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System for the safe and secure transportation of valuable articles, such as bank notes, cheques

  • US 5,053,748 A
  • Filed: 01/24/1989
  • Issued: 10/01/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system including at least two terminals and at least one cassette for the safe and secure transportation of valuables by means of such cassette from a first terminal to a second terminal of the at least two terminals of the system, said at least one cassette including a processor having a counter and a memory facility, characterized in that the memory facility includes a cassette memory (13) and the counter (131) includes means for establishing counter settings corresponding to the number of times that a cassette is opened;

  • in that the system comprises means, disposed at the first terminal, for reading a numerical value of a prevailing counter setting, means for coding the numerical value of the prevailing counter setting and means for inserting the coded numerical value into the cassette memory (13); and

    in that the system further comprises means, disposed at the second terminal, for reading the coded numerical value from the cassette memory, means for decoding said coded numerical value, and means for comparing the decoded numerical value with the prevailing counter setting of the counter (131).

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