Patent ID: 7144006
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: (a) engaging an end note bounding a stack of notes in an automated banking machine with a rotatable picking member, wherein the picking member is rotatable about a first axis, and wherein the picking member includes a middle disk portion and a first outboard disk portion disposed on a first axial side of the middle disk portion, and a second outboard disk portion disposed on a second axial side of the middle disk portion opposed of the first axial side; (b) rotating the picking member about the first axis in a first rotational direction to a first rotational position, wherein in the first rotational position the end note is engaged with a middle disk high friction arcuate segment in supporting connection with the middle disk portion, and a stripping member in opposed biased relation with the middle disk high friction arcuate segment, wherein the middle disk high friction arcuate segment and the stripping member apply opposing forces to the end note in a stripping area, and wherein in the first rotational position the end note is further engaged with a middle disk low friction arcuate projecting portion in supporting connection with the middle disk portion and extending radially outward relative to the first axis beyond the middle disk high friction arcuate segment, and wherein in the first rotational position the middle disk low friction arcuate projecting portion engages the end note in a support area axially disposed on the middle disk portion of the stripping area, and wherein in the first rotational position of the picking member the end note is in engagement with a first outboard disk low friction portion in supporting connection with the first outboard disk portion and a second outboard disk low friction portion in supporting connection with the second outboard disk portion; (c) rotating the picking member in the first rotational direction from the first rotational position to a second rotational position, wherein in the second rotational position the end note is engaged with the middle disk high friction arcuate segment and the stripping member, and wherein in the second rotational position the low friction arcuate projecting portion does not extend radially outward beyond the middle disk high friction arcuate segment when in engagement with the end note in the support area, and wherein in the second rotational position the end note is in engagement with a first outboard disk high friction segment in supporting connection with the first outboard disk portion and a second outboard disk high friction segment in supporting connection with the second outboard disk portion; (d) rotating the picking member in the first rotational direction from the second rotational position, wherein the end note moves relative to other notes in the stack in engagement with the middle disk high friction arcuate segment, the first outboard disk high friction segment, the second outboard disk high friction segment and in intermediate relation of the middle disk high friction arcuate segment and the stripping member, whereby the end note is generally separated from the stack.