JP2505753Y2 - Bill validator - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a bill validator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional bill discriminating apparatus, a bill inserted from a bill insertion slot is checked by a discrimination sensor to determine whether the bill is genuine or not.
It detects if they are counterfeit and sends only real bills one by one into the lower bill box.

[0003] A general outline of the bill validator is a bill transporting device for transporting a bill, which is rotationally driven by a first drive motor, and a process for transporting a bill inserted from a bill insertion slot by the transporting device. It is provided with a discriminating sensor for discriminating between genuine and counterfeit, and a bill feeding device for feeding the bills passing the discrimination sensor while being supplied with rotational power from the second drive motor into the bill box one by one. The bills collected in the bill box can be taken out by opening the front door.

[0004]

As described above, the bills collected in the bill box of the bill discriminating apparatus can be taken out by opening the front door, but it is difficult to take them out all at once. Since the banknote box having a large occupied space is arranged below, there is a problem that the entire apparatus becomes large.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a bill discriminating apparatus which simplifies the taking-out of bills and can downsize the entire apparatus.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention has a drive motor capable of forward and reverse rotation and a forward rotation when a rotational power from the drive motor is applied during forward rotation and during reverse rotation. , A conveying belt for returning and conveying, a detecting section for detecting a bill sent by the conveying belt and reversing the drive motor in the case of a counterfeit bill, and taking over the bill from the conveying belt and guiding the bill to the lower side of the conveying belt And a pair of left and right temporary support members that temporarily support both ends of the bill, a detection unit that detects completion of temporary support of the bill by the temporary support member and reverses the drive motor, and when the drive motor reverses, descends from the standby position. After forcibly pressing the banknotes in the temporarily supported state by descending, they are raised again and returned to the standby position. One cycle motion is repeated, and a vertically movable banknote pressing body and a lower part of the pressing body. And a banknote box constrained by a lock mechanism against the forward biasing force by the biasing means, and the banknote box is pressed against the banknote box when the banknote pressing body descends. A vertically movable bill support plate, an openable and closable body provided at the front of the banknote box and rotatable in a substantially horizontal open posture and a substantially vertical closed posture, and a closed posture provided at the base of the openable and closable body And a release lever portion for releasing the locked state of the lock mechanism when the lock mechanism is rotated from the open position to the open position.

[0007]

In this bill validator, a bill temporarily supported by the temporary support member in the lower position of the conveyor belt in a substantially horizontal posture is pressed by the lowering of the bill pressing body and placed on the bill support plate. It After that, by repeating the above operation, the banknotes are stored one by one on the upper surface of the banknote support plate. When the opened / closed body is rotated from the closed posture to the opened posture, the stored bill box is released from the locked state by the lock mechanism by the release lever portion and pushed forward by a predetermined amount by the biasing means. Therefore,
You can easily take out the bill box. Also,
Since the bill boxes are stored in a state that they are correctly stacked one by one on the bill support plate, the bill box that occupies a large space can be made small.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings of FIGS.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 shows the main body of the bill validator 3. One side (left side in FIG. 3) of the apparatus body 1 is a bill insertion slot 5
And is connected to and communicates with a conveying path 11 formed by a plurality of pressing rollers 7 on the upper side and a conveying belt 9 facing each other on the lower side.

The upper pressing roller 7 forming the conveying path 11 is provided on the side of the lid 15 which can be rotated upward via the hinge 13, and is arranged at four positions along the conveying direction (arrow A in FIG. 3). ing. The roller shaft 7a of the pressing roller 7 is the lid 1
5, the upper and lower elongated holes 21 of the mounting portion 19 rising from the bottom plate 17
Both ends are rotatably supported with respect to the urging spring 23.
Is always urged downward so that it can move up and down within the range of the long hole 21.

The lid member 15 has a pair of left and right lock levers 25, which are provided on the front end side of the banknote insertion slot 15 side, and are moved by fingers as shown by arrows in FIG.
Is disengaged from the lock hole 39, and the unlocked state is obtained. As a result, the lid 15 can be rotated upward during maintenance. Further, the lid 15 is provided with a second detection unit S-2 for identifying bills passing through the transport passage 11.

