JPH09330471A - Money handling machine having device for discriminating temporarily received amount of money - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To get rid of making mistakes in inputting temporarily received money, to accelerate money giving and receiving service and to save labor for the service by automatically counting the amt. of money which is paid by a customer and holding the paid money in a non taking-in state until changes are completed. SOLUTION: When plural sheets of paper money which are temporarily received from a customer are inserted into a paper money inserting part 31 and coins which are temporarily received are simultaneously thrown into a coin throw in part, the inserted plural sheets of paper money are separately divided into one piece in a paper money dividing part 32, discriminated in denominations in a paper money discriminating part 33 and then successively piled up in a paper money temporary keeping part 34. Also, the thrown in coins are separately divided into one piece in a coin dividing part, discriminated in denominations and then piled up in a coin temporary keeping part 44. Thus, by just inserting or throwing in the temporarily received money, the money is automatically counted. Therefore, a cashier (clerk) himself does not have to enumerate money and gets rid of making mistakes in counting money. Thereby, money give and receive services can be accelerated and saved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an attached money handling machine such as a cash register, an automatic change dispenser, etc., at a checkout counter of a store, a counter of a financial institution, etc. The present invention relates to an amount identifying device for temporarily depositing money, which is capable of automatically accounting for an amount of money and keeping the delivered money as it is until the change payment is completed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, supermarkets, convenience stores, etc. have installed POS (point-of-sale information management) registers at accounting points, but aim to speed up and rationalize the delivery of money to and from customers. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 12, an automatic change dispenser 2 has come to be installed in the POS register 1. At the accounting place where this change dispenser 2 is installed, money is exchanged according to the following procedure.

First, a cashier (clerk) inputs the amount of goods purchased by the customer into the POS register 1 by a bar code reader or the like and registers all the amounts, and the total amount is displayed on the displays 1a and 1b.

Next, when the cashier reads out the total amount and tells the customer, the customer pays cash (delivery currency).
To the tray 1c.

Next, the cashier picks up the money to be delivered on the tray 1c, counts the amount of money by enumeration, and informs the customer of the amount of temporary deposit. At this time, in order to avoid a trouble of checking the amount of money, the temporary deposit money is left as it is until the change payment is completed at a position where the customer can easily visually recognize it.

Then, when the cashier inputs the temporary deposit amount into the register 1, the temporary deposit amount and the change amount are displayed on the display devices 1a and 1b, and the change bill is dispensed by the circulation type deposit / withdrawal machine 2A. The coin dispense port 2B of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B is provided with the coin 2Aa.
It is automatically discharged to each a.

The cashier presents these change coins on the tray 1c. After confirming that the customer has received change coins, the banknotes of the temporary deposit money that have been held are inserted into the banknote deposit port 2Ab of the circulation type banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2A,
Further, the coins of the temporary deposit money are inserted into the coin deposit port 2Bb of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B, and the automatic depositing process of the temporary deposit money is performed.

As described above, by using the automatic change dispenser 2 including the circulation type banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2A and the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B, it is possible to prevent mistakes in change accounts and mistakes in delivering changes in register operations. It is possible to improve work efficiency by speeding up accounting.

[0009]

However, in the above-mentioned procedure for exchanging money at the accounting place, although mistakes in delivery of change can be eliminated, there are still the following artificial problems.

(1) In the step, the cashier sometimes makes a mistake in the amount of money (temporary deposit money) paid by the customer. At that time, if the customer overlooks the mistake, the mistaken amount is directly stored in the register 1. It will be entered. The mistake can be found by identifying the amount when depositing the deposit amount, but the deposit currency has already been stored and cannot be easily recovered, and the customer often leaves the accounting area. Therefore, no improvement measures can be taken.

Further, even if the cashier forgets to get the money to be paid by the customer, an input error will occur. Furthermore,
Even if the temporary deposit money account is correct, an input error actually occurs due to an operation error or the like. If the cashier is unskilled, the frequency of input errors is high.

(2) In giving and receiving money, it is necessary to leave the money to be paid by the customer as temporary deposit money in front of the customer until the change is paid in view of mutual trust. Therefore, the deposit ports 2Ab and 2Bb of the automatic change dispenser 2
It is not possible to directly input the money to be delivered, mechanically count the amount of money, and process the goods as they are.

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to automatically count the amount of money to be paid by a customer and hold the money in the non-loaded state until the change payment is completed. An object of the present invention is to provide a money handling machine equipped with a temporary deposit money amount identification device capable of eliminating input errors in the amount of temporary deposit money and achieving speedy and labor-saving of money transfer work.

[0014]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the basic structure of the present invention is a banknote insertion section capable of receiving inserted banknotes of a plurality of denominations in a stacking state, and stacking in the banknote insertion section. A banknote separation unit that separates and delivers the banknotes one by one, a banknote identification unit that identifies the denomination of the separated banknotes, and a banknote temporary storage unit that stacks the identified banknotes in order and withdraws them to the outside of the machine casing freely. And a coin input unit capable of receiving input coins of a plurality of denominations, a coin separating unit that separates and feeds out one coin in the coin input unit, and a coin identifying unit that identifies the denominations of the separated coins. And a coin temporary holding unit for holding the identified coins so that they can be taken out of the machine casing freely.

When the banknotes of the temporarily stored money are inserted into the banknote insertion section and the coins of the temporarily stored money are inserted into the coin insertion section, the inserted banknotes are separated one by one by the banknote separating section and the banknote identifying section. After the denomination is identified by, the bills are sequentially stacked at the bill temporary holding unit. In addition, the inserted coins are separated one by one by the coin separating unit, the denomination is identified by the coin identifying unit, and then deposited in the coin temporary holding unit.

As described above, since the amount of the temporary deposit money is automatically calculated only by the operation of inserting or depositing the temporary deposit money, the cashier does not have to enumerate.
It is possible to eliminate mistakes in monetary accounting. Further, if the temporary deposit money is not inserted or thrown in, the money transfer procedure does not proceed any more, so that forgetting to receive the temporary deposit money can be prevented. Furthermore, since the customer himself can insert or insert money, it is possible to suppress fraudulent acts such as withdrawal of deposited money by the cashier.

If the temporary deposit amount is in doubt, the temporary deposit amount can be freely taken out from the banknote temporary holding unit and the coin temporary holding unit at any time, and mutual confirmation of the temporary deposit amount can be performed. In other words, since there is a temporary holding unit that can be taken out freely, there is a sense of security that the temporary deposit money is not taken inside, and therefore, the unmanned amount identification method for the temporary deposit money can be introduced. Since the temporary deposit amount (payment amount) is speeded up by mechanization, the customer can pay a large number of fractional coins and small coins without hesitation, which is useful for organizing small coins.

In contrast to the above basic structure, the second banknote separating section for separating and feeding out the stacked banknotes in the banknote temporary holding section one by one and the coins in the coin temporary holding section are collectively conveyed. And a coin transporting unit, and the bill discharging port of the second bill separating unit and the coin discharging port of the coin transporting unit are connected to a depositing and transporting path inside the change dispenser. It is possible to automatically perform the warehousing process for storing coins in the department, and prevent human error.

In the structure in which the coin temporary holding unit has the bottom opening gate for feeding the coins to the coin transporting unit, a large number of coins temporarily stored can be discharged all at once, so that the coin storing process is speeded up. To do.

When the banknote viewing window is provided so that the whereabouts of the banknotes from the banknote insertion section to the banknote temporary storage section can be visually recognized from the outside of the machine casing, the banknote insertion section to the banknote temporary storage section are provided. When the bill transport path length is shorter than the bill length in the feeding direction, and when the coin has a coin viewing window from the outside of the machine casing where the coins from the coin insertion portion to the coin temporary holding portion are visible. Since the customer can visually check the whereabouts of the money inserted or inserted into the bill insertion section or the coin insertion section to the temporary holding section, it is possible to easily confirm that there is no money left in the device, so temporary storage in the temporary holding section It is difficult to raise doubts about the amount.

If the bill feeding path is made as short as possible instead of providing the bill viewing window, either the leading edge or the trailing edge can always be visually recognized without hiding the entire area of the inserted bill, and the same effect can be exhibited.

Further, in the construction in which the bill insertion portion has the bill presence / absence detection sensor and the posture detection sensor, the bill separating operation is performed only when the bill is inserted into the bill insertion portion in the proper posture. Therefore, the separating operation can be performed without any trouble.

Further, when the bill inserting section and the coin inserting section are adjacent to each other on the upper surface of the machine casing and both have a coin dropping structure, it becomes easy for a customer or a cashier to insert or insert money. Of course, the state of processing can be confirmed by looking into the coins inserted or thrown into the opening from above.

Further, in the structure in which the foreign matter discharge passage is communicated with the bottom of the bill insertion portion, even if a foreign matter such as a coin or a small stone is mistakenly inserted into the bill insertion portion, the foreign matter is discharged into the foreign matter discharge passage. Since it is discharged to the outside of the bill insertion portion via the, it is possible to avoid obstacles in the bill separating operation and contribute to the reduction of the failure rate of the device.

In particular, the bill insertion portion in the present invention is elastically swung in the same direction around the opening having an opposite edge corresponding to the long side of the bill opened on the upper surface of the machine casing and the lower end portion of the opposite edge. The urged first and second elastic flaps, the middle-height bottom portion that receives the substantially center of the long side edge of the inserted bill, the end receiving portion that receives both ends of the long side edge of the inserted bill, and the first In the configuration including the first stopper that prevents the elastic flap from rotating and the second stopper that prevents the second elastic flap from rotating, the accumulated banknotes can be dropped vertically, and the first or second banknote can be dropped. By pressing the elastic flaps in the opposite direction against the elastic biasing force, the banknotes in the vertically stacked state can be moved in parallel and can be transferred to the banknote separating process.

For example, the banknote separating section is located on the banknote descending conveyance path having a banknote inlet at a position displaced from the middle-height bottom section and the end section receiving section, and on the second elastic flap side. After pressing the second elastic flap toward the first elastic flap to rotate it, a kick roller with a cam surface that comes into frictional contact with one side of the inserted bill and kicks it below the attachment surface, and the tip of the kicked bill In the configuration including the feed roller and the blocking roller that receive the edge in the press contact winding area and send the bills one by one along the bill lowering conveyance path, and the pull-in roller that pulls the bills fed one by one downward. , The cam surface kick roller has the function of pushing the second elastic flap to move the vertically stacked banknotes in parallel, and the function of kicking out the banknotes. It is realized.

[0027]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Embodiment 1] FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a state in which an amount identifying apparatus for temporary deposit money according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention attached to a POS register and an automatic change dispenser is provided. 2 (a) is an external perspective view of the same time deposit money amount identifying device as seen from the left front side, and FIG. 2 (b) is an external perspective view of the same time deposit currency amount identifying device as seen from the right front side, FIG. FIG. 4 is a vertical front view of the same-time deposit money amount identifying apparatus, FIG. 4 is a vertical left side view of the same-time deposit currency amount identifying apparatus, and FIG. 5 is a vertical right side view of the same-time deposit currency amount identifying apparatus. In FIG. 1, the same parts as those shown in FIG. 12 are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 1, a circulation type banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 2
A POS (point-of-sale information management system) register 1 is mounted on the automatic change dispenser 2 composed of A and the circulating coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B. Then, a small-sized temporary deposit currency identification device 100 is placed on the customer passage side of the POS register 1, that is, on the top surface of the circulation type banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2A.

