JPH0613155Y2 - Banknote transport device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a transport device for transporting paper sheets such as banknotes.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, as for a bill conveying device, a device constituted by a round rope and a roller has been disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-47550 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-3.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-97582 and Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 6-57582 are disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 7372 and which are composed of a pair of flat belts.
It is disclosed in the publication of Japanese Patent No. 3-80685.

As shown in FIG. 14, the one composed of round ropes and rollers is the length of bills (S) to which the pulleys (2 ′) and (3 ′) holding the solid round rope (1 ′) from both sides are conveyed. A plurality of them are arranged with a smaller pitch.

In the case of the flat belt system, a pair of left and right belts (5 ') and (6') are used as shown in Fig. 15, and a bill is sandwiched between the two for carrying.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) Since the bills are held intermittently in the above-described one using the round rope and the roller, the leading ends of the bills are not held, and jams are likely to occur during feeding. Further, since the bill is sandwiched between the grooved roller and the rope, the bill has a curved habit, which makes it difficult to store the bill after collection. As the conveying path becomes longer, the number of rollers (2 ') and (3') increases, and at least one of the rollers (2 ') and (3') needs to be elastically contacted with the rope, so that the supporting method is complicated and the cost is low. Get higher When plastic, rubber, or the like is used for the long rope, elongation occurs due to changes in driving force or temperature, and the conveyance is not smoothly performed, and therefore, clogging during conveyance is likely to occur.

Furthermore, since the nipping rollers are arranged over the entire length, there is a drawback that the occupation space in the width direction becomes large.

In the case of a flat belt, the back surface of the belt (5 ') (6') is received by the rollers (7 ') and (8'), and one of them is movable and needs to be elastically contacted by a spring or the like, which is high in cost. Become. The belts (5 ') (6') have to be driven together, and for this reason slippage of the mechanical system, for example the difference in diameter of the drive pulleys (9 ') (10') and the belt (5 ').
There is a drawback that the sandwiched banknotes are tilted due to a slight slip or the like during the rotation with (6 ').

To improve this, at least one is made of magnetic material,
Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 54-131161 discloses a transporting device in which opposing portions of these belts are brought into close contact with each other by magnetic force. However, this does not connect a plurality of transporting units, but a plurality of transporting units are connected. What can be done is JP-A-53-
No. 13998 and No. 60-190756. However, the former one is not a banknote carrier from the ball lending machine, the latter one is a banknote carrier from the ball lender, but the carrier device from the ball lender to the carrier unit is complicated, so the carrier unit Although a ball lending machine can be installed in the
There is nothing that eliminates problems such as banknote damage, operates stably, and is simple and inexpensive.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned problems such as jamming (jamming) during the transportation of banknotes, the occurrence of inclination, and the damage of banknotes, operates stably, and is a simple and inexpensive banknote transfer apparatus. It is intended to provide.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present measure takes the following measures in order to achieve the above-mentioned objects.

That is, as a belt having at least one of a pair of belts facing each other magnetized, a plurality of transport units for sandwiching and transporting bills or the like by a suction force between the two conveyors are installed via a merging guide. A banknote from the ball lending machine and a guide from a guide guide that guides the banknotes that are nipped and conveyed by the belt of the upstream transport unit. A conveyance device for bills and the like, in which a passage for guiding the unit is provided, and a groove for engaging with a protrusion guide on the rear surface of the merging guide is provided at the tip of the guide.

The present invention includes both the belt and the case where one of the belts is magnetized. As the material of the belt, a magnetic material such as steel or stainless steel is used, and a rubber magnet is used.

Specifically, in the case of a bill conveying device composed of a pair of left and right flat belts, a steel magnet belt is used on one side and a rubber magnet belt magnetized on the other side, and a rubber magnet belt is used on both sides. The paper money and the like are sandwiched and conveyed by the suction force of both belts. The driving force for sandwiching and transporting bills and the like may be applied to both belts, or may be applied to only one belt and the other belt may be driven by the attraction force of the magnet.

Then, a merging guide for merging the banknotes from the ball lending machine with the banknotes from the upstream transport unit and transporting the banknotes downstream is installed between the transport units between the transport units configured as described above.

(Operation) The present invention is a transportation device for transporting paper sheets such as banknotes. For example, a pachinko machine ball lending machine disposed adjacent to a game machine, such as a pachinko machine, or an automatic metal ball for game metal. Explaining the banknote transport device provided on the back side of the game table to collect the banknotes inserted into the lending machine, the banknotes inserted into the banknote discriminator are, for example, between two rubber magnet belts arranged in parallel. It is caught and held by the attraction force between the two belts, and is conveyed one after another by a plurality of conveying units arranged in a divided manner and conveyed to the stacking device. Then,
Since there is a merging guide in the connecting portion between the transport units, the bill from the ball lending machine and the bill from the upstream transport unit can be merged to smoothly transport the bill to the downstream side.

(Example) An example shown in the drawings will be described below.

It should be noted that in the embodiment, a description will be given of the one that conveys the bills carried in from the ball lending machine of the pachinko machine, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other automatic metal lending such as game metal is used. The same applies to a bill transporting device for a machine.

FIG. 1 shows a transfer conveyor, in which a plurality of or a single transfer unit (A) is arranged via a merging guide (1),
It constitutes a carrier device.

(A ') is a unit conveyor formed shorter than the transport unit (A), and the banknotes transported by the transport unit (A) are passed through the stacker (2) via the short transport unit (A'). However, the combination can be arbitrarily performed.

The transport unit (A) as described above is arranged inside the island on which a large number of pachinko game stands (3) are attached, and (4) is a ball lending machine arranged between the pachinko stand (3). After the bill inserted into the bill insertion slot (4a) of the ball lending machine (4) is discriminated, it is carried into the transport unit (A) from the back of the ball lending machine (4) through the merge guide (1). To be done. When the transport unit (A) is transporting a bill, the sensor (5) detects that the bill is being transported, prohibits the bill from being inserted from the next ball lending machine (4), and the bill is piled up. It doesn't happen.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2, these transport units (A) are connected by a connecting member (8) attached to a stay (7) of an island frame (6) to which a ball lender (4) is attached. There is.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, two flat belts (10) and (11) are stretched inside the transport unit (A).
At the entrance side of the transport unit (A), the rollers (12) and (13) drive the flat belts (10) and (11) respectively, and at the exit side (14) and (15) follow the flat belts (10) and (11), respectively. It is a rotating roller.

The flat belts (10) and (11) are made of rubber magnets, and the two flat belts (10) and (11) are stretched so that the polarities thereof are different from each other. It is designed to hold paper money.

In order to make the polarities of the two belts different, the same belts may be shifted so that the N and S poles face each other alternately as shown in FIG. 4, but even if the belts having different polarities are used from the beginning. good. A steel belt may be used on one side and a rubber magnet belt magnetized on the other side may be used. In any case, a bill or the like is nipped and conveyed by the attraction force of both belts.

As shown in FIG. 2, a drive box (16) is attached to the upper surface on the entrance side of the transport unit (A), and the rotation of the motor (17) shown in FIG. It is transmitted to the shaft (20) of the roller (13) by a pulley (19).
The motor (17) uses, for example, a synchronous motor in order to make the transport speed of each unit uniform.

The shaft (20) of the roller (13) and the shaft (21) of the roller (12) are meshed with each other by gears (22) and (23), so that the rollers (12) and (13) rotate in opposite directions and rotate in the same direction. The flat belts (10) and (11) are rotated by a number, and are rotated in the direction of the arrow in FIG.

