JP5105416B2 - Banknote storage device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention is provided on a gaming machine island in which pachinko machines and the like are arranged side by side, and accepts and accommodates banknotes transported along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island after being thrown into a gaming media rental machine by a player. The present invention relates to a bill storage device.

  In gaming machine islands where pachinko machines and other gaming machines are juxtaposed, gaming media rental machines are generally installed near each gaming machine, and the bills inserted into gaming media rental machines are It is conveyed and stored in the banknote storage device at the edge of the gaming machine island through the gaming machine island conveyance path installed in the island along the direction.

  In the banknote storage device, the banknotes are temporarily received by the temporary storage unit, and the banknotes separated and sent out one by one from the temporary storage unit are passed through the identification means to identify the denomination, and then stored in the storage unit. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2002-197511 A

  Bills may have small breaks during use. If there is such a break at the top edge of the banknote already stored in the temporary storage section, the banknote newly received from the gaming machine island transport path is caught in the banknote of the banknote already stored. There were cases where banknotes were jammed.

  The present invention is intended to solve the above problem, and even when there is a break in the edge of the banknote already stored in the temporary storage section, a new banknote can be removed from the gaming machine island transport path without being caught by this. It is an object to provide a banknote storage device that can accept a temporary storage unit.

  The gist of the present invention for achieving the object lies in the inventions of the following items.

[1] After temporarily placed accepted by the gaming machine island of the gaming machine island conveying path for conveying a bill along the longitudinal direction (5) escrow unit the bill fed out from the (30), the escrow unit (30 ) And stored in the storage unit (15, 17),
The receiving direction of the guide member (33) protruding inward of the temporary holding portion (30) to the extent that it comes into contact with the paper surface of the edge parallel to the receiving direction of the banknotes received from the gaming machine island transport path (5). The temporary holding portion (30) is divided into a receiving chamber (30a) and a temporary storage chamber (30b) with the guide member (33) as a boundary,
The receiving chamber is provided with a rotating body (36), a drive unit (25) for rotating the rotating body (36), and a pressing blade (36a) extending from a peripheral surface of the rotating body (36), and is always driven. (30a) provided with pressing means ( 36, 36a) for pressing the banknote received by the pressing blade (36a) ;
The guide member (33) terminates in the middle of the temporary holding portion (30),
When the banknote received in the receiving chamber (30a) along the guide member (33) from the gaming machine island transport path (5) is advanced to the back of the receiving chamber (30a), the guide member (33) and housed transferred to the temporary storage chamber (30b) between this pressing force over the by pressing means (36, 36a) to drag due to contact with the banknote edge,
A bill storage device, wherein bills are sent out from the temporary storage chamber (30b) toward the storage portions (15, 17).

In the above invention, the temporary holding portion (30) is divided into the receiving chamber (30a) and the temporary storage chamber (30b) with the guide member (33) as a boundary, and the receiving chamber (30a) is provided along the guide member (33). ) Is pressed by the pressing means (36, 36a), transferred to the temporary storage chamber (30b) and stored. Thereby, even when there is a break at the edge of the bill already stored in the temporary storage chamber (30b), it is prevented that the bill received in the receiving chamber (30a) is caught later and clogged. The Further, in the above invention, the boundary between the receiving chamber (30a) and the temporary storage chamber (30b) disappears behind the end position of the guide member (33), and the banknotes are smoothly and temporarily stored behind the receiving chamber (30a) (30b). ) And can be stored.

In the said invention, since the press means (36, 36a) which rotates the rotary body (36) which has a press blade | wing (36a) is always driven, the banknote received in the receiving chamber (30a) along the guide member (33) Can be pressed from the receiving chamber (30a) toward the temporary storage chamber (30b) with a simple structure.

[ 2 ] With the long side of the banknote in the receiving direction, the banknote is received from one end (31) of the temporary storage section (30) and sent out from the other end (32).
The banknote storage according to [ 1 ], wherein the pressing means (36, 36a) are provided on the one end side and the other end side from the end of the guide member (33) in the temporary storage portion (30). apparatus.

