KR940005908B1 - Booklet printer and booklet handling apparatus - Google Patents

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Booklet Printer and Booklet Handling Device

1 is a plan view of an example of a page conversion unit in the present invention.

2 is a side view of FIG.

3 is a perspective view of one example of a bankbook used in the present invention.

4 is a diagram showing an example of a page conversion roller in FIG.

5 to 13 are diagrams for explaining the page conversion operation in the present invention.

5 to 8 are plan views.

9 to 13 are side views.

14 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bankbook printer which is one example of the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

4: paper plate 5, 6: paper guide

7: paper conversion roller 41: left and right bankbook

47: operation unit 48: information operation unit

52: printing unit 57: magnetic information recognition sensor

111 core portion 112 frictional contact portion

The present invention relates to, for example, a booklet printer suitable for a booklet printer in a bank terminal device, a booklet issuing machine used by a cashier such as a bank, and the booklet handling device in these printers.

In a bankbook printer mounted on an automatic cash dispenser, a bankbook printer used by a cashier such as a bank, or the like, the machine automatically turns pages as necessary and prints the necessary parts. The bankbook handled by this bankbook printer is roughly divided into two types of bankbooks: the left and right opening in which the binding portion is perpendicular to the printing direction, that is, the vertical opening bank and the vertical opening in the horizontal direction.

Here, the said bankbook printer is a mechanism which can page through these two types of bankbooks.

That is, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-9564, a conveying means for conveying the passbook in the open state is provided with a tilting body 45 ° with respect to the conveying direction of the passbook conveyed by the conveying means. The page is rotated in contact with the page of the passbook to inflate the page, and then the page is moved in the direction of about 45 ° to open the page, and at this time, the passbook is installed by a push-up plate installed on the side of the passbook. The page is bent slightly (slightly) into a block shape so as not to be flipped over in two stacks.

The above-described prior art translates the turning roller for page opening of the bankbook in the direction of about 45 ° with respect to the rotational movement and the conveying direction of the bankbook. I) Since the two operations of the exercise are performed, the mechanism is complicated and the processing time is not taken into consideration. Therefore, there are two problems that the price is high and the processing is late.

An object of the present invention is to provide a booklet printer having a short processing time and an inexpensive booklet printer for left and right open booklets.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for handling booklets having a simple and reliable mechanism for booklets of left and right openings.

In the booklet handling apparatus of the present invention, the page shifting rollers are arranged obliquely with respect to the movement direction of the booklet flow, and the guides in the vicinity of the page shifting roller are formed in a combination shape of a torsion curved surface portion, a flat portion and a projection portion. In addition, the booklet printer of the present invention includes the booklet handling device described above, and prints the booklet to a predetermined position by the optical information on the booklet, magnetic information, and electronic information with the outside.

In the present invention, when page conversion of booklets is carried out, the hollow page converting roller, which is inclined with respect to the conveying direction, rotates and is flipped up while being in contact with the best page of booklets. At this time, since the page is constrained by the guide and the conveying roller in the page conversion direction, one sheet can be separated reliably. When the page is turned over, the booklet is conveyed so as to collide with the guide provided inclined with respect to the conveying direction. As a result, the page strikes the guide obliquely and has a reaction force. Among the reaction forces, the component turning the page has a magnitude multiplied by sinθ · cosθ when the angle between the conveyance direction and the direction of the guide surface is θ. By this power, it is possible to turn pages of booklets.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 is a partial cross-sectional plan view of a page converting unit, which is an essential part of a bankbook handling apparatus used in a financial institution as an embodiment of a book handling apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a partial side view of FIG.

The conveyance path for conveying a bankbook includes a first side frame 1 and a second side frame 2, a paper fan 4 as a first guide, a paper guide 5 as a second guide, It is comprised by the paper guide 6 which is a 3rd guide. Moreover, the paper guide 5 is arrange | positioned obliquely with respect to the conveyance direction A of a bankbook. These paper guides 5 and 6 are arranged to face the paper fan 4 at arbitrary intervals. The page conversion roller 7 is driven by the motor 8. This page conversion roller 7 is disposed inclined with respect to the conveying direction A of the bankbook, facing the paper fan 4 between the paper guides 5 and 6.

The conveying rollers 9, 10, and 11 are supported by the plate springs 17, 18, and 19, respectively, in the mounting portion of the paper guide 6, and are freely installed so as to face the conveying rollers 27. It is. The conveying rollers 12, 13, 14, and 15 are supported by the leaf springs 20, 21, 22, and 23 of the excretion portion of the paper guide 5, respectively, so as to rotate freely so as to serve the conveying rollers (not shown). It is. The conveying roller 9 is rotatably provided so as to be supported by the leaf spring 24 at the mounting portion of the paper guide 5 and to serve the conveying roller 32.

