JPH06171768A - Paper sheet accommodating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a paper sheet accommodating device which can surely drive out paper sheets one by one by applying a specific pressing pressure independently of the magnitude of the piled quantity of the laminated paper sheets. CONSTITUTION:On a base plate 21 which vertically shifts in correspondence with the vertical shift of a placing board for placing paper sheets A, an elevator guide plate 31 which is raised and lowered in a parallel state for the base plate 21 by turning members 47 and 48 is isnitalled, and the paper sheet B which is placed and accommodated on the placing board is pressed by a certain force by the dead weight of the base plate 21 and the elevator guide plate 31. Accordingly, the paper sheets A can be surely driven out one by one independently of the piling quantity, and since the pressing for the paper sheets A is carried out by the dead weight of the base plate 21 and the elevator guide plate 31, the necessity of the special pressing means such as spring member is obviated. Accordingly, the pressing structure for the paper sheets A and the structure of the whole device are simplified, and the number of manufacturing processes and the quantity of parts can be reduced, and the production cost can be reduced, and also maintenance is facilitated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet storage device used for paper sheets, such as automatic bill dispensers and automatic ticket vending machines. The present invention relates to a bill holding structure for surely discharging one by one.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Taking an automatic ticket vending machine as an example, it is necessary to issue a change for deposit, and an automatic payment machine provided at a financial institution must definitely pay a specified amount. Therefore, in this type of device, it is an essential requirement to accurately send out bills one by one. In order to meet such a demand, there are automatic ticket vending machines and automatic payment machines provided with a paper sheet storage box as shown in FIGS. 6 to 9. That is, the paper sheet storage device 1 (hereinafter, simply referred to as a storage device) is configured as a box-shaped unit and is detachably attached to an automatic payment machine or the like. In a room 2 for storing paper sheets, a mounting table 3 for mounting paper sheets, that is, banknotes here, is provided movably up and down, and in the upper part of the room 2, the mounting table 3 is mounted. A feeding roller 4 is provided for feeding the bills one by one to the outside of the storage device 1. In addition, two paper sheet carry-in belts 5 and 6 are provided in the lower part of the room 2 at the left and right positions of the mounting table 3 which is positioned for depositing the banknote A. And
Guide flappers 7, 8 are provided on the upper portions of the paper sheet carry-in belts 5, 6, and storage flappers 9, 10 are provided on the upper portions thereof.
Is provided. Note that the bill A is inserted from the back side of each drawing toward the front side, and is placed on the placing table 3 by the traveling of the paper sheet carrying belts 5 and 6.

When storing the bill A as shown in FIG.
In the middle between the two carry-in belts 5, 6, each carry-in belt 5,
The mounting table 3 is positioned at a position slightly lower than the upper surface of 6. At this time, if there are banknotes B already stored, they are held in a stacked state on the holding flappers 9 and 10. The inserted bill A is conveyed to the mounting table 3 by the traveling of the carry-in belts 5 and 6, and when the bill A is conveyed to a predetermined position on the mounting table 3, the conveyance is stopped. Next, as shown in FIG. 7, the mounting table 3 is driven upward, and the bill A is pushed upward while contacting the guide flappers 7 and 8 at both ends. Therefore, the bill A is pushed up while curving, and the curl of the bill A is stretched before being stored.

As shown in FIG. 8, the mounting table 3 continues to rise,
After passing between the holding flappers 9 and 10, the banknote A is pressed against the lower surface of the stacked banknotes B and continues to rise further. As a result, both sides of the banknote A are retained flappers 9,1.
0 is pulled up to the upper surface and spreads to the upper surface. When the mounting table 3 is driven downward in this state, the inserted banknote A is newly stacked below the banknote B that has been stacked. It will be held on the holding stoppers 9 and 10.

