EP2268563A2

EP2268563A2 - Device for handling single sheets, for introducing and distributing rectangular single sheets, especially bank notes, respectively into and out of a container

Info

Publication number: EP2268563A2
Application number: EP09731979A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Günter Holland-Letz; Ayhan Aslan; Ludger Hoischen; Martin LÖSER; Dirk Brexel
Original assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
Current assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
Priority date: 2008-04-15
Filing date: 2009-04-15
Publication date: 2011-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 2029-04-15
Also published as: US9505570B2; CN102007059A; JP5980261B2; US10266354B2; US20130285307A1; US20130285309A1; EP3441338A1; US20150246781A1; US20150246783A1; EP3441340B1; EP3441336A1; CN104609266B; JP2014167803A; JP2011516366A; EP3441340A1; EP3441337B1; JP5518839B2; DE102008018935A1; US8485432B2; WO2009127648A3

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350) for handling single sheets, for introducing and distributing rectangular single sheets (38) resepctively into and out of a container (12a to 12d). Said rectangular single sheets can especially be bank notes (38). The device (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350) for handling single sheets has a feeding mechanism provided with feeding elements for feeding single sheets (38) sheet by sheet and for placing said single sheets (38) in a pile (36) of single sheets in the container (12a to 12d). The device for handling single sheets also comprises a separating system provided with separating elements for removing single sheets (38) arranged in the pile (36), sheet by sheet, from the container (12a to 12d). The feeding elements and the separating elements are arranged separately from the container (12a to 12d).

Description

Single sheet handling device for the input and output of rectangular single sheets, in particular of

Banknotes, into or out of a container

The invention relates to a Einzelblatthandhabvorrich- device for input and output of rectangular sheets in and out of a container. Such rectangular single sheets are in particular banknotes which are automatically fed to the container for storage or automatically removed for dispensing from the container.

Arrangements are known from the documents US 4,616,817, US 6,682,068 and WO 00/24662, in which deposited banknotes are fed to individual storage compartments which are not separable from the arrangements. From document DE 33 25 182 C2 a further arrangement for the storage of a ^¬ zelblättern in solid non-separable from the assembly slots is known to be used in the stacking wheels for feeding the individual sheets in the trays. Furthermore, a plurality of arrangements for storing individual sheets in a stack are known in which the stacking direction is arranged vertically and the feed elements are arranged above ^¬ half of the stack. Such arrangements are known, for example, from the documents EP 0 714 078 B1, DE 32 37 821 C2 and GB 2 301 092 A. On the other hand, a variety of arrangements for the removal of individual sheets of a stack are known. In particular, document EP 0364790 discloses a rotating vent member having a profiled ^¬ profiled surface. Furthermore, so-called cash recycling devices are known in which deposited banknotes are fed to a storage compartment and in the event of subsequent payments be removed again in this subject. Such a cash recycling device with storage compartments not separable from the device is known, for example, from the document EP 0 148 310.

The document DE 199 04 540 Al a Banknotenaufbe ^¬ safekeeping container for ATMs is known. Furthermore, 6,889,897 B2 discloses a Banknotenauf ^¬ storage container, from the document US, in which a plurality of supply elements and are alternatively arranged, a plurality of separating elements in the formed as a banknote cassette storage box itself. This has ever ^¬ but the disadvantage that these elements must be present in exchange ^¬ cassettes and space for the feeding and separating elements must be provided in the cassette itself, which lost for the banknote storage. Furthermore, a disadvantage of the arrangement of feeding and separating elements in the cassette is that they increase the weight of the cassette and thereby the Trans ^¬ port overhead for transporting the cassette is increased. To ^¬ but to allow each feeding banknotes into a banknote container, and the removal of banknotes from the same container, the feeding and separating elements must be accurately positioned to the stacking surface or to the front side of the banknote stack located in the loading ^¬ container to a Reliable bill transport in and to allow the Be ^¬ container.

The object of the invention is to provide a single-sheet handling device for inputting and outputting rectangular individual sheets, in particular banknotes, into or indicate from a container, in which a container which can be easily constructed and separable from the feeding and separating elements of the single-sheet handling device can be used.

This object is achieved by a single-sheet handling device having the features of patent claim 1 and by a cash deposit and cash-dispensing device and by a system having at least one cash deposit machine and at least one cash-dispensing machine, which are specified in the independent patent claims. Advantageous developments of the invention are specified in the dependent claims.

By a single sheet handling device for input and output of rectangular sheets with the features of claim 1 single sheets can be fed to a container in a simple manner and individual sheets are removed from the same container. The arrangement of the feeding elements and the separating elements separated from the container, a simple structure of the Behäl ^¬ ters is possible and the weight of the container can be significantly reduced compared to an arrangement of supply elements and separation elements in a container. Such a single-sheet handling apparatus is particularly suitable for use in an ATM, wherein as needed a commercial exchange of full and / or empty containers is carried out so that at least one other exchange container is kept for each exchange in the ATM arranged containers for each container arranged in the ATM , Thus, it is desirable that the containers can be manufactured with relatively little effort. By arranging the feed elements and the separating elements separate from the container, this is possible in a simple manner.

It is advantageous if the feeding positioning the Behäl ^¬ ter be supplied to individual sheet in front of the group formed by an end side of the stack stacking surface. Since ^¬ by this supplied cut sheet is below the foremost sheet of the stack. Thus, the front or rear of the ^¬ supplied single sheet subsequently forms the end face of the stack.

In a further development of the invention a part of the feeding elements and at least a part of the club ^¬ zelungselemente are at least configured and arranged such that they at least An in-a single sheet receiving portion of the container cut sheet of at least a supply or separating operation of the sheet handling apparatus through at least one opening contact the front boundary wall of the cut sheet receiving area. This is a simple access to the feeding elements and the separating elements on the foremost single sheet of the stack or to an individual to be supplied ^¬ leaf easy.

Furthermore, it is provided in one embodiment of the invention that the single sheet handling device at least one active drive for changing the position of a flap formed as an end boundary wall of the Container, wherein the drive initiates or causes the movement of the flap in a feed and / or singulation position, in which a supply and / or removal ^¬ opening for supplying or removing the single sheets is released. Thus, the individual sheets can be transported in a simple manner via the shared feed and / or Ent ^¬ receiving opening into the container and from the container.

This embodiment of the invention can be further developed in particular in that the active drive the flap before or during the operational separation of the container from the feeding and separating elements, preferably before or during a removal process for ^{¬ be} removed by removing the container from an ATM, in a Rest position moves, wherein the flap is arranged in the rest position such that the supply and / or removal opening is closed and preferably locked. When moving the flap in the rest position preferably at least a portion of the individual sheets of the stack is pressed into the cut sheet receiving area of the container. As a result, all individual sheets of the stack are securely arranged in the cut sheet receiving area when the container is separated from the feeding and separating elements. In the arrangement of the flap in the Ruheposi ^¬ tion unauthorized removal of banknotes he ^¬ sword.

Furthermore, it is advantageous in this embodiment, when the drive, the flap at least then from the feeding and / or separating position in the rest position and of the rest position moves into the feeding and / or separating position when a change of the operating mode from the feed ^¬ operation in the singling operation or when a change of the operating mode of the singling operation in the Zuführbe ^¬ drive is done. Thereby, the front A ^¬ zelblätter of the stack are at least pressed into the cut-sheet receiving portion and brought into a defined starting position for the change in the operating mode or placed in a defined starting position for the intended mode of operation hereinafter.

Further, in this embodiment, it is advantageous if the single-sheet handling device has engagement elements for actuating the flap upon contact of the container with the elements of the single-sheet handling device arranged separately from the container, the drive moving the flap during movement into the feed and / or singulation position via the engagement elements against a spring force for moving and / or holding the flap in the rest position actively drives. This makes it possible to arrange the drive separately from the container and to operate the flap securely on the engagement elements.

In a further development of the invention at least one separation element has at least one separating wheel, before ^¬ preferably a suction roll having disposed on its outer circumferential surface suction elements for contacting a single sheet. It is advantageous if suction cups are provided on the outer Man ^¬ telfläche the suction roller through which a single sheet adheres to the suction roller. Alternatively or additionally, the separating wheel can have a take-off wheel be a profiling having outer surface, the profiling preferably consists of transverse ribs. With such separating elements a simple and secure separation of the individual sheets of the stack located in the container is possible.

Further, it is advantageous if the separating device has at least two arranged on the same driven shaft separating rollers having a gleichmä ^¬ ssige circumferential surface. The separating rollers are preferably arranged resiliently mounted on the shaft, so that the separating rollers contact the first bank note angeord ^¬ Nete at the front or back even ^¬ moderately at least in a singulation mode angeord ^¬ designated first banknote to a twist banknote when singling and to avoid discharge. The separating rollers preferably have a profiled surface, wherein at least the surface of the separating rollers having a mate rial ^¬ with a high coefficient of friction. Further, it is advantageous that the separating rollers a Pro ^¬ fil, preferably cross grooves or suction cups on the environmental have circumferential surface.

In the invention, it is advantageous to arrange the single sheets standing one behind the other on their horizontal edge standing as a stack in the container. As a result, a high packing density can be achieved. Furthermore, the container may have a relatively low height, whereby a plurality of containers can be arranged one above the other in conventional ATMs or in conventional automatic safes. Further The containers can be transported horizontally, whereby a good stackability of the container is ensured.

The vessel is preferably a closed exchange ^¬ bare cassette. By such a closed cassette Kgs ^¬ NEN unauthorized withdrawals of individual sheets by persons who come into contact with the cassette more difficult or avoided, since manipulation of the cartridge is required for withdrawing single sheets from the cassette, which typically leaves visible traces, where ^¬ can be immediately noticed and detected by the manipulation of the cassette. Furthermore, such a cassette offers the possibility to supply banknotes in a simple manner to banknotes and to remove banknotes from the ATM. Due to the closed cassette, a further outer packaging for transport, for example, by a money-handling company is not required.

Furthermore, it is advantageous if the container has a plurality of interconnected slats movable, which prevents at least unauthorized access to the flap in a closed position, wherein a drive element or an engagement element before or upon removal of the container from the feeding and separating elements, the slats automatically the lock position brings. Such separation takes place in particular during the removal of a container from an ATM or from an automatic cash safe, for example when replacing the Behäl ^¬ ters. By arranging the slats in the closed position direct access to the flap is not possible. Manipulations of the flap are thus more difficult, since previously the Lammellen would have to be removed. The interconnected slats are also referred to as blinds or blinds.

In the invention, it is particularly advantageous if at ^¬ the active drive elements for driving the Vereinze ^¬ coupling members and the active drive elements for driving the feeding elements not least part of the container and are ^¬ with separate from the container. As a result, these drive elements do not have to be provided once for each container, but only for a container space provided by the single sheet adhesion device. If at least one replacement container provided, the cost of producing the container can be significantly reduced. Furthermore, the containers are subject to greater wear, so that when replacing a worn container then these drive units and optionally provided in the container feed elements and / or separation ^¬ elements would have to be replaced with the container, whereby a considerable overhead compared to the proposed solution is required.

Furthermore, in one development of the invention, at least one actively driven limiting element is provided, which is movable in the stacking direction and in the opposite stacking direction and limits the stacking space in the single-sheet receiving region by its position variably. By the active drive of the limiting element, which may be realized for example by an electric motor arranged in the container, an on-demand zooming in and out of the stacking space is possible in a simple manner. Furthermore, can the stack in the container will be necessary to ^¬ sammengedrückt or compressed. Furthermore, it is by means of the actively driven limiting member mög ^¬ Lich, to move the stack to a feed and / or separation area go, so that the forwardmost sheet of the stack securely comes in contact with the feed and / or separating elements. By such a limiting element, the individual sheets can be kept in a position in which they are arranged standing on its horizontal edge as a stack. The limiting element may be carried out at play ^¬ as a shuttle car.

In a further development of the invention is rich on a transport path for further transport of using the Vereinze ^¬ coupling member withdrawn single sheets roaming element provided a Doppelblattab- which separates a abgeführtes together with a first cut sheet from the stack second cut sheet from the first sheet and in the feed and Entnahmebe ^¬ holds or transported back into a feed area and / or back into the container. As a result, double deductions, ie the removal of two banknotes, can be securely prevented even if two banknotes adhere to one another.

It when the Doppelblattabstreifelement at least one stripper wheel disposed on a shaft and / or comprises at least one disposed on the shaft from ^¬ roaming roller is advantageous. The stripping wheel or the stripping roller are non-rotatably connected to the shaft, wherein the shaft is stationary in the singling operation or counter to the transport direction of a sheet to be removed is driven. In feed operation, the Umlaufrich ^¬ direction of Abstreifrades or Abstreifwalze agrees with the transport direction of a supplied single sheet. Alternatively, the shaft may be a fixed shaft, where in the stripper wheel or the stripping roller has a freewheeling in only one direction of rotation ^¬, so that a rotation of the Abstreifrades or the stripping roller without rotation of the shaft when feeding a single sheet into the feeding area or in the container is possible. As a result, the double-sheet stripping element does not hinder the transport of the single sheet to be fed into the feed area.

Further, the stripper wheel or the stripper roller on the shaft on which it is arranged can be driven by means of a drive ^¬ unit, wherein the direction of rotation of Abstreifrades or the doctor roller is directed opposite to strip the second single sheet of movement of the discharged cut sheet.

In an advantageous first embodiment of the invention, the feed device can have at least one at least one winged impeller as feed element and furthermore comprise at least one drive unit for driving the at least one impeller. The drive unit rotates the impeller upon feeding a single sheet to be fed into the container such that the blade presses against the face of a stack of cut sheets in the cut sheet receiving area of the tray and pushes at least a portion of these cut sheets at least temporarily into the cut sheet receiving area and a free feed area for positioning the sheet supplied single sheet generated in front of the front side of the stack. Thereby, the supplied single sheet can be transported into ^¬ rich in the free Zuführbe simply without having its transformant ^¬ port movement would be hindered by excessive friction with the front sheet, or to the end face of the stack.

In this first embodiment of the invention, it is advantageous when a control unit controls the drive unit of the ^¬ art, that the vane of the impeller during the supply has a spacing from the leading edge of the supplied A ^¬ zelblatts and that the supplied cut sheet does not contact the wing during feeding. Thus, the movement of the single sheet is not hindered by contact with the wing. The single sheet is thus not deformed during feeding, in particular not compressed, and can be positioned ^{¬ ¬} fold in front of the front side of the existing stack positio ^¬ .

It is advantageous to provide at least two impellers, which have the same axis of rotation, preferably with a single driven by a drive unit of the supply shaft rotatably connected, wherein the wings of the impellers preferably have a lateral distance from each other and are aligned, ie at the same angle protrude from the rotatable shaft. The drive unit rotates the shaft and thus the impellers when feeding a further single sheet such that at ^¬ de wings in a lateral distance from each other, ie parallel, against the end face of a in the Einzelblattauf ^¬ receiving area of the container located stack of individual Press scroll, so that at least a portion of these individual ^¬ leaves are pressed at least temporarily at the contact points with the two wings in the cut sheet receiving area of the container. As a result, a uniform gap, ie a feed area, for positioning the further single sheet in front of the end face of the stack can be produced. It is particularly advantageous to provide three, four, five or six vanes, which are arranged rotationally fixed on a common shaft, wherein depending on the groE ^¬ SSE of the individual sheets of the stack, all or only a part of the pointing in the direction of the stack wings while supplying a is pressing further single sheet against the front side of the Ein¬ ^{¬ in the} sheet receiving portion of the container stack of individual sheets and push at least a portion of these individual sheets at least temporarily in the cut sheet receiving area of the container. The wings of the impellers have a lateral offset to each other, so that the stack top, ie the end face of the Sta ^¬ pels, at several contact points, which are arranged substantially parallel to the front edge or parallel to the trailing edge of the single sheet, are contacted by the wings. Preferably, the impellers are arranged distributed over the entire width of a permissible sheet width for a fed sheet. It is advantageous, in particular ^¬ special to provide six impellers, wherein between the four inner impellers the same first distance is provided and wherein the outer impellers have a relation to the first distance smaller second distance to the second and fifth impeller.

Furthermore, it is advantageous in the first embodiment of the invention additionally a sensor arrangement, preferably a light barrier arrangement, for detecting a sheet edge to provide a to be supplied to the container with the help of the feed device single sheet. The drive unit of the transfer device to ^¬ starts the drive of the at least one impeller for a preset time after detecting the sheet edge of the cut sheet by the sensor arrangement where ^¬ preferably at the sensor assembly detects the leading edge of the single sheet. Before starting the drive of the min ^¬ least one impeller this is preferably located in a Zuführgrundstellung, in which the wing is substantially horizontally aligned and the end face of the stack it will go suppressed as much as with the wings in the individual ^¬ blade receiving portion of the container or pushes. Thereby, a sufficiently large Zuführbe is ^¬ rich, ie, a sufficiently large lead-in area of a transported through transport into the feeding cut sheet created so that it can be freely positioned in front of the end face of the stack and after ^¬ following the stacking surface, ie the end face of Sta ^¬ pels , forms.

Furthermore, it is particularly advantageous in the first embodiment of the invention, when the enveloping circle of the wing of the impeller is selected and when the impeller ^{¬ the} art is arranged, that the apex of the enveloping circle is arranged approximately at the same height as the leading edge of the largest possible Container feedable single sheet in its arrangement in the cut sheet receiving area of the container. As a result, the lowest possible height of the container can be achieved with a reliable function, since at least for the impeller no space above the No ^¬ tenstapels is required. Further, in the first embodiment of the invention, advantageous to provide at least one inclined deflector, by the way out the leading edge of a supplied cut sheet to the face side of the stack and the stack supported ^¬ th, the inclined deflector has a lateral offset to the impeller, and wherein the Slant deflector preference ^{¬ is} resiliently mounted. The oblique deflector thus ensures that, even with a relatively wide feed area, a single sheet transported into this feed area abuts the end face of the stack at least with the leading edge. By the resilient mounting of the Schrä ^¬ gabweisers, the inclined deflector via the spring force in the direction of the end face of the stack is pressed, so that a single sheet with the leading edge at least touches the inclined deflector at the inlet into the feeding area in the last part of the transport path, wherein the inclined deflector erforder ^¬ handy if can be deflected against the spring force. The end of the stack facing the end of Schrä ^¬ gabweisers presses against the Schrägabweiser facing the front of the single sheet and presses it to the stack located in the container or limits the maximum distance between the supplied single sheet and the front of the stack already in the container. Furthermore, a deflection of Schrägabweisers against Fe ^¬ derkraft occurs when the stack in the separation operation wei ^¬ ter the separation elements out, that is shifted from the single sheet receiving area out.

