JPS6245589B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a fare centralization machine for centrally settling fares collected from passengers on a one-man bus or the like.

[Conventional technology]

In one-man buses, fares are generally collected by installing a fare box with a safe inserted near the driver's seat and asking passengers to insert coins or coupon tickets along with a numbered ticket with the boarding section printed on it. (In the case of a flat rate, a numbered ticket is not required), and it is automatically stored in the safe.

When the flight attendant presses the unlock button, the lid of the safe will be closed and the lock will be released.The safe will then be pulled out and collected in a sealed state at a business office, etc., where it will be collected at a central fare payment machine. Payment is made automatically.

Such a conventional centralized fare adjustment machine is, for example, as described in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 17406/1983.
When the safe is inserted into the insertion slot, the safe is locked and fixed, and the lid is opened and rotated in the second half to allow coins, banknotes, coupons, and other tickets mixed in the safe to fall and be ejected. The coins are then separated into coins, banknotes, and tickets, and the separated coins are transported to a coin sorting device where they are sorted and counted by denomination, and the results are displayed and recorded on a monitor and register. ing.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

By the way, a considerable amount of banknotes are stored together with coins and tickets in a safe such as a fare box with a banknote exchange machine, but with such conventional fare central payment machines,
The banknotes are separated from coins and simply stored in a paper banknote storage box together with coupons and other tickets, so only the banknotes are manually sorted and collected, the amount is totaled, and the register is registered. Since the total amount cannot be tallied without inputting the total amount, it takes a lot of time to settle the bill, and it takes a particularly long time to sort and collect the banknotes that are mixed in with a large number of bills.

In addition, in the central fare settlement machine as described in the above publication, a separating drum installed at an angle is used as a device to separate the contents discharged from the safe into coins, banknotes, and tickets. A blower blows air into the drum from below and a conveyor transports the contents that have fallen from the safe to the upper opening of the separation drum. While the paper money is sent downward as the separating drum rotates, only the paper bills and coupons are blown up by the wind sent by the blower, and the paper bills and other tickets are blown up from the upper opening into the paper bill storage box. It was designed so that only the coins were sent out from the lower opening.

Therefore, space is required inside the machine to store the large-diameter separating drum, which not only increases the size of the entire device, but also causes paper bills and tickets to be placed between the coins if the wind from the blower simply blows them up. There was a problem in that it was sometimes sent out from the lower opening while still being pinched, making it difficult to separate it reliably.

In addition, since the air from the blower passes through the separation drum and is also radiated outside the machine, dirty air is discharged outside the machine, which is undesirable from a sanitary point of view.

Furthermore, when emptying the contents from a safe, bills and tickets often remain inside if they just fall out, so conventionally, after opening the safe and rotating it until it is facing downwards, the safe has to be rotated an additional number of times. The rotating mechanism was complicated to control because it rotated in forward and reverse directions to shake off banknotes and notes remaining inside.

The present invention aims to solve all of the conventional problems as described above.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, this invention has a safe insertion port, locks and fixes the safe inserted into the safe insertion port, opens the lid, and rotates the safe to a position where the opening is on the lower side. A lid opening/rotation device, a paper note/coin separation device for separating the contents discharged from the safe rotated by the device into banknotes and notes and coins, and a hardening device separated by the device. A central fare settlement machine comprising a conveyor for conveying coins, a coin sorting and counting device for sorting and counting the coins conveyed by the conveyor by denomination, and a register for displaying and recording the total results of the device. A banknote/ticket separation device that separates the banknotes and notes separated by the paper note/coin separation device into banknotes and notes, and a banknote/ticket separation device that separates the banknotes and notes separated by the device, respectively. In addition to providing a banknote storage box and a ticket storage box to be stored separately, the paper note/coin separating device is connected to a conveyor disposed below the safe lid opening/rotation device, and from the safe to the space above the conveyor. A suction air flow path that sucks and conveys paper bills in the discharged contents, and a blow-up air flow that blows up paper bills mixed in coins that are conveyed by the conveyor and fall from the conveyance end thereof. air in the machine is sucked through the air passage, a mesh belt conveyor disposed above near the conveying end of the conveyor across the suction air passage and the blow-up air passage, and the suction air passage. an air flow generating device that circulates the air inside the machine so as to generate a suction air flow and blow out the sucked air into the blow-up air flow path to generate a blow-out air flow; and the safe lid opening/rotation device. It is installed in the lower suction air flow path so that it can be raised and lowered, and is inserted into the safe whose lid is opened and rotated by the safe lid opening/rotation device to suck paper bills remaining inside the safe. It is composed of a suction tube that is sucked and discharged by air currents, and the paper bills that are sucked or blown up by each of the air flows are attached to the mesh belt conveyor and conveyed to the banknote/ticket separation device. The coins falling from the conveying end of the conveyor are conveyed to a coin sorting and counting device.