In the above invention, the rotating body (36) is arranged on the banknote receiving side from the end of the guide member (33) , so that even the banknote received by bending can be extended by the pressing blade (36a). Further, it is possible to prevent the banknotes received later by the temporary storage unit (30) from colliding with the folded banknotes and being jammed. Further, by arranging the rotating body (36) on the banknote delivery side from the end of the guide member (33), the banknotes stored in the temporary storage chamber (30b) are always directed toward the temporary storage chamber (30b). Since it can be pressed by the pressing blade (36a), it is possible to prevent the banknote from floating from the temporary storage chamber (30b) to the receiving chamber (30a) and to reliably discharge the banknote from the delivery port (32). it can.

[ 3 ] While accepting bills in a horizontally long state,
The guide member (33) is provided so as to hang from the upper part of the temporary holding portion (30),
The entrance of the banknote to the receiving chamber (30a) is arranged with a step so that the lower end is higher than the bottom surface of the temporary storage chamber (30b) ,
As described in [1] or [2] , the banknotes are arranged such that the step is dropped when the banknotes move from the receiving chamber (30a) to the temporary storage chamber (30b). Banknote storage device.

  In the above invention, the banknote received from the banknote receiving port of the receiving chamber (30a) falls by its own weight when moving to the temporary storage chamber (30b), and comes into contact with the bottom surface of the temporary storage unit (30). Therefore, the possibility of clogging before being finally stored in the storage portion (15, 17) is reduced. Further, when there is a break in the lower edge of the banknote already stored in the temporary storage chamber (30b), there is a difference in height between the lower edge of the banknote and the subsequent banknote received from the banknote receiving port. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the subsequent banknote from coming into contact with the cut at the lower end of the stored banknote, and the subsequent banknote from being caught at the cut to be jammed.

[ 4 ] Any one of [1] to [ 3 ], wherein a contact area between the bill and the guide member (33) is reduced when the bill advances to the back of the receiving chamber (30a). The bill storage device described in one.

  In the said invention, since a contact area of a banknote and a guide member (33) will decrease if a banknote advances to the back of a receiving chamber (30a), it will become easy for a banknote to exceed a guide member (33), and from a receiving chamber (30a). The bill can be smoothly moved to the temporary storage chamber (30b).

  According to the banknote storage apparatus according to the present invention, even when there is a break in the edge of the banknote already stored in the temporary storage section, a new banknote is transferred from the gaming machine island transport path to the temporary storage section without being caught by this. Can accept.

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

  FIG. 1 is a front view showing an internal structure of a gaming machine island 2 on which a banknote storage device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed, and FIG. 2 shows a banknote storage device 10 installed on the gaming machine island 2. It is a top view which shows the arrangement | positioning state of the related apparatus. The gaming machine island 2 accommodates a large number of pachinko machines and other gaming machines 3 and a gaming media rental machine 4 in a frame constructed on the floor of the gaming store in a back-to-back manner. .

  The game medium lending machine 4 is a device that lends a game medium such as a pachinko ball used in the game machine 3 to a player in accordance with the amount of banknotes inserted from the banknote slot 4a at the upper front. Between the backs of the game medium lending machines 4 installed back to back, the gaming machine island transports the banknotes discharged from the back of each game medium lending machine 4 to the banknote storage device 10 at the end of the gaming machine island 2. A path 5 is extended along the longitudinal direction of the gaming machine island 2 in a back-to-back manner corresponding to each of the front and back surfaces. The banknotes are transported toward the banknote storage device 10 in the gaming machine island transport paths 5 on the front and back sides in a posture in which the short side is substantially vertical, and merged immediately before being sent out into the banknote storage device 10.

  3 is a top view showing the internal structure of the banknote storage device 10, FIG. 4 is a front view showing the internal structure of the banknote storage device 10, and FIG. 5 is a left side view showing the internal structure of the banknote storage device 10. FIG. 6 shows a simplified internal path of the banknote storage device 10.

  The banknote storage device 10 is a device that stores banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5. The banknote storage apparatus 10 temporarily receives and holds banknotes from the gaming machine island transport path 5, and the temporary storage section 30. Sending means 12 for sending out banknotes separated one by one, common transport path 13 for transporting banknotes sent out from the sending means 12, and a denomination of banknotes that are arranged in the middle of the common transport path 13 and pass through To the temporary holding unit 30 when a predetermined retry condition is established for the identifying unit 14 that performs the identification, the storage unit 15 that stores the banknote that has been successfully identified by the denomination, and the banknote that cannot be identified by the identifying unit 14. A retry conveyance path 16 that conveys the coins so as to be returned, and a reject unit 17 that accepts and stores a banknote whose denomination could not be identified when the retry condition is not satisfied.

  The common conveyance path 13 downstream of the identification means 14 is provided with a retry gate 18a as a switching claw for selecting a course of bills. The banknotes that have been successfully identified by denomination are transported to the storage unit 15 through the storage transport path 15a selected by the retry gate 18a. The banknote whose denomination could not be identified further proceeds through the common transport path 13, and the path is selected as either the reject transport path 17a or the retry transport path 16 for transporting the banknote to the reject unit 17 by the reject gate 18b which is a switching claw. Is done.

  One end of the temporary storage unit 30 is provided with a first receiving port 31 that is a receiving port for banknotes sent out from the gaming machine island transport path 5, and the other end is connected to a banknote exit to the common transport path 13. An outlet 32 is provided. The length between the first receiving port 31 and the sending / receiving port 32 is longer than the length of the long side of the banknote, and the height is longer than the length of the short side of the banknote. It has an elongated box shape that can be stored.

  FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the upper surface of the temporary storage unit 30. The temporary holding unit 30 protrudes to the inside of the temporary holding unit 30 to the extent that it comes into contact with the paper surface of the edge parallel to the receiving direction (gaming machine island transport direction) F of the banknotes received from the gaming machine island transport path 5. A guide member 33 is provided along the bill receiving direction F, and the temporary holding portion 30 is divided into a receiving chamber 30a and a temporary storage chamber 30b with the guide member 33 as a boundary. The first receiving port 31 is provided at one end of the receiving chamber 30a, and the delivery port 32 is provided at the other end of the temporary storage chamber 30b.

  The pressing unit 34 forming the side wall of the temporary storage unit 30 on the receiving chamber 30a side can be opened and closed with an opening / closing shaft 34a provided near the first receiving port 31 as shown in FIG. .

  FIG. 9 shows a state in which the temporary holding unit 30 with the pressing unit 34 opened is viewed from the pressing unit 34 side, and FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the inside of the temporary holding unit 30 viewed from the delivery port 32 side. It shows. As shown in FIG. 9, the guide member 33 hangs down from the upper part of the temporary holding part 30 (projects downward from the ceiling) to the extent that it comes into contact with the paper surface of the upper edge part of the banknote N2 received from the gaming machine island transport path 5. Is provided. Further, the end of the guide member 33 is in front of the front end in the receiving direction of the banknote N1 stored in the temporary storage chamber 30b. In the present embodiment, it extends to approximately half from the first receiving port 31 side to the sending port 32 and terminates.

  The first receiving port 31 is arranged such that the height of the lower end of the inlet is higher by a predetermined length h than the bottom surface of the temporary storage chamber 30b. A plate-like protruding member 35 having a thickness corresponding to the difference in height is provided at the bottom of the receiving chamber 30a, and the bottom surface 30fa of the receiving chamber 30a is located in the temporary storage chamber 30b where the protruding member 35 exists. The height of the protruding member 35 is higher than the bottom surface 30fb. The end of the projecting member 35 is slightly closer to the first receiving port 31 than the end of the guide member 33 from the vicinity of the first receiving port 31 toward the outlet 32 (see FIG. 9). Further, the ceiling surface 39 of the temporary storage unit 30 (at least the ceiling surface of the receiving chamber 30a) has a slight downward slope from the terminal end of the guide member 33 toward the outlet 32 side.

  As shown in FIGS. 6, 7, and 8, the pressing unit 34 includes two pressing blades 36 a that extend in opposite directions with a shaft tangentially from the circumferential surface as a bill pressing means. Rotating bodies 36 are provided at two locations on the first receiving port 31 side and the sending port 32 side. Specifically, the rotating bodies 36 are provided in the middle of the region where the guide member 33 exists and in the middle of the region on the delivery port 32 side from the end of the guide member 33. By rotating the rotator 36 in the direction of arrow A by belt driving from a motor 25 (drive unit) described later, the pressure blade 36a presses the bill from the receiving chamber 30a side to the temporary storage chamber 30b side. The pressing blade 36a is made of an elastic resin film or the like.

