JP2003095530A - Paper sheet handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper sheet handling device capable of improving handling efficiency without enlarging a device constitution. SOLUTION: A money receiving processor has an attitude correcting device 10 for correcting a conveying attitude of bills P conveyed through a conveying passage 6. A foreign matter ticket Pn including a foreign matter of bills taken onto the conveying passage 6 by a taking roller is detected by a detecting device disposed just after the taking roller. The foreign matter ticket Pn is stopped in a grappled and constrained state by a nip between correcting rollers 37 and 38 by stopping the correcting rollers 37 and 38 on the downstream side when the rear end of a bill Pn-1 taken just previously is detected by a sensor 22 just after the attitude correcting device 10. A bill Pn+1 taken after the foreign matter ticket P is stopped by a nip between correcting rollers 37 and 38 on the upstream side.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet processing apparatus for picking up paper sheets such as banknotes one by one, detecting their characteristics, and sorting and accumulating them according to the detection result.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a sheet processing apparatus, a loading section for loading a plurality of sheets at a time, a loading section for loading the loaded sheets one by one onto a transport path, and a loading path on the transport path. Having a transport unit for transporting the transported paper sheets, a detection unit for detecting the characteristics of the transported paper sheets, a sorting stacking unit for sorting and stacking the paper sheets into a predetermined stacking unit in accordance with the detection result of the detection unit, etc. It has been known.

[0003]

In this type of apparatus, for example, when a foreign matter ticket that is stapled is taken out onto the conveying path, it is detected when a metal, that is, a staple core, passes through the detection portion. In some cases, the sensors in the department were destroyed.

For this reason, a sensor for detecting foreign matter is provided on the conveying path immediately after the take-out section, and the exclusion conveying path is branched from the conveying path in front of the detecting section so that the paper sheet in which the foreign matter is detected is in front of the detecting section. It is known how to eliminate by.

However, according to this method, it is necessary to branch the rejected transport path from the transport path between the take-out section and the detection section, and further, it is necessary to provide a gate at the branch position, so that the apparatus structure becomes large. There was a problem to do.

Further, only the foreign matter detection sensor is provided without branching the rejected transportation path, and when the foreign matter is detected, the transportation of the paper sheet is stopped, thereby preventing the foreign matter from passing through the detection portion. You can also

However, in this case, it is necessary to stop the apparatus every time a foreign substance is detected, and after the stop, it is necessary to manually remove all the paper sheets remaining in the apparatus, and to perform a jam processing operation. The processing efficiency was poor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide a paper sheet processing apparatus capable of improving processing efficiency without increasing the size of the apparatus.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the paper sheet processing apparatus of the present invention detects a paper sheet taken out on the conveying path and a taking-out section for taking out the paper sheet on the conveying path. A detection unit, a processing unit that processes the paper sheet based on the detection result of the detection unit, and a paper sheet that is taken out on the conveying path through the take-out unit and the detection unit through the conveying path. A conveyance unit that conveys to the processing unit, a detection device that detects a foreign matter ticket containing a foreign matter among the paper sheets taken out on the conveyance path through the takeout unit, and this detection device detects the foreign matter ticket And a stop unit for stopping the collected paper sheets on the transport path upstream of the detection unit in the transport direction.

According to the above invention, since the foreign matter ticket can be stopped on the conveying path in front of the detection section, it is possible to prevent the sensors of the detection section from being destroyed by the passage of the foreign matter ticket. Further, it is not necessary to branch the exclusion conveyance path for eliminating the foreign matter ticket from the conveyance path in front of the detection unit, and the size of the apparatus is not increased.

Further, the paper sheet processing apparatus of the present invention includes a take-out section for taking out the paper sheets on the conveying path, a detecting section for detecting the paper sheets taken out on the conveying path, and a detection result of the detecting section. A processing unit that processes the paper sheet based on the paper sheet; and a first transporting unit that transports the paper sheet taken out on the transport path through the take-out unit to the processing unit through the detection unit through the transport path. , A detection device for detecting a foreign matter ticket containing a foreign matter among the paper sheets taken out on the conveyance path through the takeout part, and provided on the conveyance path between the detection device and the detection part,
While transporting the paper sheets independently of the first transport section,
A second conveyance unit that stops the paper sheet detected by the detection device as a foreign matter ticket.

