JP2007126221A - Bank note storing device and bank note processor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bank note storing device for smoothly depositing/dispensing bank notes without increasing its size. <P>SOLUTION: During bank note depositing operation, a movable guide 28 arranged adjacent to the front center of a bank note insertion port opening to receive the bank notes P1 carried via a rail 13 is located to guide central portions at the front ends in the carrying direction of the carried bank notes P1 to be inserted into the bank note insertion port while being kept in the horizontal condition. Thus, the carried bank notes P1 are supported at their central portions at the front ends in the carrying direction by the movable guide 28 without being sagged down to prevent the interference with bank notes previously stored in a bank note storage box 14. During bank note dispensing operation, the movable guide 28 is operated to be moved back from a position where it guides the carried bank notes P1. Thus, the bank noted dispensed from the bank note storage box 14 are avoided from being caught on the movable guide 28. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote storage device, and more particularly, to a banknote storage device and a banknote processing device of a banknote processing device mounted on a main body device having a small installation space such as an oil pump installed in a self-service gasoline station.

  For example, at a gas station or the like, cash deposit / withdrawal processing is performed according to the amount of fuel supplied. In particular, in a self-service type gas station, the user himself is responsible for everything from refueling to liquidation. Therefore, it is desirable for the user to be able to perform all operations from refueling to clearing at the place where the refueling is performed. However, since the size of the oil pump is determined to some extent with respect to the cash deposit / withdrawal process, there are restrictions on the space for incorporating the bill and coin handling device.

  Therefore, in the conventional oil supply pump, only the banknote processing device for depositing and withdrawing banknotes is mounted. When there is a small change or when clearing with coins, the clearing provided in another place Clearing is done on the machine or in the store.

  The clearing machine or the like is provided with a coin processing device capable of performing change processing, and determines the denomination of the received coin and stores it according to the determined denomination. The corresponding denomination and number of coins can be paid out as change.

  On the other hand, even in the banknote processing device mounted on the fuel supply pump, the deposited banknotes are identified, and the identified banknotes are stored in the banknote storage in a stacked state. It is configured to pay out the required number of change banknotes of the corresponding denomination.

  Thus, in the banknote processing apparatus having a recycling function in which the deposited banknote is reused as change, the configuration for depositing and withdrawing is not particularly mounted on the fuel pump, but is generally known (for example, , See Patent Document 1). That is, when storing banknotes in the banknote storage by depositing operation, the banknotes that have been transported by depositing into a space on a pair of rails spaced apart in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction at the top of the banknote storage. It is carried in so that both edges of the bill in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction are held by the rail. After that, the banknote storage rises with respect to the pusher fixedly arranged at the upper part between the rails, so that the banknote held on the rail is pushed into the banknote storage by the pusher, and on the stage in the banknote storage. Stacked and stored. When the banknote storage is lowered and the pusher is retracted from the banknote storage, the stage biased upward by the pantograph is raised, and the banknotes stacked thereon are brought into contact with the lower surface of the rail and stacked. A banknote is hold | maintained in a banknote storage in the state clamped by the stage and the rail.

  Moreover, when withdrawing a banknote from a banknote storage, the banknote storage which stores the banknote hold | maintained by the stage and the rail goes up, and it is on the roller of the banknote feeding part arrange | positioned in the upper center of a banknote storage. Press the stacked banknotes. As a result, the stacked banknotes are held between the stage and the roller. Thereafter, by rotating the roller, the stacked banknotes are fed one by one from the top, conveyed and dispensed.

  Moreover, the banknote processing apparatus which has such a recycling function also has a banknote storage apparatus for storing the banknote which is not reused as change. The banknote processing apparatus described in Patent Document 1 includes two banknote storage apparatuses for distinguishing and storing banknotes that are not reused as change and banknotes that are reused as change. These banknote storage devices are arranged side by side in the height direction, but in order to suppress the size in the height direction, the pusher operation of both banknote storage devices and the feeding operation of one banknote storage device are 1 It is configured to be controlled by one motor.

  Here, the banknote storage state in a banknote storage apparatus and the banknote carrying-in state to a banknote storage apparatus are demonstrated. Since generally distributed banknotes are provided with folds, folds, and the like, when these banknotes are simply stacked on the stage, the banknotes swell in the stacking direction due to minute gaps between the banknotes. However, in the actual storage state, the entire bottom surface of the banknote is supported by the stage, whereas the upper surface is pressed by only one pair of rails on the top surface, so the top banknote is pressed against the rail. There is a tendency that the central portion between the rails that are not formed bulges upward.

