JP6819092B2 - Media processing equipment and media trading equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a medium processing device and a medium trading device, and is suitable for application to, for example, an automated teller machine (ATM) in which a customer inserts a medium such as a banknote to perform a desired transaction. It is a thing.

In a conventional automated teller machine, for example, as shown in FIG. 15, a safe 301 is arranged on the lower side inside the housing 300, and an upper bill mechanism 302 is arranged on the upper side of the safe 301 inside the housing 300. .. The upper bill mechanism 302 is drawn from the inside of the housing 300 to the outside of the housing 300 (this is called a withdrawal direction) and is stored from the outside of the housing 300 to the inside of the housing 300 (this is called a storage direction). ) Can be moved. Further, the upper bill mechanism 302 is provided with an upper bill transport portion 303 or the like that forms a transport path for transporting bills. On the other hand, inside the safe 301, a banknote transport section 304 in the safe and a banknote cassette 305 that form a transport path are provided. Further, at the upper end of the safe 301, the upper banknote transport section 303 and the banknote transport section 304 in the safe are connected so as to deliver banknotes between the upper banknote transport section 303 and the banknote transport section 304 in the safe. A delivery transport unit 306 is provided to form a transport path for the operation.

In an automated teller machine having such a configuration, when the upper bill mechanism 302 is housed and fixed inside the housing 300, the connection point of the upper bill transport unit 303 with the delivery transport unit 306 is the delivery transport unit 306. It may shift from directly above the banknote in the pull-out direction or storage direction. Therefore, in the automatic teller machine, even if the connection point of the upper bill transporting unit 303 is displaced in the withdrawal direction or the storage direction with respect to the delivery transporting unit 306, the transport path of the delivery transporting unit 306 is changed to the upper bill transporting unit 303. It can be connected to the transport path.

Specifically, the delivery transport unit 306 has a transport guide portion that forms a transport path, and a rotation control lever provided outside one end in the width direction (depth direction in the drawing) of the transport guide portion. As the rotation control lever is pressed, the transport guide portion can be rotated so as to be tilted in the pull-out direction or the retractable direction. On the other hand, the upper bill mechanism 302 has a transport guide portion connected to the transport guide portion of the delivery transport portion 306, and a rotation control lever of the delivery transport portion 306 provided outside one end in the width direction of the transport guide portion. It has a pressing arm for pressing.

Then, in the automatic teller machine, when the upper bill mechanism 302 is housed and fixed inside the housing 300, the pressing arm of the upper bill mechanism 302 presses the rotation control lever of the delivery transport unit 306. At this time, the delivery transport unit 306 rotates so that the transport guide unit tilts in the drawer direction or the storage direction according to the deviation of the withdrawal direction or the storage direction of the upper bill transport unit 303, so that the transport guide unit transports the upper bills. It follows and connects to the transport guide portion of the portion 303. By doing so, in the conventional automatic teller machine, even if the connection point of the upper bill transporting unit 303 is deviated from the delivery transporting unit 306 in the withdrawal direction or the storage direction, the transport path of the delivery transporting unit 306 can be moved to the upper bill. It has become possible to connect to the transport path of the transport unit 303 (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2013-242608

However, in the conventional automated teller machine, it is necessary to provide the rotation control lever and the pressing arm on the outside of one end in the width direction of the transport guide portion of the delivery transport unit 306. Therefore, the housing 300 in which these are mounted inside. Had to increase the size of the width.

Further, in the conventional automatic teller machine, when a plurality of delivery transport units 306 are provided in the withdrawal direction and the storage direction, rotation control levers provided for each delivery transport unit 306 are provided for each delivery transport unit 306. Each must be pressed separately by the pressing arm. Therefore, when a plurality of delivery transport units 306 are provided, the rotation control lever and the pressing arm provided for each delivery transport unit 306 must be arranged so as to be offset in the width direction, and the housing 300 is further provided. Had to increase the size of. As described above, in the conventional automated teller machine, in order to make the transport guide portion of the delivery transport unit follow the transport guide portion of the upper bill transport unit and connect the respective transport paths, the housing is widened in the width direction. This had to be a factor in increasing the size of the device.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to propose a medium processing device and a medium trading device that are smaller than the conventional ones but that can reliably connect transport paths. is there.

In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, the transport guide portion that forms the first transport path of the medium between the two guide surfaces facing each other at a predetermined interval is connected to the transport guide portion. A connection-side transport guide portion that forms a second transport path connected to the first transport path is provided, the transport guide portion is rotatable about a rotation shaft, and the transport guide portion is further described. A pair of transport guides having guide surfaces are provided, and one of the pair of transport guides is provided with a plurality of claws forming the guide surfaces, which are arranged at intervals in the width direction of the first transport path. Further, at least one of the plurality of claw bodies is provided with a protrusion protruding from an end portion of the claw body facing the connection side transport guide portion toward the connection side transport guide portion. The protrusion is slidable in the transport direction of the first transport path and is urged toward the connection-side transport guide, and the protrusion is fitted into the connection-side transport guide. A matching groove is formed, and the position of the transport guide portion is defined by fitting the protrusion portion into the groove of the connection side transport guide portion, and further, the position between the transport guide portion and the connection side transport guide portion is defined. when the protrusions are fitting engagement with the groove of the connection-side conveyance guide portion and so as to rotate according to the position of the connecting-side conveying guide unit.

In the present invention, when the protrusion of the transport guide portion is fitted into the groove of the connection side transport guide portion, the transport guide portion rotates according to the position of the connection side transport guide portion, so that the transport guide portion side The first transport path can be reliably connected to the second transport path on the connection side transport guide unit side. Further, in the present invention, since it is not necessary to separately provide a means for rotating the transport guide portion on the outside of one end in the width direction of the transport guide portion, the device can be downsized as compared with the conventional case.

According to the present invention, it is possible to realize a medium processing device and a medium trading device that are smaller than the conventional ones and that can reliably connect the transport paths.

It is a perspective view which shows the structure of the automatic teller machine. It is a side view which shows the structure of the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine. It is a side view which shows the slide of the upper unit and the lower frame in a banknote deposit / withdrawal machine. It is a side view which shows the structure of the transport part. It is a three-sided view which shows the structure of the upper part of a bill cassette. It is a side view which shows the state which the lower roller was put into the lower groove and was fitted. It is a three-view view which shows the structure of the lower part of a transport part. It is a perspective view which shows the structure of the delivery transport part. It is a front view and the side view which show the structure of the delivery transfer part. It is a side view which shows the operation of the delivery transport part. It is a front view which shows the structure of the delivery transport part by another Embodiment. It is a side view which shows the structure of the delivery transport part by another embodiment. It is a side view which shows the structure of the delivery transport part by another embodiment. It is a side view which shows the structure of the delivery transport part by another embodiment. It is a side view which shows the structure of the conventional automatic teller machine.

Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the invention (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) will be described with reference to the drawings.

[1. Configuration of automated teller machines and banknote deposit / withdrawal machines]
As shown in the appearance in FIG. 1, the automatic teller machine 1 is mainly composed of a box-shaped housing 2, and is installed in, for example, a financial institution and with a user (that is, a customer of the financial institution). Transactions related to cash such as deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions are now being conducted between customers.

The housing 2 is provided with a customer service unit 3 at a position on the front side thereof where it is easy for customers to insert bills and operate with a touch panel while facing each other. The customer reception unit 3 is provided with a card entrance / exit 4, a deposit / withdrawal port 5, an operation display unit 6, a numeric keypad 7, and a receipt issuing port 8, and directly exchanges cash, passbooks, etc. with the customer. It is designed to notify information about transactions and accept operation instructions.

The card inlet / outlet 4 is a portion where various cards such as a cash card are inserted or ejected. Inside the housing of the card inlet / outlet 4, a card processing unit (not shown) for reading the account number and the like magnetically recorded on various cards is provided. The deposit / withdrawal port 5 is a portion where banknotes to be deposited by the customer are inserted and the banknotes to be withdrawn to the customer are discharged. Further, the deposit / withdrawal port 5 is opened or closed by driving the shutter.

The operation display unit 6 is a touch panel in which an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) that displays an operation screen at the time of a transaction and a touch sensor that selects a transaction type and inputs a personal identification number, a transaction amount, and the like are integrated. The numeric keypad 7 is a physical key that accepts inputs such as numbers "0" to "9", and is used when inputting a password, transaction amount, or the like. The receipt issuing port 8 is a portion that issues a receipt on which transaction details and the like are printed at the end of transaction processing. Incidentally, a receipt processing unit (not shown) for printing transaction details and the like on the receipt is provided on the back side of the receipt issuing port 8.

In the following, the side of the automated teller machine 1 that the customer faces is the front side, the opposite side is the rear side, the left and right sides of the customer facing the front side are the left side and the right side, respectively, and the upper side and the lower side. Is defined and explained.

