09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
36 - Services financiers, assurances et affaires immobilières
42 - Services scientifiques, technologiques et industriels, recherche et conception
Produits et services
(1) Cashless payment transaction devices, namely, computer hardware and software for receiving, processing, and transmitting cashless financial payment transactions from points of sale associated the purchase of goods and services; electronic payment terminals featuring the ability to process traditional and electronic monetary payments; point-of-sale terminals for making contactless payments; all of the foregoing for use also with vending machines, amusement games, payment kiosks, gaming machines, retail and transit payment kiosks using cash and cashless payment, and traditional monetary and wireless points of sale payment systems (1) Electronic commerce and payment processor services, namely, processing of contactless credit and debit card payments, financial information processing; financial information processing services featuring the processing of product promotions and product advertising information; bill payment services; credit and cash card payment processing services, including for use with electronically stored credit and cash cards; all of the foregoing for use also with vending machines, amusement games, payment kiosks, gaming machines, retail and transit payment kiosks using cash and cashless payment, and traditional monetary and wireless points of sale payment systems; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software and applications for receiving, processing, and transmitting cashless financial payment transactions from points of sale associated the purchase of goods and services
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
36 - Services financiers, assurances et affaires immobilières
42 - Services scientifiques, technologiques et industriels, recherche et conception
Produits et services
(1) Cashless payment transaction devices, namely, computer hardware and software for receiving, processing, and transmitting cashless financial payment transactions from points of sale associated the purchase of goods and services; electronic payment terminals featuring the ability to process traditional and electronic monetary payments; point-of-sale terminals for making contactless payments; all of the foregoing for use also with vending machines, amusement games, payment kiosks, gaming machines, retail and transit payment kiosks using cash and cashless payment, and traditional monetary and wireless points of sale payment systems (1) Electronic commerce and payment processor services, namely, processing of contactless credit and debit card payments, financial information processing; financial information processing services featuring the processing of product promotions and product advertising information; bill payment services; credit and cash card payment processing services, including for use with electronically stored credit and cash cards; all of the foregoing for use also with vending machines, amusement games, payment kiosks, gaming machines, retail and transit payment kiosks using cash and cashless payment, and traditional monetary and wireless points of sale payment systems; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software and applications for receiving, processing, and transmitting cashless financial payment transactions from points of sale associated the purchase of goods and services
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VENDING MACHINE CONTROLLER WITH INNOVATIVE DISPLAY FEATURES
A vending having a vending machine controller for calculating credit acceptance, calculating credit return, signaling product dispensing, displaying information on a display, monitoring environmental conditions, and controlling lighting. Coin and bill acceptors are also included that receive and validate coins and bills and, optionally, pay coins and bills back as change. A product dispenser vends product in response to a signal from the vending machine controller. A cashless payment device reads a customer's cashless payment device and transmits the cashless payment information to the vending machine controller. Finally, the vending machine controller includes a network interface controller for communicating information about the customer's cashless payment device across a network and for receiving information about whether the cashless payment device is valid for making a purchase from the vending machine. A touch screen display communicates messages from the vending machine controller to a customer and interprets customer contact with the display.
G07F 9/02 - Dispositifs pour donner l'alarme ou une indication, p. ex. quand l'appareil est videAménagements publicitaires des appareils déclenchés par des pièces de monnaie
G06K 7/08 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour la lecture de supports d'enregistrement avec des moyens de perception des modifications d'un champ électrostatique ou magnétique, p. ex. par perception des modifications de la capacité entre des électrodes
G06F 3/041 - Numériseurs, p. ex. pour des écrans ou des pavés tactiles, caractérisés par les moyens de transduction
A device for sensing predetermined characteristics of an object such as a coin or a token in order to determine its validity or genuineness and in some cases its denomination, the device including a combination of optical and electromagnetic sensors which operate together along a coin path and capable to analyze the coin or token in different positions so that if there are multiple holes or rings of transparent material they can be sensed and used to determine the coin or token's validity and denomination.
A method of examining a coin for determining the validity of its denomination, comprises the steps of moving a coin through a passageway, sensing said moving coin in said passageway with one or more sensors to interact with said moving coin and provide at least two values indicative of the said coin, calculating two or more coin features by using said at least two values, determining that said coin features values lie between predetermined minimum and maximum stored values, applying predetermined coefficients of weightederror to each of said coin features, calculating weighted-error correlation coefficients using two or more of the said coin feature values, and determining validity when the said calculated weighted-error correlation coefficient is above predetermined minimum stored values, or when said coefficient is the maximum of all calculated coefficients.
