JPH0431993B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field to which the invention pertains]

This invention is incorporated into a device that stores banknotes and also uses the stored banknotes for dispensing, particularly a vending machine or an automatic money exchange machine, which stores banknotes in layers according to their denominations, and also stores banknotes of a particular denomination. The present invention relates to a device that dispenses, for example, a thousand yen bill as change for product sales or an amount to be exchanged.

[Prior art and its problems]

Generally, a method of recycling 1,000 yen bills paid or inserted into vending machines or automatic exchange machines as change or exchange is a convenient method for machine installers. This has the advantage that the amount of 1,000 yen banknotes needed to be replenished is small, and the interval between replenishment periods is longer. However, these advantages are meaningless unless improvements in machine reliability, cost reduction, and miniaturization are realized. Particularly in the case of vending machines, the level of achievement of the above three items is currently still at a low level. Despite the strong market needs to expand sales opportunities and save labor in sales in market areas such as the sale of various high-value products and the issuance of high-value tickets, the current situation is that no appropriate measures have been taken. . Therefore, improvements in device reliability, cost reduction,
Unless miniaturization is achieved, market needs cannot be met.In other words, the realization of the above three items is an absolute prerequisite for the full-scale spread of recycling-type equipment.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a low-cost, small-sized banknote storage/dispensing device that overcomes the problems of conventional devices and is highly reliable due to its simple structure and operation.

[Key points of the invention]

The main points of the present invention to achieve the above objects are as follows:
It has the following configuration. First, the banknote storage gate switches the conveyance path of banknotes from the previous stage to the storage direction, and feeds the banknotes by sandwiching them between a conveyance belt and a pressing roller, and releases the clamping by the pressing rollers just before reaching a predetermined storage position. Receive mechanism. Next, in order to reliably transport the banknotes to a predetermined position where they are to be stored and to stack them on the surface of the stored banknotes at that position, the following procedure is performed. A rotary guide plate receives both side edges of the banknote in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction on one side of the banknote, and a banknote middle part on the other side of the banknote is received by a conveyance belt to convey the banknote in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction. Curve the cross section. Then, at the storage position, the rotation guide plate is rotated so as to flip up, and then returned to its original position.
A banknote storage mechanism as described above is provided. Further, in order to reliably perform the above-mentioned banknote storage and the next-described banknote feeding, a banknote storage bottom plate elevating mechanism as described below is provided. That is, the banknote storage bottom plate is vertically positioned so that the contact pressure between the conveying belt surface of the banknote storage mechanism and the surface of stored banknotes is weak and strong, respectively, based on the storage command and the payout command. It is something. A banknote feeding mechanism is provided which sequentially feeds out the banknotes from the upper surface of the stored banknotes based on a payout command and reliably feeds out the banknotes one by one. Further, the conveyed banknotes to be stacked and stored are blocked in a predetermined position, and this blocked state is released based on a payout command, and after the payout is completed,
A mechanism, that is, a banknote position regulation lever, is provided for pushing back banknotes that have been fed out but remain without being sent out to a predetermined storage position.

[Embodiments of the invention]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to a perspective view in FIG. 1 and a side view in FIG. 2. 1st
Figure a is a perspective view of almost the whole of this embodiment, Figure 1b
2 is a perspective view of a portion thereof, that is, a plural-sheet passage prevention roller, and FIG. 2 is a side view showing the relative positional relationship of each mechanism of this embodiment. In FIG. 1, the entire device schematically includes a banknote storage gate mechanism 19, a banknote storage mechanism 20, a banknote position regulation lever 26, a banknote storage bottom plate elevating mechanism 30, and a banknote feeding mechanism 40. The general structure and operation of the above main elemental mechanisms will be described below. The banknotes 10 carried in from the direction of arrow P are turned to the storage side by the direction change guide rail 11 of the banknote storage gate mechanism 19, and the banknotes 10 are transferred to the storage side by the belt 5 and the press roller 12 provided at the end of the direction change guide rail 11.
The banknotes are conveyed to the banknote storage mechanism 20 by being sandwiched between the banknotes and the banknotes. In the banknote storage mechanism 20, the banknotes 10 are stored between the belt pulleys 2 and 3 of the conveyor belt 5 and the rotation guide plate 2.
