Document validating/stacking device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9598256-B2
Application number	US-201514973157-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2015
Priority date	Jan 29, 2014
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

A document validating/stacking device is provided that has a validator 1 provided with a swingable rocker 10 formed with a head 16 and a stacker 2 detachably attached to validator 1. Stacker 2 comprises an X-linkage 20 having a driver arm 41 that is separably pushed by head 16 in the same rotational direction as head 16 swings to expand X-linkage 20, to thereby move pusher plate 18 from the initial position to the extended position and to stow the document within interim chamber 24 into storage 7.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A document validating/stacking device comprising: a validator for discriminating authenticity of an inserted document and a stacker detachably attached to the validator for storing the document supplied from validator,
wherein the validator comprises a rocker rotatably attached around a pivot shaft, a head formed with the rocker and a drive device for rotating the rocker around the pivot shaft,
the stacker comprises an interim chamber for receiving the document supplied from the validator, a storage for receiving and holding the document supplied from the interim chamber, a pusher plate movable between an initial position within the interim chamber and an extended position within the storage, and an X-linkage having a driver arm,
wherein the drive device comprises an actuator and a motion converter driven by the actuator for converting linear movement of the actuator into rotary movement of the rocker,
the rotation of the rocker causes the head to move in a circular arc to separably push a passive area of the driver arm that therefore rotates in the same rotational direction as the circular arc movement of the head to expand the X-linkage, to thereby move the pusher plate from the initial position to the extended position and to stow the document within the interim chamber into the storage.

2. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the head may push the passive area of the drive arm in the pushing direction different from the moving direction of the passive area within an angular range of plus and minus 20 degrees.

3. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the stacker has a casing formed with an opening,
the rotation of the rocker causes the head to come into contact to and press the passive area of the X-linkage through the opening formed in the casing of the stacker for extension of the X-linkage.

4. The document validating/stacking device of claim 3 , wherein the pivot shaft for rotatably supporting the rocker is arranged in the validator above the opening formed in the casing of the stacker.

5. The document validating/stacking device of claim 3 , wherein the driver arm of the X-linkage has a stationary end rotatably connected to an axis of the casing.

6. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the rocker and X-linkage are linked to form a leverage that enlarges a small travel stroke of the rocker to a large moving distance of the pusher plate through the X-linkage.

7. The document validating/stacking device of claim 6 , wherein the X-linkage translates the pusher plate between the initial positon and the extended position, while constantly keeping the pusher plate in its parallel movement attitude.

8. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the actuator comprises a drive motor or drive solenoid for driving the motion converter, and the motion converter comprises a linked connector or slidable link for drivingly connecting between the drive motor or drive solenoid.

9. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the motion converter comprises a rotary link mechanism or a sliding link mechanism for rotating the rocker to cause the head of the rocker to separably come into contact to and press the passive area through an opening formed in a casing of the stacker for expansion of the X-linkage.

10. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , further comprising a spring disposed between the rocker and a frame of the validator,
wherein the drive device rotates the rocker against resilient force of the spring to move the pusher plate to the extended position, and
the rocker is returned to the original position by the adverse rotation of the drive device and the resilient force of the spring.

11. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the rocker comprises an arm formed with at least one arcuate hole that receives a support shaft attached to the validator.

12. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the drive device comprises a deceleration device made up of gears mounted on the pivot shaft and a support shaft attached to the validator.

13. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the rocker comprises an arm rotatably supported by the pivot shaft attached to the validator,
the head is formed with the arm.

14. The document validating/stacking device of claim 13 , wherein the rocker comprises an arcuate extension protruded from the arm,
the arcuate extension is formed with the head that may come into contact to the passive area in the X-linkage during rotation of the rocker.

15. The document validating/stacking device of claim 1 , wherein the X-linkage is irremovably disposed within an inner endplate of the stacker,
the X-linkage comprises a follower arm rotatably connected to the driver arm by a juncture shaft to form into an X-shape together,
one end of the driver arm is rotatably supported on a bearing attached to the inner endplate,
the other end of the driver arm is in slidable contact to a back surface of the pusher plate,
the follower arm has a channel section and at least one free end with a rotatable roller attached thereto,
the inner endplate is formed with at least one elongated chase to slidably receive the rotatable roller within the elongate chase.

Assignees

• Nippon Kinsen Kikai Kk
• Nippon Kinsen Kikai Kk

Inventors

• Ito Kenichi

Classifications

• B65H29/46 Primary

  Members reciprocated in rectilinear path · CPC title

• G07D11/0081

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07D11/0012

  Physics · mapped topic

• B65H2701/1912

  Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like · CPC title

• B65H2402/344

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic