WO1999048275A2 - Appareil de lecture de cheques et de documents comptables - Google Patents

Appareil de lecture de cheques et de documents comptables Download PDF

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WO1999048275A2
WO1999048275A2 PCT/IT1999/000061 IT9900061W WO9948275A2 WO 1999048275 A2 WO1999048275 A2 WO 1999048275A2 IT 9900061 W IT9900061 W IT 9900061W WO 9948275 A2 WO9948275 A2 WO 9948275A2
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Guido Genisio
Franco Ugo
Stefano Maglione
Paolo Ciampi
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Cts Electronics S.R.L.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/00567—Handling of original or reproduction media, e.g. cutting, separating, stacking
    • H04N1/0057—Conveying sheets before or after scanning
    • H04N1/00572—Conveying sheets before or after scanning with refeeding for double-sided scanning, e.g. using one scanning head for both sides of a sheet
    • H04N1/00575—Inverting the sheet prior to refeeding
    • H04N1/00578—Inverting the sheet prior to refeeding using at least part of a loop, e.g. using a return loop
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K17/00—Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
    • G06K17/0032—Apparatus for automatic testing and analysing marked record carriers, used for examinations of the multiple choice answer type
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/00567—Handling of original or reproduction media, e.g. cutting, separating, stacking
    • H04N1/0057—Conveying sheets before or after scanning
    • H04N1/00572—Conveying sheets before or after scanning with refeeding for double-sided scanning, e.g. using one scanning head for both sides of a sheet
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/00567—Handling of original or reproduction media, e.g. cutting, separating, stacking
    • H04N1/0057—Conveying sheets before or after scanning
    • H04N1/00599—Using specific components
    • H04N1/00602—Feed rollers

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for reading cheques, bookkeeping documents and the like. More particularly this invention relates to an apparatus for reading cheques or documents, comprising an entry seat, an exit seat, movement means for moving cheques or documents and an optical and/or magnetic acquisition device for acquiring information from a reference surface of the cheques or documents.
  • a suitable device scans optical and/or magnetic information on a reference surface of the cheques.
  • two scan devices are generally provided, arranged by opposite sides with respect to the path of the cheque. Because of the high cost of these devices, the apparatuses result rather expensive.
  • a document handler apparatus including an optical scanner is known from US Patent 5,430,536. This prior apparatus includes two superimposed trays for feeding and collating documents. A movement mechanism moves the documents from the input tray in front of the scanner across a U shaped return path portion and to the output tray for reading on the right face of the document.
  • the partially read document is withdrawn from the output tray and moved again along the return path portion and in front of the scan device for the other reading and finally to the output tray.
  • This known apparatus used on photocopiers, results rather bulky and unsuitable for being used on a banking desk.
  • Object of the present invention is to realise an apparatus for reading cheques, bookkeeping documents and the like that results of limited cost and dimensions.
  • the object of the present invention is achieved by the reading apparatus of the above mentioned kind, which is characterised in that a cheque or document entering in the apparatus is subject to follow an internal path including a return path portion of loop shape, and in which the acquisition device is arranged in front of a passage section of said path adjacent to an entry and an exit of said return path portion.
  • the movement means are such to feed the cheque or document from the entry seat to the passage section for the reading of information on the reference surface and again to the passage section after the return path portion to the exit seat for the reading of information on a surface of the cheque or document opposite to the reference surface.
  • the cheques or the other documents could be in stack.
  • An exemplary problem of the apparatuses handling such documents is then that of providing for the individual separation of the documents from the relative stack, avoiding jams and the contemporaneous advancement of more sheets.
  • the separation device of this invention which comprises a movement belt for the cheques or documents arranged adjacent to said stack; a slider member for delimiting said stack inclined with respect to said belt and having a portion bent in the sense of movement of the cheques or documents.
  • Means are provided for setting the stack in an engagement condition with respect to the movement belt and the belt in an engagement condition with respect to the said bent portion, and in which the slider member is coated with a friction material having, with respect to each cheque or document, an adherence coefficient well greater than the mutual adherence coefficient between two of the said cheques or documents.
  • a request associated to the reading of the cheques is besides represented by the printing of data for the invalidation of the cheque and the transfer of such data.
  • the apparatus of the present invention is characterised in that an entering cheque or document is adapted to follow a path including a loop return path portion, said apparatus comprising a printing device for printing information on the other surface of the cheque or document opposite to the said reference surface.
  • the acquisition device is arranged in front of a passage section of the said return path portion, and the movement means are such to feed the cheque or document from an entry section to the passage section for the reading on the said reference surface and again to the passage section after the return path portion, for enabling said acquisition device to acquire from the said other surface also the information printed by the said printing device.
  • Fig. 1 represents a schematic plan view of an apparatus for reading cheques according to the invention, in a first configuration
  • Figs. 2a and 2b are schematics of a cheque
  • Fig. 3 shows a scheme of operation of the apparatus of figure 1
  • Fig. 4 represents a schematic plan view of details of the apparatus of the invention
  • Fig. 5 shows a frontal partial view with sections of the apparatus of figure 1;
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the apparatus of the invention
  • Fig. 7 represents an electrical block diagram of the apparatus according to the invention
  • Fig. 8 is a schematic plan view of the apparatus of the invention, in a second configuration
  • Fig. 9 shows a detail of the apparatus of figure 8;
  • Fig. 9a shows a variant of the detail of figure 9;
  • Fig. 9b is an enlarged view of the detail of figure 9a;
  • FIG. 10 represents details of the apparatus of figure 8, in an enlarged scale;
  • Fig. 11 shows a schematic mode of operation of a detail of figure 10;
  • Fig. 12 shows a further detail of the apparatus of figure 8, in an enlarged scale
  • the reference numeral 21 generally indicates an apparatus for reading cheques, bookkeeping documents and similar documents according to the invention.
  • the apparatus 21 comprises an entry seat 23, an exit seat 24, a feeding mechanism 25, an acquisition device (scanner) 26 and movement means 27.
  • the scanner 26 is of optical type and is provided to acquire relative information from a reference surface 28 (Fig. 2a) of a cheque or document 22.
  • the apparatus 21 comprises an electronic control unit 29 (Fig. 7) for controlling the feeding mechanism 25, the movement means 27, and sensors 31, 32 and 33. These sensors are designated for sensing the presence of the cheques 22 (Fig. 1) in the seat 23, in front of the scanner 26 and along the path of the cheques, respectively.
  • the apparatus 21 can provide a printing device 34 (Fig.
  • the apparatus 21 can include a stamping device 37 and a card reader 38 for the reading of cards with magnetic strips (badge).
  • the cheques 22 (Figs. 2a and 2b) have a width W, and a length L of standard (72 X 180 mm) or user definable amounts.
  • the reference surface 28 constitutes the conventional front face of the cheque or document and includes, in the case of a cheque, fields 39, 40 and 41 with information relative to the amount, the date of issue and the number of account and a field 42 with information of magnetic type as bar code or magnetic characters.
  • the cheque or document has a surface 43 opposite to the surface 28, which constitutes the conventional rear face thereof and includes information relative to the effected transaction.
  • the apparatus 21 can read the front face and the rear face of bills, traveller cheques, bookkeeping notes, checks and similar documents having dimensions well greater than those of the cheques 22.
  • a cheque or other document 22 is adapted to follow a path 44 inside the apparatus 21 (Fig. 3), including a return path portion 46 configured as a loop and having a passage section 47 adjacent to the entry and the exit of the path portion 46.
  • the scanner 26 is arranged on the passage section 47 and has a reading plane 45.
  • the feeding mechanism 25 (Fig. 1) and the movement means 27 are such to move a cheque 22 from the entry seat 23 to the passage section 47 for enabling the scanner 26 and the electronic unit, to acquire information from the front face 28 of the cheque or document 22.
  • the means 27 are designated to move again the cheque
  • the entry seat 23 and the exit seat 24 are delimited by surfaces 48 and 49 concurrent toward the passage section 47. Further, the seats 23 and 24 and the path portion 46 (Fig.3) are arranged in a way substantially symmetric with respect to the reading plane 45 of the scanner.
  • the feeding mechanism 25 (Fig. 1) comprises a feeding motor roller
  • the scanner 26 is of optical type and it is formed by a line of CCD sensors that stretch well beyond the width W of a standard cheque, (for example 105 mm) in such a way to read documents of substantially higher dimensions.
