JPS6131908B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a paper card printing and punching device used in toll road ticket issuing devices, parking lot ticket issuing devices, inventory management devices, and the like.

Conventionally, as a printing mechanism in this type of paper card printing and punching device, a system has been widely used in which characters arranged on a type wheel are selected and the corresponding characters are struck with a hammer. However, such a system has the drawback that the character selection portion is very large, and therefore the combination with the paper card printing and punching mechanism is subject to significant space limitations. The present invention aims to eliminate such drawbacks of the conventional example.

The configuration of the present invention will be described below with reference to an illustrated embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, two paper card conveying rollers 2,
The wire dots 5 of the wire dot printer 4 and the punching pins 7 of the paper card punching device 6 provided between the wire dot printer 3 and the paper card punching device 6 are arranged in a line in a direction perpendicular to the paper card conveyance direction, and the wire dot printer In addition to driving the wire dots 5 of 4, the pulse motor 1 is stopped every time the pulse motor 1 sends a certain number of steps, and the punching pin of the paper card punching device 6 is driven during the above-mentioned stop period. . In FIG. 1, reference numeral 21 denotes a paper card sending device, which sends out the paper cards 9 stored in the card stocker 8 one by one. Reference numeral 10 denotes a paper card feeding pulse motor, which feeds out the paper card 9 by a predetermined length by driving a rotating roller 12 via a timing belt 11. Next, the outer peripheral surfaces of the transport rollers 2 and 3 are knurled to prevent slippage during transport of paper cards. Both conveyance rollers 2 and 3 rotate in the same direction in synchronization, and are connected to each other by a driving pulse motor 1 and a timing belt 13. Pinch rollers 14 and 15 are always spring 1
6 and 17, which are in pressure contact with the conveyance rollers 2 and 3, so that paper cards can be conveyed accurately. In particular, the pinch roller 14 is equipped with a plunger mechanism using a solenoid 18 in addition to a pressing spring 16, and has a function of separating the pinch roller 14 from the conveyance roller 2 when the solenoid 18 is energized. For this reason, if the pinch roller 14 is pulled apart while the paper card conveying device 20 is sending out the paper card 9, the paper card can be sent out without any resistance, and the starting position of punching and printing can be accurately controlled. can do.
Note that the interval between the transport rollers 2 and 3 is set shorter than the length of the paper card 9 so that the paper card 9 is completely transported, and a photo sensor for detecting the position of the paper card is installed near each transport roller. 19,
20 are provided.

Next, FIG. 2 shows the arrangement structure of the wire dots 5 of the wire dot printer 4 and the punching pins 7 of the paper card punching device 6. Arranged. In this embodiment, seven wire dots 5 are arranged, and each time the pulse motor 1 is pulse driven one step at a time, the wire dots 5 are
Printing is performed by selectively moving in and out. In this embodiment, one character is formed in five steps, and the spacing between characters is formed by idling the pulse motor 1 without driving the wire dots. Since the operation of such a wire dot printer is very fast, there is no need to stop the pulse motor for printing, and the drive pulses are sent out continuously, and the printing process is completed between one drive pulse and the next drive pulse. Just do it. Next, in order to punch a paper card, the pulse motor 1 should be stopped every time the pulse motor 1 sends a certain number of steps, and the punching pin 7 of the paper card punching mechanism 6 should be driven during this stopping period. Bye. The drilling pin 7 is driven by converting the power supplied from the induction motor (FIG. 29) into movement of the drilling pin by means of a trigger link mechanism that is selectively energized based on a drilling command signal. At this time, while the paper card 9 is being punched, the wire dot printer 4
indicates that the printing operation is stopped. Such a series of operations is performed by a control device 2 consisting of input/output interfaces 22, 23, a character code generator 24, and a pulse generator 25 as shown in FIG.
6, and drives the paper card printing/punching device 28 based on a ticket issuing command inputted automatically from another device to the data input terminal 27 or manually by keyboard input. It is something.

As described above, the present invention arranges the wire dots of the wire dot printer and the punching pins of the paper card punching device in a line in a direction perpendicular to the paper card conveyance direction, and drives the wire dots of the wire dot printer with each step of the pulse motor. In addition, the pulse motor is stopped every time the pulse motor sends a certain number of steps, and the perforation pin of the paper card perforation mechanism is driven during the above-mentioned stop period, so that the wire dot printer only needs to have one row of wire dots. Since the printing mechanism does not require a large space unlike the conventional example, there is an advantage that it can be compactly mounted together with a paper card punching device, and furthermore, there is an advantage that the cost of the printer can be kept low. In addition, in the present invention, the pulse motor stops once every time it sends a certain number of steps and perforates the paper card, so by slightly devising the transport method of the same transport mechanism, it can be used for printing paper cards and punching paper cards. It has the advantage that the paper feeding mechanism for punching can also be used, and therefore the printing process and punching process of paper cards can be performed in parallel, so ticket issuing operations can be performed quickly. There are advantages. In the embodiment, a wire dot printer has been described as the dot printer, but a thermal dot printer using a thermal head may also be employed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged front view of the same, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the control device of the present invention. 1 is a pulse motor, 2 and 3 are conveying rollers, 4 is a wire dot printer, 5 is a wire dot, 6 is a punching device, and 7 is a punching pin.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 The dots of a dot printer and the punching pins of a paper card punching device, which are provided between two paper card transport rollers driven synchronously by a pulse motor, are arranged in a line in a direction perpendicular to the paper card transport direction, and the pulse The dots of the dot printer are driven every time the motor feeds one step, and the pulse motor is stopped every time the pulse motor sends a certain number of steps, and the punching pin of the paper card punching mechanism is driven during the stopping period. A paper card printing punching device characterized by comprising: