JPS60238993A - Centralized transportation fare settling equipment - Google Patents

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fare collection machine for centrally paying fares collected from passengers on a one-man bus or the like.

In one-man buses, etc., a fare box with a safe inserted is generally installed near the driver's seat, and passengers are asked to insert coins or coupons along with a numbered ticket with the boarding section printed on it. If the fee is a flat rate, a numbered ticket is not required), and the amount is automatically stored in the safe.

When the flight attendant presses the unlock button, the lid of the safe closes and the lock is released.The safe is then pulled out, sealed, and collected at a business office, etc., and then automatically by the central fare payment machine. Settlement is being carried out on a regular basis.

Such a conventional centralized fare adjustment machine, for example,
- As described in Publication No. 17406, when a safe is inserted into the insertion slot, the safe is locked and fixed, and the lid is opened and rotated in the second half to prevent coins, banknotes, and coupons, etc., from being mixed in the safe. The separated coins are separated into coins, banknotes, and tickets by a separating device, and the separated coins are conveyed to a coin sorting device, sorted and counted by denomination, and the results are monitored and registered. It is designed to be displayed and recorded by

By the way, a considerable amount of banknotes are stored together with coins and tickets in the safe of the fare sheath pipe with a banknote exchange machine, but in such conventional fare central payment machines, the banknotes are separated from the coins and stored in the coupon tickets. Since these are simply stored in a paper bill storage box together with other banknotes, the total amount cannot be tallied unless you manually select and collect only the banknotes, count the amount, and enter it into a register. Since it is not possible to do so, it takes time to pay bills, and it takes time to sort and collect banknotes that are mixed in with a large number of bills.

This invention was made by focusing on the above-mentioned problems with conventional fare payment machines, and its purpose is to eliminate the need for manually sorting banknotes and tickets. shall be.

Therefore, the central fare payment machine according to the present invention includes a bill/ticket separation device that separates the paper banknotes and tickets separated from coins into banknotes and tickets by the paper bill/coin separation device; The present invention is characterized by comprising a banknote storage box and a ticket storage box for separately storing banknotes and tickets.

Example of wildebeest Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. explain.

First, a safe which is inserted into a fare box of a one-person bus or the like and which settles fares using a central fare settlement machine according to the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

This safe 1 is a well-known one as described in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-37038, and has an opening 1a on the top surface of a box made of a metal plate such as stainless steel.
It has a sliding lid 1b for opening and closing the opening 1a, a lock hole 1c, and a handle 1d on the front surface.

The opening/closing mechanism of the sliding lid 1b includes a spring that constantly biases the lid 1b in the opening direction and a solenoid that releases the locking member layer that locks the lid 1b in the closed position. Then, the lid 1b is slid closed by the pulling force and is locked in that state by the locking member, and when a specific signal is input through a connector (not shown), the solenoid is activated to release the lock. , one that opens by the biasing force of a spring, or one that has a built-in motor and feed screw mechanism and opens and closes the lid 1b by forward and reverse rotation of the motor in response to a signal from a connector.

In any case, when this safe 1 is inserted into the fare box), the sliding lid 1b is open, and the coins, coupon tickets, numbered tickets, exchanged banknotes, etc. that are inserted into the fare box are opened. It is stored in the safe 1 from 1a.

When a flight attendant pulls out the safe 1 from the fare box, the sliding lid 1b slides in the direction of the arrow to close the opening 1a, resulting in a sealed state.

Next, the general configuration of the central fare payment machine according to the present invention will be explained in the second section.
This will be explained with reference to the drawings and FIG.

Mainly as shown in FIG. 2, a main body frame 2 with casters includes a safe opening/rotating device 3 having a safe insertion slot 3a, and a key switch 4a and a card insertion slot 4I3 on the second part thereof.
．． An operation panel 4 having a start switch 40 and the like is provided. Further, a pair of kite protrusions 6, 6 are provided on the safe mounting base 5 in correspondence with the safe insertion opening 3a.

