JPH09240907A - Sheet accumulation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small sheet accumulation device to improve operability at the time of manually taking accumulated sheets out of an accumulation box and having large accumulating capacity. SOLUTION: A central surface A of a bottom plate 6 of an accumulation box 1 is constituted lowered, an inclined surface B is provided in the neighbourhood of a lower part of sheets 11 to be accumulated deep on the central surface A, an indicator 6 and the bottom plate central surface A are constituted so as to be overlapped with each other in the vertical direction in a carrier passage 13 of sheets and a packaged region of carrier passage constituting elements, and a C surface in the neighbourhood of a center of a front surface of the bottom plate 6 is constituted to be retreated in the deep direction of the accumulation box 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet stacking device for stacking paper sheets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A stacking box of a conventional paper sheet stacking apparatus will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 4 is a front view of a stacking box portion of a paper sheet stacking device that has two stacking boxes 21 and 31 arranged in the vertical direction and performs sorting and stacking of paper sheets, and FIG. -Y sectional drawing is shown.

The paper sheets conveyed in the directions G and H on the conveying paths 28 and 38 are conveyed to the conveying path 2 by the gates 23 and 33.
8 and 38 are branched, and are stacked on the stacking plates 24 and 34 of the stacking boxes 21 and 31. Collected paper sheets 22, 2
3 is manually taken out by the operator from the front of the stacking boxes 21 and 31. The accumulation boxes 21 and 31 are flat bottom plates 25 and 35.
The bottom plates 25 and 35, and display devices 26 and 36 for displaying classification information, collection box numbers, etc., and the collection box 2
Lamps 27 and 37 that light up when 1 and 31 are full
Has been implemented. The configuration of such an accumulation box is, for example, N
EC Technical Report Vol. 44 No. 3/1991 p. 83
Photo 3, P. It can be seen in the mail bin of the automatic mail handling system shown in 94 pictures.

In such an apparatus, while the lamp indicating the fullness of the stacking box is lit, even if the paper sheets to be stacked in the corresponding stacking box are conveyed, they are stacked in the stacking box. Is not carried out, and it is conveyed and accumulated in a reject accumulation box (not shown). The paper sheets accumulated in the reject accumulation box must be sorted and accumulated again,
If there are many paper sheets accumulated in the reject accumulation box, the operation rate of the device will decrease. Therefore, after the lamp is turned on, it is necessary to promptly take out the stacked paper sheets from the corresponding stacking box.

Further, in this paper sheet stacking apparatus for sorting and stacking mail, 100 or more stacking boxes are usually mounted, but in a stacking apparatus having such a large number of stacking boxes, stacking boxes are stacked. It is important to make the device as small as possible and to secure a certain amount of storage capacity in one stacking box so that the operator who takes out the stacked sheets from the box can move quickly to the full stacking box. Becomes Further, the shape and configuration of the stacking box must be such that the stacked sheets can be easily and quickly taken out.

From the stacking boxes 21 and 31 shown in FIGS. 4 and 5,
When the stacked paper sheets 22, 32 are taken out by hand, the stacking plates 24, 34 are cut out for the operator to grip the paper sheets, and further the hands are placed under the paper sheets 22, 32. Since it is necessary to insert them, it is necessary to provide spaces K and L between the bottom plates 25 and 35 and the stacking plates 24 and 34 so that the hands can be sufficiently inserted.

However, in order to provide such spaces K and L, the integration capacity must be limited to a small amount corresponding to the spaces K and L, or the integration boxes 21 and 31 must be enlarged vertically. I have to. When the stacking capacity is reduced, the time until the stacking boxes 21 and 31 are full is shortened, and the paper sheets 2 collected by the operator from the stacking boxes 21 and 31 are reduced.
Since the number of times of taking out 2, 32 is increased, the burden on the operator is increased. Further, if the stacking boxes 21 and 31 are enlarged in the vertical direction, the size of the apparatus itself is increased.

When the stacking boxes 21 and 31 are arranged side by side in the vertical direction as shown in the figure, the paper sheets 3 in the stacking box 31 are arranged.
Even if the presence / absence of 2 is visually checked from the direction of arrow J, it is invisible because it is blocked by the display device 26 (as shown in FIG. 5, the stacking boxes are arranged obliquely with respect to the vertical direction and overlap each other). There is a problem that the operability at the time of taking out is not good.

[0009]

In order to solve the problems described above, the present invention improves the operability when an operator manually removes the accumulated paper sheets from the accumulation box, and further An object is to provide a small-sized paper sheet stacking device having a stacking capacity.

[0010]

According to the present invention, the device components mounted on the bottom plate of the stacking box are arranged close to the left and right side plates, and the parts of the bottom plate where the device components are not mounted are A space is provided so that a hand can be inserted when taking out the stacked paper sheets, and the bottom plate has an inclined surface near the lower part of the stacked paper sheets. The space for inserting the hand when taking out the stacked paper sheets is configured to vertically overlap with the transport area for the paper sheets and the mounting area for the transport means constituent elements. A paper sheet stacking device configured to be retracted to is obtained.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the paper sheet stacking device of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, 6 and 7.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a stacking box of a sheet stacking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view of the stacking box, FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. Is a perspective view showing the bottom plate of the stacking box, and FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken along line ZZ of FIG. Incidentally, as shown in the figure, the used collecting and accumulating device of the present invention has a structure in which a plurality of the same accumulating boxes are piled up, and paper sheets are classified according to classification information
Accumulate.

