JPH07129727A - Card distributing and feeding device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a card distributing and feeding device which stably carries a card. CONSTITUTION:Two rollers 41a and 42a are driven in the same direction by a belt 38 rotated by a motor 36, and transporting belts 41c and 42d independent of each other are stretched along these rollers to form two driving and transporting parts 41 and 42, and a direction switching flap 47 is provided between these parts 41 and 42, and driver belts 43d and 45c are brought into contact with transporting belts 41c and 42d to constitute a card carrying passage 30, thus obtaining a card distributing and feeding device 2B.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card sorting / feeding device for transporting and sorting magnetic cards.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An air ticket is one of thin magnetic cards capable of recording and reproducing magnetic information. This flight ticket will be returned to the passenger when the card reader section for magnetically processing the card with the magnetic head provided in the card processing device proposed in Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 5-97659 ends, for example. After being divided by the cutter unit into a ticket and a recovery ticket to be recovered by the device, the ticket is sent to the card sorting / feeding unit.

In the card sorting and feeding section, a boarding ticket is ejected from the ejection port to the outside of the device, and a recovery ticket is provided in a recovery box provided in the device. The switching flaps are driven to introduce boarding coupons and collection tickets.

In the card reader unit and the card sorting / feeding unit, a belt wound around a driving roller and a driven roller constitutes a card discharging path and a card collecting path. Especially, in Japanese Patent Application No. 5-97659, driving belts are connected to each other. Cards are sandwiched between and transported.

[0005]

However, in the above-described card sorting / feeding unit, the processed card is guided to the discharge port or the collection box in the determined space, so that the card discharge path or the card collection path is not provided. It tends to be complicated. In addition, due to the difference in curvature and thickness of the belts wound around the rollers, the belts on the driving side are brought into contact with each other, causing a difference in peripheral speed of the belts and slipping, or the belts coming off the rollers. There is a risk. Further, if the belt is soiled or worn on this portion, there is a risk that the card may not be conveyed properly and that the card may be jammed.

[0006]

Therefore, in the card sorter / feeder of the present invention, two rollers are driven in the same direction by a belt that is rotated by a motor, and an independent conveyor belt is applied to each of the rollers. One drive transport section is formed, a direction switching flap is provided between the two drive transport sections, and driven belts are respectively brought into contact with the independent transport belts to form a card transport path.

[0007]

A direction switching flap is provided between two driving and transporting portions formed by hanging independent transporting belts on two rollers that are driven in the same direction by a belt that is rotated by a motor. Since the driven belts are brought into contact with each other to form the card conveyance path, when the roller is rotated by the motor drive, the conveyance belts rotate in the same direction and follow the driven belts, and the card is conveyed in the conveyance path.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 8 shows an example of a boarding pass (hereinafter referred to as “card”) as a thin magnetic card. This card 1 is made of a thin paper material, on the surface of which data (not shown) such as a starting point and a destination is displayed, and on one side of its back surface, a magnetic recording A layer (magnetic stripe) 1a is provided along the longitudinal direction. The magnetic stripe 1a has
Data similar to the surface data is magnetically recorded.

The card 1 can be separated into a boarding pass ticket 1A and a recovery ticket 1B to be given to the passenger at the perforations 1b, and is taken in from the insertion slot 3 of the magnetic card processing device 2 shown in FIG. Processing is performed. Then, the boarding pass ticket 1A is discharged from the card discharge port 4 to the outside of the device, and the recovery ticket 1
B is collected in the device. In this embodiment, insertion in the direction of arrow A with the back surface of the card 1 facing downward is called forward insertion, and insertion in the direction of arrow B is called reverse insertion.

The magnetic card processing device 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
Are arranged at the gates of airports, etc., and the configuration is roughly divided into a card reader device 2A in which a card insertion slot 3 is arranged and a card sorting / feeding device 2B in which a card ejection slot 4 is arranged. It is configured.

