JPH0784263B2 - Cartridge storage device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Field of Industrial Application The present invention is configured, for example, for an automatic teller machine used in banking business, for paying out bills and taking in bills with an automatic money changer. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cartridge storage device, and more particularly, to a cartridge storage device that has improved operability in mounting and demounting a cartridge.

(B) Conventional technology Usually, this type of cartridge storage device is a rear type in which the rear wall of the device body is opened and closed to load and withdraw the cartridge. In view of the above, a front type cartridge accommodating device in which the cartridge can be attached and detached from the customer service side is adopted.

However, this type of storage device is either a front type type or a front type type because of the meshing direction in which the output gear on the device body side and the input gear on the cartridge side mesh when the cartridge is loaded.
Only one of the rear surface type type is used, and therefore, there is a problem that the applicable area of the device is limited due to the limitation of the installation place at present.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a cartridge storage device in which a cartridge can be easily loaded from the side of the device body regardless of the installation location of the device body.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a cartridge, which has an internal feeding mechanism for feeding stored sheets and an external input gear for inputting power to the feeding mechanism, on the apparatus main body side. It is a cartridge storage device in which the storage direction of the cartridge is set so that the output gear provided on the main body of the apparatus and the input gear of the cartridge mesh with each other by the movement from the axial direction side of the input gear. It is possible to swing either one of the output gear pivotally supported on the device body side and the input gear pivotally supported on the cartridge side by setting the swing direction in the direction of separating the gear meshing surface with the other. The movable lever is pivotally supported on the free end side of the movable lever, and the cartridge and the apparatus main body come into contact with each other in the preceding stage of the meshing position of the input gear and the output gear, and act at the gear meshing position. Power A cam and a cam-corresponding member, and between the cam and the cam-corresponding member, the cam or the cam-corresponding member on the side corresponding to the mounting side of the movable lever and the movable lever. The cartridge accommodating device is provided with a transmitting means for transmitting the operation based on the contact action of the above in the separating direction of the engaging surfaces of the both gears.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, when the cartridge is moved from the axial direction of the input gear to be housed in the apparatus main body, the cam is provided at the front stage where the input gear of the cartridge meshes with the output gear of the apparatus main body. And the cam corresponding member come into contact with each other to act, and the operation based on this action moves the movable lever in the direction in which the two gears are separated from each other to prevent the side surfaces of the input gear and the output gear from colliding with each other. When the input gear reaches the position where the output gear meshes with each other, the cam and the cam-corresponding member lose their action, and the two gears mesh with each other. As a result, when the cartridge is stored, the cartridge can be loaded regardless of the meshing portion of the gear.

Therefore, it is possible to attach and detach the cartridge from the side of the main body of the device, which does not limit the installation location, and there is no restriction on the loading direction of the cartridge as in the present situation, and the application range of the device can be widened. it can.

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

The drawings show a cartridge housing device, and in FIGS. 1 to 3, the cartridge housing device is a cartridge 11
And an apparatus main body 13 having several cartridge storage portions 12 for storing this cartridge.

The above-mentioned cartridge 11 is provided in a horizontally long box shape, and a large number of banknotes are stacked and stored in a vertical shape inside the box shape,
The stored bills are provided one by one from the front end side of the cartridge 11 via a feeding mechanism (not shown).

On the outside of the cartridge 11, for example, an input gear 14 provided coaxially with the internal feeding roller for inputting power to the internal feeding mechanism is provided on the front side surface of the cartridge 11. .

Further, on the front end surface of the cartridge 11 on the side of the input gear 14, a cam-corresponding protrusion 15 for separating a gear engagement portion described later is provided.
Is projected.

The above-mentioned cartridge storage unit 12 is provided by opening at regular intervals in the vertical direction of one side surface of the apparatus book 13, and the above-mentioned cartridges 11 are stored laterally in the respective storage units 12 ... It

A fixed output gear 17 and a movable output gear 18 that mesh with each other via a movable lever 16 are arranged in the storage portion 12, and the fixed output gear 17 is a drive mechanism (not shown) of the device body 13 Is transmitted to the fixed output gear 17, and thereby the movable output gear 18 meshing with the fixed output gear 17 is rotationally driven.

The movable output gear 18 driven to rotate is the input gear described above.
It is arranged at a corresponding position where it meshes with the upper surface side of 14 and is provided so as to transmit power to the input gear 14.

By the way, in this case, when the cartridge 11 is loaded in the lateral direction, the input gear 14 as a power transmission unit is set to the movable output gear 18 from the side direction of the gear, that is,
The gears 14 and 18 are engaged with each other in the axial direction, which is solved by a gear separating mechanism 19 described later.

The above-mentioned gear separating mechanism 19 is provided with the above-mentioned cam-corresponding projection 15
And a movable lever 16, a cam support lever 20 and a roller cam 21.

