US 4,871,125 AGranted

Storage device

AssigneeAutelca AG

InventorErnst Haueter

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Abstract

Objects (1) to be stored are fed between two rollers (9, 10) to a belt (2) taken off from a belt coil (5) of a belt reel (6) and wound up therewith (2), forming a storage coil (7), onto a storage reel (3). For the delivery of previously stored objects (1a), the belt (2) is taken off therewith (1a) from the storage coil (7), the objects separate from the belt (2) upon leaving the roller pair (9, 10), the belt (2) being rewound onto the belt coil (b 5). The reels (3, 6) are displaceably mounted; their coils (5, 7) are each supported on a fixedly mounted backing roller (12, 13). For driving the device, the backing rollers (12, 13) can be rotated at coincident peripheral speeds, or respectively one backing roller (12, 13) can be rotated by pulling off the belt (2) from the coil (5, 7) carrying same and the rotation of that backing roller can be transmitted to the other backing roller, or respectively one of the reels (3, 6) can be rotated by pulling off the belt (2) from its coil (5, 7) and the rotation of such reel can be transmitted to the other reel by means of an infinitely variable gear system (42, 43, 46, 47, 51-54, 57-60) in such a way that the peripheral speeds of both coils coincide. In this way, a belt, storage, and delivery speed at constant belt speed is attained which is independent of the respective diameters of the coils.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A storage device for sheet-like, flexible objects, especially bank notes, having a belt (2) connected between a belt reel (6) and a storage reel (3), wherein for storing the objects (1), as the belt (2) is unwound from a belt coil (5) on the belt reel (6) the objects (1) to be stored are wound together with the belt (2) onto the storage reel (3) for the formation of a storage coil (7), and for delivering the stored objects (1), said belt (2) together with previous stored objects are unwound from the storage coil (7) as the belt (2) is wound onto the belt coil (5), comprising

guide means (31, 32) for guidingly supporting the storage reel (3) and belt reel (6) for substantially vertical displacement;
a first fixedly mounted backing roller (12) and a second fixedly mounted backing roller (13) supporting the storage coil (7) and belt coil (5) respectively;
reversible belt drive means (9, 10, 40) in engagement with said belt (2) for alternately withdrawing the belt (2) from the belt coil (5) and the belt together with stored objects (1) from the storage coil (7), thereby rotating in the unwinding direction the belt coil (5) or the storage coil (7), respectively, and the said first or second backing roller (12, 13) supporting the respective coil;
and
transmission means (51-54, 57-60) operatively connected for transmitting the rotation of the first or second backing roller (13, 12) supporting the respective belt coil (5) and storage coil (7) which is rotating in the unwinding direction, to the other respective first or second backing roller (12, 13) for rotating the other respective storage coil (7) or belt coil (5) in the windup direction such that the circumferential speed of the other respective first or second backing roller (12, 13) in the windup direction slightly exceeds the circumferential speed of the respective backing roller (13, 12) rotating in the unwinding direction, thereby tensioning the belt (2).

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A storage device for sheet-like, flexible objects, especially bank notes, having a belt (2) connected between a belt reel (6) and a storage reel (3), wherein for storing the objects (1), as the belt (2) is unwound from a belt coil (5) on the belt reel (6) the objects (1) to be stored are wound together with the belt (2) onto the storage reel (3) for the formation of a storage coil (7), and for delivering the stored objects (1), said belt (2) together with previously stored objects are unwound from the storage coil (7) as the belt (2) is wound onto the belt reel (6), comprising

guide means (31, 32) for guidingly supporting the storage reel (3) and belt reel (6) for substantially vertical displacement;
a first fixedly mounted backing roller (12) and a second fixedly mounted backing roller (13) supporting the storage coil (7) and belt coil (5), respectively, whereby the distances of said first and second backing rollers (12, 13) from said storage reel (3) and belt reel (6), respectively, varies with the diameters of the storage coil (7) and belt coil (5), respectively;
reversible belt drive means (9, 10, 40) connected for selectively withdrawing the belt (2) from the belt coil (5) or the belt together with stored objects (1) from the storage coil (7), thereby rotating in the unwinding direction the belt reel (6) or the storage reel (3), respectively;
transmission means (42-44, 46-48, 51-54, 57-60) operatively connected with said belt reel (6) and storage reel (3) for transmitting the rotation of said belt reel (6) or storage reel (3) which is rotating in the unwind direction to the respective other of said storage reel (3) or belt reel (6) to windup said belt (2) thereon, said transmission means including infinitely variable speed transmission means (42-44, 46-48) controlled in dependence on the distances of said first and second backing roller (12, 13) from said storage reel (3) and belt reel (6), respectively, whereby the circumferential speed of the coil on the respective other of said storage reel (3) and belt reel (6) slightly exceeds the circumferential speed of the coil on the corresponding belt reel (6) or storage reel (3), thereby tensioning the belt (2);
and
a torsionally elastic clutch (25) and frictional transmitting means (42, 43, 51, 52) connected in the transmission train of said transmission means (42-44, 46-48, 51-54, 57-60).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/178,069Filed 5 Apr 1988
Priority: CH 01 778/8711 May 1987
Granted: 3 Oct 1989
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B65H 5/28
Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines: feeding articles stored in rolled or folded bands
B65H 29/006
Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles: winding articles into rolls
G07D 11/12
Mechanical details: containers for valuable papers
G07F 11/68
Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles: in which the articles are torn or severed from strips or sheets