Stacking apparatus for use with paper security validation apparatus or the like
AssigneeGlory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSyugo Douno
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Abstract
An apparatus for stacking pieces of paper money or the like as they are discharged one by one from a validation or like apparatus. The stacking apparatus includes a pair of horizontally spaced guide strips forming thereunder a passageway slanting downwardly from a horizontal slot through which the bills are introduced into the apparatus. Arranged for up-and-down movement along a substantially elliptic path across the passageway is a pusher adapted to press each incoming bill down into a storage chamber from the passageway, the storage chamber having a floating bottom which is spring biased upwardly. The bill pressed down into the storage chamber is held by means including a pair of retractable holder plates operating in synchronism with the up-and-down movement of the pusher.
Claims4
An apparatus for stacking articles such as pieces of paper money as they are delivered one by one, comprising a casing having a horizontally extending slot for receiving the articles, partition means for defining a storage chamber within said casing and under said slot and including a floating bottom which is biased upwardly and on which the articles are to be stacked, guide means for forming a passageway slanting downwardly from said slot thereby to cause travel of each incoming article along said passageway, a pusher adjacent said passageway for pushing each incoming article downward, drive means for causing said pusher to move up and down, and holder means for holding each incoming article on said storage chamber, said drive means having a rotary actuator having an output shaft, a crank arm fixedly mounted at one end on said output shaft and rotatably connected at the other end to the top end of said pusher, and a swingable arm having a free end rotatably connected to said pusher at a point intermediate the top and bottom ends thereof, whereby said pusher is made to move up and down along a substantially elliptical path for pressing each incoming article down onto said floating bottom from said passageway.
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