Terminal for treating forms
View Patent ↗A self service bank terminal is constructed so as to be usable by sitting and standing customers, so as to take up little floor surface, and so that several terminals can be placed side-by-side with the display screen of one terminal being not viewable by customers at other of the terminals. The terminal has a housing 10 with two rectangular side walls 23, 123 connected by an upper cover plate 24 , a rear wall 25 , a front plate 27 and a bottom plate 26 , which includes the bottom plate having a supporting surface for engaging a supporting floor, or the bottom plate 22 having a supporting column 21 , with the cover plate being horizontal or slightly sloped. The display screen is located on a pulpit shaped portion 124 of the cover plate, has associated with it blinder shields 41 on three of its sides, and is slightly inclined. Also included in the terminal are a keyboard 52 , a check examining device 53 , and a printer drawer 30.
1. A terminal ( 10 , 110 ) for processing forms ( 26 ), in particular betting slips, comprising a document reader ( 20 ) with a receiving compartment ( 28 ) for documents which have passed through the document reader ( 20 ), a visual display unit ( 18 , 118 ) with a touch-sensitive input area and an electronic box ( 22 , 122 ) containing a terminal control device,
characterized in that,
a stand ( 12 , 112 ) is provided with a foot part ( 14 , 14 ′) and a loadbearing part ( 16 , 116 ) projecting approximately perpendicularly from the latter to hold the visual display unit ( 18 , 118 ) and
the document reader ( 20 ) can be displaced on a lacuna arranged on an operator side of the terminal ( 10 , 110 ) underneath the visual display unit ( 18 , 118 ) and, in the direction of an operator, between a position resting on the loadbearing part ( 16 , 116 ) and a position at a distance from the latter.
2. The terminal ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 1 , whose document reader ( 20 ) is fixed to at least one pull-out rail which is mounted such that it can slide on the stand ( 12 ).
3. The terminal ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 1 , whose document reader ( 20 ) is fixed to a document reader wall ( 30 ), which substantially covers the operator side ( 36 ) of the loadbearing part ( 16 ) when the document reader ( 20 ) is resting on the latter and is fixed to at least one pull-out rail ( 34 ), which in turn is mounted such that it can slide on the stand ( 12 ).
4. The terminal ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 2 , having an at least partly hollow plate ( 15 ) which is arranged on the rear part ( 14 ′) of the foot part and in which the at least one pullout rail ( 34 ) is accommodated by the plate ( 15 ) when the document reader ( 20 ) is displaced in the direction of the loadbearing part ( 16 ).
5. The terminal ( 10 , 110 ) as claimed in claim 1 , in which the electronic box ( 22 , 122 ) is set up on or fixed to the plate ( 15 ) or—as viewed from the operator side—a section ( 14 ′) of the area of the foot part which is located behind the loadbearing part.
6. The terminal ( 10 , 110 ) as claimed in claim 5 , whose electronic box ( 22 , 122 ) is arranged on the foot part ( 14 ′) or the plate ( 15 ) in such a way that its operating side ( 38 ) rests on the loadbearing part ( 16 , 116 ), the loadbearing part ( 16 ) being provided with at least one cutout ( 40 ) that leaves the operating elements ( 42 , 42 ′; 142 , 142 ′) of the electronic box ( 22 ; 122 ) free.
7. The terminal ( 10 , 110 ) as claimed in claim 6 , whose loadbearing part ( 16 ) is constructed in the manner of a frame, the frame reaching around at least one region of the electronic box ( 22 , 122 ) that is close to its operating side.
8. The terminal ( 10 , 110 ) as claimed in claim 1 , in which an electric line ( 62 , 60 ) connecting the electronic box ( 22 ) to the document reader ( 20 ) and/or an electric line ( 62 , 60 ) connecting to the visual display unit ( 18 ) is led through the day part ( 16 ) or else additionally through the plate ( 15 ), forming a pull-out loop ( 64 ).
9. The terminal ( 110 ) as claimed in claim 1 whose visual display unit ( 118 ) can be displaced laterally or pivoted laterally on the loadbearing part ( 116 ).