JP3015162B2 - Paper feeding system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a built-in automatic teller machine or the like which is used in a financial institution such as a bank, the paper of the bill, etc.
The present invention relates to a paper sheet feeding system in an apparatus for counting and managing papers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a financial institution such as a bank, an automatic cash transaction apparatus in which a customer having a bank cash card trades cash with the card has been widely used. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device incorporated in such an automatic teller machine includes
There is a circulation type that automatically circulates a deposited bill to a dispensed bill. This is to increase the funding efficiency by minimizing the amount of cash stored inside the device as much as possible, and is a method that has become widespread in recent years. In this type of apparatus, stackers classified according to denominations such as ten thousand yen and one thousand yen notes are incorporated, and bills are fed and collected from these stackers to a single replenishment and collection stacker. Then, the operator handles only the replenishment and recovery stacker.

That is, in recent years, cash has beenLoading, Supplement
To improve the convenience of charging or collection.
Bills to be replenished in one replenishment and collection cassetteLoading
And set the refill / collection cassette in the main unit.
I have to. As a result, bills are automatically collected inside the device.
Of banknotes stored inside the equipment
Automatically without collecting all or part of the product
They are once collected in a replenishment collection cassette.

[0004] This is because the clerk is free from the trouble of loading and collecting the bills into and out of a plurality of banknote storage units distributed inside the apparatus, and is concerned with security concerns caused by the clerk handling cash directly. The purpose is to release the. That is, the attendant operates the keyed replenishment and collection cassette without directly touching the cash to load cash into the device.
Filling , replenishing, or collecting can be performed.

[0005] By the way, bills to be stored in the apparatus are generally collected and stored by denomination in order to pay at high speed, so as to prepare for payment. When a request for payment comes, the banknotes stacked in this denomination are paid out one by one to pay a desired number. In the case of payment, the inserted banknotes are taken into the device one by one, and after authenticity, denomination and the like are discriminated, the banknotes are accumulated and stored in the storage unit for each denomination. The banknotes thus accumulated and stored are fed out one by one and subjected to a deposit / withdrawal process.

However, the bills separated one by one are
It is not transported continuously. For example, when a counterfeit note is detected in the fed banknote, it is necessary to discriminate only the counterfeit note in order to eliminate the counterfeit note. In addition, it is necessary to sort bills mixed with ten thousand yen and one thousand yen notes by denomination. In this case, normally, bills to be sent are discriminated by a switching valve provided in the transport path. Accordingly, bills to be dispensed are successively dispensed with a sufficient interval for the valve to operate. This makes it possible to discriminate any banknote.

[0007]

However, the above-mentioned prior art has the following problems. That is, in the above-described apparatus, it is necessary to provide a plurality of bill feeding mechanisms.
There is. Therefore, to reduce the size and simplification of equipment ,
It has been important to reduce the size and simplification of the feeding mechanism.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a small-size and simple structure paper feeding system.

[0009]

According to the present invention, there is provided a paper sheet feeding system comprising a paper sheet stacking section for stacking paper sheets,
When a rotational force that rotates in the feeding direction of the
When the external force is applied,
Feeding out the paper sheets accumulated in the paper sheet stacking section without rolling, a feeding roller formed by a high friction member all around and a paper sheet fed out by the feeding roller are transported along a transport path. Feed roller and the feeding roller
Farther than the length of the paper sheet in the conveying direction of the paper sheet
The leading edge of the paper sheet in the transport direction
And a sensor for detecting the trailing edge, and when the leading edge of the paper sheet is detected by the sensor, stops the rotation of the feeding roller,
The sheets are fed by the feed roller and sent to the sensor.
The feed roller rotates when the trailing edge of the paper sheet is detected
And a feeding control means for feeding the next paper sheet and transporting the paper sheet onto the transport path by repeating these procedures.

[0010]

In the paper sheet feeding system of the present invention, the entire circumference is
By the feeding roller formed by the high friction member ,
The sheets stacked in the sheet stacking section are separated and fed one by one. Then, the fed sheets are transported along a transport path by a feed roller. In this case, the feeding control means stops the rotation of the feeding roller when the leading end of the sheet is detected by a sensor provided at a predetermined position on the conveying path, and causes the sheet to be conveyed by the feed roller. After that, the feeding control means detects the sheet by the sensor.
When the trailing end is detected, the feeding roller is activated to start feeding the next sheet. Then, these steps are repeated, and the paper sheet is transported on the transport path while detecting the travel of the paper sheet using only a single sensor.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. 2. Description of the Related Art In an automatic teller machine installed in a bank or the like, a separation mechanism for paying out bills accumulated inside is provided at each predetermined position. First, these separating mechanisms will be described. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an outline of a bill separating mechanism according to the present invention. The illustrated apparatus includes a feeding roller and a feeding control unit. The feeding roller includes a picker roller P and a feed roller F.
The entire circumference of these feeding rollers is made of a high friction member such as urethane rubber.

The picker roller P is arranged so as to be in contact with one surface of the bills deposited on the bill holder W.
The picker roller P rotates at the peripheral speed V1 in the direction of the arrow shown in the figure, and feeds out the banknotes one by one from the uppermost layer of the banknote stacking unit 25. The bill stacking unit 25 is a portion where bills in the stacker are stacked. The feed roller F rotates in the direction of the arrow at the peripheral speed V1 according to the picker roller P, and sends out the bill sent out by the picker roller P further forward (to the left in the drawing). At this time, in order to prevent the been banknotes second and subsequent sheets is accompanied to the bill to be fed from the uppermost layer is taken out, only one bill at a slight gap can pass, the feed roller F An opposed gate roller G is provided. The gate rollers G serves to prevent the feeding of the second or subsequent banknote, further paper it
It is slowly rotated in the opposite direction at a peripheral speed V3 much slower than V1 so as to return to the banknote stacking unit 25 .

A pair of transport rollers R is provided at a distance L2 from the picker roller P in the forward direction of the bill. These transport rollers R pinch the bills sent from the feed rollers F and have a speed V2 higher than V1.
To send it further forward. A motor M is connected to the shaft of the feed roller F, and the rotation of the feed roller F is controlled according to the on / off control of the motor M.
The picker roller P is connected to the shaft of the feed roller F by a gear or a belt (not shown), and is controlled to rotate together with the feed roller F.

One-way bearings are independently incorporated into the shafts of the feed roller F and the picker roller P, and are configured to rotate freely when a rotational force is applied from the outside in the direction of the arrow (traveling direction). By the way, the distance L2 between the picker roller P and the transport roller R is set to be substantially the same as the length L1 in the traveling direction of the bill to be fed or L1 + a (a is a slight distance). In addition, a sensor that detects the bill edge at a distance L4 from the front of the gate roller G is disposed. A switching valve for discriminating running bills is provided in the middle of the transport path (see FIG. 3). This switching valve occupies an area having a size corresponding to the distance between the gate roller G and the transport roller R. Therefore, the gate roller G
A distance L4 between the first sensor and the vicinity of the transport roller R is set to a distance sufficient for operating the switching valve.

Next, the operation of the separating mechanism configured as described above will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a payout control procedure according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a state in which bills are conveyed. When paying out the deposited bills, the bill holder W shown in FIG. 1 is pushed up in the figure together with the bills (step S1), and lifted to a position where the upper surface of the deposited bills comes into contact with the surface of the picker roller P as shown. After that, the picker roller P is driven in the direction of the arrow by the motor M (step S2). Then, one sheet in contact with the uppermost picker roller P of the stacked banknotes is fed to the feed roller F side as the picker roller P rotates. Then, the fed bill is used as the gate roller G.
, And the leading end of the passed bill advances to the transport roller R.

When the leading end of the bill fed by the separating mechanism passes through the sensor, the trailing end of the bill comes off the picker roller P. At this time, the motor M is stopped (Step S4) by detecting the leading end of the bill by the sensor (Step S3). However, since the transport roller R is continuously rotating, the separated bill is sent further forward so as to be pulled out according to the rotation of the transport roller R. At this time, the feed roller F idles in the traveling direction along with the separated banknote to be pulled out. The bill of the second and subsequent sheets from the surface may be drawn up around the gate roller G and hung on separation banknotes, bills gate roller G to reverse rotation
It is returned to the stacking unit 25 side.

When the trailing end of the separated bill exits the sensor (step S5), the motor M is driven again (step S5).
2) Pay out the next bill. As shown in FIG. 3, the bills sequentially fed out are separated and fed one by one at intervals L4. That is, the bills are separated by a distance L4 sufficient for the switching valve (switching valve B in FIG. 3) installed at each of the points bifurcated in the traveling direction in the middle of the transport route inside the automatic transaction apparatus. Separated and fed separately.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the automatic transaction apparatus. The coin deposit and withdrawal port 1 is where a customer deposits and withdraws coins. The passbook insertion / discharge port 2 is where the customer inserts the passbook for bookkeeping when bringing the passbook and receives it after the transaction. The handling display panel 3 displays possible handling items such as deposit, payment, and transfer handled by this device. The card insertion / ejection port 4 is where a cash card, which is a transaction card for specifying a transaction customer, is inserted and ejected.
The receipt outlet 5 is where a receipt on which a transaction result is printed is delivered to the customer.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out port 6 is where a banknote related to a transaction is delivered. Customer operating unit 7, procedures and transactions, amount of money, numeric keys to enter a number such as personal identification number, deposit, withdrawal, such as to display the operation key to enter the customer's intention of confirmation, etc., the touch key configuration Have. The erroneously inserted foreign matter return port 8 is for returning foreign matter such as coins that are erroneously inserted into the banknote deposit and withdrawal port 6 to the customer. The paper feeding system with a replenishment and recovery stacker according to the present invention is incorporated in the bill receiving / dispensing port 6 of the automatic transaction apparatus. Hereinafter, the internal configuration of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus. 6 is a diagram illustrating a delivery position of the customer service unit, FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a separation position of the customer service unit, and FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a reception position of the customer service unit. At the upper front part of the banknote depositing / dispensing device 10, a customer service unit 20 for a customer to insert and remove banknotes is provided. As shown in FIG. 6, the service section 20 has a basically cylindrical shape, and a service drum 21 that rotates about an axis of the cylinder.
And a shutter 22 for cutting off contact from outside the main body. Inside the customer service drum 21, there is a bill insertion chamber 2
4 and a customer bill separating mechanism 27 are housed therein. The bill insertion chamber 24 is provided with the receiving / extracting port facing upward. The customer bill separation mechanism 27 separates the bills inserted into the bill insertion chamber 24 one by one and sends out the bills from the payout port. This customer service drum 21 has a structure shown in FIG. 6, FIG. 7, and FIG.
The following operations are performed at each of the two stop positions.

In the delivery position, the customer opens the shutter 22 that closes the receiving / drawing port 23, and the customer inserts bills and receives bills to be paid. At the separation position, the banknotes that are put together are taken into the apparatus one by one. At the receiving position, the banknotes collected from the front and back reversing unit 30 described later are collectively received. Thus, the customer service drum 21
Can be selectively stopped at the above-mentioned three arbitrary positions around an axis (not shown) depending on the processing content. Returning to the description of FIG.

In the lower left portion of the customer service section 20 in the figure, a discriminating section 11 for discriminating and detecting the authenticity, correctness, front and back, two or more overlapping and skewing of the fed bills is provided. . A front and back reversing unit 30 is provided on the left side of the customer service unit 20, and bills sent from the upper left direction pass through one of the left route and the right route constituting the front and back reversing unit 30, and are reversed. The part 33 is stacked with its front and back aligned. That is, when the banknotes discriminated from the front by the discrimination unit 11 are switched to the left route, and the ones discriminated from the back to the right route, by switching the respective traveling routes, all the bills are stacked on the reversal stacking unit 33. The bills are turned upside down, that is, the bills on the back are turned upside down and stacked. Banknotes stacked in inverted stacking unit 33, reversing part 30
Service drum 2 at the receiving position shown in the figure while being accumulated by the belt conveyor formed at the bottom of the
It is sent to 1.

A stacker section is formed at the center of the main body through a separation / stacking section 40 and a temporary storage section 50 thereunder. The stacker unit stores banknotes by denomination, and in this embodiment, a stacker unit that can store banknotes in three locations of A stacker, B stacker, and C stacker is shown. Separation / accumulation unit 40 and temporary storage unit 50 are also 3
It is composed of several places. Banknotes sent one by one from the upper left of the separation and accumulation unit 40 pass through the accumulation route,
It is accumulated on the temporary storage unit 50 formed at the bottom of the separation / accumulation unit 40. When storing the banknotes accumulated on the temporary storage unit 50, the temporary storage unit 50 is released, and the integrated banknotes stacked thereon are dropped into the stacker.

Conversely, when paying out the bills in the stacker, the temporary holding unit 50 is released, the bills in the stacker are lifted upward, separated by the separating mechanism one by one, and passed through the payout route. Send out to the upper right side. When the banknotes stacked in the temporary storage unit 50 are fed out as they are in a return transaction or the like, the details will be described later,
The bills can be fed one by one from the upper side in the same manner as the bills in the stacker. Such a configuration is A, B, C3
Although all the places are the same, in this embodiment, the A stacker and the B stacker are used as a storage unit for a 100,000 yen ticket, and the C stacker is used as a storage unit for a 1,000 yen ticket.

A replenishment and recovery stacker 70 is provided at the upper rear of the bill depositing / dispensing apparatus 10 so as to be detachable from the rear, and a deposit / withdrawal reject stacker 90 has a built-in capture stacker for sorting and storing bills therein. It is arranged. The replenishment and recovery stacker 70 includes a replenishment stage 71
A replenishing / collecting / separating unit 72 for taking out the banknotes placed thereon one by one from above, a replenishing unit 73 for storing the replenishing banknotes, and a collecting unit 74 for temporarily collecting and storing the collected banknotes
And a collection stage 75 for collectively transferring collected banknotes to the replenishing unit 73, and a replenishment reject stacker 76 for collecting and storing, in the replenishment and collection stacker 70, banknotes that have been fed out poorly during replenishment. The operation will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view of the replenishing operation of the replenishing and collecting stacker. The banknotes deposited on the replenishment section 73 on the replenishment stage 71 are separated and fed one by one from the upper right side of the replenishment and recovery stacker 70 to the machine side by the action of the replenishment and recovery section 72. At this time, the banknotes that have become unsatisfactory in feeding are collected and stored through the machine. When the banknotes stored in the stacker of this machine are collected in the replenishment and collection stacker 70, the collected banknotes are sent to the collection unit 74 and accumulated and deposited as shown in the figure. Even when the stacker of this machine becomes full at the time of replenishment, the overflowed banknotes are collected and stored in the collection unit 74.

When all the banknotes in the replenishment section on the replenishment stage 71 are fed out, the replenishment stage 71 descends vertically from the top to the rear of the cassette, and again when it reaches the bottom, as shown in FIG. 9B. The state is horizontal as shown in FIG. At this time, the collection stage 75 is at the position shown in the figure. However, as shown in FIG. 9D, the collection stage 75 is evacuated further to the lower part of the replenishment stage 71 and if there is a bill on the collection stage 75 as shown in FIG. Put it on the stage 71 . Thereafter, each stage moves up to the position shown in FIG. 9 (e), lifts and transfers the banknotes in the collection unit 74 to the replenishment unit 73, and returns to the state in FIG. 9 (a). Next, the operation of the collection stage 75 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of the collecting operation of the replenishing and collecting stacker. As shown in FIG. 10A, the collected bills are accumulated in the collecting section 74 below the collecting stage 75.
Next, while the collection stage 75 is opened in the order of FIG. 10B and FIG. Next, FIG.
The collected bill is lifted to the replenishing unit 73 as shown in FIG. As described in detail above, the banknotes in the replenishment unit 73 are separated one by one from the upper portion and fed out to the machine side, and the banknotes from the machine side to the collection unit 74 are collected and received, and replenished. Turn to section 73. That is, the replenishment / recovery stacker 70 includes a collection unit 74 having such a replenishment function, and a replenishment reject stacker unit 76 for receiving and storing reject bills at the time of replenishment.

Next, regarding the operation of the sheet feeding system with the replenishing and collecting stacker having such a configuration, FIG. 11 to FIG. 11 are described in the order of a depositing transaction, a dispensing transaction, a forgetting / importing process, a replenishing / loading process, and a collecting process. This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route at the time of a deposit transaction. When the customer presses the deposit transaction key and inserts a card into the card insertion slot or a passbook into the passbook insertion slot, the process starts. As a result, the update is performed between the apparatus and the center, and if it is confirmed that there is no problem, an instruction to start the deposit processing is sent to the sheet feeding method with the replenishment and recovery stacker.

In the paper sheet feeding method, when a command is received, the internal state is switched to the deposit mode, and the system waits for the customer to insert a bill. As shown in FIG. 6, when it is detected that the customer has inserted the bill into the receiving and taking out port 23, the shutter 22 is closed, and the receiving and taking out port 2 is received in response to the state sense command periodically transmitted from the control unit of the apparatus.
3 and the response message (hereinafter referred to as
"Response"). Next, the control unit:
A deposit count command is transmitted to instruct the counting of the bills set in the receiving / extracting port 23. Hereinafter, a processing procedure of the bill receiving / dispensing apparatus will be described with reference to the drawings.

When a bill is set in the bill insertion chamber 24 in a state of waiting for a deposited bill as shown in FIG. 6, the shutter 22 is closed, and the customer service drum 21 is rotated to the separation position shown in FIG. The separated bills are taken into the apparatus one by one by a separation mechanism configured in the customer service drum 21. In FIG. 11, bills are sent from the customer service unit 20 to the discrimination unit 11.

The discriminating unit 11 detects the authenticity of the sent bills, discriminates whether the card is correct or not, and detects the traveling state, and sends the bills backward. Those discriminated by the discriminating unit 11 to be unidentifiable due to counterfeit bills, non-target banknotes, transport abnormalities, etc., are conveyed to the front / back inversion unit 30 ,
Deposition is temporarily suspended. At this time, the customer service unit 20 is on standby at the receiving position shown in FIG. The bill returned to the customer service section 20 is a so-called deposit reject bill, and the bill rotates the customer service drum 21 to the delivery position in FIG. 6, opens the shutter 22, and returns the bill to the customer. On the other hand, the banknote judged to be a genuine bill by the discriminating unit 11 takes the transport route downward and is sent to the separating / accumulating unit 40.

Here, the 10,000 yen ticket is placed on the temporary storage unit 50 on the A stacker, and the 1,000 yen ticket is stored on the temporary storage unit 5 on the C stacker.
On the other hand, the unfitted bill judged to be unsuitable as a 5,000-yen note and a bill to be paid is stored on the temporary holding unit 50 on the B stacker, respectively. With the above operation, the deposit counting process for the bills set by the customer in the customer service unit 20 is completed. Then, a response to the end of the counting of payments is returned to the main body control unit, and the number of sheets counted for each denomination is separately added to the data as recirculated bills and recirculated bills.
The control unit receives this data, calculates the amount of the denomination and the total amount, displays the amount on the customer operation unit 7 , counts this data as a deposit count, and stores it.

When the customer confirms the amount displayed on the customer operation unit and presses a confirmation key displayed on the customer operation unit 7 ,
The banknote deposit and withdrawal unit receives the confirmed command, and first,
Release temporary hold on Stacker A and Stacker C and save 10,000 yen
The bills and 1,000-yen bills are dropped and stored in their respective stackers. Next, non-refluxed banknotes such as 5,000-yen bills stacked in the temporary holding unit 50 on the B stacker are separated one by one by a separation mechanism, and the deposit / withdrawal reject stacker 90 passes through the transport route indicated by the broken line in the figure. To be stored. This completes the deposit transaction. Note that the B stacker functions as a 100,000-yen spare stacker that is used when the 10,000-yen ticket stored in the A stacker overflows.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route at the time of a withdrawal transaction. The customer presses the withdrawal transaction key, inserts the card into the card slot, and enters a password. The control unit transmits a command for starting the dispensing process. When receiving the command for starting the dispensing process, the banknote depositing / dispensing unit switches the internal state to the dispensing mode and waits for the instruction of the denomination and the number of the notes to be discharged. Hereinafter, description will be made with reference to FIG.

When the customer inputs, for example, an amount of 50,000 yen, first, whether the end detectors (not shown) of the A and B stackers and the end detectors of the C stacker have not detected the end. judge. If either one has detected the end, it sends back a response with the information of dispensing disapproval. If the end detection is not performed, and if the instruction of the withdrawal counting is m-million-yen ticket and n-thousand-yen ticket, the separation mechanism on the A-stacker or the B-stacker is operated, and the m-million-yen ticket is paid out. The fed bill is
It is sent upward according to the transport route indicated by the thick line in the figure, and passes through the discrimination unit 11. The discriminating unit 11 discriminates whether the banknote is as specified, front and back, and if it is as specified, if it is as specified, sends it to the upper and lower reversing unit 30 and activates a discrimination mechanism (not shown) based on the result of the front and back determination, One is fed from the transport route 31 and the other is sent to the reversal stacking unit 33 through the transport route 32, and is stacked with the front and back aligned.

The bill discriminated by the discriminating section 11 from the damaged bill or the abnormally transported bill is sent to a deposit / withdrawal reject stacker 90 provided at the rear lower portion, and stored and stored. Thereafter, this operation is repeated until the desired number of sheets is deposited on the reversal stacking unit 33. When the number of the 10,000 yen ticket reaches m, next, the number of the 1,000 yen ticket is separated and fed from the C stacker to the reverse stacking unit 33 in the same manner as described above. When the feeding of the predetermined number of sheets is completed, the customer service unit 20 is set to the receiving position, and the reversing stacking unit 3
The payment bills accumulated in 3 are transported together with the bundle, and then the customer service drum 21 having the payment bills therein is rotated to the delivery position shown in FIG. 6, the shutter 22 is opened, and the bills are delivered to the customer. Then, the shutter 22 is closed after confirming the removal of the bill by a sensor (not shown).

When the dispensing of the designated number of sheets is completed, a response of the completion is returned to the control unit, and the denomination type and the number of sheets are added as the data. The control unit receives this and stores it as the number of payments. With this, the processing of the withdrawal transaction is completed.
FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route when a forgotten bill is stored. If the customer forgets to take out the banknotes discharged to the receiving and taking-out port in the above-mentioned withdrawal transaction, the banknotes are taken in via the discrimination unit 11 through the transport route shown in FIG.
Take in and store. At this time, the discrimination unit 11 detects the denomination and the number of copies, sends the data to the control unit, and stores the data. As another example, the banknote whose denomination has been determined can be stored in each corresponding stacker, and applied to the next banknote to be dispensed.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of the transport route during the replenishment operation. When the attendant (operator) presses an auxiliary key of an attendant operating unit (not shown), the control unit receives this input and transmits a command for instructing the start of a replenishing operation to the sheet feeding method with the supplementary collection stacker. . When the banknote pay-in / pay-out device receives the command to start the replenishment operation, the internal state is switched to the replenishment mode, and when the end detector (not shown) of the replenishment and collection stacker detects the end, the information of inoperable is added and the response is returned. It returns, and this processing is stopped.
When it is confirmed that the end is not detected, the replenishment operation is started. Hereinafter, the replenishment operation of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device will be described with reference to FIG.

The replenishment / recovery separation unit 72 is operated to replenish the replenishment unit 73.
Are fed out one by one in order from the upper side, and transported along the route shown by the thick line in the figure, and sent to the discrimination unit 11. The discriminating unit 11 sequentially detects the sent bills, authenticity discrimination, denomination discrimination, damage discrimination, and a running state, and sends the bill further backward. The 1,000-yen ticket and the 10,000-yen ticket determined to have been sent by the discriminating unit 11 as genuine bills, genuine bills sufficient to be paid, and in a running state sufficiently good for processing are C stacker and A, respectively. It is accumulated on the temporary storage unit 50 on the stacker. This operation is continued until the bills set in the replenishment unit 73 run out and the end is detected.
On the way, the allowable capacity of any temporary storage unit 50, for example, 20
When the number of sheets reaches zero, the replenishment and collection temporarily stops the operation, releases the temporary holding unit 50 that has reached the holding capacity, and drops and stores the corresponding bill in the lower stacker. Thereafter, the temporary holding section 50 is closed again to restart the replenishment operation.

When the bills set in the replenishing section 73 are exhausted and the end is detected, the separating operation is stopped, and when the last bill reaches the temporary holding section 50, the transporting operation is also stopped. The replenishment bill is taken into the stacker from which all the temporary holds have been released at the same time, and the replenishment operation is completed. In addition, the discrimination unit 1
Banknotes determined to be inappropriate as banknotes withdrawn in 1 are:
It is lowered from the discrimination unit 11 and collected and stored in the reject reject stacker 76 provided at the lowermost part of the replenishment and recovery stacker 70.

If the cassette A becomes full while the banknote is being refilled, a full detector (not shown) detects this and automatically stores the continued banknotes in the stacker B. Switch the transport path. That is, the B stacker functions as a spare stacker that increases the capacity of the A stacker. When it is detected that the B or C stacker is full during replenishment, for example, when the B stacker is full, and when a ten-yen note is discriminated as a subsequent banknote, the transport route is indicated by a broken line < The route is to be collected and collected in the collection unit shown in <br/>, and if the 1,000 yen ticket is identified, the route is to the B stacker. If both the stackers B and C (and naturally A) are full, the operation of the replenishment / recovery separation unit and the transport is stopped, and the replenishment operation is terminated. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device returns a replenishment completion response to the control unit, and adds the counted number of sheets loaded for each denomination as data thereof. Thus, the processing of the replenishment operation is completed.

Next, the loading process will be described. Prior to the start of business, the banker attaches the replenishment and collection stacker, which has set the banknotes to be dealt together, to the banknote depositing / dispensing device, and presses the loading key of the banker's operation unit. Then, a command to start the loading operation is transmitted to the bill receiving / paying device. Upon receipt of the command, the banknote pay-in / pay-out device switches the internal state in the same manner as in the replenishment mode, and performs a loading operation similar to the replenishment operation.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of the transport route during the collection operation. When the clerk presses the collection key of the clerk operation unit, the control unit receives this input and transmits a command for starting the collection operation to the bill receiving / dispensing device. The banknote pay-in / pay-out device that has received the command switches the internal state to the collection mode, and confirms that all the stackers have not detected the end, that is, confirms that the banknotes to be collected are present in any of the denomination stackers. . If all of the money type stackers have detected the end, the response operation is started with the information of inoperability added. Hereinafter, the collecting operation will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the separating mechanism on the A-stacker is operated to feed out the ten thousand notes stored in the A-stacker one by one from the upper side, and send them to the discriminating section 11 through the illustrated route. The banknotes that have passed through the discrimination unit 11 are stored in the collection unit 74 of the replenishment and collection stacker 70. This operation is continued until all the bills are fed out to the B stacker and the C stacker when the bills in the A stacker run out. On the way, when the capacity of the collection unit 74 is reached, for example, when 200 sheets are accumulated, the separation operation is temporarily interrupted, the operation of lifting the banknotes of the collection unit 74 to the replenishment unit 73 is performed, and the collection unit 74 is emptied after separation. Restart transport. During this operation, when it is detected that the replenishment unit 73 is full, the separation operation is stopped and the collection operation is terminated.

