JPS6020794B2 - Automatic banknote sorting device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic banknote sorting device that receives banknotes of many denominations at once and sorts them by denomination.

Conventionally, this type of device has been used to separate banknotes into normal notes (banknotes that can be reissued) and damaged notes (banknotes that are not suitable for reissue), and abnormal notes such as counterfeit notes that are suspected of being forged. There are also types of tickets that cannot be identified, such as stacked tickets. Incidentally, before performing such sorting, it was necessary to sort banknotes by denomination in advance, but conventionally, the sorting has been done manually. Furthermore, after arranging the denominations by denomination, it was necessary to know the breakdown by denomination for each lot as well as the cumulative breakdown of the denominations, which made everything outside of the operation very complicated. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and aims to provide an automatic banknote sorting device that can automatically classify banknotes by denomination and also display the breakdown of each lot and the cumulative breakdown. It is something.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a crab body, and a bank winding supply section 20 is provided at the upper right side of the bell body 1 (with respect to the drawing).

This V supply unit 2 has banknotes P to be sorted mixed with many denominations.
is set (stored), and this set banknote P is
It is pushed 25 in the direction of a take-out device 6, which will be described later, by a push plate 3 that is pulled to the left (with respect to the drawing) by a spring (not shown). The push plate 3 is the operating body 4
The operating body 4 is movable left and right (with respect to the drawing) along a guide rail 5. Reference numeral 6 denotes a take-out device, which vacuum-sucks and sequentially takes out the bank notes P set in the V-supply section 2 one by one from the frontmost end thereof. It consists of a suction element 8.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a first conveyor, which is provided on the rotational direction side of the transfer rotor 7, and transfers the banknotes P taken out by the takeout device 6 between a pair of conveyor belts and to a sorting gate to be described later. lead.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a detector for detecting the bank note P taken out by the takeout device 6, which includes, for example, a light source 11, a light receiving element 12 that receives reflected light emitted from the light source 11 and reflected by the bank note P;
and a light-receiving element 13 which receives the transmitted light emitted from the light source 11 and transmitted through the bank note P, and each output signal of the light-receiving elements 12 and 13 is supplied to a control section to be described later.

14 is a fake bank note (identifiable note) or a duplicated bank note (unidentifiable note) conveyed by the first conveyance path 9;
This is a removal port for removing and accumulating the materials, and is provided near the input end of the first conveyance path 9 along the conveyance path 9.

A sorting gate 14 is provided at the entrance of the removal port 14 for guiding counterfeit banknotes or duplicate banknotes into the removal port 14 by turning them inside out. That is, the sorting gate 15 guides the banknotes being conveyed to the entrance of the removal port 14 in a U-turn toward the carry-in end side of the conveyance path 9, so that the banknotes are turned upside down and sorted and stacked. It is composed of The dividing gate 15 is controlled 3 by a signal from a control section which will be described later. Reference numerals 16a to 16d are stacking units that stack banknotes P, that is, genuine banknotes (identifiable notes) conveyed by the first conveyance path 9, by denomination, and are arranged at predetermined intervals along the first conveyance path 9. They are arranged in three rows at the same height.

For example, in this case, banknotes of 500 yen,
Banknotes of 1,000 yen are accumulated in the accumulation section 16b, banknotes of 5,000 yen are accumulated in the accumulation section 16c, and banknotes of 10,000 yen are accumulated in the accumulation section 16d. And the above-mentioned accumulation section 16 4a
At each entrance of the bank, there are sorting gates 17a to 17 for guiding or controlling the passage of banknotes P to the stacking section.
d are provided correspondingly to each other, and each of the division gates 17a to 17d is controlled by a signal from a control section, which will be described later. The above-mentioned accumulation parts 16a to 16d are structured, for example, as shown in FIG. 2. That is,
It is formed into a box shape by frame plates 18a to 18d, and a vibration alignment device 19 is provided on the frame plate 18b.
The frame plates 18b and 18 are
Banknotes P are accumulated by constantly applying vibration to each c.
We are starting to stock up on them. And classification gate 17
A guide path 20 is provided between a to 17d and the entrances of the stacking sections 160a to 16d for guiding the banknotes P to the stacking section. It is formed from an upper plate 20b provided above the banknote 20a, and is bent to prevent the banknotes P from flying out. The motor 24 is driven by a motor 24 via an arm 23 as required.The motor 24 is controlled by a signal from a control section which will be described later.250 is a backup plate, i.e. The bottom plate is movable up and down along guide rails 25a, 25a, and is driven as necessary by a drive device (not shown).

