JPH0134800B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic booklet page changing device, and more specifically, a bank teller device that handles through transfers,
The present invention relates to a device that automatically turns the pages of a passbook in an automatic deposit device, automatic payment device, automatic bookkeeping device, etc.

Conventionally, in this type of banking processing equipment,
When the last line of a page is printed,
This fact is detected and the passbook is temporarily ejected. Therefore, a bank employee or customer handler turns over the next page and reinserts the passbook into the device,
The remaining printing is done. Therefore, manually changing pages during the printing process of a passbook becomes a significant hindrance to automation and labor saving of bank business processing. Furthermore, in automatic deposit machines and automatic payment machines operated by customers themselves, there are cases where the customer not only makes a mistake when setting the bankbook, but also takes home the bankbook that has been ejected to change the pages. In such a case, incomplete termination of passbook processing may occur, and the fact that conventional devices require a processing means for incomplete termination of passbook processing is detrimental to operability, processing speed, reliability, etc. This causes a decrease in the amount of water.

In order to solve these problems in the conventional technology, various automatic booklet page changing devices have been proposed that do not eject the bankbook from the device until all the printing processing for the bankbook is completed and automatically change the pages. ing.

For example, one known technique is an automatic page changing device in which the pages of a passbook are provided with step-like notches, and a locking pawl is used to hook one of the notches to rotate and turn over the corresponding page. There is. However, according to such a technique, the passbook itself must have a special structure, which is not desirable in accordance with the requirements of the so-called banking industry. Another drawback is that if this passbook is used for a long time, the notch part will be damaged and the passbook will not catch properly on the locking claw.

As another conventional automatic page changing device,
There is one shown in Publication No. 49-3732. According to this technology, the friction roller 2 can rotate in forward and reverse directions;
It has a page break function and a function for feeding the passbook, and after gathering the paper leaves of the passbook, the booklet must be pulled back a little, and at this time, the next page is turned over. In addition, when the friction roller is reversed to feed the booklet next time, if the page is not completely turned and is caught on the roller, there is a risk that the page will return to its original state. In some cases, this may cause a jamming phenomenon. Furthermore, it takes more time to pull back the booklet after gathering the paper leaves of the passbook. In addition, none of the conventional page changing devices can simultaneously handle a booklet that opens vertically and a booklet that opens horizontally.

Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the problems of the prior art as described above, and to make it possible to accurately and compare the relevant pages of booklets that open from left to right or from top to bottom without making any special modifications to the bankbook itself. To provide an improved automatic page changing device for a booklet which can be turned over without requiring a lot of time.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a booklet feeding roller disposed on a conveyance path in order to feed a left-right open booklet and a top-down open booklet having a plurality of pages in an open state to a certain page, and a page break roller. facing the page to be changed, and placed at a predetermined angle with the page binding of the booklet where the page is to be changed, and approaching the page while rotating in a predetermined direction, and moving the page from the corner of the page in the direction of the binding. and a page break roller that rotates and moves away from the page surface of the booklet when the page is turned a predetermined amount, and when the page is turned a predetermined amount, the feed roller The booklet is configured to move the booklet in a predetermined direction by driving a roller, and with this configuration, pages can be changed using the same page changing device for both the left-right open booklet and the top-down open booklet.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle of forward page turning (turning pages from the smallest page number to the largest page number) in the booklet page changing device according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the principle of reverse page turning (turning pages from a page with a larger number to a page with a smaller number) in the booklet page changing device according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram (front view) of the principle of page changing in the forward direction for a left-right open booklet in the booklet page changing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 3. FIG. 5 is a diagram (front view) of the principle of page changing in the reverse direction for a left-right open booklet in the booklet page changing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a side view of FIG. 5. FIG. 7 is a diagram (front view) of the principle of forward page changing of a booklet with vertical opening in the booklet page changing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a side view of FIG. 7. FIG. 9 is a diagram (front view) of the principle of page changing in the reverse direction of a booklet with vertical opening in the booklet page changing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 10 is a side view of FIG. 9.