The banknote pay-in / pay-out device that has completed the above operation is
A response indicating the end of collection is returned, and the number of cards collected for each denomination is added as the data. In response, the control unit counts and stores the number as the number of collected sheets. Thus, the collection process ends. Each process described above is performed in the following procedure in actual operation.

Prior to the start of work, the replenishment and collection cassette 70
The bills set from the front in a lump are loaded into each denomination stacker by performing a loading process. After entering the business, perform deposit transactions, withdrawal transactions, etc. from time to time,
When each denomination stacker reaches the near end or the end, the banknotes are replenished from the replenishment and collection stacker 70, and the operation is continued. When the replenishment and collection cassette 70 is at the end,
The replenishment / recovery cassette 70 is removed from the apparatus, replenishment bills are set in the replenishment / recovery cassette 70 and mounted on the apparatus, and replenishment processing is performed.

Conversely, when the deposit amount is large and each denomination stacker becomes full, the stacker full is detected, and when the replenishment collection stacker 70 is equipped, the collection process is automatically performed. The transaction can be performed without stopping the apparatus. Also, as you can see from the figure,
The payment transaction (FIG. 11) and the withdrawal transaction (FIG. 12) are structured and routed without using the replenishment and collection cassette 70. Therefore, the attachment / detachment of the replenishment and collection cassette 70 hinders the operation of the customer who makes the transaction. There is also a feature that can be used continuously without any.

[0049]

As described above, according to the paper sheet feeding system of the present invention, the stacked paper sheets are separated and fed.
The feeding roller is a full-roller rubber roller having a high-friction member on the entire circumference, and the driving thereof is directly controlled by ON / OFF information of one sensor passing the preceding paper sheet, and one by one at predetermined intervals. Since the mechanism enables regular feeding, the control information can be detected by only one sensor without requiring a complicated circuit, and the feeding roller can have a small diameter. Therefore, a simple and small pay-out method can be realized, and a small and easy-to-handle banknote pay-in / pay-out device can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an outline of a bill separating mechanism according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a payout control procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a transport state of a bill.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an appearance of the automatic transaction apparatus.

FIG. 5 is an internal configuration diagram of the banknote pay-in / pay-out device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a reception position of a customer service unit.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a separation position of a customer service unit.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a reception position of a customer service unit.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a replenishment operation of the replenishment and recovery stacker.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a collecting operation of the replenishment collecting stacker.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route during a deposit transaction.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route at the time of a withdrawal transaction.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route when a forgotten bill is stored.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route during a replenishment operation.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a transport route during a collecting operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 C Feeding control means F, P Feeding roller G Gate roller R Conveying roller W Bill holder

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sheet stacking section in which sheets are stacked, and a rotational force rotating in a feeding direction of the sheets is externally applied.
When it is applied, it rotates and the externally applied rotational force rotates in the opposite direction.
A feeding roller formed by a high-friction member over the entire circumference to feed out the paper sheets stacked on the paper sheet stacking section without rotating, and a paper sheet fed by the feeding roller. And a feed roller that conveys the sheet along the conveyance path, and a feed roller in the conveyance direction of the sheet from the feed roller .
Installed on a transport path that is longer than the length of paper sheets,
A sensor for detecting the leading edge and the trailing edge in the feeding direction, the rotation of the feed roller stops when the detection of the leading end of the paper sheet by the sensor, the paper sheet to said feed roller
Feed when the sensor detects the trailing edge of the sheet.
A feeding control means for rotating a feed roller to feed out the next paper sheet, and repeating these steps to feed the paper sheet onto a conveying path.