Abstract: A printing apparatus for negotiable instruments and securities which can print visually unrecognizable data consisting of MICR characters, barcodes or the like on negotiable instruments or securities and judge whether or not the visually unrecognizable data are exactly printed thereon, the printing apparatus for negotiable instruments and securities including a blank storing section (2) for storing stacked blanks (1) for instruments or securities, a first printer (11, 14) for printing visually recognizable data on the blanks (1), a second printer (23, 24) for printing visually unrecognizable data on the blanks (1), a reader (32, 33) for reading out the visually unrecognizable data, an instrument or security storing section (36) for storing the stacked blanks (1) for which the printing operation and the reading operation have been completed as instruments or securities (1a), a blank transporting mechanism (3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 21, 22, 25, 31) for transporting the blanks (1) from the blank storing section (2) to the

Abstract: A currency sorting apparatus including a detector provided in a currency passage for detecting information necessary for discriminating the genuineness and the denominations of pieces of currency and outputting detection signals, a plurality of currency accommodating boxes provided downstream of the detector, the number of which is greater than the number of denominations of the pieces of currency to be sorted, each of the currency accommodating boxes being adapted for accommodating genuine pieces of currency in accordance with their denominations, a controller adapted for selectively feeding pieces of currency into the currency accommodating boxes in accordance with the detection signals input from the detector and a sorting mode selector for selecting a sorting mode which determines what currency accommodating boxes accommodates what denomination of pieces of currency and outputs a corresponding sorting mode signal when the sorting mode is selected.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for sorting various kinds of coins into various categories of coins. To this end, the invention includes a semicircular member having a plane surface and an arc surface. The semicircular member is capable of rotating between a first position wherein the plane surface is disposed substantially in the plane defined by a guiding edge and the arc surface is disposed within a guide rail and a second position wherein the plane surface is disposed normal to the guiding edge and the arc surface faces towards the upstream of the coin feeding direction. The semicircular member rotates from the first position to the second position when a first group coin is fed to collide with the semicircular member so as to diverge the coin away from the guiding edge so that the circumferential end of the coin closest to the guiding edge is disposed on a sort-out opening. The semicircular member returns to the first position when the coin passes the semicircular member.

Abstract: A coin wrapping machine having a pair of stacking drums rotatable in opposite directions, spiral coin support guides formed on the pair of stacking drums for supporting coins by their upper faces and stacking coins and a plurality of wrapping rollers for wrapping the thus stacked coins, the coin wrapping machine further including a plurality of pressurized air blowers which are disposed in such a manner that a blowing opening of each pressurized air blower faces a portion between the wrapping rollers and are adapted to blow pressurized air toward a leading edge of a wrapping paper. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made considerably compact.

Abstract: A coin wrapping machine having a pair of stacking drums rotatable in opposite directions, spiral coin support guides formed on the pair of stacking drums for supporting coins by their upper faces and stacking coins and a pair of wrapping rollers for wrapping the thus stacked coins, the coin wrapping machine being constituted so that the stacking drums are hollow and one of the wrapping rollers is disposed in each stacking drum in such a manner that a part thereof projects from an opening formed on a periphery of the stacking drum and that when coins are being wrapped, the coins can be held by the wrapping rollers and a driven roller disposed upstream of the pair of wrapping rollers with respect to the coin transportation direction. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made considerably compact.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for separating one specified kind of coins from a plurality of coins including various kinds of coins.

Abstract: A sheet take-out apparatus which takes out sheets from a sheet stacker by frictional force produced by friction between sheets and a plurality of take-out rollers and separates sheets one by one by frictional force which is produced by friction between the upper face of the sheet and a plurality of friction rollers disposed to be opposite to the take-out rollers and has the opposite direction to that of the first mentioned friction force and the first mentioned friction force, the sheet take-out apparatus including a controller for rotating the take-out rollers with low torque until the rotation of the take-out rollers has become steady. In this apparatus, since the sheets are prevented from being taken out and fed to the gap between the take-out rollers, it is prevented that the leading edges of sheets are damaged or that sheet jamming occurs, whereby it is possible to take out sheets one by one and feed them to a sheet stacking section.

