JPH0333616B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a paper sheet storage and feeding device, and particularly to a paper sheet storage and feeding device that receives paper sheets from an upper opening and stores them in a piled state, and when necessary, a paper sheet storage and feeding device is provided at the bottom. The present invention relates to a paper sheet storage/feeding device that feeds out paper sheets from a feed-out opening using a feeding means.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Conventionally, in the above-mentioned paper sheet storage and dispensing device, paper sheets are stacked and stored on the lower dispensing means, so that the top surface of the stacked paper sheets and the upper opening are There is a space between them, and when paper sheets are stored, the paper sheets fall freely through this space and are deposited on the feeding means.

In the above-mentioned device, the paper sheets can be fed into the upper opening one by one, or the paper sheets can be temporarily held above the upper opening and then stacked. The paper sheets are piled up and dropped all at once into the upper opening.In either form, the paper sheets fall freely from the upper opening and are piled up.

However, according to the above-mentioned conventional storage form, when the paper sheets fall freely, a deviation occurs in the feeding width direction, and as a result, even if the sheets are piled up, the edges of each paper sheet are uneven and the paper sheets are not stacked. Ta. Therefore, when the unaligned piled paper sheets are fed out by the feeding means, if the sheets are deviated in the width direction, this causes the paper sheets to be conveyed in a state deviated in the width direction in the conveyance system as well. When paper sheets are transported in this way, they can cause various problems such as hitting the guide members and detectors in the transport system and causing clogging, or causing detection errors by the detectors. Become something.

[Purpose of the invention]

In view of this, the present invention has been made with the aim of solving the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and provides a paper sheet storage and feeding device that can stack paper sheets to be stored with both side edges aligned. There is something to do.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the paper sheet storage and feeding device of the present invention receives paper sheets from an upper opening and stores them in a piled state, and when necessary, the stored paper sheets are fed out from a lower feeding opening by a feeding means. In a paper sheet storage device that feeds out paper sheets one by one, the paper sheet storage portion is a cassette that can be freely pulled out from the main body of the device. a biased alignment member;
A presser piece is provided on the main body of the apparatus in which the cassette is attached, and the aligning member that contacts both side edges in the direction of feeding out the paper sheets is actuated to move away from the alignment member. It is characterized in that the paper sheets are aligned by moving towards and away from both side edges of the paper sheet, and when the cassette is pulled out from the apparatus main body, the aligning member comes into contact with both side edges of the stored paper sheets and holds them.

[Embodiments of the invention]

The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

The embodiment shown in the figure shows the case where the present invention is applied to a circulating banknote processing machine that accepts and stores inserted banknotes and uses the stored banknotes for dispensing. The front of the entire machine
The figure shows a side view of its outline. In this embodiment, the storage section for sorting and storing items by denomination is of a cassette type, and each cassette is loaded into the lower part of the main body 1 of the device so that they can be taken in and out at once. It shows.

A mechanism 2 for receiving and dispensing banknotes P is installed in the upper part of the main body 1, and a mechanism 2 for temporarily storing banknotes P in each cassette 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ , 3 ₃ , 3 ₄ is installed in the lower part. Temporary storage units _{4 1} , 4 _{2 ,} 4 _{3 ,} and 4 ₄ are provided for holding and storing them _all at once. The cassettes 3 ₁ , 3 ₂ , 3 ₃ , and 3 ₄ are positioned in this manner. Note that the cassettes in this example include 3 ₁ for 1,000 yen notes, 3 ₂ for 5,000 yen notes, and 3 2 for 5,000 yen notes.
3 ₃ is for 10,000 yen notes, and 3 ₄ is for unfit notes, 500 yen notes, 2
It is said to be used for rejects to collect stacked tickets, etc.

The above-mentioned cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ are stored by being inserted from above into a storage body 5 that can be pulled out from the main body 1 of the apparatus, and the cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ can be taken out by pulling out the storage body 5. It's becoming like that.

One of the above cassettes is shown in Figure 3 as a representative.
As shown in _FIG . 4 as a vertical cross-sectional side view, as shown in FIG. 4 as a plane view, as shown in FIG.
A means 7 for dispensing banknotes P is provided at the lower part, and the banknotes P are stacked and stored on this dispensing means 7.

The feeding means 7 is composed of a feeding roller 8 which is pivotally supported at the forefront in the banknote feeding direction, a feeding roller 9 which is pivotally supported at the rear of this roller, and a banknote support roller 10 which is pivotally supported at the rearmost part. As shown in the plan view of FIG. 4, there are one pair of feed rollers 8 and one pair of kick rollers 9 on the left and right sides, and three support rollers 10.
The protruding roller 9 has an elastic protruding part 9A protruding from a part of its periphery, and the protruding part 9A has a U-shaped side surface, for example, as shown in the figure, so that the protruding part 9A can be bent in the radial direction of the roller. It consists of a rubber plate. Further, the circumference of the kick-out roller 9 is placed slightly below the line connecting the upper peripheral surfaces of the feed-out roller 8 and the support roller 10, and the kick-out portion 9A is arranged slightly above the line. has been done.

