JP3277198B2 - Bill transporter - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill transporting device for transporting bills having a printing surface on the surface and a bill handling device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When inspecting the shape, printing state, and the like of bills, the bills are generally taken out one by one and conveyed by a conveyor belt.

The position of the conveyor belt is determined by the shape of the bill or other factors for examining the bill.

[0004]

However, in the related art, since the bill is conveyed while being clamped at the central portion by the carrying belt, the carrying belt comes into contact with the printing surface of the bill,
In the case of freshly printed banknotes, particularly, ink is transferred to the transport belt.

[0005] For this reason, there has been a problem that the ink transferred to the transport belt adheres to the subsequently transported banknotes, and the subsequent banknotes are soiled.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances,
To provide a bill transport device and a bill processing device that transport a bill without bringing a belt-shaped traveling member into contact with a printing surface of the bill, thereby preventing transfer of ink to the traveling member and preventing dirt on the bill. With the goal.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention conveys a bill having a printing surface at a center portion of a front surface and a margin portion having a width Ln at a peripheral portion. The width Lb is approximately 2 times the width Ln of the margin.
Only the margin portion except the printing surface of the banknote is transported by a transport belt including a front belt having a width (Lb ≒ 2 × Ln) and a back belt having the same width as the front belt and superimposed on the front belt. and clamping, the bill is conveyed along the conveying path by running of the conveyor belt, conveying means for varying the conveying direction of the bill at a predetermined curvature in the course this conveyance, the conveying hands
Provided along the outside of the point where the curvature of the conveying path of the step is large
Made of metal that regulates the deformation of bills,
Guide means .

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a bill processing apparatus.

This bill processing device is a device for inspecting and packing bills, especially bills just printed. The bill processing device includes a bill supply unit 1, and bills are supplied from the bill supply unit 1.

The bill supply unit 1 is configured as shown in FIGS.

In the figure, reference numeral 2 denotes a housing, and an opening / closing door 3 which can be opened and closed in a vertical direction is provided on the front surface of the housing 2. The opening / closing door 3 is provided with a cassette loading door 4... And a cassette removal door 5.

The cassette 7 is loaded into the housing 2 by opening the cassette loading door 4. Up to four cassettes 7 can be inserted in the front row. The inside of the cassette 7 is divided into a plurality of chambers 7a by a partition wall 8. As shown in FIG. 5, in the chambers 7a. Each banknote is stored as a banknote group G.

The bills are not bound in the state where they are stored in the chambers 7a.

The bundle S is taken out of the banknote group G stored in the deepest chamber 7a in the cassette 7 located at the left end of the front row by an arm-shaped take-out mechanism (not shown). The arm-shaped take-out mechanism pushes out the banknote group G located at the take-out position B in the direction of the arrow in FIG. Each time the banknote group G is taken out, the cassette 7 is moved in the depth direction by a predetermined distance, that is, a distance corresponding to one chamber 7a, and when all are taken out, the cassette 7 becomes empty and is sent out to the rear row. Also, at this time,
The next cassette 7 in the front row is moved to the leftmost position, and the banknote group G is taken out in the same manner as described above.

The cassette 7 which has been emptied and sent out to the rear row is moved rightward in the drawing by a predetermined distance, moved to the upper stage, and further moved rightward in the drawing. Thereafter, the empty cassettes 7 are sequentially moved in the same manner, and up to three cassettes 7 are arranged in parallel on the upper stage. The empty cassette 7 is taken out by opening the take-out door 5 for taking out the cassette.

The bill group G taken out of the cassette 7 is sent to the reversing device 10 shown in FIG. 1 as described above, and the reversing device 10 reverses the bill. The inverted banknote group G is sent to the separating device 11 and the separating device 1
In order to make it easy to separate the sheets one by one, they are separated. The sorted banknote bundle S is sent to the take-out device 12, and is separated and taken out one by one.

The reversing device 10 and the separating device use the techniques described in JP-A-7-187456 and JP-A-7-187430.

The banknotes P thus taken out one by one are conveyed by the conveying device 13 and various kinds of inspection devices 1
The printed state of the banknote P is inspected after passing through 5, 16, and 17. The banknotes P that have passed through the various inspection devices 15, 16, and 17 reach the first sorting device 19. In the first sorting device 19, those rejected by the various inspection devices 15, 16, 17 and those for which the determination is not determined are eliminated and accumulated in the eliminated ticket accumulation unit 20.

The banknotes P having no problem are sent to a second sorting device 22, which guides them to the first stacking device 23 or the second stacking device 24, whichever is empty. I will

The first stacking device 23 has the first strapping device 2
5. The second banding device 26 is provided in the second stacking device 24, and when a predetermined number (100) of banknotes P are stacked in the first or second stacking device 23, 24, 1st or 2nd
The banding devices 25 and 26 automatically band the stacked banknotes as banknote holders H. The state of the bill bundle H is shown in FIG.

The bill bundle H, which is hung by 100 sheets,
It is carried to the strapping device 28 by the bill handling device 27.
The banding device 28 is a device that bundles a fixed number of bill bundles H and bundles them to form a bill bundle S. FIG. 6 shows the state of the bill bundle S. The number of the banknote bundle S is the same as that of the banknote group G which is not strapped when the machine is inserted. The bill bundle S is transported by the large bundle transport device 29 to the seal sticking machine 30,
Then, a unique sticker is attached to each bill bundle S to complete the process.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the above-described transfer device 13, and FIG. 8 is a plan view thereof.