In the figure, 1 is a left-right opening passbook with the pages opened, 2 is a top-down opening passbook with the pages opened, 3 is a page break roller for turning the pages,
Reference numerals 4 and 5 indicate passbook feeding rollers, 6 a guide lever for guiding the pages turned over by the page break roller 3, and 7 a DC solenoid for driving the guide lever 6. In the present invention, the feeding rollers 4 and 5 of the bankbooks 1 and 2 and the page break roller 3 have different functions. The page break roller 3 is made of a material with a large coefficient of friction, and is arranged at a predetermined angle with the page binding direction of the passbook where the page is to be broken, at the corner of the paper on which the page is to be broken in the bankbooks 1 and 2. and is movable by mechanical means in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the page. Normally, the page break roller 3 is spaced apart from the paper surface of the bankbooks 1 and 2, and the bankbooks 1 and 2 are fed beneath it. and,
When there is an instruction to change the page, one end of the bankbook 1 or 2 passes through the position of the feed roller 4 or 5, as shown in Figure 1A or Figure 2B, in the case of a page change in a bankbook 2 that opens vertically. The passbook 2 is stopped at a position where the lower end of the passbook 2 is on the feed roller 4 or 5. Next, as shown in b, the page break roller 3 rotates in a direction (i.e., a direction or d direction) that turns over the paper surface of the passbook 2 at a predetermined angle with the binding direction (i.e., direction a or direction d), and rotates the paper surface of the passbook 2 so that it is in contact with the page. Move in the direction of arrow b. When the page break roller 3 comes into contact with the paper surface, the pages are shifted in the direction of the binding line 6 or 7 of the passbook as shown in C. After a certain amount of the corresponding pages have been gathered in this way, the page break roller 3 hooks only the corresponding page and rotates so as to further move it toward the binding lines 10 and 11, as shown in d. while moving away from the passbook 2 (i.e. arrow c
direction). Thereafter, the paper surface of the passbook 2 comes to be located behind the page break roller 3 as shown in E. Therefore, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 9, the DC solenoid 7 is driven and the guide lever 6 is tilted in the direction of arrow θ ₁ or θ ₂ to separate the page where the page is to be changed from the subsequent pages. , the feed rollers 4 and 5 are driven to feed the passbook 2 in the direction of the arrow e or f as shown in Figs. do.

In the case of a page break in a bankbook with left and right openings, the steps from A to H in FIGS. but,
After the state E, as shown in Figures 3 and 5, the DC
By driving the solenoid 7 and tilting the guide lever 6 in the direction of arrow θ ₁ or θ ₂ , the page to be broken that is located behind the page break roller 3 is moved with the guide lever 6 from other pages. After separating and completely changing the page so that the page to be changed in the bankbook 1 does not hit the guide plates 8 and 9 during feeding, the feeding roller 4
and 5 are driven to feed the bankbook 1 in the direction of arrow e or f, thereby completing the page change operation of the bankbook 1 with left and right openings.

In this way, the page break roller 3, the feed roller 4,
Since the functions are different from those of 5, there is no need for the paper that has been paged to be pulled in again by the feeding roller, and the page can be completely changed.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an automatic page changing device for a booklet of a bankbook 2 with top and bottom openings in a bankbook printing device. The passbook printing device is basically the passbook insertion slot 2.
8, an automatic booklet page changing mechanism provided on the conveyance path 12, and a printing section 13 that prints on the passbook. The passbook insertion port 28 is attached to a housing 29 of the passbook printing device, and the conveyance path 12 is connected to the passbook insertion port 28 . The conveyance path 12 has guide plates 30 and 31 in the thickness direction of the bankbook 2, and rollers 4 and 5 for feeding the bankbook and rollers 3 for page breaks are provided on the conveyance path 12.

