JPS604510B2 - Ticket issuing device - Google Patents

Description

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

In recent years, with the automation and labor saving of station operations, station equipment such as ticket vending machines, automatic ticket collection/distribution devices, commuter pass issuing machines, etc. are being used as interconnected systems.

For example, this is the case when tickets issued by a ticket issuing machine, a commuter pass issuing machine, etc. are inspected by an automatic ticket collection/distribution device.
In this case, the ticket issued by the issuing machine is not only used at the automatic ticket gate collection device, but also so that it can be used at the regular ticket gate, and so that passengers can visually check it for confirmation. Furthermore, one side has a magnetic memory for mechanical inspection, and the other side has visible information written on it so that it can be inspected inside the vehicle in the usual way.

However, at present, automatic ticket gates may not be installed on a particular connecting route or at a particular station within a single route.

Therefore, the ticket paper used in automatic ticket gates and the ticket paper used at normal ticket gates are issued by separate ticket issuing machines, which is inconvenient, and magnetic recording is not required in the first place. However, since magnetic recording was performed, processing was time-consuming. In addition, when the issued ticket is a commuter pass, a transparent protective layer such as a laminate was provided to protect the image, but since it becomes impossible to add notes to the ticket after it has been issued, At that time, so-called stickerless ticket paper came into use.

Instead of providing a protective layer by lamination, this stickerless ticket paper is made by applying pressure to the fixed ticket paper using a calendar device to smooth the image. However, if the ticket paper is pressurized with a calendar device immediately after fixing while it is in a high temperature state, the image or the ticket paper itself will be deformed, so the ticket paper must be cooled once after fixing and then calendered. Ta.

This made high-speed processing difficult. The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is possible to quickly provide ticket paper with a smooth surface and durability without the need for seal processing, and in particular, automated ticket paper and non-automated ticket paper are the same. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a ticket issuing device that can be issued using a ticket issuing machine.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to an illustrated embodiment.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a ticket issuing device according to the present invention.
1 is an automated ticket supply device in which cut sheets for automated ticket sheets are accumulated, B is a non-automated ticket supply device in which roll paper for non-automated ticket sheets is set, and C is an automated ticket supply device that is installed in this supply device. D is a flash fixing device installed in this electrostatic printing device, E is a fixing defective note ejecting device installed in this fixing device, and F is a defective note ejecting device that is not ejected by this ejecting device. G is a magnetic recording device disposed on the calendar device, and G is a discharge device disposed on the magnetic recording device.
Each of these devices is connected by a conveyance roller, and each part is provided with a detector 2 consisting of an ordinary photoelectric element and a light source. Each part will be explained in detail below.

As shown in FIG. 2, the automated ticket supply device A includes a storage section 6 in which a large number of ticket sheets 5 each having an electrostatic printing surface 3 formed on one side of a support 3 and a magnetic recording surface 4 formed on the other side are stocked, and this storage section 6. Part 6
It consists of a ticket take-out section 8 equipped with a throat knife 7a and a picker knife 7b for supplying the tickets 5 attached to the lower gate of the machine one by one. The non-automated ticket supply device B is equipped with a reel section 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 1, etc., and a lead (not shown). It is comprised of an electromagnetic micro clutch brake 12 and a cutter 13 for feeding out the roll paper 9 to a fixed size in response to a signal from a switch. The electrostatic printing device C is a normal electrostatic printing device,
An electrostatic applying section 14 formed of a needle electrode or the like, and a magnetic roller 1
7, a developing tank 16, a developing section 15 such as a ticket guide 18, and the like.

Note that 16a is an impeller for damaging the developer, and 19
is a cleaner roller formed of a magnet to suck the developer attached to the back side of the ticket paper 5 and 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 between the flash lamp 20 and the transport path of the ticket 5.

For the flash lamp in this case, xenon, iodine, bromine, etc. can be used, and among these, xenon is particularly preferred in terms of thermal efficiency. A reflecting mirror 22 is disposed on the opposite side of the protective glass 21. Also, ticket paper 5
a microswitch 24 that lights up the flash lamp 20, which is installed near the path of the ticket 5 and is activated when the ticket 5 moves and comes in contact with the ticket 5; It is also possible to provide a detector 25 for detecting the ticket paper 5 that has not been fixed due to a problem. Furthermore, the fixing defective note discharging device E includes a gate 26 whose one end is rotatably supported so as to discharge the fixing defective note from the ticket paper conveyance path when a fixing defective note occurs, and a gate 26 for storing the fixing defective note. This ticket issuing device can also be provided with a box-shaped storage section 27.

The calender device F presses the coating liquid application roller 28 and the pressure rollers 29 which are disposed on opposite sides of the transport path, so that the ticket sheet 5 is covered with a transparent protective layer on the electrostatic printing surface 3' as shown in FIG. A coating 30 is formed.

