US 7,789,296 B2Granted

Automated transaction machine with sheet accumulator and presenter mechanism

AssigneeDiebold, Incorporated

InventorsSean Haney, Mark D. Smith, Nat Ramachandran, Matthew Force, H. Thomas Graef, Robert G. Miller, Mark Owens, Andrew Junkins, Elizabeth M. Herrera

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Abstract

An automated transaction machine (600) includes a note receiving storage and dispensing mechanism (624). The mechanism (624) includes a stacker mechanism (654). The stacker mechanism collects in a stack notes such as currency bills that are to be dispensed from the machine to a user, and the stack is then presented to the user from the machine. The stacker mechanism includes a stack support member (668), a flexible member (692) and spaced supports (694). Notes are engaged in supporting connection with the stack support member as the stack support member is rotated in a first rotational direction. After the stack is accumulated, rotation of the stack support member in an opposed rotational direction delivers the stack from the stacker mechanism.

Claims20

Dependent claims

Apparatus including:

a note stacker arrangement adapted to be used in an automated transaction machine, including
a flexible member,
a generally cylindrical rotatable stack support member,
wherein the stack support member includes at least one projecting portion,
wherein the at least one projecting portion engages the flexible member such that the stack support member and the flexible member move in coordinated relation,
wherein rotation of the stack support member in a first direction is operative to cause a first note to be engaged in supporting connection with the stack support member between the stack support member and the flexible member,
wherein further rotation of the stack support member in the first direction is operative to cause a second note to be engaged in generally aligned relation with the first note and in supporting connection with the stack support member between the stack support member and the flexible member, with the generally aligned first and second notes comprising a stack,
wherein rotation of the stack support member in a second direction opposed of the first direction is operative to cause the stack to be disengaged from supporting connection with the stack support member.

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Apparatus including:

a note stacker arrangement adapted to be used in an automated transaction machine, including
a generally cylindrical rotatable stack support member,
a flexible member extending in substantially surrounding relation of the stack support member,
an opening area wherein the flexible member does not surround the stack support member,
a gate member movable between a first position and a second position,
wherein the gate member is adjacent to the opening area,
wherein the gate member is in operative connection with one of the stack support member and the flexible member,
wherein particular movement of the one of the stack support member and the flexible member which is in operative connection with the gate member, is operative to cause the gate member to move from the first position to the second position,
wherein with the gate member in the first position, rotation of the stack support member in a first direction is operative to cause a first note to be engaged in supporting connection with the stack support member between the stack support member and the flexible member,
wherein with the gate member in the first position, further rotation of the stack support member in the first direction is operative to cause a second note to be engaged in generally aligned relation with the first note and in supporting connection with the stack support member, wherein the flexible member causes the generally aligned first and second notes to be held as a stack in supporting connection with the stack support member,
wherein with the gate member in the second position, rotation of the stack support member in a second direction opposed of the first direction is operative to cause the stack to be disengaged from the supporting connection with the stack support member and moved through the opening area.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/148,633Filed 21 Apr 2008 · division
Priority: 29 Sep 2000
Published: US 2008/0197183 A121 Aug 2008
Granted: 7 Sep 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G06Q 20/1085
Remote banking, e.g. home banking: involving automatic teller machines [ATMs]
B65H 5/025
By belts: between belts and rotary means, e.g. rollers, drums, cylinders or balls, forming a transport nip
B65H 29/006
Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles: winding articles into rolls
B65H 29/51
Piling apparatus of which the discharge point moves in accordance with the height to the pile: piling by collecting on the periphery of cylinders

Family

Application60/236,489Us provisional application · filed 29 Sep 2000
Application09/967,327Parent of this division · filed 27 Sep 2001
US 2008/0197183 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Aug 2008
US 7,360,683 B2Parent of this division
US 2002/0053594 A1Published application
US 7,789,296 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.