Patent ID: 8544629

Claim:
An apparatus for accepting or dispensing/returning bank notes, having a transport system for transporting the bank notes to be accepted or dispensed/returned by the apparatus within a pocket, from or to an opening of the pocket to or from a processing position bordering on the pocket, wherein the bank notes are clamped for transport between a first portion and a second portion of the transport system, comprising: a control device configured to control the components of the apparatus; said control device arranged to ascertain, at least upon an input of bank notes to be accepted through the opening into the pocket, an input velocity through evaluation of signals of a sensor arranged in the area of the pocket, or at least upon a withdrawal of bank notes to be dispensed/returned through the opening out of the pocket a withdrawal velocity through evaluation of signals of a sensor connected to the transport system; said control device configured to control the transport system upon the acceptance of bank notes such that the bank notes are transported into the pocket at a transport velocity corresponding substantially to the input velocity or the withdrawal velocity; and said control device configured to control the transport system upon the dispensing/return of bank notes such that the bank notes are transported out of the pocket at a transport velocity corresponding substantially to the withdrawal velocity or the input velocity.