EP2725559A1 - Device for handling vouchers, comprising a drive unit to drive two dispensing modules - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a first flue module (26) to remove the value notes in a first receiving area from a first money box (18) and to supply the value notes to the first money box. A second flue module (28) removes the value notes in a second receiving area from a second money box (20) and to supply the value notes to the second money box. A drive unit (38) is provided, such that the first and second flue modules are coupled together by a coupling unit (42) to drive the flue modules by the drive unit.

Description

The invention relates to a device for handling notes of value, comprising a first withdrawal module for taking notes of value from a receivable in a first receiving area of the device first cashbox and / or for supplying notes to the first cashbox and a second withdrawal module for taking notes of value from a in a second receiving area of the device recordable second cashbox and / or for supplying notes of value to the second cashbox comprises.

ATMs usually have a variety of storage compartments, in each of which a cashbox is receivable. Each of these receiving areas is associated with a deduction module, with the help of notes of value of the cashbox can be supplied and / or removed. To drive the trigger modules, a motor is provided for each trigger module, which drives only this one trigger module.

The problem with this is that thus for each receiving area and thus each deduction module has its own drive unit must be provided, which causes a high cost and on the other hand restricts the scarce space in ATMs.

An ATM with a drive unit is for example from the document DE 102 10 687 A1 known.

It is an object of the invention to provide a device for handling bank notes, which is simple and compact.

This object is achieved by a device having the features of claim 1. Advantageous developments are specified in the dependent claims.

According to the invention, the device comprises a drive unit which is coupled by means of a coupling unit with the first and the second withdrawal module such that optionally both the first and the second withdrawal module can be driven by means of the drive unit.

The selective driving of the first and the second trigger module is understood to mean that both trigger modules can be driven by means of these only one drive unit, wherein at the same time the first or the second trigger module is driven.

This ensures that only one drive unit must be provided for driving two deduction modules. Thus, as compared with the known bill handling apparatus, a drive unit can be saved, so that both the required installation space and the cost are reduced.

In particular, the drive unit has a shaft, wherein the coupling unit is designed such that in a first direction of rotation of this shaft, the first trigger module is driven via the drive unit and in a second direction opposite to the first direction of rotation the second extraction module is driven via the drive unit. Thus, it is achieved that only one direction of rotation of the shaft of the drive unit is necessary to set which of the two trigger modules to be driven. Thus, a particularly simple control is possible.

For this purpose, the coupling unit has, in particular, a first and a second freewheel, which are mounted on the shaft in such a way that the first freewheel is coupled to the first fume extraction module and the second freewheel to the second fume extraction module. Thus, the output force of the shaft is transmitted in the first direction of rotation of the shaft via the first freewheel and possibly other elements of the coupling unit to the first trigger module, so that it is driven. Conversely, in the second direction of rotation of the shaft, the output force of the shaft via the second freewheel and possibly other elements of the coupling unit is transmitted to the second deduction module, which is thus driven. About the training with the two freewheels a particularly simple, cost-effective design is achieved, which further requires little space.

The first freewheel is in particular rotatably connected to a first gear, which is in engagement with a gear arrangement of the first trigger module. Thus, upon rotation of the first freewheel, the first gear is also rotated, which in turn drives the gear assembly of the first trigger module. Accordingly, with the second freewheel, a second gear rotatably connected, which is in engagement with a gear arrangement of the second trigger module.

The drive unit is designed in particular in the form of a motor, preferably a DC motor. The shaft is in this case, in particular, the output shaft of this engine.

Furthermore, it is advantageous if the first withdrawal module and the second withdrawal module respectively comprise a withdrawal element for withdrawing notes of value from a security bundle received in the respective cashbox and a separation unit for separating the withdrawn bank notes, and if both the withdrawal elements and the separation units are via the drive unit are drivable. It is thus achieved that by means of the drive unit in each case all driven elements of the first and the second trigger module can be driven.

In particular, the trigger element comprises in each case at least one drivable roller, which contacts a value bundle received in the cash box on the front side of the bank of notes and removes it in a deduction direction from the remaining bank notes of the bank note.

In a preferred embodiment, the separating units each comprise two rollers, which are driven on the opposite sides of a transport gap through which the notes of value are transported, and which are driven in the same direction of rotation. Thus, it is achieved that notes of value arriving in the transport direction in the transport direction are transported from one roller further in the transport direction, whereas the other roller exerts an opposite force. Thus it is achieved that in a simple way a separation of double prints is prevented.

In a particularly preferred embodiment, at least one control unit for controlling the drive unit is provided which drives the drive unit for driving the first trigger module in such a way that the shaft is driven in the first direction of rotation and drives the drive unit in such a way that the second trigger module drives the drive unit Shaft is driven in the second direction of rotation.