In the figure, 11 is a gate roller that is placed opposite to the feed roller 8 and forms a gap between the gates and the peripheral surface of the feed roller 8 through which only one banknote P can pass, and 12 and 13 are gate rollers that are placed opposite to the feed roller 8. Banknote P that came out
It is a conveying body consisting of belts, rollers, etc. that sends the material out of the cassette.

As mentioned above, the cassette 3 ₁ is provided with a storage section 14 which is a space in which banknotes P are deposited and stored on the feeding means 7, and an aligning member is provided in the left and right walls 15, 15 of this storage section 14. 16, 16 are provided at symmetrical positions.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, this aligning member 16 extends in the vertical direction of the storage portion 14, and has an approximately L-shape in horizontal cross section, with the end edge of the bent portion serving as the tip end thereof. It is further bent inward to a smaller extent, and the tip including this bent part is the storage part 1.
an aligning portion 16A that extends over almost the entire area in the vertical direction of banknotes P and has an aligning function by coming into contact with the side edges of banknotes P;
The base of the alignment member 16 is rotatably supported by a shaft 18 on a mounting seat 17 on the cassette side, and a spring 19 causes the alignment portion 16A to always project into the storage portion 14.

Actuation mechanism 20 for actuating the alignment member 16
As an example is shown in Fig. 6, the cassette 3 _1
The illustrated example shows a case in which each of the cassettes ₃₁ to ₃₄ is aligned at the same time by one drive source. That is, a cam plate 23 is fixed to a shaft 22 that is rotated by a motor 21 mounted on the storage body 5, and an intermediate portion is attached to one end of the shaft 24 on the circumferential surface of the cam plate 23 toward the storage body 5 side. A cam follower 26 at one end of a fixed L-shaped link arm 25 is abutted, and a link arm 25' is provided with a base fixed to the other end of the shaft 24.
Interlocking rods 27, 27 are connected to the other ends of these link arms 25, 25', respectively. These interlocking rods 27, 27 are pulled by a spring 28 to keep the cam follower 26 in constant contact with the cam plate 23.

Holding pieces 29, 29 are provided on the storage body 5 at positions facing the outer surfaces of the aligning members 16, 16 and corresponding to the rear side of the shaft 18, and are rotatable in a horizontal plane by shafts 30, 30. A presser end 29A of the presser piece 29 is movable toward and away from the outer surface of the aligning member 16, and the other end is engaged with the pin 31 of the interlocking rod 27, so that when the interlocking rod 27 moves to the right in the figure, (When the cam follower 26 is pushed up by the convex portion of the cam plate 23), the presser end 29A pushes the aligning member 16 and the aligning portion 16A is pushed up as shown by the solid line in FIG.
When the cassette 31 is withdrawn from the storage portion 14 and the interlocking rod 27 moves to the left, the presser end 29A comes out of the cassette ₃₁ , so that there is no problem in extracting the cassette ₃₁ upward.

Further, a locking disk 32 is fixed on the shaft 22 rotated by the motor 21, and the circumferential surface of this disk 32 has a position corresponding to the convex portion of the cam plate 23 and a position symmetrical thereto. Recessed portion 32A, 3 at the position
2A', and the tip of a lock lever 33 that is swung by a solenoid (not shown) can be freely engaged with this, and when this engages, the cam plate 23
Normally, the concave portion 32A and the lock lever 33 are in an engaged state, and the aligning portions 16A, 16A are in a state of being advanced into the storage portion 14, so that the banknotes can be fed out and when the cassette is loaded. The side edges of the banknotes P are held when they are pulled out from the storage body 5.

In this embodiment, when a deposit command or bill replenishment command is issued, a rotation signal is input to the motor 21 to disengage the recess 32A and the lock lever 33, and the cam plate 23 and the lock disc 32 are rotated by half a rotation, and the recess is rotated. 32A' and the lock lever 33 are engaged and held. As a result, the cam follower 23 is pushed up by the convex part of the cam plate 23, and the holding part 29A is
The presser portion 16A is advanced to the position shown by the solid line in the figure, and the presser portion 16A is retracted and held from the storage portion 14. In this state, immediately after the banknotes P are stored from the temporary storage units 4 ₁ to 4 ₄ into the storage units 14 of each cassette 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ , the motor 21 is rotated again and the cam plate 23 is rotated three times, i.e. When the presser piece 29 swings three times, the detector 34 detects this.
The number of passages of the detected parts 35, 35 is calculated, and the lock lever 33 advances in response to this detection signal, engages with the recess 32A of the disc 32, and locks the presser piece 2.
The presser end 29A of the cassette 31 is maintained at the position where it has been withdrawn from the cassette ₃₁ , and the aligning section 16A is maintained at the position where it has advanced into the storage section 14. By swinging the presser piece 29 three times, the aligning parts 16A, 16A align both sides of the stacked banknotes.

