JPH06179560A - Sheet face/rear side arranging equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To miniaturize a sheet face/rear side arranging equipment by providing a reversing path having a curved carrying passage to reverse the sheet between a rear side carrying passage and a face side carrying passage. CONSTITUTION:A checking part to discriminate the face and rear side of the sheet is provided in a carrying path to carry the sheet, and the sheet which is discriminated to be face-sided is guided to a face-sided sheet carrying passage 29 through a sorting gate 28. A reversing path having a curved carrying passage to reverse the sheet by feeding the sheet to a rear-sided sheet carrying passage 30 by setting the rear end of the received sheet as the fore end is provided between the rear-sided sheet carrying passage 30 which is arranged parallel to the face-sided sheet carrying passage 29 and the face-sided sheet carrying passage 29, and the sheets are sorted into the reversing path and the face-sided sheet carrying passage 29 according to the discrimination result by the checking part, and the face and rear side of the sheets can be arranged thereby.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sheet front and back arranging device for arranging the front and back of a sheet while conveying the sheet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a device for arranging the front and back of paper sheets,
As shown in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 59-198250, a paper sheet conveying path is branched to provide a paper sheet reversing conveying path and a straight conveying path, and in the reversing conveying path, A switchback method is known in which the received paper sheets are sent out in a direction opposite to the receiving direction.

In such an apparatus, a switchback conveying section is provided for sending out the received paper sheets in a direction opposite to the receiving direction, and this switchback portion corresponds to the length of the paper sheets. It is composed of a straight line (plane). For this reason, in the conventional apparatus, there is a problem that the conveyance mechanism becomes large in size in addition to the straight conveyance path that does not require reversal.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a front and back side aligning device for paper sheets which can perform front and back side aligning of paper sheets without increasing the size of the device.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is, in the first invention, a conveying means for conveying paper sheets and a discrimination for discriminating between the front and back sides of the paper sheets conveyed by this conveying means. Means, a first conveying means for conveying the paper sheet discriminated by the discriminating means, a second conveying means provided in parallel with the first conveying means, the first conveying means and the first conveying means. Depending on the discrimination result of the discriminating means, the reversing conveying means is provided between the second conveying means and the rear end of the received paper sheet is sent to the second conveying means with the rear end thereof as the front end. The above-mentioned reversing transport means and the first transport means are provided with a sorting means for sorting the paper sheets.

According to the second aspect of the invention, a conveying means for conveying the paper sheets, a discriminating means for discriminating between the front and back of the paper sheets conveyed by the conveying means, and the paper sheets according to the discrimination result of the discriminating means. And a first conveying means for conveying the paper sheets of one direction distributed by the distribution means, and a paper sheet of the other direction distributed by the distribution means. And a reverse conveying means having a curved conveying path for reversing the paper sheet by sending the rear end of the paper sheet as the front end, and the paper sheet sent out by the reverse conveying means joins the first conveying means. It is provided with a second transporting means.

[0007]

In the first aspect of the present invention, the front and back aligning device for paper sheets is miniaturized by providing the reverse conveying means for reversing the paper sheets between the first conveying means and the second conveying means. According to the second aspect of the invention, the front and back aligning device for paper sheets is miniaturized by using the curved conveying path as the reverse conveying means.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of the banknote processing apparatus 1.
The banknote processing device 1 is composed of a banknote sorting device 2 located on the upper side in FIG. 1 and a banknote banding device 3 located on the lower side in FIG. The banknote banding device 3 is provided with a banding unit 4 described later.

The banknote sorting section 2 has, on its front side, a supply section 5 capable of stacking a large number of various banknotes (banknotes P) as paper sheets. Banknotes P stacked on this supply unit 15
Are sequentially fed one by one by the feeding roller 6 from the lower end side thereof.

An inspection unit 8 is provided in front of the feeding roller 6, and the inspection unit 8 detects the banknote P by an optical or magnetic sensor and determines the denomination, authenticity, The shape, front and back, etc. are discriminated. The banknote P that has passed through the inspection unit 8 is conveyed by a conveying unit 11 including a large number of pulleys and a plurality of systems of endless belts 10 wound around the pulleys.

Then, when the gates 12 and 13 provided at each branching portion of the transport path are switched to be distributed in a predetermined direction and are sorted and accumulated according to the denomination,
The denominations are accumulated in a plurality of open pockets 14, 15, 16 provided on the upper side of the banknote sorting section 2.

