STORING AND ISSUING DEVICE FOR BANKNOTES OR OTHER FLEXIBLE DOCUMENTS

• US 20100133737A1
• Filed: 01/10/2008
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CTS Cashpro SRL
• Original Assignee: CTS Cashpro SPA
• Inventors: Simonotti, Cario, Cismpi, Paolo, Billet, Mirko
• Granted Patent: US 8,636,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 271/3.190
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2220/01 indicating an entity as a function of which control, adjustment or change is performed, i.e. input
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2220/02 indicating an entity which is controlled, adjusted or changed by a control process, i.e. output
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4191 for handling articles of limited length, e.g. AO format, arranged at intervals from each other
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/44516 so that there are no intervals between the sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4452 Regulating space between separated articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2511/11 Length
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2511/20 Location in space
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2511/514 Particular portion of element
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2513/10 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2513/50 Timing
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2601/421 Capacity
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1912 Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 29/006 Winding articles into rolls
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/12 Containers for valuable papers
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/22 Means for sensing or detection

Abstract

A storing and issuing device (11) for banknotes (12) and/or other flexible documents, for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes, in which the storing and issuing device includes a taking-up roller (50), a motor (60) for the taking-up roller, at least one transport belt (52) provided for wrapping on the taking-up roller (50) together with the banknotes (12) and holding means (53, 54, 79) actuatable for causing an entering banknote Bn(n) to be engaged with the transport belt (52). The storing and issuing device (11) comprises an electronic unit (65) for the holding means (53, 54, 79) and the motor (60) for the taking-up roller, for causing the entering banknote to be stored on the taking-up roller, with void space queuing providing substantial contact between the input edge of the entered banknote Bn(n) and the output edge of a last stored banknote Bn(n−1).

Claims

1. to 19. (canceled)

20. A storing and issuing device for banknotes and/or other flexible documents, for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes, wherein said device includes a taking-up roller, a motor of the taking-up roller, at least one transport belt provided for wrapping on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes and holding means actuatable for causing an entering banknote to be engaged with the transport belt, said device further comprising

a servomechanism for the motor of the taking-up roller, and

an electronic unit for the holding means and said servomechanism, for causing the entering banknote to be stored on the taking-up roller, with void space queuing such to provide substantial contact between an input edge of the entered banknote and an output edge of a last stored banknote,

said electronic unit controlling said holding means and said servomechanism on the basis of an algorithm of entering associated to physical parameters of said device, the height of the handled banknotes, the number of the stored banknotes and information of transit of said banknotes.

21. Device according to claim 20, wherein the electronic unit causes a last entered banknote to be stored so that an output edge of the last entered banknote is arranged at a reference position with respect to said taking-up roller for the arrangement of the input edge of a following entering banknote to be stored at said reference position.

22. Storing and issuing device according to claim 20, for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes having a transport mechanism for moving entering banknotes serially and in a spaced way, and wherein the electronic unit controls the holding means and the motor of the taking-up roller, for enabling the entering banknote to be moved by the transport mechanism up to the condition in which an input edge of the entering banknote is at substantial contact with the output edge of the last stored banknote.

23. Storing and issuing device according to claim 20, wherein the banknotes are queued, without superimposition, spaced apart of 0,0÷

3,0 mm between the input edge of the entered banknote and the output edge of the last stored banknote.

24. Storing and issuing device according to claim 20, further comprising a transport mechanism for issuing banknotes to be issued, a feeding roller and a motor of the feeding roller, wherein the transport belt is normally wound on the feeding roller and unwinds from the feeding roller to be wound on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes and wherein, for a mode of issuing, the electronic unit is pre-set for driving the motor of the feeding roller for rewinding the transport belt on the feeding roller and causing the transport mechanism to move the banknotes to be issued in spaced way, one from the other.

25. Storing and issuing device according to claim 24, wherein the motor of the feeding roller is controlled by a servomechanism on the basis of an issuing algorithm associated to physical parameters of the device, the height of the banknotes and information of passage of the banknotes to be issued.

26. Device according to claim 24 further comprising a sensor of input arranged along the path for the banknotes adjacent to the taking-up roller, and wherein the electronic unit controls the motor of the feeding roller in response to signals from the said sensor of input.

27. Device according to claim 26, wherein said electronic unit starts up the motor of the feeding roller on the basis of information of storage regarding the last stored banknote and updates said information of storage on the basis of signals from the sensor of input regarding banknote in transit and to be issued.

28. Device according to claim 27 wherein, for issuing more banknotes in sequence, the electronic unit updates the information of storage on the basis of signals from the input sensor for the first banknote in transit and to be issued, and on the basis of the number of issued banknotes for the following banknotes in transit.

29. Storing and issuing device according to claim 20, wherein the motor of the taking-up roller is a stepping motor and wherein said servocontrol is of open loop type.

30. Storing and issuing device for banknotes according to claim 29, further comprising a sensor of output arranged in the path for the banknotes for detecting the passage of the entering banknote, and wherein the information of transit is obtained from said sensor of output.

31. Storing and issuing device for banknotes according to claim 29, wherein the stepping motor is fed with respective pulses, while the sensor of output generates a signal of transit depending on the transit of the banknote as delimited by the input edge and the output edge, and wherein the electronic unit takes count of the number of pulses of the stepping motor fed during the generation of said signal of transit for calculating residual number of pulses missing to the void space queuing and drives the stepping motor according to said residual number of pulses.

32. Device according to claim 30, wherein said electronic unit starts up the motor of the taking-up roller on the basis of storing information regarding the last stored banknote and updates said storing information on the basis of signals from the sensor of output regarding the banknote in transit and to be stored.

33. Storing and issuing device for banknotes according to claim 20, wherein it constitutes an electronic module for being used in said equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes and wherein the transport belt is wound on a feeding roller rotated by a respective motor, said module further comprising a sensor of output, arranged upwardly from the holding means and an input sensor, arranged downwardly from the holding means, for revealing the transit of banknotes, and wherein for a mode of issuing, the electronic module controls the motor of the feeding roller and the holding means for rewinding the transport belt and leaving the banknotes to be issued in a spaced way, on the basis of an algorithm of issuing associated to given physical parameters of the said device, the height of the banknotes and given information of transit of the banknotes coming from said sensor of output and said input sensor.

34. A storing and issuing device for banknotes and/or other flexible documents for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes and/or other documents, said equipment including a transport mechanism for moving banknotes to be entered serially and in a spaced way, wherein said device includes a taking-up roller, a motor of the taking-up roller, at least one transport belt provided for wrapping on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes and holding means actuatable for causing an entering banknote to be engaged with the transport belt;

wherein said device further comprises an electronic unit for the holding means and the motor of the taking-up roller for causing the entering banknote to be stored on the taking-up roller, with void space queuing such to provide substantial contact between an input edge of the entered banknote and an output edge of a last stored banknote, and

wherein said electronic unit controls the holding means and the motor of the taking-up roller for enabling the entering banknote to be moved by the transport mechanism up to the condition in which the input edge of the entering banknote is at substantial contact with the output edge of the last stored banknote;

said holding means comprising pinch rollers and an actuator controlled by said electronic unit for reciprocally moving the pinch rollers between a configuration of engagement in which the banknote can be dragged by the transport belt and a configuration of disengagement in which the banknote can slide with respect to the belt under the action of the said transport mechanism.

35. Device according to claim 34 further comprising a sensor of output for detecting the passage of the entering banknote, wherein said sensor of output is arranged in the path for the banknotes between an interface zone with the transport mechanism and the pinch rollers, and wherein said electronic unit controls said actuator and the motor of the taking-up roller in response to signals from said sensor of output.

36. Device according to claim 35, wherein said electronic unit starts up the motor of the taking-up roller in response to the signals from the sensor of output, for void space queuing of the entering banknote during the movement of the entering banknote by the transport mechanism.

37. Storing and issuing device according to claim 35 wherein, for a mode of issuing, the transport mechanism is provided for moving stored banknotes to be issued serially and in a spaced way one from the other, and wherein said device further comprises a feeding roller and a motor of the feeding roller, wherein the transport belt is normally wound on the feeding roller and unwinds from the feeding roller to be wound on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes and wherein, for the mode of issuing, the electronic unit is pre-set for driving the motor of the feeding roller in order to rewind the transport belt and enabling the transport mechanism to move the stored banknotes for the issuing in the spaced way.

38. Storing and issuing device according to claim 37 wherein said pinch rollers include a return roller and a pressing roller, the return roller having function of return member for the transport belt extended between the taking-up roller and the pressing roller having function of pressing member, and wherein said actuator includes an electromagnet for moving said pressing roller, said device further comprising a sensor of input arranged in the path for the banknotes between the taking-up roller and the return roller, and wherein said electronic unit controls the rotation of the feeding roller in response to signals from said sensor of input and from said sensor of output.

39. A storing and issuing device for banknotes and/or other flexible documents, for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes and/or other documents, wherein said device includes a taking-up roller, a motor of the taking-up roller, at least one transport belt provided for wrapping on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes, a feeding roller and a motor of the feeding roller, and wherein the transport belt is normally wound on the feeding roller and unwinds from the feeding roller to be wound on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes, said device further comprising

an electronic unit for the motor of the taking-up roller, for causing the entering banknote to be stored on the taking-up roller, with void space queuing such to provide substantial contact between an input edge of the entered banknote and the output edge of a last stored banknote;

said electronic unit controlling the motor of the taking-up roller for causing an output edge of the last stored banknote to be arranged in a predetermined configuration;

wherein, for a mode of issuing, the electronic unit is pre-set to drive the motor of the feeding roller for rewinding the transport belt and enabling the banknotes to be issued to be spaced apart, one from the other; and

wherein said electronic unit is pre-set for rotating the taking-up roller also in the mode of issuing for re-arranging a stored banknote following the last issued banknote, so that an output edge of said banknote following the last issued banknote is arranged in said predetermined configuration.

40. Storing and issuing device according to claim 39 further comprising a sensor of input arranged in the path for the banknotes adjacent to the taking-up roller, and wherein, for the arranging of the last stored banknote in the predetermined configuration, said electronic unit controls the rotation of the taking-up roller and the feeding roller in response to signals from said sensor of input.