Development of page turning roller for high reliable page turning machine

Abstract

Page turning technology is widely used in many applications, such as Automated Teller Machines (ATM) to deal with passbooks, automated book scanning machines to convert paper books to electronic books, and so on. Among them, ATM especially requires high reliability because ATM is used in unmanned operation. Therefore, in this paper, a new page turning roller is developed for a high reliable page turning process on ATM. ATM has to turn both a high stiffness cover page and low stiffness inner pages of passbooks. First, press force of the page turning roller is considered to turn a cover and inner pages stably. Next, we constructed a simulation model about the press force of the page turning roller and considered the shape of the page turning roller by using the simulation model. The developed page turning roller has the desired press force characteristic to turn a cover and inner pages stably. By applying the developed page turning roller, a page turning machine for ATM can stably turn cover pages and inner pages of passbooks.