JP5187162B2 - Media binding device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medium binding device that binds a medium such as a predetermined number of banknotes counted by a cash processor or the like with a tape.

  Banks and other financial institutions have large cash processing machines called cashiers, which handle cash deposits and withdrawals by operating financial institution staff. It has a medium bundling device, such as a bill bundling device, for bundling a predetermined number of banknotes for each denomination with a tape.

As a conventional banknote bundling device, a tape, which is a paper belt fed from the storage unit by rotation of a drive roller, is held by a catch, and the transport means for transporting the banknote bundle by catching the held tape is blocked. After pulling upward, the tip of the tape that has been pulled up is folded downward along the rear end surface of the banknote bundle by moving the upper spoon downward, and then the tape folded downward is further moved by the horizontal movement of the lower spoon. The tape was wrapped around the banknote bundle by folding along the bottom surface of the bundle, and the tape was loosened by reversing the drive roller, and the tape was cut with a cutter to heat-bond both ends of the tape. A technique has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2000-190913 A

  However, in the above-described conventional technology, precise operation control is required to securely hold the tape fed out from the storage portion with a catch that is a small component, and a plurality of members such as a catch, an upper spoon, and a lower spoon Since the tape winding operation is shared, the number of parts increases, and the apparatus becomes complicated and expensive.

  Therefore, the present invention sandwiches a tape supply means for supplying a tape and a tip of the tape supplied from the tape supply means in a medium bundling device for winding and bundling the tape around the outer periphery of a plurality of standard media. A tape winding means having a pair of clamping members, and a support plate is erected at each base portion of the pair of clamping members, and the center portion of the support plate of the first clamping member is fixed to the support shaft; The center portion of the support plate of the second clamping member is rotatably attached to the support shaft, and the second clamping member is urged by a spring so as to be in close contact with the first clamping member, and the second clamping member A protrusion is formed on the support plate, a stopper corresponding to the protrusion is disposed, a first squeezing portion is provided in the vicinity of the center of the first or second clamping member, and the first squeezing is performed on the other clamping member. A second squeezing part is provided so as to sandwich the part In a state where the protrusion and the stopper are engaged, the first holding member is rotated together with the support shaft by the rotating means to open both the holding members, and the leading end portion of the tape supplied from the tape supply means is When entering between the holding members, the rotating means rotates the first holding member in the reverse direction together with the support shaft, thereby closing both the holding members and attaching the tape to the tape by the first and second holding portions. The tape is sandwiched and the tape is wound around the outer periphery of the medium.

  The present invention thus configured includes a tape supply means for supplying a tape, and a tape winding means having a pair of holding members for holding the tip of the tape supplied from the tape supply means. A support plate is formed upright at each base, the center portion of the support plate of the first clamping member is fixed to the support shaft, and the center portion of the support plate of the second clamping member is rotatably attached to the support shaft. The second clamping member is biased by a spring so as to be in close contact with the first clamping member, and a protrusion is formed on the support plate of the second clamping member, and a stopper corresponding to the protrusion is disposed. A first squeezing part is provided near both ends of the first or second clamping member, and a second squeezing part is provided on the other clamping member so as to sandwich the first squeezing part. Aligned with the support shaft by the rotating means When both the clamping members are opened by rotating the first clamping member and the leading end portion of the tape supplied from the tape supply means enters between the both clamping members, the first clamping member together with the support shaft is rotated by the rotating means. Since both the clamping members are closed by rotating the members in the opposite direction, the tape is clamped by the first and second squeezing portions, and the tape is wound around the outer periphery of the medium. Thus, an inexpensive medium bundling device with a simple configuration can be realized, and the tape can be stably clamped without sliding.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a medium binding device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following description of embodiments, banknote bundling in a general cash processor will be described as an example.

(Constitution)
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a cash processor provided with a medium binding device. As shown in the figure, the cash processing machine 100 includes a display operation unit 22 for performing operations such as authentication and designation of transaction type, a recognition unit 23 for recognizing banknotes deposited from the depositing unit 24, and a recognized banknote. As shown in the figure, a bundle collecting unit 25 that is reversed and collected by the front / back reversing unit 21 as appropriate, a bundle carrier unit 20 that conveys the accumulated bundles to the banding unit 26, and a banding unit 26 that performs the banding process on the conveyed bundles. Arranged and deposited banknotes are bundled with a desired number of banknotes by a customer's operation and band-wrapped, and discharged from a dispensing port disposed on the depth side of the band-sealing portion 26 (not shown).

  2 is a schematic side view of the medium bundling device, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a tape winding means in the medium bundling device of Example 1, FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 3, and FIG. It is a side view of the brazing part of a means.

  In FIG. 2, 1 is a roll of a tape 2 made of paper or the like, and this roll 1 is placed so that its diameter direction is horizontal.

  3a to 3c are tape supply rollers (tape supply means) arranged along the feeding path of the tape 2, and the tape 2 drawn out from the roll 1 is guided upward by a guide (not shown) so that the tape surface becomes horizontal. Is held between the tape supply rollers 3a and 3b, and is supplied obliquely upward between the tape supply rollers 3b and 3c.

  4 is a printing unit (printing means) provided to print on the tape 2 between the tape supply rollers 3a and 3b, 5 is a guide roller for guiding the tape to a tape winding means described later, and 6 is a tape supply roller 3a. A cutter (cutting means) arranged so as to cut the tape 2 between the guide roller 5 and a guide roller 5, and a heater (welding means) 7 for welding glue applied to the tape 2.

  Reference numeral 8 denotes a lower conveyor belt, and 9 denotes an upper conveyor belt, which are supported by a plurality of rollers, respectively, and are arranged along a banknote bundle conveyance path to be described later.

  The lower conveyance belt 8 and the upper conveyance belt 9 constitute conveyance means for nipping and conveying the banknote bundle, and the upper conveyance belt 9 can be rotated up and down around the roller 10 by a rotation means (not shown). ing.

  Reference numeral 11 denotes a tape winding means for pinching the leading end of the tape 2 and winding it on a banknote bundle. The tape winding means 11 is arranged on one upstream side of the conveying means composed of the lower conveying belt 8 and the upper conveying belt 9, and a heater 7 is provided below the conveying means. It is provided to move in a predetermined direction.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the tape winding means 11 is composed of clamping members 12 and 13, and disk-like support plates 12a and 13a stand up at substantially right angles at the bases of the clamping members 12 and 13, respectively. It is formed as follows. Further, as shown in FIGS. 3, 4 and 5, a clamping part 31 c is provided in the vicinity of the center of the clamping member 12, and the clamping part 31 c is sandwiched between one clamping member 13. In addition, the squeezing portions 31a and 31b are provided.

  A mounting hole is provided at the center of the support plates 12a and 13a. The support plate 12a is fixed to the support shaft 14 by fitting the mounting hole with the support shaft 14, while the support plate 13a is fixed to the mounting hole. And is urged in the direction of arrow A by a torsion spring (not shown).

  As a result, the clamping member 13 is in close contact with the clamping member 12, and the supporting shaft 14 is rotated by a rotating means (not shown) such as a motor or a gear in this state, so that the clamping members 12 and 13 are centered on the supporting shaft 14. It rotates in the directions of arrows A and B.

  Further, the support shaft 14 is inserted into a support hole provided in a frame (not shown), and can be moved in the front-rear direction as indicated by arrows C and D by a not-shown back-and-forth movement means such as a motor, a gear, or a solenoid. The sandwiching members 12 and 13 are also moved in the directions of arrows C and D together with the support shaft 14.

  Further, a protrusion 13b is provided at a predetermined position on the outer peripheral portion of the support plate 13a of the holding member 13, and a stopper 15 corresponding to the protrusion 13b is formed so as to protrude from the frame. The projection 13b does not engage with the stopper 15 when moved together with the support shaft 14 in the direction of the arrow C, and the projection 13b does not engage with the stopper 15 when the clamping members 12 and 13 are moved together with the support shaft 14 in the direction of the arrow D and rotated. 13 b is engaged with the stopper 15.

  Then, when the support shaft 14 is rotated by a rotating means (not shown) with the protrusion 13b of the holding member 13 engaged with the stopper 15, only the holding member 12 rotates in the directions of arrows A and B together with the support shaft 14, Thereby, the clamping member 12 opens and closes with respect to the clamping member 13.

  Returning to FIG. 2 again, the tape winding means 11 having such a configuration is arranged so that the holding members 12 and 13 do not interfere with the lower conveying belt 8 and the upper conveying belt 9, and the lower conveying belt 8 and the upper conveying belt 9 are arranged. The position on the lower side (one side) of the banknote bundle conveyed by the belt 9 is set as the initial position.

(Operation)
With the above configuration, the medium binding device according to the first exemplary embodiment operates as follows. This operation is illustrated in FIG. 6 as an example of tape staking, a side view showing the operation of the medium bundling device of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 7, and a perspective view showing the opening and closing process of the tape winding means 11 shown in FIG. 9 is a side view of the tape winding means 11 in FIG. 9 during the reversing operation, a perspective view of the tape winding means 11 in FIG. 10 in an inverted state, the side view of FIG. 11 in the tape winding operation, and the tape of FIG. A side view showing a tape winding process by the winding means 11, a side view at the end of tape winding in FIG. 13, and a side view showing a state at the time of tape welding in FIG. 14 will be described below.

  The operation of each unit described below is controlled by a control unit (not shown) based on a control program such as software stored in a storage unit (not shown).

  First, as shown in FIG. 7, in a state where the tape 2 drawn from the roll 1 is sandwiched between the tape supply rollers 3 a to 3 c and the tip of the tape 2 is stopped at the cutting position by the cutter 6, The tape 2 is supplied along the feed path by the rotation of 3c.

  Along with this tape supply, the date, the name of the branch where the cash processor is installed, and the like are printed on the tape 2 by the printing unit 4 between the tape supply rollers 3a and 3b.

  When the tape 2 is supplied, the leading end of the tape 2 is guided by a guide (not shown) and is sandwiched between the guide rollers 5. Further, the leading end of the tape 2 is rotated by the tape winding means 11 by the rotation of the guide roller 5. Sent to.

  At this time, the upper conveying belt 9 of the conveying means waits in a state where it is opened by rotating upward by a predetermined angle around the roller 10, and the tape winding means 11 has the holding members 12 and 13 as shown in FIG. As shown to a), it is waiting in the initial position in the opened state.

  Next, the operation of opening the clamping members 12 and 13 will be described. Now, the holding members 12 and 13 are moved together with the support shaft 14 in the direction of the arrow C shown in FIG. 3 by the forward and backward movement means (not shown), and then the support shaft 14 is moved in the direction of the arrow B shown in FIG. By rotating in the direction, the clamping members 12 and 13 are rotated in the arrow B direction, that is, in the clockwise direction.

  Then, the rotation of the support shaft 14 and the sandwiching members 12 and 13 is stopped at the position where the projection 13b of the sandwiching member 13 passes the stopper 15, and the sandwiching members 12 and 13 are moved together with the support shaft 14 in the direction of the arrow D by a not-shown back and forth movement means Then, when the holding members 12 and 13 are rotated together with the support shaft 14 in the direction of arrow A shown in FIG. 3, that is, in the counterclockwise direction by a rotating means (not shown), the protrusion 13 b of the holding member 13 abuts against the stopper 15. Engage.

  As a result, the rotation of the clamping member 13 is stopped, and only the clamping member 12 rotates in the direction of arrow A together with the support shaft 14, so that the clamping member 12 is separated from the clamping member 13 and the clamping members 12 and 13 are opened.

  When the leading end of the tape 2 enters between the sandwiching members 12 and 13 in this state, the sandwiching member 12 and 13 are rotated in the arrow B direction together with the support shaft 14 by a rotating means (not shown) so that the sandwiching members 12 and 13 are shown in FIG. And the tip of the tape 2 is clamped. At this time, the tape 2 is sandwiched between the squeezing portions 31 a and 31 b provided in the clamping member 13 and the squeezing member 31 c provided in the clamping member 12, and the strain as shown by the broken line portion in FIG. 6, the tape shape as shown in FIG. 6 is obtained, and the tape 2 sandwiched between the sandwiching members 12 and 13 is stably sandwiched without sliding.

  Subsequently, the holding members 12 and 13 are moved together with the support shaft 14 in the direction of arrow C shown in FIG. 3 by the back-and-forth movement means to remove the protrusion 13b of the holding member 13 from the stopper 15, and then the tape 2 is supplied by the tape supply rollers 3a to 3c. 9, the clamping members 12 and 13 are rotated approximately half a turn (about 180 degrees) in the direction of arrow B shown in FIG. 8B by a rotating means (not shown) around the support shaft 14. As shown in FIG. 10, the tape winding means 11 is traversed across the conveyance path of the banknote bundle 20 to extend the tape 2 so as to block the conveyance path of the banknote bundle 20, and the tape winding means 11 is moved up and down as shown in FIG. Invert.

  Then, when a banknote bundle 20 consisting of a plurality of banknotes stacked vertically by aligning the outer shape by means not shown is sent between the lower transport belt 8 and the upper transport belt 9 of the transport means by means not shown, The upper conveyor belt 9 rotates downward about the roller 10 to sandwich the banknote bundle 20 with the lower conveyor belt 8.