Amount identifying device 10 for temporary deposit money of this example
Reference numeral 0 denotes a multifunction machine in which a temporary deposit banknote identification device and a temporary deposit coin identification device are integrated. As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the temporary deposit banknote identification device includes a banknote insertion unit 31 that receives inserted banknotes of a plurality of denominations in a stacking state, and a stack of vertical banknotes in the banknote insertion unit 31 one by one. A first banknote separating unit 32 that separates and pays out, a banknote identifying unit 33 that identifies the denomination of the separated banknotes, and a banknote temporary hold that stacks the identified banknotes in order and withdraws them outside the machine casing freely. Part 3
4 and a second banknote separating section 35 for separating and feeding out the stacked banknotes in the banknote temporary holding section 34 one by one.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 10, the temporary deposit coin discriminating apparatus 100 has a coin insertion portion 41 for receiving insertion coins of a plurality of denominations, and one coin in the coin insertion portion 41.
A first coin separating unit 42 that separates and pays out one by one, a coin identifying unit 43 that identifies the denomination of the separated coins, and a coin temporary holding unit 44 that holds the identified coins so that they can be taken out of the machine casing. And a coin transport unit 45 that collectively transports the coins in the coin temporary storage unit 44.

As shown in FIG. 2, a drop-in type bill insertion slot 31 corresponding to the long side insertion slot opened on the upper surface 12 of the machine casing.
a and a cup mouth-shaped coin slot 41a. A banknote viewing window 13a having a vertical stripe shape is provided on the side surface 13 of the temporary deposit money amount identification device 100 facing the customer passage side so that the customer can easily follow the banknotes inserted in the banknote insertion slot 31a. Has been. A saucer-shaped coin temporary holding portion 44 is provided at an intermediate step portion at a position lower than the coin insertion opening 41a. At the edge of the coin slot 41a,
The coins put into the coin slot 41a are temporarily stored in the coin holding section 4
A coin viewing window 12a is provided so that the appearance of the coin up to the exit 43b can be visually confirmed. Coin holding section 4
A detachable cover 15 that covers the banknote temporary holding section 34 is provided in the step portion that is lower than 4. Then, the coin transporting unit 44 is provided at a lower position of the coin temporary holding unit 44 on the side surface 14 facing the cashier side of the temporarily deposited money amount identifying apparatus 100.
Coin guide 45a is provided, and the coin drop port thereof faces the coin deposit port 2Bb of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B from directly above.

The banknote insertion part 31 is a mouthpiece part 31ba, 31bb which protrudes upward from the upper surface 12 of the machine casing and opens in a divergent shape.
(31b) and the first part that is elastically biased in the same direction about the lower ends of the base parts 31ba and 31bb facing each other.
And the second elastic flaps 31ca and 31cb, and the middle-height bottom plate 31d for receiving substantially the center of the long side edge of the inserted bill 5
And the end bottom plate 3 that receives both ends of the long side edge of the inserted bill 5
1e and. For example, the base ends of the first and second elastic flaps 31ca, 31cb are the base parts 31ba, 31c.
The lower end of bb may be connected with a hinge having a torsion spring, and the first and second elastic flaps 31ca and 31ca may be connected.
The cb itself may be composed of a leaf spring.

The first elastic flap 31ca is shown in FIG.
As shown in (b), it is substantially urged in the counterclockwise direction by the spring 31g, but in the counterclockwise turning region, the tip (lower end) of the first elastic flap 31ca is the middle-high bottom plate 31d.
It is regulated by being accepted by. The counterclockwise turning region of the second elastic flap 31cb is regulated by being received by the kick roller 32c of the first bill separating unit 32. The foreign matter discharge path 3 that communicates with the outside of the device between the middle-high bottom plate 31d and the left and right end bottom plates 31e.
It is defined as 1f.

As shown in FIG. 8, three optical sensors S _{1 to} S ₃ are arranged in the base portion 31ba having a long projecting width. The optical sensor S ₁ arranged at a diagonal intersection (center point) of the mouthpiece portion 31ba is a bill presence / absence detection sensor for detecting the presence / absence of a bill inserted in the bill insertion portion.
S ₂ and S ₂ arranged on both sides of the opening edge of ba are attitude detection sensors for detecting whether the attitude of the inserted bill is an inclined posture or a proper bill.

The first bill separating section 32 includes bottom plates 31d, 3
Banknote lowering conveyance path 32b having a banknote inlet 32a beside 1e
And the second elastic flap 31c below the bill insertion portion 31
A half-moon shape located on the b side, which presses the second elastic flap 31cb to rotate clockwise and then frictionally contacts one side of the accumulated banknotes 5 in the banknote insertion part 31 and kicks downward on the creeping surface. A kick roller 32c, a feed roller 32d and a blocking roller 32e, which are kicked out to receive the leading edge of the banknote in the press contact winding area and prevent the double feeding, and send out the banknotes one by one along the banknote lowering conveyance path 32b. Pull-in rollers 32f, 3 for pulling down the bills fed one by one downward
2g and. A high friction coefficient material F is provided on the arcuate circumferential surface of the half-moon kick roller 32c. Further, the high friction coefficient material F is also provided on a part of the circular arc peripheral surface of the feed roller 32d.

