JP3142441U - Banknote stacker - Google Patents

Abstract

A banknote counter is provided which can easily take out banknotes even if the opening of the stacker is small.
A hopper for stacking banknotes, a banknote feeding section that separates banknotes from the hopper and conveys banknotes, a count sensor that counts banknotes, and a stacker that stores the counted banknotes; In the banknote counter provided with the impeller which drops a banknote into this stacker, and the banknote stopper which supports the banknote accommodated in the stacker in the opening part of the said stacker, the said banknote stopper is arrange | positioned rotatably.
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Description

  The present invention provides a stacker for a banknote counter that separates banknotes accumulated in a hopper section one by one, conveys them to a banknote counting section, and stores the counted banknotes in an aligned state in a stacker by an impeller. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique for facilitating the removal of banknotes.

  In the conventional bill counter, when bills are stacked on a hopper provided at the top of the apparatus, the bills are fed one by one into a passage inside the device by a feeding means including a kicker roller provided at the bottom of the hopper. The number of bills passed is counted by the sensor provided above, and the counted bills are dropped onto the stacker opened toward the front of the apparatus by the lower impeller, and supported by the bill stopper provided at the opening of the stacker. The banknotes are arranged and stored in a standing state.

  Furthermore, the banknotes accommodated in the stacker are picked up by picking up a finger from between the operation section and the banknote stopper provided in the stacker opening. In general, an operation unit including a display unit and operation buttons is provided on the front surface of the apparatus below the hopper.

In addition, such bill counters have recently been miniaturized, but have become more sophisticated and multifunctional, such as having a denomination discriminating function, so the proportion of the operation unit in the entire apparatus has increased. Yes. For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-323879 discloses a banknote counter provided with an operation unit including a large display unit and a plurality of operation buttons on the front surface of the apparatus.
JP 2006-323879 A

  However, while the whole device is downsized by improving the internal mechanism of the bill counter, the stacker opening on the front of the device becomes smaller when the operation unit becomes larger, and the bills provided at the operation unit and the stacker opening It becomes difficult to take out banknotes from between the stoppers.

  The present application has been devised to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide a banknote counter that can easily take out banknotes even if the opening of the stacker is small.

Then, in order to achieve said objective, the banknote counter based on Claim 1 of this invention is the following.
A hopper for stacking banknotes, a banknote feeding section for separating banknotes one by one from the hopper and conveying banknotes, a counting sensor for counting banknotes, a stacker for storing the counted banknotes, and banknotes to the stacker In the banknote counter provided with an impeller for dropping the banknote and a banknote stopper for supporting banknotes stored in the stacker at the opening of the stacker, the stopper is rotatably arranged.

A bill counter according to claim 2 of the present invention is
A hopper for stacking banknotes, a banknote feeding section for separating banknotes one by one from the hopper and conveying banknotes, a counting sensor for counting banknotes, a stacker for storing the counted banknotes, and banknotes to the stacker In a bill counter provided with a bill stopper for supporting a bill stored in the stacker at an opening of the stacker,
The bill stopper is disposed so as to be rotatable outwardly of the apparatus, and the return made of an elastic body so that the contact portion provided on the bill stopper always contacts the positioning portion provided on the opening of the stacker. By means, it always urges toward the inside of the stacker.

   According to the present invention, even if the opening of the stacker is made small, it is tilted when an external force of a predetermined force or more is applied to the banknote stopper, so that the opening becomes wide and the banknote can be easily taken out. .

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a bill counter showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the main part of the internal structure of the bill counter shown in FIG.

   As shown in FIG. 1, a banknote counter 1 showing an embodiment of the present invention includes a hopper 2 for stacking banknotes on an upper portion of the apparatus, and a plurality of operations are provided on the front surface of the apparatus below the hopper 2. An operation unit 3 including buttons and a display screen is provided. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the operation unit 3 of the bill counter 1 is a touch panel.

  Further, a stacker 4 for storing banknotes counted by the banknote counter 1 is provided downstream of the operation unit 3. And the banknote stopper 6 supported in the state which stood up the banknote accommodated in the stacker 4 while preventing scattering of a banknote at the bottom part of the opening part 4a of the stacker 4 is arrange | positioned.

  As shown in FIG. 2, a bill feeding mechanism 7 for separating and transporting bills one by one into the apparatus is disposed on the bottom surface of the hopper 2. The feeding mechanism 7 includes a kicker roller and a plurality of roller groups.

