JPH0766461B2 - Doorway device for paper sheets - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a banknote insertion slot for depositing (depositing) money, such as an automatic teller machine used in banking operations, and a dispensing slot. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a paper sheet entrance / exit device provided with an outlet for bills ejected at the time of payment (payment).

(B) Conventional Technology In the conventional entrance / exit device of the above-described example, for example, an insertion opening for inserting a bill and an ejection opening for ejecting a bill are formed in parallel with each other, and the insertion opening and the ejection opening are individually opened and closed. There are devices that provide a total of two movable shutters to operate.

However, in the above-mentioned entrance / exit device, since the inlet and the outlet are formed in parallel to each other, a large opening space is required in the cabinet of the customer service panel surface, which makes it difficult to save space in the device. There was a problem.

In addition, there is a problem that the structure of the control means for opening and closing the above-mentioned two movable shutters separately becomes complicated.

(C) Problem to be Solved by the Invention This invention reduces the opening space of the cabinet on the face of the customer service panel by adopting a unique structure of the arrangement of the inlet and the outlet, thus saving the space of the device. In addition, by selectively opening and closing the entrance and exit with a single shutter, the structure for opening and closing the shutter and the control means can be simplified, and the retreat space of the shutter is different. By putting it on the opening of the entrance,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a doorway entrance / exit device for paper sheets that can be downsized.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a charging port and a discharging port which are arranged in an inverted V shape in which upper ends of the respective entrances are close to each other, and which are provided at the center of the upper part of the charging port and the discharging port. A paper sheet entrance / exit device in which a rotary shutter that is pivotally supported to selectively open and close each of these entrances and exits is provided, and a paper sheet intake means is provided on one side inside the above-mentioned entrance. It is characterized by being.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to the present invention, since the above-mentioned input port and discharge port are arranged in an inverted V shape in which the upper ends of the respective inlet ports are close to each other,
The paper input space and the paper discharge space overlap each other, and as a result, the cabinet opening space on the customer service panel surface can be reduced, and the device space can be saved.

Further, since the opening and the outlet are selectively opened and closed by rotating the single rotating shutter described above, a device having a conventional structure that requires two shutters or one opening is shared. The structure and control means for opening and closing the shutter can be simplified, and the manufacturing cost of the device can be reduced, as compared with a slide shutter that slides by forming two closed parts with the opening sandwiched. In addition, the retractable space of the rotary shutter serves as the upper surface of each entrance / exit, so that it is not necessary to prepare and form a special space, and the size and size of the device can be reduced.

(F) Embodiment of the Invention One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawing shows a bill doorway device, and in FIG. 1, below the opening 2 in the cabinet 1 of the customer service panel,
The first lower guide 3 and the first upper guide 4 are provided with an insertion opening 5 for inserting a bill, and the second lower guide 6 and the second upper guide 7 are provided with an ejection opening 8 for ejecting a bill. ing.

Then, the above-mentioned inlet 5 and outlet 8 are arranged in an inverted V shape in which the upper ends of the respective inlets 8 and 5 are close to each other, and these inlets and outlets are provided at the upper center of the inlets 5 and the outlet 8. A single rotating shutter 9 for selectively opening and closing 8, 5 is provided.

The rotary shutter 9 is fitted on the shutter shaft 10.

On the other hand, one side of the inside of the above-mentioned insertion port 5 is provided with a sub-feed roller 11 as a sheet take-in means, and the other side of the inside is provided with a pressing plate 12 for pressing a bill against the roller 11,
A narrow bill take-in passage 13 communicating with the above-mentioned insertion slot 5 is formed, and the take-in roller 14 and a fixed friction roller 15 for preventing two-sheet feeding are contacted in this passage 13.

Here, the pressing plate 12 is pivotally attached to the pin 17 at the free end of the substantially U-shaped pressing arm 16 via the L-shaped bracket 18, and the base end of the pressing arm 16 is fitted to the arm shaft 19. I am fit.

A banknote stacking box 20 is disposed inside the above-mentioned discharge port 8, a slider 21 integrally formed on the outer surface of the box 20 is slidably mounted on a guide shaft 22, and the above-mentioned discharge port 8 is formed. The inner end portion 7a of the guide 7 and the bent rear end portion 20a of the box 20 are brought close to each other to form a narrow bill discharge passage 23, and a pair of upper and lower feed rollers 24, 25 are provided.
They face each other in this passage 23.

Further, a pressing lever 27 fitted to the lever shaft 26 is provided above the above-mentioned upper guide 7, and a pressing roller 28 is pivotally attached to the free end portion of the lever 27 to move the banknote stacking box 20 to be described later. The pressing roller 28 is configured to press the discharged banknotes of the box 20.

Between the pressing plate 12 and the rotary shutter 9, a bill receiving state in which the outlet 8 is closed by the rotary shutter 9 (see FIG. 1) and a loading state in which the pressing plate 12 is pressed during bill loading There is provided an interlocking mechanism 30 for operating (see FIG. 2) and a releasing state (see FIG. 3) in which the insertion opening 5 is closed by the rotary shutter 9 when the banknote is ejected.

