JPH0664644B2 - Banknote handling equipment for vending machines - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a bill handling apparatus that handles bills of multiple denominations, such as an automatic vending machine that sells high-priced tickets and high-priced articles.

(B) Conventional technology ATM (automated cash dispenser) used in financial institutions
In JP-A-59-149594, for example, a bill handling apparatus that circulates and uses the deposited bill as a dispensed bill is disclosed.

Since the bill handling device of this conventional example has a complicated mechanism because the purpose of use is an ATM (Automatic Cash Dispensing Machine), for example, a vending machine that sells high-priced tickets and high-priced goods, etc. In addition, functions and controls are too complicated to use as a banknote handling device for storing high-value banknotes and discharging small-sized banknotes as change, resulting in a larger size and cost of the device, which is easier than an ATM. It was not applicable to vending machines.

Therefore, as a bill handling device of a vending machine, it is a general structure that bills inserted by users are sequentially stored in a safe part, and change is discharged from a change storing part through a dedicated discharge path. It was

In this case, since the banknotes are taken into the safe section in the order in which they are inserted into the machine body, the banknotes of each denomination are in a mixed state, and when collecting the banknotes of the safe section, prior to counting these banknotes. However, there is a problem in that the complicated work of sorting and classifying these mixed banknotes for each denomination can be handled by a staff member.

Further, when the change bills in the change storing unit are cut off because the input bills are not circulated and used for change, the transaction of the machine body must be brought down, and there is a problem that the operation rate of the bills and the operation rate of the device are low.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention The present invention has a simple configuration, but can insert and reuse inserted bills as change, and can improve the operation rate of banknotes and the operation rate of the apparatus. It is an object of the present invention to provide a bill handling device of an automatic vending machine, which does not require sorting work of denominations at the time of collection and facilitates totaling work.

(D) Means for Solving the Problem The present invention is a banknote handling device of an automatic vending machine that receives high-value banknotes and discharges low-value banknotes as change when needed, at least the denomination of the inserted banknote. The banknote discriminating section for discriminating between the banknote collecting section and the safe section for collecting the banknotes are connected by a banknote collecting / conveying path, and the banknote holding tape supplying means supplies and rewinds the peripheral surface of the banknote winding drum during the banknote collecting / conveying path. Arranged are a plurality of denomination-type pool units that are wound and unwound by holding down the holding tape to store and pay out, and a change storing unit that feeds out stored bills as change.
A change transfer path is derived from a banknote collecting transfer path between the final-stage components of the money type pool section and the change storage section and the safe section, and the change transfer path deriving section and the safe section. Form a temporary standby unit for temporarily storing banknotes on the banknote collecting and transporting path between and, depending on the denomination of the taken-in banknote, if the high-value banknote is stored in the temporary standby section, if the low-value banknote is the denomination According to the bill type pool section, banknotes are stored for each same denomination, and when change is required, changeout is paid out from the corresponding denomination type pool section, and when change is insufficient in banknotes in the denomination type pool section Change out from a single change and send it out to the change transfer route, and in case of multiple change, collect high-value banknotes stored in the temporary standby section in the safe section and store the required number of change in the temporary standby section. Shi It is sent to the post-change transfer route, and at the time of collection, the banknotes stored in each denomination-type pool section are sent to the banknote circuit transfer path for each denomination-type pool section, and the banknotes are stored in the safe section. It is a bill handling apparatus of an automatic vending machine, which is provided with a control means for controlling such that the bills are bundled for each kind and sorted and stored.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, instead of sending all banknotes thrown into the apparatus body as they are to the safe section, the banknotes are temporarily stored in the banknote collection / conveyance route in each banknote type pool section, When releasing as change, bills are drawn out from the corresponding denomination-type pool section and sent out to the change-conveyance transport path, so while the denomination-type pool section is simple in configuration, the inserted banknotes can be circulated and used as change. It is possible to improve the operation rate of the above, and moreover, when the corresponding change amount is insufficient in the corresponding money type pool section, it is fed out from the change change storage section, so there is less stoppage of the machine body due to lack of change, and there are more than one change. Occasionally, by storing these in a temporary standby unit and then sending them all at once, the change sending process becomes easier than sending out one by one, and the operating rate of the vending machine becomes higher. Is improved.

Further, since the stored banknotes are stored in the safe section for each denomination pool at the time of collection accompanying business completion, the banknotes in the safe section are neatly classified and bundled for each safe at the completion of storage. Therefore, the staff is freed from the complicated work of sorting.

Moreover, since the denomination type pool section is constituted by the bill winding drum, the bill holding tape supplying means, and the holding tape, the structure is simplified and the device can be made compact and compact.

(F) Embodiment of the Invention One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment in which the bill handling apparatus of the present invention is applied to an automatic vending machine. The bill discriminating unit 1 discriminates the authenticity of inserted bills and the denomination, and the bill discriminating unit 1 and the cassette form. The banknote section 2 is connected to the safe section 2 by the banknote collecting and conveying path 3.

According to this embodiment, two denomination type pool units 4 and 5 are provided in the middle of the bill collecting and conveying path 3. That is, one is the pool unit 4 for storing 1,000-yen bills, and the other is the pool unit 5 for storing 5,000-yen bills. The pool units 4 and 5 are bill winding drums 6a and 6b and bill holding units, respectively. Banknotes that are equipped with tape supply means 7a and 7b, and are wound around the peripheral surfaces of the drums 6a and 6b while being held by the holding tape 8 and reversing the drums 6a and 6b and rewinding the tape. It is made to pay out. Flappers 9 and 10 are provided between the pool sections 4,5 and the banknote collecting and conveying path 3, respectively. By the banknote switching operation of the flappers 9 and 10, the banknotes flowing through the path 3 are pooled into the pool sections 4,5. The bills pass through without being taken in, and are taken in by the pool units 4 and 5 (or bills are fed from the pool unit into the path).

The cassette-shaped change container 11 is provided with the change outlet 11a.
It has delivery rollers 12 and 12 and is fed by the delivery path 13 so that the bills delivered from the change delivery port 11a are placed on the bill collecting and conveying path 3.

Furthermore, a change-out delivery transfer route 14 is led out from the middle of the 5,000 yen bill pool section 5 and the safe section 2, and the communication of both transfer routes 3, 14 is made possible by switching the attitude of the flapper 15 equipped in this lead-out section. Done.

Reference numeral 16 is a pusher plate for pushing the bill reaching the entrance of the safe section 3 into the safe section, and the pusher plate 16 moves forward and backward by the rotation of the cam plate 17.

Reference numeral 18 is a return spring member.

Further, the transport path portion between the flapper 15 and the safe section 2 is
It constitutes a temporary standby unit 19 for change, etc.
Once captured, ten thousand yen bills and change bills are temporarily stored.

Next, the operation will be described. When a customer inserts a bill into the bill insertion slot 20, the bill discriminating unit 1 is activated, and the bill discriminated as a 10,000-yen bill is sent to the end on the bill collecting / conveying route 3 and is transferred to the safe. It is stored on the temporary standby section 19 immediately before the section. The banknote determined to be a 5,000 yen bill is sent to the position of the flapper 10 along the above-mentioned route 3. The flapper 10 has its posture switched by a denomination signal (5000 yen bill signal), and the bills are taken into the 5000 yen pool section 5. The bills that are determined to be 1,000-yen bills are also taken into the 1,000-yen bill pool section 4 by the flapper 9 whose posture has been switched by the denomination discrimination signal (thousand-yen bill signal), and are wound on the drums 6a and 6b. .

Next, when the change is found by the customer's purchase operation, a banknote corresponding to the change is sent out from either or both of the 1,000-yen bill pool section 4 and the 5,000-yen bill pool section 5. That is, if the change requires 5,000 yen bills, the drum 6b is reversed in the 5,000 yen pool unit 5, and one bill is sent out onto the bill collecting and conveying route 3 via the flapper 10 and this is temporarily held. Stored on top. In this case, if the 10,000-yen bills described above are stored on the temporary standby unit 19, the 10,000-yen bills will enter the safe section 2 before the 5,000-yen bills as change arrive at the temporary standby unit 19. And the pusher plate 16 is pushed in.

When the change amount is exactly 5,000 yen, the posture of the flapper 15 is switched by the change change sending signal without time, and the 5,000 yen note is transferred to the change change sending / transporting route 14 and sent to a saucer (not shown). The same applies when the change amount is just 1,000 yen.

