Automated customer interface for services involving drop-off and pickup

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Automated Customer Interface for Services Involving Drop-Off and Pickup, Abstract of the Disclosure A system for automated, attendant-free customer interface for services such as laundry and dry cleaning processing or rental of items such as videotapes enables customers to order services and pick up processed orders using a general purpose undedicated credit card. For dry cleaning services a storage, facility is provided for garment bags soiled garments of, unprocessed orders and processed laundry/dry cleaning orders. A retrieval device upon appropriate command retrieves a customer's processed order and brings it to a customer interface panel door which opens to to enable the customer to …