Automatic money-receiving and -dispensing machine

US6006989A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Nixdorf · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Ademmer · Geseke, DE
• Udo Tewes · Paderborn, DE
• Peter Weigel · Borchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 27, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 28, 1999
• Expiry date: Mar 27, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07D11/40
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In the case of an automatic money-receiving and -dispensing machine having a banknote-receiving location (20), having a banknote-checking and recognition device, having at least one intermediate store for intermediately storing received banknotes, having a banknote-dispensing location (22), having a plurality of storage units (30, 32, 34, 36) which are arranged in a secure housing (16) and are intended for keeping, storing and/or dispensing banknotes, and having transporting path (40) which connect the receiving location (44), the dispensing location (52), the checking and recognition device (58) and the storage units (30, 32, 34, 36) to one another, at least one of the storage units (32, 30) contains an exchangeable storage cassette (31, 33) for banknotes which are to be dispensed, at least one storage unit (34, 36) having a winding store for receiving, storing and dispensing banknotes, the storage units (30, 32, 34, 36) being connected to a common, first transporting path (40), which is arranged, together with the storage units (30, 32, 34, 36), in the secure housing (16), and the checking and recognition device, the intermediate store and a second transporting path, which connec…