Safe bag module having a handle with one-sided torque transmission

Abstract

A device (10) for receiving notes of value has a receiving area (12) for receiving notes of value and a shaft (20) with one hook (26, 28) at each end. The hooks are movable between a locking position and an unlocked position by rotation of the shaft (20). A handle (14) is arranged on the shaft (20) so that the shaft (20) runs through a first hole (34) and a second hole (36) at both ends (16, 18) of the handle (14). The first hole (34) is formed so that upon rotation of the handle (14) within a predetermined range, a torque is transmittable to the shaft (20) via engagement between the shaft (20) and the first end (16) of the handle (14). The second hole (36) is formed so that upon rotation of the handle (14) no torque is transmitted to the shaft (20) via the second end (18).

Claims

1. A device for receiving notes of value, comprising: a receiving area for receiving notes of value, a shaft, a first hook arranged at a first end of the shaft and a second hook arranged at a second end of the shaft, wherein the first and second hooks, when the device is inserted in a compartment of a device for handling notes of value, are engaged with engagement elements of the device for handling notes of value in a locking position, the engagement elements are arranged within the compartment, and the first and second hooks are not engaged with the engagement elements when in an unlocked position, wherein the first and second hooks are movable between the locking position and the unlocked position by a rotation of the shaft, a handle arranged on the shaft, the handle comprises a first end with a first hole and a second end with a second hole, wherein the shaft runs through the first and the second holes, the first hole is formed such that upon rotation of the handle, at least within a predetermined range of rotation, a torque is transmitted to the shaft via an engagement between the shaft and the first end of the handle, and the second hole is formed such that upon a rotation of the handle there is no torque transmission to the shaft via the second end.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the second hole has a circular cross-section and the diameter of the second hole is larger than a maximum dimension of a cross-section of the shaft.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the shaft has a rectangular basic body.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein a projection is formed on each of a first side of the basic body and on a second side of the basis body opposite to the first side, each of the projections having a circular-segment-shaped cross-section and extending at least in areas of the first and the second holes, and that a curvature of the surface of the projections approximately corresponds to an inner curvature of the first and/or second hole.

5. The device of claim 2, wherein the first hole has a circular cross-section into which at least one projection projects.

6. The device of claim 2, wherein the handle comprises a basic body and a reinforcing element in an area of the first end of the handle, wherein a first portion of the first hole extends through the basic body and a second portion of the first hole extends through the reinforcing element.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the first portion of the first hole has a circular cross-section, and the second portion of the first hole has a circular cross-section into which at least one projection projects.

8. The device of claim 5, wherein the at least one projection is designed such that, starting out from a zero position of the handle, upon a rotation of the handle within a first angular range, the shaft is not engaged with the at least one projection such that no torque transmission takes place, and upon a rotation of the handle within a second angular range following the first angular range there is an engagement between the at least one projection and the shaft via which a transmission of the torque from the handle to the shaft takes place.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the first hook is mounted on the shaft in a rotationally fixed manner without play, and the second hook is mounted on the shaft with a predetermined play.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the play is between 3 and 7.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the shaft has a rectangular cross-section at its first and second ends, the first hook has a recess into which the first end of the shaft engages, the recess of the first hook has the same cross-section as the first end of the shaft, the second hook has a recess into which the second end of the shaft engages, the recess of the second hook has a rectangular cross-section, and both sides of the rectangular cross-section of the recess of the second hook are larger than respective corresponding sides of the cross-section of the second end of the shaft.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein the second hook is biased on the shaft by means of an elastic element opposite to a direction of rotation into which the shaft has to be rotated for moving the first and second hooks to the unlocked position.

13. A device for receiving notes of value, comprising: a receiving area for receiving notes of value, a shaft, a handle arranged on the shaft, a first hook arranged at a first end of the shaft and a second hook arranged at a second end of the shaft, wherein the first and second hooks, when the device is inserted in a compartment of a device for handling notes of value, are engaged with engagement elements of the device for handling notes of value in a locking position, which engagement elements are arranged within the compartment, and the first and second hooks are not engaged with the engagement elements in an unlocked position, wherein the first and second hooks are movable between the locking position and the unlocked position by a rotation of the shaft by the handle, wherein the first hook is mounted on the shaft in a rotationally fixed manner without play, and the second hook is mounted on the shaft with a predetermined amount of play.

