JPH04284592A - Banknote handling equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a banknote handling device used in automatic teller machines and the like, and more particularly to a banknote handling device capable of collecting foreign objects such as coins that are conveyed overlapping banknotes.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a banknote handling device, for example, a device disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 62-42296 is known. This device is provided with a coin tray that receives foreign objects such as coins that naturally separate and fall from between the bills when the operator inserts the bills into the deposit slot.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Although the above-mentioned prior art takes into consideration the possibility of receiving foreign objects such as coins that naturally separate and fall from between the bills when the operator inserts the bills into the deposit slot, , it gets stuck between the banknotes and is not separated from the banknote when the banknote is inserted into the deposit slot of the banknote handling device.
No consideration is given to removing foreign objects such as coins that overlap with banknotes and are conveyed due to the banknote taking operation of the device. However, as a practical matter,
Foreign objects such as coins that are not separated from the banknotes when the banknotes are inserted into the deposit slot of the banknote handling device and are transported overlapping the banknotes during the banknote loading operation of the device may cause serious accidents such as breakage of the banknote conveyance belt. It is the cause of this, and it is necessary to completely eliminate it. especially,
In recent years, as many banknote handling devices equipped with coin handling functions have come into use, users are frequently inserting coins into banknote deposit slots due to misunderstandings, and urgent countermeasures are needed. It has become. The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to solve the above-mentioned problems in the conventional technology, and to prevent foreign objects such as coins accidentally inserted into the banknote deposit slot from causing damage to the device. It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly reliable banknote handling device that can be removed without any damage.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling device for depositing or withdrawing banknotes, in which coins accompanying banknotes, etc. This is achieved by a banknote handling device characterized by having a high-resistance member for locking foreign objects.

[0005]

[Operation] In the banknote handling device according to the present invention, in order to remove foreign objects such as coins accompanying banknotes, the bending portion of the banknote conveyance path is used to apply resistance only to foreign objects such as coins. Therefore, foreign objects such as coins accompanying the banknotes can be temporarily stopped and separated from the banknotes by allowing them to fall naturally after the banknotes have passed, without affecting the conveyance of the banknotes at all. be. This makes it possible to remove foreign objects such as coins that have been mistakenly inserted into the banknote deposit slot without damaging the device, making it possible to realize a highly reliable banknote handling device.

[0006]

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of a recycling-type bill handling device that is an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a deposit/withdrawal port that serves as both a deposit and withdrawal port, and at the bottom of the deposit/withdrawal port 1 is a deposit separation mechanism 2 that separates banknotes one by one.
However, in the vicinity of the deposit separating mechanism 2, there is provided a stacking mechanism 3 for stacking paid banknotes or deposited and returned banknotes. Further, 8 is a banknote discriminator, and the deposit separation mechanism 2
The separated banknotes are transferred to the banknote discriminator 8 via a conveyance path, while the banknotes conveyed to the stacking mechanism 3 are transferred from above the banknote discriminator 8. On the right side of the banknote discriminator 8, there is a temporary accumulation mechanism 4 for temporarily holding the deposited banknotes discriminated by the banknote discriminator 8, and at the bottom of the temporary accumulation mechanism 4 there is a separator 5 and a mechanism for replenishing the disbursed banknotes. A replenishment safe (hereinafter simply referred to as "safe") 6 is arranged, and furthermore, on the right side of the safe 6,
Replenishment reject boxes 6a for collecting reject tickets of replenishment banknotes are integrated and arranged. A banknote thickness detection mechanism 9 is provided at the front stage of the banknote discriminator 8, and a gate 1 for sorting banknotes is located at the rear stage of the banknote discriminator 8.
0 is set. The gate 10 and the temporary accumulation mechanism 4
Gates 10a and 10b are provided in the middle of the conveyance path, and a gate 10c is provided after the gate 10a, and the subsequent stage is divided into upper and lower sections for collecting forgotten banknotes and storing rejected banknotes for withdrawal. A reject box 7 is provided which is configured to allow this. Further, between the gate 10 and the accumulation mechanism 3, there is provided an accumulation mechanism 18 for temporarily accumulating the gate 10d and the rejected tickets at the time of deposit. Storage boxes 11, 12, and 13 for storing 10,000 yen bills, 1,000 yen bills, and 5,000 yen bills are provided along the conveyance path from the deposit separation mechanism 2 to the thickness detection mechanism 9. A 10,000 yen bill accumulating mechanism 14, a 1,000 yen bill accumulating mechanism 15, and a 5,000 yen bill accumulating mechanism 16 are provided via 10f and 10g. Between the gates 10 and 10a, a front-back reversing mechanism 17 for reversing the front and back of banknotes is provided, and the temporary stacking mechanism 4, the 10,000-yen bill stacking mechanism 14, the 1,000-yen bill stacking mechanism 15, and the 5,000-yen bill stacking mechanism In the vicinity of the yen note accumulation mechanism 16, there are
Bill separating mechanisms 4a, 14a, 15a, and 16a are provided. Note that the above-mentioned safe 6 is taken out to the outside by opening the outer door of the bill handling device, and then is replenished with bills and stored inside again. Also, 25 and 31
〜33 is a conveyance path, and 34 below the deposit separation mechanism 2 is
It shows a coin collection tray, which will be described later.