  As shown in FIG. 7, in the side wall portion K on the temporary storage chamber 30 b side of the temporary storage portion 30, a position close to the first receiving port 31 serves as a receiving port for the banknote sent out from the retry conveyance path 16. Two receiving ports 37 are provided.

  As shown in FIG. 3 and the like, a pair of receiving rollers 21 having a cylindrical shape is disposed opposite to the first receiving port 31. The rotation of the motor 25 is transmitted to the receiving roller 21 via the upper transmission gear 23 and the upper motor gear 24. When the motor 25 rotates in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 3, the receiving roller 21 rotates in a direction to feed the banknote from the first receiving port 31 into the temporary storage unit 30.

  The delivery means 12 provided at the delivery port 32 includes a forward roller 12a that rotates in a direction (arrow C in FIG. 7) for feeding banknotes from the temporary storage chamber 30b of the temporary storage unit 30 to the common conveyance path 13, and the forward rotation. The reverse roller 12b rotates in the reverse direction of the roller 12a (arrow D in FIG. 7) and has a surface friction force smaller than that of the forward roller 12a. The reverse roller 12b is temporarily on the receiving chamber 30a side. It is arranged so as to face the storage chamber 30b.

  The forward roller 12a is formed in a cylindrical shape and is provided with gear-like teeth with an elastic member such as rubber on its peripheral surface so that the contact area with the bill and the frictional force are increased. On the other hand, the reverse roller 12b is formed in two upper and lower disks arranged so as to sandwich the gear-shaped teeth of the forward roller 12a from both sides. Is smaller than the forward roller 12a.

  When the number of bills reaching the delivery port 32 is one, the frictional force of the reverse rotation roller 12b is smaller than the frictional force of the forward rotation roller 12a. Therefore, this bill is sent out from the delivery port 32 by contact with the forward rotation roller 12a. . On the other hand, when the banknote which reached | attained the delivery port 32 overlaps, the banknote which is contacting the forward rotation roller 12a is sent out from the delivery port 32, and the banknote which is contacting the reverse rotation roller 12b is the temporary storage part 30. Is returned to the temporary storage chamber 30b. In this way, even when a plurality of banknotes are stacked, the sending means 12 sends out banknotes one by one from the outlet 32.

  A feeding belt 38 that conveys banknotes from the vicinity of the second receiving port 37 to the sending port 32 is provided on the side K of the temporary storage chamber 30b in which the second receiving port 37 is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 4 and the like, the rotational force of the upper transmission gear 23 is coaxially applied to the conveyance roller 13a of the common conveyance path 13 via the first electromagnetic clutch 26 and the first timing belt 27 provided in the coaxial lower portion. The driving force is transmitted from the shaft 23 a to each part of the common transport path 13 and the retry transport path 16 from the transport roller 13 a. Further, the rotational force of the upper transmission gear 23 is transmitted from the coaxial lower shaft 23a to the forward roller 12a via the second electromagnetic clutch 28 and the second timing belt 29 provided in the coaxial lower portion.

  As shown in FIG. 3, in the vicinity of the receiving roller 21, a receiving sensor 41 for detecting a banknote coming from the gaming machine island transport path 5 is attached. The temporary holding unit 30 is provided with a holding sensor 42 for detecting the banknote in the temporary holding unit 30, and a retry sensor 43 for detecting a banknote passing through the retry conveying path 16 is provided in the vicinity of the retry conveying path 16. It has been.

  The banknote storage apparatus 10 includes a control unit (not shown) mainly composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and a RAM (Random Access Memory). The detection information is input from the retry sensor 43, and the operations of the motor 25, the first electromagnetic clutch 26, the second electromagnetic clutch 28, the retry gate 18a, and the reject gate 18b are controlled based on the detection information and retry conditions described later. To do. The retry gate 18a and the reject gate 18b are each displaced by turning on / off the solenoids, and the control unit controls the on / off of these solenoids.

  Next, operation | movement of the banknote storage apparatus 10 is demonstrated.

  11 shows the transport route P1 when the banknote N received from the gaming machine island transport path 5 is stored in the storage section 15, and FIG. 12 shows the transport when the banknote N is returned to the temporary storage section 30 through the retry transport path 16. FIG. 13 shows the route P2, and FIG. 13 shows the transport route P3 when the banknote N is accommodated in the reject unit 17.