14. A device for handling notes of value with the compartment for receiving the device for receiving notes of value of claim 1, wherein when the device for receiving notes of value is received in the compartment of the device for handling notes of value, a first engagement element of the engagement elements is arranged on a first side of the compartment and a second engagement element of the engagement elements is arranged on a second side of the compartment opposite to the first side, wherein, in the locking position, the first hook is engaged with the first engagement element and the second hook is engaged with the second engagement element.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein on the first side a locking unit is arranged, which, in a first operating state, prevents a movement of the first hook from the locking position into the unlocked position, and, in a second operating state, enables the movement of the first hook from the locking position into the unlocking position.

16. The device of claim 12, wherein the elastic element is a spring.

17. The device for handling notes of value of claims 13 wherein the device for handling notes of value is an automated teller machine.

18. The device for handling notes of value of claims 14 wherein the device for handling notes of value is an automated teller machine.

19. The device of claim 7, wherein the at least one projection comprises two projections.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 shows a schematic, highly simplified illustration of a device for handling notes of value.

(2) FIG. 2 shows a schematic, highly simplified illustration of a safe bag module.

(3) FIG. 3 shows a detail of the device according to FIG. 1 and of the safe bag module according to FIG. 2.

(4) FIG. 4 shows a further detail of the device according to FIG. 1 and of the safe bag module according to FIG. 2.

(5) FIG. 5 shows a schematic, perspective illustration of a shaft and a handle of the safe bag module according to FIGS. 2 to 4.

(6) FIG. 6 shows a schematic perspective illustration of a basic body of the handle according to FIG. 5.

(7) FIG. 7 shows a schematic, perspective illustration of a reinforcing element of the handle according to FIG. 5, and

(8) FIG. 8 shows a schematic, perspective illustration of the handle, the shaft and a second hook of the safe bag module according to FIGS. 2 to 7.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(9) In FIG. 1, a schematic, highly simplified illustration of a device 100 for handling notes of value, in particular banknotes, is shown. The device 100 is in particular an automated teller machine, an automatic cash register system or an automatic cash safe.

(10) The device 100 has a compartment 102 in which a safe bag module 10 can be received. On a first side 104 of the compartment 102, a first engagement element 108 and on a second side 106 a second engagement element 110 is provided, which, by means of the engagement with elements of the safe bag module 10 which will be described in more detail later on, hold the safe bag module in a predetermined position within the compartment 102, wherein this position is predetermined such that by means of a feeding and stacking module of the device 100 notes of value can be fed to the safe bag arranged in the safe bag module 10.

(11) On the first side 104, further an active locking unit 112 is provided by which an active locking can be implemented. By active locking it is understood that via this locking unit 112 a disengagement of the engagement between the engagement element 108 and the corresponding complementary element 26 of the safe bag module 10 is prevented when the locking unit 112 is in a first operating state.

(12) In FIG. 2, a schematic, perspective, highly simplified illustration of a safe bag module 10 is shown, which can be inserted into the compartment 102 of the device 100. The inventive handling and locking mechanisms described in the following can, of course, also be used for all other devices for receiving notes of value, such as cash boxes, which have a corresponding handle and are locked by means of corresponding engagement elements 108, 110 in the device 100.

(13) The safe bag module 10 has a receiving area 12 in which a safe bag is arranged in a manner stretched over non-illustrated elements. The notes of value are fed to the safe bag in the direction of the arrow P1.

(14) On the side of the safe bag module 10 opposite to the feeding side, a handle 14 is arranged, by means of which the safe bag module 10 can be removed from the compartment 102 and carried. The handle 14 is mounted on a shaft 20 via a first end 16 and a second end 18. At a first end 22 of the shaft 20, a first hook 26 and at a second end 24 opposite to the first end a second hook 28 is arranged. The hook 26 has a recess 30 and the hook 28 has a recess 32, via which the engagement with the engagements elements 108, 110 can be established when the safe bag module 10 is inserted in the compartment 102 and the hooks 26, 28 are arranged in the locking position shown in FIG. 2. In this locking position, the engagement elements 108, 110 are arranged in the recesses 30, 32 of the hooks 26, 28.

(15) By moving the handle 14 in the direction of the arrow P4 and a rotation of the shaft 20 caused thereby, the hooks 26, 28 can be moved in accordance with the arrow P2 from the locking position into the unlocked position in which the engagement elements 108, 110 are no longer arranged in the recesses 30, 32 and thus an engagement between the hooks 26, 28 and the engagement elements 108, 110 no longer exists.

