EP0005630A1 - Dispositif d'empilage de feuilles - Google Patents

Dispositif d'empilage de feuilles Download PDF

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EP0005630A1
EP0005630A1 EP79300856A EP79300856A EP0005630A1 EP 0005630 A1 EP0005630 A1 EP 0005630A1 EP 79300856 A EP79300856 A EP 79300856A EP 79300856 A EP79300856 A EP 79300856A EP 0005630 A1 EP0005630 A1 EP 0005630A1
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wheel
sheets
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stacking apparatus
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Charles Hambleton Saffery
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Chubb Electronics Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/38—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/40—Members rotated about an axis perpendicular to direction of article movement, e.g. star-wheels formed by S-shaped members
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B65H2301/4212—Forming a pile of articles substantially horizontal
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/431—Features with regard to the collection, nature, sequence and/or the making thereof
    • B65H2301/4318—Gathering, associating, assembling articles from a single source which is supplied by several sources
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1912—Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like

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  • This invention relates to sheet-stacking apparatus of the kind in which slotted wheel-means is rotated to receive sheets fed successively thereto, said sheets being retained in slots of the wheel means to be carried round with the wheel means, and in which stripper means extends into the path of said sheets carried with the wheel means for dislodging the sheets from the slots so that they stack one upon the other.
  • Sheet-stacking apparatus of this specified kind is used for stacking banknotes in banknote dispensing equipment utilized in banks for assisting the human teller or cashier in delivering cash to customers. Such apparatus is also used in automated teller machines where banknotes are to be dispensed to customers directly in dependence upon data keyed or otherwise inserted into the machine. In both applications banknotes are fed in rapid succession to the sheet-stacking apparatus which assembles them into an appropriate stack ready for delivery to the customer by the human teller or cashier or by a machine-operated delivery mechanism. The banknotes are drawn off from one or more reserve stacks of notes and are fed one at a time to the stacking apparatus in the appropriate number for the transaction in hand.
  • Notes of only one denomination or of a plurality of different denominations may be held in reserve for dispensing, but whether in any transaction only one denomination of note is involved or there is to be a mix of denominations, the stacking apparatus is required to assemble the notes orderly and neatly in register with one another.
  • Known forms of banknote stacking apparatus involve two or more slotted discs or wheels spaced apart and mounted on a common shaft which is rotated at a speed related to the rate of feed of the notes from the reserve.
  • the notes are drawn off flat from the reserve and fed laterally, that is to say with one of the longitudinal edges of the note leading and the other trailing, to the slotted wheels.
  • the shaft carrying the stacker wheels is mounted to extend transversely of the path of note-feed and is rotated to trail the slot- openings of each wheel in the direction of rotation and to present these openings to that path in turn.
  • the slots of each wheel are aligned with the slots respectively of each other wheel on the rotating shaft so that the leading edge of each note fed to the wheels enter corresponding slots of the two or more wheels.
  • the notes are driven at speed to enter deeply into the wheel slots and lodge there with each held at two or more spaced positions along its length to be carried round with the rotating wheels.
  • the wheel slots which are usually defined by tines attached individually to or moulded integrally with the wheel-hub, are generally of a spiral or other arcuate configuration so as to arrest and retain the entered notes firmly as the wheels rotate. Rotation of the wheels brings each retained note in turn into abutment with parts of a stripper plate or stripper bars that serve to dislodge the notes from the wheel slots and stack them upon one another.
  • the misalignment problem can be largely overcome'by using a single stacker wheel, rather than the two or more used in the previously-known forms of stacking apparatus, with abutments of the stripper means on either side of the wheel for dislodging the sheets from the wheel.
  • each note or other sheet is retained with the rotating, single wheel of the invention, at one position only along its length may suggest that the: alignment of the sheets as they are fed to the wheel cannot be maintained; more especially the sheets may pivot with respect to the wheel as the wheel rotates. But it has been found even with used banknotes that if this does happen abutment with the stripper means to either side of the wheel is effective to turn the notes back into alignment before they are freed from the wheel.
  • each sheet is enhanced by the curvature which is imposed on it across its width while entered in the respective slot of the wheel, and this tends to reduce the likelihood that the initial orientation with which the sheet is fed to the wheel, will change as the wheel.rotates round to be dislodged by the stripper means.
  • the dispensing equipment incorporates four cassettes 1 to 4 for storing reserves of banknotes of four different denominations in separate stacks.
  • the cassettes 1 to 4 are provided within individual supply units 5 to 8 respectively that are coupled together in series and are actuable from an electronic control unit 9. Actuation of any one of the units 5 to 8 from the unit 9 is effective to draw off the top note from the reserve stack of the respective cassette 1 to 4 and to feed it to a stacker unit 10.
  • each unit 5 to 8 has a feeder mechanism 11 that includes a continuously-rotating belt for feeding notes onwards towards the unit 10 from its own respective cassette 1 to 4 or from the mechanism 11 of the preceeding note-supply unit of the series-coupled units 5 to 8.
  • the units 5 to 8 are actuated by the unit 9 to draw off notes in the required numbers and denominations and to feed these in rapid succession via the mechanisms 11 to driven rollers 12 at the entrance to the stacker unit 10.
  • each note - such as illustrated by note N - is fed into the stacker unit 10 laterally and, is driven from the rollers 12 into a respective slot 13 of the single rotating stacker wheel 14 of the unit 10.
  • the wheel 14 is located centrally of the note-feed path being mounted on a shaft 15 located below that path so that the notes enter directly into the arcuate wheel-slots 13; the shaft 15 may be rotated by an individual electric motor or from the same drive source as the feeders 11.
  • Each note lodged in the wheel 14 is carried forwardly and downwardly with the rotating wheel 14 and by this is brought into abutment with a stripper plate 16.
  • the plate 16 extends upwardly towards the shaft 15 on either side of the wheel 14 (being slotted to allow the wheel to pass through) to provide abutments on both sides for dislodging the successive notes from their slots 13.
  • Each note is dislodged with its leading longitudinal edge square against the plate 16, and falls away from the wheel 14 to form an orderly stack S with ' the earlier-dispensed notes.
  • the stack is formed on a belt or other device 17 of a delivery unit 18 ( Figure 1) with the notes all in register with one another against the plate 16.
  • the control unit 9 actuates the unit 18 to deliver the stacked notes together as one from the device 17, in their neat and orderly pile, to the cashier or customer, whichever is appropriate to the application of the equipment.
  • the slots 13 are defined in the wheel 14 by arcuate tines 19 that are moulded in plastics as one with the hub of the wheel (the tines may alternatively be provided as individual elements secured separately to a wheel core).
  • Each tine 19 has a width (corresponding to wheel thickness) of 4 millimetres, so each note is held by the wheel 14 at one position over a very small part of its length.
  • the curvature imposed by the curved tines 19 across the widths of the notes entered in the slots 13 provides a degree of rigidity and resilience which reduces the likelihood of any change in orientation of the notes from that with which they are fed into the wheel 14 from the rollers 12.
  • the mounting of the wheel 14 centrally of the stacking unit 10 is not essential, but it has been found that this is the optimum location, especially where notes of different denominations are fed to the unit. It is in any case preferable to locate the wheel 14 well away from those regions, notably the ends, of the notes most likely to be turned up or over, or torn.