As shown in FIG. 2, the paper guide 5 includes a parallel portion 5c parallel to the paper fan 4, a torsion curved portion 5b forming a torsion curved surface, and the paper fan 4 as shown in FIG. It consists of a flat part 5a and a protrusion part 5c which are erected to intersect. The paper guide 6 is comprised from the parallel part 6b parallel to the paper fan 4, and the non-parallel part 6a which is non-parallel with the paper fan 4. As shown in FIG.

The bank account handled in FIG. 3 is shown. This bankbook is called a left-right open bankbook, and the iron (binding) part 42 becomes parallel with respect to the conveyance direction (A). Moreover, the turning direction B is orthogonal to a conveyance direction, and the up-down direction of the printing 43 is parallel to a conveyance direction.

4 is a specific example of the page conversion roller of one embodiment of the present invention. The page conversion roller 7 is provided with the core part 111 and the friction contact part 112. As shown in FIG. The friction contact portion 112 is a structure that can absorb the change in the thickness of the passbook by elastic deformation, and is a hollow elastomeric structure made of high friction members such as chromoplain and natural rubber. The friction contact portion 112 is mainly formed by the first curved portion 114 having the first outline curve and the second curved portion 115 having the second outline curve. The first and second curved portions 114 and 115 may be straight lines instead of curved lines. The core portion 111 is made of a small alloy such as iron (Fe) having a low coefficient of friction with a medium such as paper.

Next, using Figs. 5 to 13, the operation of page switching the above-described left and right opening bank 41 will be described. 5 to 13, FIGS. 5 to 8 are plan views illustrating the operation, and FIGS. 9 to 13 are side views. First, the passbook 41 is conveyed while being inserted into the conveying rollers 11 and 27, enters the page converting section, and stops at a predetermined position of the page converting section by the command of the sensor 56. In this state, the page 41a to be turned over by the bankbook 41 is in a state of being restrained by the conveying rollers 11 and 27 and the page guide 6 (FIGS. 5 and 9). Next, the motor 8 is driven to rotate the page change roller 7 in the turning direction. As a result, the page 41a is bent up and buckled up and deformed (Figs. 6 and 10). When the rotation of the page conversion roller 7 proceeds again, the page 41a is further lifted up. Thus, the page conversion roller 7 stops at about one rotation by stopping (Fig. 11).

Next, each conveyance roller is rotated and the bank 41 is moved in the discharge direction C. FIG. At that time, the back page 41b of the page 41a is lifted from the flat portion 5a of the paper guide 5, and then twisted toward the page turning direction B from the torsionally curved surface portion 5b. It rotates (FIG. 7, 12). In FIG. 7, it is considered that the page 4b and the torsionally curved portion 5b of the paper guide are causing a collision dynamically. At this collision point X, the moment M which tries to turn over the page 41a, and the force Fb which tries to buckle in the surface inside direction of the page 41a as mentioned above are the moment M The moment (m) in the direction orthogonal to acts. The buckling force Fb is influenced by the distance between the contact point X and the binding portion 42 and the collision angle θ between the torsionally curved portion 5b of the paper guide 5 and the page 41a. ) Is affected. Therefore, the larger the collision angle θ (at 0 ° ≦ θ ≦ 9 °), the larger the buckling force Fb. Therefore, the shape of the torsionally curved surface portion 5b of the paper guide needs to minimize the collision angle θ as small as possible, but it is necessary to make the space required as the device as small as possible. For this purpose, the shape of the torsionally curved surface portion 5b of the paper guide is curved such that the collision angle θ gradually increases. Further, in order to shorten the turnover time of the page 41a, the non-cline curved surface portion 5b of the paper guide 5 has a torsional shape. Since the difference of the angle α is caused by the moment m, the projection 5d of the page guide 5 is required. When this difference occurs, swelling occurs near the binding portion 42 of the bankbook 41. When this swelling is constrained by the projection 5d and pushed to crush it, as a result, this difference angle α becomes almost 0 degrees. This difference angle α not only adversely affects the print precision but also causes jams during conveyance.

The torsionally curved portion 5b and the conveying rollers 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the page guide 5 are located near the binding portion of the passbook 41 instead of the protrusion 5d of the page guide 5 described above. It is possible to set the difference angle α to almost 0 ° by providing the restraining member between the two ends.

When each conveyance roller is rotated again and the bankbook 41 is conveyed in the C direction, the back page 41b of the page 41a of the bankbook 41 appears on the surface, and page conversion is completed (FIGS. 9 and 13). Degree).

