JP2008013303A - Medium treatment device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medium treatment device capable of aligning media accordingly even when the sizes of the media are different from each other. <P>SOLUTION: The medium treatment device for discharging bank notes P to a stacking part one by one, and aligning the discharged bank notes P in the discharging direction comprises a stopping member 36 for stopping the discharge of the bank notes P by the butting of the discharged bank notes P, and an elastically deformable alignment belt 29 which turnably faces the stopping member 36. The bank notes P are aligned by the elastically deformable alignment member 29, and media can be aligned accordingly even when the sizes of the bank notes P are changed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a medium processing apparatus that stacks media one by one in a stacking unit and aligns the stacked media.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a medium processing apparatus having a stacking unit for stacking media, there is a banknote bundling apparatus installed in a financial institution such as a bank. In this banknote bundling and organizing apparatus, banknotes thrown into the apparatus are conveyed one by one to the accumulating section and accumulated in the accumulating section. When a predetermined number of sheets are accumulated, they are bound and arranged. The stacking unit includes a movable placement plate, and the conveyed banknotes are placed on the placement plate one by one. The banknotes are stacked on the stacking unit so as to be discharged by the rotation of the transport roller, and the stacking unit is provided with an abutting wall against which the banknote to be ejected abuts, and a positioning mechanism facing the abutting wall, The banknotes are arranged in the discharge direction between these abutting walls and the alignment mechanism.

As an apparatus having such a stacking unit, for example, one disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-197509 can be cited.
JP 2002-197509 A

However, in the conventional medium processing apparatus, since the alignment mechanism for aligning the medium has a fixed width, only a medium having a predetermined width can be aligned, and it is not possible to deal with media of different sizes. was there.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a medium processing apparatus capable of aligning media according to different media sizes.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a medium processing apparatus that discharges one medium at a time to the stacking unit and aligns the discharged medium in the discharge direction, so that the discharged medium is ejected by abutting the discharged medium. An abutting member that stops and a slack member that is provided so as to be movable so as to face the abutting member and can be elastically deformed are provided.

According to the present invention, since the medium is aligned by the slack member that can be elastically deformed, the function of aligning the medium corresponding to the change in the size of the medium can be exhibited.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Elements common to the drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 is a side view showing a stacking unit of the banknote sorting apparatus of the embodiment, FIG. 2 is an external view showing the banknote sorting apparatus of the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing the banknote sorting apparatus of the embodiment. In the present embodiment, a bill arrangement device will be described as an example of the medium processing device. First, a banknote arrangement device will be described with reference to FIGS.

  2 and 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a bill insertion portion, which is provided in the upper part of the front of the apparatus. Reference numeral 2 denotes a discrimination unit for performing discrimination and counting of banknotes, denominations, correctness, front and back, etc., and detecting conveyance abnormality, and is provided in the apparatus. Reference numeral 3 denotes a banknote transport path that transports the inserted banknotes to each section. Reference numeral 4 denotes a front / back reversing unit for reversing the front and back of the banknote, and is provided to be located at the rear stage in the banknote transport direction of the discrimination unit 2 in the apparatus.

  Reference numeral 5 denotes an open pocket for accumulating banknotes of denominations not to be bound, and is provided on the upper surface of the apparatus. The banknotes accumulated in the open pocket 5 can be directly accessed by the operator. 6 is a stacking mechanism. In the present embodiment, the stacking mechanism 6 is provided with four temporary stacking units 6a to 6d arranged in a line in the apparatus, and each temporary stacking unit 6a to 6d is predetermined. In this embodiment, for example, 100 banknotes can be stacked. Note that the number of temporary stacking units is not limited to four.

  Reference numeral 7 denotes an operation unit provided on one side of the input unit 1. As shown in FIG. 4, the operation unit 7 has a counting start button 7 a for instructing counting of banknotes, and restarts the apparatus when the apparatus is recovered from a failure. There are provided a reset button 7b for performing the counting and a completion button 7c for instructing completion of counting and bundling processing. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation unit. Reference numeral 8 denotes a reject pocket for collecting reject banknotes that have been identified by the discrimination unit 2 as having an unknown denomination or detected to have a conveyance abnormality. The reject pockets 8 are provided above the input unit 1 and are stacked in the reject pocket 8. Can be directly accessed by the operator.

  Reference numeral 9 denotes a transfer mechanism that transfers a predetermined number (for example, 100) of banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking units 6a to 6d to the banknote binding mechanism 10 disposed below. The transfer mechanism 9 can be moved up and down in the vertical direction, and has a clamp portion for clamping a bill. Although not shown, the banknote bundling mechanism 10 includes a conveying unit including rollers and a belt, a bundling tape, a printing unit, a tape supply unit that supplies the tape, and a tape that is cut into a predetermined length. A cutter and a binding means are provided, and a banknote bundle is made by winding a tape around 100 banknotes and binding them.

  Reference numeral 11 denotes a banknote bundle outlet, and 12 denotes a door provided in front of the apparatus. The operator can access the stacking mechanism by opening the door 12. Reference numeral 13 denotes an operation display unit provided on the upper surface of the apparatus so as to be positioned behind the open pocket 5, and is configured by an LCD and a touch panel disposed on the surface thereof. The operator operates the operation display unit 13 to change the mode. Designation and setting of denomination, stacking order, and the like are performed on banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking units 6a to 6d. The operation display unit 13 also displays the denomination, correctness, and counting result of the banknotes identified by the discrimination unit 2.

  Next, the accumulation mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS. In the stacking mechanism 6, the four temporary stacking units 6a to 6d are arranged in the vertical direction as described above, and these temporary stacking units 6a to 6d have the same structure. The accumulation unit 6a will be described as an example. FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the stacking mechanism of the embodiment.

  1 and 5, two transport rollers 20 are attached to a shaft 21. A pressure roller 22 is provided in pressure contact with the conveying roller 20. The bills are discharged into the stacking unit 23 by the transport roller 20 and the pressure roller 22. Striking impellers 24 are provided on both sides of the conveying roller 20. A plurality of flexible blade portions 25 are provided on the outer periphery of the impeller 24.

  A positioning belt pulley 26 is provided between the conveying roller 20 and the tapping impeller 24. The positioning belt pulley 26 is attached to the shaft 21 and is rotated by the rotation of the shaft 21. As shown in FIG. 6, the positioning belt pulley 26 has partial teeth 27 a formed on the outer peripheral portion 27. The other outer peripheral part 27b is formed in the circular arc shape so that it may slide with respect to the positioning belt as a smooth part. A positioning belt 29 as a slack member is pressed against the positioning belt pulley 26 by a pressing roller 28.

  The positioning belt 29 is elastically deformable and is disposed in a state where it is slack on the stacking portion 23 side. A tooth portion 30 is formed inside the positioning belt 29, and the tooth portion 30 can mesh with a partial tooth 27 a of the positioning belt pulley 26. The positioning belt 29 is stretched between the positioning belt pulley 26 and a lower pulley 31 disposed below in a state where a slack is provided. A presser roller 32 is provided on the opposite side of the stacking portion 23 so as to be in contact with the positioning belt 29 so as to press the positioning belt 29 so that the slack of the positioning belt 29 is positioned on the stacking portion 23 side. ing.

  The peripheral speed of the transport roller 20 is high in accordance with the banknote transport speed, but the peripheral speed of the alignment belt 29 that aligns the banknote end in the banknote transport direction does not give more load than necessary to the end of the banknote. It is necessary to reduce the bills to a speed at which the bills are not caught in the belt rotation direction as the positioning belt 29 rotates.

  Therefore, in this embodiment, the diameter of the positioning belt pulley 26 is made smaller than the diameter of the conveying roller 20 to reduce the peripheral speed of the pulley diameter. In addition, the rotation amount transmitted to the positioning belt 29 during one rotation of the positioning belt pulley 26 is reduced by making the outer peripheral portion 27 of the positioning belt pulley 26 a partial tooth 27a and a smoothing portion 27b. I have to. The positioning belt 29 performs so-called intermittent rotation that repeats rotation and stoppage.

  The stacking unit 23 is placed above and facing the mounting member 35 on which the banknote P that has been transported and discharged is placed, the stop member 36 against which the leading end of the discharged banknote P abuts, and the mounting member 35. And a clamp member 37. The clamp member 37 descends toward the placement member 35 when the number of the bills P placed on the placement member 35 reaches 100, and the bill P is placed so that the bill P can be easily delivered to the transfer mechanism 9 shown in FIG. Crush to a certain thickness.

  Here, the operation of the stacking mechanism 6a will be described. In FIG. 1, the transport roller 20 rotates in the direction of arrow A, and the bills P transported by the transport roller 20 and the pressure contact roller 22 are discharged toward the stop member 36. The banknote P is stopped from being conveyed when the leading end abuts against the stop member 36. The rear end portion of the banknote P that has lost its speed is struck from above by the blade section 25 of the tapping impeller 24, and the banknote P falls onto the placement member 35.

  At this time, the positioning belt pulley 26 rotates at the same rotational speed in the same direction as the conveying roller 20 (arrow A direction). The partial teeth 27a of the positioning belt pulley 26 mesh with the teeth 30 of the positioning belt 29 when coming to the pressing roller 28 side. At this time, the positioning belt 29 is rotated in the direction of arrow B by the positioning belt pulley 26. When the partial teeth 27a of the positioning belt pulley 26 move upward from the pressing roller 28 side, the partial teeth 27a are disengaged from the teeth 30 of the positioning belt 29. For this reason, the positioning belt 29 stops rotating.

  When the positioning belt pulley 26 further rotates and its partial teeth 27a come to the pressing roller 28 side again, the positioning belt pulley 26 meshes with the teeth 30 of the positioning belt 29, and the positioning belt 29 rotates again by a certain amount. Thus, the positioning belt 29 performs intermittent rotation that repeats rotation and stop alternately during one rotation of the positioning belt pulley 26.

  Next, operation | movement of a banknote arrangement device is demonstrated. Here, as an example, banknotes with different lengths in the banknote transport direction, for example, Korean banknotes as well as the new five thousand won banknotes (the length in the transport direction is 68 mm) as well as the old 10,000 won banknotes (the transport direction length is 76 mm). ) Will be described as an example.

  First, the operator sets a bundle of banknotes in which the old 10,000 won ticket and the new 5,000 won ticket are mixed in the input unit 1. When the counting start button 7a of the operation unit 7 is pressed, the set banknotes are taken into the apparatus one by one. The taken banknote is transported through the transport path 3 and sent to the discrimination unit 2. In addition to the discrimination of bill authenticity, denomination, front and back, and damage, a sensor (not shown) in the discrimination unit 2 further counts the bill and detects the presence or absence of conveyance abnormality. These discrimination result information, count information, and conveyance abnormality information are sent from the discrimination unit 2 to a control unit of an apparatus (not shown).

  The banknotes identified as not being bound by the discrimination unit 2 are transported through the transport path 3 and sent to the open pocket 5. Further, the banknotes identified as fake banknotes or denominations by the discrimination unit 2, or banknotes in which a conveyance abnormality such as double feeding is detected are conveyed to the reject pocket 8 through the conveyance path 3. As a result of the discrimination, the banknotes that have been identified as genuine 10,000 won or new 5,000 won as a result of the discrimination are transported on the transport path 3 regardless of the result of the discrimination, and the front and back reversing unit 4 reverses the front and back of the banknotes. Then, it is conveyed to the temporary stacking units 6a to 6d of the stacking mechanism 6.

  In the stacking mechanism 6, the banknotes are stacked in temporary stacking units 6 a to 6 d that are different according to denomination. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the new 5,000 won ticket is accumulated in the temporary accumulation units 6a and 6b, and the old 10,000 won ticket is accumulated in the temporary accumulation units 6c and 6d. As an example, a case where a new five thousand won ticket is accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 6a will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a side view showing the integration operation of the embodiment.

  In FIG. 7, the new five thousand won ticket P1 conveyed to the temporary stacking unit 6a is conveyed in the direction of arrow C by the rotation of the conveying roller 20 and the pressure roller 22, and is discharged toward the stop member 36. The new five thousand won ticket P1 that has slipped out of the nip portion between the conveying roller 20 and the pressure roller 22 glides over the upper portion of the stacking portion 23, and the leading end abuts against the stop member 36. As a result, the bill P1 loses its transport speed, the rear end of the bill P1 is tapped downward from above by the blade portion 25 of the tapping impeller 24 coaxial with the transport roller 22, and the bill P1 falls.

