EP0750278A1 - Dispositif de manipulation de billets de banque ou d'objets plats flexibles - Google Patents

Dispositif de manipulation de billets de banque ou d'objets plats flexibles Download PDF

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EP0750278A1
EP0750278A1 EP96109628A EP96109628A EP0750278A1 EP 0750278 A1 EP0750278 A1 EP 0750278A1 EP 96109628 A EP96109628 A EP 96109628A EP 96109628 A EP96109628 A EP 96109628A EP 0750278 A1 EP0750278 A1 EP 0750278A1
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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
    • B65H83/00—Combinations of piling and depiling operations, e.g. performed simultaneously, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling as such
    • B65H83/02—Combinations of piling and depiling operations, e.g. performed simultaneously, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling as such performed on the same pile or stack
    • 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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/50—Piling apparatus of which the discharge point moves in accordance with the height to the pile
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to a device for handling banknotes or the like sheet-like flexible objects.
  • Banknote dispensers for example in the form of banknote dispensers, automatic cash safes AKT, automated teller machines GAA, Cashmaster and others
  • banknote dispensers have been known for many years. These devices are equipped with banknotes sorted according to value, and these banknotes held ready in stacking chutes are then withdrawn from a stack of banknotes and output individually.
  • banknote dispensers contain up to six (possibly more) different banknote values and provide a corresponding quantity (approx. 1,000 pieces), there are certain security regulations for such devices. Since the filling of the banknotes into the dispensing elements or stacking chutes is a complex and security-sensitive process, the aim is to extend the intervals between the refilling processes in time by increasing the filling quantities.
  • banknote recycling systems have only recently been introduced in Europe. Are in Japan such banknote recycling plants have been known before; such banknote recycling plants are not known in the USA to date.
  • banknote families of the individual countries are very different in relation to one another with regard to the length and width ratios of the individual banknote values, so that they may only be of limited suitability for mechanical / automatic processing.
  • a banknote recycling system is known from European patent EP 0 290 731 B1, according to which the various banknotes - after their values have been recognized on the input side - are wound onto value-specific cylinder jackets and held in place with the aid of tapes.
  • the banknotes When depositing, the banknotes are wound layer by layer onto the cylinder jackets by turning in the direction away from the feed point of the banknotes;
  • the cylinders When paying out or issuing the banknotes, the cylinders are rotated in the opposite direction and the banknotes are unwound from the cylinder jacket and fed to the banknote issuing point with the aid of a corresponding device.
  • This banknote recycling process which is relatively new to the market, is based on a principle that does not work with vacuum or friction, and the banknotes are not stacked on top of one another.
  • the method works according to a "last-in-first-out" rule, whereby it can be easily recognized is that the same banknote storage unit (ie one and the same cylinder) is not available for a deposit and a withdrawal at the same time.
  • Both the "last-in-first-out" rule mentioned and the lack of simultaneity for deposit and withdrawal processes are to be regarded as negative features of this banknote recycling system.
  • banknote recycling system comes from the company Schulze Automation / Austria and is on the market under the name "Felix-Concept”.
  • This system uses a simple, friction-based output unit, the banknote storage devices being stacked discontinuously from above and the banknotes being removed from the bottom of the stack.
  • the system requires a manual presorting of the banknotes on the part of the operator / cashier, who places the banknotes in corresponding compartments, which are adjusted in length and width according to the different values.
  • the drawer with the various compartments lies above the individual value memories and moves horizontally outwards for manual loading and inwards to the positions corresponding to the value memories.
  • the banknotes are brought from the individual compartments to the upper side of the stack of banknotes in the value memories by means of pincer-like grippers by means of a relatively complex mechanism.
  • the system works according to the "last-in-last-out" rule, however deposits and withdrawals are only possible discontinuously. This means that deposits (and equally withdrawals) are only permitted at certain time intervals. Pulling out the compartment drawer requires a corresponding amount of space and a safety-relevant encapsulation of the entire device cannot always be implemented as desired.
  • a banknote storage device is known from EP 0 100 960 A2 which comprises a deposit and withdrawal unit.
  • the deposit unit consists of a recognition and counting unit for banknotes, transport routes for the (paid-in) banknotes to be entered, several deflection elements that sort the banknotes within the transport route leading in and supply value-specific stacking chutes, and one loading unit per stacking chute that places the banknotes in the stacking chute transported.
  • the payment unit includes a weight that must be placed on the stack of banknotes in the event of a payment, a removal unit that removes individual banknotes from the supply stack, and transport routes for the banknotes to be issued.
  • the object on which the present invention is based is to construct a depositing and dispensing unit for banknotes, in which the stacks of banknotes in the value memories serve both for the removal and the loading, and the removal and loading can take place independently of one another, if required, at the same time.
  • a banknote sorting device can be constructed with a system consisting of parts 1 to 4; a so-called banknote recycling device can be put together with all of the parts mentioned.
