Patent ID: 7121459

Claim:
An apparatus for transporting banknotes, within an automated teller machine, between at least one banknote cassette, for storing banknotes which are to be dispensed, and a dispensing location or between the latter and a receiving container for banknotes which have been drawn back, comprising a bundle-transporting section which is located between the dispensing location and a collecting location, at which banknotes which have been removed individually from the banknote cassette are collected into a bundle, and has first and second belt drives, a bundle of banknotes being gripped, and transported, between mutually parallel endless belts of the first and second belt drives, said endless belts circulating in the same direction in each case over a drive roller, and also has a drive arrangement for driving the first and second belt drives, wherein the first and second belt drives can be driven at different speeds at least in the direction from the dispensing location to the receiving container and wherein, the drive roller of a first belt drive and a parallel intermediate shaft of a third belt drive are coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to a motor.