On the other hand, banknotes B stacked as shown in FIG.
In the case of feeding one sheet from the above, the mounting table 3 is driven further upward from the positions of the holding flappers 9 and 10, and the stacked banknotes B are pushed up to the position where they are brought into contact with the feeding roller 4. When the payout roller 4 is rotated in this state,
The uppermost banknote of the stacked banknotes B is fed out.
When a plurality of banknotes are sequentially delivered, the delivery roller 4 is continuously rotated so that the banknotes are continuously delivered one by one. At this time, there should be no situation where multiple sheets are delivered at one time or when the number of sheets specified is insufficient. Therefore, JP-A-56-65734
Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 63-282032, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. Sho 63
Double feeding as disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 183136,
That is, a sheet feeding device has been proposed for the purpose of countermeasures against the phenomenon that two or more banknotes are fed at the same time. The basic structure of these feeding devices is to provide a feeding roller and a means for suppressing the feeding of other bills to be fed at the same time to prevent the double feeding of the bills and reliably feed the bills one by one. It is a thing.

[0006]

However, if the roller mechanism is devised as described above to complicate the gap between the rollers or only to provide the two-sheet feeding-out preventing mechanism (retard roller, etc.), it is possible to take a subsequent measure. Not too much. A fundamental measure to prevent double feeding is to prevent the sheets from being bent or bent at the stage of storing them in a storage box. Conventionally, this measure has not been sufficiently taken, and a clerk regularly checks the storage status of the paper sheets in the storage box, and if there is a disorder in the stacking state, correct the bend etc. and then set it again. Passive measures were taken.

In order to solve such a problem, it has been proposed that a pressing plate or a weight plate similar to the pressing plate is provided on the upper part of the paper sheet so that a pressing force is always applied to the paper sheet. (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 4-121949). However, in the state where there are no stored paper sheets, in other words, when the paper sheets are not stacked at all, the space on the mounting table 3 is unnecessarily open because there is no paper sheet above. The pressing plate (not shown) as described above cannot descend from the holding flappers 9 and 10 due to its function.
For this reason, if the paper sheets that have been initially stowed in a state in which there is no storage capacity are bent and stowed in a random manner, there is a possibility that an abnormal situation in which the next unwinding operation cannot be performed frequently occurs.
An object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet storage device configured to apply a predetermined pressing force irrespective of the amount of stacked paper sheets and whether or not the paper sheets are stacked so that the paper sheets can be reliably delivered one by one. To provide.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The above object of the present invention is to provide a placing table in a paper sheet storage box so as to be vertically movable, and to lower the placing table between the paper sheet storage boxes. A paper sheet storage device configured to store and store paper sheets and to feed the paper sheets one by one out of the paper sheet storage box in a state of being urged above the paper sheet storage box. In the above, the substrate that moves up and down corresponding to the vertical movement of the mounting table, the rotating member that has a fulcrum on the substrate and that rotates, and the substrate that is rotatably attached to the end of the rotating member. It is equipped with a descending guide plate that descends by its own weight in a state parallel to the substrate and rises according to the presence or absence of paper sheets placed and stored on the above-mentioned table, and places the paper sheets on the above-mentioned table. A paper sheet storage device characterized in that the descending guide plate functions as an upper guide when storing. It is achieved by. Further, it is achieved by a paper sheet storage device characterized in that the descending guide plate descends and rises in parallel with the paper sheets.

[0009]

[Function] Since the substrate moves up and down corresponding to the placing table on which the sheets are placed and stored, and the lowering guide plate moves up and down by its own weight by the rotating member, the sheets placed and stored on the placing table are If there is not, the descending guide plate descends, and if there are paper sheets, it descends. Therefore, the paper sheets placed and stored on the placing table are
Regardless of the presence or absence of paper sheets, it is possible to advance in an appropriate space partitioned upward by the paper sheet bundle or the descending guide plate.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a plan view of an essential part showing the structure of a pressing plate to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the essential part showing the descending and ascending of a descending guide plate, and FIGS.
5 is a side view of the main part showing the storage and delivery of paper sheets, FIG.
[Fig. 3] is a front view of a main part as seen from a feeding direction. In describing the embodiment, while appropriately referring to FIGS. 6 to 9,
Members having the same function are designated by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will be omitted.