  At this time, the positioning belt pulley 26 coaxial with the conveying roller 20 rotates in the same direction as the conveying roller 22 at the same rotational speed. When the partial teeth 27a of the positioning belt pulley 26 come to the pressing roller 28 side, the partial teeth 27a mesh with the tooth portions 30 of the positioning belt 29, and the meshing belt 29 rotates the positioning belt 29 in the arrow B direction. At this time, the positioning belt 29 rotates with the slack portion 29a on the stacking portion 23 side. The rear end portion of the fallen new five thousand won ticket P1 comes into contact with the slack portion 29a of the positioning belt 29 and moves downward by the rotation of the positioning belt 29.

  When the partial teeth 27a of the positioning belt pulley 26 rotate upward from the holding roller 28 side, the partial teeth 27a are disengaged from the teeth 30 of the positioning belt 29, and the positioning belt 29 stops rotating. At this time, the new five thousand won ticket P1 stops moving downward or falls under its own weight. When the positioning belt pulley 26 further rotates and its partial teeth 27a come to the pressing roller 28 side again, the positioning belt pulley 26 meshes with the teeth 30 of the positioning belt 29, and the positioning belt 29 rotates again by a certain amount. Thus, the positioning belt 29 performs intermittent rotation that repeats rotation and stop alternately during one rotation of the positioning belt pulley 26.

  Due to the intermittent rotation of the positioning belt 29, the new five thousand won ticket P1 gradually moves downward, and at that time, the slack portion 29a of the positioning belt 29 is urged toward the stop member 36, and the leading end is stopped. Move until it hits. The slack portion 29a of the positioning belt 29 is set so that the distance from the stop member 36 is slightly shorter than the width L (68 mm) in the transport direction of the new five thousand won ticket P1 when no bills are in the stacking portion 23. Yes, the slack portion 29a is pushed back by the banknote P1 and elastically deformed, so that the banknote P1 can be stacked on the placement member 35 in the conveying direction as shown in FIG. FIG. 8 is a side view showing an integrated state of the embodiment.

  As described above, the new five thousand won ticket P1 is accumulated while being aligned in the transport direction (release direction) by the positioning belt 29, but the banknote P1 moves excessively downward by the intermittent rotation of the positioning belt 29. Therefore, the rear end portion of the banknote P1 is not caught in the gap between the positioning belt 29 and the placing member 35.

  When a predetermined number (100) of the new five thousand won ticket P1 is stacked on the mounting member 35 of the stacking unit 23, a gate distribution mechanism (not shown) is driven, and the new five thousand won ticket P1 thereafter is temporarily stacked. It is accumulated in the part 6b. In the temporary stacking unit 6a in which 100 banknotes P1 are stacked, the placement member 35 is raised and the clamp member 37 is lowered toward the placement member 35. As a result, 100 new five thousand won tickets P1 are held, and the thickness is made constant regardless of whether or not there is a bag or the like.

  The new five thousand won ticket P1 held between the placing member 35 and the clamp member 37 is clamped by the transfer mechanism 9 having a clamp portion shown in FIG. 3 and further transferred to the bill binding mechanism 10. The banknote binding mechanism 10 receives a bundle of banknotes P1 by a receiving receiver (not shown), and winds and binds a tape around the banknotes P1 by a binding means (not shown). The bundled new five thousand won ticket P1 is discharged from the discharge port 11 to the outside of the apparatus.

  Next, the accumulation operation of the old 10,000 won ticket will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a side view showing the integration operation of the embodiment. In FIG. 9, the old 10,000 won ticket P2 is accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 6c. Also in the case of the old 10,000 won ticket P2, the positioning belt 29 performs intermittent rotation that repeats rotation and stop. However, in the case of the old 10,000 won ticket P2, since the width in the transport direction is large, the slack portion 29a of the positioning belt 29 and Although it is necessary to make the distance from the stop member 36 larger than in the case of the new 5,000 won ticket P1, the slack portion 29a is elastically deformed, so that the rear end of the banknote P2 is deformed greatly as shown in FIG. Regulate the department. Due to the elastic deformation, the positioning belt 29 is given a force for urging the bill P2 in the direction of the stop member 36, and the urging force aligns the bill P2 falling on the placement member 35 in the transport direction.

