JP2003051046A - Cash machine for paper money - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cash machine for paper money with which the number of times of occurrence of device stop caused by overfilling of a reject storage part for storing paper money which is not fed to the outside can be suppressed by decreasing the quantity of paper money to be stored in this reject storage part to the utmost. SOLUTION: Among bank notes fed out of temporary stock/storage feed-out parts 40a-40c, 53d and 53e, those discriminated as conveyance abnormality by a discrimination part 43 are stored in a reject storage part 44 for storing paper money which is not fed to the outside. Bank notes which cannot be discriminated by the discrimination part 43 are stored in the temporary stock/ storage feed-out part 40a.

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. In the withdrawal process, a recycle type banknote deposit / withdrawal machine is used that dispenses banknotes for withdrawal. As such a bill depositing / dispensing machine, there is one already disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 2756058.

[0003]

By the way, in the conventional type of banknote depositing / dispensing machine of this type, the banknote dispensed from the temporary storage / storage dispensing section is finally confirmed by the discriminating section at the time of dispensing. All the banknotes for which an abnormality has been detected by the discriminating unit are stored in a reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in a non-feedable manner. The banknotes that are determined to be abnormal at the time of dispensing are the skewed and double-fed transport abnormal banknotes and the indistinguishable banknotes. The bills are stored in the temporary storage / storing / feeding unit after being identified, and are not likely to be fake bills. Therefore, unidentifiable bills are genuine bills that cannot be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason. However, if all of these bills are stored in the reject storage unit that cannot be fed out, the reject storage unit will be filled up early,
In order to cancel the full state, the device for taking out the bills from the reject storage unit is frequently stopped, which is disadvantageous in operation.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the number of banknotes stored in the reject storing section for storing the banknotes in a non-feedable manner can be reduced as much as possible, thereby suppressing the number of times the apparatus is stopped due to the reject storing section becoming full. The purpose is to provide a banknote deposit / withdrawal machine that can be used.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1 of the present invention has an identifying section for identifying a banknote fed out from a banknote deposit port, and an identifying section for identifying the banknote. A plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units that temporarily store the banknotes classified based on the identification result, store the stored banknotes, and further dispense the stored banknotes from the bottom, and these temporary storage / storage delivery. And a discriminating unit for discriminating the bills fed out from the unit,
Among the bills delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery unit, the banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination unit are stored in a reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in a non-deliverable manner, while the bills cannot be determined by the determination unit. It is characterized in that the discriminated banknotes are stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery section.

As described above, among the bills delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery unit, the bills determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the discriminating unit are stored in the reject storage unit in which the bills cannot be delivered. Is a banknote that has been discriminated by the discriminating unit, that is, an unidentifiable banknote that was once discriminated as a genuine bill by the discriminating unit but was stored but could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason other than the conveyance abnormality. With regard to the above, by storing in the temporary storing / storing and feeding section, the feeding can be performed again.

A bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 2 of the present invention comprises:
Regarding the one according to claim 1, the temporary storage / storage delivery unit has a temporary storage / storage delivery unit for each denomination and a temporary storage / storage delivery unit common to a plurality of denominations. Among the bills delivered from the storage / delivery unit, all the bills determined to be indistinguishable by the determination unit are stored in the temporary storage / storage / delivery unit common to the plurality of denominations.

As described above, among the bills fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit, the bills judged to be abnormal in conveyance by the discriminating unit are stored in the reject storing unit in which the bills cannot be fed out. Is a banknote that has been discriminated by the discriminating unit, that is, an unidentifiable banknote that was once discriminated as a genuine bill by the discriminating unit but was stored but could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason other than the conveyance abnormality. Will be stored in the temporary storage and storage unit that is shared by multiple denominations. Then, in the temporary storage / storing / delivering unit common to the plurality of denominations, the stored bills are discriminated by the discriminating unit or discriminated by the discriminating unit and distributed / stored in the temporary storage / storing / delivering unit of the corresponding denomination. Since the withdrawal is made from the temporary storage / storing unit of the seeds, regardless of the denomination of the unidentified banknotes, this distribution / storage ensures that the appropriate denominations are stored in the temporary storage / storing unit. , You will be able to withdraw money from here.

