Patent ID: 7850164
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A cassette for a currency note dispensing machine, the cassette comprising: a cassette housing formed in a box shape with an upper surface opened, in which currency notes vertically stand up and stack, the cassette housing being slidably mounted to a main frame of the currency note dispensing machine, and having a rear plate, a front plate opposite the rear plate, a first side plate, a second side plate opposite the first side plate and a bottom plate, the rear plate having a groove through which each of the currency notes contacts with a roller of a sheet separating unit to be separated one by one by the roller; a push plate supporting the currency notes and positioned between the front plate and the rear plate and coupled to a resilient member to press the currency notes toward the rear plate; a currency note guide comprising a lower guide extending along the bottom plate away from the bottom plate and positioned to place and support an underside of a stack of the currency notes on the lower guide, and a side guide extending along the first side plate away from the first side plate and positioned to support a side of the stack of the currency notes in the cassette housing; a first plurality of spacers provided and accumulated in the vertical direction between the lower guide and the bottom plate to control a spacing of the lower guide apart from the bottom plate by changing the number of spacers included in the first plurality of spacers; a second plurality of spacers provided and accumulated in the horizontal direction between the side guide and the first side plate to control a spacing of the side guide apart from the first side plate by changing the number of spacers included in the second plurality of spacers; and a wrong-mounting preventing member configured to prevent the cassette from being inserted into the currency note dispensing machine when the push plate is not disposed at a paper pressing position; wherein the wrong-mounting preventing member pivots upon a rotary shaft attached to the front plate when the wrong-mounting preventing member is moved by a bracket attached to the push plate, such that the wrong-mounting preventing member protrudes through a pivot slot located at an upper flange of at least one of the first and second side plates.