JPH09278254A - Paper sheet collector and transaction processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To highly reliably collect even short paper sheets, weak paper sheets or skewed paper sheets by reducing the carry-in speed of paper sheets taken in a collection part in a paper sheet collector. SOLUTION: A bill A guided to a paper money taking-in mechanism 24 is held between a collecting roller 28 and its opposite roller 29 and taken in one by one. The bill A is forcibly slapped off one by one by an impeller 31, quickly lowered and collected on a collecting plate. A slide-contact plate 32 formed to be a thin elastic plate by using a spring material is attached to an outer frame projectingly provided in the vicinity of a carry-in entrance 23. Contact resistance is provided to the bill A passing through the carry-in entrance 23 by the pressing action of the spring of this slide-contact plate 32, and the carry-in speed of the bill A is reduced. Thus, the carry-in speed of the bill A is reduced to be proper for collection during its carry-in process to a collection case.

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 such as an internal structure of an automatic transaction machine, and more particularly, a paper sheet stack for picking up and stacking paper sheets such as banknotes at high speed and stably. The present invention relates to a leaf collecting device and a transaction processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A banknote stacking apparatus will be described below as an example. As shown in FIG. 9, this banknote stacking apparatus is provided with a storage box 92 for stacking and stacking taken-in banknotes 91 one by one. A stacking roller 93 for collecting bills and a counter roller 94 are provided on one side of the upper part of 92, and the bills 91 guided from the previous stage at the time of stacking are forcibly knocked off one by one by an impeller 95 arranged at the pickup position. They are collected in the lower storage box 92. Further, the feeding roller 96 is provided above the storage box 92.
An elevating device 98 for elevating and lowering the banknote stacking plate 97 in accordance with the operation of taking in and out the banknotes 91 is installed below.

When the banknotes 91 are guided to the storage box 92 in the stacking process, the banknotes 91 are carried in in a substantially horizontal direction from one side of the upper part of the storage box 92, and straight forward as they are to the storage box 92.
The tip of the banknote comes into contact with the vertical wall surface 99 at the back, where the banknote 9
No. 1 is stopped, and from there, it is knocked down by the impeller 95 and accumulated below.

However, when the bills are taken in at a high speed due to the high-speed processing, as shown in FIG. 10, the bills 91 are greatly curved by the high-speed carry-in at the time of the carry-in stop in which the leading end of the bill 91 abuts the vertical wall surface 99. The curved bill 91 is separated from the rotational contact area of the impeller 95 and gently falls without being subjected to the force-accumulating action of the impeller 95, so that it collides with the next carried-in bill and induces a jam. . In addition, as shown in FIG. 11, when bills having different lengths are mixed and accumulated, when the short bill 100 is guided, the bills are piled without contacting the impeller 95, and thus the bills also collide with the next carry-in bill. I will end up. Further, as shown in FIG. 12, even in the case of a banknote 101 having a crease or a weak stiffness, the banknote tip has a vertical wall surface 9
It is not restrained by 9, and slips as it is, and is obliquely carried in to the lower part of the inner part and does not come into contact with the impeller 95. Further, even when the skew banknote 102 is carried in, the tip corner portion of this skew banknote 102 makes point contact with the vertical wall surface 99 and bends downward, slips as it is, and moves to the lower part of the back part.
However, there is a problem that it will not come into contact with and will cause a collision with the next banknote to be carried in.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, the present invention does not depend on the restraint at the leading edge of a paper sheet, but the paper sheet is stalled and taken in during the process of loading the paper sheet, so that the short-sized paper sheet and the weakness of the sheet are weak. An object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet stacking apparatus and a transaction processing apparatus that can carry out highly reliable stacking processing regardless of whether or not a paper sheet or a skewer is carried in.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
A paper sheet stacking device for collecting and stacking paper sheets one by one in a stacking unit, characterized by comprising deceleration means for slowing down the loading speed of the paper sheets taken in the stacking unit. .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a paper sheet stacking device for picking up and stacking paper sheets one by one in a stacking unit, wherein a contact resistance is given to the paper sheets taken in the stacking unit. It is characterized in that it is provided with a decelerating means for decelerating the feeding speed of the paper sheets.

