JPH0511236Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a withdrawal processing device installed in a financial institution such as a bank to automate withdrawal operations.

[Prior Art] In order to automate withdrawal operations, financial institutions such as banks use a withdrawal processing device consisting of a withdrawal device and a deposit/withdrawal device equipped with a deposit mechanism outside the withdrawal mechanism. It will be done. This dispensing processing device includes a banknote storage section that stores banknotes of different types and a dispensing port, and the bill storage section and the dispensing port are connected by a conveyor that conveys the banknotes. , when the withdrawal amount is specified using the operation panel usually called a teller's machine attached to this withdrawal processing device,
A predetermined number and type of banknotes are taken out from the banknote storage unit, the denomination and amount are verified in a recognition unit provided midway along the conveyance path, and the banknotes are dispensed to a payout port.

Here, the above-mentioned banknote storage section includes a stacker fixedly provided on the main body of the dispensing processing device and a safe that can be removed from the main body. In some cases, a recirculation type is generally used in which a portion of the deposited banknotes is recycled for withdrawal, and the banknote storage section for this recirculation is equipped with a safe that can be removed from the main body of the device. is normal. Therefore, a safe having such a dispensing mechanism has a bill ejection port formed at the bottom of its bill storage section, and this bill ejection port is closed when the safe is removed from the main body of the device. , which opens when attached to the main body of the device. Further, a separating drum is used to separate and take out banknotes one by one from the banknote outlet and send them to a conveyor.

In order to perform continuous and smooth withdrawal operations, the above-mentioned safe is designed so that after one bill is taken out, subsequent bills are transferred to a standby position facing the bill ejection port. . If a portion of the subsequent banknotes is left exposed to the outside from the safe, the waiting banknotes may be damaged when the safe is removed from the main body of the device, or they may fall out of the safe after the safe is removed. This has the disadvantage that it can be intentionally withdrawn. In order to eliminate this inconvenience, a separation drum is built into the safe,
Conventionally, a banknote has been used which is configured so that a banknote that is in the above-mentioned standby position outside the banknote takeout port and has been removed from the banknote takeout port can also be stored in the safe.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] By the way, as mentioned above, the separation drum is built into the safe, and even banknotes that are in the standby position and are partially visible outside the banknote ejection port can be transferred into the safe. When stored, the safe has a complicated structure, becomes larger and heavier, and is not only inconvenient to carry and install, but also expensive. In particular, the current situation is that there is an extremely strong demand for reducing the price of safes, since a plurality of safes are usually used in one withdrawal processing device.

The present invention was made in view of the above points, and its purpose is to provide a banknote dispenser that has a simple structure, can be manufactured at low cost, is small in size, and is equipped with a weighing safe for dispensing. The purpose of the present invention is to provide gold processing equipment.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention forms a banknote ejection port at the bottom of a safe that stores banknotes in a stacked state, and the banknote ejection port is equipped with a separation drum. In the dispensing processing apparatus, the bill separating and dispensing means is arranged such that the bills are separated one by one and conveyed to the dispensing port by the bill separating and dispensing means. The safe is attached to a drawer unit that can be pulled out in a horizontal direction from the main body, the safe is removably attached to the drawer unit, and a banknote separation/retrieval means attached to the drawer unit is configured on the side of the main body of the apparatus. A rotary drive unit equipped with a guide surface that can be engaged with the separating drum is installed, and when the drawer unit is pushed into a predetermined position, the separating drum is brought into a non-contact state with the guide surface, and the drawer The device is characterized in that, when the unit is pulled out, the separation drum is rotated in the opposite direction to the direction in which banknotes are sent out, and the banknotes are pulled back into the safe.

[Function] When the safe is attached to the main body of the device and bills are withdrawn from the safe, the separating drum constituting the bill separating and ejecting means is activated and the bills are removed one by one from the bill storage section in the safe. Separated and taken out. If there are banknotes remaining in the safe after this withdrawal operation has been completed, the bottom layer of the remaining banknotes will be visible from the banknote ejection port through the separating drum. There is. In this state, when the drawer unit with the safe attached is pulled out, the separation drum rolls along the guide surface, causing the separation drum to rotate in the opposite direction to the banknote removal direction.
To reliably pull back banknotes peeking out of a banknote take-out port into a safe. On the other hand, when the drawer unit is pushed into a predetermined position in the main body of the apparatus, the separation drum is held out of contact with the guide surface, so that the operation of the separation drum is not affected.

