JPH06180779A - Paper processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide the mechanism of surely sending out the bundle of paper money varying its thickness even at the time of using in a long period and surely capturing them the exit of a cash dispenser in a mechanism used for piling and representing in common, which is used for paper memory in a cash dispenser, etc. CONSTITUTION: A cash paying unit includes first and second cooperation endless belts 72 and 74 for sending the bundle 76 of the paper money to an output port 54. The tip parts of the first and second bolts respectively pass around first and second pulleys 52 and 66. The first pulley 52 is provided with a fixed rotary shaft line. The second pulley is rotatably mounted to one tip of a rotatably mounted arm 56 and a third puller 64 is rotatably mounted at the other tip of the arm 56. The third pulley 64 is engaged to a part of the second endless belt 74 cooperatively engaged with the first belt 72. As the first and second belts 72 and 74 are elastically extendable and stretched, when the bundle 76 is positioned at the output port 54, the first and second pulleys 52 and 66 are energized so as to capture the bundle in between the first and second belts 72 and 74.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sheet processing apparatus, and can be applied to, for example, a banknote stacking apparatus / presenting apparatus included in a cash payment unit of an automated teller machine (ATM).

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION As is well known, the operation of an automated teller machine requires a user to insert a customer identification card into a machine and then use certain data (on one or more keyboards included in the machine's user console). Enter the code, required amount, transaction form, etc.). The machine then processes the transaction as part of its routine operation, updates the user's account to reflect the transaction, pays cash as needed from one or more banknote cassettes installed in the machine, and uses Return the card to the person.

A cash payment unit of an automatic teller machine usually has at least one banknote take-out mechanism for taking out the banknotes one by one from a banknote cassette, and a delivery port or an exit slot through which a user takes out the banknote stack layer. It includes a stacking mechanism and a presenting mechanism for stacking and delivering the taken-out banknotes to a stacking layer.

A known deposition mechanism / presentation mechanism deposition layer feeding device includes first and second endless belt devices mounted in a support frame, for the purpose of transferring the deposition layer toward the outlet. A portion of the first belt device has a cooperative relationship with a portion of the second belt device. The portions of the first and second belt devices adjacent to the outlet 1 pass around cooperating first and second pulley devices, respectively. The axis of rotation of the first of these pulley devices is fixed with respect to the support frame, but in order to allow a deposit of different thickness to be tolerated between the first and second belt devices, the second pulley The axis of is movable. In such a known stacking mechanism / presentation mechanism, the second pulley device is mounted on a supporting device mounted on a shaft, and a spring device for urging the second pulley device toward the first pulley device is attached to the supporting device. To be done.

The drawbacks of the above known deposition and presentation mechanism are as follows.
Prolonged use will weaken the spring device and possibly cause it to fail, thus reducing the reliability of the mechanism. Another drawback of the known mechanism is that at the exit position the trapping force exerted by the belt device on the deposited layer increases with increasing thickness of the deposited layer, which reduces the uniformity of the operating characteristics of the mechanism.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a sheet processing apparatus which is capable of substantially overcoming the above-mentioned drawbacks or relieving it significantly, and which is suitable for acting as a bill depositing mechanism and a presenting mechanism. And

[0007]

The sheet processing apparatus of the present invention is claimed in claim 1.

In the operation of the sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention, the rotational movement of the supporting device swingably mounted when the deposition layer passes from the deposition mechanism device to the exit position includes the first and second rotational motions. It should be understood that the thickness of the deposited layer can be tolerated between the pulley devices and that this rotational movement causes the first and second belt devices to deform.

The above objects and advantages are explained in the following detailed description,
It will be apparent from the claims and the accompanying drawings.

