JPS6250876B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] This invention is applicable to banknotes, numbered tickets, and coupons stored in the safe of the fare box for collecting fares from passengers on one-man buses, etc. The present invention relates to a device for separating paper bills containing a mixture of paper bills and bills into banknotes and bills.

[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.

In addition, in fare boxes with bill exchange machines, exchanged bills are 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. Automatic settlement is carried out automatically.

Such a conventional centralized fare adjustment machine is, for example, as described in Publication No. 17406 of 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 hard money, banknotes, coupons, and other tickets mixed in the safe to fall and be discharged, and then to the separating device. Therefore, coins are separated from 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]

However, in such conventional fare payment machines, banknotes are separated from coins and simply stored in a paper ticket storage box together with tickets such as numbered tickets and coupon tickets.

Therefore, the total amount cannot be tallied unless only the banknotes are sorted and collected manually, and the amounts are totaled and entered into a register, making it time-consuming to pay bills, especially when bills are mixed among a large number of banknotes. There was a problem that it took a long time.

Therefore, in order to select and collect banknotes from a mixture of such banknotes, for example,
It is conceivable to use a sorting arrangement as seen in Publication No. 214380.

However, this is not intended to separate banknotes and tickets, but rather
It is for sorting the parts (tickets, etc.) of
A thin-walled metal sorting drum with one end open and the other end closed is installed horizontally, and multiple types of shape sorting mechanisms are arranged in a ring around its outer periphery.

Therefore, even if paper bills are fed into this sorting drum and rotated, the bills will be sorted by the shape sorting mechanism and ejected outside the drum, but those that cannot be sorted will remain inside and be removed after sorting. It must be removed by hand or by using a vacuum suction machine.

Therefore, even if such a device separates banknotes and notes, the banknotes remain in the drum, making it difficult to automatically store the separated banknotes in a banknote compartment or to perform continuous processing. You can't get used to it.

In addition, each shape sorting mechanism is a complicated structure in which a specially shaped tongue piece is cut out onto the outer circumferential surface of the drum, an ejection port is formed at the top of the tongue, and a guide plate is attached to that side by raising it up from the inner circumferential surface. Due to this structure, not only is the molding process of the sorting drum expensive, but also the large number of guide plates standing up on the inner circumferential surface prevents paper bills from getting caught or jammed between them. It has been difficult to separate the paper bills continuously, smoothly and quickly, as there is a risk of the paper bills falling over each other.

It is an object of the present invention to solve these problems and to provide a banknote and banknote separation device at low cost that can continuously and efficiently separate and collect banknotes mixed in a large number of banknotes.

[Means for solving problems]

Therefore, the banknote/ticket separating device according to the present invention has a thick cylindrical body that is open at both ends, and has a diameter smaller than the width of the smallest banknote and larger than the width of the note, which penetrates between the inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the cylinder and has a diameter smaller than the width of the smallest banknote and larger than the width of the banknote. A large number of conical separation holes having openings of It consists of a rotating drum provided with a disk-shaped flange, a support roller that is in rolling contact with each flange and supports the rotating drum rotatably with a slight inclination, and a drive roller that rotates the drum. When paper bills containing a mixture of bills are input from the upper open end, the rotation of this rotating drum causes only the bills smaller than the bills to be discharged from the separation hole to the outside of the drum, and the bills are transferred to the lower open end. It is designed to separate banknotes and tickets by discharging them from the bank.

[Effect]

According to the banknote/ticket separation device configured in this way, when paper bills containing a mixture of banknotes and tickets are inputted from the upper open end of the rotating drum, they are agitated by the rotation of the drum and are thrown downward. Move to.

During the movement, since the banknotes are large, they are supported astride the flat part remaining slightly on the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder, so they are not ejected from the separation hole, but since the bills are small, most of the flat part remains. The drum moves in an extremely unstable state on the inner surface of the drum, falls into one of the lower separation holes, slides down the conical surface under its own weight, passes through the opening on the outer peripheral surface, and is discharged to the outside.

Even if there is a bill that straddles multiple flat parts or rests on top of the bill, it will be agitated by the rotation of the drum, and since there are no protrusions on the inner surface of the drum, the bill will be removed. There is no pinching of the liquid, and all of the liquid is discharged from the separation hole before being sent to the lower open end.

