Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
  • G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
  • G07D11/10—Mechanical details
  • G07D11/12—Containers for valuable papers

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a secure transport method, from a site of departure to a destination site, of documents or valuables, such as payment means, banknotes, checks or bank cards, enclosed in a container which, in the event of a break-in or attempted break-in, causes their degradation or destruction by appropriate means.
• the documents or valuables are contained in a secure protection enclosure, whose opening triggers a pyrotechnic charge housed in the enclosure lid.
• the deflagration of said charge then causes the opening of tanks contained in the protective enclosure, said tanks containing a liquid destruction or marking.
• the liquid then spreads over the documents or valuables housed inside the enclosure, rendering them unusable or legally identifiable.
• the recipient namely the staff of the central fund, is then responsible for opening and emptying the container, then to count the money extracted from the container. "In case of discrepancy between the amount transferred by the shipper and the amount found at the count, it is not possible to determine the liability of the conveyor. In addition, the case may arise where this discrepancy results in fact from a counting error of the sender or the recipient and not from a malicious act of the fund carrier.
• the sender is in charge of positioning the documents or valuables in the container and closing said container before its transfer, carried out by the conveyor, and it carries out, possibly, the work in several steps. Indeed, it may be necessary to dispose the funds in the container in several operations and therefore to leave the container open and unattended for a period of time in the secure and controlled environment to consolidate all funds to be transported. During this period of time when the sender centralizes the funds, a third person, who can access the secure and controlled place, may possibly steal part of the funds without the sender being able to detect the disappearance of said funds unless carrying out a control. global at the last moment, just before closing the container.
• the recipient Following the transfer of the container, the recipient is generally not able to immediately return said container to the conveyor. Indeed, the recipient is the only one authorized to open the container, then remove the funds and count them before disposing in a safe. The response time would require unnecessarily immobilizing the conveyor for the sole purpose of returning the container immediately. It is therefore necessary to use several sets of containers to overcome this disadvantage and to be able to release the conveyor as soon as the transfer is made, the latter recovering the present container during the subsequent transfer of the base.
• the object of the invention is therefore to propose a method for the secure transport of documents or valuables that do not have the disadvantages of the prior art and, in particular, to guarantee the inviolability of documents or valuables during all periods of time. the steps of transferring the starting site to the arrival site, any attempt to steal said documents or said valuables being detectable on said documents or valuables and / or on a means for containing said documents or valuables when transport in a container, said means being manipulated only by the sender or the recipient.
• Another object of the present invention is to allow the sender to pre-prepare the documents or valuables and leave them in a secure place without risk of theft, waiting for the arrival of the conveyor which is provided with the container for receiving said documents or valuables or the means containing them, then to allow the recipient to return the container to the conveyor immediately after its opening and after the extraction of the documents or valuables or the medium containing them that can remain temporarily store at the recipient without risk of being stolen.
• Another object of the invention is also to propose a container that can be used in the context of a method of secure transport of documents or valuables, said container guaranteeing inviolability of documents or valuables, in particular by making it detectable or visible any break-in or attempted break-in between a starting site and an arrival site.
• a method of secure transport from a starting site to a destination site, of documents or valuables, including payment means, banknotes, checks or bank cards, locked in a container which, in the event of a break-in or an attempted break-in, causes them to be damaged by appropriate means, said method being capable of passing said documents or valuables between a sender and a recipient via at least one conveyor; said method being remarkable in that before they are taken over by the conveyor, the documents or valuables are arranged, by the sender, inside one or more boxes, comprising first security means able to reveal , destroying itself or deteriorating, any break-in or attempted break-in of said boxes by a person other than the sender or the recipient, said boxes being then positioned in the container which is transferred to the addressee by the conveyor.
• the invention also aims to protect a box intended to contain documents or valuables, including means of payment, banknotes, checks or bank cards, usable in particular in the secure transport method mentioned above; said box being remarkable in that it comprises:
• a body preferably parallelepipedal, having an opening allowing the insertion of documents or valuables inside the box
• FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the secure transport method according to the invention
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a transport case according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 it is schematically represented all the steps of the method allowing the secure transfer of funds from a place of departure, corresponding to the location of the sender 10, to a place of arrival, corresponding to the location of the recipient 30, the transfer being operated by a conveyor 20.
• the recipient 30 can be any user of monetary values.
• the sender 10 will be a supermarket and the recipient 30 a bank.
• a first step 11 the monetary values 2 are first taken by the sender 10 in a trunk 1 placed at the place of departure and containing the money reserve of the sender 10, and then placed in one or more boxes 3.
• These boxes 3 will have dimensions compatible with the funds to be transferred and with the interior storage space of a secure container 4 may accommodate one or more boxes 3. It is also advantageous to provide as many boxes 1 of different monetary values 2, and this, in order to allow a sorting operation of the monetary values 2 by the sender 10 prior to step 11 and thus facilitate the counting of the monetary values 2 at the place of arrival by the recipient 30.
