JP2001089000A - Paper sheet carrying device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the moving stroke of a presser arm with a compact and simple structure to prevent the folding and jam of a paper sheet. SOLUTION: A presser arm 60 comprises a horizontal part 60a for pressing a bill and a vertical part 60b provided on a guide shaft 61 so as to be vertically slidable through a slide bearing 62. An oblique pin slit 60c is formed at the end of the vertical part 60b in the presser arm 60. A disc 64 is mounted on a motor 63 for driving the presser arm 60 concentrically to the rotating shaft. The disc 64 has a pin 64a in the vicinity of the circumference on the surface. The pin 64a is slidably inserted to the pin slit 60b of the presser arm 60.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet transporting device used for storing banknotes in a banknote processing device such as a ticket issuing machine, and more particularly, to folding a paper sheet such as a banknote. The present invention relates to a device that can be aligned and accommodated accurately without any trouble.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Banknote handling machines, such as ticketing machines, vending machines, and ATMs, which sell meal tickets and other tickets, sort and store bills inserted into the machines according to their types. In a banknote handling machine, for example, a bill is taken out of a storage unit such as a 1,000-yen bill or a 5,000-yen bill and paid out as change, or simply stored as a 10,000-yen bill until collected from the device. Then, different processing is performed on the stored banknotes according to their types.

FIG. 4 shows an example of such a bill processing apparatus, which is described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-225181. The bill processing device 30 includes an identification unit 31, a reject unit 32, a temporary holding / discharging unit 33, a 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34, a 1,000-yen bill and a 5,000-yen bill dispensing unit 3 from top to bottom.
A 5,000-yen bill storage section 36 and a 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 are provided.

[0004] The identification unit 31 performs the authenticity determination and the denomination of the bill inserted through the bill insertion unit 38. The reject unit 32 receives a banknote that has caused an error in the determination of two sheets by switching by the switching unit 40 and stores the banknote.

[0005] The temporary holding / discharging section 33 inputs a bill as change from a 1,000-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill paying-out section 35 and holds the bill. Then, after all the bills as change have been collected, all the reserved bills are simultaneously sent to the exit 3 of the bill.
9 to output.

The 1,000-yen bill storage section 34 stores a 1,000-yen bill, the 5,000-yen bill storage section 36 stores a 5,000-yen bill, and the 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 stores a 10,000-yen bill. The 5,000-yen bill storage section 36 and the 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 are provided with springs for giving elasticity so as to push up the stored bills upward.

[0007] The 1,000 yen bill / 5,000 yen bill payout unit 35 is
The 1000-yen bill input by the switching operation of 2 is stored in the 1000-yen bill storage unit 34, and the 5,000-yen bill input by the switching operation of the switching unit 43 is stored in the 5,000-yen bill storage unit 36. The 1,000-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill dispensing section 35 switches the 1,000-yen bill and the 5,000-yen bill stored in the 1,000-yen bill storage section 34 and the 5,000-yen bill storage section 36 to the switching sections 41, 42, 43. , And selectively output to the temporary holding / discharging unit 33.

In such a banknote handling apparatus, a paper sheet transporting apparatus is used to store inputted banknotes by type. In this case, the configuration of the banknote transport device to be employed differs depending on whether the stored banknotes are paid out of the storage unit as change or simply stored in the storage unit. For example, in the apparatus shown in FIG. 4, a 1,000-yen bill and a 5,000-yen bill are used as change, and therefore, a transporting apparatus having a configuration capable of dispensing bills taken into a storage unit is employed. Since the bill is not used as change, a device that can be simply stored in the storage unit without paying out is adopted.

An example of a conventionally known sheet conveying apparatus which does not require such a payout will be described with reference to FIGS. In the figure, reference numerals 1 and 2 denote two belts for sandwiching and transporting the bill S inserted into the bill processing apparatus, and these belts 1 and 2 are guided by guide rollers 3a to 3d and 4a to 4d, The banknotes S conveyed from the upper side to the lower side are turned upside down, further vertically conveyed from the lower side to the upper side, and then sent out horizontally toward the 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 side. The belts 1 and 2 are narrower than the width of the paper sheet (card) to be conveyed, and are conveyed in such a manner that both side portions of the bill S protrude from the side edges of the belts 1 and 2. Six sheet feeding blades 5 are fixed coaxially to the guide roller 3a above the belt 1 stretched in the vertical direction. This feed blade 5
The guide roller 3 is made of bendable synthetic resin.
a banknote S that is integral with the side of a and protrudes from the belt 1
It is provided so that it may become inside from width of. The length of the feed blade 5 is longer than the outer circumference of the guide roller 3a so that the tip of the feed blade 5 enters the 10,000-yen bill storage portion 37.

