EP3379504B1 - Cash machine, atm and the like comprising a banknote introduction control device - Google Patents

Cash machine, atm and the like comprising a banknote introduction control device Download PDF

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Publication number: EP3379504B1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: opening; barrier; atm; auxiliary; cash machine
Prior art date: 2017-03-23
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EP18163530.1A

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Giuseppe Ezio Fumanelli

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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F19/00—Complete banking systems; Coded card-freed arrangements adapted for dispensing or receiving monies or the like and posting such transactions to existing accounts, e.g. automatic teller machines
- G07F19/20—Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
- G07F19/203—Dispensing operations within ATMs
- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
- G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
- G07D11/10—Mechanical details
- G07D11/14—Inlet or outlet ports
- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
- G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
- G07D11/40—Device architecture, e.g. modular construction
- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F19/00—Complete banking systems; Coded card-freed arrangements adapted for dispensing or receiving monies or the like and posting such transactions to existing accounts, e.g. automatic teller machines
- G07F19/20—Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
- G07F19/205—Housing aspects of ATMs

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the present invention relates to a Cash Machine, ATM and the like comprising a banknote introduction control device of the type specified in the preamble of the first claim.
banknotes and valuables comprise a safe suitable to contain banknotes and valuables and control means suitable to dispense banknotes and valuables to an authorized user.
the dispensing of banknotes and valuables takes place once the user has been identified by means of code cards or the like, and it takes place by means of a dispenser mouth, communicating with the inside of the safe, suitable to dispense banknotes or values to the external user.
dispenser mouths are generally designed for public areas, accessible to users.
This component constitutes the end part of a dispenser channel comprising an elongated body for the passage of the banknotes and valuables entering or leaving the safe. Inside the safe, there is a dispenser where the banknotes are stored.
An elongated body in correspondence with the outer face exposed to the public, comprises a slit or the like through which the valuables and banknotes, usually grouped into bundles, are introduced.
dispenser channels comprise a conveying device generally consisting of an element adapted to convey or push the banknotes along the elongated body in the direction of the customer side external mouth.
one possible theft attempt perpetrated on the armoured casing of automatic dispensers of banknotes and valuables comprises that, in the same, a fluid, powder or nevertheless an explosive substance is inserted directly into the safe through the dispenser mouth.
the criminals equipped themselves with special instruments or cables having a length greater than the length of the elongated body, so as to allow the introduction of said substances passing: the external mouth, the entire elongated body and the internal opening of the safe.
the two barriers are usually always closed and, in the dispensing phase, they only open one at a time, so that one of the two openings is always closed.
this second barrier which closes the safe, cannot always be totally closed in correspondence with a disbursement.
an ATM having an elongated body extending out of the safe of the ATM.
the elongated body which connects to the outer wall of the ATM comprises a dispensing mouth and an obstructor to close the mouth when not in use.
an ATM is provided with a mouth comprising a retractable dispensing slot. The mouth is closed with a barrier when the dispensing slot is retracted.
the technical task underlying the present invention is to develop a Cash Machine, ATM and the like comprising a banknote introduction control device capable of substantially overcoming at least part of the stated drawbacks.
a Cash Machine, ATM and the like comprising a security device, which is secure both during the phase of dispensing and returning banknotes to the safe and which is capable of resisting in the event of attacks using significant quantities of explosives.
a safe 2 for containing a dispenser or a device for recycling banknotes and valuables defining an inner volume 2a, and an outer face 7.
the safe 2 is known in itself and comprises drawers, suitable to contain the various denominations of banknotes. Furthermore, the safe 2 isn't always placed in direct contact with the outer face 7, but, in many cases, it is distant from the same by approximately half a meter.
