Bank deposit identification device

• US 4,245,902 A
• Filed: 10/18/1978
• Issued: 01/20/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George Spector, Joseph W. Cataldo
• Original Assignee: George Spector, Joseph W. Cataldo
• Inventors: Spector, George, Cataldo, Joseph W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzales, John
• Application Number:
  US05/952,480
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 354/75, 354/76, 354/80, 354/81, 354/220, 346/22, 346/107 C, 109/23, 109/24.1, 194/4 B, 340/568-572, 358/108, 352/131, 352/133, 352/179, 352/243
• US Class Current: 396/502
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/0096 Accepting paper currency or other valuables in containers, e.g. in code-marked envelopes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/207 Surveillance aspects at ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/00 Alarm indicators, e.g. bells

Abstract

An apparatus for confirming a bank deposit having been actually done at a bank night depository chute, thus eliminating subsequent contradiction of the unwitnessed deposit between the bank and the depositor, the apparatus including a dual camera that is activated to operate when the chute door is unlocked, so a forward extending lens photographs the face of the depositor, and another lens, pointing into the chute, photographs the package deposited into the chute, the invention also including another design in which the dual camera is of movie camera type that records the entire operation inside the chute from the amount of the chute door opening to the closing thereof so to indicate if the package is removed again before door closing, and the apparatus including auxillary, spaced apart still camera all pointed at the depositor so to prevent easy covering of the lens.

Claims

1. An apparatus incorporated with a bank night depository comprising in combination, an inclined chute through a bank wall, a door on an outer end of said chute, an inner end of said chute leading to a vault, a hopper mounted on an inner side of said door for receiving and retaining a deposit when said door is open said hopper permitting said deposit to slide down the chute after said door is closed in combination with means for photographing the depositor and deposit simultaneously as soon as the door is closed in further combination with second means responsive to closing of said door for actuating the first said means.

2. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the second said means comprises a switch which completes an electric circuit responsive to door closure.