Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh

Giesecke+devrient Currency Technology Gmbh

Ralf Linck

Markus Sperl

Alois Wagner

Andreas Jakobs

Frank Werner

Wolfgang Koniger

Michael Knickrehm

Michael Stapfer

August Häusler

Hermann Kronbauer

Rainer Stoll

Hermann Weilacher

Norbert Beck

Jurgen Von Kremling

Ulrich Frank

Wolfgang Königer

Christian Voellmer

Carsten Nadolny

Helmut-Karl Reinisch

Hermann Gessler

Stefan Thoma

A method is provided for controlling a system or a device for recognizing, checking, counting, accounting and sorting objects of value, which can be automatically adapted to changing delivery and demand conditions. A control controls the transport paths and processing steps within the device with the aid of conveyor plants and corresponding diverters and optimizes them in such a way that the objects of value are transported in a targeted fashion to the processing stages which are necessary for the processing of the objects of value. The control takes into account information about the components of the device as well as the inbound-delivered objects of value and the objects of value to be delivered outbound in order to ensure optimal processing of the objects of value or to deliver ordered packs of objects of value outbound as quickly as possible.

Controlling a system for handling valuable objects and preparing/outputting packs of valuable objects

An assembly and a method for processing value documents such that the assembly has a transport apparatus for value-document receptacles which forms a cyclically circulating transport loop for the value-document receptacles. At least one checking apparatus for checking value documents is connected to the transport apparatus in such a manner that a respective value-document stack, possibly together with its value-document receptacle, can be transported via the respective transport interface from the cyclically circulating transport loop to the respective checking apparatus and/or from the respective checking apparatus to the cyclically circulating transport loop. The cyclically circulating transport loop is self-contained in such a manner that the value-document receptacles can circulate around the cyclically circulating transport loop several times in the same direction of circulation, and thus allows a temporally flexible removal of the respective value-document stack.

Assembly and method for processing value documents

An apparatus for processing documents of value having a checking device for checking documents of value in a processing area, an intermediate repository arranged in an intermediate area for intermediately storing documents of value, a transport device for transporting the documents of value to the intermediate repository, a final storage device for storing documents of value from the intermediate repository, an intermediate-area housing enclosing the intermediate area having a first opening that receives documents of value coming from the checking device, a second opening, through which the documents of value are transportable from the intermediate repository into the final storage area, and an intermediate-area housing element which can be moved back and forth between an open position, which allows access to the intermediate repository, and a close position, which prevents access to the intermediate-area housing, and a locking device for locking the intermediate-area housing element in the close position.

Processing device for value documents

An apparatus for diverting sheet material, in particular bank notes (BN), includes a diverting plate () with a first diverting edge () disposed on a slant and preferably a second diverting edge () disposed on a slant. The sheet material is guided and transported from the rear side () of the diverting plate () around the first diverting edge () to the front side () and further around the second diverting edge () back to the rear side (). If the diverting edges () are aligned relative to the transport direction () of the sheet material e.g. in each case at a slant angle of 45&#xb0;, this apparatus permits the sheet-material transport direction to be diverted by 180&#xb0;, whereby the transport path is shifted parallel. Thus, a continuous bank-note stream can be diverted uninterruptedly while retaining the sheet-material orientation relative to the transport direction. By means of a gate () the sheet material can be guided to a downstream diverting edge () instead of to the second diverting edge ().

Apparatus for diverting sheet material

A cog belt pulley defining an axis of rotation having an outer circumferential surface oriented about the axis of rotation and including a plurality of teeth for engagement with at least one cog belt. The pulley is distinguished in having at least one flange segment radially extending from the outer circumferential surface. Each flange segment projects about a fraction of the circumferential surface and is located on an individual plane. The at least one flange segment is arranged for enabling a cog belt to be configured onto the pulley without interfering with the at least one of the flange segment.

Toothed belt wheel with a collar

Device for sorting bills

In a sheet-processing apparatus, banknotes are separated by a separator ( ) and fed to a depositing arrangement ( ) via a sensor and transporting unit ( ). Depositing takes place in different depositing compartments in accordance with depositing criteria which are determined by certain features of the banknotes (BN) being sensed. The individual depositing compartments ( ) of the depositing arrangement ( ) are assigned stacker wheels ( ), which have stacker fingers which, in pairs, define a sheet compartment between them. The banknotes are introduced into the sheet compartments and are then deposited in the associated depositing compartment by the stacker fingers. In order to prevent fed banknotes from coming into contact with stacker-finger tips and then not being deposited correctly, the rotational speed (including phase) of the stacker wheels ( ) is synchronized with the operating frequency of the separator ( ) such that the individual banknotes enter centrally into the sheet compartments of the stacker wheels.

Leaf treatment device and a method for adjusting a leaf treatment device

The invention relates to an apparatus for automatic bundling of sheet material, in particular bank notes, having a deposit device on which sheet material to be bundled is deposited as a precisely fitting stack, a sliding device moving the stack of sheets perpendicularly toward a foil supplied by a device whereby the stack is partly wrapped with the foil and supplied to a transport device. The invention is characterized in that the transport device has two parallel, vertically adjustable conveyer belts between which the stack with its partly surrounding foil is clamped and transported to a banding device, said stack being positioned by the conveyer belts such that the foil is guided around the stack by the banding device and connected into a band, thereby obtaining a bundled stack of sheets. Subsequently the bundled packet can be pushed onto a transport belt with the aid of a delivery pocket.

Device for automatic bundling of sheets

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Munich, Germany

Ralf Linck