Currency dispenser

• US 7,635,082 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2004
• Issued: 12/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cummins-Allison Corporation (Crane Company)
• Original Assignee: Cummins-Allison Corporation (Crane Company)
• Inventors: Jones, John E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hess; Daniel A
• Application Number:
  US10/773,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20040154964A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,146 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 902 8- 22
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4214 of articles on edge
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4318 Gathering, associating, assembling articles from a single source which is supplied by several sources
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/02 with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/24 multiple or compartmented, e.d. for alternate, programmed, or selective filling
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 39/042 the piles being disposed in superposed carriers
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 39/05 by collecting in superposed carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/30 Tracking or tracing valuable papers or cassettes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]

Abstract

A vertically arranged combination desktop currency denominating machine and currency dispenser comprising a currency denominating module adapted to receive a stack of currency bills to be denominated and to denominate the received currency bills, wherein a transport mechanism transports bills individually from an input receptacle adapted to receive the stack of currency bills to one or more output receptacles. The combination further comprising a dispenser retaining section adapted to store currency bills to be dispensed to the one or more output receptacles during a dispensing operation, the retaining section comprising one or more dispensing receptacles, each dispensing receptacle adapted to hold bills having a common denomination, wherein the dispenser retainer section is positioned above the currency denominating module.

Claims

1. A method of depositing and dispensing currency using a desktop document denominating and currency dispensing device comprising an input receptacle, a transport path, a single output receptacle, an image scanner, a processor, a controller, an interface, and one or more dispensing receptacles comprising the acts of:

receiving a stack of documents including U.S. bills having at least one of a plurality of U.S. bill denominations to be deposited in the input receptacle of the device;

transporting the documents received, one at a time, from the input receptacle along the transport path at a rate of at least 400 documents per minute;

scanning the documents with the image scanner;

generating image data output signals in response to information scanned on the documents;

receiving image data output signals with the processor;

determining the document type and value with the controller based on the image data output signals;

delivering the documents received to a single output receptacle;

removing the documents from the single output receptacle;

inputting a withdrawal request into the processor via the interface;

dispensing at least one U.S. bill having at least one of a plurality of U.S. bill denominations to be dispensed to satisfy the withdrawal request from the one or more dispensing receptacles, each receptacle adapted to hold a plurality of currency bills having the same denomination;

transporting the at least one bill dispensed from the one or more dispensing receptacles along the transport path;

determining the denomination of the at least one U.S. bill dispensed at a rate in excess of at least 400 bills per minute;

delivering to the single output receptacle the at least one U.S. bill dispensed; and

using the image data output signals for OCR.

2. A method of depositing and dispensing currency using a desktop document denominating and currency dispensing device comprising an input receptacle, a transport path, a single output receptacle, an image scanner, a processor, a controller, an interface, and one or more dispensing receptacles comprising the acts of:

receiving a stack of documents including U.S. bills having at least one of a plurality of U.S. bill denominations to be deposited in the input receptacle of the device;

transporting the documents received, one at a time, from the input receptacle along the transport path at a rate of at least 400 documents per minute;

scanning the documents with the image scanner;

generating image data output signals in response to information scanned on the documents;

receiving image data output signals with the processor;

determining the document type and value with the controller based on the image data output signals;

delivering the documents received to a single output receptacle;

removing the documents from the single output receptacle;

inputting a withdrawal request into the processor via the interface;

dispensing at least one U.S. bill having at least one of a plurality of U.S. bill denominations to be dispensed to satisfy the withdrawal request from the one or more dispensing receptacles, each receptacle adapted to hold a plurality of currency bills having the same denomination;

transporting the at least one bill dispensed from the one or more dispensing receptacles along the transport path;

determining the denomination of the at least one U.S. bill dispensed at a rate in excess of at least 400 bills per minute;

delivering to the single output receptacle the at least one U.S. bill dispensed; and

using the image data output signals for ICR.

3. A method of depositing and dispensing currency using a desktop document denominating and currency dispensing device comprising an input receptacle, a transport path, a single output receptacle, an image scanner, a processor, a controller, an interface, and a single set of a plurality of dispensing receptacles comprising the acts of:

receiving a stack of documents including U.S. bills having at least one of a plurality of U.S. bill denominations to be deposited in the input receptacle of the device;

transporting the documents received, one at a time, from the input receptacle along the transport path at a rate of at least 400 documents per minute;

scanning the documents with the image scanner;

generating image data output signals in response to information scanned on the documents;

receiving image data output signals with the processor;

determining the document type and value with the controller based on the image data output signals;

delivering the documents received to a single output receptacle;

manually removing the documents from the single output receptacle;

inputting a withdrawal request into the processor via the interface;

dispensing at least one U.S. bill having at least one of a plurality of U.S. bill denominations to be dispensed to satisfy the withdrawal request from the dispensing receptacles, each dispensing receptacle adapted to hold a plurality of currency bills having the same denomination, and each dispensing receptacle being vertically arranged with respect to each of the other dispensing receptacles;

transporting the at least one bill dispensed from the one or more dispensing receptacles along the transport path;

determining the denomination of the at least one U.S. bill dispensed at a rate in excess of at least 400 bills per minute; and

delivering to the single output receptacle the at least one U.S. bill dispensed,

wherein the act of receiving a stack of documents includes receiving some documents bearing a barcode, and further comprising using the image data output signals for reading a bar code on the documents.