JPH06211207A - Coin packer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a coin packer which can prevent in advance impossible or incorrect packing, by providing a packing device which can operate immediately after a packing sheet is set, and prevent, so-called setting mistakes in advance. CONSTITUTION:This coin packer is provided with a packing sheet width detecting means A, a packing unit sheet count memory B storing the packing unit sheet count of coins corresponding to the sheet width, and a packing count setter C which receives the sheet width data output from the packing sheet width detector A and calculates the packing unit sheet number, basing on the packing unit sheet data of the coins stored in accordance with the sheet width data in the packing unit sheet count memory B and outputs the packing unit sheet data to a coin packing controller D.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coin packaging machine for packaging a single type of coins (coins, medals used in game centers, etc.) in a predetermined number of packaging units.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the general structure of a coin packing machine of this type is to convey and stack the inserted coins one by one, as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-72013. It is provided with a counting unit that counts the number of coins, a stacking unit that stacks the coins conveyed from the counting unit, and a packing unit that receives and packs the stacked coins stacked in this stacking unit.

This type of coin packaging machine is sometimes used for packaging a single type of coins or medals used in, for example, game machines. In this case, it may be necessary to change the number of packaging units in units of five, for example. Therefore, packaging sheets having various sheet width dimensions are prepared for each number of packaging units.

In order to wrap coins of different packing unit numbers by using the conventional coin wrapping machine, a roll-shaped wrapping sheet having a sheet width dimension corresponding to the number of wrapping unit sheets to be wrapped is placed in the wrapping section. While attaching to the attachment part,
The number of packaging units corresponding to the packaging sheets mounted on the operation unit of the coin packaging machine is set manually separately.

[0005]

However, in the conventional coin wrapping machine, the number of coins to be wrapped in the packaging unit is set by the operation unit, and the packaging sheet has a sheet width dimension corresponding to the number of the packaging unit. Since it is mounted on the mounting portion, there are the following problems.

That is, since the number of packaging units must be set after mounting the packaging sheet, there is a problem that the coin packaging machine cannot be operated immediately after mounting the packaging sheet.

Further, since the mounting of the packaging sheets and the setting of the number of packaging units are performed separately, the number of packaging units suitable for packaging by the mounted packaging sheets and the packaging set manually by the operation unit. There is a problem that a so-called setting error that is different from the unit number of sheets is likely to occur. As a result, when the length of the accumulated coins is larger than the sheet width of the packaging sheet, the accumulated coins cannot be packaged, or the sheet width of the packaging sheet is larger than the length of the accumulated coins. In this case, a problem such as defective packaging occurs.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and can be operated immediately after the packaging sheet is mounted, and moreover, it is possible to prevent a so-called setting error from occurring, thereby making packaging impossible. An object of the present invention is to provide a coin packaging machine capable of preventing the occurrence of packaging defects.

[0009]

A coin packing machine of the present invention feeds out a single type of coins inserted from a hopper into a conveying path one by one, and counts the coins conveyed by the conveying path. After counting by means of means, the sheets are accumulated in the accumulating section, and when the number of accumulated sheets accumulated in the accumulating section reaches the number of packaging units, the driving of the counting section is stopped, and the packaging sheets are placed on the peripheral surface of the accumulated coins. A coin wrapping machine having a coin wrapping control mechanism for winding and wrapping the upper and lower edges of the wrapping sheet with a pair of squeezing claws. A unit for storing the number of packaging units of coins corresponding to the sheet width dimension, a sheet width data output from the packaging sheet width detection unit A, and
The number of packaging units is calculated based on the number of packaging units data of coins stored in the packaging unit number storage unit B corresponding to the sheet width data, and the packaging unit number data is output to the coin packaging control mechanism D. And a packaging sheet number setting means C.

[0010]

According to the coin wrapping machine of the present invention, the number of coin wrapping units corresponding to the width of the wrapping sheet is stored in the wrapping unit number storing means, and when the wrapping sheet is mounted on the coin wrapping machine. The sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet is detected by the packaging sheet width detecting means, and the sheet width data is sent to the packaging number setting means. The packaging number setting means obtains the packaging unit number based on the packaging unit number data of coins stored in the packaging unit number storage means corresponding to the sheet width data, and controls the packaging unit number data to the coin packaging control. Output to the mechanism.

