JP5157939B2 - Banknote handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote processing apparatus installed in a financial institution or the like, and particularly to a technique for removing a piece of paper from a conveyance path when a part of a banknote is torn during conveyance.

A conventional banknote processing apparatus has a conveyance path for nipping and conveying a banknote between an upper conveyance belt and a lower conveyance belt, and switching a plurality of blades provided in the conveyance path to change the banknote into a banknote processing apparatus. When a jam occurs, the transport direction is switched so that the jammed banknote causing the jam is transported to the reject safe (for example, see Patent Document 1). .
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-135598 (paragraph “0032” -paragraph “0034”, FIG. 4)

  However, in the above-described conventional technology, when a bill is torn during conveyance and the torn paper piece remains in the conveyance path, the paper piece causes a conveyance jam. For this reason, the staff who perform maintenance work on the banknote handling apparatus had to find and remove the torn paper pieces from the transport path, but it takes time to find the paper pieces in the transport path. There is a problem that work efficiency must be lowered because it must be stopped for a long time.

  An object of the present invention is to provide means for solving the above problems.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a conveyance path including a conveyance belt that conveys banknotes and a guide that supports a portion of the banknotes not supported by the conveyance belt from below, and a drop hole is formed in the guide. When the paper piece stacking portion is arranged below the dropping hole and a part of the banknote is torn during transportation and the paper piece is on the guide, the paper piece is dropped by contact with the banknote being transported. By moving to the hole, the piece of paper is dropped into the dropping hole and accumulated in the piece collecting unit.

  Thereby, even if a bill is torn during conveyance and the torn piece of paper remains in the conveyance path, the present invention pushes it into the falling hole previously by the following bill and collects it in the paper piece stacking unit arranged below. Thus, there is an effect that a piece of paper does not remain on the conveyance path. Further, since the paper pieces can be accumulated in the paper piece accumulating section, it is possible for the staff to easily collect the paper pieces.

Schematic block diagram which shows the banknote processing apparatus of Example 1. Schematic illustration showing the transport path Explanatory drawing which shows the conveyance path in which the paper piece collection hole was provided

  Below, with reference to drawings, the example of the bill processing device by the present invention is described.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a banknote handling apparatus according to a first embodiment.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a banknote processing apparatus, which includes a display unit such as a liquid crystal display and an operation unit such as a touch panel disposed on the display unit in a customer service unit on the front surface of the housing.
Reference numeral 2 denotes a bill depositing / dispensing unit, which has a storage space for accumulating and storing bills, and accepts bills inserted into a bill insertion slot (not shown) provided in the housing of the bill processing apparatus 1. Store.

The bill deposit / withdrawal unit 2 is provided with a bill press in the storage space, and is provided with a feeding roller arranged so that a part protrudes into the storage space, so that the bill press and the feeding roller have a separation mechanism. It has a function of feeding bills to the conveyance path by pressing the bills stored and pressed against the feeding roller by a bill press and rotating the feeding roller.
Furthermore, the banknote depositing / withdrawing unit 2 is a return target of a rejected banknote identified by the banknote discriminating unit 4 which will be described later at the time of deposit transaction or a banknote being fed to the transport path 3 when a transport error occurs. By accumulating banknotes in the storage space, it also functions as a return unit that returns banknotes to the customer.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a conveyance path, which conveys the banknotes fed from the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 2 to each part of the banknote handling apparatus 1, and has a plurality of blades (not shown) provided in the middle thereof. The direction is changed.
Here, FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory view showing a conveyance path.
As shown in FIG. 2, the transport path 3 is provided with end guides 3 a that support the lower surface of the end of the bill at positions corresponding to both ends of the bill, and a central guide 3 b that supports the central portion of the lower surface of the bill, and a central guide. The lower surface belt 12 is disposed on both sides of the 3b and between the central guide 3b and the end guide 3a and is in contact with the lower surface of the banknote, and the upper surface belt 13 is opposed to the lower surface belt 12 and is in contact with the upper surface of the banknote.

The width of the end guide 3a is a length that supports a range of about one fifth of the banknote width from the end of the banknote, and the width of the central guide 3b is about one fifth of the banknote width in the central part of the banknote. The length supports the range.
Reference numeral 4 denotes a bill discriminating unit that has a function of discriminating the authenticity, correctness, denomination, etc. of the bills being conveyed and counting the number of bills discriminated.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a temporary storage unit that temporarily stores the banknotes identified by the banknote discrimination unit 4.
Reference numerals 7a to 7c denote stacking units, which are provided in the housing and arranged in a horizontal row, and each stacks a predetermined number of banknotes of predetermined denominations. In the present embodiment, the number is three, but it is needless to say that the number is not limited thereto.
Reference numeral 8 denotes a reject stacker, which accumulates the banknotes fed out and conveyed from the stacking units 7a to 7c in the withdrawal transaction and discriminated from the reject banknotes by the banknote discriminating unit 4.

Here, FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a conveyance path provided with paper piece collecting holes.
Note that the conveyance path in FIG. 3 is a state in which the upper surface belt 12 is omitted in order to show the drop hole 10a of the paper piece dropping unit 10.
In FIG. 3, reference numeral 10 denotes a paper piece dropping portion, which is configured by arranging a drop hole 10 a in the end guide 3 a and the center guide 3 b in the transport path 3, and the drop hole 10 a arranged in the end guide 3 a and the center guide 3 b is They are arranged in a line in the width direction of the transport path 3.

The drop hole 10a is assumed to be large enough to drop a piece of paper money (to be referred to as a piece of paper) that has been torn during conveyance.
The end of the drop hole 10a has an inclined surface that is inclined downward, and when the end of the bill passes over the drop hole 10a in this way, the corner of the bill becomes the drop hole 10a. This prevents the banknote from being caught by being caught at the edge of the banknote.

The paper piece dropping unit 10 is located in the vicinity of the banknote discriminating unit 4 on the upstream side in the banknote transport direction at the time of deposit transaction, and in the vicinity of the banknote discriminating unit 4 on the downstream side in the transport direction, and further on the banknote in the deposit transaction. A total of three places are provided between the banknote discrimination section 4 and the banknote deposit / withdrawal section 2 in the transport route when the banknote is returned from the discrimination result of the discrimination section 4.
Reference numeral 15 denotes a paper piece stacking unit, which is a single tray having a size extending below each drop hole 10a of the banknote drop unit 10 provided in the end guide 3a and the center guide 3b and arranged in a horizontal row. The paper pieces dropped from 10a are received and accumulated.

The paper piece stacking unit 15 is configured to be able to be pulled out from a state in which a door (not shown) for opening the inside of the banknote handling apparatus 1 is opened, and the paper pieces accumulated therein are taken out by being pulled out.
About the effect | action of the structure mentioned above, the case where a payment transaction is performed is demonstrated to an example.
When a customer who has visited a financial institution store to perform a deposit transaction presses a deposit transaction key from the transaction selection screen displayed on the display unit of the banknote processing device 1, the display unit of the banknote processing device 1 displays the customer's key. A screen prompting you to insert a passbook or magnetic card is displayed.

When a customer inserts a bankbook into a banknote insertion slot (not shown) of the banknote processing apparatus 1 or inserts a magnetic card into the card insertion slot, a screen prompting the banknote depositing / dispensing section 2 to insert a banknote on the display section of the banknote processing apparatus 1 Is displayed, and the customer inserts the bill according to the screen.
Thus, when a banknote is thrown into the banknote depositing / withdrawing part 2, the banknote processing apparatus 1 isolate | separates and feeds the thrown banknote one by one with a separation mechanism.

  The fed banknote is transported to the banknote discriminating section 4 by the transport path 3, and the banknote discriminating section 4 discriminates the authenticity and denomination of the banknote. Then, while accumulating in the temporary storage part 6, the banknote discriminating part 4 counts the number of banknotes for each denomination, and stores the counted banknotes in a storage means such as a memory (not shown). I will remember it.

After all the inserted banknotes are identified, the amount based on the stored number of banknotes for each denomination is displayed on the display unit of the banknote processing apparatus 1 and when the customer confirms the amount, The banknotes in the storage unit 6 are fed out and conveyed to the stacking units 7a to 7c corresponding to the denominations of the banknotes and stacked.
In addition, about the banknote discriminated with the reject banknote in the banknote discrimination part 4, a conveyance direction is switched to the conveyance route for banknote return with the blade which is not shown in the conveyance path 3, and a rejection banknote is conveyed to the banknote depositing / withdrawing part 2. However, the bills are accumulated in the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 2 and returned to the customer.

Here, the removal of a piece of paper when a specific part is weak and easily broken due to a crease or the like of the bill, and the bill is broken during the conveyance and the corner portion is separated as a piece of paper will be described.
When the banknotes sandwiched between the lower surface belt 12 and the upper surface belt 13 are torn at the corners due to friction with the end guide 3a or the like during transport, the torn paper pieces are placed on the end guides of the transport path 3. The other main part of the banknote is conveyed to the banknote discrimination unit 4 as it is.

Here, the banknotes whose corners are torn are identified as rejected banknotes by the banknote discriminating section 4 because they are defective, and are transported to the banknote depositing / dispensing section 2 through a transport route for returning banknotes.
On the other hand, the paper piece remaining in the transport path 3 is pushed toward the banknote discriminating section 4 ahead of the banknote along the transport direction by the subsequent banknote being transported or under the subsequent banknote being transported. By contact with a subsequent bill such as by entering, it moves to a drop hole 10a provided on the upstream side of the bill discriminating section 4, falls from the drop hole 10a, and accumulates on the paper piece stacking portion 15 below the drop hole 10a.

