JP2007034482A - Paper money receiving/paying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for improving the operating efficiency of a registration staff by removing any labor to extract money reception reject paper money for the preparation of fare adjustment processing to the outside. <P>SOLUTION: This paper money receiving/paying machine is provided with a paper receiving/paying part for accepting the input of paper money, a paper money discriminating part for discriminating input paper money, a denomination-categorized paper money storage part for storing paper money whose denomination is discriminated by the paper money discriminating part, a paper money delivery mechanism for delivering paper money from the denomination-categorized paper money storage part, a collection container for collecting paper money delivered by the paper money delivery mechanism and money reception reject paper money discriminated by the paper money discriminating part by the money reception processing and a movable separation board installed in the collection container, and configured so as to be ascended and descended. The collection container is formed with a collection port gate for ejecting paper money, and the movable partition board is ascended and descended according to the paper money collected by the collection container, and the paper money is discriminated and collected in the collection container. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention is connected to a register installed at a checkout office such as a supermarket, a convenience store, a retail store such as a gas station, or a large-volume store such as a discount shop, or a register for POS (Point of Sales) to deposit / withdraw banknotes. It is related with the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine used for.

A conventional banknote depositing / dispensing machine transports a banknote inserted into a banknote depositing port part to a banknote discrimination part by a transport path, and deposits a rejected banknote with a banknote discrimination part by depositing and feeding, skewing, etc. When the payment is made, the deposited reject banknote is conveyed and returned to the banknote dispensing port via the conveyance path (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2001-134839 A (paragraph 0005, second page, FIG. 1)

  However, in the technique of Patent Document 1 described above, since the deposit reject banknote is transported and returned to the banknote withdrawal port portion by the transport path, the cashier puts the returned banknote into the banknote deposit port portion again. However, it is necessary to store the bills that are rejected and rejected in a dedicated safe or the like separately from the bill depositing / dispensing machine, so that it takes time to complete the transaction.

  In addition, in order to shorten the time until the transaction is completed as another banknote depositing / dispensing machine, the customer pays the banknote at the checkout station, and the cashier confirms the banknote before the POS register equipped with the banknote depositing / dispensing machine. When the amount of the banknote is input by the operation unit, after the banknote of the change based on the input amount is withdrawn, the banknote received by the cashier is inserted into the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine, A banknote depositing / dispensing machine that stores banknotes that have been denominated in the denomination storage unit and stores deposit-rejected banknotes in which the denomination cannot be identified in a collection box is used. In order to prevent the banknotes collected from the denomination storage unit from being mixed with the rejected banknotes during the checkout process, the cashier removes the collection box and removes the rejected banknotes in preparation for the checkout process. Because must attach the collection box again, the working efficiency is troublesome for registration clerk is lowered.

  Moreover, in the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine generally used for the POS register, a withdrawal reject box for storing the withdrawal rejection is provided inside, and the withdrawal reject banknotes identified by the withdrawal process are stored in the withdrawal reject bank. Store. For this reason, the cashier only removes the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine from the POS register when the withdrawal / rejection store is full, opens the transport path located above the withdrawal / rejection store, opens the withdrawal / rejection store, and from there Since the withdrawal banknotes have to be taken out, there is a problem that it takes time for the cashier to reduce the work efficiency.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and provides means for improving the work efficiency of the cashier by eliminating the trouble of taking out the rejected banknotes to prepare for the settlement process. For the purpose.
Another object of the present invention is to improve the work efficiency of the cashier by eliminating the trouble of pulling out the bill depositing / dispensing machine from the POS register in order to take out the withdrawal reject banknote from the withdrawal reject bank.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention stores a banknote deposit / withdrawal port that accepts the insertion of banknotes, a banknote discrimination section that discriminates the inserted banknotes, and banknotes that have been denominated by the banknote discrimination section. To collect the denominated banknote storing unit, the banknote feeding mechanism for feeding out banknotes from the denominated banknote storing unit, the banknotes fed by the banknote feeding mechanism, and the deposit rejected banknotes identified by the banknote discriminating unit in the depositing process And a movable partition plate provided inside the collection store and configured to be movable up and down, provided with a collection port gate that discharges banknotes to the collection store, and according to the banknotes collected in the collection store, The movable partition plate is moved up and down to separate and collect banknotes in the collection box.