Therefore, only banknotes are discharged from the lower open end of the rotating drum and are continuously separated and collected.

The cylindrical body constituting the rotating drum has a simple structure and has no protrusions, so it can be easily molded from synthetic resin and can be provided at low cost.

〔Example〕

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, but prior to that, a central fare adjustment machine, which is an application example of the present invention, will be described.

First, with reference to FIG. 1, a brief explanation will be given of a safe that is inserted into a fare box of a one-man bus or the like and stores coins, coupon tickets, exchanged bills, etc. as fares collected from passengers along with numbered tickets.

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.

When this safe 1 is inserted into a fare box (not shown), the sliding lid 1b is open, and coins, coupon tickets, numbered tickets, exchanged banknotes, etc. that are inserted into the fare box are stored in the safe 1 through the opening 1a. be done.

When the flight attendant 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, FIGS. 2 and 3 show a schematic configuration of a central fare payment machine equipped with a banknote/ticket separation device according to the present invention.
This will be explained using figures.

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 insertion 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 separating device, an auxiliary conveyor 11, a vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removing device 12, a conveyor 14 that conveys the coins passed through it and supplied via a shooter 13 upward, and a rotating drum type banknote according to the present invention. - A ticket separation device 15 is provided. 16
1 is a ticket storage box, and 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 central fare adjustment machine 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 through 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 lock and fix the safe by inserting a lock rod into the lock hole 1c of the safe 1, and then energizing the internal solenoid or motor to open the lid 1b and open the opening 1a. Rotate it to the bottom position (see also Figure 1).
Note that since such a mechanism is well known, its explanation will be omitted.

Due to this rotation, 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
Since the suction airflow flowing in the direction of arrow A is generated in the space above the conveyor 7, banknotes and tickets are sucked while falling from the safe and being transported by the conveyor 7. The paper money is conveyed upward, adheres to the lower surface of the mesh belt conveyor 10, 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 (this is also a mesh belt conveyor), the arrow B It is blown up by the airflow blown in the direction of the air, and also adheres to the lower surface of the mesh belt conveyor 10.

Further, the suction tube 8 is raised by a lifting mechanism (not shown), inserted into the safe, and remains in the safe. Bills and tickets are forcibly ejected by suction air flow.

In this way, the coins and banknotes and tickets are separated, and the coins are sent to the vibrating conveyance type foreign matter removal device 12 by the auxiliary conveyor 11, and the perforated vibrating plates provided in multiple stages of the coins While foreign objects larger than the diameter of the largest coin and foreign objects smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin are removed, the coin is conveyed to the right in FIG.

The coins conveyed upward by the conveyor 14 are transferred from the hopper 19 to the coin sorting and counting device 1.
8, the coins are sorted and counted according to denomination, and stored in respective coin storage boxes 21 to 26. Also,
The total results are displayed on the register 27 and recorded on recording paper.

On the other hand, banknotes and tickets, which are separated from coins and transported by the mesh belt conveyor 10,
The obliquely arranged rotating drum 28 constituting the bill separating device 15 is fed from the upper open end, and as the bill rotates, bills smaller than banknotes are discharged from the drum 28 through a separation hole (to be described later) and guided to a guide (not shown). The banknotes are stored in the banknote storage box 16 by a plate, discharged from the lower open end of the rotary drum 28, and stored in the banknote 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.

As the coin sorting/counting device 18, various types known in the past can be used.
As described in Japanese Patent No. 123188, there is a type that uses a vertical sorting drum with sorting grooves formed on the outer circumferential surface, and high processing efficiency can be obtained by using this.

Next, the banknote/ticket separation device 15 according to the present invention
will be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

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 31, 31 are attached in parallel to both ends of a square cylinder 30 made of thick synthetic resin and open at both ends.

The cylindrical body 30 is formed with a large number of conical separation holes 32 that extend through the inner and outer circumferential surfaces thereof and are each enlarged on the inner circumferential side.

FIG. 5 shows a part of the surface of the cylinder 30, and FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing the rotating drum 28 together with the support roller and the drive roller.
The shape of the separation hole 32 will be explained.

The opening circle 32a on the outer peripheral surface side of each separation hole 32 has a diameter d that is sufficiently smaller than the width of the smallest banknote (currently 500 yen bill in Japan) and sufficiently larger than the width of a normal numbered ticket or coupon ticket. The opening circle 32b on the inner peripheral surface side
has a diameter D about twice that, and its opening circle 32b
are formed at such a density that they partially overlap the opening circles on the inner circumferential side of adjacent separation holes 32, and most of the inner circumferential side is occupied by the conical surface 32c of the separation hole 32, making it flat. The portion 33 is made to be extremely small.

This rotating drum 28, as shown in FIG.
A pair of flanges 31 are rotatably supported by two support rollers 40, 41 and a drive roller 42 with a slight inclination, and the drive rollers 4 are supported by a motor (not shown) via a reduction gear, etc.
2, it is rotated relatively slowly, for example, in the direction of arrow E.

When banknotes and bills are mixed and thrown in from the upper opening end, the banknotes M are large, so as shown in FIG. Because it is supported across the drum, it will not be ejected from the separation hole 32, but since the tickets P such as numbered tickets and coupon tickets are small, the inner surface of the drum, which has almost no flat parts, will be in an extremely unstable state. Move with
On the way, it falls into one of the lower separation holes 32, slides down the conical surface 32c under its own weight, passes through the opening on the outer peripheral surface, and is discharged to the outside.

Even if there is a bill that straddles the plurality of flat portions 33 or is placed on top of the bill M, it will be agitated by the rotation of the drum 28, and there will be no protrusions on the surface of the drum 28. Since there are no holes, there is no chance of pinching between them, and all of the particles are discharged from the separation hole 32 before being sent to the lower open end.

Therefore, only banknotes are discharged from the lower open end of the drum 28, and are continuously discharged from the banknote storage box 1 of FIG.
It will be collected within 7 days.

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 32 and the downward feeding of bills cannot be performed smoothly.

Although the shape of the cylinder is shown as an example of a rectangular cylinder because it is easy to manufacture, it is not limited to this, and may be formed into a polygonal cylinder such as a hexagonal cylinder or an octagonal cylinder, or a cylindrical shape.

In addition, this banknote/ticket separation device is not limited to use by being incorporated into the central fare payment machine as described above, but may also be used alone, or can be used to separate banknotes and tickets for processing. It may be used by incorporating it into other equipment that needs to be used.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the banknote/ticket separation device according to the present invention can rapidly and reliably separate mixed banknotes, coupon tickets, numbered tickets, etc. continuously from the previous process. It is possible to continuously separate and collect only the mixed banknotes from the paper bills that are thrown in and store them in a banknote storage box or send them to the next process.

Moreover, since this device has a simple structure of the cylindrical body constituting the rotating drum and does not have any complicatedly shaped protrusions, it can be easily molded from synthetic resin and can be provided at low cost.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a safe inserted into a fare box of a one-man bus, etc., and Fig. 2 is a front view showing an example of a central fare payment machine equipped with a banknote/ticket sorting device according to the present invention. , FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a rotating drum of a banknote/ticket separating device showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view of the inner surface thereof. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing the rotating drum together with the support roller and the drive roller. 1...Safe, 2...Main frame, 3...Safe opening/rotation device, 3a safe insertion port, 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... Bill storage box, 21-26... Coin storage box, 27... Register, 28... Rotating drum, 3
0... Cylindrical body, 31... Flange, 32... Separation hole, 40, 41... Support roller, 42... Drive roller.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 A thick cylindrical body with both ends open, penetrating between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces thereof, each having an opening on the outer circumferential side with a diameter smaller than the width of the smallest banknote and larger than the width of the ticket, and the inner circumferential side widening. A rotation device in which a large number of open conical separation holes are formed at a density such that the opening circles on the inner peripheral surface of adjacent separation holes partially overlap, and disk-shaped flanges are provided at both ends of the cylinder. A drum, a support roller that is in rolling contact with the flange, supports the rotary drum with a slight inclination, and rotatably supports the rotary drum, and a drive roller that rotationally drives the rotary drum,
When paper bills containing a mixture of banknotes and notes are input from the upper opening end, only the bills smaller than the banknotes are discharged from the separation hole to the outside of the drum by the rotation of the drum, and the banknotes are fed into the lower opening. A banknote/ticket separation device characterized by separating banknotes and banknotes by discharging them from the edge.