The invention generally relates to the field of money deposit and dispensing devices, particularly devices of this kind having a plurality of compartments in a housing and a closure member associated with the opening and placed under the control of a control unit enabling the closure member to be brought into an opening position only after predetermined conditions are complied with.
In a known device of this kind, the individual compartments for receiving bank notes are arranged one above the other in adjacent rows. Each compartment row may be closed by a closure member of sliding door type. Initially, all of the doors are completely closed. In each row associated with determined bank notes, the respectively next compartment may be opened by opening the corresponding sliding door. On the one hand, this has the drawback that any third person will immediately determine from outside how many compartments are already empty and how many are still filled with bank notes. On the other hand, those compartments of a row associated with a first kind of bank notes which have been emptied in the meantime cannot subsequently be simply used for storing bank notes of another value, as these would then be released upon the next request of bank notes of the previous value. Furthermore, the known device is very bulky and needs much space.