[Effect]

When the safe is inserted through the safe insertion slot, the safe can be opened and
A rotating device locks the safe, opens the lid, and rotates the safe to a position where the opening is on the lower side, allowing the contents to fall and be discharged.

A paper note/coin separator separates the discharged contents into banknotes, tickets, and coins, and the separated coins are conveyed to a coin sorting and counting device by a conveyor.

The coin sorting and counting device sorts and counts the transported coins by denomination, and displays and records the tally results in a register.

On the other hand, the banknotes and notes separated by the paper note/coin separator are separated into banknotes and notes by the banknote/note separator, and the banknotes are stored in a banknote storage box. Store each in a storage box.

Furthermore, to explain the operation of the paper note/coin separating device, when the safe is opened and rotated by the safe opening/rotating device, the contents of the safe are sucked onto the conveyor located below. The air is discharged into the air flow path, but at that time the suction tube rises and is inserted into the safe.
Paper bills remaining in the safe are suctioned and forcibly discharged by a suction air flow generated by an air flow generator.

Light paper bills among the contents discharged from the safe are transported through the suction air flow path by the suction air flow while falling onto the conveyor or being conveyed by the conveyor. Even if there is a paper ticket that sticks to the mesh conveyor and is conveyed to the conveyor end along with the coins, the blown air flow generated by the air flow generator while it is falling from the conveyor end. The air is blown up in the blow-up air flow path and also adheres to the mesh belt conveyor.

In this way, the paper bills attached to the mesh belt conveyor are conveyed to the bill/ticket separation device,
Coins that have fallen from the conveyor end of the conveyor are conveyed to a coin sorting and counting device.

Incidentally, since the suction air flow and the blown air flow are generated by circulating the air inside the machine using an air flow generating device, there is almost no discharge of dirty air to the outside of the machine.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, a safe which is inserted into a fare box of a one-man bus or the like and which settles fares using a central fare settlement machine according to the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

This safe 1 is a well-known one as described in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-37038.
The upper surface of the box body made of a metal plate such as stainless steel is provided with an opening 1a, a sliding lid 1b for opening and closing the opening 1a, and a lock hole 1c, and a handle 1d is provided on the front surface.

The opening/closing mechanism of the sliding lid 1b includes a spring that constantly biases the lid 1b in the opening direction, a locking member that locks it in the closed position, and a solenoid that releases the lock. Then, the lid 1b is slid closed by the pulling force and is locked in this state by the locking member, and when a specific signal is input through a connector (not shown), the solenoid is activated to release the lock. The lid 1b is opened and opened by the biasing force of a spring, or the lid 1b is opened and closed by a built-in motor and feed screw mechanism, and the motor is rotated in forward and reverse directions based on signals from a connector. etc.

In any case, when the safe 1 is inserted into the fare box, the sliding lid 1b is open, and coins, coupon tickets, numbered tickets, exchanged banknotes, etc., inserted into the fare box are passed through the opening 1a into the safe. stored inside.

When the crew member pulls out the safe 1 from the fare box, the sliding lid 1b slides in the direction of the arrow to close the opening 1a, resulting in a sealed state.

Next, the general configuration of the central fare adjustment machine according to the present invention will be explained with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

Mainly as shown in FIG. 2, a main body frame 2 with casters includes a safe opening/rotating device 3 having a safe insertion opening 3a, and a key switch 4 above the safe opening/rotating device 3.
An operation panel 4 is provided, which includes a card slot 4a, a card insertion slot 4b, a start switch 4c, and the like. Further, a pair of guide protrusions 6, 6 are provided on the safe mounting base 5 in correspondence with the safe insertion opening 3a.