Furthermore, it is advantageous in the first embodiment of the invention, when the front portion of the wing of the wing ^¬ gelrades has a curvature opposite to the direction of rotation of the impeller during feeding of the single sheet. This will be the front of the stack in the container contacted with the outer curvature, whereby only a relatively small force is required to move the wing on the front side of the stack and for pushing at least a portion of the stack into the cut sheet receiving portion of the container. Further, the friction between the blade surface and arranged at the end face of the stack individual sheet is vermin ^¬ changed by the curvature and edges are avoided, which scrape the surface of the single sheet and can engage in damage to the individual ^¬ sheet. The curvature of the wing thus a smooth and trouble-free flow is possible. The wing including the curved front portion is not flexible but rigid, so that the wing and the curved front portion of the wing are not or only ge ^¬ ring elastically deformed in contact with the end face of the stack. The wing is therefore preferably rigid.

Furthermore, it is advantageous if the at least one ^vane wheel has a hub from which the at least one ^vane protrudes, with the vane projecting substantially tangentially from the hub. Through the hub, a simple arrangement of the impeller on an axle or a shaft is possible. Due to the tangential connection of the wing to the hub, the longitudinal axis of the wing windeschief to the rotation ^¬ axis, wherein the curvature in the front region of the wing is oriented such that an axis of rotation cut ^¬ de parallel to the wing longitudinal axis extending the ge ^¬ curved front area of the wing cuts. As a result, even in the arrangement of two such wings tangentially to the hub offset by 180 ° at a ^{senkrech ¬} th alignment of the wing axes requires only a relatively narrow area for arranging these wings with curvature, whereby in such a vertical arrangement of the wing axes of the stack can be gescho ^¬ ben up to the separating elements. By such a design of the impeller only a relatively small space for the impeller is required. With a horizontal orientation of the wing longitudinal axis of the at least one wing, in which the Flü ^¬ gel contacts the end face of the stack, the impeller is in a Zuführgrundstellung. In a vertical orientation of the wings, ie, a vertical direction of ^¬ the wing axes, the impeller is in a removal basic position, since the wings are not required for the removal of individual sheets from the container. The single sheets contact a Abzugrad or another separation element for the removal of at least one A ^¬ zelblatts from the stack. As the wing axis, the longitudinal ^¬ axis of the non-curved portion of the wing is considered.

In the first embodiment of the invention, it is also advantageous to vorzuse ^¬ hen at least two other impellers, which are arranged on a common driven shaft and their wings move during a rotational movement of the shaft at least the trailing edge of a container fed to the single sheet stack, if the supplied Single sheet is positioned in front of the front of the already in the container be ^¬ sensitive stack. In this way, in particular, the lower part of the single sheet can be moved toward the stack in the case of a standing arrangement of the individual sheets on its longitudinal side, whereby the single sheet is then positioned on the front side of the stack and subsequently forms the front side of the stack. At least a portion of the wings of the impellers is flexible and is elastically deformed when passing the wing in the lower portion of the single sheet, wherein the elastic deformation and in addition by the rotational movement, a force is exerted on the lower portion of the single sheet towards the existing stack. Preferably, the wings are made of an elastic material. Furthermore, it is advantageous if the three wings are provided which protrude from a hub of the impeller at 0 °, 90 ° and 180 °, preferably tangentially. Thereby, the wings can be aligned by a suitable rotation of the shaft so that no wing protrudes into the transport path, so that a single sheet can get into the feed area, without contacting one of the wings of the other impellers.

In a further development of the invention according to a second embodiment of the feeding device, has at least one circulating conveyor belt wherein the transport belt Minim ^¬ least a transport plate for receiving a portion of a container to be supplied to the single sheet has. By means of such a conveyor belt which is located in the transport flap ^¬ Liche single sheet can be performed in front of the stack in the container, in which case no or only a relatively small feed space between a frontal flap of the container and the end of the stack in Einzelblattaufnahmebe ^¬ rich container required is.

Preferably, at least two, in particular three trans ^¬ portbands are arranged side by side, wherein the at least one transport tab of each conveyor belt is arranged at the same circulation position, so that a fed A ^¬ sheet is simultaneously introduced into each one transport tab each in a lateral spaced conveyor belt and in the transport tab is further transported until it is positioned in front of the front side of the stack located in the container. Preferably, the transport ^lug is connected to an edge transversely to the circulation direction of the conveyor ^belt . Furthermore, it is advantageous if the transport tab extends from the edge along the conveyor belt. The wide ^¬ ren edges of the transport tab are not connected to the Trans ^¬ port band, so that the transport tab tangentially protrudes in an advantageous development of the second embodiment in an arrangement of the edge on a curvature of the conveyor belt of the curvature. The transport ^lug preferably has substantially the same width as the conveyor belt. As a result, the entire bandwidth can be used as a receiving area of the transport tab.

It is also advantageous, when deflected the endless conveyor belt over at least a driven shaft in the second embodiment of the invention and driven by this shaft in a direction of transport, the edge to which the transport plate is port ribbon connected to the Trans ^¬, in the direction of transport the conveyor belt is provided at the front edge of the transport tab.

It is particularly advantageous in the second embodiment ^¬ form when the conveyor ^{belt has} two transport tabs which are arranged at a circular arrangement of the conveyor belt 180 ° offset on the outer circumference of the conveyor belt. However, the conveyor belt is preferably guided over two shafts, so that the conveyor belt has in a mounting position ^¬ not have a circular circumference. It is further advantageous in the second embodiment, if at least the conveyor belt or the conveyor belt and the at least one transport tab in the circumferential direction of the endless Trans ^¬ port band have a perforation for engagement of a spiked wheel. By such a ^sprocket wheel and such Lo ^¬ chung a slip between the drive shaft and the conveyor belt can be avoided. This is particularly important if at least two conveyor belts are provided with a time offset from each other, each using at least one transport tab for receiving a portion of a supplied single sheet to ensure a parallel orientation of the transport tabs permanently.

It is also advantageous in the second embodiment, provide a first preferably circumferential capable Betätigungsele ^¬ ment which comprises at least the leading edge pressed into a first operation mode for the removal of the single sheet from the container opposite rear edge of the Trans ^¬ port plate against the conveyor belt and / or the In a second operating mode for feeding a single sheet into the container a gap between the rear edge of the transport tab and the conveyor belt generated and / or the ^¬ ser gap is increased. This ensures that an area of a supplied single sheet is safely guided into the transport tab or that when removing a single sheet from the container protruding from the conveyor belt transport tab does not protrude into the transport path for the removal of the single sheet. Here, the Actuate the ^¬ restriction member in the first operating mode, a supply and Ent ^¬ receiving area by the actuating element caused by the pressure of the rear edge of the transport plate to release to the conveyor belt and / or the actuating element in the second mode of operation, the transport tab in the input and output ^¬ gabebereich open such that a transported in the feed and removal area single sheet is transported into the transport ^¬ tab and in the transport tab in a position in front of the end face of the stack present in the container forming the first single sheet the stack is positioned.

Furthermore, it is advantageous to provide at least one pressure element, preferably at least one impeller, which presses a fed-in individual sheet and / or at least part of the further individual sheets of the stack present in the container into the container.

Furthermore, it is advantageous in the second embodiment of the invention, at least one scraper vorzuse ^¬ hen that is arranged such that the stripping a transported using the transport tab in front of the end face of the stack sheet in a further order ^¬ movement of the conveyor belt in the feed and Removing ^¬ rich in a position in front of the front side of the stack located in the container and thereby pulls out of the trans ^¬ port tab. As a result, the single sheet can be positioned in a simple manner in front of the front side of the stack.

Furthermore, it is advantageous in the second embodiment of the invention to provide at least one oblique deflector, by which the leading edge of a supplied note and / or the upper portion of a supplied note to the stack of leads. The inclined deflector has a lateral offset to the circulating conveyor belt, wherein the inclined deflector is preferably spring-mounted. Further, it is advantageous ^¬ way when the inclined deflector also serves as a wiping member, the apparatus then has a combined Schrä ^¬ gabweiser- and stripping element.

In an alternative third embodiment of the invention, the feeding means and the separating means have at least a combined stacking and Vereinze ^¬ lungsrad to a combined feeding and separating element. This stacking and separating wheel has chambers which form at its chamber bottom a stop for the individual sheets to be supplied to the container. Furthermore, the stacking and separating wheel comprises at least one Vereinzelungsele ^¬ element which is moved out of the circumferential surface of the stacking and Vereinze ^¬ lung wheel. In a further development of the stacking and separating wheel according to the third exporting ^¬ approximate shape the stacking and separating wheel has two Kam ^¬ chambers, which are preferably arranged at a distance of 180 ° is ^¬. By providing a plurality of chambers, a faster positioning of a chamber in the transport path of individual sheets to be supplied is possible. It is particularly advantageous to provide three stacking and separating ^{wheels which} are arranged at an axial distance from one another on a common stacking and separating wheel shaft. The drive of the stacking and separating wheels preferably takes place via the stacking and separating wheel shaft. Characterized si can be chergestellt ^¬ that the chambers are directed in such a parallel from ^¬ that a supplied sheet, each ^¬ weils a portion is guided into a respective chamber of each stacking and separating wheel. Coordinating several drive units is thus not necessary. In a batch mode to take over the individual sheets of a transport path for depositing the individual sheets in the container the at least one stack and singulation ^¬ rad preferably positioned so that a portion of the to-run ^¬ single sheet can be introduced into the chamber. A drive unit rotates the stacking and separating wheel pa ^¬ rallel to a portion of the feed movement of the single sheet, wherein the single sheet remains in the chamber and wherein during a rotational movement of the stacking and separating a control element of the chamber associated clamping element ^¬ actuates, so that the clamping element holding the single sheet in the ^chamber via a clamping connection. As a control is preferably a cam.

In an advantageous further development of the third embodiment, a separating mode is further seen ^¬, wherein a control said at least one Ver ^¬ einzelungselement at least for a preset period of time from the peripheral surface of the stacking and Vereinze ^¬ lung wheel moved, a drive unit, the stacking and separating wheel rotates, so that the circumferential surface from the surrounding moving out separation element contacts the surface forming the front-side stack foremost ^¬ single sheet of the stack in the container. By turning the stacking and separating wheel, the foremost single sheet is displaced and at least one transport element for further transport of the single sheet supplied ^¬ leads. It is advantageous that a control ei ^¬ NEN separating lever controls such that the Vereinze ^¬ development element to the outside, ie from the axis of rotation of Ve- rinsing and stacking wheel away, is moved. This STEU ^¬ erelement can in particular comprise a cam.

Furthermore, it is particularly advantageous to provide a stripping element which stops a single sheet located in the chamber of the stacking and uni ^¬ tion wheel in its movement, wherein a clamping connection made by the clamping element between the stacking and separating and the single sheet is released when the Scraper stops the movement of the cut sheet. The release is in turn ^¬ controlled by the or another control, which preferably comprises at least one cam. Be ^¬ Sonders it is advantageous when a drive unit continues rotating the stacking and separating wheel after the stripping element has the direction of movement of the single sheet ge ^¬ stops. As a result, the supplied single sheet is simply pulled out of the chamber.

Furthermore, it is advantageous in the third embodiment of the invention to provide at least one oblique deflector, by which the leading edge of a supplied single sheet is guided to the stack. The inclined deflector has a lateral offset to the stacking and separating wheel, wherein the inclined deflector is preferably spring-mounted. Be ^¬ particularly advantageous to provide a combined Schrägabwei ^¬ ser- and stripping.

In the third embodiment of the invention, it is also advantageous, a sensor arrangement, preferably a light barrier arrangement, for detecting a blade edge of the with the help of the stacking and separating wheel to provide the container to be fed single sheet and that the drive unit starts the drive of the at least one stacking and separating a preset time after Er ^¬ grasp the blade edge after detecting the single sheet by the sensor assembly. It is particularly advantageous if the sensor arrangement detects the front edge of the single sheet, since then only a small distance between the ^¬ rule the detection range of the sensor array and the position for feeding the single sheet receiving chamber of the stacking and separating wheel is present.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a cash and cash dispensing device, with one of the above-mentioned single-sheet handling devices and a container, wherein the container with a possibly located in the container sheet or with multiple optionally located in the container sheets from the cash and cash dispensing device is removable and wherein the single-sheet handling device with the driven feeding elements of the feeding device remains the driven separating elements of the separating device in the cash deposit and cash dispensing device. It is advantageous if in the cash and cash dispensing device, the container is exchangeable for a similar container.

A third aspect of the invention relates to a system having at least one cash deposit machine and at least one cash dispensing machine, in which the cash deposit machine has at least one feeding device with feeding elements for the sheet feeder. have feeding single sheets and storing these sheets in a stack of cut sheets in a replaceable container. The cash dispenser has at least one separating device with Vereinze ^¬ ment elements for sheet-wise removal of the individual sheets of the stack from the same container. The container is removed from the cash deposit machines and used in the cash dispenser. At least a portion of the Behäl ^¬ ter in Geldeinzahlautomaten supplied single sheets are taken out of the container in the cash dispenser. The feeding elements and the separating elements are each not part of the container but ^{vorzugswei ¬} se part of the money or Geldauszahlautomaten. In this case, it is advantageous if at least the cash ^{deposit car has} an authenticity checking unit for checking the authenticity of the deposited bank notes.

A fourth aspect of the invention relates to a circulating conveyor belt with a first elastically deformable material strip and with a second elastically deformable material strip. A first end of the first Materialstrei ^¬ fens via a first strip-shaped transversely to the running direction of the conveyor belt extending first connecting portion with the inside of the second material ^¬ strip connected. A region of the second material web with the first end of the second material ^strip extends beyond the first connection region and forms a transport ^lug for receiving a region of a single sheet between the transport lug and the first material ^strip . In the third aspect of the invention it is advantageous to a second end of the second strip material ^¬ a second strip-shaped transversely to the direction of circulation of the conveyor belt extending connects range of the inside of the first strip of material to connect. It is advantageous when a portion of the first strip of material to the second end of the f ^¬ th material strip extends ^¬ rich beyond the second Verbindungsbe and forms a second conveying flap for receiving a portion of a single sheet between the transport plate and the second strip of material. The transport tabs are preferably arranged offset by 180 ° on the outer circumference of the conveyor belt. The first and second strips of material preferably have the same dimensions.

Further, it is advantageous if the first and the second strip of material have a perforation for engagement of a spiked wheel. As a result, a slip-free drive of the conveyor belt through the spiked wheel is possible.

It is particularly advantageous if this perforation extending along the periphery of the conveyor belt approximately in the middle of the transmembrane ^¬ port tape is. As a result, only a spiked wheel or a roller with spikes must be provided in order to safely drive the conveyor belt slip-free. The engagement of the spikes of the spiked wheel approximately in the middle of the conveyor ^belt ensures that the conveyor ^belt does not warp during operation. Further, the conveyor belt can be axially positioned by the sprocket, whereby a Ver ^¬ shift of the conveyor belt in the direction of the shaft ends of a deflection, ie a drifting, is avoided. The first and second strips of material are preferably foil strips, for example polyethylene foil strips. The foil strips have a uniform material cover, which lies in the range between 0.001 mm and 0.5 mm. Such polyethylene film strips and other suitable film strips may in particular be welded together by a welding process, such as an ultrasonic welding process, in particular to produce the first and second bonding regions.

Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description which, in conjunction with the accompanying figures, the invention with reference to embodiments explained in more detail.

