Classifications

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  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
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  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
  • G06Q20/08—Payment architectures
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  • G06Q20/1085—Remote banking, e.g. home banking involving automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• • 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
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  • G07D11/22—Means for sensing or detection
  • G07D11/235—Means for sensing or detection for monitoring or indicating operating conditions; for detecting malfunctions
• • 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
  • G07D11/40—Device architecture, e.g. modular construction
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T70/00—Locks
  • Y10T70/50—Special application
  • Y10T70/5093—For closures
  • Y10T70/554—Cover, lid, cap, encasing shield

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a processing device for value documents, and in particular to such a processing device with a checking device for detecting at least one property of the value documents and a storage area housing which encloses a storage area in which value documents can be stored by the checking device according to the criterion, and against unauthorized ones Secure access and having a first opening, are transported by the value documents of the examination device in the memory area.
• Such a processing device can serve, for example, that operating personnel, such as cashiers or cashiers, can deposit banknotes in a security container, where it can not remove deposited banknotes.
• operating personnel such as cashiers or cashiers
• an operator can automatically check the authenticity of a stack of banknotes by means of the processing device, determine the number and denomination of the banknotes and transport them as authentically recognized banknotes into security containers in the storage area.
• the security containers can then be removed from the device by value-transport companies and transported to a bank. In this case, for example, the value of the banknotes automatically detected and displayed to the operator.
• the corresponding amount may be credited to the operator or a company employing the operator.
• a corresponding device can have an input device for a banknote stack, a singler for separating the banknotes in the banknote stack, a transport device for transporting the separated banknotes along a transport path, and the test device arranged on the transport path for detecting at least one characteristic of a banknote transported along the transport path feature.
• the transport path leads from the input device or the louzier to the memory area.
• the present invention is therefore based on the object of providing a device for processing value documents, in which conditions can be quickly and easily removed during the transport of documents of value in the device without jeopardizing the security of value documents.
• a device for processing value documents in particular banknotes, with a checking device for checking value documents for at least one property of a value document according to at least one predetermined criterion, in particular a authenticity criterion, with a sensor device arranged in a processing area for detecting the value Property, a storage area housing, which encloses a memory area, in which the examination device according to the criterion as real recognized value documents can be stored, and secures against unauthorized access and having a first opening, are transported by the value documents from the processing area in the memory area, a in the processing area arranged transport means for isolated transport from the device supplied value documents along a transport path from an input device for occasional input of Wertd and a processing area cover, which has a cover member, which between a closed position, in which the processing area is covered by the processing area cover, and an open position, in which an operator accesses the transport path from the input device or the verzier to the testing device and from this to the memory area is possible, reciprocated.
• the device is used for processing added value documents and therefore has the input device for the isolated input of value documents and / or the singling for singulation in a stack supplied value documents.
• the input device or the singler may be, for example, known devices.
• the testing device serves to check value documents supplied by the transport device. It detects by means of the sensor device, the at least one property of the value document and checks whether the value document meets a predetermined criterion for the property.
• the test device may comprise an evaluation device which uses the signals for checking the criterion.
• the evaluation device can be assigned solely to the test device and can be embodied as a digital circuit or in the form of a processor and a memory in which a program executable by the processor for carrying out the test is executed, or at least partially by corresponding software or program modules for a control device be implemented to control the device.
• the property may be a property selected from the group of optical properties, electrical properties, magnetic properties, mechanical properties, acoustic properties or shape properties, for which purpose the sensor device may have a corresponding sensor.
• the property of the value document can be expressed as an authenticity feature, as used for example for banknotes. The given criterion to be fulfilled then refers to the at least approximately presence of the property, as it is pronounced in a genuine value document.
• the testing device can also be designed for testing a plurality of properties, in particular the presence of a plurality of predetermined security features, which must be cumulative in order to fulfill the criterion.
• the audited value documents are stored in the storage enclosure enclosing the storage area that does not overlap the work area, depending on the result of the check. This serves to protect the stored value documents against unauthorized access.
• An unauthorized access is understood as an access in which a person tries to gain access to the memory area with simple physical force or through manipulation in order to remove value documents therefrom.
• the first opening is provided for transport from the processing area into the storage area. If value documents are still supplied to the storage area by other modules of the device, in particular in the processing area, or are output from the storage area to the storage area, the storage area housing of the first opening can have corresponding additional openings. All versions of the first opening are also optional for these additional openings.
• the storage area housing may for example be formed of sufficiently stable sheets, but may also comprise parts of other components of the device, which are arranged for example in the processing area or at least partially enclose it.
• transport means can be used with transport elements known per se, for example belts, rollers, driven rollers, deflection elements and / or points or combinations of these transport elements driven by a drive.
• transport path determined by the transport device begins behind the input device or the separator up to the storage area or the first opening. Due to the processing area coverage, the transport device and the transport path given by the latter can be secured against unintentional interventions and interference thereby caused.
• the cover element which is possible between a closed position in which the processing area is covered by the processing area cover and an open position in which an operator can access the processing area, in particular at least partially parts of the transport device located therein; is reciprocable, but allows access to the editing area in particular to eliminate transport interference.
• an operator may gain access to the transport path by moving the cover member, such as rotating, pivoting, or moving, to the open position to eliminate interference.
• the cover element is preferably arranged and designed such that, in the open position of the cover element, elimination of transport disturbances along the entire transport path from the input device or the singler to the storage area or the first opening through the opening in the processing area cover can take place which is opened by movement of the cover member.
• the processing area cover only a cover element movable relative to the transport path.
• the cover element can be formed independently of the transport device.
• the cover member may be formed, for example, in the simplest case as a sheet metal or plastic molding, which serves only the cover. However, it is preferred that it also serves as a support for parts of the testing device and / or the transport device. This has the advantage that a much simpler and in particular more compact design of the device can be achieved.
• the transport device has at least two sections between which the transport path extends, and only one of which is held on the cover member, an operator can access the transport path particularly easily for troubleshooting, since this at least partially with movement of the cover member is exposed.
• the parts of the transport device which are held on the cover element can in particular interact with complementary parts of the transport device when the cover element is in the closed position.
• the cover element can in principle be reciprocated relative to the device or the processing area in any desired form between the open and closed positions. If, however, the transport path runs in one plane, ie if there is at least one plane in which the projection of the transport path onto the plane is substantially rectilinear, it is preferred that the cover element be about an axis substantially parallel to a plane defined by the transport path is rotatable or pivotable. Substantially parallel is understood to mean that the axis encloses an angle of less than 5 ° with the plane. This Guide shape allows for a particularly robust attachment of the cover member and on the other a good overview of the transport device when the cover member is in the open position. If the transport path is straight, the plane can run as desired through the transport path, the axis is then substantially parallel to the direction of the transport path.
