Arrangement for feeding valuable papers into a storage space

Claim 1

An arrangement for feeding valuable documents, such as banknotes, cheques, and the like, from externally accessible infeed opening means (61, 66) to a document storage space (26, 27), comprising: (a) detecting means disposed in proximity to a first transport path extending between the infeed opening means and said document storage space for examining documents which pass sequentially in series along the first transport path and for controlling the transportation of the documents within the arrangement; (b) a plurality of mutually separated storage locations provided in said storage space and each having an individual infeed means (260, 270), the infeed means of all storage locations together forming a part of said first transport path; (c) a collecting station (22) for receiving documents passing sequentially in series past the detecting means; (d) a second transport path extending from the collecting station to an externally accessible outfeed opening (62); and (e) command means (64) disposed adjacent the infeed opening means for externally controllling functions of the arrangement, (f) the infeed opening means comprising at least one of a first opening (61) for the manual insertion of a bundle of documents, and a second opening (66) for the insertion of a cassette containing documents; (g) said storage locations (26, 27) incorporating further cassettes (26', 27') of the same kind as said a cassette; (h) the first transport path defining a first transport route (201-202; 205; 203-204, 21 22, 23, 24, 250, 260-270) which includes the collecting station (22), and a second transport route (201-202; 205'; 260-270) which excludes the collecting station and leads directly to the further cassettes; and (i) the command means (64) enabling the selection of the first or the second transport route of the first transport path, or the second transport path leading to the outfeed opening (62).