Patent Publication Number: US-2011048890-A1

Title: Equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes and respective receipting and dispensing modules

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention relates to an equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes and respective receipting and dispensing modules. 
     More specifically, the invention relates to an equipment for the deposit and the withdrawal of banknotes comprising a series of banknote receipting and dispensing modules or boxes according to the introductive portions of the main claims. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Equipments of this type are used in banking sites as help for tellers or as “self service” equipments operable by customers, without assistance, for banking transactions comprising the cash-in and the withdrawal of cashes. The modules or boxes or portions of the receipting and dispensing modules have function of recycling of the banknotes and are generally removable from the equipment for the loading or the emptying or for other control operations. In modules having high storing capacity and limited dimensions, the banknotes are stored so as to define a stack of banknotes with horizontal extension and support on the longer edge. 
     The operations of loading or emptying of banknote receipting and dispensing modules are entrusted to authorized personnel, often different from the tellers and transport of the modules in sites different from the site of installation of the equipment. These operations require rather long overall times. It has as a result that, for ensuring continuity of service, a sufficient number of spare modules associated to a given equipment is necessary. Naturally, high reliability and great safety are required to the modules, both in the operation, and in the operations of loading or emptying. Moreover, it is also necessary to ensure that effractions or operations not authorized on the same modules are prevented and that, anyway, these operations are easily recognizable. 
     In the equipments for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of the banknotes and recycling functions of known type, the receipting or dispensing modules or boxes generally have, on board, the moving mechanisms necessary for executing the introduction and the extraction of the banknotes, with separation from the respective stacks. Thus, the modules result rather complex and expensive. Therefore, taking into account of the spare modules or boxes of the equipment, the overall cost of an installation with an equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes results rather high. Moreover, the weight of the structure and of the respective mechanisms of the module is high and requires a relevant physical effort to the operators, in the mounting or removal operations, when the module or box is full. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     An object of the invention is to accomplish an equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes and respective receipting or dispensing modules or boxes which result reliable, of relatively contained cost, of easy use in the connected operations to the modules, and ensuring high operative safety. 
     According to a characteristic of the present invention, the equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes comprises a store safe and a series of banknotes receipting and dispensing modules or boxes and in which each module comprises a collecting seat and an insertion and extraction device for the banknotes. The receipting and dispensing modules or boxes are mounted with individual possibility of shifting in the store safe between an internal operative position and an external service position and in which at least one of the modules or boxes is a removable module and comprises a recycling container. The recycling container is removable and is assemblable with respect to the insertion and extraction device, in the service position of the module, and it defines the receipting seat for lodging a stack with arrangement of the banknotes substantially in vertical. 
     According to another characteristic, the equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes comprises a store safe with a series of banknote receipting and dispensing modules or boxes, a store transport mechanism for moving the banknotes from the modules and toward the modules and in which the banknotes receipting and dispensing modules or boxes are arranged overlapped in the store safe, with possibility of individually sliding, for service, on substantially horizontal sliding surfaces. Each module comprises a banknotes collecting seat, for lodging a stack of banknotes with arrangement in vertical, and an insertion and extraction device. The transport mechanism has a substantially vertical path and has diverting members for the banknotes in insertion and extraction. The transport mechanism has sections associated with the single modules with possibility of individual opening and closing, and in which the associated sections of the transport mechanism are mounted on the modules and are moving, for service, together with the same modules. 
     Modules or boxes for the automatic processing of banknotes are known, in which the banknotes are lodged in removable containers or cartridges, having only the function of store for the deposit. These modules do not respond therefore to the requirements for the recycling of banknotes. 
     Equipments with functional groups for the automatic processing of banknotes and having recycling containers for the banknotes have also been proposed. These containers have also the possibility of removal. Nevertheless the proposed solutions are complex and of questionable reliability. 
     Another object of the invention is to accomplish a receipting or dispensing module or box for equipments for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes and respective containers or cartridges for the banknotes, which result reliable, of relatively contained cost, which ensure great operative safety and in which the operations on the modules are easy. 
     According to a further characteristic, the banknotes receipting and dispensing modules or boxes are employable in an equipment for the deposit and the withdrawal of banknotes and comprise each one an insertion and extraction device for banknotes, a base structure and a container or cartridge, of recycling for the banknotes, mountable and removable manually with respect to the base structure, having vertical arrangement of the banknotes, support on a longer edge and formation of a respective stack. The recycling container defines an area of access to a terminal surface of the stack of banknotes and comprises an element of opening-closing for the area of access and an access command mechanism for the element of opening-closing and in which, when the container is mounted on the base structure, the area of access to the stack of banknotes is functional to the insertion and extraction device for inserting and extracting the banknotes with respect to the terminal surface of the stack. The receipting and dispensing module includes an actuation and/or command element or actuation and/or command elements, operative on the access command mechanism for causing the area of access to be opened in association with the mounting of the container in the base structure and for causing the area of access to be closed in condition of removed container. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The characteristics of the invention will become clear by the following description given purely by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the appended drawings in which: 
         FIG. 1  represents a schematic lateral view of an equipment for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes and respective receipting or dispensing modules or boxes, according to the invention, in a condition of use; 
         FIG. 2  is a schematic lateral view of the equipment and the receipting and dispensing modules according to the invention, in a service condition; 
         FIG. 3  shows a schematic perspective view, partially exploded, of a banknotes receipting and dispensing module or box with a container or recycling cartridge, according to the invention; 
         FIG. 4  represents a schematic lateral section of a banknotes receipting and dispensing module and of a recycling container of the invention in a pre-assembling condition; 
         FIG. 4   a  shows some details of the container of  FIG. 4 ; 
         FIGS. 5 ,  6  and  7  represent the banknotes receipting and dispensing module of the invention in different conditions; 
         FIG. 8  shows some details, in an enlarged scale, of the banknotes receipting and dispensing module in a service condition; 
         FIG. 9  shows some details, in an enlarged scale, of the equipment of  FIGS. 1 and 2  and of a respective module; 
         FIG. 10  represents a front perspective view of a recycling container for a banknotes receipting and dispensing module according to the invention; 
         FIG. 11  is a back perspective view of the recycling container of  FIG. 10 ; 
         FIG. 12  represents a schematic perspective view, partially exploded, of some details of the recycling container of  FIG. 10 ; 
         FIG. 13  is another schematic perspective view of some details of the container of  FIG. 10 ; 
         FIG. 14  is a schematic lateral view of a recycling container according to the invention, in a condition of service; 
         FIG. 15  is a schematic front view of the container of  FIG. 14 ; 
         FIGS. 16 ,  16   a ,  16   b  and  16   c  represent some details of the recycling container of  FIG. 10 , in different operative conditions; and 
         FIGS. 17 and 18  are partial and schematic lateral views of a variant of the equipment and of modules or boxes according to the invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
       FIG. 1  shows, in a schematic form, an equipment  31  for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes, with a series of respective receipting or dispensing modules or boxes  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n.    
     The equipment  31  includes, overlapped, an upper body  33  and a lower body  34 . The upper body  33  is of interface for the deposit and the delivery of the banknotes by the operator, while the lower body  34  is defined by a store-safe  36  in which the modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n . are lodged. The equipment  31  can process flexible documents different from the banknotes, as cheques and notes. From now forward the term banknotes, however, will also designate such flexible documents 
     The upper body  33  includes, in a conventionally frontal portion, an input port  37  for depositing and introducing the banknotes, an output port  38  for their dispensing, a forgery vane  39 , a deposit rejection vane  41  and a withdrawal rejection vane  42 . The ports  37  and  38  are open and accessible by the user, while the vanes  39 ,  41  and  42  are closed and accessible through keys. Moreover are in evidence, inside the body  33 : a validation device  43  in a rear portion, an interface transport mechanism  44 , an electronic control unit  46 , and an input-output port  47  of connection with the store-safe  36 . The above mentioned components of the upper body  33 , can be of known type and are summary described in the following. 
     The input port  37  and the output port  38  are provided for receiving banknotes  48  introduced by the user in a deposit stack  49  and, respectively, for receiving banknotes required by the user by a withdrawal stack  51 . The forgery vane  39  receives the banknotes suspect of forgery; the deposit rejection vane  41  is intended for receiving the components of the stack  49  rejected by the equipment  31  in the phase of deposit and not withdrawn by the user, while the withdrawal rejection vane  42  is in turn provided to receive the banknotes discarded by the equipment  31  in the phase of withdrawal. 
     As far as the deposit it concerns, an input separating device  52  and a preliminary control device  53  are arranged in sequence between the input port  37  and the transport mechanism  44 . The separating device  52  provides the separation of the banknotes  48 , while the control device  53  verifies the thickness of the separated component for what it relates to the presence of extraneous materials and the double separations. 
     As for the withdrawal, a stacking wheel  54  arranges in superimposition the banknotes  48  coming from the mechanism  44  and directed to the output port  38 . Finally a receiption and separating device  56  provides to overlap and separate, for further processings, the banknotes  48  rejected by the deposit rejection vane  41 . 
     The interface transport mechanism  44  comprises a passive diverter  59  and controlled diverters  61 ,  62  and  63  for connecting the transaction ports and the banknote vanes with the validation device  43  and the input-output port  47  ( FIGS. 1 and 2 ). 
     The store-safe  36  has a front opening  66 , side walls  67   l  and  67   r , a rear wall  68 , a door  69  for the opening  66  and a plurality of housings for the receipting and dispensing modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n . In the store-safe  36  are mounted a store transport mechanism  72 , a transport moving member  73  ( FIG. 9 ) for the mechanism  72  and a plurality of stacking moving members  74 - 1 ,  74 - 2 , . . .  74 - n  ( FIG. 1 ) for the receipting and dispensing modules. The housings for the modules are arranged on a line, in vertical, and receive each one a respective module  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  for a corresponding arrangement in superimposition of the same modules. 
     The store transport mechanism  72  has a substantially vertical path and comprises diverting members  75  for each module  32 . Through the diverting members  75 , the mechanism  72  moves the banknotes  48  between the input-output port  47  and the modules  32 . The door  69  is provided of a safety lock, not shown in the figures, and it makes to access to the transport mechanism  72  and the modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n . Couples of guides  76  ( FIG. 2 ) are mounted in a telescopic way between the walls  67   l  and  67   r  of the store-safe  36  in the space provided for the housings for the modules. Through respective intermediate supports constituted by trays  77 , the modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  are mounted between a respective couple of guides  76 , with possibility of slide in horizontal between an operative position (modules  32 - 1  and  32 - 2 ) and a service position (module  32 - n ). The operative position is internal to the store-safe  36  and is functional to each module  32  for the reception and the dispensing of the banknotes  48 . The service position is external to the store-safe  36  with arrangement of the modules  32  countlever through the opening  66 , and functional to each module for operations on the banknotes  48  connected with the emptying and the recharging and for maintenance. 
     The receipting and dispensing modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  have dimensions and functionality similar to the dimensions and the functionality of the boxes for deposit and dispensing of banknotes described in the Italian Patent Application No. TO2006A00094 filed on Oct. 2, 2006 in the name of the applicant CTS Cashpro S.p.A. and whose content is herein included as reference. 
     The receipting and dispensing modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  are of substantially parallelepiped shape, lengthened in depth, and present a collecting seat  78  and an insertion and extraction device  79  for the banknotes  48 . Each module  32  has in evidence a base structure  80 , a front wall  81  and a bottom with an opening  82 , of input-output for the banknotes adjacent to the wall  81 . In the seat  78 , the banknotes  48  are lodged with arrangement in vertical and support on longer side and define a stack represented with  83 . The device  79  has the function of introducing in an orderly way and stacking the banknotes in the seat  78 , in association with the deposit. The device  79  has also the function of singularly extracting the banknotes from the module  32 , through unstacking-separation operation from the stack  83 , in association with the withdrawal. 
     In each module  32 , the insertion and extraction device  79  comprises introduction-extraction rollers  84  for the introduction and the extraction of the banknotes with respect to the recycling box, a separation member  86  for facilitating the introduction of the banknotes and a separating roller  87  for the unstacking operation of the banknotes from the stack  83 . The introduction-extraction rollers  84  are arranged of few below the collecting seat  78  provided for the stack  83 , while the separation member  86  is interposed between the input-output opening  82  and the stack of banknotes  83 . The separation member  86  is shiftable between an operative position downstream of the separation roller  87  in the sense of the stacking, as indicated for the module  32 - 1  for a configuration of deposit of banknotes, and a non-operative position, upstream of the separation roller, as indicated for the module  32 - 2  relatively to a dispensing configuration. 
     For motorizing the single modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n , respective configuration motors  88  are functional to the separation member  86 , while introduction-extraction motors  89  actuate the rotation of the introduction-extraction rollers  84 . The motors  88  and  89  are mounted on the wall  67   r  of the store safe  36  and comprise respective driving gears  91  and  92  projecting from the wall  67   r  in correspondence of the modules housings. In the operative position of the modules  32 , the driving gears  91  and  92  engage taking gears, not shown in the figures, for some functions regarding the separation member  86  and, respectively, for the rotations of the introduction-extraction rollers  84  and the separation roller  87  of the respective module  32 . The introduction of the banknotes is associated to a given sense of motion of the motor  89 , while the extraction is associated to an opposite sense of motion. The stack of banknotes  83  of each module is moved jointly with the operations of introduction and extraction of the banknotes by means of a pressing element actuated by the respective stacking moving member  74 - 1 ,  74 - 2 ,  74 - n.    
     Similarly to what described in the cited Patent Application TO2006A00094, the separation member  86  for each module  32 , between the input-output opening  82  and the stack of banknotes  83  comprises two spirals of insertion banknotes, herein represented with  94   l  and  94   r , extended in the sense of the stacking, for overlapping the banknotes in deposit on a terminal surface of the stack  83 . The spirals  94   l  and  94   r  are rotated by the driving gear  91  of the respective configuration motor  88 , through the taking gear and a kinematic chain not shown in the figures. The spirals  94   l  and  94   r  are shifted between the operative position and the non-operative position on control of a cyclical actuation mechanism, also not shown in the figures, sensitive to the change of the sense of rotation of the introduction-extraction motor  89 , and actuation by means of the moving stacking member of the pressing element of the stack  83 . 
     In the operative position, the spirals  94   l  and  94   r  are in contact with the stacking surface of the stack of banknotes  83  and the insertion of the banknotes takes place from the bottom upwards by means of the introduction extraction rollers  84 . The spirals  94   l  and  94   r  are rotated by the configuration motor  88  in synchronism with the movement of the entering banknotes so that the same banknotes are received between the spirals and move on the stacking surface. In the non-operative position of the spirals  94   l  and  94   r , the stacking surface is in contact with the separation roller  87 . The respective introduction-extraction motor  89  makes the roller  87  to rotate, for extracting the banknotes from the top downward from the stack of banknotes  83 . Then the banknotes are shifted toward the diverting members  75  and the transport mechanism  72 , by means of the introduction-extraction rollers  84 . 
     The mounting of the modules  32  between the guides  76  provide, as an example, screw knobs  85  of the trays  77  coupable with seats of the base structure  80 . With this structure and in the service positions, the modules have possibility of easy removal and replacing with respect to the equipment  32 . 