(16) In FIGS. 3 and 4, each time a schematic, perspective illustration of a detail of the safe bag module 10 and the device 100 is shown, wherein only the handle 14, the shaft 20 as well as the two hooks 26, 28 of the safe bag module 10 are illustrated. Only the two engagement elements 108, 110 of the compartment 102 as well as the locking unit 112 of the device 100 are illustrated.

(17) The locking unit 112 comprises a lever 114 which is arranged pivotably about an axis 116. At a first end 118 of the lever 114, an adjusting unit designed as a lifting magnet 122 is provided, by means of which the pivoting about the axis 116 can be performed. In a first operating state, which is shown in FIG. 3, the lever 114 is arranged such that its second end 120 opposite to the first end 118 contacts the first hook 26 or is arranged underneath this hook only at a slight distance so that a movement of the hook 26 in the direction of the arrow P2 and thus from the locking position into the unlocked position is prevented.

(18) By means of the lifting magnet 122, the lever 114 can be moved in accordance with the arrow P3 from the first operating state into a second operating state, in which the second end 120 no longer contacts the first hook 26 so that it can be moved in the direction of the arrow P2 by rotation of the shaft 20 and thus from the locking position into the unlocked position.

(19) In FIG. 5, a schematic, perspective illustration of the handle 14 as well as of the shaft 20 is shown. The handle 14 has a first hole 34 as well as a second hole 36 through which the shaft 20 extends.

(20) The handle 14 comprises a basic body 38 which is shown in FIG. 6 and is made of plastic. Further, the handle 14 comprises a reinforcing element 40, which is illustrated in FIG. 7 and, as shown in FIG. 5, is arranged on the side of the first end 16 of the handle 14 on the basic body 38. The reinforcing element 40 is in particular made of metal and has a first recess into which ribs 46 of the basic body 38 extend and thus contribute to the force transmission between the reinforcing element 40 and the basic body 38. Moreover, two further recesses 48, 50 are provided in the disk-shaped reinforcing element 40, through which pins 52, 54 extend, which likewise serve to transmit force between the basic body 38 and the reinforcing element 40.

(21) The shaft 20 has a basic body 56 with a rectangular cross-section, wherein on a first side of the basic body 56 a first projection 58 and on a second side of the basic body 56 opposite to the first side a second projection, not visible in FIG. 5, is provided, wherein the second projection is shaped like the first projection. The projections 58 each have a circular-sector-shaped cross-section and extend almost over the entire length of the shaft 20 apart from the end regions at which the hooks 26, 28 are mounted on the shaft 20.

(22) The first hole 34 through which the shaft 20 is passed comprises a first portion 59 which is surrounded by the basic body 38 and a second portion 60 which is delimited by the reinforcing element 40.

(23) The first portion 59 of the first hole 34 and the second hole 36 have a circular cross-section, wherein their diameters are identical and each time larger than the maximum width and the maximum height of the shaft 20. In particular, the diameter is slightly larger than the maximum dimension of the shaft 20, i.e. the distance between the two apexes of the projections 58 of the shaft 20. In particular, the projections 58 have approximately the same curvature as the second hole 36 and the first portion 59 of the first hole 34.

(24) By means of this shape of the shaft 20 and of the second hole 36, it is achieved that when rotating the lever 14 no torque transmission takes place between the second end 18 of the lever 14 and the shaft 20. Likewise, there is no torque transmission between the first portion 59 of the first hole 34 and the shaft 20.

(25) The second portion 60 of the first hole 34, on the other hand, is formed such that the cross-section is formed as a circle into which two projections 62, 64 project.

(26) When the handle 14 is in a zero position shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, in which the handle 14 bears against the housing of the safe bag module 10 then the straight sides of the shaft 20 contact the edges 66 and 68 of the projections 62, 64 of the second portion 60 of the first hole 34. When the handle 14 is now moved in the direction of the arrow P4 out of the zero position, then at first there is no engagement between the shaft 20 and the second portion 60 of the first hole so that the handle 14 at first can be moved away from the housing by a predetermined angle without the shaft 20 being rotated and without there being a torque transmission. As a result, it is at first achieved that a user can easily move the handle 14 away from the housing and can fully grasp it.

