JP2514842Y2 - Banknote processor - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus installed in a financial institution such as a bank, and in particular, it temporarily collects banknotes near a transaction port for returning or paying banknotes to customers. The present invention relates to a bill processing device including a unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is a schematic side view showing the internal structure of a conventional banknote processing apparatus of this type, and FIG. 6 is a schematic side view showing the structure and operation of a customer service section in FIG. In FIG.
Reference numeral 1 denotes a rotatable customer service portion provided on the upper front side of the device, which also serves as an insertion slot for a customer to insert a banknote for deposit, a return slot for returning the banknote to the customer, and an outlet for paying the banknote to the customer. Functions as a trading port.

As shown in FIG. 6, the customer service section 1 separates a pair of banknote guides 2 provided so as to be opposed to each other with a certain interval and banknotes 3 between the banknote guides 2 one by one. The mechanism 4 and the mechanism 4 are rotated by an unillustrated motor or the like. Also,
Reference numeral 5 denotes a shutter provided above the customer service section 1 and capable of opening and closing.

The customer service section 1 is adapted to change its angle to the following three positions while rotating.
(A) The shutter 5 is opened to wait for the customer to set the banknotes 3 for deposit between the banknote guides 2, or a depositing position for paying the banknotes 3 for dispensing to the customer,
(B) After the banknotes 3 have been inserted, the shutter 5 is closed and the banknotes 3 are separated one by one and fed into the apparatus, and (c) the banknotes 3 are collectively collected from the temporary stacking unit described later. There are three receiving positions to receive. Each of these positions is detected by a position detector (not shown) composed of a light emitting element and a light receiving element arranged corresponding to each position. Each position is controlled based on this.

Returning to FIG. 5, reference numeral 6 is a discrimination provided for discriminating between authenticity, denomination, damage, front and back, and presence of abnormal conveyance such as double feed, chain or skew. This discrimination section 6 is arranged on the lower left side of the customer service section 1. 7 and 8 and 9 are denomination storing boxes (hereinafter referred to as denomination cassettes) for accumulating and storing bills for withdrawal used for transactions with customers. The denomination cassettes 7 to 9 are arranged side by side on the bottom side of the apparatus. In this conventional example, 7 is a 1,000-yen ticket cassette,
8 and 9 are 10,000-yen ticket cassettes.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a deposit / withdrawal unit arranged above the denomination cassettes 7-9.
3 is a banknote instructed by the withdrawal transaction as well as accommodating the banknotes, which have been inserted by the deposit transaction and have been discriminated as transactable through the discrimination section 6 and sent, in the respective denomination cassettes 7-9. Are taken out one by one from the denomination cassettes 7 to 9 and sent to the discrimination section 6.

Reference numeral 23 denotes a front and back collecting mechanism arranged on the left side of the customer service section 1. The bills discriminated from the back side by the discriminating section 6 at the time of withdrawal transaction are reversed by the front and back collecting mechanism 23 to be aligned on the front side. It is designed to be used. Reference numeral 24 denotes a temporary stacking unit arranged directly below the front and back assembling mechanism 23, which is provided for temporarily stacking bills to be returned to the customer at the time of deposit transaction and bills to be paid to the customer at the time of withdrawal transaction, and is driven at a low speed. The transport path 25 is connected to the customer service section 1.

Reference numeral 26 denotes a collective storage (hereinafter referred to as a collective cassette) arranged on the back side of the apparatus, which is used for loading, replenishing and collecting banknotes in the denomination-based cassettes 7, 8 and 9 and of all denominations. Are stored together. Also,
Reference numeral 27 denotes a reject storage (hereinafter referred to as a reject cassette) arranged directly below the batch cassette 26,
For example, banknotes that customers have forgotten, banknotes that have been discriminated as non-dispensable by the discriminating unit 6 during disbursement processing, non-dispensable bills (for example, 500-yen bills, 5000-yen bills), or bills for which abnormal conveyance has been detected Store.

Reference numerals 29a to 29m are conveying paths for connecting the respective mechanical sections and various storage cassettes to convey banknotes. The branching and confluence sections of the conveying paths 29a to 29m are switched to switch the conveying direction of the banknotes. A plurality of blades are provided and operate based on the discrimination result of the discrimination section 6.
Next, a transaction operation in the apparatus having the above-described configuration will be described by taking a deposit transaction as an example.

