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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
  • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
  • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
  • B65H2301/4224—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles
  • B65H2301/42242—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles by acting on the outermost articles of the pile for clamping the 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
  • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
  • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
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  • B65H2301/4225—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles in or on special supports
  • B65H2301/42254—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers
• • 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
  • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
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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
  • B65H2403/00—Power transmission; Driving means
  • B65H2403/30—Chain drives
• • 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
  • B65H2404/30—Chains
  • B65H2404/31—Chains with auxiliary handling means
  • B65H2404/312—Pockets, containers
• • 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
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  • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
  • B65H2701/1912—Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for processing documents of value, such as Paper money.
• the invention relates to a device for processing banknotes, with a device for transmitting a movement to an element of the device, the device having a chain coupled or couplable with the element and a guide device.
• Such a device is known for example from DE 40 09 139 Cl.
• a bundle of banknotes to be issued is collected on a transport trolley and optionally transported to one of two delivery compartments in a spatially predetermined manner by means of one of two rail branches.
• the transport carriage serving as a stack carrier is moved by an endless chain running along the two rail branches, to which it is coupled.
• the present invention is thus a further development of the knowledge that an open chain, ie a chain that is not closed in the form of an endless chain, allows a very compact and space-saving possibility of transmitting a movement to a machine element of the device, because in contrast to one Endless chain no additional separate return is necessary.
• the chain is preferably designed as a roller chain, the rollers of which can roll in a rail as a guide device, so that the movement of the chain can take place without great effort.
• the chain is preferably coupled to the element such that moving the chain along the guide means moves the element simultaneously, i.e. is transported from a first to a second position.
• the chain does not move a machine element from one place to another, but instead e.g. by acting on the element when extending the front chain end the element, e.g. a switch presses against a springback when the position is fixed.
• the translational movement of the chain can also be used to execute a rotational movement of the element, e.g. the individual links of a chain engage in the teeth of a chain wheel and the chain wheel is rotated by moving the chain.
• a rotational movement of the element e.g. the individual links of a chain engage in the teeth of a chain wheel and the chain wheel is rotated by moving the chain.
• the solution according to the invention makes it possible, for example, to construct an automatic cash dispenser and / or cash dispenser which satisfies increased security requirements by and / or banknotes to be issued are stored in a safe protected against theft.
• An open end of the chain is preferably pushed in an open guide device, such as a guide rail, to an open end of the guide rail and pulled back from there, in order to be able to move a stack carrier back and forth between two positions, for example. If, for example, the chain and guide rail run outwards from the inside of the safe housing through an opening section, the stack carrier can be moved, for example, to the open end of the guide rail which is accessible from the outside in order to load banknotes to be deposited. take and transport them to the final storage through the opening section into the safe housing.
• an open guide device such as a guide rail
• the chain is advantageously driven by a drive unit which moves away from the open chain end, in the described case e.g. inside the safe to push the chain towards the open end or to pull it back into the safe from there.
• a drive unit which moves away from the open chain end, in the described case e.g. inside the safe to push the chain towards the open end or to pull it back into the safe from there.
• Figure 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a device 1 according to a first embodiment of the present invention
• Figure 2 is a schematic perspective view of part of the device 1 of Figure 1, i.e. on a frame 30, which can be pulled out and is integrated in a safe 13 of the device 1;
• FIG. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of a component of the frame 30 according to FIG. 2, ie on a transport device 15 for transporting a stack carrier unit 8;
• FIG. 4 shows a schematic side view of a guide device 16 connected to the stack carrier unit 8, which is used in the device according to FIGS. 1 to 3;
• FIG. 5 shows a schematic view from the front of the guide device 16 according to FIG. 4 connected to the stack carrier unit 8;
• Figure 6 is a schematic perspective sectional view of a component of a guide device with a chain guided inside according to another embodiment
• FIG. 7 shows a schematic perspective sectional view of another component of the guide device with chain according to FIG. 6;
• Figure 8 is a schematic longitudinal section of a chain according to another embodiment, which is used to drive a sprocket.
• Figure 9 is a cross-sectional view of the chain with sprocket of Figure 8.
• FIGS. 1-5 A first exemplary embodiment of a device according to the invention is shown in FIGS. 1-5.
• the device 1 is used for depositing cash, in particular also for entering and storing banknotes in a banknote cassette 7.
• the device 1 comprises an input compartment 2 for banknotes with a separating device 3 for separating the banknotes entered into the compartment 2.
• the separated banknotes are passed through a test unit by means of a transport route, not shown, and to a Nem storage area 4 transported.
• the test unit is used to check the physical properties of the banknotes transported through, in particular to check the authenticity, the fitness for circulation and the denomination of the banknotes.
• the storage area 4 consists of three stacking devices 5a-c, each with a spiral compartment stacker wheel 6, into which the individual banknotes are fed via associated deflecting switches depending on the results of the check.
