EP0389733A2 - Machine de comptage et de contrôle de papier-monnaie de taille quelconque, même en chevauchement, dépendante d'un ordinateur - Google Patents

Machine de comptage et de contrôle de papier-monnaie de taille quelconque, même en chevauchement, dépendante d'un ordinateur Download PDF

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EP0389733A2
EP0389733A2 EP89810913A EP89810913A EP0389733A2 EP 0389733 A2 EP0389733 A2 EP 0389733A2 EP 89810913 A EP89810913 A EP 89810913A EP 89810913 A EP89810913 A EP 89810913A EP 0389733 A2 EP0389733 A2 EP 0389733A2
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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
    • B65H7/00—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
    • B65H7/02—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
    • B65H7/06—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
    • B65H7/12—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/13—Thickness
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/20—Location in space
    • B65H2511/24—Irregularities, e.g. in orientation or skewness
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/30—Numbers, e.g. of windings or rotations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/50—Occurence
    • B65H2511/52—Defective operating conditions
    • B65H2511/524—Multiple articles, e.g. double feed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
    • B65H2513/40—Movement
    • B65H2513/42—Route, path
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2515/00—Physical entities not provided for in groups B65H2511/00 or B65H2513/00
    • B65H2515/60—Optical characteristics, e.g. colour, light
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2553/00—Sensing or detecting means
    • B65H2553/40—Sensing or detecting means using optical, e.g. photographic, elements
    • B65H2553/41—Photoelectric detectors

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  • the object of this invention is a machine for counting and checking paper money of any size, even though overlapped.
  • the object of this invention is to eliminate the above invoked limitation by achieving a machine for checking and counting bills, which is able to operate on bills of any size, even overlapped.
  • a particular aim of this invention is to achieve a machine for counting and checking bills, which is able to identify the value of each individual bill counted and checked, adding it up and verifying its agreement with what has been previously indicated by the client by a suitable keyboard.
  • Another aim of this invention is to achieve a machine for counting and checking bills, which is able to provide the client a final and legal receipt of what has been deposited.
  • the present machine in substance, is able, by analyzing, bill by bill, to give the user who punches the machine only the total of the amount, by identifying and analyzing all the bills introduced by the user.
  • the machine in question is characterized by the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the machine for counting and checking bills comprises a feed device 1 (fig. 1 and 4), consisting of a box-shaped body, open in the front and upward, on bottom 1′ of which the client places the bills to be deposited.
  • the feed devices traditionally used on said machines can be formally reduced to two specific types, depending on whether they perform the removal of the bills in the crosswise or longitudinal direction from a stack of bills placed on a suitable support structure called loading hopper.
  • the aim of the inventor was to achieve a machine with an electromechanical bills feeder with great reliability, which is characterized by capability of taking bills from the feed hopper in the crosswise direction and then sending them to the process machine in the longitudinal direction. In this way, a device is obtained that combines the advantages of all the solutions now known.
  • Another aim of this invention is to achieve a machine in which the bill feeder is able to be stopped automatically if a bill interferes with the mechanism for driving the bill to be fed.
  • Said object, as well as the above-mentioned objects and others, which can possibly be shown better below, are achieved by a feeder with an improved structure, for feeding the machine for counting and checking bills in general, characterized by the fact of comprising essentially the following elements, graphically diagrammed in figures 4 to 9:
  • the checking system can see to stopping the feeder and optionally sending an alarm to the operator.
  • the feeder with improved structure for feeding the machine for checking and/or counting the bills in question, comprises a chute 1′ (fig. 4), provided with side walls 1 ⁇ , mounted on shoulders 9 (fig. 7) between which are placed crosspieces 10 carrying horizontal plates 11.
  • a wall 1 ⁇ (fig. 4), almost tangent to said chute, able to restrict the stack of bills and whose relative position, with respect to the chute itself, can be suitably adjusted.
  • chute 1′ is provided with suitable slots for the tangential passage of two series of eccentrics 13 and 13′ (fig. 5), mounted on an equal number of shafts 14 and 14′, placed in rotation by a gear motor 15 by means of suitable transmission elements.
  • lower roller 16 (fig. 5), with suitably machined surface, and a series of upper disks 17 (fig. 5) rotating in the same direction.
  • said series of eccentrics see to arranging the stack of bills correctly on the chute, pushing the bills against mobile wall 1 ⁇ by gravity, vibration or friction.
  • electromagnet 7 moves the wall into open position and said roller 16 sees to conveying the lower bill of the stack along back chute 8 (fig. 8) while disks 17 (fig. 5) see to blocking the descent of the remaining bills.
  • the latter eccentrics can impart to the bill, coming from the chute, a position that causes it to rest sideways, on a base stop 8 (fig. 8).
  • a pulley 23 (fig. 7), mounted on an appendage 24, and able to come in contact with the chute itself, works with chute 18 (fig. 8).
  • this appendage is mounted orthogonally on an arm 25, hinged at one end and shaped, on its opposite end, like a rack, engaged by a ratchet 26′ moved in partial rotation by a motor 26 (fig.6).
  • said pulley carries a belt 27 (fig. 8) stretched from a second pulley 28, suitably motor-­driven.
  • said pair of photocells stop the movement of the series of eccentrics and of drive elements 16 (fig. 4) and 17 (fig. 5).
  • pulley 23 (fig.7) moves downward so that belt 27, driven by pulley 28, transfers the bill to the input of the machine.
  • the operating part of the device is hinged on the chute carrying the elements for longitudinal driving of the bills to be able to be tilted with respect to the chute (fig. 8).
  • This arrangement in substance, facilitates possible interventions aimed at removing obstacles (overlapped bills or the like) that have stopped the machine.
  • a further guide element 31 can be provided, having a curved front portion 31′, in whose center is an idle roller 32.
  • Said belts form a closed circuit, driving the individual bills upward and running on the side of a photocell 33 and inside, respectively, a thickness gage 34, and a dimension detector 35.
  • the photocell performs the traditional functions of checking the authenticity of the bill and its state of preservation, while the thickness gage detects the possible passage of bills that are joined and/or carrying foreign bodies (staples or clips or the like); the dimension detector, in turn, by measuring the length and width of the bill is able to establish its value.
  • Said thickness gage 34 essentially comprises a shaft 36 (fig. 3), provided with a pair of collars 37, on which an equal number of elastomer collars 38 lie, mounted on a second shaft 39, able to move upward.
  • feeler elements 40 mounted coaxially with substantially tapered bodies 41, housed in corresponding tapered seats and kept resting on the latter by the action of elastic opposing means.
  • Dimension detector group 35 comprises, essentially, two rows, side by side and with staggered center distances, of point light sources 42 (fig. 3a), opposite which are placed an equal number of photodiodes or the like 43.
  • Said group in practice, by measuring the length and width of the bill that passes between said sources and photodiodes is able to establish its value, communicating it to said memory.
  • the bills Downstream from said detector group, the bills are put into a second pair of drive belts 44 (fig. 2), which run between counting photocells 45, 46 and 47 and beside an exchange mechanism 48.
  • the latter as a function of the data sent to the computer, respectively conveys the counterfeit or irreconcilable bills to a reject pocket 6, open in the front of the machine, and the authentic bills to a suitably equipped collection pocket 5.
  • This pocket in particular, is provided with a longitudinal wall 49, able to tilt upward, and able to move along a volute 50, moved in rotation by a gear motor 51.
  • the pocket in practice, in relation to the requests of the client, can leave the bills within reach of the client, so he can remove them, or move them to the left and leave the bills inside the machine.
  • this pocket is preferably provided a motor-driven wheel 52, provided peripherally with a plurality of more or less spiral tongues able to take the individual bills, left by the drive belts, and transfer them correctly, with superposed arrangement, into the pocket.
  • a keyboard 2 that can be used by the client to send data to the computer, a video 3 with keyboard 3′ able to provide data to the client, and also the output of a printer 4.
  • the machine after having verified the sum placed by the client in the feeder pocket and after having checked both the authenticity of the bills and the agreement with the number punched in by the client, informs the latter, by video, of the possibility of depositing said sum in the checking account or withdrawing it again.
  • the machine collects the bills lying in mobile pocket 5, leaving a correct receipt by means of said printer.

