EP0224061B1 - Banknotenzuführvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0224061B1
EP0224061B1 EP86114967A EP86114967A EP0224061B1 EP 0224061 B1 EP0224061 B1 EP 0224061B1 EP 86114967 A EP86114967 A EP 86114967A EP 86114967 A EP86114967 A EP 86114967A EP 0224061 B1 EP0224061 B1 EP 0224061B1
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Brian Dudley Arldt
Jonathon Todd Loeb
Joseph Charles Miller
Hossein Bahman Parsapour
Fred Hill Rascoe Iii
Don Wayne Woodward
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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
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/08—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the articles to present the articles to the separating device
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
    • B65H3/60—Loosening articles in piles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
    • G07D11/10—Mechanical details
    • G07D11/12—Containers for valuable papers
    • G07D11/13—Containers for valuable papers with internal means for handling valuable papers

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  • the invention relates to sheet money feeding machines and more specifically to automatic money dispensing machines which must accurately and reliably feed a precise number of sheets of money as specified by a user without regard to the new or used condition of the money.
  • mint new money be dispensed from their machines.
  • a money cassette will hold approximately 30 % more mint money than it will hold used money so the cost of replentishing the money supply is lower when new money is dispensed.
  • Customers also prefer to receive crisp new money instead of used money which may be crumpled and dirty.
  • used money often arrives at the owners premises in dirty condition with tape or staples which must be removed for reliable feeding by any known machines. This labor raises the cost of using used money in a money dispensing machine.
  • a desirable money dispensing machine must be able to dispense used money as well as mint new money.
  • a sheet feeding machine (GB-A 1 094 304) with a friction feed means.
  • This machine is disposed above a cassette and is provided with a actuator for selectively feeding a top sheet of money from a stack of money in said cassette.
  • This cassette has a pair of sidewalls and a movable bottom being connected to a motor for raising said bottom as sheets of money are fed from the top of said stack of money in said cassette, so as to maintain said top of said stack of money substantially at the top of said cassette.
  • the prior art lacks a single apparatus which can accurately and reliably dispense both used and mint new banknotes interchangeably.
  • This invention as claimed is intended to remedy these drawbacks. It solves the mint money feeding problem of the apparatus of the type disclosed in US Patent No. 4,459,052 by providing an inexpensive and effective sheet block separating ramp means spaced down from the top of the stack of money being fed.
  • the ramp means squeezes each sheet of money inwardly as it is raised toward the friction feed means, causing the sheets to bow upwardly and to separate from underlying sheets. After beeing squeezed and caused to bow upwardly and separate from its underlying sheet, each sheet of money passes the top of the ramp means and again lies flat as part of a short loose stack of separate sheets of money which can then be reliably and accurately fed by the friction feed means which has proven to be so effective in feeding used notes.
  • the block separating ramp means are implemented in the form of two ramps in series to twice squeeze and bow notes and improve the likelihood that the position of a sheet in the short stack above the ramp means is horizontally displaced from the position of overlying and underlying adjacent sheets which reduces the likelihood that two or more sheets will re-adhere to each other and feed at one time.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown an embodiment of the invention in a side view.
  • a stack of money 11 is disposed into a cassette 13.
  • Cassette 13 has a moveable floor or money stack support 15 which is raised and lowered by motor 17 via mechanism 19.
  • Mechanism 19 can be a lead screw, a connecting rod and crank, or other similar mechanism.
  • Cassette 13 has a rectangular horizontal cross section which is larger than the length and width of a sheet of money. Two opposing side walls of the cassette are shown. Each side wall shown has a ramp 21, 23 mounted near the top of the cassette. It has been found that placement of the top of each ramp 21, 23 at between 5 and 15 millimeters down from the top of the cassette results in the formation of a nicely separated stack of money above the ramps. This stack is small and loose enough to prevent re-blocking in high humidity and temperature conditions, yet large enough to reliably feed without catching at the top of ramp means 23.
  • the ramps 21, 23 have inwardly tapering flat lower surfaces and arcuately tapering upper surfaces which join to form a peak as shown.
  • the arcuate upper surface allows the stack of money to be pushed back down into the cassette preparatory to removing the cassette from the machine as desired.
  • the ramps may be of any width but it has been found that a width of approximately 13 millimeters provides good separation without excessive sheet deforming force.
  • Feeding is accomplished by belt 25 which traverses pulleys 27, 29, and 31. Rollers 33, 35, and 37 also contact belt 25 to carry a note fed from stack 11 to an escrow area, not shown, where it is held until the proper number of sheets of money have been fed. Rolls 39 and 41 comprise the feeding mechanism from an adjacent stack of money, perhaps of a different denomination which feed sheets of money into the nip of rolls 29, 37 for transport to the escrow.
  • the stack of money 11 is normally held away from belt 25 by actuator arms 43 which hold the sheets pressed down and away from belt 25.
  • actuator arm 43 When money is to be fed, actuator arm 43 is raised by magnet 45 allowing the top of money stack 11 to contact belt 25, which by friction engages the top most sheet and pulls it into the nip between roll 29 and roll 47.
  • Both roll 29 and roll 47 rotate counter clockwise so that roll 47 tends to restrain underlying but separated notes from being fed.
  • belt 25 will soon no longer contact the top of stack 11 and although belt 25 is rotated and actuator arm 43 retracted, money will not be fed and therefore not sensed at detector 49.
  • motor 17 is activated by a controlling computer to drive lead screw 19 and raise bottom 15 of the cassette 13. As soon as a sheet is fed, motor 17 is turned off. If ever more than one sheet is fed at one time, the multiple sheets are diverted to a reject bin, also not shown, and are not issued to the user. If multiple sheets are several times issued, the computer again turns on motor 17 but this time drives lead screw 19 in the opposite direction to lower the pressure on the stack of money 11 because it may be that too many sheets have been forced past the separator ramps.
  • Figure 2 shows a preferred embodiment including the same motor 17, lead screw 19, feed wheel 31, belt 25 and actuators 43.
  • the notes are squeezed at their ends to cause them to bow upward and separate, the squeezing occurring in a direction transverse to the direction in which they will be fed.
  • sheet separating ramps 51 and 53 are an integral part of replaceable note width guides 59 and 61. These width guides 59 and 61 are available in different dimensions to accommodate a longer or shorter banknote, such as occurs in the currency of different countries.
  • serial ramps 55 and 57 are located so as to act in series with ramps 51 and 53 to twice bow the notes as they are pushed up in the cassette.
  • the ramps 51, 55 molded into guide 59 can be slightly lower than the corresponding ramps 53, 57 molded into guide 61 so as to cause the notes to move from one side to the other as they are pushed up in the cassette. The side to side motion causes them to be horizontally displaced in the loose stack formed at the top of the cassette and less likely to re-block in high temperature and humidity.
  • ramps 51 and 53 may be mounted as an integral part of the money guides or may be mounted directly to the cassette sidewalls.

