JP2003030711A - Automatic teller machine for paper money - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic teller machine for paper money capable of shortening length of a body in the front and rear directions and enhancing space efficiency for installation. SOLUTION: The automatic teller machine for paper money is provided with temporary reservation/storage feeding parts 53d, 53e having temporary reservation parts 51d, 51e to temporarily reserve paper money and storage feeding parts 52d, 52e to be provided on the lower side of the temporary reservation parts 51d, 51e, to accept, store the paper money temporarily reserved in the temporary storage parts 51d, 51e and capable feeding the stored paper money from the bottom and a plurality of the temporary reservation/storage feeding parts 53d, 53e are arranged by superposing them up and down.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recycle type banknote depositing / dispensing machine for storing deposited banknotes and delivering the stored banknotes for dispensing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a financial institution such as a bank, the banknotes to be deposited are taken in one by one, and the denominations and the like of the taken-in bills are identified and sorted so that a temporary storage / storage delivery unit provided for each denomination is provided. The deposit is temporarily stored in the upper temporary storage unit until it is confirmed, and after the deposit is confirmed, the banknotes are stored in the storage / delivery unit below the temporary storage / storage / delivery unit, while the banknotes stored in the storage / delivery unit are stored. A return type banknote depositing / dispensing machine used as a banknote for dispensing in the dispensing process is used. As such a banknote deposit / withdrawal machine,
There is one already disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 2756058.

In this type of banknote pay-in / pay-out device, in order to minimize the size of the machine body in the width direction, the temporary storing / storing and feeding parts of each kind of money are arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body. ing.

[0004]

By the way, as described above, in the banknote depositing / dispensing machine in which the temporary storing / storing and feeding parts of each denomination are arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body, for example, a banknote of a new denomination In order to handle banknotes of this denomination when the issuance of the denomination is performed, a temporary storage / storing and feeding section for this denomination is added, and this is also used for the temporary storage of other denominations. -It is necessary to arrange them in the front-rear direction of the machine together with the storage and feeding section.

However, as described above,
An increase in the number of storage / feeding parts causes a problem that the length of the machine body in the front-rear direction becomes long. If the length of the aircraft in the front-rear direction becomes long in this way, it naturally requires a large installation space, which not only reduces space efficiency, but also may prevent installation. There was also. In addition to dealing with new denominations such as handling new denominations as described above, even when handling the same number of denominations, if the length of the aircraft in the front-rear direction can be shortened, it can be installed in a narrow installation space. Can be installed, and space efficiency can be improved.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a bill depositing / dispensing machine capable of shortening the length of the machine body in the front-rear direction and improving the space efficiency for installation.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1 of the present invention is provided with a temporary storage part for temporarily storing banknotes and a lower part of the temporary storage part. And a temporary storage / storage delivery unit having a storage delivery unit capable of delivering the stored banknotes while receiving and storing the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit. The plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery portions are arranged in a vertically stacked manner.

As described above, since the plurality of temporary storage / storing and feeding parts are arranged vertically, the length of the machine body in the front-back direction can be increased even when dealing with an increase in denominations of handling new denominations. The length of the machine body in the front-rear direction can be shortened even when handling the same number of denominations.

A bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 2 of the present invention is
The thing of Claim 1 WHEREIN: The vertical length of each of the said temporary storage / storage delivery part arrange | positioned up and down is different from these temporary storage / storage delivery parts.
It is characterized in that it is set to be smaller than the vertical length of the storing and feeding section.

As described above, the vertical length of each of the plurality of temporary storage / storing and feeding portions arranged vertically is:
Since the vertical storage lengths of the temporary storage / storage delivery units other than the temporary storage / storage delivery units are set to be smaller than the vertical length, the vertical lengths of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units arranged in the vertical direction are vertically set. Can be kept short.

The banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 3 of the present invention is
The height position of the uppermost part of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units arranged in a vertically stacked manner is the maximum of the temporary storage / storage delivery units other than the temporary storage / storage delivery units. The feature is that it is set equal to or less than the height position of the upper part.

As described above, the height positions of the uppermost portions of the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding portions arranged one above the other are the uppermost positions of the temporary storage / storage feeding portions other than these temporary storage / storage feeding portions. Since it is set equal to or less than the height position,
It is possible to prevent the height of the entire body from being increased due to the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding portions arranged vertically.

The banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 4 of the present invention is
The thing of any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3 WHEREIN: The said some temporary storage / accommodation delivery part arrange | positioned up and down is all the temporary storage / accommodation delivery parts other than these temporary storage / accommodation delivery parts. It is also characterized by being arranged in the front-back direction of the airframe.

As described above, the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery portions arranged vertically are arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body together with all the temporary storage / storage delivery portions other than the temporary storage / storage delivery portions. Therefore, the aircraft does not spread laterally.

A bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 5 of the present invention is
Regarding the one according to claim 4, the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding units arranged one above the other vertically
It is characterized in that it is arranged on the rear side of the machine body with respect to all the temporary storage / storage delivery units other than the storage delivery unit.

As described above, the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding units arranged vertically are arranged on the rear side of the machine body with respect to all the temporary storage / storage feeding units other than the temporary storage / storage feeding units. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the transportation route for transporting the bills from becoming complicated.

A bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 6 of the present invention comprises:
As for the thing of any one of Claims 1 thru | or 5, one of said some temporary storage / storage delivery part arrange | positioned up and down is for two thousand tickets, and another one is five. The feature is that it is for a lot of tickets.

As described above, a plurality of temporary storages, which can be stored in a smaller amount than the others by being arranged vertically,
Regarding the storage / delivery section, one of them is for 2000 tickets with low circulation volume, and the other is for 5000 tickets with low circulation volume. It is possible to balance the amount of storage with the temporary storage / storing / feeding-out unit for all the parts and the vouchers.

[0019]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A coin depositing / dispensing machine, which is an embodiment of a bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention, will be described below with reference to the drawings. The left side in FIGS. 2 to 15 indicates the operator side, that is, the front side (front side). Further, in the following, “front” is the operator side, “rear” is the opposite side to the operator, and left and right are the left and right when viewed from the operator side.

This money depositing / dispensing machine is arranged below the teller counter of a financial institution such as a bank, and is commonly used by two operators such as left and right tellers. As shown in FIG. Banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11 for performing various processing relating to banknotes such as depositing, storing, collecting, and dispensing, and depositing coins,
It is integrally provided with a coin depositing / dispensing unit 12 that performs each processing relating to coins such as storing, collecting, and dispensing.

The coin depositing / dispensing section 12 is mainly arranged in the upper part of the machine body 10, and the bill depositing / dispensing section 11 and a part of the coin depositing / dispensing section 12 are arranged in the lower part of the machine body 10 more than the coin depositing / dispensing section 12. It is arranged so as to project forward. The coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and the bill deposit / withdrawal unit 11
Can be pulled out to the front side of the machine body 10, and a withdrawal key 13 for locking and unlocking these with respect to the machine body 10 is provided on the front side of the banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11.

In the money depositing / dispensing machine, the operation section 14 and the processing state in which the operation of each processing is inputted by the left and right operators on the right and left sides on the front (front) side of the upper surface of the machine body 10 are directed upward. Is provided, and a display panel 16 for displaying a processing guide menu, a processing state, a processing result, and the like is provided only on the right side. The operation unit 14 and the display lamp unit 1
5 and the display panel 16 are shared by the coin depositing / dispensing unit 12 and the bill depositing / dispensing unit 11.

A coin deposit / withdrawal port 17 for depositing coins into the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12 is provided at the center in the left / right direction slightly rearward of the front surface of the machine body 10, and the coin deposit / withdrawal unit is provided. Lower part of 12, that is, banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11
On the side, a saucer insertion opening 18 is provided which is recessed from the front to the rear. A saucer (not shown) is inserted into the saucer insertion opening 18, and the coin depositing / dispensing unit 12 dispenses coins into the saucer inserted in the saucer inserting opening 18 in this manner. A coin reject port 19 for returning a reject coin is provided at a position adjacent to the saucer insertion port 18.

On the upper surface of the portion of the banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11 which projects more toward the front side than the coin deposit / withdrawal section 12, the banknotes are sent out from the inside of the banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11 to the center in the lateral direction on the most front side. A banknote dispensing port 20 is provided, and a banknote dispensing port 21 in which a banknote to be deposited is set by an operator is provided after the banknote dispensing port 20. A shutter 22 for opening and closing the bill outlet 20 is provided.
Is provided. Here, at a lateral position of the banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11 adjacent to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 20 and the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 21, a coin vault 2 which is a part of the coin deposit / withdrawal unit 12.
3 is provided. The coin vault 23 is for storing coins and is attachable to and detachable from the machine body 10.
An eject key 23a for locking and unlocking the coin vault 23 is provided on the front side of the coin vault 23. A power switch 27 is provided on the lower front surface of the bill depositing / dispensing unit 11.

The banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11 deposits and stores banknotes set in the banknote deposit port 21 with the longitudinal direction thereof in the left-right direction, and stores the banknotes as needed. Each processing for banknotes such as a withdrawal processing for withdrawing money to the withdrawal port 20 is performed.

The banknote depositing / dispensing unit, which is a main part of the present invention, will be described below. As shown in FIG. 2, the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 1
1 is a bill mainly taken in from the bill deposit port 21,
Alternatively, an upper layer unit 24 that conveys banknotes that are to be dispensed to the banknote dispensing port 20, and an upper layer unit 24 that is deposited.
The middle-layer unit 25 that temporarily stores the banknotes transported in step S1 by the denomination before the deposit is confirmed, and the lower-layer unit 26 that stores the banknotes that are temporarily stored in the middle-layer unit 25 after the deposit is confirmed, while feeding the stored banknotes for dispensing. The upper layer unit 24, the middle layer unit 25, and the lower layer unit 26 can be individually withdrawn from the machine body 10 of the coin depositing and dispensing machine to the front side.

[Upper Layer Unit] The upper layer unit 24 is configured such that the deposited banknotes are set at the time of deposit processing and the set deposit banknotes 21 are taken into the machine one by one and the above-described banknote deposit ports 21 cannot be distinguished at the time of deposit processing. A banknote withdrawal port 20 described above in which rejected banknotes are paid out, and withdrawal banknotes are taken out from the machine during the withdrawal process,
The shutter 22 that opens and closes the banknote dispensing port 20
And a transport path 28 for transporting the deposited banknotes to a required place and a dispensed banknote to a required location, and a transport path 28 provided in the middle of the transport path 28 from the banknote deposit port 21 at the time of deposit processing. It has an identification unit 29 for identifying authenticity, denomination, damage, double feeding, and skew of the bills fed out and conveyed on the conveyance path 28. In the middle of the transport path 28, there is provided a front / back reversing unit 30 that determines the front and back of the banknote from the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 29 and reverses the front and back of the bill as necessary to arrange the front and back of the bill.

[Middle layer unit] The middle layer unit 25 includes
Each banknote take-in section 32 which is connected to the carrying path 28 of the upper layer unit 24 and takes in the deposited banknotes distributed from the carrying path 28 is provided, and the deposited banknotes are provided on the front sides of the banknote taking-in sections 32, respectively. A plurality of temporary storages 33a, 33b, 33c of the same shape, which are temporarily stored until the transaction is confirmed, are displaced in the front-rear direction while the positions in the left-right direction and the height direction are aligned with each other. They are arranged in a straight line. here,
These three temporary storage units 33a to 33c are only capable of feeding bills from the bill taking-in unit 32 side,
The bills cannot be fed out to the bill taking-in section 32 side. In addition, when returning the banknotes temporarily stored in these temporary storage units 33a to 33c without confirming the deposit, all of these temporary storage units 33a to 33c are provided outside the machine body 10 by pulling out the middle-layer unit 25 from the machine body 10. As a result, the bills that are temporarily stored inside can be taken out by the operator.

The temporary storage parts 33a to 33c are respectively
A substantially rectangular tube-shaped casing 35 that takes in a bill from the corresponding bill taking-in portion 32, and a casing 3 provided below the casing 35.
5 has a pair of shutters 36, 36 that can be opened and closed to place the temporarily stored banknotes taken in 5 in the vertical direction with the front and back directions set in the vertical direction, and the shutters 36, 36 can be opened and closed. The lower part of the casing 35 is opened and closed by moving horizontally at a constant height. A portion above the shutters 36, 36 inside the housing 35 is a storage space 37 for temporarily storing banknotes.

[Lower Layer Unit] The lower layer unit 26 includes
Below each of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, the banknotes temporarily stored in the corresponding ones are received and stored inside after the payment is confirmed, while the banknotes stored inside are transferred one by one from the bottom. A plurality of storage units 38a, 3 having the same shape, that is, a plurality of storage units 38a, 3 that can be delivered by the bill delivery unit 39
8b and 38c are arranged so as to be displaced in the front-rear direction with the left-right direction and the height direction being aligned with each other.

Here, with the middle layer unit 25 and the lower layer unit 26 both properly loaded in the fuselage 10,
Each of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c and each of the storage and delivery units 38a to 38c immediately below each of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c temporarily store and store a delivery unit 40a.
To 40c, three such temporary storage / storage feeding sections 40a to 40c having the same shape are arranged with their positions in the front-rear direction being shifted in the state where the positions in the left-right direction and the height direction are aligned with each other. Will be done.

That is, the foremost temporary storage section 33a and the foremost storage and feeding section 38a are foremost temporary storage / storage.
The storage / feeding unit 40a is formed, the second temporary storage unit 33b from the front and the second storage / feeding unit 38b from the front form the second temporary storage / storage / feeding unit 40b from the front, and the third storage unit from the front. The temporary storage section 33c and the third storage feeding section 3 from the front
8c constitutes the third temporary storage / storage delivery section 40c from the front. Note that, of these three temporary storage / storage delivery units 40a to 40c, the two on the rear side are of the denomination type, and specifically, the second temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40b from the front is the distribution amount. There is a large number of tickets (10,000 yen bills), and the third temporary storage / storage delivery section 40c from the front is for a large number of circulation tickets (1,000 yen bills). Further, the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a on the foremost side does not correspond to only one denomination, and is used as an operation cassette for storing appropriate banknotes or refilling banknotes according to each process. For this reason, among the storage feeding units 38a to 38c, the frontmost storage feeding unit 38a is detachable from the lower layer unit 26 pulled out from the machine body 10, and the remaining storage feeding units 38b and 38c are lower layers. It is fixed to the unit 26.

The lower layer unit 26 is connected to the conveyance path 28 via the middle layer unit 25 on the rear side of the third temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40c from the front, and all the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40a to 40c. Through the lower side, in front of the frontmost temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a,
A transport path 42 is provided that is connected to the transport path 28 via the middle-layer unit 25 and transports the dispensed banknotes and the like dispensed from each of the storage and delivery units 38a to 38c. A discriminating unit 43 for discriminating double feeding, skew feeding, and the like of the bills to be conveyed is provided in the middle of the conveying path 42.

Further, in the lower unit 26, a reject storage for storing the dispensed banknotes that have been determined to be double-fed or skewed by the discriminating section 43 among the dispensed banknotes transported on the transport path 42 during the dispensing process. A portion 44 is provided at the front so as to be openable and closable. In addition, the front of the lower layer unit 26 is shown in FIG.
As shown in, a door 44a that is opened and closed when the reject banknotes in the reject storage unit 44 are removed, and a key and 44b required to open the door 44a are provided.

The storing and feeding parts 38a to 38c are respectively
It has a substantially square tubular casing 45 that takes in temporarily stored banknotes from the corresponding one of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, and stores the stored banknotes stored in the casing 45 in the front-back direction. A pair of door-type flappers 4 that can be moved up and down and can be opened and closed so that they can be placed while being stacked vertically.
6, 46 and.

