Patent ID: 7249761

Claim:
An apparatus including: a media presenter, wherein the presenter is adapted for use in an automated banking machine to receive currency notes taken from at least one currency container and move the currency notes together as a currency note stack to a user access area during a currency note dispensing, wherein the presenter includes a housing, wherein the housing includes an outlet, wherein the outlet is sized to have the currency note stack pass therethrough, wherein the presenter includes a gate arrangement, wherein the gate arrangement includes a gate, wherein the gate is movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein in the closed position the gate prevents passage of the currency note stack through the outlet, wherein in the open position the gate permits the currency note stack to pass through and out the outlet, wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one cam arm, wherein the at least one cam arm is connected to the gate, wherein movement of the at least one cam arm is operative to move the gate between the closed position and the open position, wherein the gate is arranged to move in an upward direction during movement toward the open position, wherein the gate arrangement includes an actuator comprising at least one lever, wherein a first cam arm of the at least one cam arm is located adjacent to a first lever of the at least one lever, wherein the first lever is movable relative to the first cam arm, wherein actuation of the at least one lever is operative to move the at least one cam arm, wherein the gate arrangement includes at least one slot and at least one pin, wherein a first pin of the at least one pin is arranged to relatively move in a first slot of the at least one slot during the actuation.