Patent ID: 7422118

Claim:
An equipment for the automatic deposit of banknotes comprising a transaction port for receiving a stack of banknotes, a separating device for separating the constituting sheets of the stack, a validation device for discriminating the constituting sheets as recognized banknotes and as constituting sheets not recognized, a transport mechanism servo-dependent on the validation device to drag said constituting sheets along differentiated paths for the recognized banknotes and, respectively, for the constituting sheets not recognized, a box assembly including a frame, and a shifting mechanism for vertically moving, in the use, said frame among three different positions in a passage space between the transaction port and the separating device; wherein said box assembly comprises upper endless conveyer belts, intermediate endless conveyer belts and lower endless conveyer belts supported by said frame and defining two storage boxes; wherein said three positions are associated with predetermined conditions of communication of the storage boxes with the transaction port, the separating device and the transport mechanism to receive the stack, transfer the stack to the separating device, temporarily store, respectively, the recognized banknotes as a banknote sub-stack and the constituting sheets not recognized as a discard sub-stack and to return, by request, the discard sub-stack and the banknote sub-stack; and wherein the conveyer belts are provided for cooperating with the sheets constituting the stack or the sub-stacks, said upper belts and said lower belts being movably supported by said frame to be moved toward the intermediate belts and away from said intermediate belts, the stack and the banknote sub-stack being engageable between the upper belts and the intermediate belts, and the discard sub-stack being engageable between the intermediate belts and the lower belts; said box assembly further comprising a first holding mechanism and a second holding mechanism supported by said frame and operatively connected, respectively, with the upper belts and the lower belts and actuatable for independently moving the upper belts toward the intermediate belts and the lower belts toward the intermediate belts to make integral in the movement the sheets constituting the stack or the sub-stacks of the two boxes with said conveyer belts, and to allow the shifting of said stack or said sub-stacks by said belts.