Therefore, since there is no need to incorporate a separation drum into the safe, the safe can be constructed simply, and can be made smaller and lighter, making it convenient to carry and requiring less space to take out and store. In addition to improving performance, it also becomes cheaper.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings. In this embodiment, the withdrawal processing device is configured as a depositing and dispensing device.

First, FIG. 1 shows the overall structure of the deposit/withdrawal device. That is, the device body 1 of this deposit/withdrawal device is provided with a deposit hopper 2 for depositing banknotes, and the bills deposited into the deposit hopper 2 are separated one by one by a separation drum 3 and transferred to a conveyor. 4, the identification section 5 provided along the conveyance route by the conveyor 4 detects its authenticity, presence or absence of damage, denomination, number of sheets, etc. The discriminating section 5 is equipped with various sensors for discriminating such banknotes, and based on the discriminating results by the sensors in the discriminating section 5, the deposited banknotes are classified into, for example, genuine bills and counterfeit bills, 1 They are divided into 10,000 yen bills and other banknotes, those facing up and those facing down, and those that are damaged and those that are not. A sorted ticket storage stacker section 6 is provided on the downstream side of the discriminating section 5 in the direction of bill conveyance, for storing sorted tickets that are, for example, genuine 10,000 yen bills, face up, and undamaged. , and a non-sorted ticket storage stacker section 7 for storing bills other than the aforementioned sorted tickets. A flow path switching means 8 is disposed at a position corresponding to the sorted ticket storage stacker section 6 on the conveyor 4, and when the aforementioned sorted tickets are conveyed, the flow path switching means 8 is operated to switch the sorted tickets. When the sorted tickets are sent towards the sorted ticket storage stacker section 6 and the non-sorted tickets are transported,
The tickets are conveyed through the flow path switching means 8 and stored in the non-sorted ticket storage stacker section 7. These sorted ticket storage stacker section 6 and non-sorted ticket storage stacker section 7 constitute a primary stacker section, and shutters 6a and 7a are attached to the lower part of each of these stacker sections 6 and 7 so as to be openable and closable. Safes 9 and 10 are provided below each shutter 6a and 7a to store banknotes stored in each stacker section 6 and 7, respectively.

Reference numerals 11 and 12 indicate withdrawal stackers for storing different denominations, for example, 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen, and these stackers 11 and 12 are fixedly attached to the main body 1 of the device and are manually operated. It is designed to store banknotes of different types. In addition, the withdrawal stacker section for 10,000 yen bills uses a safe 9 that stores sorted tickets, so the 10,000 yen bills deposited in this deposit/withdrawal device are returned for withdrawal. It is configured so that it can be used.

Each of the above-mentioned withdrawal stackers 11 and 12 and safe 9
Each of these has a separating drum 1 having the same structure as the above-mentioned separating drum 3 as a banknote retrieving means.
3, 14, 15, and these separation drums 13, 1
Unloading means 16, 17, and 18 are connected to the banknotes 4 and 15 for transporting the separated banknotes toward the conveyor 4. Then, the discrimination section 5 in the conveyor 4
A flow path switching means 19 is provided on the downstream side of the flow path switching means 19, and a banknote discharging path 20 for dispensing money is provided in the flow path switching means 19. The money can be transported to the withdrawal port 21 and stacked therein.