Inside this main body frame 2, as shown by broken lines in FIG. A paper ticket consisting of mesh belt conveyor 10 etc. arranged above the conveying end.
A coin separator, an auxiliary conveyor 11, a vibrating foreign matter removal device 12, a conveyor 14 that conveys coins passed through it and supplied via a shooter 13 upward, and a rotating drum type banknote/ticket. A separation device 15 is provided. 16 is a ticket storage box,
17 is a banknote storage box.

Further, a coin sorting and counting device 18 with casters is connected to the main body frame 2, and coins conveyed by the conveyor 11 are supplied via a hopper 19.

This coin sorting and counting device 18 is also provided with an operation panel 20, and as shown in FIG.
Coin storage boxes 21 to 26 with casters are inserted for each denomination of yen, 5 yen, 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, and 500 yen, respectively.

Further, a register 27 is placed on the coin sorting and counting device 18.

Next, an outline of the operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be explained.

A safe 1 as shown in FIG. 1 is collected with its opening 1a sealed by a sliding lid 1b, placed on a safe mounting stand 5 of this central fare payment machine, and inserted from a safe insertion slot 3a. It is inserted into the safe lid opening/rotation device 3.

If the key switch 4a is turned on, the worker's magnetic card is inserted into the card insertion slot 4b or the start switch 4 is turned on.
By turning on c, each part starts.

The safe lid opening/rotation device 3 uses a mechanism (not shown) to insert a lock rod into the lock hole 1c of the safe 1 to lock and fix the safe, and then energizes an internal solenoid or motor to open the lid 1b and perform rotation as described below. The mechanism rotates it to a position where the opening 1a is on the lower side (see also Figure 1).

Therefore, the coins, banknotes, and bills in the safe are ejected and fall onto the conveyor 7, but the air suction port 9a of the blower 9 is provided above the mesh belt conveyor 10, Since a suction air flow flowing in the direction of arrow A is generated in the space, banknotes and tickets are sucked while falling from the safe and being conveyed by the conveyor 7, and are conveyed upward, so that they reach the bottom surface of the mesh belt conveyor 10. The paper money adheres to the banknotes and notes and is fed into the banknote/ticket separation device 15.

Furthermore, even if there are banknotes or tickets that are conveyed by the conveyor 7 together with the coins to the conveying end and fall onto the auxiliary conveyor 11 (also a mesh belt conveyor), the blower 9 blows from the outlet 9b in the direction of the arrow B. The air is blown up by the airflow and also adheres to the bottom surface of the mesh belt conveyor 10.

Further, the suction tube 8 is raised by a mechanism described later and inserted into the safe, and the bills and tickets remaining in the safe are forcibly discharged by the suction air flow.

In this way, the coins, banknotes, and tickets are separated, and the coins are sent to the vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removal device 12 (the details of which will be described later) by the auxiliary conveyor 11, and the coins are removed from foreign matter larger than the diameter of the largest coin. The coin is conveyed to the right in FIG. 2 while foreign objects smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin are removed, and is discharged onto a vertical crosspiece conveyor 14 via a shooter 13.

The coins conveyed upward by the conveyor 14 are sent from the hopper 19 to the coin sorting and counting device 18, sorted and counted by denomination, and stored in each of the coin storage boxes 21 to 26, respectively. Further, the total results are displayed on the register 27 and recorded on recording paper.

On the other hand, banknotes and bills that are separated from coins and transported by the mesh belt conveyor 10 are thrown into an obliquely installed rotary drum 28 that constitutes the bill/ticket separation device 15 from the upper open end. Due to this rotation, bills smaller than banknotes are ejected from the drum 28 through a separation hole (to be described later), and are stored in the ticket storage box 16 by a guide plate (not shown), and bills are sent from the lower open end of the rotating drum 28. The bills are discharged and stored in the bill storage box 17 by a guide plate (not shown).

Therefore, by totaling the banknotes in the banknote storage box 17 and entering the amount into the register 27, the total amount of freight in the safe can be easily displayed and recorded.

Each part of this embodiment will be explained in detail below.As the coin sorting and counting device 18, various conventionally known types can be used. 58−
As described in Publication No. 123188, there is a type using a vertical sorting drum with sorting grooves formed on the outer circumferential surface, and high processing efficiency can be obtained by using this, but this is also known. Detailed explanation will be omitted.

