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US 7,216,591 · App. 11/227,293 · Granted May 15, 2007

Bill deposit/withdrawal machine for depositing/withdrawing bills

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,216,591
App. No.
11/227,293
Granted
May 15, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A bill deposit/withdrawal machine for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills which includes a deposit/withdrawal port for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills, a bill discriminating unit for discriminating bills, a temporary storage box for temporarily storing bills, a reject box for storing rejected bills, and a plurality of bill accepting boxes for accepting recycle bills. The reject box is disposed on a path diverged from a bill transport path which transports bills from the temporary storage box to the bill discriminating unit.

Claims (10)

1. A bill deposit/withdrawal machine for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills, comprising:

a deposit/withdrawal port for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills;

a bill discriminating unit for discriminating bills;

a temporary storage box for temporarily storing bills;

a reject box for storing rejected bills; and

a plurality of bill accepting boxes for accepting recycle bills;

wherein said reject box is disposed on a path diverged from a bill transport path which transports bills from said temporary storage box to said bill discriminating unit.

2. A bill deposit/withdrawal machine according to claim 1 , further comprising an upper bill mechanism disposed in an upper portion of said bill deposit/withdrawal machine, said upper bill mechanism including said deposit/withdrawal port, said bill discriminating unit and said temporary storage box.

3. A bill deposit/withdrawal machine according to claim 1 , wherein said bill transport path connects said bill discriminating unit and said temporary storage box and is capable of transporting bills in two directions.

4. A bill deposit/withdrawal machine according to claim 1 , wherein, when a bill deposited from said deposit/withdrawal port is discriminated as a bill to be rejected by said bill discriminating unit, said bill to be rejected is temporarily stored in said temporary storage box and then transported to said reject box.