Patent Document ID: 6012633
Application ID: 09053493

Base Claim:
1. An automatic transaction apparatus for automatically settling financial documents deposited by users, comprising: a depository inlet for receiving a financial document deposited by a user; document feed means for feeding the financial document received by said depository inlet; reading means for reading transaction data from the financial document; printing means for printing a transactional result on the financial document; storage means for storing the financial document; and guidance means disposed in said depository inlet, for indicating a pattern in which to insert the financial document into said depository inlet.

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Claim 8:
8. An automatic transaction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: detecting means disposed between said depository inlet and said reading means, for detecting the manner in which the financial document has been inserted from said depository inlet; and control means for returning the financial document to said depository inlet when the financial document has improperly been inserted from said depository inlet as detected by said detecting means.