JPS62192891A - Ticket conveying apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a ticket conveyance device, and is particularly suitable for use in a ticket receiving section of an automatic ticket vending machine operated by tickets such as magnetic cards. The present invention relates to a ticket conveyance device.

Conventionally, automatic ticket vending machines that issue tickets using magnetic cards, for example, have a receptacle 2 that pulls the magnetic card A inserted by the ticket purchaser into the ticket vending machine l, as shown in Figure 5. and a ticket processing section 3 which is provided after the receiving section 2 and reads data recorded on the magnetic card A, writes new data to the magnetic card A, etc. The taking-in section 2 is provided with a pair of conveyor belts 4 and 5, which sandwich the inserted magnetic card A from its front and back surfaces and convey it to the ticket processing section 3, and are spaced apart from each other in the conveying direction of the magnetic card A. , drive pulleys 6, 7 and driven pulleys 8, 9, on which the respective conveyor belts 4, 5 are stretched, are connected to the drive pulleys 6, 7, and drive both conveyor belts 4, 5 at the same circumferential speed. The ticket processing section 3 also has a pair of conveyor belts similar to those of the taking-in section 2, and pulleys 13 to 16 of the same number as the conveyor belts 2 and the conveyor belts 11 to 12 are stretched. Then, the electric motor 17 is engaged with one of the conveyor belts 11 and does not move, and detects the data recorded on the back side (lower side in Fig. 5) of the magnetic card A that has been taken in. a read head 18 for inputting new data to the magnetic card A; and a write head 1 for inputting new data to the magnetic card A.
9, and a printer 2 that is provided on the downstream side of the conveyor belts 11 and 12 and prints necessary information on the surface of the magnetic card A.
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In the ticket vending machine 1 configured in this way, when the magnetic card A is inserted from the insertion slot between the conveyor belts 4 and 5 of the take-in part 2, the electric motors 1.0 of the take-in part 2 and the ticket processing part 3 17 is driven, and the respective conveyor belts 4, 5 and 11, 12 are operated, thereby conveying the magnetic card A from the receiving section 2 to the ticket processing section 3 and performing a ticket issuing operation.

That is, the inserted magnetic card A is held between the conveyor belts 4 and 5 of the take-in section 2 and conveyed toward the ticket processing section 3, and the magnetic card A is transported by the conveyance belts 11 and 12 of the ticket processing section 3. The magnetic card A is sequentially fed to the read head 18 and the write head 19, and the former read head 18 detects the remaining amount recorded on the magnetic card A and issues a ticket, and the latter write head 19 detects the remaining amount recorded on the magnetic card A. Based data is recorded on the magnetic card A, and if necessary, the magnetic card A is sent to the printer 20 to print necessary information on the surface of the magnetic card, and then the magnetic card A is sent back. It is designed so that it can be returned through the insertion slot.

``Problems to be Solved by the Invention,j'' The present invention seeks to solve the following problems in the prior art described above.

That is, in the ticket vending machine 1 as described above, for example, a transfer ticket may be used together, but if a user accidentally stacks the transfer ticket and the magnetic card 8 on the ticket vending machine 1.
When inserted into the conveyor belts 4, 5 and 11,
12 are operated at the same circumferential speed, and the transfer ticket and magnetic card 8 are transported in the state they were in when they were inserted, making it difficult to detect when they are stacked on top of each other during transportation. This is a problem. Such a malfunction occurs when a malfunction occurs in the operation of detecting data recorded on the magnetic card A in the ticket processing unit 3, the operation of inputting data to the magnetic card A, or the operation of reading the print on the surface of the magnetic card A. As a result, it takes time from the time the magnetic card A is inserted until it is returned, causing a problem that the purchase cycle becomes longer. Additionally, if there is a transfer ticket above magnetic card A, even though it is not possible to print on magnetic card A, the ticket issuance operation is performed by detecting the data recorded on magnetic card A and manually. It also has the problem of being lost.

"Means for Solving the Problems" The present invention aims to provide a ticket transport device that can proactively solve the above-mentioned conventional problems. a pair of conveyor belts that are brought into pressure contact with each of the front and back surfaces of the type, and a drive a that drives each of the conveyor belts.
The drive mechanism includes a paper plate and a note length sensor provided at intervals in the conveyance direction of the bills, and the drive mechanism conveys a difference between the two conveyor belts (1: Being depressed is called persistence.

"Function" The bill conveying device according to the present invention inserts a plurality of bills in a stacked state by applying a speed difference between a pair of conveyor belts using a differential mechanism to sandwich and convey bills. In this case, these are shifted in the transport direction to make the length longer than the regular note length, and this is detected by a note length sensor to detect the overlap.

