Abstract: A method for destroying bank notes is provided, wherein bank notes are checked and sorted by at least one bank-note processing machine in at least one decentralized place, whereby unfit bank notes are sorted out in order to be transported to a central place for destruction. It is provided that all bank notes recognized as unfit are stored on a single stack independently of the bank-note denomination and/or orientation recognized during the check, for which purpose a single output pocket of the bank-note processing machine is used for all unfit bank notes.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing/dispensing notes such as bills of monetary value, wherein the notes are stored between opposed webs wound onto drums, and notes having different characteristics may be stored on the same drum.

Abstract: A paper sheet recognition apparatus includes a sensor that measures feature amounts of a paper sheet; a recognition unit that recognizes whether the paper sheet is genuine or counterfeit, and fit or unfit, based on the feature amount; a memory unit that stores therein a plurality of pieces of different category classification pattern information prepared for each category for classifying the paper sheets into a plurality of categories, which is obtained by combining the feature amounts; and a category determining unit that determines a category of the recognized paper sheet using a recognition result in the recognition unit and the category classification pattern information.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus 10 comprises a casing 12, an inlet 20 configured for inserting banknotes into the casing 12 from the exterior thereof, a plurality of storages 40 provided in a lower portion of the casing 12, in a substantially horizontal direction and in parallel relative to one another, and respectively adapted for storing therein the banknotes, and an escrow storage 42 juxtaposed with the respective storages 40 in the casing and adapted for escrowing therein the banknotes inserted into the casing 12 from the exterior thereof through the inlet 20. A transport unit 30 adapted for transporting the banknotes between any two of the inlet 20, respective storages 40 and escrow storage 42 is provided above the respective storages 40 and escrow storage 42 in the casing 12. In addition, a plurality of diverters 36 are provided at diversion points 35 in the transport unit 30 toward each of the storages 40 and escrow storage 42, respectively.

Abstract: A coin/bill acceptor includes a face panel defining a bill insertion slot, a coin insertion slot and a coin return slot, a first housing fastened to the back side of the face panel and defining a bill passageway in communication with the bill insertion slot and accommodating therein a transmission unit for transferring the inserted bill from the bill insertion slot into the bill passageway and a bill validator module for sensing the authenticity and value of the inserted bill, a second housing hinged to the first housing at one lateral side, a spacer board being attached to the inner lateral side of the second housing and defining a coin passageway in communication with the coin insertion slot and a coin return passageway in communication with the coin return slot, a coin validator module being arranged in the for sensing the authenticity and value of the inserted.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic teller machine (ATM), including: a body to process depositing or withdrawing of a paper medium; a cassette being slidably attached to and detached from the body, and comprising a cassette coupler formed on one side of the cassette to receive a power from the body, and to internally receive the paper medium; a receiving unit being formed within the body to install the cassette, and comprising a body coupler being combined with the cassette coupler when installing the cassette to thereby transfer the power from the body to the cassette; and a combining unit being formed on each of the body coupler and the cassette coupler so that a rotation center line of the body coupler and a rotation center line of the cassette coupler are matched on the same axial line to thereby combine the body coupler and the cassette coupler.

Abstract: A medium storing and advancing apparatus is provided which prevents, when a medium sandwiched between two tapes is wound on a drum to be stored, that the medium could not be wound due to the thickness of the tapes wound previously on the drum. The medium storing and advancing apparatus includes reels which supply and wind up the tapes, and a drum which winds up the tapes, wherein the drum is provided with a drum groove portion over the circumferentially entire periphery substantially in a middle way of the outer peripheral surface of the drum so that the tapes are wound in the drum groove portion.

Abstract: A bundle bill/check acceptor includes a bundle receiving module to receive a bundle of bills/checks. The bundle of bills/checks is separated on a leaf-by-leaf basis by a transfer module. The accepter further includes an alignment module to align the individual bill/check, an escrow module to escrow a plurality of bills/checks, and a reject module to discharge a rejected bill/check or a bill/check escrowed by the escrow module requested to cancel the deposit thereof to the bundle receiving module. A normal bill and check are separately received in a cassette unit.

Abstract: A banknote deposit transaction apparatus (1) confirms number of deposited banknotes on a per transaction basis.

