WO2004001686A2

WO2004001686A2 - Banknote processing machine with a device for accepting banknotes

Info

Publication number: WO2004001686A2
Application number: PCT/EP2003/006586
Authority: WO
Inventors: Markus Sperl
Original assignee: Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh
Priority date: 2002-06-24
Filing date: 2003-06-23
Publication date: 2003-12-31
Also published as: WO2004001686A3; CN1689051A; DE50305436D1; AU2003249862A1; CN100580719C; EP1532590B1; EP1532590A2; RU2005101743A; RU2314246C2; AU2003249862A8; DE10228101A1; ATE343186T1

Abstract

The invention relates to a banknote processing machine with a device for accepting banknotes. A banknote processing machine with a device for accepting banknotes comprises external walls which form an inner surface and moving inner walls for adjustment of the size of a tray surface for the banknotes to be accepted and an adjustment device, which adjusts the movable inner walls during and/or after the insertion of the device for the acceptance of banknotes such that a pre-determined size for the tray surface results.

Description

Banknote processing machine with a device for accepting banknotes

The present invention relates to a banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes.

Banknote processing machines with a device for receiving banknotes are known. Such devices are generally referred to as cassettes. The known cassettes have a housing, the walls of which are arranged in accordance with the size of the banknotes to be accommodated. As a result, the cassette has an inner surface which defines a storage surface which corresponds approximately to the size of the banknotes to be accommodated. Usually, a position-adjustable bottom is also arranged inside the cassette, on which the banknotes to be recorded are placed. Using suitable means, e.g. B. a motor, threaded rods etc., which can be part or all of the component of the cassette, the position of the bottom can be adjusted, the adjustment being carried out depending on the amount of banknotes already accommodated in the cassette. This ensures that the banknote to be picked up next is deposited more or less directly on the floor or the banknotes already picked up.

Problems may arise in the event that it is required to store different types of banknotes in a cassette. The problems result from the different sizes of the banknotes. In this case, the cassette must have at least one inner surface which results from the maximum dimensions of the short and long sides of the banknotes to be received. If banknotes of different formats are to be accommodated in the cassette at the same time, the size of the storage surface must be adapted to the largest banknote. If, on the other hand, only banknotes of the same size are to be accommodated in the cassette, the size of the storage area can be adapted to the size of these banknotes, as a result of which a better quality in the stacking of the banknotes is achieved. For this purpose, cassettes have become known which, in addition to outer walls, have at least two inner walls which can be used to adapt the size of the inner surface of the cassette to the size of the banknotes to be received.

However, the known cassettes have the problem that the adjustment of the size of the inner surface has to be carried out by hand outside the bank note processing machine and is usually very imprecise, since the adjustable inner walls have to be adjusted exactly to the desired bank note size. In addition, manual adjustment of the inner walls is cumbersome and difficult, especially with larger cassettes.

The object of the present invention is therefore to provide a banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes which can be easily and precisely adjusted to the size of banknotes to be accepted.

This object is achieved by the features of claim 1.

The invention is based on the consideration that a banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes, with outer walls that form an inner surface, and movable inner ones Walls, for adjusting the size of a storage area for the banknotes to be accommodated, has an adjusting device which adjusts the movable inner walls during and / or after the insertion of the device for accommodating banknotes in such a way that a predeterminable size for the storage area results.

The advantage of the invention can be seen in particular in the fact that it is ensured in this way that the storage surface required for storing the banknotes to be accommodated in the device is always set exactly to the required size. The setting is done by the egg adjusting device, so that cumbersome and imprecise settings are made by hand.

Further advantages of the present invention result from the dependent claims and the following description of embodiments using figures.