"Embodiment" An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

In the following explanation, the same reference numerals are used for parts common to those in FIG. 5 to simplify the explanation.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing the receiving section 2 of the automatic ticket vending machine 1 to which the present embodiment is applied, and the reference numeral 21 in the figure is a ticket conveyance device (hereinafter abbreviated as the ticket conveyance device) according to the present embodiment. shows.

The conveyance device 21 includes a pair of conveyor belts 22 and 23 that are brought into pressure contact with the front and back surfaces of a magnetic card Δ as a ticket, respectively.
and a drive mechanism 2 that drives each of the conveyor belts 22 and 23.
4, and a ticket length sensor S provided at intervals in the conveyance direction of the magnetic card A, and iii.
4 has a schematic configuration including a differential means 25 that provides a speed difference between the two conveyor belts 22 and 23, and is attached to a frame 26 that also serves as a kite for the magnetic card A.

To explain these details in the following, among the pair of conveyor belts 22 and 23, the conveyor belt 22 positioned at the lower side in the direction of conveyance to the magnetic card is as shown in FIG. , is stretched between the drive pulley 27 and the driven pulley 28, which are arranged at an interval of J'8 in the conveying direction, and the drive pulley 27 is arranged at a distance of L5-. □1.
26 and a bracket 29 integrally attached to the frame 26, the drive shaft 3 is rotatably supported.
0, and the driven pulley 28 is fixed at
As shown in FIG. Like the lower conveyor belt 22, it is stretched between a drive pulley 32 and a driven pulley 33, and the drive pulley 32 is fixed to a drive shaft 35 rotatably supported by a frame 26 and a bracket 34. Further, the driven pulley 33 is rotatably attached via a shaft 37 to the swinging end of a noyaft polder 36 that is swingably attached to the drive shaft 35 .

The shaft 7j; the rotor 36 is engaged at its intermediate portion with an eccentric shaft 38 rotatably attached to the frame 26,
The transport heald 23 is swung by the rotation of the eccentric rick soyaf 38 and positioned above.
is moved toward and away from the lower conveyor belt 22, thereby adjusting the distance between the two.

In addition, the library driving shaft 35 includes the
As shown in the figure, a sub-pulley 39 is provided which is rotated integrally with the drive shaft 35, and is located between the shaft 37 and the Nojaftholg 36, and is located between the conveyor heald 22 and the drive shaft 35.
Width roller 40 rotatably provided on the side of 23.
41 and rotate through the belt 42! :jlλ. The winding portions of the healds 42 at the width openings 40 and 41 are the sub-boots 17 :(
9 is formed smaller than the diameter of the conveyor belt I[・1・
23. The idler pulley 43 is rotatably supported by the frame 2G and is provided between the width adjusting roller 4I and the sub-pulley 39. i), 1iii
4. By winding the belt 42, the belt 114
It is designed to absorb the slack of 2.

Opposing such width U rollers 40 and 41, the front Kj
2) On the transfer heald 22 side, as shown in FIG. 944 and 45 are provided.

The driving rock structure 24 has an electric current 1f fixed to the frame 26.
Ll)Mo-Y46 and each of the above-mentioned drive units I-30.3
5 is integrally equipped with driven pulleys 41 and 48 measured as i, and a belt 49 that transmits the rotation of the electric motor 46 to these driven pulleys Q47 and 48, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. As shown in the figure, the driven pulley 48 that applies a driving force to the upper conveyor belt 23 is formed to have a larger diameter than the other driven pulley 47.
48 constitutes the differential means 25. Therefore, by the differential means 25, the upper conveyor belt 23
A larger circumferential speed is applied to the conveyor belt 22 than that of the lower conveyor belt 22, and the speed difference is set within a range of several percent.

On the other hand, reference numeral 50 in FIGS. 1 to 3 indicates a guide stamp material provided integrally with the frame 26, and when inserting the magnetic card A into the conveying device 21, the magnetic card 8 is In addition, in this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the kite section (the 50 and the conveyor belts 22 and 23, two sets of entry loss sensors SL' St are provided at intervals in the width direction of the magnetic cart A to be transported, and these entry loss sensors S1 and
A set of tip sensors S3 are provided at an interval slightly shorter than the length of the magnetic card A in the transport direction from S2, and a set of sub-sensors S4 are provided at an interval longer than the length of the magnetic card A. It is composed of four sets of sensors,
The entry sensors S1 and S also serve as actuation switches for the conveyance device 21.

Therefore, the conveyance device 2 of this embodiment configured in this way
1 is activated by inserting the magnetic card A along the guide member 50.

That is, when the magnetic card A is inserted, the magnetic card A
When the entry sensor S1 or S is cut off by
When this is reached, the magnetic card A is held between the two conveyor belts 22 and 23, and the conveyance operation is started.

