EP0167196B1 - Procédé pour transformer des bandes ou des feuilles de valeur en liasses - Google Patents

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EP0167196B1
EP0167196B1 EP85200944A EP85200944A EP0167196B1 EP 0167196 B1 EP0167196 B1 EP 0167196B1 EP 85200944 A EP85200944 A EP 85200944A EP 85200944 A EP85200944 A EP 85200944A EP 0167196 B1 EP0167196 B1 EP 0167196B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B41K3/12—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact
    • B41K3/121—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact using stamping rollers having changeable characters
    • B41K3/125—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact using stamping rollers having changeable characters having automatic means for changing type-characters
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  • the invention relates to a method for processing printing media printed with security prints in the form of security tracks or sheets of security, the security prints of which are arranged in the form of a matrix in transverse rows and longitudinal rows, to bundles of security from numbered individual security certificates, after which the printing media pass through a numbering machine after marking the misprints determined on them and after the printing media have been cut, the misprints are eliminated.
  • a known method for processing sheets of notes is described, for example, in German Patents 2,502,987 or in US Patents 3,939,621 and 4,045,944. Thereafter, the freshly printed sheets of coupons, which have unnumbered security prints arranged in rows and columns in a matrix, are visually checked, and security prints recognized as misprints are provided with a marking for later disposal, to which a detector responds. After that, all sheets of notes pass through a numbering machine in which all sheets of security, including the misprints, are numbered on each sheet.
  • the numbered sheets are then cut into bundles of individual notes and only then are those that contain one or more misprints removed from the transport sequence of the individual note bundles.
  • These separated bundles of notes of value are subjected to parallel processing, in which the misprint or misprints are removed and replaced by perfect vouchers: these replacement vouchers are either numbered with the number of a special series or are previously numbered in a hand-held numbering device so that the misprint is removed complete number sequence is guaranteed within this bundle.
  • the complete bundle thus restored is re-arranged in the transport sequence of the bundles which have been perfect from the start before the bundle packages are formed.
  • Another known method used in practice by means of which complete number sequences within the bundles of notes formed during the processing of note sheets, is to, after the visual inspection of the freshly printed note sheets, eliminate all sheets on which there is at least one misprint before the numbering has been identified and marked. In this case, only sheets with perfect security impressions are entered into the numbering machine and the resulting numbered sheet stacks are further processed as described above.
  • the disadvantage here is the fact that the sheets of misprints showing misprints must be subjected to special processing if one does not want to destroy them altogether in an unprofitable manner. This consists of first the unnumbered Cutting sheets into single-value notes to the final format, then separating the marked misprints and numbering the remaining, perfect value notes in a single-note numbering machine, these numbers belonging to a special series.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a processing method for both value paper sheets and for paper sheets, with which a sequence of flawless banknotes with complete, complete number sequence is obtained even if the processed paper sheet or paper sheets have irregularly distributed misprints that must be discarded as reject vouchers.
  • the method can be carried out by means of conventional numbering machines, which only need to be equipped with special numbering units, and by means of devices and components which are also known from the automatic processing of banknotes, and avoids in a simple manner all the problems previously associated with the production of a complete number sequence;
  • processing security is increased, since after the visual inspection, no sheets or bundles of notes from normal, practically fully automatic processing have to be removed and subjected to parallel processing, and because any misprint can still be marked with a clear cancellation within the automatic processing system .
  • the method according to the invention is based on a freshly printed, two-sided printed value track K on which the not yet numbered security prints are arranged in four adjacent longitudinal rows. On one side, these security prints are to be provided with numbers.
  • FIG. 2 which shows the value-added path K with the security impressions M numbered on this page in the form of rectangles
  • the longitudinal rows are denoted by L1, L2, L3 and L4.
  • a person skilled in the art has in the usual way carried out a visual quality check of all the security prints on both sides of the security track K, and all the misprints Mx which later have to be discarded have been provided with a marking which can be read by a detector. This marking is indicated schematically in FIG. 2 by a cross.
