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7610215 |
Mode switching to provide security for cash handling device
Methods and devices provide mode switching in order to secure cash handling devices. A cash handling device allows a first selection to be input in order to request an exchange transaction....
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7591361 |
Horizontal coin dispenser
A coin dispensing system comprises a drawer including a bottom wall connected to opposite sidewalls, and a plurality of spaced dividers between the opposite sidewalls defining a plurality of...
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7523073 |
Charging method and charging apparatus
A method of charging for use of a facsimile apparatus, using an information processing unit provided therein, is disclosed that includes the steps of (a) the information processing unit obtaining...
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7520375 |
Bill handling machine
The banknote handling device of the invention notifies both a customer and a clerk at a financial institution of the occurrence of a counterfeit problem in the course of a transaction. When...
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7464802 |
Method and apparatus for conditioning coins prior to discrimination
A coin conditioner is provided for cleaning or otherwise conditioning coins in a coin discriminator apparatus prior to transfer to a coin sensor. Coins enter through a feed tray and move down the...
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7463167 |
Electronic parking control device, system and method for this
An electronic parking control device for displaying a parking time of vehicles should be easy to operate. This is achieved by a mobile electronic display device ( 10 ) which can be positioned in...
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7393134 |
Parking meter
A parking meter includes a microcontroller and a timer coupled with a microcontroller. A mechanism for accepting payment by coin, credit card or both is coupled with the microcontroller for...
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7113929 |
System for voucher or token verification
The present invention allows verification of a voucher or token prior to redemption. The voucher or token has a code associated therewith so that a value of the voucher or token may be stored in a...
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7036651 |
Method and apparatus for processing currency bills and coins
A method and system for processing currency bills and coins in a cash receptacle for automatically determining a batch of currency. An operator provides an amount of cash, including currency bills...
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7014554 |
Adaptable coin mechanism
A coin mechanism has one or more coin tubes for storing, respectively, coins of one or more denominations, a dispenser for controlling the dispensing of coins from the coin tubes, and a coin...
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6994202 |
Money acceptance method and apparatus
A vending machine provides a warning indication that insufficient change may be available if the total amount of available change is less than the value of the highest-denomination monetary unit...
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6913131 |
Cash handling machine
A cash handling machine, such as a vending machine, includes various components, such as cash store, that are located within the housing. The machine is operable in a normal mode, in which a credit...
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6896118 |
Coin redemption system
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a coin redemption system, in which a user deposits a batch of mixed coins of a plurality of denominations, comprises a coin input area for...
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6839775 |
Method and apparatus for vending machine controller configured to monitor and analyze power profiles for plurality of motor coils to determine condition of vending machine
An apparatus for selecting, monitoring, and controlling electrically powered devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an electrically powered device having a key operating...
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6772870 |
Token counting and sorting apparatus
A token count/sort apparatus includes a rotary disc ( 10 ) for supporting tokens ( 11 ) and is manually rotatable, an arcuate transfer track ( 23 ) extending along the periphery of the disc and...
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6763924 |
Apparatus and method for changing currency
Automated currency changing machine ( 10 ) accepts twenty dollar bills and dispenses a combination of dollar and non-cash items in exchange. Bill intake module ( 20 ) receives a bill and checks its...
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6747575 |
Parking meter smart housing with electronic memory
The invention is directed to an electronic parking meter and a method of configuring an electronic parking meter. In addition to a meter housing and an electronic metering mechanism within the...
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6679368 |
Money handling method and device
A money handling method and device capable of automatically stopping the acceptance of old moneys depending on a circulating amount of old and new moneys. In a state that new and old moneys are...
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6659259 |
Multiple denomination currency receiving and prepaid card dispensing method and apparatus
A method and system and computer readable medium for processing currency including cash, coins, passive cards, prepaid cards, debit cards, check cards, and smart cards and for providing tokens...
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6615970 |
Currency handing apparatus
Cash handling apparatus comprising a power input and a money transport system for moving items of money in a normal operating mode, with a power control system for detecting a probable reduced...
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6601686 |
Vending machine
A vending machine capable of preventing fraudulent use of false coins of a plurality of kinds. The number of slotted coins acceptable in one vending operation is preset in setting unit ( 112 ). The...
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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...
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6536577 |
Coin handling method and device
A coin handling method and a device which can prevent functions from being degraded by adoption of an escrow mechanism in order to temporarily hold a plurality of inserted coins to provide...
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6467602 |
Electromechanical parking meter door communications interface
An electronic security system for a parking meter includes a vault door having a spring-biased contact terminal for making breakable electrical contact with a housing hinge bracket contact terminal...
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6422373 |
Money handling interface and method
A method of operating a money validator connected to a money-actuated machine through an interface carrying a plurality of price lines, comprising the steps of sensing said price lines and...