A bill depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 3 of the present invention is
Regarding the one according to claim 1, among the bills delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery unit, the banknotes that are determined to be indistinguishable by the determination unit are identified by the identification unit, and the banknotes corresponding to the identification result are identified. It is characterized by being stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery section.

As described above, among the bills delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery unit, the bills determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the discriminating unit are stored in the reject storage unit in which the bills cannot be delivered. Is a banknote that has been discriminated by the discriminating unit, that is, an unidentifiable banknote that was once discriminated as a genuine bill by the discriminating unit but was stored but could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason other than the conveyance abnormality. Is identified by the identifying unit, is stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit of an appropriate denomination according to the identification result, and is dispensed from here.

[0011]

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. Note that the lower side in FIGS. 2 to 15 shows the operator side, that is, the front side (front side) that performs the operation. 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 unit 14 and the processing state in which the operation of each processing is input by the left and right operators on the left and right sides of 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.

Further, a coin deposit / withdrawal part 17 for depositing coins into the coin deposit / withdrawal part 12 is provided in the center in the left / right direction slightly rearward of the front surface of the machine body 10, and the coin deposit / withdrawal part 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 projecting to the front side with respect to the coin deposit / withdrawal section 12, the banknote is delivered from the inside of the banknote deposit / withdrawal section 11 to the center in the left-right 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 indistinguishable from the above-mentioned banknote depositing port 21 for loading the deposited banknotes into the machine one by one during the depositing process and for loading the set deposited banknotes into the machine one by one. 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 machine body 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.
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 frontmost temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a does not support only one denomination, and is used as an operation cassette for storing appropriate banknotes or replenishment banknotes according to each process, Is designed to store a plurality of denominations of 5,000 tickets (5,000 yen bills) and 2,000 tickets (2,000 yen bills) with a small amount of circulation, which have been deposited. Since it is used as an operation cassette, the frontmost storage feeding portion 38a among the storage feeding portions 38a to 38c is detachable from the lower layer unit 26 pulled out from the machine body 10, and the rest of the storage feeding portions. 38b and 38c are fixed to the lower layer unit 26.

The lower unit 26 is connected to the conveyance path 28 via the middle unit 25 on the rear side of the third temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40c from the front, and all the temporary storage / storage feeding 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 the denomination, double feeding, and skew feeding of the bills to be conveyed is provided in the middle of the conveying path 42.

Further, in the lower layer unit 26, the dispensed banknotes that have been determined to be abnormal in conveyance such as double feeding or skewing by the discriminating section 43 among the dispensed banknotes transported in the transport path 42 during the dispensing process, A reject storage unit 44 that stores the product in a state in which it cannot be extended is provided so as to be openable and closable in the front. On the front surface of the lower layer unit 26, as shown in FIG.
A door 44a that is opened and closed when the reject bill in the reject storage unit 44 is removed and a key 44 that is required when opening the door 44a
b and 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 which 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 and storage and 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, which allows the upper side of the flapper 56, 56 in the temporary storage / storage delivery section 53d. 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 parts 53d, 53e are the same as those of the temporary storage / storage delivery parts 40a-40c other than the temporary storage / storage delivery parts 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-40c, are aligned in the left-right direction in the front-back direction of the machine body 10. It is arranged.

Further, these two temporary storage / storage delivery units 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 parts 53d, 53e are of a denomination type, and one of these two temporary storage / storage delivery parts 53d, 53e is the upper temporary storage / storage storage / delivery part. 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 depositing / dispensing 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 depositing port 21 and the execution input of the "deposit processing" is made on the operation unit 14, a control unit (not shown) causes a banknote deposit operation. 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 unidentifiable banknotes including the counterfeit banknotes, the banknotes that are determined to be conveyance abnormal banknotes such as double-feed, skew, etc. are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and are identified as genuine and dirty among the banknotes that are determined to be genuine notes. Banknotes and true and positive banknotes that cannot be fully stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40c are sent from the banknote intake unit 32 to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a, and other true banknotes. The banknotes that are identified as positive are properly passed through the front / back reversing unit 30 so that the front and back are sorted, and then the banknotes corresponding to one of the temporary storage units 33a to 33c of the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40a to 40c, respectively. It is sent from the banknote taking-in section 32. At this time, the temporary storage unit 33a
The shutters 36, 36 are closed, and the bills 33 to 33c temporarily store the banknotes sent from the banknote loading unit 32 in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36.

