WO2005081194A1 - Device for the treatment, evaluation, validation and recycling of a wad of bills - Google Patents

Device for the treatment, evaluation, validation and recycling of a wad of bills Download PDF

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WO2005081194A1
WO2005081194A1 PCT/ES2005/000082 ES2005000082W WO2005081194A1 WO 2005081194 A1 WO2005081194 A1 WO 2005081194A1 ES 2005000082 W ES2005000082 W ES 2005000082W WO 2005081194 A1 WO2005081194 A1 WO 2005081194A1
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Jaime Sallen Rosello
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    • G07DHANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
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    • G07D7/00Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
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  • the invention falls within the field of security and more specifically in the treatment of a set of bills by means of a valuation, validation device and the disposal of bills that, due to loss of any of their physical characteristics, must be withdrawn. of circulation.
  • the counting devices, desktop titrators that currently exist are mainly devices that automatically perform the counting of a set or bundle of bills, resulting in the sum of the total value of the bills processed, in addition to authenticating the tickets processed. These desktop devices are useful for operators who work with banknotes such as bank tellers, since, in addition to expediting and allowing the counting of banknotes in smaller periods of time in tens of units, they increase the certainty of that the tickets processed are legal tender.
  • Most legal tender bills have a substantially rectangular shape having two major sides that extend in a longitudinal direction and two minor sides that extend in a transverse direction substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal direction.
  • the counter counting devices of the existing table up to now carry out a treatment of the banknote or paper money with the passage of the banknote in its transverse direction.
  • the sorting devices used by the central banks processes the banknotes in the longitudinal direction . This is so because through these devices an identification and authentication of the absolute ticket is achieved, since the security measures of the ticket have been designed to be correctly identified for an advance of the ticket in its longitudinal direction.
  • a need to provide a bill handling device has been detected, which contemplates on the one hand the valuation and validation of bills and on the other that has the possibility of withdrawing invalid tickets using unique mechanical and electronic systems for both valid tickets as for invalid tickets.
  • the need to design a banknote processing device has been detected in which the advance of the banknotes throughout their processing takes place in the longitudinal direction of the banknote in order to optimize the validation process and to drastically reduce the number of sensors that will determine the physical characteristics of the bill in order to determine certain security measures.
  • the invention relates to a bill handling device, the bills presenting a substantially rectangular shape with two major sides extending in a longitudinal direction and two minor sides extending in a transverse direction substantially perpendicular to said direction longitudinally, the device comprising: - input means of a set of bills to be treated, comprising a presence sensor and means for transporting the bills towards means of unitary separation of the bills, - the means of unitary separation of the bills, configured to separate the bills one by one, - means for measuring the thickness of each of the bills coming from the means of unitary separation of the bills, configured to generate a first signal of error if a thickness greater than a predetermined threshold corresponding to a maximum thickness of a bill is measured, - means of validation of each of the bills, comprising a plurality of sensors for measuring physical characteristics of the bills and means of analysis for determining , based on the characteristics measured, if the ticket is valid or not and configured to generate a second error signal if measurements of the physical characteristics of the ticket are
  • the bill handling device of the present invention is characterized in that the input means, the unit separation means, the thickness measurement means, the validation means, the first transport means and the collection means are configured so that the bill travels in the longitudinal direction from the entry means to the collection means. In this way, a more efficient measure of the physical characteristics of the ticket associated with a series of security measures that determine its validity is achieved.
  • the device object of the present invention is designed for use as a desktop device, that is to say ' it is a small and portable device with the possibility of being transported to the place that the user desires, occupying a small space.
  • the collection means of the bill handling device object of the present invention comprise second means of transport which in turn comprise means for receiving bills in a receiving position, the second means of transport being configured to: rotate with respect to a axis of rotation perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the bill, in order to move the bills from said receiving position to the first position; and stop with the bills in said second position, prior to said first position, in the event that a first and / or second error signal corresponding to the ticket has been generated.
  • this banknote processing device is a recycle device or rather as a device for discarding or withdrawing the circulation of invalid bills, in addition to serving as an appraisal device, validator, in addition to enabling the treatment of the banknote in its longitudinal direction.
  • a first error signal is generated.
  • the analysis means sends a second error signal if measurements of the physical characteristics of the ticket other than corresponding preset patterns.
  • the reception means of the collection means are configured so that upon receiving the first and / or the second error signal, they first move the validated banknote to the first position by a turn and on the other hand once the Invalid ticket has reached the reception means said reception means move, together with the invalid ticket, to move to the second position prior to the first position and stand in this second position.
  • the first means of transport they are paralyzed to prevent the next ticket from reaching the means of receiving the collection media.
  • the invalid ticket is therefore retained in the reception means in the second position at the same time that the feeding of the next ticket is interrupted, being able at that same time to proceed with the manual withdrawal of the ticket or tickets (in the case in the case of an invalid "double ticket") of the means of reception.
  • the reception means of the collection means comprise a set of blades arranged forming at least two groups of blades connected to the axis of rotation and separated a distance less than the length of the smaller side of the bill, the blades of each blade group being arranged in the same plane one after the next, defining, between two consecutive blades, a curved profile groove.
  • the curved profile of the groove of the receiving means has a variable turning radius, configured to allow the total introduction of the bill transported in said grooves without any feeding interference between the bills coming from the validation means and the ones themselves.
  • the number of blades of each blade group is equal to an, being 2 ⁇ n ⁇ 4.
  • the second means of transport comprise means of stop located near the first position and facing the movement of the bills, so that when the bills reach the first position, they bump against the stop means and are ejected from the receiving means, said means of being configured stop with a variable inclination angle, along said stop means, with respect to the axis of rotation of the receiving means,.
  • the input means comprise a plurality of traction wheels, a plurality of wheels with free rotation, suction means, located below said wheels and a presence sensor, so that when the set of bills is arranged on the plurality of traction wheels, the presence sensor activates the suction means which produce a suction current on the set of bills that causes a contact between the surface of the lower bill of the set of bills and the plurality of traction wheels.
  • the first transport means comprise a plurality of traction wheels associated with the separation means, at least one traction wheel associated with the thickness measuring means and a plurality of traction wheels associated with the collection means, so that the movement of the traction wheels associated with the input means, separation means and thickness measurement means is independent of the movement of the traction wheels associated with the collection means, their relative speeds can vary to keep constant the relative distance between two consecutive bills.
  • the sensors of the validation means allow us to know the position of the bill at all times, as well as knowing when it will enter the collection area and, together with the thickness measurement means, also allow us to know the distance between two contiguous bills, thus being able to vary conveniently the ratio of speeds between the drive wheels associated with the means of entry, separation and measurement of the thickness and the wheels associated with the collection means. This prevents two contiguous bills from approaching excessively during transport through the device, which could cause the bills to be overlapped or chained, causing the thickness measurement means to send a first error signal per double ticket. or chained.
  • the validation means comprise counting means associated with the analysis means configured to determine from the measurement of the physical characteristics of the bills the accumulated value of the bills of the set of bills considered valid for a period of time defined by the user . In this way, in the event that several arrests of the system occur due to the detection of invalid tickets for a generation of a first and / or a second error signal, the system, once the invalid tickets have been removed, will continue with the count or valuation of the rest of the bills that remain without counting the set of bills as many times as necessary, until there is no left banknote to be processed thus obtaining the accumulated value of the valid banknotes of the banknote set.
  • the means of validation of the bills comprise no more than one unit sensing element for each of the physical characteristics to be measured of the bill.
  • Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device object of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 schematically represents a ticket.
  • Figure 3 represents, schematically, a top plan view and a side view of the input means of the device object of the present invention.
  • Figure 4 schematically represents a front elevation view and a side view of the unit separation means of the bills of the device object of the present invention.
  • Figure 5 represents, schematically, a top plan view and a side view of the thickness measuring means of each of the bills of the device object of the present invention.
  • Figure 6 represents, schematically, a side view of the bill collection means of the device object of the present invention.
  • the device object of the present invention comprises - input means 2 of a set of bills to be treated, comprising a presence sensor and means for transporting the bills to media unit separation 3 of the bills, - the unit separation means 3 of the bills, configured to separate the bills one by one, - thickness measuring means 4 of each of the bills coming from the unit separation means 3 of the bills, configured to generate a First error signal if a thickness greater than a predetermined threshold corresponding to a maximum thickness of a bill is measured, - validation means 5 of each of the bills, comprising a plurality of sensors to measure physical characteristics of the bills and media of analysis to determine, based on the measured characteristics, whether the ticket is valid or not and configured to generate a second error signal if measurements of the physical characteristics of the ticket other than corresponding preset patterns are detected, - first means of transport of each of the bills from the unit separation means 3 of the bills, passing through the measuring means of the e spesor 4
  • the input means 2, the unit separation means 3, the thickness measurement means 4, the validation means ⁇ , the first transport means and the collection means 6 are configured so that the bill moves in the longitudinal direction from the input means 2 to the collection means 6.
  • a bill 10 has been shown which has a substantially rectangular shape with two major sides extending in a longitudinal direction D1 and two smaller sides extending in a transverse direction D2 substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal direction
  • the device object of the present invention is designed for use as a desktop device, that is to say it is a small and portable device with the possibility of transporting to the place that the user wants, occupying a small space.
  • the input means 2 have associated a plurality of traction wheels 7 that are part of the first transport means, said traction wheels have a continuous traction surface, that is to say they are provided with a surface capable of pulling the bill arranged along its entire perimeter.
  • said input means 2 have a plurality of wheels with free rotation 8, of a presence detector (not shown in the figure) and suction means 9, so that when the set of bills 10 is arranged on the plurality of traction wheels 7, the presence sensor activates the suction means 9 which produce a suction current on the set of bills 10 which causes a contact between the surface of the lower bill of the set of bills and the plurality of traction wheels 7, at that time the traction produced by the traction wheels 7 advances the bill towards the unit separation means 3 which are immediately provided below.
