JP2001067515A - Bill storage mechanism of bill receiving and paying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correct a natural fold by pressing a bill with an invariably constant pressing force irrelevantly to the number of received bills. SOLUTION: A receiving plate is formed movably at right angles to the stack direction of bills and energizes an energizing means 27 for placing a rotational load between the armature 24 and rotor 23 of an electromagnetic clutch 21. A pressing-in member 4 is connected to a motor 20 through the electromagnetic clutch 21. Then when the electromagnetic clutch 21 is not electrified, the motor 20 is electrified to press bills stacked on the receiving plate by the pressing-in member 4 until they balance with the rotational load generated by the energizing means 27; after the receiving plate is moved back horizontally, the electromagnetic clutch 21 is electrified to transmit the rotation of the motor 20 to the pressing-in member 4 and the bills stacked on the receiving plate are pressed in a bill storage part under the control of a control part 30.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote storing mechanism in a banknote deposit machine, and more particularly to a banknote storing mechanism for correcting a folded banknote in a temporary storage section in a pre-storage stage and storing the corrected banknote in the banknote storing section. And a banknote storage mechanism.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to effectively utilize the space of a bill storage unit and store a large amount of bills as much as possible, it is necessary to correct the folding of the bills in a temporary storage unit prior to storage. A device designed to be stored in a bill storage unit has been proposed (for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-2531).
No. 6).

[0003] The apparatus disclosed in the above publication has a temporary holding plate which is movable above the banknote storage in the horizontal direction with respect to the stacking direction of the banknotes. After the paper is pressed by a spring-biased bill holder to correct the folding, the temporary holding plate is retracted in the horizontal direction and dropped into the bill storage.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned apparatus, the bill holder is suspended by a spring, and the bill is sandwiched between the bill holder and the temporary holding plate to correct the folded state. The pressing force changes depending on the amount of banknotes accumulated on the board. For example, when the amount of banknotes is extremely small, the pressing force is weakened, so that the folding of the banknotes cannot be sufficiently corrected. There was a point.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and always presses a bill with a constant pressing force regardless of the amount of a deposited bill to bend the bill. To provide a banknote storage mechanism capable of reliably correcting the bill.

[0006]

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a receiving plate for paying out a deposited bill, sending the bill to a discriminating unit, accumulating bills determined to be acceptable and temporarily holding the bills, A pushing member for pushing the bills accumulated on this receiving plate into the bill storage unit installed at the lower position thereof,
A motor as a drive source for pushing the pushing member in, and an electromagnetic clutch for intermittently transmitting the rotation of the motor are provided, and the receiving plate is formed so as to be movable in a direction orthogonal to the direction of stacking the banknotes, An urging means for applying a rotational load between the armature of the electromagnetic clutch and the rotor is provided, and the pushing member is connected to the motor via the electromagnetic clutch, and the pressing member is not energized when the electromagnetic clutch is de-energized. The motor is energized so that the bills accumulated on the receiving plate are pressed by the pushing member until the bills balance with the rotational load generated by the urging means, and then the receiving plate is retracted in the horizontal direction. After that, the electromagnetic clutch is energized to transmit the rotation of the motor to the pushing member, and control is performed to push the bills accumulated on the receiving plate into the bill storage unit. Characterized by possession of.

The urging means is constituted by a compression coil spring,
It is preferable that the compression coil spring is provided in the thrust direction of the electromagnetic clutch.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a temporary storage unit 1 for banknotes P. A banking space 2 for banknotes P is formed between a receiving plate 3 and a pushing member 4 made of a plate-like material located above the receiving plate 3. 2
At the entrance side of the paper money, upper and lower pairs of feed rollers 5 and 6 are provided rotatably in the direction of the arrow, and at least two right and left bills on the shaft of the lower roller 6 are fed into the holding space 2. A plurality of blades 7 made of a flexible material for knocking down the rear end of P downward are radially planted.