  • the value note path K unwound from a roll 1 first passes through a reading device 2, which has on each side of the value note path K four reading heads assigned to the longitudinal rows, which read the markings on the misprints Mx and enter their positions into a computer 20 (FIG. 3), where these misprint positions are stored.
  • the value ticket path K then comes to a cancellation value 3, which is controlled by the computer 20 and prints all misprints Mx on the side of the value track to be numbered with a cancellation print which is applied to the places provided for the numbers and in FIG. 2 only by the dashed lines Representation of the number is indicated.
  • the cancellation printing unit 3 is preferably installed inside the numbering machine 4.
  • the value track K prepared in this way runs through the numbering machine 4, which is considered in FIG Example has two numbering printing units 4a and 4b, with which, as is generally the case, the note numbers are printed in two different places on each note.
  • These are essentially conventional numbering printing units, each with a numbering cylinder 5a or 5b, which in the example under consideration carries eight groups of numbering units 6a or 6b, evenly distributed over its circumference, and each with an impression cylinder 7a or 7b.
  • Each numbering unit group has four numbering units arranged in a row parallel to the cylinder axis, which are assigned to the four longitudinal rows L1, L2, L3 and L4 of the security impressions (FIG. 1b).
  • each full rotation of the numbering cylinder 5a or 5b eight consecutive rows of banknotes are numbered in succession in the direction of advance of the bill of value K, and, as will be explained in more detail later, in such a way that all of them in a longitudinal row L1, L2, L3 or L4 consecutive, perfect security impressions with the exclusion of misprints Mx receive a consecutive numbering.
  • the security impressions in each transverse row are given the same numerical number, but each longitudinal row is assigned a different number series, which is denoted by the large letters A, B, C and D in FIG. 2.
  • the individual numbering units 6a and 6b can be switched individually and independently of one another and are constructed in such a way that they can be individually controlled by the computer 20. While previously all numbering units installed on a numbering cylinder of a numbering machine were inevitably shifted by one number at every full revolution of the numbering cylinder by a mechanical indexing lever, which is actuated by a fixed control cam, numbering units are provided for the method according to the invention, Numerical roller is switched by a small electric motor assigned to each numbering unit. This motor receives its electrical control signals from the computer 20 mentioned, in which the positions of the misprints are stored.
  • the numbering mechanisms are therefore not advanced as inevitably with each revolution of the numbering cylinder by one unit, but with the help of individually controllable motors.
  • the well-known indexing lever is used to advance the ten-digit roller and the numerical rollers printing the higher digits, but it is designed so that it only acts on the ten-digit and the higher-digit numerical rollers and is actuated by the control cam with each revolution of the numbering cylinder.
  • its function is rendered ineffective by electrical blocking signals from the computer 20 if the tens digit roll is not to be switched on. An embodiment of such a numbering unit will be explained in more detail later with reference to FIGS. 6, 6a and 6b.
  • the tens digit roll and the digit rolls representing the higher digits of a number are coupled in a known manner by the pawls of the indexing lever in such a way that the digit roll is switched on for the next higher digit when the digit roll of the next lower digit switches from 9 to 0. So if the tens digit roll is switched from 9 to 0 by the indexing lever, the hundreds digit roll is taken along by one number in a known manner, etc.
  • the numbering units are of a known type.
  • each one-digit scroll can be switched in both directions, so that the switch from z. B. 1 to 9 can be done in just two backward steps.
  • a switchover generally requires a maximum of five switching steps in one direction or the other to set any desired number.
  • a misprint Mx occurs in a longitudinal row, then all numbering units of the relevant longitudinal row are controlled by the computer 20 in such a way that the numbering of the correct bank notes following a misprint continues the correct number sequence of the correct bank notes numbered before the misprint. In the course of the continuous numbering, every misprint is simply skipped. The number printed on the misprint is irrelevant because it is illegible due to the overprinting applied previously.
