RIGHT/LEFT CONVEYANCE DIRECTION SWITCHING MECHANISM FOR TICKET

PURPOSE: To provide a mechanism which switch and convey a ticket to the right or left so as to issue tickets according to the order of operators on both the sides of a ticket issuing device which issues the tickets. CONSTITUTION: The ticket 13 which is conveyed from below by driving rollers 5a and 5b and pressure rollers 4a and 4b pressed against the driving rollers passes between a driving roller 9 driven by an unillustrated motor and a pressure roller 10 while a lever 6 rotating around an axis 7 is moved from a solid- line position to a broken-line position and when its upper end reaches a guide 8, the ticket 13 has its lower end pressed by the force of the lever 6 returning to a position (1) by the gravity and is held at the position where it comes into contact with the rotating driving roller 9. Then, when pressure rollers 10a and 10b are pressed against a driving roller 9b and a driving roller 9a driving a flat belt 12 rotating other pressure rollers 10, the ticket 13 is switched to the direction of the right or left operators (1) and (2) according to the rotating direction of the driving roller 9a and conveyed.