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FIG. 1 shows a vault with four cassettes arranged in an ATM for storing banknotes and a separating and stacking module assigned to each cassette;

Figure 2 is a schematic representation of the singulation ^¬ and stacking module according to a first embodiment of the invention ^¬ whose feeding elements and separating elements are shown in a basic stacking Stel ^¬ lung; Figure 3 is a schematic representation of the singulation ^¬ and stacking module according to figure 2, wherein the feed ^¬ elements and a supplied bank note are shown in a second feeding position;

Figure 4 is a schematic representation of the singulation ^¬ and stacking module according to Figures 2 and 3, wherein the feeding elements and a supplied bank note are shown in a third feed position;

Figure 5 is a schematic representation of the separating ^¬ and stacking module according to Figures 2 to 4, wherein the feed elements and a fed banknote are shown in a fourth feed position;

Figure 6 is a schematic representation of the separating and stacking module according to Figures 2 to 5, wherein the feed elements and the separating elements are shown in a separating position for withdrawing a banknote from the stack present in the container;

Figure 7 shows an arrangement with the separating and stacking module according to Figures 2 to 6, with further elements of the cassette for storing the banknotes and with a drive for actuating a Notenrückzugsklappe, wherein the Notenrückzugsklappe is shown in an open position. FIG. 8 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 7 with a closed note return flap;

FIG. 9 shows a section of the cassette for storing the bank notes after the cassette has been separated from the separating and stacking module according to FIGS. 2 to 8;

Figure 10 is a three-dimensional view of the drive ^¬ elements for driving arranged in the cassette near the front side vanes;

Figure 11 is a three-dimensional representation of the drive ^¬ elements for driving the note return flap;

Figure 12 is a three-dimensional view of a lower disposed separately from the cassette ^¬ impeller shaft and transmission members for driving the impeller shaft ^¬ ser;

Figure 13 is a three-dimensional representation of Vereinze ^¬ lung elements for withdrawing a banknote from the cassette and for further transport of the entnom ^¬ menen banknote; Figure 14 is a three dimensional representation of a lungs- Vereinze- and stacking module according to a second ^¬ guide of the invention with three conveyor belts arranged side by side in each case with lifting lugs for feeding and with a pull-off for separating banknotes;

FIG. 15 shows a simplified side view of the separating and stacking module according to FIG. 14, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a first position for feeding a banknote;

Figure 16 shows the side view of the separating and stacking ^¬ module according to FIG 15, the feeding and Ver ^¬ einzelungselemente are shown in a second position during feeding of a banknote;

Figure 17 shows the side view of the separating and stacking ^¬ module of Figures 15 and 16, wherein the guiding and to ^¬ separating elements are shown in a third position during feeding of a banknote;

Figure 18 shows the side view of the sorting and Stapelmo ^¬ duls according to the figures 15 to 17, wherein shown to ^¬ guiding and separating elements in a fourth position during feeding of a banknote; FIG. 19 shows a simplified side view of a separating and stacking module for stacking and separating banknotes which is alternative to the separating and stacking module according to FIGS. 14 to 18, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a first position when feeding a banknote;

20 shows the side view of the separating and stacking ^¬ module according to FIG 19, the feeding and Ver ^¬ einzelungselemente are shown in a second position during feeding of a banknote;

Figure 21 shows the side view of the separating and stacking ^¬ module of Figures 19 and 20, wherein the guiding and to ^¬ separating elements are shown in a third position during feeding of a banknote;

Figure 22 shows the side view of the sorting and Stapelmo ^¬ duls according to Figures 19 to 21, wherein shown to ^¬ guiding and separating elements in a fourth position during feeding of a banknote;

Figure 23 is a arranged in the vault of Figure 1 banknote ^¬ tenkassette with a separating and stacking module for feeding and removing banknotes according to the figures 15 to 18;

Figure 24 is a top view of a stacking and Vereinze ^¬ lungsradwelle a separating and Stapelmo ^¬ duls a third embodiment of the invention with a total of three arranged on this shaft combined stacking and separating wheels;

Figure 25 is a perspective view of Vereinz ^¬ ment and Stapelradwelle with the singulation ^¬ and stacking wheels of Figure 24;

Figure 26 is a side view of the stacking and singulation ^¬ wheel shaft according to figure 25;

Figure 27 is a schematic representation of an arrangement of elements of a stacking and separating wheel and other elements of the separating and stacking module of the third embodiment of the invention in a starting position for removing a banknote from the container;

FIG. 28 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 27, with a trigger element being activated; Figure 29 shows the arrangement of Figures 27 and 28, wherein the feeding and separating elements in Wei ^¬ tertransport are a withdrawn banknote Darge ^¬ represents;

Figure 30 shows the arrangement of Figures 27 to 29, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a starting position for feeding a banknote;

Figure 31 shows the arrangement according to Figures 27 to 30, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a second feed position;

Figure 32 shows the arrangement according to Figures 27 to 31, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a third feed position;

Figure 33 is a side view of the stacking and separating ^¬ wheel according to the third embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 34 shows the stacking and separating wheel according to FIG. 33 in a further side view; FIG. 35 is a perspective view of the stacking and separating wheel according to FIGS. 33 and 34;

FIG. 36 shows the stacking and separating wheel according to FIGS. 33 to 35 in a further side view;

Figure 37 shows an arrangement of the cassette in an ATM with feeding and separating elements of the third embodiment of the invention;

Figure 38 are shown a side view of the separating and Sta ^¬ pelmoduls according to a fourth embodiment of the invention, in which feeding elements and Vereinze ^¬ coupling members in a first feeding position;

Figure 39, the separating and stacking module according to Figure 38, the feeding elements are shown in a second feed ^¬ position;

Figure 40, the separating and stacking module according to the figures 38 and 39, the feeding and Vereinze ^¬ coupling members are shown in a third feed position; and Figure 41, the separating and stacking module according to Figu ren ^¬ 38 to 40, wherein the feeding and Vereinze ^¬ coupling members are shown in a separating position.

FIG. 1 shows a vault 10, which is arranged in an ATM, with a total of four exchangeable cassettes 12a to 12d arranged one above the other. Each Kas ^¬ sette 12a to 12d is a separating and stacking module 14a to 14d associated taken with the aid of which in the respective cassette 12a to 12d existing banknotes and ^¬ al ternatively banknotes with the aid of the separating and stacking ^¬ module 14a to 14d of the respective Cassette 12a to 12d to ^¬ can be performed. The banknotes are stored in the cassettes 12a to 12d as a stack, the banknotes standing on its longitudinal side in the cassettes 12a to 12d are arranged ^¬ . With the aid of transport elements 16a to 16d, the banknotes can be fed to the separating and stacking modules 14a to 14d and removed from these separating and stacking modules 14a to 14d. With the aid of the transport elements 16a to 16d, which in particular comprise belts, rollers and / or switches, a transport path 18 is formed, via which banknotes are supplied from a transfer point 20, via which the banknotes are supplied to the safe 10 or are discharged from the safe 10 a selected separating and stacking module 14a to 14d are transported. Further, a 12a to 12d assigned from one of the cassettes with the aid of this cassette separating and stacking module 14a can 16a to 16d is supplied to the transport ^¬ elements to 14d taken banknote and half along the transport ^¬ path 18 through the transfer interface 20 to an upper ^¬ of Tresors 10 arranged control panel of the ATM with at least one input and output tray ^{weiterertrans ¬ be} ported.

Typically, banknotes to be deposited are stored in the input and output compartment as a bundle and separated in the upper part of the ATM, so that they are successively fed along the transport path 18 via the transfer interface 20 to the vault 10. Further, the extracted from the cassettes 12a to 12d bills are individually transported in sequence along the transport path 18 via the transfer ^¬ interface 20 from the vault 10 and then stacked with the aid of a known stacking means, for example, as Stackerrad to a stack or bundle , This bundle is then output through the input and output tray. Furthermore, the ATM has a suitable control unit and other elements, such as ^¬ example, a card reader and optionally safety devices for authenticating an operator.

Alternatively, the vault 10 shown in FIG. 1 with the cassettes 12a to 12d, the separating and stacking modules 14a to 14d and the transport elements 16a to 16d can also be used in an automatic vault.

The banknotes are preferably with a speed of Transportge ^¬ ≥ 1.2 m per second, preferably ≥ 1.4 m per second, transported along the transport path 18 and removed at an appropriate speed from the Kas ^¬ Setten 12a to 12d and these cassettes 12a to 12d supplied at a corresponding speed. FIG. 2 shows a separating and stacking module 30 according to a first embodiment of the invention. In particular, the separating and stacking module 30 according to FIG. 2 can be used as a separating and stacking module 14a to 14d according to FIG. Elements having the same structure and / or the same function are identified by the same reference numerals.

In addition to separating and feeding members of the separating and stacking module 30 used elements of the cassette 12a are einzelungsfunktionen ^¬ for stacking and illustrated Ver. The separating and stacking module 30 has as separating elements three juxtaposed from ^¬ zugsräder 32 which are arranged on a take-off wheel 34 resilient gela ^¬ siege and rotatably connected to this shaft 34. In the side view shown in Figure 2 only one of the take-off wheels 32 is visible. Further, the Abzugsradwelle 34 is resiliently mounted at one end, so that it is horizontally displaceable at this shaft end and pressed by means of the spring force to the front side of the cassette 12a and so ^¬ against the front side of a cassette 12a angeord ^¬ Neten stack 36 of banknotes is when this stack 36 is arranged in a singulating position. A first in the direction of the arrow PO to be fed banknote 38 is fed with the help of on a main drive shaft 42 is arranged ^¬ drive wheels 44 in a feeding area 46 in front of the stack contained in the cassette 12a 36th

Further, a guide member 48 is provided, that the at ^¬ drive wheels 44 partially surrounds and the movement the bill 38 around the drive wheels 44 around. Further, a pinch roller 50 is provided, by means of which the banknote 38 are pressed for transport to the drive wheels 44. Furthermore, two stripping rollers 52 are arranged on a shaft 53, which in the present embodiment ei ^¬ nen freewheel, so that they rotate according to a rotational movement of the drive wheels 44 in the direction of the arrow Pl plotted without rotation of the shaft 53 accordingly. In a drive of the drive wheels 44 opposite to the arrow Pl shown in Figure 2, no rotation of the stripping rollers 52. The stripping rollers 52 preferably have a circumferential surface of rubber or other material with a relatively high coefficient of static friction, so that if two banknotes in the gap between the drive wheel 44 and stripping roller 52 pass, the stripping roller 52 facing banknote is stripped from the drive wheel 44 facing bill and not further to the pressure ^{roller ¬} 50 is transported. This can ensure that only one banknote is removed at the same time when banknotes are removed from the cassette 12a.

The separating and stacking module 30 also has a plurality of impellers 54 arranged on a drive shaft 62, each having two vanes 58, 60 projecting tangentially from a hub 56 of the impeller 54. The wings 58, 60 are rotatably ver ^¬ connected with the drive shaft 62, so that the impellers 54 by means of a drive ^¬ unit on this shaft 62 in the direction of rotation of the dargestell ^¬ th arrow P2 can be driven. The ends of the wings 58, 60 are curved counter to the rotational direction, so that it comprises at ei ^¬ ner rotational movement in the direction of arrow P2, the end face of the stack 36 with its curved outer side PLEASE CONTACT ^¬ ren. In the present embodiment, the stack 36 a plurality of banknotes having a relatively small first height, of which a bank note is the front side of the stack 36, and a plurality of bank notes of a larger second height, of which a banknote the rear of the stack 36 bil ^¬ det.

The impeller 54 is shown in Figure 2 in a Stapelgrundstel ^¬ ment, in which a horizontally oriented wing 60 of the impeller 54 against the end face of Sta ^¬ pels 36 suppressed and the banknotes of the stack 36 from the lead ^¬ area 46 out into the cassette 12 a suppressed. In this stack basic position of the impeller 54, the banknote 38 is transported into the feed region 46. When the banknote 38 is transported into the feed area 46, the take-off wheel 32 is additionally driven in the direction of the arrow P6, that is to say in the feed direction of the banknote 38. If the front edge of this banknote 38 falls below a preset distance to the wing 60, the impeller 54 is rotated via the drive shaft 62 to ^¬ , so that the front edge of the bill 38 does not contact the wing 60.

The separating and stacking module 30 further comprises in ^¬ $ total four inclined deflector 64 which are urged in the present embodiment, with its side facing the stack 36 end by means of a biased spring 65 against the end face of the stack 36th The oblique arrangement of the oblique deflectors 64, the upper portion of the bill 38 is moved in contact with the inclined deflector 64 to the end face of the stack 36 out. On the shaft 62, five further upper impellers 54 are arranged and rotatably connected thereto, so that the Wel ^¬ le 62 serves as a drive shaft for this total of six Flügelrä ^¬ 54. A visible in Figure 2 lower impeller is designated by the reference numeral 66. Further, in Figure 2, individual elements of the cassette 12a are shown, such as. B. a note retracting flap 68, which is shown in Figure 2 in a geöff ^¬ Neten state and which has been moved by means of ge ^¬ separated from the cartridge 12a arranged drive elements in this open position. Further, not shown in Figure 2 springs are provided which exert a force on the note retracting flap 68 in the direction of its ge ^¬ closed position.

The separating and stacking module 30 has a Andruckvor ^¬ direction 45, contactless m ^¬ advantage a positioned in the feeding area 46 in front of the end face of the stack 36 bank note 38 and the bank note 38, at least pressed against the contact points on the end face of the stack 36th The Andruckvor ^¬ direction 45 is formed so that it contacts the banknote 38 in its lower half, when it is positioned in front of the end face of the stack 36. The Andruckvorrich ^¬ device 45 may comprise at least one designed as a pressure pin anchor of a pull or push magnet or coupled to the anchor Andruckstift.

Further, at the bottom of the bill receiving area of the cassette 12a, there are provided two cassette impellers 72 mounted on a drive shaft 71 which rotatably lock together with pulleys for deflecting belts 70 located at the bottom of the bill receiving area of the cassette 12a are connected to the drive shaft 71. Further, on this drive shaft 71, a gear (not shown) arranged to ^¬ that rotatably verbun ^¬ with this drive shaft 71 ^¬ is the and over which the drive shaft 71 is driven by a ge ^¬ separated from the cartridge 12a arranged drive unit, if another with the drive unit coupled gear is engaged with this on the drive shaft 71 to ^¬ ordered gear. These gears are engaged when the cassette 12a has been entspre ^¬ accordingly inserted in provided in the vault 10 shots and take in the operating position for feeding and Ent ^¬ is of banknotes.

With the aid of the cassette vane wheels 72 and the belt 70, at least a part of the banknote stack 36 located in the banknote receiving area of the cassette 12a is transported away from the delivery area 46 at least in the lower area of the banknotes of the stack 36, so that banknotes 38 fed by means of the upper vane wheel 54, with the aid of the slant deflector 64 and / or by means of the note retracting flap 68 can be pressed into the banknote receiving area of the cassette 12a during the closing process. After For ^¬ result of the banknote 38 into the feeding area 46, that is, when the trailing edge is no longer located in the area between the drive wheel 44 and pinch roller 50, the lower impeller 66 is rotated so that at least one wing 74, 76, 78 of the lower vane wheel 66 the rear edge and / or the lower portion of the banknote 38 presses against the front side of the stack 36. This pressing of the lower portion by means of the lower vane wheel 66 takes place in Wesentli ^¬ surfaces simultaneously with the inclined deflector 64 caused by the movement of the bill 38 to the stack 36.. Furthermore, the separating and stacking module 30 comprises a light barrier arrangement 39, which detects the leading edge of a fed banknote 38 in the area between the drive wheel 44, so that starting from the time of arrival of the front edge of the fed banknote 38 and a preset delay time, the drive of the impeller 54 via the drive shaft 62 is started. The light ^¬ barrier arrangement 39 includes a prism arrangement for two-fold deflection of a full end ^¬ th from a light source light beam, said light source and a light sensor for detecting the light emitted from the light source light beam on the same side of the transport path for supplying and discharging a banknote are disposed 38th The Pris ^¬ menanordnung is arranged on the opposite side of the transport path. Thus, a si ^¬ chere acquisition is particularly given since the light beam crosses the transport path of the banknotes twice. Furthermore, a simple compact arrangement of the light source and the light sensor on only one side of the transport path is possible.

Further, the lower impeller 66 has been further rotated. Furthermore, the separating and stacking module 30 comprises a stripping element 75, in order to optionally detach banknotes 38 which adhere to the surface of the drive wheel 44 and guide them into the feed region 46. The stripping element 75 is preferably pressed by a spring force against a stop and thereby held in the position shown. FIG. 3 shows the separating and stacking module 30 shown in FIG. 2, the feeding elements 52, 54 and the banknote 38 transported into the feeding region 46 being shown in a second feeding position, which differs from the stacking basic position shown in FIG.

The bank note 38 has been in the further transported into 3 shown to ^¬ introduction position towards the position shown in Figure 2 into the feeding 46th Due to the already described in connection with Figure 2 surrounded ^¬ control of the drive of the impeller 54, this has been driven ^¬ on the drive shaft 62 in the direction of the arrow P2, so that it now has the position shown in Figure 2. This ensures that a distance between the front edge of the banknote 38 and the wing 60 is maintained, so that the supplied banknote 38 does not contact the wing 60 and the feeding movement of the banknote 38 is not affected by contact with the wing 60.

Further, the lower impeller 66 is further rotated so that the wing 74 of the lower impeller 66 approaches the trailing edge of the fed bill 38 and subsequently presses the trailing edge and the lower portion of the fed bill 38 against the stack 36. The wings 74, 76, 78 are tangentially from a hub of the lower impeller 66, preferably at 0 °, 90 ° and 180 °. The vanes 74, 76, 78 of the impeller 66 are made of an elastic Mate ^¬ rial, preferably made of a rubber and / or plastic material and preferably in the by the arrow P4 interpreted direction of rotation of the lower impeller curved. As a result, the vanes 74 to 78 press with a relatively large force against the lower region of the supplied banknote 38 during a rotational movement of the lower impeller 66 in the direction of the arrow P4 and then deform to between the front-side stack bottom edge of the stack 36 and the hub of the lower Impeller 66 to be pulled through. The wings 74 to 78 are so from the hub of the impeller 66 from that they need to be pivoted at a rotational movement of the arrow P4 only a relatively small angle to the hub to at least partially abut the peripheral surface of the Na ^¬ be.

4 shows a further schematic representation of the separating and stacking module 30 is illustrated by Figures 2 and 3, the feeding elements 54, 66 as well as to run ^¬ banknote are shown in a third feeding 38th In this third feeding position, the upper vane 54 is further rotated in the direction of the arrow P2.

5 shows a schematic representation of the Vereinze ^¬ lungs- and stacking module is showing ^¬ ge 30 of Figures 2 to 4, wherein the feed elements 54, 66 as well as the supplied banknote are shown in a fourth feeding 38th Opposite the third feed position shown in Figure 4, the upper impeller 54 has been further rotated in the direction of the arrow P2, so that the wing 58 is pivoted into the feed region 46 and subsequently further rotated to the stack base position shown in Figure 2, in which the front curved portion of the wing 58 presses against the supplied banknote 38 and this together with further banknotes of the stack 36 into the banknote receiving area of the cassette 12a. In the lower area of the Be ^¬ supplied banknote 38, the three blades are 74 to 78 beige leads on the trailing edge of the fed banknote 38 prior ^¬ until they are again placed in the position shown in Figure 2 basic stacking position. Further, the lower portion of the bill 38 is pressed by the pressing device 45 against the end face of the stack 58, whereby a flutter of the bill 38, which is in particular caused by the front ^¬ attached wings 74 to 78, is reduced.

