Printer mechanism for automated teller machine

US5816720A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• InterBold · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey A. Brannan · Canton, US
• Tuyen Van Pham · Massillon, US
• Thomas S. Mason · North Canton, US
• Jay Paul Drummond · Massillon, US
• Jeffrey A. Hill · Canton, US
• Paul Thomas Bruss · Cedar Falls, US
• Mark Barlow Hammer · Houston, US
• Jim Rowe · Riverton, US
• David J. Walson · Lander, US
• Robert John Brice · Sydney, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 1994
• Grant date: Oct 6, 1998
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/8822
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A statement printer of an automated teller machine includes a top plate (16) pivotally mounted on a pair of spaced side walls (12). The top plate supports a ribbon cartridge (18) thereon. The cartridge includes a pair of downward extending projections (38) which are accepted in a longitudinally extending recess (24) in the top plate. Notches (40) and the longitudinally extending projections engage a leaf spring (28) to position the cartridge thereon. The top plate further includes a pair of finger projections (30) having slots (34) for accepting wing projections (36) that extend from the sides of the cartridge. The guided relationship between the downward extending projections and wing projections on the cartridge and the longitudinal recess and the slots on the top plate enable the cartridge to be guided into position on and off the top plate which facilitates changing the cartridge in the confined space inside an automated teller machine.