JPH0316835Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] This invention sucks paper sheets such as a bundle of banknotes that are fed in at once, and places the front end of the paper sheets on a paper sheet stop guide plate at a position facing the feed roller. This invention relates to an improvement in a paper sheet processing device that locks and temporarily stops the sheet, presses the sheet against a feed roller using a pressure plate, and drives the feed roller to feed the sheet one by one to the next processing section such as a classification section. .

[Conventional technology]

For example, in automatic teller machines, there are often several types of banknotes inserted, and foreign objects such as coins and paper clips may be mixed in between the banknotes. If the front edges of these banknotes are not aligned when they are inserted, the banknotes will not be fed out reliably, jams may occur in the conveyance path, and the authentication section will not be able to distinguish between authenticity or falsity efficiently (large banknotes may If small banknotes are placed in a slanted state, problems such as the slanted banknotes will not be correctly identified and will be returned. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the front edges of the banknotes are aligned correctly to ensure processing. This is the condition. However, this condition has traditionally been left entirely to the attention and awareness of an unspecified number of users when inserting the paper, and it has not always been sufficient to meet these conditions, as it may be difficult to spot small banknotes that are slanted inside. Not satisfied with. Furthermore, even if the front ends of the banknotes are lined up and inserted, if foreign objects are mixed between the banknotes, the foreign objects may get caught in the feed roller or fall onto the electrical wiring, causing a malfunction.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

The present invention is intended to solve these problems, and provides a paper sheet processing device that can align the front edges of bills input with uneven front edges before feeding them out, and can prevent failures due to foreign objects between the bills. It is intended to.

[Means for solving problems]

According to the present invention, the above problem can be solved by a conveying means 61 having an input port 62 into which paper sheets are input, a feeding means 58 that feeds out a predetermined number of banknotes from the conveying means 61, and a feeding means 58 that feeds the paper sheets into the feeding means 58. A paper sheet processing device for processing paper sheets, which includes a pressing plate 53 for pressing, and the conveyance means 61 is configured to position the paper sheets in a direction perpendicular to the floor surface, and the conveyance means A sheet stopping guide plate 59 for retaining only a predetermined number of sheets in the conveying means 61 is provided on the bottom surface of the paper sheet 61, and only the pressing plate 53 is movable forward and backward relative to the feeding means 58, and the pressing plate 53 is moved forward and backward a predetermined number of times. The problem is solved by a paper sheet processing apparatus characterized in that a vibrating member for vibrating the paper sheets on the paper sheet stop guide plate 59 is provided.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of the paper sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention, in which 51 and 52 are guide plates, 53 is a press plate,
54 is a shutter, 55, 56 are rollers, 57, 5
8 is a feed roller, 59 is a sheet stop guide plate (stopper), and 60 is a foreign matter storage box.

The guide plates 51 and 52 are provided facing each other with a conveyance path 61 in between, and have an input port 62 formed at their upper ends.

The press plate 53 includes a support member 63 and a support member 6.
3 and a pressing member 64 that is swingably supported by. The support member 63 is urged toward the conveyance path 61 (to the right in the figure) by a coil spring 65,
It is driven by the plunger magnet 66 shown in FIG. 2 via levers 67 and 68, and is positioned at the position shown by the solid line in FIG. 1 and at a position that advances to the right from this position. A link 69 is provided coaxially with the lever 68, and these levers 68 and links 69 engage with locking members 63a provided on both sides of the support member 63. In the state shown in FIG. 2 in which the plunger magnet 66 does not operate, the support member 63 is positioned at the position shown by the solid line in FIG. The support member 63 moves forward to the right, but in this case, the pressing member 6
4 presses the feed rollers 57 and 58 due to the biasing force of the coil spring 65 when the banknote 40 is not being sucked, and when the banknote 40 is being sucked and stopped by the banknote stop guide plate 59, the banknote 40 is pressed. is pressed against the feed rollers 57 and 58.

The shutter 54 is normally connected to the input port 6 as shown in the figure.
2 is closed, and when the user performs a predetermined operation when inserting banknotes, the user withdraws from the conveyance path 61 and opens the input port 62.