The flappers 46, 46 are arranged in front of and behind the housing 45 so as to be parallel to each other and at the same height, and support shafts 48, 48 are integrally raised and lowered along the guide shafts 47, 47 in this state. Have these support shafts 4
It swings around 8,48. And the flappers 46, 4
6 becomes a closed state in which both ends are horizontally arranged in the housing 45 by bringing the opposite ends of the support shafts 48 close to each other, and in this state, the temporary storage parts 33a to 33c.
The banknote inserted from the corresponding one is placed on the upper side. Further, when the flappers 46, 46 are opened by swiveling downward from the closed state, the bills placed on the flapper 46, 46 are stored in the housing 45 below the flappers 46, 46 for storing dispensed bills. It is dropped into the storage space 49 and stored. Further, the flappers 46, 46 return from the open state to the closed state by turning upward. In addition, storage space 4
A bill feeding unit 39 for feeding the bills to the transport path 42 is provided at the bottom of 9.

At the rear side of the middle layer unit 25 and the lower layer unit 26 in the machine body 10, a temporary storage section 51d for temporarily storing the banknotes transported by the transport path 28 and the transport path 42 and sent from the corresponding banknote loading section 50, 51e are vertically separated from each other, and each temporary storage unit 51d,
On the lower side of 51e, while storing and receiving the banknotes temporarily stored in the corresponding ones of the temporary storage sections 51d and 51e, the storage and delivery section capable of delivering the stored banknotes from the bottom by the banknote delivery section 54. 52d and 52e are provided, respectively.

The temporary storage units 51d and 51e and the storage and delivery units 52d and 52e directly below the respective temporary storage units 51d and 51e constitute the temporary storage / storage delivery units 53d and 53e. .Storing and feeding parts 53d, 53
e are arranged in a vertically stacked state. That is, the temporary storage section 51d and the storage delivery section 52d constitute the upper temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d, and the temporary storage section 51e.
And the storage / delivery portion 52e are the lower temporary storage / storage / delivery portion 5
3e.

These temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53
The e has the same width and depth, and is arranged so as to be vertically stacked in a state where the positions thereof are aligned in the left-right direction and the front-back direction. As a result, the two temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53 arranged in a stacked state above and below
d and 53e are the temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d and 5e.
All of the above-mentioned temporary storage / storage delivery units 40 other than 3e
It is arranged on the rear side of the machine body 10 with respect to a to 40c.
These temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d and 53e can be pulled out from the machine body 10 during maintenance.

These temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53
Each of the e has a substantially rectangular tubular housing 55 that takes in a banknote of a corresponding denomination from the corresponding banknote loading unit 50 of the transport path 28 or the transport path 42. A pair of door-type flappers 56, 56 as partitioning means that can be opened and closed with the height position fixed so that the temporarily stored banknotes that have been taken in can be placed while being stacked one on top of the other, with the front and back directions being up and down. Of the flappers 56, 56 and presses the temporarily stored banknotes placed on the flappers 56, 56 from the upper side to the lower side.
Pusher 57 is dropped to the lower side while opening 56.
And an elevator 58 that is vertically movable below the flappers 56 in the housing 55. Here, a portion below the flappers 56, 56 in the housing 55 and above the elevator 58 is a storage space 61 for storing bills for withdrawal. Note that these temporary storage / storage feeding units 53d and 53e can only feed bills from the bill loading unit 50 side, and cannot feed bills to the bill loading unit 50 side. Further, a bill feeding unit 54 for feeding the bill to the transport path 42 is provided at the bottom of the storage space 61, and the bill feeding unit 54 feeds the bill in a state where the elevator 58 is located at the lowest position. It has become.

Then, the flapper 56, 56 divides the vertically continuous space in the housing 55 into upper and lower sections, whereby the upper side of the flapper 56, 56 in the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d is divided. Is used as the storage space 60 of the temporary storage unit 51d for temporarily storing banknotes, and the space below the flappers 56, 56 is used as the storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52d for storing banknotes, and the flapper 56 by the pusher 57 is used. , 56 to open the banknotes, the banknotes are transferred from the storage space 60 of the temporary storage section 51d to the storage space 61 of the storage and delivery section 52d. Similarly, in the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53e, the space above the flappers 56, 56 is set as the storage space 60 of the temporary storage section 51e for temporarily storing banknotes, and the space below the flappers 56, 56 is set. The storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52e for storing banknotes is used, and the bills are dropped by the pusher 57 when the flappers 56, 56 are opened, so that the storage space 60 of the temporary storage unit 51e moves to the storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52e. It is designed to deliver banknotes.

The flappers 56, 56 are respectively the housing 5
There are support shafts 63, 63 that are fixed in position in front of and behind the vehicle 5 and are parallel to each other and at the same height, and swing around these support shafts 63, 63. Then, the flappers 56, 56 are brought into the closed state in which the opposite ends are brought close to each other with respect to the support shaft 63 and are horizontally arranged in the housing 55. In this state, the flappers 56, 56 are thrown into the upper storage space 60. Place the banknote on top of it. Where flapper 5
6, 56 are urged by springs or the like (not shown) so as to be in a closed state. Further, when the flappers 56, 56 are turned from the closed state to the open state by being pivoted downward by the biasing force, the placed bills are dropped into the lower storage space 61. Further, the flappers 56, 56 return to the closed state by turning upward from the open state.

Here, the two temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d and 53e, which are vertically stacked, have the same size, but the storage portions have different sizes. You may do it.

The vertical lengths of these two temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d, 53e are the same as those of the above-mentioned temporary storage / storage delivery portions 40a-40c other than the temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d, 53e. The length is set smaller than the vertical length, and the width and the depth are set equal. As a result, these temporary storage / storage delivery units 53
The storing and feeding parts 52d and 52e of d and 53e are respectively
The storage capacity of banknotes is smaller than that of any of the storage / feeding units 38a to 38c of the temporary storage / storage feeding units 40a to 40c other than these.

Furthermore, the total vertical length of these two temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53e is the above-mentioned temporary storage / storage delivery parts 40a-40.
It is almost equal to the vertical length of each of c,
The height position of the uppermost portion of the upper temporary storage / storage feeding portion 53d is set to be equal to or lower than the height position of the uppermost portions of the temporary storage / storage feeding portions 40a to 40c, specifically, the same height position. ing.

Further, these two temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53e, together with all the other temporary storage / storage delivery parts 40a to 40c, are aligned in the left-right direction in the front-back direction of the machine body 10. It is arranged.

Furthermore, these two temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53e are used for all other temporary storage / storage.
It is arranged on the rear side of the machine body 10 with respect to the storage and delivery units 40a to 40c.

In addition, these two temporary storage / storage delivery units 53d, 53e are of the denomination type, and the upper temporary storage / storage storage unit 53d, 53e is one of the two temporary storage / storage delivery units 53d, 53e. The storage / delivery part 53d is for 2000 tickets (2000 yen bills) with a small circulation amount, and the other one, the lower temporary storage / storage / delivery portion 53e, is a 5000 tickets with a small circulation amount (5,000 yen). It is said to be for bills.

Each processing of the bill deposit / withdrawal section 11 described above will be described.

[Deposit processing (before deposit is confirmed)] When a banknote to be deposited by the operator is set in the banknote deposit port 21 and execution input of the "deposit processing" is made on the operation unit 14, a control unit (not shown) causes a banknote deposit to be performed. By the mouth 21, the bills are separated and fed out one by one, and the fed bills are
It is made to convey on the deposit processing route shown by the thick line in FIG. 3, which is composed of a predetermined portion of the conveying path 28 and the bill taking-in section 32, and is sorted based on the discrimination result of the discriminating section 29 on the way. That is, the banknotes that cannot be identified (false, double-feed, skew, etc.) are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and are stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b and 40c and the banknotes that are identified as true and dirty. True and positive banknotes that cannot be cut are temporarily stored and stored in the feeding section 40.
The banknotes sent from the banknote intake section 32 to the temporary storage section 33a of "a" and identified as true and correct are appropriately turned upside down section 30.
After the front and back sides have been sorted by passing through, the temporary storage sections 33a to 33 of the temporary storage / storage delivery sections 40a to 40c.
The bills are sent from the respective bill accepting units 32 to the corresponding one of c. At this time, the temporary storage units 33a to 33c are
The shutters 36 and 36 are closed,
The shutter 36 is provided for the banknotes sent from the banknote taking-in section 32,
The storage space 37 above 36 is temporarily stored.