In this way, even if the banknote is torn in the middle of the transport path 3, the paper piece is carried to the drop hole 10a by the transported banknote, and falls from the drop hole 10a to the paper piece stacking portion 15 disposed below. Accumulate.
Moreover, it is a case where the foreign material is thrown in with the banknote at the time of insertion of a banknote, Comprising: The foreign material remains in the state with which the foreign material was drawn out to the conveyance path 3 with the banknote, and was mounted in the center guide 3b of the conveyance path 3. The subsequent banknotes fed from the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit 2 hit the foreign matter.

Then, as the banknote hitting the foreign object is further transported, the foreign object is pushed out toward the previous banknote discriminating section 4, and when the foreign object advances, the banknote discriminating section 4 is more upstream in the banknote transport direction. The foreign matter falls into the dropping hole 10a of the arranged paper piece dropping unit 10 and accumulates in the paper piece collecting unit 15 below the falling hole 10a.
In the withdrawal transaction, banknotes to be withdrawn to the customer are fed from the stacking units 7 a to 7 c and conveyed to the banknote depositing / withdrawing unit 2 via the banknote discrimination unit 4. If the banknotes are torn in front and the paper pieces remain on the end guide 3a, the remaining banknotes are pushed out by the subsequent banknotes, and are disposed upstream of the banknote discrimination unit 4 in the banknote transport direction in the withdrawal transaction. The paper piece can be dropped into the drop hole 10a of the paper piece dropping unit 10 (the paper piece dropping unit 10 disposed on the right side of the banknote discrimination unit 4 in FIG. 1).

  As described above, the paper piece of the banknote that was torn during conveyance by providing a plurality of paper piece dropping parts by drop holes provided in the end guide that supports both ends of the banknote and the central guide that supports the central part of the banknote Even if the paper remains in the transport path, the paper piece can be moved to the drop hole by contact with the subsequent banknote, dropped into the drop hole and accumulated in the paper piece stacking unit, and the paper piece can be removed from the transport path. It is possible to eliminate the occurrence of a paper jam due to a paper piece remaining on the path.

In addition, in the said Example, a paper piece fall part is provided in the conveyance path between the banknote discrimination part and banknote depositing / withdrawing part in the conveyance route which returns a banknote from the upstream and downstream of a banknote conveyance direction rather than a banknote discrimination part. However, the number is not limited to three and may be any number.
Moreover, in the said Example, when a paper piece remained in an edge part guide, it demonstrated as a following banknote being conveyed and pushed out to a paper piece fall part by the banknote, but when a subsequent banknote does not come In this case, since the paper pieces are not dropped on the paper piece collecting portion, the paper pieces remain in the conveyance path. Therefore, in such a case, a staff member performs an operation for collecting a piece of paper, and by inserting a patrol ticket into the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit, the banknote is returned from the banknote deposit / withdrawal unit via the banknote discrimination unit. The patrol ticket may be transported one round so as to return to the banknote depositing / withdrawing part by the route, and a piece of paper in the middle may be dropped into the dropping hole.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Banknote processing apparatus 2 Banknote depositing / withdrawing part 3 Conveyance path 3a End part guide 3b Center guide 4 Banknote discrimination part 6 Temporary storage part 7a-7c Stacking part 8 Reject stacker 10 Paper piece dropping part 10a Falling hole 12 Lower surface belt 13 Upper surface belt 15 Paper piece Accumulation unit

Claims (4)

A conveyance path comprising a conveyance belt that conveys banknotes and a guide that supports a portion of the banknotes not supported by the conveyance belt from below;
While providing a drop hole in the guide, a paper piece stacking portion is arranged below the drop hole,
When a part of a bill is torn during conveyance and the piece of paper is on the guide, the piece of paper is dropped into the drop hole by moving the piece of paper to the drop hole by contact with the bill being conveyed. A banknote processing apparatus for stacking in a sheet stacking unit The banknote processing apparatus according to claim 1,
A discrimination part is provided to distinguish banknotes,
The banknote processing apparatus, wherein the drop hole is provided on the upstream side and the downstream side in the banknote transport direction with respect to the discrimination unit. In the bill processing device according to claim 1 or 2,
The guide consists of an end guide that supports the end of the bill and a center guide that supports the center of the bill,
The banknote processing device, wherein the drop hole is provided so as to be aligned with the end guide and the center guide. In the bill processing apparatus according to claim 3,
The paper piece stacking unit is a single tray that can be pulled out to the outside, and is arranged so as to cover the lower side of each drop hole that is provided in the end guide and the central guide and arranged in a row. The banknote processing apparatus characterized by doing.

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