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7503446 Bill handling device  
There is provided a highly secure bill handling device that can essentially prevent bill removal. The bill handling device according to the invention includes a bill container for storing a bill...
7407047 Disk-shaped object sorter  
Disk-shaped object thickness-restricting means is provided in a disk-shaped object guiding path for transferring a disk-shaped object, inserted through a disk-shaped object slot, in an inclined...
7036649 Auto-bill-dispensing machine  
An auto-bill-dispensing machine is provided. The auto-bill-dispensing machine comprises bill receiver having a plurality of security hooks positioned axially between two positioning plates formed...
6991083 Bill validator  
The bill validator disclosed is provided with a plurality of pathway selectors at a position nearer to the inlet than the outlet, wherein the selectors select the pathways in respective different...
6932208 Avoiding bill being extracted apparatus  
The present invention describes an apparatus for preventing extraction of a bill from a money exchange machine. This apparatus uses a main roller, an auxiliary roller, two supporters, a lead board...
6929110 Coin chute with optical coin discrimination  
Systems and techniques for providing an improved coin acceptor are described. In one aspect, an electronic coin acceptor exaggerates relatively small differences in coin diameters. A coin deposited...
6920972 Coin fraud detection sensing system and method  
A coin fraud detection sensing system is provided that includes a coin chute and one or more sensing devices coupled to the coin chute. The one or more sensing devices are operative to detect a...
6877599 Paper currency receiving apparatus with fraud prevention  
A paper currency receiving apparatus includes a body with a bill-receiving opening in a front end thereof, a detecting device mounted in the body and defining a bill passage through which a bill...
6736250 Method and apparatus for fraud detection  
A system for detection of fraud upon a coin or token accepting device is disclosed. In one embodiment the system operates in a coin path, the coin path being configured to accept and direct a coin....
6668998 Hook array for a bill acceptor  
A hook array for use with a currency validator is described. The hook array includes a plurality of tree-shaped teeth that form restricted openings between them. In an implementation, the teeth may...
6615969 Mechanical coin checker  
A mechanical coin checker is proposed having a coin channel which has a running rail for the coin to run down, in or at which channel checking arrangements are provided to check the properties of...
6550600 Coin escrow and changer apparatus  
A plurality of gates with control arms and cam arms that pivot to open and close a plurality of coin stalls, so that a coin will enter the first open stall, engage the cam arm to pivot the control...
6425471 Coin selector  
Improved coin selector of the type being incorporated in any kind of machines operated by means of the insertion of coins to be validated, the selector ( 1 ) comprising an anti-thread safety...
6364087 Adaptive string detector for currency validators  
An adaptable string detector for currency validators has an infrared emitting diode on one side of the note path and an infrared phototransistor on the other. The phototransistor is connected to a...
6349810 Security unit for a paper currency receiving system for vending machine or the like  
A security unit installed in a paper currency receiving system in a vending machine at a rear side of a paper currency passage to stop recognized paper currency from being pulled backwards with an...
6193045 Coin pullout prevention lever of coin sorting device  
Around one coin pullout prevention lever, another coin pullout prevention lever with tip position thereof being different from that of the one coin pullout prevention lever is arranged.
6179110 Bank note discriminating apparatus and bank note drawing means detecting method  
6155399 Coin acceptance system including anti-fraud feature  
A system to effect coin discrimination and rejection comprises an arcuate control element pivotably disposed in a coin race with respect to a rejection body. The downstream end of the element is...
6119844 Coin validation apparatus and method  
A coin validator with an improved coin processing rate, performs primary validation testing on coins at a primary validation station as successive coins roll down a coin rundown path. Unacceptable...
6105747 Bill validator with a shutter unit  
A shutter unit 17 of a bill validator comprises a blocking member 18 movable between an interceptive position for closing the through hole 74 of the shutter unit 17 and a release position away from...
6021881 Anti-fraud string cutter  
An anti-fraud string cutter for a coin telephone instrument having a serpentine coin path. The string cutter is fabricated as a stack of notched, slit, sheet metal plates having alternately off-set...
5988345 Bill validation using light transmitted across bill pathway  
A validator portion of a bill validator is disclosed comprising two different plastic materials of different colors, fused together. The first plastic material is preferably opaque, or black, and...
5906260 Anti-fraud coin chute device  
A coin telephone instrument is provided with a string cutter positioned to intercept and cut the string of a tethered coin deposited by a fraudulent user. The deposited, tethered coin follows the...
5899312 Anti-fraud string grabbing device  
A coin telephone instrument having a serpentine coin path is provided with string grabbers positioned at cusps in the coin path to engage the string of a tethered coin deposited by a fraudulent...
5823315 Coin detector and identifier apparatus and method  
An apparatus for detecting fraud in a coin detector is disclosed. The apparatus is provided with a coin validating device. A coin sensing apparatus, located downstream of the coin validating device...
5813509 Coin gate  
A movable gate member (34) of a coin gate (24) is provided with lugs (70) which extend downwardly from the gate member (34), at least partly in the direction of travel of a coin through the gate....
5806649 Paper currency validator  
Individual sheets of paper currency or bills are conveyed in line in a path from a receiving inlet slot through a verification station and outputting verified currency through a storage slot. The...
5769200 Coin collection apparatus  
A coin collection apparatus for use with a coin validity testing device. The apparatus includes an electromagnetically actuated accept flap located downstream of the testing device which accept...
5651443 Electrical noise suppression in coin acceptor mechanism  
A coin acceptor mechanism (10) for recognizing the valid input of a coin (18) into a coin operated device wherein the mechanism (10) includes a sensor (28) which produces an electrical signal (30)...
5642801 Blade for removing tethers from bill  
A security device for a bill changer that greatly reduces the risk of the coinage within the changer from being robbed. The security device includes a support having a bill insertion slot...
5553696 Security device for bill changers  
A security device for a bill changer that greatly reduces the risk of the coinage within the changer from being robbed. The security device includes a support having a bill insertion slot...
5547061 Currency-identifying apparatus  
An apparatus for identifying a paper currency. Before the front end of the currency is detected by optical sensors, the output signal (DATA1) from the optical sensors is stored in a first storage...
5524143 Anti-stuffing coin realigner  
A mechanism prevents explosion damage to coin pay telephones by providing an almost horizontal offset in the coin path so that a wad of paper cannot be moved by the weight of subsequently inserted...
5511645 Anti-stringing device for a coin acceptor  
A coin acceptor comprises a main plate and a side plate which together define a coin path for allowing the passage of coins therebetween. A slot is positioned between the main plate and the side...
5494144 Bill handling apparatus  
After passing in a deformed shape through bending device 28 provided between validator 24 and stacker 25, a bill 23 recovers its initial flat shape due to its own elasticity and provides a face...
5485907 Paper money recognition and transmission system for vending machines  
A paper money recognition and transmission system including a housing with a paper money slot, an upper mainframe and a lower mainframe detachably connected together and mounted inside the housing,...
5485906 Coin validators  
A coin validator has a sensing arrangement disposed after an accept gate for detecting when a valid coin has moved past, and thus causing the triggering of the accumulation of credit. The sensing...
5476168 Coin validator  
A coin validator (10) has a coin path (26) which passes between one set of detect coils (40, 42). The set of coils (40, 42) is connected in a detect circuit, and the coils (40, 42) are adapted to...
5454462 Structure of paper money recognition and transmission system  
A paper money recognition and transmission system including a housing with a paper money slot, an upper mainframe and a lower mainframe detachably connected together and mounted inside the housing,...
5450937 Paper currency discriminating device  
A paper currency discriminating device which is improved to prevent the illegal extraction of paper currency more reliably. An impeller 10 associated in the rotating direction of timing belts 14...
5427219 Coin guiding device  
A coin guiding device comprises a surface disposed normally in use in the path of a coin, and inclined downwardly toward one side of the path to cause coins which have engaged the surface to tend...
5402871 Drop coin mechanism  
A drop coin mechanism for use with a coin authentication and counting apparatus prevents tampering with such apparatus and includes a faceplate defining an aperture therethrough for passage of a...
5383546 Device for the detection of a foreign body in a coin channel  
For detecting a foreign body, as, for instance, a thread (3) or a wire in a coin channel (10) or for the recognition of the edge outline of coins moving along the guide channel, a photoelectric...
5373929 Coin validators  
A coin validator is provided in the region of its entrance hopper with a flap which is caused to pivot against the action of a spring when a coin is inserted in the hopper. In the case of...
5372361 Bill handling apparatus with exchangeable pusher for stacker  
A casing of a stacker is provided with an opening and a chamber for disposing a pusher within the casing adjacent to the opening so that the pusher can be removably attached within the stacker....
5361979 Change return protection device  
A change return protection device is disclosed which prevents thieves from stuffing flexible material into the change return chutes of coin-operated machines. The device prevents stuffing of the...
5325952 Antiretrieval device for currency validators  
An antiretrieval device for a currency validator of the slot acceptor type. A set of teeth is interposed between the cash box and the note path and in operative engagement with a punch plate. The...
5316117 Bill validator with anti-stringing shut-down feature  
A bill validator for evaluating paper articles includes a bill guide for receiving the paper articles. A bill protector validates the received articles corresponding to genuine currency and rejects...
5259490 Antifraud currency acceptor  
A paper currency acceptor is provided having an antifraud device comprising a linear actuator having an armature selectively moveable between two positions along its longitudinal axis, the actuator...
5219059 Coin processing apparatus  
A coin processing apparatus arranged to automatically execute a cancellation process for canceling acceptance of an inserted coin by detecting, on the basis of output levels of receiving coils in a...
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