According to the above invention, the second transporting unit independently of the first transporting unit for transporting the sheet to the processing unit.
Since the foreign matter ticket can be stopped in the transport unit, all the paper sheets that have been transported via the transport path before the foreign matter ticket can be sent to the processing unit. However, the processing efficiency is not reduced.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 schematically shows the structure of a deposit processing machine 1 (paper sheet processing apparatus) according to an embodiment of the present invention. The deposit processing machine 1 mixes and inserts a plurality of banknotes P (paper sheets) of different sizes of a plurality of denominations in a lump, and aligns the front and back and top and bottom of all the banknotes P in the same direction. This is for classifying and accumulating.

The deposit processing machine 1 is roughly divided into three parts, and has a banknote processing part 2, a teller machine 3 and a banding processing part 4. The teller machine 3 is a personal computer in which dedicated application software is incorporated, and operates the bill processing unit 2 and manages its operation. Further, an operator monitor 3 a is connected to the teller machine 3. The sealing processing unit 4 binds 100 banknotes P of the same denomination processed by the banknote processing unit 2 with a paper band to form a bundle.

The bill processing unit 2 has a substantially rectangular box-shaped casing 2a which forms its outer shell. In the upper right part of the housing 2a in the figure,
An inserting unit 5 is provided for collectively inserting a plurality of banknotes P in a state where the banknotes P are stacked in the plane direction with the short side direction standing.
The input unit 5 aligns the lower ends of all the banknotes P along the longitudinal direction with the stage to align them, and moves a backup plate (not shown) along the stage in the plane direction of the banknotes P on the stage. The banknote P at the left end in the figure is pressed against the pair of take-out rollers 5a. When the pair of take-out rollers 5a arranged vertically at the left end of the stage rotate, the banknotes P on the stage are taken out from the lower end side onto the transport path 6 from the lower end side in order.

A detection device 20 for detecting a bill P (hereinafter referred to as a foreign matter bill) having a foreign matter such as a metal piece is provided on the conveying path 6 immediately after the inserting section 5. The detection device 20 detects, for example, a foreign matter ticket such as a stapled bill P. Note that the detection device 20 instantaneously stops the rotation of the take-out roller 5a when the foreign matter ticket is detected to stop the taking-out, so that the number of taken-out sheets after the foreign matter ticket can be minimized. It is arranged on the conveyance path 6 as close as possible to 5a.

An attitude correction device 10, which will be described in detail later, is provided on the conveying path 6 on the downstream side of the detection device 20.
The attitude correction device 10 prevents each banknote P from having an attitude defect, that is, a defect caused by a skew or a shift, in each processing unit described later provided on the transport path 6 on the downstream side of the attitude correction device 10. Correct the skew and shift of P. In the present embodiment, the center of the banknote P taken out in the lateral direction is located on the center line 6a of the transport path 6, and the longitudinal edge of the banknote P is orthogonal to the centerline 6a.
The attitude correction device 10 corrects the conveyance attitude of each banknote P.

Immediately after the posture correction device 10, on the transport path 6,
A detection unit 7 is provided for detecting characteristics such as the denomination of the banknote P, the front and back, top and bottom, and the presence or absence of dirt and damage. The detection unit 7 reads various kinds of information from the surface of the banknote P transported through the transport path 6, performs a logical operation on the read information, compares the read information with reference information, and detects the characteristics of the banknote P as described above. .

A plurality of gates G1 to G9 for selectively switching the conveyance direction of the banknote P based on the detection result of the detection unit 7 are provided on the conveyance path 6 on the downstream side of the detection unit 7.

A switchback mechanism 8 is provided on one conveyance path branched at the position of the gate G1 provided on the most upstream side. The switchback mechanism 8 functions so as to reverse the conveyance direction of the bill P fed through the gate G1 to reverse the top and bottom and feed it again onto the conveyance path. The other conveyance path branched at the position of the gate G1 is
Detour transport path 8 for bypassing the switchback mechanism 8
functions as a. The bypass transport path 8a is set to have such a length that the banknote P that has passed through the switchback mechanism 8 via the gate G1 and the banknote P that has passed through the bypass transport path 8a reach the merging section 9 at the same time interval. There is.

