Currency recycling automated banking machine

US6290070A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• H. Thomas Graef · Bolivar, US
• William D. Beskitt · Canton, US
• Damon J. Blackford · Akron, US
• Dale Blackson · Canton, US
• Robert Bowser · Cary, US
• Keith A. Drescher · Olympia, US
• Jeffrey Eastman · North Canton, US
• Matthew Force · Uniontown, US
• Sean Haney · North Canton, US
• Michael J. Harty · Canton, US
• Dale Horan · Indianapolis, US
• Andrew Junkins · Round Rock, US
• Edward L. Laskowski · Seven Hills, US
• Al Modi · Canton, US
• Mark Owens · Louisville, US
• Mike Ryan · Canton, US
• Bill Schadt · Wilmington, US
• David B. Schultz · Henderson, US
• Mike Theriault · Canton, US
• Mark D. Smith · Panama City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 17, 1998
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 17, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S209/90
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (70) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (92, 94, 96, 98). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area (50) of the machine.