    Inside the apparatus, a counting sensor 8 composed of an optical sensor that counts banknotes by detecting passage of banknotes is arranged.

  The stacker 4 is provided with a pair of impellers 5 for dropping bills that have passed through the counting sensor 8 into the stacker 4.

  The banknote counter 1 configured as described above, when stacking banknotes on the hopper 2, guides banknotes to the passage inside the apparatus by the banknote feeding mechanism 7, counts banknotes by the counting sensor 8, and stackers by the impeller 5. The banknote is dropped into 4 and the banknote is supported by the banknote stopper 6 to accommodate the banknote in a standing state.

  Moreover, the banknote stopper 6 is rotatably supported by the opening part 4a of the stacker 4 via the axis | shaft so that it may fall down to the front direction of an apparatus, when taking out a banknote from the stacker 4. FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating details of the banknote stopper 6 of the banknote counter 1 of the first embodiment. 3A shows a state in which the banknote stopper 6 is in a predetermined position for supporting the banknotes accommodated in the stacker 4, and FIG. 3B shows the banknote stopper 6 in the outer direction of the banknote counter 1 (front side of the apparatus). Shows the state of falling down.

  As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the banknote stopper 6 is rotatably supported on the bottom of the opening 4a of the banknote counter 1 via a shaft 9, and the banknote stopper 6 supports the banknote. For this purpose, the spring 10 (return means made of an elastic body) is always urged so as to be in a predetermined position.

  Furthermore, two positioning parts (positioning part 11 and positioning part 12) that define the movable range of the banknote stopper are provided in the vicinity of the bottom of the opening 4a, and the banknote stopper 6 is in contact with the positioning part 11. A contact portion 14 that contacts the contact portion 13 and the positioning portion 12 is provided, and the movable range of the bill stopper 6 is restricted by the two positioning portions.

  The banknote stopper 6 arranged at the bottom of the opening 4a of the stacker 4 with the above-described configuration is always urged toward the inside of the stacker 4 by the spring 10 as shown in FIG. Thus, the abutting portion 13 abuts against the positioning portion 11 of the opening 4a to hold a predetermined position for supporting the bill.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3B, when the banknotes stored in the stacker 4 are picked up with a finger and taken out, the banknote stopper 6 is moved outward with respect to the apparatus main body by the picked banknotes (front direction of the apparatus). On the other hand, when a force greater than the biasing force of the spring 10 is applied, the bill stopper 6 tilts toward the front of the apparatus, and the bill supported by the bill stopper 6 also tilts. It becomes wider and it becomes easier to take out banknotes. At this time, the banknote stopper 6 can be rotated to a position where the contact portion 14 contacts the positioning portion 12 of the opening 4a.

  Moreover, after a banknote is taken out from the stacker 4, the banknote stopper 6 is a predetermined position for supporting the banknote, which is a position where the contact portion 13 contacts the positioning portion 11 of the opening 4a by the biasing force of the spring 10. Return to.

It is a schematic perspective view of a bill counter showing one embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic sectional drawing which shows the principal part among the internal structures of the banknote counter of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic sectional drawing explaining the detail of the banknote stopper of the banknote counter of one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bill counter 2 Hopper 3 Operation part 4 Stacker 4a Stacker opening 5 Impeller 6 Bill stopper 7 Bill feeding mechanism 8 Count sensor 9 Axis 10 Spring 11, 12 Positioning part 13, 14 Contact part

Claims (2)

A hopper for stacking banknotes, a banknote feeding section for separating banknotes one by one from the hopper and conveying banknotes, a counting sensor for counting banknotes, a stacker for storing the counted banknotes, and banknotes to the stacker In a bill counter provided with a bill stopper for supporting a bill stored in the stacker at an opening of the stacker,
A banknote counter characterized in that the stopper is rotatably arranged. A hopper for stacking banknotes, a banknote feeding section for separating banknotes one by one from the hopper and conveying banknotes, a counting sensor for counting banknotes, a stacker for storing the counted banknotes, and banknotes to the stacker In a bill counter provided with a bill stopper for supporting a bill stored in the stacker at an opening of the stacker,
The bill stopper is disposed so as to be rotatable outwardly of the apparatus, and the return made of an elastic body so that the contact portion provided on the bill stopper always contacts the positioning portion provided on the opening of the stacker. A bill counting machine characterized in that it is always biased toward the inside of the stacker by means.

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