Document cassette displacement actuator for document acceptor
AssigneeCrane Payment Innovations, Inc.
InventorsAlexandre Francois Ledoux, David Adam Blasko, Donald Lee Seagle
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A document acceptor for authenticating and storing documents includes a document validator, a document cassette and a displacement actuator. The document validator is for authenticating received documents. The document cassette is for storing the documents received by the document validator. The displacement actuator is adapted to change a position of the document cassette from a first position to a second position to mate the document cassette with the document validator. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
Claims21
A document acceptor for authenticating and storing documents, the document acceptor comprising:
- a document validator configured to authenticate received documents;
- a document cassette configured to store the documents received by the document validator;
- and
- a displacement actuator including a housing, a lever, and a cam operatively coupled to the lever,
- wherein rotation of the lever causes the cam to transition between a first cam position and a second cam position,
- wherein the cam is configured to interface with the document cassette when moving to the second cam position to change a position of the document cassette from a first position to a second position to mate the document cassette with the document validator,
- wherein the housing is adapted to removably secure the displacement actuator to a document acceptor, and
- wherein the housing is held in a fixed position relative to the document validator while the position of the document cassette is changed.
A displacement actuator comprising:
- a housing adapted to removably secure the displacement actuator to a document acceptor;
- a lever coupled to the housing;
- a cam operatively coupled to the lever,
- wherein rotation of the lever causes the cam to transition between a first cam position and a second cam position
- wherein the cam is configured to interface with a document cassette when moving to the second cam position to change a position of the document cassette from a first position to a second position to mate the document cassette with a document validator, the document validator configured to authenticate received documents and the document cassette configured to store the documents received by the document validator,
- wherein the housing is held in a fixed position relative to the document validator while the position of the document cassette is changed from the first position to the second position.
A document acceptor comprising:
- a document validator configured to authenticate received documents;
- a document cassette configured to store the documents received by the document validator;
- a displacement actuator including a housing, a lever, and a cam operatively coupled to the lever,
- wherein rotation of the lever causes the cam to transition between a first cam position and a second cam position,
- wherein the cam is configured to interface with the document cassette when moving to the second cam position to change a position of the document cassette from a first position to a second position to mate the document cassette with the document validator,
- wherein the housing of the displacement actuator is held in a fixed position relative to the document validator while the position of the document cassette is changed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.