Check-actuated control mechanisms – Control mechanism actuated by check – other than coin – which... – By pliant currency
Patent
1997-08-22
1999-11-02
Kramer, Dean J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Control mechanism actuated by check, other than coin , which...
By pliant currency
235379, 271187, G07F 704, G06F 1760, B65H 2900
Patent
active
059752734
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a process and an apparatus for secured loading and dispensing of bills.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
Apparatus for loading and dispensing bills are known from GB-A 2,149,175, DE-U 9,314,342.7, EP-A 0,164,717, and GB-A 2,225,662.
In GB-A 2,225,662, for example, the inserted bills are tested individually for authenticity. Counterfeit or unrecognized bills are separated from genuine bills, and the genuine bills are arranged so that the upper side of each bill faces one and the same direction. The genuine arranged bills and the counterfeit, or not processed bills, are then gathered in separate loading containers. The bills that are gathered in separate containers are then again sent one by one to the deposit tray. From there, they can be removed or deposited into the different stack storage containers after separating them according to denomination.
A further bill loading and dispensing machine is known from EP-A 0,317,537. After loading the bills, the same are passed one by one through a bill feeding location and are then tested for authenticity in a testing unit. The genuine bills are fed over a first embranchment location as well as several other embranchments arranged on the different end storage containers and into an intermediate container. They remain there until bill loading has been completed.
The counterfeit or unrecognized bills are guided from the first embranchment location to a return redirecting, wherein the bills are redirected from a second embranchment location into the feeding unit for retesting.
If the complete transaction is interrupted by customers, all the bills of the intermediate container are transported back through the bill feeding location and thorugh the first and second embranchment locations into the feeding unit.
During a dispensing of bills from the end storage containers, the same are transported beyond the intermediate storage from a feeding location into the testing unit and are then loaded from a first and now-modified second embranchment unit into the dispensing tray.
Other procedures for loading and dispensing unrecognized bills are known from DE-A 3,931,571 and EP-A 0,409,809.
In DE-A 3,931 571, the bills are individually fed one after the other and transported into an intermediate storage by means of a bill transportation path. The bills are also passed through a bill testing unit, and the genuine bills are immediately made available for dispensing after testing. Bills found to be genuine are passed through the testing unit into the intermediate storage. These provisionally stored bills can be refed by means of the feeding path if requested externally. The simple structure of these loading and dispensing paths is only possible because an automatic isolation, bundling, etc. is eliminated.
A pivoting intermediate storage wherein the bills can be stored is described in EP-A 0,409,809. An isolation unit is not available. After turning it 90.degree., the provisionally stored bills can be fed into the end storage container and, after a 90.degree. turn, a dispensing can be carried out by means of a staple wheel by bundling the dispensed bills into a dispensing unit.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to obtain a flawless bill storage system with bill testing, wherein particularly the fed bills are available for dispensing to the depositing customers for a renewed control.
The known bill transportation systems are complicated and, therefore, have a tendency to a faulty distribution of the deposited bills. Particularly due to the bills deposited by the customers, it is not ensured that the apparatus disburses the same amounts which were previously fed and counted. This is experienced only if there is a questionable or actual discrepancy of the automatically determined fed value, and it can be requested that the bills fed into the apparatus be returned, whereby the loading and dispensing paths are structured in such a manner that there is an accurate certainty.
Before the final storing of the bills, the
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Brugger Robert
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Ascom Autelca AG
Jaketic Bryan J.
Kramer Dean J.
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