JPH11139595A - Card body delivering device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely deliver a card body without damaging the card body by piling up card bodies and transferring the card bodies upward by an elevator means, adsorbing the uppermost card body loaded on the elevator means, carrying a card body adsorptive means to transfer this means to a delivery location and deliver the transferred card body. SOLUTION: A card body C 1 located on the uppermost surface of an elevator device 20 is sucked into a fan 33 and is adsorbed into the lower surface of a square ring plate 31. A rack bar 43 is fed in the left direction of a carrier device 40 by a gear 44 revolved counterclockwise. Therefore, the tip part of a car body C3 which is adsorbed by the fan 33 and is moved by the carrier device 40 is held between preliminarily revolved rollers 61, 62. Next, the card body C3 held between the preliminarily revolved rollers 61, 62 is made free by the stoppage of the fan 33 and the card body C3 is delivered to the outside of a device main body.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card dispensing apparatus for dispensing individual cards. More specifically, the present invention relates to a dispensing device for dispensing a card body such as a thick credit card with a manual from a thin telephone card. In particular, the present invention relates to a card dispensing apparatus for reliably dispensing IC cards and the like wrapped in a transparent film one by one without damage.

2. Description of the Related Art Various card dispensing apparatuses have been developed.

[0002] For example, Japanese Patent Application No. 63-60147 discloses a card dispensing apparatus by the present applicant, which is disclosed in US Patent No. 4,993,589. The specification of Japanese Utility Model Application No. 63-60147 discloses a payout apparatus for a thin card such as a telephone card. In this conventional card dispensing apparatus, a rubber roller is specifically used for dispensing a thin card such as a telephone card. In order to pay out a thin card, it is designed to prevent, in particular, the overlapping of cards, that is, the ejection of two cards.

[0003]

As described above, the conventional card dispensing apparatus has mainly been designed to pay out only thin cards. For this reason, for example, a thick IC
There was a problem that it was not possible to pay out a card, a card with a packaged instruction, or a plate-like box. In addition, the conventional card payout device has a problem that the storage capacity is limited because the card is stored above the payout position.

The present invention has been developed for the purpose of an apparatus which can pay out a card body such as a card with a thick packaged instruction manual without any damage. In other words, the present invention has been developed for the purpose of a device capable of dispensing a packaged card body or a thick IC card which cannot be dispensed with a rubber roller or the like. Further, the present invention has been developed for the purpose of greatly increasing the card storage capacity by storing the card body below the card body payout position.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises at least an elevator means for stacking and transferring card bodies upward, a means for sucking the uppermost card body loaded on the elevator means, and What is claimed is: 1. A card dispensing device, comprising: a conveying unit for transferring a suction unit of a card unit to a dispensing position; and a unit for dispensing the card unit transferred by the conveying unit. . Further, the present invention is the card dispensing device, wherein the adsorbing means descends when the card is adsorbed.

Further, the present invention is a card dispensing device, wherein the suction means includes a fan.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view schematically showing an embodiment according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. Reference numeral 11 shown in the upper part of FIG. 1 is a large rectangular side plate constituting the card dispensing device, and is paired with the other side plate 12 (see FIG. 2).

An elevator device 20 for stacking a large number of card bodies C and transporting the card bodies C little by little by a step motor or the like (not shown) is disposed below the center between the side plates 11 and 12. ing. The elevator device 20 (see FIG. 1) is housed in a pair of side plates 11 and 12, an L-shaped partition plate 13 and a rectangular partition plate 14 so as to be able to move up and down. And the side plates 11, 12
A substantially cylindrical suction device 30 (see FIG. 1) for sucking one card body C is disposed at a substantially upper central portion between the upper and lower portions so as to be able to move up and down.

The suction device 30 has a slightly thicker square ring plate 31 in the lower part, and a cylindrical body is provided upright at the center opening of the square ring plate 31. A fan 33 is provided at a lower part in the cylinder, and an electric motor 34 is provided above the fan 33. The upper part of the suction device 30 is housed in a rectangular cylindrical transfer device 40 so as to be able to move up and down, and is held in the transfer device 40 by a spring 35. On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
Are fixed to the apparatus frame (not shown) so as to be located near the upper edges of the side plates 11 and 12.

The rails 41 and 42 are slidably penetrated in the upper part of the rectangular cylindrical transfer device 40. A slightly longer rack bar 43 shown on the right side of the drawing is slidably disposed in the lateral direction with an apparatus frame (not shown) interposed therebetween, and one end of the rack bar 43 is fixed to the transfer device 40. The rack bar 43 meshes with a gear 44, and the gear 44 is rotated forward and backward by an electric motor device 45 including a gear train.

The small box shown on the right side of the drawing is a plunger device 50, and the tip of the plunger device 50 is attached to the center of a slightly large horizontal U-shaped arm 51 (see FIG. 2). The central portion of the arm 51 is rotatably attached to a pivot 52 provided between the side plates 11 and 12 along the vicinity of the upper edge of the partition plate 14. A roller 53 is rotatably provided at each end of the arm 51. Both ends of the arm 51 are horizontally held by a spring 54 attached to the side plate 12.

