JP2007220031A - Bill handling apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent bills from being poorly conveyed from an accumulation part which accumulates the bills. <P>SOLUTION: Taper parts 40 and 41 are formed at the lower part of side guides 37 and 38 of an accumulation part 22. The accumulation part 22 includes an upper belt unit 23 and a lower belt unit 24. Projected parts 28e and 28f are formed at the side of a conveyance guide 28 of the rotatable lower belt unit 24. Side guides 37 and 38 are pressed by the projected parts 28e and 28f. When the lower belt unit 24 rotates downward, the projected parts 28e and 28f contact the taper parts 40 and 41, respectively, and the side guides 37 and 38 approach each other to narrow the width at the time of accumulating bills. When the lower belt unit 24 rotates upward, the projected parts 28e and 28f contact upper plane parts 37a and 38a of the taper parts 40 and 41, and press the side guides 37 and 38, respectively, to broaden the width at the time of conveying bills. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling apparatus such as a banknote depositing and dispensing machine provided in an automatic transaction apparatus.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an automatic transaction apparatus installed in a financial institution such as a bank is provided with a banknote depositing / withdrawing machine, and banknotes can be traded. The banknote depositing / dispensing machine deposits a banknote inserted by a customer and performs a withdrawal process in response to a customer request. FIG. 12 is a partially broken perspective view showing the automatic transaction apparatus.

  In FIG. 12, on the customer service side of the automatic transaction apparatus 1, a card insertion slot 2, a passbook insertion slot 3, a customer operation section 4, a display section 5, and a banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 6 are provided. A bill depositing / dispensing machine 7 is provided inside the automatic transaction apparatus 1. The banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6 is a part of the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 7, and banknotes inserted from the banknote deposit / withdrawal slot 6 are deposited / deposited by the banknote deposit / withdrawal machine 7, and when there is a request for withdrawal from the customer, The banknotes fed out from the deposit / withdrawal machine 7 are dispensed from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6.

  FIG. 13 shows an outline of the internal configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine. In FIG. 13, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 7 is provided with a customer service section 8, a banknote discrimination section 9, a temporary storage section 10, and banknote stackers 11a, 11b, and 11c. The customer service unit 8 receives the banknotes inserted from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6 and the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6 and collects banknotes for withdrawal and collects banknotes one by one from the pool unit 12. And a stacking unit 14 for transporting the banknotes for withdrawal and banknotes for withdrawal to the pool unit 12 and accumulating reject banknotes at the time of depositing.

  The banknote discrimination part 9 performs the money type discrimination | determination and authenticity discrimination | determination of a banknote. The temporary storage unit 10 temporarily accumulates banknotes determined to be normal by the banknote discrimination unit 9 at the time of deposit. In addition, the banknote stackers 11a, 11b, and 11c store banknotes for withdrawal in denominations.

  Here, the deposit processing operation of the banknote deposit and withdrawal machine 7 will be described. When a bill is inserted from the bill deposit / withdrawal port 6, the inserted bill is stored in the pool unit 12. The pool portion 12 is rotatable, and when the bill is inserted, the opening portion is directed upward, and after the insertion, the opening portion is rotated 90 degrees so that the opening portion faces the customer separation portion 13 side. In this state, the customer service separation unit 13 is driven by a drive system (not shown), and banknotes in the pool unit 12 are fed into the apparatus one by one.

  The banknotes are conveyed in the direction of arrow A and sent to the banknote discriminating section 9 to discriminate denomination and authenticity one by one. The banknotes determined to be normal by the banknote discriminating unit 9 are conveyed in the direction of arrow B and accumulated in the temporary storage unit 10. Moreover, the banknote discriminated as abnormal by the banknote discriminating unit 9 is conveyed in the direction of arrow C, and conveyed to the accumulating unit 14 of the customer service unit 8 and accumulated. The banknotes stacked in the stacking unit 14 are all sent to the pool unit 12 after all the inserted banknotes have been identified, and then the pool unit 12 is rotated 90 degrees so that the opening is directed upward. Banknotes are returned to the customer.

  Next, the withdrawal processing operation will be described. When a withdrawal instruction is issued from a control unit (not shown), a bill of a specified amount is paid out from any of the bill stackers 11a, 11b, and 11c, conveyed in the direction of arrow D, and sent to the bill discrimination unit 9. After being discriminated by the bill discriminating unit 9, it is conveyed in the direction of arrow C and conveyed to the accumulating unit 14. In this case, banknotes are not stacked on the stacking unit 14, and banknotes pass through the stacking unit 14 one by one and are stacked on the pool unit 12. When all banknotes are accumulated in the pool section 12, the pool section 12 is rotated 90 degrees so that the opening is directed upward, and the banknotes therein are paid out to the customer.

