JPH0826497A - Automatic bill payment device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To realize the stable separation and delivery of bank bills by providing at a bank bill housing portion a guide block having a first inclination surface whose inclination angle to generate force to push bills to a delivery part side is large and a second inclination surface whose inclination angle that extends from its lower end to a picker roller side is small. CONSTITUTION:At a Yen10,000 bill housing portion 7, a guide block 13 is provided so as to receive the rear ends of layered bank bills M. This guide block 13 guarantees the smooth delivery of bills M as a first inclination surface 13a that is formed at the guide block 13 and whose inclination angle is large operates on bills force to a delivery part side, when payment is conducted by rotating a picker roller 9, a delivery roller 10 and a separation roller 11. Also, as the rear ends of bills M are moved from the second inclination surface 13 of the guide block 13 to the extension portion 13c during the delivery, bank bills M are made to come into contact with the guide block 13 with a small area, and friction between the guide block 13 and bank bills M is reduced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote automatic payment apparatus used in financial institutions such as banks.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing a schematic appearance of a conventional automatic bill payment apparatus. In the figure, 101 is a housing of the apparatus, 102 is a card insertion / ejection port provided in the upper front portion of the housing 103, and this card insertion / ejection port 102
The card inserted by the customer is taken in the back of the
A card read / write unit (not shown) for reading information on the magnetic stripe provided on the card and for writing update information on the magnetic stripe after the transaction is completed is provided.

Reference numeral 103 designates a key input section comprising a numeric keypad and various function keys for the customer to input information necessary for transactions such as a personal identification number and payment amount, and 104 designates a screen or input information for guiding the customer to operate the key input section. C to display etc.
A display unit such as RT, 105 is a banknote payout port for paying out banknotes to the customer. Behind the banknote payout port 105 is described the following for performing a withdrawal process of a banknote corresponding to the payment amount input by the customer. A withdrawal mechanism is provided.

FIG. 12 is a side view showing a schematic structure of a dispensing mechanism in a conventional example. Reference numeral 106 denotes a horizontal cassette for storing payment bills, which is formed so as to be elongated in the depth direction of the apparatus and is arranged on the bottom side. The inside of this cassette 106 is a 10,000-yen ticket storage section 106A and a 1,000-yen ticket storage section 1
The bills are divided into 06B, and 10,000-yen and 1,000-yen bills are respectively stored as bills M for payment in the storage units 106A and 106B.

Reference numeral 107 denotes a picker roller disposed on the payout opening side of each of the 10,000-yen ticket storage section 106A and the 1,000-yen ticket storage section 106B. Reference numeral 108 denotes a payout roller provided above the picker roller 107. 10
Reference numeral 9 denotes a separation roller that is installed so as to face the delivery roller 108. 110 is a reject box, 111-115 are conveyance paths including conveyance rollers and conveyance belts for conveying the banknotes M, and a conveyance abnormality detection sensor 116 for detecting a conveyance abnormality of the banknotes M at a predetermined portion of the conveyance path 111, and the banknotes. A denomination detection sensor 117 for detecting the denomination of M is provided respectively, and a rotatable blade 118 is arranged at the branch portions of the transport paths 113 and 114 branched from the transport path 111.

Reference numeral 119 denotes a temporary stacking unit provided at one end of the transport path 115, and the transport path 115 can collectively transport the banknotes stacked in the temporary stacking unit 119. In addition, in the above-described configuration, the dispensing mechanism includes the cassette 106, the picker roller 107, and the delivery roller 10.
8 and the lower stage unit including the separation roller, the middle stage unit including the reject box 110 and the conveyance path 111, and the upper stage unit including the conveyance paths 112 to 115 are divided into three units.

FIG. 13 is a side view showing the 10,000-yen bill storage section 106A of the cassette 106. As shown in FIG. 13, the bill M is in an upright position so that one side of the bill M contacts the guide plate 120 in the longitudinal direction. The bill M at the end is stored and is pressed by the pressing plate 122 urged by the spring 121.
Are pressed against the picker roller 107. The 1000-yen ticket storage unit 106B has the same configuration.

