A Design Method for Stick-Free Guideway for Ticket Alignment Unit

Abstract

A novel method was developed to design a stick-free guideway for a ticket alignment unit in an automatic checking and collecting machine. In a ticket alignment unit, tickets in various orientations are aligned by being transferred along a guideway. Conventionally, using either an empirical or an experimental approach, the guideway is designed to transfer the tickets smoothly. In the proposed method, the stick-free guideway is designed by analyzing the reaction forces from the guideway wall to the ticket. Design maps made by this method and some experimental results are presented.