The receiving plate 3 sends a command to a pulse motor (not shown) when the full sensor S ₁ provided on the side of the holding space 2 detects the upper end of the bills P accumulated in the holding space 2. By giving it, it descends step by step, and always secures a space in which the bill P can be received.

The receiving plate 3 is slidable in the front-rear direction (shown in FIG. 2) with respect to the paper surface in FIG. 1, and is stored in a bill storing portion 8 installed below the temporary holding portion 1. It is designed to retreat to the side.

In FIG. 1, a reference numeral 9 designates a door for a temporary holding section provided on the machine body.
Can be opened to take out the banknotes P in the holding space 2.
The S ₂ is jam occurs in the process prior to entering feed through the transport path 10 to hold the space 2, a sensor for detecting the case of certain time off is abnormal, the optical path to the nearest position of the rollers 5 and 6 Emitter / receiver 11 arranged to have
It consists of twelve.

2 to 4 show an example of a mechanism for moving the pushing member 4 up and down. FIG. 2 is a side view, FIG. 3 is a plan view, and FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of an electromagnetic clutch portion. I have.

An upper end of a support rod 13 having the pushing member 4 fixed to a lower end thereof is attached to an outer surface of a vertically running portion of an endless belt 17 wound between pulleys 14, 15, 16. And the fixture 18
Is inserted into the guide rod 19, and the pushing member 4 is vertically moved along a predetermined stroke along the guide rod 19 by the rotation of the belt 17.

The one pulley 14 is a timing pulley, and the pulley 14 is provided with rotation via an electromagnetic clutch 21 by a motor 20 which is a driving source and is driven to rotate forward and backward.

As shown in FIG. 4, the electromagnetic clutch 21 has a rotor 23 fixed on a shaft 22 which is rotated by a motor 20 so that the electromagnetic clutch 21 rotates integrally by driving the motor 20. Armature 2
4 is in sliding contact. The armature 24 is mounted on the shaft 2
2 is free.

The end face of the armature 24 has the shaft 2
2, one end surface of a free gear 25 is fixed, and a compression coil spring 27 as an example of an urging means is interposed between the other end surface of the gear 25 and a member 26 on the shaft 22 side. The armature 24 is pressed against the rotor 23 at the contact surface 28 by the urging force of 27, so as to provide a function as a torque limiter.

The gear 25 is meshed with a gear 29 on the shaft of the pulley 14.

The control unit 30 controls the motor 20 to be energized when the electromagnetic clutch 21 is not energized, so that the banknotes P accumulated on the receiving plate 3 balance the rotational load generated by the compression coil spring 27. Until the pressing member 4 is pressed down, the receiving plate 3 is retracted in the horizontal direction, and then the electromagnetic clutch 21 is energized to transmit the rotation of the motor 20 to the pressing member 4. 3
It is configured to control to push the bills P stacked on the bills into the bill storage unit 8.

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

The rollers 5 and 6 are placed in the holding space 2 of the temporary holding section 1.
When the banknote P for one transaction is sent from between, the pushing member 4
Is lowered to correct the folded bills P and the like.

That is, when the feeding of the banknote P into the holding space 2 is completed, the motor 20 is energized, and the rotation of the motor 20 causes the shaft 22 to rotate clockwise in FIG.

On the other hand, since the gear 25 is pressed by the compression coil spring 27, the armature 24 integral with the gear 25 is pressed against the rotor 23, and a predetermined frictional force is generated on the contact surface 28 thereof to generate the shaft. The rotor 23, the armature 24, and the gear 25, which rotate together with the motor 22, rotate.

As a result, the gear 2 meshing with the gear 25
2 rotates counterclockwise in FIG. 2, whereby the timing pulley 14 rotates in the same direction and the belt 17 rotates counterclockwise in FIG.

