Banknote dispensing apparatus
AssigneeInter Innovation AB
InventorsLeif J. I. Lundblad, Jan-Olof Ek
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Abstract
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 are dispensed to a collector station through a first feed mechanism in response to the transmitted order signal, and from the collector station to a selected receipt opening by a second feed mechanism which cooperates with a switching device for determining the direction of feed of the second feed mechanism.
Claims6
An apparatus for dispensing an ordered number of banknotes from a banknote storage means to a customer, said apparatus comprising:
- (a) a plurality of customer receipt openings;
- (b) means for ordering a given number of banknotes to be dispensed from the storage means to a selected one of said customer receipt openings;
- (c) first conveying means co-operating with said ordering means for feeding said ordered number of banknotes to at least one collector station;
- (d) second conveying means co-operating with said first conveying means for feeding the banknotes located in the collector station to the selected customer station;
- (e) switching means responsive to said ordering means for determining the direction of feed of said second conveying means such that said ordered number of banknotes is fed to the selected one of said customer receipt openings;
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- (f) electronic devices for controlling the sequence of dispensing operations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.