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 / storage feeding portion 40b for all the bills, and the thousands 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.

Then, when all the bills are once fed out from the bill deposit port 21 and fed into any of the bill dispensing port 20 and the temporary storage parts 33a to 33c of the temporary storage / storage delivery parts 40a to 40c, the control unit. 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 "withdrawal process" operator inputs the "withdrawal process" to the host machine 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 banknotes determined to be normal by the determination unit 43 are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20 while the determination unit 4 is activated.
Among the bills determined to be abnormal in 3, all the conveyance abnormal bills determined to be double-fed and skew are sent to the reject storage unit 44, and further, among the bills determined to be abnormal in the determination unit 43, except the conveyance abnormality. The banknotes that have been determined to be the same, that is, the unidentifiable banknotes and the dirty banknotes, are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a as the operation cassette.

When all the bills dispensed for withdrawal are sent to the reject storage unit 44, the bill dispensing port 20 and the temporary storage unit 33a, the temporary storage unit 33a.
Opens the shutters 36, 36 to drop the banknotes on the flappers 46, 46 of the storing and feeding section 38a in the closed state. The banknotes placed on the flappers 46, 46 are dropped from the flappers 46, 46 downward at appropriate timings and stored in the storage space 49 of the storage / feeding unit 38a.

As described above, among the bills dispensed from the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e of the respective denominations at the time of the dispensing process, the bills determined to be abnormal by the discrimination unit 43 are designated as the bills. While the bills are stored in the reject storage unit 44 that is stored so as to be unable to be fed out, all the banknotes that are determined to be indeterminable by the determination unit 43 are stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a that is shared by multiple denominations. Then, in the temporary storing / storing and feeding section 40a shared by a plurality of denominations, the stored bills are discriminated by the discriminating section 43 and temporarily discriminated by the discriminating section 29 by the "internal filling / dispensing and supplementing process" described later.・ Storing and feeding section 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e
Among the corresponding denominations, the money is distributed and stored, and in the subsequent “disbursement processing”, the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40 of each denomination is carried out.
Since the banknotes b, 40c, 53d, and 53e are to be withdrawn, regardless of the denomination of the banknote that is determined to be an unidentifiable banknote during the withdrawal process, the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b is performed by this distribution and storage. , 40c, 53d, 53e of appropriate denomination, and the money is withdrawn from here.

"Payment Port Distribution Replenishment Processing" When replenishing bills from the bill deposit port 21 to the storage and delivery units 38b, 38c, 52d and 52e of the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40c, 53d and 53e of each denomination, 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, the banknotes that are discriminated by the discriminating section 29 as unidentifiable banknotes including counterfeit banknotes, and conveyance abnormal banknotes such as double feed and skew are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20 and are identified as true and dirty. The banknotes are sent from the banknote take-in section 32 to the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 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 passed through the front / back reversing unit 30 as appropriate, so that the front and back are sorted, and then the temporary storage unit 33b for each denomination is obtained.
The corresponding one of 33c, 51d, and 51e is fed from each bill accepting section 32 and 50. At this time, the temporary storage units 33b and 33c are respectively connected to the shutters 36 and
Since 36 is in the closed state, the bills taken in from the bill taking-in section 32 are to be temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36, and the temporary storing sections 51d, 51e.
Respectively, the flappers 56, 56 are closed, and the bills taken in from the bill taking-in section 50 are put into the flapper 5 respectively.
It will be temporarily stored in the upper storage space 60 of 6,56.

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 unit 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.

The banknotes (mainly 2,000 notes and 5,000 notes) stored in the storing and delivering section 38a of the temporary storing and storing and delivering section 40a by the "internal filling / dispensing / replenishing processing" and the "payment processing" are temporarily stored by type. Storing and feeding parts 40b, 40c, 53d,
When replenishing the bills to 53e, 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 and feeding unit 38a to feed the bottom bills one by one. The separated bills are to be fed out, and the bills thus fed out are conveyed along the internal filling distribution replenishment processing route shown by the thick line in FIG. 6, which is composed of the predetermined portions of the conveyance paths 28 and 42 and the bill taking-in section 32, and in the middle thereof. Sorting is performed based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 43 and the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 29.

That is, it is already confirmed at the time of deposit processing that the bills judged to have a double feed or skew conveyance abnormality by the discriminating unit 43 are not counterfeit bills.
The banknotes that have been sent to, and that have been determined to be indistinguishable and dirty are sent to the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 40a from the banknote intake section 32. At this time, in the temporary storage unit 33a, the shutters 36 and 36 are in the closed state, and the bills sent from the bill taking unit 32 are shuttered by the shutter 3.
It will be temporarily stored in the storage space 37 above 6,6. Then, the other bills are appropriately passed through the front / back reversing unit 30, and thus the front and back are arranged, and then the bills are inserted into the corresponding ones of the temporary storing units 33b, 33c, 51d, and 51e of the denominations. , 50. 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. Then, the temporary storage units 51d and 51e are provided with flappers 56 and 56, respectively.
Is closed, and the bills taken in from the bill taking-in section 50 are temporarily stored in the storage space 60 above the flappers 56, 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, 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 storage 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 delivered from the storage space 49 of the storage / delivery unit 38a, and the reject storage unit 44 and the temporary storage / storage / delivery units 40a to 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 Replenishing Process" The above is
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 include counterfeit bills, the discriminating unit 43 or the discriminating unit 29 causes the counterfeit bills to be processed. The banknotes that have been identified as unidentifiable banknotes, including double feed, and banknotes that have been conveyed abnormally due to skew, etc.
All will be sent out to the bill outlet 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.

"Storage processing" Temporary storage / storage delivery 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 completion of replenishment is confirmed 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 section has already stored the storage space 6 for each of the storage and delivery sections 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 the designated 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, unidentifiable banknotes including counterfeit banknotes and abnormally conveyed banknotes such as double feed and skew, banknotes identified as true and dirty, and banknotes of denomination not specified as true and correct,
A denomination designated as true and positive, and the temporary storage unit 33a-
The banknotes that cannot be stored in the corresponding bank 33c are sent to the banknote dispensing port 20, and the true and positive banknotes of the designated denomination pass through the front / back reversing unit 30 as appropriate. After the front and back are collected, the bills are sent to the corresponding temporary storages 33a to 33c from the respective bill accepting units 32, depending on the type of denomination. At this time, the temporary storage unit 33a
The shutters 36, 36 are closed, and the bills 33 to 33c temporarily store the banknotes sent from the banknote loading unit 32 in the storage space 37 above the shutters 36, 36.

Specifically, for example, in the case of sorting and counting 1,000, 2,000, and 5,000 notes, among the banknotes that are identified as true and positive, the unspecified tenth banknote is the banknote withdrawal. 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 section 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 higher-level machine or the operation unit 14 based on the display of the higher-level machine as a result of the above-mentioned deposit processing, and the fact that the "rearrangement / counting processing" 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 / storing unit 40b storage / sending unit 38b
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, among the bills determined to be abnormal by the discriminating unit 43, the abnormal conveyance bills determined to be double-fed or skewed are sent to the reject storage unit 44, and among the bills determined to be abnormal by the discriminating unit 43. The denominations of the banknotes other than the conveyance abnormality and the banknotes determined to be normal by the determination unit 43 are identified by the identification unit 29, and the front and back reversing unit 30 arranges the front and back as necessary, and the identification unit 29 determines the denominations to be examined. The determined normal banknotes are stored in the temporary storage unit 33 of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40b.
The different-denomination banknotes that have been sent to b and that have been determined by the identification unit 29 to be other than the denomination to be scrutinized are sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a.

