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US 4,540,106 AGranted
Bag processing unit of an automatic transaction machine
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorKunio Fukatsu
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Abstract
In a bag processing unit of an automatic transaction machine, a locking pawl is fixed at the upper portion of a bag dispensing plate for dispensing a new bag among the bags stored in a hopper, and a locking arm having an engaging portion engageable with the locking pawl is pivoted by a solenoid, thereby releasing the locking state.
Claims9
A bag processing unit of an automatic transaction machine, comprising:
- first means for storing new bags in a pile;
- second means, including a manually-operable handle, for removing an uppermost bag in the pile stored in said first means in response to manual operation of said handle;
- third means for receiving the bag which is removed by said second means and in which a transaction medium is to be contained;
- fourth means for selecting a transaction mode using the bag;
- fifth means for precluding the manual operation of said handle;
- and
- sixth means for releasing the precision of the operation of said handle in response to the transaction mode selected by said fourth means and for precluding the operation of said handle of said second means in response to reception of the bag by said third means.
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A bag processing unit of an automatic transaction machine, comprising:
- a hopper having an opening portion on a top thereof for storing new bags in a pile;
- a shaft slidably supported in the vicinity of said opening portion of said hopper, and including a handle being fixed at one end of said shaft;
- a bag dispensing plate fixed to the other end of said shaft;
- a locking pawl fixed to said bag dispensing plate;
- a locking arm rotatably supported at a predetermined position and having an engaging portion engageable with said locking pawl;
- spring means for urging said locking arm in a predetermined pivotal direction to cause said engaging portion of said locking arm to engage said locking pawl;
- solenoid means for urging said locking arm in a direction opposite to an energizing direction of said spring means;
- mode select means for selecting a transaction mode in which a bag is used;
- a bag insertion port in which the bag is insertable;
- bag detector means for detecting the bag which contains a transaction medium;
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- means for energizing said solenoid means in accordance with the transaction mode selected by said mode select means so as to disengage said engaging portion of said locking arm from said locking pawl and for deenergizing said solenoid means in accordance with the detection of the bag by said bag detector means to cause engagement of said engaging portion of said locking arm with said locking pawl.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.