  • the unit separation means 3 of each of the bills, as shown in Figure 4, have at least one drive wheel associated with the first means of transport and also have a separating reel 12, said separating reel 12 is locked so that it can rotate in the direction of the advance of the ticket, but not in the opposite direction.
  • the traction wheel 11 is composed of a traction zone 13 and a traction zone 14, which has a diameter greater than the diameter of the zone of
  • the traction wheel 11 in its traction zone 13 has protruding rings 16 that are located alternately facing a series of rings arranged on the separating reel 12, said rings will be of two types, internal traction rings 15a and external rings 15b without traction whose mission is to increase the contact surface to carry out the separation. With this arrangement a more efficient separation of the bills is achieved.
  • the thickness measuring means 4 of the bills which are then arranged in the unit separation means 3, have a plurality of traction wheels 17 that are part of the first means of transport, facing said drive wheels 17 is - In ⁇
  • the validation means 5 comprise a plurality of sensors (not shown in the figure) for measuring physical characteristics of the bills.
  • the physical characteristics determine a series of security measures of the bill that are physically located in different strips arranged in the transverse direction of the bill, such as for example the magnetic wire 33 and the hologram 34, as seen in Figure 2, this means that if the validation of the banknotes is carried out in the transverse direction (D2) it is necessary to multiply sensors, at least every centimeter, in order to detect all security measures. However, if the advance of the ticket is made in the longitudinal direction (D1), due to the provision of the aforementioned security measures, no more than one unit sensing element will be required for each of the physical characteristics to be measured of the bill.
  • the device adapted so that the bill travels in the longitudinal direction throughout its treatment, it is possible to find all the security measures with unit sensing elements, without the need to multiply the detectors Thanks to the considerable reduction in the number and sensors used by the validation means, there is the possibility of placing all the unit sensors in the same plane, which will allow the device to be opened from the top, being able to always access any point of the device , to be cleaned, undo a jam. So first we find the watermark, then with the security thread, then with the magnetic ink and infrared ink, and finally with the hologram.
  • money laundering that is, ultraviolet detection
  • the bill is also designed for the determination of the spectrum when the bill passes longitudinally. In a transversal sense, a different spectrum is obtained depending on the place where the bill passes, varying from white if it passes through the watermark, to the different colors that vary every few centimeters.
  • a transmitting infrared sensor or two reflective ones will be sufficient if it is desired to analyze both sides separately, a magnetic detector, an ultraviolet detector, a colorimetry sensor for the analysis of infrared inks , security thread and magnetic ink detection, bleach detection, bill spectrometry detection.
  • the validation means 5 comprise counting means associated with the analysis means configured to determine from the measurement of the physical characteristics of the bills the accumulated value of the bills of the set of bills considered valid for a period of time defined by the user.
  • the collection means 6, as shown in Figure 6, comprise second transport means 23 which in turn comprise means for receiving notes 24 in a receiving position 25.
  • the second transport means 23 are configured to: - rotate with respect to an axis of rotation perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the bill 10, in order to move the bills from said receiving position 25 towards the first position 26; and - stopping with the bills in said second position 27, prior to said first position 26, in the event that a first and / or second error signal corresponding to the ticket has been generated.
  • a bill 10 whose thickness is greater than the corresponding preset threshold is detected in the thickness measuring means 4 of each of the bills at the maximum thickness of a ticket, a first error signal is generated.
  • the analysis means generates a second error signal if measures of detection are detected.
  • the reception means 24 of the collection means 6 are configured so that upon receiving the first and / or the second error signal, they first move by turning the valid ticket, prior to the detected invalid ticket, towards the first position 26 and on the other hand once the invalid ticket has reached the reception means 24 said reception means 24 move, together with the invalid ticket, to move to the second position 27 prior to the first position 26 and they are stopped in this second position 27.
  • the first means of transport are paralyzed to prevent the next ticket from reaching the reception means 24 of the collection means 6.
  • the means of receipt 24 of the means of collection 6 comprise a set of blades 28 arranged forming at least two groups of blades 28 connected to the axis of rotation and separated a distance less than the length of the smaller side of the bill, the blades 28 of each blade group being arranged in the same plane one following the following , defining, between two consecutive blades, a groove 29 with a curved profile.
  • the curved profile of the slit 29 of the receiving means 24 has a variable turning radius, configured to allow the total introduction of the bill transported in said slits 29 without any interference of feed between the bills coming from the validation means 5 and the reception means 24 themselves.
  • the second transport means 23 of the collection means 6 also have a plurality of traction wheels 30 located immediately ahead of the reception means 24, so that, as can be seen in figure 6, the end of the blades 28 is overlapped with the exit of the traction wheels 30 preventing the bills from being projected out of the receiving means 24.
  • the number of blades 28 of each blade group is equal an, being 2 ⁇ n ⁇ 4.
  • the second means of transport 23 comprise stop means 31 located close to the first position 26 and facing the movement of the bills, so that when the bills reach the first position 26, they hit the stop means 31 and are ejected from the receiving means 24, said stop means 31 being configured with a variable inclination angle, along said stop means 31, with respect to the axis of rotation of the receiving means 24,.
  • the deposition of the valid bills on a delivery surface 32 takes place in a more efficient and safe way.
  • the delivery surface 32 has a certain downward inclination both in the longitudinal and transverse direction of the bill in the vicinity of the receiving means 24, the treated bills being placed aligned with respect to two of their adjacent sides (one major and one minor ) even if they are bills of different value.
  • the movement of the drive wheels 7, 11, 17 that are part of the first means of transport and that are associated with the input means 2, separation means 3 and thickness measurement means 4 is independent of the movement of the wheels of traction 30 associated with the collection means 6, their relative speeds being able to vary in order to keep the relative distance between two consecutive bills constant.
  • the sensors of the validation means 5 allow us at all times to know the position of the bill, in addition to knowing when it will enter the collection zone 6 and, together with the thickness measuring means 4, we They also allow the distance between two contiguous bills to be known, and in this way the speed ratio between the traction wheels 7, 11, 17 associated with the input 2, separation 3 and thickness 4 measurement means can be varied conveniently.

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A device for the treatment of bills, wherein said bills (10) have two large sides extending in a longitudinal direction (D1) and two small sides extending in a transversal direction (D2). The inventive device comprises means for inputting (2) a wad of bills that are to be treated, means for unitary separation of said bills, means for measuring the thickness (4) of each bill, validating means (5), first means of conveyance for each bill, and means for collecting (6) the bills. The inventive device is a portable device configured in such a way that the bill (10) moves in a longitudinal direction (D1) during the treatment thereof, and unit sensors are used for the validating means (5), and the collecting means (6) are configured in such a way that it is possible to remove non-valid bills, thus adding a recycling function to the device.

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DISPOSITIVO DE TRATAMIENTO, VALORACIÓN, VALIDACIÓN Y RECICLAJE DE UN CONJUNTO DE BILLETES TREATMENT, ASSESSMENT, VALIDATION AND RECYCLING DEVICE OF A TICKET SET
CAMPO DE LA INVENCIÓN La invención se engloba dentro del campo de la seguridad y más concretamente en el tratamiento de un conjunto de billetes mediante un dispositivo de valoración, validación y el desechado de billetes que por perdida de alguna de sus características físicas han de ser retirados de la circulación. ANTECEDENTES DE LA INVENCIÓN Los dispositivos contadores, valoradores de sobremesa que existen en la actualidad son principalmente dispositivos que realizan de forma automática el recuento de un conjunto o fajo de billetes, dando como resultado la suma del valor total de los billetes tramitados, además de autentificar los billetes tramitados. Estos dispositivos de sobremesa son de utilidad para los operarios que trabajan con billetes como por ejemplo los cajeros de un banco, puesto que, además de agilizar y permitir el recuento de los billetes en periodos de tiempo menores en decenas de unidad, incrementan la certeza de que los billetes tramitados son de curso legal. Las contadoras que existen en el mercado cumplen en parte con el objetivo de agilizar el trabajo del operario, pero no así en cuanto al incremento de la seguridad en la detección, ni en cuanto el tratamiento correcto de billetes de distinta denominación. Existen una serie de problemas en los dispositivos de tratamiento de billetes existentes, derivados de su propia configuración, destacando entre los más significativos: - Poca fiabilidad en la tramitación de billetes antiguos ó en mal estado (billetes arrugados, esquinas dobladas, manchados, con pérdida de rigidez,..). Falta de exactitud en la detección segura de billetes dobles. Imposibilidad de no cancelación de la operación ante un billete no válido ó dos billetes solapados o unidos de ahora en adelante denominados como "billete doble". - Autentificación de los billetes mediante un número demasiado limitado de medidas de seguridad. - Posibilidad de que durante el tratamiento el billete salga despedido lo que de ahora en adelante llamaremos "volado de billetes". - Dificultad en el tratamiento efectivo de billetes de distinta denominación (distinto tamaño o valor) en un mismo conjunto de billetes.FIELD OF THE INVENTION The invention falls within the field of security and more specifically in the treatment of a set of bills by means of a valuation, validation device and the disposal of bills that, due to loss of any of their physical characteristics, must be withdrawn. of circulation. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The counting devices, desktop titrators that currently exist are mainly devices that automatically perform the counting of a set or bundle of bills, resulting in the sum of the total value of the bills processed, in addition to authenticating the tickets processed. These desktop devices are useful for operators who work with banknotes such as bank tellers, since, in addition to expediting and allowing the counting of banknotes in smaller periods of time in tens of units, they increase the certainty of that the tickets processed are legal tender. The counters that exist in the market fulfill in part with the objective of speeding up the work of the operator, but not so in terms of the increase in the security in the detection, nor in the correct treatment of bills of different denomination. There are a number of problems in the existing banknote handling devices, derived from their own configuration, standing out among the most significant: - Poor reliability in the processing of old or bad banknotes (crumpled bills, bent corners, stained, with loss of rigidity, ..). Lack of accuracy in the safe detection of double bills. Impossibility of non-cancellation of the operation before an invalid ticket or two overlapping or linked bills from now on referred to as "double ticket". - Authentication of tickets through a too limited number of security measures. - Possibility that during the treatment the ticket will be dismissed what from now on we will call "ticket flown". - Difficulty in the effective handling of bills of different denomination (different size or value) in the same set of bills.
La mayoría de los billete de curso legal tiene una forma sustancialmente rectangular presentando dos lados mayores que se extienden en una dirección longitudinal y dos lados menores que se extienden en una dirección transversal sustancialmente perpendicular a dicha dirección longitudinal. Los dispositivos contadores valoradores de sobremesa existentes hasta este momento realizan un tratamiento del billete ó papel moneda con el paso de billete en su dirección transversal. Por otro lado, los dispositivos clasificadores utilizados por los bancos centrales, dispositivos de tamaño superiores a 2 metros de longitud, y por ello no consideradas como dispositivos de sobremesa, y de coste superior a un dispositivo de este tipo, tramitan los billetes en dirección longitudinal. Esto es así porque mediante estos dispositivos se consigue una identificación y autentificación del billete absoluta, puesto que las medidas de seguridad del billete han sido diseñadas para ser identificadas correctamente para un avance del billete en su dirección longitudinal. Además en los dispositivos contadores valoradores que analizan el billete para un avance del billete en su dirección transversal, la validación se ha hacer incrementando considerablemente del número de sensores para la identificación de todo el billete. Por otro lado, existen en el mercado dipositivos contadores validadores de billetes con la posibilidad de separación entre billetes válidos y billetes no válidos, dichos dispositivos presentan una duplicidad tanto en sus medios de transporte como en su medios de recopilación y entrada, es decir que en este tipo de dispositivos, una vez que los billetes sobrepasan los correspondientes medios de validación, se han de disponer dos sistemas independientes de transporte y recopilación de los billetes, un primer sistema para el caso de billetes validos y otro sistema para los billetes no válidos detectados. Dicha circunstancia implica en primer lugar un aumento del tamaño del dispositivo. A esta circunstancia hay que añadir unos considerables costes de fabricación y un aumento en el riesgo en la producción de averías, debido a que existe una duplicación de parte de los sistemas mecánicos y electrónicos del dispositivo. Las medidas de seguridad de las que se dota a un billete para evitar su falsificación, han sido diseñadas para ser identificadas correctamente para un avance del billete en su dirección longitudinal. En las dispositivos que se pueden encontrar en el mercado, el billete se desplaza en la dirección transversal, siendo necesaria la multiplicación de sensores, al menos cada centímetro, para poder detectar todas las medidas de seguridad mencionadas anteriormente. Por ello es necesaria la multiplicación de sensores, constituyendo matrices de sensores ó líneas de detectores, tanto elementos emisores como detectores, no existiendo la posibilidad de utilizar sensores unitarios. Debido a la multiplicación del número de sensores se producen unas mayores recursos para el procesamiento de la información obtenido por los sensores, con el consiguiente incremento en el tiempo de medida necesario para determinar las distintas características físicas de los billetes. Por ello, se ha detectado una necesidad de proporcionar un dispositivo de tratamiento de billetes, que contemple por un lado la valoración y validación de billetes y por otro que disponga de la posibilidad de retirar billetes no válidos empleando unos sistemas mecánicos y electrónicos únicos tanto para los billetes válidos como para los billetes no válidos. Además se ha detectado la necesidad de diseñar un dispositivo de tratamiento de billetes en el que el avance de los billetes a lo largo de su tratamiento se produzca en la dirección longitudinal del billete con el fin de optimizar el proceso de validación y poder reducir drásticamente el numero de sensores que determinarán las características físicas del billete para así determinar ciertas medidas se seguridad del mismo.Most legal tender bills have a substantially rectangular shape having two major sides that extend in a longitudinal direction and two minor sides that extend in a transverse direction substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal direction. The counter counting devices of the existing table up to now carry out a treatment of the banknote or paper money with the passage of the banknote in its transverse direction. On the other hand, the sorting devices used by the central banks, devices of size greater than 2 meters in length, and therefore not considered as desktop devices, and of higher cost than such a device, process the banknotes in the longitudinal direction . This is so because through these devices an identification and authentication of the absolute ticket is achieved, since the security measures of the ticket have been designed to be correctly identified for an advance of the ticket in its longitudinal direction. In addition to the counting devices that analyze the bill for an advance of the bill in its transverse direction, validation has been done by considerably increasing the number of sensors for the identification of the entire bill. On the other hand, there are available on the market validating bill counters with the possibility of separation between valid and invalid tickets, these devices have a duplicity both in their means of transport and in their means of collection and entry, that is to say This type of device, once the banknotes pass the corresponding validation means, two independent systems for transporting and collecting the tickets, a first system for the case of valid tickets and another system for the invalid tickets detected must be provided. . This circumstance implies firstly an increase in the size of the device. To this circumstance must be added considerable manufacturing costs and an increase in the risk in the production of breakdowns, because there is a duplication of part of the mechanical and electronic systems of the device. The security measures of which a ticket is provided to prevent counterfeiting have been designed to be correctly identified for advancing the ticket in its longitudinal direction. In the devices that can be found in the market, the ticket moves in the transverse direction, the multiplication of sensors being necessary, at least every centimeter, to be able to detect all the security measures mentioned above. Therefore, the multiplication of sensors is necessary, constituting sensor matrices or detector lines, both emitting and detecting elements, there being no possibility of using unit sensors. Due to the multiplication of the number of sensors, greater resources are produced for the processing of the information obtained by the sensors, with the consequent increase in the measurement time necessary to determine the different physical characteristics of the bills. Therefore, a need to provide a bill handling device has been detected, which contemplates on the one hand the valuation and validation of bills and on the other that has the possibility of withdrawing invalid tickets using unique mechanical and electronic systems for both valid tickets as for invalid tickets. In addition, the need to design a banknote processing device has been detected in which the advance of the banknotes throughout their processing takes place in the longitudinal direction of the banknote in order to optimize the validation process and to drastically reduce the number of sensors that will determine the physical characteristics of the bill in order to determine certain security measures.
DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA INVENCIÓN La invención se refiere a un dispositivo de tratamiento de billetes, presentando los billetes una forma sustancialmente rectangular con dos lados mayores que se extienden en una dirección longitudinal y dos lados menores que se extienden en una dirección transversal sustancialmente perpendicular a dicha dirección longitudinal, comprendiendo el dispositivo: - medios de entrada de un conjunto de billetes a tratar, que comprenden un sensor de presencia y medios para transportar los billetes hacia medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, - los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, configurados para separar los billetes de uno en uno, - medios de medida del espesor de cada uno de los billetes procedentes de los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, configurados para generar una primera señal de error si se mide un grosor superior a un umbral preestablecido correspondiente a un grosor máximo de un billete, - medios de validación de cada uno de los billetes, que comprenden una pluralidad de sensores para medir características físicas de los billetes y medios de análisis para determinar, a partir de las características medidas, si el billete es válido o no y configurados para generar una segunda señal de error si se detectan medidas de las características físicas del billete distintas a correspondientes patrones preestablecidos, - primeros medios de transporte de cada uno de los billetes desde los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, pasando por los medios de medida del espesor y por los medios de validación de cada uno de los billetes, hasta medios de recopilación, - los medios de recopilación de los billetes configurados para desplazar cada billete selectivamente a un primera posición si no se ha generado al menos una señal de error correspondiente a un billete o una segunda posición si se ha generado al memos un señal de error correspondiente al billete. El dispositivo de tratamiento de billetes de la presente invención se caracteriza porque los medios de entrada, los medios de separación unitaria, los medios de medida del espesor, los medios de validación, los primeros medios de transporte y los medios de recopilación están configurados para que el billete se desplace en la dirección longitudinal desde los medios de entrada hasta los medios de recopilación. De esta manera se consigue una medida más eficiente de las características físicas del billete asociadas a una serie de medidas de seguridad que determinan la validez del mismo. Dichas medidas de seguridad, de acuerdo con las directrices dadas por el Banco Central Europeo (BCE), están situadas según zonas transversales independientes a lo largo de toda la longitud del billete, de manera que si la lectura del billete se produce en la dirección transversal (D2), la lectura de las mencionadas características físicas es menos precisa y son necesarios sensores múltiples; Sin embargo si la lectura se produce en la dirección longitudinal (D2) las mediciones obtenidas son más completas y exactas, pudiéndose utilizar sensores unitarios. El dispositivo objeto de la presente invención está diseñado para su utilización como dispositivo de sobremesa, es decir ' se trata de un dispositivo de dimensiones reducidas y portátil con posibilidad de transportarse al lugar que el usuario desee, ocupando un pequeño espacio. Los medios de recopilación del dispositivo de tratamiento de billetes objeto de la presente invención comprenden segundos medios de transporte que a su vez comprenden medios de recepción de billetes en una posición de recepción, estando los segundos medios de transporte configurados para: girar con respecto a un eje de rotación perpendicular a la dimensión longitudinal del billete, con el fin de desplazar los billetes desde dicha posición de recepción hacia la primera posición; y parar con los billetes en dicha segunda posición, anterior a dicha primera posición, en el caso de que se haya generado una primera y/o segunda señal de error correspondiente al billete. De esta manera se consigue añadir una nueva funcionalidad al dispositivo, consistente en la utilización de este dispositivo de sobremesa de tratamiento de billetes como dispositivo reciclador o mejor dicho como dispositivo para el desechado o la retirada de la circulación de billetes no válidos, además de servir como dispositivo valorador, validador, además de posibilitar el tratamiento del billete en la dirección longitudinal del mismo. Cuando en los medios de medida del espesor de cada uno de los billetes se detecta un billete cuyo grosor es superior al umbral preestablecido correspondiente al grosor máximo de un billete, se genera una primera señal de error. Del mismo modo cuando los billetes pasan por los medios de validación es decir una vez que los sensores situados en los medios de validación han determinado las diferentes características físicas del billete, los medios de análisis envían una segunda señal de error si se detectan medidas de las características físicas del billete distintas a correspondientes patrones preestablecidos. Los medios de recepción de los medios de recopilación están configurados de manera que al recibir la primera y/o la segunda señal de error, en primer lugar desplazan mediante un giro al billete ya validado hacia la primera posición y por otro lado una vez que el billete no válido ha llegado a los medios de recepción dichos medios de recepción se mueven, junto con el billete no válido, para pasar a la segunda posición anterior a la primera posición y quedan parados en esta segunda posición. Al mismo tiempo que se ha detectado el billete no válido, los primeros medios transporte quedan paralizados para evitar que el siguiente billete llegue a los medios de recepción de los medios de recopilación. El billete no válido queda por lo tanto retenido en los medios de recepción en la segunda posición a la vez que la alimentación del siguiente billete queda interrumpida, pudiéndose en ese mismo instante proceder a la retirada manual de, el o los billetes (en el caso de que se trate de un " billete doble") no válidos de los medios de recepción. Los medios de recepción de los medios de recopilación comprenden un conjunto de aspas dispuestas formando al menos dos grupos de aspas conectados al eje de rotación y separados una distancia menor a la longitud del lado menor del billete, estando dispuestas las aspas de cada grupo de aspas en un mismo plano una a continuación de la siguiente, definiendo, entre dos aspas consecutivas, una hendidura de perfil curvado. Además el perfil curvado de la hendidura de los medios de recepción tiene un radio de giro variable, configurado para permitir la introducción total del billete transportado en dichas hendiduras sin que se produzcan interferencias de alimentación entre los billetes provenientes de los medios de validación y los propíos medios de recepción. El número de aspas de cada grupo de aspas es igual a n, siendo 2 < n <4. Sin embargo el número óptimo de aspas, teniendo en cuenta el tamaño límite que podrían adoptar los medios de recepción y más concretamente las mencionadas aspas y teniendo en cuenta la velocidad de giro de las aspas, es de 4. Los segundos medios de transporte comprenden medios de tope situados próximos a la primera posición y de forma enfrentada al movimiento de los billetes, de manera que cuando los billetes llegan a la primera posición, topan contra los medios de tope y son expulsados de los medios de recepción, estando configurados dichos medios de tope con un ángulo de inclinación variable, a lo largo de dichos medios de tope, con respecto al eje de rotación de los medios de recepción, . Los medios de entrada comprenden una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción, una pluralidad de ruedas con giro libre, unos medios de aspiración, situados por debajo de las mencionadas ruedas y un sensor de presencia, de manera que cuando se dispone el conjunto de billetes sobre la pluralidad de ruedas de tracción, el sensor de presencia activa los medios de aspiración los cuales producen una corriente de aspiración sobre el conjunto de billetes que provoca un contacto entre la superficie del billete inferior del conjunto de billetes y la pluralidad de ruedas de tracción. De esta manera los billetes arrugados ó deformados, que pudiera haber en el conjunto de billetes a tratar, son presionados contra las ruedas de tracción asociadas a los medios de entrada a la vez que mediante dichas ruedas de tracción se van acercando a los medios de separación unitarios. Las ruedas con giro libre asociadas a los medios de entrada, a su vez, permiten que aquellos billetes que han perdido la rigidez, no se queden retenidos por un exceso de fuerza de rozamiento producida entre el billete y las ruedas de tracción. Por su parte los primeros medios de transporte comprenden una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción asociadas a los medios de separación, al menos una rueda de tracción asociada a los medios de medida del espesor y una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción asociadas a los medios de recopilación, de manera que el movimiento de las ruedas de tracción asociadas a los medios de entrada, medios de separación y medios de medida del espesor es independiente del movimiento de las ruedas de tracción asociadas a los medios de recopilación, pudiendo variar sus velocidades relativas para mantener constante la distancia relativa entre dos billetes consecutivos. Para conseguir esto, los sensores de los medios de validación, nos permite en todo momento saber la posición del billete, además de conocer cuando va a entrar en la zona de recopilación y, junto con los medios de medida del espesor, nos permiten igualmente conocer la distancia entre dos billetes contiguos, pudiendo de esta manera variar de forma conveniente la relación de velocidades entre las ruedas de tracción asociadas a los medios de entrada, de separación y de medida del espesor y las ruedas asociadas a los medios de recopilación. De esta manera se evita que dos billetes contiguos se acerquen en exceso durante su transporte a través del dispositivo, lo que podría producir que los billetes quedaran solapados o encadenados, provocando que los medios de medida del espesor enviasen una primera señal de error por billete doble ó encadenado. Los medios de validación comprenden medios de recuento asociados a los medios de análisis configurados para determinar a partir de la medida de las características físicas de los billetes el valor acumulado de los billetes del conjunto de billetes considerados válidos durante un periodo de tiempo definido por el usuario. De esta manera, en el caso de que se produzcan varias detenciones del sistema por la detección de billetes no válidos por una generación de una primera y/o una segunda señal de error, el sistema, una vez retirados los billetes no validos, continuara con el recuento o valoración del resto de billetes que quedan sin contar del conjunto de billetes cuantas veces sea necesario, hasta que no quede ningún billete por tratar obteniendo de esta forma el valor acumulado de los billetes válidos del conjunto de billetes. Los medios de validación de los billetes comprenden no más de un elemento sensor unitario por cada una de las características físicas a medir del billete. Por lo tanto, gracias a la configuración particular del dispositivo, adaptado para que el billete se desplace en la dirección longitudinal a lo largo de su tratamiento, es posible encontrarse con la totalidad de medidas de seguridad con elementos sensores unitarios, sin necesidad de multiplicar los detectores. BREVE DESCRIPCIÓN DE LOS DIBUJOS A continuación se pasa a describir de manera muy breve una serie de dibujos que ayudan a comprender mejor la invención y que se relacionan expresamente con unas realizaciones de dicha invención que se presentan como ejemplos ilustrativos y no limitativos de ésta. La figura 1 representa una vista en perspectiva del dispositivo objeto de la presente invención. La figura 2 representa esquemáticamente un billete. La figura 3 representa, de manera esquemática, una vista en planta superior y una vista lateral de los medios de entrada del dispositivo objeto de la presente invención. La figura 4 representa, de manera esquemática, una vista en alzado frontal y una vista lateral de los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes del dispositivo objeto de la presente invención. La figura 5 representa, de manera esquemática, una vista en planta superior y una vista lateral de los medios de medida del espesor de cada uno de los billetes del dispositivo objeto de la presente invención. La figura 6 representa, de manera esquemática, una vista lateral de los medios de recopilación de los billetes del dispositivo objeto de la presente invención. DESCRIPCIÓN DE UNA REALIZACIÓN PREFERIDA DE LA INVENCIÓN El dispositivo objeto de la presente invención, mostrado en la figura 1 , comprende - medios de entrada 2 de un conjunto de billetes a tratar, que comprenden un sensor de presencia y medios para transportar los billetes hacia medios de separación unitaria 3 de los billetes, - los medios de separación unitaria 3 de los billetes, configurados para separar los billetes de uno en uno, - medios de medida del espesor 4 de cada uno de los billetes procedentes de los medios de separación unitaria 3 de los billetes, configurados para generar una primera señal de error si se mide un grosor superior a un umbral preestablecido correspondiente a un grosor máximo de un billete, - medios de validación 5 de cada uno de los billetes, que comprenden una pluralidad de sensores para medir características físicas de los billetes y medios de análisis para determinar, a partir de las características medidas, si el billete es válido o no y configurados para generar una segunda señal de error si se detectan medidas de las características físicas del billete distintas a correspondientes patrones preestablecidos, - primeros medios de transporte de cada uno de los billetes desde los medios de separación unitaria 3 de los billetes, pasando por los medios de medida del espesor 4 y por los medios de validación 5 de cada uno de los billetes, hasta medios de recopilación 6, los medios de recopilación 6 de los billetes configurados para desplazar cada billete selectivamente a un primera posición 26 si no se ha generado una señal de error correspondiente a un billete o una segunda posición 27 si se ha generado al memos un señal de error correspondiente al billete. Los medios de entrada 2, los medios de separación unitaria 3, los medios de medida del espesor 4, los medios de validación δ, los primeros medios de transporte y los medios de recopilación 6 están configurados para que el billete se desplace en la dirección longitudinal desde los medios de entrada 2 hasta los medios de recopilación 6. Para una mayor comprensión de la invención, en la figura 2 se ha representado un billete 10 que presenta una forma sustancialmente rectangular con dos lados mayores que se extienden en una dirección longitudinal D1 y dos lados menores que se extienden en una dirección transversal D2 sustancialmente perpendicular a dicha dirección longitudinal El dispositivo objeto de la presente invención está diseñado para su utilización como dispositivo de sobremesa, es decir se trata de un dispositivo de dimensiones reducidas y portátil con posibilidad de transportarse al lugar que el usuario desee, ocupando un pequeño espacio. Según se puede apreciar en la figura 3, los medios de entrada 2 tienen asociadas una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción 7 que forman parte de los primeros medios de transporte, dichas ruedas de tracción tienen una superficie de tracción continua, es decir están dotadas de una superficie capaz de traccionar al billete dispuesta a lo largo de todo su perímetro. Además, dichos medios de entrada 2 presentan una pluralidad de ruedas con giro libre 8, de un detector de presencia (no representado en la figura) y unos medios de aspiración 9, de manera que cuando se dispone el conjunto de billetes 10 sobre la pluralidad de ruedas de tracción 7, el sensor de presencia activa los medios de aspiración 9 los cuales producen una corriente de aspiración sobre el conjunto de billetes 10 que provoca un contacto entre la superficie del billete inferior del conjunto de billetes y la pluralidad de ruedas de tracción 7, en ese momento la tracción producida por las ruedas de tracción 7 hace avanzar al billete hacia los medios de separación unitaria 3 que se disponen inmediatamente a continuación . Los medios de separación unitaria 3 de cada uno de los billetes, según se aprecia en la figura 4, tienen asociados al menos una rueda de tracción que forma parte de los primeros medios de transporte y además disponen de un carrete separador 12, dicho carrete separador 12 está bloqueado para poder girar en el sentido del avance del billete, pero no en sentido contrario. La rueda de tracción 11 está compuesta por una zona de tracción 13 y una zona sin tracción 14, la cual tiene un diámetro superior al diámetro de la zona deDESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to a bill handling device, the bills presenting a substantially rectangular shape with two major sides extending in a longitudinal direction and two minor sides extending in a transverse direction substantially perpendicular to said direction longitudinally, the device comprising: - input means of a set of bills to be treated, comprising a presence sensor and means for transporting the bills towards means of unitary separation of the bills, - the means of unitary separation of the bills, configured to separate the bills one by one, - means for measuring the thickness of each of the bills coming from the means of unitary separation of the bills, configured to generate a first signal of error if a thickness greater than a predetermined threshold corresponding to a maximum thickness of a bill is measured, - means of validation of each of the bills, comprising a plurality of sensors for measuring physical characteristics of the bills and means of analysis for determining , based on the characteristics measured, if the ticket is valid or not and configured to generate a second error signal if measurements of the physical characteristics of the ticket are detected other than corresponding preset patterns, - first means of transport of each of the banknotes from the means of unitary separation of the banknotes, through the means of measuring the thickness and p or the means of validation of each of the bills, up to collection means, - the means of collecting the bills configured to move each ticket selectively to a first position if at least one error signal corresponding to a ticket has not been generated or a second position if an error signal corresponding to the ticket has been generated at least. The bill handling device of the present invention is characterized in that the input means, the unit separation means, the thickness measurement means, the validation means, the first transport means and the collection means are configured so that the bill travels in the longitudinal direction from the entry means to the collection means. In this way, a more efficient measure of the physical characteristics of the ticket associated with a series of security measures that determine its validity is achieved. These security measures, in accordance with the guidelines given by the European Central Bank (ECB), are located according to independent cross-sectional areas along the entire length of the bill, so that if the bill is read in the transverse direction (D2), the reading of the mentioned physical characteristics is less accurate and multiple sensors are necessary; However, if the reading occurs in the longitudinal direction (D2), the measurements obtained are more complete and accurate, and unit sensors can be used. The device object of the present invention is designed for use as a desktop device, that is to say ' it is a small and portable device with the possibility of being transported to the place that the user desires, occupying a small space. The collection means of the bill handling device object of the present invention comprise second means of transport which in turn comprise means for receiving bills in a receiving position, the second means of transport being configured to: rotate with respect to a axis of rotation perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the bill, in order to move the bills from said receiving position to the first position; and stop with the bills in said second position, prior to said first position, in the event that a first and / or second error signal corresponding to the ticket has been generated. In this way it is possible to add a new functionality to the device, consisting in the use of this banknote processing device as a recycle device or rather as a device for discarding or withdrawing the circulation of invalid bills, in addition to serving as an appraisal device, validator, in addition to enabling the treatment of the banknote in its longitudinal direction. When a bill whose thickness is greater than the preset threshold corresponding to the maximum thickness of a bill is detected in the means of measuring the thickness of each bill, a first error signal is generated. In the same way when the tickets pass through the validation means that is to say once the sensors located in the validation means have determined the different physical characteristics of the ticket, the analysis means sends a second error signal if measurements of the physical characteristics of the ticket other than corresponding preset patterns. The reception means of the collection means are configured so that upon receiving the first and / or the second error signal, they first move the validated banknote to the first position by a turn and on the other hand once the Invalid ticket has reached the reception means said reception means move, together with the invalid ticket, to move to the second position prior to the first position and stand in this second position. At the same time that the invalid ticket has been detected, the first means of transport they are paralyzed to prevent the next ticket from reaching the means of receiving the collection media. The invalid ticket is therefore retained in the reception means in the second position at the same time that the feeding of the next ticket is interrupted, being able at that same time to proceed with the manual withdrawal of the ticket or tickets (in the case in the case of an invalid "double ticket") of the means of reception. The reception means of the collection means comprise a set of blades arranged forming at least two groups of blades connected to the axis of rotation and separated a distance less than the length of the smaller side of the bill, the blades of each blade group being arranged in the same plane one after the next, defining, between two consecutive blades, a curved profile groove. In addition, the curved profile of the groove of the receiving means has a variable turning radius, configured to allow the total introduction of the bill transported in said grooves without any feeding interference between the bills coming from the validation means and the ones themselves. Means of reception. The number of blades of each blade group is equal to an, being 2 <n <4. However, the optimum number of blades, taking into account the limit size that the reception means could adopt and more specifically the aforementioned blades and taking into account the speed of rotation of the blades, is 4. The second means of transport comprise means of stop located near the first position and facing the movement of the bills, so that when the bills reach the first position, they bump against the stop means and are ejected from the receiving means, said means of being configured stop with a variable inclination angle, along said stop means, with respect to the axis of rotation of the receiving means,. The input means comprise a plurality of traction wheels, a plurality of wheels with free rotation, suction means, located below said wheels and a presence sensor, so that when the set of bills is arranged on the plurality of traction wheels, the presence sensor activates the suction means which produce a suction current on the set of bills that causes a contact between the surface of the lower bill of the set of bills and the plurality of traction wheels. In this way the wrinkled or deformed bills, which could be in the set of bills to be treated, are pressed against the traction wheels associated with the input means while at the same time by means of said traction wheels they are approaching the separation means unitary The wheels with free rotation associated with the means of entry, in turn, allow those bills that have lost stiffness, are not retained by an excess of frictional force produced between the bill and the traction wheels. On the other hand, the first transport means comprise a plurality of traction wheels associated with the separation means, at least one traction wheel associated with the thickness measuring means and a plurality of traction wheels associated with the collection means, so that the movement of the traction wheels associated with the input means, separation means and thickness measurement means is independent of the movement of the traction wheels associated with the collection means, their relative speeds can vary to keep constant the relative distance between two consecutive bills. To achieve this, the sensors of the validation means allow us to know the position of the bill at all times, as well as knowing when it will enter the collection area and, together with the thickness measurement means, also allow us to know the distance between two contiguous bills, thus being able to vary conveniently the ratio of speeds between the drive wheels associated with the means of entry, separation and measurement of the thickness and the wheels associated with the collection means. This prevents two contiguous bills from approaching excessively during transport through the device, which could cause the bills to be overlapped or chained, causing the thickness measurement means to send a first error signal per double ticket. or chained. The validation means comprise counting means associated with the analysis means configured to determine from the measurement of the physical characteristics of the bills the accumulated value of the bills of the set of bills considered valid for a period of time defined by the user . In this way, in the event that several arrests of the system occur due to the detection of invalid tickets for a generation of a first and / or a second error signal, the system, once the invalid tickets have been removed, will continue with the count or valuation of the rest of the bills that remain without counting the set of bills as many times as necessary, until there is no left banknote to be processed thus obtaining the accumulated value of the valid banknotes of the banknote set. The means of validation of the bills comprise no more than one unit sensing element for each of the physical characteristics to be measured of the bill. Therefore, thanks to the particular configuration of the device, adapted so that the bill travels in the longitudinal direction throughout its treatment, it is possible to find all the security measures with unit sensing elements, without the need to multiply the detectors BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Next, a series of drawings that help to better understand the invention and that expressly relate to embodiments of said invention that are presented as illustrative and non-limiting examples thereof are described very briefly. Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device object of the present invention. Figure 2 schematically represents a ticket. Figure 3 represents, schematically, a top plan view and a side view of the input means of the device object of the present invention. Figure 4 schematically represents a front elevation view and a side view of the unit separation means of the bills of the device object of the present invention. Figure 5 represents, schematically, a top plan view and a side view of the thickness measuring means of each of the bills of the device object of the present invention. Figure 6 represents, schematically, a side view of the bill collection means of the device object of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION The device object of the present invention, shown in Figure 1, comprises - input means 2 of a set of bills to be treated, comprising a presence sensor and means for transporting the bills to media unit separation 3 of the bills, - the unit separation means 3 of the bills, configured to separate the bills one by one, - thickness measuring means 4 of each of the bills coming from the unit separation means 3 of the bills, configured to generate a First error signal if a thickness greater than a predetermined threshold corresponding to a maximum thickness of a bill is measured, - validation means 5 of each of the bills, comprising a plurality of sensors to measure physical characteristics of the bills and media of analysis to determine, based on the measured characteristics, whether the ticket is valid or not and configured to generate a second error signal if measurements of the physical characteristics of the ticket other than corresponding preset patterns are detected, - first means of transport of each of the bills from the unit separation means 3 of the bills, passing through the measuring means of the e spesor 4 and by the validation means 5 of each of the bills, up to collection means 6, the collection means 6 of the bills configured to move each ticket selectively to a first position 26 if an error signal has not been generated corresponding to a ticket or a second position 27 if an error signal corresponding to the ticket has been generated at least. The input means 2, the unit separation means 3, the thickness measurement means 4, the validation means δ, the first transport means and the collection means 6 are configured so that the bill moves in the longitudinal direction from the input means 2 to the collection means 6. For a better understanding of the invention, in figure 2 a bill 10 has been shown which has a substantially rectangular shape with two major sides extending in a longitudinal direction D1 and two smaller sides extending in a transverse direction D2 substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal direction The device object of the present invention is designed for use as a desktop device, that is to say it is a small and portable device with the possibility of transporting to the place that the user wants, occupying a small space. As can be seen in Figure 3, the input means 2 have associated a plurality of traction wheels 7 that are part of the first transport means, said traction wheels have a continuous traction surface, that is to say they are provided with a surface capable of pulling the bill arranged along its entire perimeter. In addition, said input means 2 have a plurality of wheels with free rotation 8, of a presence detector (not shown in the figure) and suction means 9, so that when the set of bills 10 is arranged on the plurality of traction wheels 7, the presence sensor activates the suction means 9 which produce a suction current on the set of bills 10 which causes a contact between the surface of the lower bill of the set of bills and the plurality of traction wheels 7, at that time the traction produced by the traction wheels 7 advances the bill towards the unit separation means 3 which are immediately provided below. The unit separation means 3 of each of the bills, as shown in Figure 4, have at least one drive wheel associated with the first means of transport and also have a separating reel 12, said separating reel 12 is locked so that it can rotate in the direction of the advance of the ticket, but not in the opposite direction. The traction wheel 11 is composed of a traction zone 13 and a traction zone 14, which has a diameter greater than the diameter of the zone of
- tracción 13. De esta manera, cuando la rueda de tracción se encuentra en su giro en una posición tal que la zona sin tracción 14 se encuentra enfrentada al carrete separador 12 el paso de billete queda cerrado impidiendo que el siguiente billete entre en los medios de medida del espesor 4 antes de tiempo. La rueda de tracción 11 en su zona de tracción 13 dispone de unos anillos 16 que sobresalen que quedan situados enfrentados de forma alternada a una serie de anillos dispuestos sobre el carrete separador 12, dichos anillos serán de dos tipos, unos anillos internos 15a de tracción y unos anillos externos 15b sin tracción cuya misión es la de incrementar la superficie de contacto para llevar a cabo la separación. Con esta disposición se consigue una separación más eficaz de los billetes. Según se aprecia en la figura 5, los medios de medida del espesor 4 de los billetes, los cuales se disponen a continuación de los medios de separación unitarios 3, tienen asociados una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción 17 que forman parte de los primeros medios de transporte, enfrentados a dichas ruedas de tracción 17 se - In ¬- traction 13. In this way, when the traction wheel is in its turn in a position such that the area without traction 14 is facing the separating reel 12 the ticket passage is closed preventing the next ticket from entering the means 4 thickness measurement ahead of time. The traction wheel 11 in its traction zone 13 has protruding rings 16 that are located alternately facing a series of rings arranged on the separating reel 12, said rings will be of two types, internal traction rings 15a and external rings 15b without traction whose mission is to increase the contact surface to carry out the separation. With this arrangement a more efficient separation of the bills is achieved. As can be seen in FIG. 5, the thickness measuring means 4 of the bills, which are then arranged in the unit separation means 3, have a plurality of traction wheels 17 that are part of the first means of transport, facing said drive wheels 17 is - In ¬
disponen una pluralidad de rodamientos 18 de gran dureza, normalmente de acero, que tienen la posibilidad de desplazarse en sentido vertical una vez que pasa el billete 10 entre dichos rodamientos 18 y la rueda de tracción 17. Estos rodamientos 17 están conectados a un primer brazo 19 que dispone de un punto de pivotamiento 20 y un segundo brazo 21 , de forma que cuando pasa un billete 10, los rodamientos y el segundo brazo 21 ascienden interceptando el haz de rayos que se transmite desde el emisor al receptor de un sensor 22, determinado de esta forma el espesor del billete. Por su parte los medios de validación 5 comprenden una pluralidad de sensores (no representados en la figura) para medir características físicas de los billetes. Las características físicas determinan una serie de medidas de seguridad del billete que se localizan físicamente en distintas franjas dispuestas en la dirección transversal del billete, como por ejemplo el hilo magnético 33 y el holograma 34, como se aprecia en la figura 2, quiere esto decir que si la validación de los billetes se realiza en la dirección transversal (D2) es necesario la multiplicación de sensores, al menos cada centímetro, para poder detectar todas las medidas de seguridad. Sin embargo si el avance del billete se realiza en la dirección longitudinal (D1 ), debido a la disposición de las mencionadas medidas de seguridad se necesitará no más de un elemento sensor unitario por cada una de las características físicas a medir del billete. Por lo tanto, gracias a la configuración particular del dispositivo, adaptado para que el billete se desplace en la dirección longitudinal a lo largo de su tratamiento, es posible encontrarse con la totalidad de medidas de seguridad con elementos sensores unitarios, sin necesidad de multiplicar los detectores. Gracias a la considerable reducción en el numero e sensores utilizados por los medios de validación, existe la posibilidad de situar todos ios sensores unitarios en un mismo plano, lo que permitirá abrir el dispositivo por la parte superior, pudiendo acceder siempre a cualquier punto del dispositivo, para ser limpiada, deshacer un atasco. Así primero nos encontramos con la marca de aguas, posteriormente con el hilo de seguridad, posteriormente con la tinta magnética y tinta infrarroja, y por último con el holograma. Por supuesto, también es analizable el blanqueo del billete, es decir, la detección ultravioleta, durante una mayor proporción de billete que si lo realizáramos en sentido de paso transversal. Además de estas medidas de seguridad del billete es igualmente posible la realización de una espectroscopia del billete, obteniendo el valor del billete tramitado, o determinando si el billete es apto para su circulación. Al igual que ocurre con las medidas de seguridad, el billete también está diseñado para la determinación del espectro cuando el billete pasa en sentido longitudinal. En sentido transversal se obtiene un espectro diferente dependiendo del lugar por donde pase el billete, variando desde el blanco si pasa por la marca de aguas, a los distintos colores que varían cada pocos centímetros. En esta realización de la invención, en los medios de validación 5 serán suficientes un sensor infrarrojo transmisivo, ó dos reflexivos si se quiere analizar ambas caras por separado, un detector magnético, un detector ultravioleta, un sensor de colorimetría para el análisis de tintas infrarrojas, detección del hilo de seguridad y de la tinta magnética, detección del blanqueo, detección de espectrometría del billete. Los medios de validación 5 comprenden medios de recuento asociados a los medios de análisis configurados para determinar a partir de la medida de las características físicas de los billetes el valor acumulado de los billetes del conjunto de billetes considerados válidos durante un periodo de tiempo definido por el usuario. En el caso de que se produzcan varias detenciones del sistema por la detección de billetes no válidos, una vez retirados dichos billetes no validos, continuara con el recuento o valoración del resto de billetes que quedan sin contar del conjunto de billetes cuantas veces sea necesario, hasta que no quede ningún billete por tratar obteniendo de esta forma el valor acumulado de los billetes válidos del conjunto de billetes. Los medios de recopilación 6, según se aprecia en la figura 6, comprenden segundos medios de transporte 23 que a su vez comprenden medios de recepción 24 de billetes en una posición de recepción 25. Los segundos medios de transporte 23 están configurados para: - girar con respecto a un eje de rotación perpendicular a la dimensión longitudinal del billete 10, con el fin de desplazar los billetes desde dicha posición de recepción 25 hacia la primera posición 26 ; y - parar con los billetes en dicha segunda posición 27, anterior a dicha primera posición 26, en el caso de que se haya generado una primera y/o segunda señal de error correspondiente al billete. Cuando en los medios de medida del espesor 4 de cada uno de los billetes se detecta un billete 10 cuyo grosor es superior al umbral preestablecido correspondiente al grosor máximo de un billete, se genera una primera señal de error. Del mismo modo cuando los billetes pasan por los medios de validación 5 es decir una vez que los sensores situados en los medios de validación han determinado las diferentes características físicas del billete, los medios de análisis generan una segunda señal de error si se detectan medidas de las características físicas del billete distintas a correspondientes patrones preestablecidos. Los medios de recepción 24 de los medios de recopilación 6 están configurados de manera que al recibir la primera y/o la segunda señal de error, en primer lugar desplazan mediante un giro al billete válido, anterior al billete no válido detectado, hacia la primera posición 26 y por otro lado una vez que el billete no válido ha llegado a los medios de recepción 24 dichos medios de recepción 24 se mueven, junto con el billete no válido, para pasar a la segunda posición 27 anterior a la primera posición 26 y quedan parados en esta segunda posición 27. Al mismo tiempo que se ha detectado el billete no válido, los primeros medios transporte quedan paralizados para evitar que el siguiente billete llegue a los medios de recepción 24 de los medios de recopilación 6. El billete no válido queda por lo tanto retenido en los medios de recepción 24 en la segunda posición 27 a la vez que la alimentación del siguiente billete queda interrumpida, pudiéndose en ese mismo instante proceder a la retirada manual de, el o los billetes (en el caso de que se trate de un " billete doble") no válidos de los medios de recepción 24. Los medios de recepción 24 de los medios de recopilación 6 comprenden un conjunto de aspas 28 dispuestas formando al menos dos grupos de aspas 28 conectados al eje de rotación y separados una distancia menor a la longitud del lado menor del billete, estando dispuestas las aspas 28 de cada grupo de aspas en un mismo plano una a continuación de la siguiente, definiendo, entre dos aspas consecutivas, una hendidura 29 de perfil curvado. Además el perfil curvado de la hendidura 29 de los medios de recepción 24 tiene un radio de giro variable, configurado para permitir la introducción total del billete transportado en dichas hendiduras 29 sin que se produzcan interferencias de alimentación entre los billetes provenientes de los medios de validación 5 y los propios medios de recepción 24. Los segundos medios de transporte 23 de los medios de recopilación 6 además disponen de una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción 30 situadas inmediatamente por delante de los medios de recepción 24, de manera que, como se aprecia en la figura 6, el extremo de las aspas 28 queda solapado con la salida de las ruedas de tracción 30 evitando que los billetes sean proyectados fuera de los medios de recepción 24. El número de aspas 28 de cada grupo de aspas es igual a n, siendo 2 ≤ n < 4. Sin embargo el número óptimo de aspas 28, teniendo en cuenta el tamaño límite que podrían adoptar los medios de recepción 24 y