Specifically, among the bills that are identified as true and positive, all the bills are temporarily stored in the temporary storage portion 33b of the temporary storage / storing / feeding portion 40b for all the bills, and the 1,000 bills are for the thousands. It is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33c of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40c. Here, the other 2,000 tickets and 5,000 tickets are mixed and stored in the temporary storage section 33 of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a.
It is temporarily stored in a. Furthermore, the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 4
As described above, in the temporary storage unit 33a of 0a, each genuine and dirty bill and the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b and 40c are stored.
True and positive banknotes that cannot be stored in the bank are also sent.

When all the bills are once fed out from the bill deposit opening 21 and fed into one of the bill dispensing opening 20 and the temporary storage sections 33a to 33c of the temporary storage / storage delivery sections 40a to 40c, the control section. Opens the shutter 22 of the banknote dispensing port 20 in the closed state, and displays the identification result of the identification unit 29 on a higher-level machine (not shown). When the operator inputs a deposit confirmation operation to the higher-level machine or the operation unit 14 from the display of the higher-level machine, the control unit carries out a "storage process" described later. In this case, all the vouchers are stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40b for all the vouchers from the temporary storage part 33b to the storage feeding part 38b, and the 1,000 vouchers are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40c for the thousand vouchers.
Although it will be stored in the storing and delivering section 38c from c, the other 2,000 and 5,000 notes are in a mixed state because the temporary storage and storing and delivering sections 53d and 53e are not suitable for the return processing of banknotes. In the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a suitable for the return process, the temporary storage unit 33a transfers to the storage delivery unit 38a.
It is temporarily stored in a. That is, in the flow from the “payment processing” to the “storage processing”, the two thousand tickets and the five thousand tickets are not stored in the storage and feeding parts 52d and 52e for them, and the “internal filling distribution supplementary processing” and the It is stored in the storing / feeding units 52d and 52e by the storing process. On the other hand, the operator cancels the deposit operation by using the host machine or the operation unit 14
When input to, the control unit will perform a "return process" described later.

When the "payment processing" operator inputs the "payment processing" to the host computer or the operation unit 14,
The control unit is a temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40b, 40 for each denomination.
c, 53d, and 53e, the respective storage feeding portions 38b, 3
The banknotes stored in the banknotes 8c, 52d, and 52e are separated by one from the lowest banknote in the banknote payout units 39 and 54 and fed out, respectively, and are drawn in bold lines in FIG. It is conveyed along the withdrawal processing route shown, and is distributed based on the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 43 in the middle thereof. That is, the abnormal conveyance bill determined to be double-fed or skewed by the discriminating unit 43 is sent to the reject storing unit 44, and the discriminating unit 43
The banknotes that are determined to be normal are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and the banknotes that are determined by the determination unit 43 not to be included in the dispensed banknotes in terms of denomination or number of sheets are temporarily used as an operation cassette. Temporary storage unit 33a of the storage / storage delivery unit 40a
To temporarily store. Then, when all the bills dispensed for dispensing are sent to the reject storing unit 44, the bill dispensing port 20 and the temporary storing unit 33a, the temporary storing unit 3
3a opens the shutters 36, 36 to drop the banknotes on the flappers 46, 46 of the storing and feeding unit 38a in the closed state. The banknotes placed on the flappers 46, 46 are dropped downward from the flappers 46, 46 at an appropriate timing.

[Payment Port Distribution Replenishment Processing] When a bill is replenished from the bill insertion port 21 to the storage / delivery units 38b, 38c, 52d, 52e of the temporary storage / storage / delivery units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e of the denomination, the operator When the replenished banknotes are set in the banknote deposit opening 21 by the input and the execution input of the "deposit opening distribution replenishment process" is made to the operation unit 14, the control unit (not shown) separates the banknotes one by one by the banknote deposit opening 21. Will be fed out, and the bills thus fed out will be fed to the transport path 2
8, 42 and the predetermined portions of the bill accepting units 32, 50 are transported along the deposit port distribution replenishment processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. 5, and are sorted based on the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 29 on the way.

That is, it is impossible to identify (false, double feed, skew, etc.)
The bills that have been determined are sent to the bill dispensing port 20, and the bills that are genuine and identified as dirty are sent from the bill accepting unit 32 to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a.
At this time, in the temporary storage unit 33a, the shutters 36, 36 are closed, and the banknotes sent from the banknote loading unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36. Then, the other banknotes that are identified as true and positive are appropriately passed through the front / back reversing unit 30, and thus the front and back are sorted, and then the temporary storage unit 33 for each denomination is used.
b, 33c, 51d, 51e are sent from the respective bill accepting sections 32, 50 to the corresponding ones. At this time, in the temporary storage units 33b and 33c, the shutters 36 and 36 are closed, respectively, and the banknotes taken in from the banknote loading unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36 and 36. The temporary storage section 51d,
In 51e, the flappers 56 and 56 are closed, respectively, and the bills taken in from the bill taking-in section 50 are temporarily stored in the storage space 60 above the flappers 56 and 56.

Specifically, all the vouchers are temporarily stored in the temporary storage part 33b of the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40b for all the vouchers, and the 1,000 vouchers are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40c for the thousand vouchers. It is temporarily stored in 33c, the 2,000 tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51d of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d, and the 5,000 tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51e of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53e. Further, each genuine and dirty bill is sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a.

Then, all the banknotes are once fed out from the banknote pay-in port 21, and the banknote pay-out port 20 and the temporary storage section 3 are provided.
When sent out to any of 3a to 33c, 51d, and 51e, the control unit opens the shutter 22 of the banknote dispensing port 20 which is in the closed state, and the identification unit 29 identifies that the replenishment process is completed. It is displayed together with the result on a host machine (not shown). When the operator inputs a replenishment completion confirmation operation from the display of the host machine to the host machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit performs the "storage process" described later.

"Internal Filling / Dispensing Replenishment Processing" The banknotes (mainly 2,000 and 5,000 notes) stored in the storing and delivering section 38a by the "payment processing" are temporarily stored and stored in the storing and delivering sections 40b, 40c, 53d for each denomination. , 53e when replenishing the bills, when the execution input of the "internal filling distribution replenishment process" is made to the operation unit 14, the control unit (not shown) causes the storage / feeding unit 38a to eject the lowest bill. Each of the bills is separated and fed out, and the bills fed out are conveyed to the conveyance path 2
6, 42 and a predetermined part of the bill taking-in section 32, they are conveyed along the internal filling distribution replenishment processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG.
Sort based on the discrimination result of.

That is, the discrimination unit 43 cannot discriminate (double feed,
Since it has been already confirmed that the bills that are skewed) are not counterfeit bills at the time of deposit processing, the bills that have been sent to the reject storage unit 44 and identified as dirty are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a. The bill is taken into the storage unit 33a from the bill taking unit 32. At this time, in the temporary storage unit 33a, the shutters 36, 36 are closed, and the banknotes sent from the banknote loading unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36. Then, the other bills are passed through the front / back reversing unit 30 as appropriate to arrange the front and back sides, and then the temporary storage units 33b, 33 for each denomination.
It is sent to the corresponding one of c, 51d and 51e from the respective bill accepting sections 32 and 50. At this time, the temporary storage units 33b and 33c are respectively connected to the shutters 36 and 36.
Is closed, and the bills taken in from the bill taking unit 32 are temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36, and the temporary storage units 51d, 51e are
The flappers 56 and 56 are closed,
The bills taken in from the bill accepting unit 50 are flappers 56, 5
6 will be temporarily stored in the upper storage space 60.

Specifically, all the vouchers are temporarily stored in the temporary storage part 33b of the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40b for all the vouchers, and the 1,000 vouchers are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage feeding part 40c for the thousands vouchers. It is temporarily stored in 33c, the 2,000 tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51d of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d, and the 5,000 tickets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage section 51e of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53e. Further, since each of the banknotes that are genuine and damaged by the depositing process are stored in the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a, such banknotes are again stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a. It is sent to the part 33a. It should be noted that the 2,000 and 5,000 tickets at the time of deposit are temporarily stored and stored in the mixed state 40 in order to handle the return processing.
It is stored in a, and thereafter, in such an “internal filling / dispensing / replenishing process”, it is distributed to each of the temporary storage / storage delivery units 53d and 53e for dispensing.

In this way, the storing and feeding section 38a is sequentially operated.
The banknotes stored in the temporary storage units 33b, 33c,
When any one of them is fed to 51d and 51e and becomes full, the control unit once stops the feeding of the bills from the storing and feeding unit 38a, and temporarily stores the bills.
For c, the shutters 36, 36 are opened, and the banknotes placed on the shutters 36, 36 are brought close to the shutters 36, 36 and are in a closed state, and the storage and delivery units 38b, 3 are in standby.
The banknotes are delivered to the flappers 46, 46 of 8c, and the banknotes placed on the flappers 46, 46 are shutters 36, 46.
36 so that the shutter 36,
36 is closed to empty the temporary storage parts 33b and 33c. On the other hand, regarding the temporary storage units 51d and 51e, the bills that have already stored the elevator 58 are the flapper 56,
56 is pushed up to a position where the flapper 56,
The bills are transferred to the elevator 58 while the opening operation of 56 is performed, and then the bills are flapped by the elevators 58 and 56.
The flappers 56, 56 are closed by lowering them to a position where they do not interfere with 6, and raising the pushers 57. In addition, the above operation is performed by the temporary storage units 33b, 33c, 5
Although it may be performed only for one of the 1d and 51e that is full, in order to reduce the number of interruptions of the feeding from the storing and feeding unit 38a, all of them, including those that are not full as described above, are performed. Try to do about.

Then, the closing operation of the shutters 36, 36 of the temporary storage portions 33b, 33c and the temporary storage portions 51d, 51 are performed.
When the closing operation of the flappers 56, 56 of e is completed, the control unit again causes the bill feeding unit 39 to feed the bill from the storage space 49 of the storage feeding unit 38a, and restarts the distribution and replenishment of the bill.

By repeating the above, all the banknotes are once fed out from the storage space 49 of the storage / feeding unit 38a, and the reject storage unit 44 and the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40a-4.
0c, 53d, 53e temporary storage parts 33a to 33c, 5
When it is sent to either 1d or 51e, the control unit
The fact that the replenishment process has been completed is displayed on a higher-level machine (not shown) together with the identification result of the identification unit 29. The operator confirms the replenishment completion from the display of the host machine or the host machine or operation unit 14
When the input is input to the control unit, the control unit performs a "storage process" described later.

"External Filling Distribution Replenishment Processing"
The "internal filling distribution replenishment process" for distributing and replenishing the bills stored in the storing and delivering unit 38a through the "payment process" has been described as an example.
In the case of the "external filling distribution supplementing process" in which 8a is filled and is loaded in the machine body 10 and the same distribution supplementing process is performed, basically the same thick line is shown in FIG. However, since the bills sent out from the storing and delivering unit 38a may contain counterfeit bills, the discriminating unit 43 or the discriminating unit 29 cannot discriminate ( All bills that have been double-fed, skewed, etc. will be sent to the bill dispensing port 20.

Then, the storage space 49 of the storage feeding section 38a
When all the banknotes are once delivered from the banknotes and sent out to one of the banknote dispensing port 20 and the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, 51d, 51e, the control unit causes the shutter 22 of the banknote dispensing port 20 in the closed state. Is opened, and the fact that the replenishment process has been completed is displayed on a host machine (not shown) together with the identification result of the identification unit 29. When the operator inputs a replenishment completion confirmation operation from the display of the host machine to the host machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit performs the "storage process" described later.

"Storing processing" Temporary storage / storing and feeding section 40a
-40c, 53d, and 53e, temporary storage part 33a
To 33c, 51d, and 51e, the bills and the like temporarily stored in the storage and feeding units 38a to 38c, 52d, and 52e storage space 4
Store in 9,61.

That is, when the deposit confirmation operation is input in the above "payment process", or the replenishment completion confirmation is made by the "payment port distribution replenishment process", "internal filling distribution replenishment process" and "external filling distribution replenishment process". When an operation is input, the control unit temporarily stores the banknotes in the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, 51d, and 51e in the storage and delivery units 38a to 38c, 52d, and 52e, as in the storage processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. Storage part 3
The shutters 36, 36 of 3a-33c are opened, and the storage / feeding units 38a-38c in the closed state in which the shutters 36, 36 stand by by bringing the shutter itself, or the upper part of the banknote placed thereon, into close proximity. The bills are delivered to the flappers 46, 46. Then, the control unit controls the flappers 46, 46.
Is lowered to a position where the banknotes placed on it do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and the shutters 36, 36 are closed. Further, the flappers 46, 46 are lowered and opened to the extent that they do not interfere with the amount of banknotes already stored in the storage space 49, and the flappers 46, 46 are already operated to store the space 4.
The bills are delivered on top of the bills stored in 9. After that, the flappers 46, 46 are raised to the upper standby position and closed.

At the same time, the control unit has already stored the storage space 6 for each of the storage and delivery units 52d and 52e.
After raising the elevator 58 to a height corresponding to the amount of banknotes stored in 1, the pushers 57 of the temporary storage sections 51d and 51e are lowered to press the banknotes on the flappers 56 and 56 downward to press the flapper 56. , 56 is opened and the bills are transferred onto the bills on the elevator 58 already stored in the storage space 61. Then, the elevator 58 is lowered to the lowest position.

[Sort and Counting Process] In the process of counting and separating specified denominations from bills in which plural denominations are mixed,
When a banknote is set in the banknote deposit opening 21 by the operator and the execution input of the “sorting counting process” is made on the operation unit 14,
The control unit (not shown) separates the bills one by one by the bill deposit port 21 and feeds the bills, and the fed bills are configured by the transport path 28 and predetermined portions of the bill take-in unit 32. Are conveyed along the sorting and counting process route indicated by a thick line, and are sorted based on the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 29 in the middle thereof.

That is, it is impossible to identify (false, double feed, skew, etc.)
Corresponding banknotes, banknotes identified as true and dirty, banknotes of denominations that are not designated as true and positive, and denominations that are designated as true and positive and that correspond to the temporary storage units 33a to 33c. The banknotes that cannot be stored in the banknotes are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and among the true and positive banknotes, the specified denomination of the banknote passes through the front / back reversing unit 30 to turn the front and back. After being sorted, the temporary storage units 33a to 33c are sorted by denomination.
The corresponding bills are sent from the respective bill accepting sections 32. At this time, in the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, the shutters 36 and 36 are in the closed state, respectively, and the bills sent from the bill taking unit 32 are shutters 36 and 3.
The storage space 37 above 6 is temporarily stored.

Specifically, for example, in the case of rearranging and counting 1,000, 2,000 and 5,000 notes, among the banknotes that are identified as true and positive, the unspecified 10,000 notes are the banknote withdrawals. Mouth 20
The 2,000 tickets are stored in the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a, the 1,000 tickets are stored in the temporary storage section 33b of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b, and the 5,000 tickets are stored temporarily. It is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33c of the storage and delivery unit 40c.