On the other hand, when the banknote transported to the space above the rail is transported, both edges of the transported banknote are held by the rail, but the central portion at the front end in the transport direction hangs down. For this reason, when a banknote is delivered to a rail from a conveyance path, the banknote which approached along the rail may collide with the highest banknote already accommodated in a banknote storage. In order to avoid this, the height of the rail is increased to ensure a sufficient distance between the stored banknotes under the rail and the banknotes carried on the rail.
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2004-258993 (FIG. 1)

  However, if the height of the rail is increased, the bill storage device is increased in size accordingly, so that it becomes difficult to incorporate it into the fuel pump. Therefore, it is desired that banknotes can be deposited and withdrawn smoothly without increasing the size of the banknote storage device.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a point, and it aims at providing the banknote storage apparatus and banknote processing apparatus which can carry out the deposit or withdrawal of a banknote smoothly without enlarging.

  In the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, both the banknote storage in which the deposited banknotes are stored in a stacked state, and the banknotes that are transported to the upper part of the banknote storage during the depositing operation and perpendicular to the transport direction. A pusher that pushes the banknote held by the rail into the banknote storage, and the banknote stored in the banknote storage is fed out by the banknote feeding section disposed adjacent to the banknote storage during the dispensing operation. In the bill storage device having a recycling function, the rail is disposed in the vicinity of the front center of the bill insertion opening that is opened so as to receive the bill that has been transported, and the center of the tip in the transport direction of the bill that has been transported during the depositing operation. The part is in a position to be guided so as to be inserted into the bill insertion slot while maintaining a horizontal state, and is retracted from the position to guide the bill during a dispensing operation. Bill storage apparatus characterized by comprising a movable guide for operation is provided.

  According to such a banknote storage device, since the movable guide is in a position to guide the central portion of the banknote in the conveyance direction, which has been conveyed during the deposit operation, to be inserted into the banknote insertion slot while maintaining a horizontal state, The bills that have been transported are guided on the rail without the central portion of the leading end in the transport direction hanging down. Thereby, since the height of the rail which had to be sufficiently high in order to prevent the collision of banknotes can be lowered, the height of the banknote handling apparatus can be kept low. Further, the movable guide operates so as to retract from the position where the banknote is guided during the dispensing operation, and therefore does not hinder the conveyance of the banknote to be dispensed.

  In the banknote storage device of the present invention, the movable guide is in a position to guide the central portion at the front end of the banknote transported during the depositing operation to be inserted into the banknote insertion slot while maintaining the horizontal state. The hanging of the central portion of the leading end of the banknote in the conveyance direction is prevented, so that even if the height of the rail is lowered, the conveyed banknote does not interfere with the banknote previously stored in the banknote storage. The height of the banknote storage device, and further the banknote processing apparatus including the banknote storage device can be kept low, and there is an advantage that the size is not increased. Since the movable guide operates so as to retract from the position where the banknote is guided during the dispensing operation, it does not hinder the conveyance of the banknote to be dispensed.

  Moreover, since the movable guide is retracted from the position where the bill is guided by interlocking with the operation of the inner frame at the time of withdrawal, a special drive source is not required.

  Hereinafter, a case where the embodiment of the present invention is applied to a banknote processing apparatus of a money processing apparatus that is mounted on a main body apparatus having a small built-in space such as a fuel pump installed in a self-service gasoline station. Examples will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

First, the money processing apparatus incorporated in the fuel pump will be described.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing the appearance of the money processing apparatus.
This money processing apparatus 1 is incorporated in a main body device that controls a fuel pump, and has a function of performing a cash deposit / withdrawal process when selling gasoline in a predetermined amount unit. It is installed with the front customer service part exposed to the customer side. The money processing apparatus 1 has a housing 2 that accommodates a banknote processing apparatus and a coin processing apparatus, and a front door 3 is provided at an upper part of the front face so as to be opened and closed. The front door 3 is provided with a lock 4 so that it can be locked except when maintenance work is performed. A customer service portion of the banknote processing device and the coin processing device is provided in an exposed state in the lower part of the front surface of the housing 2. Since the bill processing device is accommodated in the housing 2 on the left side and the coin processing device is accommodated in the right side when viewed from the front, the bill 2 can be loaded and unloaded on the left side below the front door 3. The customer service portion of the mouth and the banknote withdrawal port is arranged, and these banknote insertion slot and banknote withdrawal port are covered with a cover 5 that is opened and closed by the user during use. On the right side below the front door 3, a coin insertion slot 7 capable of depositing / withdrawing coins and a customer paying part of a coin paying outlet are arranged, and the coin paying outlet is a cover that is opened and closed by a user when used. 6 is covered.

