Patent ID: 8403206

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 one authenticity criterion, having a sensor device arranged in a processing area for detecting the property; a storage area in which documents of value recognized by the checking device as authentic according to the criterion are to be stored and into which the documents of value are transportable out of the processing 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 from a singler to the sensor device and from the sensor device to the storage area; a signal device arranged to display the location along the transport path to the storage area in which the occurrence of a transport disturbance was detected, having at least two light sources arranged along the transport path; and a control device arranged and connected to the signal device in such a fashion that, upon detecting the location of the transport disturbance, the light source which is closest to the location of the transport disturbance is switched to a different operating state.