The bill discriminating section 33 has a bill lowering and conveying path 32b.
It has a banknote identification unit 33a for identifying the denomination of the banknotes conveyed one by one along, and drawing rollers 33b, 33c for drawing the banknotes downward from the identification section 33a.

The banknote temporary holding section 34 has a banknote receiving plate 34a raised from the bottom of the machine casing, and a banknote in which the lower end portion of the banknote descending and conveying path 32b is curved and inclined so that the banknotes descend toward the banknote receiving plate 34a. Discharge path 34b and bill discharge path 3
A bill feeding roller 34c for discharging the bill 4b toward the bill receiving plate 34a, and a striking blade having elastic blades around it so as not to disturb the discharge of the next bill by quickly knocking off the previously discharged bill. It has a car 34d.

The bill lowering and conveying path 32b and the bill discharging path 34
b has an overlapping structure in which two plate members are secured with a passage gap, but as shown in FIG. 5, the bills are aligned with the bill inspection window 13a so that the central portion of the long side of the conveyed bill 5 can always be visually recognized. Portions are opened as peep gaps 32bb and 34bb.

The second bill separating section 35 has a bill discharging path 34.
The stacked bills are fed one by one in the direction perpendicular to the bill discharge direction by b. This second bill separating unit 3
Reference numeral 5 denotes a swing-type load applying mechanism 35a that applies a load to the banknote deposits during the separating operation, and a roller peripheral surface rubs against the bottom surface of the banknote deposits through a banknote surface exposure hole (not shown) opened in the banknote receiving plate 34a. A kick roller 35b that comes into contact with and kicks the bills in the creeping direction, and a leading edge of the bills that is kicked out and receives the leading edge of the bill in a pressure contact winding area to prevent double feed and feed the bills one by one along the bill lead-out path 35c. It has a feed roller 35d and a blocking roller 35e, pull-in rollers 35f and 35g for drawing in the bills fed out one by one, and feed-out rollers 35i and 35j for redirecting the bills to the bill lowering path 35h and discharging them downward from the machine. are doing. Note that the bill descending path 35
h is connected to the bill depositing path of the circulation type bill depositing / dispensing machine 2A.

The turning type load applying mechanism 34a includes a shaft 35aa.
Swingable arm 35ab that can be swung forward and backward around, a bill pressing member 35ad that can swivel forward and backward around an axis 35ac provided at the tip of the swing arm 35ab, bill pressing member 35ad and swing arm A coil spring 35a, both ends of which are fastened to 35ab, biases the bill pressing member 35ad around the shaft 35ac in the counterclockwise direction in FIG.
e and.

Coin insertion portion 41 of the temporary deposit coin identification device
Is a cup-shaped container in an inclined posture as shown in FIG. A rotary disk 42b that is rotated by a drive motor 42a is provided on the bottom surface of the coin insertion portion 41, and the loose coins that have been inserted are crushed to lay down and send coins one by one to the coin ejection path 43a. . A coin discriminating section 43 for discriminating the denomination of passing coins is provided in the coin ejection passage 43a, and the discriminated coins slide down from the coin ejection port 43b to the coin temporary holding section 44. The coin temporary holding unit 44 has a bottom-down gate (discharge gate) 44a so that the temporarily held coin group can be dropped. The coin group dropped from the coin temporary holding unit 44 is dropped by the coin guide 45a of the coin transport unit 44 to the coin deposit port 2Bb of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B.

At the accounting place where the automatic change dispenser 2 to which the temporary deposit money amount identifying apparatus 100 having the above-mentioned structure is attached is installed, money is exchanged in the following procedure.

As before, the cashier (clerk) inputs the product price purchased by the customer into the POS register 1 by a bar code reader or the like and registers all of them, and the total price is displayed on the displays 1a, 1b.

As before, the cashier reads out the total amount and tells the customer that the customer has cash (delivery currency).
To the tray 1c.

Next, the cashier picks up the delivery currency on the tray 1c, inserts the deposited banknotes into the banknote insertion slot 31a of the temporary deposit money amount identification device 100 from above, and deposits the coins. Input port 41
to a. It should be noted that the customer himself / herself can insert and deposit the dispensed money into the money amount identifying apparatus 100 by appropriate instructions and customizing. Since the amount of money delivered by the customer can be mechanically identified without the cashier's own contact, there is little room for fraudulent acts such as withdrawal of money temporarily stored by the cashier.

By inserting and inserting the coins, the deposited banknotes are accumulated in the banknote temporary holding section 34 after mechanical identification and the deposited coins are mechanically identified after the coin temporary storage section 44 in a manner described later. Be deposited on. Then, the temporary deposit amount and the change amount are automatically displayed on the display devices 1a and 1b.

In this temporary deposit money counting step,
Compared to the past, it is possible to eliminate forgetting to deliver temporary deposit money and making mistakes in the amount of temporary deposit money.

After the cashier has obtained mutual confirmation of the temporary deposit amount and the change amount from the customer, the change bill is inserted into the bill dispensing port Aa of the circulation type banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2A, and the change coin is disposed in the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B. Are discharged to the coin dispensing ports 2Ba.

In this step, the mistake of inputting the temporary deposit amount is eliminated as compared with the conventional case.

The cashier presents these change coins on the tray 1c. After confirming that the customer has received the change coin, the deposit banknotes accumulated in the banknote temporary holding section 34 are taken into the circulation type banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2A and the coin temporary holding section 44 in a manner described later. The deposited coins therein are dropped into the coin dispensing port 2Ba of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B. As a result, the temporarily held money is automatically stored.

