Banking apparatus with deposit accepting device
View Patent ↗An automated banking machine that includes a check acceptor that is operative to receive checks from authorized machine users. The check acceptor is operable to continuously move a received check along its transport path while simultaneously rotationally orienting the check into alignment with the transport path. A check determined not to have at least one property of an acceptable check is returned to the machine user. Acceptable checks are processed and stored in the machine.
1. An apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a deposit accepting device in operative supported connection with the housing;
a processor in operative connection with the deposit accepting device;
wherein the deposit accepting device includes:
a first sheet driver member,
a second sheet driver member,
wherein the first and second sheet driver members are movably mounted in operatively supported connection with the housing such that a distance between the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member is selectively variable responsive at least in part to operation of the processor,
a divider plate positionable intermediate of the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member,
wherein the divider plate separates a first side from a second side,
wherein divider plate is movably mounted relative to the housing,
a drive in operative connection with the processor,
wherein the processor is operative to cause the drive to relatively position the first sheet driver member, the second sheet driver member, and the divider plate,
wherein the deposit accepting device is operative to cause sheets to move from the first side to the second side,
wherein the deposit accepting device is operative to cause the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member to together engagingly move both first sheets positioned at the first side and second sheets positioned at the second side,
wherein the housing includes a sheet opening, wherein the sheet opening is operative to receive and deliver a stack of sheets therethrough, wherein sheets received into the deposit accepting device through the sheet opening are received on one of a group consisting of the first side and the second side, and sheets delivered from the deposit accepting device are delivered from one of a group consisting of the first side and the second side,
wherein sheets received in the deposit accepting device through the sheet opening are operatively engaged with both the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member,
wherein sheets delivered from the deposit accepting device through the sheet opening are operatively engaged with both the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member,
wherein the drive is operative to move the divider plate relative to both the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member,
an opening in the divider plate, wherein the first sheet driver member is operative to contact sheets on the second side through the opening,
wherein the second sheet driver member is operative to contact sheets on the first side through the opening,
wherein the first sheet driver member, second sheet driver member and divider plate are independently vertically movable,
wherein the first sheet driver member, second sheet driver member and divider plate are independently rotationally movable relative to one another; and
wherein sheets are receivable into the deposit accepting device at a plurality of different angular directions.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein sheets are receivable into the deposit accepting device and deliverable from the deposit accepting device at different vertical heights and different angular directions.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , and further comprising:
a sensor,
wherein the sensor is operative to sense feature of a group consisting of a person and a vehicle, wherein the sensor is in operative connection with the processor, wherein the processor is in operative connection with drive, wherein the processor is operative to cause the deposit accepting device to one of a group consisting of deliver and receive sheet, at of a selected vertical height and a rotational direction responsive at least in part to a position of the feature sensed through operation of the sensor.
4. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the deposit accepting device includes a note validator.
5. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the deposit accepting device includes a check imager.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the deposit accepting device includes a note validator.
7. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the first sheet driver member includes a first belt flight, and wherein the second sheet driving member includes a second belt flight, and wherein the opening in the divider plate includes an elongated opening extending parallel to both the first and second belt flights.
8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the deposit accepting device includes a picker, wherein the picker is operative to separate each sheet from a first stack of sheets on of a group consisting of the first side and the second side.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the picker is operative to separate each sheet from a first stack that includes sheets on both the first side and the second side of the divider plate.
10. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein each divider plate comprises a pair of horizontally spaced divider plate portions, and wherein the elongated opening extends horizontally between the divider plate portions of the pair.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the drive is operative to selectively relatively vertically and rotationally position the pair of divider plate portions, the first sheet driving member and the second sheet driving member.
12. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the processor is operative to cause the deposit accepting device to selectively cause sheets in the first sheet storage and retrieval device to be moved to the second side and to a first storage area in the deposit accepting device.
13. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein each of the divider plate portions of each pair are each vertically moveable and rotatably movable.
14. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the deposit accepting device includes a picker, wherein the picker is operative to separate each sheet from a stack of sheets, wherein the stack of sheets extends on of the first side, the second side and both the first side and the second side.
15. The apparatus according to claim 14 , and further comprising a first transport, wherein the first transport is operative to move sheets intermediate of the picker and the check imager, and further comprising a first diverter, wherein the first diverter is operative to direct sheets moving in the first transport toward the picker to the second side.
16. The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the deposit accepting device includes a first sheet storage and retrieval device, wherein sheets moved past the check imager are stored in the first sheet storage and retrieval device.
17. The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the first sheet storage and retrieval device includes a sheet recycler.
18. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first sheet driver member, second sheet driver member and divider plate are each independently movable rotationally and vertically.