JP2786274B2 - Bill handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a banknote handling device, and more particularly to a recirculation type banknote handling device.

[Conventional technology]

As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Sho 62-42296, a conventional device rejects a banknote that cannot be discriminated by a discriminator at the time of storage from a replenishing safe to a denomination storage box, due to the configuration of a transport route.
Since the bill is immediately stored in the reject box, the bill that can be distinguished if it is distinguished again cannot be passed through the discriminator again. For this reason, especially when a bank or the like stores a large amount of money in the denomination storage box at the start of business, rejected banknotes lose the opportunity to be used once and may lower the fund efficiency.

In addition, since the above-mentioned conventional apparatus cannot form a route for returning the rejected bill at the time of replenishment to the replenishing safe side due to the configuration of the transport route, when rejecting the rejected bill manually again, once the rejected bill is once removed from the reject box, another part is removed. Must be reset to a replenishment safe located in the store, which makes replenishment operations by bank staff and the like complicated.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

Since the above-described conventional technology does not include a means for automatically re-discriminating a bill ejected at the time of bill replenishment through a discriminator again, a bill having a possibility of being used as a replenishment bill by re-discrimination is also used once. There is a problem that the fund management efficiency of the bank etc. cannot be improved without manual intervention because it is stored in the reject box only by discrimination, and there is also a case where the reject banknote is manually set in the replenishment safe and refilled Because the reject box must be placed in a different part from the refill safe due to the transport route configuration, the banknotes must be taken out of the reject box placed in a different part and must be reset in the refill safe. There was a problem that operation became complicated.

 An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems.

[Means for solving the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the replenishment bills fed from the replenishment safe, which is configured so that the storage part and the feeding part are also used as the temporary accumulation part and the replenishment safe, reach the second bill sorter via the discriminator. At this time, only the indistinguishable banknotes can be sorted toward the inlet side of the deposit / withdrawal port, and the discriminable banknotes can be sorted toward the denomination storage box.

In addition, the replenishment bill reaches the first bill sorter via the discriminator, and at this time, the discriminable bill is sorted to the depositing / dispensing port side, and the indistinguishable bill is sorted to the third sorter side. From the third sorter to the fifth sorter through the fourth sorter
Can be sorted to the route.

[Action]

1. The transport route is configured so that unrecognizable bills are fed out of the replenishment safe, passed through the discriminator and are discriminated by the second sorter to the inlet of the deposit and withdrawal port. Can be captured. Therefore, all indistinguishable banknotes generated before the replenishment safe is emptied are once taken into the deposit and withdrawal slot, and automatically put into the first and second deposit and withdrawal slots.
It is possible to return to the replenishing safe via the second transport route and perform the replenishing operation again. Therefore, a banknote that is rejected due to a posture error or the like during the initial replenishment operation and has been repositioned during conveyance and stacking is not rejected by the replenishment operation again, and can be used as a replenishment banknote.

2. When replenishment is performed automatically as described above, if the banknote is bent, there may be cases where it is impossible to determine the number of times even if it is repeated. Such a bill can be sorted by the first sorter via the discriminator and passed through the fifth transport route by the third sorter and the fourth sorter. The fifth route is configured so as to branch off from the second route to the temporary accumulation section or the refill safe. Since the fifth route can be adjacent to the refill safe, it cannot be determined at the end of the fifth route at the time of refill. A refill reject box for storing reject bills can be arranged and integrated with a refill safe. Therefore, a bill that cannot be distinguished at the time of replenishment or a bill that cannot be replenished because the storage box is full can be distinguished by the bill handling device as a genuine bill and the bills stored in the storage box can be separately managed. In addition, when replenishment cannot be determined, the rejected banknotes are bent, etc. are corrected, and when re-set and re-supplied in the replenishment safe, the replenishment reject box and replenishment safe can be integrated and placed in the same location, simplifying operation. Can be achieved.

3. If a large number of indistinguishable items occur in 1 above and the maximum number of coins can be taken into the deposit / withdrawal port, the withdrawal from the replenishing safe is temporarily stopped at that point, and the replenished bills and the temporarily accumulated bills at the time of deposit are separated. Activate the separator configured so that it can
It is possible to return the banknotes of which the deposit and withdrawal port cannot be determined to the temporary stacking unit, and to perform replenishment.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a principle view of a transport route for explaining the present invention, in which (a) is a first transport route, (b) is a second transport route and a third transport route, and (c) is a fourth transport route. 7 shows an embodiment of a transport route and a fifth transport route.

