JPS6126117B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic closing device for a bill storage opening of a bill storage box used in an automatic teller machine.

A banknote storage box is usually provided inside an automatic teller machine, and the banknote storage box has a banknote storage opening and a banknote ejection port. All banknotes inserted into the automatic teller machine are placed into the storage box through the banknote storage slot. Then, the banknote storage box is periodically pulled out from the automatic teller machine, and the banknotes stored inside the storage box are taken out from the banknote outlet.
The banknote ejection port of the banknote storage box should be kept locked at all times, so that the lock can only be opened by the person in charge when taking out banknotes, but the banknote storage box must be kept open at all times. The bank is required to close only when a withdrawal is made from an automatic teller machine. However, the bill storage slot is often made relatively large and elongated so that bills can be inserted into the box through the slot. Therefore, automatic closing of such a banknote storage opening is not as easy as automatic closing of a coin storage opening in a coin storage box, and it has been difficult to realize it.

This invention overcomes the above-mentioned difficulties while taking into consideration the special characteristics of the bill storage opening in a bill storage box, and automatically closes and locks the bill storage opening only when the bill storage box is pulled out from an automatic teller machine or the like. To provide a device capable of closing a banknote storage opening without the closing means touching the banknotes stored in the banknote storage box.

Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a banknote storage box of an automatic teller machine will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 schematically shows the entire automated teller machine 1. As shown in FIG. The banknotes inserted into the banknote insertion slot 2 are fed into the machine by a feed roller 3 and conveyed to a temporary storage drum 6 through conveyance paths 4 and 5. A presser belt 7 is wrapped around the drum 6, and when a plurality of banknotes are sequentially inserted into the machine from the insertion slot 2 in one deposit operation, all the inserted shielding plates are overlapped. Drum 6 in condition
wrapped around. Then, during the next deposit operation, the drum 6 is driven to rotate, and the stacked banknotes are sent to the alignment device 9 via the conveyance path 8.
If the return button is pressed, the banknotes will be transferred to Drum 6.
From there, it is transported through the transport path 11 to the return port. The aligning device 9 adjusts the mutual misalignment of the stacked banknotes in the length direction and the width direction, and corrects each side of the banknotes to match. Thereafter, the arranged banknotes are stored in the banknote storage box 20 through the banknote insertion slot 21 by the pushing device 10.

In FIGS. 2 to 7, for convenience, the banknote insertion slot 21 side of the banknote storage box 20 is referred to as the front, and the opposite side with the handle 29 is referred to as the rear. The bill storage box 20 is a guide member 12 provided in the automatic teller machine 1.
It is supported along the automatic teller machine 1 so that it can be pushed in or pulled out, and when pushed in, it is fixed in the pushed-in position by a lock 13 provided on the automatic teller machine 1. A lock lever 14 of the lock 13 projects into a hole 25b drilled in a bottom plate 25, which will be described later. The bill storage box 20 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the bottom has a double bottom structure consisting of a bottom plate 25 and an inner bottom plate 24. and,
Banknotes B are stored in the space 22 above the inner bottom plate 24,
The main mechanism of the device according to the invention is housed in the space 23 between the bottom plates 24, 25. A presser plate 26 is provided in the space 22 and is always urged from the rear toward the front by a spring (not shown), and the banknote B is attached to a guide plate 32 and the front surface of the presser plate 26, which will be described later. It is held in a vertical position by being held between the elastic body 26a and the elastic body 26a. In addition, a banknote outlet 27 is provided on the side of the storage box 20.
7 is closed by a door 28 attached to the door 28 so as to be openable and closable by a hinge 28a. The door 28 is locked with a lock (not shown) provided at a suitable location.

Bill storage slot 21 opened in the front of storage box 20
are elongated from top to bottom. Guide plates 32 are attached to the inside edges of both sides of the banknote storage slot 21 via spacers 31, and the storage box 20
The shield plate 30 is guided along a guide path formed by the front plate and the guide plate 32. The shielding plate 30 is made of a thin elastic material such as steel, and is flexible in its thickness direction. Also, its tip is folded back.

At the front in the space 23, a bracket 33 is fixed on the bottom plate 25, on which a deflection roller 34 of the shielding plate 30 and a preload spring 35 are provided. When the storage box 20 is housed in the automatic teller machine 1, the shielding plate 30 is in the space 23, and its tip is curved by the turning roller 34 and the folded tip extends into the lower end of the guide path. . The preload spring 35 is made of a thin leaf spring, and its center portion is bent so as to protrude rearward.

