JP2001312761A - Paper money processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain miniaturizing, simplifying and lightening of a paper money processor by eliminating a dedicated pressing member. SOLUTION: When accumulating paper moneys P on a stage 29 of a batch cassette 21 for paper money recovery, a temporary holding plate 27 of a temporary holding part 25 is moved up and paper moneys are accumulated on the stage 29 by a paying-out and accumulating means 26. Afterwards, the temporary holding plate 27 is moved down and paper moneys P on the stage 29 are pressed so that the creases of folding habits of paper moneys can be corrected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic transaction apparatus used in a financial institution such as a bank, and more particularly to a banknote processing apparatus for performing banknote deposit / withdrawal processing. And a banknote handling apparatus comprising:

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A bill processing device is incorporated in an automatic transaction device used in a financial institution such as a bank, and performs a deposit / withdrawal process of a bill accompanying a transaction. As a conventional bill processing device,
In order to carry out replenishment and collection of banknotes for a denomination cassette that stores banknotes by denomination, a batch cassette that can collectively store banknotes of a plurality of denominations is used, and a temporary holding unit located on the batch cassette is used. Some have been provided.

[0003] This temporary hold is a kind of temporarily accumulating and holding bills discriminated from rejected tickets such as denominated denominations or transport abnormalities during withdrawal transactions during holiday or nighttime operations. A possible temporary holding plate, a stacking device for stacking bills on a vertically movable stage provided in the temporary holding plate and the batch cassette, and a feeding stacking unit for feeding the stacked banknotes, and a banknote There is provided a vertically movable pressing member that presses the bills accumulated on the stage of the batch cassette from above at the time of collection to correct wrinkles and folds.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, a temporary holding plate which can be moved up and down and a pressing member for correcting bills are separately provided in a temporary holding portion located on the batch cassette. For this reason, there is a problem that the apparatus becomes large, complicated, and heavy, and it is difficult to meet the needs for installation in retail stores such as convenience stores in recent years.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to realize a bill processing apparatus which can be reduced in size, simplified and lightened by using a temporary holding plate as a pressing member for correcting bills. ing.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, the present invention provides a cassette for storing bills, and a temporary holding unit which is located on the cassette and temporarily holds the bills. It has a movable stage, and the temporary holding unit is a vertically movable temporary holding plate for stacking bills, and stacks bills on the stage and the temporary holding plate, or feeds out bills on the temporary holding plate. In a banknote processing device having a feeding and accumulating means for
The temporary holding plate includes a plate having a concave notch, a support member for supporting the plate, and a slide member movably provided on the plate so as to close and open the notch. When stacking the banknotes on the stage, the temporary holding plate is raised to a position where it reaches the feeding and accumulating means, and the slide member of the temporary holding plate is retracted to open the cutout portion, thereby cutting the banknotes. After the banknotes are accumulated on the stage while avoiding the feeding and accumulating means in the cutout portion, the temporary holding plate is lowered to hold down the banknotes on the stage.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a banknote handling apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing the first embodiment. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a housing of the apparatus, and 2 denotes a customer service unit provided at an upper part on the front side of the housing 1. The customer service unit 2 inserts banknotes during a deposit transaction, returns a banknote, and dispenses a transaction. It has a bill transferring function for paying bills at the time, and a separating and feeding function for separating and feeding the inserted bills one by one.

[0008] 3 is a shutter provided on the customer service section 1,
4 is the authenticity of bills at the time of deposit / withdrawal transactions, replenishment and collection of bills,
This is a discrimination unit that discriminates denominations, damage, front and back, and detects the presence or absence of abnormal conveyance such as double feeding, chaining, or skew, and counts banknotes whose denominations have been confirmed by the discrimination. Reference numeral 5 denotes a front and back sorting mechanism provided in the middle of a later-described transport path connecting the customer service unit 2 and the discriminating unit 4, and the front and back sorting mechanism 5 discriminates bills discriminated from the back by the discriminating unit 4 at the time of withdrawal transaction. It is a reversal.

