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EP0514618B2
EP0514618B2 EP92100806A EP92100806A EP0514618B2 EP 0514618 B2 EP0514618 B2 EP 0514618B2 EP 92100806 A EP92100806 A EP 92100806A EP 92100806 A EP92100806 A EP 92100806A EP 0514618 B2 EP0514618 B2 EP 0514618B2
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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
    • B65H29/12—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers
    • B65H29/14—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers and introducing into a pile
    • 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
    • B65H29/26—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles
    • B65H29/36—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles from tapes, bands, or rollers rolled from under the articles
    • 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
    • B65H29/58—Article switches or diverters
    • B65H29/60—Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
    • 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
    • G07D11/009—Depositing devices
    • 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
    • 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
    • G07D11/14—Inlet or outlet ports
    • 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
    • G07D11/16—Handling of valuable papers
    • G07D11/17—Aligning
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/04—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by paper currency
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/26—Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/261—Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/26—Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/261—Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip
    • B65H2404/2613—Means for changing the transport path, e.g. deforming, lengthening

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  • the invention relates to a buffer for Sheets of the type mentioned in the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such buffers for sheets are suitable, for example for service machines, in which several banknotes for the provision of a service for payment and are only collected after the service may or, if this is not possible, a user again be returned.
  • DE-PS 26 19 620 describes a buffer for that temporary storage of sheets of paper.
  • the already cached Sheets of paper are in a bundle between Conveyor belts are held and are used to store a another sheet as a package back and forth, what the sheets exposed to mechanical stress.
  • a single sheet can be cached in a pocket, with another Sheet can already be put in the pocket before that first sheet is completely removed from the pocket.
  • Swiss patent application no. 02 566 / 90-1 is one Device for stacking sheets described in which a the geometry over at least one stack of movable carriages of conveyor belts changed by means of guide rollers in order to Put the sheet on the stack without the conveyor belts or the sheet to be filed on the previous cover sheet of the Stack slides.
  • GB-A-2198122 describes a similar device.
  • U.S. Patent No. 3,765,523 describes a device for accepting banknotes, which at a Bank should be paid up.
  • the device comprises a Facility for the entry of a bill by a payer, a facility to check the authenticity of the entered Scheins, a facility for the temporary storage of the Certificate, the authenticity of which has been established and one Means of transporting the ticket either for acceptance in one direction or to return the bill to the payer in the opposite direction.
  • US-A-4 856 768 discloses a separator for a sheet memory, the support arms to interrupt the Path of sheets between front and back conveyor path exits on the one hand and a storage section on the other hand, after a certain number of sheets have been entered was exhibited.
  • the support arms can be moved individually and carry the extracted leaves for a certain period of time, while these are bundled. You turn from a neutral position in a first support position between the Front and rear conveyor path exits on the one hand and memory on the other. They also turn in certain distances to second support positions to the barrel of leaves from the front and rear conveyor path exits to facilitate the separator.
  • the invention has for its object a simple and Inexpensive buffer for a large number of sheets to create, the leaves of a minimal mechanical Are exposed to stress.
  • 1 means a service machine (short Automat 1) and 2 a sheet that through a slot 3 of the Vending machine 1 is pushed into a transport system 4.
  • the Automat 1 further comprises a sensor 5 and one with it connected control device 6, a feed system 7, a transport system 8 with two outputs, one in a cassette 9 and the other exit into a return tray 10.
  • the Feed system 7 and transport system 8 form the intermediate store.
  • the transport system 4 is for transporting the Leaves 2 from the acceptance slot 3 of the machine 1 on the sensor 5 over to an entrance 11 of the feed system 7.
  • the control unit 6 generates commands to the buffer, whereby the commands of an acceptance cycle or a transport cycle assigned.
  • the acceptance cycle comprises two idle states and Acceptance processes or empty runs.
  • the cache arrives from one idle state to the other by means of the acceptance process or the empty run. Waits during the acceptance cycle the buffer in the idle state until it is during the Acceptance process supplied by the transport system 4 Sheet 2 reached entrance 11.
  • the control unit 6 changes to the transport cycle, where the during the acceptance cycle in the buffer collected leaves 2 through one of the two exits into the Cassette 9 or transported into the return tray 10.
  • the cassette 9 can also be used by others to process the im Temporary storage sheets 2 suitable, not here shown devices must be replaced.
  • the sensor 5 is for sensing features of what is being transported past it Sheet 2 set up. For example, he can Recognize authenticity features optically or magnetic Capture fields of an image printed with magnetic ink. Sensor signals generated by sensor 5 are stored in control unit 6 processed.
  • sheets 2 can be conveyed through the transport system 4 Acceptance slot 3 are fed until the acceptance cycle ends is.
  • the transport system 4 transports the sheet 2 through the entrance 11 into the feed system 7, sheet by sheet deposits a stack 12 that is being formed in the transport system 8, the stack 12 when stacking the newly fed Sheet 2 is not moved.
  • the machine 1 can one demand and takes predetermined amount for a service as long as banknotes until the control unit 6 by means of Sensor 5 has determined that the predetermined amount has been reached is.
  • the user can also use the machine 1 via a Front of the machine 1 arranged with the control unit 6 connected keyboard 13 transmit the amount to be entered or indicate the end of the acceptance cycle.
  • the control device 6 is connected to a memory 14, which for each sheet 2 in the stack 12 the test results, such as. B. the Value, authenticity, etc., cached. Is the The acceptance process ends, the control unit 6 checks the content of memory 14, whether all sheets 2 in the stack 12 den meet predetermined requirements. If this is the case, decide the control unit 6 to collect the stack 12, the Transport device 8 the stack 12 in the cassette 9th if not, the stack 12 is rejected and the Hand over the return tray 10. The control unit 6 can Abort the acceptance cycle immediately and put the stack 12 in the return tray 10 conveyed when the control unit 6 sheet 2 classified as not satisfying the requirements or the user via the keyboard 13 the acceptance cycle completed.
  • FIG. 2 shows an example of a buffer.
  • Drawing plane is one of the parallel section planes 15 through the Intermediate memory selected in the idle state.
  • the Feed system 7 ( Figure 1) is of an endless belt 16 and a feed belt 17 is formed, while the transport system 8 ( Figure 1) the endless belt 16 and an endless conveyor belt 18th includes. Guided tours and routes of the Endless belts 16 lie outside the cutting plane 15 by one Do not hinder sheet transport.
  • the endless belt 16 and that Feed belt 17 are above one to the cutting plane 15 vertical stacking level 19, 19 'arranged while the Conveyor belt 18 is located below this.
  • the endless conveyor belt 18 is from a drive roller 20 and a roller 21 spanned, so that a section of the Conveyor belt 18 and the stacking section of the endless belt 16 a parallel to the stacking level 19, 19 'transport path of the Form stack 12 by the two rollers 20 and 21st is limited.
  • the transport path of the stack 12 opens onto the one side in the cassette 9 and on the other side in the Return tray 10.
  • rollers 22, 22 ′ are arranged, which stack 12 and support the conveyor belt 18 on the parallel route and stabilize the stack 12.
  • the axes of the rollers 20 to 22 are parallel to each other and arranged in a frame 23.
  • the frame 23 is perpendicular to the stack plane 19, 19 'below Overcoming a counterforce displaceable, the z. B. of feathers is generated, so that advantageously a large number of sheets 2 can be stacked on the stack 12 and the buffer has a large storage capacity that only from the Formation of the frame 23 or its travel depends.
  • the Counterforce compresses the stack 12 and ensures that he in the transport path of the stack 12 between the endless belt 16 and the conveyor belt 18 is held securely.
  • the drive roller 20 has a roller motor 24, which a line connected to the control unit 6 and from it is fed.
