Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sadaaki Uesaka

Hiroshi Tomiyama

Toshio Numata

Haruo Odagiri

Fumio Miyanaga

Kazunori Umezaki

Syugo Dono

In commercial transactions, settlement is conventionally made by cash and by checks drawn on a current account in a bank, etc. Users of such checking system enjoy its advantages. From the standpoint of banking business, however, such system involves a vast amont of complicated clerical procedures, and a number of negotiation checks pose a bottleneck in rationalizing the banking business. According to the present invention, there is provided a safe and secure check negotiating system which enables checks to be cashed with a minimum manual handling once check has been received by a financial institution such as a bank. The present invention also aims to provide a novel check card and an apparatus for drawing check cards to prevent illicit use of such a card when lost or stolen.

Check negotiation system by means of check cards and check card drawing

A note sorting and counting apparatus comprises an ejecting device for ejecting notes one by one from a stack of notes, an identifying device for identifying the notes, a sorting device for sorting the notes into groups in accordance with the result of the identification, and a plurality of containers allotted to the respective groups, each container receiving the notes of the group to which it is allotted. The identification may be as to whether the note is obverse or reverse, and as to the denomination, and the notes may be sorted into groups comprising obverse notes of the respective denominations and a group comprising reverse notes. The identification may alternatively include one as to whether the note is normal or damaged, and the notes may then be sorted into a group comprising obverse and normal notes and a group comprising obverse and damaged notes. The apparatus may additionally be provided with a denomination designating device, in which case the sorting may be into a group comprising obverse and normal notes of the designated denomination, a group comprising obverse and damaged notes of the designated denomination, and a group comprising notes of the denominations which are not designated.

Note sorting and counting apparatus

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Himeji, Japan

Sadaaki Uesaka