In this coin wrapping control mechanism, the coins carried by the carrying path are counted by the counting means and then stacked in the stacking unit, and the number of stacked stacks in the stacking unit reaches the packing unit number. If so, the driving of the counting unit is stopped, and the packaging sheet is wound around the peripheral surface of the accumulated coins,
The upper and lower edges of the packaging sheet are crimped by a pair of crimping claws.

As described above, it is possible to detect the sheet width dimension of the mounted packaging sheet, automatically set the number of packaging units according to the sheet width dimension, and package coins based on the number of packaging units. it can. Therefore, after mounting the packaging sheet, the packaging can be started immediately without separately setting the number of packaging units. In addition, since the packaging is performed with the number of packaging units corresponding to the sheet width dimension of the mounted packaging sheet, it is possible to prevent the packaging from becoming impossible or the packaging from becoming defective.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A coin packaging machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the coin wrapping machine of this embodiment.

Packaging sheet width detecting means A for detecting the sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet, and packaging unit number storage means B for storing the number of coin packaging units corresponding to the sheet width dimension.
And the sheet width data output from the packaging sheet width detection means A, and the packaging unit based on the packaging unit number data of coins stored in the packaging unit number storage means B corresponding to the sheet width data. And a packaging sheet number setting means C for determining the number of sheets and outputting the packaging unit sheet number data to the coin packaging control mechanism D.

As shown in FIG. 2, the coin packaging control mechanism D has a counting unit 10 for feeding coins one by one for accumulating coins, and a stacking unit for collecting coins fed out from the counting unit. And a packaging unit 30 for receiving and packaging the accumulated coins accumulated in the accumulating unit 20,
It controls these operations.

The counting unit 10 includes a hopper 11, a belt conveyor 12 for conveying the coins inserted from the hopper 11, and a rotary disk 13 for feeding the loose coins conveyed by the belt conveyor 12 one by one. , A collecting unit 20 for collecting coins fed one by one from the rotating disk 13.
And a counting means 15 for counting the number of coins transported along the transport path 14, which is provided slightly before the end of the transport path 14 in the transport direction.

The accumulating section 20 is a pair of accumulating drums 21 and 2 for accumulating coins fed from the conveying path 14.
1 and a shutter 22 provided below these stacking drums 21 and 21 and on which stacked stacked coins are placed. In addition, the coins sent from the transport path 14 are supported on the outer circumferences of the stacking drums 21 and 21.
A spiral projection 2 that guides downward while accumulating coins that are fed out as the stacking drums 21 and 21 rotate.
3 is formed.

The packaging unit 30 has a coin receiver 31 on which stacked coins are placed when the shutter 22 is opened and is provided so as to be movable downward, and when the coin receiver 31 is lowered to a predetermined position. A packaging roller 32 for sandwiching the peripheral surface of the accumulated coins placed on the coin receiver 31 from three directions
And a supply roller 34 and a driven roller 35 which are provided in the vicinity of the packaging roller 32 and feed the roll-shaped packaging sheet 33 between the packaging roller 32 and the accumulated coins, and a cutter which cuts the delivered packaging sheet 33. 35, and a pair of caulking claws 36 for crimping the upper and lower edges of the packaging sheet 33 wound around the peripheral surface of the accumulated coins by rotating the packaging roller 32 from the vertical direction to the end surface of the accumulated coins. It has and.

Below the wrapping section 30, the wrapping sheet 3 is provided.
A roll chute 37 is provided through which coins wrapped by 3 fall and are discharged. In the vicinity of the roll chute 37, there is provided a clear box 38 for storing rejected coins that are rejected from the stacking unit and are sorted by a sorting unit (not shown).

A specific structure of the packaging sheet width detecting means A will be described with reference to FIG. The core tube 40 of the roll-shaped packaging sheet 33 is mounted in a state of being fitted to the cylindrical portion 42 on the turntable 41. The turntable 40 is rotatable but has no driving force, and the packaging sheet 33 is taken in by the supply roller 34 and the driven roller 35. A guide shaft 43 is provided vertically on the side of the roll-shaped packaging sheet 33, and a block 44 is attached to the guide shaft 43 so as to be vertically movable. A detection lever 45 extending above the packaging sheet 33 is fixed to the block 44. A rack 46 is fixed to the block 44 in the vertical direction, and the rack 46 meshes with a gear 47 rotatably provided on the machine body side. A rotary encoder (not shown) is connected to the rotating shaft of the gear 47. In this way, the amount of movement of the rack 46 with the vertical movement of the detection lever 45 can be detected as the amount of rotation of the gear 47. That is, if the position where the detection lever 45 contacts the surface of the turntable 41 is set as the initial height,
Then, to see how high the detection lever 45 has moved,
It can be transmitted to the rotary encoder via the rack 46 and the gear 47, whereby the sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet can be detected.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