Furthermore, since a well-known register 27 may be used, a description thereof will be omitted.

First, the rotating mechanism of the safe lid opening/rotating device 3 and the paper note/coin separating device will be explained with reference to FIG.

The safe opening/rotating device 3 includes three rotating discs 30 each having a holder frame 31 into which the safe 1 is inserted, which are integrally fixed on the back side of a front plate having a safe insertion opening 3a shown in FIG. It is rotatably held by rollers 32 .

A ring gear 33 is integrally formed on the outer periphery of the rotating disk 30, and a pinion gear 34 that meshes with the ring gear 33 is rotated by a motor (not shown), so that the rotating disk 30 is moved, for example, in the direction of arrow C. Rotate in 180° increments.

In the state shown in FIG. 4, after the safe 1 is inserted into the holder frame 31 and the lid is opened, the rotating disk 30 is rotated 180 degrees.
It is rotated and facing downward.

At this time, the suction cylinder 8 is supported by an elevating device 35 such as a rack and pinion mechanism via an arm 36 at a position corresponding to the lower part of the opening 1a of the safe 1.
It is set up so that it can be raised and lowered.

When the safe 1 rotates, coins,
Fixed guide plates 37, 37 are provided so that the contents such as banknotes and tickets are discharged, and all of them pass through the suction tube 8 and fall onto the conveyor 7.

The conveyor 7 moves from below the suction cylinder 8 to the upper right in the figure, and a rubber belt 4 with a crosspiece is moved between the rollers 38 and 39.
By driving one roller, for example 39, to rotate in the direction of the arrow D by a motor (not shown), coins and the like that have fallen onto the rubber belt 40 with bars are conveyed in the direction of the arrow D.

Further, a suction air flow path 44 is formed by the partition plates 41, 42, 43 and both side plates (not shown), and a blowing air flow path 46 is formed by the partition plates 42, 45 and both side plates (not shown). ing.

Note that a butterfly plate 47 is attached to the lower end of the partition plate 42 to close the gap with the upper end of the conveyor 7.

Furthermore, a flexible cover 48 is attached to a slit 43a provided in the partition plate 43 to allow vertical movement of the arm 36 to prevent air from entering.

Above the air flow paths 44 and 46, rollers 49,
A mesh belt conveyor 10 with a mesh belt 51 stretched between the mesh belts 50 and 50 is provided horizontally. 52,
Reference numerals 53 and 54 indicate idle rollers that serve both as sealing and pressing, 55 a guide roller, 56 a brush roller for scraping off banknotes, and 57 a banknote guide plate.

The blower 9, which is an air flow generator, has a partition plate 45.
Auxiliary conveyor 11 with mesh belt on the bottom of
A blow-off port 9b is opened at the lower side of the suction air passage 44, and an inlet port 9a is opened at the upper side of the mesh belt conveyor 10 above the suction air flow path 44 via a pipe 58.

Therefore, when the blower 9 operates, the air inside the machine flows in from the gap between the holder frame 31 and the guide plates 37, 37, passes through the suction cylinder 8, and moves in the space above the conveyor 7 in the direction of arrow A. , passes through the mesh belt 51, is sucked into the blower 9 from the suction port 9a through the piping 58, is blown out from the blowout port 9b, and passes through the auxiliary conveyor 11 in the direction of arrow B.
The air flows through the blow-up air passage 46 through the conveyance end of the conveyor 7, passes through the mesh belt 51, and is dispersed into the machine.

Therefore, when the contents of the safe 1 fall onto the conveyor 7 through the suction tube 8, most of the banknotes and tickets are removed during the fall and while being conveyed in the direction of arrow D by the rubber belt 40 with crosspieces. The mesh belt 5 is conveyed in the direction of arrow A by the suction air flow.
0 adheres to the bottom surface.

The coin is conveyed in the direction of arrow D by the rubber belt 40 with a crosspiece, passes through a hinge 47 at the conveying end, falls onto the auxiliary conveyor 11, is conveyed in the direction of arrow E, and is fed into the foreign matter removal device 12.

At this time, even if the coin is sent to the conveyor end of the conveyor 7 with bills and tickets sandwiched between the coins,
While falling onto the auxiliary conveyor 11 and being conveyed by the auxiliary conveyor 11, the air is blown up by the airflow blown out from the blower 9, conveyed upward, and adheres to the lower surface of the mesh belt 51.

Banknotes and tickets attached to the mesh belt 51 of the mesh belt conveyor 10 are removed by the guide roller 55.
This guide roller 55 is blocked from the air flow by
The banknotes are further fed into the rotating drum 28 of the banknote/ticket separation device 25 along the banknote guide plate 57.

Furthermore, the suction tube 8 is raised by the elevating device 35 and inserted through the opening 1a of the safe 1 as shown by the imaginary line in the figure, and the bills and tickets remaining inside are forcibly removed by the suction air flow. It can be aspirated and discharged.

Therefore, unlike conventional devices of this type, there is no need to rotate the safe until it faces down and then rotate it forward and backward several times to shake out the banknotes and tickets remaining inside. Control of the mechanism becomes extremely simple.

Furthermore, the paper note/coin separation device according to this embodiment can reliably separate paper notes and coins by effectively utilizing the suction air flow and the blown air flow by a single blower, and moreover, it is possible to reliably separate paper notes and coins. Since the air is circulated inside the aircraft, there is almost no blown out dirty air outside the aircraft, which is good for hygiene.

Next, the bill/note separation device 15 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7.

This banknote/ticket separation device is composed of a rotating drum 28 and its supporting and rotating mechanism.

The rotating drum 28, as clearly shown in FIG.
A pair of metal disc-shaped flanges 61, 61 are attached in parallel to both ends of a square cylinder 60 made of thick synthetic resin and open at both ends.

The cylindrical body 60 is formed with a large number of conical separation holes 62 that extend through the inner and outer circumferential surfaces thereof and are each enlarged on the inner circumferential side.

FIG. 6 shows a part of the inner surface of the cylindrical body 60, and FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the rotating drum 28 together with the support roller and the drive roller. Explain.

The opening circle 62a on the outer peripheral surface side of each separation hole 62 has a diameter d that is sufficiently smaller than the width of the smallest banknote (currently a 500 yen bill in Japan) and sufficiently larger than the width of a normal numbered ticket or coupon ticket. and an opening circle 6 on the inner peripheral surface side.
2b has a diameter D that is about twice that, and its opening circle 6
2b are formed at such a density that they partially overlap the opening circles on the inner circumferential side of the adjacent separation holes 62, and most of the inner circumferential surfaces are formed on the conical surface 62 of the separation hole 62.
c, so that the flat portion 63 is extremely small.

This rotating drum 28, as shown in FIG.
A pair of flanges 61 are supported rotatably and slightly inclined by two support rollers 64, 64 and a drive roller 65, respectively, and by rotating the drive roller 65 by a motor (not shown), For example, rotate it relatively slowly in the direction of arrow E.

When banknotes and bills are mixed and thrown in from the upper opening end, the banknotes M straddle the plurality of flat portions 63 remaining on the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder 60, as shown in FIG. Since it is supported, it will not be discharged from the separation hole 62, but tickets P such as numbered tickets and coupon tickets will not be discharged from the separation hole 62.
Since it is small, it becomes extremely unstable, and it slides down the conical surface 62c of one of the separation holes 62 on the lower surface under its own weight, falls to the outside, and is discharged.

Even if there is a banknote that straddles the plurality of plane parts 63 or is placed on top of the banknote M, it will be agitated by the rotation of the drum 28.
Everything passes through the separation hole 62 before being sent to the lower open end.
is discharged from.

Therefore, only banknotes are discharged from the lower open end of the drum 28.

Note that if the rotating speed of the rotating drum 28 is increased to apply a centrifugal force, or if air is sucked out from the outside to apply a suction force, banknotes and tickets may end up adhering to the inner surface of the drum 28. The discharge of bills from the separation hole 62 and the downward feeding of bills cannot be performed smoothly.

The shape of the cylinder is not limited to a square cylinder, but may be formed into a polygonal cylinder such as a hexagonal cylinder or an octagonal cylinder, or a cylindrical shape.

Note that this banknote/note separation device is not limited to the structure of the above embodiment, and other structures may also be used. It is also possible to use a drum type sorting device.

