JPH09200312A - Structure for public telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve workability at the time of assembly and to shorten control time. SOLUTION: A public telephone set 1 is provided with a box-shaped casing 2, whose front face is opened, and a door 3 for opening/closing the opening of the casing 2. Then, a control board 23 is fitted onto the back part of inner box 4 formed from synthetic resin, the door 3 is pivotally attached to one side and a coin processing unit 35 is pivotally attached to the other side respectively. The inner box 4 is engaged from the opening of the front face into the casing 2 and fitted through screws 20 onto the back part of the casing 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the structure of a public telephone equipped with a processing unit for processing coins and the like, a control board and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a public telephone of this type is provided with a housing body which is formed of metal and has a box-shaped front surface, and a door for opening and closing the opening of the housing body. ,
A coin processing unit that sorts positive and false coins inserted from the coin slot and stores regular coins in a safe by a coin storage signal, and a control board on which a control unit that controls storage of regular coins and the like is mounted. It is stored in the case body. The coin processing unit and the control board are fixed to the inside of the main body of the housing via a bracket for exclusive use.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional public telephone, when the bracket attached to the side surface inside the housing body is screwed, the tip of the screw is exposed to the outside from the side surface of the housing body and the external appearance is improved. It was attached by welding to damage it. Since the attachment is performed by welding as described above, the attachment work requires skill, positioning of the brackets is complicated, and the brackets are individually attached to the housing body, which requires extra adjustment time for the positioning.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a structure of a public telephone which improves workability during assembly and shortens adjustment time. Especially.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, the structure of a public telephone according to the present invention is a box main body having a box-shaped front opening and an opening / closing opening of the case main body. A public telephone having a freely movable door, and a processing unit for processing coins and the like and a control board for controlling the apparatus body housed in the housing body, wherein the door, the processing unit and the control board are attached. An inner box made of a removable synthetic resin is provided inside the housing body.
Therefore, the processing unit, the control board, and the door are adjusted in position through the inner box.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a public telephone according to the present invention, where (a) is a side view and (b) is a front view.
2 is a perspective view showing the same disassembled state, FIG. 3 is a front view showing the same disassembled door, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV. In these figures, a public telephone, which is generally denoted by reference numeral 1, is a case main body 2 formed into a box shape by a metal, which has a front surface opened and five screw holes 5 screwed in a rear surface, and a main body of the case. A door 3 formed in a shallow dish shape with a metal whose opening is openable and closable, and an inner box 4 made of synthetic resin fitted in the housing body 2 are provided.

Support brackets 6, 6 in which pivot pins 7 are vertically hung downward are fixed to the upper and lower sides of one inner side portion of the door 3, and an inverted L-shaped 3 is attached to the other inner side portion. Individual lock levers 8 are provided, and these lock levers 8 are interlocked to rotate by operating a key (not shown) inserted into a lock 9 provided on the other side of the door 3. To do. An insertion port member 10 having a coin insertion port 10a formed therein is attached to an upper portion of the door 3, and a plate 11 having a dial 11a arranged below the insertion port member 10 is attached. Below the plate 11, a coin return port 12
Is provided, and a hook 14 is provided on the side of the plate 11.
The handset 13 is hung on.

The inner box 4 is made of synthetic resin as a whole and has a box shape with only the front face opened. The outer dimensions of the inner box 4 are formed slightly smaller than the inner dimensions of the housing body, and the inner box 4 is horizontally oriented. The inside is partitioned into a storage chamber 16 and a vault 17 by a partition plate 15 formed integrally. On the back surface of the inner box 4, five mounting holes 18 corresponding to the screw holes 5 of the housing body 2 and two holes 19 are formed. The inner box 4 is attached to the inside of the housing body 2 by inserting the screw 20 into the housing body 2 through the front opening and inserting the screw 20 into the hole 18 and screwing the screw 20 into the screw hole 5.

