JPS6242296A - Paper money handler - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a banknote handling device, and more particularly to a recycling type banknote handling device that can optionally perform a banknote replenishment operation.

[Background of the invention]

In the recycle-type banknote handling device, banknotes inserted from the deposit slot are conveyed to a discriminator via a conveyance path.

After determining the denomination of the banknotes, authenticity, front and back, and whether they are normal or defective, the defective banknotes are returned through the return slot, and the meal tickets are stacked in the temporary stacking section. Thereafter, the banknotes are stored in storage boxes for each denomination from the temporary stacking section, and these stored banknotes are used as withdrawal banknotes at the time of withdrawal. In the future, it is envisaged that banknote handling devices as bank terminals will be used for labor saving and rationalization, such as holiday operations. In this case, in case of a shortage of bills to be dispensed, it is necessary to load replenishment bills into the safe in advance and automatically replenish the safe while processing is being performed by the device. On the other hand, it is also an important issue to reduce the number of constituent units of a banknote handling device to reduce its cost and size.

Conventionally, as a bill handling device that can replenish one bill and has fewer constituent units, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 58-
There is one described in Japanese Patent No. 1.84692. This device uses a simple mechanism to quickly align the front and back sides of banknotes for transactions by discriminating the banknotes in the discriminating unit, aligning the front and back sides of the banknotes, and temporarily stacking them in the stacking unit. Further, the above-mentioned stacking section also serves as a banknote replenishment safe, thereby eliminating the need for extra units. However, in the above device, the temporary stacking section for deposited banknotes and the replenishment port are integrated, and although it is possible to separate the banknotes in the temporary stacking section and the banknotes to be replenished using the same separator, it is difficult to separate the deposited banknotes. During processing, the replenishment slot is treated as a temporary stacking unit, so replenishment bills cannot be loaded into the replenishment slot, and the transaction status of the device (e.g. deposit status, withdrawal form S>) is monitored. However, there is a problem in that replenishment bills must be loaded into the replenishment slot when the device is not operating.

[Purpose of the invention]

The purpose of the present invention is to improve such conventional problems, and to make it possible to perform transactions regardless of whether the transaction status of the device is a deposit status or a withdrawal status.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling device that allows replenishment of banknotes to be loaded into a replenishment safe at any time, regardless of whether the device is in operation or not.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, 1 the banknote handling device of the present invention includes a deposit/withdrawal port for taking in or discharging banknotes, a conveyance path for conveying deposited or disbursed banknotes, and a banknote handling device for determining the denomination, fitness, or damage of the banknotes on the conveyance path. It has a discriminator that discriminates authenticity, etc., and a temporary accumulation means that temporarily accumulates banknotes determined as usable by the discriminator,
In a banknote handling device that handles deposited banknotes as withdrawal banknotes,
A replenishment safe for replenishing a push plate with dispensed banknotes, a separating mechanism for separating and feeding out the replenished banknotes on the push plate of the replenishment safe, and the temporary accumulation means and replenishment are provided below the temporary accumulation means. A separator is inserted between the safes and separates banknotes in the temporary S stacking means from banknotes to be replenished, and the separator is characterized in that the separation mechanism separates not only the banknotes to be replenished but also the banknotes in the temporary stacking means. There is.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to one drawing.

FIG. 1 is an internal structural diagram of a recycling-type bill handling device showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a deposit/withdrawal port that serves as both a deposit and withdrawal port. At the bottom of the deposit/withdrawal port 1, there is a deposit separating mechanism 2 that separates banknotes one by one. Nearby, impeller accumulating mechanisms 3 for accumulating disbursed banknotes or deposited and returned banknotes are provided, each with the push plate 2a of the deposit Rt mechanism 2 as a boundary. 8 is a discriminator, and the banknotes separated one by one by the deposit separation mechanism 2 are
Banknotes are transferred to this discriminator 8 via the Wi feed path and conveyed to the impeller stacking mechanism 3, on the other hand, are transferred from above the 1 discriminator 8. On the left side of the discriminator 8, there is a temporary accumulation mechanism 4 that temporarily holds the discriminated deposited banknotes, and below the temporary accumulation mechanism 4 there is a separator 5 and a replenishment safe (hereinafter referred to as A cash box 6 (referred to as a safe) is disposed below the money box 6, and a collect box 7 for accumulating deposited banknotes and collect tickets is disposed below the deposit box 6.