2, and its movement is prevented by the banknote position regulating lever 26. This blocked position is the storage position. Next, the rotation guide plate 22 rotates approximately 1/4 around the shaft 23, flipping up both side edges of the banknote 10 and dropping the banknote 10 onto the underside of the conveyor belt 5 between the belt pulleys 2 and 3. . In this way, a new layering on the surface of the already stored banknotes 10A has been performed. In order to smoothly stack the banknotes 10 on the surface of the stored banknotes 10A as described above, the banknote storage bottom plate elevating mechanism 30 functions. That is, a support post 31 provided on the bottom plate 25 is guided and supported by guide rollers 32 so as to be movable in the vertical direction, and a rack 33 is attached to this support post 31. A pinion 34 is meshed with this rack 33, and this pinion 34 is further connected to a motor 37 via gears 36A and 36B. Based on the banknote storage command, the motor 37 first rotates to raise the bottom plate 25, comes into contact with the conveyor belt 5 of the banknote storage mechanism 20, stops once, and immediately thereafter rotates slightly in reverse again. Due to this operation, the contact pressure between the surface of the stored banknotes 10A and the conveyor belt 5 becomes very small or zero. Zero means that there is no contact between the two.
The former case occurs when there are many stored banknotes, and the latter case occurs when there are few. Under such a contact pressure state, the banknotes 10 can be transported for storage smoothly. Next, the banknote feeding mechanism 40 is connected to the banknote storage mechanism 20.
It is installed in such a way that it penetrates a part of the In other words, the bill feeding roller 42 is located above the leading end of the bill 10 in the storage position. Reference numerals 43 and 44 refer to a set of rollers for preventing the passage of multiple bills, each having the function of allowing only one bill to pass between them. The banknote feeding roller 42 and multiple sheet passage prevention rollers 43, 44 are rotated by the drive shaft 41 in the direction of the arrow via belt pulleys 45A, 45B and toothed belt 45C. Bill feeding roller 42, multiple bill passage prevention roller 4
A holding frame 49 that holds together the parts 3 and 44 is rotatably installed around a rotation shaft 41. In addition, this holding frame 4
9 is provided with an electromagnetic actuator 46, a spring 47, and a push shaft 48. When a bill payout command is issued, first, the bill storage bottom plate elevating mechanism 30 is activated, the bottom plate 25 rises, and stops with the surface of the stored bill 10A in strong contact with the conveyor belt 5. Next, the electromagnetic actuator 46 operates to rotate the holding frame 49 clockwise to move the outer circumferential surface of the banknote feeding roller 42 to the stored banknotes 10.
Press it onto the surface of A. At the same time, holding frame 4
A push shaft 48 provided at the banknote 9 pushes one end of the banknote position regulating lever 26 and rotates it clockwise to release the blocked state of the front end surface of the stored banknote 10A. In this state, the bill dispensing roller 42 rotates a number of times corresponding to the predetermined number of bills, and the stored bills 10A are dispensed in order from the top in the direction of the arrow Q by the frictional force of the rubber uneven portion provided on the outer periphery. Further, the banknotes 10 are
Only one piece of the board is allowed to pass. When a predetermined number of sheets have been fed out, the electromagnetic actuator 46 is turned off based on a command, and the retaining frame 49 is rotated counterclockwise by the valve 47.
In this way, the outer circumferential surface of the banknote feeding roller 42 separates from the surface of the stored banknote 10A. At the same time, the banknote position regulation lever 26 is released from the push shaft 48,
It is rotated counterclockwise by the spring 28 and returns to the original bill blocking position. During the return operation process of the bill position regulating lever, if the multiple bill passage prevention roller 43,
If there are banknotes stuck at 44, the banknotes are pushed back to their normal storage positions, that is, their positions are adjusted. The general structure and operation of the banknote storage/dispensing device have been described above. Next, each of the banknote storage gate mechanism 19, banknote storage mechanism 20, banknote storage bottom plate elevating mechanism 30, and banknote feeding mechanism 40 will be described in detail. FIG. 3 is a side view of the banknote storage gate mechanism 19, and FIG. 4 is a front view thereof. First, in FIG. 3, a conveyor belt 5 stretched by belt pulleys 1 to 3 and an intermediate pulley 4 is moving in the direction of the arrow. When a banknote is introduced from the direction of arrow P, it passes between two guide plates 8 and 9 installed at a narrow interval, and passes between belt pulley 1 and pressing roller 6, which is opposed to belt pulley 1 and