Apparatus for preprocessing paper sheets and method for processing paper sheets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10669115-B2
Application number	US-201715708796-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2017
Priority date	Sep 20, 2016
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

Paper sheets preprocessing apparatus includes a material remover, a detector, a controller, and a display. The material remover removes a material from a paper sheets assembly. The paper sheets assembly includes a plurality of paper sheets strapped by the material. The detector is located at an upstream side than the material remover, and detects information of the paper sheets assembly. The controller decides whether the paper sheets assembly satisfies a predetermined specification, based on the information detected by the detector. If the controller decides that the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification, the display displays a reason to decide that the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for preprocessing paper sheets, comprising:
a material remover that removes a material from a paper sheets assembly including a plurality of paper sheets strapped by the material;
a detector located at an upstream side than the material remover along a transport path to transport the paper sheets assembly, that detects an information of an assembly condition of the paper sheets assembly;
a strap connection part that transports the paper sheets assembly along the transport path;
a controller that decides whether the paper sheets assembly satisfies a predetermined specification, based on the information detected by the detector; and
a display, if the controller decides the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification, that displays a reason to decide the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification,
wherein the detector equips an imaging part that images the assembly condition of the paper sheets assembly,
the material includes a strapping material to strap the plurality of paper sheets as a strap, and a bundling material to bundle a plurality of straps as a bundle,
the paper sheets assembly is the bundle,
the material remover equips a bundling material remover that removes the bundling material from the bundle, and a strapping material remover that removes the strapping material from the strap,
the bundling material remover is located at a start point of the strap connection part along the transport path,
the strapping material remover is located at an end point of the strap connection part along the transport path, and
the strap connection part connects a plurality of straps separated from different bundles by the bundling material remover, while the plurality of straps are being transported along the transport path.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller detects a winding method of the material based on an image information of the paper sheets assembly imaged by the imaging part, and, if the winding method is different from a predetermined winding method, decides the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the detector equips a metal detector that detects whether the paper sheets assembly includes a metallic foreign body, and
if the metal detector detects the paper sheets assembly includes the metallic foreign body, the controller decides the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the detector equips a weight measurement part that measures a weight of the paper sheets assembly.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the detector equips a displacement measurement part that measures a displacement of an outer surface of the paper sheets assembly.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a stacker that stacks the paper sheets assembly decided to not satisfy the predetermined specification by the controller; and a transport part having the transport path, that transports the paper sheets assembly to the stacker if the controller decides the paper sheets assembly does not satisfy the predetermined specification, and transports the paper sheets assembly to the material remover if the controller decides the paper sheets assembly satisfies the predetermined specification.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller decides the bundle does not satisfy the predetermined specification if the detector detects the bundling material bundles a part of the straps included in the bundle.

8. A method for processing paper sheets by a processing machine for inspecting the paper sheets, the method comprising:
providing the apparatus of claim 1 ;
loosening by the apparatus, a strapping of the paper sheets assembly by removing the material;
separating by the apparatus, the paper sheets included in the paper sheets assembly into each paper sheet; and
inspecting by the processing machine, the each paper sheet.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk
• Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corp

Inventors

• Miyashita Morimasa

Classifications

• B65H43/08 Primary

  Photoelectric devices · CPC title

• B65H37/00

  Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations (incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices B65H35/00) · CPC title

• B07C5/12

  characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for ({B07C99/00 takes precedence}; sorting eggs A01K43/00 {; measuring and sorting devices for shoe components A43D119/00; sorting cartridges F42B35/02}) · CPC title

• B07C5/3422

  using video scanning devices, e.g. TV-cameras · CPC title

• B07C5/28

  using electrical control means · CPC title