Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
  • G07D1/00—Coin dispensers
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
  • G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
  • G07D11/10—Mechanical details
  • G07D11/14—Inlet or outlet ports

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for dispensing objects, preferably money, with at least one magazine for storing the objects and with at least one dispensing device for dispensing objects from the at least one magazine, with a, preferably up and down, movable receptacle within the dispensing device - Measuring device is provided, near the movement path of which the at least one magazine is arranged with its removal side, and an object can be ejected from the magazine into the receiving device via the at least one output device if the receiving device is located in the region, preferably below the removal side of the magazine .
• Such an output device has become known, for example, from DE 36 30 191 C2.
• each dispenser has a complicated dispensing mechanism with many moving parts and each dispensing process should be additionally monitored for safety reasons, the overall result is a complicated, less flexible dispensing arrangement.
• An expansion or conversion from a coin roll to a banknote dispenser or vice versa is practically not possible with this modular dispenser arrangement, or is possible only with great effort.
• an output device for coin rolls in which an output device can be moved vertically in order to remove coin rolls from the magazines.
• cam disks with cams are provided on the movable output device, by means of which the magazine base on which the coin rolls to be removed rests can be raised. The coin roll thus raised over the front wall of the magazine rolls into the bowl-shaped dispenser, which the removed coin rolls would be moved to their upper end position.
• This known dispenser requires the special design of the magazine bottoms with liftable parts and a complicated mechanical sequence of movements of the cams for the dispensing of the coin rolls.
• DE 36 30 191 C2 also refers to JP-OS 58 (1983) -1 27 285, from which an output device is also known.
• a rotating finger is used to eject coin rolls from a magazine, which grips under the front coin roll through a recess in the magazine bottom and lifts it out of the magazine. If such a finger is provided on a movable dispensing device, a complex coordination between the rotational movement of the finger and the displacing movement of the dispensing device is necessary so that it only continues to move when a removal process has been completed and the finger is no longer in a removal rotating position . In addition, the finger length must be matched to the respective coin diameter.
• the present invention has for its object to simplify an output device of the type mentioned in such a way that the simplest possible output and a flexible, problem-free extension or conversion of objects to be dispensed is possible.
• the output device on the receiving device is provided with at least one recess which can be extended into operative engagement with the object to be removed and which can remove the object from the at least one magazine, preferably by lifting, when the receiving device moves past.
• This can the recess can be extended, for example, from the path of movement of the receiving device and the magazine can be freed on its removal side in such a way that the extended recess can lift the foremost roll out of the magazine through the cutout, while the receiving device, preferably upwards, can be lifted on it Magazine passed.
• the output device is provided on the receiving device, a separate output device is not required for each magazine, but objects can be removed from different magazines with a single output device which can be moved together with the receiving device. No mechanical or electrical settings are then required on the magazine itself, as a result of which the magazines can be of simple design and can be produced correspondingly inexpensively.
• the dispensing device works according to a removal and presentation principle, in which the objects to be dispensed from the dispensing device to the customer are first collected within the dispensing device with the receiving device in order to then enable the customer to remove them, for example from above, from this receiving device.
• the receiving device can, for example, move horizontally or, which is preferred, vertically, for example by means of a lift, the receiving device preferably moving linearly.
• Individual coins, coin rolls, banknotes and bundles of banknotes as well as correspondingly printed receipts can be issued, for example, in the case of a money dispensing device in the receiving device, which is provided in particular with a receiving shell.
• the objects to be dispensed only have to be deposited in the receiving device, for which purpose the weight of the objects to be dispensed can be used.
• Known banknote and bundle of banknote dispensers can be used as dispensers. If money acceptance devices are also provided, the entire money transaction, as is currently taking place in a bank branch, can be processed with the device according to the invention.
• the recess is preferably an extendable slide.
• the receiving device is open at the top, so that objects ejected from the magazine are on the one hand securely stored in the receiving device and on the other hand can be easily removed by a user from above.
