Money receiving and dispensing system

• US 4,365,700 A
• Filed: 08/08/1980
• Issued: 12/28/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co. (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co. (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Masahiro, Arimoto, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Scherbel, David A.
• Application Number:
  US06/176,690
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 194/1 R, 194/2, 194/DIG. 26, 133/1 R, 133/2, 133/3 R, 133/4 R, 133/8 R, 235/379-382
• US Class Current: 194/206
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/13 with internal means for handling valuable papers
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/40 Device architecture, e.g. modular construction

Abstract

A money receiving and dispensing system is disclosed having a plurality of money cases for storing monies of several denominations, respectively, a stock money cartridge removably mounted in the system for collectively storing monies available in the system, a plurality of entering devices each for entering monies into the corresponding one of the money cases and stock money cartridge, a plurality of feeders for respectively feeding the monies stored in the money cases and stock money cartridge, a money receiver for receiving the money deposited into the system to store the received money in one of the money cases and stock money cartridge, and a money dispenser for dispensing the money fed by one of the feeding means.

Claims

1. A money receiving and dispensing system, comprising:

a plurality of money cases for storing monies of several denominations, respectively;

a stock money cartridge removably mounted in the system for collectively storing monies available in the system;

a plurality of entering means each for entering monies into the corresponding one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a plurality of feeding means for respectively feeding the monies stored in said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money receiving means for receiving the money deposited into the system to store the received money in one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money dispensing means for dispensing the money fed by one of said feeding means;

detecting and generating means for generating a money supply signal when the quantity of monies in any of said money cases has decreased to a certain level; and

means, in response to the generation of said money supply signal, for feeding the monies stored in said stock money cartridge, distributing the corresponding ones of the fed monies into the particular money case and returning into said stock money cartridge any monies of denominations other than the denomination corresponding to said particular money case.

2. A money receiving and dispensing system, comprising:

a plurality of money cases for storing monies of several denominations, respectively;

a stock money cartridge removably mounted in the system for collectively storing monies available in the system;

a plurality of entering means each for entering monies into the corresponding one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a plurality of feeding means for respectively feeding the monies stored in said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money receiving means for receiving the money deposited into the system to store the received money in one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money dispensing means for dispensing the money fed by one of said feeding means;

detecting and generating means for generating a money maximum signal when the quantity of monies in any of said money cases has increased to a predetermined level; and

means, in response to the generation of said money maximum signal, for preventing any more corresponding money from entering into said particular money case and distributing said prevented corresponding money into said stock money cartridge.

3. A money receiving and dispensing system, comprising:

a plurality of money cases for storing monies of several denominations, respectively;

a stock money cartridge removably mounted in the system for collectively storing monies available in the system;

a plurality of entering means each for entering monies into the corresponding one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a plurality of feeding means for respectively feeding the monies stored in said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money receiving means for receiving the money deposited into the system to store the received money in one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money dispensing means for dispensing the money fed by one of said feeding means; and

means for detecting any abnormal feeding of monies from said money cases and means, on detection of said abnormal feeding, for returning the monies involved into the original corresponding money case.

4. A money receiving and dispensing system comprising:

a plurality of money cases for storing monies of several denominations, respectively;

a stock money cartridge removably mounted in the system for collectively storing monies available in the system,

said stock money cartridge consisting of a pair of cases,

one of said cases being removably mounted in the system from the front thereof,

the other case being removably mounted in the system from the back thereof, and

one of said pair of cases being optionally used as a money case for storing monies of a given denomination;

a plurality of entering means each for entering monies into the corresponding one of said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a plurality of feeding means for respectively feeding the monies stored in said money cases and stock money cartridge;

a money receiving means for receiving the money deposited into the system to store the received money in one of said money cases and said stock money cartridge; and

a money dispensing means for dispensing the money fed by one of said feeding means.

5. A money dispensing and receiving system, comprising:

money receiving means for receiving monies deposited into the system;

money dispensing means for dispensing monies from the system;

identifying means for identifying the denominations of items of money fed thereto from said money receiving means;

a plurality of money cases adapted to deliver items of money to said money dispensing means;

a stock money cartridge suitable for collectively storing monies of all denominations available to the system and mounted in such a way as to be removable from the system; and

a plurality of entering means each for entering monies into the corresponding said money cases in accordance with the denominations as identified by said identifying means;

a plurality of feeding means for respectively feeding the monies stored in said money cases and said stock money cartridge;

a setting switch; and

a money distributing means, responsive to the operation of said setting switch, for actuating the feeding means of said stock money cartridge to feed the monies stored in said stock money cartridge and distributing the fed monies into said money cases in accordance with their denominations.

6. A system according to claim 5 further comprising:

a resetting switch; and

a money collecting means, responsive to the operation of said resetting switch, for actuating the feeding means of said money cases to feed the monies stored therein and entering all of the fed monies into said stock money cartridge.