JPH0743788B2 - Cash collection device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a cash collecting device for processing cash in a safe collected from various places in a safe in one place, and particularly cash in each safe into bills. And a cash collecting device for continuously collecting and storing coins.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, the sales proceeds from stations, branch supermarkets, etc. are once put in safes or bags for storing cash, collected in one place by cash transport trucks, etc., and then sorted and collected such as bills and coins. Was being done.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in the conventional cash collecting process, the cash collected in one place in a safe or a bag for storing cash is then taken out by a large number of workers, and bills and coins are sorted or However, there is a problem that the processing work is slow and the labor cost is high.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems of the conventional technology, and an object of the present invention is to increase the cash collection processing speed and to save labor. Is to provide.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the cash collecting apparatus in the present invention, the safes collected in one place by a truck for cash transportation, etc. are sent to a stocker conveyor and temporarily stored, and then the rollers are set at a set pitch. The safe is sent to the safe delivery device at the end by a conveyor, and the safes sent from the safe delivery device are sequentially delivered to the safe clamping device arranged at a constant pitch on the outer edge of the turntable, and then to the outer circumference of the turntable. It is processed by a safe unlocking device, a banknote processing device, a coin processing device, and an empty safe collecting device, which are sequentially arranged facing each other.

[Action]

In accordance with the rotation of the turntable, by the safe unlocking device, bill processing device, coin processing device and empty safe collecting device,
The operations of unlocking the safe, processing banknotes, processing coins, and collecting empty safes are sequentially and automatically automated.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the cash collecting apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

A plurality of units of the cash collecting apparatus of the present invention are arranged on the floor of the setting floor of the building so that the cash in the safe 2 carried from the elevator 1 can be continuously collected for each unit. Has been done. Since each unit is different only in the arrangement and the other main mechanism is the same, only one unit will be described in the following description.

The cash box 2 for storing cash is a cash box body as shown in FIG.
An upper lid 2b is hinge-joined to 2a, and can be unlocked and unlocked via a cylinder key 2c. The safe main body 2a has a bill storage pocket 2d and a coin storage pocket 2e as shown in FIG. 11, each pocket 2d, 2e is opened upward with the upper lid 2b opened, and the bills stored therein. 100 and 200 coins are easily removed.

A power-driven roller conveyor 3 is laid at the unloading portion of the elevator 1, and a stopper plate 4 is provided in the middle thereof.
Is provided so that it can be raised and lowered, and a power-driven lateral feed roller conveyor 5 is provided on the front side thereof. A guide plate 6 is provided to be movable up and down on a side portion of the roller conveyor 3 which is continuous with the lateral feed roller conveyor 5, and a pressure plate which can be moved forward and backward is provided on a side of the roller conveyor 3 facing the position where the guide plate 6 is disposed. 7a
Is provided with a pressure cylinder 7.
The stopper plate 4 and the guide plate 6 are alternately arranged to repeatedly project and store at the set timing corresponding to the transport tact of the roller conveyor 3 with respect to the safe 2, and the pressure plate 7a of the pressure cylinder 7 has the stopper plate 4 protruding and the guide plate. It is set to move forward when 6 is stored. That is, when the pressure plate 7a is retracted, the guide plate 6 is projected, and the safe 2 is conveyed with the stopper plate 4 stored, the safe 2 is conveyed as it is on the roller conveyor 3, and the next safe 2 is conveyed. When it comes in, the stopper plate 4 projects, the guide plate 6 is stored, and the pressure plate 7a moves forward while the safe 2 is locked by the stopper plate 4 to move the safe 2 on the lateral feed roller conveyor 5. Extrude into.

