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US 7,144,006 B2Granted
Cash dispensing automated banking machine and method
AssigneeDiebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
InventorsH. Thomas Graef, Kenneth C. Kontor, Michael J. Harty, Brian M. Jones
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Abstract
An automated banking machine (10) includes at least one of sheet dispensing mechanisms (34, 36, 38, 40, 210). Each sheet dispensing mechanism includes a picking member (72, 212). The picking member rotates, and with each rotation generally causes an end note to be picked from a stack (42, 264) of sheets. The picking member (212) includes an arcuate projecting portion (258) that reduces the risk of damage to the leading edge areas of sheets due to opposed picking and stripping forces.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- (a) engaging an end note bounding a stack of notes in an automated banking machine with a rotatable picking member, wherein the picking member is rotatable about a first axis, and wherein the picking member includes a middle disk portion and a first outboard disk portion disposed on a first axial side of the middle disk portion, and a second outboard disk portion disposed on a second axial side of the middle disk portion opposed of the first axial side;
- (b) rotating the picking member about the first axis in a first rotational direction to a first rotational position, wherein in the first rotational position the end note is engaged with a middle disk high friction arcuate segment in supporting connection with the middle disk portion, and a stripping member in opposed biased relation with the middle disk high friction arcuate segment, wherein the middle disk high friction arcuate segment and the stripping member apply opposing forces to the end note in a stripping area, and wherein in the first rotational position the end note is further engaged with a middle disk low friction arcuate projecting portion in supporting connection with the middle disk portion and extending radially outward relative to the first axis beyond the middle disk high friction arcuate segment, and wherein in the first rotational position the middle disk low friction arcuate projecting portion engages the end note in a support area axially disposed on the middle disk portion of the stripping area, and wherein in the first rotational position of the picking member the end note is in engagement with a first outboard disk low friction portion in supporting connection with the first outboard disk portion and a second outboard disk low friction portion in supporting connection with the second outboard disk portion;
- (c) rotating the picking member in the first rotational direction from the first rotational position to a second rotational position, wherein in the second rotational position the end note is engaged with the middle disk high friction arcuate segment and the stripping member, and wherein in the second rotational position the low friction arcuate projecting portion does not extend radially outward beyond the middle disk high friction arcuate segment when in engagement with the end note in the support area, and wherein in the second rotational position the end note is in engagement with a first outboard disk high friction segment in supporting connection with the first outboard disk portion and a second outboard disk high friction segment in supporting connection with the second outboard disk portion;
- (d) rotating the picking member in the first rotational direction from the second rotational position, wherein the end note moves relative to other notes in the stack in engagement with the middle disk high friction arcuate segment, the first outboard disk high friction segment, the second outboard disk high friction segment and in intermediate relation of the middle disk high friction arcuate segment and the stripping member, whereby the end note is generally separated from the stack.
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A method comprising:
- (a) rotating a picking member disk about an axis to engage a currency note at a transverse outer surface portion of the disk during picking of the currency note from a stack of currency notes in an automated teller machine (ATM) having a currency note dispenser, wherein a transverse segment of the currency note is simultaneously engaged with both a low friction segment and a high friction segment of the surface portion, wherein the low friction segment is positioned axially adjacent to the high friction segment, and wherein the low friction segment extends outward further than the high friction segment in a direction radial to the axis;
- (b) subsequent to step (a), rotating the picking member disk to disengage the currency note from the low friction segment yet maintain engagement with the high friction segment;
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- (c) subsequent to step (b), rotating the picking member disk to disengage the currency note from the outer surface portion.
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A method comprising:
- (a) rotating a picking member disk a first rotational distance about an axis in an automated teller machine (ATM), wherein over the first rotational distance both a circumferentially extending arcuate low friction surface portion and an axially adjacent circumferentially extending high friction surface portion of the disk simultaneously engage a leading edge area of a currency note, wherein relative to the axis the low friction surface portion is radially disposed outwardly from the high friction surface portion;
- (b) subsequent to step (a), rotating the disk a second rotational distance, wherein over the second rotational distance the high friction surface portion engages the currency note while the low friction surface portion is disengaged from the currency note;
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- (c) subsequent to step (b), rotating the disk a third rotational distance, wherein over the third rotational distance neither the low friction surface portion nor the high friction surface portion engage the currency note.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.