JPH05104291A - Waste can reclaimer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a waste can collecting machine which can publish a hit ticket among plural pieces of missed tickets with a simple constitution and in the publishing state being comparatively near at random, about the ticket published at every thrown empty can. CONSTITUTION:When an empty can is thrown in a throw in hole 13 of the front door 15, an throw-in sensor 44 detects this throw-in, and a controller 38 selects at random an either side of carrying motors 28, 29 as the driving object with the function of a random selecting part 38. The selected one side of the carrying motors 28, 29 rotates a carrying roller 30, 31, and transfers one side of the corresponding belt like papers 36, 37 by the length of the ticket surface. One side of this selected belt like papers 36, 37 is cut at every ticket by operating a cutter motor 34 with the control of the controller 38 and driving a cutter 35. The obtained ticket is discharged from the ticket issuing hole 45 to the outer part of the housing 12, and the publishing of the ticket is executed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an empty can collecting machine having a ticket issuing function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an empty can collecting machine for collecting empty cans made of iron or aluminum used as containers for various beverages has been used from the viewpoint of resource saving. In such an empty can collecting machine, when collecting based on the so-called deposit system, a seal indicating that the can is based on the deposit system is attached to the bottom of the empty can. When this seal is detected and the empty can with the seal attached is collected, for example, 10 yen is refunded. On the other hand, if it is not based on the deposit system, for example, one ticket is issued each time an empty can is collected. This ticket includes, for example, a winning ticket at a ratio of one to a predetermined number, and the winning ticket wins a predetermined amount of money or wins or discounts an article. Even with regular tickets that are not winning tickets, such services may be provided depending on the predetermined number of tickets.

[0003]

In order to issue one winning ticket for a plurality of ordinary tickets, the following technique is assumed.

(1) A normal ticket and a winning ticket are printed in advance on the roll paper. However, in this case, there is a problem that the issuance of the winning ticket cannot be performed randomly.

(2) The face of a normal ticket and the face of a winning ticket are imprinted on a blank roll paper inside the empty can collecting machine. In this case, it is necessary to incorporate a stamping mechanism inside the empty can collecting machine, which complicates the structure and makes it difficult to issue a ticket.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned technical problems and to issue a single winning ticket to a plurality of non-hit tickets for each empty can. In the configuration,
In addition, it is to provide an empty can collecting machine that can be performed in a relatively random issuing state.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an empty can collecting machine that issues either a first type ticket or a second type ticket that is predetermined each time an empty can is loaded, and is stored in a housing. A plurality of roll papers, each of which is a first type ticket and a plurality of facets of a second type ticket, respectively, and individually for each roll paper. A plurality of transporting means for transporting each roll paper for each length of each bill face, and a control means for randomly selecting one of the plurality of transporting means each time an empty can is loaded. Is an empty can collecting machine.

[0008]

[Operation] In the empty can collecting machine according to the present invention, either a first type ticket or a second type ticket determined in advance is issued each time an empty can is loaded. At this time, a plurality of types of roll paper are accommodated in the housing of the empty can collecting machine, and a plurality of face surfaces to be a first type ticket and a plurality of face surfaces to be a second type ticket are respectively provided. Printed in advance. Each roll paper is provided with a transporting unit that transports each roll paper every length of each bill face each time an empty can is loaded. The control means randomly selects one of the plurality of carrying means each time an empty can is loaded, and carries the selected roll paper by the length of the bill face.

As a result, even if each roll paper is preprinted with a plurality of bill faces serving as the first-type bill and a plurality of bill faces serving as the second-type bill, respectively. The issuing status can be performed in a relatively random state. Therefore, it is possible to eliminate the need for incorporating a mechanism for imprinting the first-type and second-type bills, and for a plurality of non-win tickets, one ticket is issued each time an empty can is inserted. It is possible to issue a winning ticket of a piece with a simple configuration and in a relatively near-issued state.

