Document recycle box
AssigneeJapan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorsTetsuya Tomiyoshi, Katsuya Sadahiro, Kengo Akashi
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Abstract
A document recycle box is provided to comprise: a housing 60, a cover 52 rotatably attached to housing 60, a convey belt device 51 of a recycle conveyor device 50 attached to one of housing 60 or cover 52 along one side of a recycle pathway 11 extending within housing 60, a plurality of rollers 53 of recycle conveyor device 50 attached to the other of housing 60 or cover 52 along the other side of recycle pathway 11 on the opposite side of conveyor belt device 51, and a drum device 43 rotatably disposed within housing 60. Cover 52 may be released from housing 60 to move recycle conveyor 50 away from rollers 53 to easily remove a jammed document within recycle pathway 11.
Claims11
A document recycle box comprising:
- a housing,
- a recycle conveyor device for transporting documents along a recycle pathway that extends within the housing,
- a cover rotatably attached to the housing for releasing the cover from the housing to remove the documents from the recycle pathway, and
- a drum device having lower and upper drums each rotatably disposed within the housing for winding up the documents supplied through the recycle pathway for storage of the documents within each of the lower and upper drums and also for unwinding the stored documents from each of the lower and upper drums to discharge the documents out of the housing through the recycle pathway by the recycle conveyor device,
- wherein the recycle pathway comprises a slit formed between the housing and cover, a lower passage for guiding the documents transported between the lower drum and recycle pathway for communication of the lower passage with the slit, and an upper passage formed above the lower passage for guiding the documents transported between the upper drum and recycle pathway for communication of the upper passage with the slit, and
- the recycle conveyor device comprises a sorter mounted at the recycle pathway for sorting the documents transported along the recycle pathway into the lower or upper drum.
A document recycle box comprising:
- a housing,
- a recycle conveyor device for transporting documents along a recycle pathway that extends within the housing,
- a cover rotatably attached to the housing for releasing the cover from the housing to remove the documents from the recycle pathway,
- a drum device having lower and upper drums each rotatably disposed within the housing for winding up inside the documents supplied through the recycle pathway during its forward rotation for storage of the documents, and also for unwinding and discharging the stored documents outside during its adverse rotation to transport the documents out of the housing through the recycle pathway by the recycle conveyor device,
- wherein the recycle pathway comprises a slit formed between the housing and cover, a lower passage for guiding the documents transported between the lower drum and recycle pathway for communication of the lower passage with the slit, and an upper passage formed above the lower passage for guiding the documents transported between the upper drum and recycle pathway for communication of the upper passage with the slit.
A document recycle box removably attached to a document validator,
- the document validator comprising:
- a case having a trifurcate intersection, a shuttle pathway, a reserve pathway and a recycle pathway each connected to the trifurcate intersection, and
- a turning device operated to have a document crossing over from one to another of the shuttle, reserve and recycle pathways at the trifurcate intersection,
- the recycle box comprising:
- a housing removably attached to a case of the validator,
- a recycle conveyor device for transporting documents along the recycle pathway that extends within the housing from the trifurcate intersection of the document validator, and
- a drum device rotatably disposed within the housing for winding up the documents supplied from the intersection of the validator by the recycle conveyor device through the recycle pathway for storage of the documents within the drum device, and also for unwinding the stored documents to discharge the documents to the intersection of the validator through the recycle pathway by the recycle conveyor device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.