Automated banking machine with slide mounted devices
View Patent ↗Apparatus including an automated banking machine is operative to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine includes a card reader that is operative to read card data usable to identify at least one of a user of the machine and a financial account. A computer associated with the machine is operative to cause card data to be read through operation of the card reader, and to cause a determination to be made that read card data corresponds to a financial account authorized to conduct a transaction through the machine. The computer is operative responsive at least in part to the determination to cause the financial account to be at least one of assessed and credited with a value associated with a financial transaction.
1. An automated banking machine comprising:
a housing having at least one opening;
a device located in the housing;
a rollout tray coupled with the housing and located in a first position in the housing, the rollout tray at least partially supporting the device;
first and second slides coupled with the housing and coupled with the rollout tray, the first and second slides each releasably coupled with the housing by engagement of at least one tab and at least one slot, the first and second slides moveable relative to the housing and through the at least one opening in the housing between the first position wherein the rollout tray is located in the housing and a second position wherein the rollout tray is located at least partially outside of the housing;
wherein the rollout tray is moveable with the slides in a longitudinal direction between the first position and the second position, and wherein the at least one tab and at least one slot of the first and second slides are engageable and disengageable responsive to relative movement of the at least one tab with respect to at least one slot generally along the longitudinal direction.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the rollout tray is movable along a longitudinal direction between the first position and the second position, and wherein the at least one tab and at least one slot are engageable and disengageable responsive to relative movement of the tab and slot generally along the longitudinal direction.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein one of the housing and the slide is in operatively fixed connection with a second tab and the other housing and the slide is in operatively fixed connection with the second slot, wherein the second tab and the second slot are releasably engageable, and wherein the first tab in the first slot and the second tab in the second slot are respectively engageably configured to hold the slide in operative engagement with the housing in the first configuration, and wherein the first tab in the second slot and the second tab in the first slot are respectively engageably configured to hold the slide in operative engagement with the housing in the second configuration.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the first and second slides are configured to be engaged with the housing and disengaged from the housing without the use of tools.
5. The apparatus according to claim 3 wherein the first slot includes an end bounding the first slot, wherein the end bounding the first slot extends generally transverse to a first direction, wherein the first direction generally corresponds to the directions of movement of the rollout tray between the first and second positions, wherein with the slide mounted in the first configuration, the first tab is engaged with the end bounding the first slot, and wherein the end bounding the first slot is operative to prevent movement of the slide in a second direction, wherein the second direction generally corresponds to movement of the rollout tray in the first configuration of the slide from the first position toward the second position.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the first slot includes a step portion bounding the first slot, wherein with the slide mounted in the first configuration, the step portion bounding the first slot is engageable with the first tab to prevent the first tab from moving transverse of the first direction in the first slot.
7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein with the slide mounted in the first configuration, the step portion is operative to prevent the first tab from moving upwardly relative to the first slot.
8. The apparatus according to claim 6 wherein the second slot includes an end bounding the second slot, wherein the end bounding the second slot extends generally transverse to the first direction, wherein with the slide mounted in the second configuration, the first tab is engaged with the end bounding the second slot, wherein the end bounding the second slot is operative to prevent movement of the slide in a third direction, wherein the third direction corresponds to movement of the rollout tray in the second configuration of the slide from the second position toward the first position.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the second slot includes a step portion bounding the second slot, wherein with the slide mounted in the second configuration, the step portion bounding the second slot is engaged with the first tab to prevent the first tab from moving transverse of the first direction.
10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein with the slide mounted in the second configuration, the step portion of the second slot is operative to prevent the first tab from moving upwardly relative to the second slot.
11. The apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the housing includes a wall portion, and wherein the wall portion includes the first slot, wherein the first tab includes a proximal portion and a distal portion, wherein in the engaged condition of the slide and the housing, the proximal portion extends in the first slot and the distal portion is operative to extend in the second direction beyond the first slot and engages the wall portion.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11 wherein one of the housing and the slide is in operatively fixed connection with a second tab, and the other of the housing and the slide is in operatively fixed connection with a second slot, wherein the second tab includes a proximal portion and a distal portion, wherein in the engaged condition of the slide and the housing, the proximal portion of the second tab extends in the second slot in generally the first direction and the distal portion of the second tab extends in a third direction transverse to the first direction.
13. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the second tab is in operatively fixed connection with the slide and the second slot extends in the first wall portion, and wherein the distal portion of the second tab engages the wall portion.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the distal portion of the first tab bounds a first gap, and wherein in the engaged position of the housing and the slide, the wall portion extends in the first gap.
15. The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the distal portion of the second tab bounds a second gap, wherein in the engaged position of the slide and the housing, the first wall portion extends in the second gap.
16. The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the slide and the housing are changeable between a mounted engaged position and a disengaged position responsive at least in part to relative movement in the first direction of the slide and the housing.
17. The apparatus according to claim 13 wherein the housing includes a second wall portion, wherein the second wall portion is disposed from and generally parallel to the wall portion, and further including another slide, wherein the another slide is in operative connection with the rollout tray, and wherein the another slide is in operatively fixed connection with a third tab and a fourth tab, wherein the second wall portion includes a third slot and a fourth slot, and wherein the third tab and the third slot and the fourth tab and the fourth slot are configured to respectively engage each other to releasably mount the another slide in operative engagement with the housing when the first slide is in the first configuration, and wherein the third tab and the fourth slot and the fourth tab and the third slot are configured to engage each other to mount the another slide in operative engagement with the housing when the first slide is in the second configuration.
18. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the housing includes a chest portion and wherein the wall portion and the second wall portion extend above the chest portion, and wherein the chest portion includes at least a portion of a cash dispenser positioned therein.
19. Apparatus comprising:
a rollout tray configured to operatively support at least one device of an automated banking machine that includes a housing having a first opening and a second opening,
a pair of slides;
wherein the pair of slides operatively support the rollout tray;
wherein the pair of slides are releasably mountable with the housing through an arrangement in which one of the housing and the pair of slides is in operatively fixed connection with tabs and the other of the housing and the pair of slides is in operatively fixed connection with slots, wherein each slot is configured to receive a tab;
wherein the arrangement allows the pair of slides to be releasably mounted with the housing in both a first orientation and in a second orientation, wherein in the first orientation the pair of slides allow the rollout tray to move in a first direction from a first position to a second position; and
wherein in the first position the rollout tray is located within the housing, and wherein in the second position at least a portion of the rollout tray extends outside of the housing through the first opening.
20. An apparatus comprising:
a pair of slides;
wherein the pair of slides operatively support a rollout tray configured to operatively support at least one device of an automated banking machine having a housing that includes an opening;
wherein the pair of slides are releasably mountable with the housing through an arrangement in which the pair of slides are in operatively fixed connection with tabs and the housing is in operatively fixed connection with slots, wherein each slot is configured to receive a tab;
wherein the arrangement allows the pair of slides to be releasably mounted with the housing in both a first configuration and in a second configuration,
wherein in the first configuration the pair of slides allow the rollout tray to move in a first direction from a first position to a second position;
wherein in the first position the rollout tray is located within the housing; and
wherein in the second position at least a portion of the rollout tray extends outside of the housing through the opening.