[0010]

1 and 2, a deposition mechanism / presentation mechanism 10 of the present invention is shown. The mechanism includes a support frame having side walls 12,14. Two compound pulleys 16, 18 are provided between the two parallel axes 2 extending between the side walls 12, 14, respectively.
It is mounted on 0 and 22. The axes of these axes 20, 22 lie in the same horizontal plane. The composite pulley 16 comprises a first set of three pulleys 26 spaced apart along an axis 20 and in operative relationship.
1 and two other pulleys 28 that are operatively interposed between the pulley 26 and the other two pulleys 28 that overlap with each other in FIG. 1. Similarly, the composite pulley 18
Three pulleys 30 which are similar to the pulleys 26 and are located in corresponding positions with the pulleys 26 and have an operational relationship.
And two other pulleys 32 similar to pulley 28 and located in corresponding positions with pulley 28. The composite pulleys 16, 18 have a large diameter of 6.4 cm. Two engaging gears 34 on the composite pulleys 16 and 18,
36 (FIG. 1) are fixed to each other, and the gear wheel 34 is a reversible electric stepping motor 4 via a gear system 38.
It is tied to zero. The electric motor 40 serves to drive the composite pulleys 16 and 18.

Extending between the side walls 12, 14 of the upper part of the frame 11 are three further axes 42, 44, 46. Axes 42, 4
Three sets of pulleys 48, 50, 52 are rotatably mounted on each of the sets 4, 46, and each of these sets includes three pulleys arranged in positions corresponding to the pulleys 26, 30. As shown in FIG. 2, the set of pulleys 52 is located adjacent to the outlet 54 (FIG. 2) of the deposition and presentation mechanism 10 and the set of pulleys 50 is located at an intermediate position between the sets of pulleys 52,48. .

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, there is a shaft 58 extending between the side walls 12, 14 below the shaft 46, on which shaft three pairs of arms 56 are mounted for independent rotation. To be done. The paired ends of each pair of arms 56 carry respective shafts 60 extending between the arms 56, and the other ends of each pair of arms 56 carry respective shafts 62 extending between the arms 56. The three pulleys 64 are mounted on the shaft 60, the three pulleys 66 are respectively mounted on the shaft 62, and the pulleys 64 and 66 are the pulleys 2 and 6.
6, 30, 48, 50 and 52 are arranged at corresponding positions. Another shaft 68 (FIG. 2) extends between the side walls 12, 14 and lies below the shaft 44. Three separate pulleys 7
0 is rotatably mounted on the shaft 68. The pulley 70 is arranged at a position corresponding to the pulleys 26, 30, 48, 50, 52, 64, 66.

Three elastically stretchable endless belts 72
2 passes around the pulleys 30, 50, 52, the lower side of the pulley 48, and the upper side of the pulley 64, and goes around a part of the periphery of the pulley 26, as shown in FIG. Each belt 7
2 is the pulleys 30, 50, 52 arranged at corresponding positions,
It has a cooperative relationship with a set of 48, 64 and 26. As seen in FIG. 2, three further elastically stretchable endless belts 74 are provided around the pulleys 26, 64, 62 and around the pulley 5.
The lower side of 0 and the upper side of the pulley 70 are passed. Each belt 74 has pulleys 26, 64,
It is in a cooperative relationship with the group of 62, 50 and 70. Pulley 2
The lower portion of the belt 72 extending between the pulleys 6 and 52 is the pulley 2
It will be appreciated that it will cooperate with the upper portion of belt 74 extending between 6, 66. That portion of belt 72 is held in resilient engagement with the cooperating portion of belt 74. This engagement causes these portions of belts 72, 74 to be flexed downward by pulley 50 and pulley 64.
By being bent upwards and the belts 72, 74 being in a slightly tensioned state. As will be described later in detail, in the operation of the stacking mechanism / presentation mechanism 10, the banknote stacking layer 76 includes the endless belt 72 even if it contains a variable number of banknotes.
It can be trapped between cooperating parts of 74 so that it can be delivered to the outlet 54 of the deposition and presentation mechanism 10.