  First, the operation until the banknote from the gaming machine island transport path 5 is received by the temporary storage unit 30 will be described. When the banknote N transported through the gaming machine island transport path 5 is detected by the receiving sensor 41 (see FIG. 11), the motor 25 is started, and a pair of receiving rollers 21 are connected via the upper motor gear 24 and the upper transmission gear 23. And the feeding belt 38 are driven, and the pressing blade 36a is rotationally driven in the direction of arrow A (see FIG. 7).

  The banknote N that has arrived from the gaming machine island transport path 5 in a posture in which the short side is substantially vertical is sent from the first receiving port 31 into the receiving chamber 30a of the temporary storage unit 30 by a pair of rotating receiving rollers 21. As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the banknote N2 entering from the first receiving port 31 is supported at the lower end by the upper surface of the projecting member 35, and the paper surface on the temporary storage chamber 30b side of the upper edge portion is a guide member. 33 is received in the receiving chamber 30 a while being in contact with 33.

  At least until the leading edge of the banknote N2 passes the end of the guide member 33, the upper edge of the banknote N2 is in contact with the guide member 33 even if it is pressed toward the temporary storage chamber 30b by the pressing blade 36a. Advances in the receiving chamber 30a toward the back (outlet 32 side) without moving to the temporary storage chamber 30b side.

  When the leading edge of the banknote N2 advances further toward the delivery port 32 side than the end of the projecting member 35, the leading edge of the banknote N2 loses support from below by the projecting member 35, and the banknote N2 becomes closer to the delivery port 32. The tip end side is slightly inclined downward, and the projecting member 35 terminates in the middle of reaching the delivery port 32, and the ceiling 39 of the temporary holding portion 30 descends toward the delivery port 32 side behind the termination point. Since it inclines, the contact area of the paper surface of the upper edge part of the banknote N2 and the guide member 33 reduces gradually by this inclination.

  In addition, since the guide member 33 is terminated on the way to the delivery port 32, the banknote received from the gaming machine island transport path 5 becomes less involved with the guide member 33 as it proceeds to the back of the receiving chamber 30a. When the leading edge of the bill N2 advances from the end of the guide member 33 to the delivery port 32 and comes into contact with the pressing blade 36a on the delivery port 32 side, the leading end side of the bill N is pressed toward the temporary storage chamber 30b. The When the banknote N2 further advances toward the delivery port 32 and the rear end side of the banknote N2 passes through the receiving roller 21 and is almost entirely accommodated in the receiving chamber 30a, the support by the holding by the receiving roller 21 is lost, and The contact area between the guide member 33 and the upper edge of the bill N2 is further reduced by the lowering of the leading end side. Therefore, the bill N2 moves from the receiving chamber 30a to the temporary storage chamber 30b so as to dive under the guide member 33 while being bent by the pressing force of the pressing blade 36a on the first receiving port 31 side, as shown in FIG. Stored.

  That is, even if the rotary body 36 is always driven to apply a pressing force to the banknote, the drag due to the contact with the guide member 33 at the beginning of entering the receiving chamber 30a overcomes the pressing force and the banknote exceeds the guide member 33. Although it does not move to the temporary storage chamber 30b side, when the banknote advances to the back of the receiving chamber 30a, the pressing force is won and the banknote moves from the receiving chamber 30a to the temporary storage chamber 30b. When moving to the temporary storage chamber 30b, the banknote N2 (particularly the rear end side) falls by the weight of the step h corresponding to the thickness of the protruding member 35 and comes into contact with the bottom surface 30fb of the temporary storage chamber 30b. The posture of the banknote N is adjusted by this drop and contact. That is, the lower end of the first receiving port 31 is made higher than the bottom surface 30fb of the temporary storage chamber 30b, and a protruding member 35 having a difference thickness is provided at the bottom of the receiving chamber 30a, and the receiving chamber 30a is moved to the temporary storage chamber 30b. When the banknote is pressed and moved, the banknote drops the step of the protruding member 35, so that the posture of the banknote is adjusted by the impact at the time of dropping. As a result, the posture of the banknote is improved when it is sent out from the temporary storage chamber 30b and when it passes through the identification means 14, paper jamming in the common transport path 13 and the like is prevented, and the discrimination in the identification means 14 is improved. it can.