Abstract: A drop safe comprising a housing, a safe door in the housing, the safe door having a slot for accepting deposits, a bill acceptor for accepting deposits through the slot, a cash cassette for storing cash received by the bill acceptor, wherein the cash cassette moves toward the safe door upon the opening of the safe door, as the safe door moves from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A recognition machine 40, 90 connected to a pneumatic tube 14 is provided separately from a money change machine 20, 70. The recognition machine 40, 90 includes a recognition unit 46, 96 configured to recognize a paper sheet or a coin having been put thereinto, and a storing mechanism 48, 98 configured to store the paper sheet or the coin having been recognized by the recognition unit 46, 96, into a storing member for pneumatic tube 16 to be transported by a pneumatic tube 14. A control unit 60, 100 is configured to calculate a deposit amount of the paper sheet or the coin, by adding up information relating to the paper sheet or the coin stored in the money change machine 20, 70 and information relating to a paper-sheet recognition result or coin recognition result by the recognition unit 46, 96 of the recognition machine 40, 90.

Abstract: A paper currency handling apparatus associated with the present invention has a paper currency storage unit which receives paper currencies, a feeder port which enters or dispenses paper currencies by opening or closing an inner shutter and an outer shutter, a transport path which transports the paper currencies between the feeder port and the paper currency storage unit, open/close control unit which controls open/close operations of the inner shutter and the outer shutter independently, and paper currency posture modification unit which modifies the posture of paper currencies present between the outer shutter and the inner shutter.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus is operable in a code management mode in which banknotes stored in a storage unit are managed based on codes of the banknotes read by a recognition unit, and in a count management mode in which the banknotes stored in the storage unit are managed by counting the number of the banknotes to be stored in the storage unit. The banknote handling apparatus is switchable between the code management mode and the count management mode.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus stores a code list in which codes of banknotes stored in a storage unit are arranged in order in which the banknotes are stored. The banknote handling apparatus reads the codes when the banknotes are sequentially fed from the storage unit, and checks a target group of the codes of N successive banknotes including the last fed banknote (N is a natural number not less than 2) against the code list. When the target group and a reference group of the codes of N successive banknotes in the code list match each other, the banknotes remaining in the storage unit after the feeding of the banknotes are identified by regarding one of the codes of the reference group in the code list as a boundary.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus 20 configured to handle a banknote includes a control unit 70. The control unit 70 is configured to output information relating a coin change fund, when a banknote change fund is made in the banknote handling apparatus 20.

Abstract: A document handler is provided that comprises: a casing 1 disposed adjacent to a gaming table 9, a deposit chamber 11 formed on an external side of casing 1 for receiving bills, an escrow chamber 14 formed on the external side of casing 1 for, visibly to players and removably from outside of casing 1 and temporarily, receiving genuine bills sent from deposit chamber 11, an escrow carrier 15 for transporting documents from deposit chamber 11 to escrow chamber 14, and a drive device 2 for driving escrow carrier 15.

Abstract: The banknote processing device 100 includes a first upper stacking unit 102a that is provided at an upper position of the banknote processing device and stacks rejected notes; a second upper stacking unit 102b that is provided adjacent to the first upper stacking unit and stacks banknotes other than the rejected notes; first to fourth lower stacking units 106a-106d that are arranged in parallel at lower positions of the banknote processing device and stack banknotes of at least one specific denomination; and a controller 111 that controls the transport unit to transport the banknote to the first upper stacking unit when a recognition result is a rejected note, and to transport the banknote to one of the second upper stacking unit and the first to fourth lower stacking units when the recognition result is not a rejected note.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing notes having gross defects from a currency processing machine prior to the notes entering the primary detection function of the machine. The invention involves the use of a gross defect detector module which detects notes having gross defects that could jam the machine if such defects were note detected and the notes were allowed to continue down the note path for processing. The invention works in conjunction with a conventional reject pocket located further downstream in the note path for the collection of notes identified as rejects during the subsequent main detection function.

Abstract: A cash recycler or other currency handling device includes an environmental condition monitoring system including a plurality of sensors configured to monitor environmental conditions inside the housing of the cash recycler. In some arrangements, the temperature and/or humidity within the housing will be monitored. Upon sensing that the conditions are outside of a predetermined threshold, an indication will be sent to a controller that will adjust operation of the cash recycler based on the indications received from the sensors.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus that performs a depositing handling or a depositing/dispensing handling by transporting banknotes along a transport path includes a recognizing unit that recognizes an inserted banknotes; a deposit acceptability judging unit that determines, based on a recognition result obtained by the recognizing unit, whether the banknotes is acceptable for deposit; a reject reason identifying unit that identifies a reject reason of rejected banknotes that is determined to be unacceptable for deposit by the deposit acceptability judging unit; and a dispensing handling unit that sorts and dispenses the rejected banknotes based on the reject cause identified by the reject cause identifying unit.