FIG. 2 is an internal structure diagram of a recirculating banknote handling apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a deposit and withdrawal port which also serves as a deposit and withdrawal port, and a deposit and separation mechanism 2 for separating banknotes one by one, and a vicinity of the deposit and withdrawal mechanism 2 below the deposit and withdrawal port 1. Is provided with an accumulating mechanism 3 for accumulating a dispensing bill or a deposit return bill. Reference numeral 8 denotes a discriminator. The bills separated one by one by the deposit separation mechanism 2 are:
The bills transferred to the discriminator 8 via the conveyance path, while the bills conveyed to the stacking mechanism 3 are transferred from above the discriminator 8. On the right side of the discriminator 8, a temporary stacking mechanism 4 for temporarily storing the discriminated deposited banknotes is provided. Below the temporary stacking mechanism 4, a separator 5 and a replenishing safe (hereinafter, safe) for replenishing bills to be dispensed are provided. A reject box 6a for accumulating rejected bills of replenishment bills is integrated with the safe and arranged on the right side of the safe 6. A bill thickness detecting mechanism 9 is provided upstream of the classifier 8, and a bill sorter (hereinafter, referred to as a bill sorter) is provided downstream of the classifier 8.
Game 10) is provided.

In the middle of the transport path between the gate 10 and the
a and 10b are provided, and a gate 10c is provided at the subsequent stage of the gate 10a. A reject box 7 is provided at the subsequent stage so that collection of forgotten bills and storage of rejected bills can be divided vertically.
Is provided. Between the gate 10 and the stacking mechanism 3, there are provided a gate 10d and a stacking mechanism 18 for temporarily stacking rejected tickets upon deposit. Storage boxes 11, 12, and 13 for storing 10,000 yen bills, 1,000 yen bills and 5,000 yen bills are provided in the middle of the transport path from the deposit separation mechanism 2 to the thickness detection mechanism 9, and further, gates 10e and 10f. 10,000-yen bill stacking mechanism 1 via 10g
A 4,000-yen bill accumulation mechanism 15 and a 5,000-yen bill accumulation mechanism 16 are provided. In addition, a front / back reversing mechanism 17 is provided between the gate 10 and the gate 10a so that the banknote is reversed. The temporary stacking mechanism 4, the 10,000-yen bill stacking mechanism 14, the 1,000-yen bill stacking mechanism 15, and the 5,000-yen In the vicinity of the bill stacking mechanism 16, each of the bill separating mechanisms 4a, 14
a, 15a and 16a are arranged.

The safe 6 is taken out by opening the outside door of the cash handling apparatus, then replenished with banknotes and stored again inside.

In the recycle cash handling apparatus, if the ratio of the number of dispensed bills and the number of deposited bills is not the same, the dispensed bills become insufficient, and it is naturally necessary to replenish the dispensed bills. In this case, in order to be able to load the replenishment bill into the replenishment slot even during the transaction of the apparatus, in the present embodiment, the replenishment safe 6 is provided below the temporary accumulation part 4 of the deposited bills, A separator 5 is provided between the safes 6 for distinguishing between temporarily accumulated bills and replenished bills. This allows bills to be loaded at any time as a replenishment of dispensed bills, whether or not the apparatus is processing.
Then, after replenishing the bills, normal transactions can be performed regardless of the presence or absence of the bills in the safe 6.

The operation of the recycle banknote handling device in the present embodiment
This will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

When the customer presses a processing key (not shown), the banknote is inserted into the cash slot 1 and separated by the deposit separation mechanism 2 one by one, and is discriminated through the transport path 21, 21, 21a, 21b, 21c, 22. Sent to the vessel 8. Banknotes determined to be genuine by the discriminator 8 are accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4 via the gates 10, 10a, 10b. At this time, based on the result of the discriminator 8 discriminating the front and back notes of the banknote, the front note passes through the transport path 30, and the back note passes through the transport path 29 via the front / back reversing mechanism 17, and the temporary stacking mechanism, respectively. 4 are integrated. On the other hand, rejected tickets that cannot be discriminated by the discriminator 8 are accumulated on the belt 41 of the transport path 23 opened by the opening / closing mechanism (not shown) via the gate 10 and the accumulation mechanism 18. When the transport path 23 is closed by an opening / closing mechanism (not shown), the rejected banknotes are transported in a lump and the gate 10d.
Is accumulated at the deposit / withdrawal port by the accumulation mechanism 3 via the. The banknotes on which the push plates 2a are stacked are pushed out by the motor (not shown) in the direction of the outlet of the depositing / dispensing port 1. When the customer pulls out the rejected bill and presses a processing key (not shown), the depositor is notified of the counting result of the deposited bill.
At the same time, the bills accumulated in the temporary accumulating mechanism 4 are separated by the separating mechanism.
The sheet is separated and fed one by one by 4a, passes through the transport path 24, and is judged by the discriminator 8 as to whether it can be used as a bill to be dispensed. The 10,000 yen bill, the 1,000 yen bill, and the 5,000 yen bill determined to be usable
10, 10d, via the transport path 21, through the gates 10e, 10f, 10g in the storage boxes 11, 12, 13 and other banknotes through the gates 10, 10a10c in the lower stage of the reject box 7, respectively, by storing , The deposit operation ends.