  • the roller motor 24 can be on the frame 23 be arranged.
  • the control unit 6 can the roller motor 24 or the conveyor belt 18 in a predetermined direction drive.
  • the roller motor locks during the acceptance cycle 24 the conveyor belt 18.
  • Parallel to the stacking level 19, 19 'and the cutting level 15 is on the side of the endless belt 16 a rail 25 for one on it between two end positions 26 and 27 movable carriage 28th arranged.
  • the end positions 26 and 27 are outside the Area of the stack 12, the first end position 26 closer is 10 in the return tray.
  • the carriage 28 carries in the Section plane 15 side by side three guide rollers 29 to 31. Die both outer guide rollers 29 and 31 touch with their Scope on the one hand the stacking level 19, 19 'and on the other hand a parallel feed plane 32, both the cutting plane 15 cut.
  • the first outer guide roller 29 is closer in the return tray 10 as the second guide roller 31.
  • this extends Endless belt 16 in the stacking level 19, 19 'between a roller 33 and the first outer guide roller 29 and between the second outer guide roller 31 and a drive roller 34 and form the two stacking sections of the endless belt 16.
  • Die Roller 33 and drive roller 34 are spaced so that in between the rail 25 with the two end positions 26, 27 extends.
  • the endless belt is above the stacking level 19, 19 ' 16 by means of deflection rollers 35, 36 outside the cutting planes 15 out of the drive roller 34 to the roller 33.
  • a first input roller 37 and a second input roller 38 is arranged, the first Input roller 37 in the sectional plane 15 closer to the return tray 10 is located. A little further away from the feed level 32 is a switch roller between the two input rollers 37 and 38 39 stored.
  • the first outer guide roller 29 lifts the endless belt 16 off the stacking plane 19, 19 'and steers it in the cutting plane 15 180 ° into the feed level 32. From the first exterior Guide roller 29 touches the first input roller 37 Endless belt 16 forms the feed belt 17 and thus forms on this route a first feed path 40 for the sheet 2.
  • the first input roll 37 separates the two belts 16 and 17.
  • the endless belt 16 is outside of the cutting planes by means of further deflection rollers 41, 42 15 led to the second input roller 38.
  • the feed belt 17 is to switch roller 39, 180 ° around this to the feed level 32 deflected and lies with the second input roller 38 again on the endless belt 16.
  • the two are together Bands 16, 17 out to the second outer guide roller 31 and form a second conveyor path 43 for the sheet 2.
  • In the Cutting planes 15 guides the second outer guide roller 31 Endless belt 16 from the feed plane 32 through 180 ° into the stacking plane 19, 19 '.
  • the length of the two conveying paths 40 and 43 depends on the position of the
  • the middle guide roller 30 presses between the two outer guide rollers 29 and 31, the feed belt 17 to a predetermined small distance to the stacking level 19, 19 ' down while the feed belt 17 is on the around the outer Guide rollers 29 and 31 looped endless belt 16 rests.
  • baffle 28 One on the carriage 28 below the middle guide roller 30 attached baffle 28 'prevents contact of the feed belt 17 with the stack 12.
  • the two conveying paths 40 and 43 can be used to save space changing transport direction in the sectional plane 15 by means of at least one deflecting roller 44 and by means of at least one Deflection roller 45 can be guided over the belts 16 and 17th together from the feed plane 32 to the input rollers 37 and 38 run.
  • the rollers and rollers are freely rotatable about their axes Bands 16 to 18 customized cylinders.
  • the axes of the rollers 20 to 22, the guide rollers 29 to 31, the input rollers 37 and 38, the switch roller 39 and the deflection roller 44 and the Deflection roller 45 are perpendicular to the cutting planes 15 arranged.
  • the axles of the guide rollers carried by the carriage 28 29 to 31 are fixed in parallel with the above arranged axes can be moved.