Inside the main body frame 2, as shown by broken lines in FIG. A paper ticket/coin separating device consisting of a mesh belt conveyor 10 etc. disposed above the conveying end of the machine, and an auxiliary conveyor 1
1, a vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removing device 12, a conveyor 14 that conveys coins passed through it and supplied via a chute 13 to one side, and a rotating tram type banknote/ticket separation device 15. ]. 16 is a ticket storage box.

17 is a banknote storage box. .

Furthermore, a coin sorting and counting device 18 with casters is connected to the main body frame 2, and coins transported by the conveyor 11 are supplied via a hopper 19.

This coin sorting and counting device 18 is also provided with an operation panel 20, and as shown in FIG.
Coin storage boxes 21 to 26 on casters are inserted for each denomination of yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, and 500 yen.

Furthermore, this coin sorting and counting device 181. register 27
is listed.

7- Next, an outline of the operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be explained.

The safe 1 as shown in FIG. 1 is collected with the opening 1a sealed by the sliding lid 1b, placed on the safe mounting stand 5-1- of the fare centralization machine, and inserted into the safe insertion slot 38. Insert it into the safe opening/rotating device w3 to the power mortar.

If the key switch 4a is turned on, each part is started by inserting a work plan magnetic card into the cart insertion slot 4b or by turning on the start switch 4c.

The safe lid opening/rotation device 6 uses a mechanism (not shown) to insert a lock rod into the lock hole 1C of the safe 1 to lock and secure the safe, and then energizes an internal solenoid or motor to open the lid 1b and rotate as described below. It is rotated by a mechanism to a position where the opening 1a is on the lower side (see also Fig. 1).

Therefore, the coins, two bills, and bills in the safe are ejected and fall onto the conveyor 7, but the air suction port 9a of the blower S
is provided on the 8--L side of the mesh belt conveyor 10, and a suction air flow flowing in the direction of arrow A is generated in the space on the side of the conveyor 7, so that banknotes and tickets are not dropped from the safe. During the conveyance by the conveyor 7, it is sucked and conveyed in one direction, and it adheres to the lower surface of the mesh belt conveyor 10 and becomes a banknote/ticket separation device 15.
/\I will be sent.

Furthermore, even if there are banknotes or tickets that are conveyed by the conveyor 7 together with the coins to the conveying end and fall onto the auxiliary conveyor 11 (also a metschbelt conveyor), they will be blown from the outlet 9b of the blower 9 in the direction of the arrow B. The mesh belt conveyor 10 was blown away by the rising air flow.
Adheres to the bottom surface of the

Further, the suction cylinder 8 is raised by a mechanism to be described later and inserted into the safe, and the banknotes and bills remaining in the safe are forcibly discharged by the suction air flow.

In this way, the coins are separated from the banknotes and tickets, and the coins are fed into the vibrating conveyance type foreign object removal device 12 (the details of which will be described later) by the auxiliary converter 11, and foreign objects larger than the diameter of the largest coin and the smallest coins are removed. Foreign matter smaller than the diameter of the foreign matter is not removed and is conveyed to the right in FIG. 2 and discharged onto the vertical crosspiece conveyor 14 via the chute 1b.

The coins conveyed upward by the conveyor 14 are fed into the coin sorting and counting device 18 from the hopper 1st, sorted by the number of sorting agents according to denomination, and stored in each coin storage box 21 to 2, respectively. In addition, the annual total results are displayed on the register 27 and recorded on the recording paper 1. On the other hand, the banknotes and tickets separated from the coins and conveyed by the mesh belt conveyor 10 constitute the banknote/ticket separation device 15. The notes are fed into the diagonally installed rotating drum 28 from one open end, and as a result of the rotation, bills smaller than banknotes are ejected out of the drum 28 through a separation hole (to be described later).
The tickets are stored in the storage box on the 1st according to the information board (not shown).
The banknotes are discharged from the lower open end of the rotary drum 28 and stored in the banknote storage box 17 by a guide plate (not shown).

