The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 1984
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1982
Minoru Hirose, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Kubotera, Kanagawa, JP;
Tokyo Shibaura Kenki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An automatic bank note transaction apparatus comprises a discriminator for discriminating fit notes from unfit notes among the bank notes conveyed by a conveyance path, and identifying the denomination of the fit notes, sorting gates for sorting the bank notes according to the result of discrimination by a discriminator, and distributing the fit notes by denomination, temporary collecting sections for temporarily collecting the bank notes sorted by the sorting gates, storage chambers for storing bank notes of each denomination judged to be fit, a return path for returning the bank notes collected in the temporary collecting sections to a return outlet of a housing, and shutters located between the temporary collecting sections and the storage chambers for guiding the temporarily collected bank notes into the storage chambers when a user approves depositing or into the return path when the user disapproves depositing.