A stopper plate 8 is provided at the tip of the lateral feed roller conveyor 5, and a pressure cylinder 7 having a pressure plate 7a that can move back and forth is provided on one side of the stopper plate 8. Further, a lift cylinder 9 is provided below the tip of the lateral feed roller conveyor 5, and the safe 2
When the sheet is conveyed, the lifting arm (not shown) of the lift cylinder 9 projects upward, and the side pressure plate 7a moves forward while the safe 2 is floated from the lateral feed roller conveyor 5. A roller conveyor 103 laid parallel to the roller conveyor 3 is connected to the other side surface of the end portion of the lateral feed roller conveyor 5 that faces the pressure plate 7a, and the roller conveyor 103 is pushed by the pressure plate 7a. It is designed so that the safe 2 can be transferred.

At the tip ends of the roller conveyors 3 and 103, a carry-in four-stage elevator 11 for transferring the transported safes 2 to a four-stage stocker conveyor 10 is provided. As shown in FIG. 5, the carry-in four-stage elevator 11 is provided with a fork 11b in a casing 11a so as to be able to move up and down, and the fork 11b is held by a ball screw 13 connected to a servo motor 12 and follows a signal sent. The stocker conveyor 10 can be stopped accurately at each stage. Further, the fork 11b is provided with a drive roller 11c and a one-way stopper 11d, and the safe 2 conveyed from the roller conveyor 3 or 103 is pulled in by the drive roller 11c and locked by the one-way stopper 11d. The fork 11b is moved to the set step, where the one-way stopper 11d is unlocked, and the drive roller 11c carries it out onto the stocker conveyor 10.

As shown in FIG. 6, the stocker conveyor 10 is formed in a four-step rack shape, and a plurality of conveyor rollers 15 connected to the driving device 14 are arranged in each step and the stopper plate 4 is appropriately provided. The safe 2 is arranged so that it can be raised and lowered, and the safes 2 sequentially carried in by the carry-in four-stage elevator 11 are continuously fed to each stage and stocked in a state of being locked by the stopper plate 4. .

Further, a four-step unloading elevator 16 is installed at the tip of each stocker conveyor 10, and a power-driven roller conveyor 203 is connected to the unloading part of each four-step elevator 16. The carry-out four-stage elevator 16 has exactly the same structure as the carry-in four-stage elevator 11, and the safes appropriately carried out from the respective stages of the stocker conveyor 10 are transferred one by one onto the roller conveyor 203.

A power-driven lateral feed roller conveyor 105 is installed at the ends of the pair of roller conveyors 203 arranged side by side, and the transfer device as shown in FIG. 7 is provided from each roller conveyor 203 to the lateral feed roller conveyor 105. 17 are installed. The transfer device 17 is
Two guide rods 19 are provided on one side of the roller conveyor 203 and a bracket 18 projecting on one side of the lateral feed roller conveyor 105, and a movable plate 20 is slidable on the guide rods 19. Held by the moving plate
20 is connected to the rod 21a of the advancing / retreating cylinder 21 fixed to the bracket 18 on the side-feed roller conveyor 105 side so that advancing / retreating is imparted, and the moving plate 20 is rotatable in the vertical direction. The arm 22 is held by the rotary cylinder 23, and the arm 22 is connected to the rotary cylinder 23 so that the vertical turning force is applied. Arm 22
A pusher plate 22a for pushing the safe 2 forward is attached to the front surface of the front part of the, and a transfer guide 24 for slidingly moving the safe 2 sent is arranged on the upper surface of the front part of the roller conveyor 203. ing. The stopper plate 4 is vertically movable at the tip of the roller conveyor 203, and a lift cylinder (not shown) is provided below the lateral feed roller conveyor 105 facing the tip of the roller conveyor 203. The arm 22 is retracted by the rod 21a of the advancing / retreating cylinder 21 being retracted, and is lifted almost vertically through the rotating cylinder 23 in the safe 2.
When the safe 2 is transferred to the front side of the transfer guide 24, the safe 2 is swung horizontally through the rotary cylinder 23, and then the safe 2 is pushed out along the transfer guide 24 through the cylinder 21. When the extrusion is completed, the rotary cylinder 23 is turned up again, and the advancing / retreating cylinder 21 is retracted to return to the original state. The stopper plate 4 descends when the arm 22 moves forward by a predetermined amount,
In conjunction with this, the arm of the lift conveyor provided below the horizontal feed roller conveyor 105 is raised so that the safe 2 sent from the transfer guide 24 is transferred to the horizontal feed roller conveyor 105 via the arm. The timing for transferring is designed.