At the position corresponding to the partition plate 15 on the back surface of the inner box 4, a pair of L-shaped mounting pieces 22, 22 are integrally projected. Reference numeral 23 is a control board on which a control unit for controlling the apparatus main body is mounted, and a pair of holes 24 are provided at both upper end portions.
And a pair of notches 25, 25 at both ends of the lower end.
Are formed. In this control board 23, the notch 25 is placed on the placing piece 22, and the pin 26 with a collar is inserted into the hole 24 and press-fitted into the hole 19 of the inner box 4.
It is attached to the back part of.

A ridge 27 is integrally formed on one inner side of the inner box 4, and a metal fitting 28 having an L-shaped cross section and having a support hole 28a is attached to the ridge 27. . As shown in FIG. 3, at both ends of the upper part of the back part of the inner box 4,
A pair of daruma-shaped holes 29 are formed, and the holes 29
When the public telephone 1 is attached to the wall, the hook attached to the wall is engaged to suspend the public telephone 1. Reference numeral 30a denotes a ridge body integrally provided on the upper portion of the back surface of the inner box 4 so as to extend left and right, and 30b denotes the hole 2
9 is a pair of ridges having an L-shaped cross section, which are integrally provided directly below 9. These ridges 30a, 30b are located above the control board 23 attached to the back surface of the inner box 4, and are for protecting the control board 23 from rainwater and the like that have entered the inside of the housing. is there.

At the front end of the other inner side of the inner box 4, three locking blocks 31 are integrally formed, and two opposing support blocks 32 and one support block 33 are integrally formed. Has been formed. Reference numeral 35 selects positive or false coins input from the coin input port 10a, returns pseudo coins from the coin return port 12, and stores regular coins in the safe 17 according to a coin storage signal (Fig. It is a flat rectangular parallelepiped-shaped coin processing unit to be housed in (not shown).

In such a structure, the inner box 4 is fitted into the housing body 2 through the opening of the housing body 2 and attached to the back surface of the housing body 2 with the screw 20. Next, the pivot pin 7 of the door 3 is engaged with the hole 28a of the metal fitting 28 of the inner box 4, so that the door 3 is pivotally attached to one side of the inner box 4 so that the opening of the inner box 4 can be freely opened and closed. And Then, the control board 23
Place the notch 25 on the mounting piece 22 of the inner box 4 and
Is inserted into the hole 24 and press-fitted into the hole 19 of the inner box 4, so that the control board 23 is attached to the back surface of the inner box 4.

After assembling as described above, the coin processing unit 35 is attached to the inner box 4. That is, the coin processing unit 35 is attached to the flat rotary plate 36 via a bracket (not shown). A pair of arm portions 37, 37 facing the upper and lower portions and one arm portion 38 at the lower portion are bent and formed at one end of the rotating plate 36, and the rotating plate 36 is provided with the arm portions 37, 37. A first link member 40 having a U-shaped cross section is pivotally attached to one end of a first link member 40 via a shaft 39 supported therebetween, and the arm portion 38 is connected to the shaft 41.
Is pivotally attached to one end of the second link member 42 via.

Next, the other end of the first link member 40 is supported between the pair of support blocks 32 of the inner box 4, and the shaft 4 is supported.
It is pivotally attached to one side of the inner box 4 by 3. Then, the other end of the second link member 42 is pivotally attached to one side portion of the inner box 4 by a shaft 44 supported by the support block 33 of the inner box 4. The shaft 43 and the shaft 44 are fixed to the inner box 4 with their positions displaced from each other in plan view as shown in FIG. 4, and the rotating plate 36 and the first and second link members 40 and 42 rotate by four joints. The coin processing unit 35, which constitutes a mechanism, is rotatable in the AB direction in FIG. 4 so that it can be inserted into and removed from the opening of the inner box 4.

Thereafter, the coin processing unit 35 is shown in FIG.
In the direction of arrow B, it is housed in the inner box 4 through the opening of the inner box 4 as shown in FIG. 4, and fixed to the inner box 4 by a fixing means (not shown). Then, after the door 3 is rotated around the pivot pin 7 as a rotation center to close the front opening of the inner box 4, the lock 9 is rotated by a key to rotate the lock lever 8 to rotate the locking block 31. The door 3 is locked by engaging with.