Abstract: A control unit of a change dispenser calculates the fraction amount less than unit of the par value of 5000-yen bill for the balance amount and the number of 1000-yen bill equivalent to the fraction amount, calculates each numbers of 1000-yen bill and 5000-yen bill needed to fill a balance amount obtained by subtracting the amount of 1000-yen bill based on the number calculated from the balance amount, according to 1000-yen bill and 5000-yen bill at a given ratio, determines the balance number of 1000-yen bill by adding the number of 1000-yen bill calculated to the number of 1000-yen bill calculated and determines the number of 5000-yen bill calculated as the balance number of 5000-yen bill.

Abstract: In a paper bill depositing/dispensing apparatus, when a roof plate and a stage plate move from a depositing/dispensing unit to a temporarily accumulating unit along with a deposited bill, rotations of a pick roller, a separator, a feed roller and a conveyance roller are driven to carry a bill to a conveyance path that connects to a bill storing unit, and a partial paddle wheel stops by orientating its round surface, not provided with paddles, toward a path of the carried bill. When a bill is dispensed, the separator, the feed roller and the conveyance roller rotate in a bill carry-in direction to carry the bill conveyed from the conveyance path in the temporarily accumulating unit, and the partial paddle wheel beats a rear end of the carried bill with paddles to align the rear end of the bill at a bottom position d.

Abstract: A sanitary dispensing device for dispensing and storing products is disclosed. The sanitary dispensing device comprises a product display area for displaying products or pictures of products, product selection switches for selecting a product for purchase, a payment exchange area for receiving payment, and a product retrieval area for retrieving purchased products. The sanitary dispensing device further comprises a removable display for displaying information such as product information, instructional information, or dynamic advertising. The sanitary dispensing device further comprises an ultraviolet light module for performing sterilization procedures on the products, product packages, and currency. The sanitary dispensing device further comprises a hands sterilization module for sterilizing a user's hands.

Abstract: A bill depositing-and-dispensing device has: a customer-interface unit including a customer-interface-opening for performing a transaction of a bill with a user, a conveying-path connecting the customer-interface-opening and a storage-destination of a bill, a switching mechanism switching a traveling-path of a bill in accordance with a storage-destination of a bill conveyed on the conveying-path, and a discriminating section discriminating a bill conveyed on the conveying-path; at least one storage-cassette including a storage portion storing a bill, a first conveying-path connecting to the customer-interface unit or an adjacent storage-cassette, a second conveying-path conveying a bill in both directions between the first conveying-path and the storage portion, a switching mechanism switching a traveling-path of a bill, and a thickness sensor identifying a thickness of a bill drawn-out from the storage portion; and a reject take-in unit storing a bill that is not held at the customer-interface unit and the s

Abstract: An apparatus includes a document track, a processing device, and a selector gate after the processing device. The document track includes a second, return path extending from a location at the selector gate to a location before the processing device. A bi-directional drive mechanism receives the document as the document passes through the selector gate in the forward direction. A gate actuator selectively moves the selector gate. Upon the bi-directional drive mechanism reversing direction after receiving the document to drive the document in the reverse direction, when the selector gate is in the first position, the selector gate diverts the document into the return path and re-introduces the document to the processing device with the document now in a reverse orientation. When the selector gate is in the second position, the selector gate allows the document traveling in the reverse direction to be re-introduced, in reverse, to the processing device.

Abstract: When handling paper sheets, the paper sheet present at the uppermost or lowest part of each batch of the paper sheets is assigned as a designated paper sheet, and then intrinsic information on this designated paper sheet is associated with transaction information corresponding to the batch of the paper sheets. Thereafter, a plurality of batches of the paper sheets are stacked, one on another, in a certain number corresponding to transactions, while the intrinsic information on each designated paper sheet is already associated with the corresponding transaction information. Then, such stacked batches of the paper sheets are handled, collectively, by a paper sheet handling system. Thereafter, each recognition result on the plurality of batches of the paper sheets, respectively handled by the paper sheet handling system, is separated by utilizing each designated paper sheet.

