Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.

Koichi Goi

Junichi Arikawa

Hiroshi Chiba

Eiichi Kokubo

Hideyuki Ebihara

A device for carrying bank notes stacked in each of the container boxes to be inserted in an automatic money depositing and disbursing machine. The device carries the bank note stack while controlling the upper surface thereof at a pre-set level to render the related money stacking or dispensing means to gain access to the bank notes, when the device is inserted in position in the automatic money depositing and disbursing machine. On the other hand, when each box is removed from the machine, stacked bank notes are securely held in the box while being compressed by the pressing plate. The device provided by the invention comprises a box for containing therein bank notes and having an upper opening through which bank notes are stacked and dispensed, a pressing plate for carrying thereon the bank notes contained in the box to move them in the upward and downward directions and mounted in the box, a link shaft mounted to the box to be moved inboard or outboard relative to the longitudinal axis of the box and operatively connected to the pressing plate to move the same in said upward and downward directions, and means for locking the link shaft to prevent it from moving when the link shaft is moved inward of the box.

Device for carrying bank notes stacked in container box adapted for use

The present invention includes a device for opening and closing a bank note container box. The device includes a push cover hinged in the vicinity of the upper covering of the box to open and close the box. The push cover is closed to push the aft end of the uppermost banknote to ensure reliable separation during the operation of pulling a bank note out of the box. The device further includes a swingable lock member to engage and hold the push cover in a normally closed condition. A swingable unlocking member swings the lock member to release the push cover during the operation of stacking bank notes in the box. An opening arm operates the unlocking member to release the push cover from the locked condition. The push cover is guided between the open and closed positions.

Device for opening and closing push cover of note container box for use

A device for locking a front cover attached to a bank note container box to cover the opening of the box. The device securely locks the front cover in the closed condition when the box is removed from the automatic money depositing and disbursing machine, and releases the front cover automatically when the box is held in position within the machine. The device comprises, in combination, an opening and closing cam and an unlock cam mounted to the machine body, and a lock member and a first unlock lever mounted to the side plate of the box. When the box initially inserted in the machine body is moved to be pulled out, the unlock lever is raised by the unlock cam so that the lock member releases the front cover from the locked condition in which it is locked in the open position. Thereafter the front cover is slowly closed by the action of the opening and closing cam. Then the lock member is moved by the action of a biasing spring to the position for locking the front cover. In a further preferred embodiment, double lock means are provided for safe carriage of the box by hand. The double lock means comprises a further lock lever and an unlock member operatively associated with said first unlock lever.

Device for locking front cover of bank note container box for use in

A device for swinging a plurality of accumulating wheels is proposed. By the use of the device of the invention, the accumulating wheels are swung forcibly and simultaneously to the upper retracted positions and swung independently to the lower accumulation positions. The device comprises a stopper integrally mounted on an accumulating wheel oscillating shaft and being biased by a spring to move each of the accumulating wheels normally and independently to the lower accumulating position, a swinging lug swingably mounted on the accumulating wheel oscillating shaft and adapted to be engaged with said stopper to swing the same in the direction so that the accumulating wheel is forcibly moved to the upper retracted position, and a link bar operatively connected to said swinging lug to swing the same between the angular positions for setting the accumulating wheel at the lower accumulating position and for setting the accumulating wheel at the upper retracted position.

Device for swinging accumulating wheel for use in automatic money

The present invention provides a device for securely holding stacked bank notes in a bank note stacker box. The device is to be assembled in an automatic money depositing and disbursing machine, and comprises a combination of a stopper and a push cover having an operation plate fitted with a frictional member. The stopper is swingably supported by the box to be held normally at the position to constrain the fore edges of the stacked bank notes, to be swung to the position to release the fore edges of the bank notes at the commencement of the operation of sucking and pulling out the notes from the box, to be restored to the normal constraining position to prevent the remaining notes from being pulled out of the box at the termination of the operation of sucking and pulling out the notes, and to be held at a position to scrape off the bank notes conveyed by and accumulating wheel while being inserted below respective paddles of the accumulating wheel to let them fall down into the box during the operation of accumulating and stacking bank notes into the box. The push cover has the operation plate adapted to be set to the closed position to push the aft end portion of the stacked notes during the operation of sucking and pulling out the notes from the box to ensure separation of the sucked uppermost note by the action of the fitted frictional member, and adapted to be set to the open position during the operation of accumulating and stacking bank notes. Further proposed is a front cover which is co-operatively associated with the stopper such that it locks the fore end portion of the stopper to prevent the same from opening when the box is disassembled from the machine body of the automatic money depositing and disbursing machine.

Device for securely holding stacked bank notes for use in an automatic

There is provided a device for enabling an operator to perform the inserting and/or removing operations of the bank note stacker boxes promptly and reliably by a simplified operation. The device comprises, in combination, a machine body of an automatic money depositing and disbursing machine and a slidingly movable frame adapted to be pushed in and pulled out of the machine body, wherein the machine body including a positioning block for positioning the slidingly movable frame pushed therein at a pre-set location, and a limit release lug, and wherein the slidingly movable frame including a stacker box support frame for supporting one or more stacker boxes to be swung between the upper and lower positions, a movement limit shaft biased by a spring to be held normally at a retracted position and released from the biasing action of the spring to project to be engaged by the positioning block when the stacker support frame is swung to the upper position, and a swinging limit plate for abutting against the limit release lug of the machine body to render the stacker support frame swingable upward when the slidably movable frame is pushed to a position approximate to the pre-set location.

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Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Goi