JPS6293175A - Stacking mechanism for paper sheet processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make possible to drop and stack paper sheets stably, by providing an approximately horizontal gate lever to guide the paper sheets on the upper end gateway of a cartridge for flat stacking, and arranging a stopper plate on the edge thereof. CONSTITUTION:Bills A are transferred from a feed passage 13 to the gateway of a cartridge 2 along the under surface 11a of an approximately horizontal gate lever 11 by the rotation of feed rollers 5, 6 and a guide roller 25, then the edge thereof is abutted to a stopper plate 17 and hitted by a rotating runner 14 so as to be dropped for being stacked on a pushing-up base 3 and a constant dropping space 4 is hold by the lowering of the pushing-up base 3. Next, as a money paying command is performed, the pushing-up base 3 is risen so that stacked bills are pressed to the guide roller 25. Further, the gate lever 11 and an arm 24 are upwards moved in respect to the center of a shaft 8 so that the stacked bills are carried out of a deliver part 15 to a deliver path 16 with the guide roller 25 and a deliver roller 7. Thus, the bills are uniformly stacked so as to improve the reliability of an automatic credit payout machine.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a stacking mechanism of a paper sheet processing device that processes deposits and withdrawals of banknotes, such as an automatic teller machine used in banking operations.

(B) Background of the Invention In order to perform deposits and withdrawals in one device, the paper sheet processing device of the above-mentioned example accumulates deposited banknotes in a store section and stores them in response to a withdrawal command. A device that dispenses an appropriate number of banknotes from a pile is known.

However, the conventional banknote store has a structure in which banknotes are stacked in rows on a stacking table, so in order to prevent the stacked banknotes from falling sideways, a pusher plate is pressed against the banknotes from the back side using the force of a spring member, etc. It was necessary to press and bias the stacked banknotes toward the store entrance/exit side.

Therefore, there is little free space in the above-mentioned entrance/exit, and when feeding new banknotes to be stacked, it is difficult to line them up smoothly and drop them into the front position of the stacked banknotes, and the fed banknotes are likely to get stuck. Moreover, since the pusher plate presses the banknotes stacked by the spring force, the banknote stack a in the store must necessarily be kept small.

(c) Purpose of the Invention Therefore, a new method has begun to be proposed in which banknotes are stacked flat in a cartridge provided in the store section.

The present invention provides paper sheets that can make the flat stacking system even more effective by aligning the banknotes fed into the cartridge in a constant state and stably dropping and accumulating them in the flat stacking system. A collection of processing equipment &! The purpose is to provide a li structure.

(d) Summary of the Invention This invention provides a substantially horizontal gate lever for guiding paper sheets in the upper part of the upper end entrance/exit of the cartridge for flat stacking, and a gate lever on the bottom surface of the gate lever at the back of the cartridge in the paper sheet carrying direction. The stacking mechanism of a paper sheet processing device is characterized in that it is provided with a stopper plate against which the leading edge of paper sheets carried in along the collides.

(E) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, when the paper sheet is guided by the gate lever and carried horizontally into the entrance/exit of the cartridge, its leading end collides with the stopper plate, so that its feeding is stopped. Next, it is accumulated by gravity fall.

Therefore, there is an advantage that the paper sheets are stably and orderly dropped and stacked in an aligned state that has been positioned by the above-mentioned stopper plate, and is particularly suitable for high-speed stacking, and has a simple structure and high reliability. .

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

The drawings show an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an automatic deposit dispensing machine, and in FIG.
The top opening is used as the entrance and exit for banknotes, and there is a push-up table 3 inside.
will be equipped.

The banknotes A carried into the entrance/exit fall onto this push-up table 3 in a horizontal horizontal position and are stacked flat, and the push-up table 3 moves up and down according to the progress of the stacking, and is subsequently carried in directly below the entrance/exit. To form a certain falling space 4 that does not obstruct banknotes A.

The elevating mechanism for the push-up platform 3 is not particularly limited, as it may be of various types in addition to one that transmits the amount of rotation of a pulse motor via a timing belt.

Feeding rollers 5 and 6 are mounted on one end of the entrance and a feeding roller 7 is mounted on the other end, and these rollers are driven to rotate in predetermined directions when feeding and feeding banknotes A, respectively.

In addition, a second
A movable plate 9 and a movable drum 1 integrated therewith are shown in the figure.
A substantially horizontal gate lever 11 is cantilevered on the movable drum 10 so as to cover the upper part of the opening of the entrance/exit. The feeding section 12 is formed with an opening, and an external bill feeding path 13 consisting of guide plates 13a and 13b is formed in communication with this bill feeding section 12.

Further, an impeller 14 is installed outside the above-mentioned feeding section 12, and the blade plate 14a is configured to strike the rear end of the banknote A carried into the cartridge 2 through the feeding section 12 from above. Ru.

On the other hand, on the side of the feeding roller 7, a banknote feeding part 15 is formed as an opening between the gate lever 11 and the cartridge 2, and a guide plate 16a is formed for the banknote feeding part 15.
, 16b are formed in communication with each other.