The detour transportation path 8a is branched to the exclusion transportation path 11a on the way to the merging portion 9, and a gate G2 is provided at this branching position. At the end of the rejection conveyance path 11a branched via the gate G2, a reject unit 11 for rejecting the banknote P to be rejected is provided. The bill P to be excluded is not a bill that has been determined to be doubled, a bill that has been significantly skewed beyond a predetermined level, or a recirculable genuine bill in the detection unit 7. It is a banknote such as a banknote such as an unfit banknote or a counterfeit banknote (not necessarily a banknote), which has been determined to be unprocessable in the processing unit in the subsequent stage. The reject unit 11 is arranged above the input unit 5 and is accessible from outside the housing 2a.

The conveying path 6 on the downstream side of the merging section 9 has a 2
The gate G3 is provided at this branch position. A front / back reversing mechanism 12 is provided on one of the conveyance paths branched at the position of the gate G3. The front / back reversing mechanism 12 has a twisted conveyance path that is twisted by 180 ° around the central axis from the inlet to the outlet. Then, as the bill P passes through this twisted conveyance path, the front and back of the bill P are reversed. The other transport path branched at the position of the gate G3 functions as a bypass transport path 12a for bypassing the front / back reversing mechanism 12. The detour transport path 12a has such a length that the banknotes P that have passed through the twisted transport path of the front-back reversing mechanism 12 via the gate G3 and the banknotes P that have passed through the detour transport path 12a reach the merging section 13 at the same time intervals. Is set to.

A gate G4 is provided on the downstream side of the merging portion 13.
One of the conveyance paths that is branched in two directions at the position of (1) functions as a horizontal conveyance path 14 that extends substantially horizontally in the right direction in the drawing. The remaining five gates G5 to G9 are provided on the horizontal transport path 14 at substantially equal intervals. Each gate G5, G6, G7, G8,
Six stacking units 1 which are one more than the number of gates are provided at the positions branched downward from the horizontal transport path 14 by G9.
5a to 15f are provided. Further, below the stacking units 15a to 15f, stackers 16a to 1 that receive and store the banknotes of the stacking unit 15 for which payment has been confirmed.
6f are provided in a one-to-one correspondence.

The banknotes P that have passed through the merging section 13 have the above-described switchback mechanism 8 and / or front / back reversing mechanism 12 applied.
Since the front and back sides and the top and bottom directions are aligned in a fixed direction by selectively passing through the stacking portions 15a to 15a.
The banknotes P stacked in 15f are stacked in predetermined stacking units with the front and back and the top and bottom aligned.

The other conveying path branched at the position of the gate G4 is led out from the banknote processing section 2 and extends to the above-mentioned banding processing section 4. As described above, the banknotes P that have passed through the merging unit 13 have the front and back sides and the top and bottom aligned, and therefore the banknote P in which the front and back sides and the top and bottom are aligned in the same direction is sent to the sealing processing unit 4, In particular, only banknotes P of the same denomination are sent.

The sealing processing unit 4 stacks the fed bills P into a stacking unit 17 and the bills P stacked in the stacking unit 17 into one.
Sealing section 18 for sealing each 00 sheets with a paper strip, and sealing section 1
It has a band supply section 19 for supplying a paper band used in the above-mentioned 8. The banknotes P accumulated in the accumulating unit 17 are sealed with a paper band for every 100 sheets and are carried out of the deposit processing machine 1 via a conveyor (not shown).

Next, the posture correcting apparatus 10 described above will be described in detail mainly with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.
FIG. 2 shows a schematic structure of the attitude correction device 10 in a perspective view, and FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view of the attitude correction device 10.

The posture correction device 10 includes a first correction unit 3 and a second correction unit 3 along the conveyance direction of the banknote P (direction of arrow T in the figure).
2 and 33. First and second correction units 32 and 33
Is attached to a base plate 31 that stands upright on the rear side of the apparatus along the transport path 6. First and second corrector 3
Since the reference numerals 2 and 33 have substantially the same structure, the first correction unit 32 will be described as a representative here, and the description of the second correction unit 33 will be omitted.

The first correction portion 32 is a support frame 3 having a shape in which both ends of an elongated plate-shaped member are bent at substantially the same side.
Have 4. That is, the support frame 34 is provided in the transport path 6
Frame base portion 34a longer than the longitudinal width of the banknote P conveyed through the paper money P, and two side plate portions 34b, 34b bent substantially at right angles from both sides of the frame base portion 34a.
And.