The pressing plate 11 presses the banknotes B placed on the mounting table 3 described with reference to FIGS. 6 to 9 regardless of the stacking amount, in other words, the storage amount, and the feeding roller 4 It is for accurately sending out by. The pressing plate 11 is configured to be vertically movable in the storage box 1 and is integrally provided with a guide mechanism and the like for moving the pressing plate 11 up and down. Therefore, the main part is shown. As shown in FIG. 1, the structure of the pressing plate 11 is roughly classified into a substrate 21, a descending guide plate 31, and a hinge mechanism 4 for rotating the descending guide plate 31 with the substrate 21 as a fulcrum.
1. A stopper 61 for restricting upward movement of the descending guide plate 31 and the like. A guide mechanism (not shown) is provided at one end of the substrate 21 to integrally move the pressing plate 11 up and down.
The substrate 21 has a substantially U-shaped planar shape, and the overall size thereof is slightly smaller than the outer shape of the stacked banknote B shown by an imaginary line in FIG. Then, the descending guide plate 31 is mounted inside the opening of the substrate 21 so as to move up and down while rotating,
When paying out the bill B, the payout roller 4 provided on the opening side is used.

The plane shape of the descending guide plate 31 is substantially U-shaped, and is composed of a flat plate portion 32 and pressing rods 33 and 34 protruding from both sides of the flat plate portion.
The tips of the bills 3, 34 are respectively bent upwards, and the bill B
It has been devised to reduce the chances of getting caught. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the flat plate portion 32 and each pressing rod 33, 3
4 is a unit that rotates and moves up and down integrally, but pressing rods 33 and 34 are fixed to the end portions of the bottom surface of the flat plate portion 32, and the bottom surfaces of the pressing rods 33 and 34 are lowered by the plate thickness thereof. Therefore, the pressure is applied to the long side end of the bill B.

One end of the hinge mechanism 41 is fixed to the substrate 21 via a fixing plate 42. The pair of bearing plates 43 provided on both sides of the fixed plate 42 includes two fixed shafts 4 at predetermined intervals.
A stopper 61 is fixed to the fixed shafts 45 and 46 to support the shafts 5 and 46 and to prevent upward rotation. One end of a pair of rotating members 47 formed in a curved shape when viewed from the side is rotatably supported at both ends of the fixed shaft 45.
The other end is rotatably supported on the upper surface of the flat plate portion 32.
Further, one end of a pair of rotating members 48 is rotatably supported on both ends of the fixed shaft 46, and the other end is rotatably supported on the upper surface of the flat plate portion 32. A pair of bearing plates 51 are provided on the upper surface of the flat plate portion 32 via two spacers 49 and 50, and the other end of the rotating member 47 is located outside the bearing plates 51 and extends the spacer 49. Is pivotally supported. Further, the other end of the rotating member 48 is rotatably supported at a position outside the bearing plates 51 and extending the spacer 50.

According to the hinge mechanism 41 having the above-mentioned structure, one end of the rotating members 47 and 48 for supporting the descending guide plate 31 so as to be vertically movable, in other words, ascendable and descendable, has the fixed shaft 45,
The lower guide plate 31 is rotatably supported at a fulcrum interval corresponding to the set interval of 46, and the other end is rotatably supported at a fulcrum interval corresponding to the set interval of the spacers 49 and 50. Therefore, the descending guide plate 31 is supported at two points, and when the descending guide plate 31 descends by its own weight as shown by an imaginary line, it descends in a parallel state to the substrate 21 at all times. Also,
Even when the position shown by the imaginary line rises to the position shown by the solid line, the position rises in parallel with the substrate 21. Then, when the spacer 50 contacts the stopper 61, it cannot be lifted up, that is, the upper limit position of the descending guide plate 31 is restricted, and the descending guide plate 31 and the substrate 21 are located in the same horizontal plane, and It becomes a continuous state.

Next, the pressing action of the bill by the pressing plate 11 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. Note that FIGS. 6 to 9 are appropriately referred to in describing the pressing action. As shown in FIG. 3, when the banknote A is first stored on the mounting table 3, the mounting table 3 is positioned so as to be continuous with the carry-in path 71. The carry-in path 71 is composed of carry-in belts 81 to 83 and a drive roller 84 for causing the carry-in belts 81 to 83 to travel, and the banknote A is fed onto the mounting table 3 in the direction of arrow a.

