Patent ID: 8448773

Claim:
Apparatus for the receipt and provision of bills and/or vouchers, said apparatus including a printer provided to allow the printing of information onto a paper or card to create a voucher and further incorporating an aperture through which bills or vouchers can pass between said apparatus and a user, and feed means which cause the passage of the bill and/or voucher within said apparatus and characterised in that the feed means leading to and from the aperture can be driven in a first, forward direction and second, reverse direction selectively so as to allow a bill or voucher to be moved in a first direction from the aperture into the apparatus and in a second direction from the apparatus to the aperture and the aperture through which the bill or voucher is placed into the apparatus is the same aperture through which a bill or voucher passes to leave the apparatus and the printer is located at an end of the feed means opposing an end at which said aperture is located such that said voucher, once printed, is passed by the feed means to the said same aperture to allow the same to be received and removed from the device by a user.