  • This scanner comprises a small glass 56 on the reading plane that constitutes a shoulder for the cheque or document 22.
  • the scanner 26 reads as scanning on the surface 28 or 43 of a cheque or of another document that moves 56 on the small glass for electronically acquiring the image, in a manner known per se.
  • the movement means 27 impose to the cheque 22 a movement at constant velocity along the path 44 and comprise an input/output mechanism 57, an intermediary scanning roller 58 and a return mechanism 59, motorised by respective motors 61 and 62 (Fig. 4).
  • the mechanism 57 is designated for unidirectionally moving a cheque 22 (Fig. 1 ) from the entry seat 23 to the scanner 26 and from the scanner to the exit seat 24.
  • the scan roller 58 (Fig. 5) is covered by a silicon-expanded rubber 56 and extends for all the height of the small glass 56. It is susceptible of bi-directional rotation for moving the cheque or document in front of the scanner 26 toward the return path portion 46 (Fig. 1 ) and toward the exit seat 24, respectively.
  • the return mechanism 59 is designated for unidirectionally moving the cheque 22 along the return path portion 46.
  • a collating deflector 64 pushed by a spring is provided in the exit seat 24. This deflector is designated for guiding and collating in stack the cheques 22 thyat hve already been read.
  • the apparatus 21 includes a casing 65 (Fig. 6) of substantially parallelepiped shape with a central buckle.
  • the casing 65 can rest on a plane of work and has an upper part 66 with two openings 67 and 68, each limited by two vertical surfaces.
  • the entry seat 23 and the exit seat 24 result defined by the surface
  • the openings 67 and 68 are adapted to receive the cheques 22 to be read and already read, in a position substantially vertical, supported on the side L of greater length.
  • the upper part 66 of the casing 65 is further opened for the access to the path portion 46 and the other parts of the path 44 and for allowing the free movement of the cheques or documents, and the central buckle lodges the scanner 26 and the scan roller 58.
  • the casing 65 comprises a slit 69, in correspondence of a front portion thereof, for the movement of a badge and the access to the badge reader 38.
  • the reading apparatus 21 (Fig. 1) includes a frame 70 having a base member 71 and movement shafts perpendicular to the base and keying motive or idle rollers and pulleys to define a movement of the cheques 22 along surfaces perpendicular to the base member 71.
  • the input/output mechanism 57 comprises, in the zone of convergence between the surfaces 48 and 49, an input/output motor roller 74, a diverter 75, a front pressure roller 76 and a back pressure roller 77, disposed by opposite sides with respect to the reading plane 45 in proximity of the surfaces 48 and 49, respectively.
  • a first spring urges the front pressure roller 76 against a front sector of the input/output roller 74 by means of a lever 78 and a second spring (not shown) urges the front pressure roller 77 against a back sector of the roller 74 by a similar lever 79.
  • the motor roller 74 is rotatably connected with the feeding roller 50.
  • the diverter 75 is fixed and has a shape concurrent from the roller 74 toward the small glass 56 and such that a cheque coming from the seat 23 is moved toward the small glass 56, while a cheque coming from the small glass is moved toward the couple of rollers 74 and 77.
  • the pressure roller 52 When the solenoid 53 is activated and the roller 50 is in motion, the pressure roller 52 is designated to press a cheque inserted in the seat 23 against the roller motor 50 for moving the cheque 22, nipping it between the front sector of roller motor 74 and the pressure roller 76.
  • the return path portion 46 has a section substantially pentagonal, constituted by two symmetrical sides 81 and 82 (Fig. 3) concurrent toward the passage section 47, and three sides 83, 84 and 86, perpendicular each the other.
  • a couple of shaped laminae 87 and 88 (Fig. 1) define and limit the path portion 46 and include entry and exit openings in front of the passage section 47. Additionally, the passage section 47 is delimited by two groups of ribs 89 and 91.
  • the return mechanism 59 comprises a roller motor 92, four deviating rollers 93, 94, 96 and 97. Further there are also provided a contrast roller 95, a movement belt 98, a pressure roller 99, a further contrast roller 100 for the roller 99 and four counter-rollers 101, 102, 103 and 104.