Inside the housing 2, a main control unit 9 that controls the entire automatic teller machine 1 and a banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 that performs various processing related to banknotes are provided. The main control unit 9 is mainly composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) (not shown), and by reading a predetermined program from a ROM (Read Only Memory) or a flash memory (not shown) and executing the program, a deposit transaction or withdrawal can be made. Performs various processes related to gold transactions, etc. Further, the main control unit 9 has a storage unit including a RAM (Random Access Memory), a hard disk drive, a flash memory, and the like inside, and stores various information in this storage unit.

As shown in the side view of FIG. 2, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 has a plurality of parts for performing various processing related to banknotes incorporated inside a rectangular parallelepiped housing 11 having an open rear side. The automatic teller machine 1 has a door that can be opened and closed on the rear side of the housing 2, and by opening this door, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 can be accessed from the outside.

The banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 is roughly divided into an upper unit 10U that occupies a portion of the housing 11 above substantially the center in the vertical direction, and a lower unit 10L that occupies the lower portion thereof.

The upper unit 10U includes a banknote control unit 12 that controls the entire system, a deposit / withdrawal unit 13 that transfers banknotes to and from customers, and a transport unit 14 that transports banknotes to each unit via a transport path indicated by a thick line in the figure. A discriminating unit 15 for discriminating banknotes and a temporary holding unit 16 for temporarily storing banknotes are provided. The upper unit 10U is attached to the housing 11 via a slide rail 17 extending in the front-rear direction. Therefore, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 slides the upper unit 10U in the front-rear direction (that is, the storage direction and the withdrawal direction) while expanding and contracting the slide rail 17 with the door on the rear side of the housing 2 open. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the state in which the upper unit 10U is housed inside the housing 11 and the state in which the upper unit 10U is pulled out to the rear side of the housing 11 as shown in FIG. 3A can be changed. You can do it.

On the other hand, the lower unit 10L is covered with a rectangular parallelepiped safe housing 20, and a lower frame 22 is attached to the inside of the safe housing 20 via a slide rail 21 extending in the front-rear direction. The lower frame 22 holds the five bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 in a detachable manner so as to be sequentially aligned from the rear side to the front side. Therefore, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 slides the lower frame 22 in the front-rear direction (that is, the storage direction and the withdrawal direction) while expanding and contracting the slide rail 21 with the door on the rear side of the housing 2 open. The bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 are housed inside the housing 11 together with the lower frame 22 as shown in FIG. 2, and the housing 11 is stored as shown in FIG. 3 (B). It is possible to transition to the state where it is pulled out to the rear side.

Further, the upper surface of the safe housing 20 is provided with holes that penetrate in the vertical direction at positions facing the upper surfaces of the bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 housed inside the safe housing 20. , Delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) are arranged inside each hole. Further, the transport section 14 of the upper unit 10U is formed with a transport path extending toward each of the plurality of delivery transport sections 25 (25A to 25F). Each of the plurality of delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) forms a transport path connecting the transport path of the upper unit 10U and the bill cassette 23 (23A to 25E) and the reject cassette 24. The automatic teller machine 1 uses the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) to connect the bills between the transport path of the upper unit 10U and the bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23F) and the reject cassette 24 of the lower unit 10L. It is designed to be handed over.

Here, the upper unit 10U will be described in more detail. The banknote control unit 12 of the upper unit 10U is composed of a CPU (not shown) and a storage unit including a ROM, a RAM, a flash memory, and the like. Of these, the CPU reads various programs from the storage unit and executes them to perform various processes related to transactions.

The deposit / withdrawal portion 13 (FIG. 2) is located at the front upper portion in the upper unit 10U. The deposit / withdrawal unit 13 has an internal container 13A for accommodating banknotes received from the customer and banknotes to be delivered to the customer, and the upper portion thereof is opened or closed by the shutter 13B. Further, the shutter 13B opens or closes in conjunction with the shutter of the deposit / withdrawal port 5 (FIG. 1) provided in the housing 2. When a customer inserts banknotes into the container 13A in a deposit transaction or the like, the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 closes the shutter 13B, separates the banknotes in the container 13A one by one, and supplies the banknotes to the transport unit 14. Hand over in sequence. Further, the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 sequentially receives the banknotes conveyed by the transfer unit 14 in the withdrawal transaction or the like, sequentially releases them into the container 13A and accumulates them, and then opens the shutter 13B to allow the customer to receive them.

The transport portion 14 is located at the lower end portion in the upper unit 10U, and has a shape that is thin in the vertical direction and elongated in the front-rear direction as a whole. A transport guide for guiding the bills, a large number of rotating rollers, and the like are appropriately arranged in the transport unit 14, and a straight line for transporting the short sides of the bills mainly in the front-rear direction along the traveling direction. A shaped transport path is formed. As shown in the enlarged view in FIG. 4, the transport unit 14 is roughly divided into a temporary hold switching unit 30 arranged near the center and a front side arranged on the front side and the rear side of the temporary hold switching unit 30, respectively. It is composed of a transport unit 31 and a rear transport unit 32. The temporary hold switching unit 30 is a so-called 3-way switching, and the banknotes are transferred between the front transfer unit 31, the rear transfer unit 32, and the temporary hold unit 16 based on the control of the bill control unit 12. The transport route of is switched in three ways.

In addition to the temporary hold switching unit 30, a plurality of switching units are arranged in the transport unit 14. Each switching portion is composed of a rotatable blade (indicated by a triangle in the figure) and a plurality of rotatable rollers (not shown) arranged around the blade. In accordance with the control of the bill control unit 12, this switching unit changes the tilting direction of the blade according to the destination of each bill and rotates each roller in a predetermined rotation direction to appropriately switch the transport direction of the bill. Transport to the desired transport destination.

In the front transport section 31, the reject switching section 33, the discrimination section 15, and the switching section 34 are arranged in series in order from the front, and a substantially linear front transport path 31A along the front-rear direction is formed. .. Further, in the front transport section 31, a front transport path 31B that branches from the front transport path 31A at a location where the reject switching section 33 is arranged and extends downward, and a front transport path at a location where the switching section 34 is arranged. A front transport path 31C that branches off from 31A and extends downward is formed. The front transport path 31B extends to the delivery transport section 25F arranged above the reject cassette 24, and the front transport path 31C extends to the delivery transport section 25E arranged above the bill cassette 23E. The reject switching unit 33 and the switching unit 34 are adapted to appropriately switch the banknote transport route based on the control of the banknote control unit 12, respectively.

In the rear transport portion 32, switching portions 35, 36, and 37 are arranged in substantially series in order from the front, and a substantially linear rear transport path 32A along the front-rear direction is formed. Further, in the rear transport section 32, the rear transport paths 32B, 32C, 32D and the rear transport path 32A, which branch from the rear transport path 32A and extend downward at the locations where the switching sections 35, 36, 37 are arranged, respectively. A rear transport path 32E extending downward from the rear end is formed. The rear transport paths 32B, 32C, 32D, and 32E extend to the delivery transport portions 25D, 25C, 25B, and 25A arranged above the bill cassettes 23D, 23C, 23B, and 23A, respectively. The switching units 35, 36, and 37 are adapted to appropriately switch the banknote transport route based on the control of the banknote control unit 12, respectively. Further, the transport unit 14 is also capable of storing several banknotes on the front transport path 31A and the rear transport path 32A.

The discrimination unit 15 (FIGS. 2 and 4) is incorporated in the front transfer unit 31 and is located between the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 and the temporary hold switching unit 30 on the front transfer path 31A. The discrimination unit 15 incorporates a plurality of types of sensors such as a thickness sensor, an image sensor, and a magnetic sensor, and reads various information from each banknote by each sensor, and obtains information (hereinafter, this is referred to as reading information). To be called) is supplied to the bill control unit 12 (FIG. 2).

In response to this, the bill control unit 12 determines the state of each bill and determines whether the bill is normal and acceptable, or abnormal and should be returned to the user. Specifically, the banknote control unit 12 determines the transport state, denomination, degree of damage, authenticity, etc. of each banknote based on the obtained read information, and based on the determination result at this time, the banknote control unit 12 of each banknote. The transport destination is determined, and the transport operation in each switching unit of the transport unit 14 and each transport path is controlled.

The temporary holding portion 16 (FIG. 2) employs a so-called tape escrow method, and the banknotes are temporarily stored by winding the banknotes together with the tape around the peripheral side surface of the cylindrical drum, and the banknotes are temporarily stored from the peripheral side surface. Banknotes are paid out by peeling off the tape.

Here, the lower unit 10L will be described in more detail. The bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) of the lower unit 10L are all configured in the same manner, are formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape long in the vertical direction, and bills are accumulated and stored inside. Further, each bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) has a preset denomination of bills to be stored. In the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E), bills determined by the discrimination unit 15 and the bill control unit 12 to be reusable with a small degree of damage are delivered from the transport unit 14 according to the denomination. When the banknotes are transported via 25A to 25E, the banknotes are accumulated and stored inside. Further, when the banknote cassette 23 (23A to 23E) receives an instruction to pay out the banknotes from the banknote control unit 12, the accumulated banknotes are separated and fed out one by one, and the banknote cassette 23 (23A to 23E) separates the accumulated banknotes one by one and pays out the banknotes 14 Hand over to.

