Automatic teller machine housing

• US 4,884,514 A
• Filed: 07/27/1988
• Issued: 12/05/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Heritage Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Heritage Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Tompkins, Rodney R., Shockey, Brent J.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/224,849
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 109/24.1, 109/2, 109/16, 109/64, 109/71, 109/66, 109/73, 221/281
• US Class Current: 109/24.1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

An automatic teller machine housing includes a conventional automatic teller machine having a money cassette portion, a display panel and internal mechanical and electrical components. The ATM is mounted in the housing with the display panel exposed along one longitudinal side of the housing, the housing being a width slightly greater than the depth of the money cassette, and large enough to allow rotational movement of the money cassette. The money cassette is rotatably and slidably mounted within a vault within the housing so as to be moveable between an operable position in engagement with the display panel and transversely oriented to the longitudinal walls of the housing, and a loading position generally parallel with the longitudinal walls of the housing. A turntable having a slidable platform mounted thereon is utilized to support the money cassette within a vault, so as to permit the appropriate movement of the money cassette from the operable position to the loading position.

Claims

1. In combination:

a housing having a pair of opposite longitudinal sides, opposite ends, top, and bottom, said housing being secured to the ground;

an automatic teller machine (ATM) operably mounted in said housing, comprising;

a display panel permanently mounted in a longitudinal side of said housing, and having operable keys thereon;

said display panel further comprising a money-dispensing chute secured therein for dispensing money from the interior of said housing to the exterior of said housing;

internal mechanical and electrical processing components mounted within said housing and electrically connected to said display panel to process transactions entered by said keys; and

a money cassette for dispensing money to said money dispensing chute, operably mounted in said housing for movement independent of said display panel and internal mechanical and electrical processing components;

said housing having a width slightly greater than the depth of the money cassette, but great enough to allow rotational movement of the money cassette;

service entry means for gaining entrance to said housing;

mounting means within said housing for movably mounting said money cassette, said money cassette being movable between an operable position generally perpendicular to the longitudinal sides of said housing and in engagement with said money dispensing chute, and a loading position oriented generally parallel to said housing longitudinal sides and disengaged from said money dispensing chute.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said mounting means includes a roller bearing turntable supporting said money cassette, said housing bottom having a depression formed therein adapted to receive said turntable, and said turntable being operably positioned within said depression.

3. The combination of claim 2, wherein said mounting means further includes a platform mounted on said turntable for operable rotation therewith, said money cassette being slidably mounted on said platform for slidable movement independent of rotatable movement of the platform, such that said money cassette may be moved from said operable position to said loading position by sliding and rotating the money cassette on said platform.

4. The combination of claim 1, said housing further comprising:

a vault means therein enclosing said money cassette and separating it from said internal mechanical and electrical processing components;

said money cassette and said mounting means being operably mounted within said vault means;

said vault means having a selectively lockable door accessing said money cassette; and

said vault means having an opening in engagement with said money dispensing chute, to permit selective engagement of said money cassette with said money dispensing chute.