Patent ID: 8439356

Claim:
A cassette for receiving and storing banknotes comprising a housing having a slot opening for longitudinally receiving a banknote at one end of said housing with said slot opening being adjacent a back face of said housing, said slot opening including within said housing two opposed guides positioned on opposite sides of and extending in a length of the housing adjacent said back face to receive and support a payment substrate as it passes through said slot into said housing, a displaceable stacker plate in an initial position located to one side of the two guides and between said guides and said back face, said cassette including a storage arrangement to a side of said guides opposite said stacker plate and opposite said back face, said storage arrangement receiving therein payment substrates displaced from said guide members by said stacker plate to form a stack of payment substrates in said storage arrangement, a drive arrangement for controlled movement of said stacker plate; said drive arrangement including a scissor type linkage having a pair of elongate arms extending in the length of said housing and connected at an intermediate pivot, said scissor type linkage extending in said length of said housing and being connected to said stacker plate and said housing for moving said stacker plate from said initial position through said guides to a payment substrate stripping position within said storage arrangement; said drive arrangement further including a drive linkage with two bar members pivotally connected to each other with a free end of one bar member pivotally connected to said housing at said back face and a free end of the other bar member pivotally connected to said scissor type linkage; said drive linkage in said initial position of said stacker plate having said bar members generally extending in the length of said housing and forming a substantially folded orientation within a space occupied by said scissor type linkage and movable to an extended position forcing said stacker plate to said payment substrate stripping position, said bar members forming an opened orientation therebetween when said stacker plate is in said payment substrate stripping position; and wherein said drive linkage includes a separate link member extending in said length of said housing and in a space intermediate said scissor type linkage with one end of said separate link member pivotally connected to said drive linkage and an opposite end connected to a driven crank arm located adjacent said slot opening at said one end of said housing, said crank arm cooperating with said separate link member to control movement of said stacker plate from said initial position to said payment substrate stripping position.