Depositing items of value
AssigneeDe La Rue International Limited
InventorsPhilip Michael William Ireland, Alexander Charles Harold James, Karen Joan Cunningham, Pietro Armanini, Simon George Calverley
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Abstract
A method of depositing items of value, the method comprising 1) receiving a tamper evident and coded container holding the items of value, the code relating to the content of the container; 2) verifying that the package has been received in an acceptable manner, and, if it has, 3) either incrementing an account with the value of the items of value in the container by reference to the code and without opening the container, or, if the account has previously been incremented, leaving the account unchanged.
Claims27
Container loading apparatus comprising:
- an inlet for receiving items of value;
- a transport system for feeding the items of value from the inlet;
- a monitoring system for monitoring the items of value fed to it by the transport system;
- a container loading system for loading the items of value that are determined to be successful, as determined by the monitoring system, into a container;
- means for providing an overt or covert visual indication of content of the container;
- and
- a container closing mechanism for closing the container such that the visual indication is detectable from outside the container, wherein
- the visual indication providing means comprises a printer adapted to print the visual indication on an insert, the container loading system being adapted to load the insert into the container such that the visual indication is detectable through a window of the container.
A method of loading items of value into a container in a container loading system, the method comprising:
- feeding the items along a transport path;
- monitoring the items for acceptability;
- loading acceptable items into a container;
- providing an overt or covert visual indication of container content on or in the container;
- and
- closing the container such that the visual indication is detectable from outside the container, wherein
- an indication providing means comprises a printer adapted to print the visual indication on an insert, the container loading system being adapted to load the insert into the container such that the visual indication is detectable through a window of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.