CA1199891A - Apparatus for sorting and counting the number of the banknotes - Google Patents

Apparatus for sorting and counting the number of the banknotes

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CA1199891A
CA1199891A CA000418090A CA418090A CA1199891A CA 1199891 A CA1199891 A CA 1199891A CA 000418090 A CA000418090 A CA 000418090A CA 418090 A CA418090 A CA 418090A CA 1199891 A CA1199891 A CA 1199891A
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Yoshihiro Koshio
Tadao Kato
Hikaru Kawano
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Hitachi High Tech Electronics Engineering Co Ltd
Musashi Co Ltd
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Musashi Co Ltd
Hitachi Electronics Engineering Co Ltd
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/58Article switches or diverters
    • B65H29/60Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
    • GPHYSICS
    • G06COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06MCOUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06M7/00Counting of objects carried by a conveyor
    • G06M7/02Counting of objects carried by a conveyor wherein objects ahead of the sensing element are separated to produce a distinct gap between successive objects
    • G06M7/06Counting of flat articles, e.g. of sheets of paper
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/38Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/40Members rotated about an axis perpendicular to direction of article movement, e.g. star-wheels formed by S-shaped members
    • GPHYSICS
    • G07CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07DHANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D11/00Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
    • G07D11/50Sorting or counting valuable papers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/20Belts
    • B65H2404/26Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/261Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/60Other elements in face contact with handled material
    • B65H2404/65Other elements in face contact with handled material rotating around an axis parallel to face of material and perpendicular to transport direction, e.g. star wheel
    • B65H2404/659Other elements in face contact with handled material rotating around an axis parallel to face of material and perpendicular to transport direction, e.g. star wheel particular arrangement
    • B65H2404/6591Pair of opposite elements rotating around parallel axis, synchronously in opposite direction
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1912Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A paper currency sorting and counting apparatus comprises a first separating unit adapted for separating damaged notes and sound notes supplied through a judgement unit designed to judge the authenticity as well as damaged state of supplied banknotes of various nominal values, a stacker for stacking reject notes, a second separating unit for sensing the front and reverse sides of the normal notes and controlling the route of these normal banknotes, and a stacker for normal notes having a pair of vane wheels for stacking the normal banknotes in order to provide for automatic sorting of the supplied banknotes.

Description

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This invention relates to a novel construc-tion of an appara-tus for sorting and counting banknotes.
So far, the operation of sor-ting and coun-ting banknotes according to different denomina-tions, placing them in -the same direction, and rejecting damaged no-tes has required a manual operation and hence considerable time and cost.
An object of the present invention is -to provi.de an apparatus for sorting and coun-ting bankno-tes which alleviates the above drawbacks.
~ccording to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for sorting and counting -the number of banknotes of a varie-ty of denominations comprising: a hopper for stacking the banknotes; a feed-out unit for taking out the banknotes one by one from said hopper; a judgement unit determining the denomina-tion, reading out the damaged sta-te, and judging the authen-ticity of the ban]snotes coming in from said feed-out unit; a first branch unit for selecting the rou-te to be followed by the banknotes from said judgement unit according to the signals from said judgement unit; a reject note stacker having a first vane wheel and adapted for stacking reject banknotes supplied through a route specified by said firs-t branch unit; a front-reverse ~ side checker for senslng the front and L~V~rSe sides of the : banknotes supplied through a route specified by said first branch unit; a second branch unit for selecting the routes for the normal banknotes which have passed through said checker on the basis of slgnals from said front-reverse side checker; and a norma] banknote stacker having a pair of vane wheels provided in the route of accepted or normal banknotes tha-t have passed ~` through said Eront-reverse side checker, said vane wheels rota-ting in mutually opposite direc-tions for stacking the notes from said second branch uni-t with their front or reverse sides facing in the same direction.

