Patent ID: 6874611

Claim:
An integrated teller machine for the infeed and outfeed of banknotes, comprising: a quality detector, a denomination detector and a validity detector within said teller machine for checking quality, denomination and validity, respectively, of the banknotes fed into said teller machine; said validity detector carrying out, for each banknote deposited into said machine, a check with respect to a first number of validity criteria and to a second number of validity criteria, said second number of validity criteria being included within said teller machine as a closed and sealed unit such that said second number of validity criteria are in a material form available to said validity detector but sealed to prevent unauthorized access thereto; and a destruction unit downstream of said detectors and within said teller machine for destroying banknotes that have been classed both as genuine by said validity detector and as low quality by said quality detector, said destruction being initiated only upon receipt by said destruction unit of an acceptance signal from a unit outside said teller machine that is superordinate to and independent of said teller machine.