US 7,249,761 B2Granted

ATM currency presenter gate arrangement

AssigneeDiebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated

InventorsH. Thomas Graef, Damon J. Blackford, Michael S. Johnson, Kenneth Kontor, Thomas A. VanKirk

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Abstract

An ATM includes a currency note dispenser having a currency cassette, a note picker, a note transporter, and a note presenter. A cassette tambour door automatically opens during insertion of the cassette into the dispenser. The picker can pick notes through the opening. A spring loaded housing wall tab retains the picker shaft in mating connection with a drive pin. The transporter can move notes vertically and horizontally. The transporter includes belts between an idle shaft and a drive shaft. The idle shaft is vertically movable relative to a drive shaft to maintain belt tension. The transporter also includes convexly tapered rollers that automatically recenter a loose belt. A presenter gate is at a note dispensing outlet of the ATM. The gate is opened by actuating a lever linked with an arm connected to the gate. The gate opens by moving a pin upward in an angled slot.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An apparatus including:

a media presenter,
wherein the presenter is adapted for use in an automated banking machine to receive currency notes taken from at least one currency container and move the currency notes together as a currency note stack to a user access area during a currency note dispensing,
wherein the presenter includes a housing,
wherein the housing includes an outlet,
wherein the outlet is sized to have the currency note stack pass therethrough,
wherein the presenter includes a gate arrangement,
wherein the gate arrangement includes a gate,
wherein the gate is movable between a closed position and an open position,
wherein in the closed position the gate prevents passage of the currency note stack through the outlet,
wherein in the open position the gate permits the currency note stack to pass through and out the outlet,
wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one cam arm,
wherein the at least one cam arm is connected to the gate,
wherein movement of the at least one cam arm is operative to move the gate between the closed position and the open position,
wherein the gate is arranged to move in an upward direction during movement toward the open position,
wherein the gate arrangement includes an actuator comprising at least one lever,
wherein a first cam arm of the at least one cam arm is located adjacent to a first lever of the at least one lever,
wherein the first lever is movable relative to the first cam arm,
wherein actuation of the at least one lever is operative to move the at least one cam arm,
wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one slot and at least one pin,
wherein a first pin of the at least one pin is arranged to relatively move in a first slot of the at least one slot during the actuation.

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An apparatus including:

a media presenter,
wherein the presenter is adapted for use in an automated banking machine,
wherein the presenter includes a housing,
wherein the housing includes an outlet,
wherein the presenter includes a roller shaft having plural rollers thereon,
wherein the roller shaft is located adjacent the outlet,
wherein each roller includes an outer circumferential surface having a center portion and tapering portions,
wherein the center portion is located between tapering portions, wherein a diameter of each tapering portion narrows in a direction extending away from the center portion,
wherein the presenter includes a plurality of belts,
wherein each center portion supports a respective belt thereon,
wherein the presenter includes a gate arrangement,
wherein the gate arrangement includes a gate,
wherein the gate is movable between a closed position and an open position,
wherein in the closed position the gate prevents passage of a currency note stack through the outlet,
wherein in the open position the gate permits passage of the currency note stack through the outlet,
wherein the gate moves in an upward direction during movement toward the open position,
wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one cam arm,
wherein the at least one cam arm is connected to the gate,
wherein movement of the at least one cam arm is operative to move the gate between the closed position and the open position,
wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one lever,
wherein the at least one lever is movable relative to the at least one cam arm,
wherein actuation of the at least one lever is operative to move the at least one cam arm.

19 more elements

An apparatus including:

a media presenter,
wherein the presenter is adapted for use in an automated banking machine,
wherein the presenter includes a housing,
wherein the housing includes an outlet,
wherein the presenter includes a gate arrangement,
wherein the gate arrangement includes a gate,
wherein the gate is movable between a closed position and an open position,
wherein in the closed position the gate prevents passage of a currency note stack through the outlet,
wherein in the open position the gate permits passage of the currency note stack through the outlet,
wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one cam arm,
wherein the at least one cam arm is connected to the gate,
wherein movement of the at least one cam arm is operative to move the gate between the closed position and the open position,
wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one lever,
wherein the at least one lever is movable relative to the at least one cam arm,
wherein actuation of the at least one lever is operative to move the at least one cam arm,
wherein the presenter includes a roller shaft,
wherein the presenter includes at least one rail,
wherein a rail of the at least one rail is adapted to have a stack of notes moved thereon,
wherein the rail has a flexible end adjacent the outlet,
wherein the flexible end comprises a flexible finger,
wherein the flexible finger is spring biased toward the roller shaft.

18 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/797,331Filed 9 Mar 2004 · us provisional application
Priority: 10 Mar 2003
Published: US 2004/0178568 A116 Sep 2004
Granted: 31 Jul 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

B65H 5/026
By belts: between belts and stationary pressing, supporting or guiding elements forming a transport nip
B65H 5/025
By belts: between belts and rotary means, e.g. rollers, drums, cylinders or balls, forming a transport nip
B65H 5/06
Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines: by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers
B65H 31/3081
Arrangements for removing completed piles: by acting on edge of the pile for moving it along a surface, e.g. by pushing