AUTOMATIC MONEY DISPENSING MACHINE

• US 3,805,937 A
• Filed: 07/06/1973
• Issued: 04/23/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Akio Ueba, Hideto Shigemori, Yoshihiro Hatanaka
• Original Assignee: Akio Ueba, Hideto Shigemori, Yoshihiro Hatanaka
• Inventors: Hatanaka, Yoshihiro, Shigemori, Hideto, Ueba, Akio
• Primary Examiner(s): Reeves, Robert B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kocovsky, Thomas E.
• Application Number:
  US05/377,024
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• Field of Search: 194/4,DIG.9 221/7,9,13 133/1,2,5R
• US Class Current: 221/2
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/20 Controlling or monitoring the operation of devices; Data handling
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/24 Managing the stock of valuable papers

Abstract

An automatic money dispensing machine is disclosed which processes input information relative to the amount of money required and which utilizes a common register for either dispensing a desired amount of money with a minimum number of notes or in dispensing a desired amount of money comprising notes having identical currency values by operation of a money selection key. Furthermore, a device is disclosed which enables such an automatic money dispensing machine, to dispense a desired amount of money comprising notes having a plurality of selected currency values using only one operating instruction.

Claims

1. An automatic money dispensing machine which comprises, in combination:

money dispensing circuit means for selectively dispensing a desired amount of money in one of two alternative modes in response to a control signal, said first mode dispensing the desired amount of money according to a first dispensing manner comprising a plurality of notes of particular currency values and combinations thereof selected by an operator of the machine, said second mode dispensing the desired amount of money according to a second dispensing manner comprising a mimimum number of notes having a predetermined combination of currency values;

selector means actuated by the operator for selecting a respective one of said two dispensing manners said selector means generating indication signals representative thereof;

memory means coupled to both said selector means and said money dispensing circuit means, said memory means storing and accumulating said indication signals from said selector means and providing said control signal, to which said money dispensing circuit means is responsive, representative of the mode and amount of money to be dispensed thereby.

2. A machine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising;

means for generating a monitoring signal representative of the amount of money dispensed by said money dispensing circuit means; and

comparator means for comparing the stored and accumulated indication signals in said memory means with said monitory signal, said comparator means providing a coincidence signal to said memory means when an appropriate one of said stored and accumulated signals corresponds to a signal of said monitoring means to thereby cause said memory means to control said money dispensing circuit means.

3. A machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory means is provided with a memory section and a read-out section.

4. A machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said memory section and said read-out section comprise a single shift register having a pluraliTy of digits, which register stores an amount of money to be dispensed, said read-out section being arranged to dispense the amount of money stored in said memory section.

5. A machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said shift register includes a pulse producing means which supplies different shift pulses thereto corresponding to which one of said two dispensing manners is selected by the operator.

6. A machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said memory section is provided with memory units, so that when said first dispensing manner is selected by said selector means, each of said units store an amount of money corresponding to a plurality of notes of a particular currency value, said read-out section being provided with a read-out register which successively reads out the amount of money stored in said memory units.

7. A machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein when said machine dispenses money in said second dispensing mode, an amount of money to be dispensed is stored in one of said memory units, said memory units being provided in correspondence to the currency value of the note to be dispensed.