JPS62185674A - Paper sheet storing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To pile up tickets orderly, by providing a movable plate on the bottom of a stocker for supporting a paper sheet which drops from a receiving plate by being inclined in such a manner that the movable plate rises and falls from a horizontal state to an inclined state by a drive unit. CONSTITUTION:When a ticket 5 on a receiving plate 4 is not taken by mistake, it is dropped on a bottom surface 34 of a stocker 1 after a prescribed period of time has passed. When a sensor 42 comprises a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit 44, 45 senses the state of the ticket 5 which is inclined and dripped, an electromagnet 28 is energized 10 times every 2sec with an exciting cycle of 1sec. With such an arrangement, a forcing plate 36 moves upwardly and downwardly ten times to permit a movable plate 35 to rise and fall for arranging the ticket 5 to a horizontal posture. As a result, the bottom surface of the stocker 1 is made horizontal and its height can be lowered. In addition, since a drive unit (electromagnet 38) is energized only when required, power consumption can be reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet storage device for storing paper sheets fed in one direction in a stacked state.

Conventional technology For example, in a ticket issuing machine, when paper sheets such as tickets that are sent in one direction are dropped into a box-shaped stocker, the paper sheets may remain tilted and the stacking state may be disturbed. Therefore, some stockers have an inclined bottom surface.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, when the bottom surface is inclined, there is a problem in that the height of the stocker increases in proportion to the number of sheets stored.

This invention was made in view of these points.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet storage device capable of arranging and stacking paper sheets and reducing the height dimension of a stocker.

Means for Solving the Problems A movable plate provided on the bottom of the stocker is raised and lowered by a drive unit, and paper sheets falling at an angle are brought back to a horizontal position.

Further, a detector detects a tilted sheet of paper and drives the drive unit only when necessary.

Therefore, even if a paper sheet falls at an angle, it is straightened to the horizontal level by the up-and-down movement of the movable plate, so that the bottom surface of the stocker can be leveled and the height of the stocker can be reduced.

Furthermore, the detector drives the drive unit only when necessary, reducing power consumption.

Example An embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

Reference numeral 1 designates a box-shaped stocker. A feed roller 2 connected to a drive unit (not shown) is provided at one end of the upper part of the stocker 1, and a ticket issuing opening 3 is formed at the other end. This ticket issuing port 3 has a receiving plate 4 that slopes downward from the outside to the inside.
is fixed. Further, on both sides of the upper part of the stocker 1, elongated placement plates 6 on which both sides of tickets 5, which are paper sheets, are placed are arranged.

As shown in FIG. 4, these placement plates 6 include a guide surface 7 that guides the side edge of the ticket 2, a stopper 8 that interferes with the extended surface of the bottom surface of the receiving plate 4, and a guide surface 7 at both ends of the guide surface 7. The protruding pieces 9 and 1o are integrally formed. Temporaries 12 are fixed to both sides of the stocker 1 to support both ends of a shaft 11 that rotatably holds the protrusions 9 and 10, and grooves 13 are formed to allow the protrusions 10 to protrude outward. A guide plate 14 facing the upper surface of the tip of the mounting plate 6 is attached to the inner side surface of the stocker 1 at 1-
4. And the protrusion 10 of the left mounting ffl board 6
is connected to the plunger 17 of the electromagnet 16 via the link 15, and the protrusion 9 of the right mounting plate 6 is connected to the plunger 17 of the electromagnet 18 via the link 15.

Next, a step motor 19 and rotatable shafts 20 and 21 are provided at the top of the stocker l, and the step motor 1
A belt 25 is wound around a pulley 23 fixed to a rotating shaft 22 and a pulley 24 fixed to a shaft 20. Also,
A belt 28 is wound around pulleys 26, 27 fixed at the center of the shaft 20, 21, and projecting pieces 30, 31 having a light shielding piece 29 projecting to the left are fixedly provided on the outer periphery of the belt 28. There is. A detector 32 whose optical axis is blocked by a light shielding piece 29 is fixed to the inner surface of the upper left side of the stocker 1 . A detector 33 is also provided on the receiving plate 4.

Further, a movable plate 35 is placed on the bottom surface 34 of the stocker 1, and a suppressing plate 36 supporting the movable plate 35 is rotatably held around a shaft 37. This suppression plate 36 and the plunger 39 of the electromagnet 38 are connected by a link 41. The suppression plate 36 serves as a trigger for returning the plunger 39.
10, but is normally positioned within the same plane as the bottom surface 34 by a stopper 36a.

Further, the stocker 1 is provided with a detector 42 located at a constant height from the bottom surface 34 to detect the tickets 5. The detector 42 includes a light emitting element 44 and a light receiving element 45 facing a hole 43 formed on the front and rear surfaces of the stocker 1.

A detector 46 for detecting the ticket 5 on the bottom surface 34 of the stocker 1 is composed of a light emitting element 48 and a light receiving element 49 facing the hole 47 formed in the rear surface, the bottom surface 34, and the movable plate 35 of the stocker 1.

As shown in FIG. 5, a paper feeding device 50 that stacks a large number of tickets 5 and supplies them one by one, an encoder 51, and a printing section 52 are connected by a conveyance path 53.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, a driver 54 is connected to the output side of the detector 42, and an electromagnet 38 numbered 111j is connected to the output side of this driver 54.

