Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh

Gerhard Sporer

Alfred Schmidt

Frank Werner

Rudolf Christl

Wilhelm Hell

Matthias Langlotz

Markus Hopfner

Hans Bomm

Dirk Gottschling

Andreas Donig

Klaus Buchmann

Eduard Dukart

Friedman Loeffler

Friedmann Loeffler

A method for monitoring transport of bank notes in a transport system, using sensors arranged along the transport system for sensing transported bank notes, and a control device for monitoring and controlling the transport system using signals from the sensors, from which the control device derives a presence or absence of a bank note at the location of the respective sensor. The signals from all sensors are stored in a memory, and the signals from all sensors are assigned an explicit time statement or clock statement. All transported bank notes are assigned an explicit object code by the control device, and the object code is linked to the explicit time statement or clock statement. Stored signals from the sensors derive the occurrence and type of errors during the transport of the bank notes, and the signals are linked to the bank notes denoted by the object codes.

Method for monitoring the transport of bank notes

A method and apparatus for processing value documents where the value documents are checked according to certain criteria and sorted in accordance with the results of the check. Those value documents upon whose check an error has occurred are transported to a deposit device having several deposit sections. The faulty value documents of different accounting units are thereby deposited on different deposit sections of the deposit device. For post-processing of the faulty value documents, they are removed from the deposit device by an operator according to the first in, first out principle.

Method and device for processing valuable documents

A method is provided for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices. The method for handling cassettes for bank notes, for automatic tellers and/or deposit devices, includes the step of determining the filling level of the cassette or cassettes, comparing the determined filling level of each cassette with at least one threshold value lower than a maximum capacity of the particular cassette, and wherein, if the comparison yields an excess, the step of producing a signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value, causing replacement of the cassette for which the signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value was produced.

Method for handling cassettes for bank notes

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc. The present invention starts out from the consideration that the validity of a successful check of sheet material is still present unchanged after an operating disturbance. The result of a check of sheet material which was performed successfully before a disturbance is therefore retained when a disturbance is present or after the disturbance has been eliminated.

Method and apparatus for processing sheet material

The invention relates to an apparatus for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus includes at least one canceling means to which the sheet material to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material is discharged. The apparatus also includes at least one supervising means for monitoring the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means. For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means for monitoring the fed sheet material. The fed sheet material is compared to the sheet material being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means.

Apparatus for canceling sheet material

The invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for canceling, in particular destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes. The apparatus comprises at least one canceling means () to which the sheet material () to be canceled is fed, in which the fed sheet material () is canceled, in particular destroyed, and from which the canceled sheet material () is discharged. The apparatus comprises furthermore at least one supervising means () for monitoring the sheet material () being discharged or having been discharged from said canceling means (). For improved monitoring of the cancellation of sheet material, in particular with respect to malfunctions, there is provided at least one monitoring means () for monitoring the fed sheet material (). The fed sheet material () is compared to the sheet material () being discharged or having been discharged in an evaluation means ().

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