The interlocking mechanism 30 has a base end fitted to the arm 19 and a tip end connected to the L-shaped bracket 18 via the pin 17, and a base end fitted to the arm shaft 19 described above. The first lever 31 integrally formed with the protruding shaft 29 at the free end, the second lever 34 having the upper base end fitted to the support shaft 32, and the cam roller 33 pivotally attached to the middle part, and the left end long hole 35 The protruding shaft 29 is inserted, and the right end is pivotally supported by the pin 36 at the free end of the second lever 34, so that the first link 37 connecting the first lever 31 and the second lever 34, and the intermediate shaft. A third lever 40 pivotally attached to the shaft 38 and having a cam roller 39 pivotally supported at its lower free end, a cam 42 fitted to the drive shaft 41, a triangular plate 43 fitted to the shutter shaft 10 described above, and the triangular plate 43. And a second link 46 that connects the free end of the third lever 40 and the free end of the third lever 40 via pins 44, 45 to the above-mentioned first, second, and third levers 31, 34, 40. First, By connecting the second and third springs 47, 48, 49, the cam rollers 33, 39 of the second and third levers 34, 40 are constantly pressed against the peripheral surface of the cam 42 by the springs 48, 49 described above. is doing.

In addition, the spring force of the above-mentioned first spring 47 is converted into the second spring.
When the spring force of the first lever 31 is set to be smaller than the spring force of 48, the protruding shaft 29 of the first lever 31 is stopped at the right end of the elongated hole 35 of the first link 37, and the arm is in the normal state shown in FIG. Axis 19,
The pressing arm 16 and the pressing plate 12 are configured so as to maintain the state shown in FIG.

Further, the cam roller 33 on the side of the second lever 34 is set at a position opened 120 degrees counterclockwise with respect to the cam nose of the cam 42, and the cam roller 39 on the side of the third lever 40 is set to the clock nose with respect to the cam nose of the cam 42. It is set at a position opened by 120 degrees in the direction, and 120
The shape of the cam 42 is set so that the base circle portion of the cam 42 is located within the range of degrees.

By the way, the pin 50 provided at the lower corner of the triangular plate 43 described above.
And the pin 51 protruding from the slider 21 between the pulling arm.
52 is stretched.

Further, a third link 53 extending leftward via a pin 44 is provided at the upper corner of the above-mentioned triangular plate 43, and the third link 53 is provided.
A protruding shaft 55 is loosely fitted in the long hole 54 at the left end.

The projecting shaft 55 is a shaft projecting from the fourth lever 56 fitted to the lever shaft 26 described above, and the fourth lever 56 has the same lever.
A fourth spring 57, which constantly biases 56 in the counterclockwise direction, is connected.

The illustrated embodiment is configured as described above, and the operation will be described below.

In the bill receiving state of FIG. 1 in which the outlet 8 is closed by the rotary shutter 9 and the slot 5 is opened, when the customer deposits a bill through the opening 2 and the slot 5 during the deposit operation, The banknote stands still between the lower guide 3 and the pressing plate 12.

After the depositing operation of the customer is completed, in order to take the bill in the slot 5 into the apparatus, first, the cam 42 is rotated counterclockwise 120 degrees by the motor (not shown) as the drive source via the drive shaft 41. Rotate.

When the cam 42 is rotated counterclockwise, the cam nose of the cam 42 causes the second lever 34 to swing counterclockwise along with the support shaft 32 as shown in FIG. Since the first link 37 connected to is pulled to the right,
29 is allowed to move in the long hole 35, and the first lever 31 moves to the first
The force of the spring 47 causes the arm shaft 19 to rotate in the clockwise direction.

By rotating the arm shaft 19 in the clockwise direction, the pressing arm is
The 16 swings in the same direction, and the pressing plate 12 connected to the tip of the arm 16 via the pin 17 and the L-shaped bracket 18 is moved to the lower guide 3 side. The feed roller 11 is pressed.

Next, when the take-in roller 14 is rotated in the counter-statistical direction in the take-in state shown in FIG. 2, the roller 14 and the sub-feed roller 11 are synchronously rotated in the same direction by a timing belt (not shown). The banknotes pressed toward the sub feed roller 11 side are sequentially taken in one by one from the banknotes on the lower guide 3 side.

In other words, the above-mentioned bills are prevented from being taken in by two friction rollers 15
By the action of the take-in roller 14, the bills are taken into the inside of the apparatus one by one through the bill take-in passage 13.

On the other hand, in the case of discharging the banknotes in the apparatus at the time of the withdrawal operation by the customer, first, in the state shown in FIG. 1, the upper and lower paired feed rollers 24 and 25 inside the discharge port 8 are driven in the banknote discharging direction. , The banknotes in the device are processed to be stacked in the banknote stacking box 20 through the discharge passage 23.