The transporting device 13 includes transporting belts 31 as belt-like traveling members arranged in parallel at a predetermined interval.
It has. The transport belt 31 is, as shown in FIG.
.. Are run over a number of rollers 33.

The transport belt 31 comprises a front belt portion 35 and a back belt portion 36 superposed on the front belt portion 35.
The bills P are sandwiched by the belt portions 35 and 36 on the front and back sides, and are conveyed from the take-out device 12 to the stacking devices 23 and 24.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing the banknote P.

The bill P has a printing surface 38 at the center of the front surface. The printing surface 38 is not printed on the entire surface of the banknote P, and a margin portion 39 that is a non-printing portion exists around the printing surface 38.

The transport belts 31, 31 are for printing the bill P on the printing surface 3.
8, the paper money P is arranged so that margins 39 on both sides of the paper money P are conveyed by being sandwiched between the belt parts 35 and 36 on the front and back.

As described above, since the margins 39 of the banknote P are conveyed while being clamped by the conveyor belts 31, 31, even when the banknote P just printed is conveyed, printing is performed on the conveyor belts 31, 31. The ink on the surface 38 does not adhere.

Therefore, even if the transport belts 31, 31 transport the succeeding banknotes P, ink is not transferred to the banknotes P, and the banknotes P are not stained.

By the way, the transport belts 31
In order to clamp only the margin 39 of the banknote P, the width of the conveyor belts 31, 31 must be the same as the width Ln of the margin 39 (shown in FIG. 8).

However, in this case, the width of the conveyor belts 31, 31 must be reduced to about half of the conventional one, and the running stability of the conveyor belts 31, 31 is impaired.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the width of the conveyor belt Lb (shown in FIG. 8) is set to be Lb / 2 ≒ Ln, and is made wider than the width of the margin 39, thereby stabilizing the conveyance. Is increasing the character.

FIG. 10 is a front view showing another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 11 is a plan view thereof.

When the width of the conveyor belts 31 is increased,
At a location with a large curvature in the transport path (for example, see section A in FIG. 1), the deformation of the banknote P becomes large, and the transport may be unstable.

In order to prevent this, a curved metal guide body 41 is provided as guide means along a portion of the transport path where the curvature is large. The guide body 41 has a mounting piece 42 on one side thereof, and the mounting piece 42 is mounted by being fixed to a base 44 by a fixing screw 43.

According to this embodiment, when the banknote P is nipped and conveyed by the conveyor belts 31 and tries to be greatly deformed at a place with a large curvature in the conveyance path, the guide member 41 is used.
And its deformation is regulated. Therefore, banknote P
Deformation can be kept small and stable conveyance can be achieved.

[0046]

According to the present invention, as described above, the surface center
Paper having a printing surface on the outside and a margin of width Ln on the periphery
The width Lb is the width of the margin.
A front belt having a width approximately twice as large as Ln (Lb ≒ 2 × Ln)
And has the same width as the front belt, and is superimposed on the front belt.
Printing of the banknotes by a transport belt consisting of a back belt
The conveyor belt travels by clamping only the margins except the surface.
The transport means for transporting the bill by means of
Of course can be transported without soiling
And the contact area of the front and back belts with the margin
To ensure reliable transport with a large pinch force in the margin of the bill.
Can be sent, and the bills face down
Back belt on the printing surface
Good transport without contact and no dirt
can do.

[0047]

Further, since guide means for regulating the deformation of the banknote whose transport direction is changed by the transport means is provided,
Good transport is possible without significantly deforming the bill.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a banknote processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a bill supply unit.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a take-out door of a bill supply unit is opened.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which an open / close door of a bill supply unit is opened.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a bill holder.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a banknote bundle.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a transport belt that clamps and transports banknotes.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a transport belt that clamps and transports banknotes.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a bill.

FIG. 10 is a front view showing a guide unit according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing a guide unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 P: banknote H: banknote bundle S: banknote bundle 1 ... banknote supply unit (banknote supply unit) 10 ... reversing device 11 ... separating device 12 ... take-out device (reversal device) 13 ... transport device 15 ... inspection device (inspection device) 16 ... Inspection device (inspection means) 17 ... Inspection device (inspection means) 19 ... First sorting device 20 ... Rejected ticket stacking unit 22 ... Second sorting device 23 ... First stacking device 24 ... Second stacking device 25 ... 1 banding device (bundling means) 26 ... second banding device (bundling means) 27 ... sheet bundle conveying device 28 ... sheet bundle banding device 29 ... large bundle conveying device 30 ... seal sticking machine 31 ... transport belt (traveling member) ) 38: Printed surface 39: Site excluding the printed surface

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Jiro Osawa 2-4-2 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Inside the Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance (56) References JP-A-6-340355 (JP, A) JP-A-54- 66200 (JP, A) JP-A-8-190647 (JP, A) JP-A 64-41085 (JP, A) JP-A 57-11142 (JP, U) JP-A 61-40515 (JP, Y1) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07D 9/00 416 B65H 5/02

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A banknote having a printing surface at a center portion of a front surface thereof and having a margin portion having a width Ln in a peripheral portion is transported, and its width dimension Lb is approximately twice (Lb ≒) the width Ln of the margin portion. 2 × L
n) a transport belt consisting of a front belt having a width of n) and a back belt having the same width as the front belt and being overlapped on the front belt. Transporting the banknote along the transport path by traveling of the transport means, and a transport means for varying the transport direction of the banknote at a predetermined curvature during the transport, and along the outside of the location of a large curvature of the transport path of the transport means.
To restrict the deformation of banknotes whose transport direction is variable.
And a metal guide means .