In this configuration, the operation of payment transaction for the bill M is performed as follows. First, when a customer inserts a card from the card insertion / ejection slot 102 and inputs a password by the key input unit 103, the information of the magnetic stripe read by the card read / write unit together with the password is sent to the center, and the center sends the information. When the customer inputs the requested payment amount through the key input unit 103 after receiving the reply that the transaction is possible, a control unit (not shown) causes a picker roller 107, a delivery roller 108, a separation roller 109, and each conveyance path via a motor (not shown). 111 to 114 are driven.

Here, when the required payment amount is, for example, 55,000 yen, the picker roller 107 rotates to send the bill M of the 10,000-yen bill upward from the 10,000-yen bill storage section 106A of the cassette 106, and the pay-out roller. It is sandwiched by 108 and the separating roller 109 and further fed upward by the rotation of the feeding roller 108. At this time, the separating roller 109 draws only the bill M contacting the feeding roller 108 and the bill M to be fed next. The bills M come into contact with each other to prevent the bill M from being fed out.

The bill M fed by the feeding roller 108 in this way is sent to the conveyance path 111, and during conveyance by the conveyance path 111, the conveyance abnormality detection sensor 116.
Thus, the conveyance abnormality is detected, and the denomination detection sensor 117 detects the denomination. In this case, the conveyance abnormality detection sensor 116 detects, for example, the skewness of the banknote M, the length of the banknote in the lateral direction, the banknote spacing, and the presence or absence of two-sheet stacking, and the denomination detection sensor 117 detects the banknote M in the longitudinal direction. By detecting the width of the, the control unit (not shown) determines the presence or absence of the conveyance abnormality and the denomination based on these detection results.

After that, the bill M is sent to the conveying path 112. If the controller determines that there is a conveyance abnormality or a different denomination, the blade 118 conveys the bill M to the conveying path 11.
The bill M is stored in the reject box 110 via the transport path 114. On the other hand, if there is no conveyance abnormality and the denomination is normal,
The bill M is guided to the transport path 11 by the blade 118,
The sheets are accumulated in a temporary accumulating unit 119 provided at one end of the transport path 115.

[0012] In this way, the banknotes M of five ten thousand yen bills are sequentially
Are accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 119, and thereafter, the banknotes M of 1,000-yen bills are paid out from the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 106B by the same operation and accumulated in the temporary stacking unit 119, whereby the stacked banknotes of the temporary stacking unit 119 are collected. Reaches a predetermined amount, that is, the requested payment amount input by the customer, the control unit stops the driving of the picker roller 107, the feeding roller 108, the separation roller 109, and each of the transport paths 111 to 114, and a motor (not shown) or the like. The transport path 115 is driven via the.

As a result, the banknotes M in the temporary stacking section 119 are collectively conveyed to the banknote payout slot 105, the shutter of the banknote payout slot 105 is opened to pay the customer, and the card read / write section causes the magnetic stripe section of the card. Update information is written in the card insertion and ejection slot 102
The payment transaction ends when the customer receives this card and the bill M, but if the customer pays the bill M,
If the user forgets to remove the bill, the shutter is closed after a certain period of time, and the bill M is fed back from the conveyance path 115 and stored in the reject box 110.

[0014]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional automatic bill payment apparatus, since the cassette for storing the bills M is horizontally arranged in the depth direction, the apparatus also has a large depth dimension. On the other hand, in the case of small stores in the banking industry, the store area is often small and the installation space for equipment is often limited. Will be difficult to introduce.

Therefore, if the cassette for storing the banknotes M is of a vertical type and the banknotes M are stacked and stored in a substantially horizontal state as shown in FIG. 14, the dimension in the depth direction becomes small. Therefore, the installation space becomes smaller and it is possible to introduce it to small stores, but if you do this,
The following problems will occur. That is, in the cassette 106 of the conventional device, as shown in FIG. 13, the banknotes M are placed in the horizontal standing state on the guide plate 120 and stored, and the banknotes M in this case are pressed against the picker roller 107. The pressing force P1 is determined by the tensile force P2 of the spring 121 that urges the pressing plate 122, the friction coefficient μ between the guide plate 120 and the bill M, and the number N of bills M.