  • the axes of the roller 33, Drive roller 34 and the deflection rollers 35, 36, 41 and 42 can be inclined against the cutting plane 15, as is the leadership of the Endless belt 16 outside the cutting planes 15 conditionally.
  • the drive roller 34 has a drive 46, which has a Line connected to the control unit 6 and fed by it is.
  • the control unit 6 can drive 46 or the endless belt 16 drive in a predetermined direction. While of the acceptance cycle is the drive roller 34 by means of the Drive 46 blocked and the endless belt 16 at the location of the drive roller 34 captured.
  • the drive 46 in addition to the Drive roller 34 and drive roller 20 at the same time drive with the drive roller 34 and the drive roller 20th have the same circumference and turn in opposite directions.
  • the drive 46 in addition to the Drive roller 34 and drive roller 20 at the same time drive with the drive roller 34 and the drive roller 20th have the same circumference and turn in opposite directions.
  • the endless belt 16 can be the endless belt 16 its movement directly or via the stack 12 on the Transfer conveyor belt 18. All versions have in common that the transport system 7 is blocked in the acceptance cycle.
  • the feed belt 17 is driven by means of a conveyor motor 47, which acts on one of the rollers 37, 38, 42, 44 or 45, for example on the deflection roller 45, which is connected via a line is connected to the control unit 6 and is fed by it. While of the acceptance cycle, the control unit 6 can move the conveyor motor 47 or drive the feed belt 17 in a predetermined running direction, the carriage 28 being moved on the rail 25, since the Endless belt 16 is held on the drive roller 34. Turns the deflection roller 45 clockwise, the carriage 28 moves to first end position 26; if it turns counterclockwise, the Carriage 28 approached the second end position 27.
  • the deflection roller 45 is freely rotatable and that Feed belt 17 is by means of the endless belt 16 lying thereon driven.
  • the feed of the conveyor motor 47 is switched off as soon as the carriage 28 in one of the End positions 26, 27 arrives.
  • a journey is an empty journey of the carriage 28, during which no sheet 2 on the Stack 12 is placed.
  • the conveyor 4 ( Figure 1) extends through the Entrance 11 through and fork in a switch 48 in the two conveying paths 40 and 43.
  • the switch 48 comprises the switch roller 39, two endless belts 49 and 49 'and a mechanical deflector 50.
  • the level of Conveyor 4 is radial to the axis of the switch roller 39 aligned, the straps 49, 49 ', the one Form part of the conveyor 4, symmetrical of this level starting from both sides to the extent of Soft roll 39 and nestle on the feed belt 17 above the Switch roller 39 on.
  • One with the Control unit 6 connected switch drive 51 can position the deflector 50 and thus the path of the sheet 2 through the Determine the switch 48 or the feed system 7, the switch 48 is advantageously controlled so that empty runs of the car 28 and so that a loss of time can be avoided.
  • the car 28 can shortly before arrival in one of the two End positions 26, 27 the deflector 50 in a purely mechanical manner switch. This advantageously simplifies the control unit 6 the carriage 28 sets the way to the first end position 26 through the switch 48 in the first conveyor path 40. Reaches the Carriage 28 the second end position 27, the deflector 50 has that Sheet 2 on the second conveyor path 43. The carriage 28 is therefore waiting always at the end of the shorter funding path 40 or 43, to the sheet 2 is conveyed through the entrance 11.
  • the carriage 28 is exactly between the two end points 26 and 27, sets the axis of the middle guide roller 30 a plane perpendicular to the stacking level 19, 19 ', which the Includes axis of the switch roller 39.
  • the Bands 16 to 18 and the stack 12 symmetrical about this plane arranged.
  • each of the bands 16 to 18 can be made from be formed several parallel conveyor belts.
  • the endless belt 16 consists of strings with a round cross-section which lie securely on bands 17 and 18, some of them have a rectangular cross section.
  • Detectors 52, 53 and 54 connected to the control unit 6, For example, light barriers are used to determine the Presence of sheets 2 set up.