In this way, the storage / feeding section 38b is sequentially installed.
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
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, 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.

As described above, the discriminating unit 4 among the bills fed out from the temporary storage / storage feeding unit 40b at the time of the close inspection process.
The banknotes determined to be abnormally conveyed in 3 are stored in the reject storage section 44 that stores the banknotes in a non-feedable manner, while the banknotes determined to be indistinguishable in the determination section 43 are temporarily stored in a plurality of denominations. It will be stored in the storing and feeding unit 40a. Then, in the temporary storage / storing and feeding section 40a shared by the plurality of denominations, the "internal filling / dispensing / replenishing process" is performed.
The discriminating unit 43 discriminates the stored banknotes and the discriminating unit 29
Temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40c, 5 while being identified by
3d and 53e are distributed and stored in the corresponding denomination,
In the subsequent "withdrawal process", since the withdrawal is made from the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e of each denomination, regardless of the denomination of the unidentifiable bill, Temporary storage / storage delivery unit 4 by distribution storage
0b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of appropriate denominations are stored and withdrawn from here.

(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, an 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 the normal bills that are discriminated to be normal by the discriminating unit 43 are processed by 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. Further, the banknotes that are determined to be indeterminable by the determination unit 43 are also sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 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 section 33a is
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 banknotes in the storage space 61 of the storage and delivery section 52d are delivered and sent to either the reject storage section 44 or the temporary storage section 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery section 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.

From the 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) Scrubbing 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 not arranged on the front and back. Storage / storage delivery section 40a
Are all sent to the temporary storage section 33a. Further, the banknotes that are determined to be indeterminable by the determination unit 43 are also sent to the temporary storage unit 33a of the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a.

In this way, the bills are stored in the temporary 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, the bill depositing / dispensing section 11 temporarily stores / stores the bills according to the denomination during the dispensing processing and the scrutiny processing. Among the bills fed out from 40c, 53d, 53e, the bills determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the discriminating unit 43 are stored in the reject storing unit 44 in which the bills cannot be fed out, while the discriminating unit 43 determines that the bills cannot be discriminated. The banknotes thus stored are all stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a that is shared by a plurality of denominations. Then, in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a that is shared by a plurality of denominations, the stored bills are temporarily stored / stored while being discriminated by the discriminating unit 43 and the discriminating unit 29 in the "internal filling / dispensing / replenishing process". The payout units 40b, 40c, 53d, and 53e of the corresponding denominations are distributed and housed.
Temporary storage / storage delivery section 40b, 40c, 53 for each denomination
Since the undeliverable banknotes are banknotes of any denomination, the temporary storage / storage delivery sections 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e are dispensed by this distribution and storage because the unidentified banknotes are of any denomination.
It will be stored in a proper denomination of the above and will be withdrawn from here.

Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of banknotes stored in the reject storing section 44 for storing the banknotes so that they cannot be fed out, and it is possible to suppress the number of times the apparatus is stopped due to the reject storing section 44 becoming full. .

In the above embodiment, among the bills fed from the temporary storage / storage feeding units 40b, 40c, 53d and 53e, all the bills which are discriminated by the discriminating unit 43 are plural denominations. The case where the bills are stored in the shared temporary storage / storage delivery unit 40a has been described as an example. However, among the banknotes delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e, the determination unit 43 determines that the banknotes cannot be determined. The identifying unit 29 identifies the denominations of the bills, and temporarily stores them.
You may make it accommodate in the accommodation denomination 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e of the denomination corresponding to this identification result. According to this structure, for the unidentifiable banknotes that could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit 43 for some reason other than the conveyance abnormality, the discriminating unit 29 discriminates them again and temporarily stores them.
It can be stored in a proper denomination of the storing and feeding units 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e.

