Patent ID: 6983880

Claim:
An automated banking machine apparatus comprising: at least one input device adapted to receive inputs identifying at least one of machine users and financial accounts; at least one output device adapted to communicate with machine users; at least one note handling mechanism; at least one controller in operative connection with the at least one input device, at least one output device, and at least one note handling mechanism; wherein the at least one note handling mechanism includes at least one picking member, at least one stripper member and at least one sensor, wherein the at least one note handling mechanism is generally operative responsive to the at least one controller to pick notes generally one at a time from a stack through movement of the picking member in a first direction, and wherein responsive to sensing multiple notes having been picked from the stack by the at least one sensor, the at least one controller is operative to cause the at least one picking member and at least one stripper member to move the multiple notes in a second direction opposed of the first direction, wherein a first note of the multiple notes engaged with the at least one stripper member is moved in the second direction a distance greater than a second note of the multiple notes engaged with the picking member.