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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2007
Patrick C. Green, North Canton, OH (US);
Mark Smith, North Canton, OH (US);
Natarajan Ramachandran, Uniontown, OH (US);
Daniel J. Delaney, Canton, OH (US);
David A. Barker, North Canton, OH (US);
Franklin M. Theriault, Canton, OH (US);
Elizabeth Herrera, North Canton, OH (US);
Jeffrey A. Hill, Canton, OH (US);
Mark Douglas, North Canton, OH (US);
Patrick C. Green, North Canton, OH (US);
Mark Smith, North Canton, OH (US);
Natarajan Ramachandran, Uniontown, OH (US);
Daniel J. Delaney, Canton, OH (US);
David A. Barker, North Canton, OH (US);
Franklin M. Theriault, Canton, OH (US);
Elizabeth Herrera, North Canton, OH (US);
Jeffrey A. Hill, Canton, OH (US);
Mark Douglas, North Canton, OH (US);
Diebold, Incorporated, North Canton, OH (US);
Abstract
A banking facility includes therein plural customer stations and a service provider (SP) station. A robotic device acts as an intermediate item handling device between a customer and service provider. The robotic device can access each customer station and a transport device. The transport device includes a pneumatic tube for transporting a carrier to and from the SP station. In an operation, the robotic device receives an item from a customer at a customer station, then places the item in the carrier. Next the transport device transports the carrier to the SP station. The service provider can use the item in carrying out a banking transaction. The operation can be reversed to send an item from the service provider to the customer. The robotic device can also grip a card sensed in a customer station card slot and move the card toward a card reader.