  Moreover, in the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine having the above-described features, a withdrawal reject bank for storing the withdrawal reject banknote identified by the banknote discrimination unit at the time of withdrawal processing, and a withdrawal reject banknote from the withdrawal reject bank A reject storage door is provided that is opened when the container is taken out.

  As a result, the present invention raises and lowers the movable partition plate according to the banknotes to be collected in the collection box, and sorts the banknotes in the collection box. For example, when collecting deposit reject banknotes in the collection box, When moving the movable partition plate to a position lower than the mouth gate to accumulate the deposit reject banknotes on the movable partition plate, and when collecting the banknotes fed by the banknote feeding mechanism in the collection box, than the collection port gate If the movable partition plate is moved to a higher position and the banknotes are accumulated below the movable partition plate to distinguish between the rejected banknotes in the collection box and the banknotes fed out by the banknote feeding mechanism, the cashier will check out For this preparation, it is possible to save the trouble of removing the collection box, taking out the rejected banknotes, and attaching the collection box again, thereby improving the work efficiency.

  Also, a reject storage door is provided for taking out the withdrawal reject banknote from the withdrawal reject bank, and the rejection storage door is opened so that the withdrawal reject banknote can be taken out from there. Since it is possible to save the trouble of pulling out the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine from the POS register and opening the transport path located above the withdrawal reject box, the work efficiency of the cashier is improved. The effect that it can be obtained.

  Below, with reference to drawings, the example of the bill depositing and dispensing machine by the present invention is described.

1 is an external perspective view showing a POS register equipped with the banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to the first embodiment, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to the first embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a collection box according to the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is a side sectional view showing the collection box of the first embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the POS register of the first embodiment.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a POS register, which is configured by connecting a bill depositing / dispensing machine 2 and a coin depositing / dispensing machine 3 and is installed at a checkout office such as a retail store or a large mass retailer.

Reference numeral 5 denotes an operation unit of the POS register 1, which includes an input means 6 such as a mode switching key for a cashier to execute a cash replenishment process, a settlement process, and the like.
Reference numeral 7 denotes a display unit that displays the price of the product purchased by the customer, the contents input by the cashier, and the like.
A receipt issuing unit 8 has a function of issuing a receipt to a customer.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a coin deposit port of the coin deposit / withdrawal machine 3, which has a function as a deposit slot into which a cashier receives coins received from a customer.
Reference numeral 10 denotes a coin dispensing slot, which has a function as a dispensing slot that accumulates coins to be dispensed as change to the customer.
Reference numeral 11 denotes a coin reject storage for storing coins whose denomination could not be discriminated by a coin discriminating unit for discriminating a denomination of a coin (not shown).

In FIG. 2, 15 is a banknote depositing / dispensing port part of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2, and the cashier collects a function as a depositing port for inserting banknotes and replenishment banknotes received from customers and banknotes withdrawn as change. It has a function as a withdrawal port.
Reference numeral 16 denotes a banknote discriminating unit, which includes a discrimination sensor 17 for discriminating banknote denominations by pattern recognition, and for discriminating abnormally transported banknotes such as damages, double feeds, skews, etc. It has a function to discriminate the conveyed banknote.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a thousand-note storage unit as a denomination-type banknote storage unit. The banknote discriminating unit 16 collects and stores bills discriminated as thousand-yen bills on the stacking plate 18a and collects the accumulated thousand-yen bills one by one. It has a function of separating and feeding out.
Reference numeral 19 denotes a 5,000-note storage unit as a denomination-type banknote storage unit. The banknote discriminating unit 16 collects and stores bills discriminated as 5,000-yen bills on the collecting plate 19a, and is not used for change. In addition to having a function of storing banknotes of non-withdrawal denomination of 2,000 yen banknotes, it has a function of separating and feeding out 5,000 yen banknotes stacked on the stacking plate 19a one by one.

