Cash dispensing automated banking machine and method
AssigneeDiebold Self-Service Systems
InventorsH.Thomas Graef, Ken Kontor, Michael Harty, Brian Jones
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Abstract
An automated banking machine (10) includes a sheet picking mechanism (210). The sheet picking mechanism includes a rotatable picking member (212). With each rotation an end sheet (266) can be picked from a stack (264) of sheets. The picking member (212) has an outer surface section that includes a high friction portion (256) axially adjacent to a low friction portion (258). The low friction portion comprises an arcuate projecting portion that reduces risk of damage to a leading edge area of the end sheet due to opposed picking and stripping forces.
Claims20
Apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable picking member adapted to pick sheets generally one at a time from a stack of sheets,
- wherein the picking member includes a disk portion,
- wherein the disk portion includes an axis, wherein the disk portion is rotatable about the axis,
- wherein the disk portion includes a high friction arcuate segment,
- wherein the high friction arcuate segment is adapted to act on an end sheet bounding a stack,
- wherein the disk portion includes an arcuate projecting portion,
- wherein the arcuate projecting portion includes a projecting surface axially adjacent to the high friction arcuate segment,
- wherein the projecting surface is adapted to act on a leading edge area of the end sheet to prevent deformation of the leading edge area as the end sheet is acted upon by the high friction arcuate segment.
Apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable sheet picking disk configured to act on an end sheet bounding a stack of sheets,
- wherein the picking disk includes an axis,
- wherein the picking disk includes an axially extending and circumferentially extending outer surface section,
- wherein the outer surface section includes a high friction portion adjacent to a low friction portion in a direction parallel to the axis,
- wherein the high friction portion comprises a high friction arcuate surface,
- wherein the high friction arcuate surface is configured to act on the end sheet,
- wherein the low friction portion comprises a low friction arcuate surface,
- wherein the low friction arcuate surface extends radially outward relative to the axis further than the high friction arcuate surface.
Apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable sheet picking disk configured to act on an end sheet bounding a stack of sheets,
- wherein the disk includes an axis,
- wherein the picking disk includes an axially extending and circumferentially extending outer surface section,
- wherein the outer surface section includes a high friction portion adjacent to a low friction portion in a direction parallel to the axis,
- wherein the high friction portion comprises a high friction arcuate surface,
- wherein the high friction arcuate surface is configured to act on the end sheet,
- wherein the low friction portion comprises a low friction arcuate surface,
- wherein the low friction arcuate surface extends circumferentially along only a portion of the high friction arcuate surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.