Thomas R Aultz

US Patent:

39424359, Mar 9, 1976

Filed:

Jan 6, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/539021

Inventors:

Thomas R. Aultz - Cincinnati OH
Jerome L. Kistner - Cincinnati OH

Assignee:

The Mosler Safe Company - Hamilton OH

International Classification:

B41F 1700

US Classification:

101 44

Abstract:

A depository for receiving, imprinting and storing deposited articles of varying thickness including a housing having a slot in the front thereof through which articles of variable thickness are inserted, a vault also located within the housing into which articles inserted through the housing slot are ultimately transferred for storage, and a movable tube for temporarily storing an article inserted therein through the housing slot while the same is imprinted with a date of deposit or the like and thereafter transferring the imprinted article to the vault. The tube is movable between a first, article-receiving position in which an article receiving end communicates with the housing slot to permit an inserted article to be received within the tube; a second, article-discharge position in which the article stored in the tube is discharged under the force of gravity into the vault via an opening in the other end of the tube; and third, article-imprinting positions variably located intermediate the first and second positions in which the articles of varying thickness in the tube are imprinted by a printer mounted on the tube, which printer moves into imprinting relationship with the temporarily stored article as an incident to movement of the tube between the first, article-receiving position and the second, article-discharge position. The slot in the housing is dimensioned such that it is smaller than the tube in which the inserted articles are temporarily stored to effect imprinting, to prevent insertion into the tube of an article which, with respect to the tube, is oversized and which could lodge in the tube and fail to be discharged into the vault under the force of gravity when the tube is placed in its article-discharge position.

US Patent:

40957810, Jun 20, 1978

Filed:

Sep 17, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/724112

Inventors:

Jerome L. Kistner - Cincinnati OH
Thomas R. Aultz - Cincinnati OH
John A. Lampl - Hamilton OH
William T. Uhlman - Cincinnati OH

Assignee:

The Mosler Safe Company - Hamilton OH

International Classification:

B65H 314
B65H 508

US Classification:

271 12

Abstract:

Currency dispensing apparatus is disclosed in which vertically stacked bills located in a removable container positioned in the dispenser are fed one-by-one from the top of the stack through an opening in the container ceiling by a proximately located overlying rotary suction head. The head advances the bills to the nip of a pair of superimposed bill transport belts overlying the stack from which point they are then transported by the belts back over the top of the stack to a diverter whereat the bills are either diverted to an underlying reject bin located adjacent the stack or to a delivery chute for manual removal by a customer. A multiple, or overlapped, bill sensor is located along the bill transport path between the suction pickup head and the diverter which, in cooperation with suitable control circuitry responsive to the sensor, controls the diverter for diverting multiple, or overlapped, bills into the underlying reject bin while allowing single bills to be transported to the customer delivery chute. A vertically reciprocable stack-supporting platform mounted to the dispenser frame independently of the removable currency container is received within the container, when the latter is located in the dispensing apparatus in underlying relationship to the stack, for advancing the stack upwardly to locate the top of the stack proximate the opening in the container ceiling in operative relationship to the suction head to facilitate pickup and feeding of bills to the nip of the transport belts.

US Patent:

44985673, Feb 12, 1985

Filed:

Sep 30, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/431562

Inventors:

Thomas R. Aultz - Loveland OH
Charles C. Hughes - Villa Hills KY
Stanley F. Humbert - Cincinnati OH

Assignee:

R. A. Jones & Co., Inc. - Covington KY

International Classification:

F16P 100

US Classification:

192133

Abstract:

A perimeter guard for a machine wherein a plurality of vertical posts are spaced about a machine. Each post is H-shaped and has lateral flanges projecting from it to create vertical channels on each side of the post. A transparent window is slidably mounted in one set of perimeter channels to form an upper guard and a lower pannel is slidably mounted in the other set of opposed channels. A counterbalance is provided for the windows and a detent is provided for locking the lower panels in their lowermost position or in a raised position.

US Patent:

41410440, Feb 20, 1979

Filed:

Sep 17, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/724697

Inventors:

Jerome L. Kistner - Cincinnati OH
Thomas R. Aultz - Cincinnati OH
Billy G. Roy - Milford OH
Willis C. Haight - Milford OH

Assignee:

The Mosler Safe Company - Hamilton OH

International Classification:

G06K 704
G06K 708
G11B 2504

US Classification:

360 2

Abstract:

Apparatus for capturing a card and/or reading and/or writing data bits on a record stripe of the card, including a carriage for supporting a card inserted into the apparatus via a slot, the carriage being bidirectionally selectively driven past a transducer on elongated guide means by a motorized rotatable screw threadably engaging the carriage. A card clamp assembly is associated with the carriage for clamping an inserted card thereto when the carriage is located in other than its home position, whereat positive transfer of a card between the insertion slot and carriage occurs, which home position is proximate the card insertion slot. Stationarily mounted cams cooperating with cam followers of the card clamp assembly deactivate the clamp when the carriage is in its home position to facilitate transfer of an inserted card to and from the carriage. A motor-driven pick-up roll assembly located between the card insertion slot and the carriage home position facilitates mounted positive transfer of a card between the slot and carriage. A card abutment selectively interposable in the path of a card carried by the translating carriage strips and the card from the carriage for deposit in an underlying bin to capture an inserted card rather than return it to the user.

US Patent:

41856465, Jan 29, 1980

Filed:

Aug 15, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/824493

Inventors:

Thomas H. Woods - Middletown OH
Thomas R. Aultz - Cincinnati OH

Assignee:

TRW Inc. - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

G07D 100

US Classification:

133 4R

Abstract:

A control circuit for a multi-denomination cash dispenser in which the number of bills or coins of each denomination, for varying desired quantities of money to be dispensed, are selected such that the total amount of time required to dispense varying quantities of each denomination is minimized. The control circuit of this invention does not necessarily result in dispensing of cash with a minimum number of bills and/or coins. However, it does, in addition to minimizing the cycle time of the cash dispensing operation, equalize the wear on the various individual dispensers; deplete the inventories of different denominations at approximately the same rate, thereby avoiding premature depletion of one denomination relative to the others, and provide the user with a varied mix of denominations regardless of the amount of currency requested.