Mars, Incorporated

Mei, Inc.

Crane Payment Innovations Gmbh

Alfred F Bergeron

Robert Clauser

Michael David Nunn

David Charles Deaville

Jeffrey T Thawley

Christopher L Crawford

Charles Richard Lewis, Jr

William H Wurz

John D Snider

Kenneth B Wood

Raymond M Walker

Thomas E Shuren

Scott Hudis

Stephen R Watrous

Scott B Hudis

Karen Marvin

Chris Carmine

Jeffrey T Thanley

A document storage assembly for storing documents such as banknotes in a stacked configuration includes a support plate assembly for biasing the stack of documents toward an opening in the housing of the document storage assembly. The housing can include an assist mechanism to facilitate displacement of the stack of documents during the stacking of a newly received document.

Document storage assembly

A lockable, removable cassette is described. In an implementation, the cassette includes a plastic shell and a currency access door. The cassette may also include a flexible handle and/or an integrated grip. In addition, the cassette may include at least one of an aperture and a transparent window positioned to reveal the contents of the cassette. In an implementation, the cassette includes a stacking mechanism which may include a drive means having non-circular drive gears.

Lockable removable cassette

Stacker mechanisms and cassettes for banknotes and the like

Currency acceptor system

Currency cassette

Currency acceptor

A validator portion of a bill validator is disclosed comprising two different plastic materials of different colors, fused together. The first plastic material is preferably opaque, or black, and the second plastic material is preferably clear. The clear material is used to provide windows through the validator housings for light to pass from light sources, such as light emitting diodes, to photodetectors, such as phototransistors, and protects the light source and photodetectors from water, dirt and air. Prisms can be provided as well, to provide a detector for foreign matter such as string. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the validator can be formed by a two shot, injection molding process.

Bill validation using light transmitted across bill pathway

A validator portion of a bill validator is disclosed comprising two different plastic materials of different colors, fused together. The first plastic material is preferably opaque, or black, and the second plastic material is preferably clear. The clear material is used to provide windows through the validator housings for light to pass from light sources, such as light emitting diodes, to photodetectors, such as photo-transistors, and protects the light source and photodetectors from water, dirt and air. Prisms can be provided as well, to provide a detector for foreign matter such as string. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the validator can be formed by a two shot, injection molding process.

Validation housing for a bill validator made by a two shot molding

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Chester Springs, PA, United States of America

Alfred F Bergeron