JPH0312355B2 - - Google Patents

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Detailed Description of the Invention "Field of Industrial Application" The present invention provides a circulating system having a circulating and distributing function capable of depositing and withdrawing banknotes and reusing deposited banknotes as disbursed banknotes. This relates to a bill depositing and dispensing machine.

``Prior Art'' Conventionally, circulating banknote deposit and withdrawal machines have been installed in financial institutions' stores, etc., and in order to reduce the work required at the start and end of business, they have been equipped with a single removable deposit and withdrawal box. At the start of business, the mixed banknotes for withdrawal in the deposit/withdrawal box are distributed to the withdrawal storage section of each denomination in the machine, and at the end of business, the banknotes in the withdrawal storage section of each denomination are distributed to the front. Banknotes are managed by collecting them in the entry/withdrawal box.

As a conventional example of a withdrawal device having the deposit/withdrawal box described above, the one described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 56-33759 is known, and in this device, it is difficult to store all the money in the storage box for each denomination. Banknotes are stored all at once in the deposit/withdrawal box, and when necessary, that is, when the number of bills stored in the storage box is insufficient, the required number of bills are sent out from the deposit/withdrawal box to deposit each denomination. I try to distribute it to storage boxes.

``Problems to be Solved by the Invention'' By the way, the deposited banknotes stored in the above-mentioned deposit/withdrawal box are banknotes with many wrinkles, tears, folds, stains, etc. that are not suitable for reuse as withdrawal banknotes (hereinafter referred to as It is a mixture of banknotes suitable for reuse (hereinafter referred to as good notes) and banknotes that are suitable for reuse (hereinafter referred to as good notes).On the other hand, it is desirable that the banknotes that are replenished in the storage box for withdrawal are only good notes. It is necessary to extract only genuine bills and send them to the storage box while transporting the banknotes sent out from the deposit/withdrawal box along the transport route inside the machine.
When unfit bills are mixed into the distribution process, which only requires distributing good bills, there is a problem in that more banknotes than necessary are transported and circulated during the distribution process, which reduces the efficiency of the distribution process. Also,
When all banknotes are collected in the deposit/withdrawal box at the end of a working day and the entire deposit/withdrawal box is removed from the aircraft, the banknotes in the deposit/withdrawal box are divided into genuine bills that can be reused as withdrawal bills and non-reusable bills. There is a problem in that a complicated process is required to separate unfit notes and unfit notes.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, unfit bills with various defects have unstable paper surfaces, so there is a high possibility that jams will occur when conveying them along the conveyance route in the machine for the above-mentioned distribution process, etc. There is a problem in that the frequency of unjamming work increases.

The present invention was proposed in view of the above circumstances, and
By storing unfit notes and good notes separately in the deposit/withdrawal box, the purpose is to increase the efficiency of distribution work and collection work at the end of the work day, and to prevent jams from occurring onboard the aircraft. .

"Means for Solving the Problems" In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a circulating banknote depositing and dispensing machine that can reuse deposited banknotes as dispensing banknotes, which separates deposited banknotes into good and unfit banknotes. first and second storage parts that store the first and second storage parts;
and a deposit/withdrawal box for storing the good and unfit bills in the second storage section and for using only the stored genuine bills as banknotes for withdrawal, and a deposit/withdrawal box for storing the good notes and unfit bills in the second storage section, and a deposit/withdrawal box for dispensing the genuine bills dispensed from the deposit/withdrawal box by denomination. and a denomination-specific withdrawal storage unit that accumulates and dispenses banknotes according to the payment instruction amount, and the first and second storage units include:
A storage front plate is disposed vertically on the front of the aircraft and is supported so as to be able to reciprocate up and down between it and a lower deposit/withdrawal box; a holding plate that holds the fit notes and unfit notes in an upright position, and a horizontal storage bottom plate that is connected to the storage front plate and supports the fit notes and unfit notes, the storage bottom plate: It is configured to be supported movably between a position where it supports good and unfit bills and a retracted position where they are sent toward the deposit/withdrawal box.

"Function" With the above configuration, banknotes can be accumulated in an upright position on the storage bottom plates of the first and second storage sections arranged vertically at the front of the machine, and the storage front plate and By retracting the storage front plate while holding the banknotes in the first and second storage parts between the holding plate and moving the storage front plate and the holding plate downward, the banknotes can be transferred directly to the lower deposit/withdrawal box. You can send damaged and undamaged bills separately.

Embodiments of the Invention A case will be described in which the present invention is applied to a circulating bill depositing and dispensing machine used by a teller (counter staff) at a counter of a financial institution such as a bank.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a circulating bill depositing and dispensing machine for a counter, and FIG. 2 is a route diagram illustrating the flow of bills between each component in FIG. 1. .

