JP2001134840A - Paper money receiving/paying-out device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a device compact at a low cost without losing the steal prevention property a paper money storage part. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a drawer unit 20A, with which an outer casing 19 constituting an outer frame including a side at least, money receiving port part 23 identifying part 87, reflux paper money storage parts 26 and 27, money paying-out port part 24, collecting cassette 25 and conveyance passage 28 are arranged on a machine body so as to draw them from one end of the outer casing 19 and the circulated paper money storage parts 26 and 27 are arranged backward rather than the conveyance passage 28, forming a paper money take-out opening part on the side of the relevant storage part, first lock means 50 for locking this drawer unit while loading it in the outer casing and being unlocked by a first key 49 for drawing the relevant drawer unit 20A, and second lock means 64 for regulating the quantity of drawing so as to expose the conveyance passage while hiding the reflux paper money storage parts 26 and 27 inside the outer casing 19 when the drawer unit is drawn, and being unlocked by a second key 65 for canceling the regulation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote pay-in / pay-out device used in connection with a cash register or the like at a checkout place such as a supermarket or a restaurant, or at a window of a transportation system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In cashiers such as supermarkets and restaurants, sales are registered using a cash register or the like, and automatic change dispensing and bill / coin deposit / withdrawal processing are performed using data registered in the cash register or the like. Has been introduced.

[0003] This type of processing apparatus includes a banknote pay-in / pay-out device that performs banknote pay-in / pay-out processing and a coin pay-in / pay-out device that performs coin pay-in / out processing.

[0004] Of the above-mentioned processing devices, the bill depositing and dispensing device includes:
Since it is required that transactions with customers be performed promptly for money receipt and payment, and that even people who are not very familiar with machines such as part-timers are required to handle the bills, bills are jammed in the equipment. It is necessary to have a structure that can easily cope with the case.

[0005] In response to the above-mentioned request, conventionally, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open
As seen in -319926, the front door of the machine is unlocked and opened with a key, and a bill processing unit constituted by a deposit port, a dispensing port, a transport passage, a bill storage unit, and the like is pulled out from the machine. It is designed to remove jammed banknotes.

[0006]

However, in the above-described banknote pay-in / pay-out device, the clogging in the transport path located at the rear portion of the apparatus is not limited to the transport path portion of the banknote processing unit but also to the banknote storage section. It must be withdrawn, so that even a part-timer or the like using the device can access the bills stored in the bill storage, and therefore not be able to do so. A door is provided on the side of the unit, and a lock is provided on the door, and the door is locked by a key.

Therefore, according to the above-mentioned conventional banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus, it is possible to easily cope with the occurrence of a banknote clogging, and even though the banknote storing section is excellent in the anti-theft property, the banknote storing section has a door or a lock. Not only leads to an increase in cost, but also requires a space for providing a door in the apparatus, which causes a problem such as a bottleneck in downsizing the apparatus.

The present invention focuses on the above-mentioned problems of the prior art,
An object of the present invention is to provide a low-cost and compact bill receiving and dispensing apparatus without losing the anti-theft property of the bill storage unit.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is directed to a deposit port for feeding inserted banknotes one by one and sending the bills to a transport path, and a deposit port provided in the transport path. An identification unit for discriminating a denomination of a banknote, a recycle banknote storage unit for storing a banknote discriminated as a dispensing banknote by the identification unit and dispensing one by one at the time of dispensing, and a recycle banknote storage unit. A dispensing port that accumulates the dispensed bills so as to be able to be taken out from the outside, a banknote that is determined not to be a dispensing bill in the deposited bill, and an overflow bill or a collected bill in the recirculating bill storage unit. In a banknote pay-in / pay-out device having a collection cassette for storing recirculated banknotes and a transport path for transporting banknotes between the respective units, an outer casing forming an outer frame including at least a side surface, the deposit port, and an identification unit , Circulating banknote storage, dispensing slot , A collection cassette, and a transfer passage are arranged on the body so that the drawer can be pulled out from one end of the outer casing, and the recycle banknote storage portion is disposed at a position rearward from the transfer passage, and a side surface of the storage portion. A drawer unit having a bill extracting opening formed therein, and a first unit which is locked with the drawer unit loaded in the outer casing and is unlocked by a first key so that the drawer unit can be pulled out.
And a restricting means for restricting the withdrawal amount so that the recycle banknote storage portion is concealed in the outer casing and the transport passage is exposed when the withdrawal unit is withdrawn, and is unlocked by the second key to restrict the withdrawal. And a second locking means for unlocking.

