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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1998
Sean Haney, North Canton, OH (US);
H. Thomas Graef, Bolivar, OH (US);
William D. Beskitt, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
Damon J. Blackford, Akron, OH (US);
Bill Schadt, Clinton, OH (US);
Diebold, Incorporated, North Canton, OH (US);
Abstract
An automated banking machine ( ) 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 ( ) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. The documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters ( ). 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 device ( ) of the machine. Sheets are oriented in the central transport by a deskewing/centering device ( ). The deskewing/centering device includes a shuttle ( ). The shuttle includes transversely disposed pinch wheels ( ) and sensors ( ). The rotation of the pinch wheels is selectively controlled to orient the leading edges of sheets to extend transversely relative to the sheet path. Sheets are also moved transversely in engagement with the shuttle to a desired transverse position in the sheet path and then released.