A drive shaft 35 is bridged between the two side plate portions 34b and 34b via bearings 36 and 36.
Two rollers 37, 37 are attached to the drive shaft 35 so as to be separated from each other. These two rollers 3
The outer peripheral surfaces of 7 and 37 are made of a rubber material in order to increase the frictional force. These two rubber rollers 37,
Above the 37, two corresponding rubber rollers 3 are provided.
8, 38 are transposed. Two rubber rollers 38, 3
8 is attached to the shaft 40 via a bearing 39.
Both ends of the shaft 40 have side plate portions 34b of the support frame 34,
The side plate portion 34 is fitted into the elongated hole 41 formed in 34b.
A spring 42 (rear side is not shown) provided outside b and 34b is urged downward. That is, the two rubber rollers 38, 38 are pressed by the corresponding two rubber rollers 37, 37, respectively, and the four rubber rollers 3
Reference numerals 7 and 38 function as correction rollers 37 and 38.

The correction rollers 37 and 38 are formed by the three pairs of conveyor belts 4 extending through the posture correcting device 10 along the conveyor path 6.
Nested between 9a, 49b and 49c. That is, the roller pair 37, 38 on the front side of the apparatus
Is disposed between the first and second conveyor belt pairs 49a and 49b, and the roller pair 37 and 38 on the rear side of the device is
And the third conveyor belt pair 49a, 49c.

Three pairs of conveyor belts 49a, 49b, 49
c is extended along the conveyance path 6 extending through the deposit processing machine 1, and is arranged so as to face the conveyance path 6 vertically. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, each conveyor belt is
It is wound around a plurality of rollers and stretched.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the first conveyor belt pair 49a at the center extends on the center line 6a of the conveyor path 6 on the upper surface side and the lower surface side of the conveyor path 6, and 6
The transport path 6 is defined in the upper and lower directions by being in contact with each other via the. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 6, in the second and third conveyor belt pairs 49b and 49c, the conveyor belt extending on the upper surface side of the conveyor path 6 is slightly different from the conveyor belt extending on the lower surface side. Are separated from each other so that the banknote P passing through the attitude correction device 10 is not vertically restrained. That is, the banknote P passing through the attitude correction device 10 is subjected to the relatively weak binding force of the first conveyor belt pair 49a, and the correction rollers of the first and second correction units 32 and 33 of the attitude correction device 10 are operated. It is configured to be conveyed while being pinched and restrained by 37 and 38.

By the way, a bevel gear 50 is fixedly and coaxially attached to the drive shaft 35 extending in the direction traversing the transport path 6 on the lower surface side of the transport path 6. This bevel gear 50
Is provided between the two rollers 37, 37, and another bevel gear 51 is meshed therewith. Another bevel gear 51, as shown in detail in FIG. 3, has a drive shaft 44 extending substantially vertically.
Is fixed coaxially to the upper end of the. The upper end of the drive shaft 44 faces the center of the drive shaft 35.

The drive shaft 44 is a cylindrical shaft 4 provided coaxially.
3, the upper bearing 52 and the lower bearing 5
It is rotatably held by 3. Lower bearing 53
Is attached inside the pulley 45 fixed to the cylindrical shaft 43. A pulley 64 is attached near the lower end of the drive shaft 44 via a one-way clutch 55. The rotation shaft of the stepping motor 54 is connected to the pulley 64 via a belt 62 and a pulley 63.

When the stepping motor 54 is rotationally driven, however, the pulley 63, the belt 62, and the pulley 6
The driving force is transmitted via 4 and the driving shaft 44 is rotated. The drive shaft 44 rotates only in one direction by the action of the one-way clutch 55. When the drive shaft 44 rotates in a predetermined direction, the bevel gear 51 attached to the upper end of the drive shaft 44 rotates, and the drive shaft 35 rotates via the bevel gear 50. When the drive shaft 35 is rotated, the two rubber rollers 37, 37 are rotated, and the two rubber rollers 38, 38 pressed by the two rubber rollers 37, 37 and brought into rolling contact are also rotated. In this way, the four correction rollers 37, 3
When 8 rotates, the banknote P is clamped in the two nips between the rollers and is transported along the transport path 6. The strength of the spring 42 is set so that the clamping force of the banknote P by the correction rollers 37 and 38 of the attitude correction device 10 is stronger than the clamping force of the banknote P by the pair of conveyor belts 49a.

On the other hand, the cylindrical shaft 43, via the bearing 57,
It is rotatably held in a substantially cylindrical housing 56. The upper end of the cylindrical shaft 43 is fixed by the two screws 43a.
It is fixed to the center of the frame base 34a of the support frame 34. Pulley 4 fixed to the lower end of the cylindrical shaft 43
A rotation shaft of a stepping motor 48 is connected to the motor 5 via a belt 46 and a pulley 47. The housing 56 holding the cylindrical shaft 43 rotatably is fixed to the base plate 31 via a plate 58 having a substantially rectangular plate shape. The plate 58 is fixed to the base plate 31 in a cantilevered state. A sensor 59 for detecting the home position of the first correction unit 32 is attached to the base plate 31. Further, the support frame 34 is provided with a detected body 60 for turning the sensor 59 on and off.

When the stepping motor 48 is rotationally driven, however, the pulley 47, the belt 46, and the pulley 4
The driving force is transmitted via 5 and the cylindrical shaft 43 is rotated. When the cylindrical shaft 43 is rotated, the support frame 34 fixed to the upper end of the cylindrical shaft 43 is rotated, and the correction roller 3 is rotated.
The direction of 7, 38 can be changed. The rotation amount of the support frame 34 is adjusted by controlling the number of steps of the stepping motor 48 with the time point when the sensor 59 detects the detected body 60 as the home position.

Next, the attitude correcting operation of the banknote P by the attitude correcting apparatus 10 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

The pair of take-out rollers 5a are used to make the loading section 5
After passing through the detection device 20, the banknote P taken out from the transport path 6 is transported while being pinched and restrained by the first transport belt pair 49a, and sequentially passes through the posture correction device 10 through the transport path 6. To be done. Here, the posture correction device 1
It is assumed that the banknote P passing through 0 has a skew θ1 and a shift ΔS to the extent shown by the solid line in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4, when the bill P is fed into the posture correcting apparatus 10, the stepping motor 54 of the first correcting section 32 is driven to cause the correcting rollers 37 and 38 to move around the pair of conveyor belts 49a to 49c. It is rotated at a peripheral speed equal to the speed.

At this time, the conveyance posture of the bill P fed into the posture correction device 10 is detected via the optical sensor array 70 arranged upstream of the first correction section 32 along the conveyance direction. The optical sensor array 70 has a plurality of light emitting units and light receiving units (not shown) each having an optical axis that passes through the transport path 6 in the vertical direction. A plurality of light emitting portions and light receiving portions are arranged so as to be lined up in a direction orthogonal to.

Then, from the detection result by the optical sensor array 70, the size of the banknote P, the amount of positional deviation of the center of the banknote P from the center line 6a of the transport path 6 in the width direction,
That is, the shift amount ΔS [mm] and the angular shift amount by which the end side along the longitudinal direction of the bill P is deviated from the width direction orthogonal to the transport direction T, that is, the skew angle θ1.
[°] is calculated.

At this time, if it is determined based on the detection result that the length of the banknote P in the longitudinal direction is shorter than the types of banknotes that can be processed by the device, the banknote P is a folded or bill. It is determined that the bill P is a cut bill, the posture of the bill P is not corrected, and the bill P is rejected.
To eliminate.

Next, assuming that the width of the bill P is L [mm], θ2 = tan θ2 = Δs / L is calculated. Then, as indicated by an arrow 71 in FIG. 4, the second stepping motor 48 is rotationally driven by the angle of θ2 so as to rotate the first correction unit 32. At this time, the first
Although the cylindrical shaft 43 and the shaft 44 of the correction unit 32 rotate in the opposite directions, the rotation speed of the first correction unit 32 does not change because the one-way clutch 55 idles.

When the banknote P is sent to the first correction section 32 in this state, the banknote P is conveyed while being pinched and held by the correction rollers 37 and 38. Correction roller 37,
The banknote P transported by 38 is the center line 6 of the transport path 6.
It is directed in a direction T ′ shifted by θ2 with respect to a. At this time, the bill P is directed in the direction of the arrow T ′ while maintaining the skew angle θ1, and the positional deviation in the width direction is corrected.

Next, the second correction is made at the timing when the leading edge of the bill P passes the sensor 72, that is, immediately after the bill P is pinched and restrained by the correction rollers 37 and 38 of the second correction unit 33. The portion 33 is indicated by an arrow 73 in the figure by θ1
Rotate in the direction of. In this way, the correction rollers 37, 3
When the banknote 8 is clamped by the banknote P, the second correction unit 3
The skew of the bill P is corrected by the rotation of 3.

By the series of control operations described above, the shift and skew of the bill P are continuously corrected, and the bill P is conveyed to the detection unit 7 on the downstream side as the bill P having the correct posture with the conveyance posture corrected. Further, among the banknotes P sent to the attitude correction device 10, the banknotes P that originally have no skew or shift are
By not rotating the first and second correction units 32 and 33, the first and second correction units 32 and 33 are conveyed to the detection unit 7 immediately after while maintaining the correct posture. In the present embodiment, the correct posture means a posture in which one side of the banknote P along the longitudinal direction is orthogonal to the centerline 6a of the transport path 6 and the center of the banknote P is located on the centerline 6a. To tell.

Next, the processing operation when the bill P taken out on the conveying path 6 is a foreign matter bill containing foreign matter such as metal pieces will be described with reference to FIG. Here, it is assumed that the foreign matter ticket is Pn, the banknote taken out on the conveying path 6 immediately before the foreign matter ticket is Pn-1, and the banknote taken out after the foreign matter ticket is Pn + 1.

First, the detection device 20 detects that a specific banknote is a foreign currency banknote Pn among a plurality of banknotes P continuously taken out from the insertion section 5 onto the conveyance path 6 by the pair of takeout rollers 5a. Then, when the rear end of the banknote Pn-1 taken out on the transfer path 6 immediately before the foreign matter ticket Pn has passed the sensor 22, the first position on the downstream side in the transfer direction of the posture correction device 10 is detected. Correction roller 3 of correction unit 33
7, 38 are decelerated and stopped. As a result, the foreign matter ticket Pn is held in the nip between the correction rollers 37 and 38 as shown in FIG. At this time, although the foreign matter ticket Pn is restrained by the transport belt pair 49a in the center to generate the transport force, the restraining force by the correction rollers 37 and 38 is stronger, so that it is not dependent on the restraining force by the transport belt pair 49a. The foreign matter ticket Pn is stopped by the correction rollers 37 and 38. The sensor 22
Is arranged immediately after the second correction unit 33.

At this time, the correction rollers 37 and 38 of the first correction unit 32 on the upstream side in the transport direction are decelerated and stopped at a predetermined timing. The stop timing of the correction rollers 37 and 38 is such that the leading edge of the banknote Pn + 1 taken out next to the foreign matter ticket Pn comes into contact with the nip of the stopped correction rollers 37 and 38 to stop the banknote Pn + 1. The timing is set to be. In the present embodiment, when the foreign matter bill Pn is detected by the detection device 20, the rotation of the take-out roller 5a is stopped to stop the taking-out of the banknote P, and the detection device 20 is provided immediately after the take-out roller 5a. Since they are arranged on the transport path, the number of banknotes P taken out on the transport path 6 after the foreign matter bill Pn is about 1 to 2. Therefore, one or two banknotes Pn + 1 ...
Is reliably stopped by the correction rollers 37 and 38 of the first correction unit 32.

On the other hand, the banknotes Pn-1 ... Which have been taken out on the conveying path 6 before the foreign matter ticket Pn are conveyed as usual through the conveying path 6 and processed regardless of the processing operation of the foreign matter ticket Pn. To be done. That is, even if the correction rollers 37 and 38 of the first and second correction units 32 and 33 of the attitude correction apparatus 10 are stopped as described above, the conveyance path on the downstream side of the attitude correction apparatus 10 is not stopped. The banknote P that has passed through the correction device 10 is processed as it is as usual.

By the way, the foreign matter bill Pn stopped as described above in the posture correction device 10 and one or two bills Pn.
+1 ... Are taken out and processed by the operator after the processing of all the banknotes P taken out before the foreign matter ticket Pn is completed, that is, after all the banknotes P are stacked in a predetermined stacking section.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the detecting device 20 detects that the bill P taken out on the conveying path 6 is the foreign matter bill Pn, the foreign matter bill Pn is detected by the detecting unit 7. Since it is stopped on the transport path 6 in the front, it is possible to prevent the foreign matters ticket Pn including a metal piece such as stapler from being sent to the detection unit 7 and destroying the sensors in the detection unit 7. .

