Patent ID: 8281986

Claim:
Apparatus usable in an automated banking machine operative to both carry out banking transactions responsive to card data read from data bearing records through operation of a card reader and cause financial transfers at least one from and to a financial account corresponding to the card data, comprising: a sheet holding compartment, wherein the sheet holding compartment is configured to hold a plurality of sheets in abutting relation in a stack, wherein a plurality of sheets in the stack varies with apparatus operation, wherein a first sheet bounds a first end of the stack; a first rotating member, wherein the first rotating member extends in the sheet holding compartment, wherein the first rotating member rotates about a first axis, wherein the first rotating member includes at least one first projecting portion, wherein the at least one first projecting portion is movable, wherein the at least one first projecting portion is radially outwardly biased relative to the first rotating member, wherein the at least one first projecting portion is biased toward engagement with the first sheet, wherein the at least one first projecting portion is radially movable to engage the first sheet; at least one first target element portion, wherein the at least one first target element portion is within the sheet holding compartment, wherein the at least one first target element portion is in operative engaged connection with the at least one first projecting portion, wherein the at least one first target element portion is movably positioned based on radial position of the at least one first projecting portion; wherein at least one first target element portion position within the sheet holding compartment is detectable through operation of at least one first sensor, wherein the at least one first sensor is located outside the sheet holding compartment.