     According to an aspect of the present invention, the store transport mechanism  72  has individual sections  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n , associated with the single modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  and mounted on the same modules, and in which the respective diverting members  75  are arranged adjacent to the opening  82 . The individual sections  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n  are moved therefore together with the modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  in the service position and have possibility of access to corresponding sections of the banknotes path between the modules  32  and the input-output port  47 . The individual sections of the transport mechanism  72  ( FIG. 9 ) take the motion, or directly by the transport moving member  73 , or through another of the individual sections  96 . 
     In an exemplary embodiment, the transport moving member  73  comprises a motor  97  and a motor pinion  98  mounted in the store safe  36 . The pinion  98  is actuated by the motor  97  and projects from an upper section of the lateral wall  67   l  adjacent to the opening  66 . The individual sections  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n  of the mechanism  72  include each one a taking gear  99  adjacent to an upper portion of the module  32  and a transmission gear  101  adjacent to a lower portion and connected in the rotation with the taking gear  99  of the underlying individual section. 
     In the operative position, the individual section  96 - 1  associated to the module  32 - 1  takes the motion from the motor pinion  98  through the taking gear  99 , as indicated in  FIG. 9 . The section  96 - 2  of the module  32 - 2  takes the motion from the transmission gear  101  of the section  96 - 1 , through the taking gear  99 . In turn it transmits the motion to the lower individual section, and so on to the section  96 - n . In the service position of a module  32  and in the operative position of the other modules, the taking gear  99  is disengaged by the transmission gear  101  of the upper module or by the pinion  98 , while the gear  101  is disengaged by the taking gear  99  of the lower module. 
     The individual sections  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n  of the mechanism  72  include each one a series of transport rollers  102  ( FIG. 8 ), a frame  103  and a series of counter-rollers  104 . The transport rollers  102  are supported in the rotation by the frontal wall  81  and are connected with the taking gear  99 . The frame  103  is fulcrumed in correspondence of the input-output opening  82  of the module  32  and supports in the rotation the series of the counter-rollers  104 . The frame  103  is shiftable between an operative position of transport and an access position. The transport position is adjacent to the wall  81  for an arrangement of the counter-rollers  104  in contrast with the transport rollers  102 , while the access position is far away by the wall  81  for an arrangement of the counter-rollers  104  spaced away by the rollers  102 . Elements of locking, not shown in the figures, maintain the frame  103  in the transport position and are manually actuable for the positioning of the frame in the position of access. 
     In the transport position of the frame  103  and for the operative position of the module  32  ( FIG. 1 ), the transport rollers  102  and the counter-rollers  104  define fractions of path and transport of the banknotes in front of the modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 ,  32 - n , together with corresponding guide elements of known type. In these conditions, a banknote  48  in movement along this fraction of the section  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n  can proceed toward the lower or upper module  32  or can be deviated toward the seat  78 . Likewise, a banknote  48  emerging from the module  32  is deviable by the member  75  toward the rollers  102  and the counter-rollers  104  along the fraction of the section  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n  and toward the input-output port  47 . In the service position of the respective module  32  ( FIG. 2 ), the locking elements can be released by means not shown, for spacing away the frame  103  by the wall  81  so as to allow the removal of banknotes  48  possibly clogged in the section  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n , in condition of liberty of movement of the transport rollers and without risks of tears. 
     The stacking moving members  74 - 1 ,  74 - 2 , . . . ,  74 - n  comprise each one a motor  106  and a transversal shaft with a respective motor pinion  107 . The pinion  107  projects toward the inside from the rear wall  68  of the store safe  36 . In the operative position of the module  32 , the pinion  107  cooperates with a taking gear of the same module  32  to the end of shifting the stack of banknotes  83  along the collecting seat, as it will be later described. 
     According to the invention, at least one of the modules or boxes  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . . ,  32 - n  (for instance the module  32 - n  of  FIG. 2 ) is a separable module and comprises a recycling container or cartridge  111 , in which is defined the collecting seat  78  for the banknotes  48 . The cartridge  111  ( FIGS. 2 ,  3  and  4 ) is mountable and removable with respect to the base structure  80  and coupable with the insertion and extraction device  79 . When the separable module is assembled with the recycling cartridge, the insertion and extraction device  79  is engageable with the stack of banknotes  83 . Thus, in the operative position of the module and interfacing with the store transport mechanism  72 , the insertion and extraction device provides to introduce the banknotes  48  into the cartridge  111  and, in alternative, to singularly extract the banknotes from the cartridge. 
     The assembling and the separation between recycling cartridge  111  and device  79  are manually effected in the service position of the respective receipting and dispensing module  32  and, specifically, for shiftings in horizontal and in vertical. 
     The cartridge  111  has substantially parallelepiped shape lengthened in depth and safety anti effraction features. The cartridge presents: a front opening which defines an area of access  113  for the terminal surface of the stack  83 , an element of opening-closing for the area of access  113  defined by a plate  114 , and an access command mechanism  116  for the plate  114 . The area of access  113  is arranged in a terminal section, substantially rectangular, of the cartridge  111 . When the cartridge is assembled with the module  32 , the plate  114  is open and makes to access to the stack  83 ; at container separated by the module, the plate  114  normally closes the area of access  113 . 