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Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3347367A (en) * 1962-12-28 1967-10-17 Sperry Rand Corp Document sorting
DE2233750A1 (de) * 1972-07-08 1974-01-24 Kluge Stapelvorrichtung, insbesondere fuer zeitungen
FR2245557A1 (fr) * 1973-09-05 1975-04-25 Izdatelstvo Izvestia Sovetov
DE2525484A1 (de) * 1974-06-25 1976-01-15 Ibm Ausbaufaehiges datengeraet fuer den bankverkehr mit programmsteuerung
FR2295499A1 (fr) * 1974-12-16 1976-07-16 Gao Ges Automation Org Dispositif d'empilage de supports d'information se presentant sous forme de cartes
DE2127815B2 (de) * 1970-06-04 1977-04-21 De La Rue Instruments Ltd., London Einrichtung zur ausgabe von banknoten
DE2653979A1 (de) * 1975-12-02 1977-06-16 Inter Innovation Ab Geraet zum ausgeben von banknoten, fahrkarten oder dergleichen
FR2386871A1 (fr) * 1977-04-04 1978-11-03 Fichet Bauche Dispositif de distribution de billets de banque

Patent Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3347367A (en) * 1962-12-28 1967-10-17 Sperry Rand Corp Document sorting
DE2127815B2 (de) * 1970-06-04 1977-04-21 De La Rue Instruments Ltd., London Einrichtung zur ausgabe von banknoten
DE2233750A1 (de) * 1972-07-08 1974-01-24 Kluge Stapelvorrichtung, insbesondere fuer zeitungen
FR2245557A1 (fr) * 1973-09-05 1975-04-25 Izdatelstvo Izvestia Sovetov
DE2525484A1 (de) * 1974-06-25 1976-01-15 Ibm Ausbaufaehiges datengeraet fuer den bankverkehr mit programmsteuerung
FR2295499A1 (fr) * 1974-12-16 1976-07-16 Gao Ges Automation Org Dispositif d'empilage de supports d'information se presentant sous forme de cartes
DE2653979A1 (de) * 1975-12-02 1977-06-16 Inter Innovation Ab Geraet zum ausgeben von banknoten, fahrkarten oder dergleichen
FR2386871A1 (fr) * 1977-04-04 1978-11-03 Fichet Bauche Dispositif de distribution de billets de banque

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