The reject cassette 24 is formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape that is long in the vertical direction, and has a space for accumulating and storing banknotes inside. In the reject cassette 24, banknotes (so-called rejected banknotes) determined by the discrimination unit 15 and the banknote control unit 12 to be severely damaged and should not be reused are transported from the transport unit 14 via the delivery transport unit 25F. When it comes, the bill is stored inside.

[2. Deposit processing and withdrawal processing]
Next, the deposit processing and withdrawal processing in the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 when the deposit transaction and the withdrawal transaction are performed with the user (customer of the financial institution) by the automatic teller machine 1 will be described. .. Of these, the deposit processing will be described separately for the deposit counting process in the first stage and the deposit storage process in the second stage.

[2-1. Deposit counting process]
In the deposit processing, the bill deposit / withdrawal machine 10 performs a deposit counting process of counting the number of banknotes while discriminating the denomination of the previously deposited banknote, etc., based on the control of the banknote control unit 12, and then appropriately deposits the banknotes. It is designed to perform a deposit storage process for transporting and storing to a storage location.

Specifically, when the bill control unit 12 receives an operation input to the effect that the deposit processing is started via the operation display unit 6 (FIG. 1) by the customer, for example, the bill control unit 12 starts the deposit counting process and enters the inside of the deposit / withdrawal unit 13. The bills are inserted, separated one by one, and delivered to the transport unit 14 in sequence. The transport unit 14 sequentially transports the banknotes received from the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 to the rear by the reject switching unit 33 and the front transport unit 31, and while advancing backward along the front transport path 31A, each bill is conveyed by the discrimination unit 15. It is sequentially identified and handed over to the temporary hold switching unit 30 on the rear side. At this time, the discrimination unit 15 sends the obtained discrimination result to the bill control unit 12.

The banknote control unit 12 determines the degree of damage, the denomination, or the authenticity of each banknote based on the acquired discrimination result. Next, the bill control unit 12 determines that each bill is a deposit-accepted bill that can continue the subsequent processing if it can be recognized as a normal bill, and if it cannot be recognized as a normal bill, it returns it to the customer once. Determining that the banknote should be rejected. Further, the banknote control unit 12 uses the banknote cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) for each denomination for normal and reusable banknotes, and the reject cassette 24 for rejected banknotes with a large degree of damage. , Determine each as the final destination and store it.

Subsequently, the banknote control unit 12 transports the deposit-accepted banknotes to the temporary hold unit 16 and stores the deposit-accepted banknotes by switching the banknote transport destination by the temporary hold switching unit 30 according to the determination result of the banknotes. It is advanced into the rear transport section 32 and stored in the rear transport path 32A. Eventually, when the banknote control unit 12 finishes taking in all the banknotes from the deposit / withdrawal unit 13, if the deposit reject banknotes are stored in the rear transfer path 32A of the rear transfer unit 32, the banknote control unit 12 returns them to the customer, and it is necessary. Reintroduce accordingly.

On the other hand, the bill control unit 12 completes the deposit counting process if the deposit reject bills are not stored in the rear transport path 32A of the rear transport unit 32. At this time, the bill control unit 12 calculates the deposit amount based on the total result of the denomination and the number of bills taken in from the deposit / withdrawal unit 13, displays a predetermined operation instruction screen on the operation display unit 6, and deposits the bill. Present the amount to the customer and let the customer choose whether or not to continue the deposit process. Here, when the customer instructs the customer to cancel the deposit processing, the banknote control unit 12 transports all the banknotes held in the temporary holding unit 16 to the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 by the transport unit 14 and returns them to the customer.

[2-2. Deposit storage process]
When the customer instructs the customer to continue the deposit processing, the bill control unit 12 starts the deposit storage process. Specifically, the bill control unit 12 first starts the operation processing in the temporary hold unit 16, sequentially pays out the stored bills (payment acceptance bills), and delivers them to the temporary hold switching unit 30. At this time, the bill control unit 12 switches the bill transport route by the temporary hold switching unit 30 according to the transport destination for each bill determined in the deposit counting process. Specifically, if the destination of the bill is the reject cassette 24 or the bill cassette 23E, the temporary hold switching unit 30 delivers the bill to the front transport unit 31. Further, if the destination of the bill is the bill cassettes 23A to 23D, the temporary hold switching unit 30 delivers the bill to the rear transport unit 32.

Further, the bill control unit 12 appropriately controls each switching unit of the front transport unit 31 and the rear transport unit 32 according to the transport destination of each bill, thereby classifying ordinary bills to be reused by denomination. Each banknote cassette 23 (23A to 23E) is stored, and rejected banknotes that should not be reused are stored in the reject cassette 24.

[2-3. Withdrawal processing]
In the withdrawal process, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 performs a withdrawal process of withdrawing a denomination and a number of banknotes according to a designated amount of money based on the control of the banknote control unit 12. In the following, a case of withdrawing the bills stored in the bill cassettes 23A to 23D connected to the rear transport path 32A of the transport unit 14 will be described as an example.

The bill control unit 12 receives a predetermined operation input including the withdrawal amount from the customer via the operation display unit 6 (FIG. 1), and determines the denomination and the number of bills according to the withdrawal amount. Subsequently, the bill control unit 12 sequentially feeds out the bills stored in each bill cassette 23 according to the determined denomination and the number of bills, and sequentially delivers them to the transport unit 14. The transport unit 14 discriminates the traveling state of the bills traveling forward in the front transport unit 31 by the discriminating unit 15, and sends the discriminating result to the bill control unit 12 (FIG. 2). The bill control unit 12 switches the reject switching unit 33 according to the traveling state of the bill, advances to the deposit / withdrawal unit 13 if there is no problem in the traveling state, and rejects if there is a problem in the transporting state such as double feeding. It advances to the cassette 24 and stores each bill. Eventually, the bill control unit 12 causes the customer to take out all the bills according to the withdrawal amount when they have finished transporting them to the deposit / withdrawal unit 13.

[3. Configuration of delivery and transportation unit and its peripheral parts]
Next, the configuration of the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) and its peripheral portion will be described. First, as the configuration of the peripheral portion of the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F), the configuration of the upper part of the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 located below each of the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F). Will be described. Since the basic configurations of the upper portions of the bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 are the same, only the upper configuration of the bill cassette 23A will be described here.

FIG. 5 shows a three-view view including a top view of the upper portion of the banknote cassette 23A viewed from above, a front view viewed from the front, and a side view viewed from the left. In the upper part of the bill cassette 23A, the central portion 40C excluding both end portions 40L and 40R in the left-right direction (that is, the width direction) is formed one step lower than both end portions 40L and 40R, and is delivered to the rear side of the central portion 40C. A cassette-side guide portion 41 for guiding bills to be conveyed to and from the conveying portion 25A is provided. The cassette side guide portion 41 has a front side transport guide 42 arranged on the front side and a rear side transport guide 43 arranged on the rear side. The front transport guide 42 and the rear transport guide 43 are arranged at a predetermined interval (for example, 5 [mm]) to form a transport space 44S between the front transport guide 42 and the rear transport guide 43. ing. The transport space 44S serves as a cassette-side transport path 44 for transporting banknotes in the vertical direction with the paper surface facing the front-back direction. That is, the cassette side transport path 44 has a transport direction in the vertical direction and a width direction in the horizontal direction.

The rear transfer guide 43 is provided with a claw portion 46 at the upper end of a main body portion 45 having a flat front surface. In the claw portion 46, a plurality of claw bodies 47 are arranged discretely along the left-right direction (the width direction of the cassette-side transport path 44), that is, forming gaps 48 formed at predetermined intervals in the left-right direction. .. Incidentally, a plurality of types of claw bodies 47 having different lengths in the left-right direction are arranged in the claw portion 46 in a predetermined order. Further, each claw body 47 is formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the positions of the front surface and the upper surface thereof are aligned. Further, the front surface of each claw body 47 is continuous with the front surface of the main body portion 45, and the front upper end portion of the claw body 47 is an inclined surface as if the corners were cut off.

On the other hand, the front transport guide 42 has a front-rear symmetrical configuration with the rear transport guide 43. That is, the front transport guide 42 also has a plurality of claw bodies 47 arranged while forming gaps 48 at predetermined intervals along the left-right direction. The front transport guide 42 and the rear transport guide 43 are arranged so that the rear surfaces and the front surfaces facing each other are parallel to each other and the positions of the claw bodies 47 are aligned in the left-right direction and the vertical direction. The rear surface of the front transport guide 42 and the front surface of the rear transport guide 43 facing each other are guide surfaces for guiding bills.

Further, the bottom surface of the gap 48 of each claw body 47 is flush with the upper surface of the central portion 40C of the bill cassette 23A.