     Suitable, the separable module  32  comprises an actuating device  118  for the access command mechanism  116 . The device  118  is pre-set to operate on the command mechanism  116 , so as to open the plate  114  in association with the assembling of the container with the module and to close the plate  114  in association with the separation. Moreover, the module  32  defines a screen  121  in which the components of the insertion and extraction device  79  are lodged. 
     The screen  121  includes lateral walls  119   r  and  119   l  and a roof and is delimited in the front portion by the front wall  81  of the module  32 . The screen  121  has a section complementary to the terminal section of the cartridge for receiving this terminal section in association with the assembly of the cartridge with the module  32 . It mainly for preventing tampering in the area provided for the engagement between the stack of banknotes  83  and the insertion and extraction device  79 . 
     The actuating device  118  of the module  32  comprises two “L” shaped notches  122 , a movable frame  123  and a manual shifting member. The notches  122  are obtained internally on a lower portion of the lateral walls  119   l  and  119   r  of the screen  121 , while the frame  123  is supported in a slidable way by the base structure  80 . The frame  123  has a “U” shaped structure with two arms  124  and a rear crossbar and defines two notches  125  in an upper portion of the arms  124 , adjacent to the rear crossbar. The manual shifting member works on the frame  123  for facilitating the assembling of the cartridge with the module  32 . 
     Specifically, the manual shifting member comprises a lever knob  126  fulcrumed on the wall  119   r  and connected, through a chain of gears and a pinion, not shown in the figures, with a rack  127  obtained on one of the arms  124  of the frame  123 . The knob  126  is shiftable between an upper position, of assembling and a lower position, of non-operativity for the module  32 . In the upper position ( FIGS. 3 and 4 ), the knob  126  determines an extracted condition of the frame  123  shifted toward the rear portion of the base structure  80 . In the lower position ( FIGS. 6 and 7 ), the knob  126  determines a closed condition of the frame  123  in which the crossbar is in contact with the rear portion of the structure  80 . 
     The cartridge  111  ( FIGS. 3 and 4 ) includes a bottom  128 , two lateral walls  129   l  and  129   r , a base  130 , a rear wall  131 , an upper crossbar  132  in correspondence of the area of access  113  and a cover  133 . The base  130  is arranged above the bottom  128  and is of partial support for the stack of banknotes  83 . The cover  133  is associated to an upper opening  134 , above the stack  83 , for manual operations of empting and recharging of the cartridge. Moreover, two recesses  136  at the outside of the walls  129   l  and  129   r  facilitate the manual taking of the cartridge  111 , in the transport and in the assembling or removal phases regarding the module  32 . 
     The cover  133  is fulcrumed in correspondence of the rear wall  131  of the cartridge  111 , with contrast of a front edge on the crossbar  132  and is lockable by means of a lock for closing with safety the opening  134 , as it will be described in the following. The area of access  113  to the stack of banknotes  83  extends with the whole front section of the cartridge between the walls  129   l  and  129   r , the base  130  and the crossbar  132 . 
     The plate  114  ( FIGS. 4 ,  7  and  14 ) is of balance type, with fulcrum and shifting close to a lower edge and is lodgeable, when it is open, in an interspace of the cartridge  111  between the base  130  and the bottom  128 . In detail, the plate  114  comprises two lateral ribs  137  adjacent to lateral contrast edges, two locking pins  138 , projecting from the ribs  137  and two projections adjacent to a lower contrast edge. The ribs  137  define respective cam profiles  141 , having each one a terminal section sloping down toward the lower contrast edge. The profiles  141  are provided for cooperating with respective cam follower rollers  142  mounted on the lateral walls  129   l  and  129   r  of the cartridge  111 . 
     The access command mechanism  116  includes a slide member  143  and two door locking groups  144 . The slide member  143  is mounted slidably in the interspace between the base  130  and the bottom  128  of the cartridge  111  and includes in a front part two lugs with respective pivots  146 , of fulcrum for the plate  114 , through the projections adjacent to the lower contrast edge. Laterally, the slide member  143  has two slide control pins  147  projecting from the walls  129   l  and  129   r  through two slots  148  parallel to the bottom  128 . Two return springs  149  arranged at the sides, between the plate  114  and the slide member  143 , urge the plate  114  toward the closing position. Two contrast pins  150  are further provided of coupling for the cartridge  111 , fixed closed to the lower edges of the walls  129   l  and  129   r , adjacent to the rear wall  131 . 
     The door locking groups  144  comprise respective shaped hooks  151 , provided for cooperating with the locking pins  138  in the condition of closing of the plate  114 . The hooks  151  have discoid shape, fulcrumed on respective pivots of the walls  129   l  and  129   r  and are provided for being positioned between a position of engagement with the door locking pins  138  and a position of disengagement from the pins  138 . 
     In condition of rest and liberty for the plate  114 , the springs  149  determine a position of equilibrium in which the slide member  143  is in an advanced position, while the terminal sections of the cam profiles  141  are engaged by the cam follower rollers  1421  and the plate  114  is closed. In the position of disengagement of the hooks  151 , the shifting in a forced way the slide member  143  toward the rear portion with respect to the cartridge  111  causes a rotation of the plate  114  in the sense of the opening, with fulcrum of the profiles  141  on the couple of the cam follower rollers  142  and against the action of the springs  149 . 
     Proceeding with the shifting between plate  114  and cartridge  111 , the ribs  137  present to the cam follower rollers  142  a rectilinear portion of the cam profiles  141 , such to dispose the plate parallel to the bottom and in condition of maximum extension of the springs  149 . A further shifting of the slide member  143  toward the rear portion of the box determines the complete positioning of the plate  114  in the interspace between the bottom  128  and the base, with the rectilinear portion of the cam profiles  141  engaged by a second couple of cam follower rollers  154 , mounted on the walls  129   l  and  129   r.    
     In the device  118 , the “L” shaped notches  122  are pre-set for receiving the slide control pins  147 , while the recesses  125  are arranged for receiving the contrast pins  150 , jointly with the setting of the cartridge  111  in the base structure  80 . In a pre-assembly phase, with knob  126  in upper position and frame  123  extracted, the cartridge  111  can be positioned above the base structure  80  and then lowerered, so as to cause the control pins  147  to be engaged in the notches  122  and the contrast pins  50  to be lodged in the recesses  125 . 
     A rotation of the knob  124  in a counterclockwise sense in  FIG. 4 , through the relative chain of gears and the rack  127 , causes the movable frame  123  to advance toward the front position and the cartridge  111  to be shifted with the stack of banknotes  83  to the inside of the screen  121 , while the slide member  143  is still, bound to the base structure  80 . The reciprocal movement between the slide member  143  and the cartridge  111  causes the opening of the plate  114  and the progressive insertion of the plate underneath the base  130 , in the above described way, without interference with the spirals of insertion  94   l  and  94   r  of the insertion and extraction device  79 . 
     At the end of rotation of the knob  124 , low position of  FIG. 7 , the assembling of the cartridge  111  with the module  32  is completed. The terminal surface of the stack  83  is in contact with the spirals  94   l  and  94   r  of the insertion and extraction device  79  and the introduction extraction rollers  84  are in operative condition for the introduction of the banknotes with respect to the base  130 , as described in the above cited Patent Application TO2006A00094. 
     According to the present invention, the recycling cartridge  111  comprises a keeping element  156  in an upper portion of the area of access  113 , and a pressing element  157  with functions of front and back contrast for the banknotes of the stack  83 . When the cartridge is assembled with the module  32 , the insertion and extraction device  79  replaces the keeping element  156 , holding back the banknotes  48  against the action of the pressing element  157  in the operations of insertion and in the unstacking operations. 
     Suitably, the recycling cartridge  111  comprises a key mechanism  158  for the plate  114 . The plate  114  is locked on the cartridge  111  when the same cartridge is separated by the module  32  and in condition of cartridge removed. After unlocking of the key mechanism  158 , the plate  114  can be opened for the action of the actuating device  118  at the moment of the installation in the module. The key mechanism  158  also operates for the locking of the cover  133 . 
     In detail, the keeping element  156  comprises an arm  159  fulcrumed in central position on the upper crossbar  132  and opposed by a spring  161 . The arm  159  has a lug  162  projecting upward through a notch  163  of the crossbar  132 . In turn, the screen  121  defines, in the roof, a notch  164  for the lug  162  and a projection  166 , toward the inside, at the end of the notch  163 . When the cartridge is removed, the arm  159  is kept in vertical position for the stopping of the lug  162  against the bottom of the notch  163 , with function of keeping for the stack of banknotes  83 . 
     At the moment of the insertion of the cartridge  111  into the screen  121 , the lug  162 , after sliding along the notch  164 , is shifted by the projection  166  of the screen against the action of the spring  161 . Therefore, the arm  159  is carried in a horizontal position above the stacks of banknotes, jointly with the opening of the plate  114  and according to a trajectory without interference between the spirals  94   l  and  94   r . The insertion of the cartridge  111  can freely proceed up to the contact of the terminal surface of the stack of banknotes against the ends of the spirals  94   l  and  94   r.    
     In the cartridge  111 , the pressing element  157  is formed by a vertical plate moved by the upper branches of two lengthened toothed belts  167 , which extend through the space provided for the stack of banknotes  83 . The belts  167  are engaged between two couples of pulleys  168  and  169  mounted adjacent to the area of access  113  and at the rear wall  131  in respective seats of the lateral walls  129   l  and  129   r . Two other toothed belts  171 , also of lengthened shape and extended through the space provided for the stack of banknotes, are engaged between two respective couples of pulleys  172  and  173  mounted adjacent to the area of access  113  and to the wall  131 , underneath the base  130 . The upper branches of the belts  171  project of few from the base  130  and support the lower edges of the banknotes of the stack  83 . The pulleys  169  are keyed on an upper axis  174 , while the pulleys  172  are keyed on a shaft  175  arranged below the base  130 . 
