Sheet feeding or delivering – Delivering – With transfer means between conveyor and receiver
Patent
1994-05-09
1996-03-26
Bollinger, David H.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Delivering
With transfer means between conveyor and receiver
271198, 271272, 271275, B65H 2970
Patent
active
055014461
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a paper strip transporting apparatus and in particular to a paper strip transporting apparatus using a belt.
BACKGROUND OF THE RELATED TECHNOLOGY
In an apparatus or facility which processes paper strips, in particular an apparatus into which bills or bank notes are inserted as payment, such as automatic lending machines, it is necessary to collect bank notes. For example, a number of game media lending machines for lending game media used for playing games are installed in game parlors. Collecting of bank notes which have been inserted into the game media lending machines is carried out. There are problems in that collecting of bank notes from lending machines is troublesome and accidental loss and/or stealing of bank notes is liable to occur. Therefore, a transporting apparatus which accepts the inserted bank notes and transports them to a destination such as cash box is required for several game media lending machines.
For example, in game parlors, a plurality of game machines and a plurality of game media lending machines are arranged into one group. A plurality of the groups are arranged into an island. For each group, there is provided a transporting apparatus for collecting the bank notes inserted into a plurality of game media lending machines to one position.
Such type of paper strip transporting apparatus including drive and driven pulleys and a belt arranged between and around the pulleys have been heretofore used. A plurality of transporting rollers are disposed along the belt and between the drive and driven pulleys. This causes the bank notes to be sandwiched between the rollers and the belt and to be transported together with the belt by the frictional force thereof. The transporting rollers are disposed in pressure contact with the belt for bringing the paper strip into pressure contact with the belt.
The transporting rollers are constantly in pressure contact with the belt in the conventional transporting apparatus. Accordingly, the transporting rollers are constantly driven to rotate by the belt independently of presence or absence of the bank note. Therefore, there is a problem that the belt is liable to break due to wear of the portion which is in contact with the transporting rollers. In other words, there is a problem in that the durability of the belt is low. The transporting rollers have a similar problem of wear.
Noise which is generated due to continuous rotation of all transporting rollers is not negligible.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is a principal object of the present invention to provide a paper strip transporting apparatus which is capable of transporting paper strips without bringing transporting rollers into contact with a belt and is capable of preventing wear of the belt and the transporting rollers due to mutual contact therebetween and in which their durability is enhanced.
It is a second object of the present invention to provide a paper strip transporting apparatus in which transporting rollers are rotated only when a bank note exists for preventing unnecessary rotation of the transporting rollers to enhance the durability of the transporting rollers and to reduce noise which is otherwise generated due to the rotation of the rollers.
In order to accomplish the above-mentioned object, in one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a paper strip transporting apparatus comprising drive and driven pulleys which are separated from each other; a belt which is disposed between and around said pulleys; a plurality of transporting rollers disposed along the belt between the drive and driven pulleys; and a drive unit for driving the drive pulley, either one of the transporting rollers and the belt having a convex portion and the other having a concave portion corresponding thereto at the facing areas thereof, the transporting rollers being disposed with respect to the belt so that the convex portion is positioned within the concave portion in a non contact relationship with each other.
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REFERENCES:
patent: 4744555 (1988-05-01), Naramore et al.
"Simplified O-Ring Document Transport", L. M. McDaniels, IBM Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 17 No. 12, May 1975, p. 3507.
Kadomatsu Hideyuki
Sasaki Etsuro
Takemoto Takatoshi
Tsubota Koichi
Bollinger David H.
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
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