JPS5926980B2 - Document stacking device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an apparatus for stacking documents including banknotes.

Document acceptance devices are known in the art which receive a certain certificate and generate a signal if the certificate is genuine.

These acceptance devices may form part of an exchange mechanism, or the signals may be used to establish credits that can be used to procure goods or services. One such certificate acceptance device was developed by Donald E. HOOker.
), US Pat. No. 3,485,538, issued December 23, 1969. Although these devices work satisfactorily for testing the authenticity of documents or operating money changing devices or establishing credits,
There are problems with collecting and storing documents that pass through the receiving device.

It is clear that an open storage space in which banknotes are dropped like coins past a coin-operated mechanism is not satisfactory. It is desirable to store banknotes in stacks, and it is undesirable to wrinkle or disassemble these banknotes. The inventor has devised an apparatus for stacking certificates received from a certificate acceptor or the like. The device includes a certificate box that is easily removable from the operating mechanism of the stacker. This device has a large volume. The device is relatively simple in construction for the results obtained. It is an object of the invention to provide a device for stacking certificates received from a certificate acceptance device or the like.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a certificate stacking device having a certificate box that can be easily removed.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a certificate stacking device with a relatively simple structure.

Other objects of the present invention will be apparent from the following description.

In general, the present invention provides a method in which a corrugated roller at the exit of the receiving device longitudinally transports each certificate into a certificate box at a distance in front of a reciprocating ram in response to signals from the certificate receiving device. A document receiving device or similar is adapted to collect the certificates in a stack in the certificate box, which is carried against the action of a spongy cushion through a mouth behind the retaining flange of this box and into a space in front of said ram. The present invention provides a device for stacking certificates received from objects.

The certificate box of the device can be easily removed from the operating mechanism. Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the stacking apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The banknote stacking device 10 corresponding to the document stacking device according to the present invention is configured such that the side plates 14, 16 and the flanges 20, 22 of the side plates 14, 16 are provided with rivets 2, for example, by any suitable means.
4 and a rear plate 18, which is fastened by 4, is provided with a bill box or cash box 12 corresponding to the certificate box of the device of the present invention.

The bottom plate 26 of the cash box 12 is fastened to flanges 29, 30 running along the bottom plates of the side plates 14, 16 by any suitable means, such as by rivets 32. The open front or mouth of the cash box 12 is provided with a pair of inwardly facing lips or flanges 36, 38 extending along each side thereof for feeding into the cash box 12 as described below. The banknotes corresponding to the certificates according to the present invention are held. Side wall 14 of cash box 12
, 16 are provided with a pair of outwardly facing hanging flanges 39, connected by any suitable means, e.g., by bars 42.
40 is formed.

For example, a pin 44 supported on the side plate 14 is adapted to position the cash box 12 relative to the rest of the operating mechanism in a manner described below. Spongy urethane block 4 inside cash box 12
A biasing member in the shape of 6 is inserted to bias the banknotes 200 in the cash box 12 toward the flanges 36 and 38. The operating mechanism 48 of this banknote stacking device includes side flanges 52, 5.
4.

The guide blocks 56, 58 have flanges 52, 5 on the top plate 50.
4 by any suitable member such as a screw 60. The cash box 12 is assembled to the operating mechanism 48 by sliding the hanging flanges 39, 40 along guide blocks 56, 58. cash box 12
After the pin 44 and the operating mechanism 48 are engaged with each other and the U-shaped latch 61 is drivably supported by the guide blocks 56 and 58, the U-shaped latch 61 is moved along the rear of the cash box 12 to the position shown in Figure 1. Move downward. To facilitate this operation, the rear edges of the side plates 14, 16 are tilted slightly inward at their tops. In this way, the hanging flanges 39, 40
, guide blocks 56, 58, and latch 61 constitute a cash box mounting member corresponding to the certificate box mounting member of the device of the present invention. If the left side portion of the latch 61 in FIG. 1 is rotated upward from the position shown in FIG. 1 about the pivot joints at the front ends of the guide blocks 56, 58,
The pin 44 is attached to the guide block 56 along the suspension flanges 39 and 40 sandwiched between the upper surface of the top plate 58 and the lower surface of the top plate 50.
, 58 from left to right (first
Figure) The cash box 12 can be removed from the operating mechanism 48 by sliding it. The rear plate 62 of the actuating mechanism 48 has a flange 64 at its upper edge adapted to be secured to the top plate 50 by any suitable member such as a screw 66.

A bottom plate 68 is formed integrally with the rear plate 62. The bottom plate 68 extends from the rear plate 62 toward the cash box 12. A reinforcing member 70 may be provided extending between the bottom plate 68 and the top plate 50 and secured thereto by any suitable member, such as screws 72. The bottom plate 68 is formed with spaced apart extensions 74, 76 extending some distance to the left in FIG. In this way, the top plate 50, the rear plate 62, the bottom plate 68
Configure the frame of this device. The gear box 7 is on the bottom plate 68.
8 is attached.

A motor 80 having an output shaft 82 provides input to the gear box 78 so that its output shaft 84 rotates in response to the energization of the motor 80. The shaft 84 includes a crank 86 having a pin 88 that receives a bushing 90. butsing 90
is located within a slot 92 formed in the bottom 94 of the ram carriage. The front flange 96 of the bottom 94 is attached to the ram 98.
It is fixed by any suitable means, for example, by welding 201 or the like. As will be described in detail later, the ram 98 has a plate-like shape so that most of its surface area is in contact with the banknote. A strut 100 is connected between the ram 98 at a point below the flange 96 and the carriage bottom 94 adjacent the right end of the flange 96 as shown in FIG.
8 should be moved back and forth. As seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, each side of the carriage bottom 94 has a respective pair of spaced apart pins 102, 104, 106, and 108 attached thereto.

The bottom plate 68 is formed with a flange 110 extending along one edge thereof and along an extension 74 of the bottom plate 68. A pair of slots 112, 114 in flange 110 are adapted to receive pins 102, 104. A second flange 116 extending along the other edge of the bottom plate 68 and along the extension 76 is formed with slots 118, 120 for receiving pins 106, 108. A pair of generally U-shaped, vertically extending, inwardly open guide members 122, 124 define an escrow chamber for receiving banknotes at the front of the flanges 36, 38.

A bill acceptor 128 or the like, which corresponds to the document acceptor of the apparatus of the present invention, a portion of which is shown in FIG. 1, is provided with a pair of corrugated delivery rollers 130,132. roller 1
The waveforms 30 and 132 represent the banknotes 200 sent from the receiving device 128 to the spaces formed by the respective guide members 122 and 124.
The rollers 130 and 132 constitute a shirring device.The rollers 130 and 132 constitute a shirring device. Due to the creasing action of the corrugated rollers 130, 132 on the banknote 200, even a relatively flexible banknote passes between the rollers 130, 132 within the chamber formed by each guide member 122, 124 and the bottom plate 26 of the cash box. The banknotes are directly supported vertically on the bottom plate 26 with their bottom edges and are not bent. Furthermore, the dimensions of this chamber are such that the banknotes will not bend. The distance between the inner edges of each flange 36, 38 is somewhat shorter than the width of the bill to be handled.

The ram 98 is taller than the length of the bill. The width of the ram 98 is large enough to allow movement of the ram 98 into the cash bin 12 between the flanges 36, 38 and to allow the ram 98 to contact the bill over most of its area. One example of an electrical circuit used to control the stacking apparatus of the present invention, as shown in FIG. Connect across 134 and 136.

A terminal 142 with a potential of about 30 V DC and a ground terminal 1 are on the output side of a banknote accepting device or similar device used in this stacking device.
44 and a terminal 146 at which a pulse appears when an accepted banknote passes through the receiving device. Voltage divider network 148,
150 is a terminal 146 which applies a pulse to the base electrode of the first transistor T-1 having a collector resistor 152 and an emitter resistor 154. The signal appearing on the resistor 154 is applied to the base electrode of the second transistor T-2;
Relay winding R is energized to close a pair of normally open switches R-1 and R-2. A noise suppression diode 156 may be connected in parallel to the relay winding R. Winding R
When the switch R-1 is energized, the switch R-1 closes, and the holding circuit for the winding R is connected to the cam 1 attached to the shaft 82 in the rest position of the device.
60 to close the switch S-2 which is held in contact with the normally open switch contact piece. This holding circuit holds winding R in an energized state after the drive pulse has disappeared. When switch R-2 closes, switch R-2 energizes electric motor 80 and shaft 82 begins to rotate. When shaft 82 begins its rotation, cam 158, which holds switch S-1 in contact with its normally open switch contact in the rest position of the device, moves switch S-2 into engagement with its normally closed contact. let This action deenergizes relay winding R and opens switches R-1 and R-2. Furthermore, switch S-
Contact with the normally closed contact strip 2 will ground the terminal 162 connected to the bill acceptor and lock the acceptor so that no more bills can be inserted into the acceptor. After one rotation of shaft 82, cams 158 and 160 again drive switches S-1 and S-2, and the circuit returns to the state shown in FIG. In operation of the present stacking device, banknotes passing through the receiving device 128 exit between the rollers 130, 132 in the longitudinal direction thereof and pass through the guide member 128 in front of the ram 98.
, 124.