As described below, the gate lever 11 is connected to the rotation shaft 8 described above.
The banknote dispensing section 15 is pivotably mounted on the bank and can be moved up and down about the center, and in the stationary state, the bill dispensing section 15 is closed, as shown by the solid line in FIGS. 1 and 2, and in the stationary state, it is opened.

On the other hand, the aforementioned banknote feeding section 12 on the rotation center side of the gate lever 11 is always open to the banknote feeding path 13.

In addition, as shown in FIG.
7 is brought into contact with the banknote A from below and sent into the entrance/exit.
The tip of the stopper plate 17 is configured to collide with the stopper plate 17,
The stopper plate 17 has its lower end fixed to a frame 18 on the cartridge side.

As shown in FIG. 2, on the upper surface of the gate lever 11,
A hook fitting 19 is erected, and correspondingly hangs down from a locking plate 21 from a fixed frame 20 directly above the gate lever, and the hooking plate 214 is engaged with the hook fitting 19 when the gate lever is moved upward. This engagement is released when the retaining plate 21 is attracted by the solenoid 22.

Further, in order to promote engagement of the hook metal fitting 19 with the locking plate 21, the surface of the hook metal fitting that comes into contact with the locking plate is a cam surface 19a.

Further, between the fixed frame 20 and the above-mentioned movable plate 9, there is a biasing spring 23 for positioning the gate lever 11 in an immovable position.
is pasted.

A cantilevered arm 24 shown in FIG.
is led out, and a guide roller 25 is supported at its tip.

This guide roller 25 and cantilever arm 24 always move up and down integrally with the gate lever 11, and a part of the guide roller 25 slightly protrudes downward from the gate lever 11 and reaches the waist or reaches position 1-1. This is done to give running force to the banknote A.

The rotational force input to the guide roller 25 is transmitted from the above-mentioned rotating shaft 8 using a belt.

Moreover, the cantilever arm 24 is similar to the gate lever 11,
It is maintained in a downwardly moving state by a biasing spring 26 stretched between it and the fixed frame 20.

FIG. 3 shows the positional relationship of the payout rollers 5, 6 and other parts on the banknote carrying side, and the above-mentioned impeller 1 is placed below the rotating shaft 8.
Another rotating shaft 27 having a width of 4 is provided, and this shaft is equipped with a pressure roller 28 that contacts the feeding roller 6 and a roller 29 so as to rotate integrally with the impeller 14.

Next, to explain the operation, the banknote A passes through the banknote feeding path 13, and the rotational force of the feeding rollers 5, 6 and the guide roller 2
5, the banknotes are sent from the banknote feeding section 12 to the entrance/exit of the cartridge 2.

This banknote A is the lower surface 11a of the almost horizontal gate lever 11.
The blade that rotates the rear end of the banknote A is guided along the banknote A and sent into the entrance in a horizontal position almost horizontally, and is stopped when its tip collides with the stopper plate 17. Car 14 hits.

Therefore, in addition to the gravitational fall due to the loss of running power, banknote A
In particular, the first banknote has a lowered rear end that gets in the way of feeding subsequent banknotes.
It falls in state A' in the figure and is finally accumulated on the upper surface of the push-up table 3.

Such an operation is repeated every time a banknote is loaded, and the push-up stand 3 gradually descends according to the accumulated layers on the push-up stand 3, and continues to maintain a certain falling space 4 at the cartridge entrance/exit.

When a withdrawal command is issued, the push-up table 3 rises, and the banknotes accumulated thereon are pressed against the guide roller 25, and the rotating shaft 8
Since the gate lever 11 and the cantilever arm 24 are moved upward centering on the banknotes to open the banknote dispensing section 15, the rotational force of the guide roller 25 and the rotational force of the dispensing roller 7 allows the banknotes to be opened one by one. The bills pass through the bill dispensing section 15 and are discharged into the bill dispensing path 16.

In this case, the banknote A can be handled by passing between the feeding roller 7 and the stopper plate 17 in contact with it, and the arc-shaped curved surface of the stopper plate 17 ensures stable passage.

As described above, in this invention, the banknotes A fed into the cartridge 2 are stopped once by colliding with the stopper plate 17, and the positions and postures of the banknotes immediately before falling are kept constant, so that the banknotes are pushed up. Bills are stacked on the table 3 in an orderly manner.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 1 shows an example of a paper sheet processing apparatus. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the main parts of the Ivi1 structure, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view at a different position from FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a side view of the main parts showing the arrangement relationship of the feed roller, impeller, etc.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A paper sheet processing device for carrying paper sheets in a substantially horizontal state into an entrance/exit at the upper end of a cartridge for flat stacking and dropping and accumulating them, wherein the paper sheets are carried in at the upper part of the entrance/exit. A paper sheet processing system that is equipped with a roughly horizontal gate lever to guide the cartridge, and a stopper plate at the back of the cartridge in the direction in which the sheets are carried in, with which the leading edge of the paper sheets carried in along the lower surface of the gate lever collides. Device integration mechanism.