That is, the moment the tenth female bank note is placed on the bottom plate 25, the separator 21 is rotated in the direction of arrow A by a spring (not shown), and the 101st and subsequent bank notes are placed thereon. The bottom plate 25 descends when the banknotes are stacked low, and carries out the ten stacked banknotes, that is, the banknote pack P, onto a second conveyance path 32, which will be described later. When carried out, the banknote bundle P is conveyed in the direction of arrow B, so that the space on the bottom plate 25 becomes empty. When this happens, the bottom plate 25 rises and stops at a predetermined position, and then the separator 21 is moved by the motor 2.
4, the separator 21 rotates about the rotating shaft 24a of the motor 24 while remaining horizontal, and the banknotes on the separator 21 are transferred onto the bottom plate 25. When this is finished, the separation unit 21 is rotated to the left by the arm 23, and then
Rotate to the left about the fulcrum 22, raise the tip (as shown), and rotate the arm 23 to the left about the fulcrum 22 in preparation for the next 10th success. Further, an inner adjustment plate 26 is provided along the frame plate 18b. This adjustment plate 2
Reference numeral 6 is for adjusting the dimensions inside the stacking section according to the banknotes to be stacked, and is attached to the frame plate 18b with screws 27, 27, and the hole 28 for passing the screw 27 is shown in FIG. It is formed into an oval shape, and step portions 28a to 28d are provided at positions corresponding to the denomination. Therefore, when adjusting the inner diameter, loosen the screws 27, 27 and adjust the position of the adjustment plate 26 according to the denomination. Further, the frame plate 18d is also provided with an adjustment plate 18e in the same manner as described above, and screws 29, 29
By moving the adjusting slope 18e, the position of the frame plate 18d can be adjusted according to the denomination. Z30 is an unprofitable note (
This is a large-capacity unfit bill stacking unit that stacks all denominations (distinguishable bills) in a mixture of all denominations, and is provided at the discharge end of the first conveyance path 9. 31
A banknote detector for optically detecting banknotes conveyed from a to 31f', which includes the removal port 14 and the accumulation section 16
They are provided on the first conveyance path 9 in front of each of a to 16Zd and 30, respectively.

Each of the detectors 31a to 31f is composed of, for example, a light source and a light receiving element, and each output signal thereof is supplied to a control section, which will be described later. Reference numeral 32 denotes a second conveyance path, which is provided below the stacking sections 216a to 16d, and horizontally so as to convey banknote bundles P, carried out from the stacking sections 16a to 16d, to a sealing device 33, which will be described next. It consists of a belt. A sealing device 33 is provided at the discharge end of the second conveyance path 32. This second sealing device 33 is a second sealing device 33.
The banknote bundle P, conveyed through the conveyance path 32, is wrapped and sealed with paper tape or the like, and is controlled by signals from a control section, which will be described later, and is configured as follows. has been done. In other words, bank note P
．． is held between the belt 32a of the second conveyance path 32 and the belt 34, and the paper tape 36 for sealing is inserted into the banknote bundle P from the front end using the bundle opener 35. A paper tape reel 37 supplies the paper tape 36.

Thus, the banknote bundle P with the paper tape 36 sandwiched therebetween is moved by four rotating rollers 39, 39, .・・・． ．．・．． ．．・・・・・・． *, and is conveyed to approximately the center 40 of the bundler 38 and stopped. In this state, the bundler 38 rotates clockwise, thereby wrapping the paper tape 36 around the banknote handle P. Then, the bundler 38 rotates twice and stops, and the roller 39,
．． 39, . . . . . . rotates again, and the banknote handle P, wrapped with the paper tape 36, is transferred to the conveyor belt 41a.
, 41b. When the bank note P comes here,
The cutter and gluing device 42 rotates clockwise about the fulcrum 43 to cut and glue the paper tape 36 to complete the sealing. Note that 44 is a cutter die. Reference numeral 45 denotes a stamping device, which is provided on the exit side of the sealing device 33 and is adapted to stamp necessary data with a stamp 46 on the paper tape (strip) of the sealed banknote bundle P2.

This stamping device 45 is controlled by a signal from a control section, which will be described later. Reference numeral 47 denotes a stacking unit 0, which collects stamped and sealed banknote bundles P2.

Next, the control section of the apparatus of the present invention configured as described above will be explained with reference to FIG.

Reference numeral 51 denotes a discrimination circuit, to which output signals from the light receiving elements 12 and 3 of the detector 10 are supplied via amplifiers 52a and 52b, and the following discrimination is performed.

That is, the light receiving element 12 that receives the reflected light from the bank note P
Based on the output signal of the banknote P, the authenticity of the banknote P is determined, the fitness of the genuine note is determined, the denomination is determined, etc., and the determination result signal is outputted, and the detection signal of the detected banknote P is also determined by the denomination. Output each. Further, based on the output signal of the light-receiving element 13 that receives the transmitted light of the bank note P, it is determined whether or not the bank note P has been taken out in duplicate by the take-out device 6, and a determination result signal is output. Each of the above discrimination result signals is
The feed is sent to the transfer control circuit 54 via the main control circuit 53. This transport control circuit 54 is mainly composed of a shift register, for example, and shifts the discrimination result signal outputted from the discrimination circuit 51 in accordance with each output signal of the detectors 031a to 31f (that is, transfers the discrimination result thereto). shift according to the conveyance of the corresponding bank note P), the sorting gate 17a
Solenoids 55a to 55 that drive ~17d and 15
e is controlled via drive circuits 56a to 56e, respectively. The transport control circuit 54 also includes the detectors 31a to 3.
The presence or absence of a jam during conveyance is detected by each output signal 1f, and if a jam occurs, the bag straightening operation is stopped. 0 Therefore, the banknote detection signal for each denomination outputted from the discrimination circuit 51 is as follows.
The banknotes P are supplied to each of the counters 67a to 57d of a denomination-by-denomination number-counting unit 57 for lot serving as a counting means, and the number of banknotes P taken out here is totalized and counted by denomination.

Each content of the totalizer 57 is stored in the lot total key 5.
By pressing 8, the number of coins is sent to the amount converter 59, where the number of coins is converted to the amount, the total amount for each denomination is displayed on the display 60, and the amount is totaled in the totalizer 61. It is also displayed as the total amount of the lot. Further, at this time, each of the contents of the totalizer 57 is supplied to each of the counters 62a to 62d of a cumulative number-by-denomination totalizer 62 as a cumulative counting means,
Here, the total is counted by denomination. The contents of the totalizer 62 are sent to the converter 59 by pressing the cumulative total key 63, where the number of coins is converted into a monetary amount, and the cumulative total amount is displayed for each denomination on the display 60. At the same time, the amounts are summed up by the totalizer 61 and displayed as the total amount. Further, by pressing the cumulative total key 63 at this time, the totalizers 57, 62 and 61 are cleared respectively. Further, each content of the totalizer 57 is supplied to a main control circuit 53, which controls each motor 24 of the accumulation units 16a to 16d via drive circuits 64a to 64d according to each content, and also Drive devices 66a to 6 for driving the bottom plates 25 of the integrated sections 16a to 16d are connected via control circuits 65a to 65d.
6d respectively. That is,
The motor 24 and the bottom plate 2 are activated each time a predetermined number of low female banknotes P are accumulated in the accumulation sections 16a to 16d.
Drive 5. Further, the main control circuit 53 controls the sealing device 33 via a sealing control circuit 67 as necessary, and controls the stamping device 45 via a stamping control circuit 68 as necessary. ing. next,
The operation of the apparatus of the present invention configured as in the above embodiment will be explained.

First, multi-selection banknotes P mixed with many denominations (for example, 500 yen, 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 10,000 yen) are set in the supply section 2.
Thereafter, when the device is activated, the banknotes P are sequentially taken out one by one by the takeout device 6 and conveyed through the first conveyance path 9. At this time, the taken out banknote P is detected by the detector 101, and the authenticity is determined by the discrimination circuit 51.
The fitness, denomination, and overlap of summer tickets are determined.
According to the determination result, the denominations are accumulated in each accumulation section. In other words, the discriminating circuit 51 determines whether the banknote is a bad banknote or a genuine banknote (
When the determination result that the banknote is an identifiable banknote and the denomination determination result are output, the classification gate 17 is output according to the determination result.
The denominations a to 17d are driven and accumulated by denomination in the accumulating portions 16a to 16d, respectively. Further, when the determination circuit 51 outputs a determination result that the ticket is a summer ticket but an unfit note (identifiable ticket), the classification gates 17a to 17d do not operate, and the determination result that the ticket is an unfit ticket is output. The banknotes P are accumulated in the unfit note accumulation section 30 in a mixture of various denominations. Further, when a discrimination result of a counterfeit bill (a ticket that can be detected) or a stacked ticket (a ticket that cannot be identified) is issued from the discrimination ticket 51, the sorting gate 15 is driven according to the discrimination result, and the removal port 14 Banknotes P that have been determined to be counterfeit or duplicated are reversed and sorted and stacked. In this way, only genuine bills are accumulated by denomination in the stacking sections 16a to 16d, unfit bills are accumulated in the unfit bill stacking section 30, and counterfeit bills, stacked bills, etc. are accumulated in the removal slot 14. At this time, the banknotes stacked in the stacking sections 16a to 16d are sorted by the vibrating sorting device 19 provided in each of the stacking sections 16a to 16d. Further, at the same time as the above-mentioned sorting, a banknote detection signal for each denomination is outputted from the discriminating circuit 51, and a lot counting unit 57 for each denomination adds up the number of banknotes P for each denomination. Therefore, the accumulation parts 16a to 16d
When a predetermined number of banknotes P, in this case 100 sheets, have been accumulated, a signal from the main control circuit 53 causes the carry-out control circuit 6 to
5a to 65d, the bottom plates 25 of the stacking sections 16a to 16d are lowered, and the 100 stacked banknotes, that is, banknote bundles P, are transferred to the second conveyance path 3.
2 to be carried out.

The carried out bank note bundle P is conveyed to the sealing device 33 by the second conveyance path 32, and when it reaches the sealing device 33,
The sealing device 33 is activated by a signal from the main control circuit 53 via the sealing control circuit 67, and the banknote bundle P is automatically sealed. When the sealing is completed, the sealed banknote bundle P2
is sent to the stamping device 45, and when it reaches the stamping device 45,
The stamping device 45 is actuated via the stamping control circuit 68 in response to a signal from the main control circuit 53, and predetermined data is stamped on the paper tape (strip) of the banknote bundle P2 and accumulated in the bundle accumulation section 47. The above operation is repeated every time ten banknotes P are accumulated in the accumulation sections 16a to 16d. When the banknotes for one rod have been sorted in this way, press the lot total key 58 and the display will display the total amount of each lot, as well as the total amount of the lot. Ru. When all the lots have been sorted, when the cumulative total key 63 is pressed, the total amount of money for each denomination is displayed on the six displays, and the total amount of money is also displayed. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and it goes without saying that various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

As detailed above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an automatic banknote sorting device that can automatically classify banknotes by denomination, and can also display the breakdown by denomination for each lot and the cumulative breakdown by denomination. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional side view showing the internal structure of an automatic banknote sorting device, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the structure of the stacking section, and FIG. 3 is an internal view. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the adjustment plate and a block diagram of the control section. 2...Bank note supply unit, 6...Takeout device, 9...First conveyance path, 10...Detector, 14... ...Exclusion port, 15...Separation gate, 16a-16d...Accumulation section, 17a-17d
...Division gate, 51...Discrimination circuit,
P... Bank note. Figure 3 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A banknote supply section in which banknotes to be sorted are set, a takeout device that takes out the banknotes set in the supply section one by one, and a conveyance path that conveys the banknotes taken out by the takeout device. , a plurality of stacking sections provided along this conveyance path to collect the transported banknotes by denomination, and a plurality of stacking sections provided corresponding to the entrances of these stacking sections to collect the banknotes into the stacking section. a sorting gate that guides or controls passage; a detector that detects the banknotes taken out by the takeout device; a discriminating section that controls the sorting gate according to the discriminating result; a counting section that counts banknotes for each denomination based on a signal from the discriminating section; A cumulative counting means by which the counting results are added for each denomination, a breakdown of the counting means for each denomination, and a predetermined second
1. A banknote automatic sorting device comprising display means for displaying a breakdown of the cumulative counting means for each denomination in response to a key operation.