Two shafts 78, 80 (FIG. 2) extending between the side walls 12, 14 are disposed below the composite pulleys 16, 18. Two pairs of pulleys 82, 84 (FIG. 2) are rotatably mounted on shafts 78, 80, respectively. Each pair of these pulleys is a pulley 28 (FIG. 1) of the composite pulley 16.
Are arranged at positions corresponding to. The pulley 82 is of large diameter having a diameter of 6.4 cm. Two elastically stretchable endless belts 86 pass around the pulleys 28, 82 and around a portion of the pulley 84. Each belt 86 has pulleys 28, 82, 8 arranged at corresponding positions.
It has a cooperative relationship with a group of four. As seen in Figure 2,
Before the stack of bills 76 is sent to the outlet 54, the stack 7
6 is stationary with respect to the belt 86. At this time, the long lower end of the banknote in the banknote stacking layer 76 is supported by an arm 87 (hereinafter, this is referred to as a stripper arm 87).

As shown in FIG. 2, two pairs of pulleys 88 and 90 are rotatably mounted on two shafts 92 and 94 extending between the side walls 12 and 14, respectively, and extend between the side walls 12 and 14. And, rotatably with respect to them, another pair of pulleys 96 is fixed on the drive shaft 98. The drive shaft 98 is an electric motor 40 (FIG. 1) via a gear system (not shown).
Driven by. Two elastically stretchable endless belts 100 pass around pulleys 88, 90, 96 and around a portion of the circumference of pulley 82. Each belt 100
Are pulleys 82, 88, 90, 9 arranged at corresponding positions
It has a cooperative relationship with the group of 6. It should be appreciated that the upper portion of the belt 100 extending between the pulleys 88, 96 cooperates with the portion of the belt 86 that is in contact with the pulley 82. Each of the parts of the belt 100 is elastically engaged with the cooperating part of the belt 86, by virtue of the fact that the belt 100 passes over a part of the circumference of the pulley 82 and that the belt 100 is in a slightly tensioned state. Please understand that they will be kept in a suitable state. Due to the elastic engagement of the belt 100 with the belt 86, the belt 10
Even if the number of piles of rejected banknotes changes due to 0, 86, the banknotes can be caught between the cooperating portions of these belts and sent to the rejected banknote container 102 (hereinafter referred to as reject bin). These rejected banknotes are reject bins 10.
2 into the exclusion bin 102 through an opening 104 on one side. After the belts 86, 100 have left, the leading edge of the stack of rejected banknotes is captured by a set of cooperative foam rubber feed rolls 106. These feed rolls 10
6 together with the guiding device 107 serve to send the deposited layer into the exclusion bin 102. The feed roll 106 is an electric motor 40
Driven by (FIG. 6), the elastic nature of the feed roll 106 allows for the transfer of banknote stacks of varying thickness. The passing of the rejected banknote stack into the reject bin 102 is sensed by the optical sensing device 108.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a pair of clamp arms 110 and 112 are rotatably mounted on a shaft 22. The ends of the clamp arms 110 and 112 on the side far from the shaft 22 extend along the shaft 1 extending between the clamp arms 110 and 112.
Carry 14 A pair of pulleys 116 are mounted on the shaft 114.
Is rotatably mounted, and this pulley 116 is arranged at a position corresponding to the pulley 32 (FIG. 1) of the composite pulley 18. Two upwardly extending support arms 118 are fixed on the shaft 114, and two pairs of rotating arms 120 are pivotally attached to the two support arms 118, respectively. Each pair of rotating arms 120 is pivotally mounted on a tack 122 fixed to the upper end of a respective support arm 118. Rotating arm 120
Each pair of ends of the, which are remote from their respective support arms 118 carry a tack 124 on which a corresponding pulley 126 is mounted. The two pulleys 126 are arranged at positions corresponding to the pulleys 116 and 32. Two separate elastically stretchable endless belts 128 wrap around the pulleys 126, 116, 32. Each belt 128 has a set of pulleys 126, 116, 3 arranged in corresponding positions.
Have a cooperative relationship with 2. The belt 128 is in a slightly tensioned state, and the lower part of the belt 128 is the pulley 1
It extends between 26 and the pulley 32 and is curved downward by the pulley 116. With this configuration, the rotating arm 1
20 is elastically held normally in the position shown in FIG. 2 by the tension of the endless belt 128, and the left edge (as viewed in FIG. 2) of the two notches 130 formed in the lower edge of the rotating arm 120 is the axis. Against 114. As will be described in more detail below, the rotating arm 120 can rotate to some extent clockwise (as viewed in FIG. 2) about the axis of the tack 122 relative to the clamp arm 110. This rotational movement is notched 130
The right edge of the is restricted by engaging the shaft 114.