There is a long hole 2 in the width direction of the bottom plate 25.
5a is open. A guide member 36 is fixed to both side edges of this hole 25a.
A slightly curved presser cover 37 is provided at the rear, and a presser plate 38 is provided at the front between the upper ends. On the other hand, the rear end of the shielding plate 30 has a substrate 39 on its upper surface and a suction fitting 40 on its lower surface.
are installed respectively (see Figure 6). Both the substrate 39 and the suction fitting 40 are L-shaped and have contact portions 39a and 40a extending upward and downward at their front ends, respectively. Adsorption fitting 40
The contact portion 40a projects downward through the hole 25a. Further, rollers 4 are provided on both the front and rear sides of the board 39.
1 is provided with a lock fitting 42 on one side of its upper surface. The roller 41 is attached to the bottom plate 25
on both side edges of the hole 25a and on the guide member 36.
The guide member 36, the presser cover 37, and the presser plate 38 guide the guide member 36, the presser cover 37, and the presser plate 38.
The lock fitting 42 has at its rear end an engagement surface 42a that is inclined upward toward the rear. Further, a bracket 43 is fixed to the lower surface of the inner bottom plate 24 in the front part of the space 23.
A lock lever 44 is pivotally attached to the lever 3. The upper and lower ends of the lock lever 44 serve as an operating end 44a and an operating end 44b, respectively.
The operation end 44a is the operation hole 2 made in the inner bottom plate 24.
4a, but does not protrude above the upper surface of the inner bottom plate 24, as is clear from FIG. In short, this operating end 44a is connected from the space 22 to the operating hole 2.
It suffices if it is in a position where you can press it with your finger through 4a. The working end 44b has a slightly acute angle. The lock lever 44 is biased by a presser spring 45 attached to the lower surface of the inner bottom plate 24 so that its working end 44b faces downward and projects downward from a hole 38a formed in the presser plate 38. A part of the vicinity of the operating end 44a is in contact with the lower surface of the inner bottom plate 24. A permanent magnet 15 is attached to the main body of the automatic teller machine 1 by a bracket 16 in correspondence with the attraction fitting 40. The adsorption fitting 40 and the permanent magnet 15 constitute a closing mechanism for the shielding plate 30. When the storage box 20 is housed in the automatic teller machine 1, the suction fitting 40
The contact portion 40a is attracted by the permanent magnet 15.

Now, when you release the lock 13 and try to pull the storage box 20 backwards from the automatic teller machine 1 by holding the handle 29, the storage box 20 will not move backwards because the suction fitting 40 is attracted by the permanent magnet 15. On the other hand, the suction fitting 40, the locking fitting 42, and the shielding plate 30 try to remain stationary. Therefore, storage box 2
As 0 is pulled out backwards, the shielding plate 3
0 moves forward relative to the storage box 20, and the tip of the shielding plate 30 rises along the guide path formed on both sides of the storage opening 21. Then, the contact portion 39a of the substrate 39 comes into contact with the preload spring 35, and the preload spring 3
When the preload spring 35 is slightly deformed against the elasticity of the lock lever 5 (see FIGS. 4 and 7 35A), the active end 44b of the lock lever 44, which is biased downward by the presser spring 45, is locked. It engages with the engagement surface 42a of the metal fitting 42 (indicated by 42A in FIG. 2) (see FIGS. 2 and 6). At this time, the shielding plate 30 has already completely closed the banknote storage opening 21. The storage box 20 is almost pulled out from the automatic teller machine 1. The storage box 20 is completely pulled out from the automatic teller machine 1, and the suction fitting 40
Even if it separates from the permanent magnet 15, the lock
Since the lever 44 is biased by the presser spring 45, the lock lever 44 and the lock fitting 42
It will never come out of engagement. In addition, storage box 20
For the same reason, both 44 and 42 do not come out of engagement even if they are turned upside down or vibrated.

The banknotes B in the banknote storage box 20 are pressed from the rear by the press plate 2.
It is held down by 6. Banknote storage opening 21
Since the banknote B is open, the central part of the banknote B in the width direction may be slightly bent so as to protrude toward the storage slot 21. However, the guide plate 32 has a certain thickness and the shielding plate 30 moves in front of the guide plate 32, so when the shielding plate 30 moves in the direction of closing the storage opening 21, it shields the slightly bent bill. Board 3
0 will never collide.

After opening the door 28 of the banknote outlet 27 and removing the banknotes from the storage box 20, if you press the operating end 44a of the lever 44 in the hole 24a with your finger, the lock will be activated.
As the lever 44 and the lock fitting 42 are disengaged, the lock fitting 42 and the like are returned slightly to the rear by the repulsive force of the preload spring 35, so that both the lock fittings 42 and 42 are disengaged again.
4 and 42 never transition to the engaged state. After that, when the storage box 20 is pushed into the automatic teller machine 1, the contact part 40a of the adsorption fitting 40 is attached to the permanent magnet 1.
5, and completely opposite to the above, the suction fitting 40,
The locking metal fittings 42, the shielding plate 30, etc. are in the storage box 2.
0, the banknote storage opening 21 is opened again.

It goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to banknote storage boxes in automatic teller machines, but can be applied to banknote storage boxes used in all types of equipment.