  • the motor roller 92 is arranged in the cross zone of the sides 81 and 82 (Fig. 3) and the deviating rollers 93, 94, 96 and 97 are arranged in correspondence of the cross of the sides 81-83; 83-84; 84-86; and 86-082, respectively, internally to the path portion 46.
  • the movement belt 98 (Fig. 1) engages the rollers 92, 93-97, the couple of rollers 99 and 100, and the roller 95 and is held adherent to them by the counter-rollers 101-104, disposed by opposite sides with respect to the belt, in a way known per se.
  • the various rollers and counter-rollers and the belt 98 are arranged near to the base 71 of the frame 70 (see also Fig. 5) and have a limited height with respect to the width W of the cheque. Therefore, a cheque or document 22 moving along the path portion 46 will be nipped between the belt 98 and the counter-rollers 99-104 with its lower edge, while its upper edge will project out from the casing 65 (Fig. 6).
  • the apparatus 12 comprises a magnetic head 105, also driven by the electronic control unit 29 for reading the magnetic information on the field 48 of the cheque 22.
  • This head is arranged along the concurrent side 81 of the return path portion 46, lodged between the rollers 93 and 95.
  • a diverter 106 (Fig. 106) is provided on the passage section 47.
  • the diverter 106 has an input adjacent to the small glass 56 of the scanner 26 and is coaxially fulcrumed with the roller 92.
  • the diverter 106 is biased by a high compliance spring, not shown in the drawing, such that its input edge is supported against the group of ribs
  • a cheque in movement along the side 82 of the path portion 46 moves the diverter 106 against the action of the relative spring. Thereafter it is guided by the diverter and the ribs 91 (Fig. 1), leaves the path portion 46 and returns on the small glass 56 of the scanner 26.
  • the scanning roller 58 is designated to engage a cheque 22 against the small glass 56 of the scanner 26 in the sense of motion directed from the couple of rollers 74 and 76 toward the diverter 106.
  • the roller 58 will engage the cheque from the diverter 106 to the couple of rollers 74 and 77.
  • the motor 62 (Fig. 4) motorises the input/output roller motor 74 of the mechanism 57 and the roller 92 of the return mechanism 59 through a transmission belt 107 and pulleys 108, 109 and 110. Additionally, it motorises the roller 50 by means of the roller 74, through a cross belt 111 and pulleys 112 and 113.
  • the sensors 31, 32 and 33 (Fig. 1) comprise each one a couple of photoelectric elements, respectively for illumination and revealing, by opposite sides with respect to the path of the cheque.
  • the couple of elements of the sensor 31 are arranged between the vertical surfaces of the entry seat 23.
  • the couple of elements of the sensor 32 is arranged in the portion of path included between the roller motor 74 and the roller 58 and the couple of elements of the sensor 33 is arranged in the return path portion 46 included between the deviation roller 97 and the motor roller 92.
  • the optional printing device 34 (Figs. 8, 9 and 2b) comprises a dot head 116, preferably of the ink jet type, arranged along the return path portion 46, in front of a section included between the rollers 94 and 96.
  • the printing head 116 includes one or more rows of nozzles 117 for the ink jet disposed transversely to the sense of motion of the cheque and can print a line of characters 118, on the rear face 43 of the cheque 22 opposite to the surface of reference 28 and along the side of larger dimension L.
  • the position of the line 118 is definable by the user, changing the height of the head 116 with respect to the base 71, and the line 118 is then legible by the scanner 26, when the cheque is located again in front of the small glass 56.
  • the printing head 116 is associated with a ribbon 119 with function of closing and cleaning for the nozzles 117.
  • a window 121 is provided on the ribbon 119 and carries a cleaning blade or brush 122.
  • the ribbon is taut by a spring 123 and it has an extremity connected to the mobile component of an electromagnet 124.
  • the ribbon 119 closes the seat of the head 116 in which the nozzles 117 are arranged for protecting the nozzles and avoiding obstructions.
  • the ribbon 119 slides on the head and cleans the nozzles 117 with the blade 122, and aligns the window 121 in front of the nozzles.
  • a small sponge 126 disposed behind the path of the cheque, is provided to absorb the ink issued by the nozzles 117, when the printing head is void actuated.
  • the separating device 36 (Figs. 8, 10 and 11) is designated to individually separate the cheques 22 from a stack 131 lodged in the entry seat 23.