  • the initial setting of the numbering units I to VIII for numbering the first eight security prints in each longitudinal row L1 to L4 is preferably already performed automatically as a function of the reading by the reading device 2. As long as the reading device 2 does not detect any misprint in a longitudinal row, the numbering units I, II, 111,. .., VIII, which number the security prints in the first to eighth transverse rows, set to the consecutive number sequence 1, 2, 3, etc., before the passage of the area of the security track K having the security prints M through the numbering machine 4 begins.
  • the cancellation printing unit 3 comes into operation as it passes this misprint, and the numbering unit, which numbers the security print following the misprint, is set to the same number as the numbering unit, which prints the number on the misprint; the following numbering units are set again to consecutive number sequence.
  • the fourth security print in the longitudinal row L1 is a canceled misprint Mx, which is given the consecutive number 4, which, however, cannot be read due to the overprint.
  • the numbering unit V of the same longitudinal row L1, which numbers the fifth security print, has been set to the same number 4, and the three following numbering units V, VI and VII then continue the sequential numbering.
  • the first eight security prints of the series L2 and L4 each contain two misprints Mx and below those of the series L3 one misprint. In all cases, the correct security prints following the misprint were numbered with a number one unit smaller, that is, with the same number that the misprint received.
  • the numbering unit 1 of the longitudinal row L1 after it has printed the first number 1, is not set to the number 8 during the following rotation of the numbering cylinder not by eight steps, but because of the misprints Mx which have occurred in the meantime; Likewise, the following three numbering units 11, 111 and IV are switched to the numbers 9 to 11 by seven steps in order to generate a correct number sequence. All in all, all eight numbering units V to VIII and I to IV belonging to the longitudinal series L1, which number the eight flawless security prints following the misprint (with the number 4), were set to a number which is one unit smaller than in the case of non-existence a misprint. Only the numbering unit V and the following are switched on again by eight steps, provided that no further misprint occurs.
  • the misprints are distributed in a different way in the longitudinal rows L2, L3 and L4, and accordingly the numbering units of these longitudinal rows are also switched in a different way. Since two misprints appear at the fifth and seventh place in the longitudinal row L2 among the first eight security prints, the numbering units I to V are used only by six steps to number the second group of eight security impressions, which in the example under consideration do not have any misprinting VI and VII by seven steps and the numbering unit Vlll by eight steps. Analogous switching takes place in the longitudinal rows L3 and L4.
  • any number of numbers could be applied to the misprints, in other words, for example, the same number that the preceding perfect security print received. It would also be possible to dispense with the forwarding of a numbering unit that numbered a misprint, and to directly set the number which the next perfect security impression to be numbered by this numbering unit is to receive. It is only essential that the faultless security print following a misprint always receives the number immediately following the number of the previous faulty security print.
  • the number series B in the longitudinal series L2 has been numbered first up to the end number of the cycle in question, that is to say B 100000, while the three other number series A, C and D in the longitudinal series L1, L3 and L4 were numbered until the number A 99 425, C 99 227 and D 99 731. It should be noted that the number of security impressions missing in the longitudinal series L1, L3 and L4 up to the respective final number 100000 has no relation to the number of misprints in the relevant longitudinal series and is not approximately equal to the number of these misprints.
  • the number of numbers missing in a longitudinal series up to the final number considered 100,000 is equal to the number of misprints in the already numbered longitudinal series minus the number of misprints in the considered, not yet fully numbered longitudinal series. If, by chance, there is always the same number of misprints in every longitudinal row within a certain, complete numbering sequence, then the end number in question is of course reached simultaneously for all four longitudinal rows with the same last transverse row. However, this case is extremely unlikely.
  • the numbering of the notes in the other longitudinal rows has not yet reached the final number because these longitudinal rows have large numbers of misprints, then the numbering can be completed in two different ways:
  • control of the numbering units of the numbering machine can be carried out with the aid of the computer 20 such that all numbering units of a longitudinal series are automatically put out of operation as soon as the end number 100,000 has been printed out in the longitudinal series, while the value track K is pushed forward without interruption and continue all the numbering units of the other longitudinal series in the manner described until the respective end number 100,000 has been printed out. Only then will the numbering machine switch itself off.