[0098]

As described in detail above, the first aspect of the present invention
According to the described banknote depositing / dispensing machine, among the banknotes delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery section, for the banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination section, the banknotes are stored in a reject storage section that stores the banknotes in a nonfeedable manner. However, the bill that is determined to be indistinguishable by the discriminating unit, that is, the bill that was once discriminated as a genuine bill by the discriminating unit and was stored, could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit for some reason other than the conveyance abnormality. Undecidable banknotes can be retaken again by storing them in the temporary storage / storage feeding section. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of banknotes stored in the reject storage unit that stores the banknotes in a non-feedable manner, and it is possible to reduce the number of times the device is stopped due to the reject storage unit becoming full.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of the second aspect of the present invention, among the banknotes delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery section, the banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the discriminating section cannot be delivered. The bill will be stored in the reject storage unit, but the bill that has been discriminated by the discriminating unit, that is, the bill that was once discriminated as a genuine bill by the discriminating unit and has been stored, will be for some reason other than abnormal conveyance. For unidentifiable banknotes that could not be discriminated by the discriminator in
Stored in a temporary storage / storage unit that is shared by multiple denominations. Then, in the temporary storage / storing / delivering unit common to the plurality of denominations, the stored bills are discriminated by the discriminating unit or discriminated by the discriminating unit and distributed / stored in the temporary storage / storing / delivering unit of the corresponding denomination. Since the withdrawal is made from the temporary storage / storing unit of the seeds, regardless of the denomination of the unidentified banknotes, this distribution / storage ensures that the appropriate denominations are stored in the temporary storage / storing unit. , You will be able to withdraw money from here. Therefore, for unidentifiable banknotes that could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit for any reason other than conveyance abnormality, the discriminating unit discriminates them again at the time of distribution or discriminates them by the discriminating unit and stores them in the temporary storing / storing unit for the appropriate denomination. can do.

According to the banknote pay-in / pay-out device of claim 3 of the present invention, among the banknotes delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery section, the banknotes determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the determination section cannot be delivered. The bill will be stored in the reject storage unit, but the bill that has been discriminated by the discriminating unit, that is, the bill that was once discriminated as a genuine bill by the discriminating unit and has been stored, will be for some reason other than abnormal conveyance. For unidentifiable banknotes that could not be discriminated by the discriminator in
It is identified by the identification unit, is stored in the temporary storage / storage delivery unit of an appropriate denomination according to the identification result, and is dispensed from here. Therefore, for unidentifiable banknotes that could not be discriminated by the discriminating unit for any reason other than the conveyance abnormality, the discriminating unit again discriminates and temporarily stores appropriate denominations.
It can be stored in the storing and feeding section.

[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]

21 Banknote deposit port 29 Identification unit 40a Temporary storage / storage delivery unit (temporary storage / storage delivery unit common to multiple denominations) 40b, 40c, 53d, 53e Temporary storage / storage delivery unit (temporary storage / storage delivery by denomination) Part) 43 discrimination part 44 reject storage part

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A discriminating unit for discriminating bills fed out from a bill depositing slot, and bills classified based on the discrimination result of the discriminating unit are temporarily stored, and the stored bills are further stored. A banknote depositing / dispensing machine having a plurality of temporary storage / storage delivery units that can be delivered from the bottom, and a determination unit that determines the banknotes delivered from these temporary storage / storage delivery units, Among the bills fed from the feeding unit, the bills determined to be abnormal in conveyance by the discriminating unit are stored in the reject storing unit that stores the bills in a non-feedable manner, while the bills determined to be unidentifiable by the discriminating unit are A bill depositing / dispensing machine which is stored in the temporary storage / storing / delivering unit. 2. The temporary storage / storage delivery unit has a temporary storage / storage delivery unit for each denomination and a temporary storage / storage delivery unit common to a plurality of denominations. The banknote input / output according to claim 1, wherein among the banknotes delivered from the banknotes, all banknotes that are determined to be indeterminable by the determination unit are stored in a temporary storage / storage delivery unit that is shared by the plurality of denominations. Gold machine. 3. The banknotes that have been discriminated by the discriminating unit among the banknotes delivered from the temporary storage / storage delivery unit are identified by the identification unit, and the temporary storage / delivery unit according to the identification result. The banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to claim 1, wherein the banknote depositing / dispensing machine is stored in a storage / delivery unit.