JP3099097B2 - Paper 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 paper sheet handling apparatus for handling paper sheets such as banknotes, and more particularly to a paper sheet stacking / unwinding apparatus for stacking sequentially supplied paper sheets and feeding them one by one as needed. The present invention relates to a sheet handling apparatus having a mechanism.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a paper sheet handling apparatus for handling paper sheets,
For example, a bank terminal device that handles banknotes includes a plurality of safes of denominations, a main transport path for selectively transporting the required bills from the safe, and a temporary stack of banknotes switched from the main transport path by a gate. It is composed of a paper sheet stacking / feeding mechanism that feeds and discharges one sheet at a time, and a bill discriminating mechanism. The sheet stacking / feeding mechanism rotates a roller with an impeller disposed at the entrance of the sheet storing section and a guide roller opposed to the roller with the impeller to rotate the banknote in a predetermined space above the storing section. A plurality of bills are taken in and accumulated in a position, and the accumulated bills are fed out from a discharge outlet which is opposite to the storage entrance by rotation of a take-out roller and a pay-out roller provided above. In addition, as the above-mentioned paper sheet handling apparatus, for example, there is a technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-216788.

[0003]

In recent years, bank terminals have tended to increase the amount of storage due to demands for holiday operation.
Therefore, there is an increasing need to reduce the size of mechanical parts other than the safe section. However, in the conventional bank terminal device, the sheet stacking and feeding mechanism cannot be reduced in size, so that a problem that the need for miniaturization cannot be met is caused. That is, the conventional paper sheet stacking / feeding mechanism has a paper sheet storage section inlet at one end and a paper sheet discharge section outlet at the other end, and has a large size in the sheet conveyance direction. Since the outlet of the discharge unit is configured to branch off from the main transport path, the size of the mechanism in the height direction is large, and it has been difficult to reduce the size.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a paper sheet handling apparatus provided with a paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism which has a simple structure and is miniaturized.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a paper sheet handling apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plurality of storage sections each having an entrance and a discharge section for the conveyed paper sheets, the bill handling apparatus that performs storage and separation of the sheets, the yield
The entrance of the storage section operates as the discharge section of the previous storage section,
The discharge section of the storage section operates as an entrance of the rear storage section . Further, the papers carried in from the entrance of the storage section may be transferred to the discharge section side of the storage section or to the storage section of the storage section .
Distributing means for distributing to the product side is provided. Further, a paper sheet provided with a paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism for storing the supplied paper sheet by rotation of an impeller roller and sequentially separating and discharging the stored paper sheet by rotation of a take-out roller and a feeding roller. Type handling equipment,
Insert the gate roller into the shaft that supports the roller with the impeller,
The feeding roller and the gate roller are arranged so as to form a part of the main conveyance path of the sheet, and an intermediate conveyance path is provided between the front and rear stages of the feeding roller and the gate roller, respectively. A sheet stacking / feeding mechanism having a switching gate and a sheet guide at the bottom is provided.

[0006] The above structure is, for example, as follows.
Can be limited to ◆ Store the supplied paper by rotating the roller with the impeller,
In a sheet handling apparatus provided with a sheet stacking / feeding mechanism for sequentially separating and discharging the stored sheets by rotation of a take-out roller and a feed-out roller, a gate roller is inserted into a shaft supporting a roller with an impeller. The feeding roller and the gate roller are arranged so as to form a part of the main conveyance path of the sheet, and an intermediate conveyance path is provided between the front and rear stages of the feeding roller and the gate roller, respectively. Has a switching gate and a sheet guide at the lower part thereof, and operates as a separating means in a separation mode in which the feeding roller and the gate roller sequentially separate and discharge the stored and stacked sheets, and from the preceding stage. Operates as a transport unit in the transport mode for transporting the fed paper to the subsequent stage, and swings the switching gate and the paper guide according to the transport mode and the separation mode. Means may be configured with a paper deposited and feeding mechanism with that.

Further, the sheet stacking / feeding mechanism swings a switching gate of a subsequent stage downward when a sheet fed from a preceding stage is conveyed to a succeeding stage, and a sheet guide swingably provided with the switching gate. May be provided with a swinging means for passing a sheet between the upper part of the sheet and the intermediate conveyance path.

Furthermore paper deposited and feeding mechanism, upwardly rotates the switching gate of the paper supplied from the preceding stage when the retract and, at the bottom of the switching gate and swingably provided with the paper sheet guide A configuration having swinging means for passing and storing the paper sheet may be employed.

The sheet stacking / feeding mechanism includes means for rotating the feeding roller and stopping the gate roller in the separation mode, and means for rotating the feeding roller and rotating the gate roller in the transport mode. It may have a configuration.

The paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism includes a guide member movable in parallel with a drive shaft of the roller with the impeller, and moves the guide member to a predetermined position during operation, thereby forming a part of the roller with the impeller. And a shielding means for returning the guide member to the origin position when the operation is not performed to release the shielding of the roller with the impeller.

Further, the automatic cash handling apparatus is constituted by the paper sheet handling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3 .

[0012]

According to the present invention, the paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism operates as follows.

During operation of the apparatus, the take-out roller, the feed-out roller and the roller with the impeller always rotate. If you retract and the paper sheets supplied from the case and preceding mechanism for carrying the paper sheets fed from the preceding mechanism to the subsequent mechanism retracts upward from the separation position to the take-out roller,
The gate roller is also driven to rotate. Paper of the former case, to cut through the intermediate conveyance path of the sheet guide upper by Toggles gate the operating the transport mode, subsequent mechanism via the contact portion of the further feed roller and the gate roller Conveyed. Paper when the latter is housed in the housing portion is guided to the lower surface sheet guide by manipulating the switch between gate storage mode. The roller with the impeller at the front stage acts to prevent interference between the rear end of the preceding sheet and the front end of the succeeding sheet.

[0014] On the other hand, the discharge to the rear stage of the mechanism by sequentially separating the sedimentary the paper sheet, when transporting is to return the rollers taken out as well as operate the switching gate to the separation mode in the separation position, stop gate roller Let it. As a result, the stacked banknotes are sequentially separated, discharged, and conveyed one by one by the cooperation of the take-out roller, the feed-out roller, and the gate roller.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a main structure of a sheet stacking / feeding mechanism applied to the sheet handling apparatus according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG. FIG. 3 to FIG. 5 are explanatory diagrams of the respective operations of the transport mode, the storage mode, and the separation mode of the sheet stacking and feeding mechanism. 6 shows the blade shape of the roller with the impeller when the apparatus is not operating, and FIG. 7 shows the deformed state of the blade when the apparatus is operating.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, the paper sheet stacking / feeding mechanism according to the present embodiment is configured to take out paper sheets 4 by rotating the paper sheets 4 in the direction of arrow A from above.
And feed rollers 20a and 20b and gate rollers 23a and 23b for feeding the paper sheet 4 taken out by the rollers 24 to a mechanism at a subsequent stage.

The gate rollers 23a and 23b are
The roller 12 is supported by the shaft 12 via a and 80b, and the upper portion thereof is disposed so as to be in pressure contact with the lower portion of the feeding roller 20. Further, at both ends of the shaft 12, rollers 11a and 11b with impellers having blades 10a and 10b are provided.
The take-out roller 24 can rotate around the point a of the feed-out roller shaft 21 from the point b to the point c around the point a.
Then, in the transfer mode and the storage mode, the rotation is performed at the point c.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of the case where the stacked paper sheets of the left (front) mechanism are sequentially separated and discharged, and the discharged paper sheet 6 is conveyed to the right (back) mechanism. The paper sheet 3 deposited on the holding plate 2 which is driven up and down in the storage section 1 of the left side (previous stage) mechanism cooperates with the take-out roller 24, the feeding roller 20, and the gate roller 23 held in a stopped state. By operation, they are sequentially separated and discharged. The discharged paper sheet 6 rotates with the upper surface of the switching gate 120 of the right (later stage) mechanism set in the transport mode, the lower surface of the intermediate transport path 110, the upper surface of the main paper guide 121, and the feeding roller 20. It is discharged and conveyed in the direction of arrow A on the right side (later stage) via a pressure contact portion with the gate roller 23.

The switching gate 120, the main sheet guide 121, the auxiliary sheet guide 122, the transport guide 125,
126 and a stopper 124 (see FIGS. 3 to 5) are comb-shaped in a direction orthogonal to the drawing, and the switching gate 120 is arranged so as not to interfere with the feeding roller 20, the gate roller 23 and the intermediate conveyance path 110. The main paper guide 121 and the auxiliary paper guide 122 are provided by the take-out roller 2.
4 and the switching gate 120, and the transport guides 125, 126 and the stopper 124 are also arranged so as not to interfere with other members.
Further, as shown in the mechanism on the left side (previous stage) of FIG. 2, the auxiliary sheet guide 122 is completely stored in the main sheet guide 121 in the separation mode, and the details will be described later. That is, the paper sheet stacking / feeding mechanism operates as a separating unit in the separation mode in which the feeding roller and the gate roller are sequentially separated and discharged from the stored and stacked paper sheets, and the paper sheet supplied from the preceding stage. In the transport mode for transporting the sheet to the subsequent stage, and a means for swinging the switching gate and the sheet guide according to the transport mode and the separation mode.

The operation of the paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS. In these figures, the numbers in parentheses indicate parts of the mechanism at the preceding stage.

FIG. 3 shows the operation in the transport mode. In this case, both the gate rollers (23) and 23 are rotating. The stopper (124) is set at a position shown in the drawing where the conveyed paper sheet can pass through the press-contact portion of the feeding roller (20) and the gate roller (23).
24 is a roller for feeding out the stored paper sheet or the stacked paper sheet 3;
0, it is set at the position shown in the figure to prevent the gate roller 23 from passing through the pressure contact portion. Switching gate 12
0, the main sheet guide 121 and the auxiliary sheet guide 122
It is swingable around a shaft 120a by a swinging means (not shown), and each is set at a position shown in the figure. The auxiliary sheet guide 122 has dropped to the position shown in the figure by its own weight.

An idle roller 120b is disposed on the shaft 120a, and faces the intermediate conveyance path 110. Also,
Transport guides 125 and 126 are provided to guide the transported sheets. Further, the take-out roller 24 is set at a position shown in the upper diagram so as not to hinder the passage of the transport paper sheet 7.

The transport paper sheet 7 supplied from the preceding mechanism is
The sheet is discharged and conveyed to a subsequent mechanism via the upper surface of the switching gate 120, the lower surface of the intermediate conveyance path 110, the upper surface of the main sheet guide 121, the press-contact portion of the feeding roller 20 and the gate roller 23.

FIG. 4 shows the operation in the storage mode. The only difference between this mode and the transport mode is the set position of the switching gate 120.

The switching gate 120 is set at a position shown in the horizontal direction by a driving source (not shown), and the sheet supplied from the preceding mechanism enters the lower surface of the switching gate 120.
The sheets are guided by the auxiliary sheet guide 122 and sequentially stored in the upper part of the stacked sheets 3. At this time, the auxiliary sheet guide 122 swings as indicated by a two-dot chain line, thereby alleviating the collision force of the storage sheet 8, and the blade (10) of the roller (11) with the impeller at the previous stage is stored in the storage sheet. Since the trailing edge of the leaf 8 is quickly dropped, interference with the leading edge of the succeeding paper sheet is prevented, and the storing operation can be stably performed sequentially. The holding plate 2 is sequentially driven downward so that the uppermost surface of the stacked paper sheets 3 is substantially at the position shown in the figure.

FIG. 5 shows the operation in the separation mode. In this separation mode, the gate roller 23 is kept stopped by means not shown. Pickup roller 2
4 is set to the position shown in FIG. Further, the stopper 124 is set at the position shown in the figure with the leading end substantially in the horizontal direction so that the paper sheet can be discharged. Further, the switching gate 120 has the rear end upward,
The main sheet guide 121 is set substantially horizontally at the position shown in the drawing, and the auxiliary sheet guide 122 is set to the main sheet guide 12.
1 is completely stored. In addition, the preceding stopper (124)
Is set at the position shown in the figure with the rear end upward to prevent the discharge of the stacked paper sheets (3).

The uppermost surface of the pile 3 and the take-out roller 24
The holding plate 2 is sequentially driven upward so that the pressing force with the sheet is constant, and the stacked paper sheets 3 are sequentially discharged and transported to a subsequent mechanism. FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate the state of the blade 10 of the roller 11 with the impeller when the apparatus is not operating and when the apparatus is operating. The shielding member (shielding means) 123 is disposed below the shaft 12 and is movable parallel to the shaft 12 by being guided by a member (not shown). Note that the width of the shielding member 123 is
Designed to be slightly longer than the width.

FIG. 6 shows a non-operating state, which is set by means (not shown) at a position where the stopped impeller roller 11 and the shielding member 123 do not interfere with each other.

When the apparatus is operated, the roller 11 with the impeller is rotated, and the shielding member 123 is moved to a position immediately below the roller 11 with the impeller, and the state shown in FIG. 7 is obtained. As a result, the lower half of the roller 11 with the impeller
3 shielded.