• the device preferably has a cover locking device, by means of which the cover element can be locked in the closed position.
• the device has a closing device with a controllable by closing signals drive which moves when driving the drive by a closing signal, the cover member from a lying between the open position and the closed position release position in the closed position.
• Cover element safely and completely from the release position from which it can be moved manually into the open position and back, in the closed position is movable.
• a force can still be exerted on the cover element which, for example, presses transport rollers held thereon against complementary parts of the transport device.
• the closing device may in particular also comprise the cover locking device.
• the closing device can be designed so that it acts as a locking device by means of which the cover element can be locked in the closed position.
• the transport path for the value documents to the storage area or the first opening can be arbitrary.
• one or the transport path from the input device or the singler to the storage area or the first opening is unfolded in the device.
• the transport path in single feed from the input device or otherwise from the verzier to the intermediate region is rectilinear or from at least one imaginary line of sight, preferably through the cover member in a through the said transport path or the Seen from the plane defined by these defined transport directions plane on the transport path has no undercuts.
• the unfolded transport path therefore does not necessarily have to be perfectly straightforward; Rather, it is also possible for changes in the transport direction to occur which do not exceed an angle of 20 °, except at the interfaces to the input device, for example, the feeder, or singler or the intermediate region.
• the transport path runs behind the input device or the verzier substantially rectilinear.
• the device preferably has a control device which detects and stores at least one property of value documents temporarily stored in the temporary storage during the examination by the examination device.
• the stored data may in particular relate to the type and / or type of value documents, in the case of bank notes, for example, their denomination, and be associated with the location of the respective value documents in the buffer.
• the number of cached value documents can be stored.
• the control device may in particular comprise a processor and a memory in which instructions for execution by the processor are stored.
• the controller may be physically separate from the validator, but preferably, the controller has a processor and memory accessible to the processor, and instructions for processing by the processor, and more particularly for checking the criterion as well as for capturing and storing the property are stored. Furthermore, the instructions may be selected such that, when executed by the processor, an assignment of a position of the respective value document in the buffer in the sequence of the other buffered value documents is made and stored for the type and / or type and / or value of the value document becomes.
• the control device may comprise the access control device, for which purpose the stored instructions may comprise instructions for checking acquired access data for the fulfillment of the at least one predetermined access criterion.
• the control device is designed to detect an end of the transport of value documents into the storage area, and to detect an accumulated property of the value documents stored in the storage area, in particular their value, upon detection of an end.
• the cumulative property is a property that is determined as a function of at least one property of all value documents stored in the memory area.
• the cumulative property can preferably be stored or output by means of an output device, for example a display device or a printer. This makes it possible, in particular, for several banknotes, for example a stack of banknotes, to automatically determine their value.
• at least one sensor for detecting a transport of a value document for example a light barrier, may be provided in the storage area, in particular a memory therein, and / or on the transport path.
• the device has a signal device for indicating the location along the transport path determined by the transport device at least to the storage area in which the occurrence of a transport error was detected.
• the device can each have security sensors which emit a signal when they recognize a value document in the transport path. By tracking the signals, the location of the fault can then be determined. This advantageously allows rapid detection of sources of interference.
• the signaling device for this purpose comprise a display device on which the transport path and the location of the disturbance can be displayed at least schematically. Alternatively it can be displayed whether the fault has occurred in the processing area or the storage area.
• the signaling device comprise at least two light sources arranged along the transport path, and that the control device is designed and connected to the signaling device such that upon detection of the location of a disturbance that of the light sources closest to the location of the disturbance , in a different or new operating state, in particular switched on, is. This allows operating personnel to be able to immediately detect the location of a fault after opening the corresponding area.
• an extraction signal device connected to the control device via a signal connection with at least one light source is arranged on at least one output compartment for outputting valuable documents, which is freely accessible, with at least one light source, and in that the control device is designed to control the removal signal device in this way in that the light source is switched on when the output tray can be seen in this issued value documents.
• the storage area housing can basically be configured as desired. However, it is preferred that the storage area housing has a storage area housing member that is between an open position in which an operator access to the storage area by an access area is possible, and a closed position in which the storage area against access of an operator through the access area at least for the removal of documents of value, is reciprocable, and that the device further comprises a locking device for locking the storage area housing element in the closed position.
• This embodiment not only has the advantage that stored Value documents or an existing memory in the memory area can be easily removed from the storage area housing. On the contrary, maintenance of the memory or fault clearance in the storage area housing is also possible if, in the open position, the storage area housing element releases the access area, by means of which access to the storage area or valuable documents therein is possible.
• the locking device is provided, by means of which the storage area housing element can be locked in the closed position.
• the storage area housing element can be locked in the closed position.
• only persons who can operate the locking device access to the intermediate area at least for the removal of value documents thereof.
• This locking device for the storage area housing but also a preferably existing locking device for locking the cover member in the closed position is preferably designed so that not any person can operate them. Rather, it should be operated only by authorized persons who have access to this, preferably only accessible to them, appropriate means or data. Again, the embodiments described below can be used alternatively or cumulatively.
• the locking device of the device may comprise a lock to be actuated mechanically by an operator, which may preferably be a safety lock. Persons authorized to open the inter-area housing receive a key to the lock.
• the locking device of the device is electrically and / or pneumatically and / or hydraulically controllable.
• an electrically controllable locking device is also understood to mean a locking device which has an electromagnet for locking.
• This embodiment has the advantage that the locking device can be controlled by other devices, which allows a more secure examination of the authority of a person and an automatic operation in response to the test.
• the locking device may be at least partially realized by a, preferably electrical, drive of the device, which serves for opening and closing the storage area housing element.
• the device then comprises at least one access data acquisition device for acquiring access data and at least one access control device connected to the access data acquisition device via a signal connection for checking acquired access data for the fulfillment of at least one predetermined access criterion and for controlling the locking device in dependence on the test.
• the acquired access data are used to check the access criterion;
• the access criterion may include, for example, a certain consistency characteristic of the access data and / or the correspondence of at least parts of the access data with predetermined data stored in the device and / or the presence of certain properties of the access data.
• the access data acquisition device comprises a reading device for reading access data from a mobile data carrier or memory, in particular a card reader for reading chip cards.
• a mobile data carrier or memory under mobile data carriers or memories are in particular optical media such as CD or DVD or Non-volatile memory, such as USB memory or chips on smart cards understood.
• the use of such access data acquisition device has the advantage that, on the one hand, a particularly forgery-proof medium can be used for checking the access authorization and, on the other hand, that a comparatively large amount of data can be used as access data.
• the reading device can preferably also be designed as a data writing device if the intended type of data carrier or memory permits write access.
• a card reader is understood in particular to mean any device by means of which data from, preferably flat, objects can be read.
• the data can be present as an optically recognizable pattern, for example in the form of character strings or images.
• data may be in the form of magnetic properties of the card, such as a magnetic stripe, or the shape of the card or portions thereof.
• the card can preferably alternatively or cumulatively comprise a storage medium, for example a chip, which can be accessed without contact or with contact.
• the card reader has corresponding sensors, antennas and / or contacts.
• the data need not all be stored in the same way, but it is possible that different parts are stored in different ways. For authentication purposes, data stored in particular on the card can then be used, which data are used by the access control device after being read out by means of the card reader.
• the access data comprises biometric data of an operator and the access data acquisition device of the device comprises means for acquiring the biometric data.
• This embodiment has the advantage that an operator has an access authorization for checking the access authorization for the intermediate storage. can not lose or lend to a more commonly used item or code. A theft is not possible, so that a very high level of security can be achieved.
• the means for acquiring the biometric data may preferably be adapted to detect voices, fingerprints, optical features of the iris or fundus, the proportions of body parts or other individual features of the human body or behavior, to provide a voice recognition after acquisition of the data to be able to perform a fingerprint recognition, an iris or eye fundus recognition or recognition of the other features.
• These forms of locking device can also be used in the locking of the cover element for the machining area, but in the application not all users who have authorization to access the machining area also have authorization to access the buffer memory.
• a backup of the memory area against access from the processing area can be done in various ways.
• the two preferred options mentioned below can alternatively or preferably be used in combination.
• the first opening has the shape of a slot having a width of less than 9 mm, preferably less than 5 mm.
• This has the advantage that can be done by a very simple measure access to the memory area through the first opening at best with a correspondingly thin tool, but which would require considerable skill and possession of a suitable tool.
• the length of the slot then preferably depends on the largest dimension of the documents of value transverse to the transport direction immediately before the first opening.
• a second possibility is that at least one element in the storage area housing or the processing area, and / or an element of the storage area housing are transportable relative to the processing area between a first position, in the value documents through the first opening between the storage area and the processing area, and a second position, in which at least in the case that the cover member in the open position and the storage area housing member are in the closed position, a transport of a value document from the storage area is prevented by the first opening to the processing area, movable.
• the device then has an actuator for moving the at least one element, so that the opening by actuation of the actuator is automatically closed during or after movement of the cover member in the open position.
• the storage compartment housing comprises an end storage device for receiving at least one security container for storing documents of value which at least partially surrounds the storage region and has the first opening.
• This embodiment is characterized by a particularly compact design.
• first opening is closed so far that a document of value can not be transported through the first opening. At least in the case that the cover member is in the respective closed position, however, a transport between the storage area and the processing area through the first opening is possible.
• This embodiment has the advantage that unauthorized access to the memory area from the processing area can be prevented even when using a tool, which further increases the security of the memory area.
• any movable element can be used which is movable during or after movement of the cover element into the open position by at least one coupling element mechanically coupled to the cover element or by an electric drive actuated by actuation or movement of the cover element into the open position ,
• the cover member may be formed and mounted so that the cover member in the open position, the first opening at least partially closes.
• the storage area is an end storage area
• at least one further opening is arranged in the storage area housing to the storage area such that value documents pass through the openings to storage area into at least two compartments of a predetermined containment having at least two Shelves or in at least two predetermined security containers in the storage area are transportable.
• receiving devices or receptacles or guides for the security container or containers may be provided in the storage area, so that they can be easily arranged in a predetermined relative position to the openings.
• the security containers and the position of the openings are relative to one another and to the receiving device or the receptacles Guides coordinated so that the openings in the storage area housing allow a transport in the or the security containers.
• the memory area only represents a buffer area. More specifically, the device can then further arrange a buffer area arranged in the intermediate area for buffering at least value documents whose characteristic meets the criterion when tested by the test facility, and a buffer memory
• the storage area housing is an intermediate area housing enclosing the intermediate area and enclosing the first opening, through which value documents coming from the checking device can be fed to the temporary storage, and a second opening through which value documents can be transported from the buffer to the final storage area, and in which the Speicherberei Chsgephinuseelement represents a Swiss Schemesgepatuseelement that between an open position, in the for an operator
• Access to the cache by an access area is possible, and a closed position in which it protects the intermediate area against access by an operator through the access area at least for the removal of documents of value, back and forth.
• the device is further designed so that the buffer is protected against access by an operator at least for removal of a value document stored therein through the first opening when the intermediate region housing element is in the closed position.
• the use of the temporary storage is particularly advantageous in the case where discrepancies between the value of the banknotes found during the deposit and the value of the banknotes present in the opinion of the operator occur.
• the operator can then cancel the deposit process, ie prevent the transport from the buffer into the security container to check the deposit of banknotes again. After the interruption, all bills buffered in the buffer can be returned to the operator.
• the second opening is provided in the intermediate area housing. If value documents are supplied to the intermediate storage device from other modules of the device in the processing and / or final storage area or output from the intermediate storage device, the intermediate area housing of the first and / or the second opening can have corresponding additional openings. All versions of the first opening are also optional for these additional openings.
• the intermediate-area housing may be formed, for example, of sufficiently stable metal sheets, but may also comprise parts of other components of the device which are arranged, for example, in the processing and / or final storage area or at least partially surround and / or delimit these areas.
• the apparatus is adapted to protect the buffer from access by the operator through the first opening when the interspace housing member is in the closed position, on the one hand, operators may gain access to the bearer. tion area and in particular the therein located, most likely to transport problems susceptible transport device are allowed to have no access to the cache.
• value-paying persons can eliminate any faults which may occur in the processing area themselves without having to open the intermediate-area housing. Therefore, in these cases, the presence of a specially authorized person is not necessary so that disturbances can be eliminated quickly and the availability of the device is increased.
• the cache is secured against unauthorized access, so that the deposit of value documents can be done with high security. Finally, a person who can operate the locking device, a fault clearance in the buffer area possible.
• the buffer to be transportable relative to the processing area between a first position in which documents of value can be transported through the first opening between the buffer and the processing area, and a second position at least in the case that the cover member in the open position and the Swiss Schemesgetude are in the closed position, a transport of a value document from the buffer is prevented by the first opening to the processing area, is movable.
• the device comprises at least one actuator for moving the at least one element in the intermediate area housing or the at least one element of the intermediate housing or the buffer and a position detecting means for detecting a movement of the cover member in the open position and / or reaching the open position
• the control device is designed to control the actuator in dependence on signals of the position detection device and / or data in the position detection device for detecting a movement such that a transport between the buffer and the editing area is possible or not.