The movable lever 16 is provided in a T shape, and one side of the T shape in the horizontal direction is pivotally attached to the fixed shaft portion 22 of the fixed output gear 17,
The other side pivotally supports the movable shaft portion 23 of the movable output gear 18, and these output gears 17 and 18 are horizontally held in parallel with each other via the lever 16, and the movable lever 16 with the fixed shaft portion 22 as a fulcrum.
Allows the movable output gear 18 on the other side to tilt up and down.

The T-shaped hanging piece of the movable lever 16 has a pivot pin.
The upper end of the L-shaped cam support lever 20 is pivotally connected via 24 via a loose fit.

The cam support lever 20 has a lever intermediate portion pivotally attached to a wall surface 25 inside the storage portion 12 via a fulcrum pin 26, and a roller cam 21 is attached to the lower end of the lever, and the roller cam 21 stores the cartridge 11. Sometimes, it is set so as to correspond to the above-mentioned cam corresponding protrusion 15, and by this corresponding action, the lever 20 tilts about the fulcrum pin 26 as a fulcrum, pulls down one side of the movable lever 16 described above, and outputs the movable output of the other side. The gear 18 is moved upward to temporarily separate the gear meshing surfaces of the input gear 14 and the movable output gear 18 from each other. In the figure, 27 is a biasing spring.

In addition, the contact-corresponding length of the cam-corresponding protrusion 15 that is in contact with the roller cam 21 can prevent the input / output gears 14 and 18 to be meshed with each other in the lateral direction when the cartridge is housed so that these gears 14 and 18 collide. Set to length.

When the cartridge 11 is loaded, the cartridge accommodating device configured as described above has a predetermined cartridge accommodating portion 12
When the cartridge 11 is pushed in, the cam-corresponding projection 15 provided on the outer wall surface of the cartridge 11 comes into contact with the roller cam 21 inside the housing portion 12, whereby the cam support lever 20 is supported by the roller cam 21 as a fulcrum pin. The movable output gear 18 is temporarily moved upward via the movable lever 160 that is tilted about the fulcrum 26 and is tilted in conjunction with this.
The input gear 14 is stored and operated without directly colliding with the movable output gear 14 from the side direction.

Then, at the same time when this storing operation is completed, the roller cam
21 is separated from the cam-corresponding protrusion 15 and the cam support lever
20 and the movable lever 16 return to their original positions, and accordingly, the movable output gear 18 moves downward so as to return to the original position, and at the time of this downward movement, the movable output gear 18 faces the upper surface of the input gear 14. When they come into contact with and mesh with each other, power is transmitted between the apparatus main body 13 side and the cartridge 11 side.

On the other hand, when the cartridge 11 is taken out from the cartridge housing portion 12, it can be taken out only by sliding the cartridge 11 in the lateral direction and pulling it out.

As described above, when the cartridge is attached and detached, since the gear separating mechanism that allows the engagement of the gear is provided even from the side surface of the gear, the cartridge can be loaded from the lateral direction of the apparatus main body. Therefore, the installation place of the apparatus main body is not restricted as in the present situation.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the output gear of the present invention corresponds to the movable output gear 18 of the embodiment, and hereinafter, similarly, the cam corresponding member corresponds to the cam corresponding protrusion 15, The cam corresponds to the roller cam 21, and the transmission means corresponds to the cam support lever 20, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

 The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a side view of a main part of a cartridge storage device, FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional front view of a main part of the cartridge storage device, and FIG. It is a figure. 11 …… Cartridge, 12 …… Cartridge housing 13 …… Device body, 04 …… Input gear 15 …… Cam-compatible protrusion, 16 …… Movable lever 18 …… Movable output gear, 19 …… Gear separation mechanism 20… … Cam support lever, 21 …… Roller cam

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cartridge provided with a feeding mechanism for feeding the stored paper sheets inside and an input gear for externally inputting power to the feeding mechanism is housed in the apparatus body side and provided in the apparatus body side. A cartridge accommodating device in which the cartridge accommodating direction is set in a direction in which the output gear and the input gear of the cartridge are engaged by the movement from the axial direction side of the input gear. The free end of the movable lever pivotally attached so that either one of the output gear and the input gear pivotally supported on the cartridge side can be pivoted by setting the swing direction in the direction of separating the gear meshing surface with the other. A cam and a cam-corresponding member that are pivotally supported on the side, act on the cartridge and the apparatus main body in contact with each other in the preceding stage of the meshing position of the input gear and the output gear, and are inactive at the gear meshing position. On the top Among the cam and the cam corresponding member, between the cam or the cam corresponding member on the side corresponding to the mounting side of the movable lever and the movable lever, an operation based on the contact action of the cam or the cam corresponding member is performed on both sides. A cartridge storage device provided with transmission means for transmitting in the direction of separation of the meshing surface of.