Conveying apparatus for ticket processing machine

• US 5,250,793 A
• Filed: 12/27/1991
• Issued: 10/05/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Honma, Mamoru, Nagashima, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): PITTS, HAROLD I
• Application Number:
  US07/813,940
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/449, 235/384, 235/475
• US Class Current: 235/475
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 11/00 Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets

Abstract

A shutter and an intake roller are mounted to a gate to form an integral structure. The shutter and the intake roller are interlockingly operated by the swinging of the gate. During the processing of a used ticket, the shutter prevents another used ticket from being inserted into the machine through the inlet port. Also, the used ticket is guided from the ticket transporting path to the recovery transporting path by the swing of the gate.

Claims

1. A conveying apparatus for conveying a recording medium having data recorded thereon, comprising:

an inlet port for receiving the recording medium;

reading means for reading the data from the recording medium;

first conveying means for conveying the recording medium from the inlet port to the reading means;

second conveying means for conveying the recording medium read by the reading means from the reading means to another position in the apparatus, the second conveying means branching from a predetermined position of the first conveying means; and

guiding means, provided at the predetermined position of the first conveying means and selectively positionable at first and second positions, for guiding the recording medium from the inlet port to the first conveying means when the guiding means is at the first position and for both guiding the recording medium from the first conveying means to the second conveying means and preventing insertion of another recording medium, received by the inlet port, into the first conveying means when the guiding means is at the second position.

2. The conveying apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising collecting means, provided at the another position, for collecting the recording medium.

8. The conveying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guiding means is a single member.

3. A conveying apparatus for conveying a recording medium having data recorded thereon, comprising:

an inlet port for receiving the recording medium;

reading means for reading the data from the recording medium;

first conveying means for conveying the recording medium from the inlet port to the reading means in a first direction;

sensing means for sensing a conclusion of reading of the data of the recording medium by the reading means;

second conveying means for conveying the recording medium from the reading means in a direction toward the inlet port in accordance with the sensing by the sensing means;

third conveying means for conveying the recording medium conveyed by the second conveying means to another position in the apparatus, the third conveying means branching at a predetermined position of the second conveying means; and

guiding means, provided at the predetermined position and selectively positionable at first and second positions, for guiding the recording medium from the inlet port to the first conveying means when the guiding means is at the first position and for both guiding the recording medium from the second conveying means to the third conveying means and preventing inserting of another recording medium, received by the inlet port, into the first conveying means when the guiding means is at the second position.

4. The conveying apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising collecting means, provided at the another position, for collecting the recording medium.

9. The conveying apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the guiding means is a single member.

5. A conveying apparatus for conveying a recording medium having data recorded thereon, comprising:

an inlet port for receiving the recording medium;

reading means for reading the data from the recording medium;

first conveying means for conveying the recording medium from the inlet port to the reading means;

issuing means for issuing a second recording medium and supplying the second recording medium to the first conveying means;

means for writing second data to the second recording medium;

means for sensing conclusion of reading of the recording medium and conclusion of writing to the second recording medium;

second conveying means for conveying the recording medium and the second reading medium from the first conveying means in accordance with the sensing of the sensing means;

third conveying means for conveying the first recording medium conveyed by the second conveying means to another position in the apparatus, the third conveying means branching at a predetermined position of the second conveying means; and

guiding means, provided at the predetermined position and selectively positionable at first and second positions, for guiding the first recording medium from the inlet port to the first conveying means when the guiding means is at the first position and for both guiding the first recording medium from the second conveying means to the third conveying means and preventing inserting of another recording medium, received by the inlet port, into the first conveying means when the guiding means is at the second position.

6. The conveying apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the guiding means includes means for transferring the second recording medium from the second conveying means to the inlet port.

7. The conveying apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising collecting means, provided at the another position, for collecting the first recording.

10. The conveying apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the guiding means is a single member.