The note retracting flap 68 has a banknote ^¬ te 38 contact a plurality of openings through which passes the upper vane 54, the inclined deflector 64 and the pull-off wheel 32 and, depending on the operation ^¬ state of the separating and stacking module 30th For the further take-off wheels 32, the further upper impellers 54 and the further oblique deflectors 64 further openings in the note retracting flap 68 are provided so that these, in the same way as already explained for the feeding and separating elements 32, 54, 64, the banknote 38th through the note retracting flap 68 can contact. In the open position of the note retracting flap 68, there is a feed and removal opening at least across a width of the widest feedable banknote 38, which is identified by the arrow P5. This feed and removal opening a supplied bank note 38 passes into the feed region 46. Similarly, a to be removed from the cassette 12a bill is transported 38 through the feed and Entnahmeöff ^¬ voltage to the driving wheels 44 and with the aid of the drive wheels 44 are then driven against the arrow direction of the arrow Pl, further transported to the transport elements 16a. 6 shows a further schematic representation of the separating and stacking module 30 is shown in FIGS 2 to 5, wherein the feeding elements and the Vereinzelungsele ^¬ elements as well as arranged in the cassette 12a banknotes ^¬ stack 36 in a separating position for withdrawal of a bank note 38 of the Bankno ^¬ tenstapels 36 present in the cassette 12a are shown. The wings 58, 60 of the obe ^¬ ren impeller 54 have been rotated via the drive shaft 62 in a stack base position shown in Figure 6 and remain in this staple basic position during the entire separation process for removal and for ^¬ transport a banknote 38 from the cassette 12a.

With the help of a driven via an electric motor 80 the displacement carriage 82, the stack is shifted to a Vereinze ^¬ lung position to the pull-off 32. 36, so that the end face of the stack 36 or the end face of Sta ^¬ pels 36 Fine banknote 38 against the lateral surface of the Ab ^¬ zugsrades 32 and against the surface of parallel to the take-off wheel 32 arranged further take-off wheels 32 is pressed. By moving the stack 36 toward the take-off wheel 32, the oblique deflector 64 is pivoted about the axis of rotation 63, as a result of which the spring 65 generating the pressing force of the oblique deflector 64 is pretensioned or further pre-stressed. To remove the end face of the stack 36 bil ^¬ denden banknote 38 is carried out by means of a drive unit, a rotation of the take-off wheel 32 in the direction of arrow P7, which is directed against the direction indicated by the arrow P6 rotational direction of the take-off wheel 32 in Figures 2 to 5. As a result of this rotation of the take-off wheel 32, the foremost banknote 38 of the stack 36 is lowered to the end. pushed past strip rollers 52 in the area between the drive wheels 44 and pinch roller 50 and transported. The surfaces of the drive wheels 44 and the take-off wheels 32 preferably have a relatively high coefficient of friction. Preferably, the surfaces of Abzugsrä ^¬ 32 and the drive wheels 44 are formed of rubber or other material with similar coefficients of friction. In addition, the surface of the Abzugsrades 32 is structured by transverse grooves. By means of these transverse grooves, a greater adhesion between the surface of the take-off wheel 32 and the banknote 38 to be moved downwards can be generated.

For removal or further transport of using the Abzugsrä ^¬ 32 downwardly shifted bank note 38, the drive wheels are driven in the direction of the arrow P8 44th The lower impeller 66 is positioned in a separating base Stel ^¬ lung that its wing 74 to 78 do not protrude into the transportation path for disconnecting and further transport of the banknote 38th

The transfer carriage 82 has axles 84, 86 which each extend from the transfer carriage 82 to the side walls of the cassette 12a laterally delimiting the stack 36, guide wheels 92, 93 engaging in guide rails 88, 90 being provided at the ends of the axes. The guide rails 80, 90 are formed in or on the side walls. In figure 7 an arrangement with the separating and stacking module 30 of Figures 2 to 6 with further Ele ^¬ elements of the cassette is shown 12a for storing the bank notes and a drive for actuating the note retracting flap 68, wherein the note retracting flap 68 in Dar ^¬ position is shown in Figure 7 in an open position.

A drive unit 96 shifts a pusher 98 via gear stages 100, 102, in the direction of the arrow PlO. The gear stages 100, 102 each generate a reduction. The output gear of the gear stage 102 engages in a formed on the thrust element 98 rack 104 for moving the thrust element 98 a. The thrust element 98 further includes slots 106, 108 that protrude through the not shown Füh ^¬ approximately bolt, wherein the displacement range of the push member 98 through these guide pins and the slots 106 is limited, 108th The thrust element 98 further comprises egg ^¬ ne slope 110th In Figure 7, the thrust element 98 is shown in a position in which is possible by the above-mentioned limit of the displacement range, no further Ver ^¬ shift in the direction of arrow PlO. With the help of the thrust element 98 has a pivotable about the axis of rotation 112 lever 114 has been pivoted. By pivoting the lever 114, the note retracting flap 68 has been moved away from the end face of the stack 36, whereby an already explained in connection with the figures 2 to 5 feeding and separating opening P5 is opened. By pivoting the lever 114 in the position shown in Figure 7 a to withdraw the note withdrawal ^¬ flap 68 provided spring 116 is stretched, which exerts a return force on the note ^¬ retracting shutter 68th This restoring force is derived from the note retracting flap 68. at least partially transferred to the lever arm 118. By this restoring force of the second lever arm 120 in the present embodiment from below ge against the thrust element 98 is pressed ^¬ . The slope 110 of the thrust element 18 is formed as a wedge-shaped slope, whereby the thrust element 98 is also referred to as a wedge slide. The closing of the note retracting flap 68 will be explained in more detail below in connection with FIG.

FIG. 7 also shows a drive shaft 122, driven via the motor 80, for displacing the displacement carriage 82 and a gearwheel 124 which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the shaft 122 at one end of the drive shaft 112. The gear 124 engages in a formed on the lower guide rail 90 fixedly connected to the cassette 12a rack 120 a. Alternatively to the arrangement shown, the gear 124 for engaging a rack formed on the cassette 12a may be combined with one of the guide rollers 92, 94 or may replace it.

Furthermore, in the arrangement shown in FIG. 7, a further sensor arrangement 126 is provided in addition to the light barrier arrangement 39 already mentioned above. The sensor arrangement is provided for monitoring the feed region 46 and, in the present exemplary embodiment, is designed as a transverse light barrier. By means of the transverse light ^¬ barrier 126 bills can be detected 38 when these are located in the feeding 46th Further, a drive unit 128 and a Getriebestu ^¬ Fe 130 for driving the drive shaft 42 is shown, on which the drive wheel 44 is arranged. The drive units 128, 96, 80 are formed in the present embodiment as electric motors, preferably as stepping motors or as direct current motors, wherein a part of the drive units ^{¬ can be} designed as a stepper motors and another part as a DC motors.

FIG. 8 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 7 with a closed note retraction flap 68. To close ^¬ SEN the note retracting shutter 68 is the thrust element 98 by means of the drive unit 96 and the gear stages 100 have been displaced in the direction of the arrow PIL 102nd Characterized the lever has been pivoted 114 about the initiated by the spring 116 in the no ^¬ tenrückzugsklappe 68 power after a arranged at the end of the lever arm 120 rotatable guide roll has been performed 134 during the displacement motion in the direction of the arrow P il at the chamfer 110 to top , Thereby also the lever arm 118 is opposite to the clockwise direction about the pivot axis 112 pivots so that the note retracting flap 68 is rotated about a rotation axis 136 and the extraction and supply port P5 at least as far ge is ^¬ concluded that the removal of a banknote Sta ^¬ pels 36 are not or only very difficult is possible.

In Fig. 9, a portion of the cassette 12a for storing bank notes after separating the cassette 12a from the separating and stacking module 30 is shown. The Kas ^¬ sette 12 is to separate the feed and Vereinze ^¬ lung elements of the stacking and separating module 30 in Direction of the arrow P12 (see Figure 8) through a pull-out ^¬ the cassette 12a from an opening of the safe been separated 10th The note retracting flap 68 has been previously pivoted by an active drive by means of the drive unit 96 by a corresponding movement of the thrust element 98 in its closed rest position. Is not arranged until the note retracting shutter 68 in the rest position, the cassette 12a is against withdrawal verrie ^¬ gel.

Alternatively, when the cassette 12a is moved in the direction of the arrow P12, the pivoting of the note-retracting flap 68 is automatically effected by the spring force of the spring 116, since the guide roller 134 of the lever arm 120 also abuts the bevel 110 of the push element even if the cassette 12a moves in the direction of the arrow P12 98 is guided so that the lever 114 is pivoted by the spring force of the spring 116 and the note retracting flap 68 is closed. Further, the cassette 12a has a plurality of mutually connected slats 138a to 138g for closing the end face 140 of the cassette 12a. The slats 138a to 138g are connected to the respective adjacent slats or formed in the connecting region such that a relative Ver ^¬ pivoting of the slats 138a to 138g about the axes of rotation 142a to 142e in a limited angular range is possible, so that the side in guide rails 144th guided slats 138a to 138g are guided along a predetermined by the guide rails cam track. The slats 138a to 138g are shifted to an area below the banknote receiving area of the cartridge 12a when the inserted cartridge 12a is in a working position. In the working position, the feeding and separating elements can pass through the openings in the back of the note. Zugsklappe 68 a ange¬ at the front of the stack 38 ^¬ banknote 38 contact. In the closed state the lamellae cover 138a to 138g both the vertical in Wesentli ^¬ chen front side 140 of the cassette 12a and a region starting from the front side 140 below the note retracting flap down, so that the entire supply and removal area completely covered by the blades 138a to 238g is when the cassette 12a from the vault 10 is ent ^¬ taken.

Moving the Lammelen 138a to 138g in the closed position shown in Figure 9 and the displacement of the Lammellen 138a to 138g in an open position is preferably via engagement elements when pushing in and pulling out of the cassette 12a in the vault 10 and from the vault 10. Beim Pushing in is then preferably an engagement of at least one safe element 10 fixedly arranged engagement element in at least one engagement ^¬ opening at least one Lammelle 138a to 138g. By the engagement of the engaging member in the engaging opening, the slats are 138a to 138g such as a roller blind or a Venetian blind on further pushing in of the cassette 12a into the safe 10, ie at a entgegenge to arrow P12 ^¬ set direction, opened so that the front side 140 of the cassette 12a and a portion at the bottom of the Kas ^¬ sette 12a from the front side 140 of the cassette 12a forth ge ^¬ is open. This lower portion extending preferential ^¬ as far as the face of the banknote stack 38, so that in particular the wings 74 to 78 of the lower vane wheel 66 the bill stack 36 as described can contact. By the at least one engagement element which griffsoffnung projects into the A ^¬, the lamellae are 138a to 138d moved back into the position shown in Figure 9 closed position when moving the cassette 12a in the direction of arrow P12, in or no access to the note retracting flap 68 the banknote stack 36 located in the cassette 12a is possible. The slat 138g is at least partially covered by a bottom plate of the cartridge 12a, so that the cartridge 12a is completely closed by sliding the slats 138a to 138g in the closed position. Thus, in this closed position there are no openings through which notes or parts of banknotes could be taken.

10 shows a three dimensional view of the drive ^¬ elements for driving in the cassette 12a is arranged close to the end face 140 cassettes impellers 72 and the shaft 53 having arranged thereon lower Flügelrä ^¬ countries 66 and arranged thereon stripping rollers 52 is shown. By an electric motor 146, the drive shaft 71 is driven via a plurality of gear stages 148 to 154, on which a gear 158 two toothed pulleys 160a, 160b and a plurality of cassette impellers 72a to 72e rotatably on ^¬ ordered. About the pulleys 160a, 160b designed as a toothed belt bottom belt 70a, 70b are guided and deflected. The belts 70a, 70b contact as already ^¬ be attributed the bottom of standing on the belts 70a, 70b arranged banknotes that are present in the stack 36 in the cassette 12a or at least a part of this paper money. In the foregoing figures, only the impeller 72e as the impeller 72 and the belt 70b as the belt 70 have been illustrated and designated. In the description, like elements are to be found in a specific arrangement. tion are multiple, provided with the reference numeral itself, if they are shown only once in the corresponding figure and each with an additional continuous small letter, if the element is present several times in a figure.

Only the shaft 71 and the elements 158, 160a, 160b, 72a to 72e disposed thereon are part of the cassette 12a. The remaining elements of the gear stages 148, 150, 152, 154 and the electric motor 146 are arranged separately from the cassette 12a. If the cassette 12a is in an operating or working position pushed into the safe 10, a gear of the gear stage 154 engages in the gear wheel 158 arranged on the shaft 71 of the cassette 12a, so that the shaft 71 rotates on the output shaft of the gear Motors 146 is driven and rotated.

11 shows a three dimensional representation of the drive elements for driving the note retracting flap 68 is provided ^¬. Erläu As mentioned in connection with Figure 7 ^¬ tert, the drive of the note retracting flap 68 via an electric motor 96, which via reduction stages 100, 102 and one of the pushers 98a occurs, 98b formed racks 104a, 104b, the thrust elements 98a, 98b parallel ver push ^¬ , Initiated by the motor 96 rotational movement is a shaft 166 and a transfer 166 is arranged ^¬ gear 103 at the other end of the shaft, which meshes with the rack 104a. Characterized the driving Rotati ^¬ onsbewegung is converted into a linear motion through which the pusher members 98a, 98b are moved in parallel. Ne ^¬ ben the slots 106a, 108a for guiding the movement of the Thrust element 98a, the thrust element 98a has an opening 162 through which further elements of the singulation and Sta ^¬ pelmoduls 30 can be performed. Further, the pushing member 98b adjacent to the elongated holes 106b, 108b a white ^¬ tere opening 164, einzelung- by the other elements of the Ver ^¬ and stacking module can be performed 30th The lever arms 118a, 118b contact the note retracting shutter 68 at opposite sides, so that when the sliding members 98a, 98b are displaced in parallel, this note retracting shutter 68 is simultaneously opened or closed via the ends of the lever arms 118a, 118b.

FIG. 12 shows a three-dimensional representation of a lower 55 and with transmission elements for driving this impeller shaft 55. In addition to the lower impellers 66a to 66e, two stripping rollers 52a, 52b are arranged on the shaft 55. The lower impellers 66a and 66b are arranged on a shaft 55 over the shaft 55 freely rotatable sleeve 168a and rotatably connected to this sleeve 168a. This sleeve 168a, a gear 170a is rotatably connected further ^¬ out so that the sleeve 168a can be driven ^¬ independently of the shaft 55 on through the gear 170a. At one end of the shaft 55, a double gear 172 is freely rotatably mounted on the shaft. This double gear 172 is used together with other gear ^¬ wheels 174, 176 and together with a belt drive 178 to reduce the drive speeds of a drive unit 175. The rotational movement of the rotationally fixed on a drive shaft 180 arranged gear 176 to the drive shaft ^¬ 180 and from this drive shaft 180 via wei ^¬ tere gears 182, 184, 186 on the rotatably connected to the sleeves 168 a, 168 b, 168 c connected gears 170 a, 170 b, 170 c transmitted. At the opposite end of the gear 172 of the shaft 55, a further gear 186 is arranged, which is connected via a freewheel with the shaft 55 so that a rotation ^¬ movement of the Abstreifrollen 52 a, 52 b in the direction of arrows P20 P22 is possible when the shaft 55 is not driven via the ^toothed wheel 186 in the direction of the arrows P20, P22. For preventing a double deduction, that is to Verhin ^¬ countries of the simultaneous discharging of two banknotes from the container 12a, the stripping rollers 52a, 52b is also driven in the rotational direction of the arrows P20, P22 on the shaft 55 and the gear 186th In other execution ^¬ form the gear 186 may be rotationally fixed to the shaft 55 ver ^¬ prevented, thereby to dispense with the freewheel. Then, the scraper rollers 52a, 52b are to be driven by feeding a banknote 38 into the feeding section 46 by a driving unit via the gear 186 and the shaft 55 in the direction of the arrows P20, P22.

13 shows a three dimensional representation of Ver is einzelungselementen ^¬ shown for withdrawing a banknote from the cassette 38 and 12a for further transport of the withdrawn bank note ^¬ 38th The already mentioned three take-off wheels 32 a, 32 b, 32 c, which are rotatably ver ^¬ connected with the drive shaft 34 and which are resiliently mounted on this shaft 34 are driven to deduct the arranged on the front side of the stack 36 banknote 38. The shaft 34 is Ü via a magnetic coupling 188 connected to an unillustrated driving unit, wherein, if necessary, Herge ^¬ provides the connection to the drive unit by the magnetic clutch 188 or may be separated. This separation option via the coupling 188 is particularly useful if the drive unit for driving the shaft drives 34 more Ele ^¬ elements of the separating and stacking module 30 and / or extensive ^¬ re transport elements 16a to 16d and the Abzugsrä are not intended to always carry out a rotational movement ^¬ of 32a to 32c when the other elements are driven , On the main drive shaft 42, the drive wheels 44a to 44n are arranged. Between the drive wheels 44d, 44e, 44f, 44g and between the drive wheels 44h, 44i, 44j, 44k is a respective retaining member 190a to 19Of angeord ^¬ net. The retaining elements 190a to 19Of are finger-like from a shaft 194, with which they are rotatably connected, from. By means of a pivoting arrangement for rotating the shaft 194 by only a few angular degrees, the retaining elements 190a to 19Of with their end remote from the shaft 194 can be moved out of the spaces between the drive wheels 44d to 44g and 44h to 44k so as to move out of the envelope surface around them Drive wheels 44b to 44k he ^¬ exit and pressed against the surface of the Abstreifrollen 52a, 52b. The banknotes present between the stripper rollers 52a, 52b and the retaining elements 190a to 19Of are thus pressed by the retaining elements 190a to 19Of against the stripper rollers 52a, 52b for preventing a double trigger. The pivot assembly as An ^¬ drive unit comprises a pull magnet 192nd

The drive shaft 34 is driven via the magnetic coupling 188 and arranged at one end of the shaft 34 gear 189 ^¬ . The opposite end of the shaft 34 is pressed by means of a pressure device 195 in the direction of the note stack 36. The pressure device 195 further comprises a pressure sensor which detects at least one position of the end of the drive roller 34 held in the pressure device 195. Due to the resilient mounting of the Zugsräder 32a to 32c, which are preferably arranged on a gemeinsa ^¬ men sleeve 196, wherein the sleeve 196 is resiliently mounted on the drive shaft 34, the Abzugsrä ^¬ 32a to 32c with a desired preset contact pressure parallel aligned to the front of the Sta ^¬ pels 36 are pressed so that no skewed withdrawal takes place from the cassette 12 a to be taken banknotes 38. The take-off wheels 32a to 32c are non-rotatably arranged on the sleeve 196 on ^¬ , wherein the sleeve 196 rotatably connected to the Antriebswel ^¬ le 134 is connected. Due to the resilient mounting of the sleeve 196 on the drive shaft 34, however, a common pivoting of the take-off wheels 32a to 32c is possible, so that they align themselves by a pressure of the take-off wheels 32a to 32c to the front side of the stack 36 parallel to this front ^¬ side and thereby a Parallel withdrawal of existing on the front side of the stack 36 banknote 38 ermögli ^¬ Chen.

The drive shaft 42 is driven via the arranged at one end of the drive shaft 42 at ^¬ gear 198 via a Antriebselemen ^¬ te arranged in the vault 10 central distributor module, said further transport elements 16a to 16d drives the transport path 18th This gear 198 is designed as a double gear and drives the drive side of the magnetic coupling 188 at. As a result, no separate drive for driving the drive wheels 44 and the take-off wheels 32 in the separating and stacking module 30 is required.

By the separating and stacking module 30 according to the first embodiment of the invention, a module separation takes place between the cassette 12a and the feeding and uncoupling elements. This allows to use a simply constructed 12a inexpensive cassette, wherein the At ^¬ guiding and separating elements in the vault 10 or in the money ^¬ machines are arranged and retained by the removal of the cassette 12a in the vault 10 or in the ATM. The cassette 12a can be used in a first ATM for depositing and withdrawing banknotes (cash recycling) and used in a new configuration of the same ATM or in the use of this cassette 12a in another ATM as pure payout cassette 12a. It, the cassette 12a to be arranged so that the end face of an existing in the cassette 12a banknote stack 36 is arranged vertically, that is, the stacking direction or the horizontal stack depth ver ^¬ runs is advantageous. However, the separating and stacking module 30 and the Kasset ^¬ te 12a can also be arranged so that the stacking direction or the stacking depth is vertical, where ^¬ withdrawn at the end face of the stack 36, at the banknotes from the stack 36 and the stack 36 more Banknotes to ^¬ can be performed, then horizontally disposed at the top of the stack 36.

The upper two-bladed impellers 54 with rigid wings 58, 60 are designed and arranged such that the enveloping circle of the wings 58, 60 closes upwards approximately with the largest allowable note height and in the horizontal stacking basic position also formed from the smallest allowable banknotes 38 stack 36th supports or pushes further into the cassette 12a. In a feed operation to perform to ^¬ a bank note 38 is in each case a Flügelum ^¬ beat, ie before feeding the banknote 38 contacts the first wing 60, the end face of the stack 36 and contacted after the supply of the bill 38 of the second wing In this case, a dyna ^¬ mical triggering of the wing envelope in response to the detected by the light barrier assembly 39 banknote leading edge of the banknote 38 to be supplied, wherein the Um ^¬ impact time is selected so that a banknote just fed 38 to the stack 36 toward shifted or with the äuße ^¬ ren curvature of the curved wing end to the stack 36 ge ^¬ suggests. The turnaround time is preferably incorporated in ^¬ provides From ^¬ dependence on the size of the fed bill 38, that is varied depending on size. The inclined deflector 64 perform a fed banknote 38 from the center of the Flü ^¬ gels 60 and 58 of the impeller 54 out away from the end face of the stack 36. The blades 74, 76, 78 of the lower Flügelra ^¬ the tangent to a hub of the impeller 66 is ^¬ bound, wherein the front portion of the wings 74, 76, 78 each ^¬ Weils has a curvature. The curvature is so ^{ausgebil ¬} det that the wing tips in the direction of rotation of the impeller 54 when feeding a banknote 38 the remaining part of the wings 58, 60 ahead.

The main drive shaft 42 with the drive wheels 44 is continuously driven by an electric motor for driving the transport elements of the transport path 18, wherein the drive shaft 34 can be coupled or decoupled with the Abzugsrä ^¬ countries 32 via the magnetic coupling 188 optionally with the drive of the drive wheels 44. The continuous drive of the drive wheels 44 and the optional drive of the pull-off wheels 32 is performed by a central drive for the mounted in the vault 10 transport elements 16a to 16d, which has a large Drehmomentre ^¬ serve, so that even hard to be separated banknote ^¬ th, z. As adherent, freshly printed banknotes or notes with polymer film, isolated by means of the take-off wheels 32 and can be transported by means of the drive wheels 44. In this case, the take-off wheels 32 are driven by the switched magnetic coupling 188 until the bank note has reached the detection range of the light barrier arrangement 75 arranged in the region of the drive wheels 44. This has the advantage that the overall flow of the withdrawal and the bill 38 Wei ^¬ tertransport at delays in the withdrawal or further transport, for example in a row aneinander- liable banknotes, not out of step, as can occur with rigidly mechanically coupled isolation drives. Rather, the removal is simply continued upon arrival of a sheet edge of the banknote to be removed 38, so that the control for removing the bank note ^¬ 38 depending on the event "arrival of the sheet ^¬ edge of the withdrawn banknote 38 in the detection range of the light barrier arrangement" event-controlled.

For trouble-free feeding of a banknote into the ^cassette 12a, at least in the first embodiment of the invention, the following conditions must be observed:

1. Before the end face of the banknote stack 36 a free feeding area 46 must be supplied generated for the banknote 38 against the stack pressure of the stack 36 and freely supported ^¬ th from the stack pressure of the stack 36 (blank).

2. The trailing edge of a fed banknote 38 to be led to the stack 36 as soon as they Kontaktbe ^¬ the area between drive wheel 44 and pinch roller 50 and between the drive wheel 44 and stripping roller 52 has left.

The already mentioned stack pressure is determined in particular by the stack thickness, the state and the properties of the bank notes arranged in the stack 36 and the position of the transfer carriage 82. Almost throughout the entire period in which the banknote 38 to be supplied is transported into the feed region 46, the stack 36 is pressed out of the feed region 46 with the aid of the upper impellers 54. For this purpose, a plurality of impellers 54 are arranged distributed on the horizontally arranged in the first embodiment of the invention drive shaft 62 over the maximum allowable note width. The drive shaft 62 is driven with the vaned wheels 54, preferably by means of a stepper motor, wherein the drive shaft 62 is rotated by 180 ° each time a banknote 38 is fed. As mentioned above, the driving of the impellers 54 is such that the leading edge of a supplied ^¬ supplied banknote projecting into the feed section 46 vanes 58 does not contact 38 60, but rather that a minimum distance between the front edge of the fed banknote 38 and the vanes 58 , 60 by a suitable on ^¬ control of the stepping motor for driving the drive shaft 62 takes place. The wings 58, 60 have a relatively small width. In the present embodiment, they have a width of 6 mm. In the intervals between the feeding of two banknotes are the impellers 54 in the stack basic position of the projecting into the feeding area 46 in the contact wings 60 the bill stack 36 below the smallest to ^¬ permeable note height. In the present embodiment, the smallest allowable note height is 58 mm. Furthermore, the pressure element 45 already described in connection with FIG 1 is activated in the embodiment shown in Figure 5 feeding position, so that it supplied bank note contacted by 38 in the lower half and presses against the end ^¬ side of the stack 36 already in the cassette 12a. The pressure element 45 comprises in particular a thrust magnet whose armature is moved upon activation of the thrust magnet such that one end of the armature or a further element connected to one end of the armature presses against the pressure element 45 facing front or back of the banknote 38 and the Banknote 38 shifts at least in the contact area towards the front side of the already existing stack 36 and presses against this end face of the be ^¬ standing stack 36. Thereby a so-called flutter of the lower portion of the fed banknote 38 during contacting or after Kontakt ^¬ animals of the lower edge or the lower portion of the supplied ^¬ is in particular supplied banknote 38 in consequence of the contact with the wings 72 to 76 of the lower impeller 66 avoided.

The circulation time of the upper impeller 54 at a rotation of 180 ° is preferably preset so that the supplied ^¬ led banknote is pushed toward 38 of the second wing 58 to the end face of the stack 36 and is pressed against this once the fed banknote 38 the contact area Zvi ^¬ has left the drive wheel 44 and the pinch roller 50. The oblique deflectors 64 cause, in particular, that re ^¬ relatively large banknotes, which are arranged as a stack 36 in the cassette 12 a, do not bend above the pressing in the Stapelgrund ^¬ position against the end face of the stack 36 wing 60 and in the area above in the Stack base position located sash 60 protrude. Without these slanted deflectors 64, the front-side arranged banknote or several banknotes of the stack 36 with a rotational movement of the impeller 54 from the wing 60 are pulled upwards. The lower impeller 66 is preferably rotated when supplying a banknote 38 together with the drive wheels 44, wherein the lower impellers 66, as already described, independently of the counter shaft 55 are driven or rotatable. During transport of the banknote 38 into the feeding area 46 into the flexible wings 74 are elastically deformed to 78 of the lower impellers 66 and up ^¬ wound on the hub of each paddle wheel 66 so that a spiral arrangement of the aufgewi ^¬ oped wing takes place 74 to 78th As soon as the trailing edge of the banknote 38 the contact area between the drive wheel 44 and the pinch roller 50 and between the drive wheel 44 and the peel rollers 52a, 52b leaves suggests nachfol ^¬ neighborhood of the first cross under the banknote trailing edge wing 74 to 78 against the lower area of the banknote 38 and pushes this lower area up and against the stack 36.

The drive of the lower impellers 66 also takes place via a separate stepping motor which drives the shaft 55 with the scraper rollers 52a, 52b arranged thereon via a freewheel, so that the scraper rollers 52a, 52b are also driven in the feed direction of the banknote 38 when a banknote 38 is fed thereby at least not obstructing the feeding of the banknote 38. As already mentioned, the lower impellers 66 each have three blades 74 to 78, the bases of which are not uniformly distributed over the ^{circumferential} area, and in the present exemplary embodiment leave a gap of 180 °. For separating, that is, 12 for discharging, a banknote 38 from the cassette, the un ^¬ tere impeller 66 then aligned so that no vanes 74 to 78 in the transport path for the removal of the withdrawn banknote 38 protrudes. This position of the wings 74 to 78 of the lower impeller 66 are shown in FIG.

As explained, the vanes 74 to 78 are not center-cen- trally arranged on the hub of the lower impeller 66, but are laterally tangential. Thereby, the wings 74 to 78 can perform the described elastic deformation at a relatively low stress of the material. In particular, the foot zone of each of the wings 74 to 78 connected to the hub of the impeller 66 is not angled so much upon application of the wings 74 to 78 to the hub during rotational movement of the impeller 66 as in a center centric connection of the wings 74 to 78 to the hub Hub.

The note retracting flap 68 is preferably locked in their in Figure 8 Darge ^¬ presented rest position by means of INTERLOCKS ^¬ lung elements on the cartridge casing to ensure the transport of the cassette 12a that the marks ^¬ retracting shutter 68 remains in the rest position. The BEWE ^¬ account the note retracting flap 68 is scenes gesteu ^¬ ert which are provided in or on the outer walls of the cassette 12a. Here are associated with the note retracting flap 68 guide elements in engagement with the scenes, wherein preferably these guide elements are locked by means of the locking elements. Thus, the note retracting flap 68 must remain in the locked state in this rest position as long as the locking elements are engaged with the guide elements. By means of the drive of the note retracting flap 68 already described in connection with FIGS. 7, 8 and 11, it is then pivoted into the essentially vertical position shown in FIG. 7, in which it releases the supply and removal opening i5.

Below, the procedure for feeding a banknote is briefly summarized again. After inserting the cassette 12a and after opening the note retracting flap 68 of the transfer carriage 82 is moved synchronously with the bottom belt 70 in the direction of the separating and Sta ^¬ pelmoduls 30. As a result, the transfer carriage 82 presses the bank notes present in the note accommodation area of the cassette 12a as stack 36 against the take-off wheels 32. As already explained, the take-off wheel shaft 34 is spring-mounted on one side, wherein the deflection of the non-driven shaft end of the drive shaft 34 is analogous and / or with the aid of a sensor arrangement is recorded digitally. With the help of the detected deflection, a pressure optimization can be carried out when separating, ie when withdrawing banknotes.

After the transfer carriage 82 with a preset maximum pressure has pressed the banknote stack 36 present in the cassette 12a against the take-off wheels 32, the direction of movement of the transfer carriage 82 is reversed and a preset return path is covered. Due un ^¬ terschiedlicher grade qualities of the required stack space is particularly useful when bill stack 36 with relatively many banknotes different, so that a different 82 at a constant retraction of the sliding carriage Pressure force from the notes on the supply and Verein¬ ^¬ tion elements of the singulation and stacking module 30 occurs ^¬ . In a first step, the transfer carriage 82 is moved away from the singulation and stacking module 30 by a first path. Subsequently, an indirect Stapeleldru ^¬ ckermittlung is performed, the upper impeller 54 is to be rotated from the separation basic position in the stack basic position. In parallel with this rotational movement of the upper impeller 54, the transfer carriage 82 is moved further away from the singulation and stacking module 30, at the same time the bottom belts 70 are driven such that they move the banknotes standing on the belt 70 away from the setting and stacking module 30. This is continued until the wings 58, 60 of the upper wing ^¬ wheel 54 have reached the stack basic position or until the sensor assembly 126 detects no more banknote in the detection ^{¬ range} .

During the described positioning operation Ver ^¬ pusher carriage 82 of the drive of the upper impeller 54 is effected by means of the stepping motor with reduced Schrittmo ^¬ gate current and a relative to the normal drive frequency reduced frequency. The allowable touch pressure can thus be determined by the moment of the stepper motor. Although ^¬ step motors are in principle unsuitable for torque control, as a stepping motor when exceeding a limit torque adjusting skips steps, wherein the only torque ^¬ element falls to zero when skipping adjusting steps. The torque is built up after four more steps as ^¬ . In order to prevent a backward movement, a freewheel is arranged on the drive shaft 62. When A ^¬ alternate process a pulsating drive signal for at ^¬ control of the stepping motor is used, which with each pulse to increases to the value applicable to the selected low frequency. This is repeated until the supply ^¬ basic position or stack basic position of the impeller 54 is reached, in which the non-curved portion of the wing ^¬ gel 58, 60 is aligned substantially horizontally.

Alternatively, instead of the stepping motor, a DC-DC motor or brushless DC motor (DLBC) may be used. Such motors are better suited for setting the stacking pressure and thus better for positioning the shifting carriage 82 due to ver ^¬ available torque controls. However, then a position ^¬ detection and control for detecting the angular position of the drive shaft 62 and the upper impeller 54 is ^erforder Lich. Such a positioning control is relatively expensive.

After setting the stacking pressure of the pile of notes 36 on the wings 58, 60 of the upper impeller 54 ei ^¬ ne positioning control in the lower region of ^Sta¬ pel 36 arranged banknotes takes place. For this purpose, a ^cross-¬ light barrier sensor assembly 126 is provided which is located at the boundary of the maximum required supply portion 46 in the so-called Stapelfußzone and thus monitors the area in front of the front side of the stack 36th In continuously rotating lower impellers 66 and the bottom belt 70 and the attached ^¬ arranged in the cassette 12a impellers 72 to transport the stack of notes 36 from the supply portion 46 in the bill receiving portion of the cassette 12a into are driven until the light barrier arrangement 126 no banknote in their detection range determined. The feeding of bank notes 38 is then carried out with a continuously rotating drive wheels 44 and continuously rotating the lower impellers 66. The pull-off wheels 32 are at least temporarily rotated about the magnetic coupling 188 with ^¬, in particular, to an interlocking of the front edge of the fed banknote 38 on the lateral surface of the take-off wheels 32 to prevent.

For each transaction, up to 200 banknotes 38 may be supplied to the cassette 12a. For each fed banknote 38, the transfer carriage 82 is moved in synchronism with the bottom belts 70 by a preset return path away from the separating and stacking module 30, ie moved back in the cassette 12a. If this preset retraction is not sufficient, this will at least remain after the feeding of a banknote 38 in part in the detection area of the surveil ^¬ sponding light barrier arrangement 126 and be detected by this, since this banknote 38 could not be suffi ^¬ accordingly far down into the spell node receiving area. The preset withdrawal path is in particular not sufficient if used banknotes 38 have a greater resulting note thickness in the stack due to their deformation. The preset retraction distance of the displacement ^¬ wagens 82 thus not sufficient to provide the supplied bank notes ^¬ sufficient stack space available. If the light barrier arrangement 126 detects a banknote in the detection area, the transfer carriage 82 is displaced away from the separating and stacking module 30 by an additional return path. Further, an intermediate compression is provided, since a too large pre-set withdrawal movement of the transfer carriage 82 or uneven banknotes, a relatively poor degree of filling in the cassette 12a would be achieved. For this purpose, before a further transaction, a Zwischenkomprimierungsvorgang is provided if more than 150 banknotes, a maximum of 200 banknotes have been supplied. The procedure corresponds to the already described process for adjusting the stacking pressure after feeding the cassette 12a or before positioning the upper impeller 54 in the stack basic position. By intermediate compression, the air gaps created by a preset generous increment in the retraction of the shuttle carriage 82 are at least partially removed from the stack 36 by compressing the entire stack 36.

After a separation, in which the non-arcuate portions of the vanes 58, 60 of the upper impeller 54 are vertically aligned Wesent ^¬ union, the impeller 54 is rotated back into a basic stacking position in which the non-arcuate portions of the vanes 58, 60 of the upper Flü ^¬ gelrades 54 are aligned substantially horizontally. In this stacking basic position, all the bills of the stack 36 are arranged in the cassette 12a, so that the cassette 12a can be removed from the safe 10 as soon as the note return flap 68 has been swung inwards. The pivoting of the note retracting shutter 68 in the rest position takes place as already mentioned, using the constitutes ^¬ provided in Figure 11 the drive for the note retracting flap 68. If the cassette 12a can be removed without further preparation, in particular in the energized state of the ATM, the note retracting flap 68 must always be into the swinging be pivoted, if currently no feed and no removal process is performed.