At the same time, the electric motor 80 is activated by a pulse at the terminal 146 indicating that an accepted bill has passed through the acceptor 128.
energize only one rotation. When the motor shaft 82 rotates once,
A crank 86 with a pin 88 attached thereto reciprocates the bottom portion 94 of the carriage, and the ram 98 contacts the banknote and pushes it into the cushion 4.
6 and over the flanges 36, 38. This action continues until the cash box 12 is full. For example, in one embodiment of the device, up to 1000 bills can be stacked in the cash box 12. cash box 12
When the cash box 12 is full, the latch 61 can be lifted to remove the full cash box 12 from the operative device and a new cash box 12 can be operatively assembled into the device. In this way, the object of the invention can be achieved.

The present invention provides a device for stacking documents received from a document receiving device or the like. The device can hold old, new or wrinkled documents without clogging. The device is equipped with a certificate box that can be easily removed. This device is easy to configure for the results obtained. Although the present invention has been described in detail above, specific examples of the configuration of the present invention are summarized as follows.

(1) A cash box with an open mouth, a space forming member that forms a space in the front part of the opening for receiving documents so as to receive the documents, a flat ram, and a side of the ram that is far from the opening. a ram mounting member mounted so as to traverse the space from its original position and return to its original position through the opening so that documents sent to the space are conveyed into the cash box through the opening; A document stacking device comprising a device for driving the ram and a holding member for holding the document to be fed into the cash box through its opening.

(2) The stacking device according to item (1) above, wherein the holding member is constituted by an inward lip-like portion of the mouth of the cash box.

(3) The stacking device according to the above item (2), which includes a biasing member that is stored in a cash box and biases the banknotes therein toward each inward lip. (4) The stacking device according to item (3) above, wherein the biasing member is constituted by a block made of an elastic material.

(5) The stacking device according to the preceding item (1), comprising a mounting member for manually removably attaching the cash box to the ram mounting member with its opening in operative relation to the ram.

(6) A mounting member for the cash box is provided on the ram mounting member and the cash box so that the cash box can be moved from a position where the opening is away from the space in which bills are placed to a position where the opening is adjacent to this space. The stacking device according to (5), comprising an interconnecting member attached to the cash box, and a manual latch for locking the cash box at the adjacent position. (7) The stacking device according to item (6) above, wherein the interconnecting members are composed of sliding members.

(8) In a stacking device for stacking documents received from a document receiving device or the like so as to produce an output signal in response to the passage of a successful document, a frame and a frame attached to the frame; A chamber forming member forming an escrow chamber for receiving documents from a document receiving device so that the documents extend in the longitudinal direction; a cash box having an elongated opening; a mounting member that is attached to the frame adjacently; and an elongated flat ram;
Ram mounting such that the ram is moved from its original position on the frame across the chamber through the opening and returned to its original position to convey the attachment document from the chamber into the cash box through the opening. a holding member adjacent to the opening and holding documents within the cash box; a biasing member provided within the cash box so as to urge the documents toward the holding member; and a ram. What is claimed is: 1. A document stacking device comprising: a drive device that can be driven and biased; and a biasing member that biases the drive device in response to the signal.

(9) The stacking device according to the preceding item (8), wherein the chamber forming member receives the documents approximately vertically.

(1) The stacking device according to the preceding item (8), wherein the opening of the cash box is generally rectangular, and the holding member is constituted by inward lip-like portions running along mutually opposing edges of the opening.

