Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh

Giesecke+devrient Currency Technology Gmbh

Thomas Hildebrandt

Erwin Demmeler

Alexander Steinkogler

Wittich Kaule

Manfred Heim

Thomas Giering

Klaus Finkenzeller

Bernd Wunderer

Dieter Stein

Andreas Jakobs

Norbert Holl

Alfred Schmidt

Lars Hoffmann

Marius Dichtl

Frank Werner

Michael Stapfer

Peter Dopfer

Friedrich Kretschmar

Walter Schneider

Ralf Hobmeier

Martin Seysen

Ralf Liebler

Harald Reiner

Thorsten Pillo

Christian Voellmer

Oskar Dicklberger

Juergen Schuetzmann

Markus Krombholz

Horst Breitenfeld

Eckart Schroeder-Bergen

Fabiola Bellersheim

An apparatus and method for filling containers with value documents and to a system for processing value documents, wherein the apparatus has: a container receiving device which is adapted to receive a container stack having two or several containers for receiving value documents, a lid receiving device which is adapted to receive a lid stack having two or several lids for closing the containers, a container removal device which is adapted to remove, preferably, the respectively lowermost container from the container stack, a closing device and a transport device which is adapted to convey the container removed from the container stack to a filling station, in which the container can be filled with value documents, and to convey the container filled with value documents to the closing device which is adapted to remove a lid from the lid stack and close the filled container with the removed lid.

Device and method for filling containers with value documents, in particular banknotes, and system for processing value documents

The present invention relates to the automatic removal of value document stacks from a container with the aid of a gripper. For separating different value document stacks, the container is subdivided into several storage regions by separator elements. Since the separator element positions of different value document containers may be different, for the container to be respectively processed it is ascertained at which positions along the container the separator elements are arranged. Ascertaining the separator element positions is effected independently of the gripper at a time before the gripper is moved toward the container. The ascertained information items about the separator element positions belonging to the container are then transferred to a gripper control device of the gripper, which is configured for controlling the motion of the gripper in order to remove value documents from the container.

Method and apparatus for processing value documents

For continuously singling value documents from a value document stack, the value document stack is lifted and fed toward the singler. For controlling the feed of the value document stack, an image of a side of the value document stack is recorded and evaluated, in order to recognize the edges of the individual value documents. The feed of the value document stack is controlled in dependence on the number of value document edges which are ascertained in the recorded image. If the number of value document edges cannot, or not sufficiently, be ascertained, additionally a brightness of the image in this image portion is ascertained. Upon the singling of the value documents imaged in this image portion the feed of the value document stack is controlled in dependence on the brightness ascertained in this image portion.

Device and method for controlling the tracking of a value document stack

An apparatus for printing a banding strip for documents of value, which is preferably moved relative to the apparatus, having a print head by means of which, upon an activation, more than nine dots can be printed, a circuit actuatable by print signals, which, in response to print signals, activates the print head in accordance with the print signals, in order to print patterns specified by the print signals, and a current supply unit for providing current for the circuit and by means thereof for the print head.

Device and method for printing a wrapper strip

The invention relates to sheet material having an electrical circuit and to apparatuses and methods for processing said sheet material. The present invention describes sheet material having an electrical circuit as well as apparatuses and methods for processing same, which reduce the effort required for processing the sheet material and/or facilitate processing and/or improve it and/or make it more reliable. For this purpose, the sheet material has at least one electrical circuit, with energy and/or data being transmitted from the apparatus to the electrical circuit and/or from the electrical circuit to the apparatus and at least part of the transmitted data being used for processing.

Devices and method for the production of sheet material

In a sheet stacking apparatus, in particular spiral slot stacker, one determines the relative position of a group of sheets A, B, for example distance t between the sheets or total length t of overlapping sheets. Sheet sensor is mounted for this purpose at a large distance before input point so that irregularities such as distance and/or overlap within the group of sheets A, B are taken into account and corresponding steps can be taken before leading sheet A is fed into stacker slot of stacking wheel . Depending on the kind of irregularity ascertained, stacking wheel is stopped, slowed down or accelerated to permit collision-free feed of the group of sheets into common slot or into separate slots . In special embodiments one influences the sheet speed by means of separately controllable transport path segments , and/or input point by means of control finger

Sheet stacking apparatus and method for controlling the feed of sheet material into a stacking wheel

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