First, when the customer depresses a deposit transaction key (not shown) and inserts a card (not shown) into the card insertion slot or the passbook insertion slot, it is confirmed that the transaction is possible. 5 opens. At this time, since the banknote guide 2 is in the deposit / withdrawal position shown in FIG. 6A, when the customer inserts and sets a banknote between the banknote guides 2 of the customer service section 1, the shutter 5 is closed and the customer service section 1 is opened.
Is set to the separating position shown in FIG. 6B by a motor (not shown), and the bills inserted by the customer by the separating mechanism 4 are separated one by one and fed out to the transport path 29a.

The fed bills are conveyed to the discriminating section 6, and the discriminating section 6 discriminates the authenticity of the bills and the denomination, and the presence or absence of abnormal conveyance is detected to discriminate the bills from the genuine bills. The deposited banknotes pass through the transport paths 29b and 29c, and the deposit / withdrawal unit 1
When the bills are sent to the deposit / withdrawal unit 13, when the bills are 1,000-yen bills, a predetermined stacking position corresponding to the 1,000-yen bill cassette 7, and in the case of 10,000-yen bills, a predetermined corresponding to the 10,000-yen bill cassette 8 Will be collected at the collecting position.

At this time, banknotes of denominations not to be returned (for example, 500-yen notes and 5,000-yen notes) are discriminated as counterfeit notes at positions corresponding to the other 10,000-yen note cassettes 9. The bills or bills for which abnormal conveyance is detected are conveyed by the conveyance paths 29b, 2
After 9e and 29f, front and back assembling mechanism 2 in front of the customer service section 1
The sheets are conveyed to the No. 3, and the sheets are sequentially stacked one by one in the temporary stacking unit 24 without arranging the front and back sides.

In this state, the customer service section 1 is changed to the receiving position shown in FIG. 6C by a motor (not shown) and is on standby, and when the deposit count of the banknotes set in the customer service section 1 by the customer is completed, The banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking unit 24 are sent between the banknote guides 2 of the customer service unit 1 by the transport path 25. When a bill enters between the bill guides 2 in this way, the customer service section 1 returns to (a) the deposit / withdrawal position, opens the shutter 5 to return the bill to the customer, and when the customer receives the bill, the shutter 5 closes again. After that, the counting result of the banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 after being determined to be transactable is displayed on the display unit (not shown). , 8 and 9 are stored, and the transaction operation ends.

When the customer presses the cancel key after the counting result is displayed, the front and back collecting mechanism 2 is provided to return the banknotes accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 to the customer.
As in the case of the banknotes such as the counterfeit bills, which are returned to the temporary stacking unit 24, they are sent to the customer service unit 1 by the transport path 25, returned to the customer, and the transaction processing operation ends. here,
The bill return operation in the transaction processing operation described above, that is,
For deposit transactions, return fake bills, etc. or return the inserted banknotes when the cancel key is pressed, and for the withdrawal transactions, payment of banknotes instructed to be dispensed is of course not mentioned above for the customer. The (return) operation will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the essential parts showing the front and back collecting mechanism and the structure in the vicinity of the temporary stacking section, and FIG. 8 is a front view of FIG.
9 is a perspective view of a main part showing a pushing mechanism and the like.
In FIG. 9, 23a is a conveyor belt that is a part of the front and back sorting mechanism 23, and 25a and 25b are conveyor belts that form the conveyor path 25. Here, the conveyor belts 23a and 25a and the conveyor belt 25b are vertically opposed to each other with a predetermined space therebetween, and the upper conveyor belts 23a and 25a are opposed to the lower conveyor belt 25b by a vertically moving means (not shown). A temporary stacking unit 24 for stacking the banknotes 3 for returning customers is set between the transport belt 25b and the transport belt 23a below the transport belt 25b.

The conveyor belts 23a, 25a,
As shown in the front view of FIG. 7, the pair of left and right conveying belts 23a and 25a are arranged at an interval corresponding to the width of the bill to be fed, and the pair of left and right conveying belts 23a and 25a are integrally supported by a bracket 40. And the left and right conveyor belts 23a and 25a via the bracket 40.
Is designed to move up and down in synchronization.

Reference numeral 31 denotes the customer service section 1 and the temporary collection section 2
4 is a front guide located at the front end, and 32 is a rear guide located at the rear end of the temporary stacking unit 24.
Reference numerals 1 and 32 serve to guide the bills 3 accumulated in the temporary accumulating unit 24 and regulate the accumulation position.
Is rotated by a power unit (not shown) to open and close with respect to the temporary stacking unit 24.

