Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Stack forming apparatus
Patent
1996-05-31
2000-02-15
Krizek, Janice L.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Stack forming apparatus
901 34, 901 38, 902 14, B25J 1502
Patent
active
06024531&
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a manipulator for a device for depositing and withdrawing banknotes, in which the banknotes are conducted in a closed circuit between deposition and withdrawal, the device comprising an extractable drawer for manually inserting various banknotes (i.e., banknotes of different denomination) in different recesses, for the sorted reception of banknotes and for various banknotes in different shafts, from which the respective banknotes can be drawn off mechanically. Automatic machines by which cash money in the form of banknotes can be made to be paid out by using data carriers, such as, for instance, credit or check cards, as well as by inputting a personal code belong to the prior art. Sorting means, banknote identification means and other mechanical aids have been known for receiving banknotes or introducing deposits, which mechanical aids are to prepare and ensure the deposition of paid-in amounts in appropriately secured spaces, such as, for instance, safes. other institutions clearly exhibit deficiencies in terms of security that cannot be readily overcome by conventional means. The money offered for deposit usually is locked in safes, which, however, are reopened for withdrawing notes such that there will always be full access to the whole amount of banknotes in store, creating a high safety risk.
Devices that would enable the automatic identification of banknotes and their respective deposition in a sorted order are relatively complex and prone to failures. For, when taking over banknotes not only must the authenticity of the same be verified, but also any damage to genuine banknotes must be recognized so as to cause such banknotes to be withdrawn from circulation. Only undamaged and, of course, only genuine banknotes are to remain in circulation. Considering the banknotes currently in circulation, devices including safety checks (as functionally safe as possible) involve extremely high expenditures.
The invention contemplates a manipulator for a device of the initially defined kind by which the safety risk at counters and cash-in windows, at which amounts of money are also dispensed, is substantially reduced and by which a fully protected circulatory system for banknotes that is not readily accessible from outside is realized in a simple and cost-saving manner. The device has a drawer with an openable bottom and at least one open or openable longitudinal side wall. The manipulator is capable of being moved transverse to the push-in direction of the drawer and is arranged at the openable or open longitudinal side wall. The manipulator comprises at least one gripping means and is movable into a position in correspondence with the respective bin for the banknotes, and upon opening of the bottom of the drawer, is lowerable from that position into the shaft intended to receive said banknotes. The manipulator, upon closing of the bottom of the the drawer and/or closing of the drawer, remains in the reception shaft for the respective banknotes while maintaining a defined pressure. The fact that the device includes a simple drawer having an openable bottom offers the advantage of being able to effect the deposit of banknotes in accordingly provided bins or recesses immediately upon manual pre-sorting, wherein a particularly simple configuration with a view to manipulating the banknotes thus deposited in a sorted manner may be chosen. After having been moved into a safe, the drawer immediately may redisappear in the protected area with the individual bins of the drawer being emptiable in a simple manner such that only empty recesses will be released upon reopening of such a protected area and access to the banknotes withdrawn in a protected manner will no longer be possible. The banknotes thus altogether disappear in the safe after payment and no longer are completely released upon electronically protected opening of the safe. Dispensing of banknotes may be effected in a conventional manner as with conventional bancomats, wherein, again, only that
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AS Beteiligungs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Krizek Janice L.
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