The second detector S-2 is an identification sensor for detecting whether the bill A is genuine or counterfeit by a magnetic head. When the bill A is counterfeit, a drive motor 31 described later is used.
It functions to reverse the rotation of. The operation of the reversely driven drive motor 31 can be stopped by a sensor (not shown) that detects the presence or absence of the banknote A in the transport passage 11.

The conveyor belt 9 is endlessly wound around the driving pulley 33 and the driven pulley 35, and the driving motor 3 is driven.
When 1 is rotated in the normal direction, it can be rotated in the arrow A direction, which is the feed conveyance, and when it is rotated in the reverse direction, the return conveyance to the banknote insertion slot 5 side (the direction opposite to the arrow A) is possible, which is the upper side. The transport side has a rolling roller 3 facing the pressing roller 7.
Supported by 7. Below the driven pulley 35, in addition to the pressing roller 7 on the side of the lid 15 acting on the terminal side of the conveyor belt 9, a temporary support member 3 for supporting both ends of the bill A is provided.
The feeding roller 41 forcibly feeding toward the 9 side acts.

The temporary support member 39 has a guide groove 47 having a U-shaped cross section, which is connected and communicated with the guide member 43 through an arc-shaped guide path 45 formed along the driven pulley 35. A pair of left and right are arranged below. As a result, both ends of the bill that has passed through the transport passage 11 are temporarily supported by the temporary support member 39.

A worm wheel 53 meshing with the worm 51 is provided on the pulley shaft 49 of the drive pulley 33, and the pressing roller 7 acts on the starting end side of the conveyor belt 9. The worm 51 is the drive motor 3 described above.
It is fixed to the output shaft of No. 1 and serves as a conduction system to which the rotational power from the drive motor 31 is directly applied.

The drive motor 31 is a DC which can be rotated in the forward and reverse directions.
A motor is used, and the first, third, fourth, and fifth detection units S, which will be described later, including the above-described second detection unit S-2.
The rotation speed, that is, the feeding speed of the bill A by the conveyor belt 9 is controlled to be turned on / off by -1, S-3, S-4, and S-5, and the feed motor control encoder EC.
Is set by.

The first detector S-1 is provided on the banknote insertion slot 5 side, detects the banknote A when it is inserted, and causes the drive motor 31 in the OFF state to rotate normally (ON). To function.

The third detection section S-3 is provided on the end side of the conveyor belt 9 and has a detection lever C3-L and a detection section C3-P which rise upward from the conveyance passage 11 with the pivot shaft 55 as a fulcrum. Made of. This detection lever C3-L
Is rotated downward by the banknote A passing through the transport passage 11, and is returned to the solid line state (FIG. 3) by an urging spring (not shown) after completion of passing, and the detection lever C3-L.
After rotating downwards, when the detector C3-P is traversed in a series of operations for returning, a command signal is output from the detector C3-P to send out a product or the like. Since the detection lever C3-L rises again after the passage of the bill A is completed, the detection lever C3-L functions as a stopper that prevents the bill A from being caught and pulled back even if the bill A is pulled back by an illegal means.

The fourth detecting section S-4 is a detecting lever C4-pivotally supported by a pulley shaft 57 of the driven pulley 35.
It is composed of L and a detection unit C4-P. When the detection lever C4-L crosses the detection unit C4-P in a series of operations for returning after rotating in the clockwise direction, the detection unit C4 is detected.
A command signal is output from -P to reversely rotate the drive motor 31 in the normal rotation state.

The fifth detection section S-5 is a detection lever C5- which rises vertically from the upper surface of the vertically movable banknote pressing body 59.
It has a structure including L and a detection unit C5-P. The detection lever C5-L is the drive motor 31 which is in the reverse rotation state from the detection unit C5-P when it crosses the detection unit C5-P in a series of operations in which the bill pressing body 59 moves up and down.
Outputs a command signal to stop (off) the operation of.

The banknote pressing body 59 is formed in a rectangular shape and is arranged between the temporary supporting members 39 and a little above, and the left and right X-shaped link arms 61.
(The opposite side is not shown) and is supported so as to be vertically movable. Further, a cam body 65 rotatable on a cam shaft 63 provided at an eccentric position acts on the upper surface of the bill pressing body 59, and the eccentric rotation of the cam body 65 causes the bill pressing body 59 to rotate.
The pressing stroke is.

