Centralized electronic safe and accounting control system including configurable deposit and cash dispensing authority and armored car transaction automation
First Claim
1. A cash room automation device comprising:
- at least one safe comprising;
a housing having an interior compartment for securing money, and an outer door having an electronic lock mechanism to control access to said interior compartment;
a control system which controls said electronic lock;
a control system user interface;
a cash recycler controlled by said control system and housed within said safe, said cash recycler capable of authenticating and assigning value to paper currency fed into said cash recycler through a paper currency port accessible from outside said safe and capable of accepting and dispensing a plurality of said paper currency of differing denominations in a single transaction;
a paper currency port housing protruding from said safe; and
means to integrate peripheral units with said control system.
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Abstract
A cash room automation device comprising, at least one safe comprising; a housing having an interior compartment for securing money, and an outer door having an electronic lock mechanism to control access to said interior compartment. The device has a control system which controls the electronic lock, a control system user interface, a cash recycler controlled by the control system and housed within the safe. The cash recycler is capable of authenticating and assigning value to paper currency fed into said cash recycler through a paper currency port accessible from outside said safe and capable of accepting and dispensing a plurality of said paper currency of differing denominations in a single transaction. The paper currency port housing protrudes from the safe so as to extend from a secure cash room to a cashier'"'"'s area. The control system also posseses means to integrate peripheral units with said control system. The device can also automate armored car transactions through the automatic generation of a manifest.
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25 Claims
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1. A cash room automation device comprising:
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at least one safe comprising; a housing having an interior compartment for securing money, and an outer door having an electronic lock mechanism to control access to said interior compartment; a control system which controls said electronic lock; a control system user interface; a cash recycler controlled by said control system and housed within said safe, said cash recycler capable of authenticating and assigning value to paper currency fed into said cash recycler through a paper currency port accessible from outside said safe and capable of accepting and dispensing a plurality of said paper currency of differing denominations in a single transaction; a paper currency port housing protruding from said safe; and means to integrate peripheral units with said control system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. The method of securing a cash room automation device comprising:
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arranging at least one safe comprising; a housing having an interior compartment for securing money, and an outer door having an electronic lock mechanism to control access to said interior compartment; a control system which controls said electronic lock; a control system user interface; a cash recycler controlled by said control system and housed within said safe, said cash recycler capable of authenticating and assigning value to paper currency fed into said cash recycler through a paper currency port accessible from outside said safe and capable of accepting and dispensing a plurality of said paper currency banknotes of differing denominations according to a user'"'"'s request; a paper currency port housing protruding from said safe; and means to integrate peripheral units with said control system; within a secure cash room against the wall opposite a cashier accessible area and arranging said device so that said paper currency housing, said paper currency port, and said user interface are accessible across said wall into said cashier accessible area.
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- 24. The method of creating an automated armored car manifest for a cash handling system by placing bar codes on cash handling/storage devices, paper currency/coin storage components of said devices, configuring said control system to associate said bar codes with said devices and said components, programming said control system to calculate and report the amount of money stored in the device/component associated with any system bar code scanned by the user, configuring said control system to debit the ledger for the system/device/component by the amount held in each device/component removed from the system and crediting the ledger for the system/device/component by the amount held in each device/component placed into the system.
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