Automatic remote banking system and equipment

In remote banking equipment of a type which includes a customer station and a remote bank control station;

• in which the customer station has keyboard means, card reader means, and message panel means;
• in which communication means connects the customer and control stations;
• and in which a customer may enter identification and transaction data and material into the keyboard and card reader, and upon verified identification may receive at a customer station dispenser terminal a selected amount of currency determined by the transaction data keyed-in at the keyboard;
• the combination, including a pneumatic tube system connecting the customer station dispenser terminal and the control station forming a component of said communication means;
• the tube system having a control terminal at the control station;
• a carrier movable in the pneumatic tube system between the control and dispenser terminals;
• vault means located at the control station containing and storing a supply of currency;
• the -vault means including currency delivery and conveyor means communicating between the currency supply and a control-terminal-located carrier for transferring selected amounts of currency from the currency supply to such control-terminal-located carrier;
• switch means at the control station movable to energize the customer and control stations for automatic unmanned operation;
• controller means including circuitry operatively connected between the customer and control stations and operative upon verified customer identification and entry of identification and transaction data at the customer station keyboard and card reader in accordance with instructions at the message panel means to actuate the currency delivery and conveyor means to deliver a selected amount of currency to a control-terminal-located carrier determined by the transaction data keyed-in at the keyboard;
• and said pneumatic tube system being operative upon delivery of said selected amount of currency to said control-terminal-located carrier to move the carrier from the control terminal to the dispenser terminal at the customer station.