It shows:

FIG. 1 shows an overall view of a basic structure of a device for receiving banknotes,

FIG. 2 shows a first element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device for receiving banknotes,

FIG. 3 shows a second element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device for receiving banknotes, FIG. 4 shows a first embodiment of a third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device for receiving banknotes at a first point in time,

5 shows the third element for the size adjustment according to FIG. 4 at a second point in time,

6 shows the third element for the size adjustment according to FIG. 4 at a third point in time,

7 shows the third element for the size adjustment according to FIG. 4 at a fourth point in time,

FIG. 8 shows a second embodiment of a third element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device for receiving banknotes, and

Figure 9 shows a third embodiment of a third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device for receiving banknotes.

FIG. 1 shows an overall view of a basic structure of a device for receiving banknotes.

The device 10 for receiving banknotes consists of a container or a cassette and is formed by outer walls. In order to enable better handling of the device 10 for receiving banknotes, handles 15 can be attached to the device 10 for receiving banknotes. Thereby the introduction of the device device 10 in an associated banknote processing machine facilitated. An inner surface (cross-sectional area of the container) is defined by the walls, the inner surface being able to be limited by inner walls 11, 12 in order to change the inner surface available for accommodating banknotes in such a way that it can be adapted to the size of the banknotes to be accommodated. The illustration shows, for example, the case of the smallest inner area, ie a storage area required for the smallest type of banknote.

The storage surface is formed by a floor located in the device 10 for receiving banknotes, which is adjustable in height, ie the position of the floor can be changed within the device 10 for receiving banknotes along the longest dimension of the device. The position of the bottom is determined depending on the amount of banknotes received. At the beginning of the reception of banknotes, that is to say when the device 10 for receiving banknotes is empty, the storage shelf is located near the upper edge of the device 10 for receiving banknotes. With increasing filling of the device 10 for receiving banknotes, the storage shelf is lowered accordingly to an end point. A clutch 16 is provided for changing the position of the storage shelf. Via the clutch 16, the device 10 for receiving banknotes can be coupled to a motor, for example, via a corresponding counterpart in the banknote processing machine, which then z. B. acts in the device 10 for receiving banknotes threaded rods to achieve the desired positioning of the floor. FIG. 2 shows a first element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes. The inner walls 11, 12 are formed by a surface 13 of the first element. As shown in the example, the first element 13 can be formed, for example, by a so-called "Nuremberg pair of scissors", which enables the surface 13 to be displaced in parallel. For this purpose, a connection 14 is provided in the lower part of the surface 13, into which a third element explained later engages for the size adjustment of the interior of the device 10.

FIG. 3 shows a second element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device for receiving banknotes.

The second element forms the floor described above, which forms a storage area for the banknotes to be picked up. The second element 17 has incisions 18 and 19 in which the first elements 11 and 12 engage. The end points of the cuts 18 and 19 define the area for the smallest banknote to be picked up, which is achieved when the scissors of the first elements 11 and 12 are opened and their faces 13 abut the end points of the cuts 18 and 19. The area for the largest banknote to be picked up accordingly results when the scissors of the first elements 11 and 12 are closed. In this case, the storage area is smaller than the inner surface of the device 10 for receiving banknotes, since the closed scissors of the first elements 11 and 12 also protrude into the incisions 18 and 19. However, the maximum storage area can also correspond to the inner surface of the device 10 for receiving banknotes if there are recesses or depressions for the scissors of the first elements 12 and 11 in the outer walls. FIG. 4 shows a first embodiment of a third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes at a first point in time.

In the illustration, the device 10 for receiving banknotes shows a view of the bottom thereof. A possible floor covering is not shown. The third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes has a rail 123 with teeth 121 which runs in a guide 124. The rail 123 is fixed in its position in the guide 124 by a first locking device 120, which engages in the toothing 121. The first detent 120 is part of a first lever 110 which is pivotally mounted about an axis 111. The inner wall 12 or the connection 14 (FIG. 2) of the first element 12 is attached to the rail 123. The rail 123 is in the illustration in a first end position, in which the maximum size for the long side of the storage area defined by the inner wall 12 results. If the rail 123 is displaced in the direction of the end of the guide 124 on the right in the illustration, a second end position of the rail 123 is reached in which the minimum size for the long side of the storage area defined by the inner wall 12 results.