Claims (5)

  1. Papiergeldtransportmaschine mit Reibungstransportmitteln (25), die über einer Kassette (13) angeordnet sind und mit einem Betätiger (43, 45) für das selektive Transportieren des obersten Geldscheines eines in der genannten Kassette (13) befindlichen Papiergeldstapels (11), wobei diese Kassette ein Paar einander gegenüberliegend angeordnete Seitenwände und einen bewegbaren Boden (15) aufweist, der mit einem Motor (17) verbunden ist zum Anheben dieses Bodens (15), um beim Abtransport des obersten Geldscheines des Stapels (11) die Oberseite des Stapels stets mit der Oberseite der Kassette bündig zu halten, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sich an jeder der genannten Seitenwände eine nach innen ragende Rampe (21, 23) erstreckt, um jeden Geldschein nach innen zu drücken und ihn zu veranlassen, nach oben sich durchzubiegen für ein Separieren von dem darunterliegenden Schein beim Anheben des Stapels (11) in der Kassette (13), wobei diese Rampe (21, 23) von der Oberseite der Kassette beabstandet ist, um den Geldscheinen, welche die Rampe passiert haben, zu erlauben, wieder im wesentlichen flach zu liegen, in Vorbereitung für den Abtransport mittels der genannten Reibungstransportmittel (25).
  2. Geldscheintransportmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Rampe aus einer oberen Rampe (51, 53) und einer unteren (55, 57) besteht, damit jeder Geldschein zweimal gedrückt und nach oben gebogen wird.
  3. Geldscheintransportmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Rampe (21, 23) näher an der Oberseite der Kassette (13) angeordnet ist, um zu erreichen, daß die Geldscheine von einer der gegenüberliegenden Seitenwände zu der anderen derselben bewegt werden beim Passieren der Oberseiten der Rampen (21, 23) um den Separierungsvorgang zu verbessern.
  4. Geldscheintransportmaschine nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die einzelnen Geldscheine des Stapels (11) nach innen gedrückt werden in einer Richtung quer zur Richtung, in der die Geldscheine von der Oberseite des Stapels (11) abtransportiert werden.
  5. Geldscheintransportmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Rampe (21, 23) an zwei gegenüberliegenden Seitenwänden der Kassette (13) angeordnet sind für ein nach Innendrücken des Stapels (11) in einer Richtung parallel zur Richtung, in welcher die Geldscheine von der Oberseite des Stapels (11) abtransportiert werden.
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