  Thereafter, the upper and lower transport belts 8 and 9 are driven and rotated by belt driving means (not shown), whereby the banknote bundle 20 is transported in the direction of the arrow X shown in FIG. The tape 2 is pushed by the surface, and the tape 2 is supplied by the rotation of the tape supply rollers 3a to 3c at this time, so that the tape 2 is pulled out so as to cover the top and bottom of the banknote bundle 20 as shown in FIG. The

  The transport belts 8 and 9 are stopped after transporting the banknote bundle 20 by a predetermined distance. At this time, the banknote bundle 20 is stopped by a position check sensor (not shown) provided near the stop position. It is controlled based on the time signal.

  Subsequently, while the tape 2 is being supplied by the rotation of the tape supply rollers 3a to 3c, the clamping members 12 and 13 are rotated halfway (180 degrees) in the direction of arrow B by the rotating means around the support shaft 14, whereby the tape As shown in FIG. 12A, the winding means 11 moves from the upper rear end of the banknote bundle 20 across the transport path so as to wrap around the lower end of the banknote bundle 20 as shown in FIG. 12B. Then, the tape winding means 11 is turned upside down again while returning to the initial position.

  By this operation, the rear end of the banknote bundle 20 is enclosed by the tape 2, and then the upper and lower conveying belts 8 and 9 are reversed by belt driving means (not shown) while feeding the tape 2 by the rotation of the tape supply rollers 3a to 3c. Driven to rotate.

  Since the banknote bundle 20 is conveyed in the reverse direction, the tape 2 is wound around the banknote bundle 20 as shown in FIG. The two ends are cut into overlapping lengths, and further, as shown in FIG. 14, the heater 7 is operated by heater driving means (not shown) to press the overlapping portion of the tape 2 from below as indicated by the arrow E. The applied paste is thermally welded to bond the overlapping portions of the tape 2.

  After the banknote bundle 20 is bundled with the tape 2 in this way, the clamping member 12 is moved slightly in the direction of the arrow A shown in FIG. The tape winding means 11 is moved in the direction of arrow C shown in FIG. At this time, it is more preferable that the tape 2 is chamfered so as not to be caught by the squeezing portion 31c, or a mechanism (not shown) or the like is provided to move the holding member 12 downward.

  And the conveyance belts 8 and 9 are driven by a belt drive means, the banknote bundle 20 is conveyed, and it discharges | emits from the discharge port which is not shown in figure.

  In the above description, the example in which the squeezing parts 31a to 31c are arranged as shown in FIG. 4 is shown. However, as shown in FIG. 15, the squeezing part 31d is provided near the center of the clamping member 13, and the clamping member is provided. It is good also as a structure which equips 12 with the said attaching parts 31e and 31f so that the said attaching part 31d may be pinched | interposed.

  In the case of the above configuration, as shown in FIG. 16, the strain is formed in the direction opposite to the direction of the tape 2 shown in FIG. 5, and is sandwiched between the sandwiching members 12 and 13. The tape 2 is stably held without sliding.

(Effect of Example 1)
According to the medium bundling device of the first embodiment described above, the tape supply means for supplying the tape, and the tape winding means having a pair of clamping members for clamping the leading end portion of the tape supplied from the tape supply means, A support plate is erected and formed at the base of each of the pair of sandwiching members, the center of the support plate of the first sandwiching member is fixed to the support shaft, and the center of the support plate of the second sandwiching member is supported by the support The shaft is rotatably attached to the shaft, and is biased by a spring so that the second clamping member is in close contact with the first clamping member, and a projection is formed on the support plate of the second clamping member. A corresponding stopper is disposed, the first or second clamping member is provided with a first squeezing part in the vicinity of both ends, and the other squeezing member is provided with a second squeezing part so as to sandwich the first squeezing part, Rotating means with the projection and stopper engaged When both the holding members are opened by rotating the first holding member together with the support shaft, and the leading end of the tape supplied from the tape supply means enters between the both holding members, the rotating means and the support shaft together. By rotating the first clamping member in the opposite direction, both the clamping members are closed, the tape is clamped by the first and second squeezing portions, and the tape is clamped on the outer periphery of the medium. Since it is wound, it is possible to realize an inexpensive medium bundling device with a simple configuration, and furthermore, it is possible to stably hold the tape without sliding.

(Constitution)
In the medium bundling device of the second embodiment, as shown in the perspective view of the tape winding means in FIG. 17, the enlarged view around the holding member in FIG. 18, and the side view of the tape winding means in FIG. Such a tape winding means 11 is not provided with a squeezing part 31c provided in the clamping member 12, and chamfers 31x, 31y are provided at end portions on the center side of the staking parts 31a, 31b provided in the clamping member 13. Are provided respectively. Since other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, detailed description thereof is omitted for the sake of brevity.

