Laurel Bank Machines Company, Ltd.

Shinya Uchida

Eiichi Yoshikawa

Akira Hirata

Kiyoshi Fujii

Hideyuki Ebihara

Kazuhiro Uehara

Moriatsu Kawakami

Eisaku Sano

Kazuya Kohzu

Printing apparatus for negotiable instruments and securities

A circulation-type bill receiving and dispensing machine reuses received bills for dispensing. It has a bill receiving and dispensing port and operating section at both sides of the machine. The bill receiving and dispensing machine includes separate bill discriminating sections each of which is arranged on each received-bill transferring route of the bill receiving and dispensing ports of the two sides for the exclusive use of that port. Thus the bill receiving and dispensing machine of the present invention can be operated at the same time from both sides. Accordingly, a customer can deposit bills at any time even if the machine is being operated in the bill receiving mode by the teller.

Recirculation-type bill receiving and dispensing machine

A paper money discriminator for identifying the type of a bank note by detecting colors thereof from reflected or transmitted light obtained by irradiating the bank note. The paper money discriminator is provided with optical fiber bundles disposed so as to respectively face a light source and color detecting sensors, and color filters disposed in positions adjacent to the color detecting sensors. The top ends of the optical fiber bundles face an inspection point on the bank note. The paper money discriminator is provided with identifying systems each of which is composed of a detecting unit, a calculating unit and a money type identifying unit and is adapted for detecting reflected or transmitted light in the form of two separated color components issuing from a type of bank note, obtaining the ratio of these components, and comparing a signal representing a calculated pattern with the reference pattern signals, thereby identifying the money type. The discriminator also has a money type determining unit which determines the type of bank note when all of the money types respectively identified by the identifying systems coincide with each other. In this discriminator, at least one of the detecting units in the identifying systems is positioned such as to be capable of detecting a watermark portion of the bank note.

Paper money discriminator

A bill receiving and dispensing machine of 'specific type of bill circulation-type' which can reuse, as bills for dispensation, only one specific type of bills among all types of received bills. According to the machine of the present invention, only one type of bills among all types of received bills is circulated through a circulating-bill pooling section for reuse as bills for dispensation and the dispensation bills other than the circulating bills are held in a dispensation bill container and the received bills and the dispensation bills are held in three limited sections, i.e. a circulating-bill pooling section, a received-bill container and a dispensation bill container. This makes it possible to eliminate the special bill pooling sections and the bill feeding-out mechanisms which are used in the conventional machines and therefore to simplify the mechanism and to reduce the noise during the operation thereof. Also according to the present machine, a common route, an accumulating route, a bill deliverer and a transaction port are so designed that they are always commonly used in both the bill receiving and bill-type separating mode and the bill dispensing mode. This makes it possible to effectively utilize the space within the machine body and thus to reduce the volume of the machine body.

Bill receiving, discriminating, and dispensing machine

A cutting device for a wrapped coin stack comprising cylindrical support member including a bore for receiving one end of a wrapped coin stack bar which is formed by a certain number of coins and wrapped by a wrapping, base plate member for abutting against said one end of the wrapped coin stack bar on its surface, cutter supported by the support member at a position offset from the surface of the base plate member for being advanced inward of the support member and cutting the wrapping.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Shinya Uchida