14 is a view for explaining an embodiment of the bankbook printer of the present invention. The printer of the present invention basically includes a conveying roller 11, 15, 16, 61, 63, 65, which is driven by a conveying path having an insertion port 58 and a paper fan 4, and a conveying driving motor 51. 62, 64, 66, 59, 32, 27, the conveying system, the sensors 56, 54, 55 for recognizing the presence or absence of the passbook 41, the printing unit 52, the bar code, etc. An optical character recognition sensor 53 for reading information, an optical character recognition unit 45, a magnetic information recognition sensor 57 such as a magnetic head for reading information such as a magnetic stripe, and a magnetic information recognition unit 44 ), A page conversion unit comprising a page conversion roller 7 or page guides 5 and 6 driven by a page conversion motor 8 for page conversion, an interface unit 46, and a calculation unit 47. And an information input / output control unit for receiving information from the power supply unit and an external computer.

In the bankbook 41 inserted from the insertion port 58, information such as a bar code provided in the bankbook 41 by the optical character recognition sensor 53 and the optical character recognition unit 45 is read. The magnetic information recognition sensor 57 and the magnetic information recognition unit 44 also read information such as a magnetic stripe provided in the bank book 41.

Moreover, the sensors 54, 55, 56 which detect the position of the bank book 4 are provided in the predetermined position of a conveyance path. On the basis of the signals from the respective sensors 54, 55, 56 and the signals from the recognition units 44, 45, the account book 41 is turned over by the page converting roller 7, and Information necessary in the printing unit 52 is printed. In addition, although this embodiment demonstrated using a bank account, it cannot be overemphasized that this invention is applicable even if it is a booklet in which many papers are made like a bank account.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to perform highly reliable page conversion of a left and right open (open) passbook by a simple structure. Therefore, information about this account is automatically printed up to many pages.

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Of booklets having means 44, 45, 53, 57 for reading information on booklets, and guide means 4, 5, 6 for guiding the conveyance of booklets. In a booklet printer comprising a conveying path, a page converting means (7) for converting pages of booklets, and a printing unit (52) for printing on booklets, the conveying path of the booklets is described above. The booklet printer according to claim 5, wherein the guide means (5) in the vicinity of the page converting means (7) has a torsion curve portion (5b) that intersects with respect to the conveying direction of the booklet. Means (44), (45), (53), (57) for reading information on booklets, a conveyance path for booklets, page converting means (7) for page conversion of booklets, and booklets In a booklet printer provided with a printing means (52) for printing on a current, the conveying path includes: first guide means (4) extending in the conveying direction of booklets and the first guide means (4). The second guide means (5) provided with a gap at a predetermined position of the first guide means (4), and the second guide means (5) and booklets, while having a gap at a predetermined position of the first guide means (4). A third guide means (6) provided at a predetermined distance in the direction, and the second guide means (5) has a torsion curve portion (5b) intersecting with respect to the conveying direction of booklets. Booklet printer. 3. The third guide means (6) according to claim 2, wherein the third guide means (6) is free of deformation behavior in a direction out of the plane of the first guide (4) with respect to the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction. Booklet printer characterized in that it is formed to form a space. The booklet printer according to claim 2, wherein said second guide means (5) has a shape having a local protrusion (5d) on the side of said first guide means (4). The booklet printer according to claim 3, wherein the conveying path has a means for restraining the vicinity of the convex portion 42 of the booklet in the vicinity of the torsionally curved surface portion 5b of the second guide means (5). . The booklet printer according to claim 2, wherein the third guide means (6) and the conveying roller constitute a means for restraining the vicinity of the convex portion (42) of the booklet. A book flow handling device comprising: a conveying means for conveying booklets in a predetermined direction on a conveying path; and a page converting means (7) for turning pages of booklets, wherein the conveying path is in the conveying direction of booklets And a first guide means (4) extending, a second guide means (5) and a third guide means (6) opposed to each other with a gap between the first guide means (4) and the second guide means (4). The guide means 5 and the third guide means 6 are arranged at a distance with respect to the conveying direction of booklets, and the second means 5 crosses obliquely with respect to the conveying direction of booklets. Booklet handling apparatus characterized by having a torsionally curved surface portion (5b). 8. The second guide means (5) according to claim 7, wherein the second guide means (5c) is opposed to the parallel portion (5c) opposite the first guide means (4) and inclined with respect to the conveying direction of booklets. And a torsionally curved surface portion (5b) and a flat portion (5a) in an upright state with respect to the parallel portion. 8. The bookcase handling apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the page converting means (7) is inclined with respect to the conveying direction of booklets in the vicinity of the flat portion (5a) of the second guide means (5). .