JP2977669B2 - Payout hopper structure of banknote handling machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dispensing hopper structure of a bill processing machine which can pay out bills one by one to a dispensing side while pooling bills inside a bill processing machine such as a bill change machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a banknote handling machine has been configured so that banknotes can be fed from a banknote discharge section to a payout hopper section which can store and feed banknotes one by one from below to a payout side. As seen in Japanese Patent Publication No. Hei 4-4636, bills sent from a bill take-out unit are received and pooled between upper and lower guide plates of a bill pool unit, and pooled.
It is known that the upper and lower guide plates are moved down and then the bills between them can be fed out one by one to the payout side.

[0003]

However, with such a structure, when the banknotes are paid out to the payout side, the banknotes cannot be received from the banknote discharge section into the payout hopper section. The paper money capacity of the payout unit is limited, the processing efficiency in the payout unit is poor, and the payout from the payout hopper unit is unstable, and troubles are likely to occur.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been devised in order to solve such a problem and to enable banknotes to be effectively pooled and to be stably and accurately dispensed to the dispensing side. There is, therefore, an introduction plate that communicates with one end to the outlet of the bill output unit and that can support the lower parts on both sides of the bill, is equipped above the dispensing hopper part so as to be vertically movable, and a presser that can push down the bill from above. The plate is provided so as to be movable up and down between the introduction plates, and the holding plate is configured to be capable of being pressed downward,
The outlet of the bill discharging section can be displaced in the vertical direction following the vertical movement of the introduction plate, and the up and down movement of the holding plate can be driven by a motor above the introduction plate, and the exit of the bill discharging section is the outlet of the introduction plate. or constructed in the displaceable vertically to follow the vertical movement is the vertical movement of the units deployed introduction plate that have configured to enable detecting the hopper capacity is detected by the sensors.

[0005]

Therefore, when bills are fed into the introduction plate from the exit of the bill carry-out section, the bills can be discharged from the introduction plate to the hopper by the downwardly moving pressing plate and pooled. Even when bills are being dispensed from the dispensing hopper to the dispensing side, bills can be received one after another, and the outlet of the bill discharging section and the introduction plate are moved upward without limiting the capacity. It will be able to accept effectively the banknote payout hopper, by pressing even repression of the plate, giving a pressing force from above with respect to the bill that is pooled payout hopper, 1 banknotes from below the payout hopper Each can be paid effectively.

[0006]

FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 schematically show a money changing machine which is a bill processing machine installed on a game machine island such as a pachinko machine. As shown in FIG. 2 to FIG. A slot 7, a bill exit 8 and a coin exit 9 are provided, and a thousand-yen bill stacker 10 capable of receiving and storing a thousand-yen bill conveyed from the gaming machine island is provided therein.
A first transport path 11 capable of feeding out one thousand yen bills one by one, and a second path capable of communicating with the first transport path 11 and extending wrinkles of the one thousand yen bill and determining the front and the back of the one thousand yen bill on the way. 2 transport path 12, identification unit 1 communicating with bill input port 7
3. A 10,000-yen bill stacker 15 and a 5,000-yen bill stacker 16 communicating with the identification unit 13 via a transport path 14, and an unloading path for unloading only the 1,000-yen bill from the transport path 14 to the second transport path 12. 17, a third conveying path 18 that communicates with the end of the second conveying path 12 so that the front and back surfaces can be aligned and conveyed, and a 1,000-yen bill that communicates with the end of the second conveying path 12 has a back side. A fourth transport path 19 that can be sent out to the third transport path 18 while rotating in reverse, and a reject box 20 that can receive a damaged 1,000-yen bill by communicating with the terminal side of the fourth transport path 19. Deploy and configure.

[0007] A bill discharging section A, which can communicate with the third transport path 18 and can feed out a 1,000-yen bill, is connected to the dispensing hopper section 2 and is connected to the dispensing roller 21 on the bottom surface of the dispensing hopper section 2. The 1000-yen bill to be fed out is sent to the intermediate pool section 23 by the belt transport device 22, and can be paid out to the bill outlet 8 when the counting coincidence is confirmed by the sensor. When it occurs, it is stopped even in the middle of sending out, and can be sent out to the reject box 20 by the reject introduction plate 25, and as shown by the arrow in FIG. Thousand-yen bills inserted from the bill insertion slot 7 are unified on the front and back sides of a good bill state to the bill outlet 8, and the bill state is poor. Shall become mismatch configured to be fed to the reject box 20.

