Direction switching and transferring device of paper sheet

A direction switching and transferring device of paper sheets comprising:

• a stacker unit that includes clamping means that, when a transport body that can be freely moved in and out of a paper sheet extraction position via a transport path that transports the transport body back and forth is stopped at the paper sheet extraction position, clamp both sides of the paper sheets, which are held in an upright position with respect to the upper surface of the transport body, supported by the transport body via its upper surface on one lower side and that reciprocatively rotationally moves between an upper limit position and a lower limit position where the stacker unit has rotationally moved downward by a predetermined angle from the upper limit position;
• an operating mechanism that reciprocatively rotationally moves the stacker unit in a forward rotation direction toward the upper limit position and a reverse rotation direction toward the lower limit position;
• a clamping-means actuating mechanism that causes the clamping means to perform an opening/closing operation by being actuated in conjunction with an operation of the operating mechanism;
• and a drive mechanism that rotates the operating mechanism forward and reversely, wherein
• the clamping means performs the opening/closing operation when the stacker unit is at the upper limit position, opens an entering route for the transport body to the paper sheet extraction position when performing an opening operation, clamps paper sheets on the transport body by performing a closing operation in a state in which the transport body is stopped at the paper sheet extraction position, and performs an opening operation to cancel clamping of paper sheets after a time when the stacker unit reaches the lower limit position,
• the operating mechanism moves the stacker unit to transfer paper sheets onto a takeout member located at a position corresponding to the lower limit position while laterally switching an attitude of the paper sheets in an upright state by a predetermined angle after a time when the clamping means performs a closing operation to clamp the paper sheets, and
• the clamping-means actuating mechanism causes the clamping means to perform an opening operation to cancel clamping of the paper sheets at a time when the paper sheets are transferred onto the takeout member or after the time when the paper sheets are transferred onto the takeout member.