Machine for ordering and feeding bundles of sheets to a unit for the assembly of bundles in groups
AssigneeCurrency Systems International
InventorArmando Neri
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Abstract
Banknotes are processed using a machine equipped with a number of modules by which predetermined numbers of notes are ordered in bundles secured with at least one band and then transferred to a unit to be strapped in groups; an intermittently driven conveyor equipped with pockets operates in conjunction with the modules to direct the bundles in a predetermined succession, according to a previously established sequence, toward a stacker located at an outfeed end of the conveyor. The bundles are stacked in set numbers to form groups in which the predetermined succession is maintained as the single bundles pass along a stacking axis, preserving an initial sequence of code and serial number with which the banknotes are fed initially into the bundling modules.
Claims14
A machine for ordering and feeding bundles of sheets, in particular banknotes, to a unit by which the bundles are strapped in groups, comprising:
- at least one module for the formation of bundles, each comprised of a predetermined number of banknotes secured by at least one band;
- a receiving conveyor by which bundles emerging from the module are fed in a predetermined succession toward a stacker located at an outfeed end of the conveyor and serving to place a predetermined number of bundles one on top of another in such a manner as to assemble respective groups in which the predetermined succession is maintained as the bundles advance along a respective stacking axis;
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- a strapper/bander unit of which the function is to place a strap around a group of bundles emerging from the stacker and appearing substantially parallelepiped in shape, presenting a top face, a bottom face and four side faces, wherein the unit comprises collection and transfer means consisting in a pair of elements positioned to gather respective end portions of the group coinciding with two mutually opposite side faces, and capable of movement along a second feed path through a strapper/bander station located downline of the stackers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.