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AssigneesG. D S.p.A., Currency Systems International
InventorArmando Neri
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Banknotes emerging from a currency processing machine with a plurality of formation channels advance in succession along respective ducts of which the runouts are equipped with respective rollers positioned to pick up the notes, transfer them to each channel and stack them on a first shelf. An occluding mechanism operating at the inlet of each channel causes groups of the notes to accumulate on the corresponding first shelf, each of which is picked up by a first gripper and transported toward a first strapping/banding station where a gripping mechanism takes up a continuous strip of banding material by the leading end and passes it around each successive group; the strip is cut into discrete lengths by a tool designed also to seal the leading end to the trailing end of the cut length, banding the group to fashion a bundle which is then transferred to a second shelf and carried by this same shelf toward the outlet of the channel.
In a machine for processing notes, said machine having a feed duct and a plurality of stacking modules each equipped with a formation channel extending along a respective stacking axis, each formation channel having an inlet and outlet in communicating with the feed duct via a roller by which individual ones of the notes are taken up and transferred to the inlet of the relative formation channel, each formation channel having at least a first receiving element on which the notes are deposited one on top of another:
A method of forming and strapping groups of notes advancing along a feed duct of a processing machine comprising a plurality of stacking modules each equipped with a formation channel presenting an inlet and an outlet and extending along a respective stacking axis;
A method as in claim and 18, 19, and 20, wherein the cutting and securing of the leading end of the strip to the trailing end of the cut length involves causing the newly cut leading end of the strip to be aligned with and retained by the outer face of the first jaw, taking up the newly cut leading end of the strip by means of the second cutting and sealing tool, and tensioning the strip from the selfsame newly cut end through a predetermined distance along the predetermined feed path.
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