Banknote deposit apparatus
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorsToru Akamatsu, Masaki Inoue, Masakazu Sakata
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Abstract
A banknote deposit apparatus includes: a storing box 70 configured to receive the banknote stacked in a stacking unit 60 so as to store the banknote; and a clamping and transporting mechanism 10 configured to clamp surfaces of the banknote stacked in the stacking unit 60 and to transport the banknote to a direction parallel to the surfaces of the clamped banknote so as to store the banknote in the storing box. A front opening 61 through which the stacked banknote is taken out from outside, and a front shutter unit 62 configured to open and close the front opening are disposed on a front surface of the stacking unit 60.
Claims7
A banknote deposit apparatus comprising:
- a reception unit configured to take in, one by one, a plurality of banknotes;
- a transport unit configured to transport the banknotes having been taken in by the reception unit;
- a stacking unit configured to stack the banknotes having been transported by the transport unit;
- a recognition unit disposed on the transport unit, the recognition unit being configured to recognize and count the banknotes being transported by the transport unit;
- a storing box configured to receive the banknotes stacked in the stacking unit so as to store the banknotes;
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- a clamping and transporting mechanism configured to clamp surfaces of the banknotes stacked in the stacking unit and to transport the banknotes in a direction parallel to the surfaces of the clamped banknotes and at the same time transport the banknotes downward so as to store the banknotes in the storing box;
- wherein a front opening through which the stacked banknotes are taken out from outside, and a front shutter unit configured to open and close the front opening are disposed on a front surface of the stacking unit,
- wherein the clamping and transporting mechanism includes a slide unit configured to support lower ends of the banknotes that are stacked in the stacking unit, the slide unit configured to be slid to be opened to an unsupporting condition when the banknotes, the lower ends of which were supported by the slide unit, are transported downward in the direction substantially parallel to the clamping surfaces of the clamped banknotes and are stored into the storing box, the clamping and transporting mechanism including a first contacting and transporting unit configured to come into contact with the surface of the banknote located on the rearmost side of the plurality of banknotes when the slide unit is slid to be opened, and a second contacting and transporting unit configured to come into contact with the surface of the banknote located on the frontmost side of the plurality of banknotes when the slide unit is slid to be opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.