JPH01321211A - Article processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make orderly receiving performable by installing a conveyor means, an article passage regulating means, a conveyor regulating means and its control means in an article receiving means, and performing regulation and release of both these regulating means alternately, in a processor for a paper sheet bundle or the like. CONSTITUTION:A paper sheet bundle T is conveyed in a Y direction on a conveyor 5a, and when the forefront bundle T is reached to a discharge end of the conveyor 5a, it comes into contact with a passage regulating means 21 being projected to a regulating position by a command of an unillustrated controller and it is stopped, whereby the belt 5a slips. Next, a turning plate 78A is turned in an arrow beta1 direction by a take-in command out of the controller, releasing engagement of the turning plate 78, and the bundle T is delivered to a receiving plate 7a. Simultaneously, the next bundle T is fed to the discharge end, a slide plate 82 is moved to the side of a guide plate 81 by operation of sensors 84a, 85, pinching and binding the bundle T, and it waits for rotation to an actuating position of the turning plate 78A.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an article processing device, and more particularly, the present invention relates to an article processing device for processing a large number of substantially concave-shaped articles such as a bundle of paper sheets. The present invention relates to an article processing apparatus that sequentially takes in articles and performs various processing on each article.

(Prior Art) A conventional example of this type of article processing apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9.

Figure 1 shows the processing status of a bundle T (100 banknotes are made into a bundle, and this bundle is bundled into 10 large bands) of paper sheets (@banknotes), which is an example of an article. At department stores, banks, etc. that handle banknotes and the like, they are handled in bundles T.

A bundle T brought from a branch 101 of a department store, bank, etc. to, for example, the main store 102 is sent to the receiving section 103 of the main store 102, where the banknote type, number 1. After the source stamp (bank stamp) and the like are checked and recorded, it is temporarily carried into the safe 104. Then, the payout process is performed from the payout unit 106 to the branch 101.

By the way, the processing of the bundle T in the above-mentioned receiving section 103 is as follows. That is, as shown in FIG.
A large receiving table 107 is arranged at 03,
A large number and other types (10,000 yen,
The bundles T (5,000 yen, 1,000 yen) are first piled up manually on the receiving table 107. Next, a large number of bundles T
The bundles are manually transported one bundle at a time in the direction of the arrow X shown in the figure on a long conveyor table 108, and the staff located near the conveyor table 108 checks and records the weight. For example, five bundles are arranged in a row at the protruding end of the conveyor table 108 after the measurement.

From this state, the articles are pushed in the y direction by a manually operated transfer plate 110 and manually packed into containers having a certain volume, and the packed articles are transferred by an attendant and stored in a safe.

However, in the above-described article processing apparatus, all operations such as receiving the bundle T on the receiving table 107 of the receiving section 103 and transferring the articles on the conveyor table 108 are performed manually. In order to accurately measure the weight of articles using the weighing scale 109, each bundle T must be conveyed at regular intervals in order to accurately measure the weight of each bundle.
One bundle T is transported to the weighing scale 109.
There has been a problem that there is too much time interval between when the next bundle T is transported and when the next bundle T is transported, making it impossible to carry out accurate and efficient processing of the products.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an article processing device that can regularly receive a large number of articles at regular time intervals. It is.

[Structure of the Invention (Means for Solving the Problems)] The present invention provides an article processing apparatus that receives a large number of articles by an article receiving means, takes them into the apparatus, and performs various processes on the articles within the apparatus. The article receiving means includes a conveying means for conveying a large number of articles, and an end of the conveying means is arranged at a position facing an article taking-in area of this device, and the articles conveyed by the conveying means are taken in. an article passage regulating means for blocking or releasing passage to the area, and a subsequent article being restrained on the conveying means during an operation of releasing the article taking-in area by the article passing regulating means, and a subsequent article being blocked during an operation of blocking the article-taking area; and a control means for controlling the operations of the article passage regulating means and the article conveyance regulating means.

(Function) When a large number of articles are conveyed by the conveying means of this device, the article passing position regulating means moves the first article among the many articles to the article receiving area of this device under the control of the control means. Block its passage before it can be taken in. At this time, the article conveyance regulating means releases the restraint on the subsequent articles on the conveying means under the control of the control means.

Next, the article conveyance regulating means releases the passage area for the leading article under the control of the i control means. At this time, the article conveyance regulating means restrains the subsequent articles on the conveying means.