más concretamente las mencionadas aspas 28 y teniendo en cuenta la velocidad de giro de las aspas 28, es de 4. Con 3 aspas 28 en cada grupo de aspas el dispositivo podría funcionar pero la velocidad de giro tendría que aumentar demasiado no siendo suficiente la velocidad de llegada de los billetes procedentes de los medios de validación 5 y produciéndose un desfase en la alimentación de los billetes. Los segundos medios de transporte 23 comprenden medios de tope 31 situados próximos a la primera posición 26 y de forma enfrentada al movimiento de los billetes, de manera que cuando los billetes llegan a la primera posición 26, topan contra los medios de tope 31 y son expulsados de los medios de recepción 24, estando configurados dichos medios de tope 31 con un ángulo de inclinación variable, a lo largo de dichos medios de tope 31 , con respecto al eje de rotación de los medios de recepción 24, . De esta forma, gracias a la configuración particular de las hendiduras 29 y de los medios de tope 31 , se consigue que cuando los medios de recepción 24 están en la posición de recepción, los billetes queden introducidos en su totalidad en las hendiduras 29 y que al pasar dichos medios de recepción a la primera posición 26, el depositado de los billetes válidos sobre una superficie de entrega 32 se produzca de un forma más eficiente y segura. La superficie de entrega 32 dispone de una cierta inclinación descendente tanto en la dirección longitudinal como transversal del billete en las proximidades de los medios de recepción 24, quedando colocados los billetes tratados alineados con respecto a dos de sus lados contiguos (uno mayor y otro menor) aunque se trate de billetes de diferente valor. El movimiento de las ruedas de tracción 7, 11 , 17 que forman parte de los primeros medios de transporte y que están asociadas a los medios de entrada 2, medios de separación 3 y medios de medida del espesor 4 es independiente del movimiento de las ruedas de tracción 30 asociadas a los medios de recopilación 6, pudiendo variar sus velocidades relativas para mantener constante la distancia relativa entre dos billetes consecutivos. Para conseguir esto, los sensores de los medios de validación 5, nos permiten en todo momento saber la posición del billete, además de conocer cuando va a entrar en la zona de recopilación 6 y, junto con los medios de medida del espesor 4, nos permiten igualmente conocer la distancia entre dos billetes contiguos, pudiendo de esta manera variar de forma conveniente la relación de velocidades entre las ruedas de tracción 7, 11 , 17 asociadas a los medios de entrada 2, de separación 3 y de medida del espesor 4 y las ruedas 30 asociadas a los medios de recopilación 6. they have a plurality of bearings 18 of great hardness, usually of steel, which have the possibility of moving vertically once the bill 10 passes between said bearings 18 and the traction wheel 17. These bearings 17 are connected to a first arm 19 which has a pivot point 20 and a second arm 21, so that when a bill 10 passes, the bearings and the second arm 21 rise intercepting the beam of rays transmitted from the emitter to the receiver of a sensor 22, determined in this way the thickness of the bill. On the other hand, the validation means 5 comprise a plurality of sensors (not shown in the figure) for measuring physical characteristics of the bills. The physical characteristics determine a series of security measures of the bill that are physically located in different strips arranged in the transverse direction of the bill, such as for example the magnetic wire 33 and the hologram 34, as seen in Figure 2, this means that if the validation of the banknotes is carried out in the transverse direction (D2) it is necessary to multiply sensors, at least every centimeter, in order to detect all security measures. However, if the advance of the ticket is made in the longitudinal direction (D1), due to the provision of the aforementioned security measures, no more than one unit sensing element will be required for each of the physical characteristics to be measured of the bill. Therefore, thanks to the particular configuration of the device, adapted so that the bill travels in the longitudinal direction throughout its treatment, it is possible to find all the security measures with unit sensing elements, without the need to multiply the detectors Thanks to the considerable reduction in the number and sensors used by the validation means, there is the possibility of placing all the unit sensors in the same plane, which will allow the device to be opened from the top, being able to always access any point of the device , to be cleaned, undo a jam. So first we find the watermark, then with the security thread, then with the magnetic ink and infrared ink, and finally with the hologram. Of course, money laundering, that is, ultraviolet detection, can also be analyzed for a greater proportion of the bill than if we were to carry it out in the direction of the transverse passage. In addition to these security measures of the ticket it is also possible to perform a spectroscopy of the ticket, obtaining the value of the processed ticket, or determining if the ticket is suitable for circulation. As with security measures, the bill is also designed for the determination of the spectrum when the bill passes longitudinally. In a transversal sense, a different spectrum is obtained depending on the place where the bill passes, varying from white if it passes through the watermark, to the different colors that vary every few centimeters. In this embodiment of the invention, in the validation means 5 a transmitting infrared sensor, or two reflective ones will be sufficient if it is desired to analyze both sides separately, a magnetic detector, an ultraviolet detector, a colorimetry sensor for the analysis of infrared inks , security thread and magnetic ink detection, bleach detection, bill spectrometry detection. The validation means 5 comprise counting means associated with the analysis means configured to determine from the measurement of the physical characteristics of the bills the accumulated value of the bills of the set of bills considered valid for a period of time defined by the user. In the event that there are several arrests of the system for the detection of invalid tickets, once these invalid tickets have been removed, it will continue counting or valuing the rest of the remaining bills without counting the set of bills as many times as necessary, until there is no banknote left to be processed, thus obtaining the accumulated value of the valid banknotes of the banknote set. The collection means 6, as shown in Figure 6, comprise second transport means 23 which in turn comprise means for receiving notes 24 in a receiving position 25. The second transport means 23 are configured to: - rotate with respect to an axis of rotation perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the bill 10, in order to move the bills from said receiving position 25 towards the first position 26; and - stopping with the bills in said second position 27, prior to said first position 26, in the event that a first and / or second error signal corresponding to the ticket has been generated. When a bill 10 whose thickness is greater than the corresponding preset threshold is detected in the thickness measuring means 4 of each of the bills at the maximum thickness of a ticket, a first error signal is generated. In the same way when the tickets pass through the validation means 5 that is to say once the sensors located in the validation means have determined the different physical characteristics of the ticket, the analysis means generates a second error signal if measures of detection are detected. the physical characteristics of the ticket other than corresponding preset patterns. The reception means 24 of the collection means 6 are configured so that upon receiving the first and / or the second error signal, they first move by turning the valid ticket, prior to the detected invalid ticket, towards the first position 26 and on the other hand once the invalid ticket has reached the reception means 24 said reception means 24 move, together with the invalid ticket, to move to the second position 27 prior to the first position 26 and they are stopped in this second position 27. At the same time that the invalid ticket has been detected, the first means of transport are paralyzed to prevent the next ticket from reaching the reception means 24 of the collection means 6. The invalid ticket it is therefore retained in the reception means 24 in the second position 27 at the same time that the feeding of the next ticket is interrupted, being able at that moment proceed to manually withdraw, the ticket (or in the case of a "double ticket") not valid from the means of receipt 24. The means of receipt 24 of the means of collection 6 comprise a set of blades 28 arranged forming at least two groups of blades 28 connected to the axis of rotation and separated a distance less than the length of the smaller side of the bill, the blades 28 of each blade group being arranged in the same plane one following the following , defining, between two consecutive blades, a groove 29 with a curved profile. In addition, the curved profile of the slit 29 of the receiving means 24 has a variable turning radius, configured to allow the total introduction of the bill transported in said slits 29 without any interference of feed between the bills coming from the validation means 5 and the reception means 24 themselves. The second transport means 23 of the collection means 6 also have a plurality of traction wheels 30 located immediately ahead of the reception means 24, so that, as can be seen in figure 6, the end of the blades 28 is overlapped with the exit of the traction wheels 30 preventing the bills from being projected out of the receiving means 24. The number of blades 28 of each blade group is equal an, being 2 ≤ n < 4. However, the optimum number of blades 28, taking into account the limit size that the receiving means 24 could adopt and more specifically the aforementioned blades 28 and taking into account the speed of rotation of the blades 28, is 4. With 3 blades 28 in each group of blades the device could work but the turning speed would have to increase too much not being enough the arrival speed of the bills coming from the validation means 5 and producing a lag in the feeding of the bills. The second means of transport 23 comprise stop means 31 located close to the first position 26 and facing the movement of the bills, so that when the bills reach the first position 26, they hit the stop means 31 and are ejected from the receiving means 24, said stop means 31 being configured with a variable inclination angle, along said stop means 31, with respect to the axis of rotation of the receiving means 24,. In this way, thanks to the particular configuration of the slits 29 and the stop means 31, it is achieved that when the receiving means 24 is in the receiving position, the bills are fully inserted in the slits 29 and that upon passing said reception means to the first position 26, the deposition of the valid bills on a delivery surface 32 takes place in a more efficient and safe way. The delivery surface 32 has a certain downward inclination both in the longitudinal and transverse direction of the bill in the vicinity of the receiving means 24, the treated bills being placed aligned with respect to two of their adjacent sides (one major and one minor ) even if they are bills of different value. The movement of the drive wheels 7, 11, 17 that are part of the first means of transport and that are associated with the input means 2, separation means 3 and thickness measurement means 4 is independent of the movement of the wheels of traction 30 associated with the collection means 6, their relative speeds being able to vary in order to keep the relative distance between two consecutive bills constant. To achieve this, the sensors of the validation means 5, allow us at all times to know the position of the bill, in addition to knowing when it will enter the collection zone 6 and, together with the thickness measuring means 4, we They also allow the distance between two contiguous bills to be known, and in this way the speed ratio between the traction wheels 7, 11, 17 associated with the input 2, separation 3 and thickness 4 measurement means can be varied conveniently. the wheels 30 associated with the collection means 6.

