Diebold, Inc.

The Hoover Comapny

Herbert J Morello

F Michael Theriault

Michael H Wellman

Edgar A Maurer

Douglass A King

Robert J Beck

Donald E Kinker

Jack M Richardson

Paul A Leipelt

Syed A Azeez

Richard E Keck

George S Mountford

A switch actuator for an upright vacuum cleaner consists of two elongated rod sections adapted for interconnection by means of a barbed clevis at the end of one of the sections adapted for engaging a receptacle at the end of the other section. One of the sections is maintained within an upper handle portion and the other within a lower handle portion of the vacuum cleaner. As the two handle portions are interconnected, interconnection of the actuator rod sections is automatically effectuated. The actuator rod section maintained in the upper handle portion is also adapted to receive an actuator button which has a connector passing through a slot in the vacuum cleaner handle. The button remains external to the vacuum cleaner handle, while the connector portion thereof extends internally thereof and mates with one of the actuator rod sections.

Vacuum cleaner remote switch actuator

An apparatus for dispensing and returning reusable articles each identifiable with its own identification code, comprising: a pair of opposing, stationary arrays of locations, each location being capable of holding a reusable article therein and having its own particular location code; a memory adapted to store details of said location codes and said article codes in memory; a data receiver for receiving informational data from a patron; a receptacle for receiving and discharging said articles; a transfer mechanism for placing an article in a location in said arrays or removing an article therefrom, the transfer mechanism being movable relative to said arrays between operative engagement with any of said locations and said receptacle; an article code sensing device adapted to sense the article code of an article carried by said transfer mechanism; and a control device having means for receiving information and for generating output instructional information and control signals, said control device being responsive to informational data from said receiver to actuate said transfer mechanism to remove a selected article from a location in said arrays to said receptacle by said transfer mechanism, or to return an article received by said receptacle to an empty location in said arrays.

Apparatus for dispensing and accepting return of reusable articles

An apparatus for dispensing and returning reusable articles each identifiable with its own identification code, comprising: a pair of opposing, stationary arrays of locations, each location being capable of holding a reusable article therein and having its own particular location code; a memory adapted to store details of the location codes and the article codes in memory; a data receiver for receiving informational data from a patron; a receptacle for receiving and discharging the articles; a transfer mechanism for placing an article in a location in the arrays or removing an article therefrom, the transfer mechanism being movable relative to the arrays between operative engagement with any of the locations and the receptacle; an article code sensing device adapted to sense the article code of an article carried by the transfer mechanism; and a control device having means for receiving control information and for generating output instructional information and control signals, the control device being responsive to informational data from the receiver to actuate the transfer mechanism to remove a selected article from a location in the arrays to the receptacle by the transfer mechanism, or to return an article received by the receptacle to an empty location in the arrays.

The depositor device is an attachment for and is combined with known ATM-type depositories for banking deposits energized by customer identification bank credit cards which are used for verifying the customer's identity. The depositor prints on an adhesive label stuck after printing onto the deposit-containing envelope entered into the depository, information entered into the ATM control system by the customer concerning the amount of the deposit, the customer's checking and/or savings account numbers, the customer's personal identification number, the time and date of the deposit, etc. Such information is necessary or desirable for the rapid processing by the bank of the deposit transaction. The label is on a label supply carrying strip when printed, and is peeled from the carrying strip and stuck onto the deposit-containing envelope, which may contain coin, as the envelope moves through the depositor.

Deposit information labeling mechanism for ATM envelope depositing

A depository construction for receiving deposits at unattended banking equipment units in deposit-containing envelopes, and for issuing receipts for such deposits to bank customers. The customer activates the depository mechanism to initiate a deposit procedure by pressing a button, using a key or inserting a customer-identifying card at a banking unit. Activation of the mechanism opens an entry gate for a horizontal deposit entry slot to permit a deposit-containing envelope to be inserted into the slot, and energizes the drive mechanism of an envelope belt conveyor to transport the envelope through the mechanism. As the trailing end of the envelope passes an entry sensor, the entry gate is closed and a conveyor exit gate is opened. As the leading end of the envelope arrives at the exit end of the conveyor, an exit sensor energizes a printer beyond the exit end of the conveyor which stamps deposit data on the envelope. Another printer prints similar data on a receipt while the envelope is being discharged from the conveyor. As the trailing end of the envelope passes the exit sensor and drops to a deposit chest, the conveyor drive is stopped and the receipt is issued to the customer.

Remote envelope depository construction

A rotary suction device selectively removes individual paper money or currency bills or banknotes endwise from a stack or bundle thereof and delivers each removed bill endwise to conveyor means which successively, individually transports the bills to a dispensing station. Sensor means detects the presence of multiple bills on the suction rotor during removal from the stack; and, before delivery of any bills in multiple to the conveyor means, the multiple bills are rejected and bypass-discharged directly from the suction rotor to a reject station. A plurality of rotary suction devices may be installed side by side to deliver bills in various denominations, such as 1, 5, 10 and 20 dollar bills.

Paper money dispensing mechanism

Automatic banking system equipment which presents at a remote customer station a unit enabling a customer to carry out any one of a number of banking services, such as depositing, making payments of various types, transferring funds between accounts, or withdrawing cash. The equipment has programmable display means to instruct the customer as to the steps or procedure to be followed in completing a selected banking transaction; also, manual entry keyboard means in which the customer makes various data entries according to the programmable display instructions to enable verification of identity and authorization of procedure through coded means presented by the customer at the remote unit to activate the equipment, and to indicate, for example, the amount of money to be withdrawn or details concerning any other banking transaction; and, also, cash dispensing and delivery mechanism activated by the keyboard means in accordance with instructions given at the programmable display means following verification that the coded means presented is valid and genuine, is presented by an authorized individual, and that the banking transaction may be completed.

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North Canton, OH, United States of America

Herbert J Morello