Next, the structure of the banknote storage apparatus in the banknote processing apparatus inside the money processing apparatus 1 will be described using a side view.
FIG. 2 is an internal side view showing the deposit operation state of the bill storage device.

  The banknote storage device has an outer frame 11 fixed to the frame of the banknote processing device and an inner frame 12 arranged to be movable up and down within the outer frame 11. A pair of rails 13 is provided on the upper portion of the inner frame 12 for storing the deposited banknotes, and holds both edges in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the transported banknote P1.

  The banknote storage 14 has a stage 15 that can be moved up and down in an inner frame 12 inside the outer frame 11. A pantograph 16 is provided between the stage 15 and the bottom of the inner frame 12. The pantograph 16 has a link 17 having one end pivotably fixed to the bill insertion slot side on the lower surface of the stage 15 and the other end coupled to the bottom of the inner frame 12 so as to be horizontally movable. A link 18 having one end rotatably fixed to the bottom of the inner frame 12 on the banknote inlet side and the other end movably coupled to the lower surface of the back side of the stage 15 in a horizontal direction. Another set of links is arranged at a predetermined interval in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction. A shaft 19 is provided at the intersection of the links 17 and 18.

  The pantograph 16 is also provided with a torsion spring 21 on the rotation shaft 20 of the link 18, and is attached so as to rotate the link 18 around the rotation shaft 20 in the counterclockwise direction in FIG. It is fast. The horizontal movement shaft 22 of the link 17 is provided with a tension spring (not shown) that pulls the horizontal movement shaft 22 in the direction of the torsion spring 21. These torsion springs 21 and tension springs always bias the stage 15 in the direction of lifting. Further, the leaf spring 23 is fixed to the lower surface of the stage 15 in a slanting manner. The free end of the leaf spring 23 is hung on the shaft 19 when the stored bills increase and the pantograph 16 contracts in the vertical direction. It stops and acts in the direction which increases the biasing force of the torsion spring 21 and the tension spring.

  At a central position between the rails 13, a sub kick roller 24 and a kick roller 25, which are operated when the bills stacked and stored on the stage 15 are withdrawn as change, are rotatably arranged on the frame of the bill processing apparatus. Has been. Moreover, the guide roller 26 is rotatably arranged at the front center of the banknote insertion slot that is opened to receive the banknote P1 that has been transported by the rail 13, and only in the direction in which the banknote P1 is stored facing this. A rotating guide roller 27 is arranged.

  In addition, a movable guide 28 is arranged close to the guide roller 27 at the front center of the bill insertion slot. The movable guide 28 is disposed so as to be movable up and down with respect to the outer frame 11, and is urged upward in the figure by a spring (not shown), and the slidable contact surface for supporting the banknote P <b> 1 from below is the banknote placement of the rail 13. The guide position is substantially coincident with the surface. Near the bottom of the outer frame 11, a link 29 is fixed so as to be rotatable about a rotation shaft 30. One end of the link 29 is locked to the bottom portion of the inner frame 12, and the other end is locked to an extension portion of the movable guide 28. Thereby, the raising / lowering operation | movement of the inner frame 12 is transmitted to the movable guide 28 via the link 29, and the movable guide 28 can raise / lower in conjunction with the raising / lowering of the inner frame 12.

Next, the relationship among the outer frame 11, the inner frame 12, and the pusher of the banknote storage device will be described with reference to cross-sectional views.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. 2 when a bill is inserted.

  The banknote storage device has a double structure of an inner frame 12 and an outer frame 11, and the inner frame 12 constitutes a banknote storage 14 in which banknotes are stored. Moreover, the banknote storage apparatus comprises the cassette safe which can be removed from a banknote processing apparatus in the state which accommodated the banknote in the time of collection | recovery of stored banknotes. The outer frame 11 is fixed to the cassette safe when the cassette safe is mounted on the banknote processing apparatus, and the inner frame is configured to be movable forward and backward in FIG. 3 with respect to the outer frame 11. It is twelve.

  The inner frame 12 has a box shape with the upper part of FIG. 3 opened, and has an extension part 31 extending inward from each other at the upper end of both side walls of the upper opening. A rail 13 parallel to the extension 31 is fixed at a position spaced apart from the extension 31 by a predetermined distance in FIG. 3, and the rail 13 is conveyed between the extension 31 and the rail 13. A space into which the bill P1 is inserted is formed.