  Further, since the bill advances in the receiving chamber 30a with its upper end being in contact with the guide member 33, the upper edge of the stored bill N1 already stored in the temporary storage chamber 30b as shown in FIGS. Even if there is a part cut Ra, the newly received succeeding banknote N2 is not caught by the top part Ra of the stored banknote N1 due to the intervention of the guide member 33.

  Even if the stored banknote N1 has a lower edge Rb, the subsequent banknote N2 is higher than the stored banknote N1 by the thickness of the protruding member 35. It does not get caught in the cut Rb of the part.

  Further, since the pressing means for pressing the bill from the receiving chamber 30a to the temporary storage chamber 30b is constituted by the rotating body 36 and the pressing blade 36a that are rotated by belt driving from the motor 25, the pressing member 36a is moved along the guide member 33 to the receiving chamber 30a. The accepted banknote can be pressed from the receiving chamber 30a toward the temporary storage chamber 30b with a simple mechanism, and the configuration of the apparatus is simplified.

  For example, when the guide member 33 is extended from the first receiving port 31 to the end on the delivery port 32 side, the contact area between the bill and the guide member 33 increases as the depth of the receiving chamber 30a increases. Therefore, it is necessary to perform control such that a large pressing force is applied at that timing. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, such control is unnecessary, and as described above, it is only necessary to always rotate the rotating body 36 during receipt of a bill, and thus the configuration is simplified.

  Furthermore, by arranging the rotating body 36 on the banknote receiving side (the first receiving port 31 side), even a banknote that is folded and received can be extended by the pressing blade 36a. It is possible to prevent subsequent banknotes from the island transport path 5 from colliding with each other.

  Moreover, since the rotary body 36 is arranged on the banknote discharge side (outlet 32 side), the banknotes stored in the temporary storage chamber 30b can always be pressed by the pressing blades 36a toward the temporary storage chamber 30b. The banknote can be prevented from floating from the temporary storage chamber 30b to the receiving chamber 30a, and the banknote can be reliably discharged from the delivery port 32.

  When the banknote is received in the temporary storage unit 30 as described above, the banknote is detected by the storage sensor 42, and triggered by this detection, the first electromagnetic clutch 26 attached to the lower portion of the transport roller 13a is operated to transmit the upper part. The rotational force of the gear 23 is transmitted from the coaxial lower shaft 23a to the transport roller 13a via the first timing belt 27 at the lower part of the apparatus. Thereby, the common conveyance path 13 and the retry conveyance path 16 which convey a banknote to the identification means 14, the accommodating part 15, etc. are driven.

  Thereafter, the second electromagnetic clutch 28 attached to the lower portion of the forward roller 12a is operated, and the rotational force of the upper transmission gear 23 is increased from the coaxial lower shaft 23a via the second timing belt 29 at the lower portion of the apparatus. The forward roller 12a is transmitted to the forward roller 12a and the reverse roller 12b, and the forward roller 12a rotates in the direction in which the banknote is sent out from the temporary storage chamber 30b of the temporary storage unit 30, and the reverse roller 12b rotates in the opposite direction.

  The banknotes stored in the temporary storage chamber 30b of the temporary storage unit 30 come into contact with the rotating pressing blades 36a and are pressed toward the feeding belt 38, and are sent toward the delivery port 32 by the feeding belt 38. The banknotes that have reached the outlet 32 are separated one by one by the sending means 12 and sent to the common transport path 13.

  The banknotes sent to the common conveyance path 13 are identified as denominations when they pass through the identification means 14 (in this case, it is determined whether they are authentic or thousand-yen bills), and the denomination is successful. In that case, the retry gate 18a is controlled to advance the banknote toward the storage and conveyance path 15a to be stored in the storage unit 15 (P1 in FIG. 11).

  When the denomination cannot be identified, the retry gate 18a is controlled so that the banknote goes to the reject gate 18b. Further, it is determined whether or not a predetermined retry condition is satisfied. If the retry condition is satisfied, the reject gate 18b is controlled to advance the bill to the retry transport path 16. Thereby, the banknote is returned from the second receiving port 37 to the temporary storage chamber 30b of the temporary storage unit 30 through the retry conveyance path 16 (P2 in FIG. 12).