Next, the dispensing operation will be described. When the customer presses a processing key (not shown), the 1000-yen bill and the 10,000-yen bill stored in the storage boxes 11 and 12 are separated and fed one by one by the separation mechanisms 15a and 14a, respectively. Is determined, and is accumulated in the deposit / withdrawal port by the accumulation mechanism 3. this is. In the same manner as a rejected bill at the time of deposit, it is pushed out by the push plate 2a in the direction of the outlet of the deposit and withdrawal port 1. The banknotes determined by the classifier 8 to be unsuitable for withdrawal are stored in the lower part of the reject box 7 via the gates 10, 10a, 10c. This completes the dispensing operation.

Next, a description will be given of replenishment of bills to a ten-yen bill and a thousand-yen bill storage box, which is performed at the start of a banking business or the like to prepare a bill to be dispensed. First, a banknote is loaded into the safe 6. The banknotes in the safe 6 are separated one by one by a separation mechanism 4a by a staff member pressing a processing key (not shown), the banknotes are discriminated by the discriminator 8 through the transport path 24, and the gates are passed through the gate 10 and the transport path 23. When the ticket reaches 10d, the ticket is sorted by the gate 10d, the rejected ticket is accumulated at the deposit / withdrawal port by the accumulation mechanism 3, and the normal ticket is stored in the storage boxes 11, 12 via the transport paths 25, 21. Safe 6
When the replenishment bills are empty, the rejected bills accumulated in the deposit and withdrawal port are pushed out by the push plate 2a, separated by the deposit separation mechanism 2, and accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4 through the path at the time of deposit.
Of the rejected banknotes accumulated here, those that are rejected due to an abnormality in the skewed banknote attitude are almost completely corrected during the accumulation in the deposit and withdrawal port and the accumulation in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4, so that If the replenishment operation is automatically repeated again, it can be stored in the storage boxes 11 and 12 without being rejected, so that the number of rejected bills can be reduced, and the improvement of the funding efficiency can be automatically performed without human intervention. Can do it.

When replenishment rejects occur frequently and the maximum number of sheets to be taken into the stacking mechanism 3 is reached, the feeding from the separation mechanism 4a is temporarily stopped at that point, and the remaining banknotes in the safe 6 are lowered by a mechanism not shown. After the separator 5 is moved to the upper part of the replenishment banknote by a mechanism (not shown) in order to distinguish the banknote from the replenishment banknote, the reject banknote of the deposit / withdrawal port 1 is passed through the transport path at the time of payment and is temporarily put on the separator 5 by the temporary stacking mechanism 4. When the banknotes on the separator are all fed out, the separator 5 is evacuated by a mechanism (not shown), the remaining banknotes in the safe 6 are raised, and the banknotes in the safe 6 are refilled again. Good. In addition, in the above-mentioned bill replenishment, when the bill loaded in the safe is bent by mistake, the rejection is repeated only even if the replenishment operation is repeated many times. When such a rejected ticket is discriminated by the discriminator 8, it is transferred through the gates 10 and 10a to the transport path.
After passing through 30, 31, and 32, it can be stored in the refill reject box 6a through the transport path 33 via the gate 10b.
Therefore, banknotes that the banknote handling device could not discriminate as a genuine bill with the discriminator at the time of banknote replenishment, and banknotes that could not be replenished because the storage box was full were stored in the integrated safe 6 reject box 6a,
Only the bills which the bill handling device discriminates as genuine bills and are stored in the storage box are taken into the bill handling device, thereby facilitating cash management. Also, if the user wants to correct the folded bill by hand and then load the bill again into the safe 6 as a supplementary bill, the safe 6 and the supplementary reject box are
Since they can be integrally arranged at the same site, the operation of the staff can be simplified.

