Patent ID: 7870996

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including: a housing, wherein the housing includes a chest portion, wherein the chest portion includes an interior area bounded by a wall including an opening; a note dispenser mounted in operatively supported connection with the housing; a user interface including at least one input device adapted to receive inputs corresponding to user financial accounts; a sheet acceptor, wherein the sheet acceptor is movably mounted within and in operatively supported connection with the housing outside the chest portion, wherein in an operative position of the sheet acceptor, sheets are enabled to pass from the sheet acceptor into the interior area of the chest through the opening; a sheet transport, wherein the sheet transport is operative to move sheets generally along a transport direction, wherein the sheet transport is movably mounted in operatively supported connection with the housing, wherein the sheet transport extends in the opening and is movable relative to the opening; wherein movement of the sheet acceptor relative to the housing is operative to cause the sheet acceptor to operatively engage and cause the sheet transport to move relative to the opening, wherein when the sheet acceptor and sheet transport are in engaged relation the sheet transport is enabled to move sheets from the sheet acceptor through the opening in the wall and into the interior area of the chest portion.