     The shafts  174  and  175  are connected in the rotation through respective toothed pulleys and a transmission belt  176 , for a condition of synchronism between the belts  167  and the belts  171 . On the shaft  175  is keyed a taking gear  178 . When the cartridge  111  is mounted, and in the operative position of the module  32 , the gear  178  is engageable with the motor pinion  107  projecting from the rear wall  68  of the respective housing of the equipment  31 . Thus, in dependence of the sense of rotation of the motor  106  of the moving member  74 , the pressing element  157  and the upper branches of the belts  171  can be moved frontwards or backwards with respect to the base  130 , for a contemporary frontward or backward movement of the stack of banknotes  83 , in a way similar to what is described in the cited Patent Application TO2006A00094. 
     Lastly, the cartridge  111  includes a braking mechanism for the pressing element  157 , not shown in the figures, operative on the taking gear  178 , when the module  32  is out of the operative position. For instance, this braking mechanism includes an arrest tooth controlled, through leverages, by a contrast member adjacent to the wall  68  of the store safe  36 . It ensures that the stack of banknotes remains locked against the keeping element  156 . 
     In the access command mechanism  116  ( FIGS. 12 and 16 ), the shaped hooks  151  are urged by springs  179  toward the position of engagement for the door locking pins  138 . On the hooks  151  are mounted two respective hook control pins  181  projecting toward the outside from respective arc shaped slot  182  obtained in the walls  129   l  and  129   r  of the cartridge. The pins  181  are arrested by upper stroke ends of the slots  182 , in the positions of engagement of the hooks  151 . Further, the walls  129   l  and  129   r  define two rectilinear grooves  183  having axes parallel to the bottom  128 , tangent to the upper stroke ends of the slots  182 . There are also provided hook arrest pins  186  projecting toward the inside from the hooks  151  and two arrest levers  187  fulcrumed close to he hooks  151 . The levers  187  are urged in a counterclockwise sense by springs not shown and are provided to oppose, with function of locking, the hook arrest pins  186 . 
     In turn, the actuation device  118  of the module  32  comprises, inside the screen  121 , two projections  184  (only one visible in  FIG. 3 ) which are provided to be slidably lodged in the grooves  183  ( FIGS. 9 ,  10 ,  11  and  15 ) of the cartridge  111  and cooperate with the control pins  181 . With the mounting of cartridge in the base structure  80  and following the rotation of the knob  124 , the projections  184  can move the hook control pins  181  with respect to the cartridge  111 , making the hooks  151  to rotate clockwise, unless of actions of locking on the same hooks. 
     The key mechanism  158  for the plate  114  comprises: two sliders  189 , an actuation handle  191  with a crossbar  192  mounted on the cover  133  and a lock  193  mounted on the rear wall  131  of the cartridge  111 . The sliders  189  are slidable supported in depth internally to the sides of the cover  133 , and are pulled backwards by return springs not shown in the drawings. The handle  191  is arranged slidably in a median rear portion of the cover  133  and is also pushed towards the rear portion by a spring, also not shown. The actuation handle  191  is manually shiftable toward the front portion for shifting the crossbar  192  by means of the sliders  189 . The lock  193  is designed for stopping the handle  191  in its rest position with crossbar  192  spaced away from the sliders  189 . 
     The key mechanism  158  also comprises two signalling blocks  194  mounted on the cover  133  in front of the sliders  189  and lugs  196  projecting upwards from the hooks  151 . The blocks  194  have possibility of sliding in depth between two positions stabilized by springs (not shown in the figures) and are shiftable toward the front portion by the sliders  189 . In the closed position of the cover  133 , the blocks  194  are behind the lugs  196  and are provided for cooperating with the arrest levers  187 . 
     The signalling blocks  194  have an upper surface with areas coloured in red and in green, individually visible trough windows of the cover  133 . An advanced position of the blocks  194  ( FIG. 16 ) regarding the visualization of the green area, is associated to a configuration of assembling of the cartridge with the module  32 . In fact, in the advanced position of the blocks  194  and of rest of the sliders  189 , the arrest levers  187  are arrested by the same blocks  194  and the hooks  151  are free of shifting toward the position of disengagement from the pins  138 , in view of the absence of obstacle by the levers  187  on the pins  186 . 
     A retracted position of the blocks  194  ( FIG. 16   c ), corresponding to the visualization of the red area, is associated to a configuration of inaccessibility inside the box and further prevents the assembling of the cartridge  111  with the module  32 . In detail, in the retracted position of the blocks  194 , of rest of the sliders  189  and of engagement of the hooks  151 , the arrest levers  187  are in a lifted position, behind the arrest pins  186  and prevent any shifting of the hooks  151 . 
     Suitably, the key mechanism  158  also provides to lock the cover  133  jointly to the locking of the plate  114 . The sliders  189  have teeth  197  and  198  for cooperating with respective shoulders  199  and  201  of the lateral walls  129   l  and  129   r , adjacent to the upper edges, when the actuation handle  192  is in position of rest and the cover  133  is closed. In front, the teeth  197  and  198  have also inclined profiles  202  for cooperating with respective inclined profiles  203  of the lateral walls  129   l  and  129   r  to make easier the unhooking of the teeth  197  and  198  from the shoulders  199  and  201  with preliminary opening of the same cover, in a way known per sé. 