First, a core cylinder 40 of a packaging sheet 33 having a sheet width corresponding to the number of coins to be packaged is fitted and mounted on a cylindrical portion 42 formed on a turntable 41. Next, the detection lever 45 is attached to the guide rail 43.
Along the side of the packaging sheet 33 so that the tip of the packaging sheet 33 comes into contact with the side surface of the packaging sheet 33. In response to this, the rack 46 moves in the vertical direction, and the gear 47 is rotated in conjunction with this, and the amount of rotation is detected by the rotary encoder and this gear 47 is rotated.
The amount of movement of the detection lever 45 is obtained based on the amount of rotation. Thereby, the sheet width of the mounted packaging sheet 33 is detected. That is, the detection lever 45 is attached to the turntable 41 without mounting the packaging sheet 33.
By setting the position in contact with the surface of the sheet as the initial height, the sheet width dimension of the mounted packaging sheet 33 can be detected by determining how much the detection lever 45 has moved upward. .

Next, the detected sheet width data is sent to the packaging sheet number setting means C. Here, the packaging sheet number setting means C
Then, the packaging unit number data of the coins stored in the packaging unit number storage unit B corresponding to the sheet width data is retrieved, the packaging unit number data corresponding to the sheet width data is read, and the coin packaging control mechanism. Output to D.

The coin packaging control mechanism D packages each of the packaging unit numbers based on the packaging unit number data.

That is, the coins to be packed are put in the hopper 11.
When the coins are thrown into the belt conveyor 12,
And then to the rotating disk 13.
Then, one by one is fed into the transport path 14 by the rotating disk 13. The coins fed into the transport path 14 are
It is conveyed toward the stacking unit 20. At this time, the counting means 15
The number of coins crossing is counted. When the number of coins by the counting means 15 reaches the number of packaging units, a rotary solenoid (not shown) is driven to cause a stopper (not shown) to project into the transport path 14 to stop the transport of coins. Rotating disk 13 and conveyor belt 5
Stop driving 0.

The coins which have been counted by the counting means 15 are inserted between the pair of stacking drums 21 and 21.
At this time, the stacking drums 21 and 21 are rotated around their axes, and the inserted coins are transported downward while being supported by the projections 23 formed on the stacking drums 21 and 21. The coins conveyed in this way are collected on the collecting drum 2
It is placed on a shutter 22 provided below the 1, 21.

Next, the shutter 22 is opened, and the accumulated coins placed on the shutter 22 are placed on the coin receiver 31 provided below. Then, the coin receiver 31 is moved downward, and the accumulated coins placed on the coin receiver 31 are inserted between the packaging rollers 32. The wrapping roller 32 holds the accumulated coins from three sides, and the wrapping roller 32 is rotated by a motor (not shown) to rotate the accumulated coins. At this time, the supply roller 34 and the driven roller 35 are rotated in a predetermined direction to feed the wrapping sheet 33 between the wrapping roller 32 and the accumulated coins.
The packaging sheet 33 is wound around the peripheral surface of the accumulated coins by rotating the. Wrapped packaging sheet 33
Is cut by the cutter 35. Further, a pair of upper and lower crimping pawls 36 are moved to the vicinity of the upper and lower ends of the stacked coins wound by the packaging sheet 33, and the crimping pawls 36 move the upper and lower edges of the packaging sheet 33 to the end surface of the stacked coins. Roll up and complete packaging. Next, the packed accumulated coins are discharged from the roll chute 37 to the outside.

In this way, the sheet width dimension of the attached packaging sheet 33 is detected, the number of packaging units is automatically set according to this, and coins are packaged based on this number of packaging units. You can Therefore, after mounting the packaging sheet 33, the packaging can be started immediately without separately setting the number of packaging units. Further, since the packaging unit 33 is packaged in the number of packaging units corresponding to the sheet width dimension of the mounted packaging sheet 33, it is possible to prevent the packaging from becoming impossible or the packaging becoming defective.

The wrapping sheet width detecting means is not limited to the above-mentioned configuration, and the wrapping portion stacking length detecting means for detecting the length dimension of the stacked coins wrapped in the wrapping portion and the crimping claw. It may be combined with a crimping position setting means for making the position of (1) correspond to the sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet.