A second lever 130, which is pivotally mounted about an axis 131, has a toothing 141 into which a second locking device 140 of the first lever 110 engages, as a result of which the position of the second lever 130 is fixed. The second lever 130 moves via a connection 133, which runs in a guide 134, the inner wall 11, the z. B. as shown in Figure 1, can be formed by two Nuremberg scissors (Figure 2), in which case the connection 133 to the connections 14 of the Nuremberg scissors a acts to adjust this. The second lever 130 is shown in a first end position, in which the maximum size for the short side of the storage area defined by the inner wall 11 results. If the second lever 130 is pivoted in the direction of the end of the guide 134 shown at the top, a second end position of the second lever 130 is reached, in which the minimum size for the short side of the storage area defined by the inner wall 11 results ,

Furthermore, an adjusting device 20 is shown in FIG. The setting device 20 serves to set the inner walls 11, 12 in order to be able to set the desired size of the storage surface for banknotes. For this purpose, the adjusting device 20 has three elements 21 to 23 adjustable in length, e.g. B. threaded rods. The dividing device 20 is part of the banknote processing machine for which the device 10 is intended for receiving banknotes. If the device 10 for the

Receipt of banknotes inserted for operation in the banknote processing machine, it is moved in the direction identified by reference symbol E towards the setting device 20. Rails or a drawer-like base can be provided to facilitate the insertion of the device 10 for receiving banknotes.

FIG. 5 shows the third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes according to FIG. 4 at a second point in time.

At the time shown, the device 10 for receiving banknotes has been inserted into the banknote processing machine in the direction E so far and thus shifted in the direction of the setting device 20 that an increase 24 on the element 23 for adjustment is set to one Edge 115 of the first lever HO hits. Due to the pressure exerted on the edge 115 by the elevation 24, the first lever 110 is pivoted about the axis 111, as a result of which the first locking device 120 releases the rail 123 and the second locking device 140 releases the second lever 130. By means of one on the second lever 130 attached reset element 132, z. B. a spring, the second lever 130 is brought into its first end position, in which the maximum size for the short side of the storage surface defined by the inner wall 11 results. On the rail 123 is also a reset element, for. B. a spring attached (not shown), which brings the rail 123 in its first end position, in which the maximum size for the long side of the storage space defined by the inner wall 12 results.

FIG. 6 shows the third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes according to FIG. 4 at a third point in time.

At the time shown, the device 10 for receiving banknotes is inserted in its end position in the banknote processing machine. The elevation 24 of the adjustment element 23 has passed the edge 115 of the first lever 110 so that the first lever 110 has returned to its original position. The first and second detents 120 and 140 therefore engage again in the teeth 121 and 141. The elements 21 and 22 for adjustment which have also penetrated into the device 10 for receiving banknotes at the time shown are in contact 21a with the rail 123 and in contact 22a with the second lever 130. As a result, on the one hand the rail 123 is displaced in the guide 124 and thus the inner wall 12 is brought into the desired position and on the other hand the second lever 130 is pivoted about the axis 131 so that the connection manure 133 is moved in the guide 134, whereby the inner wall 11 is brought into the desired position.

By adjusting the elements 21, 22 of the adjusting device 20, the storage space required for the banknotes to be received in the device 10 for receiving banknotes can thus be set without having to make complicated and imprecise adjustments of the inner walls 11, 12 by hand, e.g. , This is the case, for example, whenever a device 10 for accepting banknotes is inserted into a banknote processing machine which has an adjusting device 20.

FIG. 7 shows the third element for the size adjustment of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes according to FIG. 4 at a fourth time.

At the time shown, the device 10 for receiving banknotes is removed from the banknote processing machine in the direction indicated by the reference symbol A. The elevation 24 attached to the element 23 for adjustment now strikes the other side of the edge 115 of the first lever 110 (see FIG. 5). Due to the pressure exerted on the edge 115 by the elevation 24, the first lever 110 is pivoted about the axis 111 in the other direction (see FIG. 5). The first locking device 120 and the second locking device 140 thus remain in the serrations 121 and 141, which is why the previously set size of the storage area no longer changes at this time and also after the complete removal of the device 10 for receiving banknotes from the banknote processing machine becomes. FIG. 8 shows a second embodiment of a third element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes.

