Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting paper money
Patent
1997-10-21
2000-01-11
Nguyen, Tuan N.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting paper money
209656, 209900, 271225, B07C 500
Patent
active
060125896
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to an arrangement for separating and sorting bank notes, including a feeder shaft and a transporting means for separated bank notes. A number of mechanic devices in which bank notes are withdrawn from different stacks while applying a suction pressure and are deposited in a common dispensing unit have already been proposed for delivering different bank notes. Usually, pivotable flaps are used for separating, appropriately diverting the flow of bank notes to be separated.
From U.S. Pat. No. 5,258,045 an arrangement for sorting sheets is known, in which a sheet reaches a pair of pressing rollers via a feeding shaft. The rollers are arranged in a manner that the line connecting their axes of rotation is inclined with respect to a line which is perpendicular to the sheet feeding shaft. The pressing rollers are reversibly drivable, thereby enabling sorting by means of a preceding identification device on account of the different sense of rotation. During further transport, that arrangement requires the reversal of the moving direction and hence a high mechanical stress to be exerted on the article to be sorted.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention aims at providing an arrangement of the initially defined kind, which can be constructed in a particularly flat manner thus offering the opportunity of being placed, even by way of addition, on suitable drawers intended to receive different adjacently arranged bank notes. Above all, the configuration according to the invention, despite its extremely flat mode of construction, is to offer the possibility of ensuring the safe storage in at least one intermediate storage, which itself may be designed in the form of a drawer, in a quick and reliable manner also in cooperation with a bank note authentication and identification means such that subsequent manual counting of the notes intermediately received in the intermediate storage will still be feasible it a depositor objects to the counted and sorted amount as being incorrect. To solve this object, the arrangement according to the invention, of the initially defined kind substantially consists in that the transporting means is comprised of parallel recirculating continuous conveyor belts, that one of the two continuous conveyor belts is returned via a deflection or guide pulley, that the upper continuous conveyor belt, which is kept running, is guided in an upward excursion from a substantially horizontal running direction, that a reversibly drivable sorting roller is arranged in the transport path of the bank notes in the vicinity of the deflection or guide pulley for the returned continuous conveyor belt, viewed in the transport direction, which reversibly drivable sorting roller continues to convey the bank notes as the upper continuous conveyor belt is driven in the transport direction and causes the bank notes to be diverted and introduced into a shaft or bin provided below the path of movement of the upper continuous conveyor belt as it is driven in opposite direction, and that at least two reversibly drivable sorting rollers are arranged in the transport direction of the upper continuous conveyor belt. By the fact that the transporting means is comprised of parallel recirculating continuous conveyor belts, the stack of notes can be inserted in a receiving hopper and, upon deflection, is directed from the receiving hopper into a substantially horizontal path. In this transport path, the separated notes already are disposed one after the other in the running direction and may be identified and authenticated on a suitable point. By the fact that one of the two continuous conveyor belts is returned via a deflection or guide pulley and the upper continuous conveyor belt, which is kept running, is guided in an upward excursion from a substantially horizontal running direction, the respective bank note transported to that point is further conveyed in a substantially horizontal running direction, getting onto the upper surface of a consecutively arranged sorting roller. By the fact
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AS Beteiligungs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Nguyen Tuan N.
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