Patents Assigned to CIMA S.p.A.
  • Patent number: 12196030
    Abstract: A system for the safe coupling of a re-usable bag to a banknote handling and storing machine, the system includes a bag container, having an upper rigid mouth, of a flexible bag permanently fixed to the rigid mouth and of a lid for closing the rigid mouth. The system also includes a bag-holding frame, suitable for being stably fixed to a safe structure of the machine, for supporting and hooking the bag container when placed inside the machine to be filled in with the banknotes, is provided with coupling and hooking electromechanical components between the bag container and the bag-holding frame. The lid for closing the rigid mouth is further provided with an element suitable to allow, on command, the banknotes passing from the machine to the bag through the closed lid when the bag container is correctly inserted inside the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 12168535
    Abstract: An apparatus for filling and sealing bags intended for containing banknotes includes a generally parallelepiped-shaped container, with side walls, a bottom and an upper lid provided with an opening for allowing entry into the container of a bag, made up of flexible plastic film, and of banknotes intended to be introduced into the same bag. The apparatus includes a pair of sealing bars arranged at the upper end of the container and a system for controlling and moving the bars between their respective opening and closing positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Vittorio Razzaboni, Nicoletta Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 11486186
    Abstract: A system for the safe coupling of a re-usable bag to a banknote handling and storing machine includes a bag container, having a rigid upper port and a flexible bag permanently fixed to the rigid port, a lid, designed to be inserted onto the rigid port for closing the bag container when the filling operations are terminated, and a bag-holding frame. The bag-holding frame is suitable for being stably fixed to a safe structure of the machine for supporting and hooking the bag container when placed inside the machine to be filled with the banknotes. The system is provided with first coupling and hooking electro-mechanical components between the bag container and the bag-holding frame and with second coupling and hooking electro-mechanical components between the lid and the bag container. The first and second coupling and hooking electro-mechanical components are interconnected with a control unit to enable the respective functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 11217055
    Abstract: A machine for depositing and dispensing coins includes a first portion containing devices for reception of the deposited coins and for recognition and sorting of the coins based on the denomination thereof, a second portion containing a plurality of internal hoppers configured to selectively contain the coins sorted by denomination and a third portion containing coin processing means for processing the coins in the dispensing step, a seat being present in the third portion for the temporary housing of a till configured to be filled with predetermined compositions of coins of the various denominations coming from the internal hoppers, the machine further including coin conveying means adapted to receive, at the seat, coins coming from the internal hoppers or from the recognition and sorting devices and to convey them to a higher zone of the machine, where a coin path selector is disposed at the end of the coin conveying means to the higher zone of the machine, the coin path selector being movable between a fir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 10997812
    Abstract: A machine for filling cash boxes insertable into and extractable from the machine, including internally a portion for housing storage containers containing a cash reserve intended to fill the cash boxes, laterally to said inner storage containers a device for receiving and moving a cash box is arranged, the device for receiving and moving the cash box being equipped with at least means for vertical movement of the cash box between a raised position, adapted for inserting and extracting it into and from the machine, and a lowered position, at a lower height with respect to that of the inner storage containers present in the machine, the device also being equipped with means for horizontal movement of the cash box between the lowered position and a position distanced from it, arranged under the inner storage containers present in the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 10169944
    Abstract: A device for filling and closing disposable bags for containing banknotes, comprises a container for the temporary housing of one or more banknotes, having side walls and a bottom with an opening for the exit of said one or more banknotes from the container, a pushing piston for pushing said one or more banknotes towards the bottom of the container, a bag made of flexible material intended to be filled with the banknotes temporarily housed in the container, which is anchored, at the edges of its mouth, to fixing pins placed in proximity of the opening in the bottom of the container, a plate which is vertically movable through controlled lowering means and placed below the container, the plate having a central slot, which is open at the top towards the container and extending vertically through the body of the plate for the insertion of a bottom portion of the bag anchored to the fixing pins, and first sealing elements placed between the container and the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 10046873
    Abstract: A device for filling and closing disposable bags for containing banknotes comprises an upper container for temporarily housing banknotes, provided with a bottom with an opening for the exit of the banknotes from the container, a piston for pushing the banknotes towards the opening on the bottom of the container, a bag made of flexible plastic film, intended to be filled with the banknotes temporarily housed in the container, a support for the bag containing the banknotes, vertically movable through controlled lowering means and placed below the container, sealing bars arranged between the upper container and the movable support, and an electromagnetic stop element that can be controlled to lock the movable support with respect to the sealing bars, said electromagnetic stop element consisting of an electromagnet applied to the movable support and of a fixed element made of ferromagnetic material, adapted to face the electromagnet in operative condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 9754435
    Abstract: A device for the insertion of banknotes into containers in machines suitable for receiving and handling banknotes, comprises a container for the banknotes, adapted to be closed and removed from the machine once filled, and a loading path, diverting from a circulation path inside the machine and ending at said container, for the insertion of banknotes into the container. The device further comprises at least one scanner, placed along the loading path, for the optical detection of images of the banknotes entering into the container and a memory connected to the scanner for storing the images detected thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 9466167
    Abstract: A device for filling and closing disposable bags for containing banknotes includes a container for the temporary housing of one or more banknotes. The container has side walls and a bottom with an opening for the exit of the one or more banknotes from the container. A piston for pushing the one or more banknotes towards the bottom of the container. A bag made of flexible material intended to be filled with the banknotes temporarily housed in the container is wrapped around the side walls and the bottom of the container. A plate, placed below the container, is vertically movable through controlled lowering of a device, such as a spring. Sealing elements for heat sealing the filled bag are placed between the container and the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicoletta Razzaboni, Vittorio Razzaboni
  • Patent number: 5996904
    Abstract: A diffuser (D) for atomizers or mist blowers of treatment liquids in agriculture, includes a large tube (1) fed with air under pressure, ending into a narrow fan-shaped opening (2), and elements to cause the treatment liquid to flow into the fan-shaped opening (2) at a very low pressure. The elements include a plurality of sectors (3) for liquid distribution, each of them consisting of two straight tube lengths (4) of synthetic plastic material, provided with gauged holes (5) and mutually connected so as to form a very wide angle between them, and substantially at 90.degree. with a feeding duct (6). The sectors (3) are positioned in succession, in one or more side-by-side rows, along the narrow fan-shaped opening (2), substantially at its center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: CIMA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Smeraldi
  • Patent number: 4590661
    Abstract: Equipment and method for automatically changing tools on hobbing machines. The machines are of the type equipped with a bedplate to which are connected a pair of uprights, the first of which for supporting a work head and the second of which for supporting a cutter head. The cutter head is rotatable around a horizontal axis and supports horizontally a hob at the extremities thereof. The equipment includes guide means provided in the cutter head, parallel to the axis of the hob, and a support for at least one extremity of the hob is slidable inside the cutter head along the guide means. The support is also displaceable, without being withdrawn from the cutter head, by an amount sufficient to free the two extremities of the hob from the cutter head. The equipment includes also an independent frame fixable to either one of the pair of uprights, and supporting grasping means located above the cutter head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: CIMA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Alessandro Lunazzi
  • Patent number: 4530626
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a gear cutter that comprises a bedplate, a first block or column mounted on the bedplate, designed to carry a tool, and a second block or column also mounted on the bedplate, designed to carry in an axis of rotation a piece to be cut, and wherein provision is made for a device for detecting variations, due to the thermal expansion of the bedplate, in the distance the first block is apart from the second block, and for drive means interlocked to the said detection device and connected to at least one of the said blocks in order to compensate continuously for variations in the spacing in between the said blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: CIMA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Cesare Sabbioni
  • Patent number: D941909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Ramazzotti
  • Patent number: D941910
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Ramazzotti
  • Patent number: D942533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: CIMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Ramazzotti