The banknote depositing operation of the recycling type banknote handling device of this embodiment, which is constructed as described above, will be explained below. To deposit money, when the customer presses a process selection key (not shown) and inserts banknotes into the deposit/withdrawal port 1, the deposited banknotes are separated one by one by the deposit separation mechanism and transferred to the conveyance path 21.
, 21a, 21b, 21c, 21d, and 22, and then sent to the banknote discriminator 8. The banknotes determined by the banknote discriminator 8 to be valid are stacked in the temporary stacking mechanism 4 via the gates 10, 10a, and 10b. At this time, the front and back notes of the banknotes are
Based on the results of the discrimination by the banknote discriminator 8, the front note passes through the conveyance path 30, and the back note passes through the conveyance path 2 through the front-back reversing mechanism 17.
9 and are accumulated in the temporary accumulation mechanism 4, respectively. On the other hand, rejected bills that cannot be distinguished by the banknote discriminator 8 are
The materials are collected via the gate 10 and the collection mechanism 18 on the bell 41 of the conveyance path 23 opened by an opening/closing mechanism (not shown). Next, the transport path 2 is opened and closed by an opening/closing mechanism (not shown).
3, the rejected banknotes are conveyed all at once and stacked at the deposit/withdrawal port 1 by the stacking mechanism 3 via the gate 10d. Here, the push plate 2 is moved by a motor (not shown).
Push out the accumulated banknotes in the direction of the withdrawal port of the deposit/withdrawal port 1. When the customer pulls out the rejected banknotes and presses a processing key (not shown), the depositor is informed of the counting results of the deposited banknotes. At the same time, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary stacking mechanism 4 are separated one by one by the separation mechanism 4a and fed out, passing through the conveyance path 24 and passing through the banknote discriminator 8.
It is determined whether or not the banknote can be used as a withdrawal banknote. 10,000 yen, 1,000 yen, and 5,000 yen tickets that have been determined to be usable will be sent to Gate 10.
, 10d, through the transport path 21, gates 10e, 10f,
10g are stored in storage boxes 11, 12, and 13 through gates 10, 10a, and 10c, and other banknotes are stored in the lower part of reject box 7 through gates 10, 10a, and 10c, thereby completing the deposit operation.

FIG. 1 is a side cross-sectional view showing the specific structure of the deposit port and the banknote transport path in the vicinity of the above-mentioned recycle-type banknote handling device, which is the main part of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a front view of the same. It is. Moreover, FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 55 indicates a deposited banknote, and 56 and 56a to 56d indicate coins that are sandwiched in the deposited banknote 55 and taken out during processing. The other components will be explained each time in the operation description below. The deposited banknotes 55 inserted into the deposit/withdrawal port 1 by the user are separated one by one by the deposit separation mechanism 2, passed through guides 41, 42, rollers 43a, 43b, guides 44, 45, and then transferred to rollers 46 (46a to 46). 46c: see FIG. 3), and is delivered to a conveyance path consisting of a belt 48 (48a to 48c) stretched between rollers 47 and 52 and rollers 47 and 51. Here, when the coin 56 is caught between the deposited banknotes 55 as shown in FIG. 1, the coin 56c placed on the banknote 55 as shown in FIG. As mentioned above, this was the cause of the trouble. In the device shown in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the deposited banknotes 5 are
The coin 56 (56a, 56b) that has been caught between 5,
At the same time, as shown in FIG. 4, a resistance member 54 made of a material with high frictional resistance is attached to the guide 53 on the inside of the bent portion of the banknote conveying path, as shown in FIG. The coin 56c that has been conveyed so as to overlap inside the banknote 55 is brought into contact with the resistance member 54. Note that as the resistance member 54, sheets made of various kinds of rubber or the like can be used. As a result, the coin 56c that has come into contact with the above-mentioned resistance member 54
is locked at the shaded position in FIG. 4, and only the banknote 55 is conveyed at the normal speed. As a result, after the banknote 55 has passed, the coin 56c is 56 in the figure.
As shown by d, the coin falls toward the coin collection tray 34 and is collected. According to the above embodiment, with a simple configuration, it becomes possible to smoothly recover coins that were mistakenly inserted into the deposit/withdrawal slot 1 together with banknotes, which had previously caused serious trouble. This has the effect of preventing trouble from occurring. It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiment shows an example of the present invention, and it goes without saying that the present invention should not be limited thereto.

[0009]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above in detail, according to the present invention, foreign objects such as coins that have been mistakenly inserted into the banknote deposit slot can be removed.
This has the remarkable effect of realizing a highly reliable banknote handling device that can be removed without damaging the device.

0010

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side cross-sectional view showing the configuration of main parts when the present invention is applied to a recycling-type banknote handling device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of the recycling-type banknote handling device of the embodiment.

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

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

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Deposit/withdrawal port 2 Deposit separation mechanism 3 Accumulating mechanism 4 Temporary accumulating mechanism 8 Banknote discriminator 9 Banknote thickness detection mechanism 10, 10a to 10g Banknote sorting gate 21,
21a to 21d, 22 to 25, 29 to 33 banknote conveyance path 3
4 Coin collection tray 41, 42, 44, 45, 53 Guides 41a to 41
f Protrusion 48 Belt 54 Resistance member

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: In a banknote handling device that handles deposits and withdrawals of banknotes, a high-resistance member for locking foreign objects such as coins accompanying banknotes to a bent part of a banknote conveyance path directly below a banknote deposit/withdrawal port. A banknote handling device characterized by having: