Patent ID: 9230414
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G07F,G09B

Claim Text:
1. Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates to cause financial transfers, the machine includes: a reader operable to obtain data corresponding to financial accounts, a display, an input device, a sheet handling device, wherein the sheet handling device is operable to one of a group consisting of dispense sheets to machine users, receive sheets from machine users, and both dispense sheets to machine users and receive sheets from machine users, a computer associated with the machine, wherein the computer is operable to cause a determination that data read by the reader corresponds to an account authorized to conduct a transaction through operation of the automated banking machine, and wherein the computer is operable to cause a financial transfer from one of a group consisting of to the account, from the account, and both to the account and from the account responsive at least in part to the determination that data read by the card reader corresponds to an account authorized to conduct a transaction through operation of the automated banking machine, an externally accessible headphone jack that is configured to be releasibly, electrically connectable to portable audio output devices, wherein the headphone jack includes an opening external of the machine, wherein the opening is configured to receive electrical connector plugs therein, a jack housing within the machine, wherein the jack housing extends below the opening and bounds an interior area, wherein the interior area houses at least one electrical contact configured for releasible electrical connection with electrical connector plugs, wherein the jack housing includes a drain opening therein below the at least one electrical contact, and wherein the drain opening is configured to drain water from the interior area of the jack housing; wherein the jack housing includes an air flow device operable to engage an electrical connector plug when fully inserted into the opening; wherein engagement with the electrical connector plug causes the air flow device to expel air; and wherein air expelled from the airflow device passes outwardly from the interior of the jack housing through the drain opening.