Patent ID: 8353449

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, wherein the automated banking machine is operative responsive to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, wherein the machine includes: a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data on user cards, wherein card data corresponds to at least one of a user and a financial account; a housing, wherein the housing includes a chest, wherein the chest includes a chest door which is selectively openable to gain access to an interior area of the chest; an upper housing, wherein the upper housing is in operatively supported connection with the chest, and wherein the card reader is in operatively supported connection with the upper housing; a display, wherein the display is in operatively supported connection with the upper housing; a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is operative to selectively dispense cash stored in the chest to users of the machine through a cash dispenser outlet; wherein the card reader and the cash dispenser outlet are on a first side of the housing, and wherein the chest door is openable by authorized servicers on a second side of the housing opposed of the first side; at least one processor associated with the machine, wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with the card reader and the cash dispenser, wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause the card reader to read card data from a user card, to cause a determination to be made that the card data corresponds to at least one of an authorized user and an authorized financial account, to cause responsive at least in part to the determination the cash dispenser to dispense cash at the cash dispenser outlet, and to cause the at least one of the authorized user and the authorized financial account to be assessed a value associated with the dispersed cash; a safe, wherein the safe is separate from the chest, and wherein the chest is in operatively supported relation above the safe; wherein the safe includes a depository head, wherein the depository head is in operatively supported connection with the safe and extends upward adjacent the first side of the chest, wherein the depository head includes a deposit opening, whereby deposits placed in the deposit opening are enabled to move downwardly in the safe.