[0010]

1 is a front view of the vicinity of a ticket issuing device 23 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view of the ticket issuing device 23.
FIG. 3 is a front view of the empty can collecting machine 11, and FIG. 4 is a front view of the housing 12 of the empty can collecting machine 11 in which the front surface portion 14 is opened. The front portion 14 of the housing 12 of the empty can collecting machine 11 of this embodiment is configured as a front door 15, and the empty can 1
6, a charging port 13 having a size capable of charging 6 is formed,
Further, a ticket payout opening 45 is formed.

On the back surface of the inlet 13 of the front door 15, a sorting device 17 for the empty cans is placed. The sorting device 17 has a sorting sensor, which will be described later, for determining whether the loaded can is an empty can as a beverage container to be pressed or a spray can used for cosmetics, pesticides and the like.
This sorting sensor optically scans the longitudinal end portion of the inserted can, for example, and detects whether or not a hole serving as a drinking mouth is formed at the end portion. If it is a spray can, there is a risk of explosion when it is pressed. Therefore, the spray can is not taken into the housing 12 but is discharged from the charging port 13 again.

A pressing device 18 for pressing an empty can that has been charged from the charging port 13 is disposed in the housing 12, and a weight sensor is provided below the pressing device 18, so that an empty can having a predetermined weight or more is charged. , Drop it into a collection box (not shown) without pressing. In other words, the pressing operation is not performed when it is considered that there are unfilled beverages, dust, etc. inside the empty can.

Below the pressing device 18, a sorting device 19 for separating pressed cans into aluminum cans and iron cans.
Are placed. The distribution plate 20 of the distribution device 19 is normally oriented to the iron can collection box 21 side, that is, in the diagonally right downward direction in FIG. 4, and only when an aluminum can is loaded, the distribution plate 20 is disposed. Numeral 20 inclines to the side of the collection box 22 for aluminum cans, that is, diagonally downward to the left in FIG. 4, to guide the aluminum cans. When the aluminum can falls into the collection box 22, the distribution plate 20
Returns in the direction toward the collection box 21 side for the iron can. Such a distribution device 19 has a structure that detects whether the inserted empty can is a magnetic substance or a non-magnetic substance, and switches the inclination direction of the distribution plate 20 according to the detection result. ..

FIG. 5 is a view of the housing housed in the housing 12.
It is a perspective view of the paper 24a. Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 together. A ticket issuing device 23 is arranged in the housing 12. The ticket issuing device 23 has the configuration shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and as shown in FIG. 5, the normal ticket 2 that is a plurality of non-winning tickets.
5 sheets are printed in succession, and a plurality of normal tickets 25
A pair of roll papers 24 each having a winning ticket 26 printed in advance,
27 is provided. The roll papers 24 and 27 are fed to the feeding motor 2 respectively.
A pair of feed rollers 30, which are individually driven by 8, 29,
Each of them is sandwiched by 31 and is conveyed by the length of the one bill face each time the empty can 16 is inserted. Each roll paper 24,
The strip-shaped papers 36 and 37 fed from 27 and conveyed are sandwiched by the pair of guide rollers 32 and 33, respectively, and guided to the cutter 35 driven by the cutter motor 34.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the electrical construction of the empty can collection machine 11 of this embodiment. The empty can collecting machine 11 includes a control device 38 implemented as, for example, a microprocessor, and the control device 38 includes a can loading sensor 44 for detecting loading of the empty can 16 by the sorting device 17, for example. The sorting device 19 and the press device 18 are connected to each other, and the sorting device 19 is further provided, and a can kind sensor 39 for detecting whether the material of the empty can is an aluminum can or an iron can, The control unit 38 detects the cans sorted by the sorter 19 for each aluminum can and iron can.
The aluminum can sensor 40 for counting the number of individual inputs
And the iron can sensor 41 are connected. Further, as described above, an optical configuration is used as an example of detecting whether the inserted can is a can as a beverage container or a spray can, and detecting a hole serving as a drinking mouth at the longitudinal end of the can. The sorting sensor 42 having the is connected.

Further, the control device 38 is provided with the feed motor 2
8, 29 and the cutter motor 24 are connected to each other, and a random selection section 43 is provided inside the control device 38. The random selection section 43 corresponds to the output of the can loading sensor 44 every time the empty can 16 is loaded, for example, randomly “1”.
Alternatively, "0" is generated, and if it is "1", the feed motor 28 is selected as a drive target, and if it is "0", the feed motor 29 is selected as a drive target.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of this embodiment. In such an empty can collecting machine 11,
When 6 is inserted from the inlet 13 of the front door 15, the can insertion sensor 44 detects this insertion in step a1, and the controller 38 selects the random selection unit 43 in step a2.
Due to the above-mentioned action, either one of the feed motors 28 and 29 is randomly selected as a drive target. One of the selected feed motors 28 and 29 is fed at step a3.
The rollers 30 and 31 are rotated to convey one of the corresponding strip-shaped papers 36 and 37 by the length of the bill surface. One of the selected strip-shaped papers 36 and 37 is connected to the control device 38 in step a4.
The cutter motor 34 operates under the control of (1) to drive the cutter 35, and the cutter surface is cut into each of the above-mentioned sheet surfaces. At step a5, the obtained ticket is transferred from the ticket payout opening 45 to the housing 1
It is discharged to the outside of 2 and the ticket is issued.

As described above, in this embodiment, a single roll is used.
Compared to the conventional example in which a normal ticket and a winning ticket are printed in advance on a roll paper, a pair of roll papers 24 and 27 in which a plurality of non-winning tickets and winning tickets are printed in advance are used. The ticket is issued by randomly selecting one of the papers 24 and 27. Thus, the winning ticket can be output in a relatively random manner. In addition, the need for incorporating a mechanism for imprinting the non-winning ticket face and the winning ticket face on the blank roll paper inside the empty can collecting machine 11 is eliminated, and the structure of the empty can collecting machine 11 is simplified. It can be done, and it does not take time to issue a ticket.

In this embodiment, a pair of roll papers 24,
Since 27 is built in, it is possible to continue issuing the ticket by the other one even when the other one runs short. This facilitates the maintenance and inspection work of the empty can collection machine 11.

As another embodiment of the present invention, the roll paper stored in the empty can collecting machine 11 is not limited to a pair, but three or more roll papers are stored and each roll paper is the same as the above-mentioned embodiment. Alternatively, the ticket-issuing operation may be performed at random.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, either a first-type ticket or a second-type ticket determined in advance is issued every time an empty can is inserted. At this time, a plurality of types of roll paper are accommodated in the housing of the empty can collecting machine, and a plurality of face surfaces to be a first type ticket and a plurality of face surfaces to be a second type ticket are respectively provided. Printed in advance. On each roll paper,
Each time an empty can is loaded, a transport means is provided for transporting each roll paper for each length of each bill face. The control means randomly selects one of the plurality of carrying means each time an empty can is loaded, and carries the selected roll paper by the length of the bill face.

As a result, even if each of the roll papers is printed in advance with a plurality of bill faces serving as the first-type bill and a plurality of bill faces serving as the second-type bill, respectively. The issuing status can be performed in a relatively random state. Therefore, it is possible to eliminate the need for incorporating a mechanism for imprinting the first-type and second-type bills, and for a plurality of non-win tickets, one ticket is issued each time an empty can is inserted. It is possible to issue a winning ticket of a piece with a simple configuration and in a relatively near-issued state.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of the vicinity of a ticket issuing device 23 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the ticket issuing device 23.

3 is a front view of the empty can collection machine 11. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a state in which a front surface portion 14 of the housing 12 is opened.

FIG. 5: Roll paper 24a stored in the housing 12
FIG.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the empty can collection machine 11.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Empty Can Collection Machine 23 Ticketing Device 24, 27 Roll Paper 25 Regular Ticket 26 Per Ticket 28, 29 Feeding Motor 38 Control Device 43 Random Selection Section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An empty can collecting machine that issues either a first type ticket or a second type ticket that is predetermined each time an empty can is inserted, and the first type ticket is stored in a housing. And a plurality of roll faces on which a plurality of bill faces serving as the second type of bills are printed in advance, and roll papers provided individually for each roll paper. An empty can collecting machine including: a plurality of carrying means for carrying each length of each bill face; and a control means for randomly selecting one of the plurality of carrying means each time an empty can is loaded. ..