Medium bundle storage device and medium processing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9965916-B2
Application number	US-201615545306-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 15, 2016
Priority date	Feb 24, 2015
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

A reject storage box is provided with a sufficiently thick cover body above a second storage space that stores banknote bundles W that a user has forgotten to take, and a guide space is provided penetrating the cover body in an oblique direction. In the reject storage box, when a banknote bundle falls into an intake hole from above, a lower face of the banknote bundle immediately contacts a position toward the top of a main guide face, and the banknote bundle W travels downward through the guide space with the lower face of the banknote bundle W sliding against the main guide face. The reject storage box thereby enables the banknote bundle dropping downward through the guide space to be maintained in a substantially uniform orientation, and ultimately enables the banknote bundle to be stacked neatly inside the second storage space.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A medium bundle storage device comprising:
an intake hole that takes in a medium bundle of a stacked paper sheet shaped medium;
a medium bundle storage space that is disposed further toward a lower side than the intake hole, and that stores the medium bundle;
a main guide face that connects the intake hole and the medium bundle storage space together, and that is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction;
an auxiliary guide face that faces the main guide face across a separation of at least a specific guide spacing; and
a guide space that is formed between the main guide face and the auxiliary guide face, and that guides the medium bundle toward the medium bundle storage space.

2. The medium bundle storage device of claim 1 , wherein the guide spacing is shorter than the length of the medium along a direction of travel of the medium bundle.

3. The medium bundle storage device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a storage body that is internally formed with the medium bundle storage space; and
a cover body that is provided with the intake hole, the main guide face, the auxiliary guide face, and the guide space, and that opens or closes the medium bundle storage space by undergoing positional displacement with respect to the storage body.

4. The medium bundle storage device of claim 3 , further comprising a separate storage space that is internally formed in the storage body separately from the medium bundle storage space, and that stores the medium, wherein
the cover body opens or closes the medium bundle storage space and the separate storage space by undergoing positional displacement with respect to the storage body.

5. The medium bundle storage device of claim 4 , further comprising:
a discharge section that discharges the medium into the separate storage space in an orientation in which sheet faces of the medium face up and down; and
a tongue piece that taps the medium discharged into the separate storage space in a direction away from the discharge section.

6. The medium bundle storage device of claim 4 , further comprising:
a discharge section that discharges the medium into the separate storage space in an orientation in which sheet faces of the medium face up and down; and
an anti-sliding section that is provided inside the separate storage space at a location facing the discharge section, and that prevents sliding of a leading end of the medium in a direction away from the discharge section.

7. The medium bundle storage device of claim 3 , further comprising:
a separate storage space that is internally formed in the storage body separately from the medium bundle storage space, and that stores the medium; and
a separate cover body that opens or closes the separate storage space by undergoing positional displacement with respect to the storage body.

8. The medium bundle storage device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a storage body that is internally formed with a separate storage space that stores the medium, and with the medium bundle storage space;
a cover body that opens or closes the medium bundle storage space by undergoing positional displacement with respect to the storage body, and that is provided to one out of the main guide face or the auxiliary guide face; and
a separate cover body that opens or closes the separate storage space by undergoing positional displacement with respect to the storage body, and that is provided to the other out of the main guide face or the auxiliary guide face, wherein
the guide space is formed between the main guide face and the auxiliary guide face when the cover body and the separate cover body are closed.

9. A medium processing device comprising:
a bundle conveyance section that conveys a medium bundle of a stacked paper sheet shaped medium; and
a medium bundle storage box that takes in and stores the medium bundle conveyed by the bundle conveyance section, wherein
the medium bundle storage box includes
an intake hole that takes in the medium bundle from the bundle conveyance section,
a medium bundle storage space that is disposed further toward a lower side than the intake hole, and that stores the medium bundle,
a main guide face that connects the intake hole and the medium bundle storage space together, and that is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction,
an auxiliary guide face that faces the main guide face across a separation of at least a specific guide spacing, and
a guide space that is formed between the main guide face and the auxiliary guide face, and that guides the medium bundle toward the medium bundle storage space.

Assignees

• Oki Electric Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Komatsu Hirokazu
• Kobayashi Ryuuji

Classifications

• G07D11/0027 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• B65H2701/1912

  Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like · CPC title

• B65H2408/10

  for handling sheet(s) · CPC title

• B65H2601/27

  Other problems · CPC title

• B65H2405/50

  Gripping means · CPC title