JPH0830835A - Paper money rejection box - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a paper money rejection box which can regularly stack the rejected paper money for storage in a paper money receiving/dispensing machine. CONSTITUTION:This paper money rejection box is provided with a storage part 1 and a storage forcing part 2. The part 1 includes a convex part 14 where the lower edge of the paper money hits at the lower part of a sloping inner wall 13 that is continuous to a paper money fetching slit 12 and also a sloping bottom wall 15 where the paper money are stacked in lamination. The part 2 includes the paper money fetching rollers 21 and 22, a 1st impeller 25 which can strike the upper edge of the paper money at a position near the slit 12, and a 2nd impeller 26 which can strike the lower edge of the paper money at a position near the part 14. The impeller 26 is driven at a speed lower than the impeller 25, and both impellers can be freely driven.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bill reject box used in bill handling devices such as automatic bill dispensers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, banknotes are more likely to be soiled, bent, or wavy as compared to new notes while being circulated. Therefore, in an automatic payment machine or the like that stores or discharges banknotes, it is necessary to accurately drop the banknotes in circulation by simply allowing the banknotes to be stored to fall naturally into the storage means. In a situation where it cannot be processed, it must be constructed so that an accurate number of tickets can be processed in consideration of not only new tickets but also the above-mentioned circulation tickets.

Conventionally, regarding a reject box for storing this kind of banknote, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 57-48179.
The invention of Japanese Patent Publication (known example) has been proposed.

In this well-known example, the bill is inserted in a bill storage port of a reject box which is arranged ahead of the reject passage branched from the bill payout passage and which stores the bill sent out through the reject passage. With a drive roller and an idle roller forcibly sent into the reject box, it is configured to push the collected bills into the reject box and accumulate the bills, a drive roller provided near the bill storage opening,
The idle roller is configured to solve the above-mentioned problem of the method of storing the bill by forcibly feeding it into the reject box.

[0005]

It has been confirmed that the above-mentioned known example has improved handling as compared with that of the method of naturally dropping banknotes. Unresolved issues remained.

That is, the first point is that even in the above reject box having such a structure, the leading edge of the forcibly fed bill is located on the bottom of the reject box or the top face of the bills already accumulated. Since it is assumed that the abutting contact changes the intrusion direction and is forcedly pushed along with it, for example, the uppermost banknotes accumulated in the reject box have a folding tendency or the stored banknotes are distributed. If the uppermost surface of the ticket is wavy, the leading edge of the forcibly pushed bill may push up or bend the uppermost bill so that it stands up.

The second point is that a full detection sensor consisting of a light emitting / receiving element for detecting that the banknotes stored in the reject box are full is provided, but as described above, When the banknotes stand in the reject box, the full detection sensor detects this, and even when the reject box is not full, the full display is displayed on the machine display, and the processing operation is Since the operation is stopped, there is a problem that the operator cannot start the processing operation unless the banknotes in the reject box are collected.

A first object of the present invention is to provide a reject box for preventing the rising of banknotes and efficiently stacking the banknotes by forcibly guiding the stacking of the reject banknotes taken in the reject box. Is to provide.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an excellent reject box which has a simplified structure and can be manufactured at low cost.

[0010]

The structural features of the present invention for achieving the above object are as follows.

That is, a reject box for storing reject banknotes in a banknote depositing / dispensing machine, comprising a storage section,
The storage forcing unit is provided, and in the storage unit, a convex portion against which the lower edge of the banknote collides is provided at the lower part of the inclined inner wall that continues from the bill intake port, and the banknotes are stacked below the convex portion. An inclined bottom wall to be placed is provided, and a carrying-in roller for taking in a bill and a first impeller capable of tapping the upper edge of the bill are arranged in the vicinity of the taking-in port in the storage forcing unit, and near the convex portion. Is provided with a second impeller capable of tapping the lower edge of the bill, and the second impeller can drive both impellers at a lower speed than the first impeller. box.

[0012]

[Operation] The configuration of the present invention is as described above,
The reject banknote facing the take-in port is carried into the storage section by the carry-in roller, and with its lower edge colliding with the convex section, its upper edge is tapped by the first impeller swung at high speed, Subsequently, by tapping the lower edge thereof with a second impeller rotated at a low speed, it can be housed in an orderly stacked manner on the inclined bottom wall of the storage section without standing upright. is there.

[0013]

[Embodiment] The basic construction of the reject box RB of this embodiment is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, but prior to explaining the construction, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 shown in FIG.
The schematic configuration of 0 is as follows.

That is, the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 100 has a deposit port 1
01, return port 102, withdrawal port 103, deposit discrimination unit 10
4, a withdrawal discrimination section 105, a denomination type stacker 106, and a deposit store section 107 are provided, and a reject box RB is provided between the denomination type stacker 106 and the deposit store section 107. When the deposit process is performed by the drive control by the control means (not shown), the banknote set in the deposit port 101 has the deposit discriminating unit 1
The denominations are identified in 04, and the route 01,0
Deposit store section 107 via 2, 03 or 04
The desired banknotes that have been temporarily stored in the upper part of the bank and are stored below the banknote after being confirmed to be deposited, and that have been carried out from the denomination stacker 106 to the route 05 in the dispensing process are:
Only the valid banknotes that have been discriminated by the withdrawal discriminating unit 105 are carried out to the dispensing port 103 via the route 06, and for the unqualified bills (rejected banknote B), the routes 06 and 07 are used. It is carried into the reject box RB via.

The deposit banknotes stored in the depositing store section 107 are, if necessary, the stacker 106 of the denomination type.
It is configured so that it can be used as a withdrawal banknote and is used as a withdrawal banknote, but at this time as well, the banknote delivered to the transfer route 08 passes through the route 09 and is double-damaged or damaged by the deposit discriminating unit 104. If it is identified as a ticket, skew ticket, etc., route 0
It is sent to the reject box RB via 7.
Other genuine bills will be sent to the denomination type stacker 106 via the routes 07 and 05.

Next, the reject box RB of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

That is, the reject box RB has a storage box 1 having a rectangular parallelepiped bottom shape and a storage forcing section 2 in which the reject banknotes B can be stacked in a slanting shape along the longitudinal direction and stored. It is composed of and.

As for the storage section 1, as shown in FIG. 1, the box-shaped section 11 has an intake port 12 and an inclined inner wall 13.
And the projection 14 on which the leading edge of the reject bill B collides with the inclined bottom wall 1 on which the reject bill B can be placed
5 is provided, and a door 16 that allows the stored rejected bills B to be taken out is provided.

The banknote depositing / dispensing machine 100 is provided on the upper portion thereof.
A handle 17 is provided for extracting from.

Next, the storage forcing section 2 will be described with reference to FIGS.
The description will also be made with reference to.

That is, the first and second shafts 23 each having a pair of carry-in rollers 21 and 22 forcibly carrying in the reject bill B from the take-in port 12 by being pressed against each other and swung in the opposite direction. , 24 are rotatably supported in parallel to the box-shaped portion 11 and are provided with a first shaft 2
3 is directly attached to the support frame 11A of the box-shaped portion 11, and the second shaft 24 is attached to a rotating member 11B pivotally attached to the support frame 11A. Since the second shaft 24 is biased so as to approach in the direction of the first shaft 23, each of the carry-in rollers 21, 2
No. 2 is capable of being pressed against each other and driven to rotate in opposite directions.

Further, a first impeller 25 is separately fixed on the second shaft 24.

Further, on the support frame 11A at the position of the convex portion 14 following the inclined inner wall 13 of the box-shaped portion 11, the third shaft 26 is provided.
Is rotatably supported on the third shaft 26, and the second
The impeller 27 of is fixed, and each impeller 25, 27 is
Both of them are provided so as to project so as to interfere with the distribution route of the reject bill B.

Next, the drive system of each shaft 23, 24, 26 is as follows.

That is, a drive gear 31 which is driven to rotate in association with a drive means (not shown) and an intermediate gear 32 which meshes with the drive gear 31.
Are attached to one ends of the first shaft 23 and the intermediate shaft 33, respectively, and the rotational movement of the intermediate gear 32 can be transmitted to the second shaft 24 by the belt pulley portion 34.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the first shaft 2
The other end of the third shaft 26 and the opposite end of the third shaft 26 have the first
The pulley 35 and the third pulley 36 are fixedly mounted, and a large-diameter pulley 38 and a small-diameter pulley 39 are integrally and rotatably mounted on a support shaft 37 separately installed on the support frame 11A. The first and third belts 41, 42 are suspended between the first pulley 35, the large-diameter pulley 38, the small-diameter pulley 39, and the third pulley 36.

Therefore, at the time of driving, the second impeller 25 is rotated at a lower speed than the first impeller 27, and its action will be described later.

Although not shown, a full detection sensor including a light emitting / light receiving element for detecting the full state of the bill B placed on the inclined bottom wall 15 is provided in the reject box RB. ing.

Next, the usage state of this embodiment will be described as follows.

The reject bill B shown in FIGS. 5 and 6
Represents the short side of the bill.

That is, in the above-described structure, the reject bill B discriminated by the deposit discriminating unit 104 is sandwiched between the carry-in rollers 21 and 22 and transferred, and is stored in the reject box RB. , At this time,
The reject banknote B is conveyed obliquely downward along the inclined inner wall 13 that continues from the take-in port 12, and the lower edge thereof is the convex portion 14
And the upper edge thereof is released from the carry-in rollers 21 and 22.

Next, in this state, the first impeller 25, which is rotated counterclockwise at a high speed in FIG. 5, urges the upper edge of the reject bill B to be tapped in the same direction and is forced to fall. Then, as shown in FIG. 6, the lower second edge of the reject bill B is tapped counterclockwise by the second impeller 27 at a low speed to drop the reject bill B. Since the first impeller 25 is involved in its upper edge and the second impeller 27 is involved in its lower edge next, the reject banknote B is forced into a recumbent shape, not in an upright state. Since it falls, it is surely accommodated in a stacked form on the inclined bottom wall 15.

Incidentally, if the rotational speeds of the impellers 25 and 27 are made to be the same speed, the rejected banknotes B will fall in an upright state, and thus they will be accumulated in a standing state in the storage section 11. If the full detection sensor detects the rejected banknote B in this standing state, the processing operation of the depositing / dispensing machine is stopped. Therefore, the operator who pulls out the reject box RB from the machine, This may cause a problem that a collecting operation for taking out the rejected banknotes B in the storage section 11 that is not in a state becomes necessary.

As described above, when it is detected by the full detection sensor (not shown) that the reject box RB is filled with the reject bills B, the door 16 can be opened and the reject bills B can be taken out. .

Of the reject banknotes B taken into the reject box RB, some banknotes are naturally skewed, and a conventional rejectbox will be stored in the skewed state. However, there is a fear that the banknotes may not stand in the normal stacking state and the banknotes may stand up. However, in the present embodiment, when the skewed reject banknotes B are taken into the reject box RB, the skewed rejects are rejected. The front end of the bill B in the conveying direction is the convex portion 1
As the rejected bills B are regulated by 4, and the length of the rejected bills B is corrected to a horizontal state along the convex portion 14 that regulates the movement of the rejected bills B, the rejected bills B are stored while being skewed. That can be prevented.

[0036]

The effects peculiar to the present invention are as follows.

(1) Reliable reject banknote storage processing. With a set of impellers with different speeds, first strike the upper edge of the reject banknote and then the lower edge,
It is possible to store the product in a recumbent shape while preventing it from standing upright, and to obtain a result that the storage process is safe and highly reliable.

(2) Simplification of structure and cost reduction. Since it is only necessary to equip a conventional reject box with a set of impellers and improve the extent to form the convex portion, it is possible to achieve simplification of the structure and cost reduction.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional side view showing an embodiment of a banknote reject box of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a storage forcing unit in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a left side view of FIG.

5 is an explanatory view of the operating state of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the operating state of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a schematic explanatory view of a bill depositing / dispensing machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 RB reject box 1 storage part 11 box-shaped part 12 intake port 13 slanted inner wall 14 convex part 15 slanted bottom wall 2 storage forced part 21, 22 carry-in roller 25 first impeller 27 second impeller

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A reject box for storing rejected banknotes in a banknote depositing / dispensing machine, comprising a storage section and a storage forcing section, wherein the storage section has a lower part of a slanted inner wall extending from a banknote intake port. In addition to providing a convex portion with which the lower edge of the banknote collides, an inclined bottom wall on which the banknotes are placed in a stacked state is provided under the convex part. A first impeller capable of beating the edge is disposed near the intake port, and a second impeller capable of beating the lower edge of the bill is disposed near the convex portion.
A banknote reject box in which both the second impellers can be driven at a lower speed than the first impeller.