JP2008158609A - Paper money storage apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper money storage apparatus capable of making a paper money which causes an identification error re-identified by returning it to an identifying device. <P>SOLUTION: In the paper money storage apparatus 10 for temporary receiving the paper money which is sent from a game machine island conveying path by a temporary reserving unit 11, for making the paper money pass to identifying means 14 after separating and sending one by one from the temporary reserving unit 11, and thereafter for storing the paper money, a retry conveying path 18 for conveying the paper money whose denomination cannot be identified by the identifying means 14 into the temporary reserve unit when a predetermined retry condition is satisfied, and a reject unit 19 for receiving and storing the paper money whose denomination cannot be identified when the retry condition is not satisfied are provided, while a direction of receiving the paper money from the game machine island conveying path to the temporary reserving unit 11 and a direction of receiving the paper money from a retry conveying path are made to be approximately the same. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention is provided on a gaming machine island in which pachinko machines and the like are arranged side by side, and accepts and accommodates banknotes transported along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island after being thrown into a gaming media rental machine by a player. The present invention relates to a bill storage device.

  In gaming machine islands where pachinko machines and other gaming machines are juxtaposed, gaming media rental machines are generally installed near each gaming machine, and the bills inserted into gaming media rental machines are It is conveyed and stored in the banknote storage device at the edge of the gaming machine island through the gaming machine island conveyance path installed in the island along the direction.

  In the banknote storage device, after the banknotes that have been transported in the gaming machine island are once received by the temporary storage section, the banknotes separated and sent out from the temporary storage section one by one are passed through the identification means to identify the denomination And are accommodated in a stacking unit (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  The banknotes inserted into the game medium lending machine are identified with the denomination and the like by the identification means arranged immediately behind the banknote slot of the game medium lending machine, and if they cannot be identified, they are returned to the player. Normally, when a player returns a banknote, the banknote orientation and posture are adjusted and an attempt is made to insert the banknote again. Therefore, the identification means of the gaming media lending machine confirms that the posture of the passing banknote is adjusted to some extent by the player. Since it is unlikely that a trouble such as a banknote with a disordered posture will be jammed, the width of the passage of the banknote is made as close as possible to the width of the banknote.

  On the other hand, the banknote storage device accepts banknotes that have been transported to the edge of the gaming machine island through the gaming machine island transport path, so that the attitude of the banknotes is likely to be disturbed and is expected to be returned to the player to be adjusted. Can not. For this reason, the width of the passage of the banknote of the identification means is set slightly wider than the width of the banknote so that even a banknote whose posture is disturbed to some extent can be passed without clogging. The denomination may not be identified when passing.

  Therefore, the banknote storage device disclosed in Patent Document 1 has a configuration including a reject unit for separating and storing banknotes whose denominations have been normally identified from banknotes that have been successfully identified. In Patent Document 2, banknotes whose denomination could not be identified are temporarily stored in a reject unit, and after the end of business, banknotes accumulated in the reject unit are transported upstream of the identifying means by a separate reject transport path. A bill storage device is disclosed which is returned to and identified again by the identification means.

  In the automatic depositing / dispensing machine described in Patent Document 3, after the inserted banknote is received in a depositing unit that can be temporarily held, the banknote is drawn out from the depositing unit and identified by an identification device, and the denomination is identified. The banknotes that could not be sent out again to the depositing section through the reverse conveyance path.

JP 2002-197511 A JP 2003-296794 A Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 64-43479

  As in the device disclosed in Patent Document 1, when a banknote whose denomination could not be identified at one time is stored in a reject unit and waiting for collection, a denomination error due to a disorder in posture is frequently caused. When this happens, the number of banknotes stored in the reject unit increases, and there is a problem that the capacity of the reject unit is increased, and that the employee has to take out and collect the banknotes from the reject unit.

  On the other hand, in the apparatuses disclosed in Patent Documents 2 and 3, since the banknote that could not be identified is returned again to the upstream of the identification means and re-identified, the possibility that the denomination of the banknote is identified is increased. The number of banknotes stored in the reject unit can be reduced.

  However, in the banknote storage device disclosed in Patent Document 2, since the banknotes are merged and returned from the reject portion to the conveyance path upstream of the identification means, the banknotes collide at the time of merging, and the posture of the banknotes in the middle of the conveyance path May be disturbed and jams may occur. In order to avoid this collision, a configuration that detects the arrival of banknotes from the gaming machine island conveyance path and controls the delivery timing of banknotes from the reject unit is also conceivable, but there is a problem that the control and device configuration become complicated there were.

