JPS6118666A - Paper accommodating apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To certainly prevent the clogging of paper by aslantly arranging a flexible guide plate at the paper insertion part between the edge part of a cassette and the inlet side roller out of a pair of rollers arranged over the opened port of the cassette. CONSTITUTION:A pair of rollers 51 and 22 are arranged, keeping a prescribed interval over the opened port of an accommodation cassette 15 for accommodating the sheets of paper (a)... such as paper money, etc. in superposed state, and a belt 17 is laid between the both rollers 51 and 22. The sheet of paper (a) carried-in through a pair of transport rollers 53 by the belt 17 is transported over the cassette 15. A flexible guide plate 29 is arranged aslantly in the paper insertion part between the inlet-side roller 51 out of a pair of rollers 51 and 22 and the edge part 15a on the inlet side of the cassette 15. Said guide plate 29 can be separated outside the cassette 15 by the excitation of a rotary type solenoid 30 when the sheet of paper at the position alpha is inserted to the position beta.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet storage device that stores banknotes in a storage cassette, such as an automatic teller machine used in banking or the like.

(1]) Background of the Invention In addition to banknotes, the above-mentioned paper sheets include securities, cards, regular paper, etc., but when it comes to storing banknotes, the conventional storage of banknotes is that banknotes are piled up. A pair of front and rear rollers are provided at a predetermined distance above the opening of the storage cassette stored in the storage cassette, and a belt stretched between these rollers transports the banknotes to the top of the storage cassette and causes the banknotes to fall. It was stored away.

However, the conventional structure has the following problems.

In other words, at the entrance of the storage cassette, the tips of the banknotes to be stored may get caught on the edges of banknotes already stored in the storage cassette, resulting in a banknote jam. This is especially true when transporting and storing deformed banknotes with folds.

(C) Purpose of the Invention This invention prevents the leading edge of paper sheets that are about to be stored from getting caught on the end (rear end) of paper sheets that have already been stored in the storage cassette. To provide a paper sheet storage device which eliminates the clogging phenomenon of paper sheets caused by already stored paper sheets and paper sheets which tend to be stored.

(D) Summary of the Invention This invention provides a method for storing paper sheets between the entrance side roller of a pair of rollers disposed above the opening of the paper sheet storage cassette and the end of the paper sheet storage cassette. The paper sheet storage device is characterized in that a flexible guide plate, which bends as paper sheets pass, is arranged at the insertion site in an inclined manner from below the belt to above the belt.

(E) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, a guide plate is provided at the insertion site of the paper sheet, so that the guide plate is deformed by the passage of the paper sheet. The deformation of this guide plate covers the edges of the paper sheets that are already stored in the storage cassette, thereby preventing the paper sheets that are already stored and the paper sheets that are being stored from getting caught. This has the effect of eliminating the clogging phenomenon.

(f) Examples of the invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

The drawing shows a paper sheet storage device, and in FIG. 1, 15 is a storage cassette in which paper sheets (hereinafter referred to as banknotes, hereinafter simply referred to as banknotes) a... are stored in a stacked manner. A pair of rollers 51 and 22 are provided above the openings of the storage capacity cellars 1 to 15, separated by a predetermined distance.

A belt 1 is placed between these pair of rollers 51 and 22.
7 is stretched, and the conveyance roller 53.
The banknotes conveyed from the side are conveyed above the storage cassette 15 by the belt 17 described above.

Between the roller 51 on the entrance side of the pair of rollers 51.22 mentioned above and the end portion 15a on the artificial side of the storage cassette 150-
A flexible guide plate 29 is arranged in an inclined manner in the banknote insertion portion.

This guide plate 29 is made of a soft material (for example, a leaf spring, rubber material, etc.) that bends in the direction of the imaginary line in the figure as the banknotes pass through it. They are arranged in an inclined manner from below the belt 17 to above the belt 17 so that the rear conveyance position corresponding to the exit side is higher.

Further, the aforementioned guide plate 29 has its lower end fixed to a rotation support shaft 60, and this support shaft 60 is pivotally attached to a support plate 61.
It is connected to a rotary type solenoid 30 via three levers 62, 63, and 64, and when a banknote at solid line position α in FIG. the lever 64 to the first position.
By rotating the guide plate 2 in the direction of the arrow in the figure (clockwise) and swinging the rotation support shaft 60 in the reverse clockwise direction, the guide plate 2
9 is once separated from the storage case 15 to the outside (in the direction of arrow C), and such an operation is performed every time a banknote passes.

