Device and method for aligning bank notes
AssigneeGiesecke & Devrient GmbH
InventorsGerhard Schinzel-Reiner, Frank Werner
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method for aligning bank notes in a transport system in which, when aligning bank notes in a transport system the alignment of a bank note transported separately in the transport system is detected, that it is checked, whether the detected alignment of the single bank note is a misalignment, that the single bank note according to the detected misalignment is aligned in a desired alignment by a movement of the single bank note in a direction deviating from the transport direction of the transport system, the alignment of the single bank note during the aligning being detected, and the aligning being terminated, as soon as the single bank note has the desired alignment.
Claims14
Method for aligning bank notes in a transport system, with the following steps:
- detecting the alignment of a bank note transported separately in the transport system,
- checking the detected alignment of the single bank note as to the presence of a misalignment,
- aligning the single bank note in a desired alignment by a movement of the single bank note in a direction deviating from the transport direction of the transport system using the detected misalignment,
- characterized by
- detecting the alignment of the single bank note during the aligning, and
- terminating the aligning, as soon as the single bank note has the desired alignment.
Apparatus for aligning bank notes in a transport system (10;11), with
- a device for detecting the alignment (20) of a bank note (BN) transported separately in the transport system (10;
- 11),
- a device for checking the detected alignment (21) of the single bank note (BN) as to the presence of a misalignment,
- means for aligning (22 to 25;
- 22, 23, 26;
- 40 to 49) the single bank note (BN′) in a desired alignment, which are controlled by the device for checking the detected alignment (21) using the detected misalignment,
- characterized in that
- the device for detecting the alignment (20) detects the alignment of the single bank note (BN′) in the area of the means for aligning (22 to 25;
- 22, 23, 26;
- 40 to 49), and
- the device for checking the detected alignment (21) stops the means for aligning (22 to 25;
- 22, 23, 26;
- 40 to 49), as soon as the single bank note (BN′) has the desired alignment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.