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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Fritz Siegenthaler, Gümligen, CH;
Ascom Autelca AG, Gumligen, CH;
Abstract
A storage apparatus has a card-accommodating, vertically upright stack-storage cassette ( ) and a card-input, -reading and control unit ( ) arranged adjacent to the top cassette-border region ( ). The stack-storage cassette ( ) has a vertically running storage opening ( ) arranged in a cassette side. The storage apparatus also has a lift unit ( ) which can be displaced vertically in said opening ( ) and has a lift housing ( ). The lift unit ( ), for its part, has a depositing plate ( ) for the cards, which comes to rest in the store interior ( ). The lift unit can be removed in the lowermost region of the cassette ( ), to be inserted into the cassette ( ) at the top and, acting on the opening borders, to be displaced vertically, i.e. lowered, in each case preferably by the distance of a height over which a group of cards is deposited, in order for the cards to be deposited satisfactorily.