Then, all the bills are once fed out from the bill deposit port 21, and the bill dispense port 20 and the temporary storage unit 3 are provided.
When fed to any of 3a to 33c, the control unit
The shutter 22 of the banknote dispensing port 20 in the closed state is opened, and the identification unit 2 indicates that the sorting and counting process is completed.
It is displayed on a host machine (not shown) together with the identification result of 9. When the operator inputs a rearrangement counting completion confirmation operation from this display to the higher-level machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit performs a "return process" described later.

"Return process" When the operator inputs a deposit cancel operation to the host machine or the operation unit 14 based on the display of the host machine as a result of the above deposit process, and that the above "sorted count process" has been completed. From the display of the host computer, the operator confirms the sorting count completion confirmation operation by the host computer or the operation unit 1
When the number is input to 4, the control unit enables the middle layer unit 25 to be pulled out from the machine body 10. As a result, the operator pulls out the middle-layer unit 25 to take out the banknotes from the temporary storage units 33a to 33c, as shown in FIG.

"Scrutinizing process" (1) Temporary storage / storing and feeding section 40b of the storing and feeding section 40b
In the case of performing the close-up processing to determine the number of banknotes in the storage space 49 in the close-up processing storage feeding unit 38b, specifically, the number of 10,000 bills in the storage space 49, the operator operates the host machine or the operation unit 1
4, when the input for performing the close-up processing of the storing and delivering unit 38b is performed, the upper side of the flappers 46, 46 of the temporary storage unit 33b and the storing and delivering unit 38b are empty, and the control unit causes the flapper of the storing and delivering unit 38b to be empty. 46, the banknotes stored in the storage space 49 below the 46 are separated one by one from the lowermost one by the banknote feeding section 39, and are fed out.
It is conveyed along the first detailed inspection processing route shown by the thick line in FIG. 11, which is composed of predetermined portions 2 and 28, and sorting and counting are performed based on the discrimination results of the discriminating unit 43 and the discriminating unit 29 in the middle thereof.

That is, the abnormally conveyed banknotes judged to be double-fed or skewed by the discriminating section 43 are sent to the reject storing section 44, and the banknotes discriminated as normal by the discriminating section 43 are discriminated by the discriminating section 29. Normal bills whose denominations have been identified in preparation for seed mixture, and the front and back reversing unit 30 have prepared the front and back as necessary, and the identification unit 29 has determined that the denomination is a denomination to be scrutinized are temporarily stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40b. The different-denomination banknotes sent to the unit 33b and determined by the identifying unit 29 to be other than the denomination target denomination are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33 of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a.
sent to a.

In this way, the storing and feeding section 38b is sequentially operated.
The banknotes stored in are identified and counted by the identification unit 29,
When the temporary storage section 33b is fed into the temporary storage section 33b and the temporary storage section 33b becomes full, the control section once stops the delivery of the banknotes from the storage space 49 of the storage delivery section 38b, and the temporary storage section 3b.
The shutters 36, 36 of 3b are opened, and the shutter 3
The banknotes are delivered to the flappers 46, 46 in the closed state where the upper part of the banknotes placed on itself or the banknotes 6, 36 are close to each other, and the banknotes placed on the flappers 46, 46 are shutters 36, 36. The shutter 36, 36 to close the temporary storage unit 33.
Empty b. However, at this point in time, the storing and feeding unit 38
Since it is necessary to separate it from the bills stored in the storage space 49 of b, the bills on the flappers 46, 46 are not dropped into the storage space 49 below.

Then, the flapper 4 of the temporary storage section 33b is
When the banknotes are transferred to 6, 6 and the closing operation of the shutters 36, 36 is completed, the control section again causes the banknote feeding section 39 to feed out the banknotes from the storage space 49 of the storage feeding section 38b,
In the same manner as above, the discrimination and discrimination unit 29 by the discrimination unit 43
Discriminate and count by.

By repeating the above, all the stored banknotes in the storage space 49 of the storage and delivery section 38b are delivered, and the reject storage section 44, the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b above the flappers 46, 46 and the temporary storage section 33a. When the storage space 49 of the storage feeding unit 38b is emptied by being sent to one of the storage units, the control unit opens the shutters 36, 36 of the temporary storage units 33a, 33b to open the bills and flappers 46, 4.
6, the flappers 46, 46 are lowered to a position where the bills placed thereon do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and the shutters 36, 36 are closed. Furthermore, regarding the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b,
The flappers 46, 46 are lowered to the lowest position to be opened, the bills are delivered to the empty storage space 49, and then the flappers 46, 46 are raised to the upper standby position close to the shutters 36, 36. , Close it. For the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a, the flappers 46, 46
Is opened to a height corresponding to the amount of bills already stored in the storage space 49, and the bills are transferred from the flappers 46, 46 onto the bills already stored in the storage space 49. , 46 to the shutter 36,
It is raised to an upper standby position close to 36 and is closed.

By doing so, all the banknotes in the storage space 49 of the storage / delivery section 38b of the temporary storage / storage / delivery section 40b become normal banknotes of the denomination to be scrutinized, and the number thereof can be determined.

From the above, the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b
Is a storage space 49 of the storage feeding unit 38b during the close inspection process.
When all the bills are once drawn from the empty storage space 49, normal bills out of the drawn bills are sent to the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40b's own temporary storage unit 33b. It is a feeding section.
Then, the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b, which is such a recirculation inspection type temporary storage / storage delivery section, has the storage space 49.
The bills fed into the temporary storage / storage unit 33b of the temporary storage / storing / feeding unit 40b when the bills are once fed out from the storage space 49 are once fed out and then stored in the storage space 49. become.

(2) Scrutinizing process of the storing and feeding unit 38c of the temporary storage / storing and feeding unit 40c A scrutinizing process for determining the number of bills in the storing space 49 in the storing and feeding unit 38c, specifically, the number of thousands of bills in the storing space 49. In this case, the temporary storage section 33b and the storage and delivery section 38b are replaced with the temporary storage section 33c and the storage and delivery section 38c in the detailed examination of the storage and delivery section 38b. That is, the banknotes in the storage space 49 of the storage / delivery unit 38c are transported along the second scrutiny processing route shown by the thick line in FIG. After once emptying, the fixed number of banknotes are stored in the storage space 49 of the storing and feeding unit 38c.

The temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40c is also a reflux close inspection type temporary storage / storage delivery unit, like the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40b.

(3) Scrutinizing process of the storing and delivering unit 52d When performing a scrutinizing process for determining the number of bills in the storing space 61 in the storing and delivering unit 52d, specifically, the number of 2,000 notes in the storing space 61, the operator When an input is made to the host machine or the operation unit 14 during the close-up processing of the storage and delivery unit 52d, the control unit is below the flappers 56, 56 of the storage and delivery unit 52d with the temporary storage unit 51d being empty. The bills stored in the storage space 61 are separated one by one from the lowermost one by the bill feeding unit 54 and fed out, and are constituted by predetermined portions of the transport paths 42 and 28. The sheet is conveyed along the inspection processing route, and is sorted based on the discrimination result of the discriminating unit 43 on the way.

That is, the abnormal conveyance bills that are determined to be double-fed or skewed by the discriminating unit 43 are sent to the reject storage unit 44, and normal bills that are discriminated to be normal by the discriminating unit 43 are transferred to the front / back reversing unit 30 as necessary. The front and back are collected and sent to the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a.

In this way, the storing and feeding section 52d is sequentially arranged.
When the banknotes stored in are stored in the temporary storage unit 33a and the temporary storage unit 33a becomes full, the control unit once stops the delivery of the banknotes from the storage delivery unit 52d,
Open the shutters 36, 36 of the temporary storage portion 33a,
A flapper 46, 46 in a closed state in which the shutter 36, 36 is brought close to itself or the uppermost portion of the bills placed thereon.
The banknotes are delivered to the paper, and the flappers 46, 46 are lowered to a position where the banknotes placed thereon do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and the shutters 36, 36 are closed to empty the temporary storage section 33a. .

Then, the flapper 4 of the temporary storage unit 33a
When the banknotes are delivered to 6, 6 and the closing operation of the shutters 36, 36 is completed, the control section again causes the banknote feeding section 54 to feed the banknotes from the storage space 61 of the storage feeding section 52d,
In the same manner as above, while performing the determination by the determination unit 43,
It is sent to the temporary storage unit 33a.

By repeating the above, all the stored bills in the storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52d are fed out and sent to either the reject storage unit 44 or the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a. Storage feeding section 52d
When the storage space 61 is empty, the control unit controls the temporary storage unit 3
The shutters 36, 36 of 3a are opened, and the storing and feeding unit 3 is opened.
The banknotes are delivered to the flappers 46, 46 of 8a, and the banknotes placed on the flappers 46, 46 are the shutter 3
6 and 36 so that the shutter 3
6 and 36 are closed to empty the temporary storage portion 33a, and the flappers 46 and 46 are lowered to the extent that they do not interfere with the banknotes already stored in the storage space 49 of the storage and delivery portion 38a, and then opened. After storing the banknotes on the flappers 46, 46 in the storage space 49, the flappers 46, 46
Move it to the upper standby position and close it.

Thereafter, the above-mentioned "internal filling / dispensing / replenishing process" and "storage process" are executed to temporarily store
Only the banknotes to be stored in the storage / feeding unit 52d of the temporary storage / storage / feeding unit 53d, that is, the 2,000 bills, are fed out from the banknotes stored in the storage / feeding unit 38a of the storage / feeding unit 40a, and are identified and counted by the identification unit 29. Is sent to the storage and delivery section 52d of the temporary storage and storage and delivery section 53d via the temporary storage section 51d, and thus the number of banknotes of the denomination to be scrutinized is stored in the storage space 61 of the storage and delivery section 52d. It will be.

As described above, the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d
During the scrutiny process, when all the banknotes are once paid out from the storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52d and the storage space 61 is emptied, the normal banknotes that are the main banknotes among the paid-out banknotes are Temporary storage / storage delivery unit 53
Other than the used d, it is the other-use detailed storage type temporary storage / storage delivery unit for sending to the temporary storage unit 33a of the used temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a. Then, the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d, which is the other-use detailed examination type temporary storage / storage delivery section, is
After all the banknotes have been paid out from the storage space 61, the banknotes sent from the temporary storage / storage supply unit 40a, which is a used temporary storage / storage supply unit, are stored in the storage space 61.

(4) Scrutinizing process of the storing / feeding unit 52e When performing the scrutinizing process to determine the number of bills in the storing space 61 in the storing / feeding unit 52e, specifically, the number of 5,000 notes in the storing space 61, the above storing is performed. For the close inspection process of the feeding unit 53d, the temporary storage unit 51d and the storage feeding unit 52d are replaced with the temporary storage unit 51e and the storage feeding unit 52e. That is, after the banknotes are transported along the fourth scrutiny processing route shown by the thick line in FIG. 14 configured by the predetermined portions of the transport paths 42 and 28, the storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52e is once emptied, and then the “internal The banknotes of which the number is fixed by the "filling distribution supplementing process" and the "storage process" are stored in the storage space 61 of the storage feeding unit 52e.

(5) Scrutinizing process of the storing and feeding unit 38a of the temporary storage / storing and feeding unit 40a The checking process of the storage space 49 of the storing and feeding unit 38a is performed by the above-mentioned "internal filling" for the bills stored through the "payment process". "Distribution and replenishment process" (see FIG. 6), the storage space 49 of the storage and delivery unit 38a is temporarily emptied, and the upper side of the flappers 46 and 56 of the temporary storage / storage and delivery units 40a to 40c, 53d, and 53e. By accumulating the banknotes of which the denomination and the number of coins have been fixed, and then performing the above-mentioned "storage process", the banknotes of which the denomination and the number of coins have been fixed are stored in the storage spaces 49 of the storing and feeding units 38a to 38c, 52d, 52e. 61
To store.

"Recovery process" Temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a
When collecting the banknotes stored in ˜40c, 53d, and 53e, when the operator inputs the collection process to the host machine or the operation unit 14, the control unit controls the temporary storage units 33b and 33c and the storage units. Feeding parts 38b, 38c
While the upper side of the flappers 46, 46 is empty, the banknotes stored in the storage space 49 of the storage and supply units 38b, 38c are separated by one from the lowermost one by the banknote supply unit 39 and supplied. Temporary storage parts 51d, 51e
Is empty, and the storage space 6 of the storage feeding units 52d and 52e is
The banknotes stored in 1 are separated one by one from the lowermost banknote by the banknote payout unit 54 and paid out. Then, these banknotes are transported along the collection processing route indicated by the thick line in FIG. 15 constituted by the predetermined portions of the transport paths 42 and 28, and sorted based on the determination result of the determination unit 43 in the process.

That is, the abnormally conveyed banknotes determined to be double-fed or skewed by the discriminating unit 43 are sent to the reject storing unit 44, and the bills discriminated to be normal by the discriminating unit 43 are temporarily arranged without the front and back sides being sorted. Storage / storage delivery section 40a
Are all sent to the temporary storage section 33a.

In this way, the bills are temporarily stored in the storage unit 33.
When the temporary storage section 33a is filled with the paper, the control section once controls the storing and feeding sections 38b, 38c, 52d, 5
The feeding of the bills from 2e is stopped, and the temporary storage unit 33a
Flapper 4 of the storing / feeding unit 38a that opens the shutters 36, 36 of the storage unit 38a and opens the shutters 36, 36 close to the shutters 36, 36 and the banknotes placed on the shutters 36, 36.
The banknotes are delivered to 6, 46, the flappers 46, 46 are lowered to a position where the banknotes placed thereon do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, and the shutters 36, 36 are closed to empty the temporary storage section 33a. To

Then, the flapper 4 of the temporary storage section 33a is
When the banknotes are transferred to 6, 6 and the closing operation of the shutters 36, 36 is completed, the control unit again causes the storing and feeding units 38b, 38
The bills are dispensed from the storage spaces 49, 61 of the c, 52d, 52e by the bill dispensers 39, 54, and are fed into the temporary storage 33a in the same manner as described above.

By repeating the above, the storing and feeding parts 38b, 3
All the stored banknotes are paid out from the storage spaces 49, 61 of 8c, 52d, 52e and sent to either the reject storage part 44 or the temporary storage part 33a, and the storage spaces of the storage supply parts 38b, 38c, 52d, 52e. 49,6
When 1 is empty, the control section opens the shutters 36, 36 of the temporary storage section 33a to deliver the bills to the flappers 46, 46 of the storing and feeding section 38a, and the flappers 46, 46.
Is lowered to a position where the banknotes placed on it do not interfere with the shutters 36, 36, the shutters 36, 36 are closed, the temporary storage portion 33a is emptied, and the flappers 46, 46 are stored and fed out. Lower the banknotes already stored in the storage space 49 of the portion 38a within a range that does not interfere with the bills,
After the bills on the flappers 46, 46 are stored in the storage space 49 by opening the flappers 46, 46, the flappers 46, 46 are moved to the upper standby position and closed.

As described above, the storing and feeding parts 38b, 3
All the banknotes in the storage spaces 49, 61 of 8c, 52d, 52e are stored in the storing and feeding section 38a, the lower layer unit 26 is pulled out from the machine body 10, and the storing and feeding section 38a is taken out from the machine body 10 to collect the banknotes.

Incidentally, the storing and feeding parts 38b, 38c, 52
Before storing all the bills in the storage spaces 49, 61 of d, 52e in the storing and feeding section 38a, the storing and feeding section 38a may become full. At that time, the processing is interrupted when the bills are full, When the banknotes are taken out and the storage and feeding section 38a that has become empty is reloaded, the processing is restarted. It should be noted that by making at least one of the storing and delivering portions 38b and 38c attachable to and detachable from the lower layer unit 26, the storing and delivering portion 38a.
If the storage space is too large to be stored in
b, 38c may be stored and collected.