the outer face 7 comprises means for interacting with the public of a known type, such as a screen, a keypad, a slit for introducing a card and a slit for introducing and withdrawing banknotes and valuables described below, as well as others.
the Cash Machine, ATM or the like 1 comprises a conveying device 3, suitable to convey banknotes and valuables from the inner volume 2a to the outside and vice versa, in particular in correspondence with the outer face 7.
the conveying device 3 substantially consists of a movable body moved by special guides 10 or racks or moving belts driven, in turn, by electric motors.
the conveying device 3 is also connected by electrical connections or cables 6 to electrical and/or electronic control devices housed inside 2a the safe 2.
Said electrical connection 6 consists of a cable or electrical conductors.
Said cable is preferably a flat-cable, in other words, a cable of a flat type, preferably arranged with the main extension direction of the normal section preferably vertical. In this way, the cable folds over and rolls and unrolls on itself, when the conveying device extends in direction 7, passing through the opening 4.
the safe 2 normally comprises an opening 4, suitable to allow the passage of the conveying device 3 and, consequently, the transfer of banknotes and valuables from the inner volume 2a, passing the first barrier towards the second 9, placed on the external customer side.
the opening 4 is preferably crossed by an elongated body 8 defining a passage between the opening 4 and a dispenser mouth 9, placed on the outer face 7. More specifically, the elongated body 8 is a body whose dimensions are suitable to allow the transport of the banknotes, defining an inner channel 8a. Thus, the elongated body 8 is the space along which the conveying device 3 is moved 3.
the Cash Machine, ATM or the like 1 preferably comprises a security device 5 suitable to close, at least partially, the opening 4.
the security device comprises a first barrier, inside or outside the safe 50, for the opening of the passage 4, and a second barrier 59, suitable to close the dispenser mouth 9.
the first barrier 50 is ready, waiting for a dispensing request on command in: a closed configuration and in an open configuration, waiting for the passage of the shuttle, and a conveying configuration or partially closed configuration after the passage of the conveying means 3.
the first barrier 50 keeps the opening 4 fully open for the passage of the conveying device 3.
the first barrier 50 closes the opening 4 completely, or at least by 70% or better, by 80% or even better, by 90%.
the opening 4 is closed and at least one auxiliary opening 4a is kept open.
the auxiliary openings 4a can comprise a first auxiliary opening 40a and/or a second auxiliary opening 40b.
the auxiliary opening 4a are kept open, in the case of the first auxiliary opening 40a to not compress or sever the electrical connection 6 connected to the inner volume 2a said conveying device 3 and, in the case of the second auxiliary opening 40b so as to allow the movement of the first portion 51 avoiding the interference of other objects, i.e.: the guides 10, within the trajectory of the first portion 51.
the first auxiliary opening 40a is preferably suitable to allow the passage of a vertical flat cable, and it is preferably in the upper part of the first barrier 50.
the second auxiliary opening 40b is preferably suitable to allow the movement of the first portion 51 avoiding the interference of other objects, i.e.: the guides 10, within the trajectory of the first portion 51. Therefore, it is preferably placed at the sides of the barrier 50.
the first barrier 50 preferably comprises: a first portion 51 consisting of a barrier movable with respect to the opening 4, suitable to partially close the opening 4 and comprising, preferably, a slit defining the auxiliary opening 4a and at least one auxiliary portion 52 consisting of a barrier movable with respect to both the opening 4 and the first portion 51 and suitable to close the auxiliary opening 4a.
the first portions 51 is preferably in proximity to the wall of the safe 2, so it can be constrained to the same wall of the safe 2 or also arranged internally on the basket or other.
the auxiliary portion 52 comprises at least a first auxiliary portion 53a.
the first auxiliary portion 53a is suitable to close the first auxiliary opening 40a, and preferably moves substantially parallel with the first portion 51 and also in the same direction.
the first auxiliary portion 53a is also preferably in proximity to the wall of the safe 2, so it can be constrained to the same wall of the safe 2 or also arranged internally on the basket or other.
the second auxiliary portion 53b is suitable to close, at least partially, the second auxiliary opening 40b, and preferably moves not parallel, more preferably substantially perpendicular, to the first portion 51 and also preferably in the same direction.
the two portions 51 and 52 or 53 are both connected respectively by first and second moving means 51a and 52a integrated with a device adjacent to the wall, or inside the wall, of the safe 2e.
the first and second moving means 51a and 52a are preferably linear actuators, preferably endless screw type.
the second moving means 52a of the second auxiliary portion 53b are fixed on said first portion 51.
the security device 5 can also comprise tampering sensor means and/or alarm means, known per se, such as, for example the ones described in the same applicant's patent EP-B-2648168 from Paragraph 17 to paragraph 55 and in Figures 1a-4 and considered incorporated herein for reference.
the sensor means can be chosen, for example, among one or more of: system with photocells, accelerometers, inclination sensors, sensor along the presentation path of the banknotes, sensors on the external face of the Cash Machines, ATMs and the like.
the working of Cash Machines, ATMs and the like 1, previously described in structural terms, is as follows. Said working defines an innovative security procedure for safes, Cash Machines, ATMs and the like 1.
the first barrier 50 When not in use, while no request for banknotes and valuables is being made by a user from the Cash Machine, ATM and the like 1, the first barrier 50 is in a closed configuration ( Fig. 3A ) and so the opening 4 is completely closed without presenting easy access points for introducing explosives or for mechanical forcing or other.
the conveying device 3 is inside the inner volume 2a and so the electrical connection 6 doesn't have to pass the opening 4. Furthermore, again, when not in use, the second barrier 59 also remains closed and closes the dispenser mouth 9.
the second outer barrier 59 remains closed with the dispenser mouth 9 closed, while the first barrier 50 positions itself in an open configuration ( Figures 2b , 3b ), so as to allow the free passage of the conveying device 3 through the opening 4.
the conveying device 3 carrying the banknotes and valuables, passes the opening 4 and positions itself in the elongated body 8, the electrical connection 6 also passes the opening 4.
the first barrier 50 positions itself in a conveying configuration ( Figures 2c , 3c ), so that the auxiliary opening 4a stays open and the electrical connection 6 between the conveying means 3 and the inner volume 2a is not interrupted. At the same time, most of the surface of the opening 4 is closed by the first portion 51.
the first moving means 51a are activated, which move the first portion 51, while the auxiliary portion 52 stays still.
the conveying device 3 carrying the banknotes and valuables, passes the entire elongated body 8 and reaches the second barrier 59 ( Fig. 3d ). The latter is thus opened ( Fig. 3e ) to allow the disbursement of the banknotes and valuables to the claimant.
the first barrier 50 stays in a conveying configuration ( Fig. 2c ) and, sealing most of the opening 4 and interposed between the conveying means 3, prevents the introduction of substances into the inner volume 4a.
at least one from among the second barrier 59 and the first portion 51 of the first barrier 50 is in a closed position.
the conveying device 3 withdraws, the second outer barrier 59 closes ( Fig. 3f ) and remains closed until the next disbursement, the conveying device 3 passes the elongated body 8, the first barrier 50 positions itself in an open configuration ( Fig. 2b ) and the conveying device 3 passes the opening 4 ( Fig. 3g ) and stays in the inner volume 2a. Then, the first barrier 50 positions itself in a closed configuration ( Fig. 2a ). Substantially, the device returns to a state of waiting for a new disbursement ( Fig. 3h ).
the first barrier 50 was in a conveying configuration ( Fig. 2c , 4c ), or also in an open configuration ( Fig. 2b , 4b ), and the alarm means and/or tampering sensors, such as accelerometers or optical sensor or other, serving the same Cash Machine, ATM and the like 1, signalled a state of danger or a disturbance or unjustified movement, the first barrier 50 immediately position itself in a closed configuration ( Fig. 2a , 4a ) regardless of the presence, or not, of the electrical connection 6 through the auxiliary opening 4a.
the word "position" means that, if the barrier was in a closed configuration, it stays in this configuration, or if the barrier was in other configurations it moves and close in closed configuration.
this closing also using rapid actuation means, such as, pyrotechnic activators and/or a piston and/or snap activators, and at the cost of breaking, or damaging the electrical connection 6 itself.
the Cash Machine, ATM and the like 1 according to the invention brings important advantages.
the double alternation of the first barrier 50 and the second barrier 59 prevents explosives from being introduced into the safe 2.
Said movable barriers thus described, can be realized using overlapping ballistic and drill-proof steel, so as to resist robbery attempts carried out using heavy vehicles and explosives placed outside Cash Machines, ATMs or the like, keeping the safe inaccessible.

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