JP2985343B2 - Bill handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus used for an automatic cash transaction apparatus and the like, and more particularly to a banknote handling apparatus capable of collecting foreign matters such as coins conveyed over bills.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a bill handling device, for example, a device disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 62-42296 is known. This apparatus is provided with a coin receiving tray for receiving foreign matter such as coins that are naturally separated from the bills and fall when the operator inserts bills into the deposit port.

[0003]

The above-mentioned prior art is designed to receive foreign matter such as coins which are naturally separated from the bills and fall when the operator inserts bills into the deposit port. , Between the bills, not separated from the bills at the time of bill input to the bill opening of the bill handling device,
No consideration is given to the removal of foreign matter, such as coins, which have been conveyed overlapping with the banknotes by the banknote taking-in operation of the apparatus. But the real problem is that
Foreign matter such as coins that are not separated from the bill at the time of inserting the bill into the deposit opening of the bill handling device and are conveyed overlapping with the bill by the bill taking-in operation of the device are serious accidents such as cutting of the bill transport belt. This must be completely eliminated. Especially,
In recent years, many banknote handling devices equipped with coin handling functions have been used, and due to the misunderstanding of users, coins are frequently inserted into the banknote deposit slot, urgent measures are needed. Has become. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems in the related art and to prevent foreign objects such as coins erroneously inserted into a bill receiving slot from damaging the apparatus. An object of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable banknote handling device which can be removed without performing.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a banknote handling apparatus for handling deposits and withdrawals of bills, such as coins attached to bills at a bent portion of a bill transport path immediately below a bill depositing / dispensing port. This is achieved by a banknote handling apparatus characterized in that a high-resistance member for locking a foreign substance is disposed.

[0005]

In the bill handling apparatus according to the present invention, in order to remove foreign matter such as coins accompanying the bill, resistance is applied only to foreign matter such as coins by utilizing the bent portion of the bill transport path. Therefore, foreign matter such as coins accompanying the banknote can be temporarily locked without any effect on the transport of the banknote, and can be separated from the banknote by allowing it to fall naturally after passing the banknote. is there. This allows
It is possible to remove foreign matters such as coins erroneously inserted into the bill receiving slot without damaging the apparatus, and it is possible to realize a highly reliable bill handling apparatus.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of a recirculation type banknote handling apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 denotes a deposit and withdrawal port which also serves as a deposit and withdrawal port. Below the deposit and withdrawal port 1, a deposit separation mechanism 2 for separating banknotes one by one.
However, in the vicinity of the deposit separation mechanism 2, there is provided an accumulation mechanism 3 for accumulating the dispensing bills or the deposit return bills. Reference numeral 8 denotes a banknote discriminator. The banknotes separated one by one by the deposit separation mechanism 2 are transferred to the banknote discriminator 8 via a conveyance path, and are conveyed to the stacking mechanism 3. The bill is transferred from above the bill discriminator 8. On the right side of the banknote discriminator 8, a temporary stacking mechanism 4 for temporarily storing the deposited banknotes discriminated by the banknote discriminator 8, and a lower portion of the temporary stacking mechanism 4 for replenishment of the separator 5 and dispensed banknotes. Refill safe (hereinafter simply referred to as "safe")
Further, on the right side of the safe 6, replenishment reject boxes 6a for accumulating rejection notes of replenishment bills are integrated and disposed respectively. In front of the bill validator 8, a bill thickness detecting mechanism 9 is provided.
However, at the subsequent stage of the bill validator 8, a gate 10 for bill distribution is provided. Gates 10a and 10b are provided in the middle of the transport path between the gate 10 and the temporary stacking mechanism 4.
A gate 10c is provided at the subsequent stage of 10a, and a reject box 7 is provided at the subsequent stage, which is configured to be capable of vertically collecting and storing rejected bills and storing rejected bills of dispensed bills. . Between the gate 10 and the stacking mechanism 3, there are provided stacking mechanisms 18 for temporarily stacking the gate 10d and the rejected ticket upon deposit. In the middle of the transport path from the deposit separation mechanism 2 to the thickness detection mechanism 9, storage boxes 11, 12, and 13 for storing 10,000 yen, 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen notes are provided. 10,000 yen ticket accumulation mechanism 14, 1,000 yen ticket accumulation mechanism 15, 5,000 yen ticket accumulation mechanism via 10f, 10g
16 are provided. Between the gate 10 and the gate 10a,
A front / back reversing mechanism 17 for reversing banknotes is provided. In the vicinity of the temporary stacking mechanism 4 and the 10,000-yen stacking mechanism 14, the 1,000-yen stacking mechanism 15, and the 5,000-yen stacking mechanism 16, There are provided banknote separation mechanisms 4a, 14a, 15a, 16a, respectively. The safe 6 described above is taken out by opening the outside door of the bill handling apparatus, and then replenished with bills and stored again inside. Reference numerals 25 and 31 to 33 denote a conveyance path, and reference numeral 34 below the deposit separation mechanism 2 denotes a coin collection tray to be described later.

