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EP0308060A2
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Method and apparatus for automatic bill handling
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1988-08-09
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2008-08-09
Abstract
Abstract A transaction terminal for issuing bills - bank notes, tickets, vouchers, certificates or other sheets of worth - and comprising a primary housing having interface equipment, control equipment and primary drive equipment, there being an opening in the primary housing out of which, in operation, bills should issue, the primary housing being openable to receive a field replaceable secondary housing which contains a container of bills, a receptacle for bills partially processed but not issued,
Inventors
- 👤 Yoshinobu Oka
- 👤 Koichi Sato
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 18:28
CPC Classifications
G; G07; G07D; G07D11/00; G07D11/10; G07D11/12; G07D11/13
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
201 words
A method of bill handling in an automatic bill handling machine - a bill being a sheet of value; a banknote, certificate, voucher, etc., - wherein some of the bills in a bill hopper in a detachably mounted bill container are separated from their fellows and conveyed to a temporary bill bin in response to a user's instruction and stacked in the temporary bill bin, and, after validation of the instruction, the temporarily stacked bills are delivered to the user, if the instruction is not validated, any bills that were separated and stacked, being instead conveyed to a withdrawal bill bin, wherein the separating of a part of the bills in the bill container in response to a user's instruction, the stacking of the bills in the temporary bill bin and the conveying of the bills from the temporary bill bin to the withdrawal bill bin if the instruction is not validated, all take place in the detachably mounted bill container, the only bills that are discharged from the temporary bill container in a legal in situ operation being those retained in the temporary bill bin, this by positive drive and only after the validity of the instruction has been verified.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
201 words
A method of bill handling in an automatic bill handling machine - a bill being a sheet of value; a banknote, certificate, voucher, etc., - wherein some of the bills in a bill hopper in a detachably mounted bill container are separated from their fellows and conveyed to a temporary bill bin in response to a user's instruction and stacked in the temporary bill bin, and, after validation of the instruction, the temporarily stacked bills are delivered to the user, if the instruction is not validated, any bills that were separated and stacked, being instead conveyed to a withdrawal bill bin, wherein the separating of a part of the bills in the bill container in response to a user's instruction, the stacking of the bills in the temporary bill bin and the conveying of the bills from the temporary bill bin to the withdrawal bill bin if the instruction is not validated, all take place in the detachably mounted bill container, the only bills that are discharged from the temporary bill container in a legal in situ operation being those retained in the temporary bill bin, this by positive drive and only after the validity of the instruction has been verified.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
181 words
A detachable bill container for use in implementing the method of claim 1, detachable mountable in an automatic bill handling machine which incorporates at least a means of validating the user and accepting the user's instruction, the container incorporating, a bill hopper (207); a temporary bill bin (216); a conveyor means (211, 212, 213, 214, 215) to separate bills from a stack of bills in the bill hopper in response to a user's instruction and stacking the thus separated bills in the temporary bill bin; a plurality of sensors (223) to detect the presence, absence and passing of the bills; a bill outlet (108) through which to discharge bills from the bill container; a withdrawal bill bin (219); conveyor means (217, 218) to positively transfer those bills in the temporary bill bin either to the bill outlet or the withdrawal bill bin in response to the validation or otherwise of the user's instruction; and means (202) to connect the sensors and the conveyor means to the validating means in the automatic bill handling machine when the bill container is inserted therein.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
48 words
A bill container as claimed in Claim 2, wherein an intelligent function is added, the intelligent function enabling control data such as the number of bills charged in the bill container, the number of bills remaining in the bill container, and the occurrence of abnormalities, to be memorised.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
72 words
A bill container as claimed in either claim 2 or claim 3, wherein the conveyor means which either positively transfers bills from the temporary bill bin, for the main part constitutes the bin, having non-drive configuration (as shown in Fig. 1) providing a space for reception of bills and a drive configuration in which the space is closed, constraining the bills to be moved in whichever direction the conveyor means is driven.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
52 words
An automatic bill handling machine comprising a primary housing (1) and a contained removable bill container, as claimed in any of claims 2 to 4, detachably mounted therein, the primary housing having an opening adapted to register with the opening of the bill container when the bill container is operatively inserted therein.
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