  On the other hand, in the automatic depositing and dispensing machine disclosed in Patent Document 3, the banknotes that could not be identified are not returned directly to the transport path, but are returned from the reverse transport path to the deposit section. Since the direction of throwing in and the direction in which the banknote sent out from the reverse conveyance path is received in the depositing part face each other, the banknotes collide with each other and are scattered. For this reason, the banknotes sent out from the reversing conveyance path are made to collide with the stopper and dropped, accumulated on the pool shelf, and further, the banknote on the pool shelf is dropped to the depositing unit by sliding the pool shelf and removing it. If a complicated mechanism is not used, there is a problem that the banknotes sent back to the depositing unit cannot be aligned.

  The present invention is intended to solve the above problem, and can store banknotes that can be re-identified by aligning banknotes without using a complicated mechanism and returning a banknote in which an identification error has occurred to the identification device. The object is to provide an apparatus.

  The gist of the present invention for achieving the object lies in the inventions of the following items.

[1] The banknote sent out from the gaming machine island transport path (5) that transports the banknote along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island is temporarily received by the temporary storage section (11), and one sheet is stored from the temporary storage section (11). In the bill storage device (10) for passing the bills separated and sent out to the identification means (14) and storing the bills thereafter,
A retry conveyance path (18) for conveying a banknote whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means (14) to the temporary holding section (11) when a predetermined retry condition is satisfied;
A banknote whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means (14), and a reject unit (19) for receiving and storing the banknote when the retry condition is not satisfied, and
The acceptance direction of the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path (5) to the temporary storage part (11) and the reception direction of the banknotes sent out from the retry transport path (18) to the temporary storage part (11) Are substantially the same,
The banknotes sent out from the retry transport path (18) so as to enter the specific one side (K) side of the temporary holding section (11) rather than the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path (5). Accept to the temporary holding part (11),
By disposing the outlet (11b) to the sending means (12) for sending out the banknotes separated from the temporary holding part (11) one by one toward the one side (K) side, The banknote storage device (10), wherein the banknotes received from the retry conveyance path (18) are preferentially sent out from the temporary storage unit (11).

  In the above invention, the banknotes whose posture was disturbed due to being transported by the gaming machine island transport path (5) and whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means (14) are temporarily retained by the retry transport path (18) (11). , It is sent again from the temporary holding part (11) to the identification means (14) for re-identification, and as a result, the possibility that the denomination can be identified increases, and the number of banknotes stored in the reject part (19) And the capacity of the reject portion (19) can be reduced. Moreover, since the acceptance direction of the banknote from the gaming machine island transport path (5) to the temporary storage section (11) and the acceptance direction of the banknote from the retry transport path (18) to the temporary storage section (11) are substantially the same. The banknotes received from the retry conveyance path (18) can be aligned in the temporary storage unit (11) without using a complicated mechanism. Furthermore, since the banknotes sent from the retry conveyance path (18) are preferentially sent out from the temporary holding section (11), the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island conveyance path (5) are slightly delayed. Due to this delay, there is a margin for the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path (5) to have their posture disordered in the temporary holding section (11), and therefore the banknote whose denomination cannot be identified by the identification means (14). In addition, it is possible to reduce a conveyance failure (jam) that occurs in the apparatus (10). Moreover, since it is selected according to the success or failure of the retry condition, whether the paper is discharged to the reject part (19) or returned to the temporary holding part (11) through the retry conveyance path (18) for re-identification is selected. It is no longer circulated in the storage device (10), and it is possible to prevent other banknotes from being obstructed or that many banknotes are transported to the retry transport path (18) and cause transport failures. The

[2] The sending means (12) rotates in the reverse direction of the forward roller (12a) and the forward roller (12a) rotating in the direction of feeding the banknote from the temporary storage unit (11) and the forward roller. A reversing roller (12b) having a surface frictional force smaller than that of the roller (12a) is arranged so as to face each other so that the forward roller (12a) is on the one side (K) side. The banknote storage device (10) according to [1], characterized in that:

  In the above invention, when one banknote arrives at the delivery port (11b), the frictional force of the reverse rotation roller (12b) is smaller than the frictional force of the forward rotation roller (12a). It is sent out from the delivery port (11b) by contact with 12a). On the other hand, when a plurality of banknotes are stacked, the banknote in contact with the forward rotation roller (12a) is sent out from the delivery port (11b), and the banknote in contact with the reverse rotation roller (12b) 11) Returned to within. In this way, banknotes are separated one by one and sent out from the outlet (11b).

[3] A detection unit (43) for detecting a bill passing through the retry conveyance path (18),
The retry condition is satisfied when the number of banknotes detected in unit time by the detection unit (43) is equal to or less than a set number, and the number of banknotes detected in unit time by the detection unit (43) is the set number. The banknote storage device (10) according to [1] or [2], wherein the banknote storage device (10) is not established.