When these relationships are expressed by mathematical expressions, 1
When the weight per sheet is P3, P1 = P2-NP3μ. Therefore, if the surface of the guide plate 120 is subjected to a treatment such as Teflon coating to reduce the friction coefficient μ, the pressing force P1 does not change so much that it affects the separation performance regardless of the number of stored sheets.

On the other hand, when the cassette 106 is vertically set upright, that is, when the storage portion for the banknotes M is vertical, the banknotes M to be stored are in a substantially horizontal state in the vertical direction as shown in FIG. Since they are stacked, the pressing force P1 can be expressed as follows. P1 = P2 + NP3 According to this, since the weight of the banknotes M fluctuates due to the change in the number of banknotes M stored, the fluctuation of the pressing force P1 against the picker roller 107 becomes large, and this fluctuation is caused by the banknotes M.
It significantly affects the separation and delivery of the above-mentioned, and it becomes difficult to perform the stable separation and delivery.

The reason will be described with reference to FIG. FIG.
5 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. 14, and as shown in this figure, the force for feeding the bill M1 pressed against the picker roller 107 by the picker roller 107 is F1, and the bill M2 above it is the bill M1 below. F is the force to be exerted by the frictional force of
2. In order to prevent the bill M2 from being fed out, if the force generated by the separation roller 107 is F3, in order to perform stable separation, the relationship of F1>F3> F2 must be satisfied, and this relationship is established. If it does not, two banknotes M will be fed and the banknotes M will not be fed out. However, in the conventional structure, the above relationship is maintained even when the number of banknotes M stacked in the cassette 106 is large. Therefore, there is a problem that stable separation and feeding cannot be performed.

In particular, banks and the like have been operating on holidays in recent years, and since the number of banknotes to be stored must be increased before the holidays, the above problem is more serious.

[0020]

In order to solve this problem, according to the present invention, banknotes corresponding to the requested payment amount input by the customer through the key input unit are sequentially fed out from the storage unit and conveyed to the dispensing port via the conveying path. In the automatic bill payment device
A storage unit for stacking and storing banknotes in a horizontal state, a picker roller arranged below the storage unit so as to be in contact with the banknote, and rotating to feed the banknote to the delivery port side of the storage unit, and the delivery unit. A feeding roller that is provided at the mouth and that rotates so as to feed the bill sent by the picker roller from the storage unit, a separation roller that is installed opposite to the feeding roller, and receives the rear end of the stacked banknotes in the storage unit. And a second inclined surface having a large inclination angle that generates a force to push the bill toward the feeding opening side, a second inclined surface having a small inclination angle extending from the lower end of the first inclined surface to the picker roller side, And a guide block having an extension part obtained by extending a part of the second inclined surface.

[0021]

In the present invention having such a structure, since the rear end of the bills in the storage portion is received by the guide block, the pressing force applied to the picker roller by the stacked bills is relatively stable. Therefore, when the picker roller and the feeding roller are rotated at the time of dispensing, the bill is smoothly fed together with the fact that the first inclined surface of the guide block acts on the bill toward the dispensing opening side. Since the rear end of the banknote moves from the second inclined surface of the guide block to the extension portion during the transfer, the banknote and the guide block contact with each other in a small area, and the contact between the banknotes is maintained. At the same time, the friction between the guide block and the bills is reduced, so that stable and smooth separation and feeding can be performed regardless of the number of bills stored.

[0022]

An embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view of a main part of a first embodiment of an automatic bill payment apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view thereof, FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the same embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a perspective view, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the same embodiment.

Before explaining the details of FIGS. 1 and 2,
3 to 5 will be described. First, referring to FIG. 4, reference numeral 1 denotes a housing of the apparatus, a door 1a is provided on the front surface, and the upper surface is a customer service surface. 2 is this case 1
At the card insertion / ejecting port provided on the customer service side, the card inserted by the customer is taken into the back of the card inserting / ejecting port 2 to read the information of the magnetic stripe provided on the card, and to end the transaction. A card read / write unit (not shown) for writing update information to the rear magnetic stripe is provided.

Reference numeral 3 is a key input section consisting of a numeric keypad and various function keys for the customer to input information necessary for transactions such as a personal identification number and payment amount, and 4 is a screen or input information for guiding the customer to operate the key input section. The key input unit 3 and the display unit 4 are also display units such as a CRT for displaying the above, etc., and are also provided at predetermined positions in the customer service unit. The key input unit 3 is not provided separately from the display unit 4 as shown in the figure, but a key made of a transparent electrode is arranged on the display unit 4, the key function is displayed on the display unit 3, and the function information is input. It may be done.

Reference numeral 5 designates a bill payout port for paying out bills to the customer. The bill payout port 5 has a back end shown in FIG. 3 for paying out bills corresponding to the amount of payment inputted by the customer. A money mechanism 6 is provided, and the money withdrawal mechanism 6 can be pulled out from the housing 1 by opening the door 1a. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 7 is a 10,000-yen ticket storage portion, 8 is a 1,000-yen ticket storage portion, and both of these storage portions 7 and 8 are vertically arranged vertically.
The banknotes are arranged in rows, and 10,000-yen and 1,000-yen notes are stored as bills M for payment.

Reference numeral 9 denotes the ten-yen ticket storage 7 and the thousand-yen ticket storage 8.
Picker rollers 10 respectively provided at the lower ends of the pick-up rollers are provided at the pay-out ports of the 10,000 yen ticket storage 7 and the 1,000-yen ticket storage 8 so as to be located in front of the picker roller 9, and 11 is the supply roller. The separating roller is provided on the upper side of the roller 10 so as to face each other, and the separating and feeding section 12 is constituted by these rollers 9 to 11. The 10,000-yen ticket storage section 7 and the 1,000-yen ticket are arranged so as to face the separating and feeding section 12. A guide block 13 is provided at the lower end of the storage section 8 at a position opposite to the delivery port side.

Numeral 14 is a pressing plate provided in each of the ten-thousand-yen ticket storage 7 and the thousand-yen ticket storage 8, which is urged downward by a spring (not shown), and the bill M is pressed from above by the pressing plate 11. The front end of the bill M at the lower end is in pressure contact with the picker roller 9. Reference numeral 15 is a reject banknote storage unit arranged above the 10,000-yen ticket storage unit 7, and 16 and 17 are conveyance paths including conveyance rollers and conveyance belts for conveying the banknotes M. These both conveyance paths 16 and 17 are 10,000 yen. A conveyance abnormality detection sensor 18 that is arranged in a vertical direction along the ticket storage portion 7 and the 1,000-yen ticket storage portion 8 and that is linearly connected, and that detects a conveyance abnormality of the bill M at a predetermined position of the conveyance path 17. , And a denomination detection sensor 19 for detecting the denomination of the bill M, respectively.
Is configured.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a rotatable blade, which is a conveying path 17
Is located at the top of. Reference numeral 22 denotes a temporary stacking unit, which is arranged inside the shutter 23 provided in the banknote payout port 2 and configured to stack the banknotes M transported by the transport path 21. As described above, in the present embodiment, the 10,000-yen ticket storing section 7 and the 1,000-yen ticket storing section 8 of the dispensing mechanism 6 are vertically arranged, and along the 10,000-yen ticket storing section 7 and the 1,000-yen ticket storing section 8. Since the transfer paths 16 and 17 are vertically arranged, the dispensing mechanism 6 can be made smaller than the conventional one.

That is, since the dispensing mechanism of the conventional device described in FIG. 12 is divided into three units,
Although there was a division loss, the dispensing mechanism 6 of the present embodiment.
Since there is no division loss, it can be miniaturized, and the withdrawal mechanism 6 can be pulled out from the housing 1 by opening the door 1a. 8 and access to the conveying paths 16 and 17 are not hindered.

Next, in FIG. 5, 24 is a main control unit for controlling the entire apparatus, 25 is a control unit of the dispensing mechanism 6 connected to this main control unit 24, and this control unit 25 is the main control unit 2 described above.
4 based on the command from the detector 4, the detection information from the detector 20, and the like, the separating and feeding unit 12, the transport paths 16 and 17, and the blade 2
1, the main control unit 26 controls the opening and closing of the shutter 23 based on the information from the control unit 25 and the information from the key input unit 3, and also controls the center of the shutter via the interface unit 27. It communicates with the host computer.

Reference numeral 28 denotes a power source of the apparatus, which is connected to the main control section 24. In this configuration, the operation of payment transaction of the bill M is performed as follows. First, when a customer inserts a card from the card insertion / ejection slot 2 and inputs a recitation number by the key input unit 3, the information of the magnetic stripe read by the card read / write unit together with the recitation number is used by the main control unit 24.
Is sent to the host computer of the center via the interface section 27, and the customer inputs a requested payment amount through the key input section 3 after receiving a reply from the host computer that the transaction is possible. Order the withdrawal processing.

As a result, the control unit 25 causes the picker roller 9 and the feeding roller 1 of the separating and feeding unit 12 of the 10,000-yen ticket storing unit 7 or the 1,000-yen ticket storing unit 8 via a motor (not shown).
0, the separation roller 11 is driven,
Drive 17 Here, when the requested payment amount is, for example, 55,000 yen, rotation of the picker roller 9 causes the bill M of the 10,000-yen bill to be sent forward from the 10,000-yen bill storage portion 7, and the feeding roller 10 and the separating roller 11 to The paper is nipped and further fed by the rotation of the feeding roller 10, but at this time, the feeding of the second and subsequent bills M is blocked by the separating roller 11, so that only the bill M in contact with the feeding roller 10 is fed out. Take action.

The bill M fed by the feeding roller 10 in this manner is sent to the conveyance path 17 and the conveyance path 1
During the upward conveyance by 7, the conveyance abnormality detection sensor 18 of the detection unit 20 detects the conveyance abnormality, and
The denomination detection sensor 19 detects the denomination. In this case, the conveyance abnormality detection sensor 18 detects, for example, the skewness of the banknote M, the length in the widthwise direction, the banknote spacing, and the presence or absence of two-sheet stack, and the denomination detection sensor 19 detects the banknote M in the longitudinal direction. The width of the control unit 2 is detected from these detection results.
5 determines whether or not there is a conveyance abnormality, and determines the denomination.

After that, the bill M is sent further upward by the conveying path 17, but when the control unit 25 determines that there is a conveyance abnormality or a different denomination, the blade 21 puts the bill M into the reject bill storing unit 15. The bill M is switched to the guidance, whereby the bill M is rejected in the reject bill storage unit 15
Is stored in. On the other hand, if there is no conveyance abnormality and the denomination is normal, the banknotes M are guided further upward by the blade 21 and discharged to the temporary stacking unit 22 from the upper end of the transport path 17 to be stacked.

In this way, the banknotes M of five ten thousand yen bills are sequentially
Are accumulated in the temporary accumulating unit 22, and thereafter, the 1,000-yen bill bill M is paid out from the 1,000-yen bill storing unit 8 by the same operation, is conveyed by the conveying paths 16 and 17, and is accumulated in the temporary accumulating unit 22. As a result, when the banknotes M accumulated in the temporary accumulating unit 22 reach a predetermined amount, that is, the requested payment amount input by the customer, the control unit 25 causes the picker roller 9, the feeding roller 10, the separating roller 11, and each of the conveying paths 16 to be carried out. , 17 are stopped and the main control unit 22 is notified that the accumulation is completed.

As a result, the main controller 22 causes the bill payout slot 5
The shutter 23 is opened to pay the bill M to the customer, and the card read / write unit writes the update information to the magnetic stripe portion of the card and discharges it to the card insertion / ejection slot 2. The payment transaction ends when it is received. The bottom of the temporary stacking unit 22 is configured to rotate downward and open. If the customer forgets to take the bill M, the main control unit 24 closes the shutter 23 after a certain period of time, and The bottom of the stacking unit 22 is opened and the banknotes M are stored in the reject banknote storage unit 15.

Next, a main part of the above-described automatic bill payment apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. As shown in FIG. 1, the guide blocks 13 provided in the 10,000-yen ticket storage 7 and the 1,000-yen ticket storage 8 support the rear ends of the banknotes M that are vertically stacked in a horizontal state. This guide block 13
2 are arranged on the base plate 28 as a pair of left and right as shown in FIG. 2, and each has an inclined surface (first inclined surface) 13a having a large inclination angle and an inclination extending from the lower end of the inclined surface 13a toward the delivery port side. The structure has an inclined surface (second inclined surface) 13b having a small angle, and further has an extension 13c obtained by extending a part of the inclined surface 13b, and has a side surface formed in a substantially L shape.

In FIG. 1, 29 is a guide which also serves as a partition surface provided in the 10,000 yen ticket storage 7 and the 1,000 yen ticket storage 8, 30 is an upper guide provided at the delivery port, and 31 is provided at the delivery port. It is a lower guide. Also, FIG.
The picker roller 9, the feeding roller 10,
Similarly to the guide block 13, a pair of separating rollers 11 is also provided on the left and right sides.
And the separation roller 11 has ring-shaped grooves 10a, 11 on its peripheral surface.
a is provided.

The feeding roller 10 and the separating roller 11 are slightly meshed by the grooves 10a and 11a, and the line connecting the meshing position and the apex of the picker roller 9, that is, the angle at which the bill M is separated. The inclined surface of the guide block 13 and the extension 13c are formed so as to coincide with each other. A motor 32 is configured so that the motor 32 rotates the picker roller 9, the feeding roller 10, and the separation roller 11 via the gears 33 and 34, the belt 32, and the like.

Next, the operation of the guide block 13 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 and FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the relationship between the force applied to the guide block 13 and the force applied to the banknotes M. The vertically stacked banknotes M are placed on the picker roller 9 at the front end side and at the rear end on the inclined surface 13a of the guide block 13. As shown in FIG. 6, when the weight of the stacked paper banknotes M is applied to the inclined surface 13a as P2, the reaction force is an upward force F1 on the banknote M.
Then, the force F2 to the delivery port side (front) acts.

When the inclination angle of the inclined surface 13a is θ °, the relationship of F1 = P2 _sin θ ° F2 = P2 _cos θ ° is established. On the other hand, when the pressing force applied to the picker roller 9 is P1 as shown in FIG. 1, the value obtained by subtracting F1 from the force applied by the weight of the stacked banknotes M is P1, and a large amount of banknotes M are stacked. Even in the state, since the pressing force P1 does not take an extremely large value, P1 becomes relatively stable.

Now, as shown in FIG. 1, when the leading edge of the bill M is restricted by the guides 33 of the ten-thousand-yen bill storage 7 and the 1,000-yen bill storage 8 and the upper guide 34 of the payout opening, When the picker roller 9, the feeding roller 10, and the separation roller 11 are rotated by the motor 32, the lowest-ranked bill M is fed forward by the picker roller 9, and the bill M above it is the inclined surface of the guide block. Since the forward force F2 by 13a and the frictional force between the bills M to be fed out cause the bills M to move forward, the stacked bills M in the vicinity of the feeding port have a smoothly wedge-shaped tip as shown in FIG. As a result, the tip position of the bill M becomes constant with respect to the position where the feeding roller 10 and the separating roller 11 mesh with each other, so that the interval between the bills M is kept constant.

Then, as the rollers 9, 10 and 11 are further rotated, the lowest banknote M is fed out.
0 and the separating roller 11 sandwich the feeding roller 1
The bill is further fed forward by the rotation of 0, but at this time, the rear end of the bill M is guided to the extension portion 13c of the guide block 13. At this time, the separating operation is performed by the separating roller 11 so that only the banknotes M contacting the feeding roller 10 are fed out.
If c is not provided, the following problems will occur.

FIG. 7 shows an extension portion 13c of the guide block 13.
It is a side view showing a problem in the case of not providing, if the guide block 13 does not have an extension 13c as shown in this figure, the lowest banknote M1 to be fed out and the second banknote M1 above it. A phenomenon may occur in which the rear end of the bill M2 hangs down. In this case, a gap is created between the second banknote M2 and the third banknote M3 on the second banknote M2, so that the frictional force between the banknotes is significantly reduced, and the first banknote M1.
As the bills are fed, the second bill M2 is also fed, and the bill interval becomes shorter than the reference value and is rejected.

In order to prevent such an inconvenience, the extension portion 13c is provided, and since the extension portion 13c is formed by partially extending the inclined surface 13b, the frictional force between the bill M and the guide block 13 is increased. Can be lowered,
The inclined surface 13a stabilizes the pressing force P1, and
Along with the action of generating the force F2 in the forward direction, stable and smooth separating and feeding are performed regardless of the number of stored bills M.

Next, another embodiment will be described. Currently, financial institutions operate banknote automatic payment devices on holidays, and it is necessary to set a large number of banknotes in this device before the holidays. However, when the number of stacked banknotes M increases, the guide block 13 inclined surfaces 13a, 13b and banknote M
Since the frictional force of contact with the picker roller 9 increases and becomes a load when it is paid out by the picker roller 9, a more reliable separation and payout operation is required.

The following embodiments meet such requirements. FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a guide block showing a second embodiment. In the figure, reference numeral 36 denotes a guide block. In this embodiment, a slanting surface 36a having a large slanting angle of the guide block 36 and a slanting surface 36b having a small slanting angle extending from the lower end of the slanting surface 36a are formed in a comb tooth shape, and the slanting surface is formed. An extension portion 36c extending from the surface 36b to the picker roller side is also formed in the same manner.

In this way, the contact area where the inclined surfaces 36a, 36b and the extension 36c come into contact with the bill M is reduced as compared with the flat inclined surfaces 13a, 13b and the extension 13c as in the first embodiment. Therefore, the frictional force between the bill M and the guide block 36 is reduced, and the bill M can be separated and fed out more stably. Figure 9 (a)
, (B) are a perspective view and a side view of a guide block showing a third embodiment. In this embodiment, the guide block 37 has an inclined surface 37a having a large inclination angle and an inclination angle extending from the lower end of the inclined surface 37a. An endless belt 38 is suspended by a plurality of shafts 39 on a small inclined surface 37b, and each shaft 39 is rotatably supported by a guide block 37.
The extension portion 37c is formed similarly to that of the first embodiment.

In this configuration, since the endless belt 38 rotates counterclockwise as the bill M is fed, the friction with the bill M can be changed from sliding friction to rolling friction, and the frictional force can be further reduced. Therefore, the operation of the separating and feeding means is further stabilized. Figure 10
(a) and (b) are a perspective view and a side view of a guide block showing a fourth embodiment, and this embodiment shows a guide block 40.
40a with a large inclination angle of
A plurality of rollers 41 are rotatably supported on the inclined surface 40b having a small inclination angle extending from the lower end of the extension portion 40c, and the extension portion 40c is formed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.

In this structure, since the roller 41 rotates counterclockwise as the bill M is fed out, the friction with the bill M can be changed from sliding friction to rolling friction as in the third embodiment. Since it is possible to further reduce the frictional force, the operation of the separating and feeding means is further stabilized. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can be partially modified as appropriate.

For example, the guide block 13 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 may be formed integrally with the base plate 28, and in the first, second, third and fourth embodiments, each guide block may be replaced by one of the guide blocks. If it is configured to be movable in the width direction, it becomes possible to cope with the case where a new banknote is transferred from the current banknote or the case where it is applied to a device handling foreign banknotes, and the inclined surface of each guide block is appropriately changed. By changing to, it is possible to stabilize the operation of the separating and feeding means depending on the paper quality and the like.

[0052]

