Automatic teller machine enclosure

• US 5,036,779 A
• Filed: 04/23/1990
• Issued: 08/06/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tony Capraro
• Original Assignee: Tony Capraro
• Inventors: Capraro, Tony
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/512,916
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
• Field of Search: 109/24.1, 109/2, 109/48, 109/57, 109/73, 109/5, 109/7, 109/11, 902/25
• US Class Current: 109/24.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 10/00 Furniture or installations specially adapted to particular types of service systems, not otherwise provided for conveyor aspects B65G; building aspects E04H; coin-freed apparatus G07F
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

An enclosure having a front portion and a rear portion houses an automatic teller machine, which is mounted in one wall of said front portion and provides access to customers via a cut out in said front wall. The rear wall of the front portion is open. The rear portion has an open front wall and a door in one side thereof. The rear portion is mounted on wheels and slides to enable it to be nested within the front portion, or to be extended from the front portion to enable service access to the inside of the enclosure via the door.

Claims

1. An expandable enclosure for an automatic teller machine comprising:

a) a front portion having a vertical front wall, a pair of side walls extending at right angles from the opposite ends of said front wall, and a top covering said front portion, the wall of said front portion opposite said front wall being fully open;

b) a rear portion having a rear wall, a pair of side walls extending at right angles from said rear wall slightly inward from the ends of said rear wall, and a top covering said rear portion, the wall of said rear portion opposite said rear wall being open and the distance between said rear portion side walls being less than the distance between said front portion side walls;

c) a hinged door located in one of the rear portion side walls;

d) wheel means located at the bottom of said rear portion adjacent said rear portion rear wall;

e) a pair of slides having stops attached to the inside of each front portion side wall and to the outside of each rear portion side wall whereby said rear portion is adapted to fit within said front portion with the part of the rear wall of said rear portion outside the side wall thereof abutting the open ends of the side walls of said front portion and whereby a closed enclosure structure is formed, said rear portion being adapted to be translated rearwardly relative to said front portion an amount sufficient to expand said enclosure and permit access thereto via said door, the walls of said front and said back portions overlapping sufficiently to prevent access into said enclosure via said door except when said rear portion is translated to its maximum unnested position; and

f) locking means connected with said front and back portions for preventing undesired separation of said portions from said nested position; and

g) an opening in the top of said rear portion, and a vent in the top of said front portion aligned with said opening when said enclosure is in its nested position wherein the top of said rear portion is drawn clear of the vent in the top of said front portion when said rear portion is translated to its maximum unnested position.

2. An enclosure as in claim 1 and including a latch means for opening said door, and pull means for said door mounted flush therewith.