Two stage media separator
AssigneeNCR Organization
InventorsCHRISTOPHER H. POND, JASON M. GILLIER, MATTHEW SONNENBERG
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Abstract
A stack of media items are urged along a transport path that includes a bend in the track of the transport path. A first phase of separating the media items from the stack includes pre-separating the media items from the stack as the media items are urged along the bend. A second phase includes separating a leading media item from the stack by urging the leading media item exiting the first phase between opposing rollers to transport the leading media item along the transport path within a value media depository.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- urging a stack of media items received at a beginning of a transport path within a depository through a bend in a track of the transport path causing separation of the media items within the stack as the stack is urged through the bend;
- obtaining from the stack a leading media item presented on the transport path as a first media item at an end of the bend in the track;
- and
- operating the method within the depository, wherein the depository is an integrated peripheral of a terminal.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a depository, a stack of media items through an infeed mouth of the depository on a media transport path including a track;
- using advance rollers to urge the stack through a bend in the track;
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- obtaining with opposing rollers a leading media item that presents at the opposing rollers as a first media item from the stack following the stack being urged though the bend with the media items being separated while being urged through the bend in the track.
A depository, comprising:
- a first separator apparatus including a first portion of a track that bends at an end of that first portion of the track;
- and
- a second separator apparatus including a second portion of the track that begins following the bend and the end of the first portion of the track;
- wherein when a stack of media items is urged along the first portion of track, the media items are fanned out and separated through the bend exposing a first leading media item to be presented first to the second separator apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.