The stacking plates 18a and 19a are configured to be movable up and down by an elevator or the like (not shown) according to the number of banknotes stacked on the stacking plates 18a and 19a.
Reference numeral 20 denotes a collection box, which has a collection port 22 for carrying in banknotes, and is configured to be attachable to the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2, and is abnormally conveyed banknotes (hereinafter referred to as deposit rejects) identified by the banknote discrimination unit 16 during deposit processing. The bills collected in the bill storage unit 18 and the bill storage unit 19 collected during the settlement process are collected.

Reference numeral 23 denotes a movable partition plate. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, one end on the front side in the bill conveyance direction is rotatably attached to a shaft 21 provided inside the collection box 20, and the other end is an upper surface of the collection box 20. A spring is attached so as to be pressed against, and the solenoid 24 and the link portion 25 are configured so that the other end can be raised and lowered with one end as a fulcrum.
The solenoid 24 is configured to project the plunger 24a therein when energized and to attract the plunger 24a when not energized.

The link portion 25 is assembled with the first link 25a and the second link 25b, the first link 25a is attached to the plunger 24a of the solenoid 24, and the first link 25a moves by the plunger 24a of the solenoid 24 projecting when energized. In some cases, the second link 25b is moved to push and move the other end of the movable partition plate 23 downward.
When an abnormally conveyed banknote is conveyed to the collection | recovery store | warehouse | chamber 20, by energizing the solenoid 24 and pressing the movable partition plate 23 downward by the 2nd link 25b of the link part 25, the movable partition plate 23 will end one end. The other end of the fulcrum is lowered below the collection port gate 27 so that the abnormally conveyed banknotes are accumulated on the upper surface of the movable partition plate 23 and are collected from the thousand ticket storage unit 18 and the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19 by a settlement process. When the bill is conveyed, the solenoid 24 is de-energized and the other end of the movable partition plate 23 is pressed against the upper surface of the collection box 20 so that the collected bill is placed below the movable partition plate 23. Accumulate.

  Reference numeral 26 denotes a conveyance path, which is composed of rollers or belts arranged opposite to each other, and has a function of holding a banknote inserted into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 and transporting it in the forward and reverse directions. The banknotes stored in the thousand ticket storage unit 18 and the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19 are conveyed to the recovery box 20 while being transported to the thousand ticket storage unit 18, the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19, and the collection box 20 via the discrimination unit 16. Transport.

Reference numeral 27 denotes a recovery port gate, which includes a feed roller 27a that is rotationally driven by a drive mechanism (not shown), and a pressure roller 27b that presses the feed roller 27a by a spring member (not shown) and is driven by the feed roller 27a. It is provided outside the collection port 22 in the vicinity.
Reference numeral 28 denotes a bill detection sensor, which is an optical sensor in which a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion are opposed to each other, and detects passage of a bill conveyed to the collection box 20.

Reference numerals 30 and 40 denote bill feeding mechanisms provided in the thousand-thousand-sheet storage unit 18 and the five-thousand-sheet storage unit 19, and the rotations of the separation motors 31 and 41 configured to be capable of forward and reverse rotation are transmitted to the pickup rollers 32 and 42, respectively. It is configured by combining gears, pulleys, belts and the like.
Reference numeral 33 denotes a separation gate, which is composed of a feeding roller 33a that rotates in the forward and reverse directions and a separation roller 33b that rotates only in the banknote stacking direction. The paper is sandwiched one by one and fed into the conveyance path 26.

Reference numeral 43 denotes a separation gate, which is composed of a feeding roller 43a that rotates in the forward and reverse directions and a separation roller 43b that rotates only in the banknote stacking direction. The banknotes fed from the 5,000-ticket storage unit 19 by the pickup roller 42 are 1 Each sheet is nipped and fed to the conveyance path 26.
Reference numeral 45 denotes a withdrawal / rejection bank, which stores the withdrawal / rejection banknotes that have been identified as abnormally conveyed banknotes by the banknote discrimination unit 16 in the withdrawal process for paying out banknotes as change.

