Cash box identification system
AssigneeGeneral Signal Corporation
InventorLarry E. Zack
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Abstract
An identification system for guaranteeing that a cash box adapted to receive revenue from an associated fare box is delivered to an authorized location; the system includes a transmitter as part of the cash box for generating a coded series of pulses uniquely identifying the particular cash box; a receiver is included as part of the fare box for receiving that coded series of pulses; a microcomputer connected to the output of the receiver reads and decodes the coded series of pulses to provide the identification number for the particular cash box; the microcomputer also stores the cash box number in its memory; further provided is an arrangement for selectively varying the coded series of pulses so as to uniquely identify each of a group of cash boxes.
Claims6
An identification system for guaranteeing that a cash box adapted to receive money from an associated fare box is delivered to an authorized location comprising:
- a fare box and apparatus on which said fare box is mounted;
- a cash box and a compartment in said apparatus for receiving said cash box so as to place it in proximity to said fare box for receiving money from the fare box;
- a transmitter included as part of said cash box for generating and transmitting a coded series of electronic pulses uniquely identifying said cash box;
- a first receiver included as part of said fare box for receiving said coded series of pulses;
- a microcomputer connected to the output of said receiver for reading and decoding said coded series of pulses to yield the identification number for said cash box, and for storing said number in memory;
- means for transmitting said identification number to a central station computer;
- further comprising a vault at said authorized location where said money is collected from a multiplicity of cash boxes;
- a second receiver built into said vault for receiving said coded series of pulses, thereby to enable checking on proper delivery of cash boxes to said authorized location, including means for transmitting said received and coded series of pulses to said central computer so as to verify that a particular identified cash box has been delivered to said vault.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.