US 5,680,935 AGranted

Arrangement for the infeed and outfeed of valuable documents

AssigneeDe La Rue Inter Innovation AB

InventorsJan Mistander, Jan Wigur, Gosta Edin, Jan Olof Ek, Leif Lundblad, Bertil Mattsson

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Abstract

An arrangement for infeeding and outfeeding documents, such as banknotes, cheques, etc., having a command system for externally controlling the functions thereof, and a storage system for storing the documents fed into the arrangement between mutually coacting belts. The storage system has allocated, well-defined and registered document storage positions for incoming documents. A detector system functions to identify incoming documents prior to storage of the documents in the well-defined and unoccupied positions. The arrangement also includes a memory system for storing information relating to respective locations of stored documents, and a path selector mechanism which, when in a first position, enables the documents to be fed to the storage system and which, when in a second position, enables, in accordance with information obtained from the memory system, the documents earlier stored in the document storage system to be dispensed from the arrangement in response to a command entered through the command system. This enables the arrangement to receive a mixture of different documents on each infeed occasion and to dispense on each outfeed occasion a desired quantity and desired type of documents pre-selected through the command system.

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Dependent claims

An arrangement for the infeeding and outfeeding of valuable documents, such as banknotes, cheques, and the like, comprising command means for externally controlling the functions of said arrangement and storage means for storing the documents fed into said arrangement between mutually coacting belts, characterized in that for the storage of the documents externally fed into said arrangement, said storage means is allocated predetermined document storage positions intended for the incoming documents, wherein said arrangement is further characterized by detector means located on an input side of said arrangement and functioning to identify each of the incoming documents prior to the storage of the documents in unoccupied ones of said predetermined positions of said storage means;

memory means for storing information relating to respective said positions of the incoming documents in said storage means;
a processor for storing in said memory means information received from said detector means and information relating to said predetermined positions in which the documents are stored;
and path selector means which, when in a first position, enables the documents to be fed to said storage means and which, when in a second position, enables, in accordance with information obtained from said memory means, the documents earlier stored in said document storage means to be dispensed from said arrangement in response to a command entered through said command means, wherein said arrangement is able to receive a mixture of different documents on each infeed occasion and to dispense on each outfeed occasion a desired number and desired type of the documents predetermined through said command means.

A system for infeeding and outfeeding documents, comprising:

a) storage means including mutually coacting belts having predetermined stations for storing the documents;
b) detector means for identifying the documents prior to storage of the documents in unoccupied ones of said predetermined stations;
c) processor means including memory means for storing information received from said detector means regarding each of the documents and identity of said predetermined stations in which each of the documents is stored;
d) path selector means having:
1) a first position for directing infeeding ones of the documents to said storage means, and
2) a second position for dispensing outfeeding ones of the documents from said predetermined stations;
and
e) command means for externally controlling the dispensing of outfeeding ones of the documents from said storage means in response to said information stored in said memory means;
and
f) wherein said system in configured to operatively receive a mixture of different types of infeeding ones of the documents, and to operatively dispense a mixture of different types of outfeeding ones of the documents in response to said command means and said memory means.

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