A cash dispensing apparatus

摘要

The cash dispensing appts. for dispensing bank notes, has a purge bin into which one or more bank notes are deposited in the course of a purge operation. A storage device storing sheets other than bank notes. A sheet handling device withdraws a sheet from the storage device and deposits this sheet in the purge bin subsequent to a purge operation to separate from each other the note deposits made in the purge bin in successive purge operations. At least one currency storage cassette is provided for storing a stack of bank notes to be dispensed. The storage device has a storage cassette for storing a number of the sheets, and which operates in the same manner as the at least one currency storage cassette. An electronic controller maintains a transaction journal including details of each transaction carried out by the cash dispenser such that each separate bundle of bank notes deposited in the purge bin can be cross referenced to an individual entry in the transaction journal.