  • the arrangement is such that this numbering unit is moved out of its printing working position and is therefore lifted off the counterpressure cylinder when it passes it. This measure requires that the numbering units are mounted on the numbering cylinder so that they can be moved individually.
  • the value track K passes through a reading device 8 (FIGS. 1a and 1b) reading the markings or cancellation markings, and is then in a known strip cutting machine 9, which works as a longitudinal cutter with circular knives, in strip S and behind it in one Known bundle cutting machine 10 cut into single value notes W finished format, the so-called single-use.
  • This bundle cutting machine 10 is a cross cutting unit, the knife 11 of which is indicated schematically in FIG. 1b.
  • the individual value notes W pass in rows through a device 12, which is also known per se, for eliminating the misprints.
  • This device 12 is controlled by the reader 8, which emits a correspondingly delayed rejection signal for switching over the device 12 when an incorrect pressure is detected.
  • the positions of the misprints determined by the reader 8 must of course match the positions stored in the computer 20, taking into account the known transport speed, so that the results of the reader 8 ensure an additional check of the misprints.
  • the device 12 for eliminating the misprints which in the example under consideration cooperates with the drum of the bundle cutting machine 10, works with suction rollers which, when the suction effect is switched off, allow the perfect banknotes to pass without being deflected, so that these banknotes can get onto a conveyor system 13 while when the suction effect is switched on, the misprints are taken along the circumference of the suction rollers and fed to a collecting point 14.
  • a separation device working with such suction rollers is described, for example, in published European patent application No. 80201063.7, corresponding to the US patent 4299325.
  • Other automatically controllable separating devices for notes of value are known, for example, from DE patents 1 499 514 and 1524627 corresponding to USA patent 3412993.
  • the discarded misprints are counted for control purposes and compared with the number of misprints stored in the computer before they are destroyed.
  • the transport sequence of the remaining, perfect banknotes now has a correct, complete number sequence within the relevant number series. It is therefore sufficient to stack the consecutive notes on the conveyor system 13 within each longitudinal row in a manner known per se in a bundling station 15 into bundles of notes Z of 100 notes each, as indicated schematically in FIG. 1a.
  • the bundles of notes Z are then fed to a buffer station 18 and finally to an automatic packaging station 19, where the bundles of notes Z are banded, a certain number of bundles of notes, generally ten bundles, are stacked into bundles of vouchers and these bundles of vouchers are banded and packaged after the banknotes have been counted again will.
  • the buffer station 18 allows a large number of bundles of notes to be stored before they reach the banding and packaging station 19. This allows the normal speed of the previous numbering operations, Cutting and rejecting can also be maintained if the operation of the station 19 has to be interrupted for a certain time for some reason or can only be delayed.
  • numbering mechanisms can also be used to number the security prints, in which all the number rolls can be electrically controlled independently of one another.
  • the tens digit rolls and the digit rolls printing the higher digits are also individually controlled by the computer 20.
  • the digit rolls can be designed so that, in addition to the ten digits, they have a non-printing gap or a cancellation mark; then they can be set in the presence of a misprint so that no printing takes place at all or that the cancellation marks are printed.
  • This measure can of course also be applied to those security impressions of a longitudinal row which, as described earlier, still run through the numbering machine after complete numbering of this longitudinal row, until the security impressions in all other longitudinal rows have also been completely numbered up to the final number.
  • the special cancellation stamping unit 3 may be dispensed with.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 In the case of sheets of note produced in sheet printing, the method according to the invention is explained with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
  • FIG. 4 those processing stations which correspond to the stations in the example according to FIG. 1 a are indicated by the same reference symbols.
  • FIG. 5 which illustrates a modification of the processing method according to FIG. 4, these reference numerals designate only the processing points concerned.
  • the still unnumbered sheets of security F provided with security impressions are first checked for incorrect security impressions, the misprints being marked. These marked misprints are marked with a cross in FIG.
  • each sheet F has 4 x 8 value impressions, which are arranged in four longitudinal rows and eight transverse rows, based on the direction of the passage through the numbering machine 4.
