Patent ID: 7311472

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an up receive/down send customer terminal adapted for operative connection with a customer end of a pneumatic transport tube, wherein the customer terminal is adapted to selectively receive a pneumatic carrier therein, wherein the customer terminal includes: a frame; a pivot assembly mounted in operative supported connection with the frame, wherein the pivot assembly includes a tubular member wherein the tubular member includes an open lower end and an upper end disposed from the lower end, wherein the tubular member is operative to receive a pneumatic carrier therein through the lower end, and wherein the tubular member is adapted for vertical and pivotal movement between a first substantially vertical position and a second position disposed from the first position; and an air supply assembly in operative fluid connection with the upper end of the tubular member, wherein the air supply assembly is operative to supply first and second pressure differentials to the tubular member, and wherein a pneumatic carrier is movable in the terminal responsive to the first and second pressure differentials, wherein the air supply assembly comprises: a blower housing; a switched reluctance blower motor mounted in operative supported connection with the blower housing; and a valve assembly in operative connection with the blower housing, wherein when the valve assembly is in a first configuration the air supply assembly is operative to supply the first pressure differential wherein the first pressure differential comprises vacuum, and when the valve assembly is in a second configuration the blower motor is operative to supply the second pressure differential, wherein the second pressure differential comprises positive pressure.