  On the other hand, when the denomination cannot be identified by the identification means 14 and the retry condition is not satisfied, the reject gate 18b is controlled so that the bill advances to the reject transport path 17a, and the bill is stored in the reject portion 17 (FIG. 13, P3).

As the retry condition, for example, one of the following can be selected.
(1) It is established when the number of banknotes detected by the retry sensor 43 per unit time is equal to or less than the set number, and is not established when the number exceeds the set number.
(2) It is established if the bill passage interval detected by the retry sensor 43 is greater than or equal to the set interval, and is not established if the bill passage interval is less than the set interval.
(3) When the holding amount of the banknote in the temporary holding unit 30 is detected by the holding sensor 42 and the detected holding amount is equal to or smaller than the set number, the retry condition is satisfied, and the detected holding amount exceeds the set number Is not established.
It should be noted that which is set as the retry condition, and the set number of sheets and the setting interval in each condition can be changed from an operation unit (not shown).

  In this way, when the retry condition is established for the banknote whose denomination has not been identified, the banknote is returned to the temporary storage chamber 30b of the temporary storage unit 30 through the retry conveyance path 16, so that the banknote is again passed through the identification means 14 and denominated. The ratio of banknotes whose types of money are finally identified increases, the number of banknotes stored in the reject unit 17 decreases, and the capacity of the reject unit 17 can be reduced.

  Further, when the retry condition is not satisfied, the bill is stored in the reject unit 17, so that a banknote whose denomination cannot be identified never circulates in the banknote storage device 10 and is sent from the gaming machine island transport path 5. It is possible to prevent the other banknotes from being obstructed or that many banknotes are transported to the retry transport path 16 and cause transport troubles.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to that shown in the embodiment, and there are changes and additions within the scope of the present invention. Are also included in the present invention.

  For example, in the embodiment, the banknote is transported in the long side direction with the short side of the banknote standing, but the banknote may be transported horizontally or transported in an inclined state. Further, in the embodiment, the guide member 33 is provided only on the upper portion of the temporary storage unit 30. However, the guide member 33 may be provided corresponding to each of the upper edge portion and the lower edge portion of the bill. For example, in the case of horizontal conveyance, the guide member 33 may be configured to be provided on both edges parallel to the bill receiving direction. Further, in the case of horizontal conveyance, if the upper side of the guide member 33 is the receiving chamber 30a and the lower side is the temporary storage chamber 30b, it is preferable that the bills stored in the temporary storage chamber 30b are difficult to return to the receiving chamber 30a due to their own weight.

  The protruding amount of the guide member 33 (contact amount with the banknote), the length along the receiving direction, the height and length of the protruding member 35 are not limited to those exemplified in the embodiment, and may be set appropriately. Good. For example, in the embodiment, the guide member 33 is terminated halfway from the first receiving port 31 to the sending / receiving port 32, but the guide member 33 may be provided over the entire length. In this case, the timing of the operation of the pressing means may be controlled so that the bill is pressed from the temporary storage chamber 30b toward the receiving chamber 30a after the bill is conveyed to the back of the receiving chamber 30a.

  Moreover, although the gaming machine island 2 having the gaming medium rental machine 4 on the front and back surfaces is illustrated, the gaming machine island 2 in which the gaming medium rental machine 4 and the gaming machine 3 are disposed only on one surface is also included in the present invention. The bill storage device 10 is applied.

  In addition, in the embodiment, the gaming machine island 2 on which the pachinko machine is installed is illustrated, but the type of gaming machine is not limited to this, and a slot machine or the like may be used.