([1) The stacking device described in the preceding paragraph, manufactured by Co., Ltd., in which the distance between the edges of each lip-shaped portion is narrower than the width of the document.

(8) wherein the rams have a roughly rectangular profile, the width of the rams being narrower than the width of the documents dealing with the width of the rams, and the length of said rams being greater than the length of the documents dealing with the length of said rams; Stacking device.

(auto) A mounting member for attaching the cash box to the frame is provided on the frame and the cash box, and the cash box is moved from a position where the opening is away from the chamber in which documents are placed to a position where the opening is adjacent to the chamber. 8. A stacking device according to claim 8, comprising a releasable member having an interconnecting member for attaching the cash box and a manual latch for holding the cash box in the adjacent position.

(a) A device for stacking documents received from a document receiving device or the like so as to generate an output signal in response to the passing of a passed document, the device having: (a) a frame; A vertical escrow chamber that has a roughly rectangular parallelepiped shape, has an open upper end to receive documents vertically from the document receiving device, and has a hole on one side that allows documents to be released from inside the chamber. (c) a cash box forming a generally rectangular opening; (d) a chamber forming member forming a generally rectangular opening and attached to said frame; (e) each inward facing lip narrower than the width of the document, which deals with the distance between the edges, for retaining the document within said cash box; a biasing member provided in the cash box to bias documents;
f) a mounting member for mounting the cash box on the frame so that its opening is adjacent to the chamber discharge hole; (b) a ram having a flat rectangular document-related surface; each retaining lip is mounted on said frame such that it moves from its original position remote from said mouth through said chamber and mouth to its original position and from said chamber against the action of said biasing member. A ram mounting member configured to carry documents past the ram and into a cash box;
n) A document stacking device comprising a biasing member that biases the drive device in response to an output signal. (auto) an interconnecting member provided on the frame and the cash box to attach the cash box mounting member so that the cash box can be moved from a position where the opening thereof is away from the discharge hole to a position where the opening is adjacent to the hole; The stacking device according to item (4) above, comprising a manual latch that holds the cash boxes in the adjacent position. (Transfer) The stacking device described in the preceding paragraph (2), which is equipped with a corrugated roller that conveys the certificate vertically to the certificate receiving chamber.

It goes without saying that the present invention can be modified in various ways without departing from its spirit.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a side view of one embodiment of the stacking device of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is an electrical diagram of the stacking device of Fig. 1. It is an electrical wiring diagram of a control circuit. 10...Banknote stacking device, 12...Cash box, 36, 38...Flange or lip portion (certificate holding member), 46...Urethane pro Tsuku (biasing member), 80... Electric motor, 86...
Crank, 94...Bottom of the carriage. 96...
...94 flange, 98... Ram, 122
, 124...Guide member (one escrow room (space)
forming member), 128...Banknote accepting device, 13
0,132...Roller (shirring device), 20
0...Banknotes.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a device for stacking long documents received from a document receiving device that sends passed documents in the direction of its large length and releases the documents freely after sending the documents, (a) the frame 50 , 62, 68; (b) a certificate box 12 with a long mouth; (c) document holding lips 36, 38 extending along the vertical edge of the mouth of said certificate box; d) A narrow long escrow chamber is formed in front of the opening of the certificate box, with an entrance located adjacent to the exit of the document receiving device 128 for receiving freely released documents; (e) guide members 122, 124 attached to the frame, adapted to receive a document supported by its short sideways bottom; Vertical pleats are applied to the document being sent to the escrow chamber, and after the document is freed, the document is folded in the escrow chamber where the document is supported by its short horizontal base. a pair of corrugated rollers 130 to prevent bending;
132; and (f) a flat ram 98 extending in the direction of extension of the opening and having dimensions such that it can contact a major area of the document, and mounted on the frame. (g) the ram is moved from its original position on the side of the chamber remote from the mouth, across the chamber, through the mouth and past the document retaining lip; ram mounting members 102 to 120 for mounting the ram in such a way that the ram can be moved back to the position to convey documents from the chamber through the opening and into the certificate box;
h) an electric device 80 for moving the ram in response to the actuation of the document receiving device; an interconnecting member 39, 40, 56 mounted for movement of the mouth from a position adjacent to the chamber;
58; and a manual latch 61 for holding the certificate box in the adjacent position; and a certificate box mounting member for removably attaching the certificate box to the frame.