Abstract: A money item conveyor comprising a plurality of money item conveying members configured to convey money items around a looped path, wherein the plurality of conveying members each comprise first and second money item support surfaces configured to simultaneously support a main face of a money item on the conveying member, the support faces being separated by an articulation region to allow relative movement of the support surfaces.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 29, 2015
Publication date:
July 27, 2017
Applicant:
Crane Payment Solutions Limited
Inventors:
Stephen L. Hough, Michael J. Rigby, Robert James Blythin
Abstract: An apparatus for conveying money items, which is configured to singulate money items during conveyance, sense characteristics of money items during conveyance and eject money items from a conveyor.
Abstract: A handling device for money items such as coins and tokens has a receiving station (6) at which coins are fed onto a conveyor (4) that feeds them one by one to a processing station (9). The conveyor is made up of conveyor link members (17, 18) having a money item receiving surface (21), and first and second lugs (30, 31) upstanding from the surface (21), each having forward facing capture regions (33, 35) configured to be driven in a longitudinal conveying direction C through the receiving station (6) to receive a coin or token its major discoidal surface overlying the surface (21) and with its peripheral edge abutting the capture regions (33,35) of the lugs (30,31), one of the capture regions of the lugs being upstanding from the surface (21) at least in part by a height (h2) greater than the other capture region (h3), so as to capture and singulate the coins in a manner that prevents two coins from being held, such that one of them is ejected.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 29, 2015
Publication date:
July 20, 2017
Applicant:
Crane Payment Solutions Limited
Inventors:
Robert James Blythin, Andrew Barson, David Taylor
Abstract: A method and system for auditing money items within a secure housing, the money items being collected from a multi-denomination money item storage unit and validated while being transported by a conveyor that deposits them back into the multi-denomination storage unit after they have been identified. The same process is done with the money items present in the at least one hopper.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 15, 2014
Date of Patent:
July 4, 2017
Assignee:
Crane Payment Solutions Limited
Inventors:
Robert James Blythin, Andrew Barson, Wesley Perry
Abstract: An apparatus for conveying money items, which is configured to singulate money items during conveyance, sense characteristics of money items during conveyance and eject money items from a conveyor.
Abstract: An apparatus for conveying money items, which is configured to singulate money items during conveyance, sense characteristics of money items during conveyance and eject money items from a conveyor.