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5542518 Method of identifying the denominations of pieces of paper  
A method of identifying the denominations of pieces of paper, for example, bills or securities. The method defines a separating hyperplane for each of all combinations of two denominations taken...
5535871 Detector for a security thread having at least two security detection features  
A security thread for documents such as currency and banknote paper comprises a plastic substrate coated with a plurality of discrete metallic patterns of electrically-conductive material, such as...
5533605 Paper currency handling apparatus including a cash box securement and access device  
A paper currency handling apparatus including a stacker or cash box, a note acceptor for validating a paper currency banknote inserted into the acceptor, and a transport and punch plate mechanism...
5515959 Hinge for bill acceptor door on gaming device  
A bill acceptor door is pivotally mounted to a cabinet access door of a cabinet by a hinge arrangement that facilitates assembly, but which provides secure retention of the bill acceptor door. In...
5505289 Bill processors  
A bill processor temporarily collects liquid entering the processor body through the liquid inlet and guided below a bill inlet or guided along a tilted bottom surface of the processor body in a...
5503262 Apparatus for the classification of a pattern for example on a banknote or a coin  
For the classification of a pattern in particular on a banknote or a coin, a receiving system detects, by a measurement procedure, vectors of a test item, a pre-processing system transforms the...
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...
5469951 Coin counter for slot machines and a game parlor having the coin counter therein  
In a coin counter, a coin insert slot 1 where the coins used for the slot machines are inserted, a coin counting unit 3 for counting the number of coins inserted from the coin insert slot 1, a coin...
5467857 Slot machine having unitary coin restoration system  
A slot machine comprising a game execution system for executing a game, a coin dispensing/adjustment system for dispensing coins and making adjustment, and a coin handling system is disclosed. The...
5462149 Money validators  
A coin validator checks the measured properties of a tested item against stored ranges to determine whether the tested item is acceptable. Individual sets of ranges can be enabled and disabled, and...
5462150 Collecting device for currencies  
A collecting device for currencies comprises a lower housing, a supporting bracket for the housing, an upper housing, a front lid and a rear housing. A plurality of rectangular openings and...
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...
5450938 Card or cash actuated vending machine assembly  
A bank of vending machines has an associated debit card reader of vend card reader, with its associated card reader controller. The card reader controller interfaces between the money handling...
5437357 Bill identification apparatus  
A bill identification apparatus which is hardly subject to decision errors attributable to fluctuations of detected data caused by aging or partial soiling of bills. In identifying a bill, physical...
5421443 Bill processing unit  
A bill processing unit in accordance with the present invention in which a drive section has a single motor, a driving force of the single motor causes a bill inserted through a bill insert slot to...
5419423 Paper money processor  
A paper money processor using a single motor in which, when the motor is forwardly driven, a power transmission section transmits a rotational force of the motor only to a paper money transporter...
5419424 Currency paper security thread verification device  
A currency paper has a security thread embedded therein. The thread comprises a plastic substrate having a plurality of alphanumeric, metallic, electrically-conductive characters formed thereon....
5417316 Capacitive verification device for a security thread embedded within currency paper  
A verification device for a security thread embedded within currency paper includes two or more sensor channels, each channel comprising a sensor plate and a guard plate disposed adjacent to one...
5400890 Drive unit for a banknote reader  
A common drive unit which supplies torque to a conveyor and a stacking device of a sheet reading apparatus, e.g., a banknote reader, comprises at least two motors and two couplings. The conveyor...
5394969 Capacitance-based verification device for a security thread embedded within currency paper  
A verification device for a security thread embedded within currency paper includes a pair of capacitive plates having applied thereto time-varying electronic signals that are 180° out of phase....
5377805 Bill discriminating apparatus  
A first bill feeding plate 33 and a second bill feeding plate 34 cooperatively constitute a bill feeding passage 31 of a bill discrimination apparatus 1. The first bill feeding plate 33 is formed...
5368147 Testing device for bank notes  
A testing device for bank notes, or similar instruments of payment in sheet form for automatic vending machines, has a testing channel (20) with a transport device (7) and scanning devices for...
5363949 Bill recognizing apparatus  
Image data from a transported bill is read in response to a sampling clock and is stored. A clock generator generates a master clock faster than the sampling clock. The degree of skew of the bill...
5358088 Horizontal magnetoresistive head apparatus and method for detecting magnetic data  
An apparatus and method for detecting magnetic data on media is disclosed which utilizes an array or arrays of horizontal magnetoresistive sensors. The present invention detects the pitch or...