A stud 132 (FIG. 1) is provided on the outer surface of the side wall 14.
A cam 134 (not shown in FIG. 2) is rotatably mounted on the tack 132, to which is fixed. Two cam tracks (not shown) in the shape of an arcuate recess have sidewalls 1
4 is formed in the inner surface of the cam 134 which faces 4. The cam 134 is reversibly driven by an electric stepping motor 136 via a gear system 138. This gear system 138
Engages a gear 140 that forms an integral part with the cam 134. A tack 142 fixed to the outer surface of the clamp arm 110 engages one of the cam tracks formed in the cam 134. Usually, belt 128, clamp arm 1
The clamp assembly 144, including 10, 112, and the rotating arm 120 and pulleys 116, 126, is in the position shown in FIG. In response to rotational movement of the cam 134 from its normal position, engagement of the studs 142 on the cam tracks within the cam 134 causes rotational movement about the axis of the shaft 22 in a counterclockwise direction (as viewed in FIG. 2) to be clamped. It is brought to the solid 144. This rotational movement is performed with the stack of banknotes 76 trapped between the endless belts 128 and 86.
8 continues to have a cooperative relationship with belt 86. Immediately after this, the rotational movement of the cam 134 is stopped as described later. As this rotational movement of the clamp assembly 144 approaches the end, the portion of the endless belt 128 passing around the pulley 126 initially contacts the deposited layer 76. afterwards,
The rotating arm 120 and pulley 126 assembly makes a small rotational movement clockwise around the stud 122 against the clamp arms 110, 112 against the tension of the endless belt 128 and until the cam 134 stops. As a result of this configuration, the banknote stacking layer 76 having a variable thickness is changed to the endless belt 128.
And the endless belt 86 can be captured. Endless belt 12
The cooperating portion of 8 and the endless belt 86 extends between a position adjacent the circumference of the pulley 82 and a position where the endless belts 128, 86 are in a cooperative relationship with the circumference of the pulley 32. When the endless belt 128 cooperates with the endless belt 86, the pulley 116 slightly bends the endless belt 86 so that the banknote stacking layer 76, which is stationary with respect to the endless belt 86, has tension and Due to the tension of the endless belt 128, the endless belts 128, 86
It should be understood that it is elastically trapped between. The banknote stacking layer 76 is thus captured between the endless belts 128 and 86, and is thus supported by the endless belts 7 and 8.
It can be fed to nip A of 2,74. This nip A
The deposited layer 76 from is sent to the exit port 54 by the endless belts 72, 74. The proximity of the deposited layer 76 to the exit port 54 is sensed by an optical sensing device 146 (FIG. 2) initially located between the pulley 50 and the pulley 64, which is then positioned adjacent the exit port 54. Is detected by another optical sensing device 148 (FIG. 2).

As an alternative to this, the endless belts 128, 8
The banknote stack layer 76 sandwiched between 6 is an endless belt 128,
86 allows the endless belts 86, 100 to be fed to the nip B. From this nip B, the deposited layer is sent into the exclusion bin 102 by the endless belt 86, the endless belt 100, and the feed roll 106, and the stripper arm 8 is moved.
7 position showing the first rotation has been outlined by a broken line in FIG. 2 87 ¹
Rotate to.

After the stack of bills 76 has been sent to the outlet 54 or the reject bin 102, the clamp assembly 144 is rotated clockwise to return to its original position shown in FIG. In-situ return of the clamp assembly 144 is sensed by an optical sensing device 150 (FIG. 1) located in co-operation with the clamp arm 112. Position 87 of stripper arm 87
Movement to ¹ is sensed by another optical sensing device 152 (FIG. 2). Another optical sensing device 154 is arranged in co-operation with a timing wheel 156 fixed to the compound pulley 16. The function of the optical sensing device 154 is to generate a series of timing pulses in response to the rotation of the compound pulleys 16,18.

Endless belts 72, 74, 86, 100, 1
28 is made of an elastically stretchable polymeric material such as polyurethane or silicone rubber.

The deposition and presentation mechanism 10 of the present invention includes a conventional deposition wheel 158 arranged to rotate continuously in the clockwise direction during operation as seen in FIG. Deposition wheel 15
8 includes a plurality of deposition plates 160 spaced along a deposition wheel axis 162, each deposition plate 160 including a series of curved branches 164. The shaft 162 extends between the side walls 12 and 14, is rotatably mounted on the side walls, and is driven by an electric motor 166 via a reduction gear (not shown). The deposition wheel 158 includes a stripper arm 8 which is spaced along the shaft 92 and fixed to the shaft 92.
Cooperate with 7. The shaft 92 is rotatably mounted on the side walls 12 and 14. Each stripper arm 87 is arranged between adjacent deposition plates 160 in pairs. During operation, the stripper arm 87 is in the position of the contour shown by the solid line in FIG. At this time, each stripper arm 87 extends into the space between the adjacent stacking plates 160. In operation, banknotes are sent by the transfer mechanism 168 to the stacking wheel 158 one by one. Each banknote has an adjacent branch 1 on the stacking board 160.
It enters between 64 and is partially carried around the axis of the stacking wheel 158 by the stripper arm 87, and the long edge of the banknote is stacked against the endless belt 86 while being supported by the stripper arm 87. Stripper arm 8
7 original position (shown in solid line outline in FIG. 2) and unsupported position 87
Controlled by rotational movement between ¹ and cam 134 and linkage (not shown). The linkage includes a stud that engages a second arcuate slot (not shown) formed in the plane of the cam 134 facing the sidewall 14.

The transfer mechanism 168 serves to send banknotes from the selected pick module 170 (FIG. 5) to the stacking wheel 158. The mechanism transfer mechanism 168 includes two sets of cooperative endless belts 172,174. The endless belt 172 is driven by a set of pulleys 176 mounted on a drive shaft 178, and the endless belt 174 is driven by the drive shaft 182.
Driven by a set of pulleys 180 mounted above,
The drive shafts 178 and 182 are driven by an electric motor 166 via a speed reducer (not shown). In operation, each banknote sent to the transfer mechanism 168 receives the endless belts 172, 1
74, and is sent by endless belts 172, 174 to the stacking wheel 158 where the banknotes
Between the adjacent branches 164. The multiple bill detection device 184 shown by a box in a schematic diagram in FIG.
It is arranged at a position along the cooperative portion of 74, which is for detecting the superposed banknotes passing between the endless belts 172 and 174.

Referring now particularly to FIG. 5, it is shown that the depositing and presenting mechanism 10 forms part of a cash payment unit 186 of a lobby mounted automatic teller machine. The deposition mechanism / presentation mechanism 10 and the take-out module 170 are housed in a safe 188. Each take-out module 170 takes one bill from the associated bill cassette 190,
Each banknote taken out from each associated cassette 190 is transferred along the control feeding path 192 to the transfer mechanism 16 of the stacking mechanism / presentation mechanism 10.
It is configured to send to 8. The banknotes taken out from one or more of the cassettes 190 are piled up by the stacking mechanism / presentation mechanism 10 as described above, and then passed through the distribution port outlet 54 formed in the user console 194 of the automatic teller machine to the user. Presented to. Alternatively, if the stack of banknotes is rejected for some reason, such as when the double detection mechanism 184 detects passage of stacked banknotes, the stack of banknotes is diverted to the reject bin 102. The safe 188 is provided with a door 196 through which the cassette 190 and the reject bin 102 can be removed from the safe 188 for cash replenishment or bin emptying operations, respectively. The cash payment unit 186 includes electric motors 40, 136, 1
It includes an electronic controller 198 that controls 66 and withdrawal module 170 to which the outputs of optical sensing devices 108, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154 and multiple banknote detection mechanism 184 are applied. The main motor 166 includes a deposition wheel 158, a drive shaft 178, and 1.
It should be appreciated that it drives 82 and the ejection module 170.

With further reference to FIG. 6, the operation of cash payment unit 186 and, in particular, depositing and presenting mechanism 10 will be described. Immediately prior to the start of operation of the cash dispenser, the electric motors 40, 136, 166 are inactive and the clamp assembly 144 and stripper arm 87 are in the position outlined by the solid lines in FIG. Operation of the cash dispenser is accomplished by the user inserting a customer identification card into a card input slot (not shown) in the user console 194 and entering the appropriate data with a keyboard device (not shown). Be started. A keyboard is also included in the user console 194. As a result of this operation start, the electronic control unit 198 operates the electric motor 166, operates the transfer mechanism 168, and causes the deposition wheel 158 to rotate. The banknotes are then ejected one by one from the selected one or more cassettes 190 in response to a signal applied by the electronic controller 198 to the ejection module 170. The taken-out banknotes are sent to the stacking wheel 158 by the transfer mechanism 168. The deposition wheel 158 deposits banknotes against the endless belt 86 to form a deposition layer 76 in a known manner. When the correct number of banknotes are deposited against the endless belt 86, the controller 198 deactivates the electric motor 166 and sends a signal to the motor 136 to activate the motor 136 and move the cam 134 to its original position. The cam 134 is rotated in a direction away from the cam. This rotation of the cam 134 results in an axial rotational movement of the clamp assembly 144 in a counterclockwise direction as viewed in FIG. 2, so that the stack of banknotes 76 deposits the stack of banknotes 76 between the endless belt 128 and the endless belt 86. Sandwich. At the same time, the stripper arm 87 moves to position 87 ¹ as outlined by the dashed line in FIG. In this case, the stripper arm 87 no longer engages the banknote stack and is not in the path of motion of the banknote stack. Immediately after the deposition layer 76 of the banknote is sandwiched between the endless belt 128 and the endless belt 86, the electronic control unit 198 stops the operation of the electric motor 136, as a result, sense the stripper arm 87 reaches a position 87 1 ¹ In response to the sensing device 152, the cam 134 is stopped.

Thereafter, the electronic control unit 198 controls the electric motor 40 so that the endless belts 128 and 86 can actuate the electric motor 40 in a direction to send the deposit layer 76 of the bill to the nip A of the endless belts 72 and 74. Send a signal to. From this nip, the deposit layer 76 of the banknote is transferred to the endless belt 7.
2, 74 is sent to the exit 54 of the automatic teller machine.

As the stack of banknotes 76 is delivered to the outlet 54, the optical sensing device 146 senses the leading edge of the stack of banknotes 76 first and then the rear edge of the stack of banknotes 76. The optical sensing device 146 detects a predetermined time after the rear edge of the banknote stack layer 76 is sensed by the optical sensing device 146. This detection is performed, for example, by applying a timing pulse to the electronic control unit 198 by the optical sensing device 154. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4, a part of the banknote stack layer 76 is held between the endless belts 72 and 74, and the banknote stack layer 76 is placed at a delivery position where a part of the banknote stack layer 76 projects from the outlet 54. The electronic controller 198 stops the electric motor 40 so that it stops.
If the banknotes in the banknote stack layer 76 were unacceptably scattered, the elapsed time between sensing the leading edge and the trailing edge of the banknote stack layer 76 by the optical sensing device 146 was excessively long and expected. When the limit is exceeded, the electronic control unit 198 reverses the pulley 50 and the banknote stack 7
6 is pulled back into the cash payment unit 186 and placed in the exclusion bin 102.