The cam shaft 65 of the cam body 65 is provided with a ratchet (not shown) that is not driven when the drive motor 31 rotates in the forward direction, but is driven only when the drive motor 31 rotates in the reverse direction. The final gear of is installed. The leading gear of the transmission system G meshes with the worm wheel 53 so that only the reverse rotation power of the drive motor 31 is applied to the cam body 65.

On the other hand, below the bill pressing body 59, a bill box 67 is inserted and set so that it can be inserted into and taken out of the apparatus main body 1, and is locked by a lock mechanism 69.

The bill box 67 has a bill support plate 75 on the upper surface of the box body, which is constantly urged upward by the urging spring 71 and abuts against a pair of left and right restricting portions 73 protruding inward. There is. Further, on the front surface of the box body, an opening / closing body 77 is provided which can be switched between a substantially horizontal open posture and a substantially vertical closed posture with the hinge P as a fulcrum.

The banknote support plate 75 is formed to have a size in which the banknote A can be placed, and is lowered by the pressing action of the banknote pressing body 59, and can be moved up and down by the biasing spring 71 when the pressing is released. .

The inner wall surface of the opening / closing body 77 serves as a positioning stopper surface 77a for correctly supporting both ends of the bill A in the guide groove 47 of the provisional support member 39 when the front edge of the bill A abuts. ing.

Further, below the hinge P of the opening / closing body 77,
The release lever portion 77b functions to unlock the lock mechanism 69 when switching from the closed posture to the open posture.

The lock mechanism 69 includes an engagement hole 79 provided at the bottom of the bill box 67, an engagement piece 81 that engages with the engagement hole 79 from below in a disengageable manner, and the release lever portion. The receiving portion 82 is pressed downward by 77b.

The receiving portion 82 and the engaging piece 81 are formed by the front and rear pivot shafts 8.
A range of a vertical hole 85a formed on the front end side of a hook member 85 mounted and supported on the bottom of the apparatus main body 1 by 3.84, with the front pivot shaft 83 facing the rear pivot shaft 84 as a fulcrum. It is possible to move the front end up and down inside.

A bill box pressing body 87 is provided along the hook member 85 at the bottom of the apparatus body 1.

The bill box pressing body 87 is formed in a plate shape that is long in the front-rear direction and has front and rear long holes 88 and 89 facing the front and rear pivot shafts 83 and 84 supporting the hook member 85 and the rear end of the bill box 67. Protrusion pieces 90 that contact the edges are provided respectively. One end of the bill box pressing body 87 is locked to the apparatus main body 1 side, and the other end of the biasing spring 91 in which the spring elastic force is zero is locked. Therefore,
The biasing spring 91 is inserted while pressing the projecting piece 90 by the rear edge of the bill box 67, and is stretched after the completion of insertion into the apparatus main body 1 so that a biasing force is applied and the spring elastic force is zero. It functions to push the bill box 69 forward until it becomes. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 93 denotes a full sensor for detecting that the bill A is full in the bill box 19. When the full sensor 93 operates, the drive motor 31 operates even if an input signal is given. It remains in a stopped state.

Next, the operation of the bill validator will be described. First, the banknote A is inserted from the banknote insertion slot 5. When the first detector S-1 detects the insertion of the bill A, the drive motor 31 is rotated in the normal direction. As a result, the bill A is conveyed by the conveyor belt 9, and the second detector S-2 identifies whether the bill A is genuine or counterfeit during the conveyance process. in this case,
In the case of a counterfeit product, the drive belt 31 is rotated in the reverse direction to be returned to the banknote insertion slot 5 side by the conveyor belt 9 and cannot be inserted.

