Banknote Stacking Device Vertical Position Limiting Plate

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional banknote stacking and arranging devices often result in disordered and oblique stacking due to the flexibility and elasticity of banknotes, leading to inefficiencies in handling and processing.

Innovation Solution

A banknote stacking and arranging device with a banknote conveying unit, a stacking unit, and an arranging unit, featuring a conveying wheel, a baffle plate, a position-limiting plate, and a motor-driven system that controls the vertical positioning and alignment of banknotes to ensure tidy stacking and automatic arrangement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the conveying wheel rotates at high speed to convey banknotes, then the conveying efficiency is improved, but the banknotes move upward and bounce disorderly due to their flexibility and elasticity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconveying efficiencyVSAvoidstacking order
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a position-limiting plate that extends in the vertical direction (another dimension) to constrain the upward movement of banknotes. This vertical constraint works together with the horizontal conveying action to prevent disorderly bouncing and oblique stacking, resolving the contradiction between high-speed conveying and stacking order.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Device complexity

If no position-limiting structure is provided, then the device structure is simple, but the banknotes stack obliquely and disorderly on the stacking shelf

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructure simplicityVSAvoidstacking alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The position-limiting plate serves as an intermediary structure between the conveying wheel and the stacking shelf. It mediates the transition of banknotes from horizontal conveying to vertical stacking by providing vertical position constraint, thereby achieving tidy stacking without significantly complicating the overall device structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If the banknote baffle plate is arranged perpendicular to the stacking shelf, then the banknotes are stopped effectively, but the banknotes cannot be arranged neatly in the vertical direction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebanknote stoppingVSAvoidvertical arrangement
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the positioning function into two separate components: the banknote baffle plate (for horizontal stopping) and the position-limiting plate (for vertical arrangement). This segmentation allows each component to specialize in one dimension of constraint, achieving both effective stopping and neat vertical arrangement simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The device effectively limits the vertical movement and corrects the angle of banknotes, enabling them to be stacked tidily and facilitating subsequent bundling processes, improving handling efficiency and accuracy.

Implementation Method 1

When the conveying wheel 14 rotates clockwise along the direction B, vanes of the conveying wheel 14 carry the banknotes from the banknote guide platform surface 121 and rotate together with those banknotes. Due to the action of centrifugal force, the banknotes are thrown towards the banknote stacking shelf 24 while rotating.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCentrifugal force: Centrifugal Force

Data Source

PatentEP2883823B1Banknote stacking and aranging device
Publication Date: 2018.12.05 GRG BANKING EQUIPMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A bank note stacking and sorting device (100), comprising a bank note feeding unit (110), a bank note stacking unit (120), and a bank note sorting unit (130); the bank note feeding unit (110) comprises a bank note guiding table (112), and a wind wheel (114) sleeved on the bank note guiding table (112); the bank note stacking unit (120) comprises a bank note stacking rack (124), and a bank note baffle plate (126) disposed on the bank note stacking rack (124); the bank note baffle plate (126) is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the bank note stacking rack (124); the bank note stacking rack (124) is disposed in the bank note feeding direction of the bank note feeding unit (110) for stacking bank notes; the bank note sorting unit (130) comprises a limiting plate (131); the limiting plate (131) is disposed on the bank note stacking unit (120), and is perpendicular to the bank note baffle plate (126). Compared to prior art, the bank note stacking and sorting device can limit in the vertical direction the bank notes fluttering out from the wind wheel, and sort the short sides of the bank notes so as to orderly stack the bank notes on the bank note stacking rack.