  As shown in FIG. 10, when a predetermined number (100) of the old 10,000 won ticket P2 is stacked on the mounting member 35 of the stacking unit 23, the gate distributing mechanism (not shown) is driven, and the old 10,000 won won thereafter. The ticket P2 is accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit 6d. In the temporary stacking portion 6c in which 100 old 10,000 won tickets P2 are stacked, the mounting member 35 rises and the clamp member 37 descends toward the mounting member 35. As a result, 100 old 10,000 won tickets P2 are sandwiched and made constant regardless of the presence or absence of bags or the like.

  The old ten thousand won ticket P2 sandwiched between the placing member 35 and the clamp member 37 is clamped by the transfer mechanism 9 having a clamp portion shown in FIG. The banknote binding mechanism 10 receives a bundle of banknotes P2 by a receiving receiver (not shown), and winds and binds a tape around the banknotes P2 by a binding means (not shown). The bundled old 10,000 won ticket P2 is discharged from the discharge port 11 to the outside of the apparatus.

  The new five thousand won ticket P1 after 100 sheets and the old 10,000 won ticket P2 after 100 sheets are respectively accumulated in the temporary accumulating sections 6b and 6d as described above. The fraction bills remaining in the stacking units 6a to 6d are taken out of the apparatus by opening the door 12 shown in FIG.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the banknotes are aligned in the transport direction by the elastically deformable positioning belt 29 having the slack portion 29a, the same applies to media having different sizes in the transport direction. There is an effect that it is possible to align in the transport direction by the mechanism of the configuration.

  In addition, by intermittently rotating the positioning belt 29 that alternately repeats rotation and stop, the peripheral speed of the positioning belt 29 can be reduced to about the falling speed of the banknote P. Therefore, the load more than necessary is not applied, and the rear end portion of the banknote P is not caught in the positioning belt 29.

  In the embodiment described above, the pressing roller 28 and the pressing roller 32 are disposed as means for preventing the positioning belt 29 from coming off, but a pressing member such as a leaf spring can also be used as the means for preventing coming off. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the positioning belt 29 has been described with an example using a narrow belt as shown in FIG. 5, but a belt having a wide belt may be used depending on the medium used.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although demonstrated in the example of the apparatus which accumulate | stores the foreign banknote from which size differs in a temporary stacking part, the medium processing apparatus of this invention is not limited to the apparatus which accumulate | stores a banknote, For example, A mechanism for collecting paper media and card media of various sizes, such as securities such as stock certificates, transportation tickets such as air tickets, admission ticket tickets in movies and entertainment facilities, tickets in lotteries and horse racing, etc. It is applicable also to the apparatus which has this.

It is a side view which shows the accumulation mechanism of the banknote arrangement apparatus of embodiment. It is an external view which shows the banknote arrangement device of embodiment. It is a lineblock diagram showing the bill arrangement device of an embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows an operation part. It is a perspective view which shows the stacking mechanism of embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the positioning belt pulley. It is a side view which shows the integration | stacking operation | movement of embodiment. It is a side view which shows the integrated state of embodiment. It is a side view showing accumulation operation of an embodiment. It is a side view which shows the integrated state of embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

6 Stacking Mechanisms 6a to 6d Temporary Stacking Unit 20 Conveying Roller 22 Pressing Roller 23 Stacking Unit 26 Positioning Belt Pulley 27a Partial Teeth 29 Positioning Belt P1 New 5,000 Won Ticket P2 Old 10,000 Won Ticket

Claims (5)

In a medium processing apparatus that discharges one medium at a time to the stacking unit and aligns the discharged medium in the discharge direction.
An abutting member that stops the ejection of the medium by being abutted against the ejected medium;
A medium processing apparatus, comprising: a slack member which is provided so as to be movable facing the abutting member and is elastically deformable. The medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the slack member is elastically deformed in a medium discharge direction. The medium processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the slack member is an endless belt, and the belt is slackened by pressing the belt against a driving pulley by a pressing member. The medium processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the drive pulley has a tooth portion, and the endless belt has a tooth portion that meshes with the tooth portion on an inner side. The medium processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a tooth portion of the driving pulley is a partial tooth, and rotation of a conveying roller that discharges the medium to the stacking portion is transmitted to the driving pulley.

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