That is, the packaging unit stacking length detecting means (for example, disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-612) supports the upper arm means for supporting the upper crimping claw and the lower crimping claw. Lower arm means, rack means fixed to one of the upper arm means and lower arm means, extending vertically, and rotatably attached to the other of the upper arm means and lower arm means, engaging with the rack means Pinion means and an absolute type rotary encoater means connected to the pinion means and outputting absolute position data in accordance with the rotational position of the pinion means. When the collected accumulated coins are vertically crimped by the pair of crimping claws, the rotary encoder means calculates the sum of movement amounts of the pair of crimping claws. Detecting Te, and obtains the integrated length of the integrated coin from the amount of movement.

The caulking position setting means (for example, disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-28927) is
A turntable that holds a roll-shaped wrapping sheet so that one end edge in the sheet width direction is at a fixed position, a lever that is placed on the other end edge of the wrapping sheet supported by the turntable, and a wrapping sheet width of the lever. The number of coins to be wrapped in a unit of packaging by including a support means for movably supporting the direction and a transmission mechanism for transmitting the movement of the lever in the width direction of the packaging sheet to the upper support arm of the crimp claw. When a packaging sheet with a sheet width dimension corresponding to the above is mounted, the lever of the lever placed on the packaging sheet mounted on the turntable is adjusted so that the crimping position of the crimping claw corresponds to the sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet. The upper arm means moves in an interlocking manner in the same direction as the moving direction by the same distance. The lever for raising and lowering the caulking claw supporting arm for moving the supporting arm supporting the caulking claw according to the sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet is connected to the setting shaft which is rotated by the movement of the lever via a link. It is pivotally supported by a drive lever for performing a predetermined winding operation on the caulking claw at a position separated from the connecting portion.

Therefore, by combining the wrapping portion stacking length detecting means and the crimping position setting means, the position of the upper crimping claw when the lever is in a position in contact with the upper surface of the turntable is taken as the initial height. If set, when the lever is placed on the upper surface of the attached packaging sheet,
Interlocking with the movement of the lever, the upper arm means, the support arm, and the upper crimp claw move by the distance moved by the lever, and the rotary encoder of the packaging unit stacking length detection means determines the moving distance of the crimp claw. Alternatively, the sheet width of the attached packaging sheet may be detected based on this moving distance.

[0034]

As described above, according to the coin packaging machine of the present invention, the packaging sheet width detecting means for detecting the sheet width dimension of the packaging sheet, and the packaging of coins corresponding to the sheet width dimension. Packaging unit number storage means for storing the number of unit sheets, and sheet width data output from the packaging sheet width detection means, and packaging of coins stored in the packaging unit number storage means corresponding to the sheet width data. Since there is provided a packaging sheet number setting means for obtaining the packaging sheet number based on the unit sheet data and outputting the packaging sheet sheet data to the coin packaging control mechanism, it is possible to immediately operate after mounting the packaging sheet, and That is, a so-called setting error can be prevented in advance, and thus it is possible to prevent the occurrence of packaging failure or packaging failure.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a packaging sheet width detecting means according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A packaging sheet width detection means B packaging unit number storage means C packaging number setting means D coin packaging control mechanism 10 counting section 11 hopper 14 transport path 15 counting means 20 stacking section 30 packaging section 33 packaging sheet 36 crimping claw

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A single type of coins loaded from a hopper is fed into the transport path one by one, and the coins transported by the transport path are counted by a counting means and then accumulated in a stacking unit. When the number of accumulated sheets accumulated in the accumulating section reaches the number of packaging units, the driving of the counting section is stopped, the packaging sheet is wound around the peripheral surface of the accumulated coins, and a pair of upper and lower edges of the packaging sheet are provided. In a coin wrapping machine having a coin wrapping control mechanism for crimping by a crimping claw, a wrapping sheet width detecting means for detecting a sheet width dimension of the wrapping sheet, and a wrapping unit number of coins corresponding to the sheet width dimension. And a sheet width data output from the packaging sheet width detection means, and a hard disk stored in the packaging unit number storage means corresponding to the sheet width data. A coin wrapping machine comprising: a wrapping number setting means for obtaining the wrapping unit number based on the wrapping unit number data of coins and outputting the wrapping unit number data to the coin wrapping control mechanism.