First, the card reader device 2A will be described, and the card sorting / feeding device 2B will be described later.
The card reader device 2A includes a drive motor 5 that can rotate in forward and reverse directions.
Drive side conveyor belt unit (hereinafter,
Card driving path 10, card driving path communicating with insertion slot 3 formed by driven belt unit 6), driven side conveyor belt unit (hereinafter referred to as “driven belt unit”) 7, and frames 8 and 9. It is mainly composed of a magnetic head 11 provided so as to face inside 10, a branch passage 12 arranged between the insertion port 3 and the magnetic head 11, and a first stamp unit 13.

The driven belt unit 7 is wound around belt rollers (hereinafter referred to as "rollers") 7a and 7b rotatably disposed between a pair of substrates 14 extending in the longitudinal direction of the card reader device 2A. It is composed of two endless belts 7c and rollers 7d and 7e which are rotatably supported by the substrate 14 and press the belt 7c downward.

The roller 7a is mounted on the frame 8 at the base end 16 thereof.
A is rotatably supported by a fixed support shaft 16. The support shaft 16 penetrates the substrate 14 and rotatably supports the driven belt unit 7. Further, on the substrate 14, a pad roller 15 for applying a predetermined pad pressure to the magnetic head 11 and a first stamp for marking the conveyed card 1 are provided.
The stamp unit 13 is supported, and these are integrated with the driven belt unit 7.

The drive belt unit 6 is disposed below the driven belt unit 7 at a position opposite to it and supported by the frames 8 and 9 by the drive shaft 18 and the support shaft 26. In the drive belt unit 6, the drive roller 6a and the driven roller 6 around which the endless belt 6c that contacts the belt 7c is stretched.
b is rotatably supported by the side plate 17 and is arranged substantially at the center of the card transport path 10.

The drive shaft 18 to which the drive roller 6a is fixed by the screw 20 is a bearing 1 provided on the frames 8 and 9.
It is rotatably supported by 9. At one end 18a of the drive shaft 18, a belt pulley 5d that is wound around a belt 5c connected to a drive pulley 5b attached to the output shaft 5a of the drive motor 5 is mounted. The other end 1 of the drive shaft 18
8b includes a handshake 2 for manually rotating the drive shaft 18.
1 is fixed.

As shown in FIG. 4, the side plate 17 is smaller than the outer diameters of the driving roller 6a and the driven roller 6b, and the endless belt 6c is pressed and deformed by the rollers 7d and 7e.
It is formed so as to have substantially the same shape as the shape of.

As shown in FIG. 3, a bearing bush 22 for supporting the driving roller 6a is press-fitted into the shaft hole 21 provided in one of the side plates 17 from the outside of the side plate. The sleeve 22a of the bearing bush 22 projects inside the side plate 17, and is loosely fitted in the recess 6d provided on the end surface of the drive roller 6a to support the drive roller 6a.
The inner peripheral surface of the sleeve 22a is coated with a film of Teflon (trade name) or the like to smooth the rotation of the drive shaft 18 inserted into the bearing bush 22.

A sleeve 24a of a tubular bush 24 is inserted from the inside of the side plate 17 into a shaft hole 23 formed in the other side plate 17. The shaft hole 23 is provided with the bush 2 so that the distance between the drive shaft 18 and the support shaft 26 can be adjusted.
4 is formed with a slight play.

The large-diameter portion 24b of the bush 24 supports the driven roller 6b by being loosely fitted in the recess 6e provided in the end surface of the driven roller 6a. Like the bearing bush 22, the inner peripheral surface of the bush 24 is treated with Teflon.

A bush 24 is provided inside the driven roller 6b.
A bearing 25 which communicates with the bearing 25 is fixed, and a support shaft 26 fixed to the frames 8 and 9 with screws 20a is inserted into the bearing 25 and the bush 24.

As shown in FIG. 2, the card transport path 10 has:
The width D is restricted by the frames 8 and 9. The width D is set to be substantially the same as the width d of the card 1 shown in FIG. 8 to position the card in the width direction.

The magnetic head 11 is an R / W head having a reading and writing (hereinafter referred to as "R / W") function, and is arranged on both sides of the belt 6c so as to match the position of the magnetic stripe 1a of the card. It is exposed to the inside of the transport path 5. One of the magnetic heads 11 (a) is
It corresponds to the card 1 inserted in the forward direction, and the other head 11 (b) corresponds to the card 1 inserted in the reverse direction.

