Secure money changing and money receiving system

Claim 1

A secure money changing and money receiving system comprising: a safe including a substantially theft proof outer housing and having a normally locked access door; a relatively large work table supported on the safe wherein a sales clerk may face a customer across said table; a change-making apparatus mounted on the work table and having a substantially theft proof outer housing; said change-making apparatus mounted to be primarily accessible to a customer and including a money inlet and a change outlet , said changemaking apparatus only dispensing change upon the insertion of money into said money inlet; a money receiving apparatus mounted on the work table and comprising: a substantially theft proof box extending above said work table including at least one transparent window portion on the side thereof and having separate coin and currency receiving apertures formed therein in the upper portion; means mounted within the housing for dividing the interior thereof into coin receiving and currency receiving portions; means for normally retaining coins and currency in the coin receiving and currency receiving portions of the box to enable the sales clerk and the customer to view the currency deposited in said box prior to deposit, respectively, and for selective actuation to admit coins and currency from the housing into the safe; calculating means mounted on the work table for determining and for providing duplicate tapes indicating the amount of money to be received in the money receiving apparatus and wherein the money receiving apparatus further includes an aperture for receiving one of the tapes from the calculating means and for directing the tape into the safe; and means rendering the safe, the change-making apparatus and the money receiving apparatus substantially immovable.