Therefore, the roller 11 with the impeller effectively functions only as a means for preventing interference between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet in the storage mode, and aligns the sheets by interference with the ends 3a and 3b of the stacked sheets 3. Sex disorder can be prevented. Also, when not in operation, by releasing the shielding by the shielding member 123,
The life of the impeller-equipped roller 11 can be extended.
As described above, in the present embodiment, since the sheet discharge section of the preceding mechanism is configured to act as the entrance of the sheet storage section of the subsequent mechanism, the dimension l _{1 in} the sheet transport direction (FIG. 1, FIG. 2) ) And the feed roller and the gate roller form a part of the main transport path of the apparatus, so that the height l ₂ (see FIG. 2) of the mechanism can be reduced, and the mechanism can be simplified. It is possible to provide a paper sheet handling apparatus provided with a paper sheet stacking / feeding mechanism that is reduced in size by the configuration. The automatic cash handling apparatus uses the paper sheet handling apparatus of the present invention.

According to the present invention, the gate roller is fitted into the shaft which rotatably supports the roller with the impeller,
The lower part of the feeding roller and the upper part of the gate roller are arranged so as to be pressed against each other, and the paper discharge part of the preceding mechanism acts as the entrance of the paper storage part of the latter mechanism. Since the configuration is such that the dimension in the transport direction is reduced), and the feeding roller and the gate roller form a part of the main transport path of the apparatus (the dimension in the height direction of the mechanism is reduced), the configuration is simple. Smaller paper stacks
A feeding mechanism can be provided, so that the sheet handling apparatus can be downsized.

[0033]

According to the present invention, the gate roller is inserted into the shaft which rotatably supports the roller with the impeller,
Since the lower part of the feed roller and the upper part of the gate roller are arranged in pressure contact with each other, the preceding sheet discharge section acts as an entrance to the subsequent sheet storage section, and the feed roller and the gate roller are connected to one another in the main transport path. Part is formed.
Both the the feeding mechanism can be miniaturized with a simple structure, it is possible to provide a sheet handling apparatus compact.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the operation (transport mode) of the sheet stacking and feeding mechanism according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the operation (storage mode) of the paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining the operation (separation mode) of the paper sheet stacking and feeding mechanism of the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 shows the operation of the roller with an impeller of the present embodiment (at the time of release).
FIG.

FIG. 7 shows the operation of the roller with an impeller of the present embodiment (at the time of shielding).
FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Storage part 2 Holding plate 3 Stacked paper sheet 4 Paper sheet 6 Discharge paper sheet 7 Conveyance paper sheet 8 Storage paper sheet 10 Blade 11 Roller with impeller 12, 21, 25 shaft 20 Feeding roller 23 Gate roller 24 Pickup roller 110 Intermediate conveyance Road 120a Axis 120 Switching gate 120b Followed roller 121 Main sheet guide 122 Auxiliary sheet guide 123 Shielding member 124 Stopper

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Itsuki Utsumi 1st Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Prefecture Hitachi, Ltd. Asahi Plant (72) Ryozo Nakamura 1st Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Prefecture Hitachi, Ltd. Inside the Asahi Plant (72) Inventor Mizuki Koi 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-city, Aichi Prefecture Hitachi, Ltd. Asahi Plant (56) References JP-A-1-126795 (JP, A) (58) Fields surveyed (Int .Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B65H 83/02 B65H 3/06 340 B65H 29/22 B65H 29/60

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] In a paper sheet handling apparatus for storing and separating paper sheets provided with a plurality of storage sections provided with an entrance and a discharge section for the conveyed paper sheets, the entrance of the storage section is a front stage. Storage
It operates as the discharge section of the storage section, and the discharge section of the storage section is
A paper sheet handling device, which operates as an entrance of a storage section. Wherein the paper sheet is input from the inlet of the housing portion, or the discharge side of the housing portion, claim 1, further comprising a distributing means for distributing the one deposition side of the housing portion
A paper sheet handling apparatus according to claim 1. 3. A sheet stacking / feeding mechanism for storing fed sheets by rotation of a roller with an impeller, and sequentially separating and discharging the stored sheets by rotation of a take-out roller and a feed-out roller. In the paper sheet handling apparatus, a gate roller is fitted into a shaft supporting the roller with the impeller, and the payout roller and the gate roller are arranged so as to form a part of a main transport path of the paper sheet. An intermediate conveyance path between the front and rear stages of the feeding roller and the gate roller, and a sheet stacking / feeding mechanism having a switching gate and a sheet guide below the intermediate conveyance path. A paper sheet handling apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned.