US 12,094,284 B2
Assembly and method for processing value documents
Andreas Jakobs, Munich (DE); Wolfgang Koniger, Karlsfeld (DE); Michael Knickrehm, Augsburg (DE); Ralf Linck, Munich (DE); Helmut-Karl Reinisch, Munich (DE); Christian Voellmer, Pullach (DE); and Carsten Nadolny, Munich (DE)
Assigned to GIESECKE-DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/776,475
Filed by GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/025504
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/093990, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019007872.1 (DE), filed on Nov. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0392294 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G07D 11/18 (2019.01); B65G 47/52 (2006.01); B65G 47/90 (2006.01); G07D 7/181 (2016.01); G07D 11/50 (2019.01)
CPC G07D 11/18 (2019.01) [B65G 47/52 (2013.01); B65G 47/90 (2013.01); G07D 7/181 (2017.05); G07D 11/50 (2019.01); G07D 2207/00 (2013.01); G07D 2211/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly for processing value documents, having
a transport apparatus for value-document receptacles, which is configured to transport several value-document receptacles, by which respectively at least one value-document stack can be received, along a direction of circulation,
at least one, in particular two or more, checking apparatuses for checking value documents, which are connected to the transport apparatus,
wherein the assembly has at least one transport interface for each of the checking apparatuses, by which the respective checking apparatus is connected to the transport apparatus in such a manner that value-document stacks, possibly together with a value-document receptacle receiving the respective at least one value-document stack, can be transported via the respective transport interface from the transport apparatus to the respective checking apparatus and/or from the respective checking apparatus to the transport apparatus, wherein
the transport apparatus forms a cyclically circulating transport loop for the value-document receptacles, and
the respective checking apparatus is connected to the cyclically circulating transport loop by the respective transport interface in such a manner that the respective value-document stack, possibly together with the respective value-document receptacle receiving at least one value-document stack, can be transported via the respective transport interface from the cyclically circulating transport loop to the respective checking apparatus and/or from the respective checking apparatus to the cyclically circulating transport loop,
wherein for at least one of the checking apparatuses the transport interface has a gripper which is configured:
to remove respectively one value-document stack from the cyclically circulating transport loop and to feed the respective value-document stack to the respective checking apparatus, and/or
to take over respectively one value-document stack from the respective checking apparatuses and to feed it to the cyclically circulating transport loop.