Patent ID: 7128220

Claim:
A banknote compartment for a till or the like, comprising: a compartment bottom, sidewalls, a rear wall and a forward wall, and which compartment has a cover which proceeding from the rear wall extends over a portion of the compartment length which extends between the rear wall and the forward wall and which near its free end remotely from the rear wall has a free edge carrying a hold-down clamp for banknotes, which hold-down clamp is pivotal about an axis substantially parallel to the compartment bottom and the rear wall between a clamping condition, at which it is biased downwardly in the direction toward the compartment bottom, and a lifted releasing position, and further having an intermediate bottom and arranged substantially parallel to and spaced from the compartment bottom and the cover to divide the banknote compartment into partial compartments overlying one another, which intermediate bottom extends from the rear wall over a portion of the compartment length, characterized in that the intermediate bottom has a fixed section connected to the rear wall and a movable section, which movable section is linked to an edge of the fixed section remote from the rear wall for movement about an axis substantially parallel to the compartment bottom and the rear wall, and in that the movable section and the hold-down clamp are of such measurements that the hold down clamp in its clamping position lies with its free end on the movable section of the intermediate bottom and presses the movable section in the direction toward the compartment bottom.