Abstract: An automatic teller machine (ATM) is provided with apparatus for turning it betweeen its normal-operating position and its service-access position. Turning occurs about a vertical axis that is moved transversely of itself during turning so that the ATM can be used in an enclosure of minimum dimensions. The turning apparatus comprises: (a) a jackscrew mechanism mounted on a base and coupled to a carrier for the ATM and (b) two cam connections between the base and the carrier for controlling during turning the paths of the carrier and said vertical axis.

Abstract: An envelope depository includes an envelope conveyor having return belting traveling in a downward direction at the rear end of the conveyor. To prevent "fishing" and "trapping" of an envelope an envelope receiver is disposed at the rear of the conveyor above the return belting and directs an envelope discharged from the conveyor in an upward direction. The envelope then slides forwardly from the receiver and downwardly from the receiver against the return belting, the belting directing the envelope downwardly into a narrow chute disposed between the rear of the conveyor and the receiver and leading to a collector bin.

Abstract: An automatic teller machine is provided with apparatus for turning it around a moving axis to turn between its operating user-access position and its service and maintenance position so that the machine can be used in an enclosure of minimum dimensions.

Abstract: A storage safe for containing securely therein a plurality of flexible media such as optical video disks. The storage safe is made of a sturdy body which is capable of being embedded in a cement floor, or the like. A cover encloses the cavity-like interior of the body and can only be removed by activating a combination mechanism assembly by applying the proper combination thereto. Any tampering with the combination mechanism assembly is defeated by the novel construction of the combination mechanism assembly. The cover has a slot therethrough and a labyrinth-like structure associated therewith so as to allow the flexible media to pass into the interior of the body but which prevents its unauthorized withdrawal therefrom. In addition, this labyrinth-like structure directs any undesireable fluid away from the flexible media stored within the body of the safe.

Abstract: Disclosed is a depository wherein the deposit envelope is conveyed in an enclosed carrier from a deposit opening along an attack resistant passage to a remote opening to a vault. There a wall of the carrier moves, relative to the carrier, to displace the deposit from the carrier into the vault. External access to the vault is protected by both the walls of the passage and the carrier, as well as by the vault walls.

Abstract: A self-service banking system includes a walk-in kiosk (12) housing an ATM (10), the ATM including a user console (16) provided in a front wall (17) of the kiosk. The ATM includes a safe (24) in which are housed a currency dispenser unit (20) and a depository unit (22) when the safe is closed. The dispenser and depository units are mounted on the safe door (72), and when the door is fully opened, these units are pivoted through 180 degrees from their home positions to positions outside the safe. The kiosk includes a movable portion (58) which is pivotable through 90 degrees to an extended position in order to accommodate the safe door (72) and the dispenser and depository units (20, 22) when the door is pivoted to its fully open position. The kiosk provides a secure enclosed environment for an authorized person who has opened the safe door (72) for the purpose of carrying out a servicing or note replenishment operation.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a mobile safe having at least one loading door for depositing valuables such as cash within the safe and at least one unloading door for emptying the safe includes an actuating mechanism for moving the loading door between its open and closed positions. The actuating mechansim extends out of the safe for engagement with a vault door locking mechanism when the safe is placed within an outer vault for secure deposit of cash into the safe. The engagement is such that the actuating mechanism operates to open the loading door as the vault door is locked. A locking device associated with the actuating mechanism automatically locks the safe door in its closed position and can only be released by subsequent unlocking or opening of the unloading door by a person having the required key.

Abstract: A device for automatically opening and closing the cash inlet-outlet opening of a cash container which is detachably installable into a rack in a cash handling apparatus. The device comprises a shutter provided inside the container and slidable along a wall thereof for opening or closing the opening; opening-closing drive means including opening and closing stoppers mounted on the rack and a knob attached to the shutter and cooperative with the stoppers, the drive means being adapted to drive the shutter with the movement of the container when the container is installed into or removed from the rack; lock means for holding the opening closed with the shutter; and release means for undoing the lock means with the movement of the container when the container is installed into the rack.