[0010] In this case, it is preferable to carry out each processing such as bill transfer, transport, stacking and the like in the longitudinal direction of the bill in order to reduce the width of the apparatus and to achieve further compactness.

[0011]

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

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a state in which a banknote depositing / dispensing apparatus 10 according to the present invention is incorporated in a POS register 11 at a checkout station such as a supermarket. , So that the coin depositing and dispensing device 12 is located on the other side,
It is arranged above.

As is well known, the POS register 11 includes a group of operation keys 14, a display unit 15 for attendants, and a display unit 1 for customers.
6. It has a money placement unit 17 for temporarily storing cash received from the customer in a state that can be seen by the customer, a receipt issuing port 18, and the like.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional side view showing the banknote pay-in / pay-out device 10 of FIG. 1 taken out. This is the case where the operation is performed.
Therefore, the outer casing 19 which defines the entire shape is formed in a narrow and flat rectangular parallelepiped shape, one end of which is opened, and the body 20 which forms the framework of the drawer unit 20A is inserted through the opening 19a.

As shown in FIG. 7, a slide rail 22 on the side of the fuselage 20 is fitted to a rail 21 provided in the horizontal direction on the inner surface of the side wall 19b of the outer casing 19, as shown in FIG. Have been.

The body 20 has a form in which one side surface is open, and each part necessary for depositing and withdrawing bills is mounted on the body 20 to constitute a unitized drawer unit 20A.

A brief description of each of the above components will be given below. A deposit port 23 is provided at an upper position on the front side (right side in FIG. 2) of the body 20.
The dispensing port 24 is opened at a lower position on the front side, and a collection cassette 25 is provided at a position between the depositing port 23 and the dispensing port 24 so as to be removable.

At the rear side of the machine body 20, circulating banknote storage units 26 and 27 for storing and feeding out banknotes P by denomination are vertically arranged in a multi-layered form, and one side surface thereof is open to take out banknotes. It is an opening.

In the illustrated embodiment, the upper recycle banknote storage section 26 is for 5,000 yen banknotes, and the lower recycle banknote storage section 27 is for 1000 yen banknotes.
Reference numeral 5 stores 10,000-yen banknotes and overflow banknotes in the storage sections 26 and 27.

Then, the deposit port 23, the collection cassette 2
5. A transport passage 28 is provided between the dispensing port 24 and the circulating banknote storage units 26 and 27.

Next, the configuration of each of the above-described units will be described in detail.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the depositing port 23 is capable of inserting a plurality of bills at the same time. The depositing port 23a into which bills are inserted is successively transferred to the depositing port 23a. Belt 29 is provided, and the roller 3
The rollers 30 are reversely driven to prevent the simultaneous passage of two bills on the feeding belt 29 and constitute a gate for passing only one bill. The pulley 31 on the far side of the transfer belt 29 is driven via a clutch, and the clutch is turned on and rotated by a transfer command.

At the upper position of the feeding belt 29, a self-weight hanging type pressing plate 32 for pressing the upper surface of the bill to prevent it from being lifted is pivotally supported in a downwardly inclined posture toward the rear. The tip of the banknote is located immediately adjacent to the roller 30 so as to be reliably fed to the lower side of the roller 30.

Reference numeral S ₁ denotes a sensor for detecting insertion of a bill, and S ₂ denotes a sensor for detecting a bill to be fed.

The collection cassette 25 has a flat box structure as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and is slidably inserted into a housing 33 formed from the front end of the body 20 toward the back. .