On the exit side of the transport unit (A), the flat belt (10)
Guides (24) above and below (11) as guide guides
(25) is provided. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the guides (24) and (25) are provided with funnel-shaped openings (to facilitate introduction of the top and bottom of the bills conveyed by the flat belts (10) and (11) ( There are 26) and (27), and the leading end of the bill introduced from here is inserted between the guide plates (28) (29) and (30) (31) to be guided.

Vertical grooves (32) are formed at the tips of the guide plates (28) to (31).
The vertical grooves (32) are engaged with projections (43) on the rear surface of the merging guide (1), which will be described later, and the gaps between the guide plates (28) (29) and (30) (31). I try not to make it narrow.

In addition, a photoelectric sensor (3
3) is installed and the passage time of the bill is detected.

As described above, on the exit side of the transport unit (A), the upper and lower sides of the banknotes nipped and transported by the flat belts (10) and (11) are shown in FIGS.
When 5) guides and the carry-in to the next transport unit (A) is smoothly performed via the merge guide (1), and the carry-in is not performed smoothly due to some trouble and the bill is jammed in the guide. Since the passage time detected by the photoelectric sensor (33) becomes long, the jam of the bill is notified to the outside and the operation of the transport unit (A) is stopped.

In addition, in the embodiment, the side plate (34) of the unit is configured to be slidable by a transparent resin plate so that the conveyance state of the banknote can be seen from the outside, and as shown in FIGS. The side plate (34) is slid so that the jammed bills can be taken out from the unit.

Therefore, the length of the flat belts (10) and (11) can be arbitrarily changed to freely change the length of the transport unit (A). For example, the length of the unit used between the ball lending machines (4) can be changed. And the length of the unit connected to the stacker (2) is the length of one pachinko machine, and each unit is appropriately connected via the merging guide (1), and the transport device is provided. Is configured. Next, the merging guide (1) is as shown in FIGS.
Is a merging guide body, and (41) is a merging guide cover.

There is a vertically elongated bill passing slit (42) in the center of the merging guide body (40) so that the bill conveyed by the conveying unit (A) passes through the bill passing slit (42). Has become.

A protrusion guide (43) is formed on the rear surface of the confluence guide body (40), and the vertical grooves (32) of the guides (24) and (25) arranged on the exit side of the transport unit (A) are the protrusion guides (43). (43) is just engaged so that the space between the guide plates is not narrowed. FIG. 10 shows a state in which they are engaged.

A bill passage (44) is formed between the left and right sides of the merging guide body (40) and the merging guide cover (41), and the bill (S) carried out from the back surface of the ball lending machine (4) is the bill passage. It goes through (44).

The merging guide cover (41) and the merging guide body (4)
The left and right sides of (0) are comb-shaped, and the ball lending machine (4)
Similarly, a comb tooth-shaped bill carrying-out port (45) is formed on the back surface so that the bills are inserted and engaged in a staggered manner. FIG. 11 shows a state in which the banknote outlet (45) on the back of the ball lending machine (4) is engaged with both sides of the merging guide (1). As described above, when the comb tooth members are engaged with each other and the bill is introduced into the bill passage (44), the distance between the merging guide (1) and the back surface of the ball lending machine (4) is slightly separated. However, the bills are introduced into the bill passage (44) without jamming.

Of course, the shape of the merging guide (1) is not limited to the above. For example, as shown in FIG.
It is also possible to use a funnel-shaped one in which the left and right sides are not comb-shaped.

Then, the front surface of the merging guide (1) is provided with rollers (12) (1) arranged on the inlet side of the next downstream side transport unit (A).
It has a shape that protrudes forward so as to guide the banknotes up to just before 3), and the banknotes transported by the transport unit (A) and the banknotes delivered from the back surface of the ball lending machine (4) are the next downstream. It is carried into the side transport unit (A) or the stacker (2).

Next, the transport unit (A) and the stacker (2) are the first
3 are connected as shown in FIG. That is, stacker (2)
The transport unit (A) is fixed to a stay (50) extending from the vertical groove (3) at the tips of the guides (24) and (25).
2) is the protrusion guides (51) (51) of the stacker (2)
So that the space between the guide plates is not narrowed.