• the position detecting means may comprise, for example, a position or motion sensor for the cover member or means detecting and / or executing an instruction to electrically move the cover member to the open position or corresponding position data representing the position of the cover member. stores.
• An example of such a device may be the control device.
• the second opening preferably has the shape of a slot with a width of less than 9 mm, particularly preferably less than 5 mm.
• the device particularly preferably has an actuator for the movement of the further element in order to output value documents the inter-area housing and / or the inter-area housing and / or the buffer, and the control device is adapted to control the actuator so that stored value documents in the buffer memory in dependence on the level in the containment and / or in response to input to the control device Data and / or according to their stored property by one of the openings to the final storage area are transportable.
• At least one further opening is arranged in the intermediate storage area to the final storage area, so that through the openings to the final storage area value documents in at least two compartments of a given security container with at least two compartments or in at least two predetermined security container are transportable in the final storage area.
• receiving devices or recordings or guides for the security container (s) may be provided in the end storage area so that they can be set up in a predetermined relative position to the openings.
• the security container and the position of the openings to each other and to the receiving device or the receptacles or guides are coordinated so that the openings in the insects in the insects in the insects.
• the device has the deflection device instead of the temporary storage device, it preferably comprises at least one diverter which can be controlled by signals, by means of which supplied value documents can be supplied to the final storage region as a function of the signals of one of the openings.
• the device has at least two openings from the intermediate area into the final storage area, it preferably has at least one actuator for moving the further element in or at the intermediate storage area.
• the control device is adapted to control the actuator so that stored in the buffer value documents depending on the level in the containment and / or in Dependent on data entered into the control device and / or according to their stored property can be transported through one of the openings to the final storage area.
• the control device preferably has an interface via which signals or data about the filling level can be received in a safety container used in the device.
• the control device can also detect the number of value documents issued in the security container and select the opening as a function of this number.
• the data which can be input into the control device via a corresponding input device can identify, for example, a person or organization to whom the value documents are to be assigned. The corresponding data can be given, for example, by the access data already described above.
• the embodiment described at the beginning of the last paragraph generally has the further advantage that a distribution of value documents on different compartments of a security container or two different security containers without a switch in the final storage area can be achieved.
• no switch is arranged in the final storage area.
• This has the further advantage that the risk of occurrence of transport disturbances in the final storage area can be largely reduced. This is particularly favorable because, on the one hand, operators who have access to the processing and / or intermediate area are often unable to access the final storage area and therefore can not eliminate the disruption there. On the other hand, operators who have access to the final storage area, such as secure transport companies, are rarely present, so a disruption in this area could drastically reduce the availability of the device.
• the actuator in this and the embodiment described in the preceding paragraph may be the same and only needs to be controlled accordingly.
• the intermediate memory can basically be designed as desired and accommodated in the device.
• the intermediate storage of the device can be removed when the intermediate-area housing element is in the open position. This makes it possible to remove the temporary storage of the device for the duration of a dormant operation and to store it in another secure location without having to remove previously stored value documents. Moreover, in the event of a malfunction of the buffer, it can be easily removed for the purpose of eliminating the disturbance and exchanged for another, so that the availability of the device is not severely restricted.
• the intermediate store preferably comprises a drum store and / or a winding store.
• a winding store is understood to mean, in particular, a store which is designed such that sheet-like documents of value can be taken up between two belts or belts in an unimpeded manner, the belts or belts or corresponding sections thereof being wound onto a body if a document of value between them is included.
• a winding storage is sometimes referred to as a film storage.
• This use of a winding store has the advantage that value documents are occasionally buffered, so that a singling in the intermediate area is not necessary.
• Drum storage as described, for example, in EP 1 220167 A1 or EP 0151 808 A1, or drum storage with a variable diameter depending on a number of value documents stored therein can also be used.
• Drum storage can, depending on the design have the advantage that the value documents in them already sorted, sorted banknotes, for example, by denominations, can be cached, which can accelerate the output to the containment.
• the drum storage or winding storage is rotatably or pivotally mounted.
• a provided for automatic rotation of the winding storage actuator can then in particular have a rotary or rotary actuator for rotating or pivoting of the drum or winding storage.
• This has the advantage that an input and output area of the winding store, as described above, be rotated to block access to the cache in a position in which access to the input and output area is not necessary.
• the temporary store or its input and output can be used to selectively supply the temporarily stored value domains. be used to one of the openings.
• the movement of the winding storage requires very little space, so that a compact construction of the device can be achieved.
• the final storage area is enclosed by the final storage device, which is preferably designed as a safe, and is connected via the opening of the intermediate area housing to the intermediate area for transporting value documents.
• the end storage area enclosing the end storage area, in particular the safe, and the intermediate area housing may have a common wall in which the opening is arranged.
• the end storage device enclosing the end storage area can likewise have a closing element movable between an open position in which security containers are accessible in the end storage area and a closed position in which access to the security container is not possible, which can be locked in the closed position by means of a further locking device.
• the same variants come into consideration as for the locking device for the intermediate area housing element. This has the advantage that an unauthorized removal of a security container from the final storage device is greatly impeded or prevented.
• the device is preferably further designed so that no switch in the final storage area is provided on the transport path of value documents in or the security container.
• a dispensing opening may be provided in the device in the intermediate area housing, can be output by the value documents to an output tray, from which they can be removed.
• the intermediate-area housing can in particular also have a dispensing opening to the processing area, through which value documents can be dispensed from the temporary storage into the processing area or an externally accessible compartment of the device.
• the transport path given by the transport device has a branch along which value documents can be transported without intermediate storage in the temporary storage into the final storage device. This has the advantage that the device can also be used for the rapid transport of documents of value in safety containers.
• locking devices for the closing element and / or the cover element may in particular have a common detection device and a common processor and a shared memory in which at least one program executable by the processor for controlling the respective locking devices is stored.
• the processor and memory are then part of an access control unit.
• a single detection device and a single access control device for controlling the locking mechanisms are provided in a device with controllable locking devices for the intermediate area housing element and / or the closing element and / or the cover element kung a single detection device and a single access control device for controlling the locking mechanisms.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a bank note processing device according to a preferred embodiment of the invention in FIG.
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic side view of the banknote payment device in FIG. 1 with the processing area cover open and the intermediate area housing closed, FIG.
• FIG. 3 shows a schematic side view of the banknote payment device in FIG. 1 with the processing area cover closed and the intermediate area housing open, FIG.
