Automatic cash depository
AssigneeHoneywell Information Systems Inc.
InventorsRonald D. Guibord, Robert G. Yetman, Richard G. Harris
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Abstract
An automatic cash depository having a tiltable feeding mechanism which receives an inserted deposit envelope and delivers it to a collection bin. Controls are provided for maintaining the feeding mechanism in a first position representing a blind feed path which does not present access to the collection bin. After the deposit envelope has fully entered the feeding mechanism and the insertion slot has been closed by a rotatable bolt closure, the control tilts the feeding mechanism and causes the envelope to be delivered to the collection bin.
Claims11
A deposit system comprising, in combination:
- an operator panel including means for permitting an operator to make a deposit request;
- deposit means adjacent said operator panel for receiving a deposit container inserted by said operator;
- transport means including a feed platform and feed rolls mounted thereon for guiding and feeding said container along a blind entrance path;
- first sensing means for indicating when a container has been inserted into said deposit means;
- drive means operating in response to said first sensing means for rotating said feed rolls to feed an inserted container across said platform and along said entrance path;
- second sensing means for generating a position signal when said container reaches a predetermined position on said entrance path;
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- shift means responsive to said position signal for shifting said transport means to guide and feed said container along an exit path different from said entrance path, whereby said container is delivered to a deposit receptacle.
A deposit system comprising, in combination:
- an operator panel including means for permitting an operator to make a deposit request;
- deposit means adjacent said operator panel for receiving a deposit container inserted by said operator;
- gate means for closing said deposit means to block access thereto after said container has been inserted;
- transport means for guiding and feeding said container along a blind entrance path;
- sensing means for generating a position signal when said container reaches a predetermined position on said entrance path;
- shift means responsive to said position signal for shifting said transport means to guide and feed said container along an exit path different from said entrance path, whereby said container is delivered to a deposit receptacle;
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- control means for inhibiting the operation of said shift means in the event said gate means fails to close said deposit means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.