Storing and issuing device for banknotes or other flexible documents

A storing and issuing device for banknotes and/or other flexible documents, for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes including a transport mechanism for moving entering banknotes serially and in a spaced way at a transport velocity, wherein said storing and issuing device handles banknotes of a given height and includes an interface for receiving and issuing the banknotes from the transport mechanism, a taking-up roller, a motor of the taking-up roller, at least one transport belt provided for wrapping on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes, a sensor of output downwardly from said interface for detecting the passage of banknotes, holding means arranged downwardly from the sensor of output for enabling an entering banknote to slide on the transport belt under the action of the transport mechanism and wherein said holding means are actuatable for engaging the entering banknote with the transport belt for the transport along a given path, and an electronic unit for the holding means and the motor of the taking-up roller;

• wherein said storing and issuing device defines a reference position on a path of the banknotes downwardly from said holding means;
• wherein said reference position is provided to be common to an output edge of a last stored banknote and an input edge of the entering banknote;
• wherein said electronic unit controls the holding means and the motor of the taking-up roller on the basis of an algorithm of entering associated to physical parameters of said storing and issuing device, the transport velocity and the height of the handled banknotes, information of transit of the entering banknotes from the sensor of output and stored parameters referred to detection and calculations effected on the last stored banknote;
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• wherein said electronic unit is provided for driving the motor of taking up roller to cause the output edge of the last stored banknote to be arrested at said reference position and for causing the holding means to engage the entering banknote with the transport belt when the input edge of said entering banknote reaches said reference position, in order to store the entering banknote with void space queuing with respect to the last stored banknote as contact or close contiguity between the input edge of the entering banknote and the output edge of the last stored banknote.

A storing and issuing device for banknotes and/or other flexible documents, for use in an equipment for the automatic processing of banknotes including a transport mechanism for moving banknotes to be issued serially and in a spaced way at a transport velocity, wherein said storing and issuing device handles banknotes of a given height and includes an interface for receiving and issuing the banknotes from and to the transport mechanism, a taking-up roller, a motor of the taking-up roller, a feeding roller and a motor of the feeding roller, at least one transport belt provided for wrapping on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes and wherein the transport belt is normally wound on the feeding roller and unwinds from the feeding roller to be wound on the taking-up roller together with the banknotes, a sensor of output downwardly from said interface for detecting the passage of banknotes, holding means arranged downwardly from the sensor of output and wherein said holding means includes a pair of pinch rollers and an actuator for reciprocally moving the pinch rollers between a configuration of engagement in which the banknote can be dragged by the transport belt and a configuration of disengagement in which the banknote can slide with respect to the belt, and an electronic unit for the actuator of the holding means and the motors of the taking-up roller and the feeding roller;

• wherein the stored banknotes are wrapped on the take-up spool with void space queuing between an output edge of a given banknote and the input edge of an adjacent banknote;
• wherein said storing and issuing device defines a reference position on a path of the banknotes downwardly from said pair of pinch rollers;
• wherein, for a mode of issuing, the electronic unit is pre-set for driving the motor of the feeding roller for rewinding the transport belt on the feeding roller and causing a banknotes to be issued to be dragged by the transport belt and to be taken by the transport mechanism to move the banknotes to be issued in spaced way, one from the other, at said transport velocity;
• wherein the motor of the feeding roller is controlled by said electronic unit on the basis of an issuing algorithm associated to physical parameters of the storing and issuing device, the height of the banknotes, the transport velocity and information of passage of the banknotes to be issued;
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• wherein, after issuing of a banknote, said electronic unit is provided for driving the motor of the taking up roller to position the output edge of the last stored banknote at said reference position.