Ticket issuing equipment

Abstract

To provide a ticket issuing device capable of discriminating a ticket forgotten to be taken by a customer in the case that the ticket is forgotten to be taken for two or more times. The ticket issuing device consists of a ticket issuing port for issuing the ticket, a box for housing the ticket forgotten to be taken, an issuing carrying path whose one end is connected to the ticket issuing port, and a housing carrying path connecting the other end of the issuing carrying path and the box for housing the ticket forgotten to be taken. When the ticket is forgotten to be taken, in the case that no ticket forgotten to be taken is housed in the box for housing the ticket forgotten to be taken, it is judged as the ticket forgotten to be taken of the first time, the ticket forgotten to be taken is carried oppositely in the issuing carrying path, delivered to the housing carrying path, carried and housed in the box for housing the ticket forgotten to be taken. Also, in the case that the ticket forgotten to be taken is already housed in the box for housing the ticket forgotten to be taken, it is judged as the ticket forgotten to be taken of the second time, fetched into the ticket issuing device and held in the issuing carrying path, the ticket issuing device is stopped, and the ticket forgotten to be taken of the first time housed in the box for housing the ticket forgotten to be taken and the ticket forgotten to be taken of the second time held in the issuing carrying path are removed.(C)2005,JPO&NCIPI.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device installed in an automatic ticket vending machine or the like that sells tickets such as train tickets, airline tickets, commuter tickets, and reserved seat tickets to customers. Background technique [0002] The existing ticket issuing device discharges the sold tickets to the ticket outlet, and the detection sensor installed at the ticket outlet does not detect the receipt of the ticket after a specified time, and judges that the ticket is a ticket as the customer forgot to pick it up. Forgot to take the ticket, thus to the forgotten ticket storage box that is provided with in the ticket issuing device, it is transmitted and stored therein. As an example, there is, for example, the content disclosed in JP-A-2002-24869. [0003] However, in the existing ticket issuing device, when the customer forgets to take the ticket many times, the forgotten ticket is all stored in the same forgotten ticket ...

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[0003] However, in the existing ticket issuing device, when the customer forgets to take the ticket many times, the forgotten ticket is all stored in the same forgotten ticket storage box, so it cannot be judged when the customer requests to return the ticket. Which ticket is the ticket that the customer forgot to pick up

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