(27) When the handle 14 is rotated so far that the flat sides of the shaft 20 bear against the edges 70, 72 of the projections 62, 64, then via this contact a torque is transmitted to the shaft 20.

(28) Provided that the locking unit 112 is in the second operating state, i.e. does not prevent a movement of the first hook 26, both the first hook 26 and the second hook 28 are correspondingly moved from the locking position to the unlocked position by means of the rotation of the shaft 20 so that the safe bag module 10 can be removed.

(29) If, however, the locking unit 112 is in the first operating state, then a downward movement of the first hook 26, i.e. in the direction of the arrow P2 is prevented. The torque transmitted to the shaft 20 via the first end 16 by pulling the lever 14 results in a twisting of the shaft 20.

(30) Since in the case of the handle 14 shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, however, the torque is exclusively transmitted at the first end 16 and thus on the side facing the locking unit 112, there is a considerably lower twisting of the shaft 20 at its second end 24 compared to a standard handle in which a force transmission takes place via both ends 16, 18 so that the second hook 28 is not or at least only moved so far in the direction of the arrow P2 by the twisting that the engagement with the engagement element 110 still exists and thus the locking on both sides is guaranteed.

(31) In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the shaft 20 and/or the holes 34, 36 can also be formed differently. It is only important that the torque transmission exclusively takes place via the first end 16 and not via the second end 18.

(32) In addition, in an alternative embodiment of the invention, the lever 14 can also be formed in one piece, i.e. that there is no division into the basic body 38 and the reinforcing element 40.

(33) Moreover, it is alternatively also possible that the entire first hole 34 is formed such as previously described for the second portion 60 only.

(34) In addition, it is likewise possible that the second portion 60 or the entire first hole 34 are designed such that the engagement with the shaft 20 always exists and not such that at first there is a certain play at the beginning when rotating the handle 14 out of the zero position.

(35) When carrying the safe bag module 10, the handle 14 is rotated relative to the zero position by 90 in the direction of the arrow P4. By means of the circular-sector-shaped projections 58 it is achieved that when carrying the safe bag module 10 no or only a very little play exists between the shaft 20 and the handle 14 so that there is a uniform transmission of the weight force of the safe bag module 10 via both ends 16, 18.

(36) In FIG. 8, a schematic, perspective illustration of the handle 14, the shaft 20 as well as of the second hook 28 are shown. The second end 24 of the shaft 20 is received in a recess 74 of the second hook 28, wherein the width of this recess 74 is larger than the width of the cross-section of the shaft 20, and the height of the second recess 74 is likewise higher than the height of the cross-section of the shaft 20. In this way, it is achieved that the second hook 28 is mounted on the shaft 20 with a predetermined play, in particular about 5. In this way, it is achieved that even when there is still a quite strong twisting at the second end 24 of the shaft 20 despite the only one-sided torque introduction, a rotation of up to 5, i.e. within the play, does not result in a movement of the second hook 28 so that there will not be a one-sided unlocking.

(37) Further, a spring 76 is provided which is illustrated only schematically in the Figures. By means of this spring 76, the hook 28 is biased in the locking position. Only when the shaft 20 has been rotated further than the predetermined play, the hook 28 is moved against the spring force of the spring 76 from the locking position in the direction of the unlocked position.

(38) In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the one-sided torque transmission can also only be realized via the handle 14, and the hook 28 can be mounted on the shaft 20 without play in a rotationally fixed manner, as this is generally the case for the first hook 26.

(39) In an alternative embodiment, it is likewise possible that the handle 14 is designed such that the torque transmission 26 is accomplished via both ends 16, 18, but the play between the shaft 20 and the second hook 28 is provided.

(40) In both afore-mentioned alternative embodiments, each time the risk of a one-sided unlocking when pulling the lever 14 despite the locking unit 112 being arranged in the first operating mode is reduced. By the combination of both principles, a particularly high safety is achieved.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

(41) 10 safe bag module 12 receiving area 14 handle 16 first end 18 second end 20 shaft 22 first end 24 second end 26, 28 hook 30, 32 recess 34, 36 hole 38 basic body 40 reinforcing element 42, 48, 50 recess 52, 54 pin 56 basic body 58 projection 59, 60 portion 62, 64 projection 66, 68, 70, 72 edge 74 recess 76 spring 100 device 102 compartment 104, 106 side 108, 110 engagement element 112 locking unit 114 lever 116 axis 118, 120 end region 122 lifting magnet P1 to P4 direction