• the uppermost of the three stacking devices 5a is used for issuing rejection banknotes which were not recognized in the checking unit, the middle stacking device 5b for storing false or suspected counterfeit banknotes and the bottom stacking device 5c for storing all further banknotes, i.e. for banknotes whose authenticity has been confirmed and whose denomination has been determined.
• the bottom stacking device 5c acts as an intermediate checkout, in which real banknotes are temporarily stored before being finally deposited in a banknote stacking cassette 7 or reissued to the operator.
• the lowermost stacking device 5c comprises, in addition to the spiral compartment stacker 6 with a stripping element, a stack carrier unit 8.
• the stack carrier unit 8, hereinafter also referred to as stack carrier has, inter alia, a storage plate 9 with a L-shaped cross section with rear wall 10 and lateral boundary walls 11 on.
• the individual banknotes fed by the spiral compartment stacker 6 are deposited on the storage plate 9 to form a stack.
• the stack carrier unit 8 is designed to be movable by means of a transport device 15, so that the banknotes stacked on the storage plate 9 in the stacking device 5c from a first position assigned to the stacking device 5c, which is shown in FIG. 1, into a second stamping position can be transported above the cassette 7, from which they can be pressed into the cassette 7 by means of a stamp 12.
• the stamping device can be designed as described in the not yet published application DE 101 27 631.1 by the applicant.
• the cassette 7 is accommodated in a safe 13.
• the safe 13 has walls 14, a safe door 32 and a wall region 31 which is detachably integrated between the walls 14 and the safe door 32 and which surrounds an opening slot 25 through which bank notes can be transported on the stack carrier 8, as will be explained in more detail below.
• the wall area 31 is integrated together with the holder 33 for the cassette 7 and the transport device 15 with the stack carrier 8 in a frame 30, which is shown in FIG.
• the frame 30 can be pulled out of the interior of the safe 13 for maintenance purposes or to replace the cassette 7 after opening the safe door 32 on pull-out rails (not shown).
• the holder 33 is designed as a turntable for inserting two cassettes 7, with each of the two cassettes 7 being brought into a position for stamping banknotes to be deposited by rotating the turntable 33, while the other cassette 7 mounted on the turntable 33 is placed in one Reserve position remains.
• the device 1 is characterized in particular by the design of the transport device 15, which acts as a device 15 for transmitting a movement to the stack carrier 8, and which is used for the forced transport of the stack carrier 8 from the stacking area 4 outside the safe 13 through its opening slot 25 to the area of the cassette 7 in Inside the safe 13 serves.
• FIG. 3 shows the essential components of the transport device 15 with the omission of the other device components which are present per se and which, for example, are shown in Figures 1 and 2.
• the transport device 15 comprises two dimensionally stable guide rails 17 arranged parallel to one another, which are each open on both sides and have two end regions 26, 27.
• the rails 17 run from the end region 26, which is located outside of the safe housing 13 in the region of the lower stacker unit 5c, through the opening slot 25 into the safe housing 13 and past the region 28 of the top of the cassette 7 to the end region 27
• the rails 17 are part of a frame 20 and have an approximately C-shaped cross section with a longitudinal groove 18 running along the mutually facing inner sides of the rails 17.
• a chain 16 is each slidably mounted in the groove 18 of the rails 17.
• the chain 16 is a roller chain 16 that is flexible on both sides, in which the rollers run on the inner flank of the groove 18.
• the chains 16 embedded therein are also designed as open chains 16 and are therefore not in the form of an endless chain.
• a rotatable sprocket 21 is integrated in the frame 20 in the region of the rail end 27, which is located in the safe 13.
• the sprockets 21 have projections distributed over the circumference, which when the sprocket 21 is rotated can be engaged or disengaged in the associated chain 16 in order to move it approximately analogously to driving a bicycle chain.
• the synchronism of the chains 16 is ensured in that the two sprockets 21 are connected via toothed belts 23 to a common sprocket shaft 22, which in turn is connected to a stepper motor 24 via a toothed belt, not shown.
• the two chains 16 mounted in the rails 17 in the guide rails can thus be pushed toward the outer ends 26 of the sprocket shaft 22 and the associated sprockets 21 or withdrawn from there.
• the portion of the length of the chain 16 that is not currently in the guide rail 17 is collected in a collecting container 29 shown schematically in FIG. 1, which directly adjoins the end region 27 of the rail 17.
• the chains 16 are in turn firmly connected to the stack carrier 8. For this purpose, as can be seen in particular from FIGS. 4 and 5, in each of the
• An advantage of the use of guide rails 17 with chains 16 is that only by selecting the shape of the rails 17 or their grooves 18, the transport path of the stack carrier 8 in any way, which is predetermined by the specific design of the device 1, constructive can be easily realized.