The device 10 for receiving banknotes of the second embodiment essentially corresponds to the device 10 for receiving banknotes according to the first embodiment. It also has a (first) lever 210 which is rotatably mounted about an axis 211. The lever 210 has a first locking device 220, which engages in a toothing 221 of a rail 223. The rail 223 runs in a guide 224 and serves to position the inner wall 12, for adjusting the long side of the inner surface. For positioning the inner wall 11, for adjusting the short side of the inner surface, a further rail 230 is used, which has a toothing 241 into which a second locking device 240 of the lever 210 engages. A ramp 235 is attached to the further rail 230 and acts against a connection 233 which runs in a guide 234. If the further rail 230 is moved, the connection 233 - and thus the inner wall 11 - is moved in the guide 234 and brought into the desired position. The lever 210 also has (see FIGS. 4 to 7) an edge 215 which, as described above, serves to

Loosen locks 220, 240. At the points identified by arrows with the reference numerals 21 to 23, the elements 21 to 23 of the adjusting device 20 engage in the device 10 and bring about the adjustment of the size of the storage surface described above.

FIG. 9 shows a third embodiment of a third element for adjusting the size of the interior of the device 10 for receiving banknotes. The device 10 for receiving banknotes of the second embodiment essentially corresponds to the device 10 for receiving banknotes according to the second embodiment, but it has a lever 210 which is mounted so that it can be moved. The lever 210 has a first locking device 220, which engages in a toothing 221 of a rail 223. The rail 223 runs in a guide 224 and serves to position the inner wall 12, for adjusting the long side of the inner surface. To position the inner wall 11, to adjust the short side of the inner surface, a further rail 230 is used, which has a toothing 241 into which a second locking device 240 of the lever 210 engages. A ramp 235 is attached to the further rail 230, which acts against a connection 233 which runs in a guide 234. If the further rail 230 is moved, the connection 233 - and thus the inner wall 11 - is moved in the guide 234 and brought into the desired position.

The lever 210 has a diamond-shaped edge 216 which serves to move the lever 210 in order to release the locks 220, 240. During a setting process, the device 10 for receiving banknotes is displaced in the direction E against an adjusting device 20. An elevation 24 of an element 23 of the adjusting device 20 hits the left slope of the diamond-shaped edge 216, as a result of which the lever 210 is shifted upwards in the illustration. The detents 220 and 240 guided in the lever 210 are thereby released, so that the rails 223 and 230 are released. Reset elements 222 and 232, e.g. B. springs, bring the rails 220 and 230 in a position in which there is the largest storage area. The rails 223 and 230, and thus the inner walls 11 and 12, are brought to a desired position by means of elements 21 and 22 of the adjusting device 20, so that the required storage space results. At the latest in the end position of the device 10 for receiving banknotes, the element 23 having the elevation 24 has penetrated so far into the device 10 for accepting banknotes that the elevation 24 has passed the diamond-shaped edge 216 along its lower flank. The lever 210 then returns to its original position, in which the detents 220 and 240 fix the rails 223, so that the set storage size is maintained.

If the setting device 20 is removed from the device 10 for receiving banknotes, the elevation 24 slides over the right slope of the diamond-shaped edge 216 and its upper flank, as a result of which the lever 210 is displaced downward in the illustration. The first locking device 220 is held in the toothing 221 by a spring 226, the second locking device 240 is guided in an elongated hole 246 so that it does not have to follow the movement of the lever 210. The set size of the storage area is thus not changed and is retained even after the setting device 20 has been completely removed, since the lever then again assumes the position shown.

In addition to the described embodiments, a large number of modifications of the device 10 for receiving banknotes are possible.