The rollers 53 are movable in slightly longer grooves 36 formed on both sides of the square ring plate 31, respectively. On the other hand, a large roller 61 shown on the left side of the drawing is a small roller 62 for holding down.
In order to pay out the card body C to the outside by the combination of The roller 61 is rotated only in one direction by an electric motor device 63 including a gear train.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In this embodiment having the above-described configuration, when a switch (not shown) is turned on, the electric motor 34 and the plunger device 50 are turned on.

When the electric motor 34 is turned on, the fan 33
Is rotated to force air from below to above. Since the plunger device 50 is turned on at substantially the same time, the respective rollers 53 at both ends of the arm 51 are slightly pressed down against the spring 54 (see the dashed line position in FIG. 1). Therefore, the suction device 30 is provided with the rollers 53, 53 via the grooves 36, 36.
As a result, it is slightly pushed down against the spring 35. As a result, the card body C1 located at the top of the elevator apparatus 20 is sucked by the fan 33 and is sucked on the lower surface of the square ring plate 31.

When the card body C1 is attracted to the lower surface of the square ring plate 31, the plunger device 50 is turned off and the springs 35 and 54 operate. As a result, the suction device 30 is returned to the original position (see the solid line position in FIG. 1). It should be noted that the time interval from ON to OFF of the plunger device 50 can be set to a short time. When the suction device 30 is returned to the original position, the rear end of the card body C2 sucked on the lower surface of the square ring plate 31 is detected by the contact 71 of the contact sensor S1.

The contact sensor S1 is fixed to the partition plate 14. When the contact sensor S1 detects the card body C2, the electric motor devices 45 and 63 are turned on. When the electric motor device 63 is turned on, the card payout roller 61 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. On the other hand, the gear 44 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 1 by turning on the electric motor device 45 in the forward rotation direction.

The rack bar 43 sends out the transport device 40 to the left in the drawing by the gear 44 rotated counterclockwise. Therefore, the leading end of the card body C3 sucked by the fan 33 and moved by the transport device 40 is sandwiched between the rollers 61 and 62 which are rotated in advance (see the broken line position in FIG. 1). Almost simultaneously, the protruding piece 72 of the transport device 40 is detected by the optical sensor S2. When the protrusion 72 is detected by the optical sensor S2, the electric motor 34 of the fan 33 is turned off and the electric motor device 45 is rotated in the reverse direction.

In other words, when the fan 33 stops, the card body C3 becomes free, and the gear 44 is rotated clockwise in FIG. 1 by turning on the electric motor device 45 in the reverse rotation direction. As a result, the card body C3 sandwiched between the pre-rotated rollers 61 and 62 is
Is stopped, and it is released to the outside of the apparatus body. On the other hand, the conveying device 40 is moved rightward in the drawing and returned to the original position via the rack bar 43 by the gear 44 rotated clockwise (see the chain line position in FIG. 1).

When the protruding piece 72 of the transfer device 40 returned to the original position is detected by the optical sensor S3, both the electric motor devices 45 and 63 are turned off. As a result,
When the electric motor device 45 is turned off, the transport device 40 is stopped at the original position, and when the electric motor device 63 is turned off, the roller 61 is stopped to prepare for paying out the next card body C. In the above embodiment, the electric motor device 45,
Although the number of 63 is two, it goes without saying that one electric motor device may be used by using a belt, pulley and one-way clutch.

Of course, an optical sensor or a magnetic sensor or the like may be used instead of the contact sensor S1. Further, needless to say, a contact sensor or a magnetic sensor may be used instead of the optical sensors S2 and S3.

As described above, according to the present invention, the uppermost card body of the stacked card bodies is sucked, conveyed and paid out, so that there is a great effect that the card bodies can be paid out without damage. .

In particular, according to the present invention, a great advantage is obtained in that one card can be reliably dispensed without damaging a card body such as a thick IC card, a packaged card with an instruction, or a plate-shaped box. Will be. In addition, according to the present invention, since the card body can be stored below the card body payout position, there is an advantage that the storage capacity of the card body can be greatly increased.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view schematically showing a main part of an embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view schematically showing a main part of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of Signs] C, C1, C2, C3: Card body, elevator means ...
20: elevator device, suction means ... 31: square ring plate, 33: fan, 34: electric motor, transport means ...
· 40: transport device, 41, 42: rail, 43: rack bar, payout means 61, 62: roller, 63: electric motor device.

Claims (3)

[Claims] At least an elevator means for stacking and transferring card bodies upward, a means for sucking the uppermost card body stacked on the elevator means, and dispensing the suction means for the card body A card dispensing device, comprising: transport means for transferring the card to a position; and means for discharging the card transferred by the transport means. 2. A card dispensing device according to claim 1, wherein said suction means is lowered when the card is sucked. 3. The card payout device according to claim 2, wherein said suction means includes a fan.