JPH0616278A - Paper sheet handling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a paper sheet handling device capable of removing held-up paper sheets easily without enlarging the device in the case of a conveyance jam being generated at the delivery part of the paper sheets. CONSTITUTION:In a paper sheet handling device provided with a feed roller 1 for delivering laminated paper sheets one by one and a guide plate 5 for guiding the paper sheets along the outer peripheral surface of the feed roller 1, a carrier path is opened in the case of a jam being generated in the position A of the paper sheets, and the guide plate 5 takes refuge in the circular arc direction along the outer peripheral surface of the feed roller 1. Held-up bills can be thereby removed easily, and since there is no need to provide a space for the refuge of the guide plate 5, parts can be mounted at high density so as to make the device compact.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet handling apparatus, and more particularly to a paper sheet handling apparatus which can easily take out a paper sheet having a jam.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, as shown in FIG. 3, an automated teller machine for handling paper sheets, for example, bills, has a plurality of cassette boxes 10A-10C in which bills 12 of different denominations are stored in advance in a main body 20 of the apparatus. It is configured such that the number of banknotes 12 designated by the operation of the customer is discharged to the external stacking unit 12 by the feeding mechanisms 11A to 11C provided for each cassette box and the transport belt. As shown in FIG. 4, a feeding mechanism according to the related art includes a feed roller 1 that comes into contact with bills 12 in a cassette box 10 and feeds them one by one, and an auxiliary roller that presses the fed bills 12 and conveys them along a guide plate 5. 4 and a transport path 3 for transporting the bill 12 by belt drive, and the bill 12 is fed while the cassette box 10 is pressed against the feeding mechanism on the left side.

In this automatic teller machine, if the banknotes 12 stored in the cassette box 10 are broken or broken, or if misalignment occurs during storage, a feeding error, a double feeding abnormality or a conveyance jam occurs. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure operability that allows the accumulated banknotes to be easily removed.

Documents describing this type of paper sheet handling device include, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-75551 and Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 3-28129.

[0005]

When a jam occurs in the feeding mechanism of the above-described automatic teller machine, a maintenance staff or the like manually takes the bills 12 with the cassette box 10 pulled out to the right. However, when the banknote 12 is jammed at the position E in the guide plate 5 in FIG. 4, the devices according to the related art are directly mounted on the banknote 12 directly because the parts such as the roller and the guide plate are mounted at high density. If the bill cannot be touched, the feed roller 1 is rotated to move the bill to a position where the bill can be touched, or if this operation is not possible, the paper jam is removed using tweezers or the like. There was a problem that it had to be.
Further, it is possible to mount the cassette box feed roller and the gate roller, and to retract each roller together with the cassette box when the transport jam occurs as described above, but in this case, the cassette box becomes large and heavy, Not suitable.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and when a paper jam occurs at the paper sheet feeding portion, the paper sheets that have easily accumulated without increasing the size of the cassette box. An object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet handling device capable of removing papers.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present invention comprises a feed roller for feeding out stacked paper sheets one by one and a paper sheet along the outer peripheral surface of the feed roller. And a guide plate for guiding the same, and the guide plate is configured to retract in the arc direction along the outer peripheral surface of the feed roller.

[0008]

When a jam of paper sheets near the feed roller occurs, the guide plate is retracted along the outer peripheral surface of the feed roller in the arc direction to form a space for exposing the surface of the roller. This space allows the operator to remove the accumulated bills. Further, since the guide plate is retracted in the arc direction, the device can be miniaturized by providing high density mounting density of components without providing a special space.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A paper sheet handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are views for explaining the feeding mechanism of the paper sheet handling apparatus according to this embodiment. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a state in which a bill is taken out by a jam or the like, and FIG. 2 is a normal bill conveyance state. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a feed roller and a guide plate, which are the features of this embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a conveyance path 3 shown in FIG.
It is a figure for explaining.

