JPH10101259A - Paper handleing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a part of paper from falling down between a mounting plate and a side plate surrounding a storing space and prevent storing miss at storing the paper from causing in a paper storing part by closing between the mounting plate and the side plate surrounding the storing space by a closing plate when the paper is stored in the storing space. SOLUTION: A storing space S is formed by lifting up an arm 50 from a state bank notes 2 are accumulated on a mounting plate 52. Newly carried bank notes 3 are stored in this storing space S through a carrier pinch roller, a paper feeding impeller and a gate roller. As a closing plate 53 is mounted, a part of the bank note 3 may not fall down in a space between the mounting plate 52 and a side plate 55 even if the newly carries bank note 3 is bent. Whereby, when the newly carried bank note is stored in a 1000 yen note storing part, 34 the bank note may not fall down in the space between the mounting plate 52 and the side plate 55 and storing mistake to the 1000 yen note storing part 34 can be prevented.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet processing apparatus such as a banknote processing apparatus used for, for example, a ticket issuing machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when a deposited bill is stored in a bill issuing machine or when a bill is issued as a fishing bill, a deposited bill is stored in a bill storage unit and a bill is sent out. A bill processing device capable of sending out bills stored in the bill storage unit is generally used.

[0003] In such a banknote handling machine, in order to send out a fishing tag, for example, a paper feed roller having an outer periphery composed of a low friction surface and a high friction surface is rotated to lower the lowermost bank of the banknote storage unit. Send out the bill by sending out the bills. When storing bills, the bills inserted and conveyed from the bill insertion slot are stored by depositing the bills in a bill storage unit which is a bill storage area. At this time, in order to add a new banknote inserted from the banknote insertion slot to, for example, the lowest stage of the banknotes already deposited and stored in the banknote storage unit, it is necessary to temporarily retract the banknotes already stored and stored. is there.

As a method for temporarily retracting banknotes that have already been deposited and stored, for example, a method using an arm as shown in FIG. 5 is known. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the bill storage unit 101 and its periphery in the bill processing apparatus.

[0005] In FIG. 5, bills 122 are already deposited on the placing plate 112 of the bill storage unit 101 while being pressed by the press plate 102. This deposited banknote 122
Out of the banknotes are fed by rotation of the paper feed roller 103. That is, when the lower surface of the lowermost banknote abuts against the high-frictional chip 103a formed on the outer periphery of the roller 103, the lowermost banknote comes into contact with the gate roller 104 and the take-in roller 10a.
5 and the bill pinch 1 through the transport pinch roller 106
It is transported from 10 to the outside.

On the other hand, in order to store a new banknote in the banknote storage unit 101 after performing such a banknote sending-out operation, the transported new banknote is taken in by the rotation of the take-in roller 105. Take in. At this time,
In the state illustrated in FIG. 6A, the insertion of a newly taken bill is hindered because the bill 122 already accumulated exists. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 6B, the banknotes that have already been deposited are raised by the arm 111 driven by the arm driving motor 121, and the banknotes 1 that are newly taken in are stacked.
An accommodation space 112 for accommodating 23 is formed, and a new bill is accommodated in the accommodation space 112 from the bill entrance 110.

Then, as shown in FIG. 6C, the arm 111 is lowered while bending both ends of the newly taken bill 123 downward. Arm 111 is banknote 12
When the bills 123 reach below both ends, the newly taken-in bills 123 spread in the direction of the arrow due to their own restoring force. When the arm 111 is raised from the state shown in FIG. 6C, as shown in FIG.
3 will be placed on the arm 111, and the newly taken-in banknotes 123 will form the lowest stage of the stacked banknotes.

[0008]

However, in the above-mentioned bill storage unit 101, since both sides of the mounting plate 112 form a moving path of the arm 111, the bill storage unit 101 is moved so that the arm 111 can move. A space exists between the side wall 131 and the mounting plate 112. For this reason, for example, as shown in FIG.
If 23 is accommodated in the accommodation space 112 in a bent state, a part of the bill 123 may fall into the space between the side wall 131 of the bill storage unit 101 and the mounting plate 112. Even when the arm 111 is lowered in such a state, as shown in FIG.
23 cannot be placed successfully, and the bill 123 cannot be stored accurately.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a conventional disadvantage, and prevents the occurrence of a storage error when storing a paper sheet in a paper sheet storage unit of a paper sheet processing apparatus such as a paper money processing apparatus. It is an object of the present invention to provide a possible sheet processing apparatus.

[0010]

A sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention drives a sheet moving arm to retract a sheet that has already been deposited in a sheet storage area for storing and storing the sheet. Forming a storage space for storing the newly loaded paper sheet, and storing the newly loaded paper sheet in the storage space, and returning the paper sheet transfer arm to a predetermined position. In a sheet processing apparatus for adding a sheet stored in a space to the stacked sheets, the sheet processing apparatus is supported by elastic means so as to be movable in a moving direction of the sheet moving arm,
There is provided a closing plate that is a movement path of the paper sheet moving arm and that closes between a mounting plate on which the paper sheets stored in the storage space are mounted and a side plate surrounding the storage space.

In the sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention, since the closing plate is supported by the elastic means so as to be movable in the moving direction, the moving path of the sheet moving arm is secured.
At the same time, even if the folded paper sheet is stored in the storage space, the space between the mounting plate for mounting the paper sheet and the side plate surrounding the storage space is closed by the paper drop prevention plate, A part of the paper sheet does not fall into the space to cause a storage mistake.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a paper sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Drawing 1 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment when a storage part in a sheet processing device concerning the present invention is applied to a bill processing device. Here, before explaining FIG. 1, FIGS. 3 and 4 show a schematic configuration diagram and an internal configuration diagram of a bill processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 3 and FIG.
0, from the top to the bottom, the identification unit 31, the reject unit 32, the temporary holding / discharging unit 33, the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34,
A 1,000-yen / 5,000-yen bill payout section 35, a 5,000-yen bill storage section 36, and a 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 are provided.

In the bill processing device 30, the switching units 40 to 43
The banknote is conveyed along the conveyance path 5 indicated by a dashed line in accordance with the switching device according to.

Hereinafter, each component of the bill processing apparatus 30 will be described. The identification unit 31 performs the authenticity determination and the denomination of the bill inserted through the bill insertion slot 38. The reject unit 32 is switched by the switching unit 40,
The banknote in which an error has occurred due to the determination of two sheets being overlapped is input and stored.

The temporary holding / discharging section 33 inputs a bill as change from a 1,000-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill payout section 35 and holds the bill. Then, after all the bills as change have been collected, all the reserved bills are simultaneously sent to the fishing bill exit 39.
Output from

The thousand-yen bill storage section 34 stores a thousand-yen bill.
The 5,000-yen bill storage unit 36 stores 5,000-yen bills. The 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 stores 10,000-yen bills. The 1,000-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill payout unit 35 stores the 1,000-yen bill input by the switching operation of the switching unit 42 in the 1000-yen bill storage unit 34, and the 5,000-yen bill input by the switching operation of the switching unit 43. 5
It is stored in the 1,000 yen bill storage unit 36. The 1,000-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill payout unit 35 switches the 1,000-yen bill and the 5,000-yen bill stored in the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34 and the 5,000-yen bill storage unit 36 via the switching units 42 and 43. And selectively output to the temporary hold / discharge unit 33.

The 1,000-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill payout section 35 includes a feed roller 19, a gate roller 21, a transport pinch roller 2
2 and a return roller 29, of which the lowermost banknote among the banknotes (thousand-yen bills) 2 stored in the thousand-yen bill storage unit 34 is fed into the high-friction grooved rubber chip 19 a incorporated in the feeding roller 19. It is sent out to the temporary holding / discharging unit 33 via the switching unit 42 according to the rotational force.

The arm 50 raises and lowers the entire banknote stored in the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34. The arm 50 includes the identification unit 31
When it is determined that a 1,000-yen bill has been inserted, the arm 50 moves up to the position shown by the dotted line in FIG.
The banknotes 2 stored in the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34 are lifted, and a storage space S for the banknotes 2 is formed between the lowermost banknotes of the banknotes 2 and the mounting plate 52. Then, in response to the switching operation of the switching unit 42, the transport pinch roller 22, the sheet feeding impeller 20
The banknote 2 sent into the accommodation space S via the gate roller 21 is placed on the placement plate 52.

Next, the arm 50 is lowered and the mounting plate 52
The banknote 2 placed on the upper side is taken into the lowermost stage of the banknote 2 already deposited. The arm 51 moves the bills stored in the 5,000-yen bill storage section 36 and the 10,000-yen bill storage section 37 up and down in conjunction with each other.

The bill processing apparatus 30 constructed as described above
FIG. 1 shows an example in which the present invention is applied to the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34. Here, FIG. 1A is a cross-sectional view of the 1,000-yen bill storage section 34 as viewed from above, and FIG. 1B is a cross-sectional view of the 1,000-yen bill storage section 34 as viewed from the banknote carry-in / out direction. is there. As shown in FIG. 1A, the above-described return roller 2
9 and the feed roller 19 so that the window 52
On both sides of the mounting plate 52 on which a and 52b are formed, there are provided closing plates 53 for closing between the mounting plate 52 and the side plate 55 surrounding the 1000-yen bill storage unit 34, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 1B, the closing plate 53 is formed by a spring member 56 fixed to a supporting member 57.
The arm 50 is supported so as to be movable in the moving direction. FIG. 1B shows a state in which the banknotes 2 deposited while being pressed by the press plate 58 are lifted by the arm 50. In this state, no load is applied to the closing plate 53 and the closing plate 53 is closed. The height of the plate 53 is substantially equal to the height of the mounting plate 52. The spring member 56 and the support member 57 can be provided, for example, at two locations for each side plate 55.