At an upper position on the rear end of the collection cassette 25, as shown in an enlarged view in FIG.
4, and two belts 35, 35 and rollers 36, 35 for feeding the bills P into the entrance 34.
36 are arranged in an upper and lower pair, and the belts 35, 3
A gear 39 is provided at the shaft end of the pulley 37 on the inlet 34 side of the gear 5 so as to mesh with a drive gear 38 provided on the body 20 when the collection cassette 25 is stored at a predetermined position. , 35 are provided with rotation in the retracting direction.

Inside the collection cassette 25, there is provided a receiving plate 40 for storing the banknotes P fed from the entrance 34 in an accumulated state.
1, 41, the upper surface of both ends in the longitudinal direction of the stacked banknote P is pressed against the lower surfaces of the right and left stacking rotators 42, 42 on the receiving plate 40. I have.

The accumulating rotators 42 and 42 themselves are generally known, but in brief, the accumulating rotators 4
As shown in FIG. 4, reference numerals 2 and 42 are formed of round bar-like members, and have slits 43 and 43 of a required depth formed on one side surface in the longitudinal direction, and bills fed by the belt 35 and the rollers 36. Both ends in the longitudinal direction of P are inserted into the slits 43 and temporarily supported as shown in FIG.

The accumulating rotators 42, 42 have a worm 44 at the front end thereof, and a worm wheel on which the drive gear 45 on the machine body 20 meshes with the worm 44 when the collection cassette 25 is stored at a predetermined position. The intermediate gear 47a is slightly meshed with the gear 47 on the shaft
The rotation of the banknotes P held by the slits 43 and 43 is performed by rotating the banknotes 2 and 42 in the directions indicated by the arrows in FIG. Is formed.

A compression spring 48 is provided at the inner end of the housing 33 so as to be able to contact the rear end face of the collection cassette 25. When the collection cassette 25 is pushed into a predetermined position, the spring 48 is compressed. As a result, the urging force acts in the direction in which the collection cassette 25 is pushed out.

The first locking means 5 is provided on the front surface 20a of the body 20.
0 key hole 50a is provided.
The lock mechanism (not shown) is released by inserting the key 49 (shown in FIG. 7) and turning, and the restraint of the collection cassette 25 and the body 20 is released, and the collection cassette 25 is pushed out by the action of the spring 48 described above. As shown in FIG. 7A, the body 20 slightly protrudes from the front surface 20a of the body 20 and can be pulled out manually, and the body 20 is locked by a second locking means (described below) (the state of FIG. 7B). Withdrawal is possible. However, in this state, the bill extracting openings on the side surfaces of the recirculating bill storage units 26 and 27 are not shown in FIG.
As shown in (B), the end portion of the side wall 19b of the outer casing 19 is completely covered, and a hand cannot be inserted into the storage portions 26 and 27 unless the second locking means 64 is unlocked.

On the other hand, the gear 39 on the pulley shaft of the belt 35 and the gear 47 of the accumulating rotators 42, 42 are moved from the drive gears 38, 45 on the machine body 20 side by slightly projecting the collection cassette 25 as described above. If the collection cassette 25 is pulled out as it is separated from each other, the collection cassette 25 can be taken out from the body 20 as shown by a chain line in FIG.

In FIG. 3, a detection switch 51 detects that the collection cassette 25 is set at a predetermined position.
S ₃ is detecting sensor of the bill to be fed into the collection cassette 25, S ₄ denotes a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of bills in the collection cassette 25.

The dispensing port 24 is connected to the front surface 20 of the body 20.
a guards 53, 53 are formed on both sides of a portion of the bottom plate 52 projecting from the front surface 20a so as to form a U-shaped cross section. Has a hinged door 5
4, 54 are attached, and are normally urged to the closed state as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, function as a stopper at the tip of the bill at the time of dispensing, and when removing the dispensed bill, If the tip is grasped and pulled out, the doors 54, 54 are pushed open by the bill and can be removed from between the doors.

The recirculating banknote storage units 26 and 27 (hereinafter simply referred to as storage units) have the same structure in the upper and lower parts, and only one of them will be described, and the other will be denoted by the corresponding reference numerals. I do.

The receiving plate 55 is provided on the bottom of the housing 26 with the spring 5.
6 and 56, and three belts 57, 57 and 5, which are used for both feeding and unwinding, are provided above the storage unit 26.
The belt 7 is disposed over a range of about two thirds of the storage sections 26 and 27 from the bill entrances 58 and 58 provided at the upper front end of the storage sections 26 and 27 to the back side.
The forward / reverse rotation is transmitted from a drive system of a transport passage 28 described later via a clutch on the way.

A bill holding lever 59 is provided near the inner end of the belt 57 between the belts. The bill holding lever 59 has a rear end portion supported on the body 20 side by a shaft 60 so as to be able to swing up and down.
A friction portion 61 made of a material having a large friction coefficient such as rubber is provided in contact with the upper surface of the belt.
When the topmost first bill P is fed by the rotation of 7 and its trailing end passes the position of the friction piece 61 of the bill holding lever 59, the bill holding lever 59 swings downward by a solenoid (not shown). The friction piece 61 is formed so as to abut on the upper surface of the second bill P to prevent the second bill from being taken out. When the money is not withdrawn, the bill P descends and contacts the upper surface of the bill P.

Receiving plates 55, 5 in the storage sections 26, 27
5 and a pair of left and right support arms 62, 62 and 62, 62 extending to positions corresponding to both longitudinal ends of the banknote P above the left and right belts 57, 57 above the left and right belts 57, 57.
(Shown in FIG. 5),
The rear ends protruding from the upper and lower parts 6 and 27 are fixed to an elevating member 63 which is moved up and down by another motor, and the support arms 62 and 62 of the upper and lower storage parts 26 and 27 are simultaneously moved up and down by a single elevating mechanism. And these support arms 6
2, 62, 62, 62 move upward from the lower surfaces of the belts 57, 57 of the storage portions 26, 27 as shown by chain lines in FIGS.
5 (A), the bills P which have been sent and received as shown in FIG. 5 (A) hit the lower surfaces of the belts 57, 57 located on the left and right, and from above the support arms 62, 62 in FIG. Thus, the banknotes P are left behind and are stacked downward.

The body 2 at the lower position of the front end of the lower storage section 27
0, the key hole 64a of the second locking means 64 is located at a position exposed from the opening 19a of the outer casing 19 when the body 20 is pulled out by unlocking the first locking means 50 (see FIG. 7B). The lock lever 66 is disengaged from the lock pin 67 protruding from the inner surface of the side wall 19b of the outer casing 19 by inserting and rotating the second key 65, as shown in FIG. Can be extracted from the outer casing 19, whereby the bill extracting openings on the side surfaces of the storage portions 26 and 27 are opened for the first time.

Next, the configuration of the transport passage 28 will be described.

The transfer passage 28 is provided at the front end of the machine body 20, the inlet 34 of the collection cassette 25, and the rear end position of the outlet 24, that is, the transfer of the inlet 23. Port 23b, entrance 34 of collection cassette 25, dispensing port 2
Path 70 that consolidates the respective paths to the entrance 24b of each of the bills 4 and the entrance 5 at the tip end position of each of the denomination bill storage units 26 and 27.
A substantially S-shaped side view connecting the conveyance path 71 that consolidates the paths to 8, 58 (reverse left and right as viewed from the back side in the figure)
Are formed as a single transfer passage.