• FIG. 4 shows a schematic side view of a banknote processing device according to a further preferred embodiment of the invention in the form of a banknote payment device with a closed processing area cover and a closed intermediate area housing,
• FIG. 5 shows a schematic side view of a bank note processing device according to yet another preferred embodiment of the invention in the form of a bank note payment device with a closed processing area cover and a closed intermediate area housing
• 6a and b are schematic partial representations of a transport device and a buffer with a deflection device of a Benknotenbearbeitungsvorraum according to a further preferred embodiment of the invention, in which the buffer and the deflection device are each in different positions
• FIG. 7 shows a schematic side view of a banknote payment device, in which instead of an intermediate store, a deflection device with switch is provided, and
• Fig. 8 is a schematic partial sectional view of the bank note payment device in Figure 1, in which a cover member is in a release position.
• the machining section 10 has a housing enclosing a processing area 28 with a housing lower part 30 and a machining area cover 32, which has a cover element 36 hinged to the housing lower part 30 via a stable hinge 34, which is covered by pivoting movements between a closed position in which the machining area 28 is covered 1), and an open position in which an operator can access the processing area 28 (see Fig. 2), is reciprocable, and covers the processing area 28 when the cover member 36 is in the closed position.
• an input pocket 38 is arranged in or on the cover element 36.
• Value documents 12 in the input compartment 38 are singled in operation via a separator 40 of the device in the housing lower part 32.
• the isolated documents of value 12 are then conveyed by means of a transport device 42, which in the example includes, inter alia, at least one drive, transport or drive rollers 44 not shown in the figures, and transport belts between and / or around the transport or drive rollers 44
• Belt 46 has, along a transport path 48 of the verzier 40 on a arranged in the processing area 28 sensor device 50 a testing device 52 for testing documents of value, ie here banknotes, transported over or through them to a first opening 54 in an intermediate area housing 56.
• the test device 50 serves to test a plurality of properties of a value document or a banknote in accordance with predetermined subcriteria of a fastness criterion, and for this purpose has the sensor device 50 connected via signal connections to the control device 26, which is arranged on both sides of the transport path 48 and for detecting the egg.
• the sensor elements have corresponding sensor elements, which generate corresponding sensor signals during the detection of the properties, which are processed in a judgment device of the control device 26.
• a switchable via electrical switch signals soft switch 58 is arranged, by means of which value documents from the transport path 48 can be fed via an output conveyor 60 to a first output tray 62 in the processing area 28, depending on the turn signals via an opening or a slot in the cover member 36 is accessible.
• the processing area cover 32 and in particular its hinged over the hinge 34 on the housing base 30 cover member 36 are formed and arranged so that an operator on the entire transport path 48 from the verzier 40 has up to the first opening 54 when the cover member 36 in the Opening position is located.
• the hinge 34 can hold the cover member 36 very stably.
• a stacking wheel arrangement 66 arranged in the processing area 28 in front of an output opening 64 of the intermediate area housing 56 serves to output individualized documents of value in a second output compartment 68.
• control device 26 is further arranged, which is connected, inter alia, via signal connections to an access data acquisition device 70 in the form of a chip card reader and a data input and output device 72 in the form of a touch-sensitive display panel or touch screen in the cover element 36 ,
• a first locking device 74 which is connected via a signal connection to the control device 26 and is controllable by locking signals, which in this example also acts as a closing device for moving the cover element 36 from one between the Open and closed position lying, predetermined release position is used in the closed position.
• the locking device has an actuator 77 held on the housing lower part 30, more precisely a stepper motor, with a threaded shaft 79, more precisely a trapezoidal spindle, and a threaded element 81 held on or formed in the cover element 36 and complementary to the threaded shaft, in the example on the cover member 36 fixed nut or an internal thread in the cover member 36 (see Fig. 8).
• the layers of the actuator 77 with the threaded shaft and the complementary threaded element may also be reversed.
• the threaded shaft protrudes so far beyond the edge of the lower housing part 30 that the cover element 36 does not rest on the lower housing part 30 in the release position (see FIG. 8), ie the housing is closed, and the complementary threaded element only rests on the threaded shaft so that Cover member 36 can be moved manually in the open position.
• a suitable sensor for example a light barrier.
• the actuator 77 Upon reaching the release position and receiving corresponding locking signals, the actuator 77 rotates the threaded shaft, so that the threads of the threaded shaft 79 and the complementary threaded member 81 engage each other and the cover member 36 is pulled against the housing base 30. Upon reaching the closed position, the actuator 77 is switched off, whereby the cover member 36 is locked in the closed position. To open the actuator 77 is operated in the reverse direction until the cover member has reached the release position.
• a monitoring device or position detection device which in this example is a switching element 75 actuated only in the closed position, serves here by moving the cover element 36 operable in or out of the closed position, connected via a signal connection to the control device 26 breaker 75 has.
• the intermediate storage section 14 comprises the intermediate region housing 56 enclosing an intermediate region 76, the intermediate reservoir 16 arranged in the intermediate region 76, in the example a winding reservoir movable by an actuator 78 connected via a signal connection with the control device 26 relative to the intermediate region housing 56
• Example is rotatable, and in the figures for clarity, not shown transport elements for transporting documents of value 12 from an input and output port 80 in the buffer 16 in the processing area 28 or the vault section 18 or from the Processing area 28 in the input and output port 80 of the buffer 16.
• the intermediate-area housing 56 is formed by a portion of the safe 22, side walls 82 and a movable over a stable hinge 84, in particular pivotally mounted on one of the side walls 82 insects
• Suitesge- housing member 86 which between a closed position shown in FIG. 1 and a in FIG. 3, in which the buffer is reciprocable by an access area, in this case the area above the opening of the buffer housing lower part formed by the portion of the safe 22 and the side walls 82.
• the first opening 54 is formed in the intermediate area housing 56, through which value documents can be transported back and forth between the intermediate area 76 and the processing area 28.
• a second opening 88 and a further opening 90 are formed through which documents of value can be transported from the intermediate area 76 into the final storage area 20 enclosed by the safe 22.
• the width of the slot-shaped openings 88 and 90 is selected so that they allow the automatic transport of value documents, in the example banknotes, through them, a manual access from the final storage area 20 to the temporary storage 16 or from the intermediate area 76 to the final storage area 20 for the removal of value documents, however, not or at least not without special tools is possible. In the example, they have a width of about 7 mm.
• the dispensing opening 64 is formed, through which value documents can be transported from the intermediate store 16 to the stacker wheel arrangement 66.
• the width of the slot-shaped dispensing opening 64 is selected such that it permits the automatic transport of value documents, in the example banknotes, through them, a manual access from the processing area 28 to the temporary storage 16 for removal of value documents
• it also has a width of about 7 mm.
• the intermediate area housing member 86 closes the intermediate area housing 56 except for the openings 54 and 64 to the processing area and the openings 88 and 90 to the final storage area 20 so that accesses of persons on the intermediate portion 76 and in particular the buffer 16 at least for removal of Value documents are prevented from the outside.
• persons can access the temporary storage 16.
• a locking device 92 that can be actuated electrically via locking signals, in the example an electromagnet held on the side wall 82, cooperates with a magnetizable element on the intermediate area housing element 86.
• the locking device 92 is connected to the control device 26 via a signal connection.
• the temporary storage 16 itself is rotatably mounted in the intermediate-area housing 56 in such a way that it is simply removed from the intermediate-area housing 56. can be men, when the insects Societysgepatuseelement 86 is in the open position.
• a rear edge sensor 94 for detecting a relation to the transport direction in the latch 16 rear edge of a value document and output a corresponding trailing edge detection signal to the controller 26.
• the Hinterkantensensor 94 includes for this purpose a light barrier with a transmitter and a receiver. The transport path from the first opening 54 to the buffer store 16 lies in the detection area of the light barrier between the transmitter and the receiver. A detection circuit of the rear edge sensor 94 recognizes when the receiver is first illuminated by the transmitter after an unlighted phase, as occurs when passing a value document on the rear edge, and then outputs the trailing edge detection signal.
• the safe 22 for safe storage of the security containers 24 of a given type has a closing element 96 which can be moved back and forth between an open position and a closed position and hinged by a hinge, in the example a door, through which security containers 24 into the final storage area 20 brought or can be removed from this.
• a closing element 96 which can be moved back and forth between an open position and a closed position and hinged by a hinge, in the example a door, through which security containers 24 into the final storage area 20 brought or can be removed from this.
• the closed position in the example in the figures in a position in which the closing element 96 lies in the plane of the drawing, on the other hand, the vault 22 is closed except for the openings 88 and 90 and secured against access.
• an electric safe-locking device 98 connected to the control device 26 via a locking signal connection is used, in the example an electrically controllable actuator and by this movable locking bolt, which can be actuated via locking signals of the control device 26.
• the latter has a positioning device 100 with guides for receiving the security containers 24 in a predetermined position relative to the safe 22 and thus to the openings 88 and 90.
• the positioning 100 and the openings 88 and 90 are in coordination with the security containers 24 and arranged so that in the case that the security containers 24 are arranged in the positioning device 100, documents of value through the openings 88 and 90 are transportable in each one of the security container 24.
• the device can also be operated with only one safety container.
• the control device 26 is used to control the device and has this in addition to interfaces to the individual controlled components of the device and sensors via a memory 102, in which inter alia, a computer program is stored with instructions, and a processor 104, the execution of the instructions in the following explained functions or method steps.
• control device 26 in conjunction with the switching element or breaker 75 embodies in this embodiment in particular also a position detection device for detecting a movement of the cover element 36 in the closed position, more precisely, the reaching of the
• the control device 26 is further configured in dependence on data in the position detection device, ie here the breaker 75 in conjunction with the control device 26 to drive the actuator 78 so that a transport between the latch 16 and the processing area 28 is possible or not.
• control device 26 also comprises an access control device 106 shown schematically by a rectangle in FIG. 1, the signals or data detected by the access data acquisition device 70 and the data input and output device 72 for identifying access authorizations for the processing region 28 , the intermediate area 76 and the final storage area 20 and the vault 22, respectively.
• first and second access data are identification data for users, which are each uniquely assigned to the users, and a code associated with the first access data and the access authorization data associated with the first access data, which reproduce which of the areas of the device the user should have access to stored.
• Each user of the device has a chip card 108 to identify his person to the device.
• the chip card 108 contains, preferably in encrypted form, the first access data in the form of the identification data for the respective user.
• the first group has access only to the processing area 28, but not the intermediate area 76 or the final storage area 20
• the second group has access to both the processing area 28 and the intermediate area 76, but not the final storage area 20
• the third group has only access to the final memory area 20, not but the processing area 28 or the intermediate area 76.
• Typical operators of the first group may be, for example, cashiers who pay money collected at a cash register for transport by a value-transporting company.
• Operators of the third group may be, for example, persons of the value-transporting company who remove the security containers 82 with security documents stored therein, here banknotes, from the vault 22 and, for example, move them to a commercial bank or a so-called cash center.
• Persons of the second group may be, for example, particularly trustworthy persons who are trained in the operation of the device so that they can perform simple maintenance of the device, in particular the elimination of a transport disturbance.
• the device works in the following way.
• an operator logs on to the device, in which a check for access to the device is checked.
• the access control device 106 checks on the basis of access data as to whether predetermined access criteria have been met.
• two criteria are checked. On the one hand, it is checked whether the first access data, ie the identification data, match stored identification data. On the other hand, it is checked whether the operator agrees with second access data with the code assigned to the identification data. Only then is the operator allowed to use the device and, depending on the operator, access to different areas of the device. An operator thus initially inserts her chip card 108 into the detection device 70, which then detects the access data on the chip card 108 and corresponding access signals to the access control device 106, in the example realized by a corresponding part of the control device 26, outputs.
• the access control device 106 queries via the data input and output device 72 a code associated with the detected access data as second access data.
• the operator inputs his code via the data input and output device 72 to the access control device 106, which compares the code detected by the data input and output device 72 with the second access data corresponding to the detected first access data, ie, the code. If the data match, the operator is assigned a data record which, inter alia, contains the date and time and is supplemented in the further course of the operation by data on the operation. Further, according to the data stored in the memory 102, it is determined to which of the areas the operator has access, and corresponding data is temporarily stored.
• the control device 26 now inquires via the data input and output device 72 which of several possible operating modes the operator wishes to use. The controller then reads in corresponding operator input data through the data input and output device 72 and drives the device to operate in the selected mode of operation.
• the first operating mode described below serves to deposit value documents into the security containers 24 while simultaneously determining the value of the value documents, in the example banknotes. This mode of operation allows the controller 26 only for operators belonging to the first or second group.
• the control device 26 then checks whether the buffer 16 is located with its input and output port 80 in an input position in front of the first opening 54, so that banknotes can be transported through this opening in the buffer 16. If this is not the case it controls the actuator 78 so that the latch 16 is rotated with its input and output port 80 in the input position.
• the operator places a stack of value documents 12 in the input tray 38.
• the controller 26 queries via the data input and output device 72 from the start of the deposit. Upon detection of a corresponding signal, it controls the transport device 42 and the verifier 40 so that the banknotes 12 of the stack are conveyed individually into the transport path, where they are initially guided by the transport device 42 along the transport path 48 through the sensor device 50. This detects for each banknote in a conventional manner properties to form corresponding signals. These are evaluated in this embodiment in an evaluation device which is realized by the control device 26, in whose memory 102 corresponding instructions for the processor 104 are stored for this function.