However, the bill/ticket separating device of the above embodiment does not require a complicatedly shaped guide plate on the rotating drum, has a simple structure, and can be easily integrally molded with synthetic resin, so it can be provided at a low cost. can.

Also, since there are no protrusions or narrow parts inside the drum, bills and tickets will not get caught or jammed.
To smoothly, quickly and reliably separate banknotes and tickets.

Finally, the vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removing device 12 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9.

This device uses a vibrator 70 similar to that used in a known parts feeder, etc., and is fixed to a vibrating table 70a of the vibrator 70, and has a housing 7 with an open top, front, and lower front surface.
1, a through hole 72a with a diameter of 27 mm, for example, which is larger than the diameter of the largest coin (currently 500 yen coin in Japan).
A first diaphragm 72 made of punched metal with a large number of diaphragms formed thereon is installed approximately horizontally, and below it, second to fourth diaphragms 73, 74, 75 are arranged in three stages, decreasing in height from left to right in the figure. is set approximately horizontally.

The second to fourth diaphragms 73 to 75 have through holes 73a, 74a, and 75 each having a diameter of 19 mm, for example, which is smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin (currently a 1 yen coin in Japan).
This is a synthetic resin plate on which a large number of a are formed.

Further, a guide plate 76 is obliquely provided at the front end of the first diaphragm 72, and an opening 71 on the front lower surface of the housing 71
A shutter 77 is provided below a, and is configured to discharge foreign matter into a foreign matter storage box 79 inserted into a foreign matter storage box mounting portion 78.

This foreign object storage box mounting section 78 is provided at the back of the ticket storage box 16 in FIG. 2.

The entire housing 71 is moved by the vibrator 70 into the eighth
In the figure, the objects on each of the diaphragms 72 to 75 are gradually transported to the right due to the penetrating nature because the object is slightly vibrated in the left-right direction and the speed when returning to the left is faster than the speed when moving to the right. be done.

When coins containing foreign matter are supplied onto the first diaphragm 72, the coins C and the smaller foreign matter S fall from the through hole 72a onto the second and third diaphragms 73, 74, and the coins larger than the largest coins fall onto the second and third diaphragms 73, 74. Only the foreign objects R such as medals and metal fittings remain on the first diaphragm 72 and are transported to the right, guided by the guide plate 76, fall into the shooter 77, and enter the foreign object storage box 79.

On the other hand, small foreign objects S such as screws mixed into the coin C that has fallen onto the second diaphragm 73 fall through the through hole 73a and are conveyed to the right on the bottom surface of the casing 71.

The coin C conveyed on the second diaphragm 73 further falls onto the third diaphragm 74 and the fourth diaphragm 75 and is conveyed, but at this time, a small foreign object is caught between the coins. Also falls from the through holes 74a and 75a,
It passes through the shooter 77 and enters the foreign object storage box 79.

The coins falling from the conveyance end of the third diaphragm 75 are
It is guided by the shooter 13 to the conveyor 14 shown in FIG.

In FIG. 8, the path of coins is shown by solid line arrows, the path of large foreign objects is shown by broken line arrows, and the path of small foreign objects is shown by dotted line arrows.

By providing such a foreign matter removal device,
Unlike the conventional coin sorting and counting device, coins with foreign matter mixed in are not supplied to the coin sorting and counting device, and failures and counting errors can be prevented.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the central fare settlement machine according to the present invention can automatically separate coins and paper bills by simply inserting a safe, and can further sort and count coins by denomination and add them up. In addition, banknotes and tickets such as coupon tickets and numbered tickets can be automatically separated and stored in the banknote storage box and ticket storage box, respectively, so banknotes can be tallied quickly and without much effort. Can be done.

Additionally, since a rotating drum is not used in the paper note/coin separation device, less space is required inside the aircraft, and even if a rotating drum type bill/ticket separation device is installed, the overall size of the device does not need to be increased. .

Furthermore, when discharging the contents from the safe, a suction tube is inserted and the remaining bills and tickets are forcibly suctioned and ejected by the suction air flow, so that the bills, etc. are removed from the safe. Moreover, there is no need to rotate the safe downwards and then rotate it forward and backward several times to shake out any remaining banknotes, etc., as in the conventional case, so the control of the safe rotation mechanism is easier. It becomes extremely easy.