is pressed against it by spring 7. conveying force is given by Then, at this point, it is switched whether to change direction to the storing direction or to continue straight ahead. The direction change guide rail 11 performs this switching. The direction change guide rail 11 has fork-shaped ends at both ends as shown in the front view of FIG. One end of the belt pulley 1 can be switched between a position sandwiching the belt pulley 1 and a position facing the belt pulley 1 with a certain gap. This direction change guide rail 11 has a long hole 11a, and a fixed shaft 15 passes through this long hole 11a. Further, a pressing roller 12 is inserted into the other fork-shaped end of the direction change guide rail 11, and is connected to the same fork-shaped portion of the arm 13 via a pin 16. The arm 13 is fixed to a rotation shaft 14 at the other end. In other words, the direction change guide rail 11 and the arm 13
and constitute a link mechanism that is rotatably connected via a pin 16 and rotatably supported by a rotating shaft 14 and rotatably and movably supported by a fixed shaft 15. Conceivable. Therefore, its operation is as follows. Third
In the figure, the arm 13 rotates as indicated by a double-headed arrow R, but the solid line indicates the banknote storage direction. A chain line of the arm 13 indicates its center position. At this time, the presser roller 12 is pressed against and comes into contact with the conveyor belt 5, and the direction change guide rail 11 is moved to a position indicated by diagonal lines (highlighted in the figure) due to the constraint relationship between its elongated hole 11a and the fixed shaft 15. Take. A path for banknotes is formed between the left side surface of the direction change guide rail 11 and the conveyor belt 5. Moreover, at this time, a strong conveying force is simultaneously applied to the banknote between the pressing roller 12 and the conveying belt. Furthermore, by positioning the press roller 12 as close to the banknote storage position as possible, it is possible to support the weak conveying force to the banknote storage position. In addition, as mentioned above, the pressing roller 12
Even if the banknote is brought close to the storage position, it is completely separated from the conveyor belt 5 in the next step, so there is no jamming between the banknote and the next banknote, which has been a problem in the past. Next, when the arm 13 is centered at the dashed-dotted line position to the right of the double-headed arrow R, the banknote is allowed to travel straight. At this time, at the same time as the press roller 12 is detached from the conveyor belt 5, the direction change guide rail 11 is at the position shown by the two-dot chain line, and the banknote passes along the right side thereof. Next, the banknote storage mechanism 20 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 8. 5 to 7 each show a front view thereof, and FIG. 8 a side view thereof. FIG. 5 shows the state before the banknotes are stored, and the newly conveyed banknotes 10 are lifted up between the conveyor belt 5 and the rotation guide plate 22 so that the edges on both sides are different from the middle part as shown in the figure. It has become a state of being.
Bills 10A are already stored and stacked on the bottom plate 25. 21 is a bearing plate that supports the belt pulley shaft. The rotation guide plate 22 can rotate approximately perpendicularly upward around a rotation axis 23 perpendicular to the plane of the paper. A supplementary explanation will be given with reference to FIG. 8, which is a side view of FIG. 5. The conveyor belt 5 is connected to belt pulleys 1~
3 and an intermediate pulley 4 are driven in the direction of the arrow by a motor (not shown). Reference numeral 6 denotes a press roller facing the belt pulley 1; 11 a direction change guide rail belonging to the banknote storage gate mechanism 19 described above; and 12 a press roller for the conveyor belt 5 which interlocks with the direction change guide rail 11. Next, the operation of this banknote storage mechanism 20 will be described. First, a banknote is inserted from the P direction as indicated by the broken line arrow in FIG. . At this point of the belt pulley 2, both edges in the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the banknote are guided along the rotation guide plate 22, and when viewed from the front, it is shown in FIG. It's becoming like that. Therefore, since the banknotes 10 are lightly pressed against the conveyor belt 5, reliable conveyance is achieved by the frictional force between the banknotes 10 and the conveyor belt 5.
In other words, the banknotes 10 are conveyed by friction with the banknotes 10A already stored and by the driving force. Then, the bill 10 hits the position regulating lever 26 at the position where it should be stored and stops. Note that the tip of the banknote 10 is connected to the position regulating lever 26.
It is necessary that the rear end portion be away from the presser roller 12 when it is in contact with the presser roller 12. This is because the conveyance force by the presser roller 12 is strong.
