Abstract: A document storage device for storing sheet documents is disclosed. The device comprises a band (3), which can be wound onto a document storage roller (2) such that sheet documents can be stored between adjacent windings of the band on the document storage roller and which can be unwound from the document storage roller thereby dispensing the stored documents, and a scraper assembly rotatable about a pivot (21) and comprising a scraper (19) and an end stop (20), each for contacting the band on the document storage roller. The scraper assembly is urged by a first biassing element (22) such that the end stop maintains contact with the band on the document storage roller at a point distal from the pivot relative to the point of contact of the scraper with the band on the document storage roller.

Abstract: A document handling apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an input module for receiving documents and feeding them one by one into the apparatus, a note handling module for transporting the documents to a safe, a note reader module for detecting characteristics of the documents, and a safe for storing the documents. The safe comprises a number of roll storage modules connect by transport means. The module in which each document is stored is determined based upon the detected characteristics of the document. Documents can be retrieved from the storage modules upon operator input and dispensed through an output module.

Abstract: In the apparatus of the invention for loading and dispensing bills, the deposited bills are isolated and directly provisionally stored and tested by means of a deposit path (A, B, C), and the testing result, particularly with respect to the amount, is displayed. Depending on the customer's command and/or test result, the bills are returned after deposit from the intermediate storage (20) to the return path (E, F) that has one embranchment location (24b) only, so that the customer can personally test eventual or supposed inaccuracies in the automatic sum and/or value determination of the deposited bills. The bills can be guided into the end storage container by means of the only embranchment location (24b). A completely undisturbed bill loading system is therefore obtained, wherein the bills can be dispensed in the original order in which they were deposited for reverification by the depositing customer. In this manner, the greatest possible feeling of security is extended to the customer making the deposit.

Abstract: A cash vault (1) has vault control unit (7) to be operated alternately by two tellers (4a, 4b), with only a single banknote disbursement (11) and input unit (39). The disbursement opening of banknote disbursement unit (11) is closeable by a two-part cover (13a, 13b) with only that opening part which is adjacent to the pertinent teller (4a, 4b) being cleared at the time for currency disbursement. In this way, allocation of the amount of money made available to one of the two bank employees takes place without problems. The second bank employee cannot take the banknote bundle made available to the first bank employee even inadvertently. For path selection of banknotes from banknote input unit (39) to a banknote repository (35) or to banknote disbursement unit (11) or from the banknote repository to the banknote disbursement unit (11), a bar-shaped path selection element rotatable about its longitudinal axis is used. The path selection element is traversed by at least one longitudinal slot.