  • This device comprises a movement belt 132 for the cheques 22 adjacent to the stack 131 and a slider member 133 including a bent portion
  • the belt 132 is arranged substantially according to a right-angled triangle between a motor roller 136, the pressure roller 76 and a deviation roller 137 and in which the hypotenuse is defined by the rollers 136 and 76 and is substantially parallel to the surface 48 of the seat 23.
  • the movement belt 132 is pressed against the bent portion 134 of the slider member 133.
  • the slider member 133 comprises a lamina inclined with respect to the belt 132 in the sense of the movement of the cheques and the bent portion 134 is substantially tangent to the belt 132.
  • the slider member is covered by a friction material 138 having, with respect to each cheque 22, an adherence coefficient well greater than the mutual adherence coefficient between the cheques.
  • the adherence between the last cheque but one and the friction material 138 along the bent portion 134 is better than that existing between the last cheque but one and the last cheque. Therefore, only the last cheque will overcome the bent portion 134 of the slider member for being engaged by the motor roller 74. Also in the case in which the adherence between the last cheque but one and the last cheque results high, the attempt of dragging the two cheques together will deform the belt 132 in a grater measure. The increasing in pressure between the belt and the bent portion 134 will cause a better adherence between the same belt and the last cheque and between the last cheque but one and the material 138, and a better differential adherence between the two cheques. Therefore, also in this case, only the last cheque will overcome the bent portion 134.
  • the friction material 138 of the slider member 133 could be an elastomeric, constituted for example by a polyurethanic semi-expanded rubber.
  • the slider member 134 has an inclination included between 15 and 75 degrees with respect to the belt 132 and, preferably, of 15 .
  • the bent part has a radius of 2-20 mm and, preferably, of 15 mm and extends for about 90° .
  • the motor roller 136 is rotated by a motor 139, also controlled by the electronic control unit 39, that imposes to the belt 132 a velocity a few higher than that of the movement means 27, in a way known per se.
  • the stamping mechanism 37 (Figs. 8 and 12) comprises a shoulder plane 141 adjacent to the surface 48 of the seat 23 and a stamp member 142 mounted on a lever 143, connected to an actuating mechanism including a cinematic 144 connected to a motor 146.
  • Such mechanism imposes the lever 143 a law of motion of variable velocity (sinusoidal), with a minimum in correspondence of the engagement of the stamp 142 with the plane 141, for a maximum efficiency of the stamping and a minimum noise.
  • the cinematic 144 comprises an eccentric plate 147 connected in the rotation with the motor 146 and a spring 148 connected between a pin 149 of the plate 147 and the lever 143. Additionally, it is provided a zero sensor 150 for identifying the position of rest of the lever 143.
  • the badge reader 38 comprises two guides 135 aligned with the slit 69 of the casing for slidably guiding a badge 140 and a head 145 arranged along the guides 135.
  • the reader 38 is of known type and is not described in detail here.
  • the apparatus 21 results of very contained dimensions, substantially equal or less than those including devices of reading for a single face of cheques and documents.
  • the electronic control unit 29 (Fig. 7) comprises a power supply 151, a central unity 152, control circuits (driver) 153, 154, 156 and 157, respectively, for the scanner 26, the magnetic head 105, the printing device
  • the central unity 152 is connected, through input/output circuits 159, 160 and 161, with the sensors 31, 32 and 33, the motors 61, 62, 139 and 146 and the electromagnets 53 and 124 and, through a circuit 162, with a keyboard 163 (see Fig. 6).
  • the way of operation of the apparatus 21 is the following:
  • the sensor 31 changes its state. It is revealed by the central unity 152 by causing the activation of the electromagnet 53 and the motors 61 and 62.
  • the cheque 22 is nipped between the motor roller 50 and the pressure roller 52 and moves forwards. Thereafter, it is taken between the front sector of the input/output roller 74 and the pressure roller 76, guided by the diverter 75 and revealed by the sensor 32 that changes state.
  • the new state of the sensor 32 does activate the scanner 26, which begins the scanning of the front face 28 and dispatches the read information to the host computer through the interface circuit 158.
  • the cheque 22 results engaged by the intermediary scan roller 58 and proceeds forwards in the right sense toward the path portion 46.
