Check-actuated control mechanisms – With additional – disparate means preventing fraudulent... – Means preventing use of tethered check
Patent
1994-12-12
1996-02-27
Huppert, Michael S.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
With additional, disparate means preventing fraudulent...
Means preventing use of tethered check
194206, G07D 700
Patent
active
054941440
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates, in general, to a bill handling apparatus, and more particularly, to a bill handling apparatus to prevent unauthorized extraction of bills which have been received in a stacker of the apparatus.
BACKGROUND OF THE TECHNOLOGY
For example, Japanese Utility Model Disclosure 63-89181 discloses a bill-extraction-proof device in a bill validator. As shown in FIGS. 18 and 19, in the bill-extraction-proof device, a bill is inserted from an inlet 7 into the space between a pair of side walls 2 and 3 of a frame 1, and is then carried by belts 11 and rollers 12 to further pass through the space between slant protrusions 9 and 10 formed on the frame 1 and a plate 5. Although the bill is slightly deformed when the bill passes through the slant protrusions 9 and 10, the deformation does not provide any obstacle in carrying the bill. If a person tries to withdraw the bill without authorization from the inlet 7 by pulling a string such as a fishing line connected to the bill after it passes through an outlet 8, the extraction is prevented due to engagement of the bill with the slant protrusions 9 and 10.
Disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Disclosure 4-36677 is another bill-extraction-proof device in which a stopper is rotatably provided to extend into the passageway of a bill validator and is rotated away from the passageway according to a control signal generated by the bill validator. This bill-extraction-proof device is advantageous in that extraction of bill is effectively prevented since the stopper is rotated away from the passageway only when a valid bill passes through the validator.
However, the bill-extraction-proof device shown in FIGS. 18 and 19 is disadvantageous in that the slant protrusions 9 and 10 cannot have their long extension length which may obstruct transportation of the bill by belts 11 due to engagement of the bill and long slant protrusions. Therefore, unauthorized extraction of the bill can be carried out by strongly pulling a fishing line connected to the bill or by pulling the line after inserting a thin flexible plate into the passageway.
Also, Japanese Utility Model Disclosure 4-36677 demonstrates an extraction-proof device in which, however, unauthorized extraction may be made by successively inserting two bills.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a bill handling apparatus with its simple construction strongly resistible against any unauthorized extraction of the bill.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A bill handling apparatus according to the present invention includes a casing provided with an inlet; validator means for judging authenticity of a bill inserted into the inlet of the casing; stacker means for accumulating the bill considered authentic by the validator means; and conveyor means for transporting the bill inserted into the inlet of the casing through the validator means to the stacker means. Bending means is provided between the validator means and the stacker means for gradually bending, into a V-shape, the bill discharged from the validator means with transportation of the bill.
In an embodiment of the instant invention, the bending means includes a guide plate for defining a passageway of the conveyor means, and guide portions integrally formed with and projecting from the guide plate. A pair of the guide portions are formed in both sides of the conveyor means. The guide portions have their inclining surfaces for guiding side edges of the bill toward a height different from the central portion of the bill and blocking edges formed at the rear end of the guide portions and extending to a position different from the passageway, the side edges of the bill being in parallel to a longitudinal central line of the bill.
The bill recovers the initial flat shape due to its own elasticity to form a face intersecting the blocking edges after passing through the guide portions in its deformed shape. At least a notch is formed in each slant surface or blocking edge of the guide. A plurality of pairs of the guide
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Huppert Michael S.
Japan Cash Machine Co. Ltd.
Lowe Scott L.
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