Toggle-operated Jaw Patents (Class 104/206)
  • Patent number: 8689700
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for handling banknotes comprising an input and output unit, a control unit, at least one money cassette, a reject cassette and a transport unit to transport the banknotes. In addition, a stock counter is provided that indicates the current quantity of banknotes in the money cassette. When an incorrect withdrawal occurs after at least one banknote is removed from the money cassette, the banknotes from this incorrect withdrawal are transported to the reject cassette. A reject counter is assigned to the money cassette that indicates the total number of banknotes removed from said money cassette and taken to the reject cassette, wherein the value of said reject counter is increased by the value of the banknotes transported to the reject cassette when the incorrect withdrawal occurs. A virtual auxiliary cassette is set up in the software of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Hoeschen
  • Patent number: 7426889
    Abstract: A clamping device for coupling a transport device, for example a cabin, gondola, or a chair, to the hauling or traction cable of a cableway system. The clamping device contains two clamping jaws that can be moved toward one another or apart for coupling the clamping device to and uncoupling it from the hauling or traction cable. Exchangeable jaws, via which the clamping jaws act on the hauling or traction cable, are fastened to the clamping jaws. A bearing surface on the clamping jaws for the exchangeable jaws is curved concavely, and a counter surface on the exchangeable jaws has a corresponding curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Luger, Bernd Meindl
  • Patent number: 7216591
    Abstract: A bill deposit/withdrawal machine for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills which includes a deposit/withdrawal port for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills, a bill discriminating unit for discriminating bills, a temporary storage box for temporarily storing bills, a reject box for storing rejected bills, and a plurality of bill accepting boxes for accepting recycle bills. The reject box is disposed on a path diverged from a bill transport path which transports bills from the temporary storage box to the bill discriminating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions Corp.
    Inventors: Riichi Katou, Kunihisa Matsuura, Itsunori Utsumi, Kenji Okuna
  • Patent number: 6968787
    Abstract: A bill acceptor assembly for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency at a gaming table. The bill acceptor assembly includes a validator assembly capable of accepting a stack of individual notes in a receiving slot mounted to the gaming table, processing the notes one at a time, and passing valid notes through a hole in the gaming table or along the back edge of the gaming table to a cash box located below the gaming table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: JCM American Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Heidel, Gwen D. Mathis
  • Patent number: 6321658
    Abstract: A mobile jaw (11,12) vice (10) for clamping and unclamping vehicles (19) to and from a traction cable (13) of a single-cable or two-cable transport system, such as a chair lift, a funicular cableway and a city transport system or a telpher, comprising a lever system (14, 15, 16) for arm (17, 18) and jaw (11, 12) handling, adapted to guarantee a suitable opening and an effective grip of the vice (10) onto the cable (13) also in case of wide oscillations of the vehicle (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Leitner S.p.A.
    Inventors: Otto Pabst, Ferruccio Levi
  • Patent number: 5568771
    Abstract: A detachable grip of a gondola lift or chairlift has a movable jaw urged towards a fixed jaw by a pair of compression springs. The movable jaw is rigidly secured to one end of an operating lever, which pivots in a vertical plane containing the grip body to control the opening or closure onto the cable of the jaws. One end of the springs is secured near the free end of the operating lever, opposite to the movable jaw, and the other end of the springs is secured near the fixed jaw. The mutual distance of the spring ends near the fixed jaw is higher than the mutual distance of the spring ends near the the free end of the operating lever, so that the springs are twice inclined with respect to the grip body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Pomagalski S.A.
    Inventor: Max Brochand
  • Patent number: 5452662
    Abstract: A device for coupling a ferry, such as a gondola or chair, to the hoisting r load cable of an overhead cableway system includes a clamping body with rollers. A first clamping jaw is rigidly secured. A second clamping jaw can be swiveled relative to the first clamping jaw. The second clamping jaw is located on one end of a two-armed clamping lever on whose other end a control element, such as a cam roller, is provided. When the control elements cooperates with an actuator, such as a cam rail, the clamping lever is pivoted relative to the clamping body counter to the action of at least one torsion spring. That pivoting causes the second clamping jaw to reach its open position. A toggle joint or elbow joint is provided which connects the torsion spring with the clamping lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Konrad Doppelmayr & Sohn Maschinenfabrik Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG
    Inventor: Kurt Switzeny
  • Patent number: 5082538
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for replenishing metal ions in an electrolyte depleted of the metal ions. A preferred example is replenishing tin in the electrolyte of an electrolytic tinning apparatus having an insoluble anode. The electrolyte thus becomes depleted of tin in the electrotinning process. The replenishment apparatus comprises an electrolytic cell including a tin anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte chamber for the tin anode and the cathode. The cathode is a gas diffusion electrode. An electrical circuit, usually having additional circuit resistance but free of connection to an external power source, connects the anode to the cathode. The electrolyte chamber has an electrolyte inlet, and an electrolyte outlet which is in flow communication with the electrolytic tinning apparatus. The gas diffusion electrode is exposed, on its gas side, to a source of gaseous reactant, e.g., oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: ELTECH Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Donald L. DeRespiris, Eric J. Rudd, Carolyn Schue
  • Patent number: 4403552
    Abstract: A grip assembly and method for detachably mounting a chair, gondola or the like to a movable cable is disclosed. The grip assembly includes a movable jaw, spring biasing means coupled to bias the jaw to a closed position, and jaw actuating means in the form of opposed toggle joints coupled to move the jaw between open and closed positions upon the application of equal, opposite and aligned forces to knee portions of the toggle joints. A mechanism for applying the actuating forces to the grip assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Inventor: Jan K. Kunczynski