Paper slip storage unit

Details Paper slip storage unit Paper slip storage unit

1996-09-03

1998-06-23

Valenza, Joseph E.

Sheet feeding or delivering

Delivering

With transfer means between conveyor and receiver

271119, 271314, 271220, 271177, 271178, 271198, 271226, 271190, 271191, 271192, B65H 2970

Patent

active

057694125

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates to a paper slip storage unit for aligning and storing a plurality of transported bills.


TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

For example, a conventional paper slip storage unit is described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Sho 62-79143. This storage unit comprises a storage chamber for storing a plurality of bills in a state in which the bills are piled up in a vertical direction so that paper faces of the bills become horizontal, a feed roller and a separation roller which are placed facing each other, a plurality of conveyor belts and a plurality of transport rollers for feeding bills passing through between the rollers into the storage chamber, etc. The storage unit rotates only the feed roller so as to allow bills arriving upstream from the feed and separation rollers to be fed downward and feeds downward only bills coming in contact with the feed roller even when a plurality of bills overlap each other, thereby separating the overlapped bills. It transports the separated bills one by one to the storage chamber on the conveyor belts, etc.
However, after overlapped bills are separated by feed and separation rollers, such a storage unit requires conveyor belts, etc., for feeding the separated bills to the storage chamber; the structure is complicated, costs are increased, and the unit becomes large.
The storage unit piles a plurality of bills in a vertical direction so that paper faces of the bills become horizontal. However, if the paper faces of bills are oriented in the vertical direction and an attempt is made to pile bills in a horizontal direction, gravity does not act in the bill piling direction, and thus the bills cannot be stored in a packed manner.


DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION

It is therefore a first object of the invention to provide a paper slip storage unit having a simple structure and capable of aligning and storing transported bills.
It is a second object of the invention to provide a paper slip storage unit capable of densely storing bills regardless of the paper slip piling orientation.
To accomplish the first object, there is provided a paper slip storage unit comprising: stopper face vertical to a transport direction of the plurality of paper slips, sides of the paper slips taken in through the inlet coming in contact with the face; face near the inlet of the storage chamber; will be hereinafter referred to as the first shaft, and rotating together with the first shaft; hereinafter referred to as the second shaft, and rotating together with the second shaft; and that the paper slips caught in the space between the first and second rotors can be fed in a direction of the stopper face of the storage chamber, characterized in that disposed on the first shaft in position in a direction in which the two shafts extend, and that larger than spacing between the first and second shafts.
In such a paper slip storage unit, when a transported paper slip is caught in the space between the first and second rotors, it is sent through the inlet to the storage chamber. At this time, since the first and second rotors differ in position in the shaft direction, the paper slip between the first and second rotors is bent in a wavy form. Thus, when a plurality of paper slips are transported while they overlap, the intimate contact force between the overlapped bills is lowered significantly and the bills easily slide with respect to each other. Resultantly, for example, if two bills are transported in a slightly shifted relationship in the transport direction, when one of the bills first comes in contact with the stopper face of the storage chamber, the other bill slides in relation to the one bill until it comes in contact with the stopper face of the storage chamber, and the sliding of the other bill from the one bill in the transport direction disappears. Therefore, a plurality of paper slips can be neatly aligned and stored in a simple structure.
To accomplish the second object, there is provided a paper slip storage unit comprising: face vertical to a transport direction of the

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