  In the above-mentioned invention, by setting the set number of sheets to a value that does not cause a conveyance failure in the retry conveyance path (18), it is possible to suppress the number of bills that cannot be identified from denominations that circulate in the bill storage device (10) to a certain number or less. Thus, it is possible to prevent troubles in identifying other banknotes, or causing many banknotes to be transported to the retry transport path (18) and causing transport troubles.

[4] A detection unit (43) for detecting a banknote passing through the retry conveyance path (18),
The retry condition is established when the bill passage detected by the detection unit (43) is equal to or greater than a set interval, and when the bill passage detected by the detection unit (43) is less than the set interval. The bill storage device (10) according to any one of [1] to [3], which is not established.

  In the said invention, the conveyance failure which the front and back banknotes collide in a retry conveyance path (18) can be prevented by setting a setting space | interval suitably.

[5] A holding amount detecting unit (42) for detecting a holding amount of the banknote in the temporary holding unit (11) is provided.
The retry condition is satisfied when the hold amount detected by the hold amount detection unit (42) is equal to or less than a set number of sheets, and when the hold amount detected by the hold amount detection unit (42) exceeds the set number of sheets. The banknote storage device (10) according to any one of [1] to [3], wherein the banknote storage device (10) is not established.

  In the said invention, the quantity of the banknote which accumulate | stores in a temporary storage part (11) can be made into the setting amount or less, and trouble will arise in acceptance of a new banknote because many banknotes accumulate in a temporary storage part (11). , Banknote jams and jams can be prevented.

[6] The banknote sent out from the gaming machine island transport path (5) that transports the banknote along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island is temporarily received by the temporary storage section (11), and one sheet from the temporary storage section (11). In the bill storage device (10) for passing the bills separated and sent out to the identification means (14) and storing the bills thereafter,
While providing the retry conveyance path (18) which conveys the banknote whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means (14) to the temporary storage part (11),
The acceptance direction of the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path (5) to the temporary storage part (11) and the reception direction of the banknotes sent out from the retry transport path (18) to the temporary storage part (11) The bill storage device (10), characterized in that is substantially the same.

  In the above invention, the banknotes whose posture was disturbed due to being transported by the gaming machine island transport path (5) and whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means (14) are temporarily retained by the retry transport path (18) (11). , The temporary holding section (11) sends it back to the identification means (14) for re-identification. As a result, the possibility that the denomination can be identified increases. Moreover, since the acceptance direction of the banknote from the gaming machine island transport path (5) to the temporary storage section (11) and the acceptance direction of the banknote from the retry transport path (18) to the temporary storage section (11) are substantially the same, Banknotes can be aligned in the temporary storage unit (11) without using a complicated mechanism. In addition, since the banknote which passes a retry conveyance path (18) stays in a temporary storage part (11) even if it does not provide a rejection part (19) in particular, the banknote which cannot identify the denomination which circulates in the banknote storage apparatus (10) The increase is suppressed to some extent.

  According to the banknote storage apparatus according to the present invention, the banknote whose posture is disturbed due to being transported by the gaming machine island transport path and whose denomination cannot be identified by the identifying means is returned to the temporary holding unit by the retry transport path, Since it is sent again to the identification means from the holding section and re-identified, the possibility of identifying the denomination can be increased as a result. In addition, since the acceptance direction of banknotes from the gaming machine island transport path to the temporary holding section and the acceptance direction of banknotes from the retry transport path to the temporary storage section are substantially the same, the banknotes received from the retry transport path are complicated mechanisms. It is possible to align in the temporary holding part without using.

  In addition, depending on the success or failure of the retry condition, it is possible to select whether the paper is discharged to the reject part or returned to the temporary holding part through the retry conveyance path to be re-identified. Thus, it is possible to prevent other banknotes from being hindered from being identified, and a large number of banknotes from being transported to the retry transport path to cause transport failures.

  In particular, when the banknotes sent from the retry conveyance path are preferentially sent out from the temporary holding section, the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island conveyance path are slightly delayed. Since the bills sent out from the machine island transport path have a margin to adjust the posture in the temporary holding unit, the bills whose denomination cannot be identified by the identification means and the transport failures (jams) occurring in the apparatus are reduced. Can do.

  Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a front view showing an internal structure of a gaming machine island 2 on which a banknote storage device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed, and FIG. 2 shows a banknote storage device 10 installed on the gaming machine island 2. It is a top view which shows the arrangement | positioning state of the related apparatus. The gaming machine island 2 accommodates a large number of pachinko machines and other gaming machines 3 and gaming media rental machines 4 in a frame constructed on the floor of the gaming store, arranged side by side on the front and back sides. .