In the front stage of the discriminator 8, there is a banknote thickness detection mechanism 9, and in the rear stage of the discriminator 8, there is a banknote sorting machine (hereinafter referred to as a gate).
10 are provided. There is a gate 10a in the middle of the conveyance path between the gate 10 and the temporary accumulation mechanism 4, a gate 10b in the middle of the conveyance path between the gate 10a and the impeller base accumulation structure 3, and a gate 10b in the middle of the conveyance path between the gate 10 and the reject box 7. A gate 10c is provided, storage boxes 11 and 12 for storing 1,000 yen bills and 10,000 yen bills are provided in the middle of the conveyance path that separates from the gate 10c, and furthermore, a gate 10d and a gate l are provided.
13.Thousand yen bill accumulation mechanism via Oe. Manmonfuda accumulation mechanism 14
is provided. The conveyance path via the gate 10c joins the conveyance path connected to the deposit/distribution mechanism 2, and is connected to the banknote discriminator 8. In addition, the temporary accumulation mechanism 4 and the gate 1゜a
A gate 10f is provided between them, and the banknotes are distributed to nine front-back reversing mechanisms 15 so that the front and back of the banknotes are reversed. In the vicinity of the temporary stacking mechanism 4, the thousand yen bill stacking mechanism 13, and the ten thousand yen bill stacking mechanism 14, there are bill separating mechanisms 4a and 13, respectively.
a, 14 a are arranged.

Note that the safe 6 is taken out to the outside by opening the push plate on the outside of the TJl gold handling device, and then is replenished with banknotes and stored inside again.

In the recycling type cash handling device, if the ratio of the number of bills to be paid and the number of bills to be deposited is not the same, there will be a shortage of bills to be paid, and it will naturally be necessary to replenish the number of bills for withdrawal. In addition, some devices are equipped with a refill port separate from the storage box that stores the banknotes for withdrawal, but providing a separate refill port has the disadvantage of increasing the size of the device. As mentioned above, in many cases, the temporary stacking section and the replenishment port are also used. , a replenishment safe 6 is provided at the bottom of the temporary storage section 4 for deposited banknotes.
Furthermore, a separator is provided between the temporary stacking section 4 and the replenishment safe 6 to distinguish between the temporarily accumulated banknotes and the banknotes to be replenished.

This allows banknotes to be loaded at any time to replenish dispensing banknotes, regardless of whether the device is processing or not. After the banknotes are replenished, normal transactions are possible regardless of the presence or absence of banknotes in the money Jij6.

2 and 3 are a side view and a front view showing the positional relationship of the temporary accumulation mechanism, separator, and safe in FIG. 1. FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the temporary stacking mechanism 4 is composed of an impeller 16 and a banknote stopper 17.
A separator 5 driven by motors 18 and 19 is provided at the bottom of the separator 5, and a motor 20t is provided at the bottom of the separator 5.
- A safe 6 is provided with a push plate 21 that is moved.

Furthermore, near the banknote stopper 17, there is a feed roller 4b and a gate roller 4c that separate and convey each banknote one by one.
A separation mechanism 4a is provided. Separator 5
is for separating the temporary storage section 4 and the safe 6, and the motor 18
As the screw rod moves up and down, the banknotes are separated one by one by the separation mechanism 4a. Meanwhile, push plate 2 of lower safe 6
After the banknotes on the upper separator 5 have been completely conveyed and disappeared, when the banknotes in the safe 6 are then conveyed to the denomination storage boxes 11 and 12, Since the press plate 21 is raised by rotating the screw shaft by the motor 20, the separator 5 becomes an obstacle 9.Therefore, the motor 19 is driven to move the link 27 attached to the separator 5 to the outside (27). As a result, the separator 5 is removed from above the safe 6.

The operation of the recycling-type banknote handling device in this embodiment will be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

At the start of banking business, in preparation for dispensing banknotes, the banknotes are first loaded into the safe 6. By pressing a processing key (not shown), the banknotes in the safe 6 are transferred by the minute M mechanism 4a. Separated one by one. Then, it passes through the conveyance path 28 and reaches the gate loa.

10b, the banknotes are discriminated by a discriminator 8, and the 1000 yen bills and 10,000 yen bills are sorted through gates 10d and loe, respectively, and are accumulated in a stacking mechanism 13.14 and stored in a storage box 11.12. . Tickets that cannot be discriminated by the discriminator 8 or are rejected are sorted at the gate 10C and sent to the reject box 7.
will be stored in.

Regarding deposited banknotes, when a customer presses a processing key (not shown) and inserts a banknote into withdrawal port 1, the deposit amount is 111! The paper is separated one by one by the mechanism 2 and sent to the discriminator 8 through the conveyance path 29. The banknotes determined to be valid by the discriminator 8 are stacked in the temporary stacking mechanism 4 via the gate 10.10a. At this time, based on the result of discrimination by the discriminator 8 between the front and back notes of the banknotes, the gate lof is sorted by operation, with the front notes passing through the conveyance path 30 and the back notes passing through the front-back reversing mechanism 15. , are respectively accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4.

On the other hand, 5 tickets that cannot be discriminated by the discriminator 8 are accumulated in the impeller accumulation mechanism 3 via the gates 10, 10a, 10b. and pushes out the accumulated banknotes to the deposit/withdrawal port 1. When the customer pulls out the rejected banknotes and presses a processing key (not shown), the depositor is informed of the result of counting the deposited banknotes. At the same time, the banknotes stacked in the temporary stacker vIt4 are separated and fed out one by one by the separation mechanism 4a, and pass through the same conveyance path as when preparing the payout banknotes, and are judged by a discriminator 8 as to whether or not they can be used as payout banknotes. It is determined. Thousand yen bills and ten thousand yen bills that have been determined to be usable are:
In storage box 11.12.

The deposit operation is completed when the other banknotes are stored in the transfer box 7, respectively.

Next, the withdrawal operation will be explained. When the customer presses a processing key (not shown), the 1000 yen bills and 10,000 yen bills stored in storage boxes 11 and 12 are separated and fed out one by one by separation mechanisms 13a and 14a, respectively.

The denomination is determined by the discriminator 8 and the denominations are accumulated in the one-impeller accumulating mechanism 3. This is pushed out to the deposit/withdrawal port 1 by the push plate 2a in the same manner as the transferred banknotes at the time of deposit. Bills that cannot be determined by the discriminator 8 are stored in the reject box 7 via gates lo and 10e. This will end the withdrawal operation, but if the withdrawal operation continues,
The number of banknotes to be withdrawn is running low, and it becomes necessary to replenish the banknotes to be withdrawn. The replenishment operation is performed in the same manner as bill loading at the beginning of business. That is, replenishment banknotes are placed on the push plate 21 of the safe 6 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.

When deposited banknotes are accumulated in the temporary stacking mechanism 4, the banknote stopper 17 stops the banknotes that have entered the blade, and the separator 5
They are fixed around the fulcrum 17a toward the center of the blade so that they are stacked one after another on top of the blade. The separator 5 is lowered and held by the motor 18 from the outer peripheral surface of the blade by the number of deposited banknotes stacked (for example, the number of banknotes 1
00 sheets, approximately 15mm). Since the banknotes on the separator 5 are used as payout banknotes, after counting is completed,
The separating mechanism 4a separates and feeds out the sheets one by one again and stores them in storage boxes 11 and 12. At this time, the bill stopper 17
is rotated in the direction of arrow A around the fulcrum 17a so as to be substantially parallel to the separator 5 by a solenoid (not shown). Another bill.

In order to feed one sheet at a time to the meshing portion of the feed roller 4b and gate roller 4c that make up the minute 1tfi structure 4a, the pickup roller 22, which was hidden from the outer peripheral surface of the blade, is moved in the direction of the arrow by a motor (not shown).
(see dotted line), separator 5
Pressed against the banknotes above. Furthermore, the separator 5 is
In order to keep the feeding force of the pickup roller 22 constant, the motor 18 raises the bill one by one as the bills are separated one by one. In this way,
The bills on the separator 5 are separated and delivered one by one by rotating the pick-up roller 22 by driving a motor (not shown) and further rotating the buoy roller 4b. The gate roller 4C is fixed without rotating in order to prevent multiple feeding of banknotes. At this time, the safe 6 is in a removable state without being involved in depositing or dispensing operations.