In Figure 14, a three-dimensional representation of a separating and stacking module 200 according to a second ^¬ guide of the invention with three conveyor belts arranged side by side is 202 to 206 each shown with Transportla ^¬ rule 202a to 206a. With the help of Transportla ^¬ rule 202a-206a banknotes of the cassette 12b fed ^¬ leads. Furthermore, the separating and stacking module 200 has two extraction wheels 208, 210, by means of which the bank notes present as ^stacks 36 in the cassette 12b are removed individually from the cassette 12b, ie the bank notes are separated.

The endless conveyor belts 202 to 206 are guided over upper deflecting rollers 212 to 216, which have lateral guides in the manner of a pulley for laterally guiding the endless conveyor belts 202 to 206. The deflection rollers 212 to 216 are rotatably ver ^¬ connected with a drive shaft 218, which is driven by an electric motor 220. The drive of the shaft 218 via a belt drive 222. Furthermore, each un ^¬ tere pulley 224 to 228 are provided for each conveyor belt 202 to 206, which are freely rotatably mounted on a drive shaft 230 for driving the take-off wheels 208, 210 and via suitable axial Limiting ^¬ tion elements are held in its axial position on the drive shaft 230. The endless conveyor belts 202 to 206 and the transport straps 202a to 206a have, along the circumference of the endless conveyor belt 202 to 206, a perforation with a plurality of equidistant spacings. arranged holes. The upper deflection rollers 212 to 216 have to the perforation of the conveyor belts 202 to 206 complementary protruding spines, which engage in the perforation ^¬ so that both a further lateral guidance and a slip-free drive of the conveyor belts 202 to 206 takes place.

The drive of the conveyor belts 202 to 206 takes place in the direction of the arrow P50. With the aid of engagement elements, which are each preferably designed as a single-wing impeller 232 to 240, a gap between the circulating conveyor belt 202 to 206 and the respective downwardly opened transport tabs 202a to 206a can be generated or increased, so that the conveyor belts 202 to 206 a Zuführgrundstellung exhibit.

In the same manner as described in the first embodiment of the invention, the feeding of a banknote 38 via the drive wheels 44. By opening the transport tabs 202a to 206a by means of the wings 232 to 240, a feed region between the circulating conveyor belt 202 to 206 and generated on the outside of the Transportla ^¬ rule 202a to 206a adjacent banknote stack 36. In this feed area, a banknote 38 to be supplied is transported. Thereby, a region of this banknote 38 in the transport tabs 202a to 206a respectively inserted lead ^¬ or guided between the transport tabs 202a to 206a and the transport belts 202 to 206. After portions of the fed bill 38 are positioned in the transport tabs 202a to 206a, the conveyer belts 202 to 206 in the direction of the arrow P50 substantially coincide with the the same rotational speed driven as the Ge ^¬ speed, with which the supplied banknote 38 has been conveyed by means of the drive wheels 44 in the transport tabs 202a to 206a. Furthermore, stripping elements shown are not provided, which prevents the arranged with areas in the transport tabs 202a to 206a banknote on white ^¬ direct circulation with the transport belts 202 to 206, thereby pulling out of the transport tabs 202a to 206a in a further drive of the transport belts 202 to 206th This stripping elements are arranged so that the drawn out of the transport tabs 202a to 206a banknote is positioned against ^¬ on the front side of befind ^¬ union already in the cassette 12 a stack 36 38th Further Andruckele ^¬ elements 242-248 are provided, which emerge via a traction magnet 247 from the areas between the conveying belt 202 to 206, and thereby that of the front side of the BE ^¬ already present in the cassette 12a stack 36 positioned opposite the banknote 38 against the end face of the Press stack 36, so that the supplied banknote 38 forms the new front side of the stack 36.

The lower portion of a fed bill 38 is additionally pressed by the impellers 232 to 240 to the banknote stack 36. ^Individual elements of the cassette 12b, such as the conveyor belts 70a, 70b and transport rollers 249a to 249d, are furthermore shown in FIG. Also, the scraper elements 52a, 52b and the already in to ^¬ connexion with Figure 13 and the first embodiment of the invention illustrated retaining members 190a are shown to 19Of in its rest position according to the first embodiment and the second embodiment of the invention. The separating and stacking module 200 shown in FIG. 14 further has a magnetic coupling 242 via which the Main drive shaft 42 with the drive wheels 44 is selectively driven.

15 shows a simplified side view of the club ^¬ zelung- and stacking module 200 is shown in FIG 14, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a first posi tion ^¬ for feeding a banknote 38th A lower impeller 232 engages the transport tab 202a after the transport belt 202 has been moved against the direction of arrow P50 in a Zuführgrundstellung. The impeller 232 has two protruding rigid wings. By the engagement of a blade of the impeller 232 in the transport plate 202a it is further opened, so that ei ^¬ ne supplied banknote 38 circulating in the area between the end ^¬ loose conveyor belt 202 and provided on the outer circumferential surface of the transport lug 202a hineinge ^¬ leads. Furthermore, the separating and ^stacking module 200 comprises a stepping motor 250 as a drive unit, which drives the drive shaft 53 for driving the impellers 232 via a belt drive 251 and the magnetic coupling 242. Fer ^¬ ner, the cassette 12b shown in connection with the second embodiment, in contrast to the cassette 12a of the first embodiment does not arranged in the cassette 12a impellers on, but the above-mentioned transport rollers 249a circumferential surface to 249d with a profiled environmental. The profile of the transport rollers 249a to 249d generated by a form-fitting Verbin ^¬ tion with the contacting with its lower edge with the wheels 249a to 249d banknotes has transverse ribs. Since ^¬ through the bills can be safely transported in the direction of the stack 36 and in the cassette 12b inside. The pressure element 242 is shown in simplified form in FIG. 15 as a pivotable lever. Both the as elements serving swingable levers 242-248 and the profiled transport rollers 249a to 249d can also be used in the first embodiment of the invention, in the same way, be arrange ^¬ th in the cassette 12a impellers of the first embodiment as well as shown in Figure 8 and in This pressure element described in this context can be used in the second embodiment of the invention.

In Figure 16 the side view of the separating and stacking module 200 is illustrated by Figure 15, wherein shown to ^¬ guiding and separating elements in a second position during feeding of a banknote 38th When white ^¬ direct circulation P50 of the endless conveyor belt 202 which is ^¬ arranged in regions in the transport tabs 202a to 206a bank note has been pulled out from this transport tabs 202a to 206a 38, wherein the banknote 38, and the entire stack 36 with the aid of the pressure elements 242-248 of the conveyor belt 202 have been pushed away. While the banknote stack 36 is pushed away from the conveyor belt 202, the endless conveyor belt 202 is driven against the rich ^¬ direction of the arrow P50, wherein parallel to the lower impeller 232 is further driven and rotated. Here, a vane of the vane wheel 232 presses the lower Be ^¬ area of the bank note 38 against the bank-note stack 36th

In Figure 17 the side view of the separating and stacking module 200 is shown in FIGS 15 and 16, wherein the feeding and separating elements in a third Po ^¬ sition during feeding of the banknote are shown 38th In this position you can see that one wing of the lower one Impeller 232 at the same time the trailing edge of the fed ^¬ th banknote 38 engages and also engages in the transport tab 202a.

FIG. 18 shows the side view of the separating and stacking module according to FIGS. 15 to 17, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a fourth position, in which the lower region of the supplied banknote 38 with the aid of the lower impeller 232 becomes ^stationary pel has been moved back and at the same time the trans ^¬ port tab 202a for supplying a further banknote has been geöff ^¬ net.

FIG. 19 shows a simplified side view of a separating and stacking module 252 for stacking and separating banknotes that is an alternative to the separating and stacking module 200 according to FIGS. 14 to 18. The feeding and separating elements are shown in a first position when feeding a banknote. The separating and stacking module 252 differs from the Vereinze ^¬ lung- and stacking module 200 according to the figures 14 to 18 by the formation of the lower impeller 232, the two wings of the lower vane wheel 232 in the singulation ^¬ and stack modules 200, 252 each have a Angular distance of 141 ° and 219 ° have. In the separating and stacking module 200, the impeller 232 is rotated such that when feeding a banknote 38, the wings are arranged such that they face the banknote 38 with their smaller angular spacing of 141 °. In the separating and stacking module 252, the lower impeller 232 is rotated so ge ^¬ that the wings of the impeller 232 with its large Angular distance of 219 ° of the supplied banknote 38 are ^¬ supplied. In Figure 19, the transport tab 202a is opened in the same manner as in connection with Figure 15 for a banknote 38 to be supplied.

FIG. 20 shows the side view of the separating and stacking module 252 according to FIG. 19, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a second position when the banknote 38 is fed. The lower Flü ^¬ gelrad is rotated simultaneously with the drive of the transport belt 202 in the direction opposite P50, so that the arranged in Figure 16 below wings of the impeller 232 engages the rear ^¬ edge of the fed banknote 38 and at the same time reaching into the transport plate 202a, as shown in Figure 21 is shown. Characterized the wing presses the lower area of the Be ^¬ supplied banknote 38 to the stack 36 and simultaneously opens toward the transport plate 202a, as shown in FIG 22nd

FIG. 23 shows a banknote cassette 12b arranged in the safe 10 according to FIG. 1 with a separating and stacking ^module 200 according to the second embodiment of the invention for feeding and removing banknotes. Furthermore, a section of the transport path 18 and a transport roller pair 260 with a drive roller 262 and a pressure roller 264 are shown. With the help of the transport roller ^¬ paars 260 a transport path for bank notes Zwi ^¬ rule formed the separating and stacking module 200 and the Trans ^¬ port path 18th The transport elements of the transport ^¬ path 18 and arranged in this transport path switches are not shown in Figure 23. The singling and Stacking module 200 is in the illustration according to Fi ^¬ Gur 23 already in the stack basic position in which one of the cassette 12b to be fed bill with the help ^¬ wheel 44 into the gap between the open transport tab 202a and the endless conveyor belt 202 hineintrans ^¬ can be ported , The sliding carriage 82 arranged in the cassette 12b is not shown in FIG.

The conveyor belts 202 to 206 with the transport straps 202a to 206a are also referred to as dandruff belts, since the transport straps 202a to 206a are in the form of scales on the respective conveyor belt 202 to 206. Preferably, both the endless conveyor belts 202 to 206 and the transport tabs 202a to 206a are made of a polyester film having a uniform thickness in the range of 0.1 to 0.75 mm, preferably in the range of 0.2 to 0.35 mm. A strength of 0.25 has proved to be advantageous. Particularly suitable is the separating and stacking module 200 according to the second embodiment of the invention for a vertical carriage assembly, that is, such that the Stirnsei ^¬ te of the stack 36 is disposed in a horizontal plane preferably the top of the stack in an arrangement of the cassette.

A particular advantage of the separating and stacking module 200, 252 with the conveyor belts 202 to 206 is that a banknote 38 to be supplied is protected in the transport straps 202a to 206a when it is transported in front of the end face of the stack 36. The banknote 38 is covered in front of ^¬ its grade section of the relatively wide Transportla ^¬ rule 202a-206a and has in the field of transport port tabs 202a to 206a no direct contact with the front side of the stack 36. As a result, the supplied banknote 38 can not get caught in projecting areas of used bank notes ^¬ . Even lower demands on the rigidity of zuzu ^¬ leading banknotes against buckling over other embodiments. By the conveyor belts 202 to 206, a flat and low-mass design of the feed is possible. Furthermore, a linear guidance of the banknote is achieved by the transport belt 202, which is deflected by means of two deflection rollers with the transport straps 202a to 206a. The endless conveyor belt 202 with the at least one transport tab 202a, preferably, each having two lifting lugs can be made of two stamped sheets produced, which are welded at least at two Verbin ^¬ binding sites, preferably in each case by a welded joint with each other to the endless conveyor belt 202 to transport bracket 202a are , As a welding ^method , an ultrasonic welding ^method is particularly suitable.

The withdrawal of a banknote from the cassette 12b is carried out in the embodiments according to Figures 14 to 23 in the same manner as described for the first embodiment in conjunction with Figures 2 to 13.

24 shows a top view of a stacking and separating Ver ^¬ einzelungsradwelle 270 is a Stapelmo ^¬ duls a third embodiment of the invention, presented to us with a total of three arranged on this shaft stacking and club ^¬ zelungsrädern 272-276. The Stapelradwelle 270 is driven by an electric motor, wherein the drive of the shaft 270 via a rotationally fixed to the shaft 270th connected toothed belt pulley 278 takes place. Furthermore, a total of three toothed belt pulleys 280 to 284 are non-rotatably connected to the stacking and separating wheel shaft 270 via which freely rotatably mounted cam disks can be driven by means of toothed belts 286 to 290 on a shaft arranged parallel to the stacking and separating shaft 270.

In addition to separating and stacking wheels 272 to 276 are two additional stacking wheels 292, 294 provided that have no trigger elements and thus no separation function ^¬. The separating and stacking wheels 272 extendable from the circumferential surface of the singulation ^¬ and stacking wheels 272 bis 276-276 wei ^¬ sen two extraction elements 272a, 272b, 274a, 274b, 276a, 276b on. The outsides of these take-off elements 272a to 276b are each profiled by transverse grooves and have a relatively high coefficient of friction, so that banknotes can already be displaced or withdrawn with a relatively small pressing force with the aid of the withdrawal elements 272a to 276b. For example, at least the surface of the trigger members 272a to 276b is made of a rubber material.

Furthermore, the stacking and Vereinzelungsradwelle to 270 control levers 296, 298, the remote from the stacking and club ^¬ zelungsradwelle 270 end 190_dient to control the BEWE ^¬ supply of restraint or pressure elements. Next ^¬ can be controlled via the control lever 296, 298 in the stacking and separating wheels 272 to 276 arranged clamping elements via a arranged on the aforementioned parallel shaft cam and / or arranged in the stacking and separating wheels cams become. The belt drives 280-290 to drive the cure ^¬ venscheiben, one of which is arranged on the stacking and Vereinzelungsradwelle 270 pulleys 280-284 and belts are shown 286 to 290 in Figure 24, have a translation to the coupled with the cam pulleys on , In the present embodiment, the separating and stacking wheels 272 to 270 each have two stacking chambers, wherein a transmission ratio of 1 to 2 is provided, so that the Kurvenschei ^¬ ben have twice the number of revolutions, as the stacking and Einzzelungsradwelle 270th

Figure 25 shows a perspective view of the club ^¬ zelungs- and stacking-270 of Figure 24. In the position shown in FIG Dar ^¬ 25 are respectively a chamber 272c to 276c for receiving a portion of a banknote to be fed to the separating and stacking wheels 272-276 and the Stacking wheels 292 and 294 shown. The visible chamber of the separating and stacking wheel 272 is connected to the reference ^¬ mark 272c, the visible chamber of the separating and stacking wheel 274 is by the reference numeral 274c and Kam ^¬ mer of the separating and stacking wheel 276 is denoted by the Be ^¬ reference numbers 274c , The visible chamber of the Sta ^¬ pelrades 292 is designated by the reference numeral 292 c and the visible ^¬ bare chamber of the stacking wheel 294 is designated by the reference numeral 294 c.

In Figure 26 a side view of the stacking and club ^¬ zelungsradwelle 270 is shown in FIGS 24 and 25, in which the second chamber 292d of the stacking wheel 292 ^¬ view bar. FIG. 27 shows the side view of the separating and stacking wheel 272 with the chambers 272c and 272d for receiving banknotes. Further, the running parallel to the separating and Sta ^¬ pelradwelle 270 axis of rotation 300 is illustrated the cure ^¬ venscheibe 302nd The cam 302 is scanned by the lever 296, wherein depending on the course of the cam 302 via the lever 296 at least one of the two trigger elements 272a, 272b can be moved out of the peripheral surface of the separating and stacking wheel 270 to the in the cassette 12c at a Front end of the stack 36 arranged banknote to contact.

FIG. 27 shows a starting position for separating (singling basic position) of the banknotes present in the cassette 12c and arranged in a stack 36. An impeller 304 with a vane 306 is rotated in a separating ^{¬ mode of} operation so that the wing 306 does not protrude into the transport path for removing the means of Abzugsele ^¬ elements 272a, 272b pushed from the front of the stack 36 un ^¬ th banknotes. By the rotational movement of the separating and stacking wheel 272, the one end face of the stack 36 arranged banknote is pushed down in a transport gap between the drive wheel 44 and the contact pressure roller ^¬ 50th Furthermore, the arrangement shown in Figure 27 on stripping rollers 52, which are not rotated when Abtrans ^¬ port of a banknote or the Ab ^¬ transport alternatively counter to the transport direction of the banknote rotated, so that in a double deduction, the second behind the stripping element 272a, 272b kontak ^¬ tierten banknote with downwardly shifted bill not in the transport gap between the drive wheel 44 and the Pinch roller 50 comes. The arrangement further includes a Sen ^¬ soranordnung for detecting the leading edge of a banknote to be discharged 38th In addition, the sensor arrangement can detect the trailing edge of the transported banknote 38. The sensor arrangement comprises, in particular, a light source 308 and a receiver 310, which form a light barrier sensor arrangement together with an evaluation unit, not shown. When feeding banknotes, the impeller 304 is rotated such that the blade 304 protrudes into the Trans ^¬ portweg for discharging paper money so insbesonde ^¬ re can not enter this gap transport the fed banknotes.

In Figure 28 the arrangement is shown in FIG 27 with the outwardly pivoted trigger member 272a, wherein the trigger element 272a contacted in the moved-out state, the upper ^¬ surface of which is arranged on the end face of the stack 36 the banknote 38, and in a further rotational movement of the separating and stacking wheel 272 pushes the banknote 38 down into the transporting gap between the wiping element 52 and the drive wheel 44 or between the pressure roller 50 and the drive wheel 44. As an alternative to the shown belt drive of the cam plate 302, the cam plate 304 can also be driven via an electric motor, preferably a stepper motor, possibly together with further cam discs.

