Sensitive to erroneous passage of plural bills

CL 902 SC 16
6883705 Method and system for processing bank notes
Apr-26-2005 A method and corresponding system for processing bank notes wherein bank notes are provided in a stack and each has a serial number. The bank notes are arranged according to a first sequence of their serial...
6883704 Bank note dispensing device with recycling capability
Apr-26-2005 A bank note dispensing device includes a storage unit which can store bank notes that can be dispensed to a user through a discharge opening. A monitor unit can be operatively positioned relative to a...
6811078 Point-of-transaction machine with improved versatility and related method
Nov-2-2004 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...
6568591 Document sensor for currency recycling automated banking machine
May-27-2003 An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage areas and dispenses them...
6406016 Apparatus for dispensing thin flat articles
Jun-18-2002 A dispensing apparatus for thin flat articles, such as monetary currency bills, includes a plenum chamber having an aperture of a size smaller than the articles to be dispensed. A suction device is connected...
6361043 Sheet dispenser mechanism
Mar-26-2002 A sheet dispenser mechanism (10) is described. The mechanism includes upper and lower transport guides (12, 14) for conveying a sheet such as a bank note therebetween, only one of the transport guides...
6325370 Automatic banknote selection and delivery safe
Dec-4-2001 The automatic banknote selection and delivery safe consists of an armored boxed frame in one upper zone of which is mounted a first banknote acceptance device from which departs a first banknote grasping...
6189881 Sheet dispensing apparatus and tray
Feb-20-2001 A sheet dispensing apparatus includes at least one pair of sheet stores, and a transport system for transporting sheets from the stores to a dispense position. The transport system includes, for each pair...
6170818 Currency recycling automated banking machine media gate
Jan-9-2001 An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage areas and dispenses them...
5697517 Dispensing unit for banknotes
Dec-16-1997 The invention relates to a dispensing unit for banknotes (42), comprising a banknote container (12) and a receiving module (14) which is in the form of the frame into which the banknote container (12)...
5240368 Sheet handling apparatus
Aug-31-1993 A device for dispensing sheet media comprising a storage location for storing sheet media to be dispensed; a receiving location accessible to a patron from which the sheet media may be received; a receptacle...
5100022 Sheet container and sheet dispenser apparatus
Mar-31-1992 A sheet container is detachably attached to a sheet dispenser mechanism. A stack of sheets stored in the sheet container are taken out by take-out rollers and introduced into nip sections defined between...
4894783 Apparatus for detecting the passage of multiple superposed sheets along a feed path
Jan-16-1990 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...
4709820 Sheet dispensing apparatus
Dec-1-1987 An apparatus for dispensing sheets, including cash, which comprises first conveying elements for dispensing sheets along a feed path to a stacking position; first detection device for detecting unsuitable...
4700368 Method and apparatus for sensing sheets
Oct-13-1987 Apparatus for sensing the passage of sheets (1) through a nip formed by rollers (5 and 6), includes means for sensing the deflection of one roller relative to the other, the sensing means including an...
4699373 Quick acting bank note recovery system
Oct-13-1987 A cash dispenser includes a unit for taking out bank notes singly from a store, for accumulating a mass of counted notes, for forwarding this mass to a customer, and for forwarding the notes to be accumulated....
4697071 Circulation type automatic money receiving and paying machine with note side identifying and note turning-over sections
Sep-29-1987 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...
4664369 Multiple sheet indicator apparatus and method
May-12-1987 Thickness indicator apparatus mounted adjacent to a bill path inside an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) includes a wishbone (45) having a pair of identical fingers (46) which contact bills moving in the...
4651982 Sheet dispensing method and apparatus
Mar-24-1987 A method and apparatus for dispensing sheets (2) from a store (1) is described. Single sheets are withdrawn from the store (1) by a friction feed roller (3) driven by a motor (5). Each sheet is fed to...
4607155 Apparatus for handling bills
Aug-19-1986 An apparatus for handling bills which includes a plurality of bill boxes each of which contains different denominations of bills, a circuit for withdrawing bills one by one from each bill box and a bill...
4579334 Apparatus for indicating the status of sheets
Apr-1-1986 A note checking apparatus for indicating whether normal single notes, double notes or notes having local attachments of folds are passing therethrough includes two rollers 10 and 12 between which the notes...
4517451 Note transfer mechanism in automatic money depositing and disbursing machine
May-14-1985 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...
4516015 Automatic money receiving and disbursing machine
May-7-1985 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...
4494747 Paper currency dispenser friction picker mechanism
Jan-22-1985 The device has a feed roller with a high friction rubber segment which picks notes one at a time for each roller revolution or cycle. A counter-rotating separator roller normally prevents picking doubles....
4491929 Apparatus for discrimination of sheet transfer condition
Jan-1-1985 An apparatus for discriminating a sheet transfer condition has two opposite rollers at least one of which has an axis of rotation which is movable toward and away from that of the other roller. The thickness...
