Abstract: A transaction processing system which includes apparatus for accepting a precontract including the amount of payment/deposit and delivery time of payment/deposit, cash counting apparatus for counting cash, a payment/deposit processing apparatus to be manipulated by the user at the time of payment/deposit on the basis of the user's precontact, delivery apparatus for delivering a medium such as cash and bonds precontracted by the user, transfer apparatus for transferring the medium for the payment/deposit precontract between the cash counting apparatus and the delivery apparatus, and control apparatus for activating the system on the basis of the precontract data of the user. A payment/deposit precontract from a user is accepted via a public telephone line or a data communication network, a medium delivered to the delivery apparatus is prepared in view of other payment precontracts and the time of the visit of the user to the transaction processing system.

Abstract: A booklet, such as a passbook is transferred to the position, in which a page turning device is provided, on a base, by a transfer mechanism comprising driving and follower rollers. During a page turning operation, the booklet is pressed from the rear side thereof against the page turning device by a pressing force which is varied in accordance with the rigidity of the paper in the booklet. The page turning device is turned with the booklet, pressed against the same, to transfer the booklet at a speed according to the turning condition of the uppermost paper in the booklet, whereby the page turning operation is carried out.

Abstract: A plurality of transaction machines constituting a transaction system is provided with a bill exchange device which exchanges bills individually among the transaction machines.

Abstract: A transacting device performs its transacting operations in response to a customer's request for a deposit or payment transaction. Upon the request for the deposit transaction, paper currencies deposited through a money receiving/paying port are transferred en bloc by paper currency transferring means to an accumulation unit close to a separating unit. The currencies are individually separated by the separating unit and then identified by an identifying unit with respect to authenticity, monetary classification and the number of currencies. Thereafter, the currencies are accumulated in a plurality of accumulation units according to the monetary classification. When making the request for the payment transaction, a plurality of the currencies accumulated in the accumulation units are transferred en bloc by the transferring means to the accumulation unit vicinal to the separating unit.

Abstract: A transaction system comprises a plurality of transaction machines capable of accepting deposits and paying out bills and a bill supplying/retrieving device which operates in conjunction with the transaction machines for supplying and retrieving bills to and from the transaction machines wherein the bill supplying/retrieving device is movable by a driving device.

Abstract: Paper sheets transported from a transporting line are stacked successively into a receiving station by a vane-wheel type receiving and guiding device. The paper sheets stacked in the receiving station are taken out to a subsequent transporting line one by one by a friction pick-up and separating and feeding device. The friction pick-up and/or the vane-wheel type receiving and guiding device are rotatable. The friction pick-up is retracted from the surface of the stacked paper sheets when the paper sheets are stacked and when the paper sheets are taken out and is moved to abut the surface of the stacked paper sheets to thereby permit the taking out of the paper sheets.

Abstract: An automatic sheet feeding device for feeding sheets of low rigidity and high coefficient of friction, such as documents of small thickness and thin sheets with carbon backing, including feeding rollers, separating rollers, a rotating mechanism for rotating the separating rollers, and a regulating mechanism for regulating a torque applied to the separating rollers. A torque tending to rotate the separating rollers in a direction in which the sheets are fed is applied thereto by the feeding rollers, and a torque tending to rotate the separating rollers in a direction opposite the direction in which the sheets are fed is applied thereto by the separating roller rotating mechanism through the regulating mechanism for regulating the torque applied to the separating rollers which is a friction clutch.

Abstract: This invention relates to a apparatus for separating and feeding sheets such as sheets of paper comprising an accommodation box for accommodating the sheets of paper stacked by their own weight, a pick-up roller provided so that the upper surface thereof projects into the interior of the box to bear the weight of the stacked sheets of paper, a separation arrangement comprising a frictional roller and the feed roller and provided so as to face an ejection port of the accommodation box from which sheets are sent out to the separation arrangement, and a support arrangement disposed on the side opposite to the ejection port supports the end, opposite to the ejection port, of the sheets of paper, and for allowing the lowermost sheet end to be free of the weight of the sheet thereabove when the lowermost sheet is moved to the ejection port side so that frictional resistance of the lowermost sheet is reduced greatly and the pick-up roller can surely pick up and convey the sheet one by one from the lower side of the

Abstract: A recording apparatus of thermal transfer type includes a thermal head having a plurality of linearly-arrayed heat generating elements selectively generating heat in response to the application of a character and pattern information signal providing the thermal transfer energy, and a carrier having a coating of a thermally transferably recording material. A recording medium recording character and pattern information is disposed between the carrier and a platen roller to be transported by the platen roller.At the time of recording character and pattern information on the recording medium, the thermal transfer energy is applied to the heat generating elements corresponding to the character and pattern information signal while pressing the thermal head against the platen roller. During the recording, the thermal transfer energy is controlled to correspond to the required density tone of the character and pattern information to be recorded.

Abstract: In a thermal transfer recording system for use in a facsimile machine for a line-printer, a carrier such as a transfer film on which a heat transferable ink or any other record forming material is applied and a recording medium such as a recording paper are used. The carrier and the recording medium are wound in advance in a roll independently of each other. The carrier and the recording medium are brought into pressure contact with a thermal head in a recording section with the carrier and the recording medium overlapping one on another. Heat from the recording section causes the ink or any other record forming material on the carrier to be transferred onto the recording medium to thereby carry out the recording. The carrier and the recording medium may be conveyed in the normal direction or in the reverse direction.

Abstract: A thermal transfer color recording apparatus comprises a transfer sheet in which a plurality of color inks adapted to be thermally transferred are arrayed in a large number of regions, and a thermal head in which a plurality of heat generating elements adapted to generate heat in response to a picture recording signal are arrayed in the form of a line. The transfer sheet and a recording medium placed one over the other are conveyed in a forward or reverse direction by a platen roller while being depressed by the thermal head, and only the transfer sheet is conveyed without the depression of the thermal head.

Abstract: In a sheet feeding apparatus for transmitting the rotation of the motor shaft of a motor to a sheet feeding shaft for feeding a sheet by an elastic transmission mechanism, a speed state amount of either or both of the motor shaft and sheet shaft is compared to a position deviation signal at the input side of the motor and the resulting deviation signal therebetween is applied to the motor as a motor control signal to control it, thereby improving the dynamic characteristics of the sheet feeding.

Abstract: A recording apparatus of thermal transfer type includes a thermal head having a plurality of linearly-arrayed heat generating elements selectively generating heat in response to the application of a character and pattern information signal providing the thermal transfer energy, and a carrier having a coating of a thermally transferably recording material. A recording medium recording character and pattern information is disposed between the carrier and a platen roller to be transported by the platen roller.At the time of recording character and pattern information on the recording medium, the thermal transfer energy is applied to the heat generating elements corresponding to the character and pattern information signal while pressing the thermal head against the platen roller. During the recording, the thermal transfer energy is controlled to correspond to the required density tone of the character and pattern information to be recorded.