Therefore, by uncounting the bills in this bill storage box 17 and entering the amount into the register 27, the total amount of freight in the safe can be displayed and recorded.

Hereinafter, each part of this embodiment will be explained in detail.As the coin sorting and counting device 18, various types known in the past can be used, and the most suitable one is, for example, a special one. As described in 1988-123188, tt.

There is a system that uses a vertical sorting tram with sorting grooves formed on the outer circumferential surface, and high processing efficiency can be obtained by using this, but since this is also well known, detailed explanation will be omitted. 27 may also be a known one, so its explanation will be omitted. .

First, the rotating mechanism of the safe opening/rotating device B and the paper ticket/coin separating device will be explained with reference to FIG.

The safe opening/rotating device 3 is connected to the safe insertion slot 3 shown in FIG.
A rotary disc 30 with a holder frame 31 into which the safe 1 is inserted is fixed integrally on the back side of the front plate having a shape, and three rollers'! 11- is rotatably held by 32.

A ring gear 33 is integrally formed on the outer periphery of the rotating disk 60, and a pinion mechanism 34 engaged with the ring gear 33 is rotated by a motor (not shown), so that the rotating disk 30 is rotated, for example, 180 degrees in the direction of arrow C. ``Rotate in increments.

The state shown in FIG. 4 is a state in which, after the safe 1 is inserted into the holder frame 31 and the lid is opened, the rotating disk 30 has rotated 180'' and is facing downward.

At a position corresponding to the lower part of the opening 11a of the safe 1 at this time,
The suction tube 8 is a lifting device 35 using a rack/binion mechanism or the like.
It is supported via an arm 66 and is provided so as to be unloadable.

When the safe 1 rotates, coins come out from the opening 1a.

A fixed pipe 1 (plates 37, 37 are provided) so that the contents such as banknotes and tickets are discharged, and all of them pass through the suction cylinder 8 and fall onto the conveyor 7.

The conveyor 7 has a rubber belt 40 with a crosspiece stretched between the rollers 38 and 39 from below the suction tube 8 to the right side in the figure, and a motor (not shown) moves the rollers 112 and 6 in the direction of the arrow. By rotating the drum belt 40-1, coins and the like that have fallen onto the drum belt 40-A are conveyed in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Further, a suction air flow path 44 is formed by the partition plates 41, 42, 43 and both side plates (not shown), and the partition plates 42.
45 and both side plates (not shown) form a blow-up air flow path.

Note that a butterfly plate 47 is attached to the lower end of the partition plate 42 to close the gap with the -1 end of the conveyor 7.

Further, a flexible cover 48 is attached to a slit 43a provided in the partition plate 43 to allow the arm 36 to remain stationary to prevent air from entering.

On one side of the air flow path 44 and 46, there are rollers 49 and 50.
A mesh belt conveyor 10 with a mesh belt 51 stretched therebetween is provided horizontally. Reference numerals 52, 53, and 54 designate an idle roller for both sealing and pressing, 55 a guide roller, 56 a brush roller for scraping off banknotes, and 57 a banknote guide plate.

The blower S, which is an air flow generating device, has a blower outlet 9)) opened below the auxiliary conveyor 11 formed by a mesh belt on the lower surface of the partition plate 45, and connects the suction port 9a to one of the suction air channels 44 through a pipe 58. It opens above the mesh belt conveyor 10 on the other side.

Therefore, when the blower 9 is activated, the air inside the machine flows in from the gap between the holder 31 and the guide plate 37, passes through the suction tube 8, and reaches the conveyor 7! On the other hand, it flows in the direction of the arrow A in the room space, passes through the mesh belt 51, is sucked into the blower 9 from the suction port 9a through the piping 58, is blown out from the air outlet 9b, passes through the auxiliary conveyor hair 11 in the direction of the arrow B, and flows into the conveyor 7. The air passes through the conveying end, flows through the blowing air passage 46, passes through the mesh belt 51, and is dispersed into the machine.

