Patent GB-1374805-A (GB)
Title: Automatic money-issuing system
IPC: G07D1/00
Filed: 1971-09-08
Abstract: 1374805 Dispensing cash GLORY KOGYO KK 8 Sept 1971 [11 Sept 1970] 22090/74 Divided out of 1374804 Heading G4X In money dispensing apparatus, a number representing an amount to be dispensed is set up as a succession of constituent parts (e.g. digits or pairs of digits of the number), and during the dispensing operation, these constituent parts (rather than the whole number) are successively compared with signals representing amounts of money dispensed to ensure the dispensing of the desired amount. In the system shown in Fig. 1, cash issuing (e.g. for wage payments) is controlled by a prerecorded tape, Fig. 2 (not shown), which is read at TR. On reading a first bit of data on the tape, TR initiates the switching of C 1  to connect l 1  to l 2  so that the next bit of data read (a personal code) is fed in binary coded form, digit-by-digit, through C 2  and BR to a shift register SR 1 , the personal code being displayed at DP. On reading the third bit of data on the tape, TR initiates switching of C 1  to connect l<SP>1</SP> and l 3 , so that the fourth bit of data (the amount of cash to be issued) is fed to shift register SR 2 , stored at M 1  and displayed at CDP. On reading the fifth bit of data (an instruction to issue cash), a signal to gate 1G ensures that the display at CDP remains unchanged and a signal to circuit DD initiates the dispensing of the highest denomination notes from a drum, Fig. 3 (not shown), formed with a number of peripherally-spaced pockets containing cash of various denominations. A device RD detects the issue of successive notes and the number issued is stored at CT. When this number corresponds to the relevant (depending upon the denomination of the notes) digit or digits held in SR 2 , a coincidence signal from comparator CR causes DD to stop the issuing of the highest denomination notes and to index the drum to the next highest denomination position. As shown at CDP, the amount to be issued is 109,500 yen, and since the highest value note is 10,000 yen, the comparator CR senses the first two digits held in SR 2  until 10 notes have been issued. The coincidence signal also shifts the values in SR 2  one place to the left, so that subsequently CR senses only the second most significant digit left in SR 2 . For example, digit 9 of the digits 09 is now sensed and one 5000 and four 1000 yen notes are issued, voltages being applied appropriately at T 1  and T 5  to gate G to ensure that CT registers the different values of these notes. The indexing of the drum may be controlled by circuits MC and DS, MC being linked to CDP, when, as in the example, it is desired to issue the least number of notes. Alternatively, circuit DS may be set to index the drum successively through the 10,000, 1000, 100 and 10 yen positions, by-passing the 5,000 and 500 yen positions, in which case up to nine notes of any one denomination 1,000 100 and 10 may be issued. When all necessary denominations have been issued, the digits in SR2 having been shifted to the left after the issue of notes corresponding to each successive digit of the amount to be issued, a circuit (not shown) detects the clearing of all orders (except the leftmost one) of SR 2  and generates a signal to stop operation of circuit DD. The next tape reading operation may then begin. The amount to be issued, set up in SR 2 , may be entered via a ten key keyboard TK instead of the pre-recorded tape. In operating the Fig. 6 system, the highest notes denomination (10,000) key FK is depressed and an amount to be paid out in such denomination notes is entered at a ten key keyboard TK. Signals representing the amount circulate in a loop NKR-FA-Xc-HA-NKR and are also fed to the highest denomination note storage register 10TR. The circulating data is displayed at DSP 1 . On depressing the " = " key CK, the amount represented by the circulation data is added to the amount stored in accumulator ACC, which prior to this first adding would have been in its cleared condition. The sum circulates in the closed loop. The highest but one denominatoon (5,000) key FK is next depressed whereupon the circulating sum is fed to ACC and DSP 1  is cleared. An amount to be issued in the highest but one denomination notes is then entered at TK, circulates in the loop and is fed to store 5TR. On depressing the " = " key, the circulating amount is added to the amount stored in ACC, the sum being circulated and displayed at DSP 1 . Amounts to be issued in 1000 and 500 notes are entered similarly. During the subsequent money issuing operation the contents of register 10TR and lower denomination registers are successively fed to register DSR, note issuing continuing until a count in DSC coincides with DSR. The money-issue-completion signal initiates a repeat of the transfers of the contents of 10TR and lower order registers into DSR, the contents this time being decoded and printed under the control of printer circuit PC.