• the objects in the at least one magazine are towards the removal side of the magazine, e.g. are acted upon by a spring force, it is ensured that an object located in the magazine can also be removed on the removal side.
• the at least one magazine is arranged with its removal side inclined downward in the output device. Due to their own weight or the slope downforce, the objects in the magazine are then loaded towards the removal side.
• the top of the extended recess can run steeper than a bottom-side bottom surface of the magazine for the objects. For example, if a take-out is the foremost coin roll tr cn 3 ⁇ ii i
• the receiving device can very particularly preferably be emptied downward, in particular by tilting or uncovering a bottom opening.
• tilting or opening the receiving device it can be ensured that in the event that objects of a customer are not removed from the dispensing device, they will not be taken away by the subsequent customer.
• This security can e.g. can be achieved by moving the receiving device into a position, preferably at the bottom, after each dispensing process and then opening downwards.
• the content incorrectly located in the receiving device at this time can be emptied into a disposal container that can be arranged under the receiving device.
• a disposal container that can be arranged under the receiving device.
• the objects in the disposal container can be removed and, if a customer identification took place during operation, these can be assigned to the respective person.
• This disposal function makes it possible to rectify errors that occur during the recording process in the recording device without bothering the customer.
• a sensor for automatic identification of the magazines is provided on the recording device. After being filled, the magazines are identified by the dispensing device itself, in that the receiving device moves the magazines and thereby "learns" the latest state of the magazines from the coding and the sensor.
• This has the advantage that the most frequently requested items can be stored in large quantities at peak times so that they can be replaced by others at a later time.
• it can be determined exactly where each magazine is located at any point in time, for example when filling, during transport to which branch or in which device with which level.
• the sensor is preferably arranged below the receiving device so that it cannot be seen by the customer when the coin rolls are removed and therefore cannot be influenced.
• the magazines which are preferably designed as interchangeable magazines, can be simply and conveniently placed and fastened on the intermediate floors.
• These intermediate floors are inclined to such an extent that the items stored in their respective magazines always move to the removal side due to the downward slope force, or that rollable items such as coin rolls always roll to the removal side.
• the main advantage of these inclined intermediate shelves is that the capacity of the dispenser can be adapted to the respective customer requirements by means of an appropriate number of intermediate shelves and magazine columns, without the technology or the design of the dispenser to have to change.
• the interchangeable magazines can be removed and loaded from the front and from the rear, provided that doors are provided on these two sides, so that the dispensing device can either be placed freely or against a wall or built into a wall.
• a closable removal opening is provided above an end position of the receiving device, after its release the objects located in the receiving device can be removed by a user.
• the removed objects can thus only be presented to the customer after the entire technical process within the dispensing device has been completed and the receiving device has moved to its end position near the opening. This allows tests to be carried out until shortly before the customer removes the objects, which guarantee the customer the correctness of the desired objects.
• the removal opening can be closed, for example, by a slide in a cover of the dispensing device. This slide is only opened for the customer to take out his desired goods when the entire recording and testing process has been completed. The customer thus only has the user-friendly pick-up device in front of him when removing the objects, which is advantageously at a user-friendly height.
• Fig. 2 is a plan view of a filled with coin rolls
• Fig. 3 is a side view of the dispenser according to
• FIG. 4 shows the dispensing device in a side view corresponding to FIG. 3 with the receiving device moved into its upper end position
• FIG. 5 shows the dispensing device in a side view corresponding to FIG. 3 with the receiving device moved into its lower end position
• FIG. 6 shows the dispensing device designed as a rollable carriage.
• the dispensing device designated overall by 1 in the drawing serves in the exemplary embodiment shown to dispense coin reels 3 stored in magazines 2.
• the coin reels 3 to be dispensed to a customer are first collected within a housing 4 by means of a lift 5 with an associated receiving device 6, and then to the customer to enable removal from above from this receiving device 6.
• the lift 5 is guided vertically via two round racks 7 on the side of the receiving device 6 and together with a gear motor 8, which transmits its power to two gear wheels 9 meshing with the round racks 7 the receiving device 6 can be moved up and down in the direction of the double arrow 10.