  • each numbering cylinder of the numbering machine has eight groups of numbering units distributed uniformly over its circumference, which number one sheet with each revolution of the numbering cylinder and of which each group has four numbering units arranged side by side for simultaneous numbering of a transverse row.
  • the security prints in each longitudinal row of a sheet belong to a number series A, B, C and D ( Figure 5) and are numbered consecutively, but to the exclusion of misprints.
  • the sheet has a misprint in the longitudinal series with the number series A and two misprints in the longitudinal series with the number series B and D.
  • the number sequence is continued in each longitudinal row.
  • this bundle cutting machine 10 is also a longitudinal cutting unit, while in the example according to FIG. 5 a cross cutting unit is used for the bundle cut.
  • a rejection device 12 which can be controlled by the reading device 8 or the computer in the same way as described in the first exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1a and 1b, the misprints are rejected and fed to a collecting station 14. Then, in a bundling station 15, the flawless individual value notes W originating from the same longitudinal row are combined to form value note bundles Z of 100 value notes each with a complete number sequence. These bundles of banknotes Z are banded in a banding station 16 and fed via a transport path 17 to a buffer station 18 and then to an automatic packaging station 19, where ten bundles of banknotes each form banknote packs with the same number series belonging, consecutively numbered notes are stacked, banded and packed.
  • FIG. 6 schematically shows the mounting of one of the numbering units 6a on the numbering cylinder 5a, which is fastened on the shaft 4 of the numbering printing unit 4a of the numbering machine 4.
  • the numbering unit 6 has six digit rollers 21 to 26 are mounted in the numbering unit frame 28 so as to be rotatable about a common axis 27.
  • the one-digit roller 21 is kinematically independent of the other digit rollers 22 to 26 and is advanced by a small electric motor 29 (FIGS. 6 and 6b) controlled by the computer 20 in the manner described, a gearwheel 30 seated on the motor shaft having an intermediate gearwheel 31 combs, which engages in a corresponding toothing of the one-digit roller 21.
  • a known two-armed indexing lever 32 (FIGS. 6a and 6b) which can be pivoted about the axis 27 and has an actuating roller 33 at one end and a pawl carrier 34 at the other end with molded pawls 35, the so-called front grippers.
  • This pawl carrier 34 with the pawls 35 is pivotally mounted about an axis 36 on the relevant arm of the indexing lever 32 and is biased by a spring, not shown, in such a way that the pawls 35 are pressed in the direction of the toothing attached to the numbered rollers 22 to 26.
  • the depth of the tooth gaps of the different toothing of the number rollers 22 to 26 and the lengths of the assigned pawls 35 are designed and dimensioned in a known manner so that the switching pawl 35 assigned to the tens digit roller 22 always engages in the toothing of this digit roller, which the hundreds
  • the shift pawl 35 assigned to the numerical roller 23, on the other hand, can only intervene in its toothing if the tens numerical roller 22 is set to the number 9.
  • the other pawls 35 for the digits roll 24 to 26 of the next higher digits are always out of engagement with the toothing in question if the digit roll of the next lower digit is not set to the number 9, but is engaged with the relevant toothing if this digit roll of the next lower digit is set to 9.
  • all digit rollers 22 to 26 are set to 9, but only then, all five pawls 35 are in engagement with the relevant toothings.
  • the actuating roller 33 of the indexing lever 32 runs on a control cam 37 fixedly mounted on the numbering printing unit 4a, whereby the indexing lever 32 temporarily pivots in the direction of the arrows F1 according to FIG. 6b and thereby the tens digit roller 22 and possibly those additional digit roles be advanced by a step, in which the associated pawls 35 are in engagement with the relevant toothing.
  • an electromagnet 38 is fixed in the area of the pawl carrier 34 on the numbering frame 28 or mounted on the numbering cylinder, which, when excited, turns the pawl carrier 34 with its pawls 35 against the action of the spring mentioned in the direction of arrow F2 according to FIG. 6b about the axis 36 and thus lifts all the pawls 35 from the toothing of the numerical rollers.