• the sender 10 closes in a second step 12 or the boxes 3 with the closure devices integrated in the box or boxes 3 , said closure devices having the distinction of being unmountable without breaking. This characteristic makes it possible in particular
• the sender 20 disposes the box or boxes 3 in one or more secure containers 4, said containers 4 being capable of causing a degradation of their contents during a break-in or an attempted break-in.
• the sender When closing the container by the sender, it activates the degradation means that can be disabled only by the recipient when receiving containers.
• containers 4 having identical or similar characteristics to those described and claimed in the patent EP 188.155 previously cited. Only the recipient will in principle be able to open said containers 4 without causing degradation of their content. This may result in particular from the use of suitable opening means, such as a key or an access code, held by the sole recipient.
• the conveyor 20 disposes said containers 4 inside a conveying vehicle 5.
• the conveyor 20 will therefore transfer, by means of this conveying vehicle 5, the containers 4 from the place of departure of the sender 10 to the place of arrival of the consignee 30, the places of departure and arrival being considered as safe places in the secure transport method according to the invention.
• the conveyor 20 discharges the conveying vehicle 5 and entrusts the container or containers 4 to the recipient who performs, in a first step 31, the _ Q _
• the boxes 3 are under the responsibility of the recipient 30 who can then easily see if any break-in or attempted break-in occurred at the boxes 3 by checking the closing state of each of the boxes 3.
• the closing devices of the box 3 concerned must have undergone a mechanical or thermal stress sufficient to cause their partial or total break. This partial or total breaking thus no longer makes it possible to ensure the correct closure of said box 3.
• the recipient 30 can immediately return the containers 4 to the conveyor and then, in a second step 32, he will open the boxes 3 either by breaking the closing devices provided on this level on the boxes. 3, or using a suitable opening means, key type or chip card adapted to a lock or slot disposed around the perimeter of the box or boxes 3, or identification code, numeric or alphanumeric , to be introduced using a keyboard included or connected to the boxes 3.
• a final step 33 it operates to count the monetary values 2 contained in the boxes 3 and places these monetary values 2 inside a storage place 1, of the box type or vault protected by a door. shielded for example.
• the transport method as described above thus allows to ensure a certain inviolability of the documents or valuables to transport, in particular vis-à-vis anyone other than the sender 10 or the recipient 30.
• FIG. 2 there is also shown a possible variant of box 3 that can be used in a secure method of transporting documents or valuables according to the invention.
• This box 3 essentially comprises a parallelepiped body 6, having an opening allowing the insertion of values inside the box 3, a cover 7 articulated on one of the edges delimiting the opening of the body 6 and likely to close said opening, said cover 7 being formed at least partially of a burnable, tearable, permeable and / or occulting veil 8, complementary closure means disposed respectively on the cover 7 and on one of the edges delimiting the opening of the body 6, said closure means being capable of being destroyed or deteriorated during a break-in or attempted break-in of the box 3.
• these closing means consist of a first element 9 projecting from the upper edge of the body 6 and a second element 9 'projecting from the lower edge of the lid 7. and adjacent the first tubular element 9 when closing the box 3, the elements 9 and 9 'respectively comprising a hollow interior space square or round section, the inner space of said first and second elements 9 and 9' defining final a housing likely to accommodate a 9 '' assembly pin.
• the assembly pin 9 '' will have the particular feature of being breakable or frangible in case of attempted forced lifting of the cover 7 relative to the body 6 in the closed position of the box 3.
• the holding in position of the pin 9 '' inside the housing defined by the first and second tubular elements 9 and 9 ' may in particular result from a force introduction of the pin 9''inside the housing, the diameter of the pin 9 '' then being greater than the diameter of the housing, or by any mechanical locking device arranged at inside the dwelling. It will further be advantageous to assign a unique serial number to each assembly pin 9 '' and to write this number on said pins 9 '', so as to avoid the replacement of a pin 9 '' by a pin. other once the box 3 opened fraudulently.
• complementary assembly means will obviously be possible at this level, in particular a mechanical or electronic lock arranged astride the cover 7 and the body 6, tabs arranged projecting on the upper edge of the body 6 or on the edge lower of the cover 7 and intended to snap into groove housings disposed on the edge vis-à-vis the cover 7 or the body 6, as described for example in the patent EP 557.662, or any complementary assembly means ensuring an unbreakable assembly without breakage.
• the burnable, tearable, permeable and / or occulting veil 8 of the lid 7 will moreover be capable of being burned, torn or penetrated by a pyrotechnic charge, a chopper cord and / or a liquid of destruction or marking contained therein containers 4 during a break-in or attempted break-in of said containers 4, as mentioned in patent EP 188.155, this operation being accompanied by a destruction, or a marking, partial or total monetary values contained in the box 3.

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