However, if there is change in the 1,000-yen bill in addition to the 5,000-yen bill, one thousand-yen bill is sent out from the 1,000-yen bill pool section 4 to the bill collection / transportation path 3 in the same manner, and this is temporarily held. Stacked on the upper 5,000 yen bill, the 1,000 yen bills are stacked in the required number of coins. After that, along with the attitude change of the flapper 15,
The change in the temporary standby unit 19 is sent to the saucer while being piled up.

If the 1,000-yen bills are not yet stored in the pool section 4 or if the change amount is insufficient, the 1,000-yen bills are sent out from the change accommodation section 11 and used.

After the banknotes are stored in the safe section 2 and the pool sections 4 and 5 according to the denominations as described above, when one day's work is completed, one of the pool sections 4 and 5, for example, a 5,000 yen bill. In the pool section 5, the drum 6b is reversed, and the wound 5,000-yen bill banknote is put on the collecting and conveying path 3 and sent to the safe section 2. When the banknotes in the five-yen bill pool section 5 run out, the tram 6a in the 1,000-yen bill pool section 4 is reversed next, and the 1,000-yen bill banknotes that have been wound up are put on the collecting and conveying path 3 and sent to the safe section 2. for,
A banknote of each denomination is shown in a virtual line in the safe section 2.
It will be stored in the state of being sorted into A, B, and C.

FIG. 2 shows a control block circuit that controls the above-described operation. The CPU 21 controls a group of motors 23 that drives each of the paths 3, 13 and 14 based on a signal from a sensor group 22 that detects a banknote position in the main body of the apparatus. Then, the electromagnetic solenoid group 24 that controls switching of the flappers 9, 10, 15 is operated in cooperation with the memory 25.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the bill collecting operation upon completion of the work. In step 31, it is judged whether or not there are bills on the drum 6b of the 5000-yen bill pool section 5, and if there is, the pool section 5 is decided in step 32. When a bill is collected from the safe section 2 to the safe section 2 and there is no bill on the drum 6b in step 33, the process proceeds to step 34, where it is determined whether there is a bill in the drum 6a of the 1,000-yen bill pool section 4, At 35 and 36, the same banknote collection as described above is performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of a bill handling apparatus of an automatic vending machine according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is an internal configuration diagram of a bill handling apparatus in which the present invention is applied to an automatic ticket vending machine, and FIG. 2 is a control block circuit thereof. FIG. 3 and FIG. 3 are flowcharts of the bill collecting operation upon completion of business. 2 …… Bank section 3 …… Bill collection / conveyance route 4,5 …… Price classification pool section 6a, 6b …… Bill winding drum 7a, 7b …… Bill holding tape 8 …… Billing tape 11 …… Change storage unit 19 …… Temporary standby unit 21 …… CPU

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A banknote handling device for a vending machine which accepts high-value banknotes and discharges low-value banknotes as change when needed, and a banknote discriminating section for determining at least a denomination of the banknotes inserted. The banknote collecting and conveying path is connected to the safe part for collecting the paper money, and in the above-mentioned banknote collecting and conveying path, the peripheral surface of the banknote take-up drum is wrapped with the holding tape supplied and rewound from the paper money holding tape supply means. A plurality of denomination-type pool units for attaching and rewinding for storing and feeding, and a change storing unit for feeding stored banknotes as change are provided, and the final-stage component of the denomination-type pool unit and the change storing unit. A transfer path for change from the banknote recovery transfer path between the banknote and the safe part, and temporarily stores banknotes on the banknote recovery transfer path between the derivation part of the transfer path for change and the safe part. Depending on the denomination of the bill to be taken in, a high-value bill is temporarily stored in the standby part, and a low-value bill is stored according to the denomination. When the change is stored, the change is sent out from the corresponding denomination pool section, and when the change is insufficient in the banknotes of the denomination pool section, the change is taken out from the change storage section and sent out to the change transfer route with a single change. Together with a plurality of coins, high-value banknotes stored in the temporary standby part are collected in the safe part, and the required number of coins are stored in the temporary standby part and then sent out to the change transfer route. The banknotes stored in the pool section are provided for each denomination-type pool section, and are provided with control means for controlling the banknotes to be collected and conveyed in the safe section by bundling the banknotes for each denomination into the banknote collecting and conveying path. A bill handling device for an automated vending machine.