Patent ID: 6959859

Claim:
A banknote validator comprising a validating head and an elongate power drive arrangement extending downwardly from one side of said validating head, said validating head having a bill receiving bezel with an inlet to a banknote pathway through said validating head, said pathway being defined between an inner body portion and an outer body portion with said outer body portion being movable between an in use position defining said pathway between said inner and outer body portions and a service position exposing both sides of said pathway for service; said pathway including a first straight section leading away from said bezel inlet and joining with a first curved transition, said curved transition joining with a second straight section which forms an acute angle with said first straight section such that said pathway is partially reversed, said second straight section leading to a second curved transition which terminates in a discharge outlet; said inner body portion having two sets of inlet drive rollers associated with said first straight section with one set of drive rollers protruding into said pathway adjacent a junction between said bezel and said inner body and the other set of inlet drive rollers protruding into said pathway adjacent said first transition; said inner body portion having two sets of discharge drive rollers adjacent a junction of said second straight section and said second curved transition, one set of said discharge rollers protruding into said pathway in said second straight section and the other set of discharge rollers protruding into said pathway within said second curved transition.