Therefore, when the contents of the safe 1 fall through the suction cylinder 8 into the container 7-1-, most of the banknotes and tickets are transported in the direction of the arrow by the rubber belt 40 during the fall. The particles are conveyed in the direction of arrow A by the suction air flow and adhere to the lower surface of the mesh belt 50. .

The coins are conveyed in the direction of the arrow by the rubber belt 40 with crosspieces, passing through a hinge 47 at the conveying end and then being transferred to the auxiliary conveyor 11.
-1-, and is conveyed in the direction of arrow E and fed into the foreign matter removal device 12.

At this time, even if the coin is sent to the conveying end of the container 7 with banknotes or tickets sandwiched between the coins.

Auxiliary conveyor 11. -hz\ While falling and being conveyed by the auxiliary conveyor 11, the air is blown off by the air flow blown from the blower 9, and is conveyed in one direction, and adheres to the lower surface of the mesh belt 51.

The banknotes and bills adhering to the mesh belt 51 of the mesh belt conveyor 10 are blocked from the air flow by the guide roller 55, adhere to the guide roller 55, and then move along the banknote guide plate 57 to the banknote/ticket separation device 25. into the rotating drum 28.

Furthermore, the suction cylinder 8 is heated by the A lowering device 35, and inserted through the opening 1a of the safe 1 as shown by the imaginary line in the figure.
Bills and tickets remaining inside can be forcibly sucked out by suction air flow.

=15- Therefore, as with conventional devices of this type, it is necessary to rotate the safe until it faces downward and then perform several more positive (φ) rotations to shake out the banknotes and tickets remaining inside. Therefore, control of the rotation mechanism becomes extremely simple.

Furthermore, the paper note/coin separating device according to this embodiment can reliably separate paper notes and coins by effectively utilizing the intake air flow and the blown air flow from a single blower, and furthermore, it is possible to reliably separate paper notes and coins. Since the air is circulated inside the machine, there is almost no blown out dirty air outside the machine, and Hygiene-L is also preferable.

Next, FIGS.
This will be explained using figures.

This bill/ticket separation device is composed of a rotating drum 28 and its supporting and rotating mechanism.

As clearly shown in FIG. 5, the rotating drum 28 has a cylindrical body 60 made of thick-walled synthetic resin and having the shape of a regular square tube with both ends open, and a pair of metal disc-shaped flanges 61, 61 at both ends. Installed in parallel. .

The cylindrical body 60 has a large number of conical separation holes 6 which penetrate through its inner and outer circumferential surfaces and are each enlarged on the inner circumferential side.
2 is formed.

FIG. 6 shows a part of the inner surface of the cylindrical body 60, and FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the rotating drum 28 together with the support roller and the drive roller. do.

The opening 62a on the outer peripheral surface side of each separation hole 62 has a diameter d that is sufficiently smaller than the width of the smallest banknote (currently in Japan, the width of the 500 yen bill 1, and sufficiently larger than the width of a normal numbered ticket or coupon ticket).
The opening 62b on the inner peripheral surface side has a diameter approximately twice that, and the opening 62b is adjacent to the separation hole 62.
The conical portion 62 of the separation hole 62 is formed with such a density that it partially overlaps with the inside of the opening on the inner peripheral surface side of the separation hole 62 .
C, and the planar portion 63 is extremely small.

As shown in FIG. 7, this rotary drum 28 has a pair of flanges 61 supported by two support rollers 64, 64 and a drive roller 65 so as to be rotatable and slightly inclined, and is supported by a motor (not shown). Driven by roller 6
5, it is rotated relatively slowly, for example, in the direction of arrow E.

