Equipment for cash box, of the type with money collection rolling basket, aiming at protecting and dispensing bank notes, particularly for banking companies and post offices

Abstract

 Equipment for cash box, of the type with money collection rolling basket, aiming at protecting and dispensing bank notes, particularly for Banking Companies and Post Offices, comprising a protection chassis, inside of which a turntable is pivoted, supported by the corresponding internal walls, consisting of a single vertical wheel placed on the side, moved by a suitable gearmotor group fed by the mains with eventual auxiliary means, and in which along the perimeter and orthogonally respect to said wheel some oscillating money collection misaligned compartments are freely fulcrumed, said compartments being able to be arranged, depending on the information supplied by a control and activation logic unit, in correspondence of a mouthpiece, placed on the chassis upper part, provided with an eventually time openable gate, and vice versa.

Description

[0001] The present invention has for object an equipment for cash box, of the type with money collection rolling basket, aiming at protecting and dispensing bank notes, particularly for Banking Companies and Post Offices.

[0002] The invention, finds particular even if not exclusive application in the sector of the antitheft equipment and devices for the safety of the services performed by the desk tellers such as the money cash desk. Prior art

[0003] The desk cash service is known. Generally, it provides a teller, positioned on one side of the desk window, who, on the client's request, performs the collection, the counting and dispensing of money cash sums. Nowadays in many Banking Companies, such as in Post Offices, the handling of sums, sometimes considerable ones, is still a very spread habit, in which said cash money is drawn or inserted in a drawer, suitably arranged and obtained underneath the working desk. At the beginning, such drawer was provided with a traditional key-lock in which the key was kept by the cashier, who was forced in turn, to empty the drawer or to fill it, according to the cases, moving from the desk to the office bank safe. The limits of such a system, appear easily clear, being mainly related to the fact that during the window operations the deposit drawer remains easily accessible, being suitable to that type of thefts, generally the most frequent ones, in which the ill-intentioned person, going to the desk, orders the cashier to consign him the available money. Thus, the classical theft so performed may be considered very fast and it is satisfactory also for its results, furthermore being almost without obstacles and risks.

[0004] Such a situation, objectively negative, brought some Companies which work in the security sector, to satisfy the protection needs of those subjects mainly concerned with these situations. At first said interventions concerned mainly the traditionally existing structures, by the practical side, using some timing devices on the opening controls of the deposit drawer or drawers present in the cash box. Said solution was soon found inadequate, and this because it may seem useful only for the beginning and closing phase of the cash box operations, while during the service performance, the opening times and the intervals between one closing and a next opening would be extremely long, causing unavoidable queues at the windows.

[0005] The above stated concept, concerning the timing of the drawers opening, was recently used by other Companies, which, urged by their clients, noticed the inadequacy of the existing systems, which are not flexible enough for meeting the needs of a modern cash box, subjected to thefts and forced to mediate with the time and modalities necessary for their work execution. Thus a security equipment for the protection and management only of bank notes in the cash box service is now asserting itself, being essentially made up of a strong containing structure, inside of which, together with the relative mechanisms, a rolling basket, having a circular shape is provided, radially subdivided into a plurality of compartments or cells. Inside of each cell the bank notes wads are positioned, allowing during the basket rolling movement, their arrangement, step after step, in correspondence of a mouthpiece for the drawing/deposit of the money sums. The access to the single cells is thus allowed, by a mouthpiece, provided with openable door and vice versa, whose condition is controlled and managed by a logic unit, which interacts with the basket circular moving and stopping.

[0006] The solution now described has to be considered with no doubt as innovative, but it is still subjected to some drawbacks, which practically consist of the excessive dimensions. Said dimensions, are mainly related to the plane position and to the equipment's operating mechanism, which involves a reduction of space for the operator and for the apparatus concerned with his working functions. As a consequence there are long and complex operations for the adaptation to the existing structures as well as the purchase of suitable furniture. A second enhanced problem, is due to the equipment complexity, which affects considerably the purchase and maintenance costs because of the particular mechanics, requiring a constant care with the frequent intervention of specialised personnel.

