Patent ID: 7793831

Claim:
A method of operating a banking system responsive to a data bearing record, comprising: (a) reading data from a card presented by a user, through operation of a card reader in an automated banking machine; (b) operating the automated banking machine to determine that the data read in (a) corresponds to stored data associated with an authorized machine user; (c) receiving a stack comprising a plurality of documents through a sheet opening in a housing of the machine, wherein the stack is received intermediate of a first sheet driver member and a second sheet driver member, and wherein the stack is received on a first side of at least one divider plate, wherein the at least one divider plate is positioned intermediate of the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member; (d) subsequent to (c) relatively moving the at least one divider plate, the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member, such that the first sheet driver member operatively engages a first side of the stack and the second sheet driver member operatively engages a second side of the stack opposed of the first side of the stack, wherein the second sheet driver member operatively engages the second side of the stack through an opening in the at least one divider plate; (e) subsequent to (d), moving the stack within the machine in operative engagement with the first sheet driver member and the second sheet driver member.