In the figure, 1 indicates the body of the circulating bill depositing and dispensing machine, and 2
indicates the trading outlet mechanism. This trading account mechanism 2
The deposit/withdrawal storage section 3 receives deposited banknotes and stores the withdrawn banknotes, and the deposit/withdrawal storage section 3
It is comprised of a shutter 4 that opens and closes from the outside of the machine body 1, and a payout accumulation section 5 located behind the deposit/withdrawal storage section 3. The dispensing and accumulating section 5 has a kicking roller 6, a dispensing roller 7, and a friction separating member 8 so that the deposited banknotes sent from the deposit/withdrawal storage section 3 can be disbursed and conveyed one by one. It is also configured to have an accumulation vehicle 9 so as to be able to accumulate disbursed banknotes conveyed from dispensing banknotes 19 to 21 classified by denomination, which will be described later.

The transaction port mechanism 2 also includes a deposit/withdrawal storage section 3.
a partition member that partitions the space between the banknotes and the payout stacking unit 5; a transfer mechanism that transfers deposited and withdrawn banknotes between the deposit and withdrawal storage unit 3 and the payout stacking unit 5; While pressing against the release roller 6,
A presser piece (none of which is shown) is provided to separate banknotes that are not determined to be banknotes by the determination unit 11, which will be described later, from banknotes that have not yet been conveyed.

The deposited banknotes separated and conveyed from the payout stacking section 5 are conveyed along a discrimination route 10. A discriminating section 11 is provided along the discriminating route 10 and is configured to be able to discriminate the authenticity, denomination, front and back, fitness, etc. of the conveyed banknotes.

The discrimination route 10 subsequent to the discrimination section 11 is divided into a distribution route 13 and a redirect route 14 by a distribution fork 12.

The distribution route 13 is provided with four distribution forks 15, 16, 17, and 18, and the banknotes distributed by each distribution fork 15 to 18 are transferred to a withdrawal storage section 19 for 10,000-bills and a 5,000-billion-note withdrawal storage section 19, respectively. They are accumulated and stored in the ticket withdrawal storage section 20, the thousand ticket withdrawal storage section 21, the first storage section 22, and the second storage section 23.

Further, the redirect route 14 is connected to a dispensing route 55, which will be described later, and this dispensing route 55 is connected to the collecting car 9 of the dispensing and collecting section 5.

The 10,000-ticket withdrawal storage section 19, the 5,000-ticket withdrawal storage section 20, and the 1,000-ticket withdrawal storage section 21 are arranged horizontally, respectively, and the collection cars 24, 25, 26,
Kicking rollers 27, 28, 29, feeding rollers 30, 31, 32, friction separation members 33, 3
4 and 35 in combination, and banknotes are stacked in an inclined state.

The first storage section 22 and the second storage section 23 are arranged in the vertical direction on the terminal end side of the distribution route 13,
Accumulating cars 36, 37, storage bottom plates 38, 39, storage front plate 40 (integrated), guide plate 41,
It is constructed by combining 42.

The stacking directions of the stacking cars 36 and 37 of the first storage section 22 and the second storage section 23 are set in opposite directions, and banknotes fed from above the stacking cars 36 of the first storage section 22 are Banknotes are stacked upright on the storage bottom plate 38 between the collection car 36 and the storage front plate 40 by the guide plate 41, and are fed from below the collection car 37 of the second storage section 23. Information board 4
2, the banknotes are stacked on the storage bottom plate 39 between the collection car 37 and the storage front plate 40 in an upright position in the opposite direction to the banknotes in the first storage section 22.

Note that when stacking banknotes in the second storage section 23, a belt 39a (described later) that moves at least on the storage bottom plate 39 toward the storage front plate 40 side is used to ensure that the rear end side of the stacked banknotes is sent to the storage front plate 40 side. do)
It is desirable to provide

Next, the deposit/withdrawal box 43 related to the first and second storage sections 22 and 23 will be explained. On the other hand, there is a genuine bill storage section A which is detachably arranged at the front in the mounting direction for storing genuine bills in an upright position, and at the rear part A which stores unfit bills in an upright position. This is a configuration in which a storage section B is provided.

That is, the genuine bill is between the front plate 44 and the reciprocating plate 45,
For unfit notes, there is a rear plate 46 and a pair of left and right unfit note holding bars 47,
47, and these front plate 44, reciprocating plate 45, and rear plate 46 are supported so as to be movable in the horizontal direction, as will be described later.

In the figure, 48 and 48 are a pair of right and left correct bill holding bars when storing normal and unfit notes, and 49 and 49 are a pair of left and right temporary holding bars when storing normal notes. This will be discussed later.

In addition, an opening/closing lid 50 is attached to the front lower part of the deposit/withdrawal box 43 in the mounting direction so as to be freely openable and closable.
A letter-shaped front plate 51 is provided.