Reference numeral 33 is a bill pushing mechanism provided along the conveying path 25. This bill pushing mechanism 33 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, it comprises a moving member 34, a support block 35, guide shafts 36 and 37, a drive belt 38, a drive pulley (not shown), a motor and the like. here,
The moving member 34 is fixed on the support block 35.

The guide shafts 36 and 37 are disposed between the pair of left and right conveyor belts 25b and the pair of left and right rear guides 32.
Are provided in parallel to each other and in the same direction as the conveyance direction of the banknote 3, one guide shaft 36 penetrates one side of the support block 35, and the other guide shaft 37 is provided in a groove 35a provided on the other side. It is fitted. The drive belt 38 is sandwiched and fixed at a predetermined position between the moving member 34 and the support block 35, and the moving member 34 is driven by driving the drive belt 3 by a drive pulley and a motor (not shown). Is adapted to reciprocate on the guide shafts 36 and 37 integrally with the support block 35.

In this case, the moving member 34 has a front vertical surface parallel to the banknote stacking direction as a pushing surface 34a, and the pushing surface 34a is flush with the rear guide 32 or slightly rearward of the rear guide 32 with respect to the customer service section 1. Is set as the standby position, and the standby position and the customer service section 1 are set to reciprocate at the same speed as the transport speed of the banknote 3 by the transport belts 23a, 25a and 25b.

Reference numeral 39 denotes a pair of left and right upper guides which fit with the upper part of the moving member 34 and guide the upper part. The front guides 39 do not interfere with the rotation of the front guide 31 and the vertical movement of the conveyor belt 25a. 31 and customer service department 1
It is located between and. Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described. First, in the state where the moving member 34 is stopped at the standby position at the time of deposit transaction or withdrawal transaction,
When the banknotes 3 are stacked in the temporary stacking unit 24 by the front and back sorting mechanism 23, the banknotes 3 are lowered by the conveyor belt 23a and sandwiched between the banknotes 3 and the conveyor belt 25b.

Then, after the front guide 31 is rotated to the position shown by the chain double-dashed line and opened, the conveyor belts 23a and 25
a is rotationally driven, and the bills 3 are collectively operated by the customer service section 1
Sent to the side. At the same time, the drive belt 38 of the bill pushing mechanism 33 is driven via a motor and a pulley (not shown), and the moving member 34 moves integrally with the support block 35 on the guide shafts 36 and 37 and the customer service section 1 side. The pushing surface 34a of the member 34 pushes the bill 3 toward the customer service section 1.

As a result, when the banknote 3 comes to a position below the conveyor belt 25a, the banknote 3 is detected by a detection means such as a sensor (not shown), the conveyor belt 23a stops and returns upward, and at the same time the conveyor belt 25a descends. Then, the banknote 3 is held between the transport belt 25a and the transport belt 23a. When the conveyor belt 25a is driven in this state, the banknote 3 is conveyed by the conveyor belts 25a and 25b, and the banknote 3 continues to be pushed into the pushing surface 3 of the moving member 34.
It is pushed by 4a and is fed together between the bill guides 2 of the customer service section 1.

When the bill 3 is fed between the bill guides 2, the conveyor belts 25a and 25b stop, and the conveyor belt 2 is stopped.
Only 5a returns upward. Further, when the moving member 34 retracts integrally with the support block 35 and returns to the original standby position, the front guide 31 pivots in the opposite direction to the above and closes, and returns to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. The bill 3 is returned or paid to the customer from the customer service section 1.

[0025]

However, the above-mentioned conventional technique has the following problems, which will be described with reference to the side views showing the problems of the conventional example shown in FIGS. Although FIG. 10 and the bill 3 in Figure 11 both temporary stacking section 24 are integrated, shows the abnormal accumulation state or Re not have has or bent.

FIG. 10A shows a state in which the rear end of one of the lowermost banknotes among the banknotes 3 accumulated in the temporary accumulation section 24 is bent and rises along the rear guide 32. Up to this point, when the upper conveyor belt 23a is lowered and sandwiched by the conveyor belt 25b accumulating the banknotes as shown in FIG. 7B, the banknotes 3 are still sandwiched in an abnormally accumulated state. Become. Flow in this state
When the banknote 3 is rotated and opened, the pushing mechanism 33 is driven to rotate the conveyor belts 23a and 25b, and the banknote 3 is pushed out toward the service section 1,
The banknote 3 bent toward the rear guide 32 is the rear guide 3.
In some cases, the jamming of the paper money may occur by interfering with 2, and the operation of the pushing mechanism 33 may be stopped, causing a machine down.