Next, the operation of the thus constructed 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34 will be described. As shown in FIG. 2A, from the state where the banknotes 2 have already been deposited on the placing plate 52,
As shown in FIG. 2B, the arm 50 is raised to form a storage space S, and the transport pinch roller 22, the paper feed impeller 20, and the gate roller 2 are formed in the storage space S.
1 to accommodate the newly conveyed bills 3. At this time, even if the newly conveyed banknote 3 is bent as shown in FIG. 2B, since the above-mentioned closing plate 53 is provided, a part of the banknote 3 is placed on the placing plate 52 and the side plate. It does not fall into the space between 55.

When the arm 50 is lowered from the state shown in FIG. 2B, the closing plate 53 moves while being pressed by the arm 50, so that the movement path of the arm 50 is secured, and as shown in FIG. 2C. State. At this time, both ends of the newly conveyed banknote 3 open in the direction of the arrow due to its own restoring force, and when the arm 50 is raised again from this state, the newly conveyed banknote 3 is newly conveyed as shown in FIG. Banknote 3
Is added to the bottom of the banknote 2 already deposited.

As described above, according to the banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, the closing plate 53 is provided between the placing plate 52 and the side plate 55, so that the bill is newly transported to the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34. When storing the banknotes 3, the banknotes 3 do not fall into the space between the mounting plate 52 and the side plate 55, and it is possible to prevent the banknotes from being incorrectly stored in the 1,000-yen bill storage unit 34. .

[0026]

As described above, according to the paper sheet processing apparatus of the present invention, when a paper sheet is stored in the storage space, the space between the mounting plate and the side plate surrounding the storage space by the closing plate is provided. Since the sheet is closed, a part of the paper sheet can be prevented from dropping between the placing plate and the side plate surrounding the accommodation space. As a result, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a storage mistake when storing a paper sheet in the paper sheet storage unit.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment in which a storage unit in a paper sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention is applied to a banknote processing apparatus, and FIG. FIG. 1B is a cross-sectional view of the 1,000-yen bill storage unit viewed from the direction in which bills are carried in and out.

2A and 2B are explanatory diagrams for explaining an operation example of a storage unit in the banknote processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2A is a diagram illustrating a state in which banknotes have already been deposited on a placing plate; FIG. 2B is an explanatory view showing a state in which an accommodation space is formed by elevating the arm and a newly conveyed bill is accommodated in this accommodation space, and FIG. FIG. 2D is a diagram illustrating a state in which the arm is lowered from the state illustrated in FIG. 2B, and FIG. 2D illustrates a state in which a newly-conveyed banknote is added to the lowest stage of a banknote that has already been deposited; FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a bill processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 4 is an internal configuration diagram of a bill processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a bill storage unit and its periphery in a conventional bill processing device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an operation procedure for storing bills in the bill storage unit shown in FIG. 5, and FIG.
FIG. 6B is an explanatory view showing a state in which bills have already been deposited on the mounting plate, and FIG. 6B illustrates a state in which the arm is raised to form a storage space, and a newly conveyed bill is stored in the storage space. FIG. 6C is an explanatory diagram showing a state, and FIG. 6C is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which the arm is lowered from the state shown in FIG.
FIG. 6D is an explanatory diagram illustrating a state in which a newly transported bill is added to the lowest stage of the already deposited bill.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a case where a storage error occurs when a banknote is stored in the banknote storage unit illustrated in FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 ... Bill 19 ... Sending roller 20,25 ... Bill sending impeller 21,26 ... Gate roller 22 ... Convey pinch roller 29 ... Return roller 30 ... Bill processing unit 31 ... Identifying unit 32 ... Reject unit 33 ... Temporary holding / discharging unit 34: Thousand-yen bill storage unit 35: Thousand-yen bill / 5,000-yen bill payout unit 36: Thousand-yen bill storage unit 37: 10,000-yen bill storage unit 38: Bill insertion slot 39: Fishing bill exit 40, 41, 42, 43 ... Switching part 50,51 ... Arm 52 ... Placement plate 53 ... Closer plate 55 ... Side plate 56 ... Spring member 57 ... Support member 58 ... Press plate S ... Accommodation space

Claims (1)

[Claims] An accommodation space for accommodating a newly loaded paper sheet by driving a paper sheet transfer arm to retract a paper sheet already deposited in a paper sheet storage area for storing and storing a paper sheet. Forming and storing the newly loaded paper sheet in the storage space, and returning the paper sheet moving arm to a predetermined position, thereby changing the paper sheet stored in the storage space to the stacked paper sheet. In the paper sheet processing apparatus to be added to the above, the paper sheet accommodated in the accommodation space, which is supported by elastic means so as to be movable in the movement direction of the paper sheet movement arm, is a movement path of the paper sheet movement arm. A sheet processing apparatus having a closing plate for closing a space between a mounting plate to be mounted and a side plate surrounding the accommodation space.