  A top plate 32 is fixed to the outer frame 11 so as to close the upper opening. The center portion of the top plate 32 has a shape protruding downward in FIG. 3 so that the inner frame 12 can be inserted into and removed from the inner frame 12 through the upper opening when the inner frame 12 moves in the vertical direction in FIG. A pusher for pushing the bill P1 inserted into the space between the extending portion 31 and the rail 13 into the inner frame 12 is configured. Grooves are formed on both sides of the pusher to receive the extension 31 and the rail 13 of the inner frame 12 when the inner frame 12 moves upward in FIG. On both sides of the outer frame 11, a long through hole is formed in the vertical direction, and a connecting member 33 fixed to the inner frame 12 protrudes through the through hole. Thereby, the inner frame 12 can be moved up and down from the outer side of the outer frame 11 via the connecting member 33.

  A space is formed on the top plate 32 of the outer frame 11, and a sub kick roller of a bill feeding portion that operates when the stored bill is dispensed as change, although not shown in the space. 24 and the kick roller 25, and a drive motor which is a drive source for driving the bill feeding portion to raise and lower the inner frame 12 are arranged.

  Furthermore, since the top plate 32 of the outer frame 11 comes into contact with the banknote in which the sub kick roller 24 and the kick roller 25 of the banknote feeding portion are accommodated through the top plate 32, a partially opened through hole have. On the other hand, since the banknote storage 14 constitutes a cassette safe that can be removed from the banknote processing apparatus in a state in which banknotes are stored, the top plate 32 is provided with a sub kick roller 24 and a kick roller 25 of the banknote feeding section when removed. There is provided a shutter 34 that can open and close a through hole in which is disposed. The shutter 34 is provided inside the top plate 32 so as to be able to advance and retreat in the banknote transport direction. When the cassette safe is attached to the banknote processing apparatus, the through hole of the top plate 32 is opened and removed from the banknote processing apparatus. When opening the cassette safe, the through hole of the top plate 32 is closed in conjunction with the cassette safe.

Next, the operation | movement at the time of banknote payment of the banknote storage apparatus of the above structure is demonstrated with reference to FIG.
4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 2 during the pusher operation.

  At the time of banknote depositing of the banknote storage device, first, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the inner frame 12 is most lowered to the bottom of the figure and is in a deposit standby state. At this time, the movable guide 28 is urged upward in the drawing, and is supported from below so that the central portion of the front end in the transport direction of the bill P1 that has been transported does not hang down, and is supported from below to the bill insertion slot. It has moved to the guide position for inserting the bill P1.

  The bill P1 guided and conveyed by the movable guide 28 is inserted into the space above the rail 13 as shown in FIGS. When the movable guide 28 is in this guide position, the bill sliding contact surface of the movable guide 28 is substantially coincident with the bill placing surface of the rail 13, so that the bill P1 in the conveyance direction front end is just before the bill insertion slot. When the horizontal state is maintained and both edges of the leading edge of the bill are placed on the rail 13, the bill passes through the rear end of the stored bill P <b> 2. For this reason, the banknote P1 conveyed on the rail 13 does not collide with the banknote P2 previously stored.

  When a sensor (not shown) installed at the entrance of the banknote storage 14 detects the passage of the banknote P1, the drive motor operates to raise the inner frame 12. When the inner frame 12 is raised in a state where both edges in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the bill P1 are placed on the rail 13, the central portion of the bill P1 is blocked by the top plate 32 as shown in FIG. Both edges of P1 get over the rail 13 and are pushed into the banknote storage 14.

The banknotes pushed into the banknote storage 14 are stored in the inner frame 12 below the rail 13 in a state where they are stacked in the direction in which the inner frame 12 moves up and down.
Next, the operation | movement at the time of banknote payment of the banknote storage apparatus of the above structure is demonstrated.

FIG. 5 is an internal side view showing a dispensing operation state of the banknote storage device.
At the time of banknote withdrawal of the banknote storage device, the inner frame 12 is in a lifted state, similar to the pusher operation during the banknote depositing operation. Thereby, the banknotes placed on the stage 15 rise while being sandwiched between the rails 13, but the uppermost banknote P2 is transferred to the sub kick roller 24 and the kick roller 25 of the banknote feeding section. After the contact, the rail 13 rises away from the uppermost banknote P2 while leaving the uppermost banknote P2 and the stage 15 in that position, and the inner frame 12 is in the state shown in FIG. Stop. At this time, the banknote is in a state of being pressed against the sub kick roller 24 and the kick roller 25 by the biasing means including the torsion spring 21, the tension spring and the leaf spring 23.

  Further, when the inner frame 12 is lifted, one end of the link 29 locked to the inner frame 12 is also lifted, and the link 29 rotates about the rotation shaft 30. As the link 29 rotates, the other end of the link 29 locked to the movable guide 28 is lowered, and the movable guide 28 is also lowered in conjunction with this movement, and the movable guide 28 is retracted from the guide position.

