De La Rue International Limited

David A Brooks

Simon George Calverley

John Alan Skinner

Pietro Armanini

Matthew Brown

Phillip Michael William Ireland

David Robinson

Pete Holcroft

Amanda Mumford

Raglan Horatio Andrew Harold Tribe

Gavin Doyle

A document handling apparatus is disclosed which is particularly well adapted for counting documents of value, such as banknotes. The document handling apparatus comprises an input module for receiving a stack of documents and feeding them one by one into the apparatus, a detector box which houses a series of detectors for detecting characteristics of the documents, a transport system for conveying documents within the apparatus, a doubles detector for sensing the passage of each document therethrough and a stacker module for stacking the output documents and presenting them to the user. The apparatus is based on a metal framework in a plastics housing.

Document handling apparatus

Banknote counter

A method of transferring ownership of item(s) includes securely identifying the item(s) by attaching a security tag to the item(s). The security tag has a monitoring system for monitoring a tag status, the tag status indicating whether the security tag and/or the item(s) have been tampered with. The method includes detecting remotely a condition of the monitoring system and causing a remote host to register a change in ownership of the item(s) when the monitoring system does not indicate a tampered condition.

Security tag

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Waterlooville, United Kingdom

David A Brooks