As described above, according to the present invention, a storage unit for stacking and storing banknotes in a horizontal state, and a storage unit disposed below the storage unit so as to contact the banknotes, are provided on the delivery port side of the storage unit. A picker roller that rotates so as to send the bills to the feeding roller, a feeding roller that is provided at the feeding port and that rotates so that the bills fed by the picker roller are fed from the storage unit, and a separation roller that is installed opposite to the feeding roller. A roller and a first inclined surface that is arranged to receive the rear end of the stacked banknotes in the storage unit and that has a large inclination angle that generates a force that pushes the banknotes toward the payout opening side, and the picker from the lower end of the first inclined surface. As a configuration including a second inclined surface having a small inclination angle extending to the roller side and a guide block having an extension part obtained by extending a part of the second inclined surface, Since the edge is received by the guide block, the pressing force applied to the picker roller by the stacked banknotes becomes relatively stable. Therefore, when the picker roller and the payout roller are rotated at the time of dispensing, the first of the guide block In addition to the fact that the inclined surface of the banknote exerts a force on the bill toward the payout opening side, the bill is smoothly sent and taken out from the payout opening. Since the bill moves to the extension from the inclined surface of 2, the bill and the guide block come into contact with each other in a small area, the contact between the bills is maintained, and the friction between the guide block and the bill is reduced. The effect that a stable and smooth feeding can be performed regardless of the condition, and the installation space of the device can be reduced. Together, the ones that can withstand enough to holiday operation of the device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an essential part showing a first embodiment of an automatic bill payment device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the embodiment of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an appearance of the embodiment of FIG.

5 is a block diagram of the embodiment of FIG.

6 is a diagram showing the relationship between the inclined surface of the guide block and the force applied to the bill in the embodiment of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a defect when there is no extension portion of the guide block.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a guide block showing a second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view and a side view of a guide block showing a third embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view and a side view of a guide block showing a fourth embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing a schematic appearance of a conventional banknote automatic payment device.

12 is a side view showing a schematic configuration of a dispensing mechanism in the conventional example of FIG.

FIG. 13 is a side view showing a horizontal cassette.

FIG. 14 is a side view showing a vertical cassette.

FIG. 15 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Key input part 6 Withdrawal mechanism 70,000 yen ticket storage part 8,000 yen ticket storage part 9 Picker roller 10 Delivery roller 11 Separation roller 12 Separation delivery part 13 Guide block 13a Sloping surface (1st slant surface) 13b Sloping surface ( 2nd inclined surface) 13c Extension part 16 and 17 Conveyance path 22 Temporary accumulation part 24 Main control part 25 Control part 36 Guide block 36a Inclined surface (1st inclined surface) 36b Inclined surface (2nd inclined surface) 36c Extension Part 37 Guide block 37a Slope (first slope) 37b Slope (second slope) 37c Extension 38 Endless belt 39 Shaft 40 Guide block 40a Slope (first slope) 40b Slope (first) 2 inclined surface) 40c extension

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An automatic bill payment apparatus, in which bills of a requested payment amount input by a customer at a key input unit are sequentially fed out from a storage unit and transported to a dispensing port through a transport path for payment, and the bills are stacked horizontally. And a picker roller that is disposed below the storage unit so as to contact the banknotes and that rotates so as to send the banknotes to the payout opening side of the storage unit, and the picker that is provided at the payout opening A payout roller that rotates so as to pay out the banknotes sent by the roller from the storage unit, a separation roller that is installed opposite to the payout roller, and is arranged to receive the rear end of the stacked banknotes in the storage unit,
A first inclined surface having a large inclination angle that generates a force to push the bill toward the dispensing opening side, a second inclined surface having a small inclination angle extending from the lower end of the first inclined surface to the picker roller side, and the second inclined surface. An automatic bill payment apparatus comprising: a guide block having an extension part obtained by extending a part of an inclined surface. 2. The banknote automatic payment device according to claim 1, wherein the guide block has a first inclined surface, a second inclined surface,
And an extension part formed as a flat surface, an automatic bill payment device. 3. The banknote automatic payment device according to claim 1, wherein the guide block has a first inclined surface, a second inclined surface,
An automatic bill payment device, characterized in that the extension part is formed in a comb shape. 4. The banknote automatic payment device according to claim 1, wherein endless belts are provided on the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface of the guide block via a plurality of rotatable shafts. Banknote automatic payment device. 5. The banknote automatic payment device according to claim 1, wherein at least one roller is rotatably arranged on the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface of the guide block. Automatic payment device. 6. The banknote automatic payment device according to claim 1, wherein a transport path for transporting a banknote delivered from a storage unit by a picker roller, a delivery roller, and a separation roller is arranged vertically along the storage unit. A bill automatic payment device characterized in that