JPH0520172U - Paper storage box - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Banknotes are stored in a stack, and the stored banknotes are
An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote storage box in which the banknotes can be separated and fed one by one, and the banknotes can be reliably separated one by one and the feeding operation can be smoothly performed. [Structure] A banknote storage box 2 having an opening 20 through which a banknote 1 is paid out, an intermediate plate 15 provided in the banknote storage box 2 and loaded with banknotes 1, and a holding plate 12 provided near the opening 20. And a movable holding plate 13 that is movable along the intermediate plate 15 and is biased toward the holding plate 12 to hold the banknote 1 on the intermediate plate 15 between the holding plate 12 and the movable holding plate 13.
The auxiliary roller 16 attached to the holding plate 12 is provided.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial application]

 The present invention relates to a bill storage box used in an automatic cash payment apparatus or a paper storage box such as a card stacker used in an optical character reading apparatus.

[0002]

[Prior Art]

 FIG. 7 is an internal configuration diagram of a cash automatic payment device as a conventional technique, and FIG. 8 is a side view showing a banknote storage box as a conventional technique.

In FIGS. 7 and 8, 1 is a banknote and is stored in the banknote storage box 2. A feeding device 3 feeds a bill 1 from the bill storage box 2 (hereinafter referred to as a pickup roller) 4, a feed roller 6 that feeds the bill 1 fed by the pickup roller 4 to a conveyance path 5, and a bill 1 When two or more sheets are fed, the reverse roller 7 and the like feed back the second and subsequent sheets. The banknotes 1 delivered by the delivery device 3 pass through the transport path 5, are discriminated by a discriminating unit (not shown), and are accumulated in the temporary storage unit 8. The banknotes 1 are sent out from the payout opening 9 on condition that a predetermined number of banknotes 1 have been sent to the temporary storage unit 8 without any abnormality.

The banknote storage box 2 provided in this automatic cash payment apparatus stores the banknotes 1 in an accumulated state. The banknote storage box 2 has an upper surface that opens and closes when the banknotes 1 are loaded into the box. A loading door 10 is provided. On the upper surface of the loading door 10, there is provided an upper surface door 11 that opens the opening 20 of the bill storage box 2 on condition that the loading door 10 is installed in the automatic cash payment apparatus. Further, the banknote storage box 2 is provided with a movable holding plate 13 that presses the banknotes 1 stored in a stacked state toward a holding plate 12, and the movable holding plate 13 is provided before and after the banknote storage box 2. It is movably supported in the direction, and is urged forward by a tension spring 14.

[0005]

However, in the apparatus having the above-mentioned structure, when the banknote storage box 2 is attached to the automatic cash payment apparatus, it is stored in the banknote storage box 2 by the pickup roller 4 of the feeding device 3 shown in FIG. Although the banknote 1 is pushed back, the banknote 1 and the movable banknote 1 and the intermediate plate 15 of the banknote storage box 2 are moved by the frictional force between the banknote 1 and the movable gripping plate 13 to guide the movement of the movable clamping plate 13. The sandwiching plate 13 does not move integrally, and only the banknote 1 near the pick-up roller 4 is compressed. Therefore, there is a problem that an appropriate pressing force of the bill 1 applied to the pickup roller 4 is not secured and a feeding failure occurs. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a defect example of the conventional example.

Further, as a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, there has been a conventional method of applying a driving force to the movable holding plate 13 to control the pressing force, but it has a problem that it is expensive and the mechanism is complicated.

This invention eliminates the above-mentioned problem that when the banknote storage box loaded with banknotes is mounted on the apparatus, proper pressing force of the banknotes against the pick-up roller is not secured and feeding failure occurs. An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote storage box that can ensure a proper pressing force even after the banknote storage box is mounted on the device and can reliably separate the banknotes one by one to smoothly perform the payout operation. And

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the first solution means provided in the present invention is a paper sheet storage box for storing paper sheets fed out one by one by a feeding roller provided in a feeding mechanism section in an accumulated state. A case having an opening for feeding the paper sheets, a paper sheet stacking plate provided in the case for stacking the paper sheets, and a part of the feeding roller provided in the vicinity of the opening. And a presser plate having a notch portion for projecting the paper sheet, and the presser plate is movable along the paper sheet stacking plate and is biased toward the presser plate, and the paper sheet stacking plate is pressed between the presser plate and the press plate. A movable holding plate for holding the upper paper sheet, and an auxiliary roller attached to the holding plate and having a protruding amount smaller than a protruding amount of a part of the feeding roller protruding from the cutout portion. Is provided.

A second solving means is a retractable second holding plate which projects from the first holding plate to the paper sheet side by a protrusion amount substantially the same as a protrusion amount of a part of the feeding roller. Is provided.