This is because if the movement is forcibly stopped by the position regulating lever 26, the banknote 10 will be deformed and jammed. As for the installation position of the pressing roller 12, it is desirable that when the rear end of the banknote 10 is detached therefrom, the leading end is as close to the position regulating lever 26 as possible. Now, in the next step, the sixth
As shown in the figure, the rotation guide plate 22 rotates substantially perpendicularly upward in the direction of the arrow. As a result, both side edges of the banknote 10 come off the rotation guide plate 22 and are completely stacked on top of the already stored banknote 10A. In the next step, as shown in Figure 7,
The rotation guide plate 22 is returned to its original position. This completes the conveyance and storage of banknotes 10. In this state, the bank waits for the next banknote to arrive. Note that the bottom plate 25 is in contact with the conveyor belt 5 with a weak contact pressure, or is in a state where there is no contact pressure. This is because the banknote 10 has contact pressure with the conveyor belt 5 due to the rotation guide plate 22, and is therefore given a conveying force. To add more,
On the stacked storage of banknotes 10, stored banknotes 10A
It is sufficient that the surface of the conveyor belt 5 is close to the conveyor belt 5. Next, the bottom plate elevating mechanism 30 for storing and dispensing banknotes.
The configuration will be explained with reference to FIG. 1a. Reference numeral 25 indicates the bottom plate of the banknote storage chamber, 31 indicates columns attached to both sides of the bottom plate 1, 32 indicates four pincushion-shaped guide rollers each supporting the column 2 so that it can move up and down, and 33 indicates each column. A rack provided at 2, 34 is a mutually interlocked pinion that meshes with this rack 33, and 37 is a motor capable of forward and reverse rotation that rotates this pinion 34 via gears 36A and 36B. The above is the main part of the bottom plate elevating mechanism 30. Above this, the banknote conveying belt 5 is connected to the belt pulleys 1 to 3.
3. Driven by intermediate pulley 4. Next, the operation of this bottom plate elevating mechanism 30 will be described. The banknotes 10 to be stored are stored on the bottom plate 25 by the banknote storage mechanism 20. At this time, the bottom plate 25 is driven by the motor 37 as follows. In response to the storage command signal, the motor 37 rotates forward for a preset time and then stops.
It is controlled to reverse for another very short set time and then stop again. Therefore, first, the bottom plate 2
5 is a banknote 10A that has been moved upward and has already been stored.
The surface of the motor 37 comes into contact with the conveyor belt 5, and the rotation of the motor 37 is prevented by the load or contact pressure.
In this case, the rotating shaft of the motor 37 itself may be blocked by the load, or the rotating shaft may slip when the torque exceeds a certain level, and the contact pressure may be limited. Then, at the set time, the motor 37 stops. Next, the motor 37 rotates in reverse for another extremely short set time and then stops again, so that the bottom plate 25 is slightly lowered and the surface of the banknote 10A is slightly separated from the surface of the conveyor belt 5. However, if there are many banknotes 10A, the two may remain in contact due to gaps between the banknotes.
However, the contact pressure would be very weak. Therefore, in the above state, there is no problem in conveying banknotes due to the banknote conveying force of the conveyor belt 5 as described above. Next, in the case of dispensing, the same operation as the previous stage in the case of storage described above is performed. In other words, the motor 37 is rotated in the normal direction for a set time by the dispensing command signal, and then stopped. At this time, the surface of the banknotes 10A stacked and stored on the bottom plate 25 is in a state of strong contact pressure with the conveyor belt 5. Therefore, the bill dispensing roller 42 reliably contacts the surface of the bill 10A, and the dispensing operation is also reliably performed. Although a detailed explanation of the control of the motor 37 will be omitted, it is easily performed by a sequence control circuit. Next, the bill position regulating lever 26 and the bill feeding mechanism 40 will be explained with reference to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 shows its side view. First, the configuration of this mechanism will be explained. Second
In the figure, banknotes 10 are stored in a stacked manner in sequence on a bottom plate 25 of the storage chamber. 26 is a banknote position regulation lever; 27 is a rotation shaft that rotatably supports this position regulation lever 26; 28 is a spring;
Reference numeral 48 denotes a push shaft fixed to a holding frame 49 of a bill dispensing roller unit to be described later, and numeral 42 denotes a roller for dispensing bills, which is provided with a rubber uneven portion on a part of its circumference. Reference numerals 43 and 44 are a well-known set of rollers for preventing multiple bills from passing through. The upper roller 43 for preventing the passage of multiple sheets has three thin discs arranged at a certain interval in the axial direction. Similarly, in the lower part 44, two discs having a smaller diameter than the above-mentioned discs are arranged between the above-mentioned discs. The outer peripheries of both discs are placed so that they touch each other with a slight spacing between them. This interval is adjustable, and how to choose this interval is a matter of know-how. Also, usually the larger disk is made of a metal material, and the smaller disk is made of a softer material at least on its outer periphery. The upper multiple sheet passage prevention roller 43 is connected to the drive shaft 4
1, and the banknote feeding roller 4
2 in the same direction and so as to equalize the linear velocity at the outer periphery. Further, the lower multiple sheet passage prevention roller 44 cannot rotate in the dispensing direction.
A one-way clutch is built in so that it can rotate in the opposite direction. A frame 49 that mainly holds the feeding roller 42 and the multiple bill passage prevention roller 43 constitutes a bill feeding roller unit. The drive shaft 41 rotates only clockwise in the figure. A holding frame 49 of the banknote feeding roller unit is rotatably supported coaxially with the drive shaft 41. In addition, the holding frame 4
9 is connected to the movable part of the electromagnetic actuator 46. Further, the holding frame 49 includes a spring 47.
A stopper 47A is attached to apply a force to rotate the counterclockwise direction, and a stopper 47A is provided in response to this force. Note that FIG. 1a is a perspective view of the arrangement of each of the above-mentioned members, so that the relative positions thereof can be understood. That is, there are three banknote feeding rollers 42 and two sets of multiple banknote passage prevention rollers 43 and 44, which are arranged alternately with the rollers 42 in the axial direction. Next, for the sake of convenience, the operation of this mechanism will be explained separately for the case of storing banknotes and the case of dispensing banknotes. First, in the case of banknote storage, the solid line in FIG. 2 corresponds to the case. In other words, the stored banknotes 10A
The outer circumferential surface of the banknote feeding roller 42 is separated from the surface of the banknote feeding roller 42 . At the same time, the banknote position regulation lever 26 is also located at the position indicated by a solid line and a partially broken line, and a regulation surface 26a at the tip thereof blocks the front surface (left side in the figure) of the banknote 10A. Next, when a bill payout command is issued, the movable part of the electromagnetic actuator 46 operates upward based on the command signal, and the holding frame 49 is rotated clockwise about the drive shaft 41. At the same time,
A push shaft 48 fixed to the holding frame 49 pushes the upper edge of the banknote position regulating lever 26, and the lever 26
rotates clockwise and moves to the position indicated by the two-dot chain line in the figure. At the same time, the outer peripheral surface of the bill feeding roller 42 comes into contact with the surface of the bill 10. In the above state, the bill feeding roller 42 is moved to the drive shaft 4.
1, the banknotes are rotated clockwise together with the multiple banknote passage prevention roller 43, and the stored banknotes are sequentially fed out one by one. Then, the fed bills are reliably passed one by one by a set of multiple bill passage prevention rollers 43 and 44. In other words, if two bills are passed through the multiple bill passage prevention roller 43,
Even if the banknotes on the lower side try to pass through the gap 44, the friction with the rubber surface of the roller 44 is large, so the banknotes on the lower side separate from the banknotes on the upper side and remain there. Banknotes that have passed through these
The paper is sent out between the delivery roller 51 shown in the figure and a pressing roller (not shown) installed opposite to this. Naturally, the drive shaft 41 is
A rotation speed corresponding to the number of coins to be dispensed is commanded, and the electromagnetic actuator 46 performs a suction operation only during the dispensing period. When the command for dispensing is completed, the operation of the electromagnetic actuator 46 is canceled and the bill dispensing roller unit also returns to the position indicated by the solid line. The push shaft 48 then moves to the shaded position. Simultaneously with this movement, the bill position regulating lever 26 is rotated counterclockwise by the spring 28 to a position where it touches the push shaft 48 and returns to its original position (the position shown by diagonal lines).
If there is a banknote stuck near the multiple sheet passage prevention rollers 43 and 44, the banknote position regulating lever 26 is operated to return the banknote to push it back to the normal storage position. In this way, it becomes possible to store banknotes. In the above explanation, transportation, storage, feeding,
The objects to be paid out were banknotes. However, this object is not limited to just banknotes, but can of course be applied to paper sheets in general.

【Effect of the invention】

How the five elements constituting this invention, that is, the banknote storage gate mechanism, banknote storage mechanism, banknote storage bottom plate elevating mechanism, banknote position regulation member, and banknote feeding mechanism, are useful for the purpose of the invention. I will explain it in an organized manner. (1) Improved reliability Banknote storage gate mechanism: Banknotes are sandwiched between a conveyor belt and a press roller and are reliably conveyed to just before a predetermined position. When the bill is in the predetermined storage position, the pressing roller is separated from the conveyor belt, so there is no risk of jamming with the next bill. Banknote storage mechanism: Banknotes are curved and sandwiched between a conveyor belt and a rotating guide plate, and the banknote conveyance force by the conveyor belt is enhanced, ensuring reliable conveyance. Bill storage bottom plate elevating mechanism: Adjusts the position of the stored banknote surface according to the purpose of storing and dispensing banknotes, and makes the contact pressure between the banknote surface and the conveyor belt weak and strong, so that it can be used for storing and dispensing banknotes. The payout operation becomes reliable. Bill position regulating member: The bill position is reliably regulated by mechanical pressing force based on the rotation of the position regulating member. Banknote feeding mechanism: The strong frictional force of the feeding roller combined with the raising and lowering of the banknote storage bottom plate reliably feeds out the banknotes. The multiple bill passage prevention roller allows bills to be reliably sent out one by one. (2) Cost reduction Banknote storage gate mechanism: The structure is extremely simple because the guide surface for switching the conveyance path and the holding path roller are integrated and a single operation is performed by a link mechanism. Banknote storage mechanism: It has a simple structure consisting of only a conveyor belt and rotating guide plates on both sides. Bill storage bottom plate elevating mechanism: The bottom plate position can be adjusted very roughly to suit the purpose, which simplifies the structure. Bill position regulating member: The only movement is rotation, and this rotation uses the movement of the feeding mechanism, so no special structure is required. Banknote feeding mechanism: It has a simple structure because it only operates by rotating. (3) Miniaturization Banknote storage gate mechanism: Similar to the item for cost reduction, it has a simple structure and the range of movement of the component parts is small. Bill storage mechanism: Bill storage is performed by approximately 1/4 rotation of the rotating guide plate, so no extra space is required compared to conventional mechanisms. A part of the empty space above can be used for the banknote feeding mechanism, so space can be saved accordingly. Banknote storage bottom plate elevating mechanism: Due to the structure, there are no members below the bottom plate, so the banknote storage capacity can be increased. Conversely, it can be made smaller for a certain storage capacity. Banknote position regulating member: Since it presses only the both side edges of the banknote, it can be shifted in position with other members, allowing the space to be shared. Bill feeding mechanism: Installed in a part of the empty space above the bill storage mechanism, saving space.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1a is a perspective view showing almost the entire structure of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1b is a perspective view showing a part of the roller member for preventing the passage of multiple sheets, and FIG. Figure 3 is a detailed side view of the banknote storage gate mechanism, Figure 4 is a detailed front view of the banknote storage gate mechanism, and Figures 5 to 7 are banknote storage. FIG. 8 is a front view showing the structure and operation of the mechanism, and FIG. 8 is a side view of the banknote storage mechanism. Description of symbols, 5... Conveyor belt, 10, 10A...
...Banknotes, 11...Direction change guide rail, 12...
Pressing roller, 19...Banknote storage gate mechanism, 2
0...Banknote storage mechanism, 22...Rotation guide plate, 25
...Bottom plate, 26...Banknote position regulation lever, 30...Banknote storage bottom plate lifting mechanism, 37...Motor, 40...
Banknote feeding mechanism, 42...Banknote feeding roller, 43...
Multiple sheet passage prevention roller, 48...push shaft.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A system for stacking and storing incoming banknotes in a predetermined location and dispensing a predetermined number of banknotes based on a command, which comprises: (a) a guide member for switching the banknote transport path to the storage direction; (b) a banknote storage gate mechanism provided with a pressing roller that presses the banknote against the conveyance belt and releases the banknote just before the banknote reaches the storage position; A rotation guide plate that receives the opposite side edges of the banknote; and a conveyor belt that receives the middle part of the other surface of the banknote and curves the banknote between the rotation guide plate; (c) A banknote storage mechanism that rotates a rotation guide plate in a flip-up manner and then returns to its original state; (d) A banknote feeding mechanism that sequentially feeds out stored banknotes one by one from the surface of stored banknotes based on a payout command. and (e) blocking the stored banknotes in a predetermined storage position based on a storage command when storing the stored banknotes, releasing the blocking based on a dispensing command, and after completing the dispensing, storing the banknotes that have been dispensed but not delivered in the predetermined storage position. A banknote storage/dispensing mechanism comprising: a banknote position regulating member for pushing the banknote back into position;