WO2002102696A1 - Sheet diverting assembly - Google Patents
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- WO2002102696A1 WO2002102696A1 PCT/GB2002/002621 GB0202621W WO02102696A1 WO 2002102696 A1 WO2002102696 A1 WO 2002102696A1 GB 0202621 W GB0202621 W GB 0202621W WO 02102696 A1 WO02102696 A1 WO 02102696A1
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- Prior art keywords
- sheet
- diverting
- assembly according
- radially extending
- access openings
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
- B65H29/58—Article switches or diverters
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
- B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
- B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
- B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
- B65H2301/4455—Diverting a main stream into part streams
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
- B65H2404/10—Rollers
- B65H2404/11—Details of cross-section or profile
- B65H2404/111—Details of cross-section or profile shape
- B65H2404/1114—Paddle wheel
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
- B65H2404/50—Surface of the elements in contact with the forwarded or guided material
- B65H2404/56—Flexible surface
- B65H2404/561—Bristles, brushes
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
- B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
- B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
- B65H2701/1912—Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like
Definitions
- the invention relates to a sheet diverting assembly, for example for use in a sheet handling device such as a banknote handler.
- a sheet diverting assembly comprises at least three sheet access openings through which sheets can be fed; and a rotatable diverting member cooperating with each sheet access opening so as to guide a sheet fed towards the diverting member through one access opening towards one or other of the remaining access openings while rotating in the feed direction and is characterised in that the diverting member includes a plurality of radially extending members, the members being sufficiently stiff so as to extend radially outwardly in their rest position but to flex on contact with a sheet as the member rotates.
- the divert process is assisted in the preferred case when the assembly further comprises a rotatable guide member having a plurality of rigid, radially outwardly projecting teeth, the teeth projecting by a smaller amount than the radially extending members of the diverting member.
- the leading end of an incoming sheet will be received between a pair of the rigid teeth which will ensure that the leading end of the sheet is initially guided towards the correct access opening, the flexible members subsequently assisting in the guiding process.
- one access opening will be solely used to receive sheets while the other access openings will be provided to allow sheets to pass out from the diverting assembly.
- the assembly can also be used, however, in a configuration in which one or more of the access openings can both receive and dispense sheets.
- the access openings may be arranged such that the path between two of the openings is substantially linear. This is important in the case where limp or otherwise difficult to handle sheets must be fed through the diverting assembly since these sheets do not respond well to being bent during their transport .
- one or more diverting members each including a plurality of radially extending members, could be provided, typically concentrically on a common shaft.
- a rotatable guide member there will be more rigid teeth on the further rotatable guide member than there are radially extending flexible members although this is not essential.
- the radially inner ends of the radially extending members could be substantially rigid so as to provide a combined set of teeth and flexible members.
- the assembly may comprise a movable drive surface extending alongside at least one path between the access openings.
- This drive surface could be constituted by a movable belt, roller or the like.
- the radially extending members can take a variety of forms. In the preferred form, they comprise vanes, typically of a plastics material, such as mylar, but could alternatively be provided by a set of brushes or the like.
- sheet diverting assemblies according to the invention can be used in a wide variety of sheet handling devices. They find particular use in sheet recirculators such as banknote recirculators, sheet sorters such as banknote sorters and the like.
- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a first example of the assembly with guide surfaces omitted for clarity;
- Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 but showing the lower part of the assembly and also the guide surfaces;
- Figures 3A-3C are sections taken on the lines A-A, B-B and C-C respectively in Figure 1 but with the guide surfaces included;
- Figure 4 is a section taken on the line C-C but with the guide surfaces omitted;
- Figures 5A-5C are an end elevation, a section on the line A-A in Figure 5A, and an enlarged view of the section B in Figure 5A respectively, of a vane roller;
- Figures 6A-6C are an end elevation, section on the line A-A in Figure 6A and an enlarged view of the portion B in Figure 6A respectively;
- Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 2 but of a second example.
- Figure 8 is a view similar to Figure 3 but of a further example.
- the sheet diverting assembly shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a shaft 1 on which are mounted, non-rotatably, eight vaned rollers 2, and five toothed rollers 3 while four pulleys 4 are rotatably mounted to the shaft 1.
- the shaft 1 is mounted in bearings (not shown) in side plates
- a first access opening 5 is defined between pairs of upper and lower rollers 6,7 non-rotatably mounted on respective shafts 8,9 supported via bearings in end plates 1A,1B. This can be seen more clearly in Figures 3 and 4.
- a second access opening 10 is formed between pairs of upper and lower rollers 11,12 non-rotatably mounted on respective shafts 13,14.
- a third access opening 15 is formed between pairs of rollers 16,17 non-rotatably mounted on respective shafts 18,19.
- the passage between access openings 5,10 is connected via belts 20 entrained around rollers 6,11 and over pulleys 4 although other guide surfaces could be used.
- a pair of guide surfaces 21,22 are also provided linking the access openings 5,10 respectively with the access opening 15.
- a guide surface 21A links access openings 5,10 ( Figure 3) .
- the diverting assembly shown in Figures 1 to 4 can be operated so that a sheet arriving at any one of the access openings 5,10,15 can be fed to either of the remaining two access openings .
- rollers 17,12 are rotated in a clockwise direction (as seen in Figure 3) by suitably rotating the shafts 19,14 while the rollers 11 are rotated in an anti-clockwise direction by anti-clockwise rotation of the shaft 13.
- the shaft 1 is also rotated in an anti-clockwise direction and thereby rotates the rollers 2,3 in an anti-clockwise direction also.