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6390269 |
Money handling mechanism with peripheral port
A money handling mechanism 110 has a first port P 1 for connection to a machine controller 130 and a second port P 2 to which further money handling mechanisms can be connected. Different...
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6374979 |
Karaoke system money counting machine and karaoke apparatus
In an informing mode, a coin box outputs informing pulses, the number of which corresponds to the number of remaining credits, in response to pulses supplied from a service providing apparatus...
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6371845 |
Coin processing method and apparatus
The number of coins stored in a coin tube is retained in RAM 13 which is backed up by a battery, the states of empty switch 22 and full coin switch 23 and the type of cassette tube to be...
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6370242 |
Payphone electronic coin validator
An electronic coin validator for connection to a payphone chassis is described. The validator includes a coin passageway having at least one coin sensor, power circuitry for connection to payphone...
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6336544 |
Coin collection system
A mobile inventorying and collection apparatus includes a mobile cart for immediate inventorying of moneys collected in a coin collection box at an area adjacent to a host machine such as a gaming...
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6328149 |
Mobile coin collection system
A mobile cart for inventorying monies collected from a coin operated machine. The mobile cart includes a receptacle for receiving and storing inventoried moneys, a data reception device, and a...
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6318536 |
Multi-transaction coin machine
A multi-transaction coin machine is provided which accepts a number of coins, counts the coins and displays the value to a user. The user is presented a variety of options in exchange for the...
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6312152 |
Electronic module for conventional parking meter
An electronic module for enhancing an operation of a conventional parking meter. The electronic module comprises a shell defining a hollow conformation and being attachable to a conventional...
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6298972 |
Method and apparatus for establishing and managing vending machine subscriptions
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for registering a subscription to purchase a plurality of items dispensed by a vending machine. According to a second aspect of the present...
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6296101 |
Token management system for amusement arcade
A token management system for a amusement arcade is capable of always managing tokens even during the business hours of the amusement arcade and temporarily keeping tokens deposited by players. The...
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6275169 |
Parking meter
A parking meter includes an input device for payment and at least one indicating device for indicating a paid parking time. The indicating device has at least one visual indicator for a...
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6250452 |
Vending data collection system
A monitoring system monitors a plurality of remote product dispensers. Vends are detected indicating that products have been dispensed from the dispenser during a given time period. Vend data...
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6230868 |
System for metering multiple parking spaces
A parking meter system consisting of a cylindrical housing having an upper section for a driver assistance display, control buttons, payment means and a time display. The housing is located...
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6148987 |
Coin identification apparatus
A coin identification apparatus includes a pair of series connected coils driven by an oscillator. Frequency and/or amplitude characteristics of the oscillator output generated by the passage of a...
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6125988 |
System and method for providing farebox accountability
A system and method are shown for providing accounting for the collection of monies in a plurality of independently operated transaction stations. Each transaction station is provided with a...
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6116403 |
Integrated hanging device for parking meter
A clip or protrusion which is built into the mechanism of a parking meter allows the mechanism to be attached outside the meter housing in an upright position so that it can be evaluated and simple...
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6076649 |
Programmable multiple coin tube changer
A programmable multiple coin tube changer for accepting and storing coins of different denomination comprises a plurality of coin tubes with each coin tube for storing one coin denomination and...
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6067530 |
Cash management system
A cash management system that tracks bills received at at least one business establishment by cashier, by amount and by time while securing those bills immediately within a drop safe upon receipt...
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6053299 |
Apparatus and method for processing coins in a host machine
Apparatus and method for processing coins in a host machine including a coin validator, a switch and a processor. Coin validation and coin credit to a host machine are effectuated by generating an...
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6047807 |
Restricted access coin counter
A coin sorting and counting machine and a method for operating it to automatically dispense cash vouchers based on the value of the counted coins, manufacturers' coupons and store coupons. Coins...
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6045443 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the dispensing of money
A method of determining a combination of coins to be dispensed as change comprises determining a plurality of different possible combinations and selecting the most favorable one. For combinations...
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6039165 |
Methods for coin sorting, coin change mechanism, and public telephone operable therewith
A public telephone that has the ability to return change to a user is described. A coin changer that is advantageously sized to fit within the space available in a public telephone built to...
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6039164 |
Automatic validating farebox system and method
A system and method for providing automatic validation of fares collected is disclosed. An automatic validating farebox, being adapted for mobile use, such as in the cabin of a bus, and to provide...
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6021883 |
Funds processing system
A funds discrimination and sorting system comprises an acceptor for accepting mixed currency from a customer. A sorter and discriminator sorts and discriminates the funds by denomination, the...
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6000522 |
Multi-compartment and acceptors computerized vending machine
Present invention is a coin operable computer, having compiler memory compiled in both soft and hardware programs, with all supporting elements, an interfaced handshaking memory storage unit and...
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