Abstract: This invention relates to a structure particularly adapted for use with an automatic teller machine. More particularly this invention relates to an environmentally controlled structure particularly adapted to permit installation of an automatic teller machine at a new or existing facility or other remote site.

Abstract: The protective screen of a through-the-wall automated-teller machine covers a recessed part of the machine facia and is retracted through a slot in the facia wall to reveal environmentally-vulnerable items for customer operation. The screen, which is in the form of a curved metal plate, is driven in both retraction and extension via a single rack-and-pinion coupling. The rack is a length of powered-drive belting clamped upon a foam-rubber backing to the inside of the plate centrally of two pairs of arcuate channel-guides for the two side-edges respectively of the plate. The channel-guides of one pair are mounted on opposed side-walls of the facia recessed-part externally of the machine whereas those of the other pair are mounted internally behind the facia. Nylon blocks clipped to corners of the plate run in the channel-guides.

Abstract: Transaction processing enclosures for containment of electronic data processing equipment, banking apparatus and the like incorporating a housing comprising a composite laminate composed of reflective, refractory and structural elements to provide an enclosure of unique structural integrity, and protection to the environment within and outside said enclosure against adverse factors such as impact and fire, and insulation against wide variations in temperature exterior to said enclosure while sustaining a stable environment within said enclosure.

Abstract: A transaction security device comprising a booth of a material and construction capable of selective voluntary entry and involuntary personnel retention and incorporating a transaction interface; entrance means for said booth; a closure for said entrance means, and control means adapted to secure and unsecure at least said entrance means; and cooperating with said booth, disposed, therein, or indeed independent thereof, at least one secondary enclosure adapted to contain apparatus disposed upon at least one turntable within a housing module composed of an enclosure, portions of which are independently rotatable about said turntable and the devices disposed thereon; and means for access to the interior of said housing and with said transaction interface.

Abstract: A mounting and operating assembly for a movable closure or door of a transaction security booth or enclosure or the like having an upright cylindrical configuration, including an angle-iron shaped cross-section mounting ring having an inwardly projecting horizontal flange to be secured to the top portion of the enclosure by circumferentially spaced fastening bolts, a double I-beam shaped track secured to the ring by bolts through the flange having a pair of cable idler wheels on each, a T-shaped carrier at plural locations above the closure secured to the latter and having pairs of roller wheels riding on the bottom flange of the track, a drive motor and worm gear box supported on the ring having a horizontal axis wheel driving a cable system trained about a pair of horizontal axis idler wheels and about the cable idler wheels defining the cable path and secured to at least one of the carriers to open and close the closure.

Abstract: Credit card operated, automated teller machines are located in the vestibule of a bank where they may be accessed during normal banking hours. During off hours, a partition system segregates the vestibule from the remainder of the bank. Off-hour access to the vestibule is advantageously controlled by a customer activated door lock operated by the credit card and reader located at the bank door. Thus, access to the vestibule and the automated teller machines are controlled by the customer's own credit card.

Abstract: A door handgrip having means for obtaining a fingerprint of the next person using the door, as a bank robber or a law breaker. For this purpose the grip is provided with a pair of fingergrip surfaces one of which is in normal use and the other of which is print-free and normally shielded from use. Remote control means is operable to replace the normally used gripping surface with the print-free surface thereby to obtain the fingerprints of the next person using the grip.

Abstract: A transaction security device comprising a booth of a material and construction capable of selective voluntary entry and involuntary personnel retention and incorporating a transaction interface; entrance means for said booth; a closure for said entrance means, and control means adapted to secure and unsecure at least said entrance means; and cooperating with said booth, disposed, therein, or indeed independent thereof, at least one secondary enclosure adapted to contain apparatus disposed upon at least one turntable within a housing module composed of an enlosure, portions of which are independently rotatable about said turntable and the devices disposed thereon; and means for access to the interior of said housing and with said transaction interface.

Abstract: A system for disabling robbers has an ejector arranged for projecting needle-like discrete articles across a passageway which a robber must traverse during flight, and toward a receptor disposed opposite of and spaced from the ejector across the passageway. Articles which do not strike the body of the robber will be received by the receptor. A tranquilizer is provided on the articles for rendering the robber unconscious in seconds. Personnel inside the building subjected to robbery can activate the system, either directly as the robber attempts to leave the building, or indirectly by actuating a sensor system when the robbery is first instigated.

Abstract: A modular bank window construction having a main window frame and a glass frame within the main frame in which bullet-resistant glass is mounted. Window frames of various widths are assembled with the same vertical window frame components and with horizontal window frame components cut to various lengths depending on a selected window width. Various window widths are assembled using one or a plurality of standard sized bullet-resisting glass panels. The exterior portions of the main window frame may be clad with any one of a number of different thin sheet materials such as bronze, aluminum, stainless steel, and various colors of vinyl material to satisfy architectural specifications. The cladding and primary window frame components are constructed to provide weather-sealed joints at the primary frame corners and also between the main window frame and glass frame.

Abstract: A steel fence extends from a building housing a store and encloses a parking area extending from a wall of the building having a window and a door. The fence has gates therein. A cashier's booth is provided on the wall and oversees the fenced enclosure. A control device electrically connects the cashier's booth and the door and gates for remote control of the door and gates from the cashier's booth.