Sheet feeding or delivering – Delivering – To receiver for pack of sheets
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-19
2001-12-04
Ellis, Christopher P. (Department: 3651)
Sheet feeding or delivering
Delivering
To receiver for pack of sheets
C902S008000, C902S012000, C902S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06325370
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an automatic banknote selection and delivery safe.
In banks the requirement to solve if not in a final at least in an acceptable manner the problem of safety which develops because of the daily handling of high quantities of money in the form of banknotes is still pressing.
At present there are installed various devices and barriers which select at the entrance the patrons and customers by having them pass through barriers detecting metals and similar materials with which arms could be constructed and which could be hidden under the clothing.
Even the various individual cash desks are equipped with safety devices designed to prevent robbery or to start operating upon the slightest threat thereof.
Despite these contrivances, although of a rather sophisticated nature, it still happens with considerable frequency that robbers and the ill-intentioned take aim at banks for their illegal actions, even using hostages found on site at the moment and carrying out the robbery while threatening the safety thereof.
In addition to this problem which is already significant in itself, there is a second related to the professional activity of the cashiers who are daily forced to carry out repeated and extenuating counts substantially by hand of a large number of banknotes for each withdrawal or deposit to be made.
This repetitiveness negatively influences the level of attention and concentration of those assigned who might, because of this, make counting errors, creating troublesome conflict situations, especially with the customer and to solve which it is often necessary to have recourse to mediated settlements which, in fact, satisfy neither the bank nor even less the customer who retains the doubt that he has been tricked due to an error to say the least not made personally.
At this time there are produced and used some safes which permit automatic collection or delivery of the banknotes at each accounting operation to be carried out. But the entire operational cycle takes place within a closed and of course armored casing whose operational members are controlled and commanded by a cashier of the bank by means of a computer.
While representing considerable progress whether for the safety solution, such known safes being not removable from their place of installation, or in aid to the manual nature of the cash operations, there remains still totally unresolved the problem concerning the component of distrust by the customers for whom it is absolutely impossible to verify agreement of the amount deposited and the amount actually collected by the machine. Just think for example of an accidental overlapping of banknotes which are received as though they were only one while in reality they are two or more.
Any protest and complaint by the customer cannot find direct corroboration and therefore satisfaction by the cashier who performs the operation because not even in this case is it possible to verify, at least in real time, whether the complained of error occurred or not.
Lastly, known safes cannot offer a banknote distribution function directly to customers without the personal intervention of the cashier.
Lastly, the supplying of banknotes in known safes takes place with the intervention of a trusted employee, in general a member of a security service who must materially open the safes to gain access to the internal storage space. This is normally made up of a series of parallel boxes in which are accumulated the banknotes divided by denomination and which are withdrawn and replaced in both resupply and withdrawal operations.
In conclusion the employee can always accede directly to the money with all the risks which this implies.
In addition to this the above mentioned replacement operation, considerably costly for the bank, takes place sometimes even if the above mentioned tanks are not completely empty, increasing overhead costs.
Another problem with known safes is that if the electronic apparatus which controls their operation detects some anomalies during performance of the monetary operations, e.g. accidental overlapping of banknotes, the operations are canceled totally, requiring for the performance thereof complete repetition of all the procedural steps and causing a considerable loss of operational time and the need to have available a larger quantity of banknotes.
The general purpose of the present invention is to remedy the above mentioned shortcomings of the prior art by making available an automatic banknote selection and delivery safe permitting verification in real time of the agreement of each accounting operation with the number and denomination of banknotes handled for each operation to avoid the risk of unpleasant differences between customers and cashiers and possibly canceling the doubtful operation and restoring the collected banknotes.
Another purpose of the present invention is to make available an automatic banknote selection and delivery safe of the greatest safety while allowing with each withdrawal or supply operation by employees without providing direct access to the interior thereof.
Another purpose of the present invention is to make available an automatic banknote selection and delivery safe permitting distribution of sums of money without requiring the direct presence of an assigned operator, possibly with the employment of usual electronic access code recognition means.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This and other purposes are achieved by an automatic banknote selection and delivery safe characterized in that it consists of an armored boxed frame in one upper zone of which is mounted a first banknote acceptance device from which departs a first banknote grasping and conveyance means path towards a first screening station thereof with associated detection means followed by a second station for sight sensing of the banknotes collected and alternate sending to a restitution door or to a third withdrawal station from said first path and routing towards an underlying second path of sorting in a containment storage unit divided in preselectable modular tanks with there being provided inspection means for the correct positioning of the banknotes, removable cartridge means for accumulation of banknotes and at least one door directly opening on the exterior equipped with the usual electronic selection means for access to automatic banknote delivery.
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Crotti Alberto
Vincenzi Giancarlo
CIMA S.p.A. di Razzaboni & Co.
Ellis Christopher P.
Ridley Richard
Shlesinger Fitzsimmons & Shlesinger
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