Patent ID: 7954700

Claim:
An apparatus for processing documents of value comprising a checking device arranged to check documents of value for at least one property of a document of value according to at least an authenticity criterion, having a sensor device arranged in a processing area enclosed by a processing-area housing for detecting the property; a storage-area housing enclosing and securing against unauthorized access a storage area in which documents of value recognized by the checking device as authentic according to the criterion are to be stored and which has a first opening through which the documents of value are transportable out of the processing area into the storage area; a transport device arranged in the processing area to transport in a singled state documents of value fed along a transport path from an input device for inputting documents of value in a singled state or a singler to the checking device and from the checking device to the storage area; a processing-area cover, which is part of the processing-area housing, having a cover element which is movable back and forth between a closed position at which the processing area is covered by the processing-area cover and an open position at which access to the transport path from the input device or the singler to the checking device and from the checking device to the storage area is enabled; and a closing device with a drive that can be activated by closing signals, which, upon the activation of the drive by a closing signal, moves the cover element from a release position lying between the open position and the closed position into the closed position.