Further, a new structure is added because the posture correcting device 10 for correcting the conveying posture of the bill P also serves as a mechanism for stopping the foreign matter bill Pn on the conveying path 6 before the detecting portion 7. Without doing so, the device configuration does not increase in size. Furthermore, it is not necessary to provide a gate for removing the foreign matter ticket Pn from the transport path 6 or an exclusion transport path.

Further, even when the foreign matter bill Pn is stopped on the conveying path 6, the bill P taken out before the foreign matter bill Pn can be processed as usual, so that the foreign matter bill Pn can be processed as usual. There is no need to perform a jam process such as once taking out all the banknotes P that have already been taken out in the apparatus when they are detected, and only the stopped foreign matter bill Pn needs to be dealt with later, and the work load on the operator can be greatly reduced. The processing efficiency can be improved.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the above-described embodiment, the case where the posture correction device 10 is also used as a stop mechanism for stopping the foreign matter ticket Pn has been described, but in the present embodiment, the foreign matter ticket Pn is stopped instead of the posture correction device 10. A stop mechanism 80 is provided only for
The foreign matter ticket Pn is stopped on the conveyance path 6 in front of the detection unit 7.

The stop mechanism 80 has a flying conveyance section 81 for flying-conveying the banknote P that is taken out from the insertion section 5 onto the conveyance path 6 by the take-out roller 5a and is conveyed in the direction of the arrow T. Usually, the transport path 6 is defined by a plurality of pairs of transport belts that run along the upper surface and the lower surface thereof, but the flying transport unit 81 does not have a transport mechanism such as a transport belt, and the upper surface of the transport path 6 does not have a transport mechanism. It has only a pair of guide plates 82 and 83 for defining the side and the lower surface side.

Further, the stop mechanism 80 has a stopper for stopping the bill P being conveyed in the flying conveyance section 81, and a sensor for operating the stopper. For example, as shown in FIG.
A pair of rollers 84 and 85 are arranged as a stopper of 1,
The sensor 86 is arranged immediately after the nip between the roller pairs 84 and 85. The roller pairs 84 and 85 are arranged so as to be pressed by sandwiching the transport path 6 up and down so that the nip is interposed on the transport path 6, and is rotated independently of the transport systems on both sides sandwiching the stop mechanism 80. It

Here, referring to FIG. 9, the stopping mechanism 8
The operation by 0 will be described.

The roller pairs 84 and 85 of the stop mechanism 80 are normally rotated at a constant speed in the direction indicated by the arrow in FIG. 9A, that is, in the conveyance direction of the banknote P (direction of the arrow T). In this state, when the detection device 20 detects that the bill P taken out on the conveying path 6 is the foreign matter bill Pn, the take-out roller 5a is immediately stopped to stop taking out the bill P and the foreign matter. The roller pairs 84 and 85 of the stop mechanism 80 are stopped at the timing when the trailing end of the banknote Pn-1 taken out one before the ticket Pn has passed the sensor 86.

As a result, the foreign matter ticket Pn passing through the flying conveyance section 81 is brought into contact with the nip between the roller pairs 84 and 85 and stopped (FIG. 9b). When the bill Pn + 1 other than the foreign matter bill Pn is taken out before the take-out roller 5a is stopped, the bill Pn + 1 is also stopped at the nip between the roller pair 84, 85. In this way, the flying transport unit 81
Since the bills stopped at are not subjected to the binding force of the conveyor belt, they are stopped without being crumpled.

As described above, also in the stop mechanism 80 according to the present embodiment, the foreign matter ticket Pn can be reliably stopped on the transport path 6 before the detecting section 7, and the foreign matter ticket Pn can be moved to the transport path 6 before the foreign matter ticket Pn. The banknotes Pn-1 ... Taken out can be processed without stopping. Therefore, all the bills P taken out before the foreign matter bill Pn can be processed as usual, and it is possible to prevent the foreign matters bill Pn from being sent to the detection unit 7 and destroying the sensors.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, but can be variously modified within the scope of the present invention. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the foreign matter ticket P
The case where the roller pair is used as a stopper for stopping n on the transport path 6 in front of the detection unit 7 has been described, but the invention is not limited to this, and the foreign matter bill Pn is provided on the transport path 6 by interposing a protrusion or the like. It may be stopped.

