JP6195416B2 - Banknote handling machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling machine.

  Some banknote handling machines collect coins and other foreign substances by dropping them from a slot into which banknotes are inserted (for example, see Patent Documents 1 to 3). In such a banknote handling machine, foreign matter can be removed from the insertion slot, and therefore jamming that occurs at the insertion slot can be suppressed.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-124939 JP 2006-65435 A Japanese Patent Publication No. 5-85072

  By the way, in said banknote processing machine, foreign materials, such as a coin excluded from the insertion slot, are collect | recovered in a container. In this way, in the case of collecting foreign matter such as coins in a container, when the collected foreign matter is a coin, it may be impossible to specify in which process the coin is collected.

  Therefore, an object of this invention is to provide the banknote processing machine which can identify whether it is the coin collect | recovered in which process.

  In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention according to claim 1 includes a bill insertion slot on which a bill inserted through the insertion opening is placed with its end edge abutted against the bottom, and the insertion opening. A bill processing machine having an openable and closable shutter, wherein the bottom is provided with a bottom opening that allows passage of coins while restricting entry of bills, and the coin that has passed through the bottom opening is the shutter. It is characterized in that it is pressed by the shutter and discharged to the outside exposure position during the closing operation.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, wherein when the shutter is in the open state, the shutter is positioned below the banknote insertion slot, wraps around the banknote insertion slot from the open state, and is above the banknote insertion slot. And the closing opening closes the closing opening, and when the shutter is in the open state, the shutter has a passage opening that allows the coin that has passed through the bottom opening to pass therethrough, and the shutter of the passage opening closes the shutter. A pressing portion that is provided on the upstream side in the operation direction and extends downward, and a coin that has passed through the bottom opening and the passage opening is pressed by the pressing portion during the closing operation of the shutter and is external to the machine. It is discharged to the exposed position.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when a bill is inserted into the bill insertion slot through the insertion opening in which the shutter is open to perform one process, coins are mixed in this bill. In this case, the coin passes through the bottom opening provided at the bottom of the bill insertion slot. When the shutter is closed in this one process, the coin is pressed by the shutter and discharged to the outside exposure position. Therefore, when there is a coin to be discharged to the outside exposure position during the closing operation of the shutter in one process, it can be specified that this coin is a coin mixed in this one process. Therefore, it becomes possible to specify in which process the coins are collected. Moreover, since the coin is conveyed to the outside exposure position by being pressed by the closing shutter, the configuration for discharging the coin can be simplified.

  According to the invention which concerns on Claim 2, when a banknote is thrown in into a banknote insertion slot through the insertion opening part in which the shutter is open for performing one process, the coin is mixed in this banknote. In this case, the coin passes through the bottom opening provided at the bottom of the bill insertion slot and the passage opening provided in the open shutter. When the shutter is closed, the shutter goes from the open state to the banknote slot and moves to the upper side of the banknote slot to close the slot opening. At that time, the shutter of the passage opening is closed. The pressing part provided on the upstream side in the direction presses the coin and conveys it to the outside exposure position. For this reason, the structure for discharge | emission of a coin can be simplified more.

It is a sectional side view which shows the banknote deposit opening periphery of the banknote processing machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, Comprising: The open state of a shutter is shown. It is a control system block diagram of the principal part of the bill processing machine concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is the figure which looked at the bottom part of the banknote deposit port of the banknote processing machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention in the A direction of FIG. It is a sectional side view which shows the banknote deposit opening periphery of the banknote processing machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, Comprising: The closed state of a shutter is shown.

  A banknote handling machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1 (also in FIG. 4), the direction of the arrow X indicates the operator side that performs the operation, that is, the front side (front side of the machine body). Further, unless otherwise specified below, “front” is the operator side, “rear” is the opposite side to the operator, and left and right are the left and right when viewed from the operator side.

  The banknote handling machine according to the present embodiment is specifically a banknote depositing / dispensing machine, and performs various processes related to banknotes such as banknote depositing, storing, collecting and dispensing. FIG. 1 shows a bill insertion slot 11 of the bill processing machine according to the present embodiment. The bill insertion slot 11 is provided at the front position of the upper part of the machine body, and is provided obliquely upward and forward.

  The bill insertion slot 11 is located on the back side and is inclined so that the rear side is on the upper side with respect to the horizontal plane, and vertically upward and forward from the left and right edges of the bottom portion 15. A pair of side wall portions 16 extending diagonally (only one shown in FIG. 1) and a rear wall portion 17 extending obliquely upward and forward from the vicinity of the rear edge of the bottom portion 15 substantially perpendicular to the bottom portion 15. And a front wall 18 extending obliquely upward and forward from the front edge of the bottom 15 substantially perpendicularly to the bottom 15. The bill insertion slot 11 is a slot opening 19 that is open to the outside of the machine surrounded by a pair of side walls 16, a rear wall 17, and a front wall 18 on the side opposite to the bottom 15.

  In the bill insertion slot 11, a take-in opening 20 for taking the bill S into the machine is formed between the rear edge of the bottom portion 15 and the rear wall portion 17, that is, at the rear end portion of the bill insertion slot 11. . Further, a bill press 22 is provided in the bill insertion slot 11 so as to be parallel to the rear wall portion 17 and the front wall portion 18 and move between these along the bottom portion 15. The bill press 22 is driven by a bill press drive motor 23 shown in FIG. 2 to reciprocate between the rear wall portion 17 and the front wall portion 18, and is close to the front wall portion 18 as shown in FIG. The state to perform is a standby state.

  The bill insertion slot 11 is a portion where the bill S is inserted from the outside by the operator mainly during the depositing process. The banknotes S are basically put into the banknote slot 11 through the slot opening 19 in a downward posture after a plurality of banknotes are stacked and the longitudinal direction is set to the left-right direction. The banknote S inserted into the banknote insertion slot 11 in a downwardly descending posture is placed on the bottom 15 and the bill press 22 with the edge located on the rear side and the lower side abutting against the bottom 15. That is, the bill insertion slot 11 places the bill S inserted from the outside of the machine in the abutting state on the bottom portion 15. The bill insertion slot 11 is provided with an optically transmissive bill detection sensor 24 that detects the bill S that is abutted against the bottom portion 15 and placed on the bottom portion 15 and the bill press 22.

  The bill S is inserted into the bill insertion port 11 at a position near the intake port 20 from the intake port 20 into the bill insertion port 11 and brought into the rear wall 17 side, that is, the intake port 20 side by the bill press 22. A take-in mechanism 26 for taking in the machine is provided. The take-in mechanism 26 has a kick roller 27 provided so that a part thereof protrudes downward from the rear wall 17 in a state where the axis is arranged in the left-right direction, and a take-up mechanism in which the axis is arranged in the left-right direction. An intake roller 28 disposed above the inlet 20; a separation roller 29 disposed so as to be in contact with the intake roller 28 below the inlet 20 with an axis line disposed in the left-right direction; The take-out drive motor 30 shown in FIG.

  The bill press 22 presses the bill S inserted into the bill insertion slot 11 against the kick roller 27. The kick roller 27 rotates so that the lower part moves rearward. The kick roller 27 comes into contact with the uppermost one of the bills S inserted into the bill insertion slot 11 and kicks it in the direction of the intake slot 20. It is something to be issued. The take-in roller 28 rotates in the same direction as the kick roller 27 and feeds the banknote S kicked out by the kick roller 27 toward the deposit-side conveyance path 35 provided on the rear side. The separation roller 29 rotates or stops in the same direction as the take-in roller 28 to prevent two or more banknotes S from being taken in between the take-in rollers 28. Separate into sheets. By such a take-in mechanism 26, the bills S inserted into the bill insertion slot 11 are separated one by one and fed to the deposit-side conveyance path 35 at the rear. That is, the taking-in mechanism 26 takes in the banknote S in the banknote slot 11 from the slot 20 provided in the rear end part of the banknote slot 11 into the machine.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the bottom portion 15 has a width narrower than the width of the bill S in the state of being inserted into the bill insertion slot 11 in the left-right direction, and is larger than the diameter of the largest diameter coin C (500 yen coin). A wide bottom opening 41 is formed side by side in the left-right direction. As a result, the bottom portion 15 is formed with a plurality of banknote support portions 42 arranged between the adjacent bottom opening portions 41 and the bottom opening portions 41 in the left-right direction. The bottom opening 41 is provided at the bottom 15 of the bill insertion slot 11 and allows the coin C to enter while restricting the entrance of the bill S. Although not shown, the bill support portion 42 has a mountain shape so that the center position in the left-right direction is higher than both sides, and guides this to the bottom opening portion 41 when the mixed coin C comes into contact.