[0010]

[Action]

 According to the first solution, the distance from the pressing plate to the surface of the auxiliary roller that comes into contact with the paper sheet is in contact with the paper sheet of the delivery roller that delivers the paper sheet stored in the paper sheet storage box. Since it is smaller than the distance from the holding surface to the holding plate, when the paper is stored in the paper storage box, almost the same pressing force as the movable nipping plate applied to the auxiliary roller is applied to the feeding roller.

According to the second solving means, the distance from the first pressing plate to the surface of the second pressing plate that contacts the paper sheets is stored in the paper sheet storage box. Since the distance from the surface of the feeding roller that feeds the paper to the holding plate is almost the same, the pressing force of the movable holding plate applied to the second holding plate when the paper is stored in the paper storage box. Almost the same pressing force is applied to the feeding roller. When the paper money storage box is attached to the automatic cash payment apparatus, the second holding plate retracts to the rear of the first holding plate, and the second holding plate does not become a load at the time of feeding.

Therefore, by the first solving means and the second solving means, the adhesive force between the paper sheets can be kept constant, and the feeding operation can be smoothly performed.

[0013]

【Example】

 Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, in each drawing, the same constituent members are designated by the same reference numerals.

First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a side view showing a bill storage box of a first embodiment according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view showing a bill storage box of the first embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a front view of FIG. 2.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 2 is a bill storage box. The banknote storage box 2 stores paper sheets (hereinafter, referred to as banknotes in this embodiment) 1 in an accumulated state on an intermediate plate 15 which is a banknote stacking plate, and is opened and closed for loading the banknotes 1. It has a loading door 10 and a top door 11 that opens and closes an opening 20 that opens when it is attached to an automatic teller machine (not shown). Further, the banknote storage box 2 is provided with a movable holding plate 13 that presses the banknotes 1 stored in a stacked state toward the auxiliary roller 16 provided on the banknote contact surface of the holding plate 12. The movable holding plate 13 is movably supported along the intermediate plate 15 in the front-back direction of the bill storage box 2. Further, the tension spring 14 has one end fixed to the intermediate plate 15 and the other end fixed to the movable holding plate 13, and biases the movable holding plate 13 in a direction of pressing the bill 1 against the holding plate 12. ..

When the banknotes 1 are loaded into the banknote storage box 2 configured as described above, the loading door 10 is opened and the movable holding plate 13 is moved backward from the auxiliary roller 16 of the pressing plate 12 to print the banknotes 1. When loaded in the storage box 2, the movable holding plate 13 slides in the direction of the holding plate 12 by the tension of the tension spring 14 to press the bill 1, and the auxiliary roller 16 receives a pressing force.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, when the banknote storage box 2 is attached to the automatic cash payment apparatus, a part of the pickup roller 4 protrudes from the notch 12a of the holding plate 12 shown in FIG. At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, the banknotes 1 accumulated in the banknote storage box 2 are fed out. The distance A from the surface of the pickup roller 4 in contact with the banknote 1 to the pressing plate 12 and the banknote 1 of the auxiliary roller 16 from the pressing plate 12 The protrusion amount of the auxiliary roller 16 is set in advance so that the distance B to the contact surface has a relation of A> B. Further, since the distance A and the distance B are close to each other, substantially the same pressing force as the pressing force of the movable holding plate 13 applied to the auxiliary roller 16 when the banknote 1 is loaded in the banknote storage box 2 is also applied to the pickup roller 4. Therefore, the adhesion force between the banknotes 1 is kept substantially constant. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, if the auxiliary roller 16 is provided at the same interval as the pickup roller 4, it does not become a load at the time of feeding, and the bill 1 is smoothly fed out while being separated one by one. It can be done reliably.

Second Embodiment Next, a second embodiment of the bill storage box according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The same parts as those in the first embodiment are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted. FIG. 4 is a side view showing a bill storage box of a second embodiment according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is a side view showing a bill storage box of the second embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a front view of FIG. . The second embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that the pressing plate 12 is the first pressing plate, and when protruding, the retractable second protruding from the first pressing plate 12 to the banknote side. This is the point where the holding plate 17 of FIG.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, the second holding plate 17 is rotatably provided on the bill storage box 2 about a fulcrum 17a. When the banknote storage box 2 is not attached to the automatic cash dispenser, a part of the second holding plate 17 is projected from the first holding plate 12, and the second holding plate 17 is The bill 1 pressed by the movable holding plate 13 is pressed against the front flat surface portion 17b. The second holding plate 17 is pulled in the direction of arrow C by a spring (not shown). Further, the second pressing plate 17 is restrained from rotating by a restraining lever 18, and is restrained from rotating in the direction of arrow D. At that time, the distance A from the surface of the pickup roller 4 in contact with the bill 1 shown in FIG. 5 to the first holding plate 12 and the bill 1 from the first holding plate 12 to the second holding plate 17 shown in FIG. The distance E to the front flat surface portion 17b in contact with is almost the same. The stop lever 18 is rotatable about a fulcrum 18a and is normally in the state shown in FIG. 4 by a stopper and a stopper spring (not shown).