The operation of the above-mentioned temporary deposit money amount identifying apparatus 100 will be described below.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, when a plurality of banknotes 5 are inserted into the banknote insertion slot 31a from above, the banknote presence / absence detection sensor S ₁ detects them. In the inclined posture of the inserted bill 5 shown in FIG. 8B, the bill presence / absence detection sensor S ₁ and the posture detection sensor S ₂ are blocked, but the other posture detection sensor S ₃ is not blocked by the bill. , Is detected as an inappropriate posture. As shown in FIG. 8A, when the inserted banknote 5 is in the proper posture (alignment), all the sensors S _{1 to} S _{1
Since 3} is shielded from light, it is detected as a proper posture and the bill 5
To the separation stage. Since the bill separating operation is performed only when the bill is inserted into the bill inserting portion 31 in the proper posture, the separating operation can be performed without any trouble.

At the stage of taking in and separating the banknote 5, FIG.
, The kick roller 32c begins to rotate in the direction of the arrow, and the cam surface of the arc missing portion becomes the second cam follower.
In order to push the elastic flap 31cb of the banknote 5 to the left against the spring biasing force, the lower end of the banknote 5 is brought closer to the first elastic flap 31ca on the bottom plate 31d, and when the kick roller 32c further rotates, As shown in FIG. 7B, the lower end of the banknote 5 is protruded outside the bottom plate 31d while being sandwiched between the first elastic flap 31ca and the second elastic flap 31cb, and the high friction of the kick roller 32c. Since the coefficient material F frictionally contacts the bill face exposed notch (not shown) with the bill face, the bill is kicked out downward in the creeping direction and inserted into the bill inlet 32a. The leading edge of the inserted bill is a feed roller 32 that rotates in synchronization with the kick roller 32c.
d and the non-rotating blocking roller 32e are pressed against the rolling contact area, only the bills that come into contact with the high friction coefficient material F of the feed roller 32d are discharged, and the pulling roller 32e
It is conveyed downward by f and 32g.

In this example, when the bill is inserted, the bottom plate 31d and the first and second elastic flaps 31cb, 31cb serve as a bill insertion portion 31 having a large storage space.
You can afford to have a proper posture by inserting bills. The operation of inserting bills becomes rough. Stacked banknotes can be dropped vertically, and the first or second elastic flap 31
By pressing cb and 31cb in the opposite direction against the elastic biasing force, the vertically stacked banknotes can be moved in parallel and can be transferred to the banknote separating process.

Further, the kick roller 32c has not only a function of kicking the bills by frictionally contacting them, but also a function of pulling the elastic flaps 31cd, that is, the accumulated bills 5 out of front of the bottom plate 31d, before that. ing. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a dedicated member for shifting the width of the stacked banknotes 5, and the number of parts can be reduced.

In the bill insertion portion 31, the middle-height bottom plate 3
A foreign matter discharge path 31f communicating with the outside of the apparatus is defined between 1d and the left and right end bottom plates 31e. Therefore, when stones, coins, etc. are inserted into the bill insertion slot 31a as the bill is inserted, the foreign matters can be discharged to the outside through the foreign matter discharge passage 31f. Although not shown in FIG. 6, a tray for holding the foreign matter discharged through the foreign matter discharge path 31f may be provided. Further, a guide may be provided so that coins as foreign matter are sorted out and fall into the coin slot 41a.

As described above, the first banknote separation units 32 to 1
The banknotes 5 that have been separated sheet by sheet are identified by the denomination of the banknote when passing through the banknote identification unit 33a along the banknote coin transport path 32b, and are pulled down to the banknote discharge path 34b by the pull-in rollers 33b and 33c. Bill feeding roller 3
It is discharged onto the bill receiving plate 34a by 4c. At the time of discharging the bill, since the discharged bill is knocked down by the elastic blades of the tapping impeller 34d, the bill does not stop at the outlet of the bill discharging path 34b, and the discharged bill can be quickly discharged. The bills are stacked on the bill receiving plate 34a.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, in this example, since the peep gaps 32bb and 34bb and the bill peep window 13a are provided, the bill temporary holding section 34 for the bills 5 inserted into the bill insertion section 31 is reached. The customer can follow the whereabouts with their eyes. A customer who is worried that the banknotes may be pulled out before reaching the banknote recognition unit 33a when the banknotes are suddenly taken into an invisible part inside the device and mechanically counted the amount of money without the cashier picking up the banknotes. Therefore, there may be doubts about the amount of temporary deposit. In order to eliminate such doubts, the customer himself looks into the gap 32b.
The whereabouts of the banknotes taken into the temporary deposit device 100 can be visually confirmed through b, 34bb and the banknote viewing window 13a. In addition, if the leading edge or the trailing edge is always visible without hiding the entire area of the inserted bill by making the bill feeding path as short as possible instead of providing the transparent bill viewing window 13a, the above-mentioned doubt Can be resolved.

On the other hand, when the deposited coins are thrown into the coin slot 41, the rotary disc 42b pushes the loose coin group into the coin tray and lays down to put the coins one by one.
Send to a. The coins sent to the coin dispensing path 43a are identified in denomination when passing through the coin identifying unit 43, and the identified coins slide down from the coin dispensing port 43b to the coin temporary holding unit 44 and accumulate. Here, as shown in FIG. 1, since the transparent coin viewing window 12 is provided so that the coins fed through the coin dispensing path 43a can be visually recognized from the outside, the entire coins are not hidden and the deposit coins are not hidden. The doubt about the amount of money can be eliminated.

As described above, the deposited bills 5 are accumulated in the bill temporary holding section 34 and the deposited coins are deposited in the coin temporary holding section 44 by the insertion and insertion of the deposited money, but the display of the POS register 1 is displayed. The temporary deposit amount and the change amount are automatically displayed on the vessels 1a and 1b. By any chance
If the customer is not satisfied with the displayed amount, the detachable cover 34a of the banknote temporary holding unit 34 is removed, the accumulated banknotes on the exposed banknote receiving plate 34a are taken out, and the amount of the banknote and the coin temporary holding unit 44 are deposited. Mutually confirm the amount of coins with the customer. In case of doubt about the mechanical monetary amount because the deposited money does not get into the inside after passing through the identification parts 33 and 43, but stays in the temporary holding parts 34 and 44 which can be directly recovered as it is. , It is possible to confirm the mutual amount of money at any time while enumerating by hand, which helps to eliminate doubts and distrust of customers, and as a result, a mechanical accounting method can be introduced regardless of the enumeration of entrusted amounts. In addition,
Since the viewing windows 13a and 12a are provided so that the inside of the device can be visually checked at any time, it can be confirmed that the money is not clogged inside, and the reserved money in the temporary holding units 34 and 44 is the delivery money. You can assure the customer that they are in agreement.

When the customer is satisfied with the displayed amount of money, the change automatic bill dispenser 2 operates to cause the change bills to enter the bill dispensing port Aa of the circulating bill depositing / dispensing machine 2A, and the change coins to dispense the circulating coins. The coins are discharged to the coin outlet 2Ba of the money machine 2B. The cashier uses these change coins in tray 1
Hold it over c. After confirming that the customer has received the change coin, the process proceeds to the storage process of the temporary deposit money.

At the storage processing stage, as shown in FIG. 9 (a), the swing arm 35ab of the swing type load applying mechanism 35a pivots in the direction of the arrow shown in the figure, and as shown in FIG. 9 (b), the bill pressing member is pushed. 35ad elastically presses the stacked banknotes 5 on the banknote receiving plate 34a against the biasing force of the coil springs 35ae to apply a load, and as shown in FIG. 9C, high friction of the kick roller 35b. Since the coefficient material F enters into a bill face exposure hole (not shown) opened in the bill receiving plate 34a and makes frictional contact with the bill face, the contacted bill is kicked out in the creeping direction. The leading edge of the kicked bill is a feed roller 35d that rotates in synchronization with the kick roller 35b.
Since the non-rotating blocking roller 35e is applied to the pressure contact winding area, only the banknote contacting the feed roller 35d is discharged, and the discharge of the associated banknote is blocked. The bills discharged from the feed roller 35d are drawn in by the pull-in roller 3
5f and 35g send the bill leading path 35c, and FIG.
The paper feed rollers 35i and 35j shown in FIG.

On the other hand, in the process of storing the deposited coins,
Since the bottom-lowering gate 44a of the coin temporary holding unit 44 descends, the temporarily held coin group drops for one period, and the coin transport unit 4
Circular coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B through the coin guide 45a of No. 4
It falls into the coin deposit port 2Bb. Therefore, the coins are sent to the depositing / conveying path of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B.

[Embodiment 2] FIG. 11A is an external perspective view of a temporary deposit money amount identifying apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention, as seen from the left front, and FIG. 11B shows the same deposit money. It is an appearance perspective view which looked at the amount discriminating device from the right front.

Amount identifying device 20 for temporary deposit money of this example
In order to reduce the installation occupying space and improve the compactness, 0 is the function of the temporary deposit money amount identifying apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment is reduced. That is, the device 200 is the same as the device 100 except that the second banknote separation unit 3
5 and the detachable cover 34a of the banknote temporary holding section 34 are removed to expose the banknote temporary holding section 34, and the coin transport section 45
The coin guide 45a is removed and the coin outlet 45b is opened. Therefore, in the temporary deposit money storing process of the step of the money transfer procedure, not the automatic deposit, but the cashier deposits the deposited bills accumulated in the bill temporary holding unit 34 into the bill deposit opening 2Ab of the circulation type bill depositing / dispensing machine 2A. Inserted by hand into the coin outlet 45b
The deposited coins received from the banknotes are withdrawn to the coin deposit port 2Bb of the circulation type coin depositing / dispensing machine 2B. Since the next new accounting process does not proceed until the receipt of money is completed, there is almost no problem of forgetting the receipt of money.

As described above, in the structure in which the automatic transfer system from the money holding section is deleted, the installation occupying space can be reduced and the compactness can be improved, so that the register can be installed in the limited space of various registers. . Further, cost reduction can be realized by reducing the number of parts, and it can be used independently as a monetary amount discriminating device regardless of the connecting device.

Although the bill insertion slot and the coin insertion slot are adjacent to each other on the upper surface of the machine casing in the above embodiment, the bill insertion slot and the coin insertion slot may be shared, and the bills and coins are It may be selected in.

Also. It can also handle medals and coins similar to coins. Further, the temporary deposit banknote amount identification device and the temporary deposit coin amount identification device may be separately configured.

[0070]

As described above, according to the present invention, in a simple type of money amount (denomination) discriminating device, a bill insertion portion capable of receiving inserted bills of a plurality of denominations in an accumulated state, and a plurality of denominations. The coin insertion unit that can accept the input coins, the banknote temporary holding unit that stacks the identified banknotes in order and withdraws them to the outside of the machine casing freely, and the coin that holds the identified coins to the outside of the machine casing freely Since it is characterized by the provision of the temporary holding section, the following effects can be obtained.

(1) Since the amount of money for temporary deposit money is automatically calculated only by inserting or inserting the money for temporary deposit, the cashier does not have to count and the error in the amount of money can be eliminated. In addition, if the temporary deposit money is not inserted or thrown in, the money transfer procedure does not proceed, so it is possible to prevent forgetting to receive the temporary deposit money. Furthermore, since the customer himself can insert or insert money, it is possible to suppress fraudulent acts such as withdrawal of deposited money by the cashier.

When a doubt arises in the temporary deposit amount, the temporary deposit amount can be freely extracted at any time from the banknote temporary holding unit and the coin temporary holding unit, and mutual confirmation of the temporary deposit amount can be performed. In other words, since there is a temporary holding unit that can be taken out freely, there is a sense of security that the temporary deposit money is not taken inside, and therefore, the unmanned amount identification method for the temporary deposit money can be introduced. Since the temporary deposit amount (payment amount) is speeded up by mechanization, the customer can pay a large number of fractional coins and small coins without hesitation, which is useful for organizing small coins.

(2) Then, a second banknote separating section for separating and feeding out the stacked banknotes in the banknote temporary storage section one by one, and a coin transport section for collectively transporting the coins in the coin temporary storage section. In the configuration in which the banknote outlet of the second banknote separating unit and the coin outlet of the coin conveying unit are connected to the deposit conveying path inside the change dispenser, the currency is stored in the temporary holding unit. The warehousing process can be performed automatically and human error can be prevented.

(3) In the structure in which the coin temporary holding unit has the bottom opening gate for feeding coins to the coin transporting unit, a large number of temporary deposit coins can be discharged at one time, so that the coin storing process is speeded up. To do.

(4) In the configuration having the bill window and the coin window, the customer can visually follow the whereabouts of the coins inserted into or inserted into the bill insertion section or the coin insertion section. Since it can be easily confirmed that there is no remaining in the device, it is difficult to cause doubt about the amount of temporary deposit in the temporary holding section. By providing the bill feeding path as short as possible instead of providing the bill viewing window, either the leading edge or the trailing edge can always be visually recognized without hiding the entire area of the inserted bill, and the same effect can be exhibited.

(5) In the configuration in which the bill insertion portion has the bill presence / absence detection sensor and the posture detection sensor, the bill separating operation is performed only when the bill is inserted into the bill insertion portion in the proper posture. Therefore, the separating operation can be performed without any trouble.

(6) When the bill insertion portion and the coin insertion portion are adjacent to each other on the upper surface of the machine casing and both have a coin dropping structure, it becomes easy for a customer or a cashier to insert or insert money. Needless to say, the state of processing can be confirmed by looking through the coins inserted or thrown into the opening from above.

(7) With the structure in which the foreign matter discharge path is connected to the bottom of the bill insertion portion, even if a foreign matter such as a coin or a small stone is accidentally inserted into the bill insertion portion, the foreign matter is discharged. Since the bills are discharged to the outside of the bill insertion portion through the passage, it is possible to avoid obstacles in the bill separating operation and contribute to a reduction in the failure rate of the device.

(8) With the construction in which the bill insertion portion has the first and second elastic flaps, the accumulated bills can be dropped vertically, and the first or second elastic flap resists the elastic biasing force. By pressing in the opposite direction, the banknotes in the vertically stacked state can be moved in parallel, and the banknote separating operation can be performed.

(9) In the structure in which the bill separating unit has the kick roller with the cam surface, the kick roller with the cam surface is the second kick roller.
It has the function of pushing the elastic flaps of (1) and moving the banknotes in the vertical stacking state in parallel, and also the function of kicking out the banknotes, and the downsizing has been realized by reducing the number of parts.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a state in which an amount identifying device for temporary deposit money according to a first embodiment of the present invention is provided by being attached to a POS register and an automatic change dispenser.

FIG. 2A is an external perspective view of the same-time-deposited money amount identifying device as viewed from the left front, and FIG. 2B is an external-perspective view of the same-time deposited money amount identification device as viewed from the right front.

FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional front view of the same-time deposit money amount identification device.

FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional left side view of the same-time deposit money amount identifying device.

FIG. 5 is a right side view in vertical section of the same-time deposit money amount identification device.

FIG. 6A is a vertical sectional front view showing a banknote insertion unit and a first banknote separating unit in the same-time-deposited money amount identification device, and FIG. 6B is a vertical sectional side view thereof.

FIG. 7A is a vertical sectional front view showing an initial state of a banknote separating operation in the banknote inserting section and the first banknote separating section;
(B) is a longitudinal side view showing the final state of the bill separating operation.

FIG. 8A is a vertical sectional front view showing a proper posture of a bill inserted in a bill insertion portion in the same-time deposit money amount identifying device, and FIG. 8B is an improper bill inserted in the bill insertion portion. It is a vertical section front view showing a posture.

FIG. 9A is a side view showing a state before the separating operation of the second banknote temporary holding section in the same-time deposit money amount identifying apparatus, and FIG. 9B is a side view showing an initial state of the separating operation.
FIG. 6C is a side view showing the final state of the separating operation.

FIG. 10 is a partially cutaway side view showing a temporary deposit coin amount discriminating device in the same time deposit coin discriminating device.

FIG. 11A is an external perspective view of an amount identifying device for temporary deposit money according to the second embodiment of the present invention, as seen from the front left side;
(B) is an external perspective view of the same-time-deposited money identification device as viewed from the front right.

