JPS61127553A - Sheet accumulating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reliably guide a sheet to an impeller by providing a guide for preventing the sheet from slipping out of the impeller on the side portion of the impeller corresponding to the outer peripheral edge of the impeller for holding sheets between blades and accumulating the sheets on a storing portion. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of impellers 21 are rotatably disposed side by side in a storing portion 20 for sheets, for example, bills B. The impellers 21 are rotated by a driving shaft 22, and the bills are inserted and held between plural blades 23 arranged in the peripheral direction. In this arrangement, guides 34 for preventing the bill B rushing in the blade 23 from slipping out from the impeller 21 are provided on the side portion of the impeller 21 corresponding to the outer peripheral edge of the impeller 21. That is, the leading end of the bill B rushing in between the blades 23 of the impeller 21 is reliably guided between the blades 23 by the guides 34. Accordingly, the bill B can be prevented from slipping out of the impeller 21 due to curling of the leading end and bending of edges of the bill.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a paper sheet stacking device for stacking and storing paper sheets such as banknotes, and in particular, a paper sheet stacking device that is equipped with an impeller for stacking and storing paper sheets. The present invention relates to a paper sheet stacking device of a different type.

[Background of the invention]

Conventionally, as a device for sequentially depositing paper sheets being carried out in a storage section, there is a device using an impeller equipped with a plurality of blades as shown in, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 57-27857.

This type of stacking device inserts and holds paper sheets that are carried out one after another between the blades of an impeller, and as the impeller rotates, the paper sheets are stacked one after another in the storage section. When the paper is delivered to the delivery end impeller, the leading edge of a single sheet may curl or the edges may crease. When such a phenomenon occurs, the leading edge of the paper sheet may not be pushed into the impeller and may fly out from one impeller. Additionally, if a subsequent sheet is rapidly sent due to a failure in the conveyance system, this subsequent sheet will be double-fed to the impeller, so it will not fly out from the impeller in the same way as described above. be. For this reason, the intake of paper sheets into the impeller is unstable.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned matters, and is capable of guiding the leading edge of a sheet of paper to the impeller even if the leading edge of the sheet curls or has an edge break when the impeller enters the impeller. The purpose is to provide equipment.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention inserts and holds paper sheets sequentially conveyed between the blades of an impeller from the conveying end, and rotates the impeller to sequentially transport the paper sheets into a storage section. In the case of stacking, a guide member is provided on the side of the impeller corresponding to the outer peripheral edge of the impeller to prevent paper sheets from flying out from the impeller, and this guide member allows the paper to rush into the impeller from the delivery end. The tips of the leaves are guided to the impeller.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a cash handling section of an automatic teller machine equipped with the device of the present invention. In this figure, the cash handling section is equipped with a cash deposit/withdrawal port 2 on the front side of a main body 1 thereof. On one side of this deposit/withdrawal port 2 is a separating device 3 for taking in deposited banknotes B, and on the other side is a separating device 3 for taking in deposited banknotes B into the deposit/withdrawal port 2.
An extrusion fork 4 for extruding is provided. A discrimination section 5 is provided in the center of the main body 1. This identification section 5
determines whether the bill B to be taken in or dispensed is genuine or false.

A pick box 6 is provided at the rear central portion of the main body 1 to collect banknotes B that cannot be identified. Above this, that is, at the rear upper part of the main body 1, a front-back reversing unit 7 for reversing the face-down banknotes B to face up is arranged. The above-mentioned extrusion fork 4 is provided with an accumulating device 8 of the present invention. From the center to the bottom inside the main body 1, from the rear to the front of the main body 1, there is a first denomination box 9 for recycling banknotes, and a second denomination box 10 for recycling banknotes, at the start and end of work. Money J supplies and collects banknotes B once and collects banknotes B that are not suitable for withdrawal! A temporary stack section 12 for temporarily storing the received banknotes B, and a forgotten banknote collection box 13 located below the stack section 12 are arranged. The aforementioned first denomination box 9. Second denomination box 10. A stacking device 14 and a separation mechanism 15 of the present invention are arranged above each of the safe 11 and the temporary stacker section 12.

The above-mentioned parts are connected by a conveyance means, and a gate part is provided at a branch part in the conveyance means. Furthermore, a slip/card mechanism 9 and a passbook printing mechanism are installed above the cash handling section.

The above-mentioned cash handling section temporarily stores the banknotes B inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port 2 by the customer in the temporary stacker section 12, and then sorts them into the first banknotes by denomination. It is stored in the second denomination boxes 9 and 10 and the safe 11. In addition, due to customer requests, 1. The banknotes B stored in the second denomination box 9°1o can be paid out to the deposit/withdrawal port 2 through the front/back reversing mechanism 7 with their surfaces aligned.

Next, a detailed configuration of an example of the above-mentioned integrated device of the present invention will be explained using FIGS. 2 to 4.

Two impellers 21 are rotatably arranged in parallel in a banknote B storage section 20 such as a stacker section, a denomination box, and a safe section. This impeller 21 is rotationally driven by a shaft 22 connected to a drive means (not shown). The impeller 21 includes a plurality of blades 23 in its circumferential direction. Near the outer periphery of the six-impeller 21, into which the banknote B is inserted and held between the blades 23, there is a conveyance roller 24A that grips and conveys the central part of the banknote B.
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24B and guide rollers 25A and 25B facing each other with a gap G in order to guide both ends of the banknote B, respectively.
, 26A, and 26B are provided. Conveyance roller 2
4A, guide roller 25A.

26A is fixed to the shaft 27. This shaft 27 is supported by the main body parallel to the axis of the impeller 21, and is rotationally driven by a driving means (not shown). Conveyance roller 24B and guide roller 25B.

26B is fixed to a shaft 28 supported on the main body.

The aforementioned rollers 24A, 25A, and 26A are rollers 24B.
, 26B, and 26B. Below the conveyance rollers 24A and 24B, there is a central guide body 29 that guides the back side of the central part of the banknote, and a guide roller 2
End guide bodies 30.31 are provided below 5A, 25B and 26A, 26B to guide the back surface of the longitudinal ends of the banknotes. These guide bodies 29, 30, 3] are at 2 when the banknote intake phase is zero, that is, at 2 in FIG.
It is provided along the shape of the blade 23B on the side of the blade 23B that follows the blade 23A when the tip of the blade 23A of the impeller 21 and the tip of the banknote B coincide with each other as shown by the dotted chain line. The guide body 29 corrects, for example, a double fold formed in the center of the banknote B facing the impeller side toward the outside of the impeller 21. Further, the guide bodies 30 and 31 correct, for example, eight folds formed at the ends of the banknotes B toward the outside of the impeller 23. The blades 2 of the impeller 21 are placed in the storage section 20.
A stopper 32 is provided for separating the bill B inserted between the blades 23 from the blades 23.

Moreover, the side of the impeller 21 and the roller 24A for conveyance.

24B and guide rollers 25A, 25B, 26A.

A guide body 33 is provided between the banknote 26B and the side thereof to change the direction in which the banknote B enters the blade surface so as to follow the blade surface. The impeller blade portion of the guide body 33 is formed into an arc having a large radius so that the angle of entry i with respect to the blade surface of the banknote is small.

Further, on the side of the impeller 21 corresponding to the outer periphery of the impeller 21, a guide is provided to prevent the bill B from flying out from the impeller 21 due to curling of the tip of the bill B entering the impeller 23 or bending of the edges. A body 34 is provided.

Next, the operation of an example of the apparatus of the present invention described above will be explained.

The banknotes B that are sequentially carried out are conveyed by rollers 24A and 2 for conveyance.
4B and a guiding roller 25A.

When the bill B enters the portions 25B, 26A, and 26B, the central portion of the bill B receives a conveying force toward the impeller 21 by the conveying rollers 24A, 24B. Further, both ends of the banknote B are provided with guide rollers 25A and 25B.

The banknote B enters the gap G between the banknotes 26A and 26B, and deformations such as folds and sagging of the banknote B are corrected by these guiding rollers 25A, 25B, 26A, and 26B. In addition, in the case of banknotes with multiple folds or soft banknotes, the guide body 33 prevents the ends of the banknotes from folding, buckling, etc., before the banknotes come into contact with the blade surface of the impeller. It enters between the blades 23 of the impeller 21 while being gently guided to turn without any occurrence. Therefore, circulating banknotes and soft banknotes that have been used for a long time can be reliably pushed between the blades 23 of the impeller 21, thereby preventing collisions between the worn-out circulating banknotes and soft banknotes and subsequent banknotes. Can be done. Further, when a circulating banknote having two folds or eight folds forming a chevron shape on the impeller side is conveyed, the above-mentioned folds of this banknote are moved to the impeller 2 by the guide bodies 29, 30, 31. is corrected outwards. Therefore, even this type of banknote can be pushed to the vicinity of the final push between the blades 23 of the impeller 21.

In addition, since the guide body 34 can reliably guide the tip of the banknote B that enters between the blades 23 of the impeller 21, the tip of the banknote B can be curled or the edge of the banknote B can be bent.
It is possible to prevent jumping out from the beginning.

Note that the present invention can also be applied to a device in which the conveying roller and the guiding roller are arranged inwardly of the impeller.

It goes without saying that belts may be passed around these rollers. Paper sheets other than banknotes can also be used.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the leading edge of a paper sheet from flying out from the impeller due to curling or edge bending. As a result, the paper sheets are stably taken into the impeller, and its reliability can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing the configuration of a cash handling device to which an example of the device of the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a side view of an example of the device of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a plan view thereof, and FIG. A perspective view showing an operating situation. B...Banknote, 20...Storage part, 21...Impeller,
23...Blade, 24A, 24B...Roller for conveyance, 25A. 25B, 26A, 26B...Guiding rollers, 29° Fig. 1 Fig. 2 ■ Fig. 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The paper sheets that are sequentially conveyed are inserted between the blades of an impeller from the discharge end and held, and the paper sheets are sequentially accumulated in the storage section by rotation of the impeller, in which the impeller A paper sheet accumulating device characterized in that a guide member is provided on a side of the impeller corresponding to the outer peripheral edge of the impeller to prevent the paper sheets from flying out from the impeller.