Patent ID: 6820872
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A media cassette of a media dispensing machine, comprising:a casing disposed in a media cassette receiving unit of a media dispensing machine; a media loading unit disposed in the casing and storing media; a driving unit installed at a certain side of the media loading unit inside the casing and operated by a power transmitting unit of the media dispensing machine for dispensing the media stored in the media loading unit; a media guiding unit installed so as to connect the driving unit with an outlet formed at the outer surface of the casing for guiding the media dispensed by the driving unit to a media conveying unit of the media dispensing machine; and a media dispense security unit for controlling the driving unit so as to operate only when the casing is installed in the media cassette receiving unit of the media dispensing machine, said media dispense security unit including an operation restraint unit for restraining the operation of the driving unit in order to prevent the rotation of a driving shaft of the driving unit; and a control key coupling unit for releasing the operation restraint unit in order to operate the driving unit when a control key installed to the media cassette receiving unit is inserted.