  The game medium lending machine 4 is a device that lends a game medium such as a pachinko ball used in the game machine 3 to a player in accordance with the amount of banknotes inserted from the banknote slot 4a at the upper front. Between the backs of the game medium lending machines 4 installed back to back, the gaming machine island transports the banknotes discharged from the back of each game medium lending machine 4 to the banknote storage device 10 at the end of the gaming machine island 2. A path 5 is extended along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island 2 in a back-to-back manner corresponding to each of the front and back surfaces. The banknotes are transported toward the banknote storage device 10 through the gaming machine island transport paths 5 on the front and back sides in a posture in which the short side is substantially vertical, and merged immediately before being sent out into the banknote storage device 10.

  3 is a top view showing the internal structure of the banknote storage device 10, FIG. 4 is a front view showing the internal structure of the banknote storage device 10, and FIG. 5 is a left side view showing the internal structure of the banknote storage device 10.

  The banknote storage device 10 is a device that stores the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5 in denominations, and temporarily holds and holds the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5; Sending means 12 for sending out banknotes separated from the temporary storage unit 11 one by one, common transport path 13 for transporting banknotes sent out from the sending means 12, and banknotes arranged and passed through the common transport path 13 The denomination cannot be identified by the identification means 14 for identifying the denomination, the first storage section 15 and the second storage section 16 for storing the banknotes successfully identified by denomination, and the identification means 14. A retry transport path 18 that transports the banknotes to the temporary holding unit 11 when a predetermined retry condition is satisfied, and a reject unit 19 that accepts and stores banknotes whose denomination has not been identified when the retry condition is not satisfied. It is equipped with a.

  Specifically, the temporary storage unit 11 has a first receiving port 11a, which is a receiving port for bills sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5, at one end, and a bill sending port 11b to the common transport path 13 at the other end. The length between the first receiving port 11a and the delivery port 11b is not less than the length of the long side of the banknote, and the height is not less than the length of the short side of the banknote. It has an elongated box shape that can accommodate In addition, in one side K of the temporary storage unit 11, a second receiving port that is a receiving port for a bill sent out from the retry conveyance path 18 is located near the center between the first receiving port 11 a and the sending port 11 b. 11c is provided. The delivery port 11b is arranged to be shifted to the side K side where the second receiving port 11c is provided. Moreover, since the 1st receiving port 11a is arrange | positioned higher than the bottom face in the temporary storage part 11, the banknote received from the 1st receiving port 11a with the attitude | position in which a short side becomes substantially perpendicular | vertical is temporarily hold | maintained with its own weight. The posture is adjusted by dropping and abutting on the bottom surface in the portion 11. Thereafter, the banknotes are transported in the banknote storage device 10 with the short side being substantially vertical.

  A pair of receiving rollers 21 having a cylindrical shape is disposed opposite to the first receiving port 11a. The rotation of the motor 25 is transmitted to the receiving roller 21 via the upper transmission gear 23 and the upper motor gear 24. As the motor 25 rotates in the direction of arrow A in the figure, the receiving roller 21 rotates in a direction to feed the bills from the gaming machine island transport path 5 into the temporary storage unit 11.

  The delivery means 12 provided at the delivery port 11b includes a forward roller 12a that rotates in the direction of feeding the banknotes from the temporary storage unit 11, and a surface that rotates in the reverse direction of the forward roller 12a and is in front of the forward roller 12a. The reverse rotation roller 12b having a small frictional force is arranged so as to oppose the forward rotation roller 12a on the side K side where the second receiving port 11c is located.

  The forward roller 12a is formed in a cylindrical shape and is provided with gear-like teeth with an elastic member such as rubber on its peripheral surface so that the contact area with the bill and the frictional force are increased. On the other hand, the reverse roller 12b is formed in two upper and lower disks arranged so as to sandwich the gear-shaped teeth of the forward roller 12a from both sides. Is smaller than the forward roller 12a.

  When one banknote has reached the delivery port 11b, the frictional force of the reverse rotation roller 12b is smaller than the frictional force of the forward rotation roller 12a, so that the banknote is sent out from the delivery port 11b by contact with the forward rotation roller 12a. . On the other hand, when the banknote which reached | attained the delivery port 11b overlaps, the banknote which is contacting the forward rotation roller 12a is sent out from the delivery port 11b, and the banknote which is contacting the reverse rotation roller 12b is the temporary storage part 11. Returned in. In this way, even when a plurality of banknotes are stacked, the sending means 12 sends out banknotes one by one from the outlet 11b.

