JPH01231196A - Cash collecting method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a compact and inexpensive device which can collect a taking-forgotten bill may times by attaching the delimiting use each for discriminating a transaction to cash to be collected and containing them in a collecting box. CONSTITUTION:By separating parts 3a, 3b, a prescribed amount of money 9a is taken out of cash cassettes 6, 7 carried to a paying port part 4 through a carrying path 2, and accumulated as a delimiting use bill on a taking-forgotten bill 8a which has been drawn in. Thereafter, a tray 10 is brought to turning operation in the direction A, and the taking-forgotten bill 8a and the delimiting use bill 9a which have been stacked together are fed into a collecting and carrying part 5 by an operation in the direction B of a fork 11. The bills which have been fed into the collecting and carrying part 5 are contained with its tip down in a taking-forgotten bill collecting part 6b of a composite cash cassette 6 by an operation of the carrying path part 5. In such a way, a collection of one set of taking-forgotten bill is ended. Thereafter, when the same taking- forgetting is generated, the taking-forgotten bill 8 and the delimiting use bill are contained by a plural times portion in the taking-forgotten bill collecting part 6b by repeating said operation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a method for collecting items in an automated teller machine, and particularly to a compact and low-cost method for collecting items left behind.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional devices have a special mechanism for distinguishing between transactions of collected and forgotten banknotes, as described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5S-T14190.

In addition, as another known example, there is a system in which a special intervening object is supplied from a separate mechanism each time a forgotten banknote is collected, and the intervening object is interposed between different transactions.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above conventional technology uses a special 1! for pushing collected banknotes into the storage section. & A mechanism is required to have a special intermediary between each transaction.

There were problems such as the equipment was large, the cost was high, and the number of transactions collected was small.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a compact and low-cost system that has a function of collecting banknotes that have been left out many times and can distinguish banknotes for each collection.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above objective is achieved by adding delimiter cash to collected cash every time cash is collected.

[Effect]

This is achieved by separating the specified amount of cash from the cash cassette, stacking it as an inclusion on the withdrawn cash, and collecting it into the collection cassette at the same time as collecting cash into the payment slot each time cash is collected. can.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote payout section of an automatic teller machine.

The banknote payout unit 1 is composed of a belt, and includes a transport path unit 2 that transports banknotes one by one from each cassette in the direction of the arrow, separation units 3a and 3b that are comprised of suckers that rotate reciprocatingly in the direction of the arrow to separate the banknotes one by one. It consists of a collection and conveyance path section 5 consisting of a 4-degree belt conveyor, a composite cash cassette 6 (thousand yen notes), and a dedicated cash cassette 7 (thousand yen notes).

The composite cassette 6 has a rejected banknote collection section 6a and a forgotten banknote collection section 6b. A tray 10 is loaded with banknotes to be discharged, and a tray 11 moves forward and backward in the direction of the arrow while being placed on a fork belt lla that pushes the stacked banknotes to a discharge port 13. Also belt lla
1. The tray 10 and the fork 11 can both be vibrated up and down.

Reference numeral 12 denotes an impeller that pinches the banknotes conveyed from the cassette 6 or 7 one by one by the belt 2 and deposits them on the tray 10.

Referring to FIG. 2, an explanation will be given of the operation when a banknote is forgotten and collected.

In a payment transaction, if the bill dispensed by the fork 11 to the outlet to pay the customer is not withdrawn by the customer for a certain period of time, a collection operation begins.

The banknotes 8 left in the receiving slot 13 of the banknote paying unit 1 are drawn into the paying slot 4 by retracting the fork 11.

The broken line 8a represents the banknote in the captured state.

In this state, a certain amount (for example, 11,000 yen) 9a is taken out from the cash cassette 6.7 using the separating parts 3a and 3b,
The banknotes are carried to the payment port 4 via the conveyance path 2 and stacked on top of the pulled-in forgotten banknotes 8a as separation banknotes.

Thereafter, the tray 10 is rotated in the direction A, and the forgotten banknotes 8a stacked together and the separator banknotes 9a thereon are fed into the recovery conveyance path 5 by the movement of the fork 11 in the direction B.

The banknotes fed into the collection and conveyance path section 5 are stored with the leading end downward in the forgotten banknote collection section 6b of the composite cash cassette 6 by the operation of the conveyance path section 5. This completes the collection of the - set of forgotten banknotes. Thereafter, when a similar forgetting occurs, the forgotten banknote 8 and the separation banknote 9 are stored in the left banknote collection unit 6b for a plurality of times by reversing the operation as described above.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the state of a plurality of collected banknotes stored in the forgotten banknote collection unit 66.

First, there is the first missed banknote 8a, then the first banknote 9a, followed by the second banknote 8b, the second banknote 9b, and the same for the third and subsequent times. It becomes a sequence of

When the clerk inspects the forgotten banknotes, the relevant amount is removed from the beginning of the record of collected banknotes in a journal (not shown), and then the banknotes are separated into predetermined denominations and numbers, such as 10,000-yen notes and 1,000-yen notes. By repeating the process of removing two bills, one for each banknote, it is possible to distinguish between banknotes that have been left behind each time the banknotes are collected.

If it is not possible to remove the specified amount of delimiter banknotes, it becomes clear that some kind of abnormality or fraud occurred when the banknotes were forgotten to be collected before the delimiter. If the predetermined delimiter banknotes can be removed from the collected banknotes, the collected banknotes can be processed normally.

Here, the fixed denomination and number of bills are stacked on the tray 10 together with the drawn-in banknotes at the time of collection, and then stored in the cash cassette. It may also be stored in a cash cassette.

Further, in this embodiment, forgotten banknotes are collected in a cash cassette, but they may be collected in another independent collection box or the like. As the delimiter banknotes, several banknotes of the same denomination may be consecutively used. Furthermore, the delimiter banknotes may be stored at a different angle from the collected banknotes.

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart when collecting forgotten banknotes according to the present invention.

When the bill ejected by the fork 11 is not removed after a predetermined period of time, a collection operation is started in step 101. After the removed banknotes are drawn in, the conveyance path 2 is operated in step 103, and in steps 104-105, separation banknotes are stacked on top of the drawn-in banknotes. Subsequently, the recovery operation is completed in steps 106 to 111, but the fork is moved forward twice. This is to ensure that the banknotes are transferred to the fork or the collection conveyance path.

In steps 113 to 115, the fork and tray return to their original states and prepare for the next payment operation.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, a compact and low-cost device can be provided because it is possible to collect forgotten banknotes multiple times without using any special mechanism, and to distinguish between banknotes that have been left out for each collection.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of its operation, Fig. 3 is a side view of banknotes in a collected state according to an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 4 This is a flowchart when collecting forgotten banknotes according to an embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Bill payment part, 2... Conveyance path part, 3... Separation part, 4... Payment opening part, 5... Collection conveyance path part, 6...
・Collection box (combined cash cassette), 7... Dedicated cash cassette, 8... Forgotten cash (banknotes), 9... Separator cash (banknotes), 10... Tray, 11... Fork $ 1 Figure 4: Cash owner Kukuchigo, otsume nakuji 3 Figure t234<face>

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A cash collection method in which, when collecting cash dispensed from a cash payment outlet, the collected cash is stored in a collection box along with a delimiter for distinguishing transactions. 2. The cash according to claim 1, wherein the delimiter cash is of a predetermined denomination and number of coins taken out from the cash cassette during the collection operation and stored in the collection box along with the cash to be collected. Collection method.