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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1979
Leonard A Fish, Chicago, IL (US);
Avco Investment Management Corporation, Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
A compact automatic teller machine has an elevator assembly, a plurality of bill dispensers are located on one side of the elevator assembly for dispensing bills of one or more denominations to said elevator assembly, whereby the bills are made available to an operator at the upper part of the elevator assembly. A steel back plate assembly is provided with slides for supporting a front cover for sliding relationship relative to the back plate, and steel plates making up the back plate assembly, and the cover, define two separate secure compartments, for the bill dispensers and for a deposit box. Access to the sides of both secure compartments is permitted when the cover is opened. Multiple locking means is provided for locking the cover in closed relationship to the back plate. The locking means incorporates a plug lock for normally preventing access to a crank socket, a combination lock, for normally locking a shaft against rotation by crank, a breakable connection between the crank socket and the shaft, and a drum adapted to be turned by the shaft to adjust the position of a plurality of cables connected to spring-biased bell cranks which control movement of a plurality of latch bars slideably mounted on the back plate and adapted to engage flanges on the cover.