As described above, according to the money depositing / dispensing machine of this embodiment, in the bill depositing / dispensing section 11, a plurality of temporary storage / storage dispensing sections 53d, 53e are vertically stacked. Therefore, even when dealing with an increase in handling denominations such as new denominations, the length in the front-back direction of the machine body 10 is not increased, and even when handling the same number of denominations, the front-back direction of the machine body 10 The length of can be shortened. Therefore, the length of the machine body 10 in the front-rear direction can be shortened, and the space efficiency for installation can be improved.

Further, the vertical length of each of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d, 53e vertically stacked is determined by the temporary storage / storage delivery portions other than the temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d, 53e. Since the vertical lengths of the respective 40a to 40c are set to be smaller than each other, the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d, which are vertically stacked, are arranged.
The overall vertical length of 53e can be kept short. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in the height of the machine body 10.

Furthermore, the height position of the uppermost portion of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d, 53e arranged vertically one above the other is the temporary storage / storage delivery portion other than these temporary storage / storage delivery portions 53d, 53e. Since the height positions of the uppermost portions of the 40a to 40c are set to be equal to or lower than each other, the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding portions 53d and 53e that are vertically stacked are arranged.
As a result, the height of the entire body 10 will not be increased. Therefore, an increase in the height of the machine body 10 can be surely suppressed.

In addition, the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units 53d, 53e arranged vertically are all temporary storage / storage delivery units 53d, 53e.
Since it is arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body 10 together with the storing and feeding parts 40a to 40c, the machine body 10 does not spread laterally. Therefore, the length of the machine body 10 in the left-right direction does not increase, and the space efficiency for installation can be further improved.

Furthermore, the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53e arranged one above the other are all the temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53e.
Since it is arranged on the rear side of the machine body 10 with respect to the storage and delivery units 40a to 40c, it is possible to prevent the conveyance route for conveying the banknotes from becoming complicated.

In addition, with respect to the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d and 53e in which the storage amount is smaller than the others by being arranged in the vertical direction, one of them is the distribution amount. By using a small number of 2,000 tickets and the other one of 5,000 tickets with a small amount of circulation, a temporary storage / storing unit 40c for a large number of circulations
It is possible to balance the storage amount with the storage and delivery unit 40b. Therefore, the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40
It is possible to prevent the full state from being biased toward c, 53d, and 53e, and to operate efficiently.

The temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40
It is also possible to change the denominations stored in c, 53d, and 53e from the above.

[0106]

As described in detail above, the first aspect of the present invention
According to the described bill depositing / dispensing machine, since a plurality of temporary storage / storing / delivering units are vertically stacked, even when dealing with an increase in handling denominations of new denominations, etc. It is possible to reduce the length of the machine body in the front-rear direction even when handling the same number of denominations without increasing the length. Therefore, the length of the machine body in the front-rear direction can be shortened, and the space efficiency for installation can be improved.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the second aspect of the present invention, the vertical length of each of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units arranged vertically is determined by the temporary storage / storage delivery unit. Since it is set to be smaller than the vertical length of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit other than the above, it is possible to suppress the overall vertical length of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units that are vertically stacked. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in the height of the machine body.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the third aspect of the present invention, the height positions of the uppermost portions of the plurality of temporary storage / accommodating / delivering portions arranged one above the other are the temporary storage / accommodating / delivering portion. Other than the above, the height of the uppermost part of the temporary storage / storage delivery section is set to the same or lower, so the height of the entire aircraft is increased due to the multiple temporary storage / storage delivery sections that are arranged one above the other. It will not be lost. Therefore, an increase in the height of the machine body can be surely suppressed.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the fourth aspect of the present invention, the plurality of temporary storage / accommodating / delivering units arranged in a vertically stacked manner are all temporary storage / accommodating / delivering units other than these temporary storage / accommodating / delivering units. Since it is arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body together with the storing and feeding section, the machine body does not spread laterally. Therefore, the lateral length of the machine body does not increase, and the space efficiency for installation can be further improved.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the fifth aspect of the present invention, the plurality of temporary storage / accommodating / delivering portions arranged vertically are all the temporary storage / accommodating / discharging portions. Since it is arranged on the rear side of the machine body with respect to the storing and feeding section, it is possible to prevent the conveyance route for conveying banknotes from becoming complicated.

According to the bill depositing / dispensing machine of the sixth aspect of the present invention, the plurality of temporary storage / storing / delivering units whose storage amount is smaller than the others by being arranged vertically,
One of them is for 2,000 tickets with low circulation volume, and the other is for 5,000 tickets with low circulation volume. It is possible to balance the storage amount with the temporary storage / storage delivery unit of. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the temporary storage / accommodation feeding portion from being biased to the full state, and to operate efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a money depositing / dispensing machine as an embodiment of a bill depositing / dispensing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side sectional view showing a schematic configuration of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing a deposit processing route of a banknote deposit / withdrawal unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 4 is a side sectional view showing a withdrawal processing route of a banknote withdrawal / withdrawal section of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 5 is a side sectional view showing a deposit port distribution replenishment processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 6 is a side sectional view showing an internal filling / dispensing / replenishing processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 7 is a side sectional view showing an external filling / dispensing / replenishing processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 8 is a side sectional view showing a storage processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the money depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 9 is a side sectional view showing a sorting and counting process route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 10 is a side cross-sectional view showing a state in which the middle-layer unit is pulled out at the time of the return processing of the bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 11 is a side sectional view showing a first inspection processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the money depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 12 is a side sectional view showing a second scrutiny processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 13 is a side sectional view showing a third scrutinizing processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 14 is a side sectional view showing a fourth scrutiny processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 15 is a side sectional view showing a collection processing route of a bill depositing / dispensing unit of the coin depositing / dispensing machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

33a-33c, 51d, 51e Temporary storage part 38a-38c, 52d, 52e Storage delivery part 40a-40c, 53d, 53e Temporary storage and storage delivery part

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Kazuhiko Nagata             Lore, 1-12-6 Higashitabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo             Le Seiki Co., Ltd. Tokyo Laboratory (72) Inventor Takashi Harada             Lore, 1-12-6 Higashitabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo             Le Seiki Co., Ltd. Tokyo Laboratory F-term (reference) 3E040 AA01 FB02 FC05                 3F054 AA03 AC06 BA02 BD04 BF08                       BF22 BF23 CA06                 3F100 AA06 BA24 CA03 CA14 EA03                       EA17

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing banknotes, and a lower storage unit provided below the temporary storage unit for receiving and storing the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit. A banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a temporary storage / storage delivery unit having a storage / delivery unit capable of delivering from a product, wherein a plurality of the temporary storage / storage delivery units are arranged in a vertically stacked manner. Deposit and withdrawal machine. 2. The vertical length of each of the plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units arranged in a vertical arrangement is greater than the vertical length of the temporary storage / storage delivery units other than the temporary storage / storage delivery units. The banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1, wherein the banknote depositing / dispensing machine is also set to be small. 3. The height position of the uppermost portion of the plurality of temporary storage / storage feeding portions arranged vertically one above the other is the height of the uppermost portions of the temporary storage / storage feeding portions other than these temporary storage / storage feeding portions. 3. The banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 2, wherein the banknote depositing / dispensing machine is set to be equal to or less than the height position. 4. The plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units arranged vertically one above the other are arranged in the front-rear direction of the machine body together with all the temporary storage / storage delivery units other than these temporary storage / storage delivery units. The bill depositing / dispensing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that. 5. The plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units arranged in a vertically stacked manner are disposed on the rear side of the machine body with respect to all the temporary storage / storage delivery units other than the temporary storage / storage delivery units. The bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 4, wherein 6. One of the plurality of temporary storage / storing / feeding units arranged vertically one above the other is for 2,000 tickets, and the other one is for 5,000 tickets. Claims 1 to 5
The banknote deposit / withdrawal machine according to any one of 1.