JPH0110685Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] "Industrial Application Field" The present invention relates to a banknote dispensing machine, and particularly relates to a banknote dispensing machine that dispenses banknotes with receipts attached to them.

"Prior Art" Conventionally, as a bill dispensing machine that dispenses bills with a receipt attached to them, there is a device described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 17853/1983. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the suction swinging rod 2 pulls out banknotes S one by one from the banknote storage box 1 for each denomination, which is removably installed at the bottom of the machine, while separating the banknotes by suction based on a payout command. Then, while performing counting, discrimination, etc., they are transported upward by the transport device 3 and sent to the stacking section 31,
The bills S are inserted one by one into the stacking car 13 disposed at the top of the stacking section 31, and are sequentially stacked on the receiving tray 33 while being scraped off by the scraping plate 32. The receipt issuing unit 7 provided issues a receipt R on which the date of handling, account number, withdrawal amount, and deposit balance are printed, and the receipt R is sent to the collection vehicle 13 via the receipt route 8 and placed on the receiving tray 33. After placing the banknotes S, the receiving tray 33 is moved toward the payout port 5 to transfer the banknotes S and the receipt R to the payout port 5.
It is a structure that sends out to In addition, if an abnormality such as double feed is detected and banknotes S of an amount that does not correspond to the designated amount are accumulated on the tray 33, or if a predetermined period of time has elapsed even though the banknotes S have been paid out to the payout port 5. If it is not removed even after
The tray 33 is moved back and banknotes S and the like are collected into a redirect box 9 disposed directly below the tray 33.

``Problem to be solved by the invention'' By the way, it is desirable for this type of bill dispensing machine to have a small installation space, etc., but the bill dispensing machine shown in FIG.
The stacking section 31 is provided above, and these are arranged vertically, and the receiving tray 33 is arranged in the stacking section 31 in an inclined state. It is necessary to secure a large amount of space above and diagonally below, which tends to increase the height of the fuselage, which poses a problem in that miniaturization is restricted.

This invention was proposed in view of the above circumstances.
The purpose is to downsize bill dispensing machines.

"Means for Solving the Problems" The present invention provides a stacking and transporting unit that temporarily stacks banknotes by stacking them sequentially from below and sends out the stacked banknotes in a plane direction either forward or backward. A dispensing route for transferring bills between the bank and a dispensing port in front of the dispensing port, and a rejection route for conveying bills to a redirect box at the rear of the collecting and conveying section, and It is characterized in that the money route is provided with a joining part with the receipt route for conveying the receipts stacked on the disbursed banknotes in the surface direction.

"Function" The banknote dispensing machine of the present invention has a dispensing port in front of the collecting and transporting section, a redirect box at the rear, and a confluence section between the collecting and transporting section and the dispensing port. These accumulation and conveyance sections, merging sections,
The payout port and the redirect box are arranged almost horizontally, so that the height dimension of the space in which they are installed is reduced, and the banknotes and receipts between these are conveyed in the plane direction, so that the height of the route is reduced. The dimensions are also smaller.

"Embodiment" Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 1 to 4.

As shown in FIG. 1, this banknote dispensing machine uses a suction swinging rod 2 to pull out banknotes S one by one from a banknote storage box 1 that is removably disposed at the bottom of the machine.
They are transported upward by the transport device 3 while performing counting, etc., and stacked in a horizontal state on the stacking and transporting unit 4 sequentially from below. When the specified amount of banknotes S has been stacked, A banknote S is sent out horizontally through a payout route 6 to a payout port 5 provided in the left side of the figure 1), and a receipt R is issued by a receipt issuing unit 7 provided at the top of the machine. When transporting the banknotes S in the plane direction through the receipt route 8 while feeding them into the dispensing route 6 so as to overlap them with the banknotes S in the middle of transport, and collecting the banknotes S, etc., the collecting and transporting section 4 (to the right in FIG. 1) is horizontally conveyed via an evacuation route 10 to a redirect box 9 disposed at the rear (right side in FIG. 1). Also, the terminal part of the receipt route 8, that is, the confluence part 1 of the banknote S and the receipt R.
1 is provided with a guard member 12 that prevents the banknotes S that have not been taken out from the payout port 5 even after a predetermined period of time from flowing back into the receipt route 8 when being conveyed in the opposite direction through the payout route 6 for collection. It is being

