Abstract: A concrete security structure such as a money safe, vault, or the like, is provided with unique burglar-proof qualities. The security structure includes a hardened concrete composition which possesses torch or high temperature resistance without flaking, spalling or exploding, and superior resistance to attack by means of burglary tools such as hammers, chisels, drills, cutting implements or the like. The security concrete is derived from a moldable uniform mixture which comprises granular temperature resistant aggregates, reinforcing filaments, an expansive cement and water. A method for making safes or vaults is provided by supplying a castable aqueous mixture of ingredients into a metallic shell, casing or mold and permitting the mixture to cure.

Abstract: A direct dial combination lock having tumblers which are cammed in reciprocating movement by rotation of a driver and which, once set, are disengaged by shifting the driver axially. Each tumbler has an internal cam track that is operated on by rotation of the driver to establish a reciprocating or back and forth tumbler motion. Gates presented on the respective tumblers receive individual combs that are movable as a set toward the tumblers in a direction perpendicular to the direction of tumbler back and forth movement. The combs are scrambled for greater manipulation resistance, and their positions relative to one another are changeable without opening the lock, to change the combination.

Abstract: A dispatch and receive terminal that, in preferred form, includes an air tight pusher housing and a pusher flap swingably mounted to move between a retract position and an extend position in response to air pressure in that housing. In the dispatch or pressure mode, the pusher flap swings into an air tight terminal housing to push the carrier axially along the guide tray and partially back into the system tube. After the carrier has been initially dispatched back into the system tube, and as the pusher flap swings further into the terminal housing to an open position, the pusher flap structure opens a pressure port between the terminal and the pusher housings, thereby pressurizing the terminal housing and the system tube behind the carrier for pushing the carrier completely out of the housing and at least partially through the tube.

Abstract: Protected objects are connected together to form an antenna. Preferably, the cabinet for the detector circuitry is also included in the antenna. The antenna is excited by a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The capacitive reactance of the antenna changes when an intrusion occurs. This causes the frequency of the VCO signal to undergo an instantaneous change. A phase comparator compares the phase of the VCO signal with the phase of a reference oscillator signal. An instantaneous change in the frequency of the VCO signal due to a change in the capactive reactance of the antenna when an intrusion occurs is reflected by a shift in phase between the VCO signal and the reference oscillator signal. This causes the phase comparator signal to change.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An automated banking system, which comprises at least one remote transaction and cash dispensing unit interconnected with a central unit via a communication network is disclosed. Each remote unit is operable following a single customer card insertion, in either a first mode or a second mode, to process one or more transactions, including cash withdrawal, fund transfer and payment and deposit transactions. The central unit determines the mode of operation of each remote unit. In the first mode, the central unit communicates data to a remote unit following a request from the remote unit. The central unit may transmit information for updating the customer's card. The central unit communicates actual account balances which the remote unit reports to the customer. From other communicated data, which includes account descriptions, the remote unit determines which transactions a customer may perform.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An improved modular type safety deposit box system. In preferred form, each module is comprised of the same basic casing structure, and an initially separate door frame structure, these two components then being assembled into a completed module after pre-assembly of each component. Each module's casing may be subdivided into more than one compartment by use of a plurality of standardized horizontal dividers and, if desired, standardized vertical dividers, the dividers being arranged as desired in operative engagement with the casing through a slot and tab structure. Each module's door frame is comprised of a hoop-shaped frame adapted to be subdivided into a plurality of access ports corresponding to the same number of compartments provided in the basic casing. The doors for each access port of the frame may be installed to hinge from one side of the frame if no vertical dividers are used in the casing, or from a center hinge post fixed in the frame if vertical dividers are used in the casing.

Abstract: A carrier for transporting articles in a pneumatic tube system including, in one preferred embodiment, an elongated cylindrical body completely closed at one end and having an opening in the side wall thereof extending from the other end of the carrier a substantial distance along the length thereof, but substantially less than the entire carrier length, and having a width measured circumferentially approximately one-half of the carrier circumference. A semi-cylindrical cover is hinged to the carrier body along one longitudinal edge thereof to selectively close the opening in the side wall. Also included are mating semi-circular discs integral with the outer ends of the semi-cylindrical cover and cylindrical body section which cooperate to seal the end of the carrier adjacent the side wall opening when the semi-cylindrical cover is in its closed position sealing the side wall opening. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Abstract: An intercom system for remote banking which facilitates communication between a teller terminal and a remotely located customer terminal. A two-way speaker is provided at the customer location and a separate microphone and a speaker are provided at the teller location. An amplifier in the communication path linking the two stations is connected such that normally its input is responsive to the customer two-way speaker with its output feeding the teller speaker, permitting the customer to talk to the teller. When the teller speaks into the microphone, and assuming certain conditions are met, the amplifier automatically switches to connect the teller microphone to the amplifier input and the customer two-way speaker to the amplifier output, permitting the teller to talk to the customer.

Abstract: A pneumatic air terminal for receiving, presenting, and dispatching pneumatically driven carriers includes a housing, a door selectively opening and closing an opening in the housing, a carrier-receiving cradle, and common drive means for opening and closing the door and for driving the cradle to a carrier presentment position, when the door is opened, and to a retracted position across the terminal from the opening when the door is closed. In an up-receive, down-send terminal, the cradle is completely retracted from the path of an incoming carrier. The carrier is stopped and is held until the cradle moves beneath it and toward the door. In a down-receive, up-send terminal, the cradle is always within the path of, and beneath, an incoming carrier, the carrier coming to rest on the cradle. Each terminal includes an abutment surface for engaging and positioning a carrier in proper position for dispatch as the cradle is driven to a retracted position.

Abstract: An alarm circuit includes an alarm condition indicating section having an alarm indicator, such as a lamp, and a power supply therefor, the lamp becoming illuminated in response to sensing of an alarm condition. Also included is an alarm condition sensing element, such as a normally open switch or a photoconductor normally incident with a low level of light, which under normal conditions, i.e., in the absence of an alarm condition, exhibits a very high impedance, but which in response to an alarm condition exhibits a low impedance. The alarm condition sensing element is connected to the alarm condition indicator and in response to the sensing of an alarm condition and being placed in its low impedance condition causes the alarm indicator to provide an alarm indication.

Abstract: A pneumatic carrier terminal in a preferred embodiment includes a movable horizontal tray alignable with a horizontal pneumatic tube connected to the terminal. A carrier sealing ring is provided on the end of the tray and is aligned with the tube. The trailing end of a received carrier resides in the ring which surrounds the carrier's gasket. Stationary, two-stage cam apparatus within the terminal engages and pushes a carrier out of the ring when the tray is moved out of the terminal to present the carrier. Other stationary cam apparatus within the terminal engages and pushes a carrier into the ring when the carrier is replaced and the tray is retracted from the presentment position. The ring operatively seals one end of the carrier to the pneumatic tube to positively insure carrier flight when the terminal is pressurized. Alternate cam apparatus is disclosed.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically dispensing cash and performing other transactions relating to customer accounts. A magnetic card reader reads coded information into the system from a credit card which information identifies the account of the user. A keyboard entered code is compared with the card encoded information to verify that the account is that of an authorized user. The system includes a disc storage file which is checked for the account numbers of stolen cards and of accounts with respect to which transactions are to be restricted or otherwise modified. The file also includes a list of the images of cards read in the most recent past transactions and against these images the inserted card is checked for detection of duplicate cards. The system is capable of performing different types of transactions involving plural accounts of each user. A control code on each card enables the selection of only those machine functions which the user is authorized to select.