• the control device 26 On the basis of the signals from the sensor device 50, it is determined in a known manner which denomination the checked banknote has, if it is recognized to be genuine according to at least one authenticity criterion, for example the absence of fluorescence upon irradiation with UV radiation, and if it can be run applies. If the control device 26 recognizes, during the test for authenticity and fitness for circulation, that the banknote is not genuine and / or non-circulating according to the tested criterion or is also oriented obliquely in the transport path against the intended transport direction, it controls the tongue groove 58 in such a way that the banknote is transported by the output transport device 60 into the first output bin 60.
• authenticity criterion for example the absence of fluorescence upon irradiation with UV radiation
• the rear edge sensor 94 constantly detects whether a back edge of a bill has just passed its detection area in this case and in this case outputs a corresponding signal to the control device 26, which then determines the position of the bill in the sequence in the buffer 16 stored banknotes and the value of the bill according to the denomination stores.
• the verzier 40 checks during the deposit by means of a recognition device whether another banknote is to be collected. If this is no longer the case, it outputs a signal to the control device 26.
• the controller 26 queries via the data input and output device 72 as to whether further banknotes are to be paid in. If this is the case, the feeder will continue as previously described. Otherwise moves, ie here rotates, the controller 26 after receiving the corresponding user signal from the data input and output device 72, the latch 16 in one of two output positions, which are indicated in Fig. 1 by dashed lines. In the first or second delivery position, the input and output ports are located. 80 of the buffer 16 in front of the second opening 88 and the further opening 90, so that a banknote conveyed from the buffer 16 is conveyed through the second opening or the further opening 90 into the corresponding security container 82 without the use of a switch can.
• control device 50 distributes the stored value documents to the security containers 24, or more precisely their compartments.
• the control device 26 in which the storage order of the banknotes is stored in the buffer 16, determined according to the FILO storage principle of the here used as a buffer memory 16, the next in a security container 24 to be dispensed bill in the buffer 16 and their denomination and moved by control of the actuator 78 according to the determined denomination the latch 16 in the first or second output position, in which then the respective banknote is issued in the corresponding security container 24.
• a maximum number of value documents which can be output into one of the security containers 24 is stored in the control device 50.
• the control device 50 controls the actuator 78 so that value documents are first transported through one of the openings 88 or 90 in the corresponding security container 24 and detects the number of since then inserting the then empty security container 24 in the Device in this security container transported value documents. It constantly carries out a comparison of the number of value documents transported into the security container with the maximum number. Only when it recognizes that the maximum number has been reached, it controls the actuator 78 so that the latch 16 is rotated with its input and output port 80 before the last unused opening, so that in the sequence of the other security container 24 with in the value stored in the buffer 16 can be filled. In this way, a value-transporting company only rarely needs to be called to remove the value documents, which increases the availability of the device.
• the security containers 24 are each assigned to a different organization, for example the security container 24 under the opening 88 of the organization A and the security container 24 under the opening 90 of the organization B.
• the controller 26 determines the controller 26 by reading the appropriate Organization identifying data or using a table in which is stored for each authorized user an identifier for the organization, the organization for which the user deposits value documents and controls the actuator 78 so that the cache 16 with its input and output port 80 via the security container for the corresponding organization associated opening 88 , .90 and transports the value documents from the buffer 16 in the respective organization associated security container.
• the device can thus be shared by two very different organizations without the risk of misallocation of the paid documents of value to organizations.
• Such a device is particularly suitable, for example, for use in shopping centers with a large number of small shops that can use the device together.
• the value of the banknotes transported into the security containers 24 is determined and stored assigned to the operator.
• the value can also be output via a printer not shown in the figures.
• the operator can cause the control device 26 to change to another operating mode.
• this controller 26 controls the actuator 78 so that it rotates the latch 16 with its input and output port 80 in front of the discharge port 64.
• the controller 26 then causes the latch 16 to supply all of the value documents therein through the output port 64 to the stacker wheel assembly 66, by means of which the stored value documents can be stacked in the second output tray 68. The stored value and any credit will be deleted.
• disturbances in the transport may occur, which the control device 26 recognizes in a known manner on the basis of signals of corresponding sensors, not shown in the figures, along the transport path, for example light barriers.
• the control device 26 recognizes in a known manner on the basis of signals of corresponding sensors, not shown in the figures, along the transport path, for example light barriers.
• the sensor device 50 and the switcher 58 errors.
• the sensors are located at those positions where there is the greatest risk of interference, for example behind the singler, in front of the diverter 58 and before the first opening 54.
• control device 26 If the control device 26 detects a fault, it changes into a further operating mode and outputs via the data input and output device 72 an indication of the occurrence of a fault and, in a schematic representation of the transport path, the location of the fault and a request to eliminate the fault , At the same time, the control device 26 actuates the locking device 74 so that it allows movement of the cover element 36 in the open position.
• the drive is so controlled that the cover dement 36 is unlocked by the locking device 74 so that it can be moved to the open position, the operator gets access to the processing area 28 and can eliminate the fault.
• the control device 26 stores as a position detection device a corresponding date in its memory 102. In the presence of this date, it controls the actuator 78 so that the latch 16 is rotated to a protective position in which the input and output port 80 is not is arranged in front of one of the openings in the intermediate area housing 56 and thus access from the processing area 28 through the first opening 54 or the discharge opening 64 to the temporary storage 16 is not possible.
• the control device 26 After reaching the open position, the control device 26 requests via the data input and output device 72 to close the cover element 36. At the same time, she monitors the position means, more precisely the breaker 75, then whether the cover element 36 is in the closed position. After the cover member 36 has been moved to the closed position and thus the breaker 75 has been actuated to deliver a corresponding signal, the controller 50 receives the signal and, upon evaluation of the signal, drives the first latch 74 to lock the cover member 36 in the closed position , It also deletes the date from the memory 102 and controls the actuator 78 so that it rotates the latch 16 in an input position in which a transport of banknotes th from the processing area 28 through the first opening 54 in the buffer is possible.
• controller 26 automatically continues to process the banknotes.
• a person who belongs to the third group in the operator corresponding manner register. After logging in, it can instruct the control device 26 by means of a corresponding input to the data input and output device 72, the locking device 92, so that the intermediate area housing member 86 can be moved to the open position. There is now access to the entire intermediate area 76 and the person can remove a value document causing the disturbance and / or exchange the buffer 16.
• the person can move the intermediate range housing member 86 to the closed position and, by manipulating the data input and output device 72, cause the controller 26 to lock the intermediate range housing member 86 in the closed position by means of the latch 92.
• the device can continue to operate normally after the fault has been eliminated.
• a person of the second group can log in analogously to the above-mentioned persons in the device, which checks the access authorization as above and changes another operating mode.