  • the indexing lever 32 inevitably executes its indexing stroke when it approaches the control cam 37, but because of the shifted pawl 35, the tens digit roller 22 or the other digit rollers for the next higher digits are not advanced. If the electromagnet 38 is not energized, on the other hand, when the indexing lever 32 is actuated, the ten-digit roller 22 is advanced by one step; if it is thereby switched from the number 9 to the number zero, the hundreds of digit roller 23 is simultaneously taken by one step by the adjacent pawl 35, etc.
  • the device according to the invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiments described, but rather permits multiple variants, in particular with regard to the design of the individual stations, especially the numbering units and their control.

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1. Procédé de traitement de supports d'impression imprimés avec des impressions de papiers-valeurs sous forme de bandes de papiers-valeurs ou de feuilles de papiers-valeurs, dont les impressions de papiers-valeurs sont disposées en matrice, en rangées transversales et en rangées longitudinales, pour en faire des liasses de papiers-valeurs composées de papiers-valeurs individuels numérotés, après quoi les supports d'impression traversent une machine à numéroter après marquage de la maculature décelée, les maculatures étant éliminées après découpage des supports d'impression, caractérisé par le fait que seuls les impressions de papiers-valeurs irréprochables sont numérotées en continu sur les supports d'impression, à l'exclusion des maculatures, et qu'après formation des papiers-valeurs individuels coupés au format, les maculatures sont éliminées et que les papiers-valeurs restants, numérotés en continu, sont groupés en liasses présentant chacune une séquence complète de numéros.
2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que les maculatures sont munies de marques d'invalidation avant le découpage des supports d'impression, ces marques étant de préférence apposées dans la zone des impressions de numéros ou dans la zone des endroits prévus pour l'impression des numéros.
3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé par le fait que les positions de toutes les maculatures sont décelées par un système de détecteurs avant la numérotation des supports d'impression et sont emmagasinées dans un calculateur, que la commande des mécanismes d'impression de la machine à numéroter est exécutée individuellement par des signaux électriques de ce calculateur et que dans le cas où des marques d'invalidation sont apposées sur les maculatures, ce processus est également commandé par le calculateur.
4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, selon lequel on utilise N mécanismes de numérotage pour numéroter les papiers-valeurs dans chaque rangée longitudinale s'étendant dans la direction de déplacement des supports d'impression, ces mécanismes de numérotage étant répartis sur la circonférence du cylindre de numérotage d'une machine à numéroter et étant actionnables à chaque rotation du cylindre de numérotage, caractérisé par le fait que seules les impressions de papiers-valeurs irréprochables situées l'une derrière l'autre à l'intérieur de chaque rangée sont numérotées en continu et qu'à cet effet les N mécanismes de numérotage attribués à une rangée longitudinale sont réglés pour numéroter de façon continue et sont indexés de la valeur de N numéros à chaque tour du cylindre de numérotage, aussi longtemps qu'aucune maculature n'est décelée, ces mécanismes de numérotage, lors de la présence d'une maculature, étant par contre indexés de telle manière que la numérotation des impressions de papiers-valeurs irréprochables suivant une maculature poursuit la séquence de numérotation correcte des impressions de papiers-valeurs irréprochables numérotés avant la maculature, et que la numérotation dans chaque rangée longitudinale est terminée individuellement lorsque le dernier numéro de la série de numéros concernée, attribuée à cette rangée longitudinale, a été imprimé.
5. Procédé selon la revendication 4, caractérisé par le fait qu'après que la numérotation des papiers-valeurs est terminée dans au moins une rangée longitudinale, la machine à numéroter continue de travailler de telle sorte que les impressions de papiers-valeurs sont numérotées en continu dans chacune des autres rangées longitudinales jusqu'à l'impression des derniers numéros de chaque série de numéros concernés et que chaque mécanisme de numérotage est mis hors service individuellement après l'impression de ce dernier numéro, et qu'après le découpage des supports d'impression en papiers-valeurs individuels, les papiers-valeurs non numérotés sont éliminés, ceux-ci traversant la machine à numéroter après mise hors service du mécanisme de numérotage correspondant.