Further, FIG. 11A shows a case where the front end of one of the uppermost banknotes among the banknotes 3 accumulated in the temporary accumulating section 24 is bent and stands up along the front guide 31 in the front. Similarly to the above, when the conveyance belt 23a descends and the banknote is sandwiched between the conveyance belt 25b and the lower conveyance belt 25b in the abnormally accumulated state as shown in FIG. Will still be pinched in an abnormally accumulated state. Front guy in this state
When the banknote 3 is opened and the banknote 3 is pushed out toward the customer service section 1 together with the pushing mechanism 33 and the conveyor belts 23a and 25b, the banknote 3 bent toward the front guide 31 side interferes with the upper guide 39. After all, it caused bill jams, machine down

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the bills accumulated on the temporary accumulating portion are bent and become in an abnormal accumulation state such that they interfere with the front guide and the rear guide. Even in such a case, it is an object of the present invention to provide a bill processing apparatus that can prevent the occurrence of bill jams and reliably feed bills to the customer service section without causing machine down.

[0029]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a guide bracket for a conveyor belt that presses the banknotes in the temporary stacking section from above so that the folded banknotes will not be interfered with the front and rear guides. It is designed to have a protrusion for pressing the upper part.

That is, the temporary stacking unit for stacking the banknotes, which is arranged in the vicinity of the transaction port for returning or paying the banknotes, and the front guides located before and after the banknotes in the conveying direction of the banknotes and for guiding the stacking position of the banknotes. And a rear guide, a bill pushing mechanism that conveys the bills accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit to the transaction port, and a pair of upper and lower conveyances that clamps the accumulated bills in the temporary accumulation unit from the vertical direction and conveys them to the transaction port. Transporting banknotes from the belt and the above-mentioned transport belt
Paper that is in the front of the direction and is conveyed by the lower conveyor belt
An upper guide that guides bills, and a discrimination unit that discriminates banknotes necessary for deposit / withdrawal transactions, and a denomination-based storage for storing deposit / withdrawal banknotes, and the denomination-based storage during the deposit / withdrawal transaction. In the banknote processing device for automatically processing the payment of the dispensed banknotes paid out from the bank or the storage of the deposited banknotes in the banknote storage box, the front guide is replaced by the upper guide.
Together with the rotatable to the top of the bottom surface, protruding upward conveying direction of the banknote to the end of the guide bracket lower portion for supporting a conveyor belt of said pair of upper and lower conveyor belts, front
Inside the width of bills accumulated in the temporary accumulation section,
A protrusion that intersects with the rear guide or the rear guide.
At the start, the guide bracket descends so that the pair of carrying
When the transport belt holds the accumulated banknotes, the front guide
The banknotes near the rear guide or rear guide,
The lower surface of the raised portion is located below the lower surface of the upper guide.
It was done so.

[0031]

[Operation] According to the above configuration, the returned banknotes at the time of deposit transaction and the payment banknotes at the time of withdrawal transaction are accumulated in the temporary accumulation section of the front and back sorting mechanism before being discharged to the transaction port. When the front end or the rear end is bent so as to stand up along the rear guide or the front guide, the upper conveyance belt is lowered and pinched between it and the lower belt, and at this time, the upper conveyance belt is supported. lower sides of the guide bracket protruding in the longitudinal direction, the temporary stacking
Since it has a protrusion that intersects the rear guide and the front guide inside the width of the banknotes accumulated in the section, even if the folded banknote is in a state of standing up on the rear guide or the front guide, The protrusion will press the bill.

As a result, the bills will not interfere with the rear guide and the front guide, so that the bills will be clamped by the upper and lower conveyor belts without fear of a bill sham, and returned to the transaction port by both conveyor belts and the pushing mechanism. Or payment bills will be sent out.

[0033]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view of the main parts showing the front and back assembling mechanism and the structure in the vicinity of the temporary stacking part, FIG. 2 is a front view of the main parts of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the main parts showing the shape of the guide bracket, and FIG. It is a principal part side view which shows the effect | action of an Example, Comprising: The figure (a) shows the case where the banknote is bent to the rear guide side, (b) shows the case where the banknote is bent to the front guide side, respectively. ing. It should be noted that the reference numerals of the respective parts in these drawings are almost the same as the conventional example except for the guide bracket described below and are configured in the same manner, and therefore, the same reference numerals as those of the conventional example are given, and the description thereof will be omitted. Omit it.