Abstract: A bill handling apparatus having a thickness detection sensor 401 for detecting the thickness of bills; optical sensors 405 and 406 for acquiring images of the profiles and surfaces of the bills; a judgment unit for judging the positions and directions of folds of the bills with the use of signals obtained with the thickness detection sensor 401 and the optical sensors 405 and 406; and a control unit for exercising control such that if a judgment result of the judgment unit shows that the position and direction of a fold of a folded bill are unlikely to cause double bill transfer during bill transfer by considering the relationship of the folded bill to a bill located immediately before or after the folded bill, the folded bill is kept in the apparatus without being returned to the user.

Abstract: A card identifying apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention has a light-receiving portion that reads a card on a pixel basis of a predetermined area as a unit including color information having brightness, RAM that stores image data comprised of a plurality of pixels read by the light-receiving portion, a pixel data increasing/decreasing processing section that increases/decreases the number of pixels of the image data, and card identifying means for identifying authentication of the card based on the image data increased/decreased by the pixel data increasing/decreasing processing section.

Abstract: A media storage unit for a media recycler is described. The media storage unit comprises: a first rotary storage device; a second rotary storage device aligned with the first rotary storage device; and storage tape wound around each of the first and second storage devices and including calibration marks disposed along one side of the storage tape. The media storage unit also comprises a sensor for detecting the calibration marks; an entry/exit port between the first and second rotary storage devices through which media items can be inserted or removed; and a controller operable to rotate the first and/or second storage devices to move the storage tape forwards or backwards while sensing the calibration marks to locate either (i) a media item of the desired type for a dispense transaction, or (ii) a space on the storage tape of the required type for a deposit transaction.

Abstract: To provide a banknote handling apparatus (1) capable of reducing a waiting time of a customer, as compared with a case in which a general banknote replenishing operation is performed when a banknote to be dispensed falls short in a dispensing process. The banknote handling apparatus (1) includes a memory unit (32) configured to record the stored-number of banknotes stored in the banknote handling apparatus (1) by denomination.

Abstract: An angled arrangement of a currency document handling device and a second unit and an angle arrangement of two currency document handling devices, components of the same, and methods of coupling and using the same. For example, a currency document processing system for processing currency documents including currency bills comprises a currency handling device, a first currency document receiving unit, and a first angular transport unit. The first currency document receiving unit is adapted to receive at least some bills processed by the currency handling device. The first angular transport unit is adapted to receive bills from the currency handling device and transport bills to the first currency document receiving unit. The angular transport unit is adapted to be coupled between the currency handling device and the first currency document receiving unit such that the currency handling device and the first currency document receiving units are angled relative to each other such as by ninety degrees (90°).

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus includes multiple units each for banknote receiving, disbursing, and the like, and a conveyance drum. Multiple pressure rollers are each pressed against an outer surface of the drum. A circling route for banknote conveyance, having a discrimination sensor, is formed around the outer surface of the drum. The units are connected to the circling conveyance route by their respective interconnecting route for banknote conveyance. A route changer is provided for conducting route changes from the circling conveyance route to each interconnecting conveyance route, and vice versa. A rotational direction of a rotary drum during the conveyance of a banknote into either of the units, and a rotational direction of the drum during the conveyance of a banknote into either of the units arranged at an opposite side from the units in a diametral direction of the conveyance drum, are also made opposite to each other.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a bill handling machine in which a machine main body is made compact by moving a plate as occasion demands so as to adjust a space facing to a money input and output port, and a temporary storage portion temporarily storing a bill in a money input account is arranged near a first accommodating portion for the input bill sectionalized by the plate, in the bill handling machine.

Abstract: Disclosed is a media processing device that offers ease of use in loading and removal of cartridges and is capable of aligning paper currency delivery units upon conveyance paths and paper currency delivery units upon cartridges with a high degree of precision. A cartridge loading frame (4) is configured such that the height of the lateral plate upon the cartridge handling side is less than or equal to half the height of the respective cartridges, and a plurality of partitions, which partition the storage positions of the respective cartridges, is disposed upon the lower portion thereof; a conveyance path (3) is located within a conveyance path frame (36) so as to expose media delivery units; and alignment pins and alignment apertures, which align the media delivery units upon each respective cartridge (5-9) and the media delivery units upon the conveyance path (3), are disposed upon the facing surfaces of each respective cartridge (5-9) and of the conveyance path frame (36), and fit respectively therewith.

