De La Rue International Limited

Talaris Holdings Limited

Pietro Armanini

Simon George Calverley

Philip Michael William Ireland

Karen Joan Cunningham

Alexander Charles Harold James

Werner Haag

David A Brooks

Phillip Michael William Ireland

Raglan Horatio Andrew Harold Tribe

Raglan Tribe

A method of depositing items of value, the method comprising

Depositing items of value

A currency bill recycling machine has an input () and output () for receiving and dispensing currency bills; a transport system (); and a detection system () to which bills are fed by the transport system from the input (). The detection system () is adapted to determine the denomination, authenticity and fitness of each bill. A recycling store () and an unfit bill store () are provided to which bills are fed by the transport system (). The detection system () is adapted to cause genuine fit bills to be fed to the recycling store (), and to cause unfit bills to be fed to the unfit bill store (), the transport system being operable to withdraw bills from the recycling store for dispensing via the output ().

Currency bill recycling machine

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

Item handling system

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Mattarello, Italy

Pietro Armanini