Reference numeral 31 denotes a roller for co-immersing the coating liquid, 32 a cleaner roller for uniformly applying the coating liquid onto the coating liquid application roller 28 and removing excess coating liquid, and 33 for storing the removed coating liquid. It's a tank.

The magnetic recording device 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, and the magnetic head 3 at the previous stage.
4 is for magnetic recording, and the rear magnetic head 35 is 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 above embodiment will be explained. Depending on an external instruction indicating whether the ticket is an automated ticket or a non-automated ticket, either 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 latent 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 paper ticket 5 conveyed between the conveyor belts 23 is actuated by coming into contact with the microswitch 24, the flash lamp 20 is turned on, and flash fixation is performed. Note that the ticket paper 5 that has not been fixed due to a problem with the flash fixing device D may be detected by the detector 25, ejected by the ejection gate 26 by the fixing defective ticket ejecting device E, and stored in the storage section 27. .

The ticket sheet 5 thus fixed is fed into a calendar device F.

In the calendar device F, the ticket paper 5 is fed between the film liquid roller 28 and the pressure roller 29, and a film forming liquid such as silicone liquid is applied to the printing surface 3 by the film liquid application roller 28. At the same time, the printing surface 3 is smoothed and glossy by being pressed by the pressure roller 29 during this application. In this way, the ticket paper 5 with the printed surface 3 smoothed and coated with the film is fed into the magnetic recording device G. In the magnetic recording layer device G, the automated ticket 5 is magnetically recorded, and the non-automated ticket 9 is not recorded.

Predetermined information is magnetically recorded on the ticket 5 by a magnetic head 34 installed at the front stage, and is read by a magnetic head 35 at the rear stage to check whether it has been recorded accurately.
The non-automated ticket sheet fed out from the magnetically recorded ticket sheet 5 or the unrecorded roll sheet 9 is sent to the ejection device H.
'This is sent. At the discharge device, the ticket 5 is caught between the conveyor belts 37 and discharged outside the machine, and the 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. '11 Electrostatic recording method...
...The support is made of plastic such as polyester or paper, with a conductive layer made of a conductive polymer etc. on one side and a magnetic recording layer, conductive layer or anti-curl layer provided as necessary on the opposite side, The conductive layer side of this support contains resins such as polyvinyl butyral, acrylic, vinyl oxide, and polystyrene, and/or one or more types of English polymers of monomer mixtures thereof. An image-retaining layer containing pigments, etc.

'2} Electrophoax method: A method in which a photoconductor such as lead oxide, a sensitizing dye, etc. are dispersed in the image-retaining layer of a recording material used in the above electrostatic recording method.

[3' Transfer type recording method......A resin for image retention used in the above-mentioned electrostatic recording method or a surface layer mainly composed of resin is coated as an image retention layer on the surface of a support such as a plastic film or paper. Transferred material.

The toner may be of any kind as long as it is normally used for electrostatic recording, and is prepared by mixing and pulverizing acrylic, styrene, or polyamide resins containing carbon black, dyes, waxes, and the like.

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

In the above embodiment, an electrostatic charge support layer is formed on the surface of the ticket, and a direct latent image is formed on this electrostatic charge support layer.
Although the latent image is developed, the present invention is not limited thereto, and a photoconductive material is provided on the surface of an electrostatic support, such as a drum, separately from the printing material, and the photoconductive material is applied to the photoconductive material. A static lightning latent image may be formed, further developed, and the image may be transferred to recording paper, or a wet type developing device may be used. Furthermore, zinc oxide recording paper or the like may be used as the recording material. Further, in the above embodiments, a protective layer of silicon is applied on the electrostatic recording layer, but this recording layer may be impregnated with silicon or the like in advance.

In this case, a device for applying the coating liquid is not required. As described above, according to the present invention, the surface is smooth and durable without the need for seal processing, and automated and non-automated ticket sheets can be quickly issued using the same issuing machine. effective.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a paper ticket issued according to the present invention. A: Automated ticket supply device, B: Non-automated ticket supply device, C: Electrostatic printing device, D.
... Flash fixing device, F... Calendar device,
G...Magnetic recording device, 5...Ticket paper, 15...
...Development section, 30...Protective coating. Figure 1 Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A non-automated ticket feeding device that supplies a non-automated ticket paper having a printing layer on at least one side of the support, or an automated ticket supplying device that supplies a non-automated ticket paper that has a printing layer on one side of the support and a magnetic recording layer on the other side. A printing device that visualizes the ticket information on the printed layer of the ticket paper supplied from one of the ticket paper supply devices of the automated ticket feeding device, and a flashing device that visualizes the ticket information visualized by this printing device. a flash fixing device that fixes the printed information on the printed layer of the ticket paper; and a calendar that presses the ticket paper while applying a protective film to the ticket paper on which the ticket information is fixed by the flash fixing device to smoothen the printed surface. 1. A ticket issuing device comprising a magnetic recording device for recording ticket surface information on a magnetic recording layer when the ticket whose surface has been smoothed by the calendar device is an automated ticket.