When storing bills, the pressing plate 11 has two types of standby states. The first is a case where there are no reserved banknotes stacked on the storage flapper 9 as shown in the lower part of FIG. 3, and the second is a case where there is a stacked banknote B as shown in the lower part of FIG. First, hold flapper 9
Storage of banknotes when there are no reserved banknotes will be described. Figure 3
As shown in the lower part, since there is no reserved banknote in the lower part of the descending guide plate 31, the descending guide plate 31 descends to the same height as the guide flapper 7 by its own weight. As a result, an appropriate gap g in which bills can be fed is formed between the mounting table 3 and the lowered guide plate 31, and the banknote A fed from the carry-in path 71 can be placed on the mounting table 3. .

Then, by raising the placing table 3 with the banknotes stored on the placing table 3, the descending guide plate 31 which has been lowered at the time when the bills are raised by a predetermined height comes into contact. Since the descending guide plate 31 has a mechanism that always applies downward pressure by its own weight, the descending guide plate 3 is applied to the stored bills.
The pressure of 1 is always applied. By raising the mounting table 3 in this state, curl extension and the like is performed by the action of the guide flapper 7, and then passes through the holding flapper 9 to further rise to a predetermined feeding position. While both sides of the bill are hanging on the guide flapper 7 and the holding flapper 9, the central portion of the bill is lowered by the guide plate 31.
Since it is pressed against the mounting table 3 by this, it is possible to prevent inconveniences such as bills being caught by the guide flapper 7 and being displaced. It should be noted that the description of the bill feeding operation will be omitted because it will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

Next, the storage of banknotes when the banknotes are stored on the storage flapper 9 will be described. As shown in the lower part of FIG. 4, when the mounting table 3 descends from the upper feeding position to the lower storage position, the stacked reserved banknotes B are stored in the intermediate storage chamber 2
It is held on a retaining flapper 9 provided on both side walls of the. At this time, the substrate 21 and the descending guide plate 31 are still placed on the uppermost portion of the reserved banknote B held on the retaining flapper 9, and only the mounting table 3 further descends to a position continuous with the carry-in path 71. Therefore, a sufficient space is formed on the mounting table 3 for banknotes to be stowed, and the banknotes A being stowed can be stored on the mounting table 3.

While the reserved banknote B is retained on the retaining flapper 9, it is always pressed from above by the substrate 21 and the descending guide plate 31, but the pressing force depends on the weight of the substrate 21 and the descending guide plate 31. It can be pressed with a constant force regardless of the amount of stacked banknotes.

Then, by raising the mounting table 3 with the banknotes stored on the mounting table, the wrinkles are extended by the action of the guide flapper 7 described in FIG. Next, the banknotes A that have been taken in at the stage where they have been raised to the position of the above-mentioned holding flapper 9 are taken into the bottom of the holding banknotes B that are held on the holding flapper 9, and the entire stacked banknotes are again placed on the mounting table 3 It goes up while being placed on top. At this time, the descending guide plate 31 ascends with the ascending movement of the placing table 3 while being placed on the uppermost portion of the stacked banknotes. Therefore, since the central portion of the stacked banknotes is constantly pressed against the placing table 3 by the descending guide plate 31, the stacked banknotes are not displaced during the movement.

Next, the bill feeding action will be described with reference to FIG. When paying out bills, the placing table 3 and the pressing plate 11
At the same time, the ascending control is performed, and the upper surface of the stacked banknotes is positioned at a position where the upper surface of the banknote comes into contact with the feeding roller 4, that is, a feeding position. As shown in FIG. 1, the pressing state of the stacked banknotes B at this time is such that the entire portion corresponding to the lower part of the substrate 21 is pressed by the substrate 21, and both sides of the central portion are lengthwise to the left and right of the substrate 21. It is pressed down by the pair of plate-shaped extensions 22 and 23 formed, and the inside of the substrate 21 is pressed.
And the downward guide plate 31 is pressed by its own weight.
Then, both long side portions of the left side portion of the banknote B are pressed against the pair of plate-shaped extension portions 22 and 23, but the central portion is pressed only to the feeding roller 4. Therefore, when the bill B is pressed, the portion pressed by the substrate portion 21 becomes substantially flat, but the portion pressed by the descending guide plate 31 is raised by the thickness of the pressing rods 33 and 34. Then, the center part of the left part is further raised.

