JP4631451B2 - Medium storage cassette and deposit device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medium storage cassette attached to a depositing apparatus installed in a store such as a retail store including a supermarket, and a depositing apparatus to which the medium storage cassette is attached.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a depositing device having a function of depositing sales proceeds is installed in some stores such as supermarkets and retail stores. A cash storage cassette is attached to the depositing device, and the sales proceeds of the store are totaled and stored in the cash storage cassette. The cash storage cassette is detachable from the depositing apparatus, and the cash storage cassette storing the sales proceeds is removed from the depositing apparatus and transported to the fund management center.

  Management of cash storage cassettes is often outsourced to security companies. In this case, the person in charge of the security company receives an empty cash storage cassette whose contents have been confirmed in advance at the fund management center, brings this cash storage cassette to a retail store, and stores the cash stored in the depositing device in the store. Remove the cassette and replace the empty cash storage cassette that you brought in with the depositing device. Then, the removed cash storage cassette is transported to the money management center.

  Cash is stored in the cash storage cassette, but the amount of sales varies depending on whether it is a day of the week or a special sale date, the amount of cash stored in the cash storage cassette is different, and the amount of cash stored is If there is little, there is an empty space in the cash storage cassette. Security officers use a special trunk to transport cash storage cassettes, and carry cash storage cassettes in the trunk. When the cash storage cassette is transported from the cash management center to the retail store, the cash storage cassette is naturally empty, so the cash storage cassette housed in the trunk transported by the person in charge is empty. There are many cases.

  A large amount of empty space in the cash storage cassette causes a space loss during transportation, leading to a reduction in transportation efficiency. For example, in the loading platform space of a cash transport vehicle, the empty space of the cash storage cassette also requires a loading platform space, and a wasteful storage volume is generated.

In order to solve such a problem, it has been proposed that the cash storage cassette has a bellows structure as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-149088. By making the cash storage cassette into a bellows structure, the cash storage cassette can be expanded and contracted according to the amount of cash stored, and the cash storage cassette can be made smaller when the storage amount is small. The soft cassette disclosed in the above document has a built-in volume compression spring, and the volume compression spring extends downward according to the accumulated load as the bills are stored in the cassette. When carrying the cassette, the volume compression action works to regulate the up-down direction of the stacked banknotes stored.
JP 2000-149088 A

  However, in the cash storage cassette disclosed in Patent Document 1, the built-in volume compression spring acts to compress the empty space of the cassette when the amount of banknotes stored is small. Since the banknotes must be stretched as they are stored, the compression force of the volume compression spring cannot be increased so much. Therefore, when the storage cassette is transported, if a vertical force is applied to the storage cassette having an empty space, the storage cassette may be stretched. When the storage cassette is stretched, a space loss occurs during transportation, leading to a reduction in transportation efficiency.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a cash storage cassette that does not cause a space loss during transportation.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a medium storage cassette having a storage portion that is vertically expandable and retractable and stores a medium, in a state in which the storage portion is compressed to an arbitrary size according to the storage amount of the medium. A belt for fixing the storage portion is provided.

According to the present invention, since the belt for fixing the storage portion is provided in a state where the storage portion is compressed in accordance with the storage amount of the medium, the cash storage is performed even when an unexpected force is applied in the vertical direction when the cash storage cassette is transported. The cassette does not extend and can be transported stably.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Elements common to the drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 is a side view showing a banknote storage cassette according to the embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a rear view showing the banknote storage cassette according to the embodiment. In this embodiment, a banknote storage cassette will be described as an example of a cash storage cassette.

  1 and 2, a banknote storage cassette 1 as a cash storage cassette includes a storage portion 2 constituting a main body portion and a lid portion 3 attached to the storage portion 2 so as to be openable and closable. The periphery of the storage portion 2 is constituted by a bellows portion 4, and a fastener portion 5 is formed on the top of the bellows portion 4 and a hinge 6 is provided. The bellows part 4 is formed so that a bill can be accommodated therein, and is formed to be extendable in the vertical direction. The fastener portion 5 is formed over the three circumferential surfaces of the cassette 1 and is formed at both ends of the surface (back surface) on which the hinge 6 is provided. Therefore, the lid 3 can be opened by opening all the fasteners 5. It is desirable to attach a key to the fastener portion 5 so that only the administrator can open it. The hinge 6 is attached to both the storage portion 2 and the lid portion 3.

  A bottom plate portion 7 is provided at the lower portion of the storage portion 2. The bottom plate portion 7 is made of a rigid member, for example, a plastic member, constitutes the bottom portion of the bellows portion 4, and has a bottom surface for storing banknotes. Fixing brackets 8 are formed on both side surfaces of the bottom plate portion 7, and a lower mounting portion 9 is formed on the back side. The fixing bracket 8 fixes the end of the belt 10. The belt 10 is disposed on both side surfaces of the cassette 1. As shown in FIG. 3, the lower mounting portion 9 is formed in the shape of a rectangular opening, into which the mounting portion of the depositing apparatus is inserted.