Next, a drive shaft 41 is driven by a motor (not shown) as a drive source.
The cam 42 is rotated through 120 degrees in the clockwise direction from the state shown in FIG. 1 as shown in FIG.

When the cam 42 described above is rotated clockwise, the cam nose of the cam 42 causes the third lever 40 to swing clockwise about the support shaft 38 as shown in FIG. 3, and the free end of the third lever 40 is pinned. Since the second link 46 connected via 45 is pulled to the right, the triangular plate 43 rotates clockwise with the shutter shaft 10.

By rotating the shutter shaft 10 in the clockwise direction, the rotating shutter 9 rotates in the same direction to open the discharge port 8 and
The charging port 5 is closed.

Further, the pin 44 of the triangular plate 43 described above is displaced to cause the third link 53 to move.
Is towed to the right, the protrusion shaft 55 is allowed to move within the long hole 54 at the free end of the link 53, and the fourth lever 56 moves to the lever shaft.
With 26, it is rotated counterclockwise by the spring force of the fourth spring 57.

By rotating the lever shaft 26 in the counterclockwise direction, the coaxial
The pressing lever 27 fitted to the 26 rotates in the same direction,
27 The upper end of the banknote stack is pressed by the pressing roller 28 at the free end.

Further, the displacement of the pin 50 of the triangular plate 43 described above causes the pulling arm.
Since 52 is pulled up, pin 51
The slider 21 connected via the above moves upward along the guide shaft 22 and elevates the box 20 after the banknote stacking process from the discharge port 8, so that the customer can use the opening 2 of the cabinet 1 of the customer service panel. The bills in the box 20 described above can be received.

In this way, the rotary shutter 9 is moved by the interlocking mechanism 30 described above.
The bill accepting state in which the discharge port 8 is closed by (see FIG. 1)
In addition, it is possible to control the loading state (see FIG. 2) in which the pressing plate 12 is pressed at the time of bill loading and the release state (see FIG. 3) in which the rotary shutter 9 closes the loading slot 5 at the time of bill discharging. it can.

In short, since the above-mentioned input port 5 and the output port 8 are arranged in an inverted V shape in which the upper ends of the respective inlet ports 8 and 5 are close to each other, the bill insertion space and the ejection space overlap each other. As a result, there is an effect that the opening space of the cabinet 1 on the customer service panel surface can be reduced to save the space of the device.

Further, the number of the rotating shutters 9 described above may be one, and a total of two input ports 5 and discharge ports 8 are provided by this one shutter 9.
It is possible to selectively open and close, and to close the discharge port 8 when the input port 5 is open, and to close the input port 5 when the discharge port 8 is open. Therefore, two shutters are required. The structure of the control means for opening and closing the shutter 9 can be simplified as compared with the conventional device having the above structure.

Furthermore, since one of the two entrances and exits 8 and 5 is always closed by the opening / closing operation of the rotary shutter 9 described above,
There is an effect that it is possible to prevent an erroneous operation by a user, for example, an erroneous operation such as erroneously inserting a bill for deposit into an outlet.

In addition, the rotary shutter 9 and the pressing plate 12 are interlocked with each other.
Since 30 can be operated in conjunction with each other,
Both of these 9 and 12 can be controlled by the same drive source, for example, a single motor connected to the drive shaft 41, and there is an effect that the manufacturing cost of the device can be reduced.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the shutter of the present invention corresponds to the rotary shutter 9 of the embodiment, and the paper sheet take-in means of the present invention is the sub-feed roller of the embodiment. The present invention is not limited only to the configuration of the above-described embodiment, and corresponds to the pick-up roller 14 and the take-up roller 14. Further, the paper sheet is not limited to the bill described in the embodiment, and other securities such as securities. Of course, it may be paper sheets of.

Note that, when configured as shown in the embodiment, the rotary shutter 9, the pressing plate 12, and the pressing roller 28 are driven by a single motor.
Since a total of four actuators of the pressing lever 27 provided with and the banknote stacking box 20 can be interlocked with each other, the manufacturing cost of the device and the wiring work can be further reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a side view showing a receiving state of a bill doorway device, FIG. 2 is a side view showing a taking-in state of a bill doorway device, and FIG. 3 is a bill doorway. It is a side view which shows the discharge state of an apparatus. 5 ... Input port, 8 ... Ejection port 9 ... Rotating shutter, 11 ... Sub feed roller 12 ... Pressing plate, 14 ... Intake roller 30 ... Interlocking mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An inlet / outlet device for a paper sheet, comprising an input port for inputting a paper sheet and a discharge port for discharging a paper sheet, wherein the upper end of each entrance is close to the input port and the discharge port. In the center of the upper part of the above-mentioned inlet and outlet, provided is a rotary shutter which is pivotally supported by the above-mentioned inlet and outlet to selectively rotate and open and close each of these inlets and outlets. A paper sheet entrance / exit device provided with a paper sheet take-in means on one side inside the above-mentioned input port.