Abstract: A sheet processing system has a sheet processing apparatus and a server. The server stores, as sheet, the identification data of a sheet and the result of a process performed on the sheet in association. The server transmits the sheet data to the sheet processing apparatus. The sheet processing apparatus receives the sheet data from the server and stores the sheet data. The sheet processing apparatus acquires images of the sheet fed to it and acquires the identification data of the sheet on the basis of the images acquired. The sheet processing apparatus refers to the sheet data, discriminates the sheet on the basis of the identification data acquired, and classifies and collects the sheet in accordance with the result of discrimination.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus includes a transport unit having a main transport path and a return transport path, a detection unit arranged at a predetermined detection position in the main transport path, and a controller controlling the transport unit based on the detection result of the detection unit. The controller leads, at the diversion position in the main transport path, a paper sheet transported along the main transport path into the return transport path, transports a subsequent paper sheet along the main transport path, and controls the transportation of the paper sheet and the transportation of the subsequent paper sheet respectively in response to the arrival of the subsequent paper sheet at the detection position such that the paper sheets are stacked into a batch at the joining position of the two transport paths with certain parts of the paper sheets being aligned.

Abstract: An automatic dealing machine comprises a casing configured for storing a chip handling unit for handling chips, and a banknote handling unit for handling banknotes. The chip handling unit includes a chip insertion port through which chips are received from the exterior of the casing, a chip determination portion for determining the kind of each chip, and a chip calculation portion for calculating the number of the chips, of each kind, as determined by the chip determination portion and the total amount of money. A control unit controls the operation of the dealing machine, such that banknotes of an amount of money corresponding to the total amount of the chips calculated by the chip calculation portion are disbursed into the banknote disbursement port when the chips are inserted through the chip insertion port.

Abstract: A banknote depositing machine has a receiving unit which takes in inserted banknotes, a stacking unit which stacks said banknotes, a transporting unit which transports the banknotes between said receiving unit and said stacking unit, a recognition unit which is provided in said transporting unit, and identifies and counts the banknotes, a storing unit which receives the banknotes from said stacking unit and stores the banknotes, and a controlling unit which, if said recognition unit has judged a banknote as abnormal, stops said transporting unit.

Abstract: An acceptor-dispenser validator system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip and/or currency into, and for distributing currency or a currency equivalent from, an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device is disclosed. The system includes a note acceptor-dispenser assembly to be mounted in or on the machine, the note acceptor-dispenser having a note validator to sense the authenticity, denomination, amount and type of the note passing there through and issue a signal corresponding to the note type to the acceptor-dispenser's processor and the host machine's processor for accumulation of credits. A note box is provided to receive deposited notes as is a note hopper to receive and dispense notes intended for payouts.

Abstract: A device for the intake and output of paper currencies comprises an arrangement for examining the value and authenticity of the currency, which thereafter is fed to a transport system of a currency stacking bank via a currency storage module, wherein the storage module, which is exchangeable located below the currency stacking bank is constructed as a revolving magazine and comprises a series of roller magazines, whereby the intake and output opening of each of the roller magazines is pivoted by means of an actuator into a d position of the transport system.

Abstract: A money handling apparatus includes a storage and feed unit that stores or feeds moneys, a transport unit that transports the moneys to the storage and feed unit or to outside of the apparatus, a deposit reject port that ejects a deposit reject money recognized as an improper money at the time of deposit processing so that it can be taken out from outside of the apparatus, and a transport control unit that controls the transport unit so that the moneys fed out by the storage and feed unit at the time of dispensing processing to the deposit reject port.

Abstract: A banknote processing machine includes: a receipt section which receives a banknote; a temporary storage section which includes a pair of first and second drums, and a tape wound between the pair of first and second drums, the tape having an end fixed to the first drum, a tape section for banknote sheets and a tape section for partition sheets positioned at a side of the end with respect to the tape section for banknote sheets, the temporary storage section releasably receiving a conveyed banknote by winding the conveyed banknote on the first drum together with the tape section for banknote sheets and releasably receiving at least one partition sheet by winding the partition sheet on the first drum together with the tape section for partition sheets; and a control section which causes the temporary storage section to release the partition sheet wound on the first drum, and causes the receipt section to receive the partition sheet from the temporary storage section, in response to the receipt section receiving

Abstract: A system of banknote processing machines, a banknote processing machine and a method for operating same are provided wherein data necessary for operation of the banknote processing machines are exchanged between the banknote processing machines and a service center.

