Patent ID: 7922173

Claim:
An apparatus for handling documents of value comprising: at least a first device, which has a first transport path portion, along which a document of value is transported to and/or from the first device and/or into the first device, the first transport path portion having a first coupling end; at least a second device, which has a second transport path portion, along which a document of value is transported to and/or from the second device and/or into the second device, the second transport path portion having a second coupling end; a moving device, by means of which the second transport path portion is movable relative to the first transport path portion along a predetermined curve, so that in at least one relative coupling position of the first and second devices a document of value is transportable from the transport path portion of the first device into the one of the second device and/or from the transport path portion of the second device into the one of the first device; at the first coupling end of the transport path portion, a first pair of rolls in a fixed position in relation to the first transport portion is mounted to be rotatable around a first rotation axis, between the rolls of which a document of value is moved, wherein each roll of the pair of rolls of which in a section through the rotation axis has a comblike structure; and at the second coupling end a second pair of rolls in a fixed position in relation to the second transport path portion is mounted to be rotatable around a second rotation axis, between the rolls of which a document of value is moved, wherein each roll of the second pair of rolls of which in a section through the rotation axis has a comblike structure, wherein the first and second pair of rolls are arranged and formed such that in the coupling position the rolls of the first pair of rolls mesh with the rolls of the second pair of rolls and in case of a move into or from the coupling position the rolls of the first pair of rolls move past the rolls of the second pair of rolls in a meshing fashion.