Further, on the upper surface of the central portion 40C of the bill cassette 23A, the lower roller 102 of the delivery transport portion 25A, which will be described later, extends in the front-rear direction in the vicinity of the front of each of the gaps 48 at the left and right ends of the front transport guide 42. A groove (this is called a lower groove) 49 is formed. The cassette side guide portion 41 is composed of a front side transport guide 42, a rear side transport guide 43, and a lower groove 49 thereof. As shown in FIG. 6, the lower groove 49 has an inverted trapezoidal shape in which the lower bottom is smaller than the upper bottom when viewed from the left-right direction, and when the lower roller 102 of the delivery transport portion 25A is fitted. The peripheral side surface of the lower roller 102 does not come into contact with the bottom surface of the lower groove 49, but comes into contact at two points on the front and rear slopes of the lower groove 49. By contacting the peripheral side surface of the lower roller 102 and the lower groove 49 at two points in this way, the lower roller 102 is fitted to the lower groove 49 so as not to sway in the front-rear direction. The position of the lower roller 102 in the front-rear direction is determined.

The structure of the upper part of the bill cassette 23A is such a structure. The configurations of the other bill cassettes 23B to 23E and the upper portion of the reject cassette 24 are basically the same. The cassette side guide portions 41 provided on the upper portions of the bill cassettes 23A to 23E and the reject cassette 24 are different in the front-rear direction but in the left-right direction and in the state of being set in the lower frame 22. The positions in the vertical direction are equal.

Next, the configuration of the lower part of the transport unit 14 located above each of the delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) will be described. The lower configuration of the transport unit 14 located above each of the delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) is a bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) located below each of the delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F). ) And the structure of the upper part of the reject cassette 24 are vertically symmetrical.

That is, as shown in the three views of FIG. 7, in the lower portion of the transport portion 14, the central portion 60C excluding the both end portions 60L and 60R in the left-right direction (that is, the width direction) is formed one step higher than both end portions 60L and 60R. There is. Then, in the central portion 60C, above each of the delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F), a transport unit side guide portion 61 for guiding the bills to be transported to and from the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) is provided. It is provided.

Since the transport unit side guide portions 61 provided above the delivery transport units 25A to 25F all have the same configuration, the transport unit side guide unit 61 provided above the delivery transport unit 25A will be described here. .. Like the cassette side guide portion 41, the transport unit side guide unit 61 has a front side transport guide 62 arranged on the front side and a rear side transport guide 63 arranged on the rear side. The front transport guide 62 and the rear transport guide 63 are arranged at a predetermined interval (for example, 5 [mm]), and the transport space 64S between the front transport guide 62 and the rear transport guide 63 is a bill. It is a transport section side transport path 64 that transports the paper surface in the front-rear direction in the vertical direction. That is, the transport path 64 on the transport portion side has a transport direction in the vertical direction and a width direction in the horizontal direction. The transport path 64 on the transport section side is the rear transport path 32E shown in FIG.

The rear transfer guide 63 is provided with a claw portion 66 at the lower end of the main body portion 65 having a flat front surface. In the claw portion 66, a plurality of claw bodies 67 are arranged discretely along the left-right direction (the width direction of the transport portion side transport path 64), that is, forming gaps 68 formed at predetermined intervals in the left-right direction. There is. Incidentally, a plurality of types of claw bodies 67 having different lengths in the left-right direction are arranged in the claw portion 66 in a predetermined order. Further, each claw body 67 is formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the positions of the front surface and the lower surface thereof are aligned. Further, the front surface of each claw body 67 is continuous with the front surface of the main body portion 65, and the front lower end portion of the claw body 67 is an inclined surface as if the corners were cut off.

On the other hand, the front transport guide 62 has a front-rear symmetrical configuration with the rear transport guide 63. That is, the front transport guide 62 also has a plurality of claw bodies 67 arranged while forming gaps 68 formed at predetermined intervals along the left-right direction. The front transport guide 62 and the rear transport guide 63 are arranged so that the rear surfaces and the front surfaces facing each other are parallel to each other and the positions of the claw bodies 67 are aligned in the left-right direction and the vertical direction. The rear surface of the front transport guide 62 and the front surface of the rear transport guide 63 facing each other are guide surfaces for guiding bills.

Further, the ceiling surface of the gap 68 of each claw body 67 is flush with the lower surface of the central portion 60C of the transport portion 14.

Further, on the lower surface of the central portion 40C of the transport portion 14, the upper roller 100 of the delivery transport portion 25A, which will be described later, is fitted in the vicinity of each front of the gaps 68 at the left and right ends of the front transport guide 62 of the transport portion side guide portion 61. A groove (this is called an upper groove) 69 extending in the front-rear direction is formed. The transport unit side guide unit 61 is composed of a front side transport guide 62, a rear side transport guide 63, and an upper groove 69 thereof. The upper groove 69 is vertically symmetrical with the lower groove 49 provided on the bill cassette 23A side shown in FIG. 6, and has a trapezoidal cross section when viewed from the left and right directions. Similar to the lower groove 49, the upper groove 69 also has the front and rear of the upper groove 69 without the upper roller 100 coming into contact with the ceiling surface of the upper groove 69 when the upper roller 100 of the delivery transport portion 25A is fitted. It comes into contact at two points on the slope.

The structure of the transport section side guide section 61 provided above the delivery transport section 25A is as follows. The configuration of the transport unit side guide unit 61 provided above the other transfer unit 25B to 25F is basically the same. The transport unit side guide portions 61 provided above the delivery transport units 25A to 25F are different in the front-rear direction, but the left-right position and the vertical position are the same.

Next, the configuration of the delivery / transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) will be described. Since the basic configurations of the delivery transport units 25A to 25F are all the same, only the configuration of the delivery transport unit 25A provided above the bill cassette 23A will be described here.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the delivery transport unit 25A, FIG. 9 (A) is a front view of the delivery transport unit 25A as viewed from the front, and FIG. 9 (B) is a side view of the delivery and transport unit 25A as viewed from the left. In addition, in FIG. 9B, in order to make the internal structure of the delivery transport unit 25A easy to understand, a part (delivery frame 80 described later) is omitted, and the inside (upper roller 100 and lower roller 102 described later) is omitted. ) Is exposed.

As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the delivery transport unit 25A has a configuration in which each component is attached to a thin plate-shaped delivery frame 80, and the delivery frame 80 is provided on the upper surface of the safe housing 20. It is attached to the inside of the hole. A hole 80H that is long in the left-right direction and penetrates in the up-down direction is formed in the center of the delivery frame 80. A delivery guide portion 81 is attached to the inside of the hole 80H.

The delivery guide portion 81 has a front transfer guide 82 located near the front of the hole 80H and a rear transfer guide 83 located near the rear of the hole 80H. The rear transport guide 83 is attached with the front transport guide 82 in a state where a transport space 84S having a predetermined interval (for example, 5 [mm]) is formed between the rear transport guide 83 and the front transport guide 82. The transport space 84S is a delivery transport path 84 for transporting banknotes in the vertical direction with the paper surface facing the front-rear direction. That is, the delivery transport path 84 has a transport direction in the vertical direction and a width direction in the horizontal direction.

The rear transport guide 83 has a length in the front-rear direction slightly shorter than half the length in the front-rear direction of the hole 80H, a length in the vertical direction slightly longer than the length in the vertical direction of the hole 80H, and a length in the left-right direction. It is mainly composed of a rectangular body portion 85 whose width is slightly shorter than the left-right direction of the hole 80H. The main body 85 has grooves 85G (FIG. 9B) extending in the front-rear direction formed on the side surfaces of both left and right ends, and the cylindrical rotating shaft 80P fixed to the delivery frame 80 is formed in the grooves 85G. Is inserted. Therefore, the rear transport guide 83, together with the front transport guide 82 in a state where the delivery transport path 84 is formed between the rear transport guide 83 and the front transport guide 82, is at the reference position shown in FIG. 9B with respect to the delivery frame 80. It can be slid in the front-rear direction, and can be rotated in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions in FIG. 9B about the rotation shaft 80P and tilted in the front-rear direction. As a result, the delivery guide unit 81 can slide the delivery transfer path 84 in the front-rear direction from the reference position or tilt it in the front-rear direction. The rear surface of the front side transport guide 82 and the front surface of the rear side transport guide 83 that face each other are always parallel to each other and serve as guide surfaces for guiding bills.

Further, the main body 85 of the rear transport guide 83 has a claw portion 86 formed at the lower end thereof. A plurality of claw bodies 87 are discretely arranged on the claw portion 86 along the left-right direction (that is, the width direction of the delivery transport path 84) with a gap 88. Each claw body 87 is formed in a small rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the positions of the front surface and the lower surface thereof are aligned with each other.

The position and length of each lower claw body 87 in the left-right direction are defined complementary to each claw body 47 formed in the cassette side guide portion 41 located below the delivery transport portion 25A. That is, the position and length of each claw body 87 of the rear side transport guide 83 in the delivery guide portion 81 in the left-right direction correspond to each gap 48 of the cassette side guide portion 41, respectively, and the rear side in the delivery guide portion 81. The positions and lengths of the gaps 88 of the transport guide 83 in the left-right direction correspond to the claws 47 of the cassette-side guide portion 41, respectively.

