Cash dispensing automated banking machine deposit accepting system and method
View Patent ↗An automated banking machine includes a mechanism for accepting deposited items. Deposited items may be provided to the machine in envelopes which are first passed to a user from an envelope storage area ( 132 ) in the machine through a transport ( 124 ) and which are presented to the user through an opening ( 244 ). An envelope storage and dispensing device ( 134 ) is operative to assure that only a single envelope is delivered to the user. A user may thereafter include deposit items in the dispensed envelope. The deposited items are passed through the opening ( 244 ) and are deposited in a deposit-holding container ( 128 ). The deposited items may be marked with indicia corresponding to the transaction or properties of the deposited item where the envelope originally dispensed to the user for holding the deposited item.
1. Apparatus including:
an automated banking machine including a housing,
at least one input device in supporting connection with the housing adapted to receive inputs associated with each user of the machine,
a cash dispenser,
a transport adapted to transport deposit items between a deposit opening on the housing and a deposit storage area in the housing,
a printhead operative to print indicia on deposit items that are moved through the transport,
wherein the printhead includes ink nozzles,
a wiper movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing and adapted to engage the printhead,
wherein the wiper comprises a resilient squeegee portion,
wherein the squeegee portion is adapted to move over the nozzles,
a drive in operative connection with a wiper,
at least one controller in the housing,
wherein the at least one controller is in operative connection with the at least one input device, cash dispenser, transport, printhead, and drive, and wherein the at least one controller is operative to cause the wiper to engage the printhead,
a vessel in supporting connection with the housing,
wherein the vessel includes a vessel opening in opposed relation of the nozzles,
wherein the vessel opening is adapted to accept from the nozzles, ink not applied to deposit items,
wherein the vessel includes an internal cavity and at least one weir extending in the internal cavity,
wherein the at least one weir enables ink to collect in the cavity without flowing out of the vessel through the vessel opening.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the vessel includes a movable access member movable relative to the vessel, wherein the movable access member enables accessing the cavity within the vessel.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the vessel is movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3 wherein the vessel is movably mounted in supporting connection with the housing through a pivot.
5. The apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the nozzles are generally upward directed, and wherein the vessel extends generally above the printhead, and wherein the vessel is biased to rotatably move about the pivot and to urge the vessel opening to be positioned adjacent the nozzles.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the vessel includes a first contoured exterior surface such that deposit items moving from the deposit opening toward the deposit storage area engage the first contoured exterior surface and are urged towards the nozzles.
7. The apparatus according to claim 3 wherein deposit items moving from the deposit opening toward the deposit storage area engage and move the vessel relative to the housing.
8. The apparatus according to claim 6 and further comprising an empty envelope dispenser within the housing, wherein empty envelopes move in the transport from the envelope dispenser towards the deposit opening.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the vessel includes a second contour exterior surface, wherein the second contoured exterior surface is operative to direct envelopes moving in the transport toward the deposit opening, to move between the nozzles and the vessel opening.
10. The apparatus according to claim 3 wherein the vessel is releasibly mounted in supporting connection with the housing.