Patent ID: 6092798
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: B65H,G07B

Abstract:
A ticket issuing apparatus that subjects a medium stored therein to a predetermined processing to make a ticket and to discharge the ticket to a stacker disposed at a front wall of the apparatus, comprising:a plurality of hoppers, each for accommodating a plurality of the medium therein;a plurality of guide passages collectively forming a first feed passage, the guide passages being disposed in strata and each guide passage having a respective first end connected with a respective hopper, and a respective second end, with each of the respective second ends of the plurality of guide passages merging together;a second feed passage having an end connected with an end of the first feed passage in a region of the respective second ends of the guide passage, and having a further end connected with the stacker;a separating device for separating the medium into a given size;a magnetic processing device for writing a given magnetic data onto the medium; anda printing part for printing a given data onto the medium,wherein the first feed passage extends along an upper wall of the apparatus to an upper half of a rear wall of the apparatus, and along the upper half of the rear wall of the apparatus, and the second feed passage extends proximate to a lower half of the rear wall to a bottom wall of the apparatus and along the bottom wall of the apparatus, and wherein said separating device, said magnetic processing device and said printing part are disposed along the second feed passage.