In FIGS. 1 to 3, reference numeral 40 denotes the conveyor belt 2.
3a is a guide bracket provided so as to support 3a, and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, three pulleys each having a triangular arrangement of the conveyor belts 23a arranged in pairs on the left and right sides. 23b are attached so as to be connected to each other, and the left and right pulleys 2 are attached at the upper end.
3b is integrated.

Further, at the lower front end of the guide bracket 40, a horizontally extending projection 40a and at the lower rear end also horizontally extending projection 40b.
The protrusions 40a and 40b have a length that protrudes from the respective surfaces of the front guide 31 and the rear guide 32 provided before and after the temporary stacking unit 24.
To have. In addition, the guide bracket 40 is mounted on the outside of the transport bracket.
Since it supports the belt 23a, the protrusions 40a and 4a
0b is inside the width of the banknotes 3 accumulated in the temporary accumulation section 24.
To position.

Further, the front guide 31 is upright as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 2 when the bills 3 are stacked, and is rotated to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. And its shape is projected as shown in Figure 2.
Raising part 40a, upper guide 39, and conveyor belt 25
It has a notch so as not to contact b, and is integrally formed over the entire width direction of the bill 3. What
The rear guide 32 is a bill pushing machine as shown in FIG.
Since there is a structure 33, it is divided into two, and the rear guide 32
The protrusion 40b on the side enters between the rear guides 32 and
It does not come into contact with the rear guide 32.

The operation of the apparatus provided with the guide bracket 40 having the above-mentioned shape will be described below with reference to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a side view of the essential part showing the operation of the present embodiment, and FIG. The case where the bill is bent to the rear guide side, and (b) shows the case where the bill is bent to the front guide side, respectively. First, as shown in FIG. 4A, of the plurality of banknotes 3 stacked in the temporary stacking unit 24 of the front and back sorting mechanism 23, for example, the bottom end of one banknote 3 is folded along the rear guide 32. In the case where it has been accumulated, it is sent to the customer service section 1 (not shown) after the end of the stacking. Therefore, when the upper conveyor belt 23a is lowered and the lower conveyor belt 25b is tried to be sandwiched, the guide belt 23a is integrated with the guide bracket 23a. 40 also descends.

The guide bracket 40, as described above,
Further, as shown in the figure, the rear guide 32 is provided at the lower front and rear ends.
Also, since it has the protrusions 40a and 40b projecting in the front-rear direction from the front guide 31, the protrusion 40b formed on the rear end side of both the protrusions 40a and 40b is the rear guide 32. If the rear end of the banknote 3 is bent along the edge of the banknote 3, the bent part of the banknote 3 will collide with the protruding part 40b of the guide bracket 40 that has descended, and the bent part of the banknote 3 will have the protruding part 40b.
It is pressed downward by b, its rear end is bent over the uppermost bill 3, and is held between the conveyor belts 25b and 23a without contacting the rear guide 32.

In this state, the front guide 31 is rotated toward the customer service section 1 to open it, and the conveyor belts 23a and 25b are opened.
The banknotes 3 are fed into the customer service section 1 through the temporary stacking section 24 by driving the push-in surface mechanism 33 and the banknotes 3 are not in contact with the rear guide 32 at this time. Even if it is pushed in, it does not interfere with the rear guide 32, and there is no need to worry about bill jams and the like.

Further, FIG. 4B shows a case in which it is bent along the front guide 31 located on the front end side with respect to the customer service section 1 contrary to the above. In any case, as in the case of bending to the rear guide 32 side, it is bent by the protrusion 40a of the guide bracket 40 that descends integrally with the conveyor belt 23a and pressed against the uppermost surface, and contacts the front guide 31. Try not to. Therefore, even if the front guide 31 is rotated and opened during the pushing operation of the bill 3, since there is no interference with the front guide 31, there is no fear of causing a bill jam.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the banknotes are returned or paid, a temporary stacking unit that is arranged in the vicinity of the transaction outlet for discharging the banknotes and stacks the returned banknotes or the paid banknotes. , Equipped with a push-in mechanism or the like for pushing the banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking unit into the transaction port, and paying the dispensed banknotes paid out from the denomination-based storage at the time of deposit / withdrawal transactions or the banknotes deposited into the denomination-based storage In a banknote processing device for automatically processing storage, a banknote is transferred to an end of a lower portion of a guide bracket that supports an upper transfer belt of a pair of transfer belts arranged above and below the temporary stacking unit.
Width of banknotes protruding in the sending direction and accumulated in the temporary accumulation section
Protrusion that intersects the front guide or rear guide inside the
The guide bracket is lowered on the protrusion.
When the pair of conveyor belts sandwich the accumulated banknotes,
Press bills near the front guide or rear guide
At this time, the lower surface of the protrusion is below the lower surface of the upper guide.
It is located on the side.

