The Mosler Safe Company

Jerome L Kistner

Thomas R Aultz

Charles J Moorman

William T Uhlman

Billy G Roy

John A Lampl

Willis C Haight

A card reader includes a housing enclosing the operating components thereof which is provided with a card insertion slot. A baffle is movable between blocking and unblocking positions to block and unblock the card insertion slot, as desired. Located interiorly of the housing is a card carriage which reciprocates between a first limit position proximate the card insertion slot and a second limit position remote therefrom for transporting an inserted card along a path past a transducer located inside the housing proximate the second limit of travel for reading information from the card. A cam is provided on the carriage which cooperates with a cam follower associated with the baffle for camming the baffle from its card insertion slot blocking position to its card insertion slot unblocking position and vice versa, as the carriage moves toward and away from, respectively, its first limit position proximate the card insertion slot.

Card reader with selectively movable baffle to controllably restrict

Apparatus for capturing a card and/or reading and/or writing data bits on a record stripe of the card, including a carriage for supporting a card inserted into the apparatus via a slot, the carriage being bidirectionally selectively driven past a transducer on elongated guide means by a motorized rotatable screw threadably engaging the carriage. A card clamp assembly is associated with the carriage for clamping an inserted card thereto when the carriage is located in other than its home position, whereat positive transfer of a card between the insertion slot and carriage occurs, which home position is proximate the card insertion slot. Stationarily mounted cams cooperating with cam followers of the card clamp assembly deactivate the clamp when the carriage is in its home position to facilitate transfer of an inserted card to and from the carriage. A motor-driven pick-up roll assembly located between the card insertion slot and the carriage home position facilitates mounted positive transfer of a card between the slot and carriage. A card abutment selectively interposable in the path of a card carried by the translating carriage strips and the card from the carriage for deposit in an underlying bin to capture an inserted card rather than return it to the user. A slotted disc mounted for rotation with the carriage drive screw cooperates with a phototransducer assembly to provide timing pulses at a rate correlated to the rate a card carried by the carriage moves past the transducer, enabling data to be read from and/or written on the card record stripe at a density, in bits per unit record length, which is invariant notwithstanding variations in the translational velocity of the card past the transducer. A mounting assembly for the transducer is provided which accommodates for variations in the position of the card record stripe relative to the transducer induced by vibration, card warpage and the like.

Magnetically encoded card read/write/capture apparatus

Currency dispensing apparatus is disclosed in which vertically stacked bills located in a removable container positioned in the dispenser are fed one-by-one from the top of the stack through an opening in the container ceiling by a proximately located overlying rotary suction head. The head advances the bills to the nip of a pair of superimposed bill transport belts overlying the stack from which point they are then transported by the belts back over the top of the stack to a diverter whereat the bills are either diverted to an underlying reject bin located adjacent the stack or to a delivery chute for manual removal by a customer. A multiple, or overlapped, bill sensor is located along the bill transport path between the suction pickup head and the diverter which, in cooperation with suitable control circuitry responsive to the sensor, controls the diverter for diverting multiple, or overlapped, bills into the underlying reject bin while allowing single bills to be transported to the customer delivery chute. A vertically reciprocable stack-supporting platform mounted to the dispenser frame independently of the removable currency container is received within the container, when the latter is located in the dispensing apparatus in underlying relationship to the stack, for advancing the stack upwardly to locate the top of the stack proximate the opening in the container ceiling in operative relationship to the suction head to facilitate pickup and feeding of bills to the nip of the transport belts.

Currency dispensing apparatus

A depository for receiving, imprinting and storing deposited articles of varying thickness including a housing having a slot in the front thereof through which articles of variable thickness are inserted, a vault also located within the housing into which articles inserted through the housing slot are ultimately transferred for storage, and a movable tube for temporarily storing an article inserted therein through the housing slot while the same is imprinted with a date of deposit or the like and thereafter transferring the imprinted article to the vault. The tube is movable between a first, article-receiving position in which an article receiving end communicates with the housing slot to permit an inserted article to be received within the tube; a second, article-discharge position in which the article stored in the tube is discharged under the force of gravity into the vault via an opening in the other end of the tube; and third, article-imprinting positions variably located intermediate the first and second positions in which the articles of varying thickness in the tube are imprinted by a printer mounted on the tube, which printer moves into imprinting relationship with the temporarily stored article as an incident to movement of the tube between the first, article-receiving position and the second, article-discharge position. The slot in the housing is dimensioned such that it is smaller than the tube in which the inserted articles are temporarily stored to effect imprinting, to prevent insertion into the tube of an article which, with respect to the tube, is oversized and which could lodge in the tube and fail to be discharged into the vault under the force of gravity when the tube is placed in its article-discharge position.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Jerome L Kistner