In a preferred embodiment, the sorting and counting apparatus computes and prints out -the sum of the values of the banknotes.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
This invention will become more readily apparent from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof shown, by way of an example only, in -the acccompanying drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 illustrates the sorting and coun-ting apparatus in perspective; and Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view showing the inside structure of the.sorting and counting apparatus illustrated in Fig. 1.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Fig. 1 illustrates a sorting and counting apparatus for banknotes according to the present invention. A hopper
2 for receiving banknotes of a variety of denominations is provided to the front side of a main casing"member 1, and a stacker 3 for re~ected banknotes is pr'ovlded a-t the`~back of the hopper 2.
A display/operating panel 4 having an operating panel and a printer 5 are also provided to the upper surface of the main casing member 1 for indicating and printing out sum totals or subtotals according to respective :
enominations. A stacker 7 for normal or accepted banknotes is provided to a stepped part 6 of the main casing member 1.
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~ Elig. 2 illustrates the inside s-tructure of the ,' ~ sorting and counting device for bank,notes shown in Fig. 1.

;~ ~ The banknotes 8 having a variety of denomina-tions s-tacked m the hopper 2 are fed out one by one by a feed-in roll 9 provided to the lower part ofthe hopper 2 and a feed-out roll 10 spaced apart a suitable distance from the feed-in roll 9.
The feed-in roll 9 and the feed-out roll 10 make up a feed-out unit 11. Since the feed-out roll 10 has a peripheral length larger than the length of -the short side of the banknote 8, the latter may be fed out with fixed intervals ~rom one another upon continued rotation of the feed-out roll 10.
The banknotes 8 fed out from the uni~ 11 are supplied to a first transfer unit 15 having a judc3ement unit 12 known per se and a pair of supply belts ~3, 14.
The unit 12 gives judgement as to the denominations, whether the note is authentic or false, and whether the banknote is in the damaged state or in the sound state.
Various output signals from the judgement unit 12 are supplied to a control unit 33. The banknotes 8 supplied from the first transfer unit 15 are further transferred to the subsequent step by a second transfer unit comprising a pair of supply belts 16, 17 and a third transfer unit 21 aomprlslng a pair of suppl~ belts 19, 20. ~ first branch uni~t comprislng at least one first branch guide 22 is mounted below the supply belt 19 of the third -transfer unit 21 and adapted to rotate between the solid-line and chain dotted line positions in Fig. 2 upon energi~ation of a solenoid, not shown~ This first branch guide 22 is normally positioned as indicated by -the solid line in Fig. 1. However, when the unit 12 has issued a reject signal, khat is, the signal indicating damaged or false banknotes, the branch guide 12 is turned to the chain-dotted 8~

line position owing to the solenoid energization so that only rejected banknotes 8 supplied from the feed-in unit 11 and the first transfer unit 15 is transferred to the reject note stacker 3 through the guide plate 23 and a vane wheel 24 which is known per se.
The normal banknotes not branched by the first branch unit 22 are supplied to the third transfer unit 21 and checked as to the front and reverse sides by a front-reverse side checker 25 which is also known per se. Output signals from this checker 25 are supplied through the control unit 33 to a solenoid, not shown, which is associated with a second branch unit comprized of at least one second branch guide-26 coaxially mounted in turn to a feed roll 20a of the feed belt 20. The second branch guide 26 is turned in the direction of the arrow mark B or A depending on whether the banknotes 8 have been supplied through the third transfer unit 21 with their front sides facing upwards or downwards, respectively. Thus, in the event of the normal banknotes being supplied with the front sides ~acing upwards, the second branch guide 26 is brought to the position indicated by the arrow mark B and the banknotes 8 are stacked in a normal banknote stacker 7 through a lower feed roll 27, guide plate 28 and a vane 29 associated with the stacker 7. In the event of the normal banknotes 8 being supplied with their reverse sides facing upwards, the second branch guide 26 is brought to the position indicated by the arrow mark A and the banknotes 8 are supplied through an upper supply roll 30, a guide plate 31 and a vane wheel 32 mounted on top of said normal note g~

s-tacker 7, said vane wheel 32 having implanted vanes extending in the reverse direction to that of the vanes of the vane wheel 29 and also rotating in the reverse direction to that of the vane wheel 29. The banknotes thus transferred are ultimately stacked in the normal note stacker ~ through the end o~ the guide plate 31 with their front sides facing in the proceeding direction.
In the operation of the banknote sorting an~
counting device, the banknotes of differen-t denominations are supplied to the stacker 2, and the display/operating panel 4 is operated to specify a desired one of the counting mode (the mode of indicating and printing a sum-total and sub-totals according to the different face values o~ the charged banknotes), specified mode (the mode of taking out only banknotes of a specified nominal value from the charged banknotes of different nominal values, counting their number and placing them with their forward or re~erse sides ~acing in the unified directions) and damaged reject mode (the mode of sorting into damaged and sound banknotes, counting the number of the sound banknotes and placing -them with their front and reverse sides in the .
;~ unified directions. ~he unit 12 gives a judgemen-t as to whether the banknote 8 is authentic, and-the notes judged ~ ~ to be authentic are supplied to the third transfer unit 21, ;~ whereas reject banknotes such as damaged notes are stacked in the reject note stacker 3 through the second transfer unit 18 and the vane wheel 24 by opera-tion of the first branch unit 22.

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~ he normal banknotes supplied to the third transfer unit 21 through the first branch unit 22 arrive at the second branch guide 26 where the banknotes having their front sides facing upwards are supplied through the lower feed roll 27 and the vane wheel 29 to be s-tacked in the normal note stacker 7, while the banknotes having -their reverse sides facing upwards are supplied through the upper feed roll 30 and the vane wheel 32 through the lower surface of the yuide plate 31 and stacked in the normal banknote stacker 7 in the same status as the notes supplied through the lower roll 27. Therefore, the notes are stacked in the stacker 7 with their front or reverse sides faciny in -the same direction.
The status of the normal banknotes stacked in the normal note stacker 7 is displayed on the panel 4 and printed out in the printer 5 depending on which mode has been designated on the display/operating panel 4.
In -the banknote sorting and counting apparatus, described and i~lustrdted hereinabove, the banknotes of a varlety of denominations .can be checked as to their authenticity and number and as to whether the banknotes are being transferred ; with their right sides upwards -the normal banknotes can be placed in the stacker in aligned state and with their front sides in the same direction. Therefore, the apparatus is extremely useful for promo-ting the money receiving opera-tion in the ~ank and capable of reducing the time necessary for sorting and/or coun-ting the number of the banknotes of different denomina-tions.

Claims (4)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. An apparatus for sorting and counting the number of banknotes of a variety of denominations comprising: a hopper for stacking the banknotes; a feed-out unit for taking out the banknotes one by one from said hopper; a judgement unit deter-mining the denomination, reading out the damaged state, and judging the authenticity of the banknotes coming in from said feed-out unit; a first branch unit for selecting the route to be followed by the banknotes from said judgement unit according to the signals from said judgement unit; a reject note stacker having a first vane wheel and adapted for stacking reject bank-notes supplied through a route specified by said first branch unit; a front-reverse side checker for sensing the front and reverse sides of the banknotes supplied, through a route specified by said first branch unit; a second branch unit for selecting the routes for the normal banknotes which have passed through said checker on the basis of signals from said front-reverse side checker; and a normal banknote stacker having a pair of vane wheels provided in the route of accepted or normal bank-notes that have passed through said front-reverse side checker, said vane wheels rotating in mutually opposite directions for stacking the notes from said second branch unit with their front or reverse sides facing in the same direction.
2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a display unit adapted for indicating the sum or the like of the paper currency stacked in said normal note stacker and a printer for printing out the sums or the like indicated in the display unit.
3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said first branch unit comprises at least one guide member rotating between a reject note route side and a normal note route side based on signals received from said judgement unit.
4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said second branch unit comprises at least one guide member rotating between a front side note route side and a reverse side note route side based on signals received from said front-reverse side checker.
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