DISPENSING HOPPER CONSTRUCTION FOR BANK NOTE PROCESSING MACHINE

• Main Authors: HAMAZATO, RYOUJI, TAKEMOTO, TAKATOSHI, KABUSHIKI KAISHA ACE DENKEN, KADOMATSU, HIDEYUKI, TSUBOTA, KHOUICHI, KABUSHIKI KAISHA ACE DENKEN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 29.03.1995
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CHECKING-DEVICES; CONVEYING; HANDLING OF COINS OR OF PAPER CURRENCY OR SIMILAR VALUABLEPAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING,DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; STORING; TRANSPORTING

A dispensing hopper construction for a bank note processing machine for effectively pooling a number of bank notes transferred from a bank note transferring section inside the bank note processing machine in order in a dispensing hopper section even while dispensing bank notes to the recipient side, as well as for effectively dispensing bank notes one by one based on a feed-out signal so that bank notes are not dispensed in a superposed or chained state. The bank note processing machine is constructed such that bank notes (1) are fed one by one from the bank note transferring section (A) into the dispensing hopper section (2) where bank notes are pooled so that they are fed out from the lower part thereof to the recipient side one by one. In this bank note processing machine, an introduction plate (3) is mounted vertically movably at an upper portion of the dispensing hopper section (2) which is caused to communicate with the exit (a) of the bank note transferring section (A) at one end thereof so as to supportingly receive a bank note (1) at the lower opposite sides thereof, and a pressing plate (4) for pressing down a bank note (1) from above is mounted in such a manner as to vertically move above the introduction plate (3), the pressing plate (4) being able to be elastically pressed downwardly. In addition, in the bank note processing machine, a pay-out roller (21) is provided on a shaft on the bottom side (2a) of the dispensing hopper (2), the upper portion (21a) of the pay-out roller protruding above the bottom surface (2a), and two note-feeding rollers (50, 51) are vertically disposed on a shaft outwardly of the end of the dispensing side of the dispensing hopper (2). Moreover, a stopper (60) adapted to vertically move to change its upper surface (60a) to above or below the upper portion (21a) of the pay-out roller (21) is disposed adjacent to the pay-out roller (21).