[0066]

As described above, since the paper sheet processing apparatus of the present invention has the above-mentioned configuration and operation, it is possible to improve the processing efficiency without enlarging the apparatus configuration. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a deposit processing machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a schematic structure of a posture correction device incorporated in the deposit processing machine of FIG.

3 is a cross-sectional view of the posture correction device in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory view for explaining a posture correction operation by the posture correction device in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a central conveyor belt pair extending through the posture correction device of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a view showing a pair of conveyor belts on both sides extending through the posture correcting device of FIG. 2;

FIG. 7 is an operation explanatory view for explaining the processing operation of the foreign matter ticket in the attitude correction device of FIG.

FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing a stop mechanism according to another embodiment of the present invention.

9 is an operation explanatory diagram for explaining an operation by the stop mechanism of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Deposit processing machine, 2 ... Banknote processing unit, 3 ... Teller machine,
4 ... Sealing processing section, 5 ... Input section, 5a ... Take-out roller, 6
... conveyance path, 7 ... detection unit, 10 ... posture correction device, 20 ... detection device, 22 ... sensors, 32, 33 ... first and second correction units, 37,38 ... correction rollers, 49a, 49b, 4
9c ... Conveying belt pair, 80 ... Stopping mechanism, 81 ... Flying conveying section, 82, 83 ... Guide plate, 84, 85 ... Roller pair, 86 ... Sensor, P ... Banknote, Pn ... Foreign matter ticket, T ... Conveying direction.

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A take-out unit for taking out a paper sheet on a conveyance path, a detection section for detecting a paper sheet taken out on a conveyance path, and a process for processing the paper sheet based on the detection result of this detection section. Section, a conveying section that conveys the paper sheets taken out on the conveying path through the take-out section to the processing section through the detecting section through the conveying path, and takes out on the conveying path through the take-out section. And a detection device for detecting a foreign matter ticket containing foreign matter among the paper sheets, and a stop for stopping the paper sheet detected by the detection device as a foreign matter ticket on the conveyance path upstream in the conveyance direction from the detection unit. A paper sheet processing apparatus comprising: 2. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the take-out section stops the take-out of the paper sheet when the foreign matter ticket is detected by the detection device. 3. The carrying section, when the foreign matter ticket is detected by the detecting device, carries all the paper sheets taken out on the carrying path before the foreign matter ticket by the take-out section to the processing section. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein 4. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the stopping unit stops the foreign matter ticket in a flying conveyance state that is not restrained by the conveyance unit. 5. The stop unit has two stop mechanisms along the sheet conveying direction, the stop mechanism on the downstream side in the conveying direction stops the foreign matter ticket, and the stop mechanism on the upstream side in the conveying direction. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the paper sheets taken out on the conveying path after the foreign matter ticket are stopped. 6. A take-out section for taking out the paper sheets on the conveying path, a detecting section for detecting the paper sheets taken out on the conveying path, and a process for processing the paper sheets based on the detection result of the detecting section. Section, a first conveying section for conveying the paper sheets taken out on the conveying path through the take-out section to the processing section through the detecting section through the conveying path, and a conveying path on the conveying path through the take-out section. A detection device for detecting a foreign matter ticket containing a foreign matter among the taken-out paper sheets, and a paper path provided between the detection device and the detection portion, the paper sheets being provided independently of the first conveyance portion. A paper sheet processing apparatus comprising: a second transfer unit that stops the paper sheet that is conveyed and is detected as a foreign matter ticket by the detection device. 7. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the take-out section stops the take-out of the paper sheets when the foreign matter ticket is detected by the detection device. 8. The first transport unit, when the foreign matter ticket is detected by the detection device, removes all the sheets taken out on the transport path before the foreign matter ticket by the take-out unit by the processing unit. The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the paper sheet processing apparatus is conveyed to. 9. The second transport unit has two transport mechanisms that operate independently of each other along a transport direction of paper sheets,
9. The transport mechanism on the downstream side in the transport direction stops the foreign matter ticket, and the transport mechanism on the upstream side in the transport direction stops the paper sheets taken out on the transport path after the foreign matter ticket. Paper sheet processing equipment.