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US 7,066,335 B2Granted
Apparatus for receiving and distributing cash
AssigneePreTech AS
InventorsPer Christian Aas, John-Haakon Lippert
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Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and systems for receiving and distributing currency. In particular, the present invention provides a novel apparatus for the inflow and outflow of a variety of currency. The systems of the present invention are capable of recycling a variety of currency from multiple countries and multiple denominations. The systems of the present invention have the added advantage of compact size.
Claims10
A system for inflow and outflow of notes and coins, comprising:
- a) a single note infeed opening for inflow of different denominations of notes into said system;
- b) a single coin infeed opening for inflow of different denominations of coins into said system;
- c) at least one note detection component configured to identify and confirm the integrity of said notes;
- d) at least one coin detection component configured to identify and confirm the integrity of said coins;
- e) at least one note storage component, wherein a last infed note of a denomination is the first fed out note of that denomination;
- f) at least one coin storage component, wherein a last infed coin of a denomination is the first fed out coin of that denomination;
- g) note movement components for moving notes between said note infeed opening and said at least one note storage component;
- h) coin movement components for moving coins between said coin infeed opening and said at least one coin storage component;
- i) at least one automatic separation component for separating notes into different denominations;
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- j) at least one automatic separation component for separating coins into different denominations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.