Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting paper money
Patent
1994-09-13
1996-07-09
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting paper money
194207, B07C 500
Patent
active
055336272
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a device for sorting, storing and laying out valuable documents and more particularly for sorting and paying out bank notes.
2. Description of the Related Art
The problem with these devices is that they have difficulty in handling notes in an inferior condition and that they require two separate systems for paying-in and paying-out, this being due to the fact that storage takes place in an unsorted order in the case of the feed-in device, whereas the paying-out unit requires the notes to be present in ordered bundles to enable the correct number of notes to be paid out. Document readers
ote readers are principally designed to function in respect of unmanned applications in which great accuracy is required in order to check the genuineness of the note. A major deficiency is that current systems for paying-out do not readily handle notes of uneven quality, which situation naturally occurs when notes are received from customers. Nor is there any known technique for catering within a single unit for both the receipt and paying-out of notes, which would mean that the paying-in till and the paying-out till would have to be separated if the abovenamed units were to be used.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
As an example of the abovementioned, reference can be made to a device according to U.S. Pat. No. 4,337,864, which comprises a loading unit 12 and a feed-out unit 10, 14. A system of this kind is therefore not designed for manual feed-in and not, above all, for alternating manual feed-out and feed-in, which means that the system is inflexible.
The object of the invention is to solve the above problems and, with a single device, to feed in, store and pay out notes regardless of their physical condition. The invention constitutes a solution to the problems.
In particular, the present invention is a device for sorting valuable documents including bank notes in a cash-register system. This device is capable of handling paying-in and paying-out documents, in a single apparatus, by enclosing the documents between two continuous films which are wound around a spool in a consecutive order. With suitable circuitry means and detecting means, the documents can be verified and stored in order between the films so as to be later paid out upon a suitable command or returned to the submitter if not verified when paid in.
The device is for use primarily with manual operated cash register counters in which an installation of the described device is normally used to verify and store verified documents so they can be accounted for in the system.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a schematic elevation view of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a close-up schematic diagram of the detection and verification means of the present invention depicted in FIG. 1.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
According to FIG. 1, the self-enclosed note-handling function contains three collecting spools per note type 1, 2, 3, two of which spools 1, 2 are connected to the note intake. These two spools 1, 2 each have their film 14, 15 of desired length, preferably in transparent material, initially predominantly wound up.
The loose ends of the film from each respective spool are fitted close to the centre upon the third spool 3, at the same fixing point 30, 31. At each spool there is fitted an electrically controlled motor for controlling the direction of rotation of the respective spool. Four control elements, preferably in the form of mounted rollers 4, 5, 8, 9, are fitted between the two film spools 1, 2 and the third collecting spool 3, these control elements having the task of pressing the films against each other with the note in-between. The feed-in part also has necessary recesses for detection devices 6, 10, 11. A front detection device 6 detects the existence of a note in the feed-in or feed-out opening. Further in, between the first 4, 5 and the second film-control elements 8, 9, there is disposed a second set of detection devices 10, 11, which mea
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