The front transport guide 82 is configured substantially symmetrically with the rear transport guide 83, and a claw portion 86 is formed at the lower end of the main body portion 85. Similar to the rear transfer guide 83, a plurality of claw bodies 87 are provided on the claw portion 86 in the left-right direction so as to have a position and length complementary to each claw body 47 of the cassette side guide portion 41 in the left-right direction. They are arranged discretely with a gap 88 along the line. As shown in FIG. 9B, the length of each claw body 87 of the delivery guide portion 81 in the front-rear direction is longer than that of each claw body 47 of the cassette side guide portion 41.

Further, a claw portion 96 configured vertically symmetrically with the claw portion 86 is provided at the upper end of each main body portion 85 of the front side transport guide 82 and the rear side transport guide 83. A plurality of claw bodies 97 having a shape vertically symmetrical with each of the lower claw bodies 87 are discretely arranged on the claw portion 96 with a gap 98 in the left-right direction. Each claw body 97 is formed in a small rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the positions of the front surface and the upper surface thereof are aligned with each other.

The positions and lengths of the upper claw bodies 97 in the left-right direction are defined complementary to each claw body 67 formed in the transport portion side guide portion 61 located above the delivery transport portion 25A. That is, the positions and lengths of the upper claws 97 in the delivery guide portion 81 in the left-right direction correspond to the gaps 68 in the transport portion side guide portion 61, respectively, and the upper gaps 98 in the delivery guide portion 81. The position and length of the guide portion 61 in the left-right direction correspond to each claw body 67 of the guide portion 61 on the transport portion side. As shown in FIG. 9B, the length of each claw body 97 of the delivery guide portion 81 in the front-rear direction is longer than that of each claw body 67 of the cassette side guide portion 41.

Therefore, when the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 are housed in the housing 11 together with the lower frame 22, the delivery transport unit 25A has the lower claws as shown in FIG. 9 (A). The body 87 enters the gap 48 formed in the cassette side guide portion 41 of the bill cassette 23A, and the claw body 47 formed in the cassette side guide portion 41 enters each of the lower gaps 88. .. In this way, the delivery guide portion 81 and the cassette side guide portion 41 are connected.

Further, in the delivery transport unit 25A, when the upper unit 10U is housed in the housing 11, each upper claw body 97 enters the gap 68 formed in the transport portion side guide portion 61 of the transport unit 14, and also The claw body 67 formed in the guide portion 61 on the transport portion side is inserted into each gap 98 on the upper side. In this way, the delivery guide portion 81 and the transport portion side guide portion 61 are connected.

By connecting the delivery guide section 81, the cassette side guide section 41, and the transport section side guide section 61 in this way, the upper end of the delivery transport path 84 of the delivery transport section 25A is transported on the transport section side on the transport section 14 side. It is connected to the lower end of the road 64, and the lower end of the delivery transport path 84 is connected to the upper end of the cassette side transport path 44 on the bill cassette 23A side.

Further, the front transport guide 82 of the delivery transport portion 25A has a disk shape thinner than the claw body 97 on the front side (that is, the side opposite to the guide surface) inside the claw bodies 97 at both left and right ends of the upper claw body 97. A part of the upper roller 100 projects upward (that is, toward the transport portion side guide portion 61) from the hole provided on the front side of the upper surface of the claw body 97 (that is, the surface facing the transport portion side guide portion 61). It is attached as. Grooves 97G (FIG. 9B) extending in the vertical direction are formed on both the left and right side surfaces inside the claw body 97, and the grooves 97G are provided with a columnar rotary extending in the horizontal direction provided on the upper roller 100. Both ends of the moving shaft 100P are inserted respectively. Therefore, the upper roller 100 can slide in the vertical direction (that is, the transport direction of the delivery transport path 84) with respect to the claw body 97, and is a rotation shaft parallel to the left-right direction (that is, the width direction of the delivery transport path 84). It can rotate around 100P. Further, the upper roller 100 is urged upward (that is, toward the transport portion side guide portion 61 side) by an urging member 101 such as a spring provided inside the claw body 97.

Further, among the lower claw bodies 87 of the front side transport guide 82, the same lower roller 102 is also provided on the front side inside the claw bodies 87 at both left and right ends (that is, the cassette side guide portion 41). A part of the hole is provided so as to project downward (that is, toward the cassette side guide portion 41 side) from the hole provided on the front side (the surface facing the cassette side). Grooves 87G extending in the vertical direction are also formed on both left and right side surfaces inside the claw body 87, and both left and right ends of a columnar rotating shaft 102P extending in the left-right direction provided in the lower roller 102 are formed in the grooves 87G. Are inserted respectively. Therefore, the lower roller 102 can slide in the vertical direction with respect to the claw body 87, and can rotate about the rotation shaft 102P parallel to the horizontal direction. Further, the lower roller 102 is urged downward (that is, the cassette side guide portion 41 side) by an urging member 101 such as a spring provided inside the claw body 87.

As shown in FIG. 9, the lower rollers 102 located at the lower left and right ends of the delivery guide portion 81 of the delivery transport portion 25A are fitted into the lower grooves 49 at the left and right ends of the cassette side guide portion 41. The position in the front-rear direction between the delivery guide portion 81 and the cassette side guide portion 41 is defined. On the other hand, the upper rollers 100 located on the upper left and right ends of the delivery guide portion 81 are fitted into the upper grooves 69 on the left and right ends of the transport portion side guide portion 61 to fit the delivery guide portion 81 and the transport portion side guide portion 61. It is designed to specify the position in the front-back direction between and.

The structure of the delivery / transport unit 25A is as follows. The configurations of the other delivery and transport units 25B to 25F are basically the same. The delivery guide portions 81 of the delivery transport units 25A to 25F have different positions in the front-rear direction, but the positions in the left-right direction and the positions in the up-down direction are the same.

[4. Operation of delivery transport unit]
Next, when the upper unit 10U is stored in the housing 11, and when the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 are stored together with the lower frame 22 in the housing 11, the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25A to). The operation of 25F) will be described.

The upper unit 10U is pulled out from the housing 11 rearward (that is, in the direction orthogonal to the transport direction and the width direction of the delivery transport path 84), and the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette are pulled out from the housing 11 together with the lower frame 22. When the 24 is pulled out rearward, the delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) are slidable in the front-rear direction (that is, the pull-out direction and the storage direction) and parallel to the left-right direction with respect to the safe housing 20, respectively. It is in a state where it can rotate around the rotation shaft 80P. Further, in the delivery transport section 25 (25A to 25F), the two upper rollers 100 project upward from the upper surface of the upper claw body 97, and the two lower rollers 102 project from the upper surface of the upper claw body 97, and the two lower rollers 102 form the lower claw body 87. It is in a state of protruding downward from the lower surface.

Here, for example, in order to store the upper unit 10U inside the housing 11, the upper unit 10U is pushed forward from the rear of the housing 11 into the inside of the housing 11. At this time, for example, in the rearmost delivery transport unit 25A, first, the two left and right upper rollers 100 come into contact with the lower surface of the central portion 60C of the transport unit 14 arranged in the upper unit 10U, and the lower surface thereof. Is pushed into the inside of the claw body 97. When the upper unit 10U is pushed in as it is, the two left and right upper rollers 100 rotate while being pushed into the claw body 97.

After that, when the two left and right upper grooves 69 of the transport portion side guide portion 61 arranged on the frontmost side of the transport portion 14 reach the two left and right upper rollers 100 of the rearmost delivery transport portion 25A. At this time, the two left and right upper rollers 100 enter and fit into the two left and right upper grooves 69. As a result, the position of the delivery guide portion 81 of the delivery transport portion 25A in the front-rear direction is once defined in a state where the frontmost transport portion side guide portion 61 is located above the rearmost delivery transport portion 25A. To. At this time, the rearmost delivery transport unit 25A and the frontmost transport unit side guide portion 61 are connected.

At this point, since the storage of the upper unit 10U has not been completed yet, the upper unit 10U is further pushed into the housing 11. Then, the two left and right upper rollers 100 of the rearmost delivery transport unit 25A are separated from the two left and right upper grooves 69 of the frontmost transport unit side guide unit 61, and the transport unit 14 is again. It comes into contact with the lower surface of the central portion 60C and is pushed into the inside of the claw body 97 by this lower surface.

Then, in the rearmost delivery transport unit 25A, the two left and right upper rollers 100 are on the left and right sides of each of the five transport unit side guide portions 61 following the frontmost transport unit side guide unit 61. Fitting and detachment are repeated with respect to the upper groove 69 in order, and when the upper unit 10U is pushed in until it is completely retracted, at this time, the two left and right upper rollers 100 are transferred to the rearmost transport portion. It enters and fits into the two left and right upper grooves 69 of the side guide portion 61.

Similarly, in the other five delivery transport portions 25B to 25F, the two left and right upper rollers 100 are fitted and detached from the two left and right upper grooves 69 of the six transport portion side guide portions 61, respectively. (The upper roller 100 of the front delivery transfer section 25F is only fitted). Finally, in the other five delivery transport units 25B to 25F, five transports in which two left and right upper rollers 100 are arranged in front of the rearmost transport portion side guide portion 61, respectively. It enters and fits into the two left and right upper grooves 69 of the portion side guide portion 61. At this point, the six transport unit side guide portions 61 provided in the lower part of the transport unit 14 are located above the six transfer transport units 25A to 25F, and the delivery transport units 25A to 25F are located. The position of each delivery guide portion 81 in the front-rear direction is defined. Thus, the six transport unit side guide units 61 provided at the bottom of the transport unit 14 are connected to each of the six delivery unit 25A to 25F.

