JPH0512533A - Paper money processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To sharply reduce work without executing complex dividing and returning processing by making it possible to increasing the stacking capacity of a temporary stacking part and allowing this paper money processor to correspond to the loading of many paper money. CONSTITUTION:A temporary stacking plate 47 can be optionally moved in the stacking direction so that the temporary stacking part 7 can temporarily stack also paper money capaicty exceeding the aperture space of an aperture part of a door part 10. At the time of storing paper money after determining a count, many stacked paper money P can be directly dropped into a storing part 8. In the case of returning paper money, the generation of a space on the upper part of the stacking part 7 due to the drawing of paper money P from the door part 10 formed correspondingly to the stacking part 7 to the outside is automatically and then stacking plate 47 invaded into the storing part 8 in the stacked state of paper money P is automatically pushed up, so that the paper money P can be continuously drawn out to the outside.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus handled by staff at a financial institution such as a bank.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in a financial institution such as a bank, a plurality of banknotes mixed in denominations brought in by a plurality of customers are automatically classified and counted in denominations, and then temporarily stored in a temporary accumulation unit. When they are accumulated and the customer's deposit slip amount and the machine count result match, the deposit is stored in the deposit section for each type of deposit.
Further, if the counting results do not match or if the return is desired, a banknote handling apparatus that can be returned from the door portion as a return process is put to practical use.

Conventionally, in this type of bill processing apparatus,
The temporary stacking unit for bills that have been inspected and counted is shown in FIG.
The configuration is as shown in.

That is, the bill P conveyed by the conveyor belt a is sent to the impeller b by the sending roller c,
While being guided by the side wall d, they are accumulated on the shutter e while rotating. The lower end of the door part g for the temporary stacking part formed corresponding to the temporary stacking part f corresponds to the lower end part where the shutter e supports the banknote P, and in order to perform the return process, The structure is such that the integrated capacity cannot be set below the shutter e position. The banknotes P accumulated in the temporary accumulation section f are stored in the storage case i in the downward direction by being guided to the storage case side walls h, h by the shutter e instantaneously opening left and right by a drive system (not shown). It is supposed to be done.

[0005]

As described above, the conventional apparatus has a structure in which the capacity of the temporary stacking unit exceeds the opening space of the opening of the door and increases the temporary storage amount beyond the open height. It was not, and only the capacity up to the door was accepted for deposit.

Therefore, when the amount of uncounted banknotes is larger than the temporary stacking capacity, the banknotes are divided and processed.
If there is no choice but to use a method of storing separately, and finally when the count data is different at the time of matching with the slip, it is necessary to return the amount equivalent to the amount of banknotes stored separately before the storage part, There was a problem that it took a lot of trouble.

The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and it is possible to increase the integration capacity of the temporary integration unit.
Even if a large amount of banknotes are thrown in, it can be dealt with, and troublesome division processing,
An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote processing device that can significantly reduce the work without performing the returning process.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a banknote supply unit capable of collectively storing a plurality of banknotes of mixed denominations, and a banknote supplied to the banknote supply unit. And a banknote inspecting unit that discriminates and counts the banknotes transported on this transport path by denomination, and the banknotes that are discriminated and counted by this banknote inspector are temporarily accumulated in denomination. A temporary stacking section, a banknote storage section provided corresponding to these temporary stacking sections, a pushing means for storing the banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking section in the banknote storage section after the completion of the trade, and the temporary stacking The opening and the door for opening and closing the opening for taking out the banknotes that are temporarily accumulated in the apparatus main body, and the door for opening and closing the opening. Crossing the opening space of the opening Bill capacity banknote receiving member so that it can be temporary accumulation is obtained by movable relative stacking direction.

[0009]

In the banknote handling apparatus of the present invention, the banknote receiving member is movable in the stacking direction so that the temporary stacking section can temporarily stack the banknote capacity exceeding the opening space of the opening of the door. When storing after the confirmation of counting, a large amount of banknotes can be dropped into the storage as it is. At the time of return, after automatically confirming that a space is created at the upper part of the temporary stacking part by pulling out the banknotes from the door formed corresponding to the temporary stacking part, The temporary stacking receiving plate, which has been invading while stacking the banknotes, is automatically pushed upward so that the banknotes can be continuously extracted to the outside.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
Will be described.