The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that the speed reducing means is constituted by one conveying guide surface arranged in the paper sheet intake passage and pressing means facing the conveying guide surface. To do.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an impeller for pressure-transferring the paper sheets decelerated by the deceleration means in the stacking direction.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the speed reducing means is arranged between both conveying members in the conveying width direction which are arranged in the paper sheet intake passage.

The invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the speed reducing means is disposed in the vicinity of the paper sheet intake passage.

The invention according to claim 7 is characterized in that a transaction processing device provided with a paper sheet stacking device performs transaction processing.

[0013]

According to the present invention, when the paper sheets are carried into the stacking unit one by one and stacked, the speed of the carry-in speed of the paper sheets carried into the stacking unit is reduced by the decelerating means before the stacking.

Similarly, when the sheets are stacked one by one in the stacking unit, the speed reducing means imparts a contact resistance to the sheets to be carried into the stacking unit to reduce the speed at which the sheets are carried in and stack them. .

Further, when decelerating the loading speed of the paper sheets carried into the stacking unit, one conveying guide surface provided in the paper sheet take-in passage and a pressing means for applying a pressure in opposition thereto. The speed is reduced by the speed reduction means configured in.

Further, with respect to the paper sheets decelerated by the deceleration means, the paper sheets are pressure-transferred by the impeller in the stacking direction and are forcibly stacked.

Further, a deceleration means is provided between both conveying members in the conveying width direction, which are arranged in the paper sheet intake passage, to decelerate at the central portion in the conveying width direction.

Further, the deceleration means is arranged in the vicinity of the paper sheet take-in passage to decelerate when taking in the paper sheets.

Such a paper sheet stacking device is internally configured in a transaction processing device to process transactions.

[0020]

As a result, since the paper sheets taken into the stacking unit are decelerated and carried in gently, the stacking operation can be carried out at a carrying-in speed suitable for stacking in this carrying-in process. Therefore, it does not depend on the restraint at the leading edge of the paper,
In the stacking unit, the stopping operation can be omitted and the stacking operation can be started immediately.

If an impeller that pushes the paper sheets in the stacking direction and pressurizes and transports them is installed, the forced stacking action of this impeller causes the paper sheets to be quickly and forcibly collected in the stacking direction. Be sure to avoid collision with the next paper sheet.

Further, even if the paper sheets are taken in at a high speed as the paper sheets are processed at a high speed, the paper sheet is gently moved in the stacking section and is moved by the impeller before the front ends of the paper sheets come into contact with the inner wall surface. The loading direction is switched to the stacking direction for stacking. Also,
Even when carrying in short-sized paper sheets or paper sheets with weak stiffness, be sure to receive the stacking action of the impellers while moving slowly through the paper sheet intake passage to perform stable stacking operation. You can

Further, when the speed reducing means at the intermediate portion in the width direction is arranged between the two conveying members in the width direction, the skew correcting function by contact resistance is added at the same time as the speed reducing function of the speed reducing means. Therefore, even if the skew paper sheets are guided, the skew can be corrected and taken in while decelerating, and can be aligned and accumulated in the accumulating portion.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a banknote processing device 11 that is internally configured in a banknote depositing / dispensing machine. This banknote processing device 11 is provided with a depositing port 12 and a dispensing port 13 that also serves as a return port on the upper front surface (upper left in the figure). Inward that communicates with the deposit / withdrawal ports 12 and 13,
An identification unit 14 for identifying deposit / withdrawal banknotes, a temporary storage unit 15 for temporarily storing the banknote A for returning / capturing, first to fourth cassettes C1 to C4 for storing the banknotes A by denomination, and an identification failure. A reject cassette C5 for collecting the judged banknotes, unfit banknotes, forget-to-collect banknotes, and the like is built in, and these are connected in a recycle type by loop-shaped transfer lines L1 and L2.

The above-mentioned identification section 14 is used for the upper transfer line L1.
And the lower conveyance line L2 are arranged on a common line, and the outer shape of the bill passing therethrough, the denomination determining element, and the authenticity determining element are captured and identified.

Further, in this case, the upper side of the banknote handling device 11 is provided in the banknote transporting process group 16 and the lower side thereof is provided in the banknote storing process group 17 so that the upper and lower sides of the banknote handling device 11 are a transport system and a storage system. It is composed of and.

The transfer processing group 16 on the upper side includes a deposit port 12,
Up and down of an upper transport line L1 connecting the dispensing port 13, the identifying unit 14, and the temporary holding unit 15 in a loop, and a lower transport line L2 connecting the identifying unit 14 and the cassettes C1 to C5 in a loop. Of the upper and lower transfer lines L1 and L2 and the cassettes C1 to C5 below each of them, the passage detection sensor S for detecting and confirming the passage of the banknote A. A large number of ... Are arranged to detect and confirm the transport processing state.

The storage processing group 17 on the lower side includes first to fourth cassettes for storing 1,000-yen bills, 5,000-yen bills, 10,000-yen bills, spare bills and mixed bills from the front side to the rear side of the banknote handling apparatus 11. C
1 to C4 and reject cassette C5 are arranged,
Banknotes are taken in and out of these cassettes to allow deposit and withdrawal transactions.

The banknote handling apparatus 11 thus configured
Holds the banknote A, which has been inserted into the deposit port 12 during the deposit transaction, in the temporary deposit section 15 through the deposit path for carrying the transfer process in the order of deposit port 12 → identification unit 14 → temporary reserve unit 15 to confirm the deposit. Then, the banknotes are fed out from the temporary holding unit 15 and transferred in the order of the temporary holding unit 15 → identification unit 14 → cassettes C1 to C5.
Sort and store in C5.

When the deposit is canceled, the temporary holding section 15
The banknotes that have been reserved are fed out and are returned to the withdrawal port 13 which also serves as a deposit return port through a return transport line L3 which is branched and connected to the upper transport line L1. At the time of withdrawal, the banknotes fed from the respective cassettes C1 to C4 corresponding to the denomination are held in the temporary holding section 15 via the lower transfer line L2 and the upper transfer line L1, and the shutter is opened after the payment transaction is confirmed. Then, it is allowed to be taken out from the dispensing port 13 above it.

FIG. 2 shows a cassette banknote stacking device 21. The banknote stacking device 21 includes first to fourth cassettes C1 to C1.
This is applied to C4 and will be described below by taking the first cassette C1 as an example.

The banknote stacking device 21 includes a stacking case 22 for stacking and stacking the banknotes A ... One by one in the vertical direction, and a banknote take-in mechanism provided opposite to a carry-in port 23 opened at one side of the upper part of the stacking case 22. 24, a banknote feeding roller 25 for carrying out, which is disposed in the center of the upper portion of the stacking case 22, and a banknote A.
And an elevating device 27 that moves the stacking plate 26 up and down according to the operation of moving in and out.

The above-mentioned bill take-in mechanism 24 has a carry-in port 23.
A stacking roller 28 and a facing roller 29, which are opposed to each other in an overlapped manner at upper and lower positions sandwiching the same, and a coaxial 3 of the facing roller 29.
0 is provided with an impeller 31 and a sliding contact plate 32 for planar contact interposed between a carry-in port 23 for planarly transporting the banknotes A one by one, and the banknotes A introduced here Collecting roller 2
8 and the opposing roller 29 are sandwiched in an overlapped manner to take in one by one, and when the bill A is taken in, the impeller 3
At 1, the sheets are forcibly knocked off one by one and quickly lowered downward to be stacked one by one on the stacking plate 26.

The sliding contact plate 32 is formed of an elastic thin plate using a spring material, and the base end portion of this plate is attached and fixed to an outer frame 33 protruding near the carry-in port 23, and the free end side is carried in the carry-in port. The sliding contact plate 32 is disposed in a flat state with the tip end facing the internal space 34 of the accumulating case 22 via the outside of 23.
By the pressing action of the spring, the upper surface guide plate 35 disposed on the upper surface side of the carry-in port 23 is lightly biased and brought into contact with the upper surface guide plate 35.

By thus interposing the sliding contact plate 32 at the carry-in port 23, it has a role of giving contact resistance to the banknote A passing through the carry-in port 23 to reduce the carry-in speed of the banknote. In the process of loading into 22, the loading speed is reduced to a level suitable for stacking. Further, even when the bills are taken in in the high-speed transport state, the bills are gently moved when they are carried into the internal space 34 of the stacking case 22, and the impeller 31 is forcibly pushed in during that period. Because,
Even for short banknotes, foldable banknotes, and weak banknotes, the banknotes loaded in the horizontal direction immediately move downward and are quickly accumulated, and reliability that avoids collision with the next banknotes to be loaded. It is possible to obtain a highly stable and stable integration operation.

Further, in this case, the contact resistance value of the sliding contact plate 32 is set so that the bills to be carried in are decelerated to a carrying-in speed suitable for stacking. For example, it is determined by the degree of unevenness of the contact surface, the contact area, the contact pressure, and the like.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the sliding contact plate 32 is locally provided with a tapering small width piece at the center portion in the conveyance width direction by urging the upper surface guide plate 35 at the center portion from the lower side in a biased manner. A contact resistance is given to the bill passing therethrough by applying pressure, and a pair of an overlapping type accumulation roller 28 and a facing roller 29 is arranged on both left and right sides of the sliding contact plate 32 in the conveyance width direction. Then, the banknote A is carried and supported at three action points in the width direction where the paper money A is nipped and carried.

In this case, in particular, when the sliding contact plate 32 is arranged at the central portion in the conveying width direction, in combination with the sandwiching and conveying portions on both sides, at the same time as the decelerating function of the sliding contact plate 32, the skew correction function is provided. can get. This is the skew banknote A as shown in FIG.
When 1 is carried in, the central part of the skew banknote A1 makes local contact with the sliding contact plate 32 having a high contact resistance, and the carrying-in resistance at the central part in the width direction of conveyance increases. Based on this, the skew banknote A
1 is taken in while rotating in the correction direction in the carrying-in process, and the skew correction function for correcting and taking in the skew bill A1 can be efficiently obtained simultaneously with the deceleration function.

The banknote stacking device 21 configured as described above will be described with reference to the banknote stacking processing operation shown in FIGS.
At the time of banknote stacking, the banknote A is placed in the carry-in port 23 of the stacking case 22.
When the banknote A is guided, as shown in FIG. 5, the banknote A guided by the stacking roller 28 and the facing roller 29 is sandwiched and conveyed in an overlapped manner, and the upper guide plate 3 is guided.
5 is taken in from the side in a substantially horizontal posture while receiving the contact resistance imparting action between the slide contact plate 32 and the slide contact plate 32, and at the time of this carry-in, the bill A is subjected to the contact resistance by the slide contact plate 32 and the carry-in speed is reduced. Carry in gently with the engine stalled.

At this time, if the bills to be carried in are skewed, the skew correction action with the sliding contact plate 32 at the central position in the transport width direction as a base point works to carry in the bills while correcting the skew bills A1. Aligned accumulation is obtained.

When the rear end of the banknote A passes through the sandwiching position between the stacking roller 28 and the counter roller 29 as shown in FIG. 6 in the gentle loading process, the banknote A is free in the internal space 34. Then, the bill rear end is subjected to the continuous knocking action of the impeller 31, and as shown in FIG.
It is transferred to the lower stacking position and forcedly stacked. As a result, the banknotes A that have been carried in are quickly stacked in the stacking direction, and a collision with the next carried-in banknote is reliably avoided.

At this time, even if there are differences in length, bent shape, and paper quality such as short banknote A2, banknote A3 with a tendency to bend, and weak banknote A4, the various banknotes A2 to A4 introduced here are Since the pressure transfer force of the impeller 31 can be surely received, the obstacle at the time of stacking due to high-speed carry-in of banknotes can be reliably solved. Therefore, it can be applied even in the case of mixing and stacking banknotes such as foreign banknotes having large sizes depending on denominations.

FIG. 8 shows a bill stacking device 81 according to another embodiment of the present invention. This bill stacking device 81 uses a brake lever 82 instead of a sliding contact plate, which has a carry-in port 83. The opposing roller shaft 86 is located at the sandwiching position between the stacking roller 84 and the opposing roller 85, which are placed opposite to each other in the sandwiching position.
A brake lever 82 whose rotation fulcrum is a fulcrum is attached, and the lever base end portion is urged and supported by a coil spring 88 so that the lever tip end urges and opposes the upper surface guide plate 87 in the carry-in port 83. As described above, even if the brake lever 82 is used instead of the sliding contact plate, a similar contact resistance can be imparted to the carried-in bill, and a deceleration action and a skew correction action can be obtained.