On the other hand, the real bill A that has passed the second detection section S-2 passes through the third detection section S-3, and outputs a command signal to send out a product etc. when the passage is completed. In this case, even if the fraudulent means tries to pull the bill back to the bill insertion slot 5 side, the bill is not blocked by the detection lever C3-L in the upright state and is not pulled out. Next, the banknote A passes through the fourth detection unit S-4 and is supported at both ends by the temporary support member 39. At this time, the drive motor 31 is reversely rotated by a signal from the fourth detection unit S-4, and rotational power is given to the cam body 65 via the worm wheel 53. At this time, the drive motor 31 drives the conveyor belt 9 as well as the banknote pressing body 5.
Since it works as a drive motor for driving 9, it is sufficient to use only one. On the other hand, the rotation of the cam body 65 to which the rotational power is applied causes the bill pressing body 59 to descend and then perform one cycle of ascending movement. During this one cycle movement, the bill pressing body 5
The banknote A pressed by 9 is placed on the banknote support plate 75 of the banknote box 67. At this time, the bill support plate 75 descends by the bill pressing body 59, then rises again, and comes into contact with the restriction portion 73. As a result, the upper surfaces of both ends of the banknote A are pressed against the restricting portion 73 while the banknote support plate 7 is being pressed.
It will be correctly placed on 5. After that, by repeating the above-described operation, the banknotes A are stored one by one on the upper surface of the banknote support 75, so that a considerable number of banknotes can be stored without enlarging the banknote box 67. .

On the other hand, when the one cycle movement of the bill pressing body 59 is completed, the fifth detecting section S-5 detects it and the drive motor 3 is detected.
1 stops and the operation is completed.

Next, when the opening / closing body 77 of the bill box 67 is rotated from the closed posture to the substantially horizontal opened posture, the release lever portion 77b pushes the receiving portion 82 to remove the signal piece 81 from the engaging hole 79 and lock it. The mechanism 69 is unlocked. As a result, the bill box 67 is pushed forward by the biasing spring 71 as shown in FIG.
You will be able to take out 7 easily. Further, the banknote A can be easily taken out in a bundle. In addition, after taking out, the spare bill box 67 may be inserted and set.

[0036]

As described above, according to the bill validator of the present invention, bills can be easily taken out together with the bill box. Moreover, since the banknotes can be correctly stacked one by one on the banknote support plate, the banknote box having a large occupied space can be reduced in size, and the entire apparatus can be downsized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram when a banknote box is inserted and set in the apparatus main body,

FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a state in which a bill box is pushed out from the apparatus main body.

FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional view of the entire bill validator.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing detection levers and detection units of third, fourth, and fifth detection units.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a bill storage state in a bill box.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a bill box.

FIG. 7: Side view of banknote box

FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the bill box.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of the bill validator.

[Explanation of symbols]

 9 Conveyor Belt 31 Drive Motor 39 Temporary Supporting Member 59 Banknote Pressing Body 67 Banknote Box 69 Lock Mechanism 75 Banknote Supporting Plate 77 Opening / Closing Body 77b Release Lever 91 Biasing Spring (Biasing Means) A Banknote

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A drive motor capable of normal rotation and reverse rotation, a conveyor belt that conveys and conveys at the time of forward rotation when rotational power is applied from the drive motor, and conveys and returns during reverse rotation, and a bill sent by the conveyor belt. In the case of a counterfeit bill by detecting the detection unit that reverses the drive motor, a banknote from the conveyor belt is taken over, a pair of left and right temporary support members that guide the banknote to the lower part of the conveyor belt and temporarily support both ends of the banknote. ,
A detection unit that detects the temporary support completion of the banknote by the temporary support member and reverses the drive motor, and when the drive motor reverses, after forcibly pressing the banknote in the temporary support state by descending from the standby position, A vertically movable bill pressing body that repeats one cycle motion of rising again and returning to the standby position, and is inserted and set below the pressing body so that it can be inserted and removed freely, and resists the forward biasing force by the biasing means. A banknote box constrained by a lock mechanism is provided, and in the banknote box, a vertically movable banknote support plate on which the banknotes are pressed and placed when the banknote pressing body is lowered, and a banknote box provided at the front part of the banknote box. An opening / closing body that can be rotated between a horizontal opening posture and a substantially vertical closing posture, and a release lever portion that is provided on the opening / closing body and releases the locked state of the lock mechanism when rotating from the closing posture to the opening posture. Establishment Bill validator, characterized in that.