  • This banknote recycling facility consists of the following functional groups: - input slot 100 - Detection and counting unit 200 - Transport route for incoming banknotes 300 - deflection unit 400 - loading unit 500 - output unit 600 - Transport route for outgoing banknotes 700 - output chute 800.
  • a more or less large and heterogeneous stack of banknotes 101 is fed to the banknote recycling device as a whole via the input shaft 100.
  • the task now is to identify and count the banknotes of the banknote stack 101 one after the other in the recognition and counting unit 200 and to reproduce them along a transport route 300 via a deflection unit 400 controlled by the recognition and counting unit 200, a value-specific banknote stack Feed unit 500 feed.
  • the function of the banknote recycling device defined so far corresponds to that of a pure sorting and counting device. So if the inserted heterogeneous bundle of banknotes is distributed among the individual loading units 500, it is ultimately certain which amount of money has just been deposited.
  • an output unit 600 is integrated in each of the loading units 500, via which of those in the loading units 500 banknote stacks 501 formed, one after the other, the banknotes are pulled off again and fed via a (second) transport route 700 to an output shaft 800.
  • the overall function of the banknote recycling device described in this way therefore defines a system in which banknotes can be fed in and withdrawn at the same time.
  • 800 banknotes can be removed simultaneously via the output shaft.
  • a central counting unit assigned to both the detection and counting unit 200 and the output shaft 800 always ensures that the amount of money currently stored in the banknote recycling device can be called up exactly at any time.
  • FIG. 1 The representation according to FIG. 1 is to be described in the following functionally and conceptually in somewhat more detail.
  • the stack of banknotes 101 inserted into the input shaft 100 rests on a withdrawal and separation device, for example a friction roller 102, via which banknote for banknote is withdrawn from the underside of the banknote stack 101 and fed to the recognition and counting device 200.
  • a withdrawal and separation device for example a friction roller 102
  • the banknotes are then fed one after the other and at a defined distance from one another to a recognition and counting station 202, where the banknotes are recognized or identified with respect to their value level and counted in terms of value.
  • a signal is assigned to each bank note which, as will be described later, serves for the reproducible deflection of the bank notes to their value-specific bank note stack 501.
  • the detection and counting device 200 is followed by a transport route 300 for the incoming or deposited banknotes, along which the banknotes are transported via endless transport belts 301 (or via rollers).
  • the transport route 300 essentially consists of a smooth, continuous, flat base or plate 302, which has slots at periodic intervals. These slots are normally bridged so that the banknote can be passed over it undisturbed.
  • Deflection units 400 are assigned to each of the slots in the transport route 300, via which a switch is activated on the basis of a control signal from the recognition and counting unit 200 and the incoming banknote is led away from the transport route 300.
  • a switch is activated on the basis of a control signal from the recognition and counting unit 200 and the incoming banknote is led away from the transport route 300.
  • five switches or deflection units 400 are provided along the transport route 300, by means of which five different banknote types can then be deflected and stacked in a type-specific manner.
  • a deflection unit 500 is now assigned to the deflection units 400, which receives or picks up and stacks the banknotes which are deflected via the deflection unit 400.
  • the banknotes are thus introduced one after the other via the deflection units 400 and conveyed along a vertical transport plane to the associated banknote stack 501.
  • the vertical transport plane consists of a fixed lower plate 502 adjoining the flat plate 302 of the transport path 300 and a blind-like one over one cylindrical roller 503 that can be rolled up and unrolled, ie a length or height-variable guide path 504.
  • variable-length guide path 504 At the end of this variable-length guide path 504, a switch element 505 is provided, via which the banknotes are deflected from this vertical transport plane and in the correct feed angle in the form of a cylindrical transfer and discharge element for example, an impeller 506. The banknotes are thus removed one after the other from the vertical transport plane via the impeller 506 and placed on the banknote stack 501.
  • the special feature of the loading unit 500 is that the variable-length guide path 504 and the impeller 506 are coordinated with one another in such a synergistic manner that both elements can be set or controlled depending on the height of the banknote stack 501.
  • the guide path 504 is shortened or lengthened - arrow Y - (ie rolled up or down) and the impeller 506 is raised or lowered in exact coordination with this - arrow X -. It can thus be achieved that the banknotes of the banknote stack 501 are each subjected to the same contact pressure from the impeller 506. (In the loading units 500 I and IV the banknote stacks 501 are minimal, in the loading units 500 II and III the banknote stacks 501 are maximal).
  • An output unit 600 is arranged on the underside of the loading units 500, namely below the banknote stacks 501.
  • the core of this output unit 600 is a trigger mechanism in the form For example, a friction roller 601 which, when a banknote is requested in connection with the removal or payment of banknotes, pulls off the bottom banknote of the banknote stack 501 and feeds it to a routing channel 602.
  • the banknotes are transported via the guide channel 602 to the transport path 700 for outgoing or payable banknotes, from where they are stacked in a common output shaft 800.
