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US 5,813,782 AGranted
Apparatus for moving a paper sheet
AssigneeInterBold
InventorThomas S. Mason
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Abstract
A statement printer of an automated banking machine includes a lower roll shaft (118) having round paper engaging rolls (120) thereon. An upper roll shaft (122) has flat spot rolls (124, 125, 126, 127) thereon. The flat spot rolls are positioned in opposed relation with the round rolls. The round rolls are moved by a drive mechanism (128, 129). A paper sheet (130) is moved between the round rolls and the flat spot rolls. As the paper sheet is moved between the rolls lateral stresses in the paper are relieved and creases and puckers in the paper sheet are reduced.
Claims27
Apparatus for moving a paper sheet, comprising:
- a drive;
- a plurality of laterally disposed pairs of generally opposed rolls, wherein at least one roll each pair is operatively connected to the drive and is rotated thereby, and wherein said rolls in each pair are disposed such that the paper sheet is extendable between said opposed rolls in each of said pairs, and when the paper sheet is extended between the roll pairs the sheet is engaged therewith and is moved by the plurality of roll pairs in a first direction generally perpendicular to a lateral direction, and wherein at least one of said rolls in each of said plurality of pairs includes a circumferential discontinuity, wherein the rolls are configured such that as the sheet extending between the plurality of roll pairs moves in the first direction in engagement with the roll pairs a lateral area of the sheet passes between a first pair of rolls, and wherein the circumferential discontinuity on the roll in the first pair repeatedly moves adjacent to and away from the lateral area of the sheet, wherein when the circumferential discontinuity moves adjacent to the sheet, the lateral area of the sheet is enabled to move in the lateral direction between the rolls in the first pair, and wherein when the circumferential discontinuity is disposed away from the sheet, the lateral area is prevented from moving in the lateral direction by engagement with the first roll pair.
Apparatus for moving a paper sheet, comprising:
- a plurality of first moving surfaces, wherein each of said first moving surfaces is configured to be engageable with a first side of said sheet;
- a plurality of second moving surfaces, wherein each said second moving surface is configured to be engageable with a second side of said sheet, wherein each of said second moving surfaces is generally opposed of a first moving surface, wherein a first moving surface and a second moving surface comprise a pair, and wherein said first and second surfaces are configured to generally hold said sheet in engaged relation between said first and second moving surfaces and are operative to move said sheet in a first direction, and wherein the first and second moving surfaces are configured such that when the first and second moving surfaces are in engaged relation with said sheet said sheet is prevented from moving in a lateral direction generally transverse of the first direction;
- a releasing mechanism, wherein the releasing mechanism is operative to release said sheet from engagement with said pairs in a sequence while said sheet moves in the first direction, wherein when said sheet is released from a pair said sheet is enabled to move in the lateral direction between said released pair, and wherein in said sequence at least one pair is always in engagement with the sheet, wherein releasing the sheet from the pairs in the sequence relieves lateral forces in the sheet.
A method comprising the steps of:
- extending a paper sheet between a plurality of first and second moving surfaces, the first moving surfaces engaging a first side of the sheet and the second moving surfaces engaging a second side of the sheet, and wherein each first moving surface and each second moving surface are in generally opposed relation and comprise a pair, each pair generally holding the sheet engaged with the first and second moving surfaces and moving the sheet in a first direction, and wherein when the pair is engaged with the sheet the sheet is prevented from moving in a lateral direction generally transverse to the first direction;
- and
- temporarily releasing the sheet from the pairs in a sequence, at least one of the pairs always remaining engaged with the sheet moving it in the first direction, wherein releasing the sheet from the pairs in the sequence is operative to remove puckers from the sheet.
A method comprising the steps of:
- placing a supply of paper in an automated banking machine;
- extending a sheet of paper from the supply into engagement with a plurality of laterally disposed pairs of generally opposed rolls, wherein at least one of the rolls in each pair includes a circumferential discontinuity, wherein the sheet is engaged between the opposed rolls in a pair and is enabled to move in the lateral direction between the rolls in the pair when the circumferential discontinuity on a first roll in the pair moves adjacent to the opposed roll in the pair;
- and
- rotating said rolls in said roll pairs with a drive, said sheet moving in engaged relation between said rolls in said pairs in a first direction generally normal to said lateral direction and moving in the lateral direction where the circumferential discontinuities move adjacent to the sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.