5333714 Bill discriminating apparatus  
In a bill discriminating apparatus, a bill stacking unit is adapted for detachable attachment to a bill discriminating unit at both an up-stacking position and a down-stacking position. At 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...
5318164 Vending machine apparatus and method to prevent fraud and minimize damage from injected fluids  
An apparatus and method for reducing vandalism and minimizing damage from liquids injected into apertures of a vending machine is described. An anti-salting module, having a housing with an...
5316124 Method and apparatus for a low-power, battery-powered vending and dispensing apparatus  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for a money-operated, low-powered, vending and dispensing apparatus which is solely battery-powered and which can be utilized in the vending...
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...
5310035 Paper and coin currency totalizer for an existing vending machine  
An improved paper and coin currency totalizer is installed on an existing vending machine and utilizes the existing coin receiving channels and the existing movable mechanical release mechanism and...
5310036 Method for checking the correct processing of bank notes  
The invention relates to a method for checking the correct processing of bank notes in automatic bank note sorters for sorting certain amounts of money into different categories according to given...
5301618 Guide means for conveying sheet-shaped media  
A guide is shown for connecting two separately arranged transfer units, in particular currency transfer units in banking machines, which are shiftable relative to each other. The guide comprises a...
5290033 Gaming machine and coupons  
A gaming machine and game coupons are disclosed for allowing an operator to redeem winning game coupons by inserting them directly into the gaming machine rather than by taking them to a cashier....
5286017 Bill escrow/return device  
A bill escrow/return device is provided which includes a bill escrow chamber sized and positioned to receive a bill of a predetermined width, a bill pusher plate reciprocally mounted for movement...
5261518 Combined conductivity and magnetic currency validator  
A currency validator for testing both the magnetic and electrically conductive properties of a currency note in which core legs of magnetic and conductive material form spaced first and second...
5251738 Currency handling system  
A currency handling system comprises a stand alone apparatus that includes a currency acceptor, a currency stacker with a separate, removable currency cassette and a coin feeding device. The...
5232077 Multivend newspaper rack having improved access to interior  
A multivend newspaper vending machine in which substantially the entire contents of the cabinet including its front face are mounted on a base which is movable into and out of the cabinet. This not...
5222583 Method of monitoring change dispenser operation  
The invention relates to a method of cashing up and collecting money from coin-operated machines and an arrangement of coin-operated machines for carrying out the method. The coin-operated machines...
5209335 Security arrangement for use with a lockable, removable cassette  
A method and apparatus to prevent fraud in a bill acceptor system utilizing a lockable, removable cassette is disclosed. A security arrangement including a security sensor and a microprocessor...
5201395 Bill examination device  
In a bill examination device in which a signal pattern obtained by scanning the bill with a photo-detector or a magnetic detector is compared with a reference for testing the authenticity, the...
5195739 Apparatus for preventing bills or the like from being pulled out  
An apparatus for preventing a bill from being pulled out. The apparatus includes a hang preventing mechanism which has a tongue for preventing a bill from hanging from a bill accumulating box into...
5183142 Automated cashier system  
An automated cashier system provides for microprocessor-controlled product display, order acceptance, payment and change generation. Both cash and credit card payments are accepted. The system is...
5122754 Sensor for verification of genuineness of security paper  
A method and a device for automatic verification of genuineness of a banknote or a document comprising a watermark is described. A two-part, doubly active capacitive sensor device (4, 6, 7) is...
5113990 Bill validation and change system for a slot machine  
A bill validation and change system for a slot machine. The system accepts bills of a plurality of denominations and pays out change for the bills in coins of the denomation which may be accepted...
5092445 Apparatus for selectively conveying a paper money and a magnetic card  
An apparatus provided in an automatic vending machine and the like for selectively accepting and conveying a paper money and a magnetic card. The apparatus includes first and second belts driven,...
5076413 Multiple bill escrow and storage apparatus  
A multiple bill escrow and storage apparatus provides in combination: a validator unit for validating paper money bills which has an outlet through which each accepted bill is ejected; a receiver...
5014857 Discriminating apparatus for printed matter  
An apparatus for discriminating a printed matter having a discriminating pattern printed thereon, including: a sensor for scanning the printed matter and producing an analog signal corresponding to...
5005688 Device for validating and accumulating bills and coins  
In a device for validating and accumulating bills and coins for fixed and movable chute mechanisms forming therebetween a bill passage and magnetic heads provided above the bill passage for...
4958715 Transport system for currency validator  
Transport system for a currency validator in which an infeed belt makes frictional engagement with a vertical belt and is driven by a bite generated therebetween. The bite exists at an area of...
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