JPH01113888A - Slips number arranging device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately arrange and classify slips according to their classifications at a high speed by automatically rearranging the slips in numerical order with a machine. CONSTITUTION:A slip delivered from a hopper 1 to a carrier pass is carried up to a reading and identifying mechanism 13, and a number or a mark attached to the slip is read and identified. As the result, in the case of the slip within an object range arbitrarily set at a control part, after an applicable impeller 24 is previously rotated up to a position where the slip can be bitten into an applicable slit, the slip is carried up to the impeller 24 and bitten into the slit. This slip bitten into the impeller 24 is pickup-operated in numerical order, carried up to a completing stacker 27, and housed. Next, the object range for a rearranging action is reset with the control part so that the range can be arranged in numerical order, and a series of action is executed in which a rejecting stacker 2 performs the role of the hopper, and the hopper 1 performs the role of the rejecting stacker respectively. Thus, the rearrangement in numerical order or in mark order can be executed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a document number sorting device, and in particular, a device for collecting and organizing documents with coded numbers or serial numbers after issuing them. The present invention relates to a document number sorting device suitable for sorting the numbers of circulating securities such as bonds.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, a bill is inserted into the device insertion section, the issuing store's data is read by a data reading section such as a MICR reader, the control section identifies the own store world or a plurality of other store worlds, and the bill is inserted into multiple storage sections. A method is known in which the sorting work is automatically performed for each store and other stores. 1 As an example, JP-A-61-235
Publication No. 318 is mentioned.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The above-mentioned conventional technology does not take into consideration the point of intentionally controlling and rearranging the order of a large number of documents, and cannot organize documents with coded numbers or serial numbers in numerical order. There was a problem.

An object of the present invention is to solve such conventional problems and provide a document number sorting device that can intentionally control the order of a large number of documents, rearrange them, and organize them in numerical order. There is a particular thing.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the document number sorting device of the present invention is capable of sorting documents with numbers or symbols by mechanically recognizable means such as optical reading or magnetic reading, and in numerical order. Alternatively, a hopper that loads a large number of forms that are not arranged in the order of symbols, and a first separating and feeding mechanism that separates the forms one by one from the hopper and feeds them to a conveyance path.

It has a reading identification mechanism that reads and identifies the number or symbol attached to the form, and is divided into multiple parts in one rotation direction.

an impeller having a slit for catching only one form; a reject stacker that stacks forms that are temporarily identified as not to be sorted by the reading identification mechanism; a second separating and feeding mechanism that separates the documents one by one and feeds them out onto a conveyance path; a completed stacker that stores the rearranged and conveyed forms; and a conveyance path mechanism that conveys the documents to the respective destination positions. , and a control means for controlling the series of operations;
Each time the reading identification mechanism completes one search, it is configured to perform the function of a hopper and the function of a reject stacker, respectively, and when taking out forms from the impeller, the The feature is that the data are extracted in the order of , and rearranged in numerical order or symbolic order.

[Effect]

In the present invention, a form is separated into one sheet from a hopper loaded with a large number of sheets not arranged in numerical order and fed out to a conveyance path, and is first conveyed to a reading identification mechanism and attached to a form. As a result, if the document falls within the target range arbitrarily set as the target range for the first sorting operation in the control unit, the corresponding impeller is identified by reading the number or symbol. The form is rotated in advance to a position where the slit can hold the form, and then the form is conveyed to the impeller to be caught in the slit. On the other hand, if it is outside the target range of the first sorting operation, it is transported to a reject stacker and stacked.

In this way, the above-mentioned operations are performed on the separated and fed out sheets one by one, and then the impeller picks up the sheets in numerical order until they reach the finished stacker. Transport and store. Next, the control unit is set again so that the target range of the second sorting operation is in numerical order, and this time, the reject stacker plays the role of the hopper, and the hopper plays the role of the reject stacker, respectively. The series of operations described above is performed in the same manner.

By performing the above operations on all the forms until they are completed, it becomes possible to rearrange them in order from low to high or from high to low according to numbers or symbols.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a mechanical part of a document number sorting device showing an embodiment of the present invention. The configuration of this example will be explained below.