In the figure, 36 indicates banknotes P accumulated in the storage section 14.
This is a pressing body that presses the top surface of the banknotes P, and moves forward from the retracted position shown by the solid line in FIG. Further, 37 is a shutter that closes the opening 6 when removing the storage body 5 and the cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ .

Conveyance paths 38 and 39 are provided from the bottom of the storage body 5 to the front side for feeding banknotes P fed out from the respective cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ .

A mechanism 2 for receiving and dispensing banknotes P located in the upper part of the device main body 1 is provided with a payout port 40 at the upper front side of the device main body 1 and a receiving port 41 at the bottom thereof. There is a group of feed-in rollers 42 that take in the inserted banknotes P one by one, and feed the banknotes P into a conveyance path 43 within the main body 1 of the apparatus. On this conveyance path 43, there is a discriminator 44 for identifying authenticity, denomination, front and back, fitness, damage, double stacking, abnormal conveyance, etc. of the banknote P, and a discriminator 44 for inverting either the front or back of the banknote P to align the front and back sides. A reversing mechanism 45 is provided.

Further, the dispensing port 40 is provided with a conveyance path 47 that is continuous to the end of the conveyance path 43 via a switching member 46 .

Temporary storage units 4 1 to 4 4 are provided below the receiving and dispensing mechanism 2 to classify and temporarily hold accepted banknotes P by denomination. These temporary storage units _{4 1 to 4 4}
At the upper part of the temporary holding section 4 ₁ to 4 ₄ are divided into denominations based on the identification signal from the discriminator 44.
Conveyance paths 48, 49, 50, 51 for sending to
is provided.

The temporary holding units 4 ₁ to 4 ₄ have movable bottom plates 52 , 52 that are double-door facing downward, and the banknotes P temporarily held thereon are released by rotating the movable bottom plates 52 , 52 downward. Then, the cassettes ₃₁ to ₃₄ located below are allowed to fall all at once into the storage section 14 through the openings 6 of the cassettes 31 to 34, and are deposited therein.

The temporary holding sections 4 ₁ to 4 ₄ are connected to the conveyance paths 48 to 5.
1, which can be pulled out from the main body 1, and inside the front end thereof there is a conveyance path 39 for discharging on the storage body 5 side.
A dispensing conveyance path 53 is provided.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

When the storage body 5 loaded with each of the cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ is inserted into the main body 1 of the apparatus, the shutters 37 of each of the cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ are opened by a mechanism not shown, and the opening 6 is opened to the temporary storage section 4 ₁ to 3 4 . 4 They correspond to each other directly below ₄ . At this time, the alignment portions _16A , 16A of the alignment members 16, 16 of each of the cassettes ₃₁ to ₃₄ have advanced into the storage portions 14 of the cassettes 31 to ₃₄ .

On the other hand, for example, when a customer places banknotes P in the receiving slot 41 for deposit, performs a deposit command operation, and enters the receiving operation, the banknotes P are taken in one by one by a group of feeding rollers 42 and are transferred to the conveyance path. 43, the coins are identified by a discriminator 44, and are sorted and stored in the temporary holding units ₄₁ to ₄₄ of each denomination based on the recognition result. In order to replenish banknotes to each cassette ₃₁ to ₃₄ , the machine operator places the replenishment banknotes in the receiving slot 41,
The same operation occurs when a banknote replenishment command operation is performed.

By this deposit command operation or replenishment command operation, the lock lever 33 and the recess 32 are moved by the motor 21.
The disc 32 in the engaged state A rotates half a turn and is stopped, and the lock lever 33 engages with the recess 32A'. As a result, the cam follower 26 climbs up into the recessed portion of the cam plate 23, and the aligning portions 16A, 16A are retracted to the outside of the storage portion 14. In this state, when the taking in from the receiving port 41 is finished and a certain amount of banknotes P is stored in the temporary holding parts 4 ₁ to 4 ₄ , when the movable bottom plates 52 and 52 are opened by the taking signal, the banknotes P are The cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄ fall into the storage section 14 from the openings 6 of the cassettes 3 1 to 3 4 all at once.

The motor 21 is energized after a period of time for the banknotes to fall into the storage section 14, and the cam plate 23 starts to rotate, causing the link arm 25 to swing around the shaft 24.
The interlocking rod 27 is pushed and pulled every time this swinging occurs. As a result, the presser piece 29 rotates via the pin 31,
Since the presser end 29A contacts the outer surface of the alignment member 16 and presses it intermittently, the alignment member 16
The aligning section 16A moves in and out of the storage section 14 and pushes both ends of the stacked banknotes P from the left and right to align the width direction.

When the motor 21 makes three and a half rotations, the detector 34 detects the number of rotations, and the detection signal causes the lock lever 33 to advance and engage the recess 3 of the locking disc 32.
2A, thereby determining the stopping position of the cam plate 23. At this time of stopping, the convex portion of the cam plate 23 is detached from the link arm 25, and therefore the presser end 29A of the presser piece 29 is attached to the cassettes ₃₁ to _34.
It is held in an outwardly retracted position.

Further, the alignment parts 16A, 16A return to the advanced state in the storage part 14, and the stacked banknotes that have been aligned are maintained in a holding state, and serve to prevent the banknotes from shifting in the left and right direction when feeding out the banknotes.

When the left and right sides of the banknotes P are aligned in this manner, the kicking roller 9 and the feeding roller 8 of the feeding mechanism 7 are driven in the direction of the arrow in response to a payout command and fed out one by one. There will be no twisting, and the ball will be played out reliably.

When transporting cassettes ₃₁ to ₃₄ to another location,
When pulling out the cassettes ₃₁ to ₃₄ upward, the presser end 29A of the presser piece 29 is retracted to the outside of the cassette, so the cassettes can be pulled out without any trouble.
Even during transportation, the alignment parts 16A, 16A hold the left and right ends of the stacked banknotes, thereby preventing the stacked banknotes from collapsing. In this case, cassettes 3 ₁ to 3 ₄
The opening 6 is closed by a shutter 37.

In the illustrated embodiment, the present invention is applied to a cassette for a circulation processing machine for banknotes, but it is of course applicable to a storage box used as a single unit, and it is also applicable to not only banknotes but also other slips. Needless to say, this method can be applied to the handling of paper sheets. Further, the configuration of each part is not limited to the illustrated example.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the paper sheet storage/feeding device according to the present invention, the paper sheet storage portion is a cassette that can be freely pulled out from the main body of the device, and the cassette is provided with a cassette on both sides in the paper sheet feeding direction. An alignment member biased in the direction of contacting the edge, and a presser piece provided on the main body of the device into which the cassette is mounted, which is actuated to separate from both edges of the alignment member that contacts the edges in the direction in which paper sheets are fed out. The holding piece moves towards and away from both edges of the paper sheets in the feeding direction to align the paper sheets, and when the cassette is pulled out from the main body of the apparatus, the aligning member comes into contact with both side edges of the stored paper sheets. Since the paper sheets are held in a straight line, even if the paper sheets are stored falling due to their own weight, the stored state can be aligned, and it is possible to prevent paper sheets from jamming or bending when being fed out. It is possible to make a transmission.

In addition, even when the cassette is removed from the main body of the device, the alignment member prevents the stack of paper sheets from collapsing, which has various effects such as preventing the paper sheets from becoming disordered in the cassette. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a banknote circulation processing machine to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a side view showing an outline of the internal configuration.
3 is a vertical side view of one of the cassettes shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a plan view of the same, FIG. 5 is a plan view of the main parts, and FIG. It is a side view which shows an example. 1...Device body, 2...Accepting and discharging mechanism, 3 ₁ ~
3 ₄ ... cassette, 4 ₁ - 4 ₄ ... temporary storage section, 5 ... storage body, 6 ... opening section, 7 ... feeding means, 14 ... storage section, 16 ... aligning member, 20 ... operating mechanism, 23 ... cam plate, 27... Interlocking rod, 29... Presser piece, 40... Dispensing port, 41... Receiving port, 44... Discriminator.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Paper that receives paper sheets from the upper opening 6 and stores them in a stacked state in the storage section, and when necessary, feeds out the stored paper sheets one by one from the lower feeding port by the feeding means 7. In the leaf storage/feeding device, the paper sheet storage portion is a cassette that can be freely pulled out from the device main body 1, and the cassette is provided with an aligner biased in the direction of contacting both side edges in the paper sheet feeding direction. members 16, 16, and presser pieces 29, 29 provided on the main body 1 of the apparatus to which the cassette is mounted, which actuate the alignment members 16, 16, which are in contact with both side edges in the feeding direction of paper sheets, to move away from the both side edges thereof. Through this presser piece, the paper sheets are moved toward and away from both edges in the feeding direction to align the paper sheets, and when the cassette is pulled out from the main body 1 of the apparatus, the aligning members 16, 16 move toward and away from both side edges of the stored paper sheets. A paper sheet storage and feeding device characterized in that the paper sheet storage and feeding device is adapted to be held in contact with the paper sheet.