Machine for the orderly storage and delivery of banknotes

A machine for the orderly storage and delivery of banknotes, comprising:

• an input of banknotes;
• an output of banknotes;
• an internal path for sequential flow of banknotes between the input and output;
• devices for detecting the characteristics of the banknotes along said internal path;
• a plurality of compartments for internal storage of the banknotes, each compartment of the plurality being a sequential drum compartment with winding belts, the compartments of the plurality being divided into two series of compartments having respective compartment inputs/outputs facing each other alternately on two opposite sides of a sorting section of said internal path between the input of banknotes and the output of banknotes, each compartment input/output being associated to sorting means that can be commanded for the deviation of the banknotes between the sorting path and the associated compartment;
• and
• wherein the input of banknotes and the output of banknotes are contained in a head part of the machine positioned above a body part of the machine that contains the compartments and said sorting section, the head part and the body part exchanging banknotes through two passages respectively of input of the banknotes into the body part and of output of the banknotes from the body part.