As shown in FIG. 4, a stopper plate 8, a pressure cylinder 7, and a lift cylinder 9 are provided at the tip of the lateral feed roller conveyor 105, and a power-driven roller conveyor is provided at the position opposite to the lift cylinder 9. 303 is laid.

At the tip of the roller conveyor 303, a safe delivery device 25 as shown in FIG. 8 is provided.
4 has a structure substantially similar to that shown in FIG. 4, and is composed of a stopper plate 8, a pressure cylinder 7 having a pressure plate 7a, and a lift cylinder 9 having a guide arm 9a. When the lock plate is locked by the stopper plate 8, the lift cylinder 9 operates and the guide arm 9a moves to the safe 2.
, The pressure plate 7a of the pressure cylinder 7 pushes out the safe 2 from the side, and transfers the safe 2 to the safe clamping device 27 on the turntable 26 described below. .

The turntable 26 is formed in a disk shape, the lower surface of the central portion of which is rotatably supported on the setting base, and a large gear (not shown) formed on the outer peripheral surface of the turntable 26 is meshed with a power-driven pinion to drive the power of the pinion. It receives and rotates at the set tact. The upper surface of the turntable 26 is divided into set equal parts (12 parts in the case of the present embodiment), and a plurality of safe clamp devices 27 are arranged on the outer edge thereof.

The safe clamp device 27 is a turntable as shown in FIG.
A clamp device main body 29 is rotatably supported by a bracket 28 projecting from above 26, and a rotary cylinder 30 is connected to a rotary shaft of the clamp device main body 29. Clamp device body
29 has guide brackets 29a on its opposite side walls.
Is provided so as to project and engage with a recess 2f provided on the outer surface of the safe 2, and a positioning clamp (not shown) for the safe 2 is provided so that positioning and clamping with respect to the safe 2 can be performed at the same time. There is. An arm 29 having a substantially L-shaped cross section is provided above the rear end of the clamp device body 29.
b is rotatably rotatably supported, and a rotary cylinder 31 is connected to the shaft of the arm 29b so that the arm 29b can be appropriately rotated in accordance with the rotation operation of the rotary cylinder 31. A vacuum cup 32 is provided in the portion, and the upper cup 2b of the safe 2 is sucked by the vacuum cup 32.

Although various devices are arranged facing the outer periphery of the turntable 26, for convenience of explanation of the arrangement, the position where the safe 2 is delivered from the safe delivery device 25 is used as a reference A.
The positions are counterclockwise in order of A to L positions.

In the A position, the safe clamp device 27 receives the safe 2 from the safe delivery device 25, and at this time, the safe clamp device 27 guides the guide bracket 29a of the clamp device body 29.
The recess 2f of the safe 2 is engaged with the positioning clamp (not shown) to position and clamp the safe 2, and a negative pressure is sent to the vacuum cup 32 of the arm 29b to move the upper lid 2b of the safe 2 to the cup 32. Adsorb. The B position is a standby position, and the safe 2 that has been turned and conveyed by the turntable 26 waits for the operation at the next C position. Safe unlocking device at C position
33 is installed, and the safe 2 is unlocked by the safe unlocking device 33.

As shown in FIG. 10, the safe-unlocking device 33 is held at the tip of the rod 34 so that the pilot cylinder 35 can be moved back and forth while being biased by the spring 36, and the pilot cylinder 35 is connected to a rotary cylinder (not shown). When the turntable 26 rotates and the safe 2 is rotated and conveyed to the C position, the rod 34 advances and the pilot cylinder is inserted into the key positioning recess 2g of the safe 2. 35 is fitted and positioned while giving an elastic force by the spring 36, and when the key 37 is inserted into the key groove of the cylinder key 2c of the safe, the key 37 is rotated through the rotating cylinder, thereby unlocking the safe 2. It is made to be done.

In the D position, the upper lid 2b is opened by the arm 29b of the safe clamp device 27 pivoting upward through the rotary cylinder 31 with respect to the safe 2 that has been unlocked in the previous C position (upper lid 2b). Since 2b is suction-integrated with the arm 29b through the vacuum cup 32, the arm 2b rotates integrally with the arm 29b.) In addition, the banknote handling device 38 is installed at the E and F positions to convey the paper. The banknote 100 in the safe 2 that has been removed is taken out and processed. The banknote handling device 38 includes a banknote transport robot 39 and a well-known banknote counting device 40.
39 is a grip arm 39 for holding bills as shown in FIG.
It has a and is configured so that the banknotes stored in the banknote storage pocket 2d of the safe 2 are gripped by the grip arms 39a and inserted into the banknote counting device 40.

A coin processing device 41 is arranged at the G and H positions so that coins remaining in the coin storage pocket 2e of the safe 2 can be taken out and processed. The coin processing device 41 includes a coin transport device 42 and a known coin counting device 43,
In the coin transporting device 42, as shown in FIG. 12, a bucket 45 is placed on an inclined rail 44, a sprocket 46 is provided at the upper end portion thereof, and a chain 47 connected to the bucket 45 is further connected to the sprocket 46. The bucket 45 is tilted by the winding and unwinding operation of the ticket taking device 48 so as to move up and down along the rail 44. Until the safe 2 is swiveled and conveyed to the G or H position, the bucket 45 is located under the turntable 26 in an ascending state, and the safe 2 is transferred to a position directly above the bucket 45 and is safe. Clamp device
By rotating the clamp device body 29 of 27 through the rotating cylinder 30, the upper lid 2b is almost inverted while the upper lid 2b is opened, and all the coins 200 in the coin storage pocket 2e are bucket 4
Transfer to 5. Then, in the bucket 45, 200 coins in the safe 2
Are transferred, the bucket 45 descends via the winding device 48, and when the bucket 45 descends to the lowermost position, the bucket 45 tilts to the hopper (not shown) of the coin counting device 43 located below it. 200 coins are inserted.
The E-position banknote processing device 38 and the G-position coin processing device 41 form a pair, and the F-position banknote processing device 38 and the H-position coin processing device 41 form a pair, and the processing devices forming each pair are conveyed. The safes 2 are alternately operated.

The I position is a standby position, and at this position, the rotary cylinder 31 of the safe clamp device 27 is inverted to close the empty upper lid of the safe 2.

At the J position, an empty safe collecting device 49 is arranged so that the empty safe 2 swiveled and conveyed by the turntable 26 can be carried out from the turntable 26. As shown in FIG. 13, in the empty safe collecting device 49, an advancing / retreating cylinder 51 is provided on a table 50 continuous with a roller conveyor 403 for unloading, and a rod 51a thereof is attached to a guide 5 provided on the table 50 so as to be able to move back and forth. They are connected via a fixture 53, and a spring-biased hook 54 is axially provided on the fixture 53 so as to be vertically rotatable. And turntable
26 When the safe 2 on the top stops at the J position, the suction to the upper lid 2b of the vacuum cup 32 and the positioning clamp of the clamp device main body 29 are released. The tool 53 moves forward, the hook 54 digs into the recess on the lower surface of the safe 2 against the elastic force of the spring in the fixture 53, and when engaged with the recess, the guide 52 and the fixture 53 move back and forth. Safe clamp device retracted on the turntable 26 through the cylinder
The empty safe 2 held at 27 is pulled out to the outside and is directly carried out and collected by the roller conveyor 403.