That is, the transport passage is formed by the upper and lower guide plates 7 disposed at the end of the feeding belt 29 of the deposit port 23.
Pulleys 73 provided above and below the inner end positions of
74, a pulley 75 provided corresponding to the entrance 34 of the collection cassette 25, and a pulley 76
A large-diameter pulley 77 provided at a central position; a driving pulley 78 provided at a position between the large-diameter pulley 77 and the pulley 74; and a large-diameter pulley 77 provided at a position above the entrance 58 of the upper storage section 26. Belt 70a wound endlessly over the pulley 79, a pulley 80 provided immediately below the pulley 79 at the entrance 58 of the upper storage section 26, a pulley 81 provided below the pulley 79, 24, a belt 71a wound endlessly over the large-diameter pulley 77 and the driving pulley 78, and pulleys 74, 75,... Facing the belts. The range indicated by the bold line in FIG.
Are overlapped, and a region where the banknote P is sandwiched and transported between the two belts is formed. The range includes a large-diameter pulley 77 in a side view and has a substantially S-shaped configuration. This area is longer than the length in the transport direction of the banknote P to be processed (the length in the longitudinal direction in the illustrated embodiment), and can be transported forward and backward.

On the upper part of the part reaching the pulley 82,
A belt 83 for sending out the dispensing bill to the dispensing port 24 is provided.

As shown in FIG. 6, the large-diameter pulley 77 is supported by a shaft 77a via a supporting member 100 on a side wall 20b of the body 20, and the large-diameter pulley 77 is provided on the side wall 20b side. A brushless motor 84 having an outer peripheral surface having substantially the same diameter as the pulley 77 is supported.
The outer peripheral surface of 4 cooperates with the large-diameter pulley 77 to substantially function as a part of the large-diameter pulley that guides the bill P.

Pulley 85 on the output shaft of motor 84
A belt 86 for transmitting rotation to a driving pulley 78 of the transport passage 28 is wound around the belt. Also, on the folded end sides of the belts 70a and 71a including the pulley 77 and forming a substantially S-shape, arcuate concave curved surfaces 10 for guiding bills are provided.
A resin bill guide 101 having 1a is appropriately disposed.

Between the pulley 76 and the large-diameter pulley 77, there is provided a deposit identification part 87 for identifying the denomination of the deposited bill, and between the pulley 78 and the pulley 80, two bills overlapped. Withdrawal identification unit 88 for checking the chain and chain
Is provided.

Each pulley of the transport passage 28 is
0 is supported by the side wall 20b, and the other side is open. Further, the belts 57 of the respective storage portions 26 and 27,
The forward and reverse rotations are transmitted to the drive mechanism 57 via a clutch on the way from the drive system of the transport passage 28.

Switching claws 89, 90, and 91 are provided at a branch portion to the collection cassette 25, a branch portion to the dispensing port 24, and a branch portion to the upper storage portion 26, respectively. The switching claw 89 to the entrance 34 of the rim is always in the state shown in FIG. 1 and FIG.
Reference numeral 91 denotes a switching operation performed by a solenoid (not shown) based on a command from the control unit.

Sensors S ₅ , S ₆ , S ₇ , S ₈ for detecting passage of the bill P are provided in each transport passage.
The sensor S ₈ is a reflection type.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 92 denotes an operation unit provided on the front upper surface of the body 20 for designating the amount of money for manual dispensing, instructing collection, etc., and 93 denotes a coin slot of the coin depositing and dispensing device 12. , 94 are change coin outlets.

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

[0052] If the deposit banknotes P, when inserted from the deposit port 23a to the position corresponding to deposited bills to the rollers 30 of the plurality at the same time gate unit, the motor 84 of the conveyance path 28 sensor S ₁ is to sense the banknote driving At the same time, the clutch of the rotation transmission system to the feeding belt 29 is engaged, and the feeding belt 29 rotates counterclockwise in FIGS. 1 and 2 to feed out the uppermost banknote. The sheet is separated into sheets and sent to the conveyance path 70.

The banknotes sent through the transport path 70 are denominated while passing through the deposit recognition section 87. If the banknote is a 5,000 yen banknote, the switching claw 91 is switched to the receiving side to switch to the receiving section 2.
6 and sent to the storage unit 27 if it is a 1,000 yen bill.