On the other hand, in order to store the banknote cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 together with the lower frame 22 inside the housing 11, the lower frame 22 is pushed forward from the rear of the housing 11 into the inside of the housing 11. Let's go.

At this time, the six delivery transport units 25A to 25F have two lower rollers 102 on the left and right, respectively, and two on the left and right of each of the six cassette side guide units 41, as in the case where the upper unit 10U is housed. Fitting and detachment from the lower groove 49 are repeated (the lower roller 102 on the front delivery transport portion 25F is only fitted). Finally, in the six delivery transport portions 25A to 25F, the two left and right lower rollers 102 are fitted into the two left and right lower grooves 49 of the six cassette side guide portions 41, respectively. It fits. At this point, the six cassette-side guides 41 provided above the bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 were located below the six delivery and transport units 25A to 25F, respectively. In the state, the positions of the delivery guide portions 81 of the delivery transport portions 25A to 25F in the front-rear direction are defined. Thus, the six cassette-side guide portions 41 provided on the upper portions of the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 are connected to each of the six delivery and transport portions 25A to 25F.

By the way, in the automatic teller machine 1, when the upper unit 10U is stored in the housing 11, the positions of the six transport unit side guide units 61 are set to the respective reference positions of the six delivery unit 25A to 25F. It may shift in the front-rear direction from directly above a certain delivery guide portion 81. Further, in the automatic teller machine 1, when the lower frame 22 is housed in the housing 11, the positions of the six cassette-side guide portions 41 are at the respective reference positions of the six delivery / transport portions 25A to 25F. It may shift in the front-rear direction from directly below the delivery guide portion 81. Therefore, even if the position of the transport unit side guide unit 61 and the position of the cassette side guide unit 41 deviate in the front-rear direction, the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) delivers the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F). The transport path 84 can be connected to the transport section side transport path 64 of the transport section side guide section 61 and the cassette side transport path 44 of the cassette side guide section 41.

That is, as described above, the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) can slide the delivery guide unit 81 in the front-rear direction from the reference position, and can rotate around the rotation shaft 80P and tilt in the front-rear direction. This is possible, so that the delivery transport path 84 extending in the vertical direction can be slid in the front-rear direction and tilted in the front-rear direction.

Therefore, for example, in the delivery transport unit 25A, when the position of the upper transport unit side guide unit 61 is deviated forward from directly above the delivery guide unit 81 at the reference position, the transfer unit side guide unit 61 When the upper roller 100 that has entered the upper groove 69 is pulled forward, the delivery guide portion 81 slides forward following the transport portion side guide portion 61, or tilts forward, or slides forward and forward. Lean to. As a result, the delivery transport path 84 of the delivery transport section 25A is connected to the transport section side transport path 64 of the transport section side guide section 61.

Further, for example, when the position of the lower cassette side guide portion 41 is displaced rearward from directly below the delivery guide portion 81 at the reference position, the delivery transport unit 25A is placed in the lower groove 49 of the cassette side guide portion 41. When the lower roller 102 enters, it is pulled backward so that the delivery guide portion 81 slides backward following the cassette side guide portion 41, or tilts backward, or slides backward and tilts backward. .. As a result, the delivery transport path 84 of the delivery transport unit 25A is connected to the cassette side transport path 44 of the cassette side guide unit 41.

Here, FIG. 10 shows an operation example of the delivery transport unit 25A according to the deviation of the transport unit side guide unit 61 and the cassette side guide unit 41. In FIG. 10A, the transport unit side guide unit 61 is displaced forward from directly above the delivery guide unit 81 at the reference position, and the cassette side guide unit 41 is the delivery guide unit 81 at the reference position. This is an example of a case where the load is shifted backward from directly below.

In this case, in the delivery transport section 25A, the delivery guide section 81 rotates in the clockwise direction in the drawing, the upper roller 100 fits into the upper groove 69 of the transport section side guide section 61, and the cassette side guide section 41 The lower roller 102 fits into the lower groove 49. That is, the delivery guide portion 81 is tilted so as to connect the transport portion side guide portion 61 and the cassette side guide portion 41 that are displaced in the front-rear direction. As a result, the delivery guide section 81, the transport section side guide section 61, and the cassette side guide section 41 are connected, and the delivery transport path 84, the transport section side transport path 64, and the cassette side transport path 44 are securely connected. To.

In FIG. 10B, the transport unit side guide unit 61 is displaced rearward from directly above the delivery guide unit 81 at the reference position, and the cassette side guide unit 41 is the delivery guide unit 81 at the reference position. This is an example of a case where the load is shifted forward from directly below.

In this case, in the delivery transport section 25A, the delivery guide section 81 rotates counterclockwise in the drawing, the upper roller 100 fits into the upper groove 69 of the transport section side guide section 61, and the cassette side guide section The lower roller 102 fits into the lower groove 49 of 41. That is, the delivery guide portion 81 is tilted so as to connect the transport portion side guide portion 61 and the cassette side guide portion 41 that are displaced in the front-rear direction. As a result, the delivery guide section 81, the transport section side guide section 61, and the cassette side guide section 41 are connected, and the delivery transport path 84, the transport section side transport path 64, and the cassette side transport path 44 are securely connected. To.

FIG. 10C is an example in which the transport unit side guide unit 61 and the cassette side guide unit 41 are both displaced forward from directly above the delivery guide unit 81 at the reference position. In this case, in the delivery transport section 25A, the delivery guide section 81 slides forward, the upper roller 100 fits into the upper groove 69 of the transport section side guide section 61, and the delivery guide section 41 fits into the lower groove 49 of the cassette side guide section 41. The lower roller 102 fits. That is, the delivery guide portion 81 slides forward so as to connect the transport portion side guide portion 61 and the cassette side guide portion 41 that are displaced forward. As a result, the delivery guide section 81, the transport section side guide section 61, and the cassette side guide section 41 are connected, and the delivery transport path 84, the transport section side transport path 64, and the cassette side transport path 44 are securely connected. To.

Here, an operation example of the delivery / transfer unit 25A has been described, but the other delivery / transfer units 25B to 25F also operate in the same manner. In this way, even if the position of the transport unit side guide unit 61 and the position of the cassette side guide unit 41 deviate in the front-rear direction, the transfer unit 25 (25A to 25F) can be delivered. The delivery transport path 84 can be connected to the transport section side transport path 64 of the transport section side guide section 61 and the cassette side transport path 44 of the cassette side guide section 41.

[5. Summary and effects]
As described above, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 of the automatic teller machine 1 is located on the upper surface of the safe housing 20, the transport unit 14 arranged above the safe housing 20, and the inside of the safe housing 20. A plurality of delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) for delivering banknotes between the banknote cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 arranged side by side in the front-rear direction are provided at intervals in the front-rear direction.

Further, the delivery transport section 25 (25A to 25F) is provided with a delivery guide section 81 that is slidable in the front-rear direction and can be rotated so as to be tilted in the front-rear direction. Further, the inside of each of the two claw bodies 97 located on the upper left and right ends of the front side transport guide 42 constituting the delivery guide portion 81 is urged so as to project upward from the upper surface of the claw body 97. An upper roller 100 is provided, and a lower roller is urged to project downward from the lower surface of the claw body 87 inside each of the two claw bodies 87 located at both left and right ends on the lower side of the front transport guide 42. 102 was provided.

On the other hand, the lower part of the transport unit 14 located above the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) (that is, the upper end side of the delivery transport path 84) is connected to the delivery guide portion 81 of the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F). A plurality of guide portions 61 on the transport portion side are provided at intervals in the front-rear direction. Further, each of the plurality of transport unit side guide portions 61 is provided with two left and right upper grooves 69 into which the two left and right upper rollers 100 provided in each of the delivery transport portions 25 (25A to 25F) are fitted. ..

Further, on the upper part of the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24 located below the delivery transport section 25 (25A to 25F) (that is, the lower end side of the delivery transport path 84), the delivery transport section 25 (that is, The cassette side guide portion 41 connected to the delivery guide portion 81 of 25A to 25F) was provided. Further, the cassette side guide portion 41 is provided with two left and right lower grooves 49 into which the two left and right lower rollers 102 provided in each of the delivery transport portions 25 (25A to 25F) are fitted.

As a result, when the upper unit 10U or the lower frame 22 is housed in the housing 11, the positions of the transport unit side guide unit 61 and the cassette side guide unit 41 of the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 are directly above the delivery guide unit 81. Even if the delivery guide portion 81 is displaced in the front-rear direction, the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102 of the delivery guide portion 81 are the upper groove 69 on the upper unit 10U side, the bill cassette 23 (23A to 23E), and the lower roller 102 on the reject cassette 24 side, respectively. As the delivery guide portion 81 slides in the front-rear direction or tilts in the front-rear direction as it fits into the gutter 49, the delivery guide portion 81 is made to follow the transport portion side guide portion 61 and the cassette side guide portion 41. Can be linked with these.

Thus, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 provides the delivery transport path 84 formed by the delivery guide section 81 even if the transfer section side guide section 61 and the cassette side guide section 41 are displaced in the front-rear direction with respect to the delivery guide section 81. , The transport section side transport path 64 formed by the transport section side guide section 61 and the cassette side transport path 44 formed by the cassette side guide section 41 can be reliably connected.

Further, in the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10, the two upper rollers 100 and the two lower rollers 102 provided in the delivery guide portion 81 have the two upper grooves 69 and the cassette provided in the transport portion side guide portion 61. By fitting into the two lower grooves 49 provided in the side guide portion 41, the delivery guide portion 81 is made to follow the transport portion side guide portion 61 and the cassette side guide portion 41.

Here, the upper roller 100, the lower roller 102, the upper groove 69, and the lower groove 49 are all arranged inside the delivery guide portion 81 from both ends in the left-right direction (that is, the width direction). For this reason, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 has a mechanism for causing the delivery guide portion 81 to follow the transport portion side guide portion 61 and the cassette side guide portion 41 outside one end in the width direction of the delivery guide portion 81, as in the conventional case. There is no need to provide it separately, and the size of the housing 11 in the width direction can be reduced as compared with the conventional case. Thus, in the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10, the housing 11 can be miniaturized as compared with the conventional case, and the housing 2 of the automatic teller machine 1 can be miniaturized accordingly.

By the way, in the conventional automated teller machine, as described above, the rotation control levers provided for each delivery / transport unit must be separately pressed by the pressing arms provided for each delivery / transport unit. When a plurality of delivery transport units are provided, the rotation control lever and the pressing arm provided for each delivery transport unit must be arranged so as to be offset in the width direction.

In such a conventional automatic teller machine, a drawer is pulled out from the inside of the housing to the outside of the housing together with a frame for detachably holding the plurality of banknote cassettes arranged below the delivery / transporting unit. When it is possible to move in the direction and in the storage direction in which the banknotes are stored inside the case from the outside of the case, a pressing arm is attached to the upper part of each of the plurality of banknote cassettes.

In this case, the order in which the plurality of banknote cassettes set with respect to the frame are arranged in the front-rear direction is important. For example, the order of the banknote cassettes originally set at the front is set at the back. If it is changed, the position in the width direction of the rotation control lever on the delivery transport unit side and the pressing arm on the bill cassette side will not correspond, and the rotation control lever and the pressing arm will be damaged when the frame is stored. I was afraid.

On the other hand, in the automatic teller machine 1 of the present embodiment, in each delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F), the position of the lower roller 102 in the left-right direction (that is, the lower side in the width direction of the delivery transport path 84). The position and size of the roller 102) and the size are the same, and the position and the size of the lower groove 49 in the left-right direction are also the same in each cassette side guide portion 41.

Therefore, in the automatic teller machine 1, when the lower frame 22 is housed inside the housing 11, the lower rollers 102 of the delivery transport units 25 (25A to 25F) are moved to the lower grooves of the cassette side guide portions 41. Fitting and detachment are repeated in order with respect to 49, and finally, the lower roller 102 of each delivery transport portion 25 (25A to 25F) is fitted into the lower groove 49 of each corresponding cassette side guide portion 41. It fits.

As described above, in the automated teller machine 1, each delivery and transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) has a lower roller 102 having a common position and size, and each cassette side guide unit 41 is common. Since the lower groove 49 has the position and size of the banknote cassette 23, even if the arrangement order of the banknote cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) in the front-rear direction is changed, the lower roller 102 and the like are not damaged, and each delivery guide portion is used. The 81 and each cassette side guide portion 41 can be connected.

Further, in the automatic teller machine 1, each delivery / transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) is common, and the configuration of each cassette side guide unit 41 is also common, so that an effect that the manufacturing cost can be suppressed can be obtained. ..

[6. Other embodiments]
[6-1. Other Embodiment 1]
In the above-described embodiment, upper rollers 100 are provided on each of the two claw bodies 97 located on the upper left and right ends of the front transport guide 42 constituting the delivery guide portion 81, and the lower side of the front transport guide 42 is provided. Lower rollers 102 are provided on each of the two claw bodies 87 located at the left and right ends of the.

Not limited to this, as shown in FIG. 11, one upper roller 100 is provided on one claw body 97 located at the center of the upper side of the front transport guide 42 constituting the delivery guide portion 81, and the front transport guide 42 is provided. One lower roller 102 may be provided on one claw body 87 located in the center of the lower side. In this case, one upper groove 69 into which the upper roller 100 is fitted may be provided in the lower part of the conveying portion 14 at the center of the central portion 60C in the left-right direction. Further, one lower groove 49 into which the lower roller 102 is fitted may be provided in the center of the central portion 40C in the left-right direction at the upper part of each of the bill cassettes 23 (23A to 23E) and the reject cassette 24. ..

Further, the present invention is not limited to this, and the upper roller 100 may be provided on the claw bodies 97 on both the left and right ends and the claw body 97 other than the central claw body 97. Similarly, the lower roller 102 may be provided on the claw bodies 97 on the left and right ends. It may be provided on the claw body 87 other than the 87 and the central claw body 87.

Further, the present invention is not limited to this, and the upper roller 100 may be provided not on the front side transport guide 42 but on the rear side transport guide 43, or may be provided on both the front side transport guide 42 and the rear side transport guide 43. Similarly, the lower roller 102 may be provided not on the front transfer guide 42 but on the rear transfer guide 43, or may be provided on both the front transfer guide 42 and the rear transfer guide 43.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the upper roller 100 is provided on the front side of the upper claw body 97 of the front side transport guide 42 (that is, closer to the front end portion on the side opposite to the guide surface), and the front side of the lower claw body 87 (that is, near the front end portion). That is, the lower roller 102 is provided on the side opposite to the guide surface (closer to the front end portion). Not limited to this, the positions of the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102 in the front-rear direction may be provided at any position as long as they are between the front surface of the claw body 97 and the claw body 87 and the guide surface. Regarding the size of the diameters of the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102, the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102 can be attached to the claw body 97 and the claw body 87, and are above the claw body 97 and the claw body 87. And any size may be used as long as it can be projected downward. The upper groove 69 and the lower groove 49 may have a size that matches the diameters of the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102.

[6-2. Other Embodiment 2]
Further, in the above-described embodiment, the upper unit 10U located above the delivery transport unit 25 (25A to 25F) and the lower frame 22 located below each can be withdrawn from the inside of the housing 11. The present invention has been applied to an automated teller machine 1. Not limited to this, the present invention can also be applied to an automated teller machine in which only one of the upper unit 10U and the lower frame 22 can be withdrawn from the inside of the housing 11.

For example, when applying to an automated teller machine in which only the lower frame 22 can be withdrawn from the inside of the housing 11, as shown in FIG. 12, instead of the delivery transport section 25 (25A to 25F), the delivery transport section 25 is on the upper side. The delivery / transfer unit 200 from which the roller 100 has been removed may be provided in the automatic teller machine. Since the delivery transport unit 200 only needs to follow the lower cassette side guide portion 41, for example, the vertical position of the rotation shaft 80P is positioned above the vertical center of the delivery transport unit 200. It may be allowed to rotate, or it may be allowed to rotate only so that it cannot slide in the front-back direction.

[6-3. Other Embodiment 3]
Further, in the above-described embodiment, the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102 are provided on the delivery transport section 25 (25A to 25F) side, and the transport section side guide section located above the delivery transport section 25 (25A to 25F). An upper groove 69 is provided on the 61 side, and a lower groove 49 is provided on the cassette side guide portion 41 side located below. On the contrary, for example, as shown in FIG. 13, an upper roller 100 is provided on the transport portion side guide portion 61 side, and a lower roller 102 is provided on the cassette side guide portion 41 side, and the delivery transport unit 25 (25A) is provided. The upper groove 69 and the lower groove 49 may be provided on the ~ 25F) side. Even with such a configuration, the same effect as that of the above-described embodiment can be obtained.

[6-4. Other Embodiment 4]
Further, in the above-described embodiment, each of the delivery transport portions 25 (25A to 25F) is provided with a disk-shaped upper roller 100 and a lower roller 102 as specific examples of the positioning means and the protrusions. Not limited to this, for example, as shown in FIG. 14, each of the delivery transport portions 25 (25A to 25F) has a plate-shaped upper protrusion having a semi-cylindrical cross section instead of the disk-shaped upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102. A portion 210 and a lower protrusion 211 may be provided.

The upper protrusion 210 is thinner than the upper claw body 97, and is attached to the inside of the claw body 97 so that a semicircular portion protrudes from a hole provided on the upper surface of the claw body 97. The upper protrusion 210 is provided with two columnar slide shafts 210P on each of the left and right side surfaces at intervals in the vertical direction, and two left and right slide shafts 210P are provided on the left and right inside the claw body 97. It is inserted into a groove 97G formed on both side surfaces and extending in the vertical direction. Therefore, the upper protrusion 210 can slide in the vertical direction with respect to the claw body 97. Further, the upper protrusion 210 is urged upward by the urging member 101 provided inside the claw body 97.

