Method, device and system for opening valuable document packages
AssigneeGiesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
InventorSteffen Held
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus are provided for opening value document packages in which value documents are packaged by a packaging material. A region of the packaging material is heated by hot air such that the packaging material opens along a cutting pattern. A system is also provided that includes such an apparatus and a value document package.
Claims20
A method for opening value document packages in which value documents are packaged with a packaging material, the method comprising:
- providing a heating apparatus that includes at least one hot-air nozzle having an opening, the opening of the hot-air nozzle being H shaped, X-shaped, M-shaped or L-shaped;
- heating a region of the packaging material with hot air from the hot-air nozzle such that the packaging material opens along a cutting pattern in the shape of the hot-air nozzle.
An apparatus for opening value document packages in which value documents are packaged with a packaging material, the apparatus comprising:
- at least one hot-air nozzle that is adapted to heat a region of the packaging material with hot air such that the packaging material opens along a cutting pattern, wherein an opening of the hot-air nozzle is H shaped, X-shaped, M-shaped or L-shaped.
A system for opening value document packages, the system comprising:
- a value document package having a plurality of value documents packaged with a packaging material, and
- an apparatus that includes at least one hot-air nozzle that is adapted to heat a region of the packaging material with hot air such that the packaging material opens along a cutting pattern, wherein an opening of the hot-air nozzle is H shaped, X-shaped, M-shaped or L-shaped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.