  The lid portion 3 is composed of an upper lid portion 11 and a lower lid portion 12, and both are integrally formed. Adjustment fixing brackets 13 are provided on both side surfaces of the lower lid portion 12, and a bill insertion slot 14 is formed on the back side. The adjustment fixture 13 can fix the belt 10 at an arbitrary position. The banknote insertion slot 14 is an opening into which a banknote sent from the depositing apparatus is inserted when the banknote storage cassette 1 is attached to the depositing apparatus. As shown in the drawing, the bill insertion slot 14 has a wide vertical width on the outside and a narrow width on the inside. By forming in this way, even when the banknote storage cassette 1 is laid sideways, the banknote inside does not go out from the banknote insertion slot 14. Of course, it is also possible to prevent leakage of internal banknotes by other methods.

  A shaft 15 is provided on both side surfaces of the upper lid portion 11, and a handle 16 is rotatably attached to the shaft 15. An upper mounting portion 17 is formed on the back surface side of the upper lid portion 11, and the upper mounting portion 17 is formed in a rectangular opening shape like the lower mounting portion 9 and the mounting portion of the depositing apparatus is inserted. It is like that.

  FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing the banknote storage cassette of the embodiment, and shows a state where banknotes P are stored. In FIG. 3, a bill storage area 18 is formed inside the storage unit 2. A leaf spring 19 is provided inside the lid 3, and the leaf spring 19 guides the bill P entering from the bill insertion slot 14 to the bill storage area 18, and the storage portion 2 contracts into the bill P. It has a function of pressing the banknote P when pressed.

  Next, the exchange operation | movement of the banknote storage cassette in embodiment is demonstrated. The person in charge of the security company transports the empty banknote storage cassette 1 whose contents have been confirmed in advance at the fund management center to a store such as a retail store. In the store where the depositing apparatus is installed, the person in charge first removes the banknote storage cassette 1 already mounted on the depositing apparatus. This state is shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 4, reference numerals 21 and 22 are mounting members for mounting the banknote storage cassette 1 provided in a depositing device (not shown). When the upper mounting member 21 is inserted into the upper mounting portion 17 of the banknote storage cassette 1 and the lower mounting member 22 is inserted into the lower mounting portion 9, the banknote storage cassette 1 is mounted to the depositing apparatus. The person in charge removes the banknote storage cassette 1 by removing it from the upper and lower mounting members 21 and 22.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the removed bill storage cassette 1 is compressed with the bellows portion 4 in accordance with the storage amount of the bills P stored therein, and the belt 10 is adjusted with the adjustment fixing bracket 13 in the compressed state. Fix it. At this time, in the inside of the banknote storage cassette 1, the upper part of the banknote P in which the leaf | plate spring 19 shown in FIG. 3 is stored is pressed, and the banknote P is controlled to move to an up-down direction. In this state, the person in charge carries the banknote storage cassette 1 to the money management center.

  Since the banknote storage cassette 1 is fixed in a state where the bellows portion 4 is compressed by the belt 10, it does not occupy a useless space during transportation and increases in size even when unexpected force is applied. It can be transported in a stable state.

  On the other hand, the empty banknote storage cassette 1 brought into the store removes the belt 10 from the adjustment fixing bracket 13 and mounts it on the upper and lower mounting members 21 and 22 of the depositing apparatus. The mounting is performed in the opposite manner to the operation described in FIG. When the mounting is completed, the bill storage number counter of the depositing device is cleared and the lower mounting member 22 is raised. By raising the lower mounting member 22, the bottom plate part 7 is raised, and accordingly, the bellows part 4 of the banknote storage cassette 1 is compressed, and the internal banknote storage area 18 becomes smaller in the vertical direction.

  The lower mounting member 22 moves up until the banknote storage area 18 of the banknote storage cassette 1 reaches the banknote storage start position. That is, the bottom plate portion 7 is raised to a position where the bill P inserted from the bill insertion slot 14 enters the bill storage area 18 and is guided by the leaf spring 19 to be aligned and accumulated on the bottom plate portion 7. Thereby, banknotes can be stored in a new empty banknote storage cassette 1.

  When the deposit process is started, the bill P sent from a deposit device (not shown) is inserted from the bill insertion slot 14. The inserted bills P are guided by the leaf spring 19 and accumulated in the bill storage area 18. Each time the bill P is stored, the depositing device counts the number of stored bills. When the sheet count value reaches a predetermined value, that is, when a predetermined amount of banknotes P is stored in the banknote storage cassette 1, the depositing device lowers the lower mounting member 22 and moves the bottom plate portion 7 of the banknote storage cassette 1. Lower. As a result, a space is created above the already stored banknote P, and the banknote P can be stored. The depositing apparatus performs the lowering operation of the lower mounting member 22 every time a predetermined number of banknotes P are stored.

  On the other hand, the person in charge of the security company brings the banknote storage cassette 1 collected from the store to the money management center. The person in charge of the fund management center performs a collection operation of collecting the banknotes P from the banknote storage cassette 1 brought in. The person in charge at the fund management center first removes the belt 10 of the banknote storage cassette 1 from the adjustment fixture 13 and opens the fastener 5. As a result, the lid 3 can be opened.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the lid 3 is rotated about the hinge 6 to open the lid 3. And the banknote P is taken out from the accommodating part 2, and a banknote is collect | recovered. When all the banknotes P are taken out, the bellows part 4 of the storage part 2 is compressed, and the belt 10 is engaged with the adjustment fixing bracket 13 in the compressed state, and the empty banknote storage cassette 1 is fixed in the compressed state. As a result, it can be brought into a store such as a retail store again. Also in this case, since the empty banknote collection cassette 1 is securely fixed by the belt 10 in a compressed state, the size does not expand during transportation.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the banknote storage cassette 1 is fixed in a compressed state by the belt 10 and the adjustment fixing bracket 13, an unexpected force is applied to the banknote storage cassette 1 during transportation. However, it does not swell and can be transported in a stable state.

  FIG. 7 is a plan view showing a first modification of the present embodiment. In FIG. 7, the window part 26 is formed in the upper part of the cover part 3 of the banknote storage cassette 25 of a 1st modification. A transparent member 27 is fitted into the window portion 26 so that the inside of the banknote storage cassette 25 can be viewed from above. Therefore, the presence or absence of the banknote P in the inside can be confirmed.

  Thus, by providing the window part 26 in the lid | cover part 3, the presence or absence of the banknote in the banknote storage cassette 25 can be confirmed, for example, confirmation work of the content of a banknote storage cassette and confirmation of the contents in a money management center It becomes possible to easily perform the replacement operation of the cassette following the operation.

  The size of the window portion 26 can be arbitrarily changed. For example, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, a small small window 28 may be formed in the lid 3. 8 and 9 are a plan view and a cross-sectional view showing a first modification of the embodiment. The small window 28 is disposed at a position where the position of the internal leaf spring 19 can be seen. When the banknote storage cassette 25 is removed from the depositing device and the bellows part 4 is compressed and fixed with the belt 10, the banknote P is compressed up to the position where the leaf spring 19 is pushed up. When it is determined how much compression should be performed, it is possible to determine by visually confirming the degree of rise of the leaf spring 19 from the small window 28. Of course, this is also possible with the window 26 shown in FIG.

  10 and 11 are a plan view and a rear view showing a second modification of the embodiment. In both figures, shock absorbers 31 are provided at each corner (corner) of the bill storage cassette 30 of the second modification. The shock absorbing material 31 is formed of a rubber material and is directly attached to the lid portion 3 and the bottom plate portion 7. The shock absorbing material 31 absorbs the shock and plays a role of protecting the lid 3 and the bottom plate 7 in particular. However, the shock absorber 31 is attached to the lid 3 and the bottom plate 7 to affect the compression operation of the bill storage cassette 30. Never give.

  By providing the shock absorbing material 31 in this way, the banknote storage cassette 30 at the time of transportation can be safely protected, the transportation work can be facilitated, and the life of the banknote storage cassette 30 can be extended. . Note that the shape of the shock absorbing material is not limited to that shown in the figure, and may be formed long across the side of the lid 3 or the bottom plate 7, for example.

  Still other variations of the present invention are possible. For example, in the above embodiment, the banknote storage cassette 1 is mounted by inserting the upper and lower mounting members 21 and 22 of the depositing device into the upper mounting portion 17 and the lower mounting portion 9 of the banknote storage cassette 1. Instead of inserting the lower mounting member 22, the lower mounting member may be attracted to the lower mounting portion 9 with a magnet to move the storage portion 2 of the banknote storage cassette 1 up and down.

It is a side view which shows the banknote storage cassette of embodiment. It is a rear view which shows the banknote storage cassette of embodiment. It is sectional drawing which shows the banknote storage cassette of embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the removal state of a banknote storage cassette. It is explanatory drawing which shows the state which compresses and fixes a banknote storage cassette. It is a top view which shows the state which opened the cover part of the banknote storage cassette. It is a top view which shows the 1st modification of embodiment. It is a top view which shows the 1st modification of embodiment. It is sectional drawing which shows the 1st modification of embodiment. It is a top view which shows the 2nd modification of embodiment. It is a rear view which shows the 2nd modification of embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote storage cassette 2 Storage part 3 Cover part 4 Bellows part 7 Bottom plate part 10 Belt 13 Adjustment fixing bracket 19 Leaf spring 26 Window part 31 Shock absorber

Claims (1)

In a medium storage cassette that can be expanded and contracted in the vertical direction and has a storage portion for storing a medium,
Media storage cassette, characterized in that a belt for fixing the housing portion of the housing portion in accordance with the storage amount of the medium in a compressed state into an arbitrary size.

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