Patent ID: 8857596

Claim:
A banknote processing apparatus comprising: a housing having a front side and a back side; a safe casing with internally installed denomination specific storage units for storing banknotes according to denomination and with a reject note storage unit for storing rejected banknotes, the safe casing being disposed within the housing; and a unit provided above and external to the safe casing and configured such that the unit can be pulled out from the banknote processing apparatus, the unit including: a customer interface port for accumulating banknotes during a withdrawal transaction and for dispensing the banknotes, the customer interface port being disposed at the front side of the housing, a checking section that performs checking and counting of the banknotes, a left-behind banknote storage section, disposed below a temporary holding section, for storing banknotes that have been left behind by a customer, and a conveying path for conveying the banknotes, wherein left-behind banknotes stored in the left-behind banknote storage section can be taken out by pulling the unit out of the housing of the banknote processing apparatus.