Circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine

• US 4,639,582 A
• Filed: 05/14/1985
• Issued: 01/27/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Osamu, Chiba, Hiroshi, Arikawa, Junichi, Osanai, Masatoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/733,786
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/42142 by introducing articles from beneath
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/42261 by dropping
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1912 Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/06 the articles being piled on edge
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/3009 by dropping, e.g. removing the pile support from under the pile
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/40 Device architecture, e.g. modular construction

Abstract

A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine has a depositing and disbursing box. The box is adapted for storage of undamaged and damaged bills. First and second storing parts are provided for temporarily storing received bills and for transferring the receive bills to the depositing and disbursing box. The first and second storing parts are provided with a storing front plate and a holding plate for clamping the received bills therebetween. The first and second storing parts are further provided with an operable bottom plate for transferring the bills into the depositing and disbursing box.

Claims

1. A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine allowing received bills to be reused as dispensable ones, comprising:

a first and second storing parts for storing the received bills after sorting the same into undamaged and damaged bills;

a depositing and disbursing box for storing the undamaged and damaged bills in said first and second storing parts and for using only the undamaged bills stored as dispensable ones; and

a disbursing bill storing section divided into denominations for accumulating the undamaged bills dispensed from said depositing and disbursing box and for dispensing bills according to the amount of money specified to be disbursed, said first and second storing parts being provided in the front and vertical positions of a machine body and being provided with a storing front plate and a holding plate capable of reciprocating vertically between the same and said depositing and disbursing box and of clamping the undamaged and damaged bills in an upright position, as well as a storage bottom plate for supporting the undamaged and damaged bills which is coupled with said storing front plate.

2. A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine according to claim 2, wherein said storage bottom plate is capable of retracting for stand-by at the time when the undamaged and damaged bills are supplied into said depositing and disbursing box.

3. A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine allowing received bills to be reused as dispensable ones, comprising:

a storing section for storing received bills;

a depositing and disbursing box for storing the bills deposited in said storing section and for using said bills as dispensable ones; and

a disbursing bill storing section divided into denominations for accumulating the undamaged bills dispensed from said depositing and disbursing box and for dispensing bills according to the amount of money specified to be disbursed, said storing section being provided with a pool mechanism for clamping bills in an upright state, and said pool mechanism having an accumulating wheel for forwardly feeding bills received at the lower position by clamping each bill between blades, a guide plate for guiding upwardly the tip of a bill clamped by said accumulating wheel so as to stand said bill upright, a storing front plate for setting bills in an upright position in the reverse direction of accumulation which is disposed such as to frontwardly oppose said guide plate, and a storage bottom plate for supporting the lower portion of bills in an upright state in the lower position of said storing front plate.

5. A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine according to claim 3, wherein there is provided a striking-in wheel whose rotating area overlaps that of the blades of said accumulating wheel and which rotates along the central axis of the accumulating wheel.

6. A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine according to claim 3, wherein on said storage bottom plate is provided an auxiliary belt for supporting the lower surfaces of the accumulated bills and for driving the bills toward said storing front plate.

4. A circulating-type bill depositing and disbursing machine allowing received bills to be reused and dispensable ones, comprising:

a first and second storing part for storing the received bills after sorting the same into undamaged and damaged bills;

a depositing and disbursing box for storing the undamaged and damaged bills in said first and second storing parts and for using only the undamaged bills stored as dispensable ones; and

a disbursing bill storing section divided into denominations for accumulating the undamaged bills dispensed from said depositing and disbursing box and for dispensing bills according to the amount of money specified to be disbursed, said first and second storing parts being provided with a pool mechanism for clamping the undamaged and damaged bills in an upright state, and one of said pool mechanisms having an accumulating wheel for forwardly feeding bills received at the lower position by clamping each bill between blades, a guide plate for guiding upwardly the tip of a bill clamped by said accumulating wheel so as to stand said bill upright, a storing front plate for setting bills in an upright position in the reverse direction of accumulation which is diposed such as to frontwardly oppose said guide plate, and a storage bottom plate for supporting the lower portions of bills in an upright state in the lower position of said storing front plate.