A method of receiving and paying out bills including the steps of providing a bill passage in about the central portion of an elongate casing that extends along one side of a bill receiving chamber having a bill payback: outlet; providing a bill conveying apparatus for conveying a bill delivered to said bill passage to a predetermined position for receiving it; utilizing a bill pushing member being capable of moving in a reciprocating motion across said passage to bill receiving chamber when the bill located at said predetermined position in said passage to be received, effects receiving of the bill by pushing it with a surface of said bill pushing member across from said passage; disengaging the rearmost bill from said bill receiving chamber by operating bill extracting apparatus in the reverse direction by a predetermined amount while said bill pushing member is activated causing it to extract away and pull out from a rearmost bill leading edge retainer which holds the remaining bills in position; and, operating the extracting apparatus in the forward direction to transport said extracted rearmost bill through said bill payback outlet to said bill conveying apparatus which is operated in reverse to direct it to the customer.
B65H 31/26 - Dispositifs auxiliaires pour retenir les articles dans la pile
B65H 31/06 - Récepteurs de piles avec support d'extrémité mobile disposé pour reculer au fur et à mesure que la pile se forme les articles étant empilés de chant
G07D 9/00 - Comptage de pièces de monnaieManipulation de pièces de monnaie non prévue dans les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe
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A METHOD OF EXAMINING A COIN FOR DETERMINING ITS VALIDITY AND DENOMINATION
A method of examining a coin for determining the validity of its denomination, comprises the steps of moving a coin through a passageway, sensing said moving coin in said passageway with one or more sensors to interact with said moving coin and provide at leasf two values indicative of the said coin, calculating two or more coin features by using said at least two values, determining that said coin features values lie between predetermined minimum and maximum stored values, applying predetermined coefficients of weighted- error to each of said coin features, calculating weighted-error correlation coefficients using two or more of the said coin feature values, and determining validity when the said calculated weighted-error correlation coefficient is above predetermined minimum stored values, or when said coefficient is the maximum of all calculated coefficients.
A method of receiving and paying out bills including the steps of providing a bill passage in about the central portion of an elongate casing that extends along one side of a bill receiving chamber having a bill payback outlet; providing a bill conveying apparatus for conveying a bill delivered to said bill passage to a predetermined position for receiving it; utilizing a bill pushing member being capable of moving in a reciprocating motion across said passage to bill receiving chamber when the bill located at said predetermined position in said passage to be received, effects receiving of the bill by pushing it with a surface of said bill pushing member across from said passage; disengaging the rearmost bill from said bill receiving chamber by operating bill extracting apparatus in the reverse direction by a predetermined amount while said bill pushing member is activated causing it to extract away and pull out from a rearmost bill leading edge retainer which holds the remaining bills in position; and, operating the extracting apparatus in the forward direction to transport said extracted rearmost bill through said bill payback outlet to said bill conveying apparatus which is operated in reverse to direct it to the customer.
A method for displaying coin store operating levels in a coin changer comprising the steps of activating a visual display to show recommended coin denominations and coin operating levels for a plurality of coin stores and manually positioning level indicators attached to each of said plurality of coin stores to a position indicated by the visual display, the coin store having a plurality of marked positions. An apparatus for employing the method is also disclosed.
A cassette having a plurality of coin stores for storing and dispensing coins in a coin changer, the coin stores arranged in a plurality of rows of coin stores, and a coin reject path for transporting coins that have been rejected by the coin changer, the coin reject path being disposed between rows of the coin stores.
G07D 9/00 - Comptage de pièces de monnaieManipulation de pièces de monnaie non prévue dans les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe
G07D 5/00 - Vérification spécialement adaptée à la détermination de l'identité ou de l'authenticité des pièces de monnaie, p. ex. pour séparer les pièces qui ne peuvent pas être acceptées ou qui sont en monnaie étrangère
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COIN CHANGER WITH COIN STORAGE CASSETTE HAVING ILLUMINATION AND AUDIBLE AND VISUAL FEEDBACK SIGNALS
A coin changer including a coin changer housing comprising a coin storage cassette. The coin storage cassette comprises a plurality of coin stores. A light source is located within the housing that directs light onto the coin stores with the light source providing sufficient light to allow a user to substantially view the coin stores in the absence of another light source.
A method of operating a coin changer comprising the steps of activating a visual display to show recommended operating levels for a plurality of coin stores and manually positioning level indicators associated with each of the plurality of coin stores to suggested operating levels displayed on the visual display.
G07D 9/00 - Comptage de pièces de monnaieManipulation de pièces de monnaie non prévue dans les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe
G07D 5/00 - Vérification spécialement adaptée à la détermination de l'identité ou de l'authenticité des pièces de monnaie, p. ex. pour séparer les pièces qui ne peuvent pas être acceptées ou qui sont en monnaie étrangère
A tray 10 for a product vending machine including a flat base 16 upon which product to be vended may be placed. A plurality of walls 14 are attached to the base 16 which define rows 12 into which product is organized. A channel 13 within the flat base 16 houses a threaded shaft 22. The threaded shaft 22 threadingly attaches to a product drive member 24. An elevator 102 for moving to the location of a desired tray 10, extending a rotable product drive 104 to mate with a mating surface of the tray, and rotating the product drive 104 to rotate the threaded shaft 22 to force the product drive member 24 to drive product 100 within the row past resilient arms 20 into the elevator 102.
A device (10) for the payout of coins includes a plurality of coin storage units (12-26), a plurality of coin discharge members (28-42), and an endless element (44) having an engagement pin 46. Each coin storage unit (12-26) has a coin discharge member (28-42) located at one end of the coin storage unit (12-26). The coin discharge members (28-42) are each physically adapted to rotate about a pivot point such that when the coin discharge members (28-42) are rotated in a first direction the coin discharge members (28-42) cause a coin to be ejected from its respective coin storage unit (12-26). When the coin discharge members (28-42) are rotated in a second direction a coin is not discharged from its respective coin storage unit (12-26). The endless element 44 and engagement pin (46) are physically arranged to allow the engagement pin (46) to rotate the coin discharge members (28-42) in the first direction when the endless element (44) is rotated in a first direction and to rotate the coin discharge members (28-42) in the second direction when the endless element (44) is rotated in a second direction.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
Vending machines; bill validators, coin changers and detectors, acceptors, slug rejectors, collectors and percentage dividers; coin devices, coin changers, receivers, coin stops, collectors and percentaging devices; automatic apparatus operated by the insertion of a coin or token; apparatus and instruments for processing coins and tokens, for giving change and checking coins, devices rejecting bad coins; coin separators (units equipped to sort coins of different values), coin changers (units for receiving different coins and automatically determining the value of the inserted coin or coins and giving the customer the correct amount back) and detectors (units for receiving inserted coins and automatically sorting out bad coins or tokens); automatic vending machines and apparatus, automatic machines and apparatus operated by the introduction of a coin or token, automatic machines and apparatus operated by means of bank notes, credit cards, charge cards and purchase cards, automatic machines and apparatus for changing money, automatic machines and apparatus for detecting counterfeit money, automatic machines and apparatus for validating bank notes and invoices, automatic cash totalling (cumulating) machines and apparatus; automatic devices operating through the introduction of a coin or token; equipment and instruments for the processing of cash and tokens, for the distribution, checking and changing of money; devices for rejecting counterfeit money; vending machines; coin feed and coin actuated machines and apparatus; machines actuated by paper money, charge cards, debit cards and cash cards; money changing machines; counterfeit money detecting machines and apparatus; bill validators, coin accumulators (totalisers); parts and fittings of all the aforesaid goods.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
Vending machines; bill validators, coin changers and detectors, acceptors, slug rejectors, collectors and percentage dividers; coin devices, coin changers, receivers, coin stops, collectors and percentaging devices; automatic apparatus operated by the insertion of a coin or token; apparatus and instruments for processing coins and tokens, for giving change and checking coins, devices rejecting bad coins; coin separators (units equipped to sort coins of different values), coin changers (units for receiving different coins and automatically determining the value of the inserted coin or coins and giving the customer the correct amount back) and detectors (units for receiving inserted coins and automatically sorting out bad coins or tokens); automatic vending machines and apparatus, automatic machines and apparatus operated by the introduction of a coin or token, automatic machines and apparatus operated by means of bank notes, credit cards, charge cards and purchase cards, automatic machines and apparatus for changing money, automatic machines and apparatus for detecting counterfeit money, automatic machines and apparatus for validating bank notes and invoices, automatic cash totalling (cumulating) machines and apparatus; automatic devices operating through the introduction of a coin or token; equipment and instruments for the processing of cash and tokens, for the distribution, checking and changing of money; devices for rejecting counterfeit money; vending machines; coin feed and coin actuated machines and apparatus; machines actuated by paper money, charge cards, debit cards and cash cards; money changing machines; counterfeit money detecting machines and apparatus; bill validators, coin accumulators (totalisers); parts and fittings of all the aforesaid goods.