Reference numeral 47 denotes a branch conveyance path, which is a conveyance path having a function of nipping and conveying banknotes by rollers or belts arranged opposite to each other. The banknote branched from the conveyance path 26 by the switching blade 48a is transferred by the switching blade 48b. The material is sorted and conveyed to the collection box 20 or the withdrawal / rejection box 45.
Reference numeral 49 denotes a trigger sensor, which is an optical sensor in which the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit are opposed to each other. The light receiving unit senses that the bill from the light from the light emitting unit is blocked, and the switching blades 48a and 48b are switched. Detect timing.

In FIG. 5, reference numeral 50 denotes a control unit of the POS register 1, which is configured such that a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 51, a memory 52, I / O ports 53, 54, 55 and the like communicate via an internal bus 56. ing.
The memory 52 stores information such as programs and data necessary for arithmetic processing by the CPU 51 and stores the results of arithmetic processing.

The I / O port 53 has a function of transmitting an operation instruction to each unit of the POS register 1 such as the operation unit 5 or the display unit 7.
The I / O port 54 has a function of transmitting an operation instruction from the CPU 51 to the drive mechanism 57 and the discrimination sensor 17, the bill detection sensor 28, the trigger sensor 49, and the like in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 2 such as the separation motors 31 and 41 and the solenoid 24. Have

The I / O port 55 has a function of transmitting an operation instruction from the CPU 51 to a drive mechanism 58 such as a motor and a solenoid in the coin depositing and dispensing machine 3 and a coin detection sensor 59 that detects a coin.
An operation when performing the withdrawal process and the deposit process in the above-described configuration will be described.
The cashier cashier reads the bar code of the product purchased by the customer with a bar code reader (not shown) connected to the POS register 1.

The control unit 50 of the POS register 1 recognizes the price of the product from the read bar code of the customer's product, and displays the recognized price on the display unit 7.
The cashier gives the price displayed on the display unit 7 to the customer, receives banknotes and coins from the customer, confirms the banknotes and coins, and inputs the amount received by the operation unit 5.
The control unit 50 that has recognized the input of the amount counts the amount of change by comparing the recognized amount and the recognized price, and stores the number of change banknotes to be dispensed in the memory 52 for each denomination.

In the present embodiment, as a result of counting, 6,000 yen banknotes (one thousand yen banknote and one 5,000 yen banknote) are dispensed.
The control unit 50 that performs the withdrawal process raises the stacking plates 18a and 19a of the thousand ticket storage unit 18 and the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19 to operate the banknote feeding mechanisms 30 and 40, so that the number of sheets required for the withdrawal amount is increased. A bill is paid out, that is, one bill is paid out from each of the thousand-ticket storage unit 18 and the 5,000-ticket storage unit 19.

As a result, the banknotes accumulated on the stacking plate 18a are fed out by being pressed against the pickup roller 32 that rotates by the rotation of the separation motor 31, and the banknotes stacked on the stacking plate 19a are similarly transmitted by the rotation of the separation motor 41. Then, it is pushed out to the pick-up roller 42 that rotates and fed out.
The control unit 50 feeds the fed banknotes to the transport path 26 through the separation gates 33 and 43, and transports the banknotes toward the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 via the banknote discrimination unit 16 through the transport path 26. The banknotes conveyed by the discrimination unit 16 are discriminated.

  When the discriminated banknote is a non-withdrawal denomination banknote stored in the 5,000-ticket storage unit 19, the control unit 50 deenergizes the solenoid 24 and moves the movable partition plate 23 from the recovery port gate 27. And when the banknote passes the trigger sensor 49, the banknote is sent to the branch transport path 47 by the switching blade 48a and transported to the collection box 20, and the non-withdrawal denominations transported by the branch transport path 47 are The banknotes are sandwiched by the collection port gate 27 and discharged into the collection box 20, and are collected and collected below the movable partition plate 23.

When the control unit 50 discriminates the withdrawal reject banknote as the abnormally transported banknote, the withdrawal blade 48a sends the withdrawal reject banknote to the branch transport path 47 when the transported withdrawal reject banknote passes the trigger sensor 49. Then, by switching the switching blade 48b, it is transported and stored in the withdrawal reject box 45.
When the identified banknote is a thousand-yen banknote or a 5,000-yen banknote, the control unit 50 transports the banknote to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 through the transport path 26, and for each denomination of the banknote transported to the memory 52. Is counted and stored.

  The controller 50 that discriminates all banknotes compares the number of change banknotes stored in the memory 52 for each denomination and the number of stored banknotes for each denomination, and the number of transferred banknotes is the number of change banknotes. When it is determined that the number of sheets is insufficient, the banknotes are fed out from the thousand ticket storage unit 18 or the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19, respectively, and the above-described withdrawal processing operation is executed again and stored in the memory 52. The receipt issuing unit 8 issues a receipt when the number of conveyed banknotes is the same as the stored number of change banknotes.

After giving the issued receipt to the customer, the cashier puts the coins received from the customer into the coin deposit slot 9 and throws the received banknotes into the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 15.
The control part 50 discriminate | determines the coin thrown into the coin deposit opening part 9, and stores it in the coin-type coin storage part which is not shown in figure for every identified denomination.
The control unit 50 that performs the deposit process conveys the banknotes inserted into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 one by one to the banknote discrimination unit 16 through the transport path 26, and discriminates the conveyed banknotes by the banknote discrimination unit 16.

When the banknote discriminating unit 16 discriminates the denomination of the banknote, when the banknote is a thousand-yen banknote, the control unit 50 transports the banknote to the thousandnote storage unit 18 by the transport path 26 and accumulates it on the stacking plate 18a. Is other than a thousand yen bill, it is conveyed to the 5,000-ticket storage unit 19 by the conveyance path 26 and accumulated on the accumulation plate 19a, and the next bill is conveyed from the bill deposit / withdrawal port portion 15.
When the control unit 50 determines that the banknote discriminated by the banknote discrimination unit 16 is a deposit reject banknote that is an abnormally transported banknote, the control unit 50 energizes the solenoid 24 to connect the other end of the movable partition plate 23 below the collection port gate 27. Move to.

  The control unit 50 reverses the transport direction toward the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15, transports the deposit reject banknote by the transport path 26, and branches and transports the deposit reject banknote by the switching blade 48 a when passing the trigger sensor 49. It is sent to the path 47 and conveyed to the collection box 20, and the deposit reject banknote conveyed by the branch conveyance path 47 is pinched by the collection port gate 27 to be discharged into the collection box 20 and accumulated on the movable partition plate 23. to recover.

  When the banknote detection sensor 28 confirms the passage of the deposit-rejected banknote, the control unit 50 transports the next banknote from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 and executes the banknote depositing process as described above to transport all the banknotes. When the end of the deposit process is recognized and the solenoid 24 is de-energized, the spring attached to the movable partition plate 23 acts to press the other end against the upper surface of the collection box 20, so that the accumulated deposit reject The banknote is sandwiched and pressed between the movable partition plate 23 and the upper surface of the collection box 20.

Next, the operation when the settlement process is performed will be described.
The cashier performs an input operation for the settlement process of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 2 by the operation unit 5 of the POS register 1.
The control unit 50 that has received an input for the settlement process deenergizes the solenoid 24 and positions the movable partition plate 23 above the collection port gate 27, and also feeds out banknotes in the same manner as the above-described withdrawal process. The mechanisms 30 and 40 are moved to raise the stacking plates 18a and 19a of the thousand ticket storage unit 18 and the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19 so that bills are fed one by one.

The control unit 50 feeds the fed banknotes to the transport path 26 by the separation gates 33 and 43 and transports the banknotes to the branch transport path 47 by the switching blade 48a and transports the banknotes to the collection box 20 to collect the transported banknotes. It is sandwiched by the mouth gate 27 and discharged into the collection chamber 20, and is collected and collected below the movable partition plate 23.
When it is determined that the banknote detection sensor 28 has not detected the passage of the banknote for a predetermined time, the controller 50 energizes the solenoid 24 to lower the movable partition plate 23 and accumulates the banknotes accumulated. And between the lower surface of the collection box 20.

