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US 4,578,009 AGranted
Collector and carriage mechanism for use in a sheet dispenser
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsRobert H. Granzow, Richard H. Daulton, Dale L. Placke, Donald L. Adelberger, Jack R. Gross, Charles S. Nagy
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Abstract
A sheet dispenser in which sheets are delivered from cassettes to a collector and held thereon. The collector is mounted on a moveable support, and the collector and bills thereon are moved to either left or right delivery areas of the terminal in response to a request entered on an input terminal. Closures normally close the left and right delivery areas; however, these closures are opened to permit the sheets held on the collector to extend out of the dispenser to be grasped by an operator.
Claims11
A sheet dispenser comprising:
- a housing having first and second sheet dispensing areas therein;
- means for storing sheets within said housing;
- means for collecting sheets at a home position within said housing;
- means for delivering sheets to be dispensed from said storing means to said collecting means;
- a member having one end pivotally mounted on said collecting means and a resilient means for biasing said member from a first position to a second position in which a free end of said member resiliently compresses said sheets on said collecting means;
- actuating means located at said home position for selectively moving said member between said first and second positions;
- a support structure;
- first means for mounting said support structure for pivotal movement between associated first and second positions in said housing;
- second means for mounting said collecting means on said support structure for movement from said home position to said first and second sheet dispensing areas;
- first moving means located on said support structure for selectively moving said collecting means from said home position to said first and second sheet dispensing areas and to return said collecting means to said home position;
- a purge bin located beneath said collecting means when said collecting means is in said home position;
- second moving means for selectively moving said support structure from said associated first position to said associated second position to enable sheets left on said collecting means to fall into said purge bin;
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- control means operatively coupled to said delivering means, actuating means and first and second moving means to control the movement of sheets from said storing means to said first and second sheet dispensing areas and said purge bin.
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A sheet dispenser comprising:
- a housing having first and second sheet dispensing area therein;
- means for storing sheets within said housing;
- means for collecting sheets at a home position within said housing;
- means for delivering sheets to be dispensed from said storing means to said collecting means;
- a member having one end pivotally mounted on said collecting means and a resilient means for biasing said member from a first position past a dead center position to a second position in which a free end of said member resiliently compresses said sheets on said collecting means;
- actuating means located at said home position for selectively moving said member beyond said dead center position to enable said resilient means to bias said free end to said second position and also for returning said member to said first position;
- a support structure;
- first means for mounting said support structure for pivotal movement between associated first and second positions in said housing;
- second means for mounting said collecting means on said support structure for movement from said home position to said first and second sheet dispensing areas;
- first moving means located on said support structure for selectively moving said collecting means from said home position to said first and second sheet dispensing areas and also for returning said collecting means to said home position;
- a purge bin located beneath said collecting means when said collecting means is in said home position;
- second moving means for selectively moving said support structure from said associated first position to said associated second position to enable sheets left on said collecting means to fall into said purge bin;
- and
- control means operatively coupled to said delivering means, actuating means and first and second moving means to control the movement of sheets from said storing means to said first and second sheet dispensing areas and said purge bin.
11 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.