ADA-compliant workstation for pneumatic tube delivery system

A workstation, comprising:

• a housing bounding an interior of the workstation;
• a pneumatic tube port extending into the housing sized and shaped to connect to tubing of a pneumatic tube delivery system exterior to the workstation;
• a carrier dispatch and arrival mechanism including:
• an input/output (I/O) tube sized and shaped to couple to the pneumatic tube port;
• a slide plate movable from an open position opening the pneumatic tube port to the I/O tube to a closed position closing the pneumatic tube port to the I/O tube;
• a dispatch arm configured to receive thereon an outbound carrier for transportation from the workstation through the pneumatic tube delivery system to a further workstation;
• and
• a slide mechanism configured to slide the dispatch arm from a first position configured receive a carrier thereon, to a second position in which the dispatch arm is coupled to the I/O tube and the slide plate is in the open position, wherein, when the dispatch arm is in the first position and the slide plate is in the open position, inbound carriers move through the pneumatic tube port into the interior of the workstation;
• an equipment storage compartment adjacent to the carrier dispatch and arrival mechanism;
• and
• a user interface cabinet housing a user interface apparatus, the user interface cabinet being located below the equipment storage compartment, wherein a space between a bottom surface of the equipment storage compartment and an upper surface of the user interface cabinet defines a space for supporting stored carriers.