Incidentally, by adopting the transport path configuration as in the present embodiment, the denomination storage boxes 11, 12, 13 stacking mechanisms 14, 15, 16, separation mechanisms 14a, 15a, 16
If a and the transfer paths 21a, 21b, and 21c are detachable so that they can be removed, a dedicated machine for dispensing money from the safe 6 can be easily constituted.

〔The invention's effect〕

The present invention can be configured as described above, and has the following effects.

1. By adopting a transport route configuration that allows the rejected bills to be temporarily held in the depositing port when rejected due to inability to be distinguished at the time of replenishment, the rejected bills can be automatically replenished again, and bills rejected due to abnormal posture etc. Since the posture is corrected during the stacking / separating operation in the middle, the banknote can be stored as a dispensed bill without being rejected at the time of the refilling operation again, so that the funding efficiency can be automatically improved without human intervention.

2. Refill reject box for storing bills that are rejected at the time of replenishment due to bends, etc. The reject box is integrated with the refill safe, so refill reject bills can be returned to the refill cassette and cash management is easy. become. In addition, when the replenishment banknotes are bent and the refilled banknotes are corrected and reloaded into the replenishment safe to make replenishment banknotes, the same operation can be performed at the same site, thereby simplifying the operation of the attendant.

3.It is possible to install the refill cassette and reject cassette that are attached to and detached from the banknote handling device and operate them on one side of the banknote handling device, and open the door of the automatic cash handling device incorporating the banknote handling device. , The refill cassette and the reject cassette can be individually attached and detached, and the operation of the staff can be simplified.

4. The storage box, the discriminator, and the deposit and withdrawal port can be configured to be connected by the shortest route, and the processing time of the withdrawal process with the largest transaction volume can be shortened.

5. By configuring the storage box, the discriminator, and the deposit and withdrawal port as a basic route, the number of parts such as shafts, roller belts, timing belts, and gears that drive these components constituting the transport route is reduced. can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle view of a transport route for explaining the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side internal structure diagram of a recycle banknote handling apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... Pay-in / pay-out port, 6 ... Refill safe (safe), 6a ... Refill reject box, 8 ... Discriminator.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-63-117832 (JP, A) JP-A-62-2398 (JP, A) JP-A-62-209694 (JP, A) (58) Investigation Field (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07D 9/00 326 G07D 9/00 403

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] A depositing / dispensing port for taking in / discharging bills, a discriminating unit for discriminating bills, a storing unit for accommodating bills for each denomination, and a transport path for carrying bills. A bill handling apparatus for handling bills to be processed, wherein the depositing and dispensing port, the storage section, the discriminating section, and the depositing and dispensing port are arranged in order along the first transport path of the transport path; A first stacking section for branching the second transfer path from the first transfer path connecting the cash transfer port and the cash input / output port, and temporarily stacking banknotes in the second transfer path; When the bill is received, the bill is passed through the vicinity of the storage section before the discriminating section, and then is conveyed to the discriminating section, where the bill is discriminated by the discriminating section. The banknotes are temporarily accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit via a road, and the number of bills temporarily accumulated in the temporary accumulation unit is further counted. After the counted bills are fed out to the first transport path and discriminated by the discriminating section and stored in the storing section, when the bills are dispensed from the storing section, the bills are passed through the discriminating section. A bill handling device, wherein the bill is conveyed to the depositing / dispensing port after discrimination. 2. A cash slot for taking in and discharging bills, a discriminating unit for discriminating bills, a storing unit for storing bills for each denomination, a replenishing safe for replenishing bills in the storing unit, and a bill. In a banknote handling device that has a transport path for transporting bills to be deposited and withdrawn, along the transport path, the deposit and withdrawal port, the storage unit, the determination unit, and again the deposit and withdrawal port, in this order. When banknotes are deposited from the deposit / withdrawal port, the banknotes pass through the vicinity of the storage section in front of the discriminating section, and are then conveyed to the discriminating section. When a bill is dispensed from the storage unit, the bill is conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal port after being discriminated by passing through the discrimination unit, and when the banknote is replenished from the replenishment safe to the storage unit, Of the bills conveyed, the bill rejected by the discrimination unit is temporarily After holding the escrow unit of the entering dispensing port, conveys this hold bill passed the accommodating portion near to the front of the determination unit, then from the housing section to the discrimination section, the
A bill handling apparatus, wherein the discrimination section performs re-discrimination. 3. The bill handling apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a replenishment reject box for storing only a rejected bill at the time of replenishment, wherein the bill re-discriminated by the discrimination unit by the re-discrimination is a rejected bill. A bill handling device characterized by being stored in a reject box.