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Apparatus for handling strip-like media
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Inventors: Tetherton, Cyril F.;
Assignee: Cubic Western Data (San Diego, CA)
Primary Examiner: Schacher; Richard A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Brown, Martin, Haller & Meador
A handling apparatus for guiding paper money or other strip-like media into a storage area or cashbox includes a drive mechanism for driving the central longitudinal area of a strip-like element to follow a first curved path, and an opposing guide for simultaneously urging the outer longitudinal areas of the bill in directions transverse to the first path so that they follow curved paths which are different to the first path. This tends to pull or stretch the element simultaneously both along its central axis and transverse to that axis, which will tend to remove any previous deformation applied to the element prior to stacking. A guide surface guides the bill from the drive mechanism into the storage area, and is preferably movable when a bill is detected projecting out of the storage area to urge the bill into the storage area and to compress the stack of bills. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a transport mechanism for strip-like media such as currency notes which can take notes which have been previously bent, folded or rolled and tends to flatten out such notes for more uniform and compact stacking in a suitable storage area.
According to the present invention an apparatus for handling strip-like media such as currency notes or other strip-like elements is provided, comprising a transport device for transporting notes between an inlet and an outlet, and a guide mechanism for guiding the notes from the outlet into a storage area where they are stacked flat one on top of the other.
The transport device includes a deforming or reconfiguring device adjacent the outlet for either temporarily or permanently deforming the element to remove the memory of any previous deformation applied to the element, at least until it enters the storage area and is stacked.
The deforming or reconfiguring device comprises a first guide means for driving the central longitudinal area of the note to follow a first curved path, and a second, opposing guide for simultaneously deforming the outer longitudinal areas on each side of the central area in directions transverse to the curved path and urging them to follow secondary curved paths different from the first path so as to deform the outer area of the note out of the plane of the central area.
The curvature of the secondary paths is preferably different from that of the first path, so that the note or other strip-like element is simultaneously pulled or "stretched" in two perpendicular directions, both along its central axis and transverse to that axis, under the effect of the opposing guides which simultaneously urge different parts of the element to travel in different directions.
This effect is enhanced if the two guides are of materials having different coefficients of friction, causing the element to drag more along one surface than the other.
Thus parts of the element will be held back by frictional engagement with the guide having the higher coefficient of friction relative to those parts engaging the other guide
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