  • the unity 152 deactivates the electromagnet 53 whereby disengaging the roller 52 from the pressure roller 50.
  • the input edge of the cheque 22 is deflected by the diverter 106 and enters the concurrent side 81 of the return path portion 46.
  • the unity 152 enables the head 105 for the reading of the magnetic information of the field 42, to be dispatched to the host computer.
  • the cheque is now moved by the belt 98 and the couple of rollers 99-100 against the counter-rollers 101-103, when they are engaged by the respective input edge.
  • the unity 152 deactivates the scanner 26.
  • the relative change of state is revealed by the unity 152 which, after a brief delay, inverts the sense of movement of the motor 62 and activates again the scanner 26.
  • the cheque 22 moves the diverter 106 and gets ready on the small glass 56, in engagement with the intermediary roller 58.
  • the cheque 22 presents now to the scanner 26 its rear face 43 and the scanner reads the relative surface in the natural sense, from the input edge to its trailing edge and the unity 152 can dispatch the relative information of the face 43 to the host computer through the interface 158.
  • the cheque 22 is engaged by the back sector of the roller 74 and the pressure roller 77 for being moved toward the exit seat 24.
  • it is progressively moved by the collating deflector 64 against the back surface of the opening 68 (see Fig. 6), after losing the engagement with the roller 74, stacked against the other cheques, if present.
  • the electronic unity 152 enables the entering and the reading of another cheque.
  • the apparatus includes the printing device 34 (Figs. 8 and 9)
  • the entering and the reading of the cheque 22 are achieved in the above described way, up to the appointment with the counter-roller 102 on the path portion 84.
  • the central unity 152 can activate the printing head for the printing, on the rear face of the cheque, of the data received by the host computer or stored in its memory.
  • the electronic unity 152 checks the correctness of the data printed by the device 34 and, in the affirmative, validates the transaction. If the apparatus provides the separation mechanism 34 (Figs. 8, 10 and 11 ), the introduction of the stack 131 in the seat 23, further to actuating the electromagnet 53 and starting the motors 61 and 62, causes the starting of the motor 139 for the separation of an individual cheque. The following reading and collating of the cheques or documents is achieved as in the previously described way.
  • the following reading and collating of the cheque or document is achieved as above.
  • the passage of the cheque in front of the sensor 33, will cause the stamping of a following cheque, if any, preliminarily to its movement by the rollers 74 and 76.
  • the apparatus 12 provides the badge reader 38
  • its mode of operation on a badge inserted in the slit 69 occurs in a known way, under the control of the electronic control unit 29.
  • the printing device 34 may employ printing heads of different types or technologies as thermal printing heads, needle printing heads etc.
  • a variant of the printing device 34 is represented in the figures 9a and 9b.
  • the ribbon 119 is moved by a motor 166 controlled by the electronic control unit 29 and moves a carriage 167 on which a closing cap 168 and the cleaning blade or brush 122 for the head 116 are mounted.
  • the carriage 167 is provided of link guides 169 and 171 for draw near and take off with respect to the nozzles 117 in response to the movement of the ribbon 119.
  • the carriage 167 assures in optimal way the functions of closing and cleaning of the nozzles 117 in the rest conditions and cleaning of the device 34 and the free passage of the cheque or document 22 in its operational conditions.

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L'invention se rapporte à un appareil (21) pour la lecture de chèques ou de documents (22), qui comporte un dispositif d'acquisition magnétique et/ou optique conçu pour l'acquisition d'informations présentes sur une surface de référence (28) de chèques ou de documents (22). Un chèque ou un document (22) entrant dans ledit appareil est amené à suivre un chemin interne (44) comportant une partie de retournement (46) en forme de boucle. Le dispositif d'acquisition (26) est disposé face à une section de passage (47) du chemin adjacent à une entrée et une sortie de la partie de retournement (46). Un mécanisme de déplacement (27) fait avancer le chèque ou le document (22) à partir d'une position d'entrée (23) vers la section de passage (47) en vue de l'acquisition des informations situées sur la surface de référence (28) puis à nouveau vers la section de passage après la section de retournement jusqu'à une position de sortie (24) en vue de l'acquisition d'informations situées sur une surface (43) du chèque ou du document, opposée à la surface de référence (28).
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