  • an impeller 801 or similar transfer and storage element is provided at the exit of the transport path 700, which picks up the banknotes fed from the transport path 700 piece by piece and feeds them to the output shaft 800.
  • the banknotes are stacked as required or as required and can be removed (of course also in individual pieces).
  • banknotes can therefore be both deposited and disbursed, if necessary simultaneously.
  • the central recognition unit at the entrance of the transport route 300 and the complementary counting unit based on a banknote request at the output shaft 800 can always be used to determine how many banknotes of what type are stacked in the individual loading shafts 500.
  • a control signal is generated, via which the guide path 504 and the impeller 506 are defined (and reproducibly) in the individual loading units 500.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show a basic illustration of a loading unit 500 as it is used as a modular function group for the individual pick-up (transfer). and delivery of banknotes of a certain (in each case the same) value type quasi temporarily.
  • the essential functional elements of this loading unit 500 are height-adjustable (see arrow X) driven by a drive motor 507 (see arrow X) and shown as vane wheels 506 and hereinafter referred to as cylindrical elements, banknote take-over and delivery elements, as well as an equally height-adjustable or length-variable (see arrow Y) guide path 504.
  • Both the cylindrical elements 506, as well as the variable-length guide section 504 are - fully drawn - in a lower position, ie in a position in which a minimum number of banknotes are stacked, and - drawn in broken lines - in an upper position, i.e. in a position in which a maximum number of banknotes are stacked (see FIG. 2). Between these two positions, the cylindrical elements 506 are moved up and down with the aid of a stepping motor 508 (see FIG. 3), specifically depending on the number of bank notes being fed in and out, i.e. depending on the size of the stack of banknotes.
  • the guide path 504 is set synchronously and preferably by the same stepper motor 508. It consists of a plurality of bendable blind-like components that can be wound up and unwound (in particular strip-shaped bar elements), which, like the cylindrical elements 506, are wound and unwound onto a cylindrical roll 503 depending on the number of bank notes being fed in and out.
  • the cylindrical elements 506 are also suspended on their side facing away from the belts 510 via elastic elements, such as spiral springs 512, on the underside of the loading unit 500, so that the cylindrical elements 506 are subjected to a tension in the opposite direction to the tensile force of the belts 510.
  • the cylindrical elements 506 are thus pressed with a constant contact pressure against the top of the banknote stack 501, so that the bottom banknote of this stack 501 always faces the friction element (compare FIG. 2) 601 of the withdrawal or output unit 600 with the same force.
  • variable-length guide section 504 With regard to the variable-length guide section 504, it should also be noted that the components on the input side, which can be wound up and unwound by means of drawstrings, are assigned a fixed lower plate 512 (FIG. 2) which, together with a vertical conveyor belt 515, has a defined guide slot 516 or, respectively, for the incoming banknotes Guide channel forms.
  • the conveyor belt 515 extends beyond the length of the lower plate 502, to be close to the cylindrical elements 506 in their lower position. So that's it Conveyor belt 515 opposite the length-variable guide section 504 on its respective current longitudinal extent, so that there is a respectively defined guide channel between the guide section 504 and the conveyor belt 515.
  • a switch element 505 is moved which deflects the banknotes transported to the cylindrical elements 506 at the end of the guide path 504 towards the cylindrical elements 506 , so that the banknotes are fed one after the other to the cylindrical elements 506, in order to ultimately form a shingled stream of banknotes along their surface line.
  • the switch element 505 has the function, as intended, of guiding the banknotes fed one after the other through the guide channel between the vertical conveyor belt 515 and the variable-length guide path 504 to the cylindrical elements 506 in such a way that the banknotes one by one on the surface of the cylindrical one Elements 506 come to rest.
  • the recognition sensor 401 of a particular loading unit 500 is activated via the input-side recognition and counting unit 200, the corresponding banknote is subsequently guided downwards to the cylindrical elements 506 via the deflection element 304 and placed on the - only indicated - banknote stack 501 .
  • the bottom banknote of the stack 501 is then withdrawn as required and fed to an output shaft 800.
  • the elastic elements 506 are formed by impellers known per se, the elastic wing elements of which successively form receiving pockets for the individual banknotes.
  • the banknotes shoot into these receiving pockets via the switch element 505 and the banknotes are then carried to the top of the banknote stack 501, where they are deposited one after the other again.
  • the tension of the spiral springs 512 and the constant contact pressure of the elastic wing elements of the impellers ensure a constant contact pressure on the banknote stack 501.
  • cylindrical elements 506 can also be implemented in some other way. It is important and functionally decisive that these cylindrical elements 506 take over the banknotes one after the other in the manner of scales and deposit them one after the other again.
  • the respective adaptation of the assignment to the banknote stack 501 and the constant contact pressure due to the spiral springs 512 ultimately ensure that the contact pressure is the same for a large and small stack of banknotes.
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