Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux

Tadashi Hatamachi

Yasuyuki Kodama

Noboru Yamagishi

Yukio Ito

Mitsugu Mikami

Makoto Yamamoto

Yukichi Hayashi

Toshihiko Kasuya

Shigeru Yasuda

Yoshikazu Mori

Yuichi Sakamoto

Tetsuro Kikuchi

Kouji Akiba

A bank-note processing device ( ), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever ( ) that includes, at least, a first lever ( ) turnably supported through a first shaft ( ) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter ( ) of a bank-note guide drum ( ), a first urging device ( ) for constantly urging the first lever ( ) toward a bank-note transfer passage ( ), a first stop ( ) for preventing the first lever ( ) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever ( ) turnably supported on the front end ( ) of the first lever ( ) through a second shaft ( ), a second stop ( ) for preventing the second lever ( ) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging device ( ) for constantly urging the second lever ( ) toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ).

Bank-note processing device

A bank-note processing device ( ), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever ( ) that comprises, at least, a first lever ( ) turnably supported through a first shaft ( ) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter ( ) of a bank-note guide drum ( ), a first urging means ( ) for constantly urging the first lever ( ) toward a bank-note transfer passage ( ), a first stop ( ) for preventing the first lever ( ) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever ( ) turnably supported on the front end ( ) of the first lever ( ) through a second shaft ( ), a second stop ( ) for preventing the second lever ( ) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means ( ) for constantly urging the second lever ( ) toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ).

A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums ( ) is a stacker lever ( ) that presses that portion of the bank-note ( ) inserted in bank-note guide slits ( ) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever ( ) toward a stacker ( ) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute ( ), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.

A unit box ( ) containing a bank-note conveyor belt unit ( ) and a bank-note identifying unit ( ) and not containing a bank-note accommodating unit, is provided in an openable and closable fashion with respect to a body ( ) of a bank-note processing device ( ), so that a conveyor belt ( ) facing the side of a bank-note input opening ( ) is exposed when the unit box ( ) is opened.

A surface of an optical sensor which faces on a paper money transport path is covered by transparent antistatic covers in order to prevent to as great an extent as possible the adhering of dust and dirt to the optical sensor.

Paper money identification device

A sheet material guide (,) for guiding banknotes as a sheet material to a banknote processor used for service machines such as an automatic vending machine, an exchanging machine, pachinko ball dispensing machine and a medal dispensing machine, wherein a banknote conveying path width changing device (,) comprises and arm (,) disposed in the banknote conveying direction and having both ends thereof rotatable supported on the side of an upper chute (,) and a guide rotor (,) rotatably supported at an intermediate portion (,) of the arm (,) in the banknote conveying direction of the arm (,) and having a plurality of sheet plates (,) having mutually different widths and radially disposed in the banknote conveying direction, and when one of the sheet plates (,) of the guide rotor (,) is disposed between the upper and lower chutes (,), the side (,) of the sheet plate (,) defines the side surface of a banknote conveying path (,), thereby changing the width of the banknote conveying path in multiple stages by a simply operation.

Sheet material guide

Stacker (,) of the paper money processing device (,) is provided with L-shaped levers (,) whose front end (,) is formed to be orientated upward and which rotatably support auxiliary rollers (,) at the front end (,), and a thrusting member (,) which thrusts the L-shaped levers (,) toward a paper money carrier belt (,) of the device main body (,) constantly. The stacker (,) is constructed in such a way that, when it is mounted in the device main body (,), a paper money inserted is held and carried between the auxiliary rollers (,) and the paper money carrier belt (,) by the thrusting force of the thrusting member (,), and when the stacker (,) is removed from the device main body (,), a paper money housed within the stacker (,) is prevented from falling down from the stacker (,) by the L-shaped levers (,).

Paper money processing device

A bill processor having pivotally supported parts for easy maintenance. The bill processor includes a machine body, a bill conveyer disposed in the body for conveying a bill along a bill passage, and a front mask having a bill insertion port and disposed on the front of the body. The bill processor also has a bill identification device disposed on the bill passage for determining the genuineness of the inserted bills, as well as a bill stacker. In one bill processor, the conveyer is supported via a shaft to be freely pivotable toward the front of the machine body, and a front mask is supported to be freely pivotable with respect to the machine body. In another bill processor, a support structure is provided for supporting the machine body including the conveyer and the bill stacker so the machine body is freely pivotably supported with respect to the front mask and freely detachably engaged to the front mask. A pivot stopper structure is provided and includes a pivot guiding groove formed on the front mask and a shaft protruding from the machine body and inserted in the pivot guiding groove for adjusting a pivot angle of the machine body with respect to the front mask, and a notch on the front mask for guiding the shaft into the pivot guiding groove.

Bill processor

If the number of returned bills is two or more, the returned bills are identified as abnormally returned bills by an abnormally returned bill detecter, and predetermined abnormal-state processing is accomplished by performing control operations using an abnormality processor. If a bill has jammed in the bill conveying channel, information concerning the direction in which the bill has jammed is stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit of the control unit, and, as a result of control operations performed by the bill reverse-direction conveyance control unit of the control unit, the bill is conveyed in the direction opposite to the bill jamming direction stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit when the bill jammed in the bill conveying channel is to be removed. A shutter that opens and closes the bill conveying channel is also installed and the shutter is driven via a gear transmission comprising a worm gear that develops considerable frictional force between the engaged gears and has a high reduction rate as viewed from the motor side, and a worm wheel that engages the worm gear.

Bill processing device

A bill processor for use in a bill handling machine comprises a first bill transport passage for guiding a bill inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of bills stacked in a stacker toward substantially middle of interior of the main body of the bill handling machine, and a second bill transport passage for guiding the bill from the termination end of the first bill transport passage along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, wherein the first bill transport passage is formed in a meandering form along the longitudinal direction of the stacked bills, whereby the depth of the bill processor can be made small.

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Sakado, Japan

Tadashi Hatamachi