In the public telephone 1 thus assembled, the tip of the screw 20 is exposed only on the rear surface of the housing body 2 facing the wall, which is irrelevant to the appearance, and the side of the screw tip is exposed. Is not exposed, so the appearance is not spoiled. Further, since the control board 23 and the coin processing unit 35 are attached to the housing body 2 via the inner box 4, the control board 23 and the coin processing unit 35 are individually attached to the housing body 2 as in the conventional case. Since it is not necessary to fix the bracket and the like to the housing body 2 by welding, the assembling work is simplified, the hinge for pivotally attaching the door 3 is unnecessary, and the locking block 31 for locking the lock lever 8 is combined. Since it is formed integrally with the inner box 4 made of resin, the number of parts can be reduced.

Further, by attaching the door 3, the control board 23 and the coin processing unit 35 to the inner box 4, since these three members are positioned by the inner box 4, it is not necessary to individually adjust them as in the conventional case. Therefore, the adjustment time is shortened. In addition, the coin processing unit 35,
The door 3 is pivotally attached to one side of the inner box 4 to which the door 3 is pivotally attached, and the other side of the inner box 4 opposite to the pivotal plate 36, the first and second link members 40,
Since the structure is such that it can be inserted into and removed from the inner box 4 via the four-bar rotation mechanism consisting of 42, the front opening of the inner box 4 is opened, which facilitates maintenance and inspection work of the coin processing unit 35 or the control board 23. Become.

In the present embodiment, an example of a coin type public telephone is given, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a card type public telephone may be used. In that case, instead of the coin processing unit 35. A card processing unit that discriminates whether the card is good or bad and rewrites the data according to the call frequency may be adopted. Further, the present invention can be applied to a public telephone in which coins and cards are used together, and in that case, a processing unit in which a coin processing device and a card processing device are unitized may be adopted. Although the door 3 is pivotally attached to one side of the inner box 4 by the pivot pin 7, the door 3 may be detachably attached to the inner box 4.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a case body having a box-like shape with an open front surface, and a door for opening and closing the opening of the case body. A public telephone in which a processing unit for processing coins and the like and a control board for controlling the apparatus main body are housed in the main body, and the door, the processing unit and the control board are attached, and the detachable inside of the housing main body Since the inner box made of the above synthetic resin is provided, it is not necessary to weld the brackets etc. for individually mounting the control board and the coin processing unit to the housing body to the housing body, unlike the conventional method. Work becomes easy. In addition, these doors, control boards and coin processing units can be attached to the inner box to
Since the members are positioned by the inner box, there is no need for individual adjustment as in the conventional case, which shortens the adjustment time.

Further, according to the present invention, a supporting portion for pivotally attaching the processing unit to the opening of the housing body is integrally formed on one side of the inner box, and the door is pivotally supported. Since the support hole into which the pin is inserted is provided on the other side of the inner box, and the support part that supports the control board is integrally formed in the inner box, the hinge for pivotally attaching the door is not required, and the number of parts is reduced. And the front opening of the inner box is opened, which facilitates maintenance and inspection work for the coin processing unit or the control board.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a public telephone according to the present invention, in which (a) is a side view and (b) is a front view.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a public telephone according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a payphone according to the present invention with a door removed.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV in FIG. 3;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... payphone, 2 ... housing body, 3 ... door, 4 ... inner box, 7
... pivot pin, 8 ... lock lever, 9 ... lock, 22 ... placing piece, 23 ... control board, 28a ... support hole, 31 ... locking block, 32, 33 ... support block, 35 ... coin processing unit.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A housing main body having a box-shaped front opening and a door for opening and closing the opening of the housing main body,
A public telephone in which a processing unit for processing coins and the like and a control board for controlling the apparatus body are housed in the housing body, wherein the door, the processing unit and the control board are mounted, and inside the housing body. A public telephone structure characterized by having an inner box made of removable synthetic resin. 2. The structure of the public telephone according to claim 1, wherein a supporting portion pivotally attached to the processing unit such that the processing unit can be inserted into and removed from the opening of the housing body is integrally formed on one side of the inner box. A structure of a public telephone characterized in that a support hole into which a pivotally supported support pin of a door is inserted is provided on the other side of an inner box, and a support portion for supporting a control board is integrally formed in the inner box.