Credit and payment card automatic dispensing or vending machine

摘要

The machine is provided with an aperture (2) for cards and these are drawn in to have the details of a customer checked. If access is allowed, the customer can utilise the screen (3), the keyboard (4) and a writing or sensing surface (5), an output (6) for banknotes and finally a writing unit or stylus (8) controlled by a security unit (7). To ensure that a customer has authorisation to use the card presented, he will write his name on the sensing surface that is connected to an analysing unit (11). The signature provided is compared with a signature in the memory of the comparison unit (11a) or in the central memory bank (16).