Document conveyor
AssigneeJapan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorKenichi Ito
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Abstract
A document transporter is provided which has a conveyor 3 comprising a frictional carrier 4 rotatably mounted in a passageway 2, a drive device 5 for driving frictional carrier 4 and a weighting device 7 for pressing a bill 1 within passageway 2 against frictional carrier 4. Bill 1 can move within a two-directional plane containing a contact point with a ball 6 of weighting device 7 to release reactive force accumulated in bill 1 so that bill 1 moves to come into alignment with a longitudinal central axis of passageway 2 for automatic centering. [Representative Drawing] FIG. 1
Claims16
A document transporter comprising a passageway and a conveyor for transporting a document along the passageway,
- wherein the conveyor comprises a frictional carrier rotatably mounted in the passageway, a drive device for driving the frictional carrier and a weighting device for urging the document against the frictional carrier,
- the weighting device comprises a holder adjacent to the passageway, and a sphere rotatably maintained in the holder to be in contact to the frictional carrier to grip the document between the sphere and frictional carrier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.