After being sent to the distribution position, the banknote accumulation layer 7
6 can be immediately removed by the user of the automatic teller machine from the user console 194. Optical sensing device 148 senses whether a stack of banknotes is located at outlet 54. If the presented banknote stack layer 76 is not removed from the user console 194 by the user of the automated teller machine within the scheduled time, such as if the banknote stack layer is scattered, the electronic controller 198 will The 76 is pulled back into the cash payment unit 186 and placed in the exclusion bin 102. Immediately after the trailing edge of the banknote stack 76 is sensed by the optical sensing device 146, the electronic controller 198 reverses the electric motor 136 to reverse the cam 134, which causes the stripper arm 87 and the clamp assembly 1 to rotate.
Return 44 to their original position (outlined in FIG. 2). This movement of the stripper arm 87 and clamp assembly 144 results in engagement of the tack 142 with the tack of a linkage (not shown) associated with the stripper arm 87 cam 1.
Note that it is caused by what occurs within 34 cam tracks (not shown). When the optical sensing device 150 senses that the clamp arm 112 has returned to its original position, the non-sandwich position, the electric motor 13
The reverse of 6 ends.

FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 show a state during the operation period when the banknote pile layer 76 passes above the pulley 64 as shown in FIG. Adjacent to the lower portion of the endless belt 72 is pushed away from the cooperating portion of the endless belt 74. The deformation of the endless belt 72 is caused by the endless belt 72.
It is immediately achieved by the stretchability of. Then, as the leading edge of the banknote stack layer 76 moves between the pulley sets 52, 66, the arm 56 rotates clockwise about the axis 58 relative to the frame 11. This rotational movement of the arm 56 results in a deformation of the adjacent upper portion of the endless belt 74 and a deformation of the cooperating portion of the endless belt 72 (FIG. 4). These deformations are immediately achieved by the stretchability of the endless belts 72 and 74. When the banknote stacking layer 76 is at the current position in FIG. 4 and is ready for immediate removal by the user of the automatic teller machine, the tension of the endless belts 72, 74 causes the arm 56 to rotate on the shaft 5.
It is biased to rotate in a counterclockwise direction around 8 so that the stack of bills 76 is reliably and elastically captured in this position. Also, when there is no banknote stack between the endless belts 72, 74 elastically captured between the pulleys 52, 66, the arm 56 is rotated counterclockwise by the tensioned endless belts 72, 74. Please understand that it is biased. The amount by which the endless belts 72, 74 are stretched due to the presence of the stack of bills 76 between the pulleys 52, 66 is very small compared to the length of the endless belts 72, 74, so that the endless belts 72, 74 will The trapping force applied to the stack 76 remains substantially constant regardless of the thickness of the banknote stack layer 76. Thus rotatable pulleys 64 associated with the elastically stretchable endless belts 72, 74,
66 provides a simple and very reliable and effective device that can feed the stack of bills of varying thickness and capture the stack at the outlet 54. Further, since the endless belts 72 and 74 have the property of being stretchable and stretchable, the banknote stacking layer having a variable thickness can be provided over the entire feeding distance between the nip A and the outlet 54.
It is possible to reliably capture between 2 and 74. Thickness 6
Up to mm (depending on the state of the banknote, about 40 banknotes) can be fed between the endless belts 72 and 74.
Pulley 26 is the diameter of pulleys 52 and 66 (2.1c
It should be understood that it has a diameter (6.4 cm) substantially larger than m). Since the diameter of the pulley 26 is large, when the bill stacking layer goes around a part of the pulley 26, the movement direction of the stacking layer changes, but at this time, the stacking layer does not deform.

For example, the multiple banknote detector 184 detects that two or more banknotes have been taken out in the single takeout operation of the stacking operation, and is accumulated against the stationary belt 86 for some reason. When the stack of banknotes 76 is rejected, the stack of banknotes 76 is sent to the reject bin 102. As previously mentioned, first the electric motor 136 is briefly actuated, which results in the stripper arm 87 being moved to position 87 ¹ and the endless belts 128, 8 being moved.
The clamp assembly 144 is moved to a sandwiching position in which the banknote stack layer 76 is sandwiched between the six. Then, the endless belt 12
8, 86 is a stack of banknotes 76, endless belts 86, 100
The electronic control unit 198 actuates the electric motor 40 in the direction to move it to the nip B of the above. From this nip B, the deposited layer is sent by the belts 86, 100 and the roll 106 into the exclusion bin 102. Banknote stacking layer is eliminated bin 102
The optical sensing device 108 senses the leading edge of the deposited layer as it approaches. Immediately after the optical sensing device 108 senses the leading edge of the deposited layer, the electronic controller 198 deactivates the electric motor 40 and temporarily moves the electric motor 40 to return the stripper arm 87 and the clamp assembly 144 to their original position. Actuate 136 in the opposite direction.