  • the first detector 52 is arranged in the conveying device 4, which detects the presence of the sheet 2 at the input 11 and the Control unit 6 a start signal for the feed system 7 transmitted.
  • the detectors 53 and 54 are at both ends of the transport route for the stack 12 installed and generate a End signal that ends the transport cycle in control unit 6.
  • the final signal is sent to the control unit 6 either by the second Detector 53 transmits as soon as stack 12 enters cassette 9 or from the third detector 54 when the stack 12 in the return tray 10 is transported.
  • a partially shown Line 55, 55 ' connects the detector 54 to the control device 6.
  • control device 6 can be simple the drive means 24 and 46 via a not shown here Switch on the timer and the transport system 8 for as long drive until a point of the conveyor belt 18 from the Drive roller 20 has moved to the roller 21. At the end of The transport system 8 is blocked again for a predetermined duration and triggered the end signal.
  • the buffer waits until sheet 2 triggers the start signal in the first detector 52.
  • this Time is the carriage 28 in one of the two end positions 26, 27th driven and the switch 48 points in the shorter conveyor path 40 or 43. In the drawing, the carriage 28 is waiting in the first End position 26.
  • the sheet 2 is from the conveyor 4 through the Entrance 11 pushed into the switch 48 and thereby solves that Start signal off.
  • the control unit 6 blocks the transport system 8 and turns on the conveyor motor 47, the Deflection roller 45 rotates counterclockwise and the carriage 28 turns removed from the end position 26.
  • the deflector 50 and the Belts 49 guide the sheet 2 into the conveyor path 40.
  • the sheet 2 is double Carriage 28 speed transports and retrieves carriage 28 as soon as the axis of the middle guide roller 30 into space penetrates over the stack 12.
  • Sheet 2 follows that on first outer guide roller 29 tensioned endless belt 16 and by means of a tongue of the baffle 28 'through 180 ° in the Stacked level 19, 19 'rolled so that the front boundary of the sheet 2 just flush with the predetermined location on the Stack 12 or placed on the conveyor belt 18 and the sheet 2 with advantage without sliding on the stack 12 or on the Conveyor belt 18 is unrolled, so that none in the stack 12 Shear forces occur.
  • the location of the front and back of the Sheet 2 interchanged when stacked. Is the sheet 2 completely rolled on the stack 12, the carriage 28 after a short drive the end position 27 and switches the conveyor motor 47 out.
  • the feed system 7 is now ready to move another sheet 2 over to accept the conveyor path 43 and it while driving the Carriage 28 in the first end position 26 around the second outer Roll the guide roller 31 onto the stack 12.
  • the sheets 2 do not necessarily all have to be the same Have size, but can be used as banknotes from one predetermined set of nominal values.
  • the sheets 2 are by the conveyor 4 in a predetermined manner aligned to bands 16 to 18.
  • the control unit 6 decides whether the stack 12 in the cassette 9 or in the return tray 10 must be transported, and switches the roller motor 24 and the drive 46 in the corresponding direction. She drive the drive roller 20 and the drive roller in opposite directions 34 on, with the endless belt 16 and the transport belt 18 have the same speed so that the Stack 12 does not fall apart. For example, the Drive roller 20 clockwise and drive roller 34 in Counterclockwise, then the stack 12 moves to Cassette 9.
  • the buffer has the advantage that the sheets 2 on the conveyor belt 18 of the blocked transport system 8 for Stack 12 are layered, the stack 12 only for transport is moved into the cassette 9 or in the return tray 10 and the leaves 2 are spared and that the mass of growing Stack 12 does not affect the acceptance rate, so the Sheets 2 at a constant high speed the buffer are feedable.
  • the control unit 6 advantageously provides by means of the switch mechanism 51, the deflector 50 into one by the Sensor signal certain position, so that the switch 48 Sheet 2 in the predetermined conveying path 40 or 43 leads so the sheet 2 in a predetermined position on the stack 12 is layered.