The banknote P of the denomination designated for depositing and sealing by the key of the operation / display device 9 is sent to the switchback reversing mechanism 18 via the conveying path 17 by the action of the gate 12.

The switchback reversing mechanism 18 collects the front and back of the banknotes P. The banknotes P whose front and back are arranged by the switchback reversing mechanism 18 are stacked by the temporary stacking unit 19 in a predetermined number of sheets. Has become.

Below the temporary stacking unit 29, a carrier 21 capable of receiving a predetermined number (100) of banknotes P stacked on the pedestal 20 is provided. The carrier 21 is configured to be capable of reciprocating along a guide 22 from a stacking unit 19 to the band-sealing unit 4 by a driving unit (not shown).

In the band-sealing section 4, a predetermined number of banknotes P are bound by a banding band 23. Below the banding unit 4, there are provided a conveyor 24 for receiving the bundled banknotes P ′, and an accommodating unit 25 for accommodating the banknote bundle P ′ conveyed by the conveyor 24.

Next, the structure of the reversing mechanism 18 described above will be described. FIG. 2 is a side view of the reversing mechanism 18, and a sensor 27 that detects passage of the banknote P is provided in the middle of the conveyance path 26 on the entrance side of the reversing mechanism 18. A gate 28 and a front conveyance path 29 and a back conveyance path 30 selected by the gate 28 are provided downstream of the sensor 27. When the banknote P passes through the sensor 27, a front / back determination signal from the inspection unit 8 is provided. The gate 28 selectively carries out the sorting operation in accordance with the
It is designed to be sent to either one of.

The front conveyance path 29 has a belt 32 stretched over a plurality of rollers 31, a belt 34 stretched over a plurality of rollers 33, and a guide 3 provided opposite thereto.
5 and.

The back conveying path 30 is composed of a plurality of rollers 36, a belt 39 stretched over a rubber roller 38 provided near the exit of the reversing path 37, and a guide 40 provided opposite thereto.

The reversal path 37 is formed by an entrance guide 41 for guiding one banknote P distributed by the distribution gate 28 and an exit guide 42 provided opposite to the entrance guide 41. There is.

All or part of the entrance guide 41 is formed of a curved surface, and a stopper for stopping the banknote P that has entered is provided at the end of the entrance guide 41. The outlet guide 42 is entirely or partially configured by a curved surface, and a part thereof is nested with the rubber roller 38. Further, the entrance guide 41 and the exit guide 42 are provided with sensors 43 and 44 for detecting the banknote P entering the inversion path 37.

In order to change the direction of the rear end of the banknote P that has entered the reversal path 37, a tapping wheel 45 is provided on the roller 36a near the sorting gate 28, and the rear end of the banknote P is located. The direction is changed to the exit guide 42 side.

The banknote P whose rear end is turned by the tapping wheel 45 is held at its rear end by the rubber roller 38 and the pinch roller 46, and the back conveyance path 3
It is designed to be transported to 0.

The pinch roller 47 is rotatable about an arm 48 fixed to a shaft 47 rotatably provided in the vicinity of the inlet guide 41 and a shaft 49 provided at the tip of the arm 48. And a bearing 50 attached to the. The shaft 49 is the sensor 4
It is made rotatable by a driving means (not shown) which is driven based on the output signals from 3, 44. A merging guide 52 is provided near the merging portion 51 of the front conveyance path 29 and the back conveyance path 30.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the reversing mechanism 18. The control unit 53 is connected to the inspection unit 8 and the sensor 27, and the sensor 27 is detected according to the result of front / back discrimination in the inspection unit 8.
The distribution gate driving means 54 is timed by
To drive. Further, the control unit 53 is connected to the sensor 44, and drives the pinch roller drive means 55 at the timing of the banknote entering the reversal path 37. The timer 56 is a timer in which the drive timing of the sorting gate drive means 54 and the drive timing of the pinch roller drive means 55 are set. Next, the operation of the reversing mechanism will be described.

As described above, the banknotes P that have passed through the sensor are guided to the front conveyance path 29 by the sorting gate 28 whose direction is controlled to be switched depending on the front side and the backside one. It is guided to the back conveyance path 30. As shown in FIG. 4, the banknotes P facing down enter the reversing path 37 along the transport surface of the sorting gate 28 while being pressed against the sorting gate 28 by the hammer 45.

As shown in FIG. 5, when the banknote P passes through the sensors 43 and 44, the driving means (not shown) is driven at a timing in consideration of the operation time of the pinch roller 46. It becomes such a state. In the state shown in FIG. 6, the rear end of the banknote P is already out of the belt 32, 39, so that the banknote P becomes free, and the direction change by the hammer 45 starts. Furthermore, banknotes P
Enter into the banknote P and reach the stopper 41a of the entrance guide 41, the banknote P is temporarily stopped.

Immediately after that, as shown in FIG.
The rear end of the rear end has been completely turned by the knocking wheel 45.
Further, since the rear end of the banknote P is pinched by the rubber roller 38 and the bearing 50 when the operation of the pinch roller 46 is completed, the banknote P is accelerated in the opposite direction according to the rotation direction of the rubber roller 38.

When the banknote P is conveyed in the opposite direction, a part of the banknote P is sandwiched between the rubber roller 38 and the belt 39 and is conveyed to the back conveyance path 30, as shown in FIG. . At the same time, the pinch roller 46 starts withdrawal in preparation for the entry of the next banknote Pa that is continuously conveyed.

As shown in FIG. 9, before the next banknote Pa enters the inversion path 37, the pinch roller 46 completes the withdrawal and returns to the initial state. After that, the banknote P can be continuously inverted by repeating the above-described operation.

As described above, in the above embodiment, the reversing path 37 for reversing the paper sheet is provided between the back conveying path 30 and the front conveying path 29, so that the reversing path 37 can be replaced with another conveying path. It is possible to downsize the front and back arranging device for paper sheets without protruding from the inside.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, since the reversing path 37 is a curved conveying path, the space of the reversing path 37 can be made equal to or less than the length of the paper sheet, and the front and back sides of the paper sheet can be reduced. The arrangement device can be miniaturized.

In the above embodiment, in order to arrange banknotes face up, the banknotes facing down are changed to face up by the inversion path 37. However, when banking upside down, banknotes facing up are arranged. Can also be supplied to the reversing path 37 for alignment, and selection can be made according to the direction of alignment.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention,
This has the effect of making it possible to make the front and back reversing mechanism for paper sheets extremely small.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a banknote processing apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the front / back reversing device.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the front / back reversing device.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory view of the front / back reversing device.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory view of the front / back inverting device.

FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory view of the front / back reversing device.

FIG. 7 is an operation explanatory view of the front / back reversing device.

FIG. 8 is an operation explanatory view of the front / back inverting device.

FIG. 9 is an operation explanatory view of the front / back reversing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Banknote processing apparatus 3 ... Banknote banding apparatus 4 ... Bandwidth section 2 ... Banknote sorting section 5 ... Supply section 6 ... Feeding roller 8 ... Inspection section 11 ... Conveying means 17 ... Conveyance path 18 ... Switchback reversing mechanism 19 ... Temporary stacking unit 27 ... Sensor 28 ... Gate 29 ... Front transport path 30 ... Back transport path 37 ... Reverse path 38 ... Rubber roller 39 ... Belt 40 ... Guide 41 ... Inlet guide 42 ... Exit guide 43,44 ... Sensor 45 ... Battering car 46 … Pinch roller 52… Confluence guide

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A transporting means for transporting a paper sheet, a determining means for determining the front and back of a paper sheet transported by this transporting means, and a first transporting the paper sheet determined by this determining means. A conveying means; a second conveying means provided in parallel with the first conveying means; and a trailing end of the paper sheet provided between the first conveying means and the second conveying means. Reversing and conveying means for inverting the paper sheet by sending it out to the second conveying means as the front end, and allocating means for allocating the paper sheet to the reversing conveying means and the first conveying means according to the discrimination result of the discriminating means. An apparatus for collecting front and back sides of paper sheets, which comprises: 2. A conveying means for conveying a paper sheet, a discriminating means for discriminating between the front and back of the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying means, and a sheet according to the discrimination result of the discriminating means. And a first conveying means for conveying the paper sheets in one direction distributed by the distributing means, and a paper sheet in the other direction for distributing the paper sheets in the other direction distributed by the distributing means. A reversing and conveying means having a curved conveying path for reversing the paper sheet by sending out the rear end as the front end, and a second conveying means for merging the paper sheet sent out by the reversing and conveying means with the first conveying means. A front and back assembling device for paper sheets, which is equipped with a conveying means.