EP0737936A1 - Disque de comptage d'un appareil de comptage de feuilles - Google Patents

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EP0737936A1
EP0737936A1 EP96810197A EP96810197A EP0737936A1 EP 0737936 A1 EP0737936 A1 EP 0737936A1 EP 96810197 A EP96810197 A EP 96810197A EP 96810197 A EP96810197 A EP 96810197A EP 0737936 A1 EP0737936 A1 EP 0737936A1
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    • G06M9/00—Counting of objects in a stack thereof
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  • the invention relates to a counting disc of a sheet counting device for sheets arranged in a stack, in particular notes of value, in particular bank notes, according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Sheet counters with vacuum-operated counting disks are known and are used primarily to count banknotes which are either already bundled with a banderole or which lie loosely on top of one another without a banderole.
  • a counting device with the counting disk described in the preamble of claim 1 is known under the trade name SHEETMASTER and is sold by the British company DE LA RUE SYSTEMS Limited, which has already developed other vacuum-operated sheet counting devices, such as those described, for example, in US Pat. No. 4,350,331 are described.
  • a counting device with a counting disk having only one suction and counting section is furthermore e.g. known from GB-PS 744 957.
  • the intermittent connection of the counter opening and the suction openings to the vacuum source is carried out by means of a fixed transfer block, which lies against the counter disc and has openings which are connected to the vacuum source and are arranged in such a way that when the counter disc rotates, they open the inlet openings provided in the counter disc Temporarily overlap the suction channels.
  • This fixed transfer block thus acts as a valve plate.
  • the suction channels opening into the suction trough of a circumferential section run obliquely to the disk plane and end outside the center of the suction trough in the side trough region facing the disk center, so that the direction of suction air is oriented obliquely to the plane of the disk and thus to the plane of the sheet to be counted, essentially tangentially to the curved wall of the trough. Therefore, a relatively large negative pressure must be used in order to obtain a satisfactory sealing of the suction openings by the paper sheet, which means a correspondingly high air consumption and a stronger suction force than would actually be necessary to lift a sheet corner from the sheet stack behind it.
  • the well-known counter has only three suction openings in each suction trough.
  • the present invention is based on the object, while avoiding the disadvantages mentioned above, to design the counting disk so that the suction force required to deform and reliably lift a sheet corner from the rest of the sheet stack is lower than previously required, and that the reliability of the count is improved .
  • the suction air is directed perpendicular to the level of the sheet corner to be lifted and acts centrally on the trough, the sheet corner is reliably sucked into the trough and lies positively on the suction openings, so that a good seal is ensured. It is therefore possible to work with a lower vacuum and a correspondingly lower air consumption than before, which eliminates the risk of two sheets lying against one another being sucked in at the same time.
  • the suction force can be set precisely depending on the paper quality.
  • the suction cup is preferably shaped and the suction force selected so that a sheet bulges into a suction cup sliding along it, but a second sheet below it is pulled up to a maximum of half of this suction cup and then is not further deformed due to its inherent stability.
  • suction openings are preferably provided for each suction trough.
  • the counting disk 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 belongs to a counting device of known design and has the general shape of the known counting disk mentioned.
  • the direction of rotation of which is indicated by a curved arrow are circumferential sections 2 at the same distance, in the example considered six circumferential sections, provided which have a mandrel 3 projecting in the direction of rotation of the disk.
  • Each circumferential section 2 has in its rear area, based on the direction of rotation of the disk, an intake trough 4, which is formed on the underside of the disk in the illustration according to FIGS.
  • suction trough 4 In this suction trough 4, six suction openings 5a to 5f are provided at a distance from one another, which form the mouths of suction channels 6, 7. These channels run in the interior of the peripheral sections 2 and the inner disk body and extend radially up to an opening 8 in the disk body, which, as FIG. 2 shows, opens on the front of the counting disk.
  • the suction trough 4 has a width at its front end which is practically only as large as the diameter of the suction opening 5a. Starting from this front end, the suction trough 4 deepens and widens in the opposite direction to the disk rotation, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 5 to 10, and extends to the rear edge of the relevant peripheral section 2.
  • Each circumferential section 2 also has behind the mandrel 3 and at a distance in front of the suction trough 4 a counting opening 9 opening on the front of the window, which is connected to inner channels 10 and 11, the channel 10 in a slot 14 bent concentrically to the window axis and the channel 11 opens into a slot 13, which is also curved concentrically to the disk axis, on the front of the disk.
  • the curved slots 14 lie together with the openings 8 on a first circle concentric to the disk axis, while the curved slots 13 together with two further openings 15 each are each arranged between two slots 13, lie on a second inner circle.
  • the flat front side 12 of the inner disk body of the counting disk 1 lies on a fixed, disk-shaped transfer block 16, the center of which coincides with the axis of rotation of the counting disk 1 and the flat side facing the counting disk in the angular range in which the counting takes place, with two openings 17 and 18 is provided (Figure 4).