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EP89810913A 1989-03-31 1989-11-30 Machine de comptage et de contrôle de papier-monnaie de taille quelconque, même en chevauchement, dépendante d'un ordinateur Expired - Lifetime EP0389733B1 (fr)

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CH1169/89 1989-03-31
CH1169/89A CH675498A5 (en) 1989-03-31 1989-03-31 Multi-functional banknotes sorter controlled by computer
CH2641/89 1989-07-14
CH2641/89A CH676641A5 (en) 1989-07-14 1989-07-14 Machine four counting and checking paper money of any size
CH3495/89 1989-09-26
CH3495/89A CH677288A5 (en) 1989-09-26 1989-09-26 Machine four counting and checking paper money of any size

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EP0389733A3 EP0389733A3 (fr) 1991-04-10
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WO2003013994A1 (fr) * 2001-08-07 2003-02-20 De La Rue International Limited Appareil de reception et de recyclage de feuilles
WO2003096284A1 (fr) * 2002-05-10 2003-11-20 Nybohov Development Ab Dispositif d'introduction de paquets de billets de banque par exemple dans un appareil
EP1413992A2 (fr) * 2002-10-23 2004-04-28 Ncr International Inc. Procédé et appareil pour effectuer un versement en self-service
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US7672499B2 (en) 1990-02-05 2010-03-02 Cummins-Allison Corp. Method and apparatus for currency discrimination and counting
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WO1998044461A1 (fr) * 1997-04-02 1998-10-08 Tean Ag Machine pour compter et verifier les billets de banque en vue d'operations de depot automatique
KR20020045138A (ko) * 2000-12-08 2002-06-19 김종혁 위조지폐 판별장치 및 그 판별방법
WO2003013994A1 (fr) * 2001-08-07 2003-02-20 De La Rue International Limited Appareil de reception et de recyclage de feuilles
US7036650B2 (en) 2001-08-07 2006-05-02 De La Rue International Ltd Sheet accepting apparatus and recycler
WO2003096284A1 (fr) * 2002-05-10 2003-11-20 Nybohov Development Ab Dispositif d'introduction de paquets de billets de banque par exemple dans un appareil
EP1413992A2 (fr) * 2002-10-23 2004-04-28 Ncr International Inc. Procédé et appareil pour effectuer un versement en self-service
EP1413992A3 (fr) * 2002-10-23 2005-03-09 Ncr International Inc. Procédé et appareil pour effectuer un versement en self-service
WO2005081194A1 (fr) * 2004-02-23 2005-09-01 Cash Sallen Business, S.L. Dispositif de traitement, d'evaluation, de validation et de recyclage d'un ensemble de billets
ES2253060A1 (es) * 2004-02-23 2006-05-16 Cash Sallen Business, S.L. Dispositivo de tratamiento, valoracion, validacion y reciclaje de un conjunto de billetes.
CN1932890B (zh) * 2005-09-16 2010-05-05 辽宁聚龙金融设备股份有限公司 一种两通道纸币自动清分机
CN106204906A (zh) * 2016-07-01 2016-12-07 上海古鳌电子科技股份有限公司 一种上下打钞机构

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