It is a front view which shows the internal structure of the game machine island in which the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention was installed. It is a top view which shows the arrangement | positioning state in the game machine island of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention, and its related apparatus. It is a top view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a left view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a top view which simplifies and shows the internal structure of a banknote storage apparatus. It is a top view which expands and shows a temporary storage part. It is a top view which shows the internal structure of the banknote storage apparatus of the state which open | released the press unit. It is explanatory drawing which shows a mode that the temporary storage part of the state which open | released the press unit was seen from the press unit side. It is explanatory drawing which shows the state which looked at the inside of the temporary storage part from the delivery port side, and has a subsequent banknote in a receiving chamber. It is explanatory drawing which shows a conveyance route in case a banknote is accommodated in a storage part in the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows a conveyance route in case a banknote is returned to a temporary storage part through a retry conveyance path in the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the conveyance route in case a banknote is accommodated in a rejection part in the banknote storage apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the state which looked at the inside of the temporary storage part from the delivery port side, and the subsequent banknote moved to the temporary storage chamber.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 ... Game machine island 3 ... Game machine 4 ... Game medium rental machine 4a ... Banknote insertion slot 5 ... Game machine island conveyance path 10 ... Banknote storage apparatus 12 ... Sending means 12a ... Forward rotation roller 12b ... Reverse rotation roller 13 ... Common conveyance path 13a ... Conveying roller 14 ... Identification means 15 ... Storage unit 15a ... Storage conveying path 16 ... Retry conveying path 17 ... Rejecting part 17a ... Reject conveying path 18a ... Retry gate 18b ... Reject gate 21 ... Receiving roller 23 ... Upper transmission gear 23a ... Lower shaft 24 ... Upper motor gear 25 ... Motor 26 ... First electromagnetic clutch 27 ... First timing belt 28 ... Second electromagnetic clutch 29 ... Second timing belt 30 ... Temporary storage 30a ... Receiving chamber 30b ... Temporary storage chamber 30fa ... Receiving Bottom of chamber (upper surface of protruding member)
30fb: Bottom surface of temporary storage chamber 31 ... First receiving port 32 ... Delivery port 33 ... Guide member 34 ... Pressing unit 34a ... Opening / closing shaft 35 ... Projecting member 36 ... Rotating body 36a ... Pressing blade 37 ... Second receiving port 38 ... Feed belt 39 ... Ceiling surface of temporary holding section 41 ... Receiving sensor 42 ... Holding sensor 43 ... Retry sensor A ... Rotating direction of pressing blade B ... Motor rotating direction C ... Rotating direction of forward roller D ... Rotating direction of reverse roller F: Acceptance direction of banknotes h: Height between the lower end of the first receiving port and the bottom surface of the temporary storage chamber K ... Side wall portion on the temporary storage chamber side N ... Banknote N1 ... Stored banknotes N2 ... Subsequent banknotes P1, P2, P3 ... Conveyance route Ra ... upper edge cut Rb ... lower edge cut

Claims (4)

After once put accepted banknotes fed out from the gaming machine island conveying path for conveying a bill along the longitudinal direction of the game machine island escrow unit, bill accommodating device for accommodating the housing part turned out from the escrow unit In
A guide member protruding inward of the temporary holding portion is provided along the receiving direction so as to come into contact with the paper surface of the edge parallel to the receiving direction of the bills received from the gaming machine island conveyance path, and the guide member is Dividing the temporary holding section into a reception room and a temporary storage room
A bank which is always driven and includes a rotating body, a driving unit for rotating the rotating body, and a pressing blade extending from a peripheral surface of the rotating body, and received in the receiving chamber is transferred from the receiving chamber to the temporary storage chamber. A pressing means for pressing with the pressing blade toward ,
The guide member terminates in the middle of the temporary holding part,
The banknote received in the receiving chamber along the guide member from the gaming machine island conveyance path, when the banknote travels to the back of the receiving chamber, the resistance due to the contact between the guide member and the edge of the banknote When the pressing force by the pressing means is won, it is moved to the temporary storage chamber and stored,
A bill storage device, wherein bills are sent out from the temporary storage chamber toward the storage unit. With the long side of the banknote in the receiving direction, the banknote is received from one end of the temporary holding section, and sent out from the other end,
The banknote storage device according to claim 1, wherein the pressing means is provided on the one end side and the other end side from the end of the guide member in the temporary storage section. While accepting banknotes in landscape orientation ,
The guide member is provided so as to hang from the upper part of the temporary holding part,
The entrance of the banknote into the receiving chamber is arranged with a step so that its lower end is higher than the bottom surface of the temporary storage chamber ,
The banknote storage device according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the banknote is adjusted so that the banknote is dropped when the banknote moves from the receiving chamber to the temporary storage chamber . The bill storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein a contact area between the bill and the guide member decreases when the bill advances to the back of the receiving chamber.

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