Above the dispensing hopper 2, a unit B having an introduction plate 3 formed of a parallel plate capable of supporting the lower portion on both sides of the 1,000-yen bill 1 can be moved up and down along a guide rod 26. When the pin 28 on the disk 27 rotated by the motor 5b abuts against the lower edge of the frame plate 29 suspended from the unit B, the unit B rises, and when the pin 28 rotates downward, the unit B is provided so as to be able to move up and down by its own weight so as to be movable up and down. Upper and lower rollers 31 and 32 forming an outlet a are supported by shafts, and a guide roller 3 capable of facing the belt 30 is provided above the upper roller 31.
A pair of support rods 35 extending from the upper surface of a holding plate 4 that can vertically move between the introduction plates 3 are slidably mounted on both guides 36 above the introduction plate 3. The upper ends of both support rods 35 are fitted and connected by a connection plate 37, and a compression spring 40 is interposed between a frame 39 that moves up and down along the guide rod 38 and the upper surface of the connection plate 37. A pin 42 on a rotary plate 41 rotated by a motor 5a is engaged with the frame 39 so that the vertical movement of the frame 39 can be detected by upper and lower dead center detection sensors 43a and 43b. The vertical movement of B is detected by the upper, middle, lower, full, near-end, and end detection sensors 6a, 6b, 6c.
It is configured so that it can be detected.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1, the 1000-yen bill bill 1 conveyed by the bill carry-out section A and fed out from the outlet a as shown by an arrow is sent onto the introduction plate 3.
In the meantime, the bills 1 stored in the payout hopper section 2 are fed out one by one from below to the intermediate pool section 23 by the feeding roller 21, and then the motor 5a
Is rotated half a turn, the piece 39 moves down and the holding plate 4 moves down as shown in FIG. 7, dispensing the bill 1 on the introduction plate 3 and pushing it into the top surface of the bill in the hopper portion 2. After that, as shown in FIG. 8, when the motor 5b is operated and the unit B starts to be lifted by pushing up by the pin 28, the pressing plate 4 which has been pushed down by that time is dispensed by the compression hopper 40 by the dispensing hopper. It is kept pressed against the upper surface of the banknote in the section 2, and a step is generated between the pressing plate 4 and the introduction plate 3, and the banknote 1 is set on the upper surface of the banknote in the payout hopper section.
When unit B rises to the highest point as shown in FIG.
When the motor 5a is operated, the presser plate 4 returns to the initial position, and the unit B is lowered by its own weight to the upper surface of the bill in the dispensing hopper 2 as shown in FIG. Payouts are effectively paid out one by one from below the payout hopper 2, and the hopper capacity of the payout hopper 2 is detected by detecting the position of the unit B which stands by during payout.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the bill 1 is fed into the introduction plate 3 from the exit a of the bill discharge section A, the bill 1 is dispensed from the inside of the introduction plate 3 by the downward pressing plate 4, and the hopper portion. 2, the banknotes can be pooled, and even when the banknotes 1 are being paid out to the payout side from the payout hopper section, the banknotes can be efficiently received into the payout hopper section 2 one after another. The outlet a of the unloading section A and the introduction plate 3 move up and down together with the unit B, and the dispensing hopper section 2 is not restricted in capacity.
A By being able to accept effectively the bill 1, be tooth <br/>, by pressing even repression of the plate 4, to the bill 1 to be pooled in the payout hopper 2 giving pressing force from above, the payout hopper 2, the bill 1 can be dispensed from below effectively, and the bill processing in the dispensing hopper section 2 in the bill processing machine can be performed accurately and effectively, which is a feature that can be preferably implemented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view schematically showing a main part of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view schematically showing a money changer.

FIG. 3 is a side view schematically showing a money changer.

FIG. 4 is a side view schematically showing the inside of the money changing machine.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged side view of a part of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a plan sectional view showing a part of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a side view showing the operation state of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a side view showing the operation state of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a side view showing the operation state of FIG. 8;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bill 2 Payout hopper part A Bill discharge part a Exit 3 Introducing plate 4 Holding plate 5a Motor 6a, 6b, 6c Sensor B unit

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Hideyuki Kadomatsu 263-5 Iizumi, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture (72) Ryoji Hamasa 1090-5 Yamazaki, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture Ventech Co., Ltd. (56) References JP Hei 3-31161 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G07D 11/00-13/00 G07F 19/00 B65H 83/00-83/02

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bill hopper (2) that can store bills (1) and feed them one by one from below to a payout side so that the bills (1) can be supplied one by one from a bill discharge unit (A). In the bill processing machine configured as described above, one end side is communicated with the outlet (a) of the bill discharging section (A), and the introduction plate (3) capable of receiving the lower portions on both sides of the bill (1) is provided in the dispensing hopper section (2). ) Above and below, and a holding plate (4) capable of pushing down the bill (1) from above is provided so as to be vertically movable between the introduction plates (3), and the holding plate is provided. (4) is provided so as to be resiliently downward, and the outlet (a) of the bill discharging section (A) is configured to be vertically displaceable following the vertical movement of the introduction plate (3). Payout hopper structure of banknote handling machine. 2. The vertical movement of the holding plate (4) is controlled by the introduction plate (3).
2. The dispensing hopper structure of a bill processing machine according to claim 1, wherein the dispensing hopper is configured to be drivable by an upper motor (5a). 3. The banknote processing according to claim 1, wherein the vertical movement of the unit (B) provided with the introduction plate (3) and the like is detected by each of the sensors (6a, 6b, 6c) so that the hopper capacity can be detected. Discharge hopper structure of machine.