The 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 passes from above through a hollow box-shaped member having the bill receiving section 6, the stopper section 7 and the stacking section 8, and passes through the bill receiving section 6 and the stopper section 7. It is constituted by a holding arm 9 that moves up and down. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the holding arm 9
It has a horizontal portion 9a for pressing bills and a vertical portion 9b slidably provided up and down on a guide shaft 51 via a slide bearing 52. And presser arm 9
At the end of the vertical portion 9b, a horizontal pin slit 9c is formed. On the other hand, the motor 53 for driving the presser arm 9 is provided with a disk 54 concentric with the rotation axis thereof. In the vicinity of the circumference of the surface of the disk 54, a pin 54a is provided. further,
The pin 54 a is slidably inserted into the pin slit 9 of the holding arm 9.

The bill receiving section 6 includes two belts 1 and
2 and is arranged so as to face the banknotes S sent from the belts 1 and 2 one by one. Therefore, the banknote S has a width and thickness slightly wider than the banknote S, and a positioning stopper 6a is provided at the leading end side of the fed banknote S. An opening through which the presser arm 9 passes is provided above and below, and both edges of the bill S are supported by the edge of the lower opening (the upper surface of the stopper portion 7). The stopper portion 7 locks both sides of the banknotes S stacked in the stacking portion 8 below the stopper portion.

A bottom plate 11 urged upward by a spring 10 is provided at the bottom of the stacking unit 8, and the bills S stacked on the bottom plate are suppressed by the spring 10 and the edge of the stopper unit 7. The 10,000 yen bill storage unit 37
Stored in Further, a cutout portion serving as a relief portion 8a for the feed blade 5 that has entered the 10,000-yen bill storage portion 37 is provided in a portion of the stacking portion 8 facing the feed blade 5.

In the prior art having such a configuration, when the bill S conveyed while being sandwiched between the two belts 1 and 2 reaches the guide roller 3a, the leading end of the bill S is rotated by the rotating feed blade 5. Between the bills and the bill S
While passing through a, the feed blade 5 located at a position facing the bill S is bent by being pushed by the bill S. When the bill S passes through the guide roller 3a, the feed blade 5 located behind the bill S has no bill S to press it, so that it protrudes radially with its elasticity and comes into contact with the rear end of the bill S. Then, after the bill S is separated from the belts 1 and 2 and the driving force from the belt is lost, the feed blade 5 pushes the rear end of the bill S to feed the bill S into the bill receiving unit 6. At this time,
Since the tip of the feed blade 5 is long, the bill receiving portion 6
The bill S can be sent into the inside until it hits the stopper 6a.

Next, the pin 54a which moves circularly by the operation of the motor 53 urges the pin slit 9c downward, so that the presser arm 9 descends. Then, the bill receiving unit 6
The bill S sent into the inside and positioned by the stopper 6a is pressed downward as shown in FIG.
Since the paper passes through the stopper 7 having a reduced width and is fed into the lower stacking unit 8, the other banknotes S already stored are stored.
On top of.

Further, when the pin 54a continues the circular motion,
Since the pin slit 9c is urged upward, the holding arm 9 is raised. Then, the bottom plate 11 is raised by the spring 10, and the bills S stacked on the bottom plate 11 are
1 and the stopper portion 7.

[0016]

By the way, in the prior art having the above-mentioned structure, bills are not stored neatly in the stacking unit 8 for the following reasons, and paper jams (paper jams) occur. There was a fear. That is, the vertical movement stroke of the presser arm 9 is determined by the vertical movement distance of the pin 54a attached to the rotating disk 54. However, if the stroke is not enough, as shown in FIG. 9, when the bill S is not disengaged from the stopper portion 7 and is urged by the ascending bottom plate 11, the bill S hits a corner and bends. Paper jams occur. To cope with this, if the diameter of the disk 54 is increased to extend the vertical movement distance of the pin 54a, the required space in the apparatus increases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and has as its object a compact and simple structure which increases the moving stroke of the presser arm to prevent folding and jamming of paper sheets. It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet transport device that does not cause the problem.

[0018]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a stacking section for stacking and storing paper sheets, a receiving section for supporting the sheets before being stored in the stacking section, The paper transport apparatus provided with an introduction section for introducing a paper sheet into the receiving section and an extruding section for extruding the paper sheet in the receiving section to a stacking section has the following technical features.

That is, the invention according to claim 1 is characterized in that the pushing section includes a pressing arm provided so as to be movable in the stacking direction of the paper sheets, a motor as a drive source of the pressing arm,
A pin provided to be capable of circular movement by the motor, and a slit formed at an end of the holding arm, for converting a circular movement of the pin into a linear movement of the holding arm,
The slit is a straight line oblique to the stacking direction of the paper sheet.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the paper sheet is introduced into the receiving section by the introduction section, the pin, which is circularly moved by the motor, slides in the slit and moves the holding arm to the collecting section. Bias to the side. Then, since the presser arm pushes out the paper sheet in the receiving section while linearly moving to the stacking section side, the paper sheet is stored in the stacking section. Further, as the pin continues the circular movement, the pin slidably moves in the slit and urges the holding arm in a direction away from the stacking portion. Then, the presser arm separates from the sheet and returns to the original position. Since the slit is formed obliquely to the stacking direction of the paper sheets, it is possible to increase the movement stroke of the holding arm without enlarging the diameter of the circular movement of the pin and the end of the holding arm.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the paper sheet transporting apparatus of the first aspect, a disk is attached to a rotation shaft of the motor, and the pins are provided on the disk. I do.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the circular motion of the pin can be stabilized with a simple structure by using the disk attached to the motor.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the paper sheet transporting device according to the first or second aspect, the accumulating section includes an urging section for urging the sheet inside thereof toward the receiving section, A stopper portion for holding the paper sheet between the urging portion and the urging portion.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the pressing arm presses the paper sheet introduced into the receiving section by the introduction section toward the collecting section, the pressed paper sheet enters the collecting section and is already in the collecting section. With the paper sheet stored in the stacking unit, the sheet moves to the back side of the stacking unit against the urging force of the urging unit. And
When the presser arm moves toward the receiving section, the paper sheet is pressed toward the receiving section by the urging force of the urging section, and is sandwiched between the sheet and the stopper section.

[0025]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG.
The description will be made based on Nos. FIG. 1 is a front view of the paper sheet transporting apparatus according to the present embodiment, FIG.
FIG. 4 is a front view showing a difference in stroke of a holding arm between the conventional art and the present embodiment. In addition, the same parts as those of the above-described related art are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will be omitted.

(1) Configuration of the Embodiment The holding arm 60 in the present embodiment is shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 7, the guide member 61 has a horizontal portion 60a for holding down bills and a vertical portion 60b slidably moved up and down on a guide shaft 61 via a slide bearing 62. An oblique pin slit 60c is formed at an end of the vertical portion 60b of the holding arm 60. On the other hand, a motor 63 for driving the presser arm 60
Is provided with a disk 64 concentric with the rotation axis. In the vicinity of the circumference of the surface of the disk 64, a pin 6
4a is provided. Further, the pin 64a is slidably inserted into the pin slit 60c of the holding arm 60. Other configurations are the same as those of the above-described conventional technology.

(2) Operation of the Embodiment In the present embodiment having such a configuration, when the bill S is fed into the bill receiving section 6 and positioned by the stopper 6a, the motor 63 operates. Disk 6
With the rotation of 4, the pin 64a makes a circular motion. Pin 64a
As shown in FIG. 3 (B), the pin slit 60c is urged downward while sliding within the pin slit 60c, so that the holding arm 60 moves downward.

Then, as shown in FIG.
Since the zero horizontal portion 60a presses the bill S downward, the bill S is sent to the stacking section 8. At this time, the bottom plate 11 descends against the urging force of the spring 10, and the bills S that have been newly sent are placed on the bills S already stacked on the bottom plate 11.
Are superimposed. Since the pin slit 60c is formed obliquely as described above, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the moving stroke of the presser arm 60 is smaller than that in the related art formed in the horizontal direction. It becomes longer by the amount indicated by p in the figure. For this reason, the end of the newly fed bill S completely passes through the stopper portion 7 having a reduced width.

When the pin 64a continues the circular motion by the motor 63, the pin 64a
0c, while sliding within 0c
Is pressed upward, so that the presser arm 60 moves upward. Then, the bottom plate 11 is raised by the spring 10, and the banknotes S stacked on the bottom plate are sandwiched between the bottom plate 11 and the stopper portion 7.

(3) Effect of Embodiment As described above, according to the present embodiment, the diameter of the vertical portion 60b of the holding arm 60 and the diameter of the disk 64 are the same as those of the prior art, but the holding arm By extending the movement stroke of the banknote 60, the banknote S can be reliably accommodated in the stacking unit 8. For this reason, it is possible to realize a compact paper conveyance device that is compact and does not cause the bill S to be folded or jammed.

Further, as compared with the prior art, there is no need to add members or complicate the structure, so that manufacturing costs can be saved and failures are reduced. By providing a pin 64a on a disk 64 attached to the motor 63,
Since the stable circular motion of the pin 64a is realized, the movement of the holding arm 60 is also stabilized. Further, the combination of the bottom plate 11 urged by the spring 10 and the stopper 7 prevents the banknotes S from being lifted up, so that the banknotes S can be stored neatly.

(4) Other Embodiments The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and the size, number, shape, etc. of each member can be changed as appropriate. Such other embodiments are also included.

The pin of the present invention is not limited to the configuration provided on the disk, but may be any configuration as long as it is configured to make a circular motion by a motor. For example, the circular motion of the pin may be realized by an arm having a motor rotation shaft attached to one end and a pin provided at the other end.

The driving force of the motor may be transmitted to the pin via a gear mechanism, a belt drive mechanism, a chain drive mechanism, or the like.

The structure of the biasing section provided in the stacking section is not limited to the bottom plate and the spring. Further, a configuration in which the urging portion is omitted may be adopted.

The stacking section is not limited to the case where the stacking section is arranged below the holding arm. The stacking section may be arranged upside down in the above-described embodiment and the stacking section is arranged above the holding arm. Further, the above embodiment may be a horizontal type, and a configuration in which bills are accommodated in the vertical direction may be adopted. The paper sheet applied to the present invention is not limited to the bill, and other paper sheets such as labels and tickets Can also be incorporated in the processing device.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a paper sheet transport device that has a compact and simple structure, increases the movement stroke of the holding arm, and does not cause folding or jamming of the paper sheet.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing one embodiment of a paper sheet transport device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the paper sheet transport device of FIG.

3A and 3B are explanatory diagrams showing a comparison of a moving stroke of a pressing arm between an example of a conventional sheet conveying apparatus and the sheet conveying apparatus of FIG. 1, wherein FIG. 3A is a conventional art, and FIG. An embodiment will be described.

FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating an example of a banknote handling apparatus incorporating a paper sheet transport apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing an example of a conventional sheet transport device.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the paper sheet transporting device of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a front view showing a stacking unit in the paper sheet transporting device of FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a front view illustrating a stacking operation of sheets in a conventional sheet conveying apparatus.

FIG. 9 is a front view showing a state in which a banknote is bent in a conventional paper sheet transport device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 2 ... Belt 3a-3d, 4a-4d ... Guide roller 5 ... Feed blade 6a ... Stopper 6 ... Banknote receiving section 7 ... Stopper section 8 ... Stacking section 8a ... Escape section 9, 60 ... Holding arm 9a, 60a ... Horizontal Part 9b, 60b Vertical part 9c, 60c Pin slit 10 Spring 11 Bottom plate 30 Banknote processor 31 Identification part 32 Reject part 33 Temporary holding / discharge part 34 Thousand-yen bill storage part 35 Thousand Yen bill / 5,000-yen bill payout unit 36 ... 5,000-yen bill storage unit 37 ... 10,000-yen bill storage unit 38 ... Bill insertion unit 39 ... Bill exit 40-43 ... Switching unit 51,61 ... Guide shaft 52,62 ... Slide bearings 53, 63: Motors 54, 64: Discs 54a, 64a: Pins S: Banknotes

Claims (3)

[Claims] A stacking unit for stacking and storing the sheets, a receiving unit for supporting the sheets before being stored in the stacking unit, an introducing unit for introducing the sheets into the receiving unit, and an inside of the receiving unit. A pushing unit that pushes out the sheet to the stacking unit, wherein the pushing unit is a pressing arm movably provided in a stacking direction of the sheet and a driving source of the pressing arm. A motor, a pin provided to be capable of circular movement by the motor, and a slit formed at an end of the holding arm and converting the circular movement of the pin into a linear movement of the holding arm; A sheet conveying device, wherein the sheet is a straight line oblique to the stacking direction of the sheet. 2. The paper sheet transporting device according to claim 1, wherein a disk is attached to a rotating shaft of the motor, and the pins are provided on the disk. 3. The stacking section has an urging section for urging a sheet inside the accumulating section toward the receiving section, and a stopper section for holding the sheet between the accumulating section and the urging section. Claim 1
Or the sheet transport device according to claim 2.