  A feeding belt 26 that conveys banknotes from the vicinity of the second receiving port 11 c to the sending port 11 b is provided on the side K of the temporary holding unit 11 where the second receiving port 11 c is provided.

  Further, a rectangular opening 11d (see FIG. 4) is provided on the side opposite to the side K of the temporary storage unit 11, and on the outer side, an axis is sandwiched in a tangential direction from the peripheral surface of the rotary drum 29. Two pressing blades 28 extending in opposite directions are provided. The rotary drum 29 is configured to rotate in the direction of arrow B as the motor 25 rotates in the direction of arrow A. By the rotation, the leading end portions of the two pressing blades 28 are moved from the rectangular opening 11d into the temporary storage unit 11. Are alternately entered, and the banknotes in the temporary storage unit 11 are pressed toward the feeding belt 26 side.

  The common conveyance path 13 is a conveyance path from the delivery port 11b through the conveyance roller 13a and the identification unit 14 to the first storage unit 15, and is rejected along the path between the identification unit 14 and the first storage unit 15. 19 and the entrance of the second storage part 16 are arranged. The slit-shaped banknote entrance 14a (see FIG. 5) of the identification means 14 is set to be somewhat larger than the width of the banknote that passes through, so that the banknote is not jammed even when a banknote with a somewhat disturbed attitude enters. It has become.

  In the middle of the common transport path 13, the reject gate 31 as a switching claw for switching whether or not the banknotes are separated from the common transport path 13 and directed to the reject unit 19, and the banknotes are detached from the common transport path 13 and the second 2 A storage gate 32 as a switching claw for switching whether or not to face the storage unit 16 is disposed.

  Further, the retry conveyance path 18 is provided from the vicinity of the end of the common conveyance path 13 to the second receiving port 11 c of the temporary storage unit 11, and has been conveyed by the common conveyance path 13 near the end of the common conveyance path 13. A retry gate 33 is provided as a switching claw for switching whether the bill is sent directly to the first storage unit 15 or sent from the common transport path 13 to the retry transport path 18.

  The receiving direction in which the banknote sent out from the retry conveyance path 18 is received into the temporary holding unit 11 through the second receiving port 11c is substantially the same as the receiving direction of the banknote from the first receiving port 11a. Further, due to the positional relationship between the first receiving port 11a and the second receiving port 11c, the temporary storage unit 11 temporarily stores the banknotes sent out from the retry transport path 18 rather than the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5. 11 so as to enter the side K side.

  The conveying roller 13a of the common conveying path 13 receives the rotational force of the motor 25 from the lower shaft 25a of the motor 25 via the first electromagnetic clutch 35 and the first timing belt 36 (see FIG. 4) provided in the coaxial lower portion. Then, the driving force is transmitted from the transport roller 13 a to each part of the common transport path 13 and the retry transport path 18. Further, the rotational force of the motor 25 is transmitted from the lower shaft 25a of the motor 25 to the forward rotation roller 12a via the second electromagnetic clutch 37 and the second timing belt 38 provided in the coaxial lower portion.

  In the vicinity of the outside of the receiving roller 21 provided at the first receiving port 11a, a receiving sensor 41 for detecting banknotes from the gaming machine island transport path 5 is attached. The temporary holding unit 11 is provided with a holding sensor 42 for detecting the banknote in the temporary holding unit 11, and a retry sensor 43 for detecting a banknote passing through the retry conveying path 18 is provided in the vicinity of the retry conveying path 18. It has been.

  The banknote storage apparatus 10 includes a control unit (not shown) mainly composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and a RAM (Random Access Memory). The detection information is input from the retry sensor 43, and the motor 25, the first electromagnetic clutch 35, the second electromagnetic clutch 37, the reject gate 31, the storage gate 32, and the retry gate 33 are based on the detection information and the retry conditions described later. To control the operation. The reject gate 31, the storage gate 32, and the retry gate 33 are each displaced by turning on / off the solenoids, and the control unit controls the on / off of these solenoids.

  Next, operation | movement of the banknote storage apparatus 10 is demonstrated. FIG. 6 shows a transport route when the banknote N is stored in any of the first storage section 15, the second storage section 16, and the reject section 19, and FIG. 7 shows that the banknote N is temporarily held through the retry transport path 18. The transport route in the case of being returned to is indicated by a bold line in the figure.

