JPH1093670A - Structure of public telephone set enclosure - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the workability for maintenance and inspection and to prevent a processor from being broken at the time of maintenance and inspection. SOLUTION: An enclosure 5 of a public telephone 1 consists of an enclosure main body 2, which has the front opened and is formed like a box, and a cover 3 which opens/closes the aperture of this enclosure main body 2 by a hinge 4. A coin processor 9 for coin forgery discrimination is fixed to a frame 14. The frame 14 is freely turnably and pivotally supported by a bearing member 25 provided on the turning fulcrum side of the door 3. The center of turning of the door 3 and that of the coin processor coincide with each other approximately. The door 3 and the coin processor 9 are opened to perform maintenance and inspection of a control part 40.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coin-type or card-type and a coin-type and card-type public telephone, and more particularly to a housing structure for accommodating a processing device for processing coins or cards.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The housing of a coin-type public telephone, for example, comprises a housing body formed in a box shape with an open front surface, and a door capable of opening and closing the opening of the housing body. Is
A coin processing device that sorts positive and false coins inserted from a coin insertion slot and stores regular coins in a vault based on a coin storing signal, and a control unit that performs call control, billing control, and the like are stored.

[0003] The inside of the housing body is usually up by a partition plate.
The vault is divided below, and a vault room for storing a safe is formed on the lower side. The control unit and the coin processing device are stored on the upper side, and the coin processing device is located on the front side of the control unit. Therefore, when performing maintenance and inspection of the control unit, it is necessary to open the front side of the control unit by shifting the coin processing device from the front position of the control unit.

[0004]

In the above-described conventional housing structure of a public telephone, the frame is fixed inside the housing body, and the coin processing device is fixed to this frame by screws. At the time of maintenance and inspection of the coin, the coins are removed from the frame by loosening the screws.
For this reason, removal of the coin processing device from the frame and attachment to the frame have been complicated. In addition, there is a possibility that there is no space for placing the removed coin processing device or that the coin processing device placed on the floor or the like is accidentally overturned and damaged.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a structure of a public telephone housing that improves workability during maintenance and inspection and prevents damage to a processing device during maintenance and inspection.

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, a structure of a public telephone housing according to the present invention includes a housing main body formed in a box shape with an open front surface, and an opening of the housing main body. A door provided with a dial input means pivotally attached to one side of the opening so as to be freely openable and closable so that a processing device for processing coins and the like can be inserted and withdrawn through the opening of the housing body. It is pivotally attached to the one side of the opening of the housing body. In the present invention, the processing device is mounted on a frame, and the frame is provided with an arm having an axis,
A bearing member having a shaft hole for rotatably supporting the shaft is provided on the housing body side. Further, in the present invention, the door is pivotally supported by hinges, and a bearing member is provided on the housing body side so as to be located between the hinges, and the rotation centers of the door and the frame are made substantially coincident with each other. It is characterized by the following.

In the present invention, maintenance and inspection of the control unit is performed by rotating the door to one side of the opening and then opening the processing unit by rotating the door to one side of the opening. In addition, it is not necessary to remove the processing device from the housing main body, and after the maintenance and inspection is completed, the processing device is rotated and closed to be automatically stored in the original position. The frame holds the processing device. In this frame, a shaft provided on the arm is rotatably supported by a bearing member. Therefore, the processing device is pulled out of the housing body integrally with the frame. Since the door and the processing device have the same center of rotation and rotate in the same direction, the positional relationship between the door and the processing device can be confirmed with the door opened, which is advantageous for adjusting the position of the door and the other side of the opening. Since it is greatly opened, it is advantageous for work.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 shows the appearance of a public telephone according to the present invention, (a) is a front view, (b) is a side view, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state at the time of maintenance and inspection, and FIG. 3 is a door opened similarly. FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV of FIG. 3 with the door open, FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV of FIG. 3 with the door and coin processing device opened, FIG. Is a plan view of the frame, and FIG. 7 is a front view of the frame.

[0009] In these figures, a coin-type public telephone generally designated by the reference numeral 1 has a box-shaped housing body 2 having an open front surface, and an opening of the housing body 2 which is opened and closed. At the right edge of the opening, the housing body 2 is
And a housing 5 comprising a shallow box-shaped door 3 pivotally mounted on the housing 5.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a box-shaped rack made of a synthetic resin material and having an outer dimension slightly smaller than the outer shape of the housing body 2 and having an open front surface, which fits inside the housing body 2. And is fixed to the housing body 2 by screws (not shown).

Inside the rack 6, a horizontal partition plate 7 for dividing into two upper and lower chambers is integrally formed, an upper chamber forms a storage chamber 8 for storing a coin processing device 9, and a lower chamber. Form safe rooms 12 for storing the safes 11 respectively.