Next, in this deposit/withdrawal device, safes 9, 10
The safes 9 and 10 are removably attached to a drawer unit 22 that can be drawn out from the main body 1 of the apparatus. The drawer unit 22 includes a casing 23, the casing 23
A movable rail 24 is provided between the
A guide rail 2 consisting of a and a fixed rail 24b
4 (see Figure 3) is attached. Of the safes 9 and 10 installed in this casing 23, the safe 9 that stores sorted tickets is a safe for withdrawals.
Its structure is as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
A banknote ejection port 25 is formed at a lower position of the banknote storage section 9a, and a swing plate 28 is installed adjacent to the banknote ejection port 25.
The swing plate 26 is tilted in a downward direction about the swing shaft 27 toward the banknote takeout port 25 side, and is tilted in the opposite direction from the open position where banknotes can be taken out from the banknote storage section 9a. Banknote ejection port 2
It is possible to displace between the closed position and the closed position where 5 is closed. For this reason, the rocking plate 26 is normally biased to the closed position, and when the safe 9 is installed in the drawer unit 22 and the drawer unit 22 is pushed into the device body 1. At times, it is configured to be moved to the open position by the push-up lever 28.

In this safe 9, the feeding mechanism for separating and taking out banknotes one by one from the banknote storage section 9a includes the above-mentioned separation drum 15 and a presser roller 29 that is pressed against the separation drum 15. Bills are held between the drum 15 and the presser roller 29 so that they can be taken out from the bill outlet. On the outer peripheral surface of this separation drum 15,
A feeding part 15a made of a material with a large friction coefficient such as rubber is attached by an angle of 90°, and the banknote is driven to be fed only when the banknote engages with this feeding part 15a. There is. An auxiliary drum 30 is provided at the rear of the separating drum 15 and is equipped with a feeding section 30a similar to the feeding section 15a of the separating drum 15 described above. After the banknotes are removed, the banknotes have a function of feeding out subsequent banknotes to a position where they face the banknote ejection port 25 and are held between the separation drum 15 and the presser roller 29. The aforementioned separation drum 15, press roller 29 and auxiliary drum 30 constitute a banknote separation and removal means,
Each of these members is not attached to the safe 9, but is attached to the casing 2 in the drawer unit 22.
A driven gear 31 is attached to the rotating shaft of the separation drum 15, and is removably engaged with a drive gear (not shown) installed on the device main body 1 side. A transmission belt 32 is wound between the separation drum 15 and the auxiliary drum 30.

On the other hand, the device main body 1 is provided with a guide plate 33, which serves as a rotary drive unit having a guide surface for rolling the separation drum 15 made of a material with a large friction coefficient such as rubber. A functioning rail 34 is installed. The rail 34 is
When the drawer unit 22 is in the predetermined push-in position, it is out of contact with the separating drum 15, but when the drawer unit 22 is pulled out, it engages with the separating drum 15 and separates the banknotes from the separating drum 15. It is configured so that it can be rotated in a direction opposite to the take-out direction.

This embodiment is constructed as described above, and its operation will be explained next.

First, when making a deposit using this deposit/withdrawal device, you deposit a predetermined amount using an operation panel called a teller's machine (not shown), and
When banknotes are input into the deposit hopper 2, the input banknotes are separated one by one by the separation drum 3 and sent to the conveyor 4, where a verification unit 5 provided in the middle of the conveyor 4 checks the authenticity of the banknotes. , the denomination, etc., and the number of 10,000 yen bills are counted. Based on the results of this discrimination, regular 10,000 yen bills are stored in the sorted ticket storage stacker 6, and other non-sorted bills are stored in the stacker 6. are respectively stored in the non-sorted ticket storage stacker 8.

Next, the withdrawal operation is performed by specifying and inputting the withdrawal amount and the type of withdrawn banknotes on the operation panel, and the deposit/withdrawal device operates based on this input signal to receive the designated amount. and denominations of banknotes are taken out from the payout stackers 11 and 12 and the safe 9, and guided to the conveyor 4.
The amount of money and the number of banknotes are verified in a verification section 5 provided in the middle of the banknotes, and the money is paid out to the withdrawal port 21.

