FARE BOX

摘要

Provided is a fare box which enables passengers to smoothly pay fares using bills without hesitation even when a bill transportation passage is disabled due to jamming of a bill or a breakdown. Two entrances, which are a bill normal receiving opening and a bill backup receiving opening, are provided as bill receiving openings of the fare box. Either of the bill normal receiving opening and the bill backup receiving opening is allowed to be selectively opened by a shutter member. At normal times, the bill normal receiving opening is put into operation with the shutter member positioned at a normal position. When a bill normal transportation passage has become jammed with a bill, the shutter member is shifted from the normal position to a bypass position on the basis of an operation performed on a bill receiving opening switch lever, whereby the bill backup receiving opening is opened instead of the bill normal receiving opening.

主权项

1. A fare box that receives and stores money as fares comprising:
a main body; a cashbox retained in the main body and storing money; a coin acceptor that opens through an outer face of the main body, and receives plural coins; a coin normal transportation passage that is provided inside the main body, and transports coins received from the coin acceptor to the cashbox; a coin bypass passage that is provided inside the main body, and transports coins received from the coin acceptor to the cashbox; a coin transportation passage switch mechanism that comprises a valve member that is provided in the back side of the coin acceptor so as to be able to slide in a direction intersecting a direction along which coins fall, and selectively opens either of the coin normal transportation passage or the coin bypass passage; and the coin transportation passage switch mechanism setting one of the passages to be taken by coins received at the coin acceptor, by the valve member.