  When the banknote transported through the gaming machine island transport path 5 is detected by the receiving sensor 41, the motor 25 is started, and the pair of receiving rollers 21 and the feeding belt 26 are connected via the upper motor gear 24 and the upper transmission gear 23. While being driven, the pressing blade 28 is rotationally driven in the direction of arrow B. As a result, the banknotes that have arrived from the gaming machine island transport path 5 are sent into the temporary holding unit 11 by the pair of rotating receiving rollers 21 and are received in the temporary holding unit 11.

  When the banknote is received by the temporary storage unit 11, the banknote is detected by the storage sensor 42, and triggered by this detection, the first electromagnetic clutch 35 attached to the lower part of the transport roller 13 a is operated, and the device is moved from the lower shaft 25 a of the motor 25 to the device. The rotational driving force is transmitted to the transport roller 13a via the lower first timing belt 36. Thereby, the common conveyance path 13 and the retry conveyance path 18 which convey a banknote to the identification means 14, the 1st accommodating part 15, etc. are driven. Moreover, the banknote received by the temporary storage part 11 with the short side substantially vertical is dropped and brought into contact with the bottom surface in the temporary storage part 11 by its own weight, so that the posture is adjusted.

  Thereafter, the second electromagnetic clutch 37 attached to the lower portion of the forward roller 12a is operated, and the rotational driving force is transmitted from the lower shaft 25a of the motor 25 via the second timing belt 38 at the lower portion of the device to the forward roller 12a and the reverse roller. 12b, the forward roller 12a rotates in the direction of feeding the banknote from the temporary storage unit 11, and the reverse roller 12b rotates in the opposite direction.

  The banknote received by the temporary storage unit 11 comes into contact with the rotating pressing blade 28 and is pressed toward the feeding belt 26, and is sent by the feeding belt 26 toward the delivery port 11 b of the temporary storage unit 11. The sending means 12 separates the banknotes one by one and sends them out from the delivery port 11b. That is, when a plurality of bills are fed into the delivery port 11b, the bills that have contacted the forward rotation roller 12a are fed out from the delivery port 11b, and the bills that have come in contact with the reverse rotation roller 12b are in the temporary storage unit 11. Therefore, only one banknote in contact with the forward roller 12a is sent out from the delivery port 11b. Further, when the number of banknotes fed toward the outlet 11b of the temporary storage unit 11 by the feeding belt 26 is one, the frictional force of the reverse rotation roller 12b is smaller than that of the forward rotation roller 12a. The bill that has entered between the roller 12a and the reverse roller 12b is sent out from the delivery port 11b to the common transport path 13 by the frictional force of the forward roller 12a.

  The banknotes sent to the common transport path 13 are denominated when they pass through the identification means 14. The banknote that has been successfully identified by the identifying means 14 is stored in the first storage unit 15 or the second storage unit 16 according to the denomination (P1 or P2 in FIG. 6).

  In the normal state, the reject gate 31, the storage gate 32, and the retry gate 33 are positions where the banknotes transported by the common transport path 13 are stored in the first storage unit 15, and the banknotes are transferred to the second storage unit 16. When storing, the storage gate 32 is operated and displaced. When storing the banknote in the reject unit 19, the reject gate 31 is operated and displaced. When the banknote is sent to the retry conveyance path 18, the retry gate 33 is operated. To be displaced.

  When the denomination cannot be identified by the identification means 14, it is determined whether or not a predetermined retry condition is satisfied. If the retry condition is satisfied, the retry gate 33 is operated and displaced. Thereby, the banknote is conveyed by the retry conveyance path 18 and returned from the second receiving port 11c into the temporary holding unit 11 (FIG. 7, P3).

  On the other hand, when the denomination cannot be identified by the identifying means 14 and the retry condition is not satisfied, the reject gate 31 is operated and displaced, and the banknote is stored in the reject unit 19 (P4 in FIG. 6).

Any of the following can be selected as the retry condition.
(1) It is established when the number of banknotes detected by the retry sensor 43 per unit time is equal to or less than the set number, and is not established when the number exceeds the set number.
(2) It is established if the bill passage interval detected by the retry sensor 43 is greater than or equal to the set interval, and is not established if the bill passage interval is less than the set interval.
(3) When the hold amount of the banknote in the temporary hold unit 11 is detected by the hold sensor 42 and the detected hold amount is equal to or less than the set number, the retry condition is satisfied, and the detected hold amount exceeds the set number Is not established.
It should be noted that which is set as the retry condition, and the set number of sheets and the setting interval in each condition can be changed from an operation unit (not shown).

  In this way, when the retry condition is satisfied when the banknote whose denomination could not be identified is returned to the temporary holding unit 11 through the retry conveyance path 18, the banknote can be identified again by passing the banknote through the identification means 14. It is possible to increase the proportion of banknotes whose types of money are finally identified, thereby reducing the number of banknotes accommodated in the reject unit 19 and reducing the capacity of the reject unit 19. Thereby, in addition to contributing to the downsizing of the banknote storage device 10, the employee can easily take out the banknote from the reject unit 19.