Inside the stacker (2), there is a bill drawing device (52), and bills carried between the protrusion guides (51) and (51) are drawn into the stacker (2) to stock bills.

However, in the case of the above, inside the pachinko island, the transport units (A) are continuously combined in any combination through the confluence guide (1) and are arranged between the pachinko machines (3). A banknote transfer device is configured such that banknotes carried out from the ball lending machine (4) are carried into the transfer unit (A) from the merging guide (1) and the transferred banknotes are transferred to the stacker (2). The banknotes thrown into the ball lending machine are nipped by the belts (10) and (11), successively inherited by the respective transport units, transported, and collected by the stack device.

(Effect of Device) According to the present invention, the following effects are obtained.

Since the bills and the like are held by the magnetic attraction between the belts, a roller for holding bills in the case of the round rope and roller system and a pressing mechanism on the back surface of the belt are not required.

In each unit, a bill or the like is continuously clamped, and it is less likely that it will be clamped between the rollers intermittently or the clamping force does not change, so that stable holding and conveying can be performed.

By driving one of the belts and following the other with the attraction force of the magnets, the other driving mechanism is not required and simplification can be achieved.

Since the two belts are carried in close contact with each other, there is no deviation between the two belts, and the bills are not inclined or distorted during the conveyance, and the jamming of the bills is unlikely to occur.

The width between the belts when seen in a plan view can be reduced, and the belt can be installed in an extremely narrow space such as the inside of a pachinko island.

Since the bills and the like are held by the attraction force of the magnets of the two belts, the holding force does not damage the bills.

The length of the transport path can be freely changed by arbitrarily combining the transport units.

Since the transport unit and the merging guide can be configured separately, the transport device can be easily installed and transported.

When the transport unit and the merging guide are assembled, the protrusion guides on the back of the merging guide are arranged to be engaged with the grooves of the guides of the transport unit so that the interval between the guide plates is not narrowed and the bill can be smoothly guided, and Due to the presence of the merging guide, the bills are smoothly conveyed between the conveying units and the ball lending machine, and the bills are not jammed.

Since the merging guide is used, even if the distance between the transport unit and the ball lending machine is slightly different, there is no problem in transporting the bills.

Since the transfer device is composed of the transfer unit and the merging guide, the connection between the transfer units is simple and, in combination with the structure of the belt conveyor, a simple structure can be obtained as a whole.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conveying device, FIGS. 2 and 3 are side views and cross-sectional views of a unit conveyor, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a belt, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a drive box, and FIGS. FIG. C is a plan view, side view and front view of the upper guide, FIGS. 7A, B and C are plan views, side views and front views of the lower guide, and FIGS. 8 and 9 are cross-sectional views and rear views of the merge guide. , FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a combined state of the units, FIG. 11 is a rear view showing a state in which the merging guide and the ball lending machine are engaged, and FIG. 12 is FIGS.
FIG. 13 is a perspective view of a merging guide having a shape different from that of FIG.
14 and 15 are perspective views showing a conventional technique. A: transport unit, S: banknote, 1 ... merge guide,
2 ... Stacker, 3 ... Pachinko gaming table, 4 ... Ball lending machine, 10, 11 ... Belt, 24, 25 ... Guide guide,

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A plurality of conveyor units, each of which is a magnetized belt of at least one of a pair of opposing belts, for sandwiching and conveying banknotes and the like by a suction force between the conveyors, are installed via a merging guide. The merging guide merges the banknotes from the ball lending machine with the passage for introducing the banknotes from the ball lending machine and the banknotes from the guide guide that guides the banknotes that are nipped and conveyed by the belt of the upstream transport unit to the banknotes from the ball lending machine. And a passage for guiding to the conveyance unit on the side, and a conveyance device for bills or the like in which a groove for engaging with a projection guide on the rear surface of the merging guide is provided at the tip of the guide.