When a banknote passes through the guide plate 29 located at the solid line position in FIG. Note that in FIG. 1, reference numeral 18 denotes a clip screwed to the belt 17, and the clip 18 is used to hold the bills that are being conveyed. 24 is a brake lever for removing the bill from the clip 18. A pad 25 is attached to the free end of the brake lever 24, and a solenoid 23 is used to move the brake lever 24 down as appropriate. is formed.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the main parts of the storage device, and next, the overall configuration of the storage device will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

In the same figure, 1 is a banknote (here, a 1ooo yen bill, a 50
0 yen bill (insertion of 10,000 yen bill) 0 At the insertion slot 1, a pill checker 2 is provided following the insertion slot 1 to determine the authenticity and denomination of the bill, and only genuine bills are passed through the contact roller 57.
57, rollers 58, 59 to the first pool section 3, and I cola 65, 66, and 53 to the second pool section 4, respectively.

Here, 500 of the genuine bills are placed in one first pool section 3.
The second pool section 4 into which the 0 yen bill and the ioooo yen bill are inserted is covered with the 1000 yen bill among the genuine bills.

The above-mentioned first pool part 3 has a pool drum 10 connected to a pool drum shaft 7 which is linked to a first motor 5 through a belt 6 through a clutch 8 and a brake 9 (see FIG. 3). Endless belts (not shown) are provided above and below the drum 10 along the drum 10.

Further, a flapper 12 is provided between the rollers 59 and 65 at a position close to the pool drum 10, and the flapper 12 is configured to be driven by the first solenoid 11.

Further, a first sensor 14 for detecting passage of the trailing edge of banknotes is disposed at the upper left portion of the pool drum 10 as viewed in the drawing.

On the other hand, the second pool section 4 includes the storage J set 15 and a pair of left and right rollers 51 and 22 provided above it.
(Formed by +3 and belt 17??-,
A second hinge υ16 is disposed in front of the rollers 53, 53 described above to detect the leading edge of a banknote (here, a 1000 yen banknote) conveyed from the roller 66 side.

The belt 17 described above is configured to drive the belt 17 by transmitting power from a gear 20 disposed coaxially with the rotating shaft of the second motor 19 to a gear 21 disposed coaxially with the roller 22.

In addition, the right side tension end of the belt 17 mentioned above is provided with the same belt 17.
A third sensor Fl-27 is installed to detect the presence or absence of the attached clip 18.

Furthermore, the storage capacity forming the second pool part 4 is placed on the right side of the opening of the cellar 15, which presses the banknotes already stored in the storage capacity cellars 1 to 15 downward from the upper side thereof. A separation lever 26 is provided above the storage cassette 15 to form an appropriate gap.This separation lever 26 is driven by a fourth solenoid 31.

On the other hand, the guide plate 29 already explained in FIG. 1 is provided on the left side of the opening section of the storage capacity cellar 1-15. This guide plate 29 is provided to prevent the rear end of banknotes already stored in the storage capacity cellar 1-15 and the front end of newly conveyed banknotes from getting caught in each other. As already explained, the solenoid 29 is driven by the third solenoid 30 of the rotary type.

Further, on both sides of the roller 51 described above, there are feed rollers 7.
01fi KRf), and a preliminary feed roller 47 is provided at a predetermined interval in the middle of the tensioned part of the top 1.
47 are horizontally mounted, and each of these rollers 70°47.4.7 is configured to be driven by a fifth motor 48.

In other words, the gear 4 is coaxially connected to the rotating shaft of the fifth motor 48.
9, this gear 49 is meshed with the gear 50 below it, and a timing belt 56 that is interlocked with this gear 5o is formed to drive the aforementioned rollers 70, 47, and 47. So, each of these rollers/17.
A fifth sensor 55 is provided between /17, and this fifth sensor 5
5, each roller 70. /I-7, 47 is designed to detect one rotation.

Further, a gate roller 52 is provided below the mouth/rough 0 and is provided opposite to this roller 70. This gate roller 52 is rotatable in the banknote storage direction (clockwise), but has a function of being locked in the banknote dispensing direction (counterclockwise) by a one-way latch (not shown), as described above. Only the banknotes that have come into contact with the roller 70 are fed out toward the conveying roller 53 side.

Further, a receiving plate 46 for receiving stacked banknotes is movably provided in the storage cassette 15, and this receiving plate 46 is configured to be moved up and down by a motor 42.