  Further, when the retry condition is not satisfied, the bill is stored in the reject unit 19, so that a banknote whose denomination cannot be identified never circulates in the banknote storage device 10 and is sent from the gaming machine island transport path 5. It is possible to prevent other banknotes from being obstructed, and that many banknotes are transported to the retry transport path 18 to cause transport failures such as jams.

  In particular, when the retry condition (2) is used, the retry conveyance path 18 can be restricted so that the interval between the banknotes conveyed and the banknotes does not become equal to or less than a predetermined interval, and the collision between the front and rear banknotes can be prevented. In addition, when the retry condition (3) is used, the amount of banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 11 can be set to be equal to or less than the set amount, and many banknotes are stored in the temporary storage unit 11 so that the first receiving port 11a and the second receiving port 11 It is possible to prevent troubles in receiving new banknotes from the receiving port 11c, and banknote jamming or jamming.

  Moreover, since the acceptance direction of the banknote from the retry conveyance path 18 to the temporary storage part 11 and the acceptance direction of the banknote from the gaming machine island conveyance path 5 are made substantially the same, a separate complicated mechanism is used for the accepted banknote. Can be aligned.

  Furthermore, the banknote sent out from the retry conveyance path 18 is provided by providing the 2nd receiving port 11c in the one side part K of the temporary storage part 11 in the center vicinity between the 1st receiving port 11a and the sending port 11b. From the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5, the temporary storage unit 11 enters the side K where the second receiving port 11c exists, and the sending port 11b is moved to the side K side. Even if the banknotes from the gaming machine island transport path 5 and the banknotes from the retry transport path 18 are sent into the temporary storage unit 11 at the same time, they are sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5. The banknote sent out from the retry conveyance path 18 is discharged from the delivery port 11b preferentially over the banknote.

  As a result, the timing at which the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5 are sent out from the delivery port 11b of the temporary storage section 11 is slightly delayed, and this delay causes the banknotes from the gaming machine island transport path 5 to enter the temporary storage section 11. You will have time to stay. Even if the posture of the banknote sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5 is disturbed to some extent, the bottom surface in the temporary storage unit 11 with its own weight is surely kept in a posture in which the short side is substantially vertical during this time margin. Since the posture is adjusted and the banknotes can be aligned by dropping and coming into contact with each other, the disorder of the posture of the banknotes when passing through the identification means 14 is reduced. As a result, the probability that the identification means 14 cannot identify the denomination is reduced, and the occurrence of a conveyance failure such as a jam can be reduced.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to that shown in the embodiment, and there are changes and additions within the scope of the present invention. Are also included in the present invention.

  For example, in the embodiment, the second receiving port 11c is provided at a position corresponding to the vicinity of the center of the first receiving port 11a and the sending port 11b in one side K of the temporary holding unit 11. The position of the receiving port 11c is not limited to this, the receiving direction of the banknote sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5 to the temporary storage section 11 and the banknote sent out from the retry transport path 18 to the temporary storage section 11 The banknote sent out from the retry conveyance path 18 is temporarily held so that the receiving direction is substantially the same, and the banknote is sent out from the gaming machine island conveyance path 5 to the one side K side of the temporary holding section 11. What is necessary is just to be made to be accepted by the part 11. For example, when making the acceptance direction of the banknote from the retry conveyance path 18 and the acceptance direction of the banknote from the gaming machine island conveyance path 5 substantially parallel, the second receiving port 11c and the first receiving port 11a are set to the same end. May be arranged side by side so that the second receiving port 11c is on the side K side of the first receiving port 11a, and the position of this position and the position of the second receiving port 11c shown in the embodiment. You may arrange | position in the arbitrary positions between.

  Moreover, although the gaming machine island 2 having the gaming medium rental machine 4 on the front and back surfaces is illustrated, the gaming machine island 2 in which the gaming medium rental machine 4 and the gaming machine 3 are disposed only on one surface is also included in the present invention. The bill storage device 10 is applied.

  In the banknote storage apparatus 10 of the embodiment, banknotes whose denominations are not finally identified are stored in the reject unit 19, but banknotes whose denominations were not finally identified without providing the reject unit 19. May be configured to be held by the temporary holding unit 11. In this case, the rejection gate 31 for separating the banknotes from the common transport path 13 and feeding them into the reject unit 19, the partition plate for forming the reject unit 19, and the like become unnecessary, and the apparatus configuration can be simplified. In addition, it is good to comprise so that an employee may be prompted to take out the banknotes which accumulate | stored in the temporary storage part 11 by issuing a warning, etc., when the banknote more than fixed amount is hold | maintained in the temporary storage part 11. FIG.