The hopper 1 and eject stacker 2 are arranged symmetrically on the left and right so that they have exactly the same function, and each has a gate 4 and a pickup roller 5 for feeding out the form 3 one by one, and a gate 4 and a pickup roller 5 for feeding out the form 3 one by one. A weight 6 is provided for pressing with an appropriate pressure, and the weight 6 is used to transport the form 3 to the input lower of the hopper 1 or the reject stacker 2.
When stacking the forms 3, the structure is such that they can be retracted by the swinging movement of the weight lever 8 so as not to become an obstacle.

The respective outlets 9 and inlet lowers of the hopper 1 and the eject stacker 2, which are arranged to face each other on the left and right, are connected by a main transport path 10, which is constructed by a pair of upper and lower transport rollers 11 arranged at intervals suitable for transporting the form 3. , the conveyance path portion corresponding to each outlet 9 is configured with a one-way guide to prevent the form 3 from flowing backward into the hopper 1 or the reject stacker 2, and the conveyance path portion in front of each inlet 27 is is constructed in a switchback type having a swingable switching gate 12 so that the form 3 is not turned over and stacked in the hopper 1 or the reject stacker 2. In addition, an OCR mark attached to the form 3 is attached to the part of the main conveyance path 10 that connects the hopper 1 and the outlet of the eject stacker 2.
An optical reading identification mechanism 13 configured to be able to read a character number of any number of digits, and a switching gate corresponding to the numbers 0 to 9 and configured to be open/close controllable at a branch from the main conveyance path 10. 10 temporary stackers with 15 14
(The middle part is omitted in the figure) are arranged in series. Further, at the lower part of the - hour stacker 14, there is provided a sub conveyance path 17 which is configured by arranging an optical reading mechanism 16 and a pair of upper and lower conveyance rollers 11 in the same way as the main conveyance path 10. Like the hopper 1 or the reject stacker 2, each temporary stacker 14 is provided with pick-up rollers 18 .
Weight 19. A weight lever 20 is provided.

One end of the sub-transport path 17 and a branch section having a switching gate 21 provided at an appropriate position of the main transport path 1o are configured to be able to transport the form 3 and connected to the sub-transport path 22. Conveyance path 2
2 is provided with a pair of upper and lower transport rollers 11 at intervals suitable for transporting the form 3.

10-type impellers 24 (the middle part is omitted in the figure) having switching gates 23 that can be opened and closed are arranged in series at the branch points with the sub-conveyance path 22 corresponding to the numbers 0 to 9, respectively, The impeller 24 also has 10 slits that correspond to the numbers 0 to 9 and are shaped to fit the form 3, and is controlled to stop rotating at the positions corresponding to the 10 slits. can be configured. Furthermore, a pair of pickup rollers 26 configured to pick up the form 3 caught in the slit and send it out to the sub conveyance path 25 are provided near each impeller 24 and at an appropriate position. In the sub-transport path 25, a pair of upper and lower transport rollers 11 are arranged at an interval suitable for transporting @ slips 3, and these mechanical parts are configured to be able to transport the @ slips 3 to a completed stacker 27 provided at the end of the sub-transport path 25. and a control section that controls the series of mechanical sections.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. As an example, 00
The operation when arranging 2000 forms from 0 to 1999 will be explained.

By rotationally driving the pick-up roller 5, the gate 4. It is fed out to the main conveyance path 10 via the hopper outlet 9.

Furthermore, the document 3 is conveyed to the optical reading identification mechanism 13 while rotating the conveying roller 11, and the number written in OCR characters attached to the form 3 is read and identified. On the other hand, the control section sets 000 to 999 as the number for the first sorting target range, and documents whose read identification results are outside the range and number 1000 or higher are transported to the reject stacker 2 and stacked.

On the other hand, the documents within the first sorting target range, that is, the documents numbered 999 and below, are stacked in the respective temporary stackers 14 corresponding to numbers 0 to 9 according to the most significant digit. When all the forms in the hopper 1 have been sorted in this way, the pick-up roller 18 of the temporary stacker 14 corresponding to 0 is rotated and the corresponding - hour stacker 14 is rotated.
Starting from the bottom sheet of form 3 stacked in
The form 3 is fed out to the sub-conveyance path 17, and further conveyed to the optical reading identification mechanism 16 while rotating the conveyance roller 11.
The OCR character number attached to the impeller 24 is read and identified.
3 is opened, and the impeller 24 is rotated to a position where the form 3 can be caught in the corresponding slit and then stopped. The form 3 is then conveyed via the sub-conveyance path 22 and placed in a predetermined slit. Make it stack. After completing the operation of stacking all 100 forms 3 in the temporary stacker 14 corresponding to 0 on each impeller 24, the forms 3 stacked on the impeller 24 can be taken out in order from the lowest to the highest. By controlling the rotation of the impeller 24 and driving the pickup roller 26, it is fed out to the sub-conveyance path 25 and further
Then, the conveyance roller 11 of the sub-conveyance path 25 is driven to rotate, and the finished product is conveyed to the finished stacker 27 and stacked.

If the above operation can be repeated for 10 types of temporary stackers 14 corresponding to 0 to 9 in this way, the first sorting target range, that is, 1000 sheets belonging to 000 to 999, can be sorted. It becomes possible to do so. Next, as the number for the second sorting range, 1000 to 1999.
This time, eject stacker 2 is set to hopper 1.
By repeating the same series of operations as described above, except that the hopper 1 functions as the reject stacker 2, it becomes possible to rearrange all 2000 forms. It is also possible to simultaneously output forms that are not subject to sorting. In addition, the main conveyance path 10
and the sub-conveyance path 22, one of the temporary stackers 14 of the 10 types can be omitted;
Needless to say, if the number of sheets is less than 1,000 sheets, it is possible to directly stack the sheets on the impeller 24 without passing through the -time stacker 14 and process them in a short time.

In this way, in this embodiment, the hopper 1 and
As long as the capacity of the reject stacker 2 can be secured as needed, it is possible to rearrange the number of sheets or sort and organize them using coded numbers without being limited in the number of sheets. moreover.

There is an advantage that it is possible to classify and sort even documents with numbers outside the sorting target range and documents with no numbers attached.

In this example, the description has been given of a form with OCR characters that can be identified by an optical character reading identification mechanism, but the invention is not limited to this. The present embodiment can be similarly applied to documents such as those described above by providing a reading identification mechanism corresponding thereto.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, since the machine can automatically rearrange documents in numerical order, it becomes possible to organize and sort documents according to their type at high speed and accurately.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a mechanical section of a document number sorting device showing an embodiment of the present invention. 1: Hopper, 2: Reject stacker, 4: Gate,
5: Big up roller, 10: Main conveyance path, 13: Reading identification mechanism, 14 Temporary stacker, 16: Reading identification mechanism,
17: Sub-conveyance path, 18: Pick-up roller, 22: Sub-conveyance path, 24: Impeller, 25: Sub-conveyance path, 26: Pick-up roller, 27: Completed stacker. Patent applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A form that is numbered or marked by mechanically recognizable means such as optical reading or magnetic reading.
and a hopper for loading a large number of forms that are not arranged in numerical or symbolic order, a first separating and feeding mechanism that separates the forms one by one from the hopper and feeds them to a conveyance path, and a number attached to the forms. Alternatively, a reading identification mechanism that reads and identifies symbols, an impeller that is divided into multiple parts in the rotational direction and has a slit for capturing only one form, and the reading identification mechanism that temporarily excludes documents from being sorted. a reject stacker that stacks forms identified as such, a second separating and feeding mechanism that separates the forms one by one from the reject stacker and feeds them to a conveyance path;
A completed stacker that stores the rearranged and transported forms;
It is composed of a conveyance path mechanism for conveying the form to each of the destination positions, and a control means for controlling the series of operations, and the hopper and reject stacker complete one search by the reading identification mechanism. The impeller is configured to alternately function as a hopper and a reject stacker, and when taking out forms from the impeller,
A document number sorting device characterized by sorting documents in order of numbers or symbols by taking them out from top to bottom or from bottom to top.