In such a configuration, when selling boarding passes, information such as destination, departure time, number of tickets, etc. are asked from the customer, and these data are input. As a result, the tickets 5 are fed one by one from the paper feeder 50, the encoder 51 reads the contents of the magnetic stripe formed on the tickets 5 or writes predetermined data, and the printing unit 52 prints the input data. The tickets 5 sent one by one from the printing unit 52 are stacked one by one on the placement Fi6 of the stocker 1 with their leading edges aligned by the protrusions 31, as shown in FIG. 9(a). be done. When the number of tickets reaches the ordered number, the tickets 5 on the placement board 6 will be issued at once.
Until then, the suitability of the buyer will be researched. for example,
For customers who use cash cards to make purchases, we research the suitability of using cash cards and their bank balances. If not, the electromagnets 16 and 18 are energized by the issuance stop signal. In this case, the issuance stop signal may be a human operation such as a switch operation. As a result, the placing plate 6 rotates about the shaft 11 from the state shown in FIG. 7 to the state shown in FIG. 8, and the tickets 5 on the placing plate 6 fall onto the bottom surface 34 of the stocker 1. If applicable, the step motor 1 is activated by the ejection signal from the host computer.
9 rotates by a predetermined number of steps, and after passing through the state shown in FIG. 9(b), the protruding piece 30 pushes out the rear edge of the ticket 5 as shown in FIG. 9(c), and the protruding piece 30 reaches its fixed position. Reach position P. The detector 33 detects the presence of the ticket 5 on the receiving plate 4 and outputs an ON signal. When the customer receives the ticket 5 on the ticket 4, the detector 33
turns OFF, and upon receiving this signal, the step motor 19
rotates, the belt 28 rotates as shown in FIG. 9(d), the protrusions 30 and 31 move clockwise, and when the protrusion 31 is detected by the detector 32, the step motor 19 stops. . This stopping position is the position where the protruding piece 3o aligns the tip of the next ticket 5 to the fixed position, and this position is the position where the protruding piece 30
This is the home position of 1.

If the ticket 5 on the temporary receiver 4 is missed, the ticket 5 will slide on the receiver plate 4 toward the ticket issuing port 3, but because it is supported by the stopper 8 of the placement plate 6, it will not slide down to the bottom surface 34 of the stocker 1. There isn't. When the ticket 5 remains on the receiving plate 4 for a certain period of time, an issuance stop signal is output according to the software program, and in response to this signal, the electromagnets 16 and 18 are energized, and the placing plate 6 rotates to close the stopper. 8 to the side. Therefore, the tickets 5 on the receiving plate 4 will not slide down to the bottom surface 34 of the stocker 1 and will not be carried away by a third party. Stocker 1 ticket 5
Although some of these are valid, they cannot be retrieved by a third party without permission. When disposing of items, the person in charge unlocks the lock of stocker 1 and opens the door.

In this way, the tickets 5 on the receiving plate 4 can be moved to the stocker 1 as needed.
However, since the ticket 5 falls tilted as shown in FIG. 1, it has conventionally been maintained in a tilted position forever, and the subsequent tickets 5 are also tilted in accordance with this. However, according to the present invention, by moving the movable plate 35 up and down, it is possible to arrange the ticket 5, which falls at an angle, into a horizontal position. That is, when the ticket 5 falls, the optical axis of the detector 42 is cut off, so it is turned on, but 1
If it continues to be turned on for seconds, it is determined that the tickets 5 are tilted or the number of tickets 5 stored in the stocker 1 has reached a certain number. The selection between the two judgments is determined by conveying the output of a counter (not shown) for counting the tickets 5 in the stocker 1 and the detection signal of the detector 42. When it is determined that the ticket 5 is in a tilted state, the electromagnet 38 operates ten times with an excitation cycle of one second every two seconds.

As a result, the suppressing plate 36 repeats the vertical movement ten times to raise and lower the movable plate 35. The movable plate 35 is pushed from the center so that it is tilted to one side. Therefore, the ticket 5 is gradually placed in a horizontal position. Of course, the electromagnet 38 may be constantly excited at regular intervals.

Effects of the Invention Since the present invention is constructed as described above, even if a sheet of paper falls at an angle, it can be leveled by the up-and-down action of the movable plate, thereby making the bottom of the stocker level and increasing the height of the stocker. In addition, the detector can reduce power consumption by driving the drive unit only when necessary.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a longitudinal side view showing the operation of the movable plate in the stocker, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal side view showing the relationship between the stocker, the mounting plate, and the belt; Third
The figure is a front view as seen from the ticket issuing port side, Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the mounting structure of the mounting plate, Figure 5 is a layout diagram showing the arrangement of the paper feeder, encoder, printing section, and stocker. Figure 6 is a circuit diagram, Figure 7 is a front view showing the state in which tickets are stacked on the placement plate, Figure 8 is a front view with the placement plate rotated downward, and Figure 9 is the ticket issuing operation. FIG. ■...Stocker, 4...Receiving board, 5...Ticket (paper leaf)
, 34... Bottom surface, 35... Movable plate, 38... Electromagnet (driver), 42... Detector

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A stocker with an upper opening having a receiving plate that slopes downward from the outside toward one side of the opening edge is provided, and paper sheets falling at an angle from the receiving plate are placed on the bottom of the stocker. A paper sheet storage device characterized in that a supporting movable plate is connected to a drive part and provided so as to be freely undulating from a horizontal position to an inclined position. 2. A stocker with an upper opening having a receiving plate that slopes downward from the outside toward one side of the opening edge is provided, and a movable plate is attached to the bottom of the stocker to support the paper sheets that fall from the receiving plate at an angle. A paper sheet storage device, characterized in that the paper leaf storage device is connected to a detector and is provided to be freely ups and downs from a horizontal position to an inclined position, and the stocker is provided with a detector that detects the paper sheets in the inclined position and controls the operation of the drive unit. .