Denomination cassettes 6, 7, and 8 for storing banknotes P used in transactions by denomination are arranged side by side on the bottom side in the housing 1. Of these denomination cassettes 6 to 8,
The denomination cassette 7 is for 1,000 yen banknotes, and denomination cassettes 6 and 8
Is used for banknotes of ten thousand yen, but the denomination cassette 7 is also used as a cassette for reject banknotes during nighttime operation.

Reference numerals 9, 10, and 11 denote stages arranged in denomination cassettes 6 to 8, which are vertically moved by a mechanism (not shown). Are integrated on the stages 9-11. Reference numerals 12, 13, and 14 denote temporary storage portions provided at the upper portions of the storages 6 to 8, respectively, and reference numerals 15, 16, and 17 denote temporary storage plates that partition the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 and the temporary storage portions 12 to 14. The temporary holding plates 15 to 17 can be independently moved in the horizontal direction by a mechanism (not shown).

Reference numerals 18, 19 and 20 denote cassettes 6 to 8
The roller mechanisms 18 to 20 are respectively arranged above the sheet storage device, and each of the roller mechanisms 18 to 20 temporarily accumulates the banknotes P on the temporary holding plates 15 to 17 respectively.
It also serves as a feeding unit that separates and feeds out banknotes P one by one from 5 to 17 or from the stage 9 and includes a feeding roller, a paper feeding roller, and a separation roller.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a banknote P for the storage bins 6 to 8 by denomination.
A batch cassette used for replenishment and collection of paper money, and has a storage portion 21a for collectively storing banknotes P of 1,000 yen and ten thousand yen notes,
A vertically movable stage 29 is provided in the storage unit 21a, and a rejected banknote collection unit 21 for collecting rejected banknotes at the time of replenishing banknotes is provided below the storage unit 21a.
b.

The batch cassette 21 is disposed on the back side of the housing 1 and is detachable from the housing 1. 25
Reference numeral denotes a temporary holding unit arranged in the housing 1 so as to be located on the batch cassette 21 when the batch cassette 21 is mounted in the housing 1. Reference numeral 22 denotes a reject cassette arranged below the batch cassette 21. The reject cassette 22a stores reject banknotes at the time of withdrawal transaction in weekday operation, and a customer's left banknotes located on the reject storage unit 22a. It has a forgotten bill storage unit for storage.

The reject cassette 22 is removably mounted on the housing 1 like the batch cassette 21.
The attachment and detachment of the batch cassette 21 and the reject cassette 22 are performed by opening a rear door (not shown). And
By extracting the batch cassette 21 and the reject cassette 22, the cassettes 6 to 8 can be also extracted.

Reference numeral 23 denotes a transport path comprising a belt and a roller for pinching and transporting the bills. The transport path 23a allows the customer service section 2, the discriminating section 4, the roller mechanism sections 18 to 20, the collective cassette 21, the temporary holding section. 25 and the reject storage 22 are connected to each other.
A blade for switching the transport direction of the image is arranged. 2
Reference numeral 4 denotes a control means, which controls the entire apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the temporary holding section 25. The escrow unit 25 includes a feeding and stacking unit 26 composed of a roller and a belt, a escrow plate 27 also serving as a pressing member for correcting bills, and the escrow unit 27 is vertically moved via pulleys and belts (not shown). An up / down motor 28 for moving, a slide motor 30 for moving a slide member forming part of the temporary holding plate 27 back and forth, and an upper guide 31 are provided. Are arranged at the upper front end of the paper tray P, and the banknotes P are accumulated on the temporary holding plate 27 and the stage 29 of the batch cassette 21, and rotate so as to pay out the banknotes P on the temporary holding plate 27 and the stage 29. I have.

The upper guide 31 guides the bills when the bills are accumulated by the feeding / accumulating means 26. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the temporary holding plate 27. As shown in FIG. 3, the temporary holding plate 27 has an upper plate 33 provided with a concave cutout portion 32 on the front side.
b, a lower plate 34, a support member 33a and a slide member 35 fixed integrally with the upper plate 33b, and the slide member 35 is slidably sandwiched between the upper plate 33b and the lower plate 34. By inserting both side ends of the slide member 35 into slide guide holes provided on both sides of the upper plate 33b, the slide member 35 can move forward and backward within the range of the slide guide hole.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are perspective views showing the operation of the slide member 35. FIG. 4A shows a state of forward movement, and FIG. 4B shows a state of backward movement.
As shown in this figure, a rack 36 for converting a rotary motion into a linear motion is provided on one side of the slide member 35, and this rack 36 is engaged with a pinion 37 provided on the motor 30.

Therefore, when the motor 30 is rotated in a certain direction, the pinion 37 and the rack 36 cause the slide member 35 to rotate.
Moves forward to close the notch 32 as shown in FIG. 4A, and when the motor 30 is rotated in the reverse direction, the pinion 37 is rotated.
Then, the slide member 35 is retracted by the rack 36 and retracted between the upper plate 33b and the lower plate 34, thereby opening the notch 32 as shown in FIG. 4B.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described. Note that the banknote deposit / withdrawal process on weekdays and the banknote replenishment process from the batch cassette 21 to the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 are performed in the same manner as a known banknote processing device, and thus description thereof is omitted. Type cassette 6 ~
The following describes an example of collecting banknotes from the batch cassette 8 into the batch cassette 21 and dispensing transactions during night or holiday operation.

First, denomination cassettes 6 to 8 on weekdays
A description will be given of the collection of banknotes into the batch cassette 21 from the following. A staff member of a financial institution instructs a process of collecting banknotes into the batch cassette 21, and in response to this instruction, the control unit 24 controls the following operation. First, the slide member 35 of the temporary holding plate 27 provided in the temporary holding portion 25 on the batch cassette 21.
4B is retracted between the upper plate 33b and the lower plate 34 by the reverse rotation of the motor 30 as described with reference to FIG.
To raise the temporary holding plate 27.

The raised temporary holding plate 27 stops at a position where it comes into contact with the lower surface of the upper guide 31. FIG. 5 is a side view of the temporary storage unit 25 at this time. As shown in FIG. 5, the front of the temporary storage plate 27 is raised to a position where the temporary storage plate 27 is engaged with the feeding and accumulating means 26. 27 is retracted and the notch 32 is opened, so that the temporary holding plate 27 raises the notch 3
2, the feeding and accumulating means 26 can be avoided, and as a result, it is possible to ascend to the position where it comes into contact with the lower surface of the upper guide 31 as described above.

Thereafter, when the stage 29 of the batch cassette 21 is raised by the motor (not shown) into the temporary holding section 25 and the preparation for stacking is completed, the bills P are fed out from the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 in order. Although the order of feeding is not limited, for example, when feeding is performed from the denomination cassette 6, the temporary holding plate 15 is retracted from above the denomination cassette 6, the motor (not shown) moves the stage 10 to the feeding position, and the roller mechanism 18 P is fed out one by one.

When all the banknotes P in the denomination cassette 6 are fed, the banknotes P are fed in the same manner from the denomination cassette 7, and all the banknotes P in the denomination cassette 8 are fed. The bills P fed out from these denomination cassettes 6 to 8 are conveyed to the discriminating section 4 by the conveying path 23, are subjected to predetermined discrimination and counting, and are then discriminated by the discriminating section 4 from normal bills. Are fed to the temporary holding section 25 by the transport path 23 and are fed out on the stage 29 of the batch cassette 21 by the feeding and stacking means 26.

The stage 29 of the batch cassette 21 has a bill P
Is controlled so as to gradually descend as is accumulated,
Then, when all the banknotes P in the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 are stacked or a predetermined number of stacks, the temporary holding plate 27 is lowered by the rotation of the motor 28 and is stacked on the stage 29. The pressed banknote P is pressed down from above.

FIG. 6 shows the state at this time, that is, the temporary holding plate 2.
7 is a side view showing a state in which the banknotes P on the stage 29 are pressed by 7. Even if the banknotes P on the stage 29 are mixed with wrinkles and creases, the wrinkles and creases are corrected. Then, the stage 29 is lowered to a predetermined position so that the batch cassette 21 can be removed from the housing 1.

In this state, the attendant pulls out the batch cassette 21 from the housing 1 and collects bills. When all the banknotes P in the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 cannot be collected at one time, the above-described operation is performed a plurality of times to collect all the banknotes P. Next, a withdrawal transaction during holiday or nighttime operation will be described. During operation on holidays or at night, the reject cassette 22 is removed from the housing 1 and operated, so the denomination cassette 7 is used as the reject cassette.

First, the customer presses the withdrawal transaction key shown on the operation display unit of the automatic transaction apparatus, inserts the card into the card slot, enters the password, and confirms that the transaction is possible. Then, the customer is requested to input the payment request, and the confirmation key is further pressed. By depressing this confirmation key, the bill processing device causes the denomination cassette 6 or 8 according to the type of the amount of money.
, The banknotes P are fed out one by one.

For example, when unwinding from the denomination cassette 6, the temporary holding plate 15 is retracted from the denomination cassette 6, and
The stage 10 is raised to the feeding position by a motor (not shown), and the banknotes P are fed one by one by the roller mechanism 18. The same applies to the feeding of the banknote P in the denomination cassette 8. The fed banknote P is transported on the transport path 2
3, the sheet is conveyed to the discrimination section 4, and discrimination of the authenticity, denomination, and conveyance state is performed.

The banknote P discriminated by the discriminating unit 4 from an object to be dispensed or a conveyance error such as a double feed is sent to a temporary holding unit 25 on the collective cassette 21 by a conveyance path 23 and fed out and accumulated. 26 collects on the temporary holding plate 27. FIG. 7 is a side view showing the state at this time, and the temporary holding plate 27 has been lowered to the lower end of the temporary holding unit 2 as shown.

At this time, the slide member 35 of the temporary holding plate 27 moves forward by the rotation of the motor 30 shown in FIG. 4 and closes the notch 32, so that the bill P enters the notch 32. Instead, they are stored on 27 tablets temporarily. On the other hand, the banknote P discriminated from the normal ticket by the discriminating unit 4 is sent to the front and back sorting mechanism 5 by the conveying path 23, where the front and back are sorted, conveyed to the customer service unit 2 and accumulated, and input by the customer. When the bills of the amount are accumulated, the shutter 3 is opened and the bills are paid to the customer.

If a passbook is inserted, the transaction contents are printed on the passbook, the magnetic data of the card is updated and returned to the customer, and a receipt on which the transaction contents are printed is released. Next, the temporary holding plate 27 of the temporary holding unit 2 is raised by the motor 28,
The bills P on the sheet 7 are pressed against the feeding and accumulating means 26, and the banknotes P are fed one by one by rotating the feeding and accumulating means 26 in this state.

The fed banknote is conveyed toward the denomination cassette 7 via the discrimination section 4 by the conveyance path 23,
It is stored in the denomination cassette 7 by the roller mechanism 19. According to the first embodiment described above, in the temporary withdrawal unit on the collective cassette that accumulates banknotes that have been discriminated as denominated or abnormally conveyed by the discrimination unit in the withdrawal transaction during nighttime or holiday operation. The temporary holding plate provided can be used as a pressing member for holding down the banknotes accumulated on the stage of the batch cassette when collecting the banknotes from the denomination cassette into the batch cassette. It is possible to correct banknotes having wrinkles and kinks, prevent the banknotes from standing on the stage due to wrinkles and kinks and prevent the operation of the stage from being hindered, and provide a dedicated pressing member. Since there is no need, downsizing, simplification, and weight reduction can be achieved.

Next, a second embodiment will be described. FIG. 8 is a side view of a temporary storage unit 25 according to the second embodiment, and FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of a temporary storage plate 27 according to the second embodiment. In the present embodiment, the support member 33a of the temporary holding plate and the upper plate 33b are separated,
One end of a link 38 is rotatably attached to both sides of a support member 33a that moves up and down by a motor 28, and a post 40 provided on both sides of an upper plate 33b is moved to a long hole 39 provided at the other end of the link 38. The upper plate 33b is configured to be fitted to the support member 33a so that the rear end of the upper plate 33b is detachably engaged with the lower end of the support member 33a, so that the upper plate 33b can freely move upward with respect to the support member 33a. It is like that.

The other structure is the same as that of the first embodiment. Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described. Here, cassettes 6 to 9 by denomination on weekdays
The collection of banknotes from the batch cassette 21 will be described. A staff member of the financial institution instructs a process of collecting bills into the collective cassette 21, and in response to the instruction, the control unit 24 controls the following operation.

First, the temporary holding unit 2 on the batch cassette 21
4B, the slide member 35 of the temporary holding plate 27 is retracted between the upper plate 33b and the lower plate 34 by the reverse rotation of the motor 30, and the notch 32 is opened. Thereafter, the support member 33a is raised by the motor 28. At this time, the rear end of the upper plate 33b of the temporary holding plate 27 is engaged with the lower end of the support member 33a.
And the upper plate 33b rises integrally.

That is, the entire temporary holding plate 27 rises.
The raised temporary holding plate 27 stops at a position where it comes into contact with the lower surface of the upper guide 31.
Can be avoided as in the first embodiment. Thereafter, similarly to the first embodiment, the banknotes P are sequentially fed from the denomination cassettes 6 to 8, and the fed-out banknotes P are transported to the discriminating unit 4 by the transport path 23.

The discrimination unit 4 performs predetermined discrimination and counting, and the banknote P discriminated as a normal ticket by this is
The sheet is sent to the temporary storage section 25 by the transport path 23 and is fed out onto the stage 29 of the batch cassette 21 by the feeding and stacking means 26. The stage 29 of the batch cassette 21 has a bill P
Is controlled so as to gradually descend as is accumulated,
Then, when all the banknotes P in the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 are stacked or a predetermined number of sheets are stacked, the temporary holding plate 27 is lowered by the rotation of the motor 28.

During the lowering, the upper plate 33b of the temporary holding plate 27 is moved to the stage 29 of the batch cassette 21.
Since the support member 33a continues to descend on the banknotes P accumulated on the upper side, the rear end of the upper plate 33b is detached from the support member 33a, and the upper plate 33b is supported by the link 38 while maintaining the support state. The bill P is pressed down with the roller plate 34 over the whole.

That is, the support member 33a, the upper plate 33b, and the roller plate 34 are separately lowered, and press the bill P over the whole. FIG. 10 shows the state at this time, that is, the stage 2
9 is a side view showing a state in which the banknotes P on the banknote 9 are pressed down, whereby wrinkles and kinks of the banknotes P on the stage 29 are corrected. So that it can be extracted from

At this time, the upper plate 33b of the temporary storage plate 27 follows the lowering of the stage 29 by its own weight together with the lower plate 34, and when the upper plate 33b is lowered to the lower end of the temporary storage unit 25, the rear end of the upper plate 33b It stops by engaging with the lower end of the support member 33a. In this state, the attendant pulls out the collective cassette 21 from the housing 1 to collect bills.