- the leading edge of the incoming sheet is fed through the nip between the rollers 16,17 and will pass between adjacent pairs of vanes 23 on each of the rollers 2 and engage between a pair of the rigid teeth 24 on the rollers 3. Rotation of the rollers 3 will initially guide the leading edge of the sheet towards the access opening 10.
- sheets can be guided from either of the access openings 5,10 to the access opening 15 by reversing the rotation of the appropriate shafts.
- sheets can be guided between the access openings 5,10 by suitably rotating the shaft 1 in the appropriate direction. Movement between these access openings is assisted, in this example, by the belts 20 and it will also be noted that this path is substantially linear as compared with the paths between the access openings 5,10 on the one hand and the access opening 15 on the other hand. This substantially linear path can be utilized for relatively limp sheets.
- FIG. 5 The construction of one of the vaned rollers 2 is shown in more detail in Figure 5.
- this is typically a plastics moulding made of mylar or the like having a central hub 30 and a number, in this case 20, radially extending and substantially equally circumferentially spaced vanes 23.
- the dimensions of each vane 23 can be seen in Figures 5A and 5B.
- the vanes extend between or are interleaved between adjacent pairs of belts 20 defining guide surfaces. When a note is received between adjacent vanes and the roller rotates, the vanes will flex and urge the note against the belts 20. Once a note has been removed, the vanes will return to their unflexed position.
- Figure 6 illustrates the construction of one of the toothed rollers 3 and as can be seen this has a relatively large number of radially extending teeth 32 greater than the number of vanes 23 but of a much shorter radial extent.
- the dimensions of these teeth can be seen in Figures 6B and 6C. In both Figures 5 and 6, all dimensions are shown in millimetres .
- FIG 7 is a view similar to Figure 2 but showing a modified example in which the vanes 23 are replaced by plastic, brush-like elements 40 and the pulleys 4 are omitted.
- Each brush-like element 40 is made up of a large number of individual fibres (not shown in Figure 7) and as can be seen in Figure 7, the brush-like members 40 are arranged in two circumferential sets with the brushes of one set circumferentially offset from those of the other set.
- FIG. 8 illustrates an example of a four access opening assembly.
- the access openings are indicated at 50-53 respectively.
- the other components are substantially the same as shown in Figure 3 and will not be described in further detail. It will be understood that a sheet arriving at any one of the access openings 50-53 can be diverted to one of the two adjacent access openings upon suitable rotation of the shaft 1.
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- Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
- Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)
- Materials For Medical Uses (AREA)
- Orthopedics, Nursing, And Contraception (AREA)
- Absorbent Articles And Supports Therefor (AREA)
- Tumbler Switches (AREA)
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- Paper (AREA)
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- Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
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Priority Applications (4)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE60203620T DE60203620T2 (en) | 2001-06-14 | 2002-06-12 | SHEET SOFT |
EP02730483A EP1397303B1 (en) | 2001-06-14 | 2002-06-12 | Sheet diverting assembly |
AT02730483T ATE292594T1 (en) | 2001-06-14 | 2002-06-12 | LEAF SWITCH |
US10/474,051 US6929262B2 (en) | 2001-06-14 | 2002-06-12 | Sheet diverting assembly |
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GB0114523.4 | 2001-06-14 | ||
GBGB0114523.4A GB0114523D0 (en) | 2001-06-14 | 2001-06-14 | Sheet diverting assembly |
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WO2002102696A1 true WO2002102696A1 (en) | 2002-12-27 |
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PCT/GB2002/002621 WO2002102696A1 (en) | 2001-06-14 | 2002-06-12 | Sheet diverting assembly |
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US (1) | US6929262B2 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1397303B1 (en) |
CN (1) | CN100337892C (en) |
AT (1) | ATE292594T1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE60203620T2 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2239716T3 (en) |
GB (1) | GB0114523D0 (en) |
PT (1) | PT1397303E (en) |
WO (1) | WO2002102696A1 (en) |
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- 2002-06-12 DE DE60203620T patent/DE60203620T2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 2002-06-12 AT AT02730483T patent/ATE292594T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 2002-06-12 WO PCT/GB2002/002621 patent/WO2002102696A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 2002-06-12 CN CNB02811793XA patent/CN100337892C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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US4767114A (en) * | 1985-07-30 | 1988-08-30 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Sheet feeder |
EP0407151A2 (en) * | 1989-07-03 | 1991-01-09 | Xerox Corporation | Rotating brush decision gate |
EP0564291A2 (en) * | 1992-04-01 | 1993-10-06 | Ricoh Company, Ltd | Sheet transport path switching device for an image forming apparatus |
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WO2009103980A1 (en) * | 2008-02-19 | 2009-08-27 | Talaris Holdings Limited | Sheet stacking assembly |
WO2020013757A1 (en) | 2018-07-10 | 2020-01-16 | Suzohapp Canada Ulc | A device, an apparatus and a method for directing bank notes |
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DE60203620T2 (en) | 2005-09-15 |
GB0114523D0 (en) | 2001-08-08 |
CN1533350A (en) | 2004-09-29 |
DE60203620D1 (en) | 2005-05-12 |
PT1397303E (en) | 2005-06-30 |
CN100337892C (en) | 2007-09-19 |
US20040113359A1 (en) | 2004-06-17 |
ES2239716T3 (en) | 2005-10-01 |
EP1397303A1 (en) | 2004-03-17 |
US6929262B2 (en) | 2005-08-16 |
EP1397303B1 (en) | 2005-04-06 |
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