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a bill circulating type bill processing apparatus M, and FIG. 2 schematically shows the internal structure thereof. This Figure 1
The general flow of banknotes will be described with reference to FIG.

[0012] A plurality of uncounted loose banknotes P in which denominations for one transaction are mixed are inserted into the banknote insertion slot 1 as a banknote supply section, and a takeout start button (not shown in detail) of the display operation section 2 is pressed. And the bill P is taken in. Banknote P taken in
The denomination, front and back, the number of coins, etc. are discriminated and confirmed by the deposited bill inspection unit 3.

Then, the non-discriminating bill is returned to the bill return port 4. Further, the banknote P that is determined to be an authentic banknote by the deposited banknote inspection unit 3 is conveyed through the conveyance path 6 including the direction changing unit 5, and the banknote P that is determined to be the back is changed in the front direction by the direction changing unit 5. , Are temporarily stacked in the temporary stacking unit 7 serving as a temporary stacking unit in a state in which the types of money and the front and back are aligned.

When there is no bill P in the bill insertion slot 1 and the approval button (not shown in detail) of the display operation unit 2 is pressed, the accumulated bills P of the temporary stacking units 7 ... Are stored in the storing unit 8 as a storing means. It is stored in ... When a return button (not shown) of the display operation unit 2 is pressed, the banknotes P temporarily accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 7 ... Can be extracted from the temporary accumulation unit door unit 10 to the outside. However, the discrimination and tabulation data at that time are cleared from the tabulated results, and the next transaction processing can be started.

The banknotes P accumulated in the storage section 8 ... Enter a payment operation of a specified denomination and a specified number of banknotes P for withdrawal by a payment button (not shown) of the display operation section 2.
Withdrawal banknote inspection unit 12 from storage unit 8 ...
Check the denomination and the number of coins, and pay out to the dispensing port 13.

The banknotes P that cannot be confirmed by the dispensed banknote inspection unit 12 during the dispensing operation are ejected to the dispensing reject port 7 to guarantee the denomination and the number of coins for dispensing.

In FIG. 1, 14 is a storage part door formed corresponding to the storage parts 8 ..., 15 is a dispensing port door part formed corresponding to the dispensing port 13, Reference numeral 16 is a door portion for the withdrawal reject port formed corresponding to the withdrawal reject port 20.

The door unit 10 for the temporary stacking unit is provided in the main body 17 of the apparatus.
It is configured to include an opening portion 18 formed in and a door 19 for opening and closing the opening portion 18, and other door portions 10, 1
4, 15 and 16 have the same structure.

Next, the detailed flow of the bill P will be described with reference to the drawings starting from FIG.

First, as shown in FIG. 3, in the bill insertion slot 1, the bill push plate 25 is positioned on the insertion floor plate 27 so that the push plate support roller 26 can be moved back and forth, and the pressing spring 28. It is always pushed by the take-in roller 29 side.

When a bill P is inserted between the bill pressing plate 25 and the slot housing 30 and the take-in roller 29 starts to rotate, the rubber surface 31 molded on the take-in roller 29 is regularly put on the bill P. The banknotes P come into contact with each other and are taken out one by one by friction. The taken-out banknotes P are separated one by one by the gate roller 32 portion for preventing the two banknotes from being picked up, grasped by the pickup roller 33, and moved to the next step by the conveyor belt 34.

Next, the deposit banknote inspecting section 3 utilizes conventional techniques to discriminate denominations, front / back determination, whether or not one or the like.

Then, the front-side banknotes go straight through the conveying path 6, and only the back-side banknotes are turned upside down through the direction changing section 5 shown in FIG. The banknote P is grasped by the conveyor belt 34 from the direction A of the banknote approaching direction and enters the banknote P in the direction changing section 5. The feeding roller 40 has a deformable bead 41.
When the bill P comes in, the bill P is deformed so as to be pressed against the conveyor belt 34, and when the intrusion of the bill P ends, the end face of the bill P is beaten by the rotational force of the bead 41. ing. Banknote P that has invaded
In order to prevent the banknote P from being bent, the banknote P enters the narrowly surrounded banknote guide 42, the end face of the banknote P is struck by the bead 41, and the banknote P is pressed toward the conveyor belt 34 in the arrow B direction. Is changed, and it is grasped by the conveyor belt and moved to the next process. Reference numeral 39 is a roller around which a conveyor belt is stretched.

