge port at the front of the body. Of the regular coins, the number of regular coins that exceed the smaller of the number that can be temporarily stored in the storage unit for each denomination or the number that can be stored in the withdrawal storage unit is stored in the storage unit on one side of the fuselage. , And other regular coins can be temporarily stored in a storage unit for each denomination, and each coin can be efficiently stored in a limited space.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic external perspective view of a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial plan view illustrating a driving mechanism of a slot shutter.

FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing a coin receiving / counting / conveying sorting unit located in an upper layer of the fuselage.

FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view showing a temporary storage unit located in a middle layer of the fuselage.

FIG. 5 is a schematic left side view of the temporary storage section as viewed from the left.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state where the belt conveyor of the temporary storage unit is inclined downward toward the front.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a state where the belt conveyor of the temporary storage unit is inclined downward toward the rear.

FIG. 8 is a schematic plan view showing a dispensing storage section and a safe section located in a lower layer of the machine body.

FIG. 9 is a schematic right side view of the dispensing storage section viewed from the right side of the machine body.

FIG. 10 is a schematic partial plan view illustrating a driving mechanism of each belt conveyor of the storage unit.

FIG. 11 is a partial side view of the pushing mechanism.

FIG. 12 is a partial front view of the pushing mechanism.

FIG. 13 is a partial side view of the pushing mechanism,
(A) is an arrow view along line aa shown in FIG. 12, (b) is an arrow view along line bb shown in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing a configuration in which surplus coins temporarily stored in the rightmost storage unit of the temporary storage unit are stored in a safe.

FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing a state in which the safe setting section loaded with the safe is locked along the front side of the machine body.

FIG. 16 is a right side sectional view showing the arrangement of the storage unit, the collection chute, and the safe when the safe is collected.

FIG. 17 is a plan view showing a tray lock mechanism and a safe lock mechanism arranged on the upper surface of the discharge port cover.

FIG. 18 is a left side view of a state in which the chute shutter is opening the lower end opening of the coin chute while the saucer is being inserted into the discharge port.

FIG. 19 is a plan view showing a state where the tray is inserted into the discharge port and the chute shutter opens the lower end opening of the coin chute.

FIG. 20 is a left side view of the state corresponding to FIG. 19;

FIG. 21 is a plan view showing a state in which the safe lock member is engaged with a lock pin of the safe setting section.

FIG. 22 is a partial front view illustrating a connection state between the slide member and the connection member.

FIG. 23 is a partial front view illustrating the relationship between a sensor piece and a sensor.

FIG. 24 is a partial front view illustrating the relationship between the safe lock member and the lock pin.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Airframe 18 Ejection port 22a to 22f Storing section 29 Cash-out storing section 31 Safe section 50 Coin insertion section 56 Feeding and transporting section 60 Coin identification section 61 Pre-coin branch section 62 Post-coin branch section 69 Coin classification section 70 Temporary storage section 74 Belt conveyor 76A, 76a to 76f Storage unit 101 Belt conveyor

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Masaki Nishi 1-2-1, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Inside Lore Le Bank Machine Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Shigetaka Suzuki 1-2-1, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo No. Lorel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] An upper layer, a middle layer, and a lower layer have a three-layer structure. The upper layer has a coin insertion section into which deposited coins are inserted, a pay-out transfer section that separates the input coins one by one, and feeds out the transferred coins. A coin discriminating unit provided in the feeding and conveying unit for discriminating the authenticity and denomination of coins to be conveyed, a coin branching unit for sorting coins according to the identification result of the coin discriminating unit, connected to the coin branching unit, and conveyed A coin classification unit that classifies coins to be denominated is arranged.In the middle layer, it is composed of a belt conveyor that is arranged almost horizontally, is identified as a regular coin in the coin identification unit, and is classified in the coin branching unit and the coin classification unit. Temporary storage of sorted coins for each classification, and temporary storage for storing or returning the temporarily stored coins by selectively driving the belt conveyor in the front-rear direction. Arranged, inclined Consists of a belt conveyor,
Withdrawal storage unit for storing coins of denominations stored in the temporary storage unit and dispensing the stored coins on a tray loaded in the lower part of the front of the machine by driving a belt conveyor forward. A coin depositing and dispensing machine configured by disposing a safe section for storing coins of mixed denominations stored in the temporary storage section. 2. The coin branching section comprises a front stage coin branching section and a rear stage coin branching section along one side of the body, and the coin sorting section includes a width of the body at a rear side of the body. The temporary storage section is divided and configured so as to have a storage section of the number of denominations plus 1 in the width direction of the body, and the coin branch section at the former stage is a regular coin by the coin identification section. In addition to passing coins identified as `` 1 '' and dropping out abnormal coins that are not identified as legitimate coins, the later-stage coin branching section is one of the regular coins passing through the preceding-stage coin branching section. For each denomination, pass regular coins until the number of sheets that can be temporarily stored in the storage section or the number of sheets that can be stored in the dispensing storage section, whichever is smaller, is passed, and other normal coins are dropped and sorted. It is configured to make The abnormal coins dropped and eliminated in the part are guided along the one side of the fuselage to the clearance in the front part of the fuselage, and the regular coins dropped and sorted in the latter part of the coin branch are in a denomination mixed state, The regular coins that have been guided to the storage portion on the one side of the body in the storage portion of the denomination of the temporary storage portion plus one, and passed through the coin branch portion at the subsequent stage, are denominated coins in the coin classification portion. 2. The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim 1, wherein the coin receiving and dispensing machine is configured to be guided to each of the remaining storage units of the temporary storage unit for each seed.