The K and L positions are standby positions for clamping the next safe 2. Note that the bill processing device 38 and the coin processing device
41 has an E-position and a G-position, and an F-position and an H-position are paired to operate, so G and E, or F
If one of H and H fails, the other can make up for it. Further, since the safe 2 is processed by the turntable 26, if the safe 2 is not processed smoothly, the safe 2 can be recirculated on the turntable 26 and reprocessed.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the cash collecting apparatus of the present invention sequentially sends the safes temporarily stored on the stocker conveyor to the turntable one by one, thereby unlocking the safe, collecting banknotes, and collecting coins according to the rotation of the turntable. , There is an effect that a series of operations such as collection of empty safes can be continuously automated, the speed of collecting cash can be increased, and manpower can be saved.

Also, two sets of banknote processing devices and currency processing devices are arranged, and one banknote processing device and one currency processing device make a pair, and each pair operates alternately with respect to the safe to which they are transported. Therefore, even if one of the devices fails, the other operates to compensate for the failure and reliably collect the cash.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a cash processing apparatus of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 13 are perspective views of respective component devices constituting the cash processing apparatus of the present invention. Explanation of symbols 1 …… elevator, 2 …… safe box 2a …… safe box body, 2b …… top lid 2c …… cylinder key, 2d …… banknote storage pocket 2e …… coin storage pocket, 2f, 2g …… recessed section 3,103,203,303,403 …… Roller conveyor 4,8 …… Stopper plate 5,105 …… Side feed roller conveyor 6 …… Guide plate 7 …… Pressure cylinder 7a …… Pressure plate 9 …… Lift cylinder, 10 …… Stocker conveyor 11 …… Loading 4-stage conveyor, 11a …… Casing 11b …… Fork, 11c …… Drive roller 11d …… One-way stopper 12 …… Servomotor, 13 …… Ball screw 14 …… Drive device, 15 …… Conveyor roller 16 …… Unloading 4-stage elevator 17 …… Transfer device 18 …… Bracket, 19 …… Guide rod 20 …… Movement plate, 21 …… Advancing and retracting cylinder 21a …… Rod 22 …… Arm 22a …… Pressure plate 23 …… Rotary cylinder, 24 …… Transfer guide 25 …… Safe box transfer device, 26 …… Turntable 27 …… Safe box clamp device, 28 …… Bracket 29 …… Clamp device, 29a …… Guide bracket 29b …… Arm, 30,31 …… Rotating cylinder 32 …… Vacuum cup, 33 …… Safe unlocking device 34 …… Rod, 35 …… Pilot cylinder 36 …… Spring, 37 …… Key 38… … Banknote handling device, 39 …… Banknote transport robot 39a …… Grip arm, 40 …… Banknote counting device 41 …… Coin handling device, 42 …… Coin transport device 43 …… Coin counting device, 44 …… Rail 45 …… Bucket, 46 ... Sprocket 47 ... Chain, 48 ... Winding device 49 ... Empty safe collecting device, 50 ... Stand 51 ... Advance / retract cylinder, 51a ... Rod 52 ... Guide, 53 ... Fixture 54 ...... Hook, 100 … Banknotes 200… Coins

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cash collecting device for sorting and collecting banknotes and coins stored in a plurality of safes, the safe delivering device delivering the transferred safes, and the safe delivering device by the safe delivering device. A plurality of safe clamping devices that are sequentially delivered, a turntable that is disposed so as to face the safe delivery device, and that the safe clamping device is disposed on the outer peripheral edge portion at a constant pitch; It has a safe unlocking device, a banknote processing device, a coin processing device, and an empty safe collecting device, which are sequentially arranged to face the outer periphery of the banknote processing device and the coin processing device. A cash collecting device comprising a plurality of device groups forming