Further, at the front lower part in the mounting direction, a kicking roller 52, a feeding roller 53, and a friction separation roller 52, which can be engaged with and detached from the deposit/withdrawal box 43 and can feed and convey a valid bill therein when the box 43 is mounted, are provided. A member 54 is provided in a state where it is supported by the body 1.

The banknotes that are separated and sent out one by one from the respective payout storage units 19, 20, 21 and deposit/withdrawal box 43 are conveyed through a payout route 55. A dispensing conveyance determining section 56 is provided in the middle of the dispensing route 55, and is configured to be able to determine abnormalities in conveyance (double feeding, diagonal feeding, close feeding), etc. of the conveyed banknotes.

A dispensing route 55 downstream of the dispensing conveyance determining section 56 is connected to the dispensing route 55 downstream of the redirect route 14, and this dispensing route 55 is connected to the collecting car 9 of the dispensing and accumulating section 5.

Further, near the rear end of this dispensing route 55, a transfer route 58 is branched and connected by a sorting fork 57 to transfer banknotes to the discriminating route 10 before the discriminating section 11.

The first and second storage sections 22 and 23 store banknotes using a pool mechanism 101 as described later, and are organically connected to a storage mechanism 102 and the like. These detailed mechanisms will be explained below based on FIGS. 3 to 15.

FIGS. 3A to 3F show the first and second storage parts 22,
23 to the deposit/withdrawal box 43, FIG.
3, and FIG. 5 shows the side view of the first and second storage parts 2.
2 and 23, FIG. 6 is a plan view of the second storage section 23, and FIGS. An explanatory diagram, FIG. 8 shows the second storage section 23.
FIGS. 9A and 9B are explanatory diagrams of the operation of the clamp arm drive device 108, and FIGS.
Figure 0 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the storage bottom plate moving device 109.
11 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the arm lifting device 110, FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the swinging rotation device 111, FIG. 13 is a front view of the portion shown in FIG. 12, and FIG.
The figure shows a plan view of the storage bottom plate 38 of the first storage section 22.
FIGS. 15A to 15C are explanatory views of the operation of the storage front plate 40, respectively.

First, the details of the pool mechanism 101 will be explained. The pool mechanism 101 has stacking cars 36 and 3 for receiving good or unfit bills sent from the distribution route 13 via the sorting fork 18.
7, a storage front plate 40 and guide plates 41, 42 for placing the stacked banknotes in an upright position, and storage bottom plates 38, 3 for supporting the lower surfaces of good and unfit bills in an upright position.
9, and the second storage section 23
In order to effectively carry out reverse stacking, a knocking wheel 103 is provided between the stacking wheels 37 to prevent unfit bills from falling during rotational conveyance.

This hammering wheel 103 is shown in FIGS. 6 and 7A.
As shown in examples D to D, a friction member 104 that contacts the surface of banknotes is provided on the outer periphery of a material such as rubber or sponge in a plate shape, loop shape, curved plate shape, ring shape, etc. central axis 10
5 as the center of rotation, it is set to rotate faster than the blades 37a of the collecting wheel 37. With this setting, the bill sandwiched between the adjacent blades 37a, 37a is moved in the rotational direction by contact with the friction member 104, and is struck to the base of the blade 37a. The hammered banknotes are scraped off by the guide plate 42 and accumulated in an upright position on the storage bottom plate 39. In order to assist the action of the tapping wheel 103, auxiliary belts 39a are provided on the left and right sides of the storage bottom plate 39 to drive the banknotes in the forward direction of the machine body 1 during operation. As shown in FIG. 8, this auxiliary belt 39a is stretched between a pair of shafts 39b, 39b provided along the storage bottom plate 39, and is attached to a small shaft provided at the rear end of the storage bottom plate 39. When the motor 106 is in operation, it is driven by a transmission belt 107 to support the rear end of the banknote and prevent it from falling from the stacking wheel 37 when the banknote is not sufficiently tapped.

Next, the details of the storage mechanism 102 will be explained. The storage mechanism 102 includes a clamp device 108 for clamping banknotes in an upright position, and a clamp device 108 for clamping banknotes in an upright position, and a clamping device 108 for clamping banknotes in an upright position. A storage bottom plate moving device 109 that evacuates and clears the passage, and an arm lifting device 11 that is connected to a clamp arm 115 and a front plate arm 155, which will be described later.
0, and an opening/closing plate 165 of a notch 132 and a swinging rotation device 111 of a bill presser bar 166, which will be described later, are connected.

That is, the clamping device 108, as shown in FIG. 9 (see also FIGS. 4 and 6),
is rotated by a motor 114 around a shaft 113 to control the swinging of the clamp arm 115, and the cam head 116 and the connecting shaft 1
A V-shaped link 118 having a diameter of 17 is rotatably provided by a shaft 119, a spanning rod 120 is connected to the connecting shaft 117, and a gear support member 123 whose rotation center is a shaft 122 is connected to a shaft 121 at the tip thereof. be done. A sector gear 124 is integrally supported by this gear support member 123 . This sector gear 12
As shown in FIGS. 4, 5, and 11, an upper arm 126 and an upper arm 126 whose rotation centers are two shafts 125 spaced apart vertically and coaxially are located at a position slightly offset from the rotation center of FIG. A lower arm 127 is provided, and the gear 1 is integrated with the upper arm 126.
28 is provided and meshes with the sector gear 124. Also, the upper arm 126 and the lower arm 127
A connecting shaft 129 is provided between them to connect them together. Further, a pair of the upper arm 126, the lower arm 127, and the connecting shaft 129 are provided on both left and right sides of the first and second storage sections 22 and 23. Further, the upper arm 126 and the lower arm 127 are provided with guide rails 1 extending vertically.
30 is integrally provided, and the connecting shaft 129
The arm support member 131 is slidable up and down.
is attached, and its guide roller 131a engages with the guide rail 130 to slide up and down along the connecting shaft 129. Further, the arm bearing portion 131b of the arm support member 131
fixedly supports a shaft 161 as described later.

Due to the rotation of the sector gear 124, the lower arm 127 moves around the shaft 125 into the first and second storage parts 2.
2 and 23, and the clamp arm 115 rotates toward both storage portions 22 and 23. The rotational movement of the clamp arm 115 is performed in three stages as shown by the positions A, B, and C in FIG. 9B. It is set up so that you can pass through it.

Note that the clamping device 108 has both storage parts 22, 2
Although the same devices are independently provided on the three left and right sides, the rotational operations of the left and right clamp arms 115 are performed synchronously.

Next, the storage bottom plate moving device 109 will be explained.

Like the clamp arm drive device 108, the storage bottom plate moving device 109 has a shaft 113 as its rotation center, and a cam 133 using a motor 114 as a driving source controls the storage bottom plates 38, 39.

That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the cam head 136 of the inverted dogleg-shaped link 135 whose rotation center is the shaft 134 is caused by the cam 133 whose rotation center is the shaft 113 described in connection with the clamp device 108.
is driven, and the link 13 is connected via the connecting shaft 137.
Convert to forward/backward movement of 8. This link 138 is connected to a link 139 on its back side and a link 140 on its front side. The rotation of the link 139 about the shaft 141 is converted into a swinging motion of the link 140 about the shaft 143 via the connecting shaft 142 and the elongated hole 140b of the link 140. Further, the tip of the link 139 is formed into a long groove 139a, which connects the connecting shaft 1 on the first transfer block 144.
45 is being held loosely. Furthermore, link 1
40 has a long groove 140a, which loosely holds a connecting shaft 147 on the second transfer block 146.

The storage bottom plate 38 of the first storage section 22 is connected to the pair of first transfer blocks 14 as shown in FIG.
4 suppresses movement in the left-right direction, and the first transfer block 144 is slidably supported by a horizontally extending shaft 148.

On the other hand, the storage bottom plate 39 of the second storage section 23 is also restrained from moving in the left-right direction by the second transfer block 146, and the horizontally extending shaft 14
9 and is slidably supported.

Note that although the storage bottom plate moving device 109 is provided with the same devices independently on the left and right sides, the left and right devices are operated synchronously.

Further, the accumulation car 36 of the first storage section 22 is
As shown in the figure and FIG.
0 is supported by an accumulation vehicle support plate 151, and this accumulation vehicle support plate 151 is rotatably supported by a shaft 152.

Immediately below this accumulation vehicle support plate 151, on the storage bottom plate 38, when the accumulation vehicle support plate 151 is retreated, the accumulation vehicle support plate 151
Push-up roller 15 for rotating the
3 is provided on the storage bottom plate 38. In this way, as the storage bottom plate 38 moves back, the stacking car 36 rises, thereby reducing the vertical dimension, allowing the stacking car 36 to stack banknotes effectively, and increasing the distance between the storage bottom plate 38 and the stacking car. Unnecessary collision with 36 can be avoided. Further, after the banknotes stacked in an upright position on the storage bottom plates 38 and 39 of the first and second storage sections 22 and 23 are held between the presser plate 154 and the storage bottom plate 40, both storage bottom plates 38 and 39 are held.
39 retreats, and then the clamp arm 115 and front plate arm 155 descend to send the clamped banknotes into the deposit/withdrawal box 43.

Next, the arm lifting device 110 for vertically driving the clamp arm 115 and the front plate arm 155 will be explained with reference to FIG. 11.