Abstract: A coin feeding apparatus for a coin handling machine of the rotatable disk kind includes a guide extending along the coin flow path in the vicinity of an opening of a guide ring. The guide is swingable between a first position where its face is smoothly aligned with the inner circumference of the guide ring and a second position where the face is not smoothly aligned. The guide means, when disposed in its second position, acts to prevent the jamming of coins when the coins are driven in a reverse direction back through the opening onto the rotatable disk.

Abstract: A feeder of wrapping paper is located adjacent to a coin wrapping machine. The feeder comprises a frame, a turntable rotatably mounted on the frame, a motor positioned within the frame for rotating the turntable, guide plates for guiding the wrapping paper along a predetermined path, and a controller for controlling the operation of the motor. The turntable forms a substantially horizontal plane on which an operator can place a roll of the wrapping paper and is provided with a plurality of opening areas for accommodating the operator's fingers supporting a lower side surface of the roll. The controller controls the operation of the motor in association with a feed roller constituting a wrapping device of the coin wrapping machine. The roll of wrapping paper on the turntable is rotated with the rotation of the turntable by the motor so as to deliver the wrapping paper in association with the feed roller.

Abstract: A wrapping paper feeding apparatus for a coin wrapping machine in which a wrapping paper is withdrawn and fed to wrapping rollers by feed roller and stacked coins are wrapped by winding the wrapping paper therearound by use of wrapping rollers, the wrapping paper feeding apparatus including a turntable for holding a wrapping paper roll thereon, a motor for rotating the turntable, a blower disposed between the turntable and the feed roller for blowing air toward the wrapping paper fed out from the wrapping paper roll so as to form the wrapping paper with a loop, a sensor for detecting the loop of the wrapping paper, and a controller for causing the motor to stop rotation of the turntable when the sensor detects the loop of the wrapping paper and causing the motor to rotate the turntable when the sensor does not detect the loop of the wrapping paper.

Abstract: A coin discriminating and counting apparatus including a light emitter disposed linewise in the direction perpendicular to a coin transporting direction on one side of a coin passage with respect to the vertical direction, a sensor array disposed so as to be opposite to the light emitter on the other side of the coin passage, a magnetic sensor for detecting magnetic properties of coins, the magnetic sensor being disposed so that the coin passage and the sensor array are disposed therebetween with respect to the vertical direction, an optical data memory for storing optical data detected by the sensor array, a magnetic data memory for storing magnetic data detected by the magnetic sensor, a coin diameter detector for detecting diameters of coins based upon the optical data stored in the optical data memory, a denomination discriminator for discriminating coin denominations based upon the coin diameters detected by the coin diameter discriminator, a reference magnetic data memory for storing reference magnetic

Abstract: A coin receiving and dispensing machine comprising a discriminating and counting sensor for discriminating at least the denominations and genuineness of deposited coins and counting their value, a coin sorter for sorting the deposited coins in accordance their denominations, a plurality of temporary storing cylinders for receiving the coins sorted by the coin sorter from an upper opening thereof and temporarily storing the received coins as stacked separately in accordance with their denominations and a plurality of dispensing coin storing cylinders for receiving and storing the coins stored in the plurality of temporary storing cylinders as dispensing coins separately in accordance with their denominations, the coin receiving and dispensing machine further including a coin collector for, in the case where it is judged based upon the result of the discrimination and counting made by the discriminating and counting sensor that at least one of the dispensing coin storing cylinders is full of coins, collecting t

Abstract: An adjustable bill-discrimination system which detects at least one of physical quantities of a bill and compares the detected data of the bill with a predetermined discrimination level to determine whether a bill is damaged or not, wherein a detection means detects at least one of physical quantities of a damaged bill selected by an operator. The detected physical quantities are stored in a memory means, and the data stored in the memory means are used as a level in accordance with which it is determined whether a bill is damaged or not; in other words, to discriminate damaged bills from clean ones. Preferably, the memory means is a reloadable memory means whereby data written to the reloadable memory means can be replaced by fresh data when an operator wishes.

Abstract: A bill discriminating apparatus having a light emitter for emitting light onto bills and two color detectors for selectively and photoelectrically detecting light components contained in light emitted from the light emitter and transmitted through or reflected by the bills to be discriminated and having different wavelengths, each being for outputting signals corresponding to a detected amount of the light component, the bill discriminating apparatus including two reference color detectors for selectively and photoelectrically detecting light contained in light emitted from the light emitter and having different wavelengths, each being for outputting signals corresponding to a detected amount of light, a correction value calculator for calculating a ratio of signals output from the two reference color detectors, a corrector for correcting the signals output from one of the two color detectors based upon signals output from the correction value calculator, a differential amplifier for differentially amplifying

Abstract: A coin receiving and dispensing machine including a plurality of temporary storing cylinders for receiving deposited coins from an upper opening thereof and temporarily storing the received coins as stacked separately in accordance with their denominations and a plurality of dispensing coin storing cylinders for receiving and storing the coins stored in the plurality of temporary storing cylinders as dispensing coins separately in accordance with their denominations, each pair of the temporary storing cylinders and the dispensing coin storing cylinders which store the same denomination of coins being arranged laterally of each other. This machine can receive and dispense a sufficient amount of coins without need for increasing the height thereof and is particularly suitable as a desktop type coin receiving and dispensing machine.

Abstract: A bill processing apparatus capable of receiving and/or dispensing bills, the bill processing apparatus including a drum disposed in the vicinity of a bill transaction opening capable of communicating between the outside and inside of the bill processing apparatus and secured to a center shaft rotatably mounted on the bill processing apparatus, the drum having a bill accumulating portion which has an opening at one side thereof and can receive the bills via said opening and accumulate them therein, a bill feed-in passage for feeding the bills from the bill accumulating portion into the inside of the bill processing apparatus, a bill feed-out passage for feeding the bills from the inside of the bill processing apparatus to the bill accumulating portion, a drum rotating devices for rotating the drum so that the opening of the bill accumulating portion can selectively communicate with the bill transaction opening, the bill feed-in passage or the bill feed-out passage, and bill transporting rollers provided for t

Abstract: A coin feed-in apparatus for a coin handling machine including a rotatable disk for receiving coins, guide ring having an opening for guiding the coins, which were received by the rotatable disk and moved toward the periphery of the rotatable disk by centrifugal force produced by the rotation of the rotatable disk, by the inner circumference thereof, a coin passage communicating with the opening and having a pair of first and second guide rails and a transporting belt for transporting the coins, the coins being transported along the first guide rail disposed on the side of the rotatable disk, a discriminator for discriminating the denomination, genuineness and the like of coins, a counter for counting the value of deposited coins, coin sorting openings for sorting the coins in accordance with their denominations, the respective discriminator, the counter and the coin sorting openings being arranged along the first guide rail, and a guide roller rotatable and disposed upstream of the first guide rail, the guid

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the thickness of sheets by detecting displacement of one of a pair of rollers disposed so as to face each other across a transporting path of the sheets, the pair of the rollers being driven by a driving motor and including a reference roller rotatable about a fixed shaft and a movable roller abuttable against the reference roller and rotatably mounted on a movable shaft displaceable with respect to the reference roller, the apparatus further including a timing signal generator for generating timing signals synchronized with rotation of the reference roller and the movable roller, a displacement detector for detecting an amount of displacement of the movable roller by detecting an amount of displacement of the movable shaft in synchronism with the timing signals, a sheet detector for detecting whether or not the sheets are present at a portion where the reference roller and the movable roller face each other, a sheet thickness calculator for calculating the thickness of the sheet by

Abstract: A coin wrapping machine which discriminates genuineness, denomination, etc. of coins, counts the monetary amount of the coins, sorts them out by denomination and wraps them in a desired order in separate denominations.

Abstract: A bill receiving and dispensing machine capable of receiving bills of two or more denominations and dispensing bills of at least one denomination among the denominations of the received bills. A plurality of stackers for storing the received bills and feed-out rollers for taking out bills stored in the plurality of stackers one by one from the plurality of stackers by frictional force between each of the feed-out rollers and the lower face of the lowermost bill. The feed-out rollers are positioned at a lower portion of the plurality of stackers. One of the plurality of stackers includes a pooling compartment for temporarily storing the received bills. A bill holding plate for receiving bills from the pooling compartment and holding them on the upper face thereof, the bill holding plate being movable in the vertical direction while being held horizontally.