As described above, the automatic closing device for the banknote storage opening in the banknote storage box according to the present invention is guided by the inner surfaces on both sides of the banknote storage opening formed at one end of the banknote storage box and the guide plates provided thereon. The bottom of the banknote storage box has a double bottom structure consisting of a bottom plate and an inner bottom plate, and a flexible shielding plate made of a thin elastic body is connected to the guide path, and the bottom plate and the inner bottom plate. is provided so as to be movable along a guide member provided in the double bottom space between the shielding plate, and at one end of the shielding plate that is always in the double bottom space,
A locking metal fitting and a suction metal fitting having a contact portion protruding outward from the banknote storage box are attached, and an operating end that engages with the locking metal fitting when the guide shielding plate reaches a position where the banknote storage opening is closed. and an operating end extending into an operating hole drilled in the inner bottom plate so as not to protrude from the upper surface of the inner bottom plate into the banknote storage space. A pressing spring is provided in the double bottom space for urging the lock lever to maintain engagement with the locking metal fitting, and the bill storage box is accommodated therein. The device is characterized in that a permanent magnet is provided on the device at a position where it comes into contact with the contact portion of the adsorption fitting in order to move the shielding plate in a direction to close the banknote storage opening when the device is pulled out. .

The flexible shielding plate is made of thin elastic material.
It is movable between the bill storage opening and the double bottom space, and when the bill storage box is pulled out, the shielding plate moves in the direction of closing the storage opening, so the bill storage opening is relatively large and long. Even when the banknote storage box is removed from the device in which it is housed, it can be automatically closed and securely locked after closing. In addition, a guide plate is provided inside the guide path of the shielding plate in the banknote storage slot, and since this guide plate has a certain thickness, the banknotes stored in the storage box are Even if the shielding plate bends slightly so as to protrude toward the storage opening, the shielding plate smoothly moves in the direction to close the storage opening without hitting such banknotes. Furthermore, the banknote storage box has a double-bottom structure, and a locking metal fitting and a suction metal fitting are attached to one end of the shielding plate that is always housed in this double-bottom space, and it is closed together with these metal fittings. The lock lever and push spring that make up the mechanism are also provided within the double bottom space, and the closing mechanism and the space in which banknotes are stored are separated by an inner bottom plate, and the lock lever and push spring are also provided within the double bottom space. The operating end of the lever extends into the operating hole so as not to protrude from the upper surface of the inner bottom plate into the banknote storage space, so that banknotes can be stored without coming into contact with the closing mechanism and the operating end for unlocking and being disturbed. is possible, and conversely the closing mechanism also operates reliably without being disturbed by the presence of banknotes. The operating end of the lock lever extends through the operating hole drilled in the inner bottom plate, so after removing the bill from the bill storage box, the lock lever can be opened by simply pressing the operating end located inside the operating hole with your finger. This disengages the lock fitting and allows the shielding plate to be easily unlocked.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the entire bill automatic teller machine, FIGS. 2 to 5 show a bill storage box, and FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view. Fig. 3 is a partially cutaway plan view, Fig. 4 is a sectional view along the - line of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a - of Fig. 2.
6 and 7 are enlarged views showing the state of engagement between the lock fitting and the lock lever, FIG. 6 is a side view, and FIG. 7 is a plan view. 1... Automatic banknote deposit machine, 14... Permanent magnet, 2
0...Banknote storage box, 21...Banknote storage opening, 22,2
3... Space, 24... Inner bottom plate, 24a... Operation hole, 25... Bottom plate, 30... Shielding plate, 32... Guide plate, 36... Guide member, 40... Suction metal fitting, 42
...Lock fitting, 44 ...Lock lever, 44
a...operating end, 44b...acting end, 45...pushing.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A guide path is constituted by the inner surfaces on both sides of a bill storage opening opened at one end of the bill storage box and a guide plate provided thereon, and the bottom of the bill storage box is connected to the bottom plate. It has a double bottom structure consisting of an inner bottom plate, and a strong and flexible shielding plate made of a thin elastic material.
It is provided movably along the guide path and the bottom plate member provided in the double bottom space between the bottom plate and the inner bottom plate, and is provided at one end of the shielding plate that is always in the bottom space. , a locking metal fitting and a suction metal fitting having a contact portion protruding outward from the banknote storage box are attached, and the function of engaging with the locking metal fitting when the shielding plate reaches a position where the banknote storage opening is closed; A lock lever having an end and an operating end extending into an operating hole drilled in the inner bottom plate so as not to protrude from the upper surface of the inner bottom plate into the bill storage space is swingable into the double bottom space. A pressing spring is provided in the double bottom space, which is pivotably mounted and urges the lock lever to maintain engagement with the lock fitting, and the bill storage box is accommodated in the bill storage box. In order to move the bottom plate in the direction of closing the banknote storage opening when the banknote is pulled out of the device, a permanent magnet is provided on the device at a position where it comes into contact with the contact portion of the suction fitting. An automatic closing device for a banknote storage opening in a banknote storage box.