Abstract: A printed note deposit machine, comprises: a user recognition unit identifying a user with an authenticated person; an inlet unit serving as a receiving teller in which printed notes are deposited; a dispensing unit receiving printed notes deposited in the inlet unit to dispense them in sequence; an identifying unit classifying the dispensed printed notes into four categories of authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, unidentifiable notes, and rejected notes, and identified them with the four categories; a temporary money holder temporarily storing the authenticated, counterfeit, and unidentified notes but the rejected ones therein; a plurality of storage cells storing the printed notes after they are temporarily stored in the previous stage; and a rejection unit accumulating the printed notes identified with the rejected notes by the identifying unit to return them to the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a banknote processing apparatus that enables left-behind banknotes to be removed by a lower rank employee and prevents banknotes inside a safe casing from being removed by a lower rank employee, thereby achieving increased convenience of use and ensuring the security of the banknotes inside the safe casing. Namely, a banknote processing apparatus is provided in which, by providing a left-behind banknote storage section for storing and managing banknotes that have been left behind by a customer in a withdrawal transaction inside a unit disposed above a safe casing, when returning left-behind banknotes stored in the left-behind banknote storage section in response to a request from a customer, the left-behind banknotes can be removed from the left-behind banknote storage section by pulling out the unit, without opening the safe casing in which a large number of banknotes are stored and managed.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for checking bank notes wherein measuring values of the bank note to be checked are obtained and a classification of the bank note is carried out by evaluation of the measuring values in a plurality of checking steps, whereby the classification distinguishes in particular at least the classification categories, counterfeit, suspect and genuine bank notes, or acceptable or redispensable, and a linkage of a plurality of measuring values is formed at least in one checking step for deciding whether the checked bank note corresponds to a given classification category and this linkage term is compared with a corresponding tolerance range during evaluation.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (8) for depositing and/or dispensing at least banknotes (13) of a first denomination and banknotes (13) of a second denomination having at least one input and/or output unit (22) for the input of the banknotes (13) to be deposited and/or the output of the banknotes (13) to be dispensed. The apparatus (8) further comprises a reading unit (26) with the aid of which at least the denomination of each banknote (13) to be deposited or dispensed can be ascertained. Furthermore, at least one banknote acceptor (12a to 12d) to accept the banknotes (13) is provided. In addition, the apparatus has at least one transport unit to transport banknotes (13) between the input and output unit (22) and the banknote acceptor (12a to 12d), wherein the transport unit of the banknote acceptor (12a to 12d) supplies only banknotes (13) of the first denomination and banknotes (13) of the second denomination to the banknote acceptor (12a to 12d).

Abstract: A gaming machine printer. The gaming machine printer creates printed vouchers, tickets, receipts, etc. for use in gaming applications employing cashless enabled gaming systems. The gaming machine printer includes a voucher management system having a burster bar for separating vouchers and a serpentine voucher guide that may be opened for inspection. The gaming machine printer further includes various electrical features that protect the gaming machine printer from electrostatic discharges.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement pertaining to an alarm-equipped valuable item storage space (1) includes at least one device (10-13) for the storage of valuable documents, banknotes or the like, in which a destructive agent (61) is intended to destroy the valuable documents (100) in response to a burglary attempt and/or manipulative action. In conjunction with the need to destroy the valuable documents, a destructive agent container (60,63) is opened so as to cause the destructive agent to move into a collecting vessel (50) within which a valuable document collecting device (30) is at least partially situated. The volume of a destructive agent is such as to enable the collecting vessel (50) to accommodate the destructive agent (61) in the absence of overflow. The destructive agent container (60,63) is placed above the collecting vessel (50) so that the destructive agent (61) will run or fall down into the collecting vessel when an alarm is triggered.

Abstract: A method, system, computer program product, and apparatus, or a combination of the foregoing for remotely connecting to an Intelligent Cash Recycler. A user connects to any Intelligent Cash Recycler tied into the system in order to remotely access, monitor, communicate, update, trouble-shoot, perform maintenance on, and settle accounts of the remotely located Intelligent Cash Recyclers. Incident reports are created in real-time to indicate when there is an issue with a particular Intelligent Cash Recycler. The system routes the incident reports to the appropriate groups, so that the groups may address the incident reports and resolve the problem. Specifically, a group may, for example, resolve some incidents by making changes to the remotely located cash recycler configuration settings, pushing new files to the recycler, or updating the software or firmware associated with the remotely located cash recycler.