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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4905840 | Banknote account and arrangement apparatus A banknote account and arrangement apparatus includes a supply portion for supplying a bundle of banknotes in the apparatus one after another, a discrimination circuit for discriminating denomination, face, fitness, authenticity, and the like of the suppl... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4894783 | Apparatus for detecting the passage of multiple superposed sheets along a feed path A multiple sheet detection apparatus includes first and second cooperating rollers (12, 14), the second roller (14) being movable away from the first roller (12) in response to the passage of a single or multiple sheet between the rollers (12, 14). Voltag... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4890824 | Recirculation-type bill receiving and dispensing machine A circulation-type bill receiving and dispensing machine reuses received bills for dispensing. It has a bill receiving and dispensing port and operating section at both sides of the machine. The bill receiving and dispensing machine includes separate bill... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4889240 | Bill handling apparatus having right and left bill-shifting mechanisms A circulation-type bill deposit and dispensing apparatus, is provided with a shift mechanism which moves the bills to a predetermined position to the left or right side with respect to their feed direction so as to eliminate dispersion of bills in the lat... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4889220 | Automatic money depositing apparatus An automatic money depositing apparatus includes a customer access panel having a receiver slot for receiving moneys deposited by a customer and a return slot for returning moneys deposited by the customer; a separator/feeder for separating and feeding th... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4884671 | Paper currency acceptor and method of handling paper currency for vending machines and the like A paper currency acceptor having general utility and more specifically for use as a retrofit for a coin vending machine having coin mechanism in which there is very limited space for the paper currency acceptor. The acceptor includes longitudinally direct... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4884698 | Apparatus for handling sheets of paper A conveying device is provided among an accommodating section for accommodating sheets of paper, a counting section for discriminating and counting the sheets of paper, and a port section through which the sheets of paper are put in and taken out of the a... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4883181 | Foreign substance disposing device for money receiving and disbursing machine A foreign substance disposing device is disclosed for a money receiving and disbursing machine. The machine comprises a bill receiving section for receiving a stack of bills to be processed in. The machine, pick out rollers for picking out the bills one b... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4883183 | Bill depositing/dispensing apparatus Re-dispensable bills, such as less skewed bills and successive bills, among these rejected bills which are normal but rendered undiscriminatable while being dispensed from the storage boxes to the clerk-side bill slot are temporarily stacked, in the custo... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4880096 | Bill validator A bill validator including a vertically extending main body having a bill insertion slit, bill conveying passage, and a bill discrimination device provided along the bill conveying passage, and a bill accumulating box detachably mounted on the main body. ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4881268 | Paper money discriminator A paper money discriminator for identifying the type of a bank note by detecting colors thereof from reflected or transmitted light obtained by irradiating the bank note. The paper money discriminator is provided with optical fiber bundles disposed so as ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4877235 | Currency sorter and storage device A currency sorter and storage device 10 which includes a lockable storage container 11 having a front plate 12 which further has a plurality of currency receiving slots 13 therein. A pair of rollers, one being drive roller 18 and the other idler roller 17... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4875589 | Monitoring system A monitoring system, particularly for use with document sorting apparatus, comprises a sensor assembly including a sensor for sensing a respective characteristic of an article and for generating a corresponding first output signal, and a detector controll... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4866254 | Automatic bill transaction system A plurality of transaction machines constituting a transaction system is provided with a bill exchange device which exchanges bills individually among the transaction machines.... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4863038 | Bill receiving and dispensing machine A bill receiving and dispensing machine in which a bill containing mechanism is mounted on the back of a front door of the machine body for improving handling of bills contained within the machine body. The bill receiving and dispensing machine enables ea... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4858744 | Currency validator A vertical slot-type currency validator has a note path which includes pressure elements for urging the bill into proper registration with a magnetic reading head within the path. The slot acceptor further includes an optical interrupt and restricting tab... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4856768 | Separating device for a sheet collection apparatus A separating device for a sheet collection apparatus including support arms for interrupting the passage of sheets between the obverse and reverse convey path outlets and the collecting portion of the sheet collection device after a designated number of s... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4854452 | Bill receiving, discriminating, and dispensing machine A bill receiving and dispensing machine of "specific type of bill circulation-type" which can reuse, as bills for dispensation, only one specific type of bills among all types of received bills. According to the machine of the present invention, only one ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4850468 | Money discriminating apparatus A money discriminating apparatus comprising a bill transporting path defined between a pair of spaced, but opposed wall surfaces. A coin transporting path is defined by a groove formed in at least one of the wall surfaces. The groove has a width slightly ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4845917 | System for processing paper sheets A banknote processing system includes a handling apparatus, a convey mechanism, and a plurality of inspecting apparatuses. The handling apparatus has an input portion on which a predetermined number of bundles of banknotes are placed. The bundles are take... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4840368 | Bill containing box apparatus of bill receiving and dispensing machine A bill containing box apparatus used in a bill receiving and dispensing machine having a dispensation bill containing box mounted on the front of the machine body in an inclined condition for improving the handling of bills contained within the machine bo... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4834230 | Apparatus for discriminating paper money and stacking the same Apparatus for discriminating paper money and stacking the same includes a main body of the apparatus and a stacker box attached thereto detachably by the use of a hooking part and a hanging part provided on the main body and the stacker box, respectively ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4830742 | Apparatus for sorting sheets An apparatus for sorting sheets is disclosed, which comprises a feeder for setting a mixture of different kinds of sheets, the set sheets being fed one by one for sorting, a judging circuit for judging the kind of sheet being transported through the body ... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4828243 | Accumulated bills delivering apparatus for bill receiving and dispensing machine A bill delivering apparatus for delivering accumulated bills to a horizontally spaced-apart position within a bill receiving and dispensing machine wherein the accumulated bills are automatically dropped into the bill delivering position by a scraping mem... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4825378 | Bundler including bill handling system which keeps track of unbundled bills A bill handling system provided with a bill bundler unit for sorting bills according to denominations, counting the sorted bills for each denomination and bundling bills of a predetermined number and a predetermined denomination, the number of bills remai... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4825051 | Method of processing the data in banking terminal The present invention provides a method of processing data transactions in a banking terminal which permits to effect an appropriate cash handling of received money and disbursement of money due as change even in the case when data which is indicative of ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4818871 | Process for the detection of superimposed sheets, apparatus for performing the process and application to bank notes The present invention relates to a process for the detection of superimposed sheets, the apparatus making it possible to perform this process and the application thereof to bank notes. The process for detecting superimposed sheets by evaluating their surf... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817804 | Counting and half-wrapping apparatus for banknotes with the function of discriminating the banknotes of different nominal values An apparatus adapted for counting the number of and half-wrapping banknotes and adapted to be capable of discriminating the banknotes of different nominal values, is disclosed. The apparatus is so constructed that a sensing or discriminating unit is provi... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4795889 | Automatic bill refilling method for bill recycle module using customer sensor In an automatic teller machine having a bill recycle module, when a deficiency detector detects a bill box to be deficient in bills, the operation of supplying bills from a refilling cashbox to the bill box is initiated provided that a customer sensor det... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4787518 | Paper sheet sorting apparatus There is provided a paper sheet sorting apparatus which has a bill supply port at which a plurality of bills having various denominations are set, a discrimination unit for discriminating the denomination of the bills supplied one by one from the supply p... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4784274 | Bill device This bill device is constituted of a relatively elongated casing. A bill insertion slit is formed substantially in the center of this casing in its longitudinal direction. A first U-shaped bill conveying passage communicating with the bill insertion slit ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4760923 | Arrangement for feeding valuable documents to a storage space An arrangement for feeding banknotes to a storage space comprises a command device 64 for externally controlling the functions of the arrangement, a detector for detecting and examining sequentially transported banknotes and for internally controlling the... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4759448 | Apparatus for identifying and storing documents Apparatus for identifying and storing documents of two different types according to those types, each document including indicia corresponding to the document type, comprising: a receiver for receiving documents to be identified and stored; an identifying... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4759447 | Arrangement for feeding valuable papers into a storage space An apparatus for feeding banknotes from an infeed opening 61, 66 along a transport path to a storage space comprises a detector 121 for detecting and controlling the transportation of the banknotes, a plurality of mutually separate storage locations 26, 2... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4757903 | Arrangement for feeding valuable documents to a storage space An arrangement for feeding banknotes includes a gripping device for transferring the notes from one part of a transport path to another part. The gripping device comprises two coacting rollers 174,174', of which one 174 is journalled in a movable bridge 1... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4749087 | Authenticity sensing A method for determining whether a test sheet, such as a banknote, is a genuine reproduction of a reference sheet having a magnetic characteristic such as being printed with a ferromagnetic ink. The method comprises sensing for a magnetic effect, such as ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4747493 | Cash dispenser A cash dispenser is provided with cash containers for storing bills classified according to the kinds of money, a reject container for collecting unacceptable bills and acceptable bills cancelled by the customer, and a bill discharge outlet, etc. Acceptab... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4747492 | Note sorting and counting apparatus A note sorting and counting apparatus includes a draw-out unit for drawing out in succession notes accumulated in a stack, a discrimination unit for discriminating at least denomination of notes drawn out by the draw-out unit, a sorting unit for sorting n... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4744468 | Circulation-type bill receiving and dispensing machine A circulation-type bill receiving and dispensing machine has a receiving mode, a dispensing mode and a distributing mode. Two sets of dealing part mechanisms are provided for permitting two tellers to simultaneously use the machine. Each dealing part mech... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4736852 | Arrangement for feeding valuable papers into a storage space An arrangement for feeding banknotes detects sequentially transported banknotes and controls their transport to a plurality of storage locations each having an additional infeed, which together form part of a transport path. The arrangement consists of on... | 04/12/1988 |