The paper sheets conveyed through the conveying path 3 are branched from the conveying path 3 by the gate 4 and accumulated on the accumulating plate 5 of the accumulating box 1. When a certain amount of paper sheets are accumulated, a fullness detection mechanism (not shown) detects that the accumulation box 1 is full, and the lamp 16 that indicates fullness is turned on. Lamp 16
When is turned on, the operator manually takes out the stacked paper sheets 11 from the front of the stacking box 1.

In the case of a device having a plurality of stacking boxes as shown in the drawing, a paper sheet in which sorting information is recorded so that it is possible to distinguish which stack box has taken out the paper sheet taken out from the stacking box. Attach the tag to the paper sheet taken out. In the case of the stacking box 1, this paper bill is stored in the label holders 8a and 8b mounted on the bottom plate 6. A button 17 is mounted on the bottom plate 6 to collect the stacked paper sheets 11
If you press the button 17 when taking out the
A paper bill similar to the paper bill contained in 8b is output from a label printer (not shown).
Only one of the label holders 8a and 8b and the button 17 may be mounted according to the operation mode of the apparatus, and the label holders 8a and 8b may be mounted on the bottom plate 6 in FIG.
Is implemented, but only one of them is required.

The bottom plate 6 has a lamp 16 and a label holder 8
In addition to a, 8b, and the button 17, a display device 7 for displaying the sorting information of the paper sheets and the stacking box number is mounted. The display unit 7 has a liquid crystal display capable of variably displaying classification information according to a plurality of types of paper sheet classification patterns, a piece of paper in which the classification information is entered, a case into which the piece of paper is put, and a sticker label on which a collection box number is printed. Etc. are used.

The paper sheets stacked in the stacking box have a structure in which an operator can put his / her hand in the vicinity of the center of the front surface and hold it. Therefore, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the indicator 7, the lamp 16, the button 17, the label holders 8a, 8b.
Is not mounted in the vicinity of the center of the bottom plate 6, the indicator 7 and the label holder 8a are mounted in the vicinity of the left side plate 10, and the lamp 16, the button 17, and the label holder 8b are mounted in the vicinity of the right side plate 9. ing.

The surface A at the center of the bottom plate 6 on which nothing is mounted is lowered, so that the space E created thereby can be used as a space for putting a hand in taking out the stacked paper sheets 11. Therefore, the stacking plate 5 is labeled 8
It can be mounted by lowering it to the position where it contacts a and 8b. As described above, if the button 17 is mounted, the labeling 8a and 8b can be omitted, and in that case, the integrated plate 5 can be further lowered and mounted.

In FIG. 1, the indicator 7 is mounted near the left side plate 10, and the lamp 16 and the button 17 are mounted near the right side plate 9. However, the present invention collects the stacked paper sheets 11. One of the features is that the device components are mounted while avoiding the vicinity of the center of the bottom plate 6 into which the hand is inserted when taking out from the box 1. For example, the indicator 7 is mounted near the right side plate 9 and the lamp is installed. Even if the 16 and the button 17 are mounted near the left side plate 10, there is no problem as long as nothing is mounted near the center of the bottom plate 6 into which the hand is inserted.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the surface A at the center of the bottom plate 6 which is lowered downward is used as a transport area 13a for the paper sheets and a mounting area for the pulleys 14 and the belt 15 constituting the transport path 13. The positional relationship is such that they overlap when viewed from the front. This is to bring the surface A at the center of the bottom plate 6 as close as possible to the paper sheet conveyance path 13 in consideration of the size and thickness of the paper sheets and the deviation, inclination, and fluttering of the paper sheets at the time of conveyance. This is because they are arranged in consideration of the relationship between the surface A and the pulley 14 that forms the transport path 13. That is,
In FIG. 3, the structure in which the A surface at the center of the bottom plate 6 avoids the pulley 14 is assumed. However, if the A surface at the center of the bottom plate 6 is linearly extended (to the right side in FIG. 3) substantially as it is. The pulley 14 must be arranged below the surface A at the center of the bottom plate 6, which causes the problem shown in the prior art that each stacking box becomes large in the vertical direction. In order to solve such a problem, the above-described configuration is adopted, and the vertical component mounting area is suppressed. Further, it can be seen from the fact that the sheet conveying area 13a shown in FIG. 3 and the A surface at the center of the bottom plate 6 lowered downward are mounted close to each other.