To explain these details, as shown in FIG.
The bill S conveyed upward by the blade 13a
The stacking wheel 13, which rotates clockwise in FIG. 2 while sequentially inserting bills one by one between the blades 13a, contacts the tips of the bills S scraped out from between the blades 13a by a pool guide piece, which will be described later. An alignment plate 14 for aligning S above the accumulation wheel 13, a pool guide piece 15 supported swingably about an axis 15a parallel to the axis 13b parallel to the accumulation wheel 13, and Attached pool guide piece 15
When the banknotes S swing to the chain line position in Fig. 2, the stacked banknotes S
A banknote S is held between a guide roller 16 that contacts from below and a guide roller 16 that is rotatably supported by the tip of an arm 17 that is swingable about a shaft 17a above the collection wheel 13. and a delivery belt 18 that feeds the money to either the withdrawal route 6 or the removal route 10. Further, the alignment plate 14 is rotatably supported around a shaft 14a, and when the banknotes are stacked, it is in a vertical state so as to block the removal route 10, as shown by the solid line in FIG. The banknotes are stacked while being aligned, and when the banknotes are carried out by the carry-out belt 18, they are rotated to the horizontal state shown by the chain line in FIG. 2, so that the movement of the banknotes S in the horizontal direction is not obstructed. Note that the carry-out belt 18 is restricted from rotating downward from a state in which it is in a straight line with the arm 17.

In the dispensing route 6, when banknotes S of a specified amount are accumulated in the stacking and conveying section 4 and carried out to the left in FIG. If the bill S dispensed to the dispensing port 5 is not taken out even after a predetermined period of time, the conveyor belt 19 is driven in the opposite direction to send the bill S back to the stacking and conveying section 4. It's becoming like that. The merging section 11 is provided at the starting end of the conveyor belt 19.

The receipt route 8 transports the receipt R issued by the receipt issuing section 7 to the merging section 11, and is provided with a receipt detection sensor 20 along the way.
The output belt 18 of the collecting and conveying section 4 is driven by the detected signal. The position of the receipt detection sensor 20 and the transport speed of the receipt R are set so that the receipt R joins the banknote S in the middle of transport at the merging section 11 slightly later than the banknote S in the middle of transport, and serves as a receipt guide for the banknote S in the middle of transport. is fulfilled. Further, a guide plate 21 is provided along the vertical direction at the terminal end of the receipt route 8 for inserting the receipt R and guiding the tip thereof toward the merging part 11, and in the vicinity of the guide plate 21, the guard member 12 is swingably provided on a shaft 12a so as to open and close the lower end of the guide plate 21. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, this guard member 12 has one end of a shaft 12a protruding from a frame 22 that supports the conveyor belt 19, etc., and an engaging member 23 integrated with the protruding end. The engagement member 23 is pressed and swung by a drive mechanism 24 to open and close the lower end of the guide plate 21, and usually a torsion spring 25 closes the lower end of the guide plate 21. biased in the direction. In the drive mechanism 24, a link 27 rotatably connected to a connecting link 26a of a solenoid 26 is rotatably supported on the frame 22 by a shaft 27a, and a long hole 27b is formed at the tip of the link 27. is formed, and a push-down piece 2 is rotatably supported on the frame 22 by a shaft 28a.
A pin 28b is provided on the side of the elongated hole 27.
b, and the tip of the push-down piece 28 is brought into contact with the engagement member 23,
When the connecting link 26a of the solenoid 26 is moved backward as shown by the chain line in FIG. 3, the push-down piece 28 is rotated to push down the engagement member 23, thereby moving the guard member 12 as shown by the chain line in FIG. The end of the receipt route 8 is opened by rotating it to the position shown.

