Cash dispensing automated banking machine with locking frame panels
View Patent ↗An automated banking machine is provided. The automated banking machine may include a fascia in operative connection with a frame. The machine may include a plurality of hardware devices which are accessible through the fascia. The hardware devices may include a cash dispenser, receipt printer, and a card reader. The machine includes a frame in operative connection with a chest. A top panel and at least one side panel are slidably connectable with the frame. When a door of the frame is in the closed position, the top panel is not capable of being slid out of operative connection with the frame. When the top panel is in operative connection with the frame, the at least one side panel is not capable of being slid out of operative connection with the frame.
1. A cash dispensing automated banking machine comprising:
a chest;
a cash dispenser in operative connection with the chest;
a frame in operative connection with the chest;
at least one side panel slidably connectable with the frame;
a top panel slidably connectable with the frame; and
a door in operative connection with the frame, wherein the door is movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein when the door is in the closed position, the top panel is not capable of being slid out of operative connection with the frame, wherein when the door is in the open position, the top panel is capable of being slid out of operative connection with the frame, wherein when the top panel is in operative connection with the frame, the at least one side panel is not capable of being slid out of operative connection with the frame, wherein when the top panel is out of connection with the frame, the at least one side panel is capable of being slid out of operative connection with the frame.
2. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein the frame includes a plurality of vertical struts which extend upwardly from the chest and at least one horizontal strut, wherein the at least one horizontal strut is in operative connection with upper ends of at least two vertical struts.
3. The machine according to claim 2 , wherein the top panel is operative to slidably engage the at least one horizontal strut.
4. The machine according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one side panel is operative to slidably engage at least two vertical struts.
5. The machine according to claim 2 , wherein the frame includes at least four vertical struts orientated to form a generally rectangular shaped frame, wherein the frame includes at least one diagonal horizontal strut which extends diagonally between the upper ends of at least two of the vertical struts.
6. The machine according to claim 2 , wherein the vertical struts include outwardly extending ridges which provide channels between the vertical struts and the at least one side panel, wherein at least one of a cable and an electrical line is mounted within at least one of the channels.
7. The machine according to claim 6 , wherein the vertical struts include at least one aperture therethrough, wherein the at least one of the cable and the electrical line extends through the at least one aperture.
8. The machine according to claim 7 , wherein the vertical struts include at least one cable retainer, wherein the at least one cable retainer includes a curved finger that at least partially surrounds the at least one of the cable and the electrical line.
9. The machine according to claim 1 wherein one of the at least one side panel or the frame includes projections which are operative to slide within slots of the other of the at least one side panel or the frame.
10. The machine according to claim 1 wherein one of the top panel or the frame includes projections which are operative to slide within slots of the other of the top panel or the frame.
11. The machine according to claim. 1 , wherein when the door is in the closed position, the door extends in front of the top panel and is operative to block the top panel from sliding horizontally out of connection with the frame.
12. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein when the top panel is in operative connection with the frame such that horizontal sliding of the top panel out of connection with the frame is blocked by the door in the closed position, the top panel extends over the at least one side panel and is operative to block the at least one side panel from sliding vertically out of connection with the frame.