Method and buffering device for highlighting documents in a pocket
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorPeter D. Hanna
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for highlighting certain documents being fed into a pocket from the rest of the documents which are already in the pocket. A pocket marker which is moveable between first and second positions relative to documents in the pocket is used to highlight or separate those documents which are associated with a transaction to be proven, for example, from those documents which are associated with transactions which have already been proven when the apparatus is used in an encoder business machine.
Claims21
A machine comprising:
- a pocket for receiving documents processed by said machine;
- processing means for processing said documents in accordance with predetermined criteria;
- moving means for moving documents processed by said processing means into said pocket;
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- highlighting means for highlighting certain of said documents moved into said pocket in accordance with said predetermined criteria so as to facilitate the removal of said certain of said documents from said pocket.
A pocket buffering device comprising:
- a pocket for receiving documents to be pocketed;
- said pocket having a side wall, an end wall, and a moveable wall, and biasing means for moving said moveable wall towards said side wall;
- said moveable wall being moved away from said side wall by documents being moved into said pocket to form an increasing stack of documents deposited in said pocket;
- moving means for moving documents into said pocket to abut against said end wall to form said stack;
- highlighting means for highlighting those of said documents which.have been moved into said pocket after a control signal has been generated;
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- means for generating said control signal.
An encoder comprising:
- a pocket for receiving documents to be pocketed;
- said pocket having a side wall, an end wall, and a moveable wall which is biased for movement towards said side wall and which is moved away from said side wall by documents being moved into said pocket to form an increasing stack of documents deposited in said pocket;
- processing means for processing said documents in accordance with predetermined criteria;
- moving means for moving documents processed by said processing means into said pocket to abut against said end wall to form said stack;
- said processing means generating a control signal when a transaction group of said documents is proven;
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- highlighting means for highlighting those of said documents which have been moved into said pocket after a control signal has been generated to thereby facilitate the removal of those documents which are unproven.
A method of highlighting documents being moved into a pocket to form a stack of documents therein comprising the steps:
- (a) moving documents associated with a transaction into said pocket;
- (b) determining whether or not the documents associated with said transaction meet predetermined criteria;
- (c) generating a control signal when
- associated with said transaction meet said predetermined criteria;
- (d) using said control signal to effect a highlighting in said pocket of documents associated with the next transaction to be evaluated in step b so as to facilitate the grasping of documents in said pocket in the event that this next transaction does not meet said predetermined criteria.
A method of highlighting documents being moved into a pocket to form a stack of documents therein comprising the steps:
- (a) moving documents associated with a transaction into said pocket;
- (b) determining whether or not the documents associated with said transaction meet predetermined criteria;
- (c) generating a control signal when the documents associated with said transaction meet said predetermined criteria;
- (d) using said control signal to effect a highlighting in said pocket of documents associated with the next transaction to be evaluated in step b so as to facilitate the grasping of documents in said pocket in the event that this next transaction does not meet said predetermined criteria.
A method of facilitating the proving or balancing of documents including deposit slips and checks at a business machine like an encoder, comprising the steps:
- (a) processing a deposit slip and associated checks relating to a transaction to be proven;
- (b) moving the deposit slip and associated checks into a pocket to form a stack therein;
- (c) generating a control signal upon the satisfactory proving or balancing of the processing of a transaction performed at step a;
- (d) using said control signal to highlight in said pocket the deposit slip and checks associated with the next transaction to be proven so as to facilitate grasping said deposit slip and checks from this step (d) in the event that this transaction is not proven.
The method of highlighting the documents in the pocket of an encoding machine which are associated with a transaction which is not proven comprising the steps:
- (a) positioning a marker in said pocket to one side of a stack of documents which are associated with prior transactions which are proven;
- (b) collecting the documents which are associated with a transaction to be proven on the remaining side of said marker so as to highlight the documents associated with this transaction to be proven from said stack of documents;
- (c) removing said marker from said pocket upon a satisfactory control signal indicating that the documents associated with said transaction in step (b) are proven to enable these documents to become part of said stack of documents;
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- (d) re-positioning said marker at said one side of said stack.
A pocket buffering device for use with a machine which has a pocket for receiving documents processed by the machine, comprising:
- a pocket marker;
- moving means for moving said pocket marker between an active position and an inactive position with respect to documents which are moved into said pocket;
- said pocket marker when in said active position being effective to separate into a first stack documents which are entering said pocket from those documents which are already in a second stack in said pocket, with the separating of documents into said first stack being determined according to predetermined criteria determined by said machine;
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- said pocket marker when moved to said inactive position by said moving means in response to a control signal from said machine enabling the documents in said first stack to become a part of said second stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.