When the cam 156 shown in FIG. 4 is rotated by the shaft 113 connected to the motor 114, the cam head 159 rotates around the shaft 157.
is driven, and the guide roller 160 at the tip of the link 158 moves the arm support member 131 up and down via the arm bearing portion 131b. Note that the arm bearing portion 131b is formed so that it can gently support the guide roller 160 even when it rotates to clamp banknotes.

In this way, by changing the rotational movement of the link 158 into the vertical movement of the arm bearing part 131b, the shaft 161 and the clamp arm 115 fixedly supported by the arm bearing part 131b, and the presser fixed to the clamp arm 115 are The plate 154, the front plate arm 155 rotatably supported by the shaft 161, and the storage front plate 40 integrated with the front plate arm 155 move up and down in synchronization.

In addition, the clamp arm 115 and the front plate arm 15
The connection shaft 1 restricts 5 to only lifting and lowering operations.
An arm support member 131 is slidably supported by 29 and fixes the arm bearing portion 131b.
and an arm fixing member 163 that is slidably supported on the shaft 162 and is integral with the front plate arm 155. Note that even when the shaft 161 is moving up and down,
The reason why the center position can always be maintained at the same center as the shaft 125 is because of the guide roller 1 integrated in the arm support member 131.
This is because the guide rail 31a is set along the guide rail 130 that is integrated with the upper and lower arms 125 and 127. This guide rail 130 allows the arm elevating device 110 to perform elevating and lowering operations at an accurate position.

In addition, when sending the banknotes accumulated in the first storage section 22 and the second storage section 23 into the deposit/withdrawal box 43, the clamp arm 115 and the front plate arm 155
The lifting and lowering operations are performed twice.

First, by lowering the clamp arm 115 and the front plate arm 155 for the first time, the banknotes accumulated in the first storage section 22 are sent into the deposit/withdrawal box 43. At this point, the holding plate 154 and the storage front plate 40, which are holding the banknotes accumulated in the first storage part 22, enter the deposit/withdrawal box 43 and clamp the banknotes accumulated in the second storage part 23. The holding plate 154 and the front storage plate 40 descend to the first storage section 22 [see FIG. 3C].

Next, the first and second storage parts 22, which had retreated,
Both storage bottom plates 38 and 39 of 23 move forward and close the bottom surfaces of both storage sections 22 and 23 again. The clamp arm 115 then rotates to position B in FIG. 9B to release the bill. In other words, the first storage section 22
The banknotes accumulated in the deposit/withdrawal box 43 are
Further, the banknotes accumulated in the second storage section 23 are stored in the first storage section 23.
It is released on the storage bottom plate 38 of the storage section 22. The clamp arm 115 rises together with the front plate arm 155 while remaining in the position shown in FIG. 9B, and returns to the standby position. At this time, the clamp arm 115 passes through the notches 132 provided in both storage bottom plates 38 and 39 and returns to its original position. When you return to your original position,
The clamp arm 115 rotates again from the position B in FIG. 9 to press the banknote against the storage front plate 40 side. At this time, the pressing plate 40 holds down the banknotes accumulated in the second storage part 23, and the banknotes accumulated in the second storage part 23 are transferred to the first storage part 22, so that the banknotes become empty. Note that the arm lifting device 110
The left and right devices are independent on the left and right, sandwiching both storage portions 22 and 23, but the left and right devices move synchronously.

Next, both storage bottom plates 38 and 39 move back again,
Clamp arm 115 and front plate arm 1 as above
55 descends, and the holding plate 154 of the first storage section 22
Then, the storage front plate 40 enters into the deposit/withdrawal box 43. Then, the clamp arm 115 rotates again to the position B in FIG. 9B to release the banknote. When the bill is released, the clamp arm 115 rises again together with the front plate arm 155 while remaining in the position shown in FIG. 9B. Therefore, as described above, both storage portions 22,
The clamp arm 115 passes through the notch 132 of the storage bottom plates 38 and 39 blocking the bottom
returns to the standby position. Next, the clamp arm 115
rotates to position A in FIG. 9B and waits for the next storage command.

Next, the swinging rotation device 111 will be explained based on FIG. 12.

By the rotation of the shaft 113 connected to the motor 114, the cam 164 controls the rotation of the opening/closing plate 165 and the bill holding rod 166. That is, the cam 164
The rotation of the link 168 drives the cam head 169 of the link 168 around the shaft 167, and the long groove 168a at the tip of the link 168 drives the connecting shaft 171 fixed to the link 170. link 170
is allowed to move only in the vertical direction by shafts 172 and 173, and the portions supported by shafts 172 and 173 are formed into vertical long holes 174 and 175 in order to allow the link 170 to slide freely. ing. A rotary lever 176 is provided at the tip of the link 170 and is pressed and driven only when the reservoir bottom plate 38 of the first reservoir 22 closes the bottom surface of the first reservoir 22. A gear 177 is fixed integrally, and this gear 177
is the gear 178, and the gear 178 is the shaft 1
They each mesh with another gear 180 fixed to one end of the gear 79.

The shaft 179 has a bevel gear 181 at its other end, as shown in FIG. It's growing. A connecting rod 184 extending perpendicularly from the tip of this shaft 183 fixes the banknote pressing rod 166.

Further, the opening/closing plate 165 is rotatably supported by a shaft 185 above the storage bottom plate 22.
A worm 18 is provided on each of the shafts 183 and 185 at a portion where the shafts 183 and 185 are orthogonal to each other.
6. The worm wheel 187 is set to mesh.

These swinging and rotating devices 111 operate when the clamp arm 115 descends, sends banknotes into the deposit/withdrawal box 43, and then rises to its original position. 132 and the banknotes being accumulated block the notch 132.
This prevents the clamp arm 115 from entering the clamp arm 115, and when activated, it is placed vertically to open the notch 132 and allow the clamp arm 115 to pass through.

The banknote presser bar 166 is normally located horizontally, but when activated, it becomes vertical as it faces downwards, and the bill presser bar 166 is directed downwardly and vertically.
55 feeds banknotes into the deposit/withdrawal box 43, releases the banknotes, and rises, the presser plate 154 rubs against the presser plate 154 and the storage front plate 40.
It holds down the banknotes rising together with the storage front plate 40 and keeps them in the deposit/withdrawal box 43.

That is, in FIG. 12, the rotation of the link 168 causes the link 170 to move toward the rotation lever 1.
When 76 is pushed down, the gear 177 integrated with the rotating lever 176 rotates counterclockwise in FIG. 12, the gear 178 rotates clockwise, and the gear 180 meshing with the gear 178 rotates counterclockwise. do.
As this gear 180 rotates, the shaft 179
Like the gear 180, the shaft 183 rotates counterclockwise, and the shaft 183 rotates clockwise. axis 18
3 rotates clockwise, the bill presser bar 166 is placed in a downward vertical position, and the opening/closing plate 165 is rotated clockwise.
are each rotated to an upward vertical position. In addition, the first
In the examples shown in FIGS. 2 and 14, the opening/closing plate 165 is provided in the notch 132 of the storage bottom plate 38 of the first storage section 22, but it is similarly provided in the notch 132 of the second storage section 23. In addition, the swinging rotation device 111 of the opening/closing plate 165 of the notch 132 and the bill presser bar 166 is
Although the left and right rotating devices 111 are independently provided with the storage portions 22 and 23 in between, the left and right rotating devices 111 operate synchronously.

Next, a case in which deposited banknotes are returned to the transaction port mechanism 2 will be explained.

When a return command is issued when the banknotes are accumulated on the storage bottom plate 38 of the first storage section 22 and the storage bottom plate 39 of the second storage section 23, the clamp arm 11
5 rotates to position B in FIG. 9B. Next, the front plate arm 155 rotates outward with respect to both storage sections 22 and 23, thereby releasing the stacked banknotes toward the front of the machine body 1. Then, the teller opened the return door (not shown) installed on the front of the aircraft 1.
The returned banknotes are taken out from the first and second storage sections 22 and 23.

Next, the front plate opening/closing device (see Fig. 15) 189
To explain, this front panel opening/closing device 189
are a pair of left and right front plate arms 155 that support the storage front plate 40 and are respectively disposed on the upper and lower sides.
is swung as shown by arrows A and B in FIG. 6 to open and close a pair of storage front plates 40 that are split in the center. Note that, as shown in FIG. 1, the storage front plate 40 is attached from the first storage section 22 to the second storage section 23 so as to cover both with one sheet.

The front plate arm 155 is integrated with the arm support member 163 as described above, and as shown in FIG.
The arm support member 163 is gently held between the arms and is allowed to swing around the center of rotation.
As shown in FIG. 4, it is slidable about the shaft 162, so it is supported to be movable up and down. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, the shaft 16
1 and the pair of shafts 125 are arranged on a coaxial line,
A connecting arm 191 is provided on the shaft 125 so as to be swingable around the shaft 125.
91 between the mounting members 192, 192, the shaft 162
are provided integrally.

A spring 194 is spanned between the connecting arm 191 and a fixing pin 193 in the vicinity thereof, and urges the storage front plate 40 and the front plate arm 155 in a direction away from both storage members 22 and 23. ing.