  In this way, when the deposit reject banknote is identified in the deposit process, the movable partition plate 23 is moved so that the upper surface of the banknotes accumulated on the movable partition plate 23 is lower than the recovery port gate 27. When the deposit reject banknote is accumulated on the movable partition plate 23 and the banknote of the non-withdrawal denomination is discriminated in the withdrawal process or when the settlement process is performed, the movable partition plate 23 is connected to the collection port gate 27. Is located at a higher position, the banknotes of non-withdrawal denominations and banknotes collected by the settlement process are accumulated below the movable partition plate 23.

  As described above, in this embodiment, a movable partition plate is provided inside the collection box, and when collecting deposit reject banknotes in the collection box, the movable partition plate is moved below the collection port gate to deposit money. When collecting rejected banknotes on a movable partition plate and collecting banknotes collected by the settlement process in the collection box, move the banknotes collected by the settlement process by positioning the movable partition board above the collection gate. Accumulation under the partition plate distinguishes the deposit reject banknotes in the collection box from the banknotes collected during the checkout process, so the cashier must remove the collection box, take out the deposit reject banknotes, and install the collection box again. Can be eliminated and work efficiency can be improved.

Also, after depositing rejected banknotes on the movable partition plate, the movable partition plate is raised so that the deposited reject banknotes are pressed against the upper surface of the collection box. In addition, it is possible to prevent troubles such as jams in the collection box. Furthermore, after the banknotes collected by the checkout process are accumulated below the movable partition plate, the movable partition plate is lowered to the collection warehouse. Since the pressing is performed, it is possible to prevent a failure such as a jam in the collection box due to the folding or the habit of the banknote.

FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a banknote depositing and dispensing machine according to the second embodiment.
In addition, the same part as the said Example 1 attaches | subjects the same code | symbol, and abbreviate | omits the description.
In FIG. 6, reference numeral 60 denotes a reject warehouse door, which is provided with a lock mechanism that unlocks and locks with a dedicated security key and opens the inside of the withdrawal reject warehouse 45.
The withdrawal reject box 45 of the present embodiment is installed below the collection box 20, and is configured so that the withdrawal banknote can be taken out by a cashier in the state where the rejection box door 60 is opened.

  In the memory 52 of the control unit 50 of the present embodiment, a threshold value for the number of times of withdrawal rejected banknotes in the withdrawal process is stored in the banknote withdrawal process execution program for executing a normal banknote withdrawal process. A screen for notifying the display unit 7 that the withdrawal reject box 45 is full is displayed on the display unit 7 when the number of times of counting the withdrawal reject banknotes becomes the threshold of the stored discrimination count. The bill withdrawal processing execution program of the present embodiment to which the application program to be added is added is stored.

The operation when the withdrawal reject banknote is identified in the withdrawal process in the above-described configuration will be described.
When the control part 50 discriminate | determines the banknote paid out from the thousand-thousand storage part 18 or the 5,000-ticket storage part 19 by the banknote discrimination part 16 similarly to the withdrawal process of the said Example 1, and discriminate | determines from a withdrawal rejection banknote. When the withdrawal reject banknote transported by the transport path 26 passes the trigger sensor 49, the transport transfer gate 48a is switched to branch the withdrawal reject banknote to the branch transport path 47, and the withdrawal is performed by switching the transport transfer gate 48b. It is conveyed to the reject store 45 and stored in the withdrawal reject store 45.

The control unit 50 counts the number of times the withdrawal rejected banknotes are identified when the withdrawal reject banknotes are identified, and stores them in the memory 52, compares the stored number of discriminations with the stored threshold value, and the number of discriminations is the same as the threshold value. Is displayed on the display unit 7 when it is determined that the withdrawal reject box 45 is full.
The cashier looks at the screen indicating that the withdrawal reject box 45 is full on the display unit 7, unlocks the reject box 60 with the security key, puts the hand inside the withdrawal reject box 45, and withdraws the reject banknote. Take out.

In this way, a reject storage door 60 is provided that opens when taking out banknotes from the withdrawal reject bank, and the cashier opens the reject storage door 60 when taking out the withdrawal reject banknotes accumulated in the withdrawal reject bank 45. A hand is put in the money reject box 45 and the withdrawal banknote is taken out.
As described above, in the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment, a reject storage door for taking out a withdrawal reject banknote is provided from the withdrawal reject storage, and the rejection storage door is opened to withdraw the deposit. Since the bank has made it possible to take out the withdrawal reject banknotes in the cabinet, it is possible to save the trouble of pulling out the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine from the POS register and opening the withdrawal rejection bank in order to take out the withdrawal reject banknotes from the withdrawal reject bank. Therefore, the cashier can easily take out the withdrawal reject banknote.