First, in the paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, as described with reference to FIG. 3, a plurality of cassette boxes in which bills of each denomination are stored are set in the apparatus main body and designated by the customer's operation. It is configured such that a certain number of banknotes are discharged to an external stacking unit by a feeding mechanism and a conveyor belt provided for each cassette box. In the normal bill conveying state, the bill feeding mechanism has a shaft fixed to the apparatus main body 20 and is driven by a feeding motor (not shown) at the same rotation speed in the same direction as shown in FIG. The pickup roller 6 includes a guide plate 5 that is rotatably supported by a shaft that fixes the feed roller 1, and a conveyance path 3 that guides bills discharged from the guide plate 5. The transport path 3 includes a loop-shaped transport belt 21 driven by a transport motor (not shown) as shown in FIG. 6, and a plurality of rotatable rollers that are in contact with the transport belt 21 when the transport path 3 is closed. 22 and a grid-shaped upper guide plate 23 and lower guide plate 24 for guiding the banknotes 12 to be conveyed, and configured to be integrally opened and closed as in the open state of FIG. 1 and the closed state of FIG. Has been done.
As shown in FIG. 5, a part of the outer circumference of the feed roller 1 is made of a mesh and a part made of a high friction member such as rubber and a part of the outer circumference made of a high friction member are integrally molded. A part of the outer circumference is made of a high friction member such as rubber, and a part of the outer circumference of the feed roller 1 is conveyed in the feeding direction in synchronization with the rotation of a part made of the high friction member such as rubber.

The guide plate 5, which is a feature of this embodiment, is
As shown in FIG. 5, during the normal feeding operation, the spring 7 is pressed and fixed to the position shown in FIG. 2, and when removing a jam described later, the end portion 5A of the guide plate 5 is manually moved around the rotation axis of the feed roller 1 as shown in FIG. The second driven auxiliary roller 4B is attached to a position facing the feed roller 1 and is pressed against the feed roller 1 by a torsion spring 8 (see FIGS. 1 and 2). It is configured like. That is, the guide plate 5 is arranged along the outer circumference of the feed roller 1 as shown in FIG. 2 during normal bill conveyance, and in a state where the bill is taken out by a jam of the bill or the like, as shown in FIG. Is configured so that it can be retracted to a position rotated in the arc direction along the outer circumference of the feed roller 1 as indicated by the solid line.

A cassette box 10 in which bills are further stacked
Is a front plate 31, a bottom plate 32, and side plates (not shown) as shown in FIG.
And the push plate 3 supported by the spring 34 so as to be movable in the horizontal direction.
5, a bill storage space is formed, a spring 36 below the front end of the bottom plate 32 of this storage space applies a predetermined pressure contact force to the feed roller 1, a spring 37 applies a predetermined pressure contact force to the driven auxiliary roller 4A, and a gate roller. 2 is configured so that it cannot rotate in the bill payout direction. Further, the gate rollers 2 and the driven auxiliary rollers 4A / 4B are all made of a high friction member such as rubber on the outer periphery as shown in FIG.

The paper sheet handling apparatus thus constructed carries out the bill feeding operation as follows in the normal operation. In the paper sheet handling apparatus, in the state shown in FIG. 2, the pick-up roller 6 and the feed roller 1 that abut the banknotes 12 stacked on the cassette box 10 are fed out downward between the feed roller 1 and the gate roller 2 by clockwise rotation. The sheet is sent in and separated by the conveying force of the roller 1 and the resistance of the gate roller 2 one by one, and is sent between the first driven auxiliary roller 4A and the feed roller 1. Then, the bill 12 is guided by the guide plate 5 and passed between the second driven auxiliary roller 4B and the feed roller 1 and passed between the upper and lower guide plates 23 and 24 of the transport path 3. In this way, the present feeding mechanism operates so that the motor (not shown) is continuously driven to sequentially eject the bills 12 upward by the conveyor belt 21.

The paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present embodiment continuously feeds out the bills during the normal operation as described above. However, when the bills stored in the cassette box 10 are folded or broken or are stored, When the misalignment occurs, the normal feeding operation as described above cannot be performed, and A shown in FIG.
The bills may stay at the positions B and B to cause a conveyance jam abnormality, and the device may stop. This paper sheet handling device is
In such a case, the accumulated bills are removed and the apparatus is restored. The jam removal procedure will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, when a conveyance jam occurs, the clerk moves the cassette box 10 to the right as shown in FIG. 1 and removes it, and looks around the feed roller 1 to check the presence of accumulated banknotes. If the accumulated bills are in front of the second driven auxiliary roller 4B (position A), the removing work is directly performed by hand. Further, if the accumulated bills are on the downstream side (position B) of the second driven auxiliary roller 4B,
As a first attempt, an attempt is made to manually reverse the feed roller 1 counterclockwise to return the bill to the position A. If the accumulated bills cannot be reached during this operation, the clerk makes a second attempt, as shown in FIG.
1 and the upper guide 23 are opened, and the guide plate 5
Holding the end 5A of the guide roller 5 from the state shown by the broken line to the state shown by the solid line, the guide plate 5 is rotated in the arc direction around the rotation axis of the feed roller 1 and retracted. As a result, the space at the position B on the surface of the feed roller 1 of the feeding mechanism portion that is densely mounted is released, and the clerk has accumulated the bills from the left direction in FIG. 1 through the space between the transport belts 21. Can be removed.

As described above, in the paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, when a conveyance jam occurs between the feeding section and the delivery section of the conveyance path, the conveyance path 3 is opened and the guide plate 5 is set to the feed roller. By rotating in the arc direction along the surface of No. 1 and retracting, the space at the position B can be released and the accumulated banknotes can be removed without increasing the lengthwise dimension of the device. That is, since the guide plate 5 is retracted in the arc direction along the outer periphery of the roller 1 without moving in the machine longitudinal direction, it is not necessary to provide a special space for retracting the guide plate 5, and the longitudinal dimension of the device is not required. The accumulated banknotes can be removed without increasing the length, and the device can be miniaturized by high-density mounting of components in a device that handles various kinds of denominations such as an automatic teller machine.

In the above embodiment, among the components arranged on the outer circumference of the feed roller 1, the gate roller 2 and the first driven auxiliary roller 4A are arranged in the cassette box 10, and the second driven auxiliary roller 4B is arranged. The guide plate 5 and the guide plate 5 are rotatably mounted on the rotary shaft of the feed roller 1. However, for example, when the length of the paper sheet is sufficiently long, the second driven auxiliary roller 4B may be omitted. First driven auxiliary roller 4
A may be attached to the guide plate 5 so that it can be retracted together with the guide plate 5. Further, the gate roller 2 and the first driven auxiliary roller 4A may be mounted on the main body of the apparatus instead of being mounted on the cassette box 10 and attached so as to be movable in the extraction direction in association with the attachment / detachment operation of the cassette box.

[0018]

As described above, in the paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present invention, when a conveyance jam occurs between the feeding section and the delivery section of the conveyance path, the conveyance path is opened and the guide plate is set to the feed roller. By rotating in the arc direction along the surface of the guide and retracting, it is not necessary to provide a special space for retracting the guide plate, and the accumulated banknotes can be removed without increasing the lengthwise dimension of the device. As well as
The device can be miniaturized by high-density mounting of components.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a feeding mechanism of a paper money handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention in a jam banknote take-out state.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a feeding mechanism in a normal feeding state of the paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the overall configuration of a paper sheet handling device.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a feeding mechanism of a paper sheet handling apparatus according to a conventional technique.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a guide plate of the feeding mechanism according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a view showing a conveyance path of a feeding mechanism according to this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Feed roller, 2 ... Gate roller, 3 ... Conveying path,
4 ... driven auxiliary roller, 5 ... guide plate, 10 ... cassette box, 20 ... device body.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A paper sheet handling apparatus comprising: a feed roller for feeding out the stacked paper sheets one by one; and a guide plate for guiding the paper sheets along an outer peripheral surface of the feed roller. A paper sheet handling device characterized in that it is configured to retract in an arc direction along the outer peripheral surface of a feed roller.