The page change roller 3 is attached to a rotatable lever 19, is placed at the corner of the page to be changed, and is normally open. The lever 19 is pressed against the cam 21 by a spring 22, and the rotation of the cam 21 causes the page break roller 3 to move against the bankbook 2.
Makes contact and separation movements. The shaft of the cam 21 is connected to a motor 24 via a gear train 27, and further connected to a gear train 20.
It is connected to the page break roller 3 via. The ratio of the rotation speed of the cam 21 driven by the motor 24, that is, the opening/closing speed of the page break roller 3 and the rotation speed of the page break roller 3 transmitted from the shaft of the cam 21, is determined by the gear train 20. In order to control one rotation of the shaft of the cam 21, a photoelectric element 23 and a shielding plate 2 are used.
5 is provided on the axis.

The distance between the rollers 4 and 5 is made slightly shorter than the length l when the bankbook 2 is opened, so that the opened bankbooks 2 are always fed in an overlapping manner.

Also, between roller 4 and roller 5 is shutter 1.
6 is provided. This shutter 16 is normally closed, but is opened by a link 17 and an electromagnet 18, as shown by the broken line, when changing pages. That is, the purpose of providing the shutter 16 is to prevent the edge of the bankbook 2 from getting caught in the page break space when the bankbook 2 is fed, other than for performing a page change operation.

The printing unit 13 is a known dot printer, that is,
It includes a print head 15 and a platen 14, each having a print wire arranged in a predetermined manner. Feeding of the bankbook 2 in the printing section 13 is performed by a roller 32.
Further, a stop finger 33 is provided for repositioning the bankbook 2 fed to the printing section 13 at a reference position. The distance between roller 4 and roller 32 is 12
Each roller is arranged so that the length is slightly shorter than the length l.

The bankbook inserted into the printing unit 13 is a bankbook 1 that opens vertically and a bankbook 2 that opens horizontally as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14. The printing operation is performed by moving the printing head 15 in the row direction of the bankbook 2 by known means.

The operation of changing pages of the bankbook 2 will be described below with reference to FIG. 12. First, the passbook 2 with the page to be printed opened is inserted through the insertion slot 28, fed by the drive of the rollers 4 and 5 provided on the conveyance path 12, and stopped by the stop finger 33 of the printing section 13. Ru. Then, the stop finger 33 is driven in the direction of the arrow x, and at the same time the roller 32 is driven to set the line to be printed on the bankbook 2 between the print head 15 and the platen 14. In this state, the printing head 15 is moved in the row direction by a known means to print at a predetermined location.

When printing of one line is completed, the roller 32 causes the passbook 2 to line feed upward by one line, and the next line is printed in the same manner as described above. In this way, if printing up to the last line is completed and there is still printed information, the page change operation is started.

First, the passbook 2 is sent to the position of the passbook 2 shown in FIG. 11 by the printing unit 13 driving the rollers 32, 4, and 5. Next, at this position, the electromagnet 18 is attracted in the direction of the arrow y, thereby operating the link 17, and the page changing shutter 16 is opened to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. Then, the motor 24 is driven, the cam 21 is driven through the gear train 27, and the page break roller 2 is further driven through the gear train 20. The driving of the cam 21 is the opening/closing operation of the lever 19 pressed by the spring 22, and the opening/closing operation of the page break roller 3 attached to the lever 19 is performed. In this way, the page break roller 3 performs a rotating operation in a direction to feed the bankbook 2 toward the stitching line at the same time as the closing operation toward the bankbook 2. When the page break roller 3 comes into contact with the paper surface of the bankbook 2 and feeds the paper surface a certain amount in the direction of the stitching line, the cam 21 causes the page break roller 3 to move away from the bankbook 2 through an opening operation, thereby binding only the corresponding page of the bankbook 2. Send it towards the eye. When the page break roller 3 returns to its initial state, the page is rejected by the roller 3 and is in the position shown in 1a of FIG. 11. This operation ends with one opening/closing operation of the page feed roller 3. In other words, it is one rotation of the cam 21, and the photoelectric element 23 and the shear plate 2 provided coaxially with the cam 21.
The motor 24 is controlled by the information No. 5.