4465925 Automatic money depositing and disbursing machine
Aug-14-1984 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...
4462587 Method of and system for detecting bill status in a paper money dispenser
Jul-31-1984 Overlapped or folded bills in a paper money dispenser are detected by sensors that measure bill length and thickness. The sensors generate a first signal when bill thickness corresponds to the thickness...
4426785 Method and apparatus for detecting abnormal thickness conditions such as folded and/or missing corners of moving sheets
Jan-24-1984 Sheets moving in a feed direction and arranged at spaced intervals are fed through nips arranged to rollingly engage opposing sides of the sheet, each nip being formed by a roller rotating about a fixed...
4423826 Note supply container with reject receiver for bank note dispenser
Jan-3-1984 A note disbursing machine is formed with a reject pool section instead of an independent reject box. An uppermost note receiving box is adapted to be accommodated in the note disbursing machine so as to...
4421824 Process for reconditioning of currency and currency
Dec-20-1983 A process for reconditioning used currency includes the steps of applying a stiffening compound thereto, squeezing the excess from the currency, and drying the currency. Apparatus for performing this process...
4398711 Currency dispenser monitor
Aug-16-1983 An apparatus for monitoring the performance of a currency dispenser by detecting the displacement of a roller caused by the thickness of a record member. This displacement is measured by the movement of...
4397455 Document dispenser with escrow system
Aug-9-1983 An apparatus for dispensing documents from a storage location to a discharge area includes structure for transporting the documents from the storage location along a transport path to an escrow or collection...
4343582 Banknote dispensing apparatus
Aug-10-1982 A currency dispensing apparatus has a plurality of customer receipt openings to which an ordered number of banknotes can be sent from a store of banknotes in response to an order signal. The banknotes...
4340150 Automatic note dispenser with purge control
Jul-20-1982 An automatic purge control for a banknote dispensing system including an operator panel having a keyboard for initiating transaction requests, a dispensing chamber adjacent to the panel for receiving banknotes...
4337864 Currency note dispensing system
Jul-6-1982 Two embodiments of a system for dispensing currency notes are disclosed. The first embodiment of the system comprises two major components, a cartridge (10) and a dispenser (14). The second embodiment...
4325494 Single-bill currency dispenser
Apr-20-1982 A single-bill currency dispenser incorporates a self-contained cartridge for storing a quantity of bills of a single denomination, and dispensing the bills singly in response to electrical control signals....
4313601 Automatic banking machine with sealed tamper-indicating container for receiving and storing diverted paper money bills
Feb-2-1982 A remote automatic banking or teller machine equipped with doubles detecting mechanism which diverts doubles from delivery to a customer and conveys the doubles to a container into which the conveyor means...
4286149 Apparatus and method for detection of overlapping objects
Aug-25-1981 Method and means are disclosed for detection of overlapped sheets transported along a path. A plurality of detection means are aligned substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of said sheets,...
4243216 Double document detection system
Jan-6-1981 A system for detecting the presence of more than one document along a path during the processing of the documents. A capacitance is introduced by the plural documents in contact with each other and wherein...
4221376 Document cartridge and mounting apparatus
Sep-9-1980 A portable cartridge and mounting apparatus includes, within the cartridge, a document separator, a stack follower, a double document restraint, and a three position lock and latch mechanism for selectively...
4168058 Record member feeding device
Sep-18-1979 A record member feeding device is disclosed for feeding record members from a stack, located in a hopper having spaced-apart surfaces positioned at one end thereof defining an opening through which the...
4159782 Banking machine control
Jul-3-1979 Bank notes are accurately delivered to a customer in a preselected amount at an exit throat from a storage bin. Delivery of the bank notes from the storage bin is on an individual basis to an escrow station...
4154437 Multiple bill detector for currency dispensers
May-15-1979 A detector mechanism and system for currency dispensers for automatic banking equipment which senses the presence of multiple or double bills, called "doubles," at any bill location in a series of bills...
4095781 Currency dispensing apparatus
Jun-20-1978 Currency dispensing apparatus is disclosed in which vertically stacked bills located in a removable container positioned in the dispenser are fed one-by-one from the top of the stack through an opening...
4020972 Banknote dispensing machine
May-3-1977 This disclosure relates to a machine for dispensing a predetermined number of banknotes in bundle form with the banknotes being removed from a stack in sequence and there being counting apparatus for counting...
3954260 Paper money dispensing mechanism
May-4-1976 A rotary suction device selectively removes individual paper money or currency bills or banknotes endwise from a stack or bundle thereof and delivers each removed bill endwise to conveyor means which successively,...
3937925 Modular transaction terminal with microprocessor control
Feb-10-1976 A versatile readily serviced transaction terminal includes a credit card control mechanism, a user keyboard, a user display, a document handling system for cash and printed transaction statements, and...
3937453 Single document transport
Feb-10-1976 Banking machines for dispensing paper currency require a document transport for accurately and reliably delivering a single bill or piece of currency from a storage bin to a customer. The document transport...