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US 2015/0021393 A1Published application
Currency Keeper
AssigneeThe Gilbertson Group, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Gilbertson, Timothy Freese
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Abstract
An electronic safe which incorporates consumer programmable buttons, along with an on-board central processing unit.
Claims8
1) An electronic safe for receiving, holding and accounting for cash input in the form of notes, comprising:
- a) a free standing cubical container having a door defining one side of the cube;
- b) four rectangular programmable push buttons mounted in the door and arranged in a single horizontal array, each button being of a different color from the remaining buttons, each button having vertical and horizontal edges, each button being twice as wide as it is high, the upper and lower horizontal edges of respective buttons being aligned, for indicating operator identity, an upcoming action or to request a report according to the programming applied in advance to a central processing unit;
- c) the central processing unit (CPU) being within the cubical container and connected to the buttons for collecting information from the buttons and conveying such information optionally via hard wire or wireless signal, the central processing unit being programmable to receive and process signals from a actuation of a single one of the pushbuttons or signals received from multiple ones of the pushbuttons contemporaneously;
- d) a note acceptor mounted in the door and positioned for insertion of notes into the container with the leading edge of the notes being inserted being horizontal, parallel with and above the horizontal array of programmable push buttons;
- e) a horizontal deposit slot mounted in the door, horizontally aligned with the note acceptor and positioned above the horizontal array of programmable push buttons;
- f) a card reader mounted in the door below the push buttons and positioned for reading a card swiped though a horizontally oriented slot;
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- g) a locking device for securing the hinged door in a closed position thereby defining the cubical shape of the container.
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6) An electronic safe for receiving, holding and accounting for cash input in the form of notes, comprising:
- a) a free standing cubical container having a door defining one side of the cube;
- b) four rectangular programmable push buttons mounted in the door and arranged in a single horizontal array, each button having vertical and horizontal edges and being twice as wide as it is high and being of a different color from the remaining buttons, with upper and lower edges of respective buttons being aligned, for indicating operator identity, an upcoming action or to request a report according to the programming applied in advance to a central processing unit;
- c) a note acceptor mounted in the door and positioned for insertion of notes into the container with the leading edge of the notes being inserted being horizontal, parallel with and above the horizontal array of programmable push buttons;
- d) a horizontal deposit slot mounted in the door, horizontally aligned with the note acceptor and positioned above the horizontal array of programmable push buttons;
- e) a card reader mounted in the door below the push buttons and positioned for reading a card swiped though a horizontally oriented slot;
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- a locking device for securing the hinged door in a closed position thereby defining the cubical shape of the container;
- the door being hinged for opening about a vertically extending edge of the cubical container;
- wherein the buttons are rectangular with vertical and horizontal edges, with each button being twice as wide as it is high;
- wherein the upper and lower horizontal edges of the respective buttons are aligned.
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8) An electronic safe for receiving, holding and accounting for cash input in the form of notes, comprising:
- a) a free standing cubical container having a door defining one side of the cube which door is hinged for opening about a vertically extending edge of the cubical container;
- b) a touch screen mounted in the door with four virtual rectangular programmable push buttons arranged in a single horizontal array, each button being of a different color from the remaining buttons, each button being twice as wide as it is high, for indicating operator identity, an upcoming action or to request a report according to the programming applied in advance to a central processing unit and a virtual key pad for entry of a pin number on a touch screen;
- c) the central processing unit (CPU) being within the cubical container and connected to the buttons for collecting information from the buttons and conveying such information optionally via hard wire or wireless signal, the central processing unit being programmable to receive and process signals from a actuation of a single one of the pushbuttons or signals received from multiple ones of the pushbuttons contemporaneously;
- d) a note acceptor mounted in the door and positioned for insertion of notes into the container with the leading edge of the notes being inserted being horizontal, parallel with and above the horizontal array of programmable push buttons;
- e) a horizontal deposit slot mounted in the door, horizontally aligned with the note acceptor and positioned above the touch screen with the four virtual programmable push buttons;
- f) a card reader mounted in the door below the push buttons and positioned for reading a card swiped though a horizontally oriented slot;
- g) programmed swipe cards to use with the card reader;
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- h) a locking device for securing the hinged door in a closed position thereby defining the cubical shape of the container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.