As a result, only the leading article is sent to the article taking-in area by the conveying means. Then, after this, the article conveyance regulating means is again in a state of blocking passage of the article, and the article conveying regulating means is again in a state of releasing the restraint on the succeeding article. Similar operations are repeated thereafter.

(Example) Examples of the present invention will be described in detail below.

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of the article processing apparatus 1 of this embodiment.

This article processing device 1 includes a bundle processing device 2 that receives a bundle T (sealed with a face K) of paper sheets (value notes) as a type of article, performs various processing on it, and sends it out.
A container processing device 3 is provided to accommodate the bundles T as normal articles sent from the bundle processing device 2.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the bundle processing device 2 includes a bundle receiving section 4 that receives the bundle T, and a bundle receiving means using a conveyor 5a that conveys the bundle T in the direction of arrow Y shown in the figure. 5. Near the discharge end (bundle intake area) of the conveyor 5a, the ticket types of the bundle T (10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, 1,000 yen) are displayed.
a ticket type detection unit 6 (details will be described later) that individually detects the
A length detecting section 7 (details will be described later) which is arranged adjacent to the bill type detecting section 6 and detects the length of the bundle T is provided. The article processing device 1 includes the bill type detection section 6.
and a bundle conveyor (not shown in FIG. 1) having one end facing the length detecting section 7. On the conveyance path of this bundle conveyor, there are bundles (small pieces) constituting the bundle T. A bundle counting section 9 (which has the same configuration as the length detecting section 7) is arranged to count the number of pieces (sealed with a case k).

At the final end of the bundle conveyor, a stamping section 10 for stamping a delivery stamp on the bundles T is arranged, and near the stamping section 10, bundles T are received every five bundles (Tl to T5) from the bundle conveyor. A five-bundle accumulation section 11 is provided. This 5-bundle accumulation section 1
A 5-bundle buff 112 is provided facing the 5-bundle buff 112 for receiving every 5 bundles T sent out in the direction of the arrow X1. Five uncollected box parts 13 are provided to send the boxes to the box processing device 3.

On the opposite side of the five-bundle accumulating unit 11, there is disposed a direct-bundle accumulating unit 14 for accumulating bundles T' that are determined to be abnormal articles and are to be rejected.

In addition, a key is placed above this reject east stacking section 14, and a number of bundles below one bundle of ticket types of bundle T are manually operated.

An operation panel 15 is provided as an input means for inputting setting information such as date, time, etc., and a display means 16 such as a liquid crystal panel is provided at the rear of the 5-bundle stacking section 11, and various types of information as described below are provided. A control box 17 containing a control unit and the like is arranged.

Although not shown in FIG. 1, the bundle processing device 2 is equipped with a slip printer 18.

Here, FIG. 3 shows the bundle receiving means 5.

This will be explained in detail with reference to FIG.

This bundle receiving means 5 includes a conveying means 20 including the conveyor 5a, article passage regulating means 21 disposed near the discharge end of the conveyor 5a, and articles disposed on both sides of the bundle T conveyed by the conveyor 5a. The conveyance regulating means 22 is also provided.

The conveyance means 20 includes a first belt pulley 23. A fixed first bracket 25 that supports the second belt pulley 24 in a horizontal arrangement;
A second bracket 26 is rotatably supported coaxially with the support shaft 26 of the belt pulley 24, and a protruding end of the second bracket, that is, a position near the bundle input section 4, is provided. The third belt pulley 27 provided, the conveyor belt 28 which is stretched around the outer periphery of the first to third belt pulleys 23, 24, and 27 and stretched under tension; A bending belt sheave 29 is disposed obliquely below the position of the second belt sheave 24 on the bracket 25 and has its outer peripheral surface in contact with the conveyor belt 28;
The support base 25A of the bracket 25 and the second bracket 2
6, and a locking mechanism section 30 arranged to be connected to the lock mechanism section 6,
It includes a drive motor 31 that drives the conveyor belt 28 and a transmission belt 32 that transmits the rotational force of the drive motor 31 to the first belt pulley 23.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5(a), the locking mechanism section 30 includes a first arm 33 having a cross-sectional shape rotatably attached to the support base 25A, and the second bracket 26. The second arm 3 is rotatably attached at one end to the second arm 3 and has the other end inserted into the first arm 33.
4, and a lock portion 35 provided at the overlapping portion of both arms 33 and 34.

As shown in FIG. 5(a), the lock portion 35 has a first
A predetermined large knurled upper hole 61 provided in the arm 33. Pilot hole 6
2, a pressing piece 63 protruding downward near the upper hole 61, and an abutting piece 64 protruding upward from the side of the lower hole 62. In addition, this lock part 3
5 includes a top 66 rotatably supported by the second arm 34 and having recesses 65 at both ends.

When the first arm 33 and the second arm 34 are in the locked state, the corner of the pilot hole 62 and the pressing piece 63 engage with the recess 65 of the piece 66, as shown in FIG. 5(a). As a result, the second bracket 26 is supported in a horizontal position as shown in FIG.

Furthermore, by slightly lifting the second bracket 26 in the direction of arrow Z, the concave portion 65 of the top 66 is removed from the corner of the pilot hole 62, and at this time the top 66 comes into contact with the contact piece 64, so the top 66 The top 66 rotates in the direction of arrow α, thereby causing the top 66 to move toward the first arm 3 as shown in FIG. 5(C).
Within 3, it becomes free and unlocked. Due to such an operation of the lock portion 35, the second bracket 26 and a part of the conveyor belt 28 can be folded toward the support stand 25A as shown in FIG. 6, thereby reducing the space occupied by the bundle receiving means 5. be able to.

Next, the article passage regulating means 21 will be explained.

This article passage regulating means 21 is arranged at the discharge end of the conveyor 5a and above the intake plate 7a of the length detection section 7. That is, this article passage regulating means 21 is
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a pair of bearings 72A and 73B
β1. a motor 74 that drives in the β2 direction; a disc 76 that is attached to the protruding end of the shaft body 71 and has two rear holes 75A and 75B at a predetermined interval;
A light emitting element arranged facing the rotation area of the disk 76,
A first sensor 77 with a built-in light receiving element and both bearings 7
It is attached to the shaft body 71 in a parallel arrangement between 2A and 72B,
2 with its protruding end facing the discharge end of the conveyor 5a.
The two rotating plates 78A and 78B are of great value.

The article conveyance regulating means 22 is a fixed guide plate that is fixedly disposed above the first belt pulley 23 and in contact with the side surface of the conveying area of the bundle T, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. 81, a slide guide plate 82 disposed at a position facing the fixed guide plate 81 with the conveyor belt 28 in between, and this slide guide plate 82 as indicated by arrows P1 and β.
A slide drive source 83 that drives in two directions to bring the slide guide plate 82 into contact with or release the side surface of the bundle T on the conveyor belt 28, and a slide drive source 83 that drives in two directions to bring the slide guide plate 82 into contact with or release the side surface of the bundle T on the conveyor belt 28; The second sensor 85 includes a light emitting element 84A and a light receiving element 84B arranged to form an optical path for detecting the bundle T on the belt 28.

Next, the control system of this device will be explained with reference to FIG.

This control system has a control means/IO consisting of a main control section (including a CPU) 41, a program memory 42 storing an operation program, and a data memory 43 storing processing data of this device. The operation panel 152, display means 16°, and slip printer 18 are connected to the section 41.

The data memory 43 stores bill type discrimination data, length data for each bill type, the preset number of bundles (10) constituting the bundle T, and the like.

Furthermore, the main control section 41 includes a bundle control section 44 . A bill type detection control section 452, a bundle count detection control section 46, and a bundle control section 47 are respectively connected.

Then, the bundle control section 44 controls the bundle input section 4, the bundle receiving means 5. The stamping section 10 and the reject bundle accumulating section 14 are controlled, and the first article sorting means 5 is thereby controlled.
1.

Further, the 5-bundle accumulating unit 11 is controlled by the 5-bundle control unit 47.
．． It controls the 5-bundle buffer and the 5-bundle number box section 13, and also constitutes a second article sorting means 52.

Furthermore, the bill type detection control section 45 controls the bill type detection section 6. The length detection unit 7 is controlled by the bundle counting unit 9 by the bundle counting detection control unit 46.
These components constitute an article detection means 53.

Next, the operation of the apparatus having the above structure will be explained, focusing mainly on the operation of the bundle receiving means 5.

The operator of this device first determines the number of banknotes T for each type of banknotes (the number (
amount) from the operation panel 15.

In this case, the operation panel 1 also displays the ticket type, amount, etc. for the bundle T to be processed manually without being input into this device.
You can also input from 5. The information on the ticket type and amount entered into the operation panel 15 is sent to the display means 16 and displayed under the control of the main control section 41.

This allows both the person handing over the bundle of banknotes and the person receiving it to visually confirm them.

Next, the operator transfers the received bundle T to the bundle inputting section 4.
After arranging multiple rows as shown in the figure, start the device. At this stage, the display means 16 is under the control of the main controller 41.
The displayed information will be deleted.

When this device starts, the conveyor 5a continuously conveys the received bundles in the direction of arrow Y under the control of the main controller 412 and the bundle controller 44, but the leading bundle T is at the discharge end of the conveyor 5a. When reaching the section, the main control section 411 bundle control section 44
The article passage regulating means 21 controlled by the two rotating plates 78A.

78B facing the discharge end of the conveyor 5a,
The leading bundle T comes into contact with the rotating plates 78A and 78B, and the eight bundles T including the lower bundle at the leading end are stopped on the conveyor belt 28 in a slipping state.

Next, a drive signal indicating that the bundle T is to be taken in is sent from the bundle control unit 44 to the drive motor 74.
4 is a rotating plate 78A in the direction of arrow β1.

78B is rotated to open the upper part of the receiving plate 7a.

As a result, the first bundle T is conveyed by the conveyor 5a and received on the receiving plate 7a, and the second bundle T reaches the discharge end of the conveyor 5a.

At this point, the second sensor 85 detects the second bundle T,
The detection signal is sent to the bundle control section 44. As a result, the bundle control unit 44 operates the slide drive source 83 to slide the slide guide plate 82 in the direction of arrow P1.

As a result, the second bundle T is held between the guide plate 81 and the slide guide plate 82 and becomes in a restrained state.

On the other hand, the rotating plate 78A rotates in the direction of arrow β1.

78B is stopped together with the motor 74 when the rear hole 75B provided in the rotary plate 76 is detected by the first sensor 77 and a detection signal is sent to the drive motor 74, and then immediately driven in the direction of arrow β2. Then, the other rear hole 75A is rotated until it is detected by the first sensor 77 and returns to the initial position.

At this stage, the bundle control unit 44 controls the slide drive source 83 based on the detection signal of the first sensor 77, and slides the slide guide plate 82 in the direction of arrow P2.

As a result, the restraint of the second and subsequent bundles T is released, and thereafter eight bundles T are sent to the receiving plate 7a at regular time intervals based on the same operation as described above, and are subjected to various subsequent processing. Ru.

It goes without saying that the present invention can be modified in various ways in addition to the embodiments described above.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention described in detail above, it is possible to provide an article processing apparatus that can regularly receive articles to be processed one by one and subject them to article processing with a relatively simple configuration.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a partially omitted perspective view showing a device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a schematic side view of the same device, Fig. 3 is a side view showing article receiving means of the same device, and Fig. 4 is the same as above. Plan view, Figure 5' (
a)', (b), and (c) are explanatory diagrams of the structure and operation of the locking mechanism in the same device, Fig. 6 is a side view showing the conveyor in the same device in a folded state, and Fig. 7 is a diagram of the same device. FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the control system, FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the processing situation of a general bundle of banknotes, and FIG. 9 is a plan view showing an example of a conventional article processing apparatus. 1... Article processing device, 5... Article receiving means,
21... Goods passage regulating means, 22... Goods transport regulating means, 40... Control means, 4
4... Bundle control section. Figure 2 Figure 8 Figure 9

Claims (1)

[Claims] A large number of articles are received by the article receiving means and taken into the device,
In an article processing apparatus that performs various processes on the articles in this apparatus, the article receiving means includes a conveying means for conveying a large number of articles, and a position where an end of the conveying means faces an article receiving area of the apparatus. an article passage regulating means disposed in the article passage regulating means for blocking or releasing passage of the articles conveyed by the conveying means to the article taking-in area; The article is characterized by comprising an article conveyance regulating means for restraining the article on the means and releasing the restraint on the subsequent article during an operation of blocking the article taking-in area, and a control means for controlling the operations of the article passage regulating means and the article regulating means. Article processing equipment.