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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2002
Cheng-kang Yu, Taipei, TW;
Cheng-Kang Yu, Taipei, TW;
International Currency Technologies Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A paper currency receiver for use in a ticket vending machine, money exchange machine, or the like is constructed to include a housing with a paper currency insertion slot, and a detector unit formed of an upper base and a lower base and mounted in the housing and adapted for detecting the authenticity of paper currency inserted into the paper currency insertion slot, the detector unit defining an angled passage between the upper base and the lower base for guiding inserted paper currency away from the paper currency insertion slot to a paper currency storage cabinet, the lower base having a pivoted safety hook turned in and out of the angled passage for stopping backward movement of inserted paper currency.