Automated transaction machine with flexible note storage member

In a apparatus including:

• a housing;
• a sheet storage reel movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing;
• a take-up reel movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing;
• a reel drive mechanism in operative connection with the storage reel and the take-up reel, wherein the reel drive mechanism is selectively operative to move the storage reel and the take-up reel;
• a sensor for sensing indicia along a web path intermediate of the storage reel and the take-up reel, the web path including a passage area;
• and
• a web extending between the storage and take-up reels along the web path, the web comprising:
• a central sheet engaging area and a pair of peripheral areas, each peripheral area disposed on an opposed side of the sheet engaging area, wherein sheets are generally engaged with the web in the sheet engaging area and not the peripheral areas, and wherein each peripheral area includes machine readable indicia which are detectable by the sensor, wherein the web includes a first end and a second end, and wherein the first end and the second end are operatively attached respectively to one of the take-up reel and the storage reel, and wherein the machine readable indicia are spaced from one another, and wherein spacing between adjacent machine readable indicia decreases with proximity to each end.

An apparatus comprising:

• a housing including at least one sheet opening, wherein the sheet opening is adapted to pass sheets therethrough;
• a user interface in supporting connection with the housing, the user interface including at least one input device;
• a sheet storage reel movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing;
• a take-up reel movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing;
• a flexible web extending between the storage reel and the take-up reel, the web extending adjacent to a sheet passage area intermediate of the storage and take-up reels;
• at least one reel drive mechanism in operative connection with the storage and take-up reels, wherein the at least one reel drive mechanism is selectively operative to move sheets in supporting connection with the web between the sheet storage reel and the passage area;
• a sheet transport mechanism wherein the sheet transport mechanism is selectively operative to move sheets between the sheet passage area and the sheet opening;
• a controller, wherein the controller is in operative connection with the input device, the at least one reel drive mechanism and the sheet transport mechanism, and wherein the controller is operative responsive to at least one input to the input device to cause at least one sheet to be moved between the storage reel and the sheet opening;
• wherein the web includes a plurality of adjacent indicia thereon, wherein each of the indicia corresponds to a location relative to an end of the web, and wherein spacing between immediately adjacent indicia varies responsive to the distance of the location from the end of the web;
• a sensor in operative connection with the controller, wherein the controller is operative to generate at least one signal responsive to sensing the indicia with the sensor, and wherein the signal is generated by the controller responsive to immediately adjacent indicia having a particular spaced relationship.