Patent ID: 8616360

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a lockable, removable cassette for insertion into a banknote processor, the cassette having a single wall construction comprising a plastic shell, and a currency access door connected to the shell, wherein the cassette is substantially in a shape of a closed rectangular box when the currency access door is in a closed position, and wherein the plastic shell forms at least a majority portion of each of five sides of the cassette and wherein the currency access door forms a sixth side of the cassette, wherein the side of the cassette opposite the currency access door includes an opening for insertion of documents to be stored in the cassette; the removable cassette being insertable into an inserted position in the banknote processor, wherein at least one of the plastic shell sides of the cassette is visible within the banknote processor in the inserted position in the banknote processor; and, wherein the cassette includes a stacker to stack documents in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction in which the documents are received through the opening, the at least one of the plastic shell sides of the cassette further including transparent windows located side-by side on a common axis substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the documents are stacked to allow indicia on the face of the last document inserted in the cassette to be viewed through at least one of the transparent windows, without removal of the cassette from the banknote processor.