When the magnetic card A is inserted alone, as the magnetic card A is transported, the leading end sensor S3 is blocked by the leading end in the transporting direction of the magnetic card A, and the insertion sensor S is blocked by the rear end.

Alternatively, a state is created in which the sub-sensor S4 is blocked and the sub-sensor S4 is not blocked, whereby insertion of the magnetic card A alone is detected, and a normal ticket issuing operation is performed thereafter.

On the other hand, the operation when another ticket type B is inserted together with the magnetic card A will be described below.

That is, for example, when another ticket type B is inserted in a stacked state on top of the magnetic card A, while the other ticket type B and the magnetic card A are being conveyed while being held by the conveyor belts 22 and 23, both Due to the difference in the peripheral speed of the conveyor belts 22 and 23, the tickets B
is conveyed faster than the magnetic card A, and as shown in FIG. 4(A), a state is formed in which all of the note length sensors S (S, -S,) are cut off.

As a result, the electric motor 46 is reversely rotated, and the magnetic card A and tickets B are returned from the guide member 50.

Therefore, if the magnetic card A is inserted into the ticket vending machine 1 in a state where it is overlapped with the ticket type B, it will be reversed and returned at the card receiving unit 2 leading to the ticket processing unit 3, and the card will be returned after purchase. cycle is significantly shortened.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the width adjustment rollers 40 and 41, which are rotated faster than the conveyor belts 22 and 23, are provided on the sides of the conveyor belts 22 and 23. As the class B is conveyed at a faster speed, a state in which all of the note length sensors S are cut off as described above is quickly established, and the speed of defect detection is increased. Moreover, since a rotational moment is applied to the bills B due to the speed difference between the width adjusting rollers 40 and 41 and the conveyor belts 22 and 23, and the bills B are moved toward the frame 26 side, the bills B are moved toward the frame 26 side. Even if Type B is inserted with small dimensions and out of the conveyance range, the
As shown in B), the ticket B is corrected to a posture that blocks the sub-sensor S4. Therefore, defect detection is carried out reliably, and damage to the bills B due to jamming caused by being conveyed at a position deviated from the normal conveyance range is prevented.

It should be noted that the various shapes and dimensions of each component shown in the above embodiments are merely examples, and can be changed in various ways depending on the type of ticket to be used, design requirements, etc.

For example, the speed difference between the two conveyor belts 22 and 23 can be changed depending on the assumed shape difference of the tickets,
The installation position and number of the ticket length sensors S can be similarly changed.

"Effects of the Invention" As explained above, the ticket conveyance device according to the present invention has the following features:
It consists of a pair of conveyor belts that are brought into pressure contact with the front and back surfaces of the tickets, a drive mechanism that drives each conveyor belt, and a ticket length sensor that is provided at intervals in the conveyance direction of the tickets, The drive mechanism is characterized in that it is equipped with a differential means that provides a speed difference between the two conveyor belts, so that even if >m lost bills are inserted in a piled state, these Detection is possible by shifting multiple tickets in the transport direction, and it is possible to perform reliable and quick defect detection. In particular, when applied to automatic ticket vending machines, etc., it is possible to detect defects by shifting multiple tickets in the transport direction. It is possible to shorten the time from start to return, shorten the ticket purchase cycle, and reliably prevent the occurrence of poor reading or writing of marks and takes, or faulty printing on tickets. be effective.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figures 1 to 4 show one embodiment of the present invention.
The figure is a side view of the main part, the second figure is a plan view, and the third figure is '152
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram for explaining the operation, and Fig. 5 is an example of an automatic ticket vending machine to which a conventional ticket conveyance device is applied. FIG. A...Magnetic card (tickets), B...(other)
Tickets, S...Ticket length sensor, Sl/S,...
・Human sensor, S, Tip sensor, S4...
... Zabu Senza, [... ticket vending machine, 2...
...Intake unit, 3...Ticket processing unit, 21.
... Conveyance device, 22, 23 ... Conveyance heald, 24 ... Drive mechanism, 25 ... Actuation means, 27, 32 ... Drive pulley, 28.3
3... Driven pulley, 30, 35... Drive shaft, 31, 37... Yaft, 46.
...Electric motor, 47, 48...Driven pulley, 49...Belt.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A ticket conveyance device that grips and conveys bills from the front and back surfaces thereof, comprising a pair of conveyance belts that are brought into pressure contact with the front and back surfaces of the bills, respectively, and a drive mechanism that drives each of the conveyance belts. and a ticket length sensor provided at intervals in the conveyance direction of the bills, and the drive mechanism is characterized by comprising a differential means for providing a speed difference between the two conveyor belts. Ticket conveyance device.