That is, the gear 43 is fitted to the rotating shaft of this fourth motor 42, and the single-shaped push-up lever 45 is connected to another gear t744 that meshes with this gear 43. When the gear 43 is rotated clockwise by the fourth motor 42, the above-mentioned receiving plate 46 is moved down via the push-up lever 45, and vice versa. It is formed to move upward.

On the other hand, near the roller 66 described above, a substantially fan-shaped flapper 34 for switching the direction of conveyance of banknotes from side to side is provided, and this flapper 34 is configured to be driven by the fifth solenoid 33.

When the flapper 34 is operated to the imaginary line position shown in FIG.
A storage safe 39 is provided on the right side of this storage section 35, and a third storage box is provided on the left side.
A pusher 38 is provided which is driven by a motor 36 and a lever 37, and when the third motor 36 is driven, the spring 4
1, the pusher 38 is moved to the right to store banknotes in the storage section 35 into the storage safe 39 through the opening 39a.

Further, a fourth sensor 4O is disposed below the aforementioned roller 68, and is configured to detect whether or not a banknote has passed toward the storage section 35 side.

In addition, in Fig. 2, [pull 54] is the sixth motor;
The motor 54 is used to drive the conveyance system of the entire apparatus. In addition, each of the above-mentioned sensors 14°16.27, 40.
55 is formed by a photoelectric sensor.

FIG. 3 shows a control circuit for the conveying device 9, in which the CPU 70 controls each motor 5, according to the program stored in the memory 69.
19.3'6, 42.48, 54, each solenoid 11,
23, 30. 31, 33, each sensor 1/I, 16.27
, 40, 55, the clutch 8, the brake 9, and the pill checker 2, and the memory 69 stores necessary data such as the number of bills to be transported.

The operation of the conveying device configured as described above will be explained with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.

The CPLI 70 drives and controls each circuit device, and when a bill is inserted into the insertion slot 1, the authenticity of the bill is determined in a first step 71. The banknotes are returned to the insertion slot 1 through the .

On the other hand, in the case of "true", in a third step 73, the rotation of the sixth motor 54 for driving the conveyance system of the entire apparatus is controlled.

When the rotation of the sixth motor 54 is controlled, in a fourth step 74, the third motor 36 is rotated and the lever 37 is operated to push the bushing 38 to the right in FIG. 2 against the spring 41. , remove the banknotes of the previous customer from the storage section 35 at frontage 3'9a.
In a fifth step 75, the fourth t-wall 40 is controlled to check whether the banknotes of the previous customer are stored.

Further, in a sixth step 76, the fourth solenoid 31 is driven and controlled, and the separation lever 26, which is located at the imaginary line position in FIG. It is pressed downward, and in a seventh step 77, it is checked whether the fourth solenoid 31 described above has completed its operation.

Next, in an eighth step 78, the fourth motor 42 is controlled to rotate counterclockwise, and the push-up lever 45 is moved downward via the gears 43 and 44.
6 in conjunction with each other, this receiver moves the plate 46 downward to form a gap above the pool part 4 in advance, and in the ninth step 7, this gap is checked.

Next, in a tenth step 80, the aforementioned fourth motor 42 and fourth solenoid 31 are controlled to A.

On the other hand, in the eleventh step 81, it is determined whether the genuine bill is a 1,000 yen bill, a 5,000 yen bill, or a 10,000,000 yen bill, and if the genuine bill is a 5,000 yen bill or a 10,000 yen bill, in the twelfth step 82, The first motor 5, the clutch 8, and the first solenoid 11 are respectively driven, and the first solenoids 1 to '11 displace the flapper 12 from the solid line position to the imaginary line position in FIG. is transmitted to the pool drum shaft 7 via the belt 6, and the banknotes conveyed from the rollers 58 and 59 side are wound onto the pool drum 10 by rotation of the pool drum 10 in the direction of the arrow 13. If the trailing edge of the bill passes through the first sensor 14, it is checked in a thirteenth step 83 whether the first sensor 14 is turned off, and in a fourteenth step 84, the clutch 8 is turned off and the brake 9 is applied. operation to stop the rotation of the pool drum 10, turn off the first solenoid 11, and return this solenoid 11 to the solid line position in FIG.

Note that the pooled banknotes are shifted little by little so that they can be easily checked.