The removal route is such that when the carry-out belt 18 of the accumulation and conveyance unit 4 carries out the banknotes S, etc. to the right in FIG. It is now being transported to

The dispensing operation of the bill dispensing machine configured as described above will be explained below.

Banknotes S are removed from each banknote storage box 1 according to the customer's instructions.
are fed out one by one and fed into a collection car 13, and stacked one after another from below until a designated amount is reached above the collection car 13. When banknotes S of a specified amount are accumulated in this accumulation conveyance section 4, the pool guide piece 15,
The delivery belts 18 are each swung and the banknotes S
The drive mechanism 24 operates to open the guard member 12 at the end of the receipt route 8, and the receipt R is issued from the receipt issuing unit 7 and conveyed along the receipt route 8. When the passage of the receipt R is detected by the receipt detection sensor 20, the carry-out belt 18 of the accumulation conveyance section 4 is driven to carry out the banknote S horizontally towards the dispensing route 6. While the banknotes S are transferred from the delivery belt 18 to the conveyor belt 19 of the withdrawal route 6, the receipt R is fed from the receipt route 8 and is stacked on top of the banknote S, and these are integrated into the withdrawal route 6. is conveyed and sent out to the payout port 5. The banknotes S and receipts R dispensed to the dispensing port 5 are taken out by the customer, but if they are not taken out even after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, the drive mechanism 24 is activated and the lower end of the guide plate 21 is moved by the guard member 12. After making it into a closed state,
The conveyance belt 19 of the withdrawal route 6 and the conveyance belt 18 of the accumulation conveyance section 4 are driven in the opposite direction, and the banknotes S
etc. are conveyed to the right in FIG. 2 and fed into the exclusion route 10, and collected into the reject box 9 via the exclusion route 10.

On the other hand, if an abnormality such as double feed is detected and the banknotes S accumulated in the stacking and conveying section 4 do not correspond to the specified amount, the delivery belt 18 that clamps the banknotes S is driven in the opposite direction to remove the banknotes S. It is sent to the route 10 and collected to the redirect box 9. In this case, receipt R will not be issued.

"Effects of the Invention" As explained above, the bill dispensing machine of the present invention can provide the following effects.

(i) The stacking and conveying section, the merging section, the dispensing port, and the redirect box are arranged almost horizontally, so that the height dimension of the space in which they are installed is reduced, and the conveyance of banknotes and receipts between them is carried out in a horizontal direction. Since the height of the route is also reduced, the height of the aircraft body can be reduced and the aircraft can be made smaller.

(ii) Since the receipt route is merged with the withdrawal route, the receipts sent to the end of the receipt route can be guided to be drawn in by the accumulated banknotes during transportation, and smooth transportation can be achieved. can.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing an embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed view of the part indicated by the chain line in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a front view showing the drive mechanism of the guard member in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a view taken along the - line in Fig. 2. , FIG. 5 is a schematic side view of a conventional bill dispensing machine. 1...Banknote storage box, 2...Suction swinging rod, 3...
Conveyance device, 4... Accumulating conveyance section, 5... Payout port, 6
...Withdrawal route, 7...Receipt issuing department, 8...
Receipt route, 9... Redirect box, 1
0... Exclusion route, 11... Merging section, 12... Guard member, 13... Collection vehicle, 14... Alignment board, 1
8... Carrying out belt, 19... Conveying belt, 20...
...Receipt detection sensor, 24...Drive mechanism, 29
...Conveyor belt, S...Banknote, R...Receipt.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Banknotes are exchanged between the stacking and transporting unit and a dispensing port in front of the stacking and transporting unit, which sequentially stacks and temporarily stacks banknotes from the bottom and sends out the stacked banknotes either forward or backward. A withdrawal route for carrying out banknotes and a rejection route for conveying banknotes to a redirect box at the rear of the collecting and conveying unit are connected, and a receipt to be stacked on the banknotes to be withdrawn is placed in the said withdrawal route. A bill dispensing machine characterized by having a joining part with a receipt route for conveying the bill in a direction.