Therefore, even if the banknotes accumulated in the temporary accumulation section are in a bent state along the rear guide and the front guide, the upper side, which is located above the upper side, is started with the start of the conveying operation. By lowering the conveyor belt toward the lower conveyor belt and sandwiching the bills by the upper and lower conveyor belts to perform a feeding operation, protrusions provided at the front and rear of the guide bracket that supports the upper conveyor belt. Since the section intersects the rear guide and the front guide, the folded bill can be pressed against the uppermost portion of the bill to bend it, so that the rear guide and the front guide are not interfered with the bill when being pushed into the trading port. Disappears.

Therefore, even when the bills are accumulated in the temporary accumulating portion, even if the bills are abnormally accumulated, the lowering operation of the upper conveyor belt and the guide bracket does not eliminate the problem and the bills are not projected to the rear guide or front guide side. As a result, there is no risk of banknote jams or the like causing the machine to go down when it is pushed into the transaction opening, and it is possible to reliably send banknotes to the customer service section. A bill processing device can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of essential parts showing the front and back sorting mechanism and the structure in the vicinity of a temporary stacking unit.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a main part of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a main part perspective view showing the shape of a guide bracket.

FIG. 4 is a side view of an essential part showing the operation of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic side view showing the internal structure of a conventional banknote handling machine.

6 is a schematic side view showing the configuration and operation of the customer service section in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a side view of essential parts showing the front and back assembling mechanism and the structure in the vicinity of the temporary stacking unit.

FIG. 8 is a front view of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of essential parts showing a pushing mechanism and the like.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a problem of the conventional example.

FIG. 11 is a side view showing a problem of the conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Customer Service Department 23 Front and Back Collection Mechanism 23a Conveyor Belt 24 Temporary Stacking Section 25b Conveyor Belt 31 Front Guide 32 Rear Guide 33 Pushing Mechanism 40 Guide Bracket 40a Projection 40b Projection

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A transaction unit for returning or paying banknotes to a customer, and a temporary stacking unit arranged near the trading port for stacking either returned banknotes or paid banknotes, A front guide and a rear guide, which are located before and after the banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking section in the conveying direction and regulate the stacking position of the banknotes in the temporary stacking section, are the same or slightly behind the rear guides as standby positions, and A bill pushing mechanism that conveys the bills to the transaction port by a moving member that has a pushing surface parallel to the stacking direction of the bills stacked in the stacking unit; In order to transport to the trading port, the upper transport is supported integrally via the lower transport belt and the guide bracket at the fixed position and is vertically movable. A pair of conveyor belts consisting of belt, there in front of the conveying direction of the banknote from the transporting belt of the upper
Guide the banknotes conveyed by the lower conveyor belt.
The upper guide, and a discriminating section that discriminates banknotes necessary for deposit / withdrawal transactions,
And a bill storage unit for storing deposit and withdrawal banknotes, and a bill processing device for automatically processing payment of dispensed bills paid out from the deposit storage unit or storing of deposited bills in the deposit container during deposit and withdrawal transactions. The front guide to above the lower surface of the upper guide.
A banknote transport direction is provided at the lower end of the guide bracket that is rotatable and supports the upper transport belt of the pair of upper and lower transport belts.
Inside the width of the banknotes that are projected to the stack and are stacked in the temporary stacking unit.
A protrusion that intersects the front guide or the rear guide at
Is provided, and the protrusion is formed by lowering the guide bracket.
When the pair of conveyor belts sandwich the accumulated banknotes,
Press the bill near the front guide or rear guide
At this time, the lower surface of the protrusion is lower than the lower surface of the upper guide.
A banknote processing device that is located on the lower side .