  When the uppermost banknote P2 on the stage 15 is pressed against the sub kick roller 24 and the kick roller 25, the sub kick roller 24 and the kick roller 25 rotate in the clockwise direction in FIG. 24 and the kick roller 25 feed out the uppermost banknote P2 in the creeping direction by frictional contact. At this time, since the movable guide 28 is retracted from the guide position, it does not interfere with the feeding of the banknote P2.

  When the leading edge of the uppermost banknote P2 in the feeding direction is applied to a winding area between the guide roller 26 that is driven to rotate in the feeding direction and the guide roller 27 that is not rotated in the feeding direction, the uppermost banknote P2 is placed. Is extended further. Further, the banknotes fed out together with the uppermost banknote P2 by the inter-banknote friction are separated from the uppermost banknote P2 by the non-rotating guide roller 27, thereby preventing multiple feeding.

  In addition, after the banknote is fed out from the banknote storage 14, the guide rollers 26 and 27 may have the leading ends in the feeding direction of the remaining separated banknotes in some cases. Since these remaining banknotes become an obstacle when the banknotes to be deposited next are stored in the banknote storage 14, it is necessary to return them to the banknote storage 14. This can return these remaining banknotes into the banknote storage 14 by rotating the sub kick roller 24 and the kick roller 25 counterclockwise in FIG.

  Then, when the above dispensing operation is completed, the inner frame 12 is moved downward and returned to the deposit standby state shown in FIG.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the external appearance of a money processing apparatus. It is an internal side view which shows the money_receiving | payment operation state of a banknote storage apparatus. It is AA arrow sectional drawing of FIG. 2 at the time of banknote insertion. It is AA arrow sectional drawing of FIG. 2 at the time of a pusher operation | movement. It is an internal side view which shows the payment operation state of a banknote storage apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Outer frame 12 Inner frame 13 Rail 14 Bill storage 15 Stage 16 Pantograph 17, 18, 29 Link 19 Axis 20 Rotating axis 21 Torsion spring 22 Horizontal movement axis 23 Leaf spring 24 Sub kick roller 25 Kick roller 28 Movable guide P1, P2 banknote

Claims (5)

The banknote storage in which the deposited banknotes are stored in a stacked state, and the banknote transported to the upper part of the banknote storage during the depositing operation and held at both edges in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction by the rails. In a banknote storage device having a recycle function comprising a pusher that is pushed into the storage, and feeding out banknotes stored in the banknote storage by a banknote feeding section arranged adjacently during a dispensing operation.
The rail is disposed close to the front center of the bill insertion slot that is open to accept the bills that have been transported, and the central portion at the tip of the bill in the transport direction that has been transported during the depositing operation is maintained in a horizontal state. A bill storage device comprising a movable guide that is in a position to be guided so as to be inserted into a bill insertion slot and operates to retreat from a position for guiding the bill during a dispensing operation.   An outer frame fixed so that the pusher hangs down at an upper portion thereof, and the bill storage shed arranged in the outer frame so as to be movable up and down so that the pusher can be inserted into and removed from an upper opening provided with the rail. The movable guide is configured to move between a guide position for guiding the bill and a retracted position retracted from the guide position in conjunction with the raising and lowering of the inner frame. The bill storage device according to claim 1, wherein:   It is fixed to the outer frame so as to be rotatable, one end is locked to the inner frame, and the other end is locked to the movable guide. When the inner frame is raised during the dispensing operation, it is directed to the guide position. The bill storage device according to claim 2, further comprising a link that moves the movable guide in the biased state to the retracted position.   The bill storage device according to claim 2, wherein when the movable guide is in the guide position, a sliding contact surface with the bill is substantially coincident with a bill placement surface of the rail. The banknote storage in which the deposited banknotes are stored in a stacked state, and the banknote transported to the upper part of the banknote storage during the depositing operation and held at both edges in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction by the rails. A banknote processing system comprising a banknote storage device having a recycling function, wherein the banknote storage unit is provided with a pusher that is pushed into the storage room, and the banknotes stored in the banknote storage room are fed out by a banknote feeding section disposed adjacently during a dispensing operation. In the device
The rail is disposed close to the front center of the bill insertion slot that is open to accept the bills that have been transported, and the central portion at the tip of the bill in the transport direction that has been transported during the depositing operation is maintained in a horizontal state. A bill processing apparatus comprising: a movable guide which is in a position to be guided so as to be inserted into a bill insertion slot, and which operates to retract from the position where the bill is guided during a dispensing operation.

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