(Function)
With the above configuration, the medium bundling device according to the second exemplary embodiment operates as follows. That is, as shown in FIG. 18, the tape winding means 11 of the medium bundling device according to the second embodiment includes chamfers 31x and 31y at end portions on the center side of the squeezing portions 31a and 31b provided in the holding member 13. Since there is no squeezing portion in the vicinity of the center of the sandwiching member 12, the sandwiching members 12, 13 are shown after the tape 2 is sandwiched between the sandwiching members 12, 13 and wound around the banknote bundle 20. When the tape 2 moves in the direction of arrow C shown in FIG. 3 and is pulled out from the tape 2, the tape 2 is not caught by the staking parts 31a and 31b, and the squeezing part 31c in the vicinity of the center of the clamping member 12 as in the first embodiment is used. There is no need to provide a retraction mechanism.

(Effect of Example 2)
As described above, according to the medium bundling device of the second embodiment, the clamping members having the chamfered portions are provided at both ends of one of the clamping members, and the tape is clamped by applying a strain when both the clamping members are closed. Since it did in this way, in addition to the effect of Example 1, when pulling out both clamping members, a tape does not catch on a squeezing part.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be widely used in a medium bundling device that binds a medium such as a predetermined number of banknotes counted by a cash processor or the like with a tape.

It is a block diagram of a cash processing machine. 1 is a schematic side view showing a medium bundling device of Example 1. FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the tape winding means of Example 1. FIG. It is a block diagram of the tape winding means of Example 1. It is a side view of the staking part of the tape winding means of Example 1. It is an illustration figure of the tape sticking of Example 1. FIG. FIG. 6 is a side view at the time of tape feeding illustrating the operation of the medium bundling device according to the first exemplary embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the opening / closing operation | movement of the tape winding means of Example 1. FIG. It is a side view at the time of the inversion operation | movement of the tape winding means of Example 1. FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the state which the tape winding means of Example 1 reversed. It is a side view at the time of tape winding operation | movement of Example 1. FIG. It is a side view which shows the tape winding process by the tape winding means of Example 1. FIG. It is a side view at the time of completion | finish of tape winding of Example 1. FIG. It is a side view which shows the state at the time of tape welding of Example 1. FIG. It is a block diagram of the tape winding means of the modification of Example 1. FIG. It is an illustration figure of the sticking of the tape of the modification of Example 2. FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the tape winding means of Example 2. FIG. It is a block diagram of the tape winding means of Example 2. It is a side view of the brazing part of the tape winding means of Example 2.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Roll 2 Tape 3a-3c Tape supply roller 4 Printing part 5 Guide roller 6 Cutter 7 Heater 8 Lower conveyance belt 9 Upper conveyance belt 10 Roller 11 Tape winding means 12, 13 Holding member 12a, 13a Support plate 13b Protrusion 14 Support shaft DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 15 Stopper 20 Banknote bundle 26 Medium binding apparatus 31a-31f Straining part 32 Strain

Claims (2)

In a medium bundling device for bundling a tape around the outer circumference of a plurality of standard media
A tape supply means for supplying a tape, and a tape winding means having a pair of clamping members for clamping the tip of the tape supplied from the tape supply means,
A support plate is erected and formed at the base of each of the pair of sandwiching members, the center of the support plate of the first sandwiching member is fixed to the support shaft, and the center of the support plate of the second sandwiching member is supported by the support The shaft is rotatably attached to the shaft, and is biased by a spring so that the second clamping member is in close contact with the first clamping member, and a protrusion is formed on the support plate of the second clamping member. Place a stopper corresponding to the protrusion,
A first squeezing part is provided in the vicinity of the center of the first or second clamping member, and a second squeezing part is provided so as to sandwich the first squeezing part between the other clamping members;
In a state where the protrusion and the stopper are engaged, the first holding member is rotated together with the support shaft by the rotating means to open both the holding members, and the leading end portion of the tape supplied from the tape supply means holds the both holding parts. When entering between the members, the rotating means rotates the first holding member together with the support shaft in the reverse direction, thereby closing both the holding members and attaching the tape to the tape by the first and second holding portions. A medium bundling apparatus characterized by sandwiching a tape and winding the tape around the outer periphery of the medium.   2. The medium binding device according to claim 1, wherein the pair of holding members are moved back and forth together with the support shaft by a back-and-forth moving means to engage and release the protrusion and the stopper.

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