Louis J Caparoni

42688230, May 19, 1981

Nov 2, 1979

6/090847

Robert F. Rauchut - Ivyland PA
Louis J. Caparoni - Audubon PA

ICI Americas Inc. - Wilmington DE

G08B 1318

340570

A photocell is placed beneath a packet of real or simulated currency at each of a plurality of teller locations in a bank. The photocells at the several teller locations are connected in a parallel circuit with each other, and a voltage supply source is connected to the parallel circuit through a common current-sensing resistance, so that if currency is removed from any teller location this will be indicated by a voltage drop across the common current-sensing resistance. The common current-sensing resistance is located in a control box at a remote location within the bank, and used to control even more remote alarm equipment, at a police station for example. In order to provide a ready indication of the teller location at which currency removal has occurred, each branch circuit at each teller location is provided with its own current-sensing series resistor, and a separate conductor is run from each such series resistor to the control box in the bank, wherein identifiable lamps corresponding to each teller location are provided. A manually-operable test switch, when operated, replaces the remote alarm equipment with a lamp at the control box, so that the system can be tested without sounding an alarm. A simple but effective line-monitoring circuit is also employed.

50599496, Oct 22, 1991

May 10, 1990

7/521665

Louis J. Caparoni - Audubon PA
Robert H. Banfield - Philadelphia PA
Neal B. Cohen - Flourtown PA
Homer W. Fogle - Wallingford PA
Michael J. McCann - Wilmington DE

ICI Americas Inc. - Wilmington DE

G08B 1314
B42D 1500

340571

In a currency alarm pack, greater flexibility is achieved by multiple circuit boards and an alarm device, connected together by a thin, flexible substrate having printed conductors. The components are movable relative to one another for realistic flexure of the stack. At least two of the components are slidable relative to the stack along its direction of elongation as the stack is flexed. Portions of the substrate have tabs which extend laterally between opposed peripheral portions of adjacent intermediate sheets of the currency pack so that the alarm components are supported and can slide longitudinally as the stack is flexed. Adjacent components are connected by narrow portions of the substrate, which permit torsion of the stack. These narrow portions extend transverse to the surfaces of the currency sheets to allow the alarm components a high degree of relative movement. Compressible foam pads conceal the presence of the alarm components.