  • the sensor 5 facing side of the sheet 2 on the stack 12 against that The conveyor belt 18 is deposited in a directed manner when the first conveyor path 40 has been used.
  • Sheet 2 takes the path through the second Conveying path 43 shows the side facing the sensor 5 on the Stack 12 against the stack level 19, 19 '.
  • An embodiment according to FIG. 3 has only one used conveyor path 40, which is immediately behind the Entrance 11 begins and z. B. up to the first guide roller 29 is completely stretched.
  • the acceptance rate of this version is smaller than that of the device according to FIG. 2, since only on the journey of the carriage 28 away from the first end position 26 the sheets 2 can be rolled onto the stack 12.
  • the acceptance process therefore shows that the carriage 28 runs empty because the carriage 28 before accepting the next sheet 2 to the first End position 26 must return before the buffer is ready to accept another sheet 2.
  • This Buffer has a simple advantage inexpensive construction.
  • the carriage 28 is just in the middle on the rail 25 above the stack 12, only the Input 11 facing half of the buffer shown is.
  • the endless belt 16 is in the stacking level 19, 19 '(FIG. 2) around the roller 33 outside the cutting planes 15 for Drive roller 34 (Figure 2) out. That in the feed level 32 (FIG. 2) part of the endless belt 16 running against the entrance 11 winds around the first input roller 37, runs outside the cutting planes 15 to the second input roller 38 and comes back to the feed level 32.
  • the dotted lines Parts of the endless belt 16 run outside the cutting planes 15 z. B. between the stacking level 19, 19 'and the feed level 32.
  • the feed belt 17 is by the deflecting roller 44, the Deflection roller 45 ( Figure 2) and the middle guide roller 30th ( Figure 2) spanned.
  • the axes of the first input roller 37 and the deflection roller 44 form an input plane perpendicular to the stack plane 19, 19 ' limited the conveyor path 40.
  • the axis of the roller 33 is z. B. in this entrance level between the stack level 19, 19 'and the Feed plane 32 arranged during the distance of the roller 21st to this level is determined by the position of the return tray 10.

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  1. Dispositif à stockeur intermédiaire pour feuilles (2) avec un système d'amenée (7), qui comporte des bandes (16, 17) pour l'amenée d'une feuille à partir d'un point d'entrée (11) et un système de transport (8) qui comporte une bande de transport sans fin (18) et une bande sans fin (16) du système d'amenée ainsi que deux sorties, le dispositif pouvant fonctionner en un cycle de réception, pendant lequel le système d'amenée (7) empile une feuille, amenée du point d'entrée (11) en une position d'empilage sur la bande de transport (18) et la bande de transport (18) maintient à l'arrêt des feuilles (12) empilées sur elle, pendant que chaque feuille (2) est empilée, et en un cycle de transport pendant lequel le système de transport (8) transporte la ou les feuilles empilées sur lui pour les faire sortir du stockeur intermédiaire,
    caractérisé en ce que les feuilles à empiler sont bloquées, lors de l'empilage de chaque feuille entre les bandes du système de transport (8) jusqu'à ce que le cycle de réception soit terminé.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 avec un appareil de commande (6) pour la commande du cycle de réception et du cycle de transport.
  3. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le système de transport (8) est en mesure d'acheminer les feuilles empilées depuis la position d'empilage au choix soit dans une première direction vers l'une des sorties soit dans une deuxième direction opposée vers la deuxième sortie.
  4. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel le système d'amenée présente un chariot (28) pouvant coulisser par rapport à la position d'empilage pour l'empilage d'une feuille par roulement de la feuille sur la pile pendant que le chariot traverse la position d'empilage.