  In the present embodiment, it has been described that the cashier can put out a hand and take out the withdrawal reject banknote with the reject storage door opened, but it has a lock mechanism so that it can be pulled out from the banknote depositing and dispensing machine. When the configured withdrawal reject bank is provided and the withdrawal banknote is taken out, if the withdrawal mechanism is pulled out after unlocking the lock mechanism, forgetting to remove the withdrawal banknote can be prevented. .

FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a banknote depositing and dispensing machine according to the third embodiment.
Note that the same parts as those in the above embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.
In FIG. 7, reference numeral 70 denotes a deposit reject banknote return port, which is provided above the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 and has a function as a return port for accumulating the deposit reject banknotes identified by the banknote discrimination unit 16. .

Reference numeral 71 denotes a deposit reject banknote transport path, which has a function of sandwiching and transporting banknotes by rollers or belts arranged opposite to each other, and rejects banknotes branched from the transport path 26 by the switching blade 72. The bill is returned to the bill return opening 70.
The operation of the above configuration will be described.
In the present embodiment, in order for the cashier to check the deposit reject banknotes collected in the normal collection box 20 without collecting the banknotes, the cashier uses the operation unit 5 of the POS register 1 to collect the deposit reject banknotes in advance. It is assumed that the CPU 51 that has made a setting input for returning to the banknote and has recognized this has transmitted a return instruction to the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2 via the I / O port 54 to return the deposit rejected banknote to the cashier.

When a banknote is inserted into the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15, the control unit 50 transports the inserted banknotes one by one to the banknote discrimination unit 16 through the transport path 26, and discriminates the banknotes transported by the banknote discrimination unit 16. .
When the banknote discriminating unit 16 discriminates the denomination of the banknote, the control unit 50 stores the banknote in the thousand ticket storage unit 18 or the 5,000 ticket storage unit 19 by the transport path 26 as in the first embodiment.

When the banknote discriminating unit 16 discriminates the deposit reject banknote, the control unit 50 transports the deposit reject banknote through the transport path 26 toward the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 15 and switches the switching blade 72 to deposit the deposit reject banknote. Branch to the reject banknote conveyance path 71.
The control unit 50 conveys and deposits the deposited reject banknotes to the deposited reject banknote return port 70 through the deposited reject banknote transport path 71.

In this manner, the deposit reject banknotes provided by the deposit reject banknote return port 70 are conveyed and accumulated.
As described above, in this embodiment, the reject storage door of the second embodiment is provided, and the reject storage bank is opened so that the withdrawal reject banknote can be taken out from the withdrawal reject storage. In addition to the effect that the money reject banknote can be easily taken out, the deposit reject banknote return port for accumulating the deposit reject banknote is provided, so the deposit reject banknote is returned to the banknote deposit / withdrawal port part. In addition, it is possible to prevent the deposit processing from being interrupted because the deposit reject banknotes are returned even though the banknotes that have not been transported to the banknote discriminating section remain at the banknote deposit / withdrawal port, thereby improving work efficiency. Can be made.

In addition, in the said Example 3, although demonstrated as providing a deposit-rejecting banknote return port part above a banknote depositing / withdrawing port part, even if it installs below the banknote depositing / withdrawing port part as shown in FIG. The effect of can be obtained.
In each of the above embodiments, the case where the present invention is applied to a POS register installed at a checkout office such as a retail store or a large mass retailer has been described as an example. You may apply to the window terminal which an attendant uses.

