Patent ID: 8141772

Claim:
A cash handling device, comprising: a currency storage portion; a housing having at least one aperture for receiving a cash drawer with cash therein, the cash including paper currency; a sensor, located within the housing, the sensor determining that the cash drawer is inserted into the at least one aperture and is received in the housing; and a cash removing and counting mechanism operable, in response to said determining, to automatically cause the cash handling device to count an amount of cash in the cash drawer, wherein the cash removing and counting mechanism includes a scale within the cash drawer weighing the paper currency, and wherein the counting is performed at least in part by the weighing, and wherein the cash removing and counting mechanism is configured to remove cash from the cash drawer and at least one of: replace the removed cash in the cash drawer, replace a first portion of the cash in the cash drawer and transfer a second portion of the cash to the cash storage portion, and transfer the cash to the cash storage portion.