On the other hand, the lower protrusion 211 is thinner than the lower claw body 87, and is attached to the inside of the claw body 87 so that a semicircular portion protrudes from a hole provided on the lower surface of the claw body 87. .. The lower protrusions 211 are provided with two cylindrical slide shafts 211P on each of the left and right side surfaces at intervals in the vertical direction, and two left and right slide shafts 211P are provided inside the claw body 87. It is inserted into a groove 87G formed on both left and right side surfaces and extending in the vertical direction. Therefore, the lower protrusion 211 can slide in the vertical direction with respect to the claw body 87. Further, the lower protrusion 211 is urged downward by the urging member 101 provided inside the claw body 87.

Then, the upper protrusion 210 is fitted into the upper groove 69 instead of the upper roller 100, and the lower protrusion 211 is fitted into the lower groove 49 instead of the lower roller 102, whereby these upper protrusions are fitted. The 210 and the lower protrusion 211 function similarly to the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102. Instead of the two cylindrical slide shafts 210P provided on each of the left and right side surfaces of the upper protrusion 210, plate-shaped slide shafts extending in the vertical direction may be provided. The same applies to the lower protrusion 211.

Further, not limited to this, if the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102, the upper protrusion 210 and the lower protrusion 211 have the same functions, the positioning means and the protrusion having different configurations from these are delivered. It may be provided in the transport section 25 (25A to 25F).

[6-5. Other Embodiment 5]
Further, in the above-described embodiment, the upper groove 69 and the lower groove 49 are respectively trapezoidal in cross section. Not limited to this, the shape may be such that the peripheral side surfaces of the upper roller 100 and the lower roller 102 can be contacted at two locations separated in the front-rear direction (that is, the pull-out direction and the storage direction), for example, a groove having a V-shaped cross section. And so on.

[6-6. Other Embodiment 6]
Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the present invention is applied to the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 as a specific example of the medium processing device, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the two guide portions are connected to connect the transport path. Any medium processing device having a mechanism can be applied to a medium processing device having a configuration different from that of the bill deposit / withdrawal machine 10. Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the present invention is applied to the automated teller machine 1 as a specific example of the medium trading device, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a mechanism for connecting two guide portions to connect a transport path is not limited to this. If it is a medium trading device provided with a medium processing device having the above, it can be applied to a medium trading device having a configuration different from that of the automated teller machine 1. For example, it can be applied to a medium trading device provided with a medium processing device for transporting media other than banknotes (tickets, tickets, etc.).

[6-7. Other Embodiment 7]
Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 is provided with the delivery guide unit 81 as a specific example of the transfer guide unit forming the delivery transfer path 84 as the first transfer path, but the present invention is not limited to this. As long as it functions in the same manner as the delivery guide section 81, a transfer guide section having a configuration different from that of the delivery guide section 81 may be provided. Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the bill deposit / withdrawal machine 10 is provided with a cassette-side guide portion 41 as a specific example of the connection-side transport guide portion that forms the cassette-side transport path 44 as the second transport path. Not limited to this, a connection-side transfer guide unit having a configuration different from that of the cassette-side guide unit 41 may be provided as long as it functions in the same manner as the cassette-side guide unit 41. Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 10 is provided with a transport unit side guide unit 61 as a specific example of the connection side transport guide unit that forms the transport unit side transport path 64 as the second transport path. .. Not limited to this, as long as it functions in the same manner as the transport unit side guide unit 61, a connection side transport guide unit having a configuration different from that of the transport unit side guide unit 61 may be provided.

[6-8. Other Embodiment 8]
Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments. That is, the present invention extends the scope of application to an embodiment in which a part or all of the above-described embodiment and other embodiments are arbitrarily combined, and an embodiment in which a part is extracted.

The present invention can be used, for example, in various media processing devices having a mechanism for connecting two guide portions to connect a transport path.

1 ... Automatic teller machine, 10 ... Banknote deposit / withdrawal machine, 14 ... Transport section, 23, 305 ... Bill cassette, 24 ... Reject cassette, 25, 200, 306 ... Delivery transport section, 41 ... Cassette side guide unit, 42, 62, 82 ... Front side transport guide, 43, 63, 83 ... Rear side transport guide, 44 ... Cassette side transport path, 47, 67, 87, 97 ... Claw body, 49 ... ... Lower groove, 61 ... Transport section side guide section, 64 ... Transport section side transport path, 69 ... Upper groove, 81 ... Delivery guide section, 84 ... Delivery transport path, 80P, 100P, 102P ... Times Drive shaft, 100 ... upper roller, 101 ... urging member, 102 ... lower roller, 210 ... upper protrusion, 210P, 211P ... slide shaft, 211 ... lower protrusion.

Claims (9)

A transport guide unit that forms a first transport path for the medium between two guide surfaces that face each other at a predetermined interval.
It is provided with a connection-side transport guide portion that forms a second transport path that is connected to the first transport path by connecting to the transport guide section.
The transport guide portion can rotate about a rotation shaft and can rotate around the rotation shaft.
Further, the transport guide unit is
A plurality of claw bodies having a pair of transport guides having the guide surfaces and further arranged on one of the pair of transport guides at intervals in the width direction of the first transport path to form the guide surfaces. In addition, at least one of the plurality of claw bodies has a protrusion protruding from the end of the claw body facing the connection side transport guide portion toward the connection side transport guide portion. Provided,
The protrusion is
It is slidable in the transport direction of the first transport path and is urged toward the connection side transport guide portion.
Further, the connection-side transport guide portion is formed with a groove into which the protrusion is fitted.
The transport guide unit
Fitting engagement with the groove position is defined, further wherein the protrusion of the connection-side conveyance guide portion between the connecting-side conveyance guide portion by the protrusion is fitted into the groove of the connection-side conveyance guide portion A medium processing apparatus characterized in that it rotates according to the position of the connection-side transport guide unit. The connection side transport guide unit
It is located on one end side of the first transport path in the transport direction, and can move in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction and the width direction of the first transport path.
The rotation shaft is a rotation shaft parallel to the width direction of the first transport path, and the transport guide portion is
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one end of the first transport path is connected to the second transport path by rotating according to the position of the connection-side transport guide unit. The protrusion is
A roller that is provided near the end of the claw body on the side opposite to the guide surface and can rotate about a rotation axis parallel to the width direction of the first transport path, and is a rotation axis of the roller. And the center of the rotation axis of the transport guide portion are deviated in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction and the width direction of the first transport path.
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 2. Before Kimizo is,
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the medium has a shape and a size that come into contact with the peripheral side surface of the roller when the roller is fitted. The protrusion is
The medium processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein each of the two claw bodies provided at both ends in the width direction is provided among the plurality of claw bodies. The protrusion is
The medium processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the media processing apparatus is provided on one claw body provided at the center in the width direction among the plurality of claw bodies. The connection side transport guide unit
In addition to one end side of the first transport path in the transport direction, the transport guide portion is also provided on the other end side.
The connection-side transport guide portion is slidable in the moving direction of the connection-side transport guide portion, and is provided on one end side of the transport direction of the first transport path and the connection-side transport guide portion provided on the other end side. By rotating and sliding according to each position of, one end of the first transport path is connected to the second transport path of the connection side transport guide portion located on the one end side, and the first transport path is connected. The medium processing apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 6 , wherein the other end of the path is connected to the second transport path of the connection side transport guide unit located on the other end side. A plurality of the connection-side transport guides arranged at intervals in the moving direction of the connection-side transport guides, and
Each of the plurality of connection-side transport guide portions is provided with a plurality of the transport guide portions arranged at corresponding positions.
The plurality of transport guide portions are characterized in that the positions of the protrusions in the transport direction of the first transport path are the same, and the positions of the protrusions in the width direction of the first transport path are the same. Item 2. The medium processing apparatus according to any one of Items 2 to 7 . A transport guide portion that forms a first transport path for a medium between two guide surfaces facing each other at a predetermined interval, and a second transport that is connected to the first transport path by connecting to the transport guide portion. to have a connection-side conveying guide unit for forming a tract provided with a medium processing device for transporting the medium to the respective units,
The transport guide portion can rotate about a rotation shaft and can rotate around the rotation shaft.
Further, the transport guide unit is
A plurality of claw bodies having a pair of transport guides having the guide surfaces and further arranged on one of the pair of transport guides at intervals in the width direction of the first transport path to form the guide surfaces. In addition, at least one of the plurality of claw bodies has a protrusion protruding from the end of the claw body facing the connection side transport guide portion toward the connection side transport guide portion. Provided,
The protrusion is
It is slidable in the transport direction of the first transport path and is urged toward the connection side transport guide portion.
Further, the connection-side transport guide portion is formed with a groove into which the protrusion is fitted.
The transport guide unit
The position between the protrusion and the connection-side transport guide is defined by fitting the protrusion into the groove of the connection-side transport guide, and the protrusion is further fitted into the groove of the connection-side transport guide. A medium trading device, characterized in that it rotates according to the position of the connection-side transport guide unit .

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