Therefore, when the push plate on the outer wall of the device is opened and bills are loaded into the safe 6 to replenish the bills to be dispensed and set in the device, the gear 23 that moves the push plate 21 inside the safe 6 is connected to the gear 26 of the motor 20. do. Note that banknotes can be loaded at any time, but internal replenishment operations are performed after depositing and dispensing operations are completed.

For example, when replenishment is performed by an attendant pressing a replenishment start key (not shown), the pickup roller 22 is retracted inward from the outer peripheral surface of the blade by a motor (not shown), and the separator 5 is driven by the motor 19 to prevent the rotation of the link 27. evacuate in the direction of arrow B. Thereafter, the push plate 21 inside the safe 6 moves upward by the drive of the motor 20, and rises until the upper end of one banknote approaches the outer peripheral surface of the blade, and stops when the upper end of the banknote is detected by a sensor (not shown).

The separation and feeding of banknotes is exactly the same as the time of separating and feeding out the banknotes on the separator 5, and the press plate 21 of the safe 6 also follows the ejection of banknotes by the motor 20 in the same way as the separator 5, one banknote at a time. ``Minute by minute''. Storage box by denomination 1
1. When the replenishment of banknotes is completed by storing the banknotes in step 12, the push plate 21 of the safe 6 is lowered to the lowest end, the pickup roller 22 is then retracted inward from the outer peripheral surface of the blade, and the separator 5 is pushed down. It comes out at the bottom of the blade instead of the plate 21. The stopper 17 also returns to its initial position, that is, toward the center of the blade. In this case, there is no problem even if the banknotes remain in the safe 6 when the replenishment of banknotes is completed.

As described above, in this embodiment, since the separator 5 and the push plate 21 of the safe 6 perform the same operation, it is possible to load replenishment banknotes into the safe 6 regardless of the processing status of the device. Moreover, since the same separation mechanism is used to separate banknotes in the temporary stacking mechanism and to separate banknotes for replenishment, the device can be made more compact.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, a replenishment safe is arranged at the lower part of the temporary accumulation mechanism for deposited banknotes, and a separator for separating the accumulated banknotes and the replenishment banknotes is further temporarily accumulated. It is installed between the mechanism and the safe, and the separator and safe push plate independently perform the same operation, so regardless of whether the device is in the transaction status of depositing or withdrawing money, and whether the device is operating or not. Regardless, there is an advantage that supplementary banknotes can be loaded into the safe at any time.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of the internal structure of a recycling-type bill handling device showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are a side view and a front view, respectively, of a temporary stacking section of the device shown in FIG. 4 Temporary accumulation mechanism, 4a: Separation mechanism, 4b = feed roller, 4C nigator roller, 5: Separator, 6: Safe, 16: Impeller, 17: Bill stopper, 18, 19,
20: Motor, 21: Safe push plate, 22: Pick up roller, 27: Link. Patent applicant Hitachi, Ltd., 2nd patent attorney. , □ U: Pa Figure 1 Figure 2 Man Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A deposit/withdrawal port that takes in or discharges banknotes, a conveyance path that conveys deposited or withdrawn banknotes, a discriminator that determines the denomination, fitness, authenticity, etc. of the banknotes on the conveyance path, and the discriminator. In a banknote handling device that has a temporary stacking means for temporarily stacking banknotes determined to be usable in a container, and handles deposited banknotes as disbursed banknotes, the dispensing banknotes are placed on a push plate at a lower part of the temporary stacking means. A replenishment safe to be replenished, a separation mechanism for separating and feeding out banknotes replenished on a push plate of the replenishment safe, and a separation mechanism inserted between the temporary accumulation means and the replenishment safe to replenish the banknotes in the temporary accumulation means. 1. A bill handling device comprising: a separator for separating banknotes, and wherein the separation mechanism separates not only supplementary banknotes but also banknotes in a temporary stacking means.