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US 10,482,723 B2Granted
Multidirectional media dispensing self service terminal
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsStephen W. Swaine, Andrew Colley, Derek Pont
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Abstract
Embodiments of a system and method for multidirectional dispensing of media at a self-service terminal (SST) are generally described herein. A method for dispensing media at a SST may include rotationally pivoting a first arm of a media dispenser of the SST away from a second arm of the media dispenser to receive media in a first direction, and activating a first set of rollers of the first arm to dispense the media in a second direction, the second direction at an angle generally orthogonal to the first direction.
Claims7
A media dispenser comprising:
- a media store operable to store a plurality of media items in sheet form;
- a pick unit operable to pick media items from the media store;
- an intermediate staging area coupled to the pick unit by a first transport, the first transport being operable to convey a picked media item from the pick unit to the intermediate staging area;
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- a second transport operable to convey media from the intermediate staging area to a customer delivery area by moving the media in a direction transverse to the first transport, wherein the intermediate staging area includes a first arm and a second arm, the first arm initially closed against the second arm, wherein the first arm is configured to rotationally pivot with respect to the second arm to open to receive the picked media item from the first transport, wherein, after receiving the picked media item, the first arm is configured to rotationally pivot with respect to the second arm to close, securing the picked media item against the second arm.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.