[0030]

[Effect] As described above, since the banknote pile layer 76 exists between the pulleys 52 and 66, the endless belts 72 and 7
The amount by which 4 is stretched is very small compared to the length of the endless belts 72, 74, so that the catching force exerted by the endless belts 72, 74 on 76 is substantially independent of the thickness of the stack of banknotes 76. Stay constant. That is, the endless belt 7
Due to the tensile and stretchable nature of 2,74, for the entire feed distance between nip A and outlet 54,
It is possible to reliably capture the banknote stacking layer having a variable thickness between the endless belts 72 and 74. Due to the stretchability of the endless belt 100, a pile of banknotes having a thickness of up to 6 mm can be sent between the endless belts 86 and 100.

Also, elastically stretchable endless belts 72, 7
By means of rotatable pulleys 64, 66 associated with 4,
A stack of banknotes of varying thickness can be reliably captured at the outlet 54.

Further, since the pulley 82 has a large diameter, the movement direction of the deposit layer changes when the deposit layer goes around a part of the pulley 82, but at this time, the deposit layer of the bill is not deformed. .

Another advantage of the deposition and presentation mechanism 10 described above is that a plurality of pairs of arm arms 56 are mounted on a shaft 58 for independent rotation and are each associated with a plurality of endless belts 74. Therefore, the deposit layer 76 of the bill is reliably captured between the endless belts 72 and 74 at the outlet 54. This fact is caused by a slight variation in thickness in the width direction of each banknote, and the stacking layer 76 in the width direction of the banknote stacking layer 76 (that is, the banknote stacking layer 76 parallel to the axis 58). It is also correct if the thickness of the changes.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a bill depositing / presenting mechanism of an automatic teller machine.

2 is a side view seen from the lower side of FIG. 1, showing a part of the mechanism shown in FIG. 1 as a cross section, and omitting a part of the mechanism of FIG. 1 including one of the side walls for simplification of description. It is a figure.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion of the mechanism of FIG. 2, corresponding to a stage of the operation of delivering a deposited layer.

FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3, but corresponding to a later stage in the operation of delivering the deposited layer.

FIG. 5 is a schematic side view of an automatic teller machine including a cash payment unit including the depositing and presenting mechanism of FIGS. 1 to 4;

6 is a block diagram of an electrical system interconnecting parts of the cash payment unit of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 depositing mechanism / presenting mechanism 54 cash payment unit exit port 76 banknote depositing layer 72, 74 first and second cooperative endless belts 52, 64, 66 first, second and third pulleys 56 arm 72, 74th 1st and 2nd belt 102 Refusal bill container 168 Transfer mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A deposition device for accumulating paper as a deposition layer,
A sheet processing apparatus including a feeding device for feeding the deposited layer to an exit position, wherein the feeding device has a part of the first endless belt device for feeding the deposited layer to the exit position. Including first and second endless belt devices mounted within the pointing frame to have a cooperative relationship to a portion of the belt device,
Portions of the first belt device and the second belt device adjacent to the outlet position respectively pass around the first and second pulley devices having a cooperative relationship, and the first pulley device with respect to the indicating frame. In a sheet processing apparatus having a first fixed rotation axis and a second pulley device having a second movable shaft rotatable with respect to the instruction frame, the second pulley device may have a third rotation axis. A part of the second belt device is carried by a supporting device pivotably mounted around a movable axis of rotation, the part of the second belt device being in cooperative engagement with a third pulley device carried by the supporting device; A third axis is located at an intermediate position between the second and third pulley arrangements and the first and second belt arrangements are elastically stretchable and extensible so that the first and second belt arrangements are Bullet between the first and second pulley A sheet handling apparatus which is sexually retained and wherein an axial rotational movement of the support device occurs in response to the deposition layer passing between the first and second pulley devices.