  As shown in FIG. 1, on the front side of the bill insertion slot 11, a guide wall portion 51 that extends downward from the front end portion of the front wall portion 18 on the front side of the front wall portion 18, and the rear end of the guide wall portion 51 A standing wall portion 52 that extends vertically upward from the portion and an inclined wall portion 53 that extends backward from the upper end edge of the standing wall portion 52 are provided. The guide wall portion 51 has an arc shape having a center on the rear side, the standing wall portion 52 extends in the left-right direction, and the inclined wall portion 53 has a flat shape so as to be flush with the bottom portion 15.

  A cover member 55 that covers the guide wall 51 is provided on the front side of the guide wall 51. The cover member 55 also covers the edge of the pair of side wall portions 16 opposite to the bottom portion 15. The cover member 55 includes a curved cover portion 56 that covers the pair of side wall portions 16 and the guide wall portion 51 from above the upper end portion of the charging opening portion 19, and a horizontal surface that covers the inclined wall portion 53 and the lower side of the front portion of the bottom portion 15. A horizontal cover portion 57 disposed on the rear end portion, and a standing wall portion 58 extending upward from a rear end edge portion of the horizontal cover portion 57. The cover member 55 is formed with a closing opening 59 at the position of the closing opening 19. The cover member 55 is also formed with a moving opening 60 on the side opposite to the input opening 59. A standing wall portion 52 is provided in front of the standing wall portion 58, and a gap wider than the diameter of the largest diameter coin C (500 yen coin) is formed between the standing wall portion 58 and the standing wall portion 52 at this time. ing.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, a shutter 65 that can open and close these is provided between the closing opening 19 and the closing opening 59. The shutter 65 is disposed in a space between the cover member 55 and the pair of side wall portions 16 and the guide wall portion 51, and slides while being guided by these. When the shutter 65 is in the open state shown in FIG. 1, the shutter 65 is positioned forward from the vertically lower side of the bill insertion slot 11, and from this open state, the bill insertion slot 11 is moved forward to move upward to the bill insertion slot 11. As shown, the closing opening 19 and the closing opening 59 are closed.

  The shutter 65 is made of synthetic resin, and has a flexible shutter main body 66 that opens and closes the input openings 19 and 59, and an opening that opens the input openings 19 and 59 as shown in FIG. And a pressing portion 67 extending downward from the rear end edge of the shutter main body 66 when in the state. The pressing portion 67 extends in the left-right direction, and the moving opening 60 is formed in the cover member 55 so that the pressing portion 67 can be moved when the shutter 65 is opened and closed.

  A passage opening 68 is formed on the pressing body 67 side of the shutter main body 66. Accordingly, the pressing portion 67 is provided on the upstream side of the passage opening 68 in the closing operation direction of the shutter 65 and extends downward.

  When the shutter 65 is in the open state in which the closing openings 19 and 59 are opened, the pressing portion 67 is positioned immediately after the standing wall portion 58, and the rear portion of the shutter main body portion 66 is horizontally above the horizontal cover portion 57. Has been placed. A passing opening 68 is disposed between the standing wall 58 and the standing wall 52 above the horizontal cover 57.

  A discharge guide member 72 is provided below the cover member 55. The discharge guide member 72 has a standing plate portion 73 parallel to the pressing portion 67 at a position immediately after the pressing portion 67 of the shutter 65 in the open state shown in FIG. A curved cover is formed from a horizontal guide plate portion 74 that is parallel to the horizontal cover portion 57 vertically below the horizontal cover portion 57 of the extended cover member 55 and an end edge portion of the horizontal guide plate portion 74 opposite to the standing plate portion 73. It has a curved guide plate part 75 that is curved so as to be equidistant from the rear part of the part 56 and extends upward.

  Further, the discharge guide member 72 includes an inclined guide plate portion 76 that extends forward and downward from an edge of the curved guide plate portion 75 opposite to the horizontal guide plate portion 74, and a curved guide plate of the inclined guide plate portion 76. A receiving plate portion 77 extending horizontally forward from an edge portion on the opposite side to the portion 75, and an end plate extending upwardly from an edge portion on the opposite side of the inclined guide plate portion 76 of the receiving plate portion 77. Part 78. The inclined guide plate portion 76, the receiving plate portion 77, and the end plate portion 78 are arranged at positions exposed to the outside of the bill processing machine.

  Here, the interval between the inclined guide plate portion 76 and the end plate portion 78, that is, the width of the receiving plate portion 77 is wider than the diameter of the largest diameter coin C (500 yen coin). As shown in FIG. 4, when the shutter 65 is in a closed state in which the closing openings 19 and 59 are closed by the shutter main body 66, the pressing portion 67 matches the position of the inclined guide plate portion 76 in the closing operation direction.

  Driven by the shutter drive motor 71 shown in FIG. 2 from the open state shown in FIG. 1, the shutter main body 66 passes between the cover member 55 and the guide wall 51, and the shutter 65 is paired with the cover member 55. The insertion openings 19 and 59 are closed through the space between the side walls 16 as shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 1, on the front side of the separation roller 29 and below the bottom portion 15, a lower extension portion 81 extending vertically downward from the front end portion of the separation roller 29 and a lower end edge portion of the lower extension portion 81 in front. A guide member 83 having an inclined extending portion 82 extending downward is provided. A lower end portion of the inclined extending portion 82 is located at a position directly above the standing wall portion 58 of the cover member 55. The guide member 83 guides the coin C that has passed through the bottom opening 41 between the standing wall 52 and the standing wall 58. At this time, when the shutter 65 is in the open state, the passage opening 68 of the shutter main body 66 is disposed between the standing wall portion 52 and the standing wall portion 58, so that the coin C that has passed through the bottom opening portion 41. Passes through the passage opening 68, passes through the moving opening 60 of the cover member 55, and is placed on the horizontal guide plate 74 on the downstream side (front side) in the closing operation direction with respect to the pressing portion 67 of the discharge guide member 72. The

  The banknote handling machine according to the present embodiment detects whether or not the shutter 65 is in the closed state shown in FIG. 4, and whether or not the shutter 65 is in the open state shown in FIG. 2, and a control unit that controls the driving of the bill press drive motor 23, the take-in drive motor 30, the shutter drive motor 71, and the like based on the detection results of these and the bill detection sensor 24. 87, an operation unit 88 that receives an operation input from the operator, and a display unit 89 that performs display for the operator.

  Next, the operation of the banknote handling machine of this embodiment will be described.

  When, for example, a deposit processing selection operation is input to the operation unit 88, the control unit 87 drives the shutter drive motor 71 shown in FIG. 2 from the standby state where the shutter 65 is closed as shown in FIG. Open. When the shutter 65 is detected by the open detection sensor 86, the control unit 87 stops the shutter drive motor 71. Then, as shown in FIG. 1, the shutter 65 is in a state where the closing openings 19 and 59 are opened. In this state, the operator inserts the bill S into the bill insertion slot 11 through the insertion openings 19 and 59. At this time, if the coin C is mixed in the inserted bill S, the mixed coin C passes through the bottom opening 41 by its own weight and is guided by the guide member 83, etc. It falls between the standing wall 58 of the cover member 55. At this time, since the shutter 65 is in an open state, the coin C passes through the passage opening 68 of the shutter main body 66 between the standing wall 52 and the standing wall 58 and passes through the moving opening 60 of the cover member 55. Thus, the discharge guide member 72 is placed on the horizontal guide plate portion 74 on the downstream side in the closing operation direction with respect to the pressing portion 67 of the shutter 65.

  When the bill S is inserted into the bill insertion slot 11 as described above, the bill detection sensor 24 detects the bill S. When the banknote detection sensor 24 detects the banknote S, the control unit 87 enters a state of waiting for the depositing process execution operation, and causes the display unit 89 to display a display prompting the depositing process execution operation. In this state, when a depositing operation execution operation is input to the operation unit 88, the control unit 87 drives the shutter drive motor 71 to cause the shutter 65 to perform a closing operation to close the closing openings 19 and 59. Then, the pressing portion 67 of the shutter 65 passes between the horizontal cover portion 57 of the cover member 55 and the horizontal guide plate portion 74 of the discharge guide member 72, and the curve cover portion 56 of the cover member 55 and the discharge guide member 72 are curved. It moves between the guide plate portion 75 and the downstream side in the closing operation direction (front side).

  At this time, as shown in FIG. 1, if the coin C exists on the horizontal guide plate portion 74 of the discharge guide member 72, the pressing portion 67 of the shutter 65 comes into contact with the coin C and presses it to release the shutter. 65 is moved downstream in the closing operation direction. When the shutter 65 is in a closed state in which the closing openings 19 and 59 are closed by the shutter main body 66 as shown in FIG. 4, the pressing portion 67 matches the position of the inclined guide plate 76 in the closing operation direction. During the closing operation of 65, the pressing portion 67 causes the coin C to ride over the curved guide plate portion 75 of the discharge guide member 72 and place it on the receiving plate portion 77 from the inclined guide plate portion 76. That is, the coin C that has passed through the bottom opening 41 of the bill insertion slot 11, the passage opening 68 of the shutter 65, and the movement opening 60 of the cover member 55 is pressed by the pressing portion 67 when the shutter 65 is closed, and is visible. It is discharged onto the receiving plate 77 which is a position outside the machine.

