Banknote handling device

1. A banknote handling device comprising:

left and right side plates which form left and right sides of a banknote mounting space, approximately horizontal guide grooves being formed in faces opposite said left and right side plates;

a mounting plate which is provided between said side plates and slopes downward in a direction in which banknotes are to be transported;

a front plate which is provided in an elongated direction of said guide grooves and extends approximately vertically from near a bottom end of said mounting plate with a handling space for said banknotes between said bottom end;

a kick-out roller which is provided approximately in the center of said mounting plate, said kick-out roller contacting the banknotes set in said mounting plate and conveying them toward said handling space;

a feeding roller and a separating roller which are provided near said handling space between said mounting plate and said front plate, and separate the banknotes conveyed by said kick-out roller one by one while feeding them down to a transport path; and

a bill press which is supported by a supporting axle near said front plate such that said bill press can freely slide vertically; wherein

a stack of disparate banknotes or a banknote storage cassette storing accumulated banknotes is placed on said banknote mounting space, said disparate banknotes or said accumulated banknotes being separated one by one and conveyed down to said transport path by said kick-out roller, said feeding roller and said separating roller;

when loading said accumulated banknotes stored in said banknote storage cassette which is formed with a protruding member and provided with a sliding lid and a free-sliding plate member in a storage space inside said banknote storage cassette, said banknote storage cassette is loaded along said guide grooves in said left and right side plates, and prevented from becoming removed from said guide grooves by interlocking a bottom end of said bill press with said protruding members of said banknote storage cassette; and said accumulated banknotes stored in said banknote storage cassette are transferred to said mounting plate by sliding said sliding lid, pushed to said kick-out roller by said free-sliding plate member, separated one by one and conveyed down to said transport path by said kick-out roller, said feeding roller and said separating roller; and

when loading said disparate banknotes, said disparate banknotes are loaded into said banknote mounting space enclosed by said left and right side plates, said mounting plate and said front plate, pushed to said kick-out roller by said bill press, and separated one by one and conveyed down to said transport path by said kick-out roller, said feeding roller and said separating roller.

2. The banknote handling device according to claim 1 , wherein at least two of the guide grooves are provided in each of said left and right side plates, and acceptance shapes, to which said banknote storage cassette is loaded, of the two guide grooves are different.

3. The banknote handling device according to claim 1 , wherein a height position where said bottom end of said bill press interlocks with said protruding members of said banknote storage cassette is higher than a height position of the supporting axle of said bill press when said banknote storage cassette is loaded to said banknote handling device.