JPH0776451A - Paper sheet arranging and storing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To highly reliably and stably stack paper sheets with arranging accuracy and prevent the generation of skew and defective delivery and stabilize delivery timing by providing a wall face swinging means which swing the wall face of paper sheet stacking section, which corresponds to the end edges of the paper sheets stacked in the paper sheet stacking section. CONSTITUTION:A movable side plate 25 largely opens a side wall of a stacker S1 having a rectangular parallelepiped which can stack paper money which was led from an upper section. The movable side plate 25 intervenes in this opening section supported at one side so that is may open. An advancing and retracting rod 27 of a movable cylinder 26 is connected to the outer wall face of the movable side plate 25 so that the movable side plate 25 may move a little in the opening and closing direction. With this constitution, the internal wall face of the movable side plate 25 which repeatedly advances and retracts abuts on the end edges of the paper money stacked in the stacker S1 to forcibly gives vibration to the paper money. As a result, the paper money is not loosened and is collectively stacked at the center of the stacker S1 whose four sides are surrounded by wall faces.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for aligning and storing paper sheets, which is internally constructed in, for example, a bill depositing / dispensing machine,
More specifically, the present invention relates to a paper sheet aligning and storing device for stably aligning and storing paper sheets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, an apparatus for aligning and storing paper sheets is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, a paper sheet loading / unloading mechanism 63 is provided above the paper sheet stacking unit 62 that stacks a large number of paper sheets 61, and a paper sheet pressing plate 64 is provided at the inner bottom. At the time of stacking the paper sheets, the paper sheets 61 guided to the upper paper sheet loading / unloading mechanism 63 are housed one by one in the paper sheet stacking unit 62 while being scraped off by an impeller 65. Further, at the time of feeding, the paper sheet pressing plate 64 is moved upward to push up the entire paper sheet and feed it one by one from the upper part.

In this case, the accumulation state of the paper sheets varies in the accumulation process when the paper sheets themselves are charged with static electricity or when there is an unstable element in the paper sheets themselves such as deformed paper sheets. As shown in, the edge 61a of the paper sheet 61 may be electrostatically adsorbed to the inner wall surface 66, or may be inclined and accumulated, resulting in an unstable accumulation state. As a result, the contact resistance between the accumulated paper sheets 61 ... And the inner wall surface 66 increases, and the pressing resistance of the paper sheet pressing plate 64 increases, causing malfunction or undeliverability, and skew and damage feeding. In some cases, abnormal feeding such as the above may be induced.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, according to the present invention, the wall surface itself of the paper sheet stacking portion, which serves as an alignment guide surface at the time of stacking paper sheets, is rocked to facilitate the alignment, so that the paper sheets are stacked at the time of paper sheet stacking. (EN) Provided is an aligning and accommodating device for paper sheets, which has a highly reliable accumulating performance for stably aligning and accumulating the kinds.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a paper sheet pressing plate disposed at the bottom of a paper sheet stacking unit for stacking a large number of paper sheets is moved up and down to eject the paper sheets from above. An apparatus for arranging and accommodating sheets, which is allowed to be inserted, comprising wall surface oscillating means for oscillating a wall surface of the paper sheet accumulating portion corresponding to an edge of the paper sheets accumulated in the paper sheet accumulating portion. It is characterized by having.

Further, when the paper sheets are accumulated in the paper sheet accumulating section,
It is characterized in that it is provided with a control means for drivingly controlling the wall swinging means for aligning the paper sheets.

Further, the present invention is characterized by comprising wall surface retreating means for retracting the wall surface of the paper sheet stacking portion to the side not in contact with the edge of the paper sheet when the paper sheet stacking portion is fed out. .

[0008]

According to the present invention, the wall surface oscillating means oscillates the wall surface of the paper sheet stacking portion to impart vibration to the edges of the paper sheets stacked in the paper sheet stacking portion and forcibly. Align operation.

Further, at the time of stacking the paper sheets in the paper stacking unit, the control means drives and controls the wall surface swinging means for aligning the paper sheets, and is dropped and guided to the paper stacking unit. Vibration is applied to the edges of paper sheets.

Further, at the time of feeding the paper sheets from the paper sheet accumulating portion, the wall surface retreating means retracts the wall surface of the paper sheet accumulating portion to the side not in contact with the edge of the paper sheet and presses at the time of feeding. Avoid the load.

[0011]

As described above, the paper sheets accumulated in the paper sheet accumulating portion are processed by the wall surface swinging means to promote the paper sheet alignment.
It is possible to stably collect the paper sheets in the central portion surrounded by the wall surfaces without individually varying. Therefore, since the contact resistance between the accumulated paper sheets and the wall surface is small, even if the paper sheet pressing plate is moved up and down during the paper sheet accumulating operation and the feeding operation, there is no inappropriate pressing resistance and the paper sheet is operated smoothly. be able to.

As a result, when the paper sheets are stacked, they can be stacked in a stable stacking state with high alignment accuracy and alignment reliability. Further, when the paper sheets are delivered, they are delivered from a stable stacking state, so that the occurrence of skew, damage delivery, jam, etc. is prevented, and the delivery pitch and delivery timing are stable.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows a banknote depositing / dispensing machine provided with a banknote aligning / storing device. As shown in FIG. 1, this banknote depositing / dispensing machine is a depositing / dispensing transporting processing group 13 for transporting a banknote 12 on an upper part of a device body 11. Is provided, and a storage processing group 14 for storing and delivering the banknotes 12 is provided in the lower part, and the upper and lower sides of the apparatus main body 11 are separated into a transport system and a storage system.

The above-described deposit / withdrawal transfer processing group 13 includes a return port 15 and a deposit port 16 from the upper side on the upper surface of the front part of the apparatus body 11.
And the withdrawal port 17, the banknotes 12 inserted into the withdrawal port 16 are deposited into the storage processing group 14 at the lower part through the deposit path 18, and stored with respect to the withdrawal port 17. Treatment group 1
The banknotes 12 fed from 4 are dispensed to the dispensing port 17 via the dispensing path 19.

Banknotes 12 inserted into the above-mentioned deposit port 16
Is configured to be guided to the deposit discriminating section 20 arranged in the upper middle position via the deposit path 18 and to be conveyed to the temporary holding section 21 arranged in the lower rear position from the deposit discriminating section 20. When it is determined that the bills are in the transport state, the bills are reversed by the front / back reversing unit 22 to align the front and back, and then transported to the temporary holding unit 21. In addition, the banknotes that are not properly discriminated by the deposit discriminating section 20 are returned through the return route 24 to the return port 15
To return.

The above-mentioned temporary holding unit 21 is the deposit store unit 2
The banknote that is internally configured in the upper part of 3 and temporarily held for each deposit transaction, and temporarily held for each completion of the deposit transaction
3 is stored to obtain a sufficient deposit capacity for the deposited bill. Then, from the deposit store section 23, the optimum replenishment timing can be freely selected and the first type of money can be selected.
~ The third stackers S1 to S3 are replenished, and the banknotes judged to be defective in discrimination are collected in the reject cartridge C.

On the other hand, the storage processing group 14 is composed of a depositing store section 23 having the above-mentioned temporary holding section 21, first to third stackers S1 to S3, and a reject cartridge C. ~ The third stacker S1 to S3 has a function of collecting and feeding out banknotes, and stores three denominations of 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen in denominations, and the reject cartridge C is used during withdrawal transactions. Collects defective banknotes and banknotes that have been forgotten during replenishment processing.

By the way, the above-mentioned first to third stackers S1
Each of the banknotes S3 to S3 is provided with a banknote aligning / storing device for stably stacking the banknotes. The banknote aligning / storing device will be described with reference to, for example, the first stacker S1 as shown in FIG. , A movable side plate 2 on one side of a stacker S1 having a rectangular parallelepiped capable of accumulating bills guided from above.
It is configured by including 5.

The movable side plate 25 has a large side wall opened on one side of the stacker S1, and the movable side plate 25 is supported by a cantilever type one-sided support in the opening portion. The movable rod 26 of the movable cylinder 26 is connected to the movable side plate 25 so that the movable side plate 25 is moved slightly back and forth in the opening / closing direction.

As a result, the movable side plate 25 is repeatedly moved forward and backward with respect to the edges of the bills accumulated in the stacker S1.
The inner wall surface of the paper comes into contact with the paper money and forcibly gives vibration to the bill. As a result, the bills do not disperse, and are piled up in the central portion of the stacker S1 surrounded by the wall on all sides.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a control circuit of the banknote aligning and storing apparatus. The CPU 31 controls each circuit apparatus according to a program stored in the ROM 32, and the control data is readablely stored in the RAM 33.

The banknote stacking detection sensor 34 detects and checks the banknotes stacked in the stacker at the time of banknote stacking, and the banknote payout detection sensor 35 detects and checks the banknotes paid out from the stacker at the time of banknote payout.

The drive solenoid 36 is a movable cylinder 26.
Is driven to swing the movable side plate 25. Further, the bill inserting / removing mechanism 37 is arranged at an upper position of each of the stackers S1 to S3, accumulates the bills 12 guided therein, and feeds out the bills in the stacker one by one. At this time, the pressing plate driving mechanism 38 is driven in conjunction with the operation of inserting and removing the bill, and the bill pressing plate in the stacker is moved up and down to allow the bill to be taken in and out.

Further, if the movable side plate 25 is swung at the time of stacking the bills, the CPU 31 surely applies vibration to the bill edges to be stacked and promotes the aligned stacking. Further, if the movable side plate 25 is retracted at the time of feeding the bill, the movable side plate 25 is retracted to the non-contact side with the edge of the bill to surely avoid the pressing load at the time of feeding the bill, and promote stable feeding.