In the temporary accumulating unit 7 ... As shown in FIG.
The banknote P conveyed by the conveyor belt 43 from the direction of the arrow C is guided to the storage section 8 of each denomination by the guide of the gate 44, and is sent to the temporary stacking section 7 by the sending roller 45. It is like this.

A space detector 46 is installed at the entrance of the temporary stacking unit 7, and controls so that a temporary stacking receiving plate 47 as a bill receiving member can move vertically depending on the stacking status of the intruding banknotes P. Has been done. Temporary collection receiving plate 47
Before stacking the banknotes, a space is secured at an upper position where the space detector 46 does not overlap so that the standby banknotes P can easily enter, and the structure is such that the banknotes P are lowered in accordance with the stacking amount of the banknotes P. I am trying.

Further, a pushing plate 65 as a pushing means.
As shown in FIG. 6, when the banknotes P that have been temporarily stacked from the upper side to the storage section 8 are stored, the push-in operation is performed. It has a function as an intrusion guide for P. The side wall 50 is configured so that the bills P fed by the feeding roller 45 are somewhat widened, and as shown in FIG. 7, they can be stacked in an aligned state.

The banknotes P are gripped by the conveyor belt 43, guided by the gate 44, and temporarily collected by the feeding roller 45.
When they are collected on the upper side, the detection signal of the space detector 46 matches the intrusion situation of the banknote P, as shown in FIG.
Although it becomes dark, the dark signal of the space detector 46 starts from the time t ₀ until one bill passes and becomes stable, and the bill P
Indicates that the bills have already been accumulated and the space has been reduced to t ₁ time, indicating that the bills P have been accumulated up to the vicinity of the entrance.

In this state, since the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 has a structure capable of moving up and down, a driving motor (not shown) of the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 is operated to open the space, and the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 is stacked. It is controlled so that it can be lowered until a space that can be easily obtained is secured.

When the temporary accumulation amount of banknotes P for one transaction becomes larger than the height of the temporary accumulation door portion 10, as shown in FIG. It can be accumulated.

FIG. 10 shows the structure of the temporary stacking unit 7 and the storage unit 8.

The temporary integrated receiving plate 47 is supported by a bearing 52 incorporated in the receiving plate block 51 via a receiving plate shaft 53, and has a structure capable of rotating around the receiving plate shaft 53. At the end of the backing plate shaft 53,
The drive gear 54 meshes with the left and right temporary integrated receiving plates 47 so that they can rotate in synchronization with each other.

A slide bearing 55 is incorporated in the central portion of the receiving plate block 51 so that it can be moved up and down by being guided by a receiving plate slide 57 fixed to a frame 56. Drive belt 5 on the receiving plate block 51
8 is fixed by a fixing screw 59, and the drive pulley 6
It is configured such that the driving force of the vertical movement of the temporary integrated receiving plate 47 as a whole can be transmitted by the rotation of a drive motor (not shown) connected to 0.

The pushing plate 65 is connected to the pushing block 66 via a connecting rod 67, and the pushing block 6
A slide bearing 55 is incorporated in the central portion of 6 so that it can be moved up and down by being guided by a pushing shaft 68 fixed to the frame 56. The driving belt 69 is fixed to the pushing block 66 with a fixing screw 59, and the driving force of the vertical movement of the entire pushing plate 65 can be transmitted by the rotation of a driving motor (not shown) connected to the driving pulley 70. Has been done.

Guide guides 75 are fixed on both sides vertically to a casing (not shown), and the end of the side wall 50 is
It is guided so that it can move in the groove of the guide 75. Further, the guide spring 76 constantly pushes the bills P inward so as to improve the stacking condition of the bills P, and is in a position where the width of the bill P is slightly wider than the width of the bill P even at the minimum size.

A part of the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 has a notch 77 for keeping the nested state with the side wall 50, and prevents the banknote P from falling downward from the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 through the side wall 50. ..

As a method for rotating the temporary integrated receiving plate 47, a receiving plate shaft 53 incorporated in a receiving plate block 51 shown in FIGS. 11, 12, and 14.
It is carried out by rotating a drive gear (pinion) 54 fixed to.