The coin processing device 9 is formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped shape, sorts coins inserted from a coin insertion slot 42a described later, positive or false, and outputs a pseudo coin to a coin return slot 45 described later.
The regular coins are temporarily stored in the storage unit, and are stored in the safe 11 by a coin storage signal from the control unit.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a frame for holding the coin processing device 9. This frame 14 is formed by facing and separably connecting two frame members 15, 16 formed in an L shape as shown in FIG. It is formed in a U-shape facing upward when viewed from the front.

Further, the structure of the frame 14 will be described in detail.
The frame component 15 on the left side in FIG.
Horizontal bottom plate 1 formed by bending a metal plate
5A, and a vertical plate 15B bent upward at one end of the bottom plate 15A. At the tip of the bottom plate 15A, an engagement portion 17 that is long in the front-rear direction and forms a connection portion with the right frame component 16 is formed by being bent upward. Also, the bottom plate 15A and the vertical plate 15B are integrally provided with mounting portions 20 and 21 having screw mounting holes 18 and 19 by bending, respectively.
Are fixed by screws (not shown).

Further, the vertical plate 15B is provided integrally with two arms 23, 23 protruding laterally, which are vertically separated from each other. On these arms 23, 23, shafts 24 constituting the center of rotation of the frame 14 are provided downward. A shaft 24 of each arm 23 is rotatably supported by a bearing member 25 shown in FIG. 2 fixed to the right opening end surface of the rack 6 so as to substantially coincide with the center of rotation of the door 3. The bearing member 25 is formed in a U-shape in a side view, integrally has two bent portions 25a opposed vertically, and the shaft 24 is inserted into the distal ends of these bent portions 25a from above. The shaft holes 26 are respectively formed. The bearing member 25 is provided on the rack 6 so as to be located at an intermediate portion between two hinges 4 that pivotally support the upper and lower ends of the door 3.

In FIG. 7, the right frame member 1 is shown.
6 is formed by bending a metal plate in the same manner as the left frame component member 15 and integrally includes a horizontal bottom plate 16A and a vertical plate 16B bent upward at one end of the bottom plate 16A. ing. A long hole 30 long in the front-rear direction into which the engaging portion 17 of the left frame component 15 is inserted is formed at the distal end of the bottom plate 16A.
At the upper end of the vertical plate 16B, a mounting portion 32 having a screw mounting hole 31 is integrally formed by bending.
The upper end of the coin processing device 9 is fixed to the mounting portion 32 by a screw (not shown). Also, the vertical plate 16B
A bent piece 35 protruding to the side is integrally provided on the outer side surface of the, and the bent piece 35 is rotated in a state where a thumb screw 36 (see FIGS. 2 to 5) is prevented from coming off. Mounted freely. The thumb screw 36 is screwed into a screw hole 38 of a mounting bracket 37 fixed to the front end of the inner surface of the rack 6 to fix the frame 14 to the rack 6.

The above two frame members 15, 1
6 are engaged with each other by inserting the engaging portions 17 into the elongated holes 30, and the bottom plates 15A,
The coin processing device 9 is placed on 16A, and is fixed to the mounting portions 20, 21, 32 of the frame components 15, 16 by screws, and is integrally connected via the coin processing device 9, thereby forming the frame 14. . In this embodiment, the frame 14 is divided into two frame components 15,
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be one frame integrally formed.

In FIGS. 4 and 5, a storage unit 8 of the rack 6 further stores a control unit 40 for performing call control, billing control, and the like. The control unit 40 is formed of a circuit board on which a control circuit and the like are formed. The control unit 40 is mounted on a mounting piece 41 protruding from the inner surface of the storage chamber 8 and fixed to the rack 6 with screws (not shown). It is located behind the processing device 9.

In FIG. 1, a slot member 42 having the coin slot 42a is mounted on the front upper portion of the door 3, and a plate 44 provided with a dial button 43 is provided below the slot member 42. Installed. Further, a coin return slot 45 is provided below the plate 44, and a hook 47 on which a handset 46 is hooked is provided on the left side.

2 and 3, a lock 50 for locking the door 3 is provided on the side of the door 3 on the rotation side. The lock 50 includes a locking plate 51 that is slidably arranged vertically along the left inner surface of the door 3. The locking plate 51 is formed to be long in the up-down direction, and integrally has an inverted L-shaped locking portion 52 protruding rearward of the door 3 at the upper, lower, and middle portions.
0 is locked, the locking unit 52 is lowered and the rack 6 is locked.
Is configured to engage with a block-shaped locking plate receiving member 53 provided on the left inner side surface of the left side. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 54 denotes a return port member.

In such a structure, the shaft 24 (FIG. 3)
When the coin processing device 9 is housed in the housing body 2 by rotating the frame 14 in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 4 around the rotation center, the thumb screw 36 hits the mounting bracket 37 and is screwed into the screw hole 38. Thereby, the coin processing device 9 is fixed to the housing body 2. FIG. 4 shows this state. Similarly, when the door 3 is rotated in the direction of arrow B to close the opening of the housing body 2 and the lock 50 is locked in this state, the locking plate 51 operates to engage the locking portion 52 with the locking plate receiving member 53. Combine.

Next, a case where the control section 40 is subjected to maintenance and inspection will be described. From the state shown in FIG. 1, the lock 50 of the door 3 is unlocked by a key, and the door 3 is turned by approximately 90 ° in the direction opposite to the direction of arrow B as shown in FIG. I do. Thereafter, the thumb screw 36 is screwed into the screw hole 38 of the mounting bracket 37.
Then, the fixed state of the frame 14 is released, and the coin processing device 9 is rotated together with the frame 14 by about 90 ° in the direction of arrow A shown in FIG.
In this state, the control unit 40 is maintained and inspected by inserting a hand into the storage room 8. Therefore, the coin processing device 9
Does not need to be removed from the housing body 2, and maintenance and inspection work of the control unit 40 are easy. In particular, since the left side of the opening of the housing body 2 is largely opened, it is advantageous in working. Further, since the door 3 and the coin processing device 9 are mounted so that their centers of rotation are substantially coincident with each other, the positional relationship between the door 3 and the coin processing device 9 can be confirmed with the door 3 opened, which is advantageous for adjusting their positions. It is. If the rotation direction is opposite, the coin processing device 9 is not completely stored in the housing body 2 before the door 3
When the door is closed, the door 3 may be erroneously pinched by the coin processing device 9 and may be damaged.

In this embodiment, an example of a coin-type public telephone has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a card-type public telephone may be used. A card processing device that determines whether the card is good or bad and rewrites data on the good card according to the number of calls is attached to the frame 14. In addition, the present invention can be applied to a public telephone using both coins and cards. In this case, a processing device in which a coin processing device and a card processing device are unitized may be attached to the frame 14. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the door 3 and the coin processing device 9 are mounted on the right side of the opening of the housing body 2, but may be mounted on the left side.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, a housing body formed in a box shape with an open front surface is provided on one side of the opening so that the opening of the housing body can be freely opened and closed. A door provided with a dial input means and pivotally attached to the one side of the opening of the housing main body so that a processing device for processing coins and the like can be freely inserted and removed from the opening of the housing main body. Therefore, there is no need to remove the processing apparatus from the housing main body and to attach the processing apparatus to the housing main body, so that the operation becomes easy and the operation time can be shortened. Further, a space for placing the removed processing device is not required, and there is no possibility that the processing device placed on the floor or the like is accidentally overturned and damaged as in the related art.

In the present invention, the processing device is mounted on a frame, and an arm having a shaft is provided on the frame.
Since the bearing member having the shaft hole for rotatably supporting the shaft is provided on the housing body side, the work of attaching the frame to the housing body is also easy.

Further, according to the present invention, since the center of rotation of the door frame is made coincident, the positional relationship between the door and the coin processing device can be confirmed with the door opened, which is advantageous for adjusting these positions, and is advantageous for maintenance and inspection. Since the door does not sometimes sandwich the processing device by mistake, the processing device is not damaged.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a public telephone according to the present invention,
(A) is a front view, (b) is a side view.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state of the public telephone according to the present invention at the time of maintenance and inspection.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing a state in which a door of the public telephone according to the present invention is opened.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV of FIG. 3 in a state where a door is opened.

FIG. 5 shows a state in which a door and a coin processing device are opened.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a frame.

FIG. 7 is a front view of the frame.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Pay telephone, 2 ... Case main body, 3 ... Door, 4 ... Hinge,
5 ... housing, 9 ... coin processing device, 14 ... frame, 15,
16 ... frame constituent member, 23 ... arm, 24 ... shaft, 25
... bearing member, 26 ... shaft hole, 40 ... control part, 43 ... dial button, 50 ... lock, 51 ... locking plate.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A housing body formed in a box shape with an open front surface, and a door provided with dial input means pivotally mounted on one side of the opening so that the opening of the housing body can be opened and closed. And a processing device for processing coins and the like is pivotally attached to the one side of the opening of the housing main body so that the processing device can be inserted and removed from the opening of the housing main body. Construction. 2. The public telephone case according to claim 1, wherein the processing device is mounted on a frame, the frame is provided with an arm having an axis, and the axis is rotated on the case main body side. A structure of a housing for a public telephone, comprising a bearing member having a shaft hole that freely supports the shaft. 3. The structure of a public telephone case according to claim 2, wherein the door is pivotally supported by hinges so as to be rotatable, and a bearing member is provided on the case body side so as to be located between the hinges. A structure of a housing for a public telephone, wherein the center of rotation of the door and the frame are substantially coincident with each other.