Dispensing hopper construction for bank note processing machine

Details Dispensing hopper construction for bank note processing machine Dispensing hopper construction for bank note processing machine

1996-08-26

1998-05-26

Merritt, Karen B.

Sheet feeding or delivering

Delivering to stack and feeding therefrom

Feeding from bottom of stack

271113, 271126, B65H 522

Patent

active

057554340

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates to the structure of a dispensing hopper for a bank note processing machine, for example, a bank note changing machine, which is able to let out the stored bank note one-by-one to a dispensing side while storing the note.


BACKGROUND ART

There is a prior money processing machine which can apply bank notes one-by-one from a bank note transferring section to a dispensing hopper which is able to let out the stored notes one-by-one from the lowest note to the dispensing side. As shown in Japanese Patent Publication No. 4-4636, it is well known to the person skilled in the art to store bank notes, coming from a bank note transferring section, in a bank note storage section by catching them with guide boards mounted on an upper portion and a lower portion of the bank note storage section, and to transfer the notes between the guide boards one-by-one to the dispensing side after lowering the guide boards. And it is well known to dispense the bank notes stored in the bank note storage section by letting out the notes to the dispensing side with a letting-out roller under the bank note storage section and two note feeding rollers arranged in the dispensing side of the bank note storage section.
In such construction, however, it is impossible for the dispensing hopper to receive the bank notes from the bank note transferring section while the bank note is dispensing in the dispensing side. Furthermore, since the bank note storing capacity of the dispensing hopper is limited, the efficiency of processing the bank notes at the dispensing hopper is low. When the lowest bank note in the bank note storage section is let out by the letting-out roller, a next note will be let out immediately by the roller after the lowest note becomes out of contact with the roller; therefore, often two sheets of bank notes are let out, or many notes are let out in succession, and so the bank note processing machine makes it impossible to count the notes correctly and to dispense the notes.


DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

To solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a structure of a dispensing hopper for a bank note processing machine which is devised for storing the bank notes efficiently in a bank note storage section and dispensing the notes stably and correctly to the dispensing side. The present invention has an introducing means which can support the edge of the underside of the bank note and a pressing plate which can force down the note. The introducing means is movable in a vertical direction above a dispensing hopper, and one end of the introducing means communicates with an outlet of a bank note transferring section. The pressing plate can move vertically within the introducing means and can be forced down. The vertical movement of the plate is done by a motor located above the introducing means. The outlet of the bank note transferring section can move vertically according to the vertical movement of the introducing means. A unit, equipped with the introducing means, and so forth, moves vertically, and the bank note storing capacity of a dispensing hopper is detectable by detecting the vertical movement of the unit with sensors. Alternatively, the unit may be only lifted and it may be placed on the bank notes in the dispensing hopper as a weight.
Furthermore, the present invention has a letting-out roller, positioned under a bottom of a dispensing hopper, whose upper portion projects above the bottom, and two rollers positioned in a vertical plane adjacent the dispensing side end of the hopper. The present invention also has stoppers, located near said letting-out roller, whose upper portions can be moved between one position above the upper portion of the letting-out roller and another position under the upper portion thereof. The upper portion of the stopper is formed as a circular arc similar to the upper portion of the letting-out roller. The stoppers are located on both sides of the letting-out roller to be able to contact with the surface of the bank note. T

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