6. Procédé selon la revendication 4, caractérisé par le fait que la numérotation continue simultanée des impressions de papiers-valeurs de toutes les rangées longitudinales est interrompue lorsque dans au moins l'une des rangées longitudinales le dernier numéro de la série de numéros correspondante a été imprimé, et que la terminaison de la numérotation des impressions de papiers-valeurs dans les autres rangées longitudinales est effectuée au moyen de mécanismes numéroteurs auxiliaires jusqu'au dernier numéro.
7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé par le fait que l'impression d'un numéro sur une maculature est empêchée en déplaçant temporairement le mécanisme numéroteur concerné hors de sa position de travail lors du passage de cette maculature ou en plaçant les rouleaux de chiffres du mécanisme numéroteur sur un signe d'invalidation ou un espace vide non imprimant.
8. Installation pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé selon la revendicatin 1 ou 4, comprenant une machine à numéroter (4) avec au moins un appareil de lecture (2) pour la lecture des maculatures marquées, des machines de découpage (10, 11) pour le découpage des supports d'impression (K, F) en papiers-valeurs individuels, un dipositif de tri (12) pour l'élimination des maculatures et une station (19) pour la formation et l'empaquetage de paquets de papiers-valeurs, caractérisée par le fait que l'appareil de lecture (2) est disposé avant la machine à numéroter, dans la direction de transport des supports d'impression (K, F) et qu'elle est agencée pour détecter les positions des maculatures, qu'il est prévu un calculateur (20), dans lequel sont emmagasinées les positions des maculatures obtenues par l'appareil de lecture (2), que la machine à numéroter (4) est commandable par le calculateur (20) de telle sorte que seules des impressions de papiers-valeurs irréprochables sont numérotées en continu, à l'exclusion des maculatures, qu'avant les machines à découper (9, 10) est disposé un mécanisme d'impression d'invalidation (3) commandé par le calculateur (20) pour les maculatures et que le dispositif de tri (12) est installé derrière les machines à découper (9, 10), qu'il est commandable par le calculateur (20) ou un autre appareil de lecture (8) et qu'il est agencé pour trier les papiers-valeurs individuels marqués comme maculatures.
9. Installation selon la revendication 8, comprenant une machine à numéroter (4) comprenant des mécanismes numéroteurs (6a, 6b) et un levier d'avancement (32), actionné à chaque tour du cylindre de numérotage, pour ces mécanismes numéroteurs, caractérisée par le fait que les mécanismes numéroteurs (6a, 6b) comprennent un rouleau d'unités indépendant du levier d'avancement (32) et du rouleau des dizaines voisins (22), ce rouleau d'unités étant indexable par des signaux de commande, de préférence dans les deux sens, que le levier d'avancement (32) agit seulement sur le rouleau des dizaines (22) et les rouleaux de positions supérieures (23 à 26) et que malgré l'actionnement du levier d'avancement (32) sa fonction d'indexation peut être rendue inefficace par un signal électrique de blocage du calculateur (20), en particulier par l'écartement électromagnétique de ses cliquets d'avance des dents des rouleaux à chiffres (22 à 26), le rouleau à chiffres des dizaines (22), ainsi que les rouleaux à chiffres (23 à 26) imprimant les positions supérieures, étant couplés cinématiquement de façon usuelle ou couplable, en particulier par des cliquets d'indexation (35) du levier d'avancement (32) coopérant avec les dentures des rouleaux à chiffres, de telle sorte que lors de l'avancement d'un rouleau à chiffres du chiffre 9 au chiffre 0, le rouleau à chiffres de la prochaine position supérieure est entraîné d'un pas.
10. Installation selon la revendication 8, caractérisée par le fait que tous les rouleaux à chiffres d'un mécanisme numéroteur de la machine à numéroter sont indexables indépendamment les uns des autres par des signaux électriques.
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