FIG. 12 is an external perspective view showing a state in which a POS register and a conventional automatic change dispenser are placed side by side.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... POS register 1a, 1b ... Indicator 1c ... Tray 2 ... Change dispenser 2A ... Circular banknote depositing / dispensing machine 2Aa ... Banknote dispensing slot 2Ab ... Banknote depositing slot 2B ... Circular coin depositing / dispensing machine 2Ba ... Coin Withdrawal port 2Bb ... Coin deposit port 100, 200 ... Temporary deposit money amount identification device 12 ... Machine casing upper surface 12a ... Coin peep window 13 ... Customer side machine casing side 13a ... Banknote peep window 14 ... Cashier side machine casing side 15 ... Removable cover 31 ... Banknote insertion part 31a ... Banknote insertion port 31b (31ba, 31bb) ... Clasp part 31ca ... First elastic flap 31cb ... Second elastic flap 31d ... Middle-high bottom plate 31e ... End bottom plate 31f ... Foreign matter discharge passage 31 g ... spring S ₁ ... bill presence detecting sensor S _2, S ₃ ... attitude detecting sensor 32 ... first bill separation section 32a ... banknote inlet 32 b ... bill drop transportable Road 32bb ... Peeping gap 32c ... Kick roller 32d ... Feed roller 32e ... Blocking roller 32f, 32g ... Pulling roller F ... High friction coefficient material 33 ... Banknote discriminating section 33a ... Banknote discriminating unit 33b, 33c ... Pulling roller 34 ... Temporary banknote holding Part 34a ... Banknote receiving plate 34b ... Banknote discharging path 34bb ... Peeping gap 34c ... Banknote feeding roller 34d ... Striking impeller 35 ... Second banknote separating section 35a ... Swing-type load applying mechanism 35aa, 35ac ... Shaft 35ab ... Swing Arm 35ad ... Banknote pressing member 35ae ... Coil spring 35b ... Kick roller 35c ... Banknote lead-out path 35d ... Feed roller 35f, 35g ... Pull-in roller 35e ... Blocking roller 35i, 35j ... Send-out roller 35h ... Banknote descending path 41 ... Coin inserting section 41a ... Coin slot 42 The first coin separating section 42a ... driving motor 42b ... rotating disk 43 ... coin identifying unit 43a ... coin dispensing path 43 b ... coin dispensing port 44 ... coin escrow unit 45 ... coin conveying section 45a ... coin guide.

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A banknote insertion part capable of receiving inserted banknotes of a plurality of denominations in a stacking state, a banknote separating part for separating and stacking the banknotes stacked in the banknote inserting part one by one, and money of the separated banknotes. A banknote identification unit that identifies the seeds, a banknote temporary storage unit that stacks the identified banknotes in sequence and retains them freely so that they can be taken out of the machine casing, and a coin insertion unit that can receive coins of multiple denominations.
A coin separating unit that separates and dispenses coins one by one in the coin input unit, a coin identifying unit that identifies the denomination of the separated coins, and a coin that holds the identified coins outside the machine casing freely A money handling machine having a temporary deposit money amount identifying device, comprising a temporary holding unit. 2. The coin according to claim 1, wherein the second banknote separating unit that separates and stacks the stacked banknotes in the banknote temporary storage unit one by one and the coins that collectively transport the coins in the coin temporary storage unit. And a coin discharging port of the second bill separating unit and a coin discharging port of the coin conveying unit are connected to a deposit conveying path inside the change dispenser. A currency handling machine equipped with an amount identification device for deposit money. 3. The coin handling machine according to claim 2, wherein the coin temporary holding unit has a bottom opening gate for feeding coins to the coin transporting unit. . 4. The banknote viewing window according to claim 1, wherein the banknotes from the banknote insertion section to the banknote temporary holding section can be visually recognized from the outside of the machine casing. A money handling machine equipped with an amount identifying device for temporary deposit money. 5. The temporary bank transfer path according to claim 1, wherein a banknote transport path length from the banknote insertion section to the banknote temporary storage section is shorter than a banknote length in a feeding direction. A currency handling machine equipped with an amount identification device for deposit money. 6. The coin peep window according to claim 1, wherein the fate of the coin from the coin insertion portion to the coin temporary holding portion can be visually recognized from the outside of the machine casing. A money handling machine equipped with an amount identifying device for temporary deposit money. 7. The money amount discriminating device for temporary deposit money according to claim 1, wherein the bill insertion portion includes a bill presence / absence detection sensor and a posture detection sensor. Money handling machine with. 8. The bill insertion portion and the coin insertion portion are adjacent to each other on the upper surface of the machine casing according to any one of claims 1 to 7, and both have a coin dropping structure. A money handling machine equipped with a device for identifying the amount of money in temporary deposit. 9. The currency handling machine according to claim 8, wherein a foreign matter discharge passage is communicated with the bottom of the bill insertion portion, the money handling machine having a money amount identification device for temporary deposit money. 10. The bill insertion portion according to claim 9, wherein the bill insertion portion has an opening having an opposite edge corresponding to a long side of a bill opened on the upper surface of the machine casing, and is elastic in the same direction about a lower end portion of the opposite edge. First and second elastic flaps that are urged to swivel to, a middle-height bottom portion that receives substantially the center of the long edge of the inserted bill, and an end receiving portion that receives both ends of the long edge of the inserted bill. Currency comprising an amount identifying device for temporary deposit money, comprising a first stopper for stopping rotation of the first elastic flap and a second stopper for stopping rotation of the second elastic flap. Handling machine. 11. The banknote separating unit according to claim 10, wherein the banknote separating unit has a banknote descending conveyance path having a banknote inlet at a position deviated from the middle-height bottom and the end receiving unit, and a position on the second elastic flap side. After the second elastic flap is pressed toward the first elastic flap and swung, the kick roller with a cam surface kicking out below the creeping surface by frictionally contacting one side of the inserted bill is kicked out. A feed roller and a blocking roller that receive the leading edge of the bill in the press contact winding area and send the bill one by one along the bill lowering conveyance path; and a pull-in roller that pulls the bill fed one by one downward. A money handling machine equipped with an amount identifying device for temporary deposit money.