Furthermore, an engagement pin 196 that is part of a locking mechanism 195 is integrally provided in a part of the connecting arm 191, and this locking mechanism 195 is further connected to a unit plate 197 directly above the second storage section 23.
A solenoid 198 is provided on the top, and the solenoid 198 operates the lock plate 200 via the connecting shaft 199, and the lock plate 200 swings about the shaft 201 as the center of rotation, thereby opening the hook-shaped locking portion. 202 is hooked onto the engagement pin 196 to bring the lock plate 200 into the locked state. Further, the locking portion 202 of the locking plate 200 is always urged by a spring 203 in a direction to maintain the locked state. And solenoid 19
By energizing 8, the locked state is released.

That is, normally, the lock plate 200 locks the connecting arm 191 and fixes the storage front plate 40 at the front ends of both storage sections 22 and 23, but when a return command is received, the solenoid 198 locks the connecting arm 191. 20
Push the rear end of 0 forward. Therefore, lock plate 20
When the locking portion 202 of 0 rotates backward about the shaft 201, the engagement pin 196
to release. In this way, when the engagement pin 196 is unlocked, the spring 194 attached to the connecting arm 191 causes the connecting arm 191 to
It rotates backward about a shaft 125 coaxial with the shaft 161 as a rotation center. When the connecting arm 191 rotates backward, an arm support member 163 slidably supported by a shaft 162 supported by the connecting arm 191, a front plate arm 155 supported by the member 163, and a front plate arm 155 supported by the arm 155. The storage front plate 40 rotates rearward about a shaft 161 coaxial with the shaft 125, thereby opening the front sides of both storage sections 22 and 23.

When the batch return of banknotes is completed, the sector gear 1
24 starts reverse rotation. Due to this reverse rotation, the upper arm 126 integrated with the gear 128
Rotates synchronously to the 2 and 23 sides. Due to this synchronous rotation, the arm support member 131, which is slidable on the connecting shaft 129, is also
Rotates synchronously to the 2 and 23 sides. When the arm support member 131 rotates toward both the storage sections 22 and 23, the clamp arm 115 rotates via the shaft 161 to the outside with respect to the storage sections 22 and 23, that is, to the standby position.

A positioning member 204 such as a bolt that comes into contact with the front plate arm 155 and suppresses its rotation is protruded from the side surface of the arm support member 131, and when the arm support member 131 rotates to the standby position, The positioning member 204 pushes the front plate arm 155 back to the standby position. In other words, when the clamp arm 115 rotates to the standby position, the front plate arm 155 also moves to the standby position using the positioning member 204.
pushed back by

Although not particularly related to the gist of the present invention, the withdrawal process, distribution process, initial setting, and end-of-work process will be briefly explained.

When a withdrawal process is performed, bills of the corresponding denomination are dispensed from the dispensing storage units 19 to 21 and conveyed along the dispensing route 55 to the dispensing stacking unit 5. During this process, if a discrimination abnormality is detected in the withdrawal conveyance discrimination unit 56, the money is sent to the discrimination route 10 and the distribution route 13 via the transfer route 58, and returned to the storage units 19 to 21 of the dispensed denomination. .

When all the banknotes accumulated in the dispensing storage section 5 are normal and can be withdrawn, the dispensing banknotes are transferred from the dispensing and accumulating section 5 by a delivery mechanism (not shown).
The money is transferred to the deposit/withdrawal storage section 3, and the shutter 4 is opened so that it can be taken out.

Further, when a distribution instruction is given (automatically or by inputting an instruction), the genuine notes in the deposit/withdrawal box 43 are fed out onto the withdrawal route 55, and further sent to the discrimination route 10 via the transfer route 58. It will be done.

In the discrimination route 10, the discrimination unit 11 discriminates the denomination and the front and back sides, and the front ticket of each denomination is sent to the storage units 19 to 21 for each denomination via the distribution route 13, and the back ticket is stored in the second storage. In the section 23, there are other abnormally transported bills (normal bills with some kind of abnormality and the storage section 19~
21 is full) are distributed and accumulated in the first storage section 22.

In this way, the first storage section 22 and the second storage section 2
Since the banknotes No. 3 are both genuine bills, they are stored after performing the genuine bill storing operation twice during the deposit processing described above.

Note that by accumulating the back tickets in the second storage section 23, the conveyance direction is reversed and the tickets are treated as front tickets at the next distribution process.

Next, as part of the initial setup process, first of all,
Set genuine bills (front) of each denomination in the genuine bill storage section of the deposit/withdrawal box 43 (between the front plate 44 and the reciprocating plate 45) and attach them to the machine 1 (there is only one bill in the machine 1). (also not accumulated).

Then, when an initial setting instruction is given, a process similar to the distribution process described above is performed, and each storage unit 1
Valid notes are accumulated at 9 to 21, and the transaction becomes possible.

Finally, when the end-of-day processing is instructed, the genuine bills in each withdrawal storage section 19 to 21 are sequentially paid out, and the withdrawal route 55 and transfer route 5
8. All are accumulated in the first storage section 22 via the discrimination route 10 and the distribution route 13.