  FIG. 14 shows a state where the stacking unit and the pool unit are viewed from above. In FIG. 14, side guides 15 a and 15 b are provided in the stacking unit 14, and the width of both is set to W. The pool portion 12 is provided with side guides 16a and 16b, and the width of both is set to J. A conveyance path 18 having side guides 17a and 17b is formed on the left side of the stacking unit 14, and the width of the side guide 17a and the side guide 17b is set to K. Here, the relationship between the widths of the side guides of each part is set such that K = W> J> L, where L is the width of the bill 19 being conveyed.

  When the banknote is withdrawn, the stacking unit 14 is used as a conveyance path as described with reference to FIG. The banknotes are clamped and conveyed one by one by a drive system (not shown) up to the stacking unit 14 and discharged to the pool unit 12. At this time, when the banknote 19 is transported while being shifted to the left and right, it is guided to the side guides 16 a and 16 b when it is discharged to the pool section 12 and is accumulated inside the pool section 12.

  In the case of deposit processing, the stacking unit 14 is a place where rejected banknotes are stacked. In this case, as described above, the bills 19 are clamped and conveyed by the drive system (not shown) up to the conveyance path 18 and then discharged to the accumulation unit 14 and accumulated. The banknotes 19 accumulated in the accumulation unit 14 are then collectively conveyed to the pool unit 12.

As described above, the stacking unit 14 is used as a transport path in the case of a withdrawal process, and is used as a stacking unit in the case of a deposit process. An example of a bill handling apparatus having such a stacking unit is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-161125 (see paragraph 0050 and the like).
JP-A-9-161125

  However, in the conventional banknote handling apparatus described above, there is a concern that a conveyance abnormality may occur during a deposit transaction. This will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a conventional problem.

  In FIG. 15, in the case of deposit processing, the banknote 19 that has been transported as a reject banknote is clamped and transported to the transport path 18 by a drive system (not shown), and then discharged to the stacking unit 14 and stacked. The banknotes 19 stacked in the stacking unit 14 are then collectively transported to the pool unit 12. At this time, the banknotes 19 transported in a batch are directed to one side guide (for example, 15 a) of the stacking unit 14. When the bill 19 is offset, the bill 19 collides with the tapered portion 16aa of the side guide 16a of the pool portion 12, and the bill 19 is skewed as indicated by a dotted line. Thereby, banknote 19 will be in an abnormal accumulation state in pool part 12, and it will become the cause of generating a subsequent malfunction.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a banknote handling apparatus having a stacking and transporting unit that sequentially stacks banknotes transported from the upstream side and transports the stacked banknotes to the downstream side. When stacking banknotes that have been transported from the upstream side, the width of the stacking and transporting section is narrowed, and when stacking banknotes are transported further downstream, the width of the stacking and transporting section is greater than that of stacking. Is also characterized by widening.

  According to the present invention, when stacking banknotes transported from the upstream side, the width of the stacking and transporting portion is narrowed, and when transporting banknotes from the stacking and transporting portion to the downstream side, the width of the stacking and transporting portion is widened. Therefore, when a banknote is conveyed downstream from the stacking and conveying unit, the banknote does not collide with a guide or the like, and it is possible to avoid a malfunction.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Elements common to the drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a stacking unit of a bill handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the stacking unit 22 of the banknote handling device 21 of the embodiment is used as a stacking unit for rejected banknotes during a deposit process, and is used as a transport path during a withdrawal process. The accumulation unit 22 is provided in the customer service unit of the automatic transaction apparatus.

  The stacking unit 22 is provided with an upper belt unit 23 as an upper conveying means and a lower belt unit 24 as a lower conveying means. The upper belt unit 23 is configured by integrally forming a conveyance guide 25 and two conveyance belts 26 and 27. The lower belt unit 24 is configured by integrally forming a conveyance guide 28 and two conveyance belts 29 and 30.

  FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the lower belt unit. In FIG. 2, notches 31a, 31b, 31c, 31d are formed in the conveyance guide 28, and pulleys 32a, 32b, 32c, 32d are rotatably arranged in these notches 31a, 31b, 31c, 31d, respectively. The conveyor belt 29 is stretched between the pulley 32a and the pulley 32d, and the conveyor belt 30 is stretched between the pulley 32b and the pulley 32c. The conveyor belts 29 and 30 protrude above the upper surface 28 a of the conveyor guide 28. The pulley 32c and the pulley 32d are attached to the shaft 33, and rotate when the shaft 33 is rotated by a drive system (not shown). The conveyance guide 28 is rotated in the direction of arrow EF around the shaft 33 by a drive system (not shown).

  Cutouts 28 c and 28 d are formed on both sides of the conveyance guide 28, and protrusions 28 e and 28 f are formed on the front end of the conveyance guide 28. As will be described later, these protrusions 28e and 28f move the side guides 37 and 38 by contacting the side guides 37 and 38 shown in FIG.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the upper belt unit 23 has substantially the same configuration as the lower belt unit 24. The conveyor belt 26 is stretched between the pulley 34a and the pulley 34d, and the conveyor belt 27 is stretched between the pulley 34b and the pulley 34c. The conveyor belts 26 and 27 protrude downward from the lower surface 25 a of the conveyor guide 25. These pulleys 34 a, 34 b, 34 c, 34 d are attached to a shaft (not shown), and the shaft (not shown) is rotatably attached to the conveyance guide 25.

  The conveyor belts 26 and 27 of the upper belt unit 23 are rotated by being pressed against the conveyor belts 29 and 30 of the lower belt unit 24, respectively. When the lower belt unit 24 is rotated in the direction of arrow E, the conveyor belts 26 and 27 of the upper belt unit 23 are in contact with the conveyor belts 29 and 30 of the lower belt unit 24 over the entire length, respectively. In the state where the unit 24 is rotated in the direction of arrow F (the state shown in FIG. 1), the conveyor belts 26 and 27 of the upper belt unit 23 are respectively connected to the conveyor belts 29 and 30 of the lower belt unit 24 by the pulleys 32d and 32c. Touch only at position.

  Further, side guides 37 and 38 are movably provided in the stacking unit 22. The side guides 37 and 38 regulate the guide width in the width direction of the banknote 19, that is, the width in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction, and can be moved along a guide (not shown) in the direction of the arrow GH. Yes. A compression spring 39 is provided outside the side guides 37, 38, the side guide 37 is pressed in the direction of arrow G, and the side guide 38 is pressed in the direction of arrow H.

  Tapered portions 40 and 41 are formed on the lower inner sides (on the lower belt unit 24 side) of the side guides 37 and 38, respectively. The side guides 37 and 38 are pressed from both sides with respect to the conveyance guide 28 of the lower belt unit 24, and depending on the position of the lower belt unit 24, the planes of the side guides 37 and 38 are formed on the protrusions 28 e and 28 f of the conveyance guide 28. The portions 37a and 38a or the tapered portions 40 and 41 come into contact. That is, in a state where the transport guide 28 is lowered downward (rotated in the direction of arrow F), the tapered portions 40 and 41 are in contact with the protrusions 28e and 28f, and the transport guide 28 is lifted upward (arrow E). In the state rotated in the direction), the flat portions 37a and 38a come into contact with the protrusions 28e and 28f of the conveyance guide 28. The side guides 37 and 38 always move only in the direction of the arrow GH, and the side guides 37 and 38 do not come into contact with portions other than the tapered portions 40 and 41.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine of the present embodiment. In FIG. 3, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 50 is provided with a customer service section 8, a banknote discrimination section 9, a temporary storage section 10, and banknote stackers 11a, 11b, and 11c, as in the conventional example. The customer service unit 8 receives banknotes inserted from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6 and the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6 and feeds banknotes one by one from the pool unit 12 and pool unit 12 where the banknotes for withdrawal are collected. The customer separation part 13 for collecting the bills for withdrawal and the collecting part 22 for collecting the rejected banknotes at the time of depositing are provided.

  Next, operation | movement of the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine by this Embodiment is demonstrated. First, the deposit processing operation of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 50 will be described. In the deposit processing mode, the lower belt unit 24 of the stacking unit 22 is rotated in the direction of arrow F shown in FIG. 4 by a control unit (not shown) so that the bills P can enter between the upper belt unit 23 and the lower belt unit 24. It becomes like this. FIG. 4 is a side view showing the operation of the lower belt unit.

  As the lower belt unit 24 rotates downward, the protrusions 28e and 28f of the conveyance guide 28 of the lower belt unit 24 come into contact with the tapered portions 40 and 41 of the side guides 37 and 38, respectively. Since the side guides 37 and 38 are pressed toward each other by the spring 39, the side guides 37 and 38 move from the position indicated by the dotted line to the position indