JPS604507B2 - Ticket issuing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a paper ticket issuing device for issuing paper tickets such as train tickets, which is used, for example, in labor-saving equipment for station service.

In recent years, with the automation and labor saving of station operations, in addition to ticket vending machines, which have been widely used in the past, automatic ticket collection devices and ticket issuing machines (which mainly issue long-distance tickets) have been added to station equipment. ), various labor-saving devices such as commuter pass issuing machines have been introduced.

These are usually used as systems that are mutually related. For example, this is the case when tickets issued by a ticket issuing machine or a commuter pass issuing machine are inspected by argument using an automatic ticket collection device. Of course, even in this case, the ticket issued by the issuing machine is not only used in the automatic ticket collection device, but also in a way that it can be used at the regular ticket gate, which is inspected by a human, and for passengers to check it themselves. In order to be visible to the naked eye, or to be able to be verified by normal in-vehicle ticket inspection, a machine-readable magnetic record is attached on one side, and visible information is written on the other side. Normal. Among these ticket papers, regular tickets are usually not used repeatedly, so they have visible information printed on one side using electronic photography, etc., and magnetic information for machine nuclear reading on the other side. However, in the case of commuter passes, repeated use is inevitably required, so
The face of the card is rubbed by the magnetic head and the pressure roller. Therefore, a transparent protective layer or the like is usually provided over the visible image. This transparent protective layer is formed of a laminate or the like. However, in this case, it is impossible for station staff to manually add notes to the ticket after it has been issued, so a special name transcription device is required to write the name on the ticket, or a station staff member must use a special name transfer device to write the name on the ticket, or write the name on the ticket while it is being issued. A complex mechanism is required to take the document out of the machine, add the specified information, and then return it back into the machine to proceed to the next process.

Therefore, recently, sealing using laminating equipment is not performed.
So-called stickerless ticket paper is used. Since this stickerless ticket paper does not require a laminating mechanism, it is usually provided with a fixing device that uses heat and a calender device that smoothes the fixed image after development. However, even in this case, if the ticket is pressurized by the calendar device while it is still in a high temperature state due to heating by the fixing device, the recording layer of the ticket itself will soften, causing the problem that the image and the ticket itself will be deformed. arise. For this reason, after heating and fixing, the ticket paper must be cooled before being subjected to a calendering process, which has the disadvantage that it takes a long time and makes high-speed processing difficult. The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and includes a fixing section using a flash light source after the developing step, and further ahead of the fixing section, a means for sorting the ticket sheets fixed by the fixing section and the ticket sheets that are not fixed. The present invention provides a ticket issuing device that quickly issues tickets with a smooth surface and durability without the need for sealing by smoothing only the ticket paper on which the image has been fixed by a subsequent calendar section. The purpose is to provide.

An illustrated embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a ticket issuing device according to the present invention.
is an automated ticket supply device in which cut sheets for automated tickets are accumulated; B is a non-automated ticket supply device configured with roll paper for non-automated tickets; and C is an ordinary ticket supply device installed in front of this supply device. Electrostatic printing device, D is a flash fixing device provided in front of the electrostatic printing device, E is a fixing defective note ejecting device provided in front of this flash fixing device, F' is the front of Mako's fixing defective bill ejecting device G is a magnetic recording device provided in front of this calendar device, and G is a discharge device provided in front of this magnetic recording device. Each of these devices is connected by a conveyance roller 1, and a detector 2 consisting of a normal photoelectric element and a light source is arranged at each part. Each part will be explained in detail below.As shown in FIG. It is composed of a storage section 6 that accumulates and stores a large number of tickets, and a ticket takeout section 8 that is equipped with a throat knife 7a and a picker knife 7b that supply the tickets 5 attached to the lower gate of the storage section 6 one by one. has been done.

The non-automated ticket supply device B is equipped with a reel unit 10 that stores a roll paper 9 having an electrostatically printed surface formed on one side, a tension arm 11 that feeds out the roll paper 9, a conveyance roller, etc., and is equipped with a reed switch (not shown). The machine is comprised of an electromagnetic micro clutch brake 12 and a cutter 13 for feeding out the roll paper 9 to a fixed length in response to a signal.

The electrostatic printing device C is a normal electrostatic printing device, and is composed of an electrostatic applying section 14 formed of a needle electrode or the like, a developing section 15 such as a magnetic roller 7, a developing tank 16, a ticket guide 18, etc. ing.

Note that 16a is an impeller for concentrating the developer;
Reference numeral 9 denotes a cleaner roller formed of a magnet for sucking the developer attached to the back surface of the ticket 5 to prevent the developer from scattering. The flash fixing device D includes a flash lamp 20 using a xenon lamp that performs flash fusing, and a protective glass 21 of the flash lamp 20 is provided approximately between the flash lamp 20 and the ticket 5 being conveyed.

For the flash lamp in this case, xenon, iodine, bromine, etc. can be used, and among these, xenon is particularly suitable in terms of thermal efficiency. A reflecting mirror 22 is disposed on the opposite side of the protective glass 21. Further, a conveyor belt 23 that pinches and conveys the ticket 5, a microswitch 24 that lights a flash lamp 20 that is provided near the path of the ticket 5 and is activated when the ticket 5 moves and comes into contact with it, and the operation of the flash lamp 20. It is comprised of a detection section 25 that detects ticket paper that has not been fixed due to defects or other problems. -Fixed defective note ejection device E
The gate 26 is rotatably supported at one end so as to obstruct the ticket paper conveyance path and eject the defective fixing ticket when a defective fixation ticket occurs, and a box-shaped storage section 27 for storing the defective fixation ticket. It consists of

The calender device F presses the coating liquid application roller 28 and the pressure roller 29 which are opposed to each other across the conveyance path, so that the ticket sheet 5 is coated with a transparent protective coating on the electrostatic printing surface 3' as shown in FIG. 30 is formed.

31 is a roller impregnated with a coating liquid; 32 is a cleaner roller that uniformly applies the coating liquid to the coating liquid application roller 28 and removes excess coating liquid; and 33 is a roller into which the removed coating liquid is placed. It's a tank.

The magnetic recording G is provided with two magnetic heads 34 and 35 at the front and rear in the direction in which the ticket 5 is fed, the front magnetic head 34 being for magnetic recording, and the rear magnetic head 35 being for reading.

Note that 36 is a conveyor belt that pinches and conveys the ticket 5. The discharging device generally consists of a conveyor belt 37, belt rollers 38, etc. for discharging the ticket to the outside of the machine.

Next, the operation of the above-mentioned embodiment will be explained. In response to an external instruction indicating whether the ticket is an automated ticket or a non-automated ticket, either the ticket supply device A or B is activated to feed the ticket 5.

The sent out ticket paper 5 is fed into the electrostatic printing device C. In the electrostatic printing device C, the electrostatic application unit 14 operates in response to a signal corresponding to the information, and a latent image is formed on the electrostatic printing surface. This beach image is visualized by applying a developer in the developing section 15. The ticket paper 5 printed in this manner is sent to a flash fixing device D. In the flash fixing device D, the ticket sheet conveyed between the conveyor belts 23 and the microswitch 2
4, the flash lamp 20 lights up and flash fixation is performed. Note that the ticket paper 5 that is not fixed due to a trouble in the flash fixing device D is detected by the detector 25 and is ejected by the ejection gate 26 by the fixing defective note ejecting device E.

The fixed ticket paper 5 is then sent to the calendar device F. In the calendar device F, the coating liquid application roller 2
8 and the pressure roller 29, a film forming liquid such as silicone liquid is applied to the electrostatic printing surface 3' by the film liquid application roller 28, and at the same time, during this application, the pressure roller 29 By being pressed, the electrostatic printing surface 3'
It becomes smooth and shiny.

The ticket paper 5 with the electrostatic printing surface 3' smoothed and coated with the film is fed into the magnetic recording device G in this manner. In the magnetic recording device G, the automated ticket 5 is magnetically recorded, but the non-automated ticket 9 is not recorded.

Predetermined information is magnetically recorded on the ticket paper 5 by a magnetic head 34 installed at the front stage, and read by a magnetic head 35 at the rear stage, and checked to see if it has been accurately recorded. The magnetically recorded ticket 5 or the non-automated ticket unreeled from the unrecorded roll paper 9 is sent to the ejection device. At the discharge device, the ticket 5 is transferred to the conveyor belt 3.
7 and is ejected from the machine, and a ticket 5 is issued.

The ticket paper used in the present invention is generally classified into the following types depending on the electrostatic printing method. {1} Electrostatic recording method...
...The support is made of plastic such as polyester or paper, which has a conductive layer made of conductive polymer or the like on one side, and a magnetic recording layer, conductive or anti-curl layer as required on the opposite side, On the conductive layer side of the support, one or more resins such as polyvinyl butyral, acrylic, pinyl oxide, polystyrene and copolymers of monomer mixtures thereof are used as the main component, and as necessary. Provided with an image-retaining layer to which pigments, etc. are added.

'2} Electrofax method: A method in which a photoconductor such as zinc oxide or a sensitizing dye is dispersed in the retaining layer of the recording material used in the electrostatic recording method described above.

(3) Transfer-type recording method: A resin or resin-based surface of the image-retaining layer used in the electrostatic recording method described above as an image-retaining layer on the surface of a support such as a plastic film or paper. Transferred material coated with a layer.

The toner may be one that is normally used for electrostatic recording, and is prepared by mixing and pulverizing a resin such as acrylic, styrene, or polyamide containing carbon black, dye, wax, etc.

Unlike infrared irradiation, solvent fixing, etc., the flash fixing used in the present invention instantaneously generates high temperatures, so this alone provides wear resistance.However, by calendering with a pressure roll after flash fixing, This is intended to promote a fixation effect.

In the above embodiment, an electrostatic support layer is formed on the surface of the ticket, a latent image is formed directly on the electrostatic support layer, and the latent image is developed. Without being limited thereto, a photoconductive substance is provided on the surface of an electrostatic charge support, such as a drum, separately from the printing material, and this is used as a recording medium, corona-charged in a tray, and then subjected to desired image exposure. to form an electrostatic latent image, and further electrostatically adsorb a chargeable powder toner onto the surface of the photoconductor to form a visible image;
An image transfer type copying method may be used in which a recording paper is superimposed closely on this visible image surface, and the image is transferred from the photoreceptor to the recording paper by corona charging from the back side. It's okay. As described above, the present invention provides an electrostatic printing type ticket issuing device that is provided with a fixing section using a flash light source after the developing process, and furthermore, detects the operation of the fixing section and if the fixing section does not operate properly, the ticket is printed. Since the toner is stored in the storage section and not sent to the next process, it is possible to prevent subsequent devices such as a calendar device from being contaminated by unfixed toner or the like.

Furthermore, since the fixing method is flash fixing, the pattern on the card surface is fixed before much heat is absorbed into the ticket paper, so the ticket paper does not shrink or curl after fixing. Therefore, the subsequent calendering process can be carried out smoothly, so that it is possible to issue tickets with extremely smooth surfaces and durability. Therefore, even if a ticket issued by the device of the present invention is passed through an automatic ticket collection device multiple times, the pattern on the ticket surface is unlikely to be scraped off by the magnetic head or transport mechanism.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a ticket produced by the apparatus of the present invention. A: Automated ticket supply device, B: Non-automated ticket supply device, D: Flash fixing device, F:
... Calendar device, G ... Magnetic recording device, 5 ... Ticket paper, 14 ... Electrostatic application section,
15...Developing section, 25...Detector, 2
6...Gate, 27...Storage section. Soup 2
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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An automated ticket supply device that supplies automated ticket paper with an electrostatic printing surface formed on one side and a magnetic recording surface on the other side, and a non-automated ticket paper supply device that supplies non-automated ticket paper that has an electrostatic printing surface formed on one side. a supply device; an electrostatic application unit that forms a latent image of an electrostatic pattern on the electrostatic printing surface of the ticket sent out by the operation of either the non-automated ticket supply device or the automated ticket supply device; A developing section that applies a developer to the ticket paper on which a latent image has been formed by the electrostatic application section to visualize the pattern, and a developing section that visualizes the pattern on the ticket paper using a flash of light. A flash fixing device that fixes the pattern, a detector that detects the operation of the flash fixing device, and a gate that operates based on the detection results of this detector and separates ticket sheets with patterns fixed on them and ticket sheets with unfixed patterns. and a storage section for storing the ticket papers to which the above-mentioned pattern has not been fixed, sorted by the gate, and a printing surface of the ticket paper to which the pattern that has passed through the gate has been fixed is pressed while applying a film forming liquid. The present invention is characterized by comprising a calendar device that smoothes the printed surface, and a magnetic recording device that records magnetic information on the magnetic recording surface of the ticket paper when the ticket paper that has passed through the calendar device is an automated ticket paper. Ticket issuing device.