• the round racks 7 ensure smooth running, the drive and guide being implemented inexpensively with the same components.
• the dimensions of the magazines 2 are adapted to the coin rolls 3 in length and diameter in order to form a guide housing for the coin rolls 3 arranged one behind the other. These lie on a bottom surface 11 in the magazine 2, the front coin roll 3a, which is to be removed next, abuts a front stop 12 of the magazine 2 on the removal side 13 and can be removed from the magazine 2 upwards via a removal opening 14.
• the front stop 12 and the bottom surface 11 located below the removal opening 14 are open in the middle by a common cutout 15.
• the magazines 2 are marked on their removal side 13 on the outside with a machine-readable code which uniquely identifies the magazine 2 according to the type of coin rolls contained.
• the magazines 2 are located inside the dispenser 1 on intermediate floors 17, which are inclined towards the customer or removal side 16 (FIG. 3), so that the coin rolls 3 stored in the magazines 2 always roll to the front stop 12 due to the downforce.
• the magazines 2 are arranged on the intermediate floors 17 next to one another and one below the other in a matrix, and on the removal side are aligned in a vertical common alignment up to directly adjoining the movement path of the receiving device 6.
• the receiving device 6 is provided with sliders, hereinafter called recesses 18, which can be moved in the direction of the double arrow 19 and each have an output form direction.
• These recesses 18 are arranged in accordance with the columns of the magazine matrix and, in their extended state, are able to remove coin rolls 3 from the respective magazines 2 during the upward movement of the lift.
• the corresponding recess 18 is extended laterally during the upward movement of the lift 5, before the height of the desired magazine 2 is reached (FIG. 3). If the lift 5 moves upward out of the movement path of the receiving device 6, the recess 18 engages through the cutout 15 in the bottom surface 11 of the magazine
• the housing 4 is closed on its upper side with a cover 21, in which a slide 22 is located.
• This slide 22 provides a removal opening 23 arranged in the cover 21 for the customer above the receiving device 6 to remove his desired coin rolls 3 only when the entire collecting and testing process is complete.
• the lift 5, with the coin rolls 3 located in the receiving shell 20 moves upward into contact with the underside of the cover 21, where it is locked against being pressed down.
• the slide 22 then moves in the direction 24 and opens the removal opening 23 (FIG. 4).
• the lift 5 moves to a position below, and the bottom 25 of the receiving shell 20 is opened downward (FIG. 5).
• the content of the removal tray 20, e.g. Coin rolls 3 which have not been removed are tipped into a disposal container 26 located below the removal tray 20, which can be moved in the direction 27 to below the bottom shelf 17.
• additional devices e.g. additional single coin, banknote and banknote bundle dispensers and printers for printing receipts can be provided.
• each magazine 2 On the basis of the machine-readable coding, with the aid of which each magazine 2 can be uniquely identified, each magazine 2, preferably designed as an exchangeable magazine, can be arranged on any intermediate shelf 17 in any column.
• the magazines 2 can themselves be identified after the dispensing device (dispenser) 1 has been filled by the lift 5 moving off the front of the magazines 2 and learning the latest status of the magazine arrangement and filling based on the coding. So that the dispensing device 1 can be filled with magazines 2 as simply as possible from the rear of the dispensing device 1, the dispensing device 1 is designed as a carriage 29 on wheels or rollers 30 (FIG. 6), which in the exemplary embodiment shown is under an automatic machine housing that is at least open to the front 31 is inserted.
• the carriage 29, that is to say the entire dispensing device which is open to the rear, can be pulled out of the machine housing 31 in the direction of the arrow 32 for filling, this pulling out of course being excluded during operation.
• the filler can operate the magazines 21 from the rear when the carriage 29 is now extended. If there is not enough space at the place of filling, the carriage 29, which is pulled out slightly in the direction of the arrow 32, ie the entire output device open to the rear, can be rotated in the direction of rotation 35 about an axis of rotation 34 defined, for example, by means of a pivot bearing 33 the rear of the dispenser is accessible.

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