The rollers 55 and 56 are rotatably provided along the conveyance path 61.

The feed rollers 57 and 58 are provided along the conveyance path 61 and rotated by being driven by a drive source (not shown).

The paper sheet stop guide plate 59 is provided at the lower end of the conveyance path 61 to stop the banknotes 40 that are sucked in, and guide the banknotes 40 that are fed out one by one by the feed rollers 57 and 58. As shown in detail in FIG. 3, this sheet stop guide plate 59 has
A plurality of slits 71 are provided to allow foreign objects mixed between the banknotes 40 to fall.

The banknotes 40 that have been inserted in bulk from the input slot 62 by the user are passed through the rollers 55 and 56 along the conveyance path 61.
The conveyance path 6 is provided opposite to the
The sheet is pinched and conveyed by a conveyor (not shown) and rollers 55 and 56 which are biased towards the sheet, and is sucked in. The front end of the sheet is stopped by a sheet stop guide plate 59 and the sheet is temporarily stopped. When the banknotes 40 stop, the conveyor retreats and the banknotes 40 become free.

Here, in the present invention, the support member 63 is reciprocated a plurality of times, but this operation is performed by the plunger magnet 6 by a drive circuit (not shown).
6 in succession multiple times.
When the support member 63 repeats reciprocating motion in this way,
Each time the support member 63 moves forward, the pressing member 64 strikes the banknotes 40 and vibrates them, so that the tips of the banknotes 40 are aligned and the foreign matter mixed between the banknotes 40 passes through the slit 71 and is removed from the foreign matter storage box 60.
fall inside. In this case, since the pressing member 64 is swingably supported by the supporting member 63, the bill 4
The zeros are struck continuously at two locations, so that the front edges of the banknotes 40 are aligned and foreign objects fall off effectively. Note that foreign matter that has fallen to the lower end between the banknotes 40 may hit a portion of the paper stopper guide plate 59 other than the slit 71 formation area and may not be able to fall; After moving, the foreign object can be dropped by holding the banknote 40 between the conveyor and rollers 55 and 56, lifting it by a predetermined amount, and dropping it. Furthermore, if a magnet is provided inside or outside the foreign matter storage box 60, the foreign matter storage box 60 can be
It is possible to prevent light objects such as paper clips that have fallen into the storage box from bouncing off and making noise or flying out of the box due to vibrations during device operation, and the entire storage box is made of iron-based material. The entire box becomes a magnet, and it is possible to catch foreign objects that hit the edge of the box and fail to enter the box when it falls.

If the leading edges of the banknotes 40 are not completely aligned by the operation of the pressing member 64 described above, the position of the top edge of the banknotes 40 on the sheet stop guide plate 59 is slightly above the position when the front ends of the banknotes 40 are completely aligned. A sensor is provided along the conveyance path 61, and when the pressing member 64 completes a plurality of reciprocating movements, the sensor detects the top edge of the uneven banknote and sends out a signal to operate the conveyor and return all the banknotes to the banknote slot. It is also possible to ask the user to align the front edges of the banknotes using voice guidance or the like, and have the user re-insert the banknotes after aligning the front edges of the banknotes. in this case,
A bill stopper is provided to open and close the conveyance path 61, and when the banknotes 40 are inserted, the inserted banknotes 40 are once locked in the bill stopper, and then the bill stopper is retracted and sucked, and when the banknotes 40 are returned, the banknotes 40 are returned to the insertion position. When this occurs, the bill stopper may be advanced to lock the banknotes 40, and the conveyor may be retracted to free the banknotes 40.

The banknote 40, whose front end has been aligned and the foreign matter has fallen, is pressed against the feed rollers 57, 58 by the pressing member 64, which moves forward by actuating the plunger magnet 66, and the feed roller 57, which rotates counterclockwise in the figure. 58, the sheets are fed out one by one and sent through a conveyance path 72 to the next processing section.