Here, in the above-described withdrawal operation, power is transmitted from the driving gear to the driven gear 31, and the separation drum 15 is transferred via the separation drum 15 and the transmission belt 32.
The auxiliary drum 30 that rotates following the movement of the banknote 5 is also rotated, and the banknotes in the banknote storage section 9a are sequentially transferred to the conveyance section 1.
8 to the conveyor 4. After the withdrawal operation is completed, the bills following the last taken out banknote are sent to a standby position where the leading end of the banknote is removed from the banknote ejection port 25 to the outside of the safe 9. It is becoming. When the drawer unit 22 is pulled out to a predetermined position in this state, the separation drum 15 comes to engage with the rail 34, and the separation drum 15 comes to engage with the rail 34.
is driven to rotate in a direction opposite to the direction in which banknotes are sent out, and at the same time, an auxiliary drum 30 connected to the separation drum 15 via a transmission belt 32 is also rotated in the same direction. Here, in the pushed-in position of the drawer unit 22, the separation drum 1
5 is held in a non-contact state with the rail 34, this separation drum 15 can be rotated smoothly. When the sending portion 15a of this separation drum 15 engages with a banknote, the separation drum 1
5, the banknote is placed in the banknote storage section 25.
You will be drawn back inward. Here, rail 3
If the length of the separation drum 15 is set so that the separation drum 15 can rotate one rotation or more, the banknotes can be reliably pulled back. and,
When the separation drum 15 rotates in the direction to pull back banknotes, the auxiliary drum 30 is rotated together with the separation drum 15.
The purpose of this is to rotate the auxiliary drum 30 in accordance with the rotation of the auxiliary drum 30, so that this operation can be performed more reliably even when pulling back the banknote, but it is not necessarily necessary to rotate the auxiliary drum 30 in conjunction with the rotation.

After the banknotes have been withdrawn as described above,
The push-up lever 28 is separated from the swing plate 28, the swing plate 26 is moved to the closed position, and the banknote ejection port 25 is closed. Therefore, when the safe 9 is removed from the drawer unit 22, there is no inconvenience that the banknotes are exposed from the safe 9. Since it is no longer necessary to attach components such as the separation drum 15 to the safe 9, the structure of the safe 9 can be simplified and made smaller and lighter, making it convenient to carry. Moreover, it becomes possible to save space by installing the deposit/withdrawal device in a state where it is removed from the deposit/withdrawal device.
Furthermore, it is possible to reduce the price, which is convenient when purchasing a plurality of safes.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the withdrawal processing device was configured as a deposit/withdrawal device having both a deposit function and a withdrawal function, but it is possible to configure it as a device exclusively for withdrawal. Not even.

[Effects of the invention] As detailed above, the present invention has a structure in which the separation drum is rotated in the opposite direction to the banknote removal direction in conjunction with the drawing operation of the drawer unit, and the drawer unit is pushed in. In this state, the separation drum is in a non-contact state with the guide surface, so when the drawer unit is pulled out from the main body of the device, the banknotes in the standby position can be reliably pulled back into the banknote storage section of the safe. When the safe is removed from the main body of the device, the banknotes in the standby position may be exposed to the outside and the banknotes may be damaged, or the banknotes may be removed after the safe is removed. This will not cause any inconvenience. Moreover, since there is no need to incorporate components such as a separating drum into the safe, the structure of the safe can be simplified, making it possible to reduce the size and weight of the safe, and reducing the cost. It also has various effects such as being cheaper.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a deposit/withdrawal device showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the safe, and FIG. 3 is a side view in the direction of arrow X in FIG. 9...Safe, 15...Separation drum, 22...Drawer unit, 25...Banknote outlet, 34...
…rail.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A banknote ejection port is formed in the lower part of a safe that stores banknotes in a stacked state, and a banknote separation and ejection means equipped with a separating drum is disposed in the banknote ejection port, and the banknote separation and ejection means separates one banknote. In a dispensing processing device configured to separate banknotes and convey them to a dispensing port, the bill separating and extracting means is attached to a drawer unit that can be pulled out horizontally from the main body of the device, and the drawer unit is equipped with the A safe is removably installed, and a rotation drive unit is installed on the main body side of the device and has a guide surface that can engage with a separation drum that constitutes a banknote separation and extraction means installed in the drawer unit. When the unit is pushed into a predetermined position, the separation drum is brought into a non-contact state with the guide surface, and when the drawer unit is pulled out, the separation drum is rotated in a direction opposite to the banknote feeding direction, A disbursement processing device characterized by having a configuration for pulling banknotes back into the safe.