Night depository control system

Claim 1

A night depository control system for use with an automatic banking transaction system providing at least one of cash dispensing and depositing functions and employing a card having data recorded thereon including at least a coded identification of a customer account for the customer to whom the card is issued and a transaction code identifying each type of transactions authorized for that customer account, the transaction system including means for reading data from the card, means operable, by the customer, for entering the type of transaction desired, data concerning the transaction, and a secret number corresponding to a given customer account, means for authorizing the customer to perform a transaction, said authorizing means including means for determining the existence of a predetermined relation of the entered transaction type and the authorized transaction type recorded on the card and for determining the existence of a predetermined relation of the secret number entered by the customer and the coded identification of the customer account read from the card, means for issuing a receipt for a transaction when authorized and performed by the transaction system, and means for storing data concerning the transaction in accordance with data read from the card and data entered by the customer, said night depository control system including night depository apparatus being selectively controllable from a state of non-acceptance to a state for acceptance of a deposit, to enable placement of a deposit in said apparatus, said transaction entering means including a night depository transaction entering means and said card including a position thereon for recording a night depository authorized transaction code, control means responsive to a determination by said determining means of the entry of an authorized night depository transaction code, for controlling said night depository apparatus to said state for acceptance of a deposit for permitting placement of a deposit therein, means for detecting placement of a deposit in said night depository apparatus and for issuing a deposit detection signal in response thereto, and said control means responding to the deposit detection signal to actuate said receipt issuing means for issuing a receipt for the deposit to the customer and to enable said storing means for storing the data concerning the transaction entered by operation of said data entering means by the customer.