For example, the device 10 for receiving banknotes (FIG. 1) can have a cover at the upper end in order to protect banknotes received in the device 10 for receiving banknotes against unauthorized removal. The lid can be attached, for example, after the device has been filled with banknotes. It is also possible that the lid is firmly connected to the device 10 for receiving banknotes and banknotes to be received via a Mechanism inserted into and removed from the device. The mechanism can be part or all of the device 10 for receiving banknotes. However, the mechanism can also be wholly or partially part of the banknote processing machine for which the device 10 is intended for receiving banknotes.

The device 10 for receiving banknotes, in particular the outer walls thereof, can advantageously be produced from metal or resistant plastic.

A further modification results if the elements 21, 22 of the adjusting device 20 are adjusted by motor in order to be able to set the desired storage surface. For this purpose, the elements 21, 22 can have, for example, a linear drive 25, 26 which adjusts the elements 21, 22 as desired. If necessary, element 23 can also be adjusted via a linear drive. However, since the task of the element 23 is only to release the locks 120, 140 or 220, 240, a fixed presetting can also be provided for the element 23. The information required for the setting can, for. B. come from the banknote processing machine used. If the banknote processing machine is used, for example, for processing a specific type of banknote, the information about the type of banknotes - and thus the size of the banknotes - is transferred from the banknote processing machine to the setting device 20, which sets the elements 21, 22 and, if applicable, 23.

When using a linear drive for the elements 21, 22 and possibly 23 of the adjusting device 20, it is also possible that the size the storage area is set only after the device 10 for receiving banknotes has been inserted into the banknote processing machine. The linear drives then move the elements 21, 22 and optionally 23 analogously to the description above into the device 10 for receiving banknotes in order to adjust the size of the storage area.

Deviating from the previously described setting of the storage area of the device 10 for receiving banknotes in the banknote processing machine used, the setting can also be made in advance. For this purpose, a tool can be provided that corresponds to the setting device 20. The adjusting device 20 or its elements 21, 22, 23 are used for setting, for. B. by hand, inserted into the device 10 for receiving banknotes. After the setting of the storage area, the tool is removed from the device 10 for receiving banknotes. The device 10 for receiving banknotes can then, for. B. be inserted into a banknote processing machine that does not have a dividing device 20.

Claims

Patent claims

1. Banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes, with outer walls that form an inner surface, and movable inner walls (11, 12), for adjusting the size of a storage area for the banknotes to be picked up, characterized in that the Banknote processing machine has an adjusting device (20) which adjusts the movable inner walls (11, 12) during and / or after the insertion of the device (10) for receiving banknotes in such a way that a predeterminable size for the storage area results.

2. Banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes according to claim 1, characterized in that the inner walls (11, 12) are formed by first elements (13, 14) which have parallel displaceable surfaces (13) that the parallel engage displaceable surfaces (13) of the first elements (13, 14) in recesses (18, 19) of a base (17) for the storage of the banknotes in order to determine the size of the storage surface, and that a third element (110 to 141; 220 to 241) for setting the size of the storage surface is connected to the first elements (13, 14).

3. Banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the storage area of the device (10) for receiving banknotes during / and or after insertion into the banknote processing machine is first set to the maximum storage area ,

4. Banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the banknote processing machine of the setting device (20) provides the information required for setting the storage area.

5. Banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes according to claim 4, characterized in that the adjusting device (20) automatically adjusts the storage area based on the information coming from the banknote processing machine.

6. Banknote processing machine with a device for receiving banknotes according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the adjusting device (20) has elements (21, 22) which are adjustable in length and which are inserted into the device (10) for receiving of banknotes intervene to set the predeterminable size of the storage area.

7. Device for receiving banknotes, characterized by the use in a banknote processing machine according to one of claims 1 to 6.

8. An adjusting device (20) according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized by the use for adjusting the storage surface of a device (10) for receiving banknotes according to claim 7.

9. An adjusting device (20) according to claim 8, characterized in that the adjusting device (20) is handled manually in order to effect the setting of the storage surface of the device (10) for receiving banknotes.