4 and 5 show another embodiment of the banknote aligning / storing device. The banknote aligning / storing device shown in FIG. 4 has side wall plates 41 facing each other in the lateral direction of the banknotes forming a stacker.
a and 41b are swingably supported, and side walls 41a and 41b facing each other have springs 42a and 4 at one end.
The other end is pivotally attached to the eccentric pulleys 43a, 43b while being held by another member through the eccentric pulleys 43a, 4b.
By driving 3b by the drive motors M1 and M2 for eccentric rotation, both side wall plates 41a and 41b swing in small increments in the banknote transverse direction. Further, a bill pressing plate 45 urged upward by a pressing spring 44 is disposed at the bottom of the stacker, and the bills 12 ... A bill feeding mechanism 46 is disposed above the stacker.

The banknote aligning and storing apparatus shown in FIG. 5 has side wall plates 51a, which face each other in the banknote longitudinal direction and which form a stacker.
51b is swingably supported. These both side wall plates 5
1a and 51b have one end held by another member via springs 52a and 52b, and the other end thereof are eccentric pulleys 53a and 53b.
The eccentric pulleys 53a and 53b are pivotally attached to the motor drive b and are driven eccentrically by driving the drive motors M3 and M4, respectively, so that the side wall plates 51a and 51b swing in small increments in the longitudinal direction of the bill. The pressing spring 5 is attached to the bottom of the stacker.
4, a bill pressing plate 55 biased upward is disposed, and the bills 12 ... Stacked by the bill pressing plate 55 are pressed and supported so that they can be fed out, and a bill feeding mechanism 56 is arranged above the corresponding stacker. I have set up.

As described above, when swinging the wall surface of the stacker, not only one side wall but also the opposite wall surfaces in the banknote transverse direction or the longitudinal direction may be swung.
Further, all the four wall surfaces may be swung, and the banknotes stacked in the stacker can be promoted to be aligned in proportion to the swing degree.

The banknotes 12 accumulated in the stacker S1 in this manner are movable side plates 25 and side wall plates 41a, 41b, 51.
The bills 12 ... Are not individually dispersed in the stacker due to the action of promoting the alignment of the bills by swinging the wall surfaces of a and 51b, and they are collectively gathered in the central portion surrounded by the wall faces. The banknotes are reliably subjected to the wall rocking action and are stably accumulated. On the other hand, when paying out the bills, it can be paid out from a stable stacking state and a highly reliable payout can be realized. That is, since the stacked bills 12 ... Are stacked in a state in which the contact resistance between the wall faces is small, an inappropriate pressing resistance is generated even when the bill pressing plate is moved up and down during the bill stacking operation and the bill feeding operation. Without, it can be moved up and down smoothly.

Therefore, when the banknotes are stacked, the banknotes can be stacked in a stable stacking state with high alignment accuracy and reliability, and when the banknotes are unloaded, the banknotes are unwound from the stable stacking state. It is possible to prevent the occurrence of jams and the like, and to reliably stabilize the feeding pitch and the feeding timing.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the paper sheet of the present invention corresponds to the banknote 12 of the embodiment, and hereinafter, similarly, the wall surface includes the movable side plate 25 and the side wall plate 4.
1a, 41b, 51a, 51b, the wall swing means is a movable cylinder 26 and drive motors M1, M2, M3.
, M4, and the paper sheet pressing plate is a bill pressing plate 45,
Corresponding to 55, the paper sheet stacking unit is the first to third stackers S.
Corresponding to 1 to S3, the control means and the wall retreating means are C
Although corresponding to the PU 31, the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a banknote depositing / dispensing machine equipped with a banknote aligning and storing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of a stacker equipped with the banknote alignment storage device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of the banknote alignment storage device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side view of a main portion of a banknote aligning and storing device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side view of a main part of a banknote aligning and storing device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a stacking state of a conventional paper sheet aligning and storing device.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing a stacking state of a conventional paper sheet aligning and storing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 12 ... Paper 25 ... Movable side plate 26 ... Movable cylinder 31 ... CPU 41a, 41b, 51a, 51b ... Side wall plate 45, 55 ... Banknote pressing plate S1-S3 ... Stacker M1-M4 ... Drive motor

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Tetsuya Saso 10 Okaron Tudo-cho, Hanazono, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto Omron Corporation

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Arrangement of paper sheets which allows the paper sheets to be taken in and out from above by vertically moving a paper sheet pressing plate arranged at the bottom of a paper sheet stacking section for accumulating a large number of paper sheets. A storage device,
An apparatus for aligning and storing paper sheets, comprising wall surface oscillating means for oscillating a wall surface of the paper sheet accumulating portion corresponding to an edge of the paper sheet accumulating portion accumulated in the paper sheet accumulating portion. 2. An apparatus for aligning and storing paper sheets according to claim 1, further comprising control means for driving and controlling a wall swinging means for aligning the paper sheets when the paper sheets are accumulated in the paper sheet accumulating section. 3. The wall surface retreating means for retracting the wall surface of the paper sheet stacking portion to the side not in contact with the edge of the paper sheet when the paper sheet stacking portion is fed out. Arrangement and storage device for paper sheets.