Then, when a mixture of banknotes and tickets are thrown in from one opening end, the banknotes M are also inserted between the plurality of flat portions 63 remaining on the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder 60, as shown in FIG. Since it is once supported, it will not be ejected from the separation hole 62, but since the tickets P such as numbered tickets and coupon tickets are small, it will be in an extremely unstable state, and the conical surface of the separation hole 620 on either of the lower surfaces 6
It slides down 2c under its own weight, falls to the outside, and is ejected.

If it straddles the plurality of plane parts 66 or one banknote M.
- Even if there are tickets that have been placed on the drum 28,
Since the banknotes are agitated by the rotation of the drum 28, all bills are ejected from the separation hole 62 before they are sent to the lower open end l\. Therefore, only the banknotes are ejected from the lower open end of the drum 28. .

Note that if the rotating speed of the rotating drum 28 is increased to apply a centrifugal force, or if air is sucked out from the outside to apply a suction force, banknotes and tickets may adhere to the inner surface of the drum 28. As a result, the ejection of bills from the separation hole 62 and the downward feeding of bills cannot be performed smoothly.

The shape of the cylinder is not limited to a square cylinder, but may be formed into a hexagonal cylinder, a polygonal cylinder such as a hexagonal cylinder, or a cylindrical shape.

Finally, the vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removal device 12 will be explained with reference to FIG. 8 and FIG.

This device uses a vibrator 70 similar to that used in a known parts feeder, etc., and is fixed to a vibration table 70a of the vibrator 70, and has a casing 71 with the -L surface, front surface, and front lower surface open. Some of the largest coins (
A first diaphragm 72 made of punched metal with a large number of through holes 72a, for example 27 m in diameter, which are larger than the diameter of a 500 yen coin in Japan (currently in Japan), is provided approximately horizontally, and below the diaphragm 72, the heights are set in order from the left to the right in the figure. Lower the 2nd to 4th stages to 3 stages.
The diaphragms 73, 74, and 75 are provided substantially horizontally.

The second to fourth diaphragms 73 to 75 each have through holes 73a, 74a, 75 having a diameter IDnwn, for example, which is 19-41 smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin (1 yen coin in Japan where Tfl is present).
This is a synthetic resin board made by combining A with J and forming a large number of them.

Further, a guide plate 76 is obliquely provided at the front end of the first diaphragm 72, and below the open lower portion 1a on the front lower surface of the housing 71,
A chute 77 is provided to discharge foreign matter into a foreign matter storage box 7 inserted into a foreign matter storage box mounting portion 78.

This foreign object storage box attachment part 78 is attached to the ticket storage box 16 in FIG.
It is located deep inside.

The entire casing 71 is slightly vibrated in the left-right direction as shown in FIG.
Object J2 is gradually transported to the right due to its quality.

When coins containing foreign matter are supplied to the first movable temporary 72-H, the coins C and the smaller foreign matter S are passed through the through hole 72a to the second temporary stationary 72-H. Only foreign objects R such as medals and metal fittings that fall onto the third diaphragm 73 and 74 and are larger than the largest coin remain on the first diaphragm 72 and are transported to the right 20 and guided by the guide plate 76. It falls into the chute 77 and enters the foreign object storage box 7S.

On the other hand, small foreign objects S such as screws mixed into the coin C that has fallen onto the second diaphragm 73-H fall through the through hole 75a and are conveyed to the right on the bottom surface of the casing 71.

The coin C conveyed on the second diaphragm 73 is further transferred to the third diaphragm 74. The coins fall onto the fourth diaphragm 75'' and are transported, but at that time, the small foreign objects caught between the coins also fall through the through holes 74a and 75a, pass through the chute 77, and enter the foreign object storage box. Entering the 7th.

Coins falling from the conveyance end of the third diaphragm 75 are guided by the chute 13 to the conveyor 14 shown in FIG.