[0007] A substantial simplification for such collection and dispensing system of money sums in bank notes, was offered by the system called "Roller Cash®" (soc. CESPRO - Firenze). This equipment substantially derives from the previous one, only changing the basket position which is no longer horizontal, but placed vertically. Therefore, it can be said that it is made up of a strong steel structure, inside of which, together with the relative mechanical and electrical components, a kind of drum having more openings is housed (the manufacturer Company makes available only one of the two advertised versions having 20 to 40 openings), each of which contains a wads holder box. The access to the drum, is allowed by a mouthpiece, through which, inserting the cases with the bank notes, the equipment pre-charging is possible. At the same time, each case may be removed for the money drawing, but only one at a time, after a pre-determined and gapped time between the drawings.

[0008] The described solution undoubtedly solves the main problems related to the previous equipment oversize, by rationally using the available space and making the operator's intervention easier. In the same solution, though, there is still a certain mechanical complexity, mainly related to the operating system of the openings-drawers and their relative closing devices, which considerably increases the costs, both relative to the equipment purchase and to its maintenance.

[0009] Purpose of the present invention is that of obviating the above mentioned drawbacks.

[0010] These and other purposes are reached by the present invention according to the characteristics as in the enclosed drawings solving the mentioned problems by means of an equipment for cash box, of the type with money sums rolling collection basket, aiming at protecting and dispensing bank notes, particularly for Banking Companies and Post Offices, comprising a protection chassis, inside of which a turntable is pivoted, supported by the corresponding internal walls, consisting of a single vertical wheel placed on the side, moved by a suitable gearmotor group fed by the mains with eventual auxiliary means, and in which along the perimeter and orthogonally respect to said wheel some oscillating misaligned compartments for the money collection are fulcrumed, said compartments being able to be arranged, depending on the information supplied by a control and activation logic unit, in correspondence with a mouthpiece, placed on the chassis upper part, provided with an eventually time openable gate, and vice versa.

[0011] Thus, through the considerable creative contribution whose effect represents an immediate technical progress many advantages are obtained. At first an increased functionality is obtained, with a substantial equipment simplification and an incomparable compactness. The use of the particular movement system as well as the same compartments, makes even the least type of intervention easy, being an extremely reliable structure and with rather contained costs.

[0012] These and other advantages will appear from the following detailed description of a preferred form of embodiment with the aid of the enclosed schematic drawings whose execution details are not to be considered as limitative but are only given as examples.

Figure 1., shows a side view of the equipment for the money sums collection and dispensing, enhancing the internal part relative to the compartments moving turntable.

While Figure 2 shows a cross sectional view of the same equipment illustrated in the previous Figure, for the money sums collection and dispensing.

[0013] Referring also to the figures, it may be noticed that an equipment (A) for the money sums collection, protection and dispensing, is essentially made up of a parallelepiped-shaped chassis (1), provided with a front shield (1') with relative sides, a base (1'') and a back (1''). On the front shield (1'), positioned in the upper and skew part of the same, a face with a mouthpiece (2) is provided, which is closeable by a movable gate (3), laterally guided (3'). Said gate (3), being movable, provides a motor means (4), which by a connection winding belt (4') must only control the lifting of said movable gate (3). The return to the closed position, thus, closing the mouthpiece (2) is carried out only by releasing the motor (4) which will cause the guided fall up to a corresponding stop and simply by gravity, of said gate (3).

[0014] The purpose of said mouthpiece (2) provided with closing means (3), is substantially that of allowing the access to the outside operator, inside of the metal chassis (1), where some suitable means for the money sums collection and dispensing are provided. These latter, in this specific case, are made up of a rolling turntable, which supports, in an oscillating way, a series of compartments (5). More in detail, said turntable, is made up of a wheel or of a single circular disk, placed vertically (6) having a rather wide diameter, centrally pivoted, by suitable supporting and moving means, to the internal and parallel walls (7, 7') of the chassis (1). Even more in detail, to said disk (6), a small shaft's end (9) is integrally keyed, which, crossing said disk (6), projects, for being inserted, idle, inside of a teflon bushing (8) steadily associated to the internal wall (7'). On the other side, the small shaft (9) is engaged to a gearmotor group (10), fastened, by spacing screw means (11) and by a suitable support bracket (11'), to the wall (7) facing the wall (7').

[0015] Perimetrally, respect to the disk (6) intrados, a series of compartments (5), oscillating, are pivoted projecting, being able to contain money sums.

[0016] Even more in detail, at least one of said compartments (5) is made up of a parallelepiped shaped container, longitudinally open, and provided on the upper side close to the mouthpiece (5'') of a tail-end (5'). The purpose of said tail-end (5') is that of being orthogonally fulcrumed to the disk (6) and out-of-center the compartment (5), so that because of the disymmetric weight distribution, the compartment (5) maintains the mouthpiece (5'') turned upwards, and the corresponding bottom downwards adapting its position, in accordance with the weight of the money provided in the corresponding compartment (5).

[0017] The equipment (A) activation, fed by the mains and provided with a series of buffer batteries, is ensured by a logic unit, eventually able to interact with the computerised system of the operating position. Depending on the type of request, the disk (6) which supports the projecting compartments (5), rotates, pre-arranging in correspondence of the mouthpiece (2), the concerned compartment (5). At this point, detecting, by suitable means the presence of said compartment (5), aligned with the mouthpiece (2), a control activates the gate (3) opening, which will remain lifted for a necessary time, for then being released and closing again only by the gravity effect.

Claims

1. Equipment for cash box, of the type with money sums collection rolling basket, aiming at protecting and dispensing bank notes, particularly for Banking Companies and Post Offices, comprising a protection chassis (1), characterised in that inside of it a turntable is pivoted, consisting of at least one vertical wheel (6) placed on the side, moved by a suitable gearmotor group (10) and in which, along the perimeter and orthogonally respect to said wheel (6) some oscillating money collection misaligned compartments (5) are freely fulcrumed, said compartments (5) being able to be arranged, depending on the information supplied by a control logic unit, in correspondence of a mouthpiece (2), placed on the chassis (1) upper part, provided with an eventually time openable gate (3).

2. Equipment for cash box, according to claim 1., characterised in that at least one of said compartments (5) of the movement turntable, is made up of a container, longitudinally open, provided on the upper side close to the mouthpiece (5'') of a tail-end (5') for being orthogonally and out-of-center fulcrumed to said movement turntable, so that because of the disymmetric weight distribution, the compartment (5) maintains the mouthpiece (5'') turned upwards, and the corresponding bottom downwards adapting its inclination, in accordance with the weight of the money provided in the corresponding compartment (5).

3. Equipment for cash box, according to claims 1. and 2., characterised in that the turntable is made up of a single disk, vertically placed (6) and centrally pivoted, by means of suitable support and movement means to the internal and parallel walls (7, 7') of the chassis (1); and in which orthogonal to the same and perimetrally some projecting compartments (5) are pivoted.

4. Equipment for cash box, according to previous claims, characterised in that to said disk (6), a small shaft's end (9) is integrally keyed, which, crossing said disk (6), projects, for being inserted, idle, inside of a teflon bushing (8) steadily associated to the internal wall (7'); while on the other side, the small shaft (9) is engaged to a gearmotor group (10), fastened, by spacing screw means (11) and by a suitable support bracket (11'), to the wall (7) facing the wall (7').

5. Equipment for cash box, according to previous claims, characterised in that a mouthpiece (2) is closeable by a movable gate (3), laterally guided (3') which provides a moving motor means (4), which by a connection winding belt (4') must only control the lifting of the same (3), while for the closing, said motor (4) carries out the free release of the winding belt (4').

6. Equipment for cash box, according to previous claims., characterised in that a mouthpiece (2) is obtained on the front shield (1'), positioned in the upper and skew part of the protection chassis (1).

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