Sheet feeding or delivering – Delivering – To receiver for pack of sheets
Reexamination Certificate
2001-11-20
2004-02-24
Walsh, Donald P. (Department: 3653)
Sheet feeding or delivering
Delivering
To receiver for pack of sheets
C271S164000, C271S306000, C271S198000, C902S009000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06695307
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a bill handling machine that handles various bills, more particularly a bill handling machine that can protect bills and components therein from damage. Remaining bills, as well as guides that are structural components of a transfer path connecting means of the machine are protected from damages when a unit that includes one of divided transfer means is pulled out from the machine.
In any of conventional bill handling machines, for example, in an automatic cash handling machine, bills have had to be stacked in such a reinforced structure cabinet as a safe so as to be protected from robberies and other crimes. As one of such general crime-preventive measure, all of the bill handling mechanisms including the bill stackers, as well as depositing and withdrawing processors of bills are installed in a safe, so that customers are required to deposit and withdraw bills through an aperture of the safe.
On the other hand, there is also another means that divides a bill handling machine into a bill processor block and a bill stacker block so that the bill stacker block is installed in a protective cabinet. For example, the JP-A-2000-172946 discloses an example that a bill depositing/withdrawing machine is divided into upper and lower units so that the lower unit is installed in a cassette cabinet so as to improve the security of the bill stackers therein.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
However, in the case where a bill handling machine is provided with transfer path connecting means enabled to dispose divided bill handling mechanisms inside and outside a protective cabinet and connect the divided transfer means to each other, bills remain around the transfer path connecting means sometimes. In such a case, the remaining bills or a bill guide, which is a part of the transfer path connecting means, is often damaged when the unit that includes one of the divided bill transfer means is pulled out from the machine so as to remove any jammed bill.
Under such circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide a bill handling machine that can protect bills and/or the bill guides that are structural components of the transfer path connecting means from damages when the unit that includes one of the divided transfer means is pulled out from the machine.
In order to attain the above object, the bill handling machine of the present invention includes bill transfer means that is divided into two units so that one of the divided units is provided inside a protective cabinet (safe cabinet) and the other is provided outside the protective cabinet; and transfer path connecting means provided between those divided bill transfer means, so that the unit that includes one of the bill transfer means is pulled out vertically to the direction in which bills are transferred. The transfer path connecting means is provided with a pair of guides that can be opened and closed respectively. And, the unit to be pulled out is provided with a first projection and the other guide is provided with a second projection, which is located at a position where one guide comes in contact with the first projection of the other guide that is pressed so as to open by a spring or the like. When the unit is pulled out/inserted from/into the machine, the first projection limits the position of the second projection, thereby allowing the opening/closing of the guide to be controlled.
Because the guide is pressed by a spring or the like so as to open and the guide is limited in position such way, opening/closing of the guide is controlled. The pair of guides, when connected to each other via a gear, can also be controlled so as to open/close together.
In addition, according to whether the unit is pulled out to the front or the rear of the machine, it is possible to change the position where the first projection is to be provided and one of the second projections provided at the pair of guides in the transfer path connecting means and used at that time. Consequently, the pair of guides can be opened/closed properly.
Because the machine is composed in such way, it is possible to prevent bills remaining around the transfer path connecting means and the opening/closing guides from damages.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4549661 (1985-10-01), Morishita et al.
patent: 5326092 (1994-07-01), Ando
patent: 6123327 (2000-09-01), Holland-Letz et al.
patent: 2000-172946 (2000-06-01), None
Hitachi , Ltd.
Joerger Kaitlin
McDermott & Will & Emery
Walsh Donald P.
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