US 11,908,264 B2
Multipurpose cashbag level and banknote presence in escrow detector
Dmytro Baydin, Glenmoore, PA (US); Pavlo Tsushko, Kyiv (UA); Yurii Rudenko, Kyiv (UA); Vitaliy Kochubey, Kyiv (UA); David Charles Deaville, West Chester, PA (US); and Vjatseslav Balovnev, Knutsford (GB)
Assigned to Crane Payment Innovations, Inc., Malvern, PA (US)
Filed by Crane Payment Innovations, Inc., Malvern, PA (US)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/452,312.
Application 17/452,312 is a continuation of application No. 16/175,608, filed on Oct. 30, 2018, granted, now 11,210,887.
Claims priority of application No. a 2018 08046 (UA), filed on Jul. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0044514 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65B 57/10 (2006.01); B65H 31/02 (2006.01); B65H 31/34 (2006.01); G07D 11/00 (2019.01); G07D 11/23 (2019.01); B65B 51/10 (2006.01); G07D 11/16 (2019.01); G07D 11/235 (2019.01)
CPC G07D 11/23 (2019.01) [B65B 5/067 (2013.01); B65B 51/10 (2013.01); B65B 57/10 (2013.01); G07D 11/16 (2019.01); G07D 11/235 (2019.01); G07D 2211/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cashbag sealing system comprising:
a banknote transport mechanism;
a storing unit, wherein the banknote transport mechanism is operable to transport a banknote to the storing unit, wherein the storing unit is operable to store the banknote transported to the storing unit, and wherein the storing unit includes:
a banknote storing bag to store the banknote, the banknote storing bag detachably coupled to the storing unit; and
an escrow plate provided above the banknote storing bag operable to escrow the banknote before the banknote transported to the storing unit is stored in the banknote storing bag,
wherein the escrow plate is operable to move from a horizontally extending hold position to a release position, and
wherein the banknote transported to the storing unit is escrowed on the escrow plate when the escrow plate is located at the horizontally extending hold position; and
a sensor configured to:
measure a height of a banknote stack on the escrow plate; and
measure a level of banknotes in the banknote storing bag,
wherein the sensor is located on a top portion of the storing unit and faces down towards the escrow plate, and wherein the escrow plate is arranged to allow the sensor to view into the banknote storing bag.