When a predetermined number of fit bills are accumulated, the fit notes in the first storage section 22 are sequentially stored as fit notes in the same manner as the above-described fit note storage operation, and all the payout storage sections 19 to 2 are stacked.
When all the valid bills in 1 are stored in the deposit/withdrawal box 43, the collection process at the end of the day is completed.

"Effects of the Invention" As described above, according to the present invention, banknotes can be accumulated in an upright position on the storage bottom plates of the first and second storage sections arranged vertically at the front of the machine body, and , by retracting the storage front plate with the banknotes in the first and second storage sections being held between the storage front plate and the holding plate, and moving the storage front plate and the holding plate downward, the lower It is possible to feed the deposit and withdrawal banknotes into the deposit/withdrawal box separately.Accordingly, the deposited banknotes can be sorted into good and unfit bills and accumulated and stored in a standing position at the top and bottom of the front of the machine. The accumulated banknotes can be held and fed into the deposit/withdrawal box below. Therefore, when distributing banknotes in the deposit/withdrawal box, it is possible to feed only valid bills into the machine, increasing the efficiency of distribution, and reducing the possibility of jams that tend to occur when unfit bills are transported. This effect is achieved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a circulating bill depositing and dispensing machine for counters, Fig. 2 is a route diagram illustrating the flow of banknotes between each component in Fig. 1, and Figs. F is an explanatory diagram of the banknote storage state of the example in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4
The figure is a side view of the first and second storage parts, and Figure 5 is a side view of the first and second storage parts.
and a front view of the second storage section, FIG. 6 is a plan view of the second storage section, FIGS. 2
A plan view of the storage bottom plate, FIG. 9A is a front view illustrating the operation of the clamp device, FIG. 9B is a view taken along the line B-B, and FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the storage bottom plate moving device. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the clamp arm and the front plate arm lifting device, FIG.
3 is a front view of the portion shown in FIG. 12, FIG. 14 is a plan view of the first storage bottom plate, and FIGS. 15A to 15C are explanatory views of the operation of the front plate arm opening/closing device. 1... Body, 2... Transaction port mechanism, 3... Deposit/withdrawal storage section, 4... Shutter, 5... Payout accumulation section, 10... Discrimination route, 11... Discrimination section, 13
...Distribution route, 14...Redirect route, 1
5, 16, 17, 18...Distribution fork, 1
9, 20, 21... Withdrawal storage section, 22... First storage section, 23... Second storage section, 36, 37... Accumulation vehicle, 38, 39... Storage bottom plate, 39a... Auxiliary belt, 39b...Shaft, 40...Storage front plate, 41,
42... Information board, 43... Deposit/withdrawal box, 44
...Front plate, 45...Reciprocating plate, 46...Rear plate, 47
...Unfit note holding bar, 48...Good note holding stick, 49
...Temporary holding bar, 50...Opening/closing lid, 50a...Roller, 51...Front receiving plate, 52...Kicking roller, 53...Feeding roller, 54...Friction separation member, 55...Payment route , 101... Pool mechanism, 102... Storage mechanism, 103... Hitting wheel, 104... Friction member, 105... Center shaft,
108... Clamp device, 109... Storage bottom plate moving device, 110... Arm lifting device, 111...
Swing rotation device, 113... shaft, 115... clamp arm, 126... upper arm, 127... lower arm, 131... arm support member, 151...
... Accumulator support plate, 153... Push-up roller,
154... Holder plate, 155... Front plate arm, 1
61... Axis, 163... Arm fixing member, 165
...Opening/closing plate, 166...Banknote holding bar, 189...
...Front plate opening/closing device, 190...U-shaped groove, 191...
...Connection arm, 195...Lock mechanism, 196...
...Engagement pin, 198...Solenoid, 199...
Connection shaft, 200...lock plate, 202...locking portion, 204...positioning member.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a circulating banknote deposit/dispensing machine that can reuse deposited banknotes as withdrawal banknotes, there are first and second storage parts that separate and store deposited banknotes into good and unfit banknotes, and these first and second storage units. A deposit/withdrawal box for storing genuine and unfit bills in the storage section and for using only the stored genuine bills as bills for withdrawal; The first and second storage sections are arranged vertically on the front of the machine, and are connected to the deposit/withdrawal box. a storage front plate supported so as to be able to reciprocate up and down between the storage front plates; a holding plate that is supported so as to be able to approach and move away from the storage front plate and hold the good notes and unfit notes in an upright position; It is equipped with a horizontal storage bottom plate that is connected to support normal and unfit notes, and the storage bottom plate has two positions: a position to support normal notes and unfit notes, and a retreat position where they fall toward the deposit/withdrawal box. A circulating bill depositing and dispensing machine characterized by being movably supported between.