As described above, since the bills taken in the stacking case are decelerated and are carried in gently, it is possible to carry out the stacking operation at a carrying-in speed suitable for stacking in this carrying-in process. Therefore, it is not dependent on the restraint at the front end of the bill when being carried in, and the restraining operation can be omitted in the collecting case, and the stacking operation can be immediately started. In addition, by incorporating an impeller that pushes the banknotes in the stacking direction and pressure-transfers them, the forced stacking action of this impeller effectively works and the banknotes that have been carried in can be forcibly stacked quickly in the stacking direction. It is possible to reliably avoid a collision with. In particular, even if the bills are taken in at high speed as they are processed at high speed, the bills are gently loaded and moved in the stacking case to reliably receive the pressure transfer action of the impeller, and are moved from the horizontal loading direction to the downward stacking direction. The conversion is performed immediately and the accumulation is forcibly guided. Therefore, the banknotes are stacked without curving, and even short banknotes or weak banknotes can be reliably stacked by receiving the stacking action of the impeller.

Further, when the sliding contact plate is arranged at the central portion in the conveying width direction, even if the skew bill is carried in due to the deceleration function of the sliding contact plate and the skew correction function, the skew bill is corrected. Can be imported.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the paper sheet stacking device of the present invention corresponds to the banknote stacking devices 21 and 81 of the embodiment. Corresponding to a banknote depositing machine with a built-in banknote processing device 11, paper sheets are banknote A, skew banknote A1, short banknote A2.
Corresponding to the foldable bill A3 and the weak banknote A4, and the stacking unit is the stacking case 2 of each of the first to fourth cassettes C1 to C4.
2, the speed reducing means and the pressing means are the sliding contact plates 32.
And the brake lever 82, the paper sheet intake passage corresponds to the carry-in ports 23 and 83, the one conveying guide surface corresponds to the upper guide plates 35 and 87, and the conveying member is the paper money taking-in portion. Although corresponding to the collecting rollers 28 and 84 and the facing rollers 29 and 85 of the mechanism 24, 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 processing device internally configured in a banknote depositing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of a main part of the banknote stacking device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a main part of the banknote stacking device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a main part of the banknote stacking device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing an initial loading state of banknotes in the banknote stacking device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state in which the banknote stacking device of the present invention is taken in immediately after the banknote is loaded.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a stacking operation state of various banknotes in the banknote stacking apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a side view showing a banknote stacking device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing a proper stacking state of the conventional banknote stacking apparatus.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a state in which the banknotes carried in by the conventional banknote stacking apparatus are bent.

FIG. 11 is a side view showing a state where an edge-sized banknote is loaded into the conventional banknote stacking apparatus.

FIG. 12 is a side view showing a stacking state of weak banknotes and skew banknotes of a conventional banknote stacking apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 ... Banknote processing device A ... Paper C1 to C4 ... Cassette 21, 81 ... Banknote stacking device 22 ... Stacking case 23, 83 ... Carry-in port 24 ... Banknote taking-in mechanism 28, 84 ... Stacking roller 29, 85 ... Opposing roller 31 ... Impeller 32 ... Sliding contact plates 35, 87 ... Top guide plate A1 ... Skew bill A2 ... Short bill A3 ... Folding bill A4 ... Weak bill 82 ... Brake lever

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A paper sheet stacking device for picking up and stacking paper sheets one by one in a stacking unit, comprising deceleration means for reducing the carry-in speed of the paper sheets taken in the stacking unit. Paper sheet stacking device. 2. A paper sheet stacking device for collecting and stacking paper sheets one by one in a stacking unit, wherein a contact resistance is given to the paper sheets collected in the stacking unit to carry in the paper sheets. A paper sheet stacking apparatus having a speed reducing means for reducing the speed. 3. The paper sheet according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the deceleration means is composed of one conveyance guide surface arranged in the paper sheet intake passage and a pressurizing means facing the paper guide surface. Type accumulation device. 4. The paper sheet stacking apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an impeller for pressure-transferring the paper sheets decelerated by the deceleration means in the stacking direction. 5. The paper sheet stacking device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the deceleration means is arranged between both conveying members in the conveying width direction arranged in the paper sheet intake passage. 6. The paper sheet stacking device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the deceleration means is disposed in the vicinity of the paper sheet intake passage. 7. A transaction processing device comprising the paper sheet stacking device according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.