Patent ID: 8342398

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, wherein the machine includes a housing, wherein the machine includes at least one display, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is operative to selectively dispense cash stored in the machine to authorized users of the machine, wherein the machine includes at least one reader, wherein the at least one reader is operable to read user data usable to identify at least one of a financial account and a user of the machine, wherein the machine is operable to carry out a cash dispense transaction involving a financial account responsive at least in part to computer-determined correspondence between user data read by the at least one reader and the financial account, wherein the machine includes a user fascia, wherein the user fascia is supported by two horizontally disposed slides connected to the housing, wherein the slides are extendable and retractable relative to the housing, wherein the slides allow the user fascia to be manually moved away from and toward the housing, wherein when the slides are in a fully retracted position, the user fascia is positioned adjacent the housing, wherein when the slides are in a fully extended position, the user fascia is positioned away from the housing, wherein when the slides are in the fully extended position, an open space is bounded by the user fascia, the slides, and the housing, wherein the open space comprises a size having a horizontal width and a horizontal length, wherein the size allows a person authorized to service the machine to stand up through the open space with the body of the person physically horizontally surrounded on four respective sides by the user fascia, the slides, and the housing, wherein the size allows the person while standing up through the open space, to service at least one component of the machine during a machine servicing session.