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3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347358 | Depositing items of value A method of depositing items of value, the method comprising 1) receiving a tamper evident and coded container holding the items of value, the code relating to the content of the container; 2) verifying that the pa... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7034323 | Method and device for performing a test for acceptability of bank notes by automatic vending machines In order to provide a procedure and a device that will enable the, at least partially, automated acceptance of bank notes that can be realized in an acceptable cost range and that will enable the highly automated, rapid acceptance of bank notes with a high level of ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028193 | Method and apparatus for determining the validity of a data processing transaction The present invention relates to determining the validity of a transaction of a data processing system such as the validity of a financial transaction carried out at an automatic teller machine (10) which has a magnetic card reader. In addition to the entry o... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6811078 | Point-of-transaction machine with improved versatility and related method A point-of-transaction machine that allows global users to reach all aspects of their finances, from their brokerage account to their banks, mortgage accounts, credit card accounts and more. Unlike conventional ATMs where you can only reach your bank account(s), the... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6748101 | Automatic currency processing system An apparatus for currency discrimination comprises first and second stationary scanheads, disposed on opposite sides of a bill transport path, for scanning respective first and second opposing surfaces of a bill traveling along the bill transport path and for produc... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6138814 | Front loading cash box assembly A cash box assembly particularly suited for a slant-top slot machine is described. The slant-top slot machine has an angled console, incorporating the display area and the user interface. The present invention allows an attendant to easily remove a cash b... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6067530 | Cash management system A cash management system that tracks bills received at at least one business establishment by cashier, by amount and by time while securing those bills immediately within a drop safe upon receipt from the customer in preparation for pickup by a courier se... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6016955 | Electronic payment method and system having several calculation units and electronic payment devices A payment system for use with electronic payment devices. Electronic payment cards (e.g. "Smart Cards"), may be used with one or more payment stations (e.g. electronic cash registers). The payment stations are designed for receiving, during a payment tran... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5987431 | Self-service deposit method and apparatus A self-service deposit terminal (10) for bank notes is arranged to validate the notes. If any notes are deemed invalid then either the invalid notes are diverted from going to a collection means (42) for valid notes, or else the whole deposit is diverted.... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5478992 | Management apparatus and automated teller machine When sheets are taken into a machine or discharged from the machine, characteristics of these sheets such as letters or symbols of these sheets are read by a sheet characteristics reading unit. A result of reading the characteristics is stored in a storag... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5468941 | Money processing apparatus having timer means A memory processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a function for feeding money one by one, a function for discriminating denominations of the money received from the feeding function, a function for storing the money for each of th... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5352876 | Method and apparatus for transaction settlement A pre-paid vending machine (10) includes a card reader (15) which reads credit data and secret code number from a credit card (11). When a user inputs a secret code number and amount data from an input display (16), whether or not the input secret code nu... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5038025 | Method of receiving program down-loaded to IC card and IC card thereof There is provided an IC card comprising a memory within the IC card for storing therein a program operating on a processor included in the IC card and a ROM storing therein a system program for down-leading the program onto the IC card. When a different p... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4968873 | Smart card issuing and receiving apparatus An apparatus for issuing a transaction card comprises a value receiving mechanism in the form of a card reader or a bank note acceptor or both. The apparatus includes a memory for storing the exchange rate for a plurality of currencies as compared to a lo... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4917792 | Automatic transaction terminal having means for presetting the denominations of notes stored in a plurality of note cartridges An automatic transaction terminal has a plurality of cartridges for storing notes and preset key switches for presetting a pattern of denominations of the notes to be stored in the cartridges so that the respective cartridges may be selectively designated... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4905841 | Money receiving and disbursing machine A money receiving and disbursing machine being adapted to circulate and use only one predetermined denomination of bank notes received in the machine for disbursing. Bank notes received in the machine other than the predetermined denomination of bank note... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4733765 | Cash handling machine for handling mixtures of notes and coins introduced together A cash handling machine includes a housing having an aperture through which cash is put in, a bank note conveyor, a bank note sorter for sorting the bank notes conveyed by the bank note conveyor according to type of bank notes, a coin conveyor, and a coin... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4697071 | Circulation type automatic money receiving and paying machine with note side identifying and note turning-over sections In a circulation type automatic money receiving and paying machine, the paying-in note conveying path and the paying-out note conveying path has a common conveying path, and a mechanism for identifying the face or back sides of notes and a mechanism for t... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4629382 | Sheet collecting apparatus A sheet collecting apparatus for collecting paper sheets, comprises a plurality of collecting chambers which are arranged to receive sorted bills through an insertion port, a shutter unit which is disposed to cover dispensing ports of all of the collectin... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4602149 | Transaction processor A deposit mode for inserting cash into an inserting opening for cash deposit and an envelope deposit mode for putting cash into an envelope and inserting the envelope into an opening for deposit are selectively set by a transaction mode setting unit. In t... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4602332 | Automatic bank note transaction apparatus An automatic bank note transaction apparatus according to the present invention is provided. A first storing section stores bank notes, and a first conveying path conveys bank notes inserted through a bank note receiving port, to the first storing section... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4585928 | Automatic depositing/dispensing apparatus Notes are subject to note reform whereby they are replaced with new ones having quite different designs or patterns once in a certain period of time (10 to 15 years). After the reform, the former notes are successively withdrawn and are not issued any mor... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4571489 | Automatic bank note transaction apparatus In an automatic bank note transaction apparatus, deposited notes are circulated and appropriated for dispensation, as in the normal window operation, to improve the efficiency of fund operations. Those recovered notes which are missed at the time of depos... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4558712 | Automatic coin depositing and paying machine An automatic coin depositing and paying machine having the function of receiving coins for deposit and paying out deposited coins. The coins are received in the machine through an inlet opening and are discriminated by a discriminator into acceptable coin... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4554444 | Automatic bank note transaction apparatus An automatic bank note transaction apparatus comprises a bank note receiving section disposed opposite to a cash inlet/outlet slot inside a housing to receive bank notes collectively put in the housing through the cash inlet/outlet slot. A conveyance path... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4524268 | Automatic bank note transaction system An automatic bank note transaction system according to the present invention is provided with a center CPU and a plurality of automatic bank note transaction apparatuses. The plurality of bank note transaction apparatuses is divided into a plurality of gr... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4517451 | Note transfer mechanism in automatic money depositing and disbursing machine An automatic money depositing and disbursing machine has functions of receiving bank notes from a transacting port and feeding the same through a discriminating section provided in a note circulating delivery passage and accommodating in the boxes normal ... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4516015 | Automatic money receiving and disbursing machine An automatic money receiving and disbursing machine having the functions of receiving money from customers and disbursing money to customers from a box disposed within the machine. The machine is provided with a circulation path in communication with a tr... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4510380 | Automatic money receiving and disbursing machine An automatic money receiving and disbursing machine has two dealing openings through one of which the notes are received in the machine or disbursed from the machine. A discriminating section is provided for discriminating the received notes or the disbur... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4487306 | Bill-discriminating apparatus A bill-discriminating apparatus which is used, for example, in an automatic deposit machine and which discriminates a bill by comparing patterns read from the bill with standard patterns. The apparatus includes a circuit for reading patterns from a convey... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4479049 | Automatic bank note transaction apparatus An automatic bank note transaction apparatus comprises a bank note receiving section disposed opposite to a cash inlet/outlet slot inside a housing to receive bank notes collectively put in the housing through the cash inlet/outlet slot. A conveyance path... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4473157 | Automatic bank note transaction apparatus An automatic bank note transaction apparatus comprises a discriminator for discriminating fit notes from unfit notes among the bank notes conveyed by a conveyance path, and identifying the denomination of the fit notes, sorting gates for sorting the bank ... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4465925 | Automatic money depositing and disbursing machine An automatic money depositing and disbursing machine includes a common delivery passage used to deliver the deposited notes to a receiving box for deposit and deliver the notes to be paid to a disbursing port for disbursement. A discriminating section is ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4398088 | Automatic bank note transaction apparatus In an automatic bank note transaction apparatus, bank notes inserted therein through a bank note inlet slot are transferred from a receiving chamber to an introduction-transfer path, fit sheets are discriminated from unfit ones among the bank notes by a d... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4365700 | Money receiving and dispensing system A money receiving and dispensing system is disclosed having a plurality of money cases for storing monies of several denominations, respectively, a stock money cartridge removably mounted in the system for collectively storing monies available in the syst... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4337393 | Cassette for banknotes The invention relates to cassettes adapted to contain stacks of banknotes particularly for use with banknote handling apparatus. An object of the invention is to provide a cassette which has identification means to enable the apparatus to recognize a particula... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4166945 | Versatile automatic transaction equipment A versatile automatic transaction equipment comprises: a basic module including a user operation unit, an ID card processing unit, a transaction recording unit, and a cash delivery unit for cash payment transaction or verification of customer account bala... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4023011 | Automatic bank note depositing machine An automatic paper currency depositing machine comprises a supply section into which a unit of paper currencies is deposited, a device for taking out the paper currencies piece by piece from the supply section and transferring it, a sensing section for ju... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3976198 | Method and apparatus for sorting currency A method of currency examination is provided by transporting a bill through an examination station, projecting a beam of light at the bill as the bill is transported through the station, sensing and integrating light transmissivity of the bill over a prin... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3934693 | Automatic banking deposit receiving and handling machine An automatic deposit receiving and handling machine into which all the bills a depositor intends to deposit can be put at one time, so that the time required for making a deposit is greatly reduced. When the bills have been placed on a tray provided for t... | 01/27/1976 |