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REIVINDICACIONES
1. Dispositivo de tratamiento de billetes, presentando los billetes (10) una forma sustancialmente rectangular con dos lados mayores que se extienden en una dirección longitudinal (D1 ) y dos lados menores que se extienden en una dirección transversal1. Banknote handling device, the banknotes (10) having a substantially rectangular shape with two major sides extending in a longitudinal direction (D1) and two minor sides extending in a transverse direction
(D2) sustancialmente perpendicular a dicha dirección longitudinal, comprendiendo el dispositivo: - medios de entrada (2) de un conjunto de billetes a tratar, que comprenden un sensor de presencia y medios para transportar los billetes hacia medios de separación unitaria (3) de los billetes, - los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, configurados para separar los billetes de uno en uno, - medios de medida del espesor (4) de cada uno de los billetes procedentes de los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, configurados para generar una primera señal de error si se mide un grosor superior a un umbral preestablecido correspondiente a un grosor máximo de un billete, - medios de validación (5) de cada uno de los billetes, que comprenden una pluralidad de sensores para medir características físicas de los billetes y medios de análisis para determinar, a partir de las características medidas, si el billete es válido o no y configurados para generar una segunda señal de error si se detectan medidas de las características físicas del billete distintas a correspondientes patrones preestablecidos, - primeros medios de transporte de cada uno de los billetes desde los medios de separación unitaria de los billetes, pasando por los medios de medida del espesor y por los medios de validación de cada uno de los billetes, hasta medios de recopilación, - los medios de recopilación (6) de los billetes configurados para desplazar cada billete selectivamente a un primera posición (26) si no se ha generado una señal de error correspondiente a un billete o una segunda posición (27) si se ha generado al memos un señal de error correspondiente al billete, caracterizado porque, los medios de entrada (2), los medios de separación unitaria (3), los medios de medida del espesor (4), los medios de validación (5), los primeros medios de transporte y los medios de recopilación (6) están configurados para que el billete (10) se desplace en la dirección longitudinal (D1) desde los medios de entrada (2) hasta los medios de recopilación (6). (D2) substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, the device comprising: - input means (2) of a set of bills to be treated, comprising a presence sensor and means for transporting the bills towards unit separation means (3) of the banknotes, - the means of unit separation of the banknotes, configured to separate the banknotes one by one, - means for measuring the thickness (4) of each of the banknotes coming from the unit of unit separation of the banknotes, configured to generate a first error signal if a thickness greater than a preset threshold corresponding to a maximum thickness of a bill is measured, - validation means (5) of each of the bills, comprising a plurality of sensors for measuring physical characteristics of the banknotes and means of analysis to determine, based on the characteristics measured, whether the ticket is valid or not and configured to generate a second that of error if measurements of the physical characteristics of the bill other than corresponding preset patterns are detected, - first means of transport of each of the bills from the means of unitary separation of the bills, passing through the means of measuring the thickness and by the means of validation of each of the bills, up to collection means, - the means of collection (6) of the bills configured to move each ticket selectively to a first position (26) if a corresponding error signal has not been generated to a bill or a second position (27) if an error signal corresponding to the bill has been generated at least, characterized in that, the input means (2), the unit separation means (3), the thickness measurement means (4), the validation means (5), the first means of transport and the collection means (6) are configured so that the ticket (10) moves in the direction of ngitudinal (D1) from the input media (2) to the collection media (6).
2. Dispositivo según la reivindicación 1 , caracterizado porque el dispositivo es un dispositivo de sobremesa de reducidas dimensiones. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the device is a small-sized desktop device.
3. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones 1 y 2, caracterizado porque los medios de recopilación (6) comprenden segundos medios de transporte (23) que comprenden medios de recepción (24) de billetes en una posición de recepción (25), estando los segundos medios de transporte configurados para: girar con respecto a un eje de rotación perpendicular a la dimensión longitudinal (D1) del billete, con el fin de desplazar los billetes (10) desde dicha posición de recepción (25) hacia la primera posición(26); y - parar con los billetes (10) en dicha segunda posición (27), anterior a dicha primera posición (26), en el caso de que se haya generado una primera y/o segunda señal de error correspondiente al billete (10).Device according to any one of claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the collection means (6) comprise second transport means (23) comprising means for receiving (24) bills in a receiving position (25), the second means of transport configured to: rotate with respect to an axis of rotation perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension (D1) of the bill, in order to move the bills (10) from said receiving position (25) to the first position (26 ); and - stopping with the bills (10) in said second position (27), prior to said first position (26), in the event that a first and / or second error signal corresponding to the bill (10) has been generated.
4. Dispositivo según la reivindicación 3, caracterizado porque los medios de recepción (24) comprenden un conjunto de aspas (28) dispuestas formando al menos dos grupos de aspas conectados al eje de rotación y separados una distancia menor a la longitud del lado menor del billete (10), estando dispuestas las aspas (28) de cada grupo de aspas en un mismo plano una a continuación de la siguiente, definiendo, entre dos aspas consecutivas, una hendidura (29) de perfil curvado.Device according to claim 3, characterized in that the receiving means (24) comprise a set of blades (28) arranged forming at least two groups of blades connected to the axis of rotation and separated a distance less than the length of the minor side of the banknote (10), the blades (28) of each blade group being arranged in the same plane one after the next, defining, between two consecutive blades, a groove (29) with a curved profile.
5. Dispositivo según la reivindicación 4, caracterizado porque el perfil curvado de la hendidura (29) de los medios de recepción (24) tiene un radio de giro variable, configurado para permitir la introducción total del billete transportado en dichas hendiduras (29) sin que se produzcan interferencias de alimentación entre los billetes (10) provenientes de los medios de validación (5) y los medios de recepción (24).Device according to claim 4, characterized in that the curved profile of the slit (29) of the receiving means (24) has a variable turning radius, configured to allow the total introduction of the bill transported in said slits (29) without that power interferences occur between the bills (10) coming from the validation means (5) and the reception means (24).
6. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones 4 y 5, caracterizado porque el número de aspas (28) de cada grupo de aspas es igual a n, siendo 2 < n <4.6. Device according to any of claims 4 and 5, characterized in that the number of blades (28) of each blade group is equal to n, with 2 <n <4.
7. Dispositivo según la reivindicación 6, caracterizado porque n es igual a 4.7. Device according to claim 6, characterized in that n is equal to 4.
8. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones 3 a 7, caracterizado porque los segundos medios de transporte (23) comprenden medios de tope (31) situados próximos a la primera posición (26) y de forma enfrentada al movimiento de los billetes (10), de manera que cuando los billetes llegan a la primera posición (26), topan contra los medios de tope (31) y son expulsados de los medios de recepción (24), estando configurados dichos medios de tope (31) con un ángulo de inclinación variable, a lo largo de dichos medios de tope, con respecto al eje de rotación de los medios de recepción (24).Device according to any one of claims 3 to 7, characterized in that the second transport means (23) comprise stop means (31) located close to the first position (26) and facing the movement of the bills (10), so that when the bills reach the first position (26), they bump into the stop means (31) and are ejected from the receiving means (24), said stop means (31) having a variable inclination angle being configured, along said stop means, with respect to the axis of rotation of the receiving means (24).
9. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones anteriores, caracterizado porque los medios de entrada (2) comprenden una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción (7), una pluralidad de ruedas con giro libre (8), unos medios de aspiración (9), situados por debajo de las mencionadas ruedas (7, 8) y un sensor de presencia, de manera que cuando se dispone el conjunto de billetes (10) sobre la pluralidad de ruedas de tracción (7), el sensor de presencia activa los medios de aspiración (9) los cuales producen una corriente de aspiración sobre el conjunto de billetes que provoca un contacto entre la superficie del billete inferior del conjunto de billetes y la pluralidad de ruedas de tracción (7).Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the input means (2) comprise a plurality of traction wheels (7), a plurality of wheels with free rotation (8), suction means (9), located below said wheels (7, 8) and a presence sensor, so that when the set of bills (10) is arranged on the plurality of traction wheels (7), the presence sensor activates the suction means (9) which produce a suction current on the set of bills that causes a contact between the surface of the lower bill of the set of bills and the plurality of traction wheels (7).
10. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones anteriores, caracterizado porque los primeros medios de transporte comprenden una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción (11) asociadas a los medios de separación (3), al menos una rueda de tracción (17) asociada a los medios de medida del espesor (4) y una pluralidad de ruedas de tracción (30) asociadas a los medios de recopilación (6), de manera que el movimiento de las ruedas de tracción (7, 11 , 17) asociadas a los medios de entrada (2), medios de separación (3) y medios de medida del espesor (4) es independiente del movimiento de las ruedas de tracción (30) de los medios de recopilación (6), pudiendo variar sus velocidades relativas para mantener la distancia entre dos billetes consecutivos constante.Device according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the first means of transport comprise a plurality of traction wheels (11) associated with the separation means (3), at least one traction wheel (17) associated with the means for measuring the thickness (4) and a plurality of traction wheels (30) associated with the collection means (6), so that the movement of the traction wheels (7, 11, 17) associated with the input means (2), separation means (3) and thickness measurement means (4) is independent of the movement of the drive wheels (30) of the collection means (6), their relative speeds being able to vary in order to maintain the distance between two consecutive consecutive tickets.
11. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones anteriores, caracterizado porque los medios de validación (5) comprenden medios de recuento asociados a los medios de análisis configurados para determinar, a partir de la medida de las características físicas de los billetes, el valor acumulado de los billetes del conjunto de billetes considerados válidos durante un periodo de tiempo definido por el usuario. Device according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the validation means (5) comprise counting means associated with the analysis means configured to determine, from the measurement of the physical characteristics of the bills, the accumulated value of the bills of the set of bills considered valid for a period of time defined by the user.
12. Dispositivo según cualquiera de las reivindicaciones anteriores, caracterizado porque los medios de validación (5) de los billetes comprenden no más de un elemento sensor unitario por cada una de las características físicas a medir del billete. 12. Device according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the validation means (5) of the bills comprise no more than one unit sensing element for each of the physical characteristics to be measured of the bill.
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