By the rotation of the belt 17, the pushing member 4 is lowered via the support rod 13 fixed to the belt 17, and the lower surface thereof contacts the upper surface of the banknote P in the holding space 2 so that the banknote P
Is corrected (FIG. 5 (A) → (B)). At this time, the pushing member 4 keeps descending until the repulsive force when the pushing member 4 presses the banknote P and the friction force of the contact surface 28 between the armature 24 and the rotor 23 are balanced, and after the friction force is balanced. Is rotor 23 and armature 24
The contact surface 28 slips, and the pushing member 4 does not descend any more but stays at that position.

After the folding of the banknote P is corrected, the temporarily stored banknote P is forcibly pushed into the banknote storage unit 8.

That is, the receiving plate 3 is driven by a driving mechanism (not shown).
2 slides to the right in FIG. 2 and retreats from the temporary holding section 1 (FIG. 5C). When the electromagnetic clutch 21 is energized after the retraction is completed, the armature 24 is attracted to the rotor 23 and the clutch is connected. You. Thereby, the rotation of the motor 20 is transmitted from the gear 25 to the gear 29, and the pushing member 4 further descends to push the bill P into the bill storage unit 8 (FIG. 5D).

After the pushing is completed, the motor 20 is rotated in the reverse direction so that the pushing member 4 is raised and returned to the initial position, and the receiving plate 3 is returned to the temporary holding section 1 to return to the initial state.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, the motor as a drive source for forcibly pushing the banknotes of one transaction accumulated in the temporary holding unit into the banknote storage unit, and the transmission of power is intermittent. By providing an electromagnetic clutch for applying a rotational load to the electromagnetic clutch,
In a state in which the electromagnetic clutch is not energized, a rotational load is generated by the action of the urging means, and the rotational load has a constant value regardless of the amount of bills accumulated in the temporary holding unit, and therefore, the amount of bills Regardless of the degree, the bill can always be pressed with a constant pressing force, so that the folded bill can be reliably corrected.

The main components of the present invention are a motor,
The electromagnetic clutch and the biasing means (compression coil spring) for applying a rotational load to the electromagnetic clutch have a simple configuration, but they cooperate to correct the folding of the banknote in the temporary holding unit and to the banknote storage unit. 2 with forced storage
It has a remarkable effect that can achieve various functions.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an example of a temporary holding unit of a banknote deposit machine to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing an embodiment of a bill storage mechanism according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the electromagnetic clutch shown in FIGS. 2 and 3;

FIGS. 5A to 5D are explanatory views showing the operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Temporary holding part 2 Reservation space 3 Receiving plate 4 Pushing member 8 Banknote storage part 13 Support rod 17 Belt 19 Guide rod 20 Motor 21 Electromagnetic clutch 23 Rotor 24 Armature 25, 29 Gear 27 Compression coil spring as urging means 30 Control part

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A receiving plate for paying out a deposited bill and sending it to a discriminating unit, for accumulating and temporarily storing the bills judged to be acceptable, and setting the bills accumulated on the receiving plate at a position below the receiving plate. A pushing member for pushing the pushed bill into the bill storage unit, a motor as a drive source for pushing the pushing member, and an electromagnetic clutch for interrupting transmission of rotation of the motor, and the receiving plate is arranged in the bill stacking direction. A biasing means for applying a rotational load is provided between the armature of the electromagnetic clutch and the rotor, and the pushing member is connected to the motor via the electromagnetic clutch. And the pushing unit until the motor is energized when the electromagnetic clutch is de-energized and the bills accumulated on the receiving plate are balanced with the rotational load generated by the urging means. Then, after the receiving plate is retracted in the horizontal direction, the electromagnetic clutch is energized to transmit the rotation of the motor to the pushing member, and the bills accumulated on the receiving plate are stored in the bill storage. A bill storage mechanism in a bill depositing machine, comprising a control unit for controlling the bill depositing unit to push the bill into the bill unit. 2. A bill storage mechanism in a bill depositing machine according to claim 1, wherein said urging means comprises a compression coil spring, and said compression coil spring is attached in a thrust direction of said electromagnetic clutch.