External appearance perspective view which shows cash register change machine of Example 1 Explanatory drawing which shows the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of Example 1. The perspective view which shows the collection | recovery storehouse of Example 1. Side cross section which shows the collection | recovery storehouse of Example 1 1 is a block diagram showing a POS register according to a first embodiment. The schematic block diagram which shows the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of Example 2. The schematic block diagram which shows the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of Example 3. Schematic configuration diagram showing a banknote depositing and dispensing machine in which the arrangement of the deposit reject banknote return port is changed

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 POS register 2 Banknote depositing / withdrawing machine 3 Coin depositing / withdrawing machine 5 Operation part 6 Input means 7 Display part 8 Receipt issuing part 9 Coin depositing slot part 10 Coin dispensing slot part 11 Coin rejection box 15 Banknote depositing / dispensing slot part 16 Banknote discrimination Part 17 Identification sensor 18 Thousand ticket storage part 18a, 19a Stacking plate 19 Five thousand ticket storage part 20 Collection box 22 Collection port 23 Movable partition plate 24 Solenoid 24a Plunger 25 Link part 25a First link 25b Second link 26 Conveyance path 27 Collection port gate 27a Feed roller 27b Pressure roller 28 Bill detection sensor 30, 40 Bill feeding mechanism 31, 41 Separation motor 32, 42 Pickup roller 33, 43 Separation gate 33a, 43a Feeding roller 33b, 43b Separation roller 45 Withdrawal reject box 47 Branch conveyance path 48a, 48b off Blade 49 trigger sensor 50 control unit 51 CPU
52 Memory 53, 54, 55 I / O port 56 Internal bus 57, 58 Drive mechanism 59 Coin detection sensor 60 Reject warehouse door 70 Deposit reject banknote return port 71 Deposit reject banknote transport path 72 Switching blade

Claims (8)

A banknote deposit / withdrawal port that accepts the insertion of banknotes, a banknote discrimination section that discriminates the inserted banknotes, a denomination banknote storage section that stores banknotes that have been denominated by the banknote discrimination section, and the denomination banknotes A banknote feeding mechanism for feeding out banknotes from the storage unit, a banknote that is fed out by the banknote feeding mechanism, and a collection box that collects the deposited reject banknotes identified by the banknote discrimination unit in the depositing process, and an inside of the collection box A movable partition plate configured to be movable up and down, and provided with a collection port gate for discharging banknotes to the collection box,
A banknote depositing / dispensing machine that raises and lowers the movable partition plate according to the banknotes to be collected in the collection box, and separates and collects the banknotes in the collection box. In claim 1,
The movable partition plate is configured such that one end is rotatably attached to the front side in the banknote collection direction and the other end is movably attached from above the collection port gate to below the collection port gate. Characteristic banknote deposit and withdrawal machine. In claim 1 or claim 2,
When collecting the deposit reject banknote, the movable partition plate is moved below the collection port gate to a position where the collected deposit reject banknote is accumulated on the upper surface of the collected deposit reject banknote, and the banknote A banknote depositing / dispensing machine, wherein the movable partition plate is moved above the collection port gate when a banknote fed out from the banknote storing part by money type is collected by a feeding mechanism. In claim 1, claim 2 or claim 3,
A bill depositing / dispensing machine, wherein the movable partition plate is moved so as to press the collected deposit reject bill against the collection box after the deposit reject bill is collected. In claim 1 to claim 3 or claim 4,
A banknote depositing / dispensing machine, wherein the movable partition plate is moved so as to press the collected banknotes against the collection box after the banknotes fed out from the denomination banknote storage unit are collected. In claim 1 to claim 4 or claim 5,
During the withdrawal process, a withdrawal reject box for storing the withdrawal reject banknotes identified by the banknote discrimination unit, and a rejection warehouse door that is opened when taking out the withdrawal reject banknotes from the withdrawal reject bank are provided. A banknote depositing and dispensing machine characterized by that. In claim 6,
A banknote depositing / withdrawing machine characterized in that the withdrawal / rejection box is configured to be able to be withdrawn. In claim 1 to claim 6 or claim 7,
When the deposit reject banknote is returned to the cashier, the deposit reject banknote return port for accumulating the deposit reject banknotes identified by the banknote discrimination unit, and switching for switching the transport direction of the deposit reject banknotes are provided in the transport path. A banknote depositing and dispensing machine comprising: a blade; and a deposit reject banknote transport path for transporting the deposit reject banknote whose transport direction is switched by the switching blade to the deposit reject banknote return port.