Abstract: The cash handling machine with a cash containing device housed within a safe and a receipt printer mounted on the safe comprises a cash carrying device for carrying cash from the cash containing device to an operation panel cash outlet and a receipt carrying device for carrying a printed receipt to an operation panel receipt outlet. Since the receipt carrying device is pivotally supported by the receipt printer at one end thereof and disposed obliquely between the receipt printer and the receipt outlet, it is possible to bring the receipt outlet into close proximity to the cash outlet in the operation panel even where the safe wall is sufficiently thick for crime prevention. Therefore, the user can readily take both the discharged cash and receipt simultaneously. Further, the receipt carrying device can be moved backward for easy access thereto in case of receipt jamming trouble.

Abstract: An improved after hour depository of the type including a throw-in door turnably housed in the frame is disclosed. A control panel is disposed on the frame at the position located adjacent to the throw-in door to control turning movement of the throw-in door. A magnetic card is previously allocated to a client by the bank and when he visits there, he inserts his magnetic card into a card insert slit on the control panel. A control circuit having a number of informations concerning all clients stored therein is electrically connected to the control panel. A locking and unlocking apparatus is provided between the frame and the throw-in door to lock or unlock the throw-in door in accordance with command issued from the control circuit.

Abstract: An automatic teller machine (ATM) with an operable front panel and an openable service panel is securely enclosed in an enclosure. The enclosure includes a first side wall extending at least from a floor at a first side of the ATM up, over and down to the floor on the second side of the ATM. A front wall with a cut-out zone therein, is provided which moves between an inward position and an outward position. In its position the front wall is secured to the first side wall. In its outward position the front wall is spaced from the first side wall. The cut-out zone has a perimeter sized and shaped to permit access to the operable front panel of the ATM when the front wall is in its inward position. Together the first side wall and the front wall define a first enclosure. A second side wall is connected to and extends inwardly from the front wall.

Abstract: An improved after hour depository is disclosed which essentially comprises a door casing turnable about a shaft extending across both the side walls of a framework on a bank building, a movable wall in operative association with the door casing so as to a develop a pocket, a rotary stopper fixedly secured to the door casing at its lower end part, a sleeve roller adapted to be displaced together with the movable wall, a ratch mechanism for defining the movement of the sleeve roller, a sliding member for turning the movable wall and a steal activity protection means.The improvement consists in that the stealing activity protection means comprises a stealing activity protection plate fixedly secured to the movable wall at its lower end part and an arm ratch so that any close clearance between the corrugated surfaces of both the door casing and the guide member is completely filled.

Abstract: In apparatus for dispensing documents of value for example banknotes, a cassette (10) preloaded with a stack of banknotes is movable along a predetermined path into the dispenser housing up to a feed position; the cassette includes a shutter (18) for closing a feed aperture (22) through which banknotes can be extracted for dispensing. The dispenser housing has a stop member (40) movable by a cam (30) on the cassette to cause a shutter-actuating member (42), coupled to the stop member, to enter a recess (26) in the shutter (18) whereby during further movement of the cassette up to the document feed position the shutter is moved from its closed position to its open position. The relative position of the cam on the cassette and the stop member is such that if because the shutter is already open the shutter-actuating member (42) is prevented from entering the recess, further movement of the cassette into the housing is blocked by the continued engagement of the stop member (40) and the cam (30).

Abstract: A compact, secure enclosure for an automatic teller machine is provided. The automatic teller machine is of the type having a secure front panel and on operable rear panel. The enclosure is defined by a closed wall. The wall has a forward portion in which the automatic teller machine is located and a rearward portion which permits servicing of the automatic teller machine. The closed wall has a cut-out zone extending a substantial distance around the forward portion of the wall. The height of the cut-out zone is sufficient to accommodate the front face of the automatic teller machine. Within the forward portion of the enclosure a base is mounted which is capable of supporting the automatic teller machine. The base can be rotated 180.degree. so that the automatic teller machine when supported thereon can assume at least three significant positions.

Abstract: A secure container formed with an aperture and having a closure member movable to cover or uncover the aperture, and comprising actuating means for engagement by a releasing member in a dispensing, loading or unloading apparatus as the container is inserted into such apparatus, incorporates a lost-motion connection between the actuating means (10) and release mechanism (12, 21, 22, 23) for the closure member (24) and a direct connection between the actuating means and an internally pivoted lever (11), as a consequence of which when the container is inserted in the apparatus the lever (11) is moved to project through the side wall of the container before the closure member starts to open and similarly on withdrawal of the container the closure member is completely closed before the lever returns to its first position inside the container to allow withdrawal of the container form the apparatus to be completed.