A drive lever 79 is connected to the shaft of a drive motor 78 fixed to a frame 56 attached to a casing (not shown) above and below, and the connection arm 80 is connected to the rack via the drive lever 79. The structure is such that 85 can be opened and closed.

The drive gear 54 has a pin 86 as shown in FIG.
7 is hanging. Since the spring 87 rotates together with the pin 86 when the drive gear 54 starts to rotate, the rotation is instantly accelerated when the drive gear 54 passes the central axis.

When a motor (not shown) connected to the drive pulley 60 drives the drive belt 58 fixed to the receiving plate block 51 to move in the direction of arrow E as shown in FIG. When the drive motor 78 is driven and the rack 85 is narrowed, the drive gear 54 and the rack 8 are
5 and 5 mesh with each other as shown in FIG. 14, and the drive gear 54 starts to rotate in the directions of arrow F and arrow G.

Then, the spring 87 causes the receiving plate shaft 5 to move.
After passing the central axis of 3, the rotation is instantly accelerated, and at this timing, the drive motor 78 is reversely rotated to open the pinion rack 85 and disengage from the drive gear 54. As a result, the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 is instantaneously completed from the horizontal state shown in FIGS. 15 and 17 to the vertical state shown in FIGS. 16 and 18, and the stacked banknotes P are dropped to the storage section 8 side. Fall in the state of.

When the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 operates to store the bills P, the side wall 50 is momentarily opened by the rotating operation of the temporary stacking receiving plate 47, and when the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 is in the vertical state, The side wall 50 corresponding to the plate thickness of the stack receiving plate 47 is spread as shown by arrows J and K in FIG. 16, and the stack banknote P spreads to a size in which it is easy to drop as shown by arrow D in FIG. When the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 is in the vertical state, the stacking width is slightly wider than the width dimension of the banknote P, including the plate thickness of the temporary stacking receiving plate 47. The timing at which the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 opens to drop and stack the banknotes P stacked on the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 on the storage unit 8 side is lowered to the stacking height position of the banknotes P already stored. After that, the temporary collection receiving plate 47 is designed to rotate and open.

The banknotes P accumulated in the storage section 8 are surely pushed into the storage section 8 side by the side wall 50, the vertical stacking receiving plate 47 in the vertical state, and the pushing plate 65 in the nested state at the same time. In the vertical state, the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 is lifted up by the drive of the drive pulley 60, and when it reaches the position beyond the uppermost end of the stacked banknotes P,
The pushing plate 65 is lifted up above the temporary collection receiving plate 47.

After that, the drive motor 78 is driven while lifting the temporary collection receiving plate 47, and the rack 85 is closed and meshed with the driving gear 54 to rotate in the closing direction. Make it close instantly.

FIG. 19 shows a paper money P in the temporary stacking unit 7 ... for each denomination.
Shows a state in which is stored.

When returning the uncounted loose banknotes P in the temporary stacking unit 7 when the stacking amount is larger than the height capacity of the temporary stacking unit door 42, the return button (not shown) of the display operation unit 2 is operated. The door 19 of the temporary stacking unit door 10 is opened so that the temporary stacking banknote P can be extracted.

In the state where the counting is completed, since the upper end of the banknote stack P is located at the position where the space detector 46 has changed from dark to light, the banknote P is pulled out from the portion where the temporary stacking door section 10 is open. Since the space detector 46 can be pulled out and the space detector 46 remains in the bright state, the space detector 46 is gradually lifted upward to the temporary stacking receiving plate 47 after a certain time has passed, and the space detector 46 is changed from the bright state. Bring the upper edge of the upper banknote P to the position where it changes to the dark state, and temporarily stack part door 4
Temporary stacking receiving plate 4 at a position where banknotes P can be pulled out from 2
Stop 7.

When the banknote P is pulled out from the temporary stacking unit door 42, the space detector 46 is brought into a bright state, and the same procedure is repeated again. With the door 19 of the temporary stacking door unit 10 open, the temporary stacking receiving plate 4 is attached to the lower end of the temporary stacking unit door 42.
When 7 arrives, the further rise is stopped and the storage unit 8
The banknotes P stored inside are prevented from being pulled out from the temporary stacking door section 10 side.