  5. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, dans lequel le chariot (28) peut coulisser sur un rail (25), au-dessus de la pile (12) entre des positions de fin de course (26, 27) et comporte des rouleaux de guidage (29, 30, 31) s'engageant dans les bandes (16, 17) du système d'amenée, la géométrie des bandes (16, 17) du système d'amenée (7) étant modifiée pour déposer la feuille (2) sur la pile (12), le chariot (28) étant déplacé, au-dessus de la pile (12), au moyen d'un moteur de transport (47) en direction de la feuille (2) amenée et la feuille étant roulée sans glisser sur la pile (12).
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel est prévu, au point d'entrée (11) du système d'amenée (7), un détecteur (52) pour la détection de la présence d'une feuille (2) et pour la délivrance d'un signal de démarrage d'une opération de réception.
  7. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le système d'amenée (7) comporte deux voies de transport (40, 43) et un aiguillage (48), qui achemine la feuille (2) dans une voie de transport (40 ou 43) prédéterminée, est placé à l'entrée (11) du système d'amenée (7).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, dans lequel les voies de transport (40, 43) peuvent être utilisées alternativement, au moyen d'un aiguillage (48), pour éviter des courses à vide du chariot (28) du système d'amenée et une commutation de l'aiguillage (48) s'effectue mécaniquement par le déplacement du chariot (28).
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 7 avec un détecteur (5) placé à l'entrée (11), dans lequel un appareil de commande (6) est prévu pour la détection de caractéristiques sur la feuille (2) à partir de signaux du capteur (5) et l'aiguillage (48) est commandé, par l'appareil de commande (6) en fonction des caractéristiques de la feuille (2), de telle sorte que les feuilles (2) présentent une position prédéterminée sur la pile (12).
  10. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes avec une voie de transport (4, 40) individuelle, placée après l'entrée (11), pour le transport de la feuille (2), chaque opération de réception comprenant une opération à vide supplémentaire.
  11. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel au moins dans la zone de la pile (12), une portion de la bande de transport (18) est acheminée par des rouleaux d'appui (20, 21, 22, 22').
  12. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel les rouleaux (20, 21, 22, 22') tournant autour d'axes, sur lesquels est guidée la bande de transport (18), sont placés sur un cadre (23), qui est déplaçable, après avoir surmonté une force antagoniste, pour s'adapter à la hauteur de la pile (12).
  13. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel la bande de transport (18) est une seule bande large.
  14. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le système de transport (8) est en mesure d'amener les feuilles stockées à une cassette (9) de stockeur de feuilles.
  15. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le système de transport (8) est en mesure d'acheminer les feuilles stockées à une sébile de restitution (10).
  16. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le système de transport (8) est en mesure d'acheminer les feuilles stockées à une sébile de restitution (10).
  17. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le système de transport (8) est en mesure de transporter les feuilles stockées en fonction de la décision d'un appareil de commande (6).
  18. Dispositif pour la manipulation de billets de banque avec un dispositif à stockeur intermédiaire selon l'une des revendications précédentes.
  19. Vérificateur de billets de banque avec un dispositif à stockeur intermédiaire selon l'une des revendications 1 à 17.
  20. Dispositif pour le stockage intermédiaire de feuilles en utilisant un stockeur intermédiaire avec un système d'amenée (7) comportant des bandes (16, 17) et un système de transport (8), comportant une bande de transport sans fin (18) et une bande (16) du système d'amenée ainsi que deux sorties, comprenant les étapes suivantes :
    fonctionnement du système d'amenée dans un cycle de réception pour l'empilage d'une ou plusieurs feuilles amenées dans celui-ci, en une position d'empilage sur la bande de transport (18) pendant que la bande de transport est maintenue immobile durant l'empilage de chaque feuille et
    fonctionnement du système de transport (8) dans un cycle de transport par transport de la ou des feuilles empilées en vue de la distribution à partir du stockeur intermédiaire ;
    caractérisé en ce que
    les feuilles empilées sont bloquées, lors de l'empilage de chaque feuille, entre les bandes du système de transport (8), jusqu'à ce que le cycle de réception soit terminé.
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