The first stamp unit 13 is provided with a conveying path 10.
The card 1B to be conveyed is timely stamped, and is normally (at the time of non-stamping) located at a position retracted from the conveying path 10 and is operated by the actuator 13A at the time of stamping to invade.

The branch path 12 is formed toward the lower side of the device, and the defective card 1 is provided on the upper part of the branch path 12.
A first flap 27 that guides to 2 is disposed rotatably supported by a shaft 28.

A solenoid (not shown) is connected to the flap 27, and is located at a position retracted from the transport path 10 when a card is inserted. When it is necessary to return the inserted card 1 once, the flap 27 and the branch path are separated from each other. 12 is communicated with and leads the card to the branch path 12. At this time, the drive motor 5 is rotationally driven in the direction opposite to that when the card is inserted.

The card sorting and feeding device 2B is shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 2, one is connected to the discharge port 4, and the other is connected to the card transport path 10 via the cutter unit 29. The card discharge path 30 is a card transport path. A card collecting path 33 connected to the collecting boxes 31 and 32 arranged at the lower part, a card discharging path 30 and a belt carrying unit 34 for carrying the cards in the card collecting path 33, a second stamp unit 35, and a drive motor 36. Has been done.

As shown in FIG. 5, the cutter unit 29 cuts the card 1 in the card transport path 10 into a boarding ticket 1A and a withdrawal ticket 1B by a rotary blade 29a and a fixed blade 29b. When the unit 29 operates, the drive motor 36 is driven.

The timing belt 38, which is hung on the pulley 37 fixed to the shaft 36a of the drive motor 36, is hung on the pulleys 39a and 40a fixed to the shafts 39 and 40 supported by the frames 8 and 9, respectively. It constitutes a drive means of the card sorting / feeding device 2B.

The shafts 39 and 40 are provided with drive rollers 41 which constitute drive belt units 41 and 42 serving as drive conveyors.
a, 42a are fixed, and the drive rollers 41a, 4a
The conveyor belts 41c and 42d are independently stretched around the roller 2a between the roller 41b and the rollers 42b and 42c.

The driven belt 43d is provided on the opposite side of the drive belt units 41 and 42 from the rollers 43a, 43b and 43c.
The driven belt unit 43 and the roller 45
The driven belt units 45 on which the driven belt 45c is hung are arranged, and the driven belt units 43 and 45 are the driving belt unit 4 and the driving belt unit 4 respectively.
A pad unit is configured for 1, 42.

The driven belt 45c is in contact with the conveyor belt 42d between the rollers 42a and 42c. The driven belt 43d contacts the conveyor belt 42d between the roller 42b and the roller 42a, and the driven belt 43d contacts the roller 41a and the roller 42a.
It is in contact with the conveyor belt 41c between b. That is, the roller 41a is provided in the direction away from the belt 43d, and the roller 41b is provided near the roller 43c.
Abutting against.

A second flap 47, which serves as a direction switching flap, is provided on the shaft 46, which is located between the drive belt units 41 and 42 and supports the roller 45b, with the roller 42c.
The third flap 48 is disposed between the roller 45a and the roller 45a. The roller 42a is arranged near the roller 43b, and the second flap 47 is arranged in the vicinity thereof. The rollers 45a and 45b are arranged so as to line up in the vertical direction as much as possible.

The second flap 47 is switched and controlled by an actuator (not shown) which is operated by a sensor (not shown) which detects the length of the card or the like to discriminate between the boarding ticket 1A and the withdrawal ticket 1B. The second flap 47 is switched by a switching mode set in a control device (not shown). Examples of this switching mode include seat class and destination.

As shown in FIG. 1, the second stamp unit 35 is arranged in the vicinity of the discharge port 4, and is driven by the actuator 35a at a proper time to enter the card discharge passage 30 and is conveyed through the conveyance passage 30. It operates to stamp the boarding pass 1A. A stamp base 44 extending from the vicinity of the roller 41 a to the discharge port 4 is arranged at the facing portion of the second stamp unit 35.

In the card discharge path 30 near the stamp table 44, the driven belt 43d is in a state of floating from the stamp table 44, and the excessive clamping force to the boarding ticket 1A passing through the curved portion C is released. There is.

The driven belt unit 43 is formed in a substantially triangular shape and, as shown in FIG. 6, is supported rotatably with respect to the side plates 8 and 9 with a support shaft 49 of the roller 43a as a fulcrum. Normally (when the device is operating), the card discharge path 30
Is fixed between the side plates 8 and 9 by a lock mechanism 50.

The card receiving portion D formed between the roller 43b and the roller 42b is arranged at a position where the card sent from the cutter unit 29 is clipped in a substantially horizontal state. The roller 43c is arranged slightly closer to the roller 43b than the roller 43a. In addition, the rollers 42b, 42a, 4 located along the card discharge path 30.
The intervals of 1b, 43c, 41a, and 43a are set to intervals at which the boarding ticket 1A can be carried.

The support shaft 49 includes rollers 43a, 43b, 43.
It is rotatably supported via a bearing 52 on a pair of side plates 51 that are smaller than the outer diameter of c and are formed to have substantially the same belt shape as when they are wound around each roller. The rollers 43b and 43c are rotatably supported by shafts 56 and 57 supported by the side plate 51. The bearing 52 is
As shown in FIG. 6, the hole 51a formed in the side plate 51 is press-fitted from the inside of the side plate, and the outer end portion 52a thereof is projected from the side plate.

The frame 8 arranged outside the side plate 51,
As shown in FIG. 6, a cap 53 is fixed to a portion of 9 facing the bearing 52 with a screw 54. Cap 5
3 is fitted in a hole 55 formed in the frames 8 and 9 and has a part thereof projected to the side plate side to support the outer end portion 52a.

Now, the structure of the lock mechanism 50 will be described. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the lock mechanism 50 includes a lock guide 58 fixed to the inner side surfaces 8a and 9a of the frames 8 and 9, a lock bar 59 fixed to one side, and a side plate 51 fixed to the other side. Long hole 60 that engages with the pin 61
The slider 60 is provided with a, and the coil spring 62 that engages the guide pin 61 and the lock bar 59 to urge the slider 60 to the lock position shown by the solid line in FIG.

The lock guide 58 has a plate-like shape and is horizontally provided with a guide surface 58b for guiding the end portion of the lock bar 59 to the engaging recess 58a. Slider 60
Has a U-shaped cross section and a substantially L-shaped side surface, and a handshake 60c is fixed to the upper end portion 60b. The slider 60 is slidable in the horizontal direction by the lock bar 59, the guide surface 58b, the guide pin 61, and the elongated hole 60a.

On the other hand, a discharge roller 64 is supported on the support shaft 49 located between the rollers 43a and 43a via a one-way clutch 63, and the roller 64 has a pad roller 65 as a pad member. Are opposed to each other.

The one-way clutch 63 is press-fitted into the discharge roller 64 as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and when the support shaft 49 is rotationally driven in the counterclockwise direction which is the discharge direction, the one-way clutch 63 drives the shaft 49 and the discharge roller 64. It is possible to rotate integrally. In other words, when the support shaft 49 rotates clockwise or when the support shaft 49 is stopped and the discharge roller 64 rotates counterclockwise, the discharge roller 64 freely rotates with respect to the support shaft 49. It has become.

An elastic member having a hygroscopic property is pressure-bonded to the outer circumference of the discharge roller 64, and the discharge roller 64 is formed to have a roller diameter protruding toward the card discharge path 30 side with respect to the conveyor belt 43a wound around the collecting roller 43a. , Is in contact with the pad roller 65.

Second stamp unit 35 and discharge roller 6
4 is provided with a card sensor S2 for detecting the rear end of the boarding pass ticket 1A. When the card sensor S2 detects the rear end of the boarding pass ticket 1A, the drive motor 36 is stopped. Has become. The distance from the card sensor S2 to the card ejection slot 4 is set shorter than the entire length of the boarding pass ticket 1A, and the tip of the boarding pass ticket 1A stopped in the ejection path 30 due to the stop of the drive motor 36 is the card ejection section. It is designed to project from 4.