In FIG. 8, the path of coins is shown by solid line arrows, the path of large foreign objects is shown by broken line arrows, and the path of small foreign objects is shown by dotted line arrows.

By providing such a foreign matter removal device.

Unlike the conventional coin sorting and counting device, coins with foreign matter mixed in are not supplied to the coin sorting and counting device, and failures and counting errors can be prevented.

Of course, as described above with regard to the embodiments, the central fare payment machine according to the present invention automatically separates coins and paper bills as soon as a safe is inserted, and further separates coins by denomination. Not only can you sort n1 numbers and tally them, but you can also automatically separate bills, coupon tickets, numbered tickets, etc. and store them in the bill storage box and ticket storage box, so you can easily disassemble one bill. It can be done quickly and without any effort.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a safe for storing fares to be settled by the central fare payment machine according to the present invention; FIG. 2 is a front view of the entire central fare payment machine according to an embodiment of the present invention; Figure 3 is a right side view of the same, Figure 4 is a sectional view of main parts showing an example of the safe opening/rotation device and paper note/coin separation device, and Figure 5 is the banknote/note separation device. FIG. 6 is a partially enlarged view of the inner surface of the rotating drum; FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the rotating drum together with a support roller and a drive roller; FIG. A vertical cross-sectional view of the vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removing device, FIG. S, is a cross-sectional view taken along the line IX-IX in FIG. 8. 1... Safe 2... Main body frame 3... Safe opening/rotating device 3a... Safe insertion slot 4 Operation panel 7... Conveyor 8... Suction tube 9... Blower 10... Metschuber 1 ~ Conveyor 11... Auxiliary conveyor 12... Shake! II conveyance type foreign matter removal device 13...Shooter 14...Conveyor 15...Banknote/ticket separation device 16...Ticket storage box 17...Banknote storage boxes 21-26
... Coin storage box 27 ... Register 28 ... Rotating drum

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A safe lid opening/rotation device that has a safe insertion port, locks and fixes a safe inserted into the safe insertion port, opens the lid, and rotates the safe to a position where the opening is on the lower side. a paper note/coin separation device that separates the contents discharged from the safe rotated by the device into banknotes and notes and coins; a conveyor that conveys the coins separated by the device; A coin sorting and counting device that sorts and counts the transported coins by denomination, a register that displays and records the counting results of the device, and a banknote and coin separation device that separates banknotes and notes. Banknotes that are separated into banknotes and tickets
A central fare settlement machine comprising a bill separation device, and a bill storage box and a ticket storage box that separately store banknotes and tickets separated by the device. 2. The paper note/coin separation device uses a conveyor disposed below the safe lid opening/rotation device, and an air flow that sucks and conveys paper notes discharged from the safe into a space on one side of the conveyor. an airflow generating device that generates an airflow that blows up paper bills mixed in coins that are transported by the conveyor and fall from the conveyance end; and paper bills that are inserted into the safe and remain in the safe. Claim 1, which is constituted by a suction tube that sucks and discharges paper bills by the air flow, and a mesh belt conveyor that attaches and conveys the paper bills sucked or blown up by the air flow. Central fare payment machine. 3. The banknote/ticket separation device is a thick-walled rotating drum with both ends open and installed diagonally, and has a large number of conical separation holes that extend between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the drum and are each enlarged on the inner circumferential side. The paper bills and bills separated by the paper bill/coin separator are inputted from the upper opening end, and only the bills smaller than the bills are separated by the rotation of the drum. 3. The central fare settlement machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the bill is discharged from the drum and the bill is discharged from the lower opening end. 4. Between the paper note/coin separating device and the conveyor that conveys the coins separated by the device to the coin sorting device,
A vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removal device equipped with a diaphragm with a large number of through holes with a diameter larger than the diameter of the largest coin, and a diaphragm arranged below the diaphragm with a large number of through holes with a diameter smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin. A central fare adjustment machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is provided with a device.