Even a 5,000 yen bill becomes 1,000 in the 11th step 81 mentioned above.
If it is determined that the bill is not a 0 yen bill, that is, if a 1000 yen bill is brought in, first, in a fifteenth step 85,
The third sensor 27 is controlled, and this sensor g27 checks whether the clip 18 is attached to the belt 17. Then, in a 16th step 86, the third solenoid 30 is driven, and the flexible guide The plate 29 is operated from the imaginary line position in FIG. 2 to the solid line position in the same figure.

Next, in a 17th step 87, the second sensor 16 is controlled to check whether the leading edge of the banknote conveyed from the rollers 67 and 66, which are arranged opposite to each other, has reached the 1st, 16th, and 100th position. Then, the time until the clip 18 located at the imaginary line position in FIG.
Check that the tip of the bill is inserted between the belt 17 and the clip 18 and that the timer mentioned above has timed up.

Next, before) after the time of the book! ! 19 Step 8 drives and controls the second motor 19, and this second Tanabata 19
The rotational force of the gear 20 provided on the rotating shaft is transmitted to the gear 21 below the belt 17, which drives the belt 17 via the roller 22, thereby conveying the banknotes to the top of the storage capacity cellar 1-15.

Here, at an intermediate position where the above-mentioned banknote is conveyed from the rollers 53, 53 side to the storage cassette 15, the above-mentioned banknote is transferred to the flexible bank which has already been operated to the solid line position in FIG. 2 at the 16th step 86. This will pass through the location where the guide plate 29 is located.

When this bill passes through the aforementioned guide plate 29, the guide plate 29 is bent by the passing bill (see the imaginary line in FIG. 1) and is inserted into the rear end portion of the bill already stored in the storage case 15. To prevent the tip of a coming banknote from getting caught.

After checking in the 20th step 90 whether or not the banknote is in the storage position, that is, whether or not the banknote has been conveyed at the predetermined drop position J, in the 21st step 91,
The second motor 19 is turned off to stop the drive of the belt 17, and at the same time, the second solenoid 23 is driven, and its plunge +723a is pushed down to move the brake lever 24 downward, and the free end of this lever 2/l is (Press the button pad 25 downwards on the banknotes on the splitting lever 26.

Next, in a 22nd step 92, after checking whether the operation of the second solenoid 23 is completed, in a 23rd step 93, the second motor 19 is again driven and controlled, and each element 20, 21.
If the belt 17 is driven again through the clip 18
The banknotes held between the belt 17 and the belt 17 are pulled out from between the belts 18 and 17.

By driving the belt 17 described above, the clip 18 returns to the standby position at the time of insertion and waits for the next bill to arrive. However, the initial position of the clip 18 (which is the virtual line position in FIG. 2) is detected by the third sensor 27.

After checking at the 24th step 94 whether or not the clip 18 described above is in the standby position, the 25th step 95 is performed.
Then, the second solenoid 23 is turned off, its plunger 23a is returned to its original position (not shown by a solid line in FIG. 2), and the brake lever 24 is similarly returned to its normal position, and the third solenoid 30 is ], and then move the flexible guide plate 29 to the position shown in the imaginary line in FIG.

Next, in the 26th step 96, it is checked whether the pool is completed or old, and if the pool is not yet completed, that is, if a large number of 1000 yen holes are sequentially input, the first step 71. Return to and repeat the steps below. In particular, the guide plate 29 reciprocates between the solid line position and the imaginary line position in FIG. 2 every time one banknote passes.

Next, in the 27th step 97, it is checked whether the customer has requested a return (transaction, etc.), and if the customer has requested a purchase operation (transaction processing) without requesting a return. In the 28th step 98, this is checked, and in the 29th step 99, the first solenoid 11, the clutch 8, and the fifth solenoid 33 are turned on. position, the rotation of the first motor 5 is controlled by the belt 6,
The pool drum 10 is rotated in the direction of the arrow 13 in FIG. 2 via the clutch 8 and the pool drum shaft 7, and the banknotes in the pool section 3 are conveyed downward via the square roller 65.

Since the above-mentioned fifth solenoid 33 is turned on and the flapper 34 below the roller 65 is operated to the imaginary line position in FIG. It is led to the storage section 35 via rollers 67, 66 and roller 68 which are arranged opposite to each other.

Then, in a 30th step 100, the fourth sensor 40 is controlled to detect that the banknote has been conveyed to a predetermined position in the storage section 35 when the trailing end of the banknote passes through the sensor 40.

After the above-mentioned detection by the fourth sensor 40, the 31st step 101
Then, the fifth solenoid 33, the first motor 5, and the sixth motor 5
4. Each clutch 8 is controlled to be off.

Note that the banknotes that have been conveyed to the predetermined position in the storage section 35 are stored in the storage safe 39 by the next customer's operation, as already described in the fourth step 74, and the transaction process is completed.

On the other hand, if the customer requests a return at the 27th step 97 (in the case of canceling the transaction, etc.), the next 32nd step 10
In step 2, both the first motor 5 and the sixth motor 54 are reversely controlled, and in step 33, the fourth solenoid 31 is driven to operate the separation lever 26 to the virtual line position in FIG. By driving the motor 42 and rotating the gear 43 in the clockwise direction, the receiving plate 46 is moved upward via the gear 44 and the push-up lever 45, and the stored banknotes are transferred to the payout roller 70 and the preliminary feed rollers 47, 47. to press.

Next, in the 34th step 104, it is checked whether or not the feeding set is completed, and in the 35th step 105, the power supply to the fourth motor 42 is cut off, and the fifth motor 48 is driven. The counterclockwise rotational force of a gear 49 provided on the rotating shaft of the motor 48 is transmitted to the payout roller 70 and the preliminary feed roller 47°47 via the gear 50 and the timing belt 56, and the banknotes are transferred to the upper part of the storage cassette 15. from there to the outside.

The detection of one rotation of each of the rollers 70, 47, and 47 described above is
In step 106, the fifth sensor 55 is controlled and detected.

Next, in a 37th step 107, the rotation of the fifth motor 48 is stopped, and the first solenoid 11 and the clutch 8 are driven and controlled.

Then, by turning on the first solenoid 11, the flapper 12
By operating the first motor 5 to the imaginary line position shown in FIG. 2 and turning on the clutch 8, the first motor 5, which is already in reverse rotation, is
The reverse rotation force is transmitted to the pool drum 10 to reversely rotate the pool drum 10 in the direction of arrow 32 in FIG.

In this way, the banknotes fed out from above the storage cassette 15 will be distributed between 70.52, 53.53, and 6 on each day.
The 1,000 yen bill is guided to the roller 65 portion through the 6.67 spaces in this order, passes below the flapper 12, and is conveyed to the pool drum 10 which is being reversed. The top of the 10,000 yen bill is placed in a circular shape.

Next, in a 38th step 108, it is detected that the leading end of the banknote led to the pool section 3 has reached the sensor 14, and in a 39th step 109, the clutch 8 is controlled to be turned off and the brake 9 is controlled to be turned on. The reverse rotation of the pool drum 10 is stopped.

Next, in a 40th step 110, it is checked whether or not a predetermined number of sheets have been fed out, and if a large number of sheets have been fed out, the process returns to the 34th step 104, and the above movement is repeated. The bills are fed out and stacked one after another on the rubylum 10 and pooled.

Then, in the forty-first step 110, the f-nick indicates that the predetermined number of sheets have been fed out.[Later, in the forty-first step 111, the brake 9 is set to A-7, and the
Both the solenoid 11 and the clutch 8 are turned on, and the pool drum 10 is rotated again in the direction of arrow 32 in FIG.
The banknotes pooled in the pool section 3 are passed through the -L side of the flapper 12 operated to the imaginary line position in the same figure, and are then transferred to the insertion slot 1 in a batch through each []-ra 59, 58° 57 and the pill checker 2 in this order. and release it.

Next, after it is checked in the 42nd step 112 that the return of the banknote has been completed, in the 43rd step 113, each element 5, 8, 31, 51 is turned on and the banknote feeding operation is completed.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the hanging bill payout operation, and this flowchart 1- is shown in FIG.
Therefore, the parts in FIG. 5 that are the same as those in FIG.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a side view of the main parts of the paper sheet storage device, FIG. 2 is a side view of the device during rest, FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram, and FIG. 4 and 5 are flowcharts ~1~. 15...Paper storage cassette 17...Belt 21.51...1 piece 2
g...Flexible guide plate

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pair of rollers are provided at a predetermined distance above the opening of the paper sheet storage cassette, and paper sheets are transported by a belt stretched between these rollers to store the paper sheets. A paper sheet storage device that stores paper sheets in a cassette, wherein a sheet insertion portion between the one roller and the end of the paper sheet storage cassette is provided with a sheet that can be bent by passing the sheet. A paper sheet storage device in which a flexible guide plate is arranged in an inclined manner from below the belt to above the belt.