Bank-note processing apparatus including a debanding station and bank-note processing method

US8811710B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Erwin Demmeler · Memmingen, DE
• Peter Dopfer · Geltendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 19, 2014
• Expiry date: May 13, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07D11/10
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A bank-note processing apparatus includes a debanding station and an image capturing device by which first and second information items applied to the band can be optically captured and digitally stored. The image capturing device includes at least one mirror, preferably two symmetrically arranged mirrors, in order for information items on the band that lie on different sides of the bank-note stack on the banded bank-note stack to be able to be optically captured simultaneously. The image capture can be effected before or after the removal of the band from the bank-note stack.