Furthermore, a transport unit can be provided for transporting notes of value between the first withdrawal module and an input and / or output compartment for inputting and / or issuing bank notes and between the second withdraw module and the input and / or output compartment. The elements of the transport unit are driven in particular via a further drive unit, so that no coupling to the drive unit through which the trigger modules are driven consists.

Furthermore, it is advantageous if the first cash box is accommodated in the first receiving area and / or the second cash box is accommodated in the second receiving area. The money cassettes can in particular be cash cassettes in which the notes of value are added standing on their long sides as a value bundle.

In particular, the device has a plurality of receiving areas for receiving a respective cashbox, wherein a withdrawal module for each receiving area is provided for Removal of notes of value from a recordable in the respective receiving area cashbox and / or for supplying notes of value to the respective cashbox is provided. In each case two of the deduction modules are selectively driven via a coupled by means of a corresponding coupling element with the two trigger modules drive unit. Thus, it is achieved that only one drive unit is required for each two withdrawal modules and thus a total of half of the drive units can be saved compared with known device.

It is particularly advantageous if in each case two adjacent withdrawal modules can be driven via the same drive unit. This ensures that the coupling unit can be made relatively small, since only a small way must be bridged.

The device is in particular an ATM, an automatic POS system or an automatic cash deposit.

The withdrawal modules can also be designed in such a way that with their help not only notes of value can be taken from the cash cassettes received in the corresponding receiving areas, but they can also be supplied to them.

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

Figur 1

eine schematische Darstellung eines Geldautomaten gemäß einer ersten Ausführungsform;

Figur 2

eine schematische Darstellung eines Ausschnitts des Geldautomaten nach Figur 1 in einem ersten Betriebszustand;

Figur 3

eine schematische Darstellung des Ausschnitts nach Figur 2 in einem zweiten Betriebszustand;

Figur 4

eine schematische Prinzipsskizze des Antriebs für zwei Abzugsmodule der Vorrichtung nach Figur 1;

Figur 5

eine schematische, perspektivische Darstellung des Antriebs für zwei Abzugsmodule gemäß einer zweiten Ausführungsform; und

Figur 6

eine weitere schematische perspektivische Darstellung des Antriebs nach Figur 5.

Show it:

FIG. 1

a schematic representation of an ATM according to a first embodiment;

FIG. 2

a schematic representation of a section of the ATM after FIG. 1 in a first operating state;

FIG. 3

a schematic representation of the detail according to FIG. 2 in a second operating state;

FIG. 4

a schematic schematic diagram of the drive for two exhaust modules of the device according to FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5

a schematic perspective view of the drive for two exhaust modules according to a second embodiment; and

FIG. 6

a further schematic perspective view of the drive to FIG. 5 ,

In FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of an ATM 10 shown according to a first embodiment. The ATM 10 has a head module 12 and a safe module 14, in which four receiving areas 16 are provided for receiving a respective cash box 18 to 24. Each of the receiving areas 16 is here associated with a deduction module 26 to 32, by means of which notes of value can be taken from the money cassette 18 to 24 received in the respective receiving area 16. In an alternative embodiment, by means of the withdrawal modules 26 to 32 each notes of value of the corresponding cashbox 18 to 24 be fed.

The notes of value removed via the withdrawal modules 26 to 32 are transported by means of a transport unit along a transport path 34 and fed to an input and / or output compartment 36 for the issue of the notes of value.

Furthermore, the ATM 10 includes two drive units 38, 40, wherein one of these drive units 38, 40 is used for selectively driving two deduction modules 26 to 32. Thus, the first drive unit 38 serves for driving the first trigger module 26 and the second trigger module 28 and the second drive unit 40 for driving the third trigger module 30 and the fourth trigger module 32. For this purpose, the drive units 38, 40 each have a coupling unit 42, 44 with the coupled to two drivable by them trigger modules 26 to 32.

The exact structure of the drive units 38, 40, the coupling units 42, 44 and the withdrawal module 26 to 32 will be described in the following in connection with FIGS. 2 to 4 with reference to the first and second withdrawal module 26, 28, the first drive unit 38 and the first coupling unit 42 described in detail. The third and fourth exhaust module 30, 32, the second drive unit 40 and the second coupling unit 44 are constructed in particular analog, so that the following statements apply to them accordingly.

In an alternative embodiment of the invention, more than four receiving areas 16, for example, six receiving areas 16 or only two receiving areas 16 may be provided. In this case as well, a drive unit 38, 40 serves in particular for driving two withdrawal modules 26 to 32, wherein the number of drive units 38, 40 and the coupling units 42, 44 varies accordingly.