Banknotes P sent to storage units 26 and 27
As shown in FIG. 5 (A), both ends in the longitudinal direction straddle the support arms 62, 62, and when the feeding is completed, the lifting member 63 is raised by the drive of a motor (not shown) to raise the support arm. 5B, during which the both ends of the bill P are disengaged from the support arms 62, 62, as shown in FIG.
5 are integrated.

When the deposited banknote is a 10,000 yen banknote, the bill is approximately S due to the presence of the large-diameter pulley 77 in the transport passage 28.
The motor 84 temporarily stops when the trailing end of the bill passes the deposit recognition unit 87, and the motor 84 reverses, and the 10,000-yen bill is stored in the collection cassette 25. Sent to

The bills fed into the collection cassette 25 are delivered and delivered between the rotating belt 35 and the rollers 36 through the drive gear 39 on the machine body 20 side, and both ends in the longitudinal direction of the bills are illustrated. As shown in FIG. 4 (A), they are inserted into the slits 43, 43 of the left and right accumulating rotators 42, 42 and once held therein, and then these accumulating rotators 42, 4
2 rotates in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 4B through the drive gear 45, the gear 47, the worm wheel 46, and the worm 44, and the side end of the bill P is disengaged from the slits 43, 43 and the receiving plate 40.
Integrated on top.

In the case of dispensing, a motor (not shown) is driven based on the dispensing command, the support member 63 is raised, and the support arms 62, 62 of the upper and lower storage sections 26, 27 are both stored in the storage section 2.
6 and 27, so that the receiving plate 55 is
The upper surface of the stacked banknotes that are raised by the bias of 6 and stacked on the receiving plate 55 is pressed against the lower surface of the belt 57. At this time, the bill holding lever 59 of the storage section 26 or 27 on the side where the bill is not fed out descends and presses the upper surface of the bill P, and the receiving plate 55
The uppermost banknote is separated from the belt 57 by being pushed down. The bill pressing lever 59 on the feeding side is set at a position raised by a solenoid (not shown).

The bills of the denominations to be withdrawn are shown in FIG.
By turning in the counterclockwise direction, the uppermost one is sent out.

When the trailing end of the bill passes the leading end position of the bill holding lever 59, the bill holding lever 59 swings downward by a solenoid (not shown), and the friction piece 61 on the lower surface of the leading end holds the second bill on the upper surface. To prevent the second bill from being taken out.

The first bill sent out is transferred to the transport path 2
8 and is carried out by the clockwise rotation of the drive pulley 78 by the motor 84. On the way, two sheets are stacked while passing through the withdrawal identification section 88, and it is checked whether or not the banknotes are chained or dispensed improperly. If it is determined that the withdrawal is possible, the switching claw 90 is switched to change the withdrawal port. When the transfer is determined to be impossible, the switching claw 90 is switched to the transport path 70 side and is sent to the collection cassette 25.

The bills sent to the dispensing port 24 are transferred to the transport path 7
It is discharged onto the bottom plate 52 of the dispensing port 24 from between the pulley 82 at one end and the belt 83 thereon, and is accumulated on the bottom plate 52. At this time, the tip of the bill is the door 5 of the outlet 24.
It stops against the inner surface of the 4,54 and does not dissipate.

When taking out the dispensed bills, the bottom plate 52
If you pull out the end of the bill that has come out from the tip of the
4, 54 can be opened right and left and the bill can be pulled out from between them.

When the collection cassette 25 is taken out of the machine body 20 to collect and settle the internal bills, the first key 49 is inserted into the key hole 50a of the first locking means 50 and turned to lock. The collection cassette 25 is released and the compression spring 4
As shown in FIG. 7 (A), the front end slightly protrudes from the front surface 20a of the body 20 as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, when a banknote jam occurs in the transport passage 28 in the machine body 20, the lock lever 66 of the second locking means 64 is moved to the lock pin 67 as shown in FIG.
If the sheet is pulled out until it is no longer disengaged, the side surface of the transport passage 28 is exposed, and the jammed banknote can be removed.