  In addition, in the embodiment, the gaming machine island 2 on which the pachinko machine is installed is illustrated, but the type of gaming machine is not limited to this, and a slot machine or the like may be used.

It is a front view which shows the internal structure of the game machine island in which the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention was installed. It is a top view which shows the arrangement | positioning state in the game machine island of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention, and its related apparatus. It is a top view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a left view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows a conveyance route in case a banknote is accommodated in either a 1st accommodating part, a 2nd accommodating part, or a rejection part in the banknote accommodating apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows a conveyance route in case a banknote is returned to a temporary storage part through a retry conveyance path in the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 ... Game machine island 3 ... Game machine 4 ... Game medium rental machine 4a ... Banknote insertion slot 5 ... Game machine island conveyance path 10 ... Banknote storage apparatus 11 ... Temporary storage part 11a ... 1st receiving port 11b ... Sending port 11c ... 1st 2 receiving port 11d ... rectangular opening 12 ... feeding means 12a ... forward roller 12b ... reverse roller 13 ... common conveying path 13a ... conveying roller 14 ... identifying means 14a ... banknote entrance 15 ... first storage unit 16 ... second storage unit DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 18 ... Retry conveyance path 19 ... Reject part 21 ... Receiving roller 23 ... Upper transmission gear 24 ... Upper motor gear 25 ... Motor 25a ... Lower shaft of motor 26 ... Feed belt 28 ... Pressing blade 29 ... Rotating drum 31 ... Reject gate 32 ... Storage gate 33 ... retry gate 35 ... first electromagnetic clutch 36 ... first timing belt 37 ... second electromagnetic clutch 38 ... second timing Guberuto 41 ... side N ... bill with receiving sensor 42 ... hold the sensor 43 ... retry sensor K ... second receiving port

Claims (6)

The banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path that transports banknotes along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island are temporarily received by the temporary holding unit, and the banknotes separated and sent out from the temporary holding unit one by one are identified. In the bill storage device for storing the bill and then storing the bill,
Retry transport path for transporting banknotes whose denomination could not be identified by the identifying means to the temporary holding section when a predetermined retry condition is satisfied,
A banknote whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means, and a reject unit that receives and stores the banknote when the retry condition is not satisfied, and
The acceptance direction of the banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path to the temporary storage part and the reception direction of the banknotes sent out from the retry transport path to the temporary storage part are substantially the same,
Accept the banknotes sent out from the retry transport path to the temporary storage part so as to enter the specific one side of the temporary storage part rather than banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path,
The banknotes received from the retry conveyance path are preferentially arranged by bringing the delivery port to the delivery means for sending out the banknotes separated from the temporary holding unit one by one toward the specific one side. The bill storage device is characterized by being sent out from the temporary storage unit. The sending means includes a forward roller that rotates in a direction of feeding banknotes from the temporary storage unit, and a reverse roller that rotates in the reverse direction of the forward roller and has a smaller surface frictional force than the forward roller. The banknote storage device according to claim 1, wherein the forward rotation roller is arranged so as to face the specific one side portion. A detector for detecting a bill passing through the retry conveyance path;
The retry condition is satisfied when the number of banknotes detected per unit time by the detection unit is equal to or less than a set number, and is not satisfied when the number of banknotes detected per unit time by the detection unit exceeds a set number. The bill storage device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: A detector for detecting a bill passing through the retry conveyance path;
The retry condition is satisfied when a bill passage interval detected by the detection unit is greater than or equal to a set interval, and is not established when a bill passage interval detected by the detection unit is less than a set interval. The bill storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 3. A holding amount detection unit for detecting a holding amount of banknotes in the temporary holding unit;
The retry condition is satisfied when the hold amount detected by the hold amount detection unit is equal to or less than the set number of sheets, and is not satisfied when the hold amount detected by the hold amount detection unit exceeds the set number of sheets. The bill storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 3. The banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path that transports banknotes along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island are temporarily received by the temporary holding unit, and the banknotes separated and sent out from the temporary holding unit one by one are identified. In the bill storage device for storing the bill and then storing the bill,
While including a retry conveyance path for conveying a banknote whose denomination could not be identified by the identification means to the temporary holding unit,
The banknote storage characterized in that the receiving direction of the banknote sent out from the gaming machine island transport path to the temporary storage section and the receiving direction of the banknote sent out from the retry transport path to the temporary storage section are substantially the same. apparatus.

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