  • the opening 17 is connected to a vacuum source and lies on the outer circle which is concentric to the axis of rotation of the counting disc and on which the slots 14 and the openings 8 of the counting disc are located.
  • the other opening 18 leads to a vacuum gauge, a so-called transducer, and lies on the circle on which the slots 13 and the openings 15 of the counting disk 1 are located.
  • the opening 17 is angularly offset somewhat in the direction of rotation of the counting disk 1 with respect to the opening 18.
  • the transfer block 16 When the counter disc 1, sliding on the transfer block 16, rotates, the slots 14 and the openings 8 temporarily overlap the opening 17 of the transfer block one after the other and are therefore temporarily connected to the suction air source, while the slots 13 and the openings 15 of the counter disc successively temporarily overlap the opening 18 of the transfer block, which, as will be explained later, triggers a counting pulse.
  • the transfer block 16 thus functions as a valve plate.
  • each suction channel consists of a channel section 6, which extends obliquely outwards from the opening 8 and extends beyond the middle of the suction trough 4, and of a short one, perpendicular to the disc plane and thus to the plane of a sheet-oriented channel section 7 to be counted, which opens into the relevant suction opening 5a to 5f.
  • two of the suction channel sections 6 are connected to one and the same opening 8.
  • the sheet stack is placed on the counter disk 1 rotating at a constant speed in such a way that the plane of a sheet is oriented essentially parallel to the plane of the counter disk and a corner of the sheet stack in the angular region of the counter disk where the openings 17 and 18 of the transfer block 16 are located are located, the circumferential sections 2 overlap.
  • the openings 8 of the counting disk 1 pass through the opening 17 of the transfer block 16, and when the beginning of the suction trough 4 reaches this sheet, the sheet corner is affected by the negative pressure which is in the transfer block and the channels 6 and 7 are successively generated to the vacuum source connected suction openings 5a to 5f, sucked against these openings and deformed.
  • FIGS 5 to 10 which show sections through the suction openings 5a to 5f and their suction air channels 7, 6, show schematically the individual stages of this suction and deformation of the sheet corner, which is lifted in this way from the sheets behind the stack:
  • the sheet corner is sucked in, with successive contact with the following suction openings 5b to 5f, the further suction takes place and the increasing deformation of the sheet corner takes place by contacting the curved bottom of the deepening and widening suction trough 4, and finally the sheet becomes definitely stand out from the rest of the leaves and separate. Since the suction air is effective due to the position of the suction channel sections 7 in the middle of the suction trough 4 and perpendicular to the bottom thereof, and thus to the sheet being sucked in (according to the arrow in FIG.
  • the sheet is subject to the maximum possible suction force at a given suction air strength against the effect of the inherent stability or elasticity of the paper, with corresponding deformation, pulling into the suction cup.
  • This ensures reliable suction, deformation and separation of the sheet corner without the need to generate an excessive negative pressure, which can moreover be easily adapted to the quality, in particular the bending behavior of the sheets.
  • the shape of the suction cup and the suction force are chosen such that a second sheet lying under the sucked-in sheet is only pulled up to at most half of the suction cup 4, preferably at most only up to the second suction hole 5b; from this point, the force of the intrinsic stability of the paper outweighs the force of the residual suction air, which is effective through the sheet that is sucked in and held in the suction cup, so that the separation begins.
  • a hold-down device 19 (FIGS. 1 and 3) which is firmly connected and rotates with it is placed on the counting disk 1 has the shape of a ring with radially over the lifted blade blade-shaped lugs 20.
  • the slot 14 of the counting disk passes through the opening 17 of the transfer block 16 and immediately thereafter the slot 13 of the counting disk passes through the opening 18 of the transfer block 16.
  • This firstly makes the counting opening 9 via the transfer block and the channel 10 connected to the vacuum source, whereby the sheet is sucked against and covers the counting opening 9, and on the other hand, by closing the counting opening 9 in the channel 11, which is in communication with the channel 10, and in the now via the slot 13 with a negative pressure built up in this channel 11 in connection opening 18.
  • the vacuum peak detected by the vacuum gauge mounted on the opening 18 of the transfer block 16 is converted as a pneumatic counting pulse into an electrical counting signal.
  • the negative pressure built up is then removed again via the holes 15 of the counting disc which then pass through the opening 18. If no sheet is passed over the counting opening 9 and it therefore remains open, no negative pressure can build up in the opening 18 and no counting pulse can be generated.
  • the described suction and deformation process is repeated for the second sheet, which is counted after being lifted from the other sheets when passing through the counting opening 9 in the next peripheral section 2, and so on further.
  • the circumferential sections 2 of the counting disc 1 thus leaf through the corners of the stack of sheets, which are successively gripped by the spikes 3, are counted when sucked onto the counting opening 9 and reach the front of the counting disc 1 until the entire stack of sheets has been counted.
  • the invention is not limited to the described embodiment of a counting disc, but rather allows for numerous variants with regard to the precise design of the peripheral sections and the suction air feeds and the number of suction openings.

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