At this time, the bill taking-out openings on the open side surfaces of the storage portions 26 and 27 are concealed by the side wall 19b of the outer casing 19 by the lock by the second locking means 64.
Even if the operation for clearing the banknote jam in the transport passage 28 is possible, the hand cannot be inserted into the storage sections 26 and 27.

When the banknotes in the storage sections 26 and 27 are to be taken out, the manager inserts the second lock means 64 into the key hole 64a.
When the key 65 is inserted and turned, the lock lever 66 is disengaged from the lock pin 67, and if the body 20 is further pulled out, the openings on the side surfaces of the storage portions 26 and 27 are closed as shown in FIG. The banknotes are exposed forward from the front end of the side wall 19b, so that the banknotes can be grasped from the storage portions 26 and 27.

[0067]

As described above, according to the present invention, the opening of the paper currency transfer passage portion and the opening of the recirculating banknote storage portion can be achieved by regulating the amount of withdrawal of the withdrawal unit. There is no need to provide a door with a locking function on the open side of the storage unit as in the past, and the structure can be made very simple and compact, especially as a banknote deposit and withdrawal device installed at a checkout place such as a supermarket. Sometimes, the device can be provided inexpensively with a small size and no installation space.

Further, if the cashier in charge of the key for exposing the transfer passage portion of the drawer unit is held by the administrator until the side opening of the storage unit is opened, the burglarproofer can be obtained. There is an advantage that the property can be easily secured.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a usage example of a banknote pay-in / pay-out device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical side view of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a front side of FIG. 2;

4A and 4B are longitudinal sectional front views showing a state in which bills are accumulated in the collection cassette in FIG. 2, wherein FIG.

5A and 5B are longitudinal sectional front views showing a state of stacking banknotes in a recirculating banknote storage unit in FIG. 2, wherein FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a large-diameter pulley portion of the transport passage in FIG. 2;

FIG. 7 shows a relationship between the outer casing and the body in FIG. 2,
(A) is a side view of the withdrawal state of the collection cassette, (B) is a withdrawal state at the time of maintenance of the machine body, (C) is a side view of the withdrawal state in which the recycle banknote storage unit is opened.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 banknote pay-in / pay-out device 11 POS register 19 outer casing 20A withdrawal unit 23 cash-in port 24 cash-out port 25 collection cassette 26, 27 circulating banknote storage section 28 transport passage 29 transfer belt 38, 45 drive gear 42 accumulating body Reference Signs List 50 first locking means 50a key hole of first locking means 59 bill holding lever 62 support arm 64 second locking means 64a key hole of second locking means 77 large diameter pulley 84 motor (brush brush motor)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A deposit port for feeding inserted bills one by one and sending them out to a transport path, an identifying section provided in the transport path for distinguishing the type of deposited bills, and an identifying section A banknote storage unit that stores banknotes determined to be dispensed banknotes and can be fed out one by one at the time of dispensing, and a banknote banknote that has been fed from the recycle banknote storage unit is collected so that it can be taken out from the outside. A dispensing port, a collection cassette for storing non-reflux banknotes such as overflow banknotes and collected banknotes in the recycle banknote storage section and banknotes determined to be not payment banknotes in deposited banknotes, and between the respective sections. In a banknote pay-in / pay-out device having a transport path for transporting banknotes, an outer casing constituting an outer frame including at least a side surface, the deposit port, an identification section, a recirculating bill storage section, a deposit port, a collection cassette, And the transport path is arranged on the machine A drawer unit that is configured to be able to be pulled out from one end of the outer casing and that the recycle banknote storage unit is disposed at a position rearward from the transport path, and that a banknote takeout opening is formed on a side surface of the storage unit. First locking means for locking the drawer unit loaded in the outer casing and unlocking the drawer unit with a first key so that the drawer unit can be pulled out; and A bill input / output device, comprising: a second lock means for restricting a withdrawal amount so as to be concealed in a housing and exposing a transport passage, and being unlocked by a second key to release the restriction. Gold equipment. 2. The bill receiving and dispensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each processing such as transfer, transport, and accumulation of the bill is performed in the longitudinal direction of the bill.