  When the close detection sensor 85 detects that the shutter 65 is closed, the control unit 87 stops the shutter drive motor 71 and drives the bill press drive motor 23 to cause the bill press 22 to move to the rear wall. The bill S is pressed against the kicking roller 27 by moving to the portion 17 side. Next, the control unit 87 drives the take-in drive motor 30 to kick the take-out roller 27 sequentially from the rearmost banknote S toward the take-in port 20, and the take-in roller 28 and the separation roller 29. The banknotes S are separated one by one and fed to the rear depositing side conveyance path 35, and the depositing side conveyance path 35 conveys the banknotes S to a depositing processing mechanism (not shown) to perform a predetermined depositing process. become.

  As described above, when the banknote S is inserted into the banknote insertion slot 11 to perform the depositing process, when there is a coin C mixed with the banknote S, the coin C is moved by the closing operation of the shutter 65 performed in accordance with the depositing process. It is discharged to the exposed position outside the machine. Therefore, it becomes clear that this coin C is inserted together with the bill S which is currently inserted into the bill insertion slot 11 and subjected to deposit processing.

  According to the banknote handling machine according to the present embodiment described above, the banknote S is inserted into the banknote insertion slot 11 through the insertion openings 19 and 59 in which the shutter 65 is open to perform one process. Then, when the coin C is mixed in the banknote S, the coin C passes through the bottom opening 41 provided in the bottom 15 of the banknote insertion slot 11. When the shutter 65 is closed in this one process, the coin C is pressed by the shutter 65 and discharged to the outside exposure position. Therefore, when there is a coin C that is discharged to the outside exposure position when the shutter 65 is closed in one process, the coin C can be specified as the coin C mixed in the one process. Therefore, it becomes possible to specify which coin C is collected in which process. In addition, since the coin C is transported to the outside exposure position by being pressed by the shutter 65 that is closed, the configuration for discharging the coin C can be simplified.

  Moreover, when the banknote S is inserted into the banknote insertion slot 11 through the insertion openings 19 and 59 in which the shutter 65 is open to perform one process, coins C are mixed in the banknote S. In this case, the coin C passes through the bottom opening 41 provided in the bottom 15 of the bill insertion slot 11 and the passage opening 68 provided in the opened shutter 65. When the shutter 65 is closed, the shutter 65 turns from the open state to the banknote insertion slot 11 and moves to the upper side of the banknote insertion slot 11 to close the insertion openings 19 and 59. A pressing portion 67 provided on the upstream side in the closing operation direction of the shutter 65 of the portion 68 presses the coin C and conveys it to the outside exposure position. For this reason, the structure for discharge | emission of the coin C can be simplified more.

  In the above embodiment, the case where the coin C is mixed in the banknote S has been described as an example. However, when a foreign object such as a clip other than the coin C is mixed in the banknote S, the foreign object is similarly bottom opening. 41 passes through the passage opening 68 of the shutter 65 in the open state and falls onto the discharge guide member 72. Therefore, even when foreign matter other than the coin C is mixed in the bill S, the foreign matter is discharged to the outside exposure position when the shutter 65 is closed as in the case of the coin C.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Banknote inlet 15 Bottom part 19 Input opening part 41 Bottom part opening part 52 Standing wall part 59 Input opening part 65 Shutter 67 Press part 68 Passing opening part C Coin S

Claims (2)

A bill insertion slot on which a bill inserted through the insertion opening is placed with its end abutted against the bottom; and
A shutter capable of opening and closing the charging opening;
A banknote handling machine comprising:
The bottom is provided with a bottom opening that allows the passage of coins while restricting the entry of banknotes,
The banknote processing machine, wherein the coin that has passed through the bottom opening is pressed by the shutter when the shutter is closed and discharged to an exposed position outside the machine. When the shutter is in the open state, the shutter is positioned below the bill insertion slot, and enters the closed state in which the bill insertion slot is moved from the open state to the upper side of the bill insertion slot to close the insertion opening.
When the shutter is in an open state, the shutter is provided with a passage opening that allows the coin that has passed through the bottom opening to pass therethrough, and a pressure that is provided upstream of the passage opening in the closing operation direction of the shutter and extends downward. Are provided,
2. The banknote handling machine according to claim 1, wherein coins that have passed through the bottom opening and the passage opening are pressed by the pressing portion when the shutter is closed, and discharged to an outside exposure position.

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