The drive unit 38 includes a DC motor 50 having an output shaft 52. On this output shaft 52, a first freewheel 54 and a second freewheel 56 are arranged.

The two freewheels 54, 56 may be designed in particular as a clamping roller freewheels. Alternatively, clamp bodies, pawls or other types of freewheels may be used. The two freewheels 54, 56 are particularly identical and applied in the opposite direction to the shaft 52, so that in each case one of the two freewheels 54, 56 engages in a direction of rotation of the shaft 52, while the other is in its freewheel.

On the first freewheel 54, a first gear 58 and on the second freewheel 56, a second gear 60 is provided. The first gear 58 meshes with a first gear assembly 62 for driving the first trigger module 26 and the second gear 60 with a second gear assembly 64 for driving the second trigger module 28th

As in the Figures 2 and 3 is shown in detail, the two gear arrangements 62, 64 each have a plurality of intermeshing gears, one of which is designated by the reference numeral 66 by way of example.

Each of the two withdrawal modules 26, 28 has withdrawal elements 70, 72 and a separation unit 74, 76, respectively. The trigger elements 70, 72 each have a take-off roller 78, 80, which, if it is driven, the foremost banknote of the corresponding Wertscheinbündels moves in the withdrawal direction P1, and thus deducted from the rest of Wertscheinbündel 82, 84 and transported in the direction of the singulation unit 74, 76 ,

The separating units 74, 76 each have a transport roller 86, 88 and a mating roller 90, 92, which have the same direction of rotation, so that in the region of a between the two rollers 86, 88, 90, 92 formed transport gap, the surfaces of the rollers 86 to 92 have an opposite direction of movement, the withdrawn notes of value are thereby moved via the transport rollers 86, 88 further in the withdrawal direction P1 and on the counter-rotating rollers 90, 92 in the opposite direction. Thus, a separation of double or multiple prints is prevented.

In FIG. 2 a first operating state of the ATM 10 is shown, in which via the drive unit 38, the first trigger module 26 is driven. For this purpose, the shaft 52 is driven in a first direction of rotation P3. By rotation of the shaft 52 in the first direction of rotation P3 the gears 66 of the first gear assembly 62 in the on the corresponding arrows in FIG. 2 driven directions indicated. The coupling between the gears 66 of the first gear assembly 62 and the shaft 52 takes place here via the first freewheel 54 and the first gear 58. The second freewheel 56, however, is designed such that in the first rotational direction P3, the second gear 60 is not rotated and Thus, the gears 66 of the second gear assembly 64 are not driven, so that the second trigger module 28 is not driven.

In FIG. 3 In contrast, a second operating state is shown, in which the shaft 52 is driven in a direction opposite to the first rotational direction of the second direction of rotation P4. In this operating state, the first gear 58 is not driven via the first freewheel 54, but only the second gear 60 via the second freewheel 56, so that in this second operating state, only the second trigger module 28 is driven. For this purpose, the second gear 60 drives the gears 66 of the second gear assembly 64 in the FIG. 3 directions indicated by the corresponding arrows.

Thus, the use of two freewheels 54, 56 achieved in a simple manner that with the help of only one drive unit 38 either the two trigger modules 26, 28 can be driven.

For this purpose, in particular controls a control unit, not shown, the drive unit 38 such that, depending on which of the two cash boxes 18, 20 a bank note is to be removed, the shaft 52 is rotated in each case in the corresponding direction of rotation P3, P4, so that the corresponding exhaust module 26, 28 is driven.

The withdrawn banknotes are transported by means of a transport unit 94 along the transport path 34 on to the input and / or output tray 36. The transport unit 14 has, in particular, a belt 98 guided over several rollers 96. Furthermore, further rollers 100 may be provided for transporting the notes of value.

In the Figures 5 and 6 in each case a schematic perspective view of two withdrawal modules 26, 28, a drive unit 38 and coupling units 42, 44 is shown according to a second embodiment of the invention. Elements with the same structure or the same function have the same reference numerals.

In this embodiment, the take-off elements 70, 72 each comprise three rollers 78, 80 mounted on a driven shaft 110, 112. The separating units 74, 76 each comprise four slotted transport rollers 86, 88 likewise mounted on a common shaft 114, 116, in which Slots of the transport rollers 86, 88, the mating rollers 90, 92 engage. The counter-rotating rollers 90, 92 of each trigger module 96, 98 are each mounted on a common shaft 118, 120.

The shafts 110 to 120 of one of the extraction modules 26, 28 are each connected to each other via the corresponding gear arrangements 62, 64, so that all shafts 110 to 120 of the corresponding withdrawal module 26, 28 through which only one drive unit 38 can be driven when it rotates its shaft 52 in the corresponding direction of rotation P3, P4.

The gear arrangements 62, 64 are in this case distributed in each case to the two end portions of the shafts 110 to 120, so not all gears 66 of the respective gear arrangements 62, 64 must be provided on one side and thus a compact construction is possible.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

10

ATM

12

head module

14

Safe module

16

reception area

18, 20, 22, 24

cashbox

26, 28, 30, 32

trigger module

34

transport path

36

Input and / or output tray

38, 40

drive unit

42, 44

coupling unit

50

engine

52

output shaft

54, 56

freewheel

58, 60, 66

gear

62, 64

gearing

70, 72

extraction element

90, 92

Reverse roller

74, 76

separation unit

78, 80

off roll

82, 84

Value note stack

86, 88

transport roller

94

transport unit

96, 100

role

98

belt

110 to 120

wave

Claims (13)

Apparatus for handling notes of value,
with a first withdrawal module (26) for taking notes of value from a first cash box (18) receivable in a first receiving area (16) of the device (10) and / or for supplying notes to the first cash box (18), and
a second withdrawal module (28) for taking notes of value from a second cash box (20) receivable in a second receiving area (16) of the device (10) and / or for delivering notes to the second cash box (20),
characterized in that a drive unit (38) is provided which is coupled with the aid of a coupling unit (42) to the first withdrawal module (26) and the second withdrawal module (28) such that optionally both the first withdrawal module (26) and the second deduction module (28) by means of the drive unit (38) are drivable. Device (10) according to claim 1, characterized in that the drive unit (38) comprises a shaft (52), and that the coupling unit (42) is designed such that in a first direction of rotation (P3) of the shaft (52) the first withdrawal module (26) via the drive unit (38) is driven and in one of the first rotational direction (P3) opposite second direction of rotation (P4) the second withdrawal module (28) via the drive unit (38) is driven. Device (10) according to claim 2, characterized in that the coupling unit (42) comprises a first freewheel (54) and a second freewheel (56), which are mounted on the shaft (52), and that the first freewheel (54). with the first exhaust module (26) and the second freewheel (56) with the second exhaust module (28) is coupled. Device (10) according to claim 3, characterized in that with the first freewheel (54), a first gear (58) is rotatably connected, which with a gear arrangement (62) of the first trigger module (26) is engaged, and that with second freewheel (56) a second gear (60) is rotatably connected, which is with a gear arrangement (64) of the second trigger module (28) is engaged Device (10) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drive unit (38) comprises a motor (50), in particular a DC motor. Device (10) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the first deduction module (26) and the second deduction module (28) each have a deduction element (70, 72) for withdrawing notes of value in a respective cashbox (18, 20) recorded value bundle ( 82, 84) and a separating unit (74, 76) for separating the withdrawn notes of value, and in that both the withdrawal elements (70, 72) and the separating units (74, 76) can be driven via the drive unit (38). Device (10) according to claim 6, characterized in that the trigger elements (70, 72) each comprise at least one drivable roller (78, 80). Device (10) according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the separating units (74, 76) each comprise rollers (86, 88, 90, 92) arranged on opposite sides of a transport gap through which the notes of value can be transported; the same direction of rotation are driven. Device (10) according to one of claims 2 to 8, characterized in that a control unit for controlling the drive unit (38) is provided, which drives the drive unit (38) for driving the first trigger module (26) such that the shaft (52) is driven in the first rotational direction (P3), and for driving the second tightening module (28) drives the drive unit (38) such that the shaft (52) is driven in the second rotational direction (P4). Device (10) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a transport unit (94) for transporting notes of value between the first withdrawal module (26) and an input and / or output tray (36) for input and / or output of notes of value and between the second trigger module (28) and the input and / or output tray (36) is provided. Device (10) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the first cash box (18) is received in the first receiving area (16) and / or the second cash box (20) is received in the second receiving area (16). Apparatus (10) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a plurality of receiving areas (16) for receiving a respective cashbox (18 to 24) is provided, that for each receiving area (16) a withdrawal module (26 to 32) for removal of notes of value from a cash box (18 to 24) receivable in the respective receiving area (16) and / or for supplying notes of value to each cash box (18 to 24) is provided, and that in each case two of the withdrawal modules (26 to 32) via a means of a corresponding coupling element (42, 44) with the two withdrawal modules (26 to 32) coupled drive unit (38, 40) drivable are. Device (10) according to claim 12, characterized in that in each case two adjacent withdrawal modules (26 to 32) via the same drive unit (38, 40) are drivable.

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