The operation of the magnetic card processing device thus configured will be described separately for the card reader device 2A and the card distribution / feed device 2B. (Operation of card reader device) Card 1 is card insertion slot 3
When the sensor S1 shown in FIG.
A shutter (not shown) is opened, the drive motor 5 is driven to rotate normally, and the belt 6c is rotated clockwise. Belt 6
When c rotates, the belt 7c, which comes into contact with the belt 6c, is driven in the counterclockwise direction, the leading edge of the card is sandwiched between the two belts, and the card 1 is taken in and conveyed.

When the conveyed card 1 reaches the magnetic head 11, the magnetic data is read from the magnetic stripe held between the magnetic head 11 and the pad roller 15 and in contact with the head. Here, the recorded contents of the card 1 are checked, and if it is not necessary to write, the card 1 is conveyed to the first stamp unit 13 shown in FIG. 1, the recovery ticket 1B is stamped, and sent to the cutter unit 29.

When an error occurs when writing is necessary or when reading with the magnetic head 11, the drive motor 5 rotates in the reverse direction, and the first flap 27 operates so that the retract path 12 and the transport path 10 communicate with each other. Guide the card to branch 12,
The drive motor 5 is rotated forward to write or read again.

In the cutter unit 29, when the card 1 is fed, the driving means (not shown) is driven in accordance with the length of the card 1 to swing the rotary blade 29a to move the card 1 at the perforations 1b shown in FIG. At the same time as cutting, the drive motor 36 is driven.

(Operation of Card Sorting Feeder) When the drive motor 36 is driven, the timing belt 38 rotates clockwise, and the pulley 39a,
40a is driven, and the belts 41c and 42d of the drive belt units 41 and 42 rotate clockwise. The rotation of the belt 41c and the belt 42d causes the driven belt 43d of the driven belt unit 43 and the belt 45c of the driven belt unit to rotate counterclockwise.

When the driven belt 43d rotates counterclockwise, the integral support shaft 49 also rotates in the same direction, and the feed roller 64 is rotationally driven in the discharging direction by the action of the one-way clutch 63 and comes into contact with the pad roller 65. To follow.

If the inserted card 1 is inserted into the insertion slot 3 in the forward direction and the cutter unit 29 is operated, the boarding pass ticket 1A is sent to the card loading section D first, and later the recovery ticket 1B. Will be sent. At this time, since the card loading section D and the cutter unit 29 are provided horizontally, the cutting operation of the card by the cutter unit 29 and the transportation of the card after cutting can be smoothly performed.

When the card 1 is inserted in the forward direction, the second
The flap 47 initially takes a state of being retracted from the card discharge path 30 and guides the boarding ticket 1A to the card discharge path 30. The guided boarding pass 1A is driven by the driven belt 43d.
It is sandwiched between the belts 42d and 41c, and passes through the curved portion C of the card discharge path 30 and is conveyed to the second stamp unit 35, where it is stamped at a predetermined timing and conveyed toward the discharge port 4.

The boarding pass ticket 1A passing through the music section is the roller 4
Since 1a is arranged in a direction away from the belt 43d, when it passes through the curved portion C, it is conveyed so as to stick to the stamp base 44. Therefore, the stamp at the time of stamping is clearly stamped on the boarding pass ticket 1A.

Further, the position of the roller 43c is set to the roller 43a.
By being located closer to the roller 43b, the curvature of the curved portion C of the discharge path 30 is increased, the deformation of the boarding ticket 1A when passing is suppressed, and the risk of jamming due to excessive deformation of the card is reduced.

Further, the rollers 42b, 42a, 41b, 43c, 41a, which are arranged along the card discharge path 30,
Since the respective intervals of 43a are set to the intervals at which the boarding pass ticket 1A can be transported, the boarding pass ticket 1A can be stably transported even if the belt is dirty or worn.

Since the driven belts 43d and 45c are brought into contact with the conveyor belts 41c and 42c, the difference in peripheral speed between the conveyor belts 41c and 42c and the driven belts 43d and 45c is suppressed as much as possible, and the belt rollers are separated from each other. Can be prevented from coming off.

Boarding pass ticket 1A by card sensor S2
When the rear end is detected, the drive motor 36 stops. Then, the boarding pass 1A has the leading end thereof projected from the card discharge port 4 and is conveyed to the card discharge path 30 by the transport belt 43b.
It is sandwiched between the discharge roller 64 and the pad roller 65 while being separated from the belt 43b by the discharge roller 64 protruding further.

When the user picks up the tip of the boarding pass 1A and pulls it out in FIG. 1, the one-way clutch 63 causes the discharge roller 64 to be rotatable with respect to the support shaft 49, and a torque is applied. Since it is away from the driven belt 43d, the boarding pass ticket 1A is inserted into the card outlet 4
The discharge roller 6 can be smoothly pulled out, and the discharge roller 6 does not need to be subjected to an excessive rotational load.
4 leads to reduction of wear.

In addition, since the discharge roller 64 can absorb ink when the second stamp unit 35 stamps the boarding pass ticket 1A, smearing can be reduced when the card is removed, and the boarding pass ticket 1A and the equipment can be protected. Prevents dirt.

Further, the discharge roller 64 and the pad roller 6
Since the cards 5 are arranged to face each other in front of the card ejection slot 4, the boarding pass ticket 1A can be conveyed to the card ejection slot 4 without bending, and the user can easily take the boarding pass ticket 1A.

On the other hand, the collected ticket 1B is the cutter unit 29.
Drive motor 36 is driven again,
The drive belt units 41 and 42 rotate clockwise,
The driven belt units 43 and 45 rotate counterclockwise.

Then, the second flap 47 is connected to the discharge path 30.
The collecting ticket 1B, which is positioned and conveyed by a solenoid (not shown) above, is transferred to the card collecting path 33, that is, the belt 4.
It is introduced between 2d and the belt 45c. The introduced recovery ticket 1B is conveyed toward the third flap 48, and is distributed to either the recovery box 31 or the recovery box 32 depending on the position of the flap 48.

Next, the opening / closing operation of the driven belt unit 43 will be described with reference to FIGS. The handshake 60c is pulled in the direction of arrow A, and the slider 60 is slid against the spring force of the coil spring 62 to move from the engaging recess 58a to the lock bar 59.
Is moved to unlock the driven belt unit 43, so that the driven belt unit 43 can be opened and closed with respect to the card sorting / feeding device 2B about the shaft 49.

Further, from this state, the screw 54 for fixing the cap 53 is removed to attach the cap 53 to the frame 8,
Remove from 9. At this time, since the lock mechanism 50 and the driven belt unit 43 are supported by the side plate 51, the lock mechanism 50 and the driven belt unit 4 are connected from the frames 8 and 9.
3 can be taken out easily and easily.

[0066]

As described above, according to the present invention, by arranging the driven belts which are driven by the drive belts wound around the rollers constituting the driving and conveying section so as to face each other to form the card conveying path, the circumferences of the belts which face each other can be Since the speed difference can be suppressed, it is possible to provide a card sorting / feeding device which can reduce the belt detachment from the roller and the belt slip, and can stably convey the card.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a card processing device having a card sorting / feeding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a schematic configuration of a card processing device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a conveyor belt unit of the card reader device.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the conveyor belt unit shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing a configuration of a card sorting / feeding device which is a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a configuration of a card sorting / feeding device that is a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing the configuration and operation of the lock mechanism of the driven belt unit in the card sorting / feeding device.

FIG. 8 is a bottom view showing a magnetic card used in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1A card (passenger ticket) 2B card sorting / feeding device 30 card transport passage (card discharge passage) 36 motor 38 belt (timing belt) 41,42 drive transport unit 41a, 42a two rollers 41c, 42d independent transport belt 43d, 45c Driven belt 47 Direction switching flap (second flap)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A belt rotated by a motor drives two rollers in the same direction, and an independent conveyor belt is hung on each of the rollers to form two drive conveyors, and between the two drive conveyors. A card sorting / feeding device in which a direction switching flap is provided on each of the independent transport belts and a driven belt is brought into contact with each of the independent transport belts to form a card transport path.