• the transport device 15 in the described embodiment is also particularly compact because the chains 16 as drive elements of the stack carrier 8 are attached laterally, that is to say at the height or particularly preferably above the storage plate 9, to the stack carrier 8 and thus not over the height of the rear wall 10 of the stack carrier 8 protrude.
• the small height of the stack carrier 8 with the associated transport device 15 enables the stack carrier to be transported back and forth in a simple manner by moving and pulling the chain 16 through the narrow opening slot 25 of the safe 13.
• the walls 14 of the safe 13 can otherwise be completely closed and there is no undesirably large opening for returning or returning, or no second opening for returning an exit through the first opening slot 25 , endless chain section running outside the safe is required.
• This construction makes it possible to design a safe that has only a single opening slot with a small slot height H of not more than 70 cm with otherwise completely closed safe walls 14 for the input and output of banknotes, as is required for security certification.
• a particular advantage of a guide device according to the invention with an open chain is that both pushing and pulling movements are possible by means of the chain and, moreover, forces can be transmitted effectively even over long distances.
• the guidance of the open chain can have any spatial course.
• the tour is e.g. consist of a combination of straight and curved sections.
• the guide can also be designed in one piece, it is advantageous if it is constructed according to a modular system. This means that the guide can be assembled from individual components to form a spatial course desired for the respective application and optionally also be released again. This makes it possible to use inexpensive, standard components, such as Sections of predetermined dimensions, e.g. straight or curved sections of given length and shape.
• FIG. 6 shows an example of a section of a guide unit according to a further exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
• a sectional view of a guide section 41 that completely surrounds the chain 40 is shown.
• This section 41 can either be one of the above-mentioned modular components with a given length, which is combined with other components, or it can also be part of a one-piece guide.
• FIG. 6 shows the front end of this section 41, shown in sections, from which a chain link 42 protrudes, which is connected to further chain links, not shown.
• the guide section 41 is an example of a bar press profile which has a continuous recess 43 in the inside, in which the chain 40 can be displaced in a positively guided manner.
• FIG. 7 shows an example of such a guide section 44, in which such a rotation takes place.
• the section 44 has a hollow cylindrical shape, the upper side of the section 44 being omitted for the sake of a better overview, in order to be able to recognize the chain 40 which is guided on the inside.
• the section 44 shown which extends in a straight line along the longitudinal axis A, is connected on the front side to a further section, not shown, which runs from the bottom in the direction B and on the rear side to a further section which runs to the right in the direction C.
• the chain links 42b on the rear side must be rotated to the chain links 42a on the front side by the required angle of 90 ° in this case, as shown in FIG.
• the chain 40 comprises two chain coupling elements 45 a, 45 b, which engage in one another in such a way that the two coupling elements 45 a, 45 b can be rotated in relation to one another about their longitudinal axis running in direction A, as indicated by the arrow D.
• the length of the guide section 44 corresponds at least approximately to the length of the necessary displacement path of the chain 40.
• the invention can also be used to trigger and / or carry out a rotational movement of a device element.
• FIG. 8 shows a chain 40 which can be moved back and forth in the direction A2 and which has, for example, a sequence of interconnected chain links 42 corresponding, for example, to FIG.
• the guide device 46 for guiding the chain 40 in the direction A2 is not shown in FIG. 8 for the sake of clarity. However, this can be seen in FIG. 9, which shows a cross section along the line II in FIG.
• the guide 46 also comprises a guide housing consisting of two halves 47a, 47b, which is largely sealed off from the outside by seals 51. In an upper area of the guide housing 46, the chain 40 is slidably mounted in the direction AI.
• a hold-down plate can be radially attached to the shaft 50, which is rotated by rotating the disk 49 by a desired angular amount.
• This can be used, for example, to depress banknotes stacked on a storage surface in a storage module, for example a banding machine, input and / or output compartment.
• the advantage of the chain drive is that the hold-down plate can be pivoted in a defined manner both in one direction for pressing down stacked banknotes and again in the opposite direction of rotation without the drive motor itself being present at the place of the hold-down device got to.
• such an open chain drive can be used to e.g. Points to divert banknotes in a processing device or flaps, which, for example, protect the input and / or output area from unauthorized access, by rotating a shaft connected thereto between different positions.
• an open chain drive according to the invention in devices for processing banknotes is to firmly connect the front end of such a chain to a sliding plate, which can be moved by reciprocating movement of the guided chain, for example to pack a bundled banknote of one Push the storage surface out of a banding area and make room again for storing another bundle on the storage surface.
• This pushing can take place in a precise and precisely specifiable manner.
• a slide back and forth can be used, for example, to have mechanical couplings engaged and disengaged, for example by pushing a locking and unlocking pin into or out of a banknote cassette in order to lock or unlock it.
• the invention is not limited to ATMs, but that the open chain concept can also be used with all other banknote processing devices in which a machine element moves in a space-saving manner, i.e. for example rotated, transported from one place to another, or whose position or shape is to be changed at a given place.

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