In Figure 29, the arrangement according to Figures 27 and 28 is shown, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in a position in which arranged on the end face of the stack 36 banknote 38 already in the Transport gap between the drive wheel 44 and the pressure ^¬ roller 50 has been pushed. As a result, the banknote 38 interrupts the light beam between the light source 308 and the receiver 310, so that the light barrier arrangement detects the removed banknote 38.

In Figure 30, the arrangement according to Figures 24 to 29 is shown, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in an operating mode for feeding banknotes into the cassette 12c. There is already a Banknotensta ^¬ pel 36 in the cassette 12c available. The impeller 304 with the wing 306 is rotated so that the banknotes of the stack 36 and other fed banknotes 38 can not get into the area between the drive wheel 44 and stripping 52 and drive wheel 44 and pinch roller 50. A supplied bank note 38 is fed to the arrangement of the Trans ^¬ port path 18 via transport members 312, 314, 316 and a switch 318, the switch 318 also serves as a guide element. The supplied banknote 38 is transported into the chamber 272c with sections of its front area. The singulation and stacking wheel 272 is shown in Figure 30 in a start position for feeding banknotes into the cassette 12c.

In Figure 31 the arrangement is shown in FIGS 27 to 30, wherein the feeding and separating elements are shown in ei ^¬ ner second feeding position. An unillustrated controlled via a further cam and a wide ^¬ ren lever clamping member 320a presses the banknote 38 in the chamber 272c from the inside against the outer chamber side so that the banknote is clamped in the chamber 272c 38th The process is controlled such that a rotation of the separating and stacking wheel 272 is started at the latest when the leading edge of the supplied banknote 38 has reached the chamber bottom or end face of the chamber 272c, which is a stop for the banknote 38 in transport ^¬ direction forms. After the front edge of the banknote 38 has reached the end face of the chamber 272c or immediacy ^¬ bar thereafter, the clamping of the banknote 38 in the chamber 272c is controlled via the cam controlled by the lever 320a. In this case, the lever 320a is pressed against the spring force of a spring 322a against the outside of the chamber 272c.

In Figure 32 the arrangement is shown in FIGS 27 to 31, wherein the feeding and separating elements in egg ^¬ ner third feeding are shown in the zelungs- the club and the stacking wheel 272 in relation to the 31 Darge ^¬ easily second feeding position in figure further is turned. This supply position of the clamped in the chamber 272c portion of the banknote 38 is still disposed in the chamber 272c. In the position shown in FIG. 32, the clamping lever 322a is released via the cam, so that, although the area of the banknote 238 is still located in the chamber 272c, it is no longer clamped. Further, the rear portion of the banknote 38 is no longer in engagement with the transport elements 312 to 318, whereby the banknote 38 is lifted due to their rigidity from the lateral surface of the separating and stacking wheel 272 and thereby upright to the front side of the stack 36 back. In a further rotational movement of the separating and stacking ^¬ wheel 272, the front edge of the fed banknote 38 abuts against several between the driving wheels 44 disposed stripping elements 324 by which the movement of the banknote 38 is stopped. At the same time, the separating and stacking wheel 272 is further rotated, so that the front region of the banknote 38 is no longer arranged in the chamber 272c during a corresponding further rotation of the separating and stacking wheel 272. As a result, the fed banknote 38 is no longer in engagement with the separating and Sta ^¬ pelrad 272. Due to the rigidity of the supplied banknote 38 this is directed so that it is located immediately in front of the front side of the already in the cassette 12c stack 36 and is the new front end of the Sta ^¬ pels.

In Figure 33 a side view of the stacking and club ^¬ zelungsrades 272 is shown according to the third embodiment of the invention without internal cam. The cam, not shown controls the movement of the clamping lever 320a, 320b, wherein the springs 322a, 322b press the lever ends against the cam. In Figure 34, the stacking and separating wheel 272 is shown by figure 33 in a further side view and in Figure 35 in a Perspecti ^¬ vischen representation. FIG. 36 shows a further side view of the stacking and separating wheel 272, the side of the stacking and separating wheel 272 opposite the side of the stacking and separating wheel 272 shown in FIG. 33 being shown without a second cam disk. With the aid of this second cam, the movement of the stripping elements 272a, 272b controlled by a respective one of each stripping ^¬ element 272a, 272b associated lever from the circumferential surface of the stacking and Vereinzelungsra ^¬ of 272 out. Springs are provided which press the not related to the stripping lever end of the lever against the Kur ^¬ venscheibe. The stripping elements are using the spring force of these springs depending on the course of Cam out of the circumferential surface of the stacking and Verein ^¬ tion wheel 272 moved out.

In Figure 37 a side view of the cassette shown 12c together ^¬ men with a note retracting flap 326 similar to the marks ^¬ retracting shutter 68, which has with respect to the note return ^¬ zugsklappe 68 adapted to the stacking and separating wheels 272-278 and the separating wheels cutouts. Furthermore, further transport ^elements for providing ^¬ provide a transport ^path 18 are shown. In the ^¬ difference to the described first and second embodiments of the invention, two points in the transport path 18 are to be arranged for separating and Sta ^¬ pelmodul according to the third embodiment of the invention, since the Ve ^¬ reinzelungs- and stacking module fed banknotes 38 to the stacking and separating wheels 272 to 276 are fed in the upper area and removed banknote are discharged from the stacking and separating wheels 272 to 276 in the lower area. The note retracting flap 326 and the Bankno ^¬ tenstapel 36 are shown in Figure 37 in their stacking and Vereinz ^¬ ment position and in a rest position, the note retracting flap in the rest position with the reference ^¬ sign 326 'and the banknote stack designated by the reference numeral 36'.

In Figure 38 a side view of the separating and stacking module 350 is shown according to a fourth embodiment alternative to the separating and Sta ^¬ pelmodulen 30, 200, 252, 270 of the first three execution ^¬ embodiments of the invention as a separating and stacking module 14a to 14d can be used according to Figure 1. The club- The stacking and stacking module 350 is likewise in engagement with the cassette 12a, as explained in connection with the first exemplary embodiment of the invention according to FIGS. 2 to 13. Furthermore, the function and structure of the impellers 54, the note retracting flap 68, of the on ^¬ drive wheel 44, 52 with the first Abstreifrades exporting ^¬ approximately example of the invention is consistent.

In contrast to the first embodiment of the invention according to figures 3 to 13, a lower impeller 232 is provided according to the second example of the invention From ^¬ guide of Figures 15 to 23 in the fourth execution ^¬ example. Further, a pressing device 352 is provided instead of the pressing device 45. The pressure device 352 comprises a traction magnet drive 354 which is coupled to a pressure ram 358 via a lever 356. The movement of the traction magnet drive 354 is deflected about a stationary axis of rotation 360. Furthermore, the movement of the Stö ^¬ ßels 358 is preferably limited or guided over other not shown Füh ^¬ guiding elements. The axis of rotation 360 is preferably formed by a housing frame protruding from a housing frame 362 arranged laterally of the separating and stacking module 350, which protrudes through a complementary opening provided in the lever 356 and thereby forms a deflection axis or axis of rotation 360.

In the feed position shown in FIG. 38, the banknote 38 is transported into the feed region 46, with the impeller 54 already being moved out of its stacking basic position, in order to provide the banknote 38 with sufficient space even upwards and the movement the banknote 38 when feeding into the feed area 46 not to hinder, in particular no height stop to form.

At the feed position shown in Figure 39, the upper impeller 54 has been further rotated. In the embodiment shown in Figure 39 Position of the impeller 54 of the already he ^¬ purged wing envelope of the impeller 54. Further, the lower impeller takes place has been rotated 232nd Furthermore, the pull ^¬ magnet drive 354 has been activated so that the Andruckstö ^¬ ßel 358 contacted in the supplied banknote 38 in its lower half and presses towards the front of the Sta ^¬ pels 36.

FIG. 40 shows a further subsequent feed position when the banknote 38 is fed into the cassette 12a. In this case, the lower impeller 232 and the upper impeller 54 have been further rotated, whereby the second wing 58 more kontak ^¬ with the outside of the curved portion of the wing 58, the supplied banknote 38 in its upper half and the banknote 38 by the further movement of the Impeller 54 moves in the stack base position further in the direction of the stack 36 and presses against the end face of the stack 36. In the same way, the lower Flü ^¬ gelrad further rotated 232 and contacts the fed bill 38 in its lower half, preferably at its lower edge, and presses the lower portion of the fed bill 38 on the front side of the already present in the Kas ^¬ sette 12a stack 36 Furthermore, it is shown in FIG. 40 that a further banknote 40 is already transported into the feed region 46 in this feed position. By pressing the banknote 38 against the forehead side of the stack 36, the banknote 38 subsequently forms the front side of the stack 36. The further procedure for feeding the banknote 40 coincides with the described procedure for the ^{delivery of} the banknote 38.

In FIG. 41, the separating and stacking module 350 according to FIGS. 38 to 40 is shown, wherein the separating and stacking elements are shown in a separating position. The upper impeller 54 has already been rotated in connection with the first embodiment stack ^¬ basic position. Further, the stack contained in the cassette 12a has been 36 to the pull-off wheel 32. verscho ^¬ ben so that the front of the end face of the stack 36 constituting the banknote 38 is pressed against the outer surface of the trigger wheel 32nd By a rotary movement of the take-off wheel 32, the banknote 38 is pushed down into the gap between the drive wheel 44 and the stripping roller 52 and between the drive wheel 44 and the pressure roller 50. By a corresponding rotational movement of the drive wheel 44, the thus separated bank note 38 is further transported to the transport ^¬ path 18. The note retracting door 68 is shown in an open position in the views shown in Figs. 38 to 41 and can be operated in the same manner as described in connection with the first two embodiments in conjunction with Figs.

The individual elements described in connection with one of the four exemplary embodiments may alternatively or additionally also be used in the respective other described embodiments as well as individually or in combination. tion are added to the subsequent claims as limiting features.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

10 vault

12a to 12d cassette

14a to 14d singulation and stacking module

16a to 16d transport elements

18 transport path

20 transfer interface

30 separation and stacking module

32 pulley

34 take-off wheel shaft

36 banknote stacks

38 banknote

39 light barrier arrangement

40 banknote

42 main drive shaft

44 drive wheel

45 pressure device

46 Feed area 48 Guide element 50 Pressure roller Wiper Pulley Drive Shaft Impeller Hub, 60 Wings Drive Shaft Rotary Axis Slanting Plate Spring Lower Impeller Grade Note Flap, 70a, 70b Belt Drive Shaft, 72a to 72e Cartridge Impeller, 76, 78 Lower Impeller Blades Scraper Electric Motor Transfer Carriage, 86 Axis, 90 Guides, 94 Guide Wheels 96 drive unit

98 push element

100, 102 gear stages

104 rack

106, 108 long holes

110 slope

112 axis of rotation

114 levers

116 spring

118, 120 lever arm

122 drive shaft 124 gear

126 sensor arrangement

128 drive unit

130 gear stage

134 role

136 Rotary axis of the note retraction flap

138a to 138g Lammellen 140 front side of the cassette

142a to 142e pivot axes 144 guide rail 146 electric motor

148 to 154 gear stages

156 drive shaft

158 gear

160, 160a, 160b pulleys

162, 164 opening

166 wave

168 sleeve

170 gear

172 double gear

174, 176 gear

175 engine

178 belt drive

180 drive shaft

182, 184, 186 gears

188 magnetic coupling

189 gear

190a to 19Of Retaining element 192 Pull magnet

194 wave

195 pressure device 196 sleeve

198 gear

200 separating and stacking module

202 to 206 conveyor belts

202a to 206a transport straps

208, 210 extraction wheels

212 to 216 upper pulleys

218 drive shaft

220 electric motor

222 Belt drive

224 to 228 lower pulleys

230 drive shaft

232 to 240 single-leaf impeller

242 to 248 pressure elements

249a to 249d transport wheels

250 stepper motor

251 belt drive

252 singulation and stacking module 260 transport roller pair

262 drive roller

264 pressure roller 270 stacking and separating wheel shaft

272 to 276 stacking and separating wheel

272c to 276c chamber

272d to 276d chamber

278 Timing pulley

280 to 284 toothed belt pulley

286 to 290 timing belts

292, 294 stacking wheel

296 to 302 control levers

292c, 294c chamber

300 axis of rotation

302 cam

304 impeller

306 wings

308 light source

310 light receiver

312, 314, 316 transport elements

318 switch

320 levers

322 spring

324 stripping element 326 Note-taking flap

350 separation and stacking module

352 pressure device

354 pull magnet

356 lever

358 pressure rams

360 axis of rotation

362 frame

Claims

claims

Single-sheet handling device for inputting and outputting rectangular individual sheets, in particular banknotes, into or out of a container,

with a feeding device (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350), the feeding to the sheet-wise to ^¬ lead of individual sheets (38) and depositing the individual sheets in a stack (36) from individual sheets (38) in the container ( 12a to 12d), and

with a separating device (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350), which comprises separating elements for the sheet-by-sheet removal of individual sheets 38 of the stack (36) from the container (12a to 12d),

wherein the feeding elements and the separating elements are arranged separately from the container (12a to 12d).

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the feed elements to the container (12a to 12c, to be fed single sheet (38) before passing through a Position Stapeloberflä ^¬ surface formed end face of the stack (36).

3. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that there are formed at least a part of the feeding elements and at least a part of the separating elements of the ^¬ art and arranged to at ^¬ least (in a supply or separating operation of the sheet handling apparatus 14a to 14d , 30, 200, 252, 270, 350) at least one (in a single ^¬ blade receiving portion of the container 12a to 12d) be ^¬ find pending single sheet (38) (through at least one Publ ^¬ voltage P 5) of an end boundary wall (68, 326) the single-sheet receiving portion through kontak ^¬ animals.

4. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the Einzelblatthandha- bungsvorrichtung (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350) at least one active drive (96) for changing the position of a flap (68, 326 ) formed frontal boundary wall of the container (12a to 12d), wherein the drive (96) causes the movement of the flap (68, 326) in a supply and / or Vereinz ^¬ ment position, in which a supply and / or removal opening for Feeding and / or removal of the individual sheets (38) is released.

5. Device according to claim 4, characterized in that the active drive (96) projects the flap (68, 326) or during the separation of the container (12a to 12d) from the supply and separation elements, preferably before or during a removal process for Ent ^¬ take the container (12a to 12d) from a Geldauto ^¬ maten, moved to a rest position, wherein the flap

(68, 326) is arranged in the rest position such that the supply and / or removal opening (P 5) is closed, wherein the flap (68, 326) preferably at least a portion of the individual sheets (38) of the stack

(36) into the cut sheet receiving area of the container

(12a to 12d).

6. Apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the drive (96) the flap (68, 326) at least then from the feeding and / or separating position in the rest position and from the rest position to the feeding and / or singulation position moves when a change of the operating mode of the feed operation in the singling operation or when a change of the operating mode of the singling operation in the feed ^¬ operation takes place.

Device according to claim 6, characterized in that the cut sheet handling device comprises engagement elements (98a, 98b) for actuating the flap (68, 326) upon contact of the container (12a to 12d) with the cut sheet handling device (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350), the drive (96) moves the flap (68, 326) against spring force upon movement to the feed and / or singulation position via the engagement members (98a, 98b) and / or holding the flap (68, 326) in the rest position ^¬ actively drives.

Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one Vereinze ^¬ ment element has at least one separating wheel (32, 208, 210).

9. The device according to claim 8, characterized in that the separating wheel (32, 208, 210) is a Saugrol ^¬ le with arranged on its outer lateral surface suction elements for contacting a single sheet, wherein on the outer surface of the suction roller before ^¬ preferably suction cups are provided by which a single sheet adheres to the suction roll.

10. The device according to claim 8, characterized in that the separating wheel (32, 208, 210) has a profi ^¬ profiled outer lateral surface, wherein the profiling consists of transverse ribs.

11. Device according to one of claims 8 to 10, characterized in that the separating device has at least two on a common driven shaft (34) arranged separating wheels (32a to 32c; 208, 210), which are preferably resiliently mounted on the shaft (34). are arranged.

12. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the container is a ge ^¬ closed exchangeable cassette (12a to 12d).

13. Device according to one of the preceding claims 4 to 12, characterized in that the container (12a to 12d) a plurality of interconnected slidable plates (138a to 138g), which in a Ver ^{¬ closed position} at least an unauthorized access to the flap (68 , 326) prevents, with a to ^¬ drive element or an engagement element before or during removal of the container (12a to 12d) from the Zu ^¬ leading and separating elements, the Lammelen (138a to 138g) automatically brings into the closed position.

14. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least the active on ^¬ drive elements for driving the separating elements and the active drive elements for driving the to ^¬ guide elements are not part of the container.

15. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one actively driven ^¬ limiting device (82) is provided, which is movable in the stacking direction and opposite to the stack ^¬ direction and the stacking space in the cut sheet receiving area in the container (12a to 12d) limited .

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, characterized in that the limiting device in the container (12a to 12d) is arranged and preferably comprises a sliding ^¬ carriage, with the help of the limiting device, the individual sheets of the stack (36) held in a position in which they standing on its horizontal edge standing as a stack (36).

17. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the feed elements at least ^{¬ a} sliding element (45, 42 to 48, 352) to ^¬ summarize that a fed before the end face of the stack (36) positioned single sheet (38) at least in a contact region with the displacement element (45, 242 to 248, 352) to the end face of the stack (36) towards shifts.

Device according to claim 17, characterized in that a drive unit (247, 354) the displacement ^¬ element (242-248, 352) for executing the shift ^¬ bebewegung active drives.

19. The device according to claim 17 or 18, characterized in that the at least one displacement element (45, 242 to 248, 352) and a front of the stack (36) positioned single sheet (38) contacted in the lower half and at least the lower half of the single sheet (38) moves towards the stack ^¬ .

20. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least two wing ^¬ gel wheels (72) are provided with respective elastic wings or at least two rollers (249a to 249d), each with egg ^¬ ner profiled lateral surface on a common below the Einzelblattaufnahmebe ^¬ rich in the container (12a to 12d) arranged wave

(71) are arranged rotationally fixed and at a rotational ^¬ movement of the shaft (71), the lower sides of a portion of the single sheets at least when feeding a single sheet (38) from a feed and removal opening

(P5) of the container (12a to 12d) move away.

21. The apparatus according to claim 20, characterized in that one of the container (12a to 12d) separated angeord ^¬ designated drive unit driven (146).

22. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at the bottom of the container

(12a to 12d) at least one circulating belt (70) is arranged, which is drivable by means of a preferably ge ^¬ separated from the container (12a to 12d) arranged drive unit (146), wherein the Be ^¬ container (12a to 12d) located Stand alone blades with their horizontal edge on the at least one belt (70) and with a movement of the belt

(70) from the supply and discharge opening (P5) of the container (12a to 12d) away or at a entgegenge ^¬ translated movement of the belt (70) to the supply and removal opening (P5) of the container (12a to 12d) are transported towards.

23. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the individual sheets (38) are arranged behind one another in each case standing on its longitudinal edge as a stack (36) in the container (12a to 12d).

24. The device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the feed device comprises a feed element at least one at least einflügliges impeller (54), and that the Zuführeinrich ^¬ processing comprises at least one drive unit for driving the at least one impeller, said at ^¬ drive unit the Impeller (54) when feeding a further single sheet (38) rotates such that the Flü ^¬ gel (58, 60) against the end face of a in ^{¬ one} sheet receiving portion of the container (12a to 12d) located stack (36) of individual sheets presses and at least temporarily in the sheet receiving area of the container (12a to 12d) pushes at least a portion of these individual sheets and a free supply portion for positioning the further single sheet (38) before the end face of the stack (38) he witnesses ^¬.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, characterized in that a control unit controls the drive unit such that the vane (58, 60) of the impeller (54) during feeding a distance from the leading edge of a fed single sheet (38) and that the supplied single sheet (38) the wing (58, 60) when feeding into a feed region (46) in front of the end face of the stack (36) not contacted.

26. Device according to one of claims 24 or 25, characterized in that at least two impellers (54) are provided which are rotatably mounted on a rotatably driven by means of the drive unit of the feed device shaft (62), wherein the wings (58, 60 ) of the two impellers (54) have the same orientation and wherein pushes each impeller (54) against the front side of (in the container 12a to 12d) befindli ^¬ chen stack (36) during a rotational movement, depending ^¬ weils of the wings (58, 60).

27. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 26, characterized in that a Sensoranord ^¬ tion (39, 126), preferably a Lichtschrankenanord ^¬ tion, for detecting a blade edge of the container (12a to 12d) to be supplied with the aid of the feed unit single sheet (38) is provided, and that the drive unit of the feed device driving the at least one impeller (54) provided a voreinge ^¬ time after detecting the sheet edge of a ^¬ zelblatts by the sensor assembly (39, 126) starts, wherein the sensor assembly (39, 126) preferably detects the leading edge of the cut sheet (38).

28. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 27, characterized in that the enveloping circle of the wing (58, 60) of the impeller (54) is selected and that the impeller (54) is arranged such that the apex of the enveloping circle approximately is arranged in dersel ^¬ ben height, as the leading edge of the largest possible the container (12a to 12d) can be fed to the single sheet (38) when it is arranged in the single sheet ^{receiving ¬ area of} the container (12a to 12d).

29. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 28, characterized in that the wing (58, 60) of the at least one impeller (54) the stack (36) at least in a vertical orientation of the wing (58, 60) in the single sheet receiving area of the container (12a to 12d).

30. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 29, characterized in that at least one oblique deflector (68) is provided, through which the leading edge of a supplied single sheet (38) is guided to the end face of the stack (36), wherein the oblique deflector (68 ) has a lateral offset to the impeller (54) and wherein the inclined deflector (68) is preferably resiliently mounted.

31. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 30, characterized in that the front Be ^¬ rich of the wing (58, 60) of the impeller (54) has a curvature opposite to the direction of rotation of the impeller (54) when feeding a single sheet (38). having.

32. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 31, characterized in that the wing (58, 60) rigid, preferably rigid, is.

33. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 32, characterized in that the at least one impeller (54) has a hub (56) from which the wing (58, 60) projects, wherein the wing (58, 60) preferably protrudes substantially tangentially from the hub (58).

34. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 33, characterized in that the at least one impeller (54) has two wings (58, 60) offset by 180 ° from the impeller (54) protrude, wherein a Zuführgrundstellung with horizontally aligned Wings (58, 60) and a removal base position with vertically aligned wings (58, 60) is provided.

35. Device according to one of the preceding claims 24 to 34, characterized in that at least two further impellers (66, 232) are provided which on a common drivable further shaft (53) are arranged and their wings (74 to 78, 234) during a rotational movement of the shaft (53) at least the trailing edge of a container (12a to 12c) supplied single sheet (38) move towards the stack (36) when the single sheet (38) before the face of the to be ^¬ containers (12a to 12d) located stack (36) is positi ^¬ oniert.

36. Apparatus according to claim 35, characterized in that the further impellers (66) each have three elas ^¬ tables wing (74 to 78), of a Na ^¬ be of the impeller (66) at 0 °, 90 ° and 180 ° , preferably ^¬ tangentially protrude.

37. Device according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 23, characterized in that the Zuführein ^¬ direction at least one circulating conveyor ^belt (202 to 206) with at least one transport tab (202a to 206b) for receiving a portion of the container (12a to 12d ) to be fed to individual sheets (38).

38. Apparatus according to claim 37, characterized in that the transport tab (202a to 206b) at a Kan ^¬ te transversely to the direction of rotation of the conveyor belt (202 to 206) is connected thereto.

39. Apparatus according to claim 38, characterized in that the transport plate (202a to 206b) ^¬ he stretches from the edge along the conveyor belt (202 to 206).

40. The apparatus of claim 38 or 39, characterized in that the transport plate (202a to 206b) extending in an arrangement of the edge to a curvature of the conveyor belt (202 to 206) of the curvature of the Trans ^¬ port tape.

41. Device according to one of claims 38 to 40, characterized in that the endless conveyor belt (202 to 206) via at least one driven shaft (218) is deflected and driven by means of this shaft (218) in a transport direction, wherein the edge, at the transport flap (202a to 206b) is connected to the conveyor belt (202 to 206), in the transport direction of the conveyor belt (202 to 206) at the front edge of the transport tab (202a to 206b) is provided.

42. Device according to one of claims 37 to 41, characterized in that the transport tab (202a to 206b) has substantially the same width as the conveyor belt (202 to 206).

43. Device according to one of claims 37 to 42, characterized in that two transport tabs (202 a to 206b) are provided, which are 180 ° offset on äuße ^¬ ren circumference of the conveyor belt (202 to 206) angeord ^¬ net.

44. Device according to one of claims 27 to 43, characterized in that at least the conveyor belt (202 to 206) or the conveyor belt (202 to 206) and the at least one transport tab (202a to 206b) in the circumferential direction of the endless conveyor belt (202 to 206 ) have a perforation for engagement of a spiked wheel on ^¬ .

45. Device according to one of claims 27 to 44, characterized in that a preferably umlauffä ^¬ higes actuator (232 to 240) is provided, which in a first operating mode for removing a single sheet (38) from the container (12a to 12d) min ^¬ least that of the front edge opposite way ^¬ tere edge of the transport plate (202a to 206b) against the conveyor belt (202 to 206) presses and / or (in a second operating mode for feeding a single ^¬ sheet (38) in the container 12a to 12 d) creates a gap between the rear edge of the transport tab (202 a to 206 b) and the conveyor belt and / or enlarged ver ^¬ .

46. Apparatus according to claim 45, characterized in that the actuating element (232 to 240) in the first operating mode a feed and removal area by the by the actuating element (232 to 240) effected th pressure of the trailing edge of the transport tab (202a to 206a) to the conveyor belt (202 to 206) by means of the actuating element (232 to 240) releases and that the actuating element (232 to 240) in the second operating mode, the transport tab (202a to 206a) in one - and dispensing area opens such that a transported in the supply and removal area single ^¬ leaf (38) eintransportiert into the transport plate (202a to 206a) toward ^¬ and in the transport tab (202a to 206a) to a position in front of the front-side single ^¬ leaf an existing in the container (12a to 12c) Sta ^¬ pels (36) is brought.

47. Device according to one of claims 27 to 46, characterized in that at least one Andruckele ^¬ ment, preferably at least one impeller (242 to 248), is provided, the fed a single sheet (38) and / or at least a part of the other in Container (12a to 12d) existing individual sheets in the container (12a to 12d) pushes.

48. Device according to one of claims 27 to 47, characterized in that at least one Abstreifele ^¬ ment is provided, which is arranged such that the stripping a transported by means of the transport tab (202a to 206a) in the input and output area single sheet ( 38) in a further circulation ^¬ movement of the conveyor belt (202 to 206) in the supply and removal area in a position in front of an already in the container (12a to 12c) located individual leaves (36) and thereby pulls out of the transport tab (202a to 206a).

49. Device according to one of claims 27 to 48, characterized in that at least one Schrägabwei ^¬ ser (68) is provided, through which the leading edge ei ^¬ ner fed banknote (38) to the stack (36) out ge leads ^¬ , wherein the inclined deflector (68) has a since ^¬ union offset to the circulating conveyor belt (202 to 206), the inclined deflector (68) is mounted preference ^¬ as resilient and wherein the Schrägabwei ^¬ ser (68) preferably designed as a stripping element according to ^¬ demanding 48 serves.

50. Device according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 26, characterized in that the Zuführein ^¬ direction and the separating means comprise at least one combined stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) as a combined feeding and separating element, the chambers (272c to 276d) comprising at its bottom of the chamber a stop for the container (12a to 12d) to be supplied single sheets (38), and the at least one separating element (272a to 276b), which moved out of the peripheral surface of the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) is.

51. Apparatus according to claim 50, characterized in that the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) two chambers (272c to 276d) which are arranged at a distance of 180 °.

52. Apparatus according to claim 50 or 51, characterized in that three at an axial distance zueinan ^¬ arranged stacking and separating wheels (272 to 276) on a common stacking and Vereinze ^¬ ment wheel shaft (270) are provided, wherein the drive of Stacking and separating wheels (272 to 276) via the stacking and separating wheel shaft (270) takes place.

53. Device according to one of the preceding claims 50 to 52, characterized in that in a stack ^{¬ mode of} operation for taking over the individual sheets (38) of a transport path (18) for storing the single sheets (38) in the container (12a to 12d) the is positio ^¬ ned at least one stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276), that a portion of the supplied single ^¬ sheet (38) (to 276d 272c) is insertable into the chamber, that a drive unit (the stacking and club ^¬ zelungsrad 272 to 276) rotates parallel to a part of the feed movement of the single sheet (38), wherein the single sheet (38) in the chamber (272c to 276d) ver ^¬ remains, and wherein during a rotational movement of the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) a control element, a chamber (272c to 276d) associated with Klemmele ^¬ ment actuated so that the clamping element holds the individual ^sheet-¬ (38) in the chamber (272c to 276d).

54. Apparatus according to claim 53, characterized in that the control element has a cam.

55. Device according to one of claims 50 to 54, characterized in that a separating operation ^{¬ is} provided type, in which a control the min ^¬ least one separating element (272a to 276b) ^{¬ at} least for a preset period of time from the peripheral surface of the stack and separating wheel moved (to 276 272), wherein a drive unit, the stacking and separating wheel rotates (to 276 272), so that the moved-out from the peripheral surface Vereinze ^¬ development element that the stacking-surface forming before ^¬ derste single sheet of the container (12a to 12d) be ^¬ sensitive stack (36) contacted, and by rotating the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) at least one transport ^element for further ^¬ transport of the single sheet feeds.

56. Device according to one of claims 50 to 55, characterized ^{¬ in} that a control controls a separating lever such that the Vereinz ^¬ zelungselement (272a to 276b) is moved outward.

57. Device according to one of claims 55 or 56, characterized in that the control comprises a Kur ^¬ venscheibe.

58. Device according to one of claims 50 to 57, characterized in that at least one Abstreifele ^¬ ment (324) is provided, which in the chamber (272c to 276d) of the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) located single sheet (38 ) stops in its movement, wherein a clamping connection made by the clamping element between stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) and single sheet (38) is released when the stripping element (324) stops the movement of the single sheet ^¬ (38).

59. Apparatus according to claim 58, characterized in that a drive unit continues rotating the stacking and Vereinze ^¬ lungsrad (272-276) when the stripping ^¬ element (324), the movement of the single sheet (38) ge ^¬ stops.

60. Device according to one of the preceding claims 50 to 59, characterized in that at least one oblique deflector (68) is provided, through which the leading edge of a fed single sheet to the stack

(36) is guided, wherein the inclined deflector (68) has a lateral offset to the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276), wherein the inclined deflector

(68) is preferably spring-mounted and wherein the inclined deflector (68) preferably as a stripping element

(324) serves.

61. Device according to one of the preceding claims 50 to 60, characterized in that a Sensoranord- tion, preferably a light barrier arrangement (308, 310), for detecting a sheet edge of the sheet with the aid of the stacking and separating wheel (272 to 276) Be ^{¬ the} container (12a to 12d) to be supplied single sheet pre ^¬ see and that the drive unit drives the at least one stacking and separating wheel (272-276) for a preset time after the He ^¬ grasp the sheet edge of the single sheet by Sen ^¬ soranordnung (308, 310) starts, wherein the Sensoran ^¬ regulatory preferably detects the leading edge of the cut sheet (38).

62. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that on a transport path for further transport of using the singulation ^¬ elements (32, 280, 210, 272a to 276b) a stripping element (52) is provided withdrawn individual sheets (38) a second single sheet discharged from the stack (36) along with a first cut sheet (38) separates from the first cut sheet (38) and transported back to a feed area and / or back into the bin (12a to 12d).

63. Apparatus according to claim 62, characterized in that the stripping element (52) comprises at least one scraper wheel arranged on a shaft and / or at least ei ^¬ ne arranged on the shaft stripping roller, wherein the wheel, the roller or the shaft preferably a freewheel in have a direction of rotation, so that a rotation of the wheel, the roller or the shaft without a corresponding drive when feeding a single sheet into the container (12a to 12d) is possible.

64. Apparatus according to claim 62 or 63, characterized in that the stripping element (52) comprises at least one driven by a drive unit scraper wheel or stripping roller, wherein the circumferential direction of the stripping wheel (52) and the stripping to Ab ^¬ strip of the second single sheet of movement of the sheet to be discharged (38) is directed opposite.

65. cash and cash dispenser;

with a single-sheet handling apparatus (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350) according to one of vorherge ^¬ Henden claims and comprising a container (12a to 12d), said container (12a to 12d) with an optionally (in the container 12a to 12d) located Einzel ^¬ sheet (38) or with several optionally in Behäl ^¬ ter (12a to 12d) located individual sheets from the ATM can be removed, wherein the cut sheet handling device (14a to 14d, 30, 200, 252, 270, 350 ) remains with the driven feed elements of the feeder and the driven separating elements of the singulator in the cash and cash dispensing device.

66. Money and cash dispensing device according to claim 65, characterized in that the container (12a to 12d) is exchangeable for a similar container (12a to 12d).

67. system comprising at least one cash deposit machine and at least one cash dispenser;

wherein the cash deposit machine having at least one feed device ^¬ with supply members for sheet-wise feeding of single sheets (38) and depositing the individual sheets in a stack (36) from individual sheets in a replaceable container (12a to 12d),

wherein the at least one club Geldauszahlautomat ^¬ zelungseinrichtung with separating elements for the sheet-wise removal of the individual sheets (38) of the stack (36) from the vessel (12a to 12d),

in which the container is removed from the cash machine and used in the cash dispenser,

in which at least a part of the containers (12a to 12d) fed into cash deposit machines single sheets (38) in the cash dispenser again from the container (12a to 12d) is removed and in which the feeding elements and the singulation ^¬ elements are each not part of the vessel (12a to 12d).

System according to claim 67, characterized in that at least the cash deposit machine has a authenticity check ^¬ unit for checking the authenticity of the deposited banknotes.

69. System according to claim 67 or 68, characterized in that the feed device has features of a feed device according to one of the preceding claims and / or that the singling device has features of a singulator according to one of the preceding claims.

70. circulating conveyor belt,

with a first elastically deformable material strip and with a second elastically deformable material strip,

wherein a first end of the first strip of material Ü via a first strip-shaped transversely to the direction of circulation of the transport belt (202 to 206) erstre ^¬-bridging first connecting portion is connected to the inside of the second strip of material, and wherein a portion of the second strip of material to the first end of the second strip of material is Ü extends over the first connection portion out, and a transport plate (202a to 206b) for receiving egg ^¬ nes area of a single sheet (38) between the transport tab (202a-206b) and forming the first Materi ^¬ Al tabs.

71. Conveyor belt according to claim 70, characterized in that a second end of the second Materialstrei ^¬ fens a second strip-shaped transversely to the direction of circulation of the transport belt (202 to 206) extending connecting region is connected to the inside of the first strip of material, and that a portion of the the first strip of material with the two ^¬ th end of the first strip of material extends over the second connection portion out, and a second transfer strap (202a to 206b) for receiving a portion of a single sheet (38) between the transport plate (202a to 206b) and rialstreifen the second Mate ^¬ forms.

72. Conveyor belt according to claim 70 or 71, characterized in that the first and the second material strip ^{¬ have} a perforation for engagement of a spiked wheel.

73. Conveyor belt according to one of claims 70 to 72, as ^¬ characterized in that the perforation along the Um- running direction approximately in the middle of the conveyor belt (202 to 206).

^{Conveyor belt} according to one of claims 70 to 73, characterized in ^{¬ ¬} characterized in that the ^{strips of} material film ^¬ strip, preferably polyethylene foil ^strips with a uniform material thickness in the range between 0.001 mm and 0.5 mm.