• the control device 26 queries via the data input and output device 72, whether the closing element 96 of the safe 22 is to be moved to its open position. Upon a corresponding input, the control device 26 controls the locking device 98 so that the previously locked by the locking device 98 closing element 96 is unlocked and can be moved into the open position. In this state, a movement of the cover member 36 or the Swiss Schemesge- housing member 86 from the respective closed position out by the corresponding locking devices is not possible. Further, the controller controls the actuator 78 so that it rotates the latch 16 in the above-mentioned securing position, so that can not be accessed from the End aside Siemens 20 through the openings 88 and 90 to the latch 16.
• the operator can perform an executed by the controller 26 via the data input and output device 72 query whether the closure member 96 is to be locked, by an input to which the controller 26, the locking device 98 controls so that the closing element 96 is locked in its closed position.
• FIG. 4 differs from the first embodiment only in that signal devices 112, in this example light-emitting diodes, are provided along the transport path at locations where sensors 110, for example light barriers, are arranged to detect transport faults. which are activated by the control device 26 in the event of a detected fault at the respective location.
• signal devices 112 in this example light-emitting diodes, are provided along the transport path at locations where sensors 110, for example light barriers, are arranged to detect transport faults. which are activated by the control device 26 in the event of a detected fault at the respective location.
• Signal devices 112 are located, inter alia, in front of and behind the singler 40, at the diverter 58, in front of the first opening 54 and the rollers 44, on the first output compartment 62, on the stacker wheel assembly 66 and on the second output compartment 68
• the control device 26 monitors corresponding signals from the sensors 110 and, if a malfunction is detected on the basis of the signals, activates the signal device 112 located at the location of the sensor detecting the malfunction. easily locate and quickly eliminate the location of the fault. In parallel, the location of the fault can also be displayed on the data input and output device 72.
• the detection means i. the chip card reader is replaced by a fingerprint sensor, a microphone or camera and the control device 26 has corresponding instructions of a computer program for the evaluation of the data, when executed by the control device 26 the detected signals of the detection device for detecting a fingerprint or be used to detect a voice or to recognize the retinal background.
• the value of the paid-in value documents or banknotes can be written to the inserted chip card and stored there instead of the chip card reader when using a chip card writing and reading device.
• a further preferred embodiment differs from the first exemplary embodiment only in that, upstream of the openings in the intermediate-area housing 56, movable closure elements 116 of the intermediate housing 56 or on the intermediate housing 56 are arranged via actuators 114, which in the closing modes in the closed operating position Close openings and release in an open position.
• actuators 114 which in the closing modes in the closed operating position Close openings and release in an open position.
• the control device 26 is modified in such a way that it does not actuate the actuator 98 for the buffer 16 for closing or opening the openings in the intermediate-area housing 56, but at least one of the actuators 114.
• Yet another preferred embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that a corresponding state data is set to detect the position of the cover element 36 in the control device 26 when an opening or closing command is executed, so that the control device 25 is already in this case Position detection device is used.
• the drive is preferably designed so that it also serves as a locking device
• the device can also be operated with only one security container, to which then the movement of the buffer 16 is controlled accordingly.
• FIGS. 6a and 6b differs from the first embodiment in that a deflecting device 118 for deflecting documents of value is rigidly connected to the intermediate store 16 and thus rotatable or pivotable with it between the first opening 54 and the discharge opening 64 and the inlet and outlet rollers of the deflector 118 are coordinated so that documents of value, in the example, the banknotes, as illustrated in Fig. 6b, transported through the first opening 54 in the deflecting device 118 of this can be deflected and output through the discharge opening 64 via the Staplerradan Aunt 66 in the second output tray 68. Further, the transport device is designed purely as a roller conveyor. Finally, the control device 26 differs from the control device of the first embodiment.
• a user By inputting respective commands through the data input and output device 72, a user can set the control device 26 in a singular mode in which the device operates as described in the first embodiment, or the counting mode.
• the control device 26 Upon selection of the counting mode, the control device 26 rotates the buffer 16 and thus the deflecting device 118 into a deflecting position by driving the drive 78, in which banknotes are transported through the first opening 54 into the deflecting device 118 and deflected by the latter into the discharge opening 64, from where they are stacked via the stacker wheel assembly 66 into the second output tray 68.
• the user now places a stack of banknotes in the input compartment 38, from where they are transported to the second output compartment 68 for checking on the passing sensor device 50 and on successful examination via the described path. During the check, the denominations of the banknotes are determined and summed up in the control device 26.
• the control device 26 After processing the last banknote of the stack, the control device 26 outputs the determined total value via the data input and output device 72.
• the controller 26 rotates the latch 16 to the storage position shown in Fig. 6a, in which banknotes may be transported through the first opening 54 into the input and output ports 80 of the buffer 16 and will do so with the first embodiment described method.
• the device is therefore to be used not only for depositing value documents or banknotes, but also for counting banknotes.
• the transport path given by the transport means may comprise a branch along which value documents without caching in the buffer 16 into the final storage means, i. the safe 22, or the security container 24 are transported therein. This is in the transport path behind the
• Reverse switch 58 arranged another controllable by the controller 26 switch, by means of which optionally a transport can be made via the additional branch.
• a further embodiment in Fig. * 7 differs from the first embodiment in that the intermediate memory area including latch and intermediate-area housing is omitted, so that documents of value can be transported into the storage area 126 after the test in response to the result of the check, which otherwise the End - Memory area 20 corresponds in the first embodiment and is unchanged over this.
• the storage area housing is now the final storage device or the safe 22.
• the first opening in the sense of the claims is now the opening 88.
• the movable cover element 128 now extends over the surface of the entire housing lower part 130, which now extends over the storage area 126 , which is now over the Memory area 126 extends but otherwise has the features of the first embodiment, but otherwise has the same features as the cover member of the first embodiment.
• a deflecting device is arranged downstream of the switch 58, which has a switch 120 connected to the control device 36 via a signal connection and controllable by the latter via switch signals and two further switches from the switch 120 to the openings 88 and 90 has from the intermediate region 76 in the safe 22 leading transport devices 122 and 124 in the form of curved sections.
• the transport path in the sense of the invention now extends from the separator 40 to the opening 80.
• a further branch of the transport path is determined, which preferably does not extend to the opening 90 and folded for an operator for Elimination of transport disturbances along the entire branch is accessible when the cover member 128 is in the open position.
• control device controls the deflecting device, more precisely the switch 120, in the example a diverter, so that its supplied value documents or banknotes through one of the other Transport devices 122 or 124 through the corresponding opening 88 and 90 in the storage area 126 and the corresponding security container 24 are promoted therein.
• the device can be designed so that the value documents are transported in the direction of their greatest extent parallel to the transport direction (longitudinal transport), but preferably the transport takes place in the transverse direction, the value documents with the direction of their largest Extension or longitudinal direction are transported transversely to the transport direction.

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