Therefore, if the end of the paper sheet conveyed in the direction of the arrow P shown in FIG. 7 is bent upward, the end of the paper sheet is lowered to the center of the bottom plate 6. There is a risk that the paper sheets will be damaged and that the paper will be conveyed abnormally. In order to prevent such a case, the bottom plate 6 is provided with a guide member 18 for guiding the paper sheets downward.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a plane B inclined upward is provided at the back of the plane A at the center of the bottom plate 6.
As a result, when the stacked paper sheets 11 are taken out, if the user puts his / her hand into the space E, the fingertips are guided to the surface B and come into contact with the lower surface of the naturally stacked paper sheets 11, so that the paper sheets 11 can be taken out easily. become.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, of the front surface of the bottom plate 6, the C surface on which the display 7, the lamp 16, the button 17, and the label inserts 8a and 8b are not mounted is moved backward from the D surface. The presence / absence of the paper sheets 12 in the stacking box 2 can be easily visually confirmed from the direction of the arrow F.

As described above, according to the present invention, the device components mounted on the bottom plate of the stacking box are arranged close to the left and right side plates, and the parts of the bottom plate on which the device components are not mounted are mounted. A space is provided so that a hand can be inserted when taking out the stacked paper sheets, and the bottom plate has an inclined surface near the lower part of the stacked paper sheets. The space for inserting the hand when taking out the stacked paper sheets is configured to vertically overlap with the transport area for the paper sheets and the mounting area for the transport means constituent elements. By being configured to be retracted to, it improves the operability when taking out the accumulated paper sheets from the accumulation box by hand, and further has a large accumulation capacity.
A small paper sheet stacking device can be provided.

[0024]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION It is possible to provide a small paper sheet stacking device which improves the operability when the stacked paper sheets are taken out from the stacking box by hand and has a large stacking capacity.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a stacking box of a paper sheet stacking apparatus that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a stacking box of the paper sheet stacking apparatus that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a stacking box of a paper sheet stacking apparatus according to a conventional technique.

5 is a sectional view taken along line YY of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a bottom plate that constitutes a stacking box of the paper sheet stacking apparatus that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 shows a ZZ sectional view of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 2, 21, 31 ... Accumulation box, 3, 13, 28, 38
... transportation path 4,23,33 ... gate, 5,24,34
... Accumulation plate, 6, 25, 35 ... Accumulation box bottom plate, 7, 26,
36 ... Indicator, 8a, 8b ... Labeling, 9, 10
... Accumulation box side plates, 11, 12, 22, 32 ... Accumulated sheets, 18 ... Guide member 14 ... Pulley, 15 ... Belts 16, 27, 37 ... Lamp, 17 ... Button

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A stacking board for stacking paper sheets thereon, an indicator for displaying information on the stacked paper sheets, a lamp for displaying the status of the stacked paper sheets, and a lamp used for operating the apparatus. A bottom plate for mounting device components such as a label holder for storing paper bills, a stacking box composed of left and right side plates, a transport means for transporting paper sheets to the stacking box, and transport by the transport means. A paper sheet stacking device having means for branching the collected paper sheets into the stacking box, wherein the device components mounted on the bottom plate of the stacking box are arranged near the left and right side plates. A paper sheet stacking device. 2. A stacking plate for stacking paper sheets thereon, an indicator for displaying information on the stacked paper sheets, a lamp for displaying the status of the stacked paper sheets, and a lamp used for operating the apparatus. A bottom plate for mounting device components such as a label holder for storing paper bills, a stacking box composed of left and right side plates, a transport means for transporting paper sheets to the stacking box, and transport by the transport means. A sheet stacking device having means for branching the stacked sheets into the stacking box, and providing a space into which a hand can be inserted when the stacked sheets are taken out from a part of the bottom plate. A paper sheet stacking device. 3. The paper sheet transaction device according to claim 1,
A paper sheet stacking device, characterized in that a space into which a hand can be inserted when taking out the stacked paper sheets is provided in a portion of the bottom plate where the device components are not mounted. 4. A stacking plate on which paper sheets are stacked, a bottom plate located under the stacking plate, a stacking box composed of left and right side plates, and a sheet is conveyed to the stacking box. What is claimed is: 1. A paper sheet stacking device comprising: a transporting means; and a means for branching a paper sheet transported by the transporting means into the stacking box, the bottom sheet of the stacking box being a lower part of the stack of paper sheets. A paper sheet stacking device having an inclined surface which is inclined upward in the vicinity of the back of the stacking box. 5. The paper sheet stacking device according to claim 3,
A stack of paper sheets, characterized in that the space provided in the device component and the bottom plate is configured to vertically overlap with a transport area for the paper sheets and a mounting area for components constituting the transport means. apparatus. 6. The paper sheet stacking device according to claim 5,
A paper sheet stacking device, wherein a guide member for guiding paper sheets is provided on a part of the bottom plate. 7. A stacking board for stacking paper sheets thereon, an indicator for displaying information on the stacked paper sheets, a lamp for displaying the status of the stacked paper sheets, and a lamp used for operating the apparatus. A bottom plate for mounting device components such as a label holder for storing paper bills, a stacking box composed of left and right side plates, a transport means for transporting paper sheets to the stacking box, and transport by the transport means. A paper sheet stacking device having a means for branching the collected paper sheets into the stacking box, wherein a part of the front surface of the bottom plate of the stacking box is retracted in the back direction of the stacking box. A paper sheet stacking device.