The paper note/coin separation device reliably separates paper notes and coins by effectively utilizing suction airflow and blown airflow generated by a single airflow generation device (blower). Moreover, since the air is circulated inside the machine, there is almost no discharge of dirty air outside the machine, making it sanitary.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a safe for storing fares to be settled by the central fare payment machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a front view of the entire central fare payment machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. , FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of main parts showing an example of the configuration of the safe lid opening/rotation device and paper note/coin separation device, and FIG. 5 is a banknote/ticket separation device. FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an example of the rotating drum of the device; FIG. 6 is a partially enlarged view of the inner surface thereof; FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the rotating drum together with a support roller and a drive roller; FIG. FIG. 9, a vertical cross-sectional view of the vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removing device, is a cross-sectional view taken along the - line in FIG. 8. 1... Safe, 2... Body frame, 3... Safe lid opening/rotation device, 3a... Safe insertion slot, 4... Operation panel, 7... Conveyor, 8... Suction cylinder, 9... Blower, 10... mesh belt conveyor, 11...
... Auxiliary conveyor, 12 ... Vibration conveyance type foreign matter removal device, 13 ... Shooter, 14 ... Conveyor, 15
...Banknote/ticket separation device, 16...ticket storage box,
17...Banknote storage box, 21-26...Coin storage box, 27...Register, 28...Rotating drum.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A safe lid opening/rotation device that has a safe insertion port, locks and fixes a safe inserted into the safe insertion port, opens the lid, and rotates the safe to a position where the opening is on the lower side. a paper note/coin separation device that separates the contents discharged from the safe rotated by the device into banknotes and notes and coins; and a conveyor that conveys the coins separated by the device. , a fare central payment machine equipped with a coin sorting and counting device that sorts and counts coins conveyed by the conveyor according to denomination, and a register that displays and records the total results of the device, the paper ticket. - A banknote/ticket separation device that separates the banknotes and tickets separated by the coin separation device into banknotes and tickets; and a banknote that separately stores the banknotes and tickets separated by the device. A storage box and a ticket storage box are provided, and the paper ticket/coin separation device is connected to a conveyor disposed below a safe lid opening/rotation device, and the contents discharged from the safe are placed in a space above the conveyor. a suction air channel for sucking and conveying paper bills therein; a blowing air channel for blowing up paper bills mixed in the coins that are conveyed by the conveyor and falling from the conveying end thereof; and the conveyor A mesh belt conveyor is disposed above near the conveying end of the machine across the suction air flow path and the blow-up air flow path, and the air inside the machine is sucked through the suction air flow path to create a suction air flow. an air flow generating device that circulates the air inside the machine so as to generate a blow-up air flow and blow out the suctioned air into the blow-up air flow path; The suction air flow sucks paper bills inserted into the safe that are installed in the air flow path so as to be movable up and down, and that are opened and rotated by the safe lid opening/rotation device and remain in the safe. and a suction cylinder for ejecting the paper bills, the paper bills sucked or blown up by the respective air flows are attached to the mesh belt conveyor and conveyed to the bill/ticket separation device, 1. A freight rate central adjustment machine, characterized in that coins that have fallen from the conveyance end of a conveyor are conveyed to the coin sorting and counting device. 2. The banknote/ticket separation device is a thick rotating drum with both ends open and diagonally installed, and a drum that is smaller than the width of the smallest banknote and wider than the width of the banknote, penetrates between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the drum and is smaller than the width of the note on the outer circumferential side. A paper ticket that has a large diameter opening and has a large number of conical separation holes that widen on the inner peripheral surface side, and that contains a mixture of banknotes and notes separated by the paper ticket/coin separation device. The drum is configured such that, by rotation of the drum, only bills smaller than banknotes are discharged from the separation hole to the outside of the drum, and banknotes are discharged from the lower open end. A central fare adjustment machine according to claim 1. 3. Between the paper note/coin separating device and the conveyor that conveys the coins separated by the device to the coin sorting and counting device, a diaphragm with a large number of through holes with a diameter larger than the diameter of the largest coin; Claim 1 or 2, further comprising a vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removal device comprising a diaphragm disposed below and having a large number of through holes with a diameter smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin. Central fare payment machine.