Next, when paying out the bill B, as shown in FIG. 5, the pay-out roller 4 presses the bill B to the position where the bill B is most raised, by pressing the raised portion. Moreover, since the bill B is pressed by the plate-shaped extensions 22 and 23 on both sides and has a gently curved shape with the central portion gradually rising, for example, it contributes to catching by bending upward. It is possible to prevent the deformation. When the feeding roller 4 is rotated in this state, the uppermost banknote is fed in the feeding direction b and discharged by the roller 85 and the like. Then, as the uppermost banknote is removed, the next banknote is transferred from the bottom surface of the substrate 21 to the flat plate portion 32.
Since the flat plate portion 32 presses the banknote B by its own weight, the next banknote will not be undesirably pulled out and can be reliably fed one by one by the rotation of the feeding roller 4. .

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments and can be variously modified. For example, the rotating members 47 and 48 may be configured as a single unit and pivotally supported on the central portions of the substrate portion 21 and the flat plate portion 32.

[0024]

As described above, in the paper sheet storage device according to the present invention, the rotating member moves the substrate which moves in response to the vertical movement of the mounting table on which the paper sheet is placed. By providing a descending guide plate that moves up and down, and when there is no paper sheet being stored, the paper sheet is configured to be lowered to an appropriate position and the incoming paper sheet is placed and stored. Are properly fed into the device. Even when it is sent out at the time of the next transaction, the topmost paper sheets are stored in a neat form, so when the paper is fed out by rotating the feeding roller, it can be fed out one by one surely. become. Further, since the pressing on the paper sheets is performed by the weight of the substrate and the descending guide plate, no special pressing means such as a spring material is required. Therefore, the paper sheet pressing structure, and thus the structure of the entire apparatus, can be simplified, the number of manufacturing steps and the number of parts can be reduced, the manufacturing cost can be reduced, and maintenance can be facilitated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a main part of a pressing plate showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a main part showing an elevating action of a descending guide plate.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a paper sheet storage box showing storage and delivery of paper sheets when there is no reserved paper sheet.

FIG. 4 is a side view of a paper sheet storage box showing storage and delivery of paper sheets when there are reserved paper sheets.

FIG. 5 is a front view of an essential part showing feeding of paper sheets.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing how a paper sheet is carried into a conventional paper sheet storage box.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing loading and storage of paper sheets in a conventional paper sheet storage box.

FIG. 8 is a side view showing storage of paper sheets in a conventional paper sheet storage box.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing feeding of paper sheets in a conventional paper sheet storage box.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Paper Sheet Storage Box 2 Indoor 3 Placement Table 4 Feeding Roller 11 Pressing Plate 21 Substrate 22, 23 Plate Extension 31 Falling Guide Plate 32 Flat Plate 33, 34 Holding Rod 41 Hinge Mechanism 42 Fixing Plate 43, 51 Bearing Plate 45 , 46 Fixed shaft 47, 48 Rotating member 49, 50 Spacer 61 Stopper

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A paper table is provided inside the paper sheet storage box so as to be movable up and down, and the paper sheet is placed and stored while the table is lowered between the paper sheet storage boxes. In a paper sheet storage device configured to feed the paper sheets one by one out of the paper storage box in a state of being urged above the leaf storage box, in correspondence with the vertical movement of the placing table. A board that moves up and down,
A rotating member that has a fulcrum on the substrate and rotates, and is rotatably attached to an end portion of the rotating member and descends by its own weight in a state parallel to the substrate and placed on the mounting table. A descending guide plate that rises according to the presence or absence of stored paper sheets, and the descending guide plate functions as an upper guide when the paper sheets are placed and stored on the placing table. Paper sheet storage device. 2. The paper sheet storage device according to claim 1, wherein the descending guide plate descends and rises in parallel with the paper sheets.