The bill depositing operation of the recycle banknote handling apparatus according to the present embodiment configured as described above will be described below. When a customer presses a processing selection key (not shown) and deposits bills into the deposit / withdrawal port 1, the deposited bills are separated one by one by a deposit separation mechanism,
1, 21a, 21b, 21c, 21d, 22 and the bill validator 8
Sent to Banknotes that the banknote classifier 8 has determined to be genuine are:
It is accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4 via the gates 10, 10a, 10b. At this time, the front note and the back note pass through the transport path 30, and the back note passes through the transport path 29 via the front / back reversing mechanism 17, based on the result of the discrimination by the bill discriminator 8 of the bill. ,
It is accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4. On the other hand, a rejected ticket that cannot be discriminated by the bill validator 8 has a gate 10 and a stacking mechanism 18.
Are accumulated on the bell 41 of the transport path 23 opened by an opening / closing mechanism (not shown). Next, when the transport path 23 is closed by an opening / closing mechanism (not shown), the rejected banknotes are transported in a lump and are accumulated in the depositing / dispensing port 1 by the accumulation mechanism 3 through the gate 10d. Here, the bills on which the push plates 2 a are stacked are pushed out in the direction of the outlet of the deposit / withdrawal port 1 by a motor (not shown). When the customer removes the rejected bill and presses a processing key (not shown), the depositor is notified of the counting result of the deposited bill. At the same time, the bills accumulated in the temporary accumulating mechanism 4 are separated and fed one by one by the separating mechanism 4a, pass through the transport path 24, and are judged by the bill discriminator 8 as to whether or not they can be used as dispensed bills. The 10,000 yen, 1,000 yen, and 5,000 yen tickets determined to be usable are passed through the gates 10 and 10d and the transport path 21 to the gate 10
e, 10f, and 10g are stored in the storage boxes 11, 12, and 13, and other banknotes are stored in the lower part of the reject box 7 through the gates 10, 10a, and 10c, thereby completing the deposit operation.

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing a specific structure of a deposit port of the above-mentioned recirculation type bill handling apparatus and a bill transporting path in the vicinity thereof, which are main parts of the present embodiment, and FIG. It is. FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. In the figure, 55 is a deposited bill, 56 and 56a to 56d are deposited bills.
It shows a coin that was picked up during the process and was inserted in the middle of 55. Other components will be described each time in the following operation description. Deposit and withdrawal port 1 by user
Deposited banknote 55 inserted into the payment separation mechanism 2
Guides 41 and 42, rollers 43a and 43b,
A belt 48 (48a to 48c) and a roller 4 which are stretched between rollers 46 (46a to 46c: see FIG. 3) and 52 via guides 44 and 45.
It is delivered to the transport path consisting of 7, 51. Here, as shown in FIG. 1, when a coin 56 is sandwiched between the deposited bills 55, the coin 56c riding on the bill 55 as shown in FIG. It was as described above that this was the cause of the trouble. In the apparatus shown in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, coins 56 (56a, 56b) sandwiched between the deposited bills 55 are transferred to both sides of the transport path by protrusions 41a to 41f provided on the upper surface of the guide 41. At the end, as shown in FIG. 4, a resistance member 54 made of a material having high frictional resistance is attached to the guide 53 inside the bent portion of the above-mentioned bill transport path, and the bent portion
The coin 56c conveyed while being superimposed on the inside of the member 55 comes into contact with the resistance member 54. The resistance member 54
For example, a sheet made of various rubbers can be used.
Thereby, the coin 56c in contact with the above-described resistance member 54 is
In FIG. 4, the banknote 55 is locked at the position indicated by hatching, and only the banknote 55 is conveyed at a normal speed. As a result,
After the bill 55 has passed, the coin 56c falls in the direction of the coin collection tray 34 and is collected as shown by 56d in the figure. According to the above-described embodiment, with a simple configuration, coins that have been mistakenly inserted into the deposit and withdrawal port 1 together with banknotes, which has conventionally caused a serious trouble, can be smoothly collected. The effect is obtained that the occurrence of trouble can be prevented. Note that the above embodiment is an example of the present invention, and it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to this.

[0009]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, foreign matter such as coins erroneously inserted into the bill receiving slot can be removed.
This has a remarkable effect that a highly reliable banknote handling device that can be removed without damaging the device can be realized.

[0010]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing a configuration of a main part when the present invention is applied to a recycle banknote handling apparatus according to one embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a recirculation type banknote handling apparatus according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a front view corresponding to FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Deposit / withdrawal port 2 Deposit-separation mechanism 3 Stacking mechanism 4 Temporary stacking mechanism 8 Banknote discriminator 9 Banknote thickness detection mechanism 10, 10a-10g Gates for banknote distribution 21, 21a-21d, 22-25, 29-33 banknotes Conveyance path 34 Coin collection trays 41, 42, 44, 45, 53 Guides 41a to 41f Projection 48 Belt 54 Resistance member

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A bill handling apparatus for handling bill depositing or depositing and dispensing, wherein a bill depositing port or a paper bill depositing and dispensing port is provided.
A first paper transport means provided in the section, and the first bill transport means
A second bill conveying means having a different conveying direction from the conveying means,
The transfer direction is changed from the first transfer means to the second transfer means.
Further comprising a bending portion, and the bending portion
Angle between the first bill transfer means and the second bill transfer means
Foreign matter near the banknote transfer surface on the narrow angle side due to contact friction resistance
High coefficient of friction member that classifies bills and foreign matter by suppressing the transport of paper
A banknote handling device , wherein a banknote is fixedly arranged along the banknote transport surface . (2) Banknotes installed upstream of the bent part
Foreign matter mixed into the bills forms the bent part on the feed guide.
A projection that guides the user to pass around the formed transport roller
2. The bill handling device according to claim 1, further comprising:
Place.