Ejecting damaged/deformed media
View Patent ↗A deskew module of a valuable media depository is selectively controlled ejection processing. Upon detection of a jammed item of media within the deskew module, angled drives are activated to lift a jammed corner of the item off a track base of the deskew module and free the item's jammed corner. Next, straight drives are activated to eject the item from the deskew module.
1. A method, comprising:
detecting from sensor readings of a deskew module that an item of media is jammed within the deskew module based on an amount of time that the item of media is contained within the deskew module;
activating angled drives within the deskew module in a reverse direction from an original travel direction of the item within the deskew module urging a jammed corner of the item that is jammed against a track base to lift while pulling the item away from the track base in the reverse direction; and
deactivating the angled drives and activating straight drives within the deskew module in the reverse direction to eject the item from the deskew module urging the item to move along the track base out of the deskew module in the reverse direction.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting further includes determining that the item of media has failed deskew processing through the deskew module for a configured number of iterations.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein activating further includes activating the angled drives for about 50 milliseconds before deactivating the angled drives.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein deactivating the angled drives and activating the straight drives causes the item to move away from a track base of the deskew module at an angled direction with respect to a travel path of the item before the item is ejected from the deskew module in a reverse linear direction with respect to the travel path.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein deactivating the angled drives and activating the straight drives further includes reducing drag from a track base of the deskew module at a location on the track base where the item is jammed.
6. A method, comprising:
activating multiple angled drives in multiple cells within a deskew module in a reverse direction from an original direction of travel of on an item of media being urged through the deskew module after identifying a jam condition for the item being processed through the deskew module based on at least one sensor reading provided to the deskew module that reports the jam condition, wherein activating further includes urging a jammed corner of the item that is jammed against the deskew module to lift off a track base while urging the item in the reverse direction;
deactivating the multiple angled drives after an amount of time; and
ejecting the item by activating multiple straight drives in the multiple cells in the reverse direction forcing the item of media to eject from the deskew module.
7. The method of claim 6 , activating further includes simultaneously activating the multiple angled drives in the multiple cells of the deskew module.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein activating further includes activating the multiple angled drives at an angle with respect to a travel path of the item through the deskew module.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein deactivating further includes deactivating the multiple angled drives after approximately 50 milliseconds from when the multiple angled drives were activated, wherein the configured period of time is the approximately 50 milliseconds.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein ejecting further includes activating the multiple straight drives in a linear direction with respect to a travel path of the item through the deskew module.