When the banknotes 1 are loaded into the banknote storage box 2 configured as described above, the loading door 10 is opened and the movable holding plate 13 is moved backward from the second holding plate 17 to transfer the banknotes 1 to the banknote storage box. When loaded in 2, the movable holding plate 13 slides in the direction of the first pressing plate 12 by the tension of the tension spring 14 to press the banknote 1, and the second pressing plate 17 receives the pressing force.

Next, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, when the banknote storage box 2 is attached to the automatic cash dispenser in the direction of arrow F, the first holding plate 12 is cut out from the cutout portion 12a to the pickup roller 4. At the same time that the portion protrudes, the rear flat surface portion 18b of the stopping lever 18 is pushed by the engaging pin 19 fixed to the automatic teller machine side, and the stopping lever 18 has an arrow G shown in FIG. Rotate in the direction. Then, the second holding plate 17 whose rotation is suppressed by the restraining lever 18 rotates in the direction of the arrow D around the fulcrum 17a, and the second holding plate 17 is held by the movable holding plate 13 until then. The banknote 1 that has been pressed against will now be pressed against the pickup roller 4.

Further, at this time, the distance A from the surface of the pickup roller 4 in contact with the bill 1 to the first holding plate 12 and the bill 1 of the first holding plate 12 to the second holding plate 17 shown in FIG. Since the distance E to the front flat portion 17b with which the bill 1 contacts is almost the same, the bill 1 is in almost the same state as before being attached to the cash automatic payment device, that is, when the bill 1 is pressed against the second holding plate 17. Retained. Therefore, the adhesion force between the bills 1 pressed by the pickup roller 4 is kept substantially constant.

[0023]

[Effect of the device]

 Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects.

[0024] By providing an auxiliary roller on the paper sheet contact surface of the pressing plate in the paper sheet storage box, or by providing a rotatable second pressing plate on the front surface of the pressing plate, the automatic cash payment apparatus is provided. When not attached to the auxiliary roller or the second holding plate, the pressing force from the paper sheet is applied to the auxiliary roller or the second holding plate. Since the pressing force that is almost the same as the pressing force that has been applied is applied to the pickup roller, the adhesion force between the paper sheets can be kept substantially constant.

Further, since the auxiliary roller is provided at the same interval as the pickup roller, the auxiliary roller retracts to the rear of the holding plate and does not contact the banknote at the time of feeding, or the second holding plate is fed. At times, the auxiliary roller and the second presser plate do not become a load at the time of feeding out because they retreat to the rear of the pressing plate and do not come into contact with the paper sheets. It can be done smoothly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a banknote storage box according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a bill storage box of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a front view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing a bill storage box according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing a bill storage box according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a front view of FIG.

FIG. 7 is an internal configuration diagram of a cash automatic payment device which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 8 is a side view showing a banknote storage box which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a defect example of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 bill 12 holding plate 13 movable holding plate 14 tension spring 16 auxiliary roller 17 second holding plate 20 opening

Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A paper sheet storage box for accommodating paper sheets which are delivered one by one by a delivery roller provided in a delivery mechanism section, and a case having an opening through which the paper sheets are delivered, A paper sheet stacking plate that is provided inside and stacks paper sheets; a holding plate that is provided in the vicinity of the opening and has a cutout portion that projects a part of the feeding roller; and the paper sheet stacking plate. A movable holding plate that is movable along a plate and is biased toward the holding plate, and holds the paper sheets on the paper sheet stacking plate between the movable holding plate and the holding plate; And a supplementary roller having a protrusion amount from the holding plate smaller than a protrusion amount of a part of the feeding roller protruding from the cutout portion. 2. A paper sheet storage box for accommodating paper sheets which are delivered one by one by a delivery roller provided in a delivery mechanism section, and a case having an opening through which the paper sheets are delivered, A paper sheet stacking plate that is provided inside and that stacks paper sheets; a first pressing plate that is provided in the vicinity of the opening and that has a cutout portion that projects a part of the feeding roller; A movable nipping plate that is movable along the leaf stacking plate and is urged in the direction of the holding plate to hold the paper sheets on the paper sheet stacking plate between the movable nipping plate and the feeding plate; A paper sheet storage box provided with a retractable second holding plate that projects from the first holding plate toward the paper sheet side by a projection amount that is substantially the same as the projection amount of a part of the roller.