Abstract: A cash-and-carry transaction drawer assembly comprises a housing mounted to a cabinet on a cashier's side of a building wall. A front door is provided in the housing. A drawer is glidably mounted in the housing behind the door and has a lid at its top. When the drawer is "closed", the lid accommodates access of the cashier to the contents of the drawer, and the front door is closed. Cam means on the drawer operate to raise the lid to an access-excluding position as the drawer is opened, and open the door for access to the drawer by a customer outside the wall. The cam means for the lid and door have different rates of actuation so that the lid is closed more quickly than the door is opened. The mounting of the door minimizes projection thereof outside the wall when opened, to maximize the access of the customer to the contents of the drawer, when opened.

Abstract: A depository apparatus capable of sequential stacking deposits comprises a transfer duct movable from a position solely in communication with a storage chamber to a second position solely in communication with an external deposit aperture. The storage chamber is separated into a storage zone and a receiving zone, the latter being the portion of the chamber in communication with the transfer duct. The two zones are separated one from the other by a one way gate system that allows a pusher element to push deposits from the receiving zone into the storage zone against an oppositely biased stacker plate movably mounted in the storage zone.

Abstract: A structural unit comprises a rectangular base and floor with vertical walls attached to form an enclosure, and with a roof assembled thereto to form a miniature building, for containing a banking transactional computer, designated an automatic teller machine (ATM), which allows customers to withdraw currency and make deposits. The enclosure is designed for installation on narrow drive-through traffic islands and pedestrian walkways and may be used in shopping malls and retail outlets. The enclosure has interior space for private and secure servicing and maintenance of the ATM by bank and computer maintenance personnel. Through the use of an indexing turntable mechanism the ATM may be moved and rotated within the enclosure in order to present the operating portions and electronics of the machine for access required by the bank and computer personnel, without exposing them to conditions which encourage interference by outside agents or bystanders.

Abstract: A depository includes a frame, a door casing pivotally mounted to the frame for movement between closed and open positions, a movable wall member pivotally mounted to the door casing to permit pivotal movement thereof in response to the door casing being moved between the closed and open positions. A security mechanism is provided so that direction reversal of the pivotal movement of the door casing is prevented by virtue of a pair of ratch members which define a space therebetween and in which a roller moves during pivotal movement of the door casing towards the closed position. A cam surface is defined on one of the ratch members which also has a linkage member pivotally attached thereto so as to be movable between an engaged and disengaged position with respect to the other ratch member.

Abstract: A drawer-type night depository is disclosed which has a drawer which slides in and out of a housing embedded in a wall. The drawer has an unusable dead space in the front thereof and a partial floor comprised of spaced stationary fingers. The night depository also includes rotor fingers which are designed to rotate through the drawer as the drawer is closed. The item being deposited is placed on the stationary fingers. Then as the drawer is closed, the symmetric rotor fingers rotate between and through the stationary fingers, picking up the deposited item and flipping the deposited item through an opening in the drawer and housing into a bin below. The rotor fingers are fixedly attached to a shaft which passes through the drawer. The shaft is rotated by a clutch mechanism as the drawer is closed. The clutch mechanism is designed such that the shaft, and thus the rotor fingers, are rotated 180.degree. each time the drawer is closed.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing money in a receiving safe of a bank in which a door having a concave rear wall is rotatable between open and closed positions. A movable wall is mounted rotatably with the door to form a pocket with the concave wall when the door is open for receiving a money bag or envelope, the movable wall scraping the concave rear wall as the door rotates to its open position. A pawl is likewise mounted for rotation with the door to engage a ratchet and prevent reopening the door after it begins to close and has rotated to a position where the pocket is inaccessible.