Next, the rollers 4 and 5 are driven, and the passbook 2 is sent toward the printing section 13 again. At this time, the turned page 1a moves upward and the page change operation ends.

The passbook 2 that has been re-fed to the printing section 13 is once stopped on the stop finger 33.

In order to perform a page check of the bankbook whose pages have been changed, a barcode 34 is provided corresponding to each page of bankbook 1 and bankbook 2, as shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, and the barcode 34 is An optical detector 26 is arranged, for example, near the roller 4 in accordance with the position, and a page counter is provided, and the counter is incremented by 1 every time a page is updated.
Then, the value of the counter at that time and the value of the barcode read from the detector 26 may be compared. By adding a page management function in this way, it is possible to reliably check after a page break. In other words, if the result of the comparison check is correct, the page changing operation is considered to have ended normally, the stop finger 33 moves in the direction of arrow It will be done. In addition, if it is not correct, the page changing operation is terminated abnormally, and the roller 4
Then, the roller 5 is driven and the passbook 2 is ejected.
Of course, in this case, the page break operation may be repeated again in the same manner as described above.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this and can be implemented with various modifications. For example, in the above embodiment, the passbook 2 is inserted in the vertical direction, but it can be inserted in the same way even if it is inserted in the horizontal direction. In addition, regarding the page change direction, in FIG. 11, the page change in the forward direction is explained using the page break roller 3 on the side closer to the printing section 13, but if the page change roller 3 on the side far from the printing section 13 is used, the page change in the reverse direction is explained. You can also change it. In addition, although FIG. 11 explained the page changing operation of the top-bottom opening bankbook 2, if the left-right opening bankbook 1 is inserted instead of the top-bottom opening bankbook 2, the operations shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 5, and 6 will be performed. It is also easy to change pages in the left-right opening passbook 1 in the forward and reverse directions.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain an automatic page changing device that can be used for both a top-down booklet and a left-right booklet.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a side view showing the relationship between rollers and a bankbook to explain the principle of forward page changing of the present invention, and Fig. 2 is a side view showing the relationship between rollers and a bankbook to explain the principle of reverse page changing of the present invention. 3 is a plan view of forward page changing of a left-right open bankbook, FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a plan view of reverse page changing of a left-right open bankbook. 6th
The figure is a side view of Figure 5, Figure 7 is a plan view of forward page changing of a bankbook with top and bottom openings, Figure 8 is a side view of Figure 7, and Figure 9 is a plan view of reverse page changing of a bankbook with top and bottom openings. 10 is a side view of FIG. 9, FIG. 11 is a side sectional view of the automatic page changing device for a bankbook, FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of automatic page changing operation for a bankbook, and FIG. 13 is a side view of FIG. 14 is a plan view of a bankbook with top and bottom openings, and FIG. 14 is a top view of a bankbook with left and right openings. 1...Passbook with left and right opening, 2...Passbook with top and bottom opening, 3
...Page change roller, 4,5,32...Feed roller, 6...Guide lever, 7...DC solenoid, 12...Transport path, 21...Cam, 24...Motor, 34...Barcode .

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A booklet feeding roller arranged on a conveyance path in order to feed a left-right open booklet and a top-down open booklet having a plurality of pages in an open state on a certain page, and The page of the booklet is placed at a predetermined angle with the binding direction, approaches the page while rotating in a predetermined direction, and turns the page from the angle of the page while making a predetermined angle with the binding direction. comprising a page break roller that rotates and moves away from the paper surface of the booklet when a page is turned a predetermined amount, and drives the feeding roller when the corresponding page is turned a predetermined amount;
An automatic page changing device for a booklet, characterized in that the device is configured to move the booklet in a predetermined direction.