Figure 4 shows an overall outline of an automatic teller machine to which the present invention is applied. In the figure, 73 is a building stopper, 74
is a conveyor, 1 is a discrimination section, 2 and 3 are conveyors, 4
is a conveyance path switching gate, 5 is a conveyor, 6 is a roller, 7 is a pool part, 8 is a belt, 9, 10, 11
is the conveyor, 12 is the store department, 13 is the pusher,
14 is a banknote storage box. Bill Stoppa 7
3. The conveyor 74 is omitted in FIG.

The banknotes 40 fed out one by one by the feed rollers 57 and 58 pass through the conveyance path 72 and reach the discrimination section 1.
The authenticity is determined by entering the .

If the discrimination result is "OK", the bill 40 output from the discrimination section 1 is compressed and conveyed by the conveyors 2 and 3, and the conveyance path is switched by the gate 4, and the bill 40 is transferred to the belt 8 which is deformed by the bill 40. conveyor 9
It is then conveyed downward by the conveyor 10 at its front end and stored in the store section 12. The banknotes 40 are stored in the banknote storage box 14 by moving the pusher 13 driven by the pantograph mechanism 15 forward to the right as shown by the chain line when all the banknotes have been verified.
Note that when the user wants to retrieve the banknotes that have been inserted, the user performs a predetermined operation to move the conveyors 9 and 11 to the positions indicated by chain lines, and the banknotes 40 are conveyed upward by these conveyors 9 and 11. is further conveyed upward by conveyors 2, 5 and rollers 16, 1.
7 and 18 and rollers 16', 17', and 18' that are retractably provided opposite to each of these rollers, are pinched and conveyed by these rollers, and are returned to the return port 19. Ru.

In addition, if the identification result is "NG", the identification section 1
The gate 4 rotates clockwise in the figure in response to a signal from the gate 4, and the rollers 16', 17', 18' and the guide plate 20 retreat to the positions indicated by the chain lines. 3, the conveyor passes between the conveyor 5 and the rollers 6, and the guide plate 2
0 and is held substantially vertically and is temporarily pooled in the pool portion 7. These defective banknotes are removed by rollers 16', 17', 18' and roller 1, which move forward together with the guide plate 20 after all the banknotes have been identified and sorted.
6, 17, and 18, and are conveyed and returned to the return port 19.

[Effect of idea]

As described above, according to the present invention, paper sheets that are loaded in bulk and stopped once by being stopped by the stopper are
The support member that supports the pressing member is reciprocated several times by a drive mechanism including a drive source such as a plunger magnet, struck by the pressing member and vibrated, and then the support member is advanced and pressed against the feed roller by the pressing member to cause the feed roller to move. Since the machine feeds out one sheet at a time, there is a gap between the sheets, which makes it possible to ensure that the front edges of the sheets are aligned and to remove foreign objects that may have gotten between the sheets. be. Moreover, since the foreign matter that falls falls through the slit provided in the stopper into the foreign matter storage box provided below, it is possible to prevent foreign matter from being fed out together with the paper sheets and causing a malfunction.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of the paper sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the pressing plate drive mechanism, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the paper sheet stop guide plate, and FIG.
The figure is a front view showing an outline of an automatic teller machine to which the present invention is applied.
is a foreign matter storage box, 61 is a conveyance path, 62 is an input port, 6
3 is a supporting member, 64 is a pressing member, 65 is a coil spring, 66 is a plunger magnet, 67,
68 is a lever, 70 is a plunger, and 71 is a slit.

Claims (1)

[Scope of claim for utility model registration] Conveying means 6 having an input port 62 for inputting paper sheets
1, a feeding means 58 for feeding out a predetermined number of sheets from the conveying means 61, and a pressing plate 53 for pressing the paper sheets against the feeding means 58. The conveying means 61 is configured to position paper sheets in a direction perpendicular to the floor surface, and a plurality of sheets are provided on the bottom surface of the conveying means 61 for retaining only predetermined sheets within the conveying means 61. Only the sheet stopping guide plate 59 having a slit and the pressing plate 53 are made to move forward and backward with respect to the feeding means 58, and the pressing plate 53 is moved forward and backward a predetermined number of times to vibrate the sheet on the sheet stopping guide plate 59. A paper sheet processing device characterized in that a vibrating member is provided.