The banknotes P stored in the storage section 8 ...
As shown in FIG. 5, a billing button (not shown) of the display operation unit 2 rotates the feed roller 90 to feed the bills P in the rotational direction, and the take-up roller 91 takes out a specified number of bills. After being separated one by one, the pickup roller 93 moves to the next step. In FIG. 5, 94 is a residual detector for detecting the residual of the banknote P, 95 is a storage box, and 96 is a conveyor belt.

The dispensed bill inspection unit 12 checks the designated denomination and the designated number of bills P designated by the payment button (not shown) of the display operation unit 2, and conveys them to the dispensing port 13. At the time of withdrawal, the banknotes P that have been rejected by the withdrawal banknote inspection unit 12 are subjected to post-processing accumulated in the withdrawal reject port 20.

As described above, in the apparatus of the present invention, the temporary stacking receiving plate 4 is prepared depending on the stacking state and the storing state of the storing portions 8 for each denomination.
By changing the stacking capacity of the banknotes P on the banknote 7, it is possible to incorporate a fine stacking storage state.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment,
Of course, various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

[0052]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to increase the stacking capacity of the temporary stacking unit, and it is possible to cope with the insertion of a large amount of bills. It is possible to provide a banknote processing device that can significantly reduce the work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing an embodiment of a bill circulation type bill processing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an internal configuration diagram schematically showing the flow of banknotes in the device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of a bill slot.

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of a direction changing unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of a temporary stacking unit and a storage unit.

FIG. 6 is a front view schematically showing the structure of a temporary stacking unit.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing a banknote stacking state of the temporary stacking unit.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a sensor signal of a stacking port and a backup operation signal.

FIG. 9 is a front view showing a state in which the temporary stacking of banknotes in the temporary stacking unit is completed.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view schematically showing a mechanism of a movable part of the temporary stacking part.

FIG. 11 is a rear view showing a mechanism for rotationally driving the temporary collection receiving plate.

FIG. 12 is a rear view showing the state of the mechanism during the lowering operation of the temporary stack receiving plate.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a meshed state of a drive gear.

FIG. 14 is a rear view showing the state of the mechanism when the temporary stacking receiving plate rotates simultaneously with the lowering.

FIG. 15 is a side view showing a state of the temporary stacking receiving plate when stacking banknotes.

FIG. 16 is a side view showing a state in which the bills on the temporary collection receiving plate are discharged.

FIG. 17 is a front view showing a state in which bills are stacked on the temporary stacking receiving plate.

FIG. 18 is a front view showing a state when the banknotes on the temporary collection receiving plate are discharged.

FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram showing a state where banknotes are stored in the temporary stacking unit for each denomination.

FIG. 20 is a front view schematically showing the mechanism of the movable part of the temporary stacking part in the conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

P ... Banknotes, M ... Banknote processing device, 1 ... Banknote insertion slot (banknote supply section), 3 ... Deposited banknote inspection section, 6 ... Conveyance path, 7 ... Temporary stacking section (temporary stacking means), 8 ... Storage section (storage) Means), 7 ...
Temporary stacking unit (temporary stacking unit), 10 ... Temporary stacking unit door, 11 ... Transport path, 17 ... Device body, 18 ... Opening, 1
9 ... Door, 25 ... Banknote pushing plate (pushing means), 47 ... Temporary stacking receiving plate (banknote receiving member).

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A bill supply unit capable of collectively accommodating a plurality of bills of mixed denominations, and a conveyance path for taking in and conveying the bills supplied to the bill supply unit one by one. And a banknote inspection unit for discriminating and counting the banknotes conveyed on the conveyance path according to denominations, a temporary stacking unit for temporarily stacking the banknotes discriminated and counted by the banknote checking unit for denominations, and these temporary stacking units A banknote storage section provided corresponding to the banknote storage section, a pushing means for storing the banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking section in the banknote storage section after the completion of the transaction, and a temporary stacking section provided corresponding to the temporary stacking section. An opening for taking out the stored banknotes to the outside of the main body of the apparatus and a door section having a door for opening and closing the opening, wherein the temporary stacking section exceeds the opening space of the opening of the door section. Capacity is also temporarily accumulated The bill processing device is characterized in that the bill receiving member is movable in the stacking direction so that the bill receiving member can be moved.