     The passage from the configuration of accessibility to the configuration of inaccessibility is automatic, in association with the removal of the cartridge  111  by the separable module  32  following its assembling. In fact, with reference to  FIG. 16   a , by returning to the condition of pre-assembling of the cartridge  111  in the base structure  80  of the module  32 , the shifting of the cartridge inside the screen  121  makes the hooks  151  to rotate in a counterclockwise sense in the position of disengagement, as effect of the action of the projections  184  on the hooks control pins  181 ; in turn, the lugs  196  shift the blocks  194  into the rear position while the relative springs rotate clockwise the arrest levers  187 , jointly with the opening of the plate  114 , as represented in  FIG. 16   b . From this condition, a shifting of the cartridge inside the screen  121 , as function of the removal, causes the plate  114  to be closed and allows the hooks  151  to return into the position of engagement with the door locking pins  138 . The levers  187  are now shifted in a lifted position behind the arrest pins  186  and arrest stop the hooks  151 , as represented in  FIG. 16   c . The complete removal of the cartridge by the module  32  does not modify the position of the various components, the cartridge is in the configuration of inaccessibility and the plate  114  is closed and locked. 
     The passage from the configuration of inaccessibility to the configuration of accessibility is possible when the cartridge  111  is removed by the separable module  32  and previous key unlocking of the actuation handle  191 , through the lock  193 . The following actuation of the handle  191  shifts the sliders  189  toward the front portion, with consequent shifting of the blocks  194  toward the advanced position, as dots and dashes represented in  FIG. 16   c . Consequently, the arrest levers  187  are rotated clockwise out of the trajectory of the arrest pins  186  and cause arresting against the same blocks  194 , with releasing of the hooks  151  ( FIG. 16 ). Moreover, the teeth  197  and  198  are disengaged from the shoulders  199  and  201  while the cover sets in the condition of pre-opening and can be opened. For controls, also the plate  114  can be opened by manually releasing the hooks  151  through the arrest pins  181 . 
     After the operations of emptying or recharging of the banknotes or other operations of control on the cartridge  111  and extraction of the key, the cover  133  can be snap closed. It does not modify the position of the various components, the cartridge is in the configuration of assembling with the module  32 , while the plate  114 , closed but unlocked, will be opened by the actuation device  118  at the moment of the assembly with the module  32 . 
     Naturally, the principle of the invention remaining the same, the embodiments and the details of construction of the equipments for the automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes and respective modules of receipting and dispensing can broadly be varied with respect to what has been described and illustrated, by way of non limitative example, without departing from the ambit of the invention. 
     As an example, in  FIG. 17  is shown a variant of the transport mechanism in store, represented with  206 , comprising a transport motor mechanism  207  with a motor pinion  208 , a belt  209 , toothed on opposite faces, a couple of store transport rollers  211   h  and  211   l  and a contrast pulley  212 . The belt  209  has lengthened configuration, extended in vertical through the whole height of the store safe  36 ; the rollers  211   h  and  211   l  are arranged adjacent to the opening  66 , in the upper portion and respectively, in the lower portion of the store safe  36 , while the pinion  208  and the pulley  212  are arranged behind the rollers  211   h  and  211   l . A first branch of the belt  209  extends between the transport rollers  211   h  and  211   l , while a second branch extends between the pinion  208  and the contrast pulley  212 . 
     The modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  define respective individual sections  213 - 1 ,  213 - 2 , . . .  213 - n , similar to the sections  96 - 1 ,  96 - 2 , . . .  96 - n , which show each one a toothed pulley  214  integral in the rotation with the transport rollers of modules  102 , and engageable with the teeth of the belt  209 , while the contrast pulley  212  maintains in tension the belt  209 . The toothed pulleys  214  of the modules  32  are pressure engageable with the first branch of the belt  209 . 
     When the modules  32  are in the respective operative positions, all the transport rollers of modules  102  are provided for dragging the banknotes  48  along the individual sections  213 - 1 ,  213 - 2 , . . .  213 - n , without solution of continuity. Vice versa, when a module  32  is in the service position, the respective toothed pulley  214  is disengaged from the teeth of the belt  209  and maintain free the transport modules rollers  102 . 
     The equipment for the deposit and the automatic withdrawal of banknotes can use receipting and dispensing modules with members of separation of the insertion and extraction device different from the spirals of insertion banknotes of the cited Italian Patent Application TO2006A00094. As an example such member can be formed by controlled guiding plates and flexible wheels arms, of known type. 
     Also the various components of the recycling box, as the opening-closing element and the respective control and locking mechanisms can be different from the ones above described. For instance, instead of a balanced plate, the recycling box can provide a series of articulated laminar elements, of known type. 
     The modules  32 - 1 ,  32 - 2 , . . .  32 - n  are mounted in the respective guides  76  by means of known type, not represented, and can be removed by the guides and replaced with other modules for maintenance operations in alternative without departing from the ambit of the invention, manual mounting means can be provided, such to allow facilitated disassembling and mounting of the same modules to proceed with the assembling of the respective recycling cartridges, when the module  32  is removed from the equipment  32 .