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: A remote depository for receiving bank transaction deposits in envelopes at an unmanned location under conditions of security. The depository has a belt conveyor having entry and exit ends, one of which is closed at all times. The conveyor discharges into a locked deposit receiver such as a container which may be locked when removing it from association with the conveyor. The container may be a sealed, tamper-indicating container latched to the conveyor when unlocked upon being connected with the container. The conveyor has a probe which enters the deposit receiver to sense when the receiver is filled to capacity. If the receiver is completely full, the probe disables the conveyor so that it will not accept additional deposit envelopes.

Abstract: The tamper resistant safe includes an enclosure body of rugged steel construction which is bent to define a top opening. The top opening is enlarged and includes part of one side and part of the top to provide easy access to the safe interior. The enclosure top and side portions immediately adjacent to the opening include reinforcing constructions which cooperate with a sliding cover in a manner to reinforce and protect all junctions to discourage unauthorized entry therethrough.

Abstract: In a safe deposit apparatus of the type having a horizontally pivoted sector-shaped door with an interior pocket formed by a pivoted wall serving to eject articles from the pocket when the door is closed, the pivoted wall is normally biassed to the pocket-forming position and is displaceable therefrom to the ejecting position by a cam arrangement which becomes operable as the door is closed. Another cam arrangement maintains the pivoted wall in the ejecting position during opening the door. A locking mechanism permits opening of the door to a first position at which envelopes may be deposited, but prevents opening to a second position for the deposition of wallets except when released by a user's key.

Abstract: A service box for deposit of valuables for a subsequent feed down through a delivery aperture to a vault or safe chamber. The service box has an insert aperture with a lockable insert aperture closure. The service box below the insert aperture has a fixed base projecting approximately halfway to the back wall and providing the delivery aperture and includes an inner box formed by a roof, side walls and back wall, with open front and open base. The inner box is mechanically reciprocable and a scraper, fixed on a side of the inner box near its open end, reciprocates with the inner box back along the service box fixed base. A sliding hatch which slides horizontally is located below the service box fixed base for closing and opening the delivery aperture, being connected to the inner box by linkage so movement of the sliding hatch and of the inner box is in opposite directions. An electric motor is used to reciprocate the inner box and the sliding hatch.

Abstract: An attachment to a safe storing reserve cash, including a lockable hopper mounted on top of the safe to deposit immediately a shipment of cash into the safe without opening the safe, and a lockable container, connected to the hopper and extending partially into the safe, to store temporarily and have access to cash for delivery elsewhere without opening the safe at the time the delivery is to be made. The container is connected to the hopper so as to be concealed when the safe is viewed normally when standing in front of the safe.

Abstract: A shutter assembly for a sized slot or aperture generally in the front wall or partition of a depository safe or other security box or enclosure has a closure member having at least one portion wider than the sized slot or aperture disposed for sliding movement in channels formed on opposite sides of said sized slot or aperture to move from a position normally maintaining the sized slot or aperture closed to a position where the sized slot is open and vice versa.

Abstract: A rockable customer operated door for a chute to a safe type receptacle as in a bank for receiving parcels and/or envelopes, which door may be unlocked by a key, and when opened exposes a pocket into which a parcel or letter may be dropped, and which during the manual closing of the door, a pivoted wall of the pocket ejects the contents thereof into the chute. Spring urged lever and ratchet means control the movement of the pocket wall to not only eject its contents but to scrape the walls thereof as well as to prevent reversing movement of the door intermediate the ends of its travel. Movable trunnion pivots for the door are provided for removing the door for repairs to its mechanism. The lever means pivoted to the door is provided with pins that cooperate with the ratchet means which is pivoted to the frame for the door that is rigidly mounted in the opening of the chute. Stops and toggle means are provided for controlling and limiting the movement of the door, the movable pocket wall, and the lever means.

Abstract: A collection receptacle for receiving valuables which are contained in a box having a discharge opening whereby the box can be received within the receptacle, unlocked thereby, and then moved to a position so that the valuables therein are discharged into the receptacle. The door of the receptacle carries drive means engageable with the box to achieve the movement necessary for the discharging operation. A locking arrangement comprising a movable blocking member is associated with the receptacle, and this blocking member is moved into a blocking position relative to an arm associated with the door when the driving action is commenced. The blocking member is mounted on a rod which extends to the rear of the receptacle, and a mounting plate for the box at the rear of the receptacle is operatively connected to the rod to achieve movement of the blocking member into blocking position.