If all the banknotes P in the denomination cassettes 6 to 8 cannot be collected at one time, the above-described operation is performed in a plurality of times to collect all the banknotes P. The operation at the time of withdrawal transaction during holiday or nighttime operation is performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment. According to the above-described second embodiment, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained. In addition, the lower plate 34 of the upper plate 33b can be lowered separately from the support member 33a moved up and down by the motor 28 and the upper plate 33a. So that the support member and 33a are
It is possible to lower the bill P at the same speed as or higher than that of the first stage 29, and it is possible to more reliably press the banknote P to correct wrinkles and breakage.

[0043]

As described above, according to the present invention, the temporary holding plate of the temporary holding portion disposed above the cassette for storing bills is provided with a plate having a concave notch and a support for supporting the plate. A member and a slide member provided on the plate so as to be able to move back and forth so as to close and open the notch portion, and when accumulating bills on a stage in the cassette, the temporary holding plate Up to the position where it reaches the feeding and accumulating means, and by retracting the slide member of the temporary holding plate to open the notch, the notch avoids the feeding and accumulating means, and the banknote is placed on the stage. After stacking, the temporary holding plate is lowered to hold down the bills on the stage.

Therefore, according to this, in the withdrawal transaction during night or holiday operation, the temporary storage provided in the temporary holding unit on the batch cassette for accumulating the banknotes which are discriminated from the denomination target or abnormal transport in the verification unit. The holding plate can be used as a pressing member that presses the banknotes accumulated on the stage of the batch cassette when collecting the banknotes from the denomination cassette into the batch cassette, so that the folding habit in the collected banknotes can be used without providing a dedicated pressing member. It is possible to correct a certain bill, it is possible to prevent the operation of the stage from being hindered by the bill standing on the stage due to kinks, and it is not necessary to provide a dedicated pressing member, so that miniaturization is achieved. Simplification and weight reduction can be achieved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the temporary holding unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a temporary holding plate according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the operation of the slide member according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing a state where the temporary holding plate is raised in the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state in which a bill is pressed in the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a state where the temporary holding plate is lowered in the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a side view of a temporary holding unit according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of a temporary holding plate according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a state where a banknote is pressed in the second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Customer Service Unit 4 Discrimination Unit 6-8 Money Type Cassette 12-14 Temporary Reservation Unit 15-17 Temporary Reservation Plate 18-20 Roller Mechanism 21 Batch Cassette 24 Control Means 25 Temporary Reservation Unit 26 Feeding Out Accumulation Unit 27 Temporary Reservation Plate 28 Motor 29 Stage 30 Motor 32 Notch 33a Supporting member 33b Upper plate 34 Lower plate 35 Slide member 38 Link 39 Slot 40 Post

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cassette for storing banknotes, a temporary storage unit that is located on the cassette and temporarily stores banknotes, wherein the cassette has a vertically movable stage for stacking banknotes, The holding unit is a temporary holding plate capable of moving up and down to accumulate bills, and a bill having a stacking means for accumulating bills on the stage and the temporary holding plate and dispensing bills on the temporary holding plate. In the processing apparatus, the temporary holding plate is provided with a plate having a concave notch, a support member that supports the plate, and a plate that is movable back and forth so as to close and open the notch. When the banknotes are stacked on the stage, the temporary holding plate is raised to a position where the banknotes reach the payout stacking unit, and the banknotes are temporarily stored. By retracting the slide member and opening the notch, avoiding the feeding and accumulating means at the notch, stacking the bills on the stage, lowering the temporary holding plate, A bill processing device characterized by holding down bills. 2. The link according to claim 1, wherein one end of the link is rotatably mounted on both sides of the support member forming the temporary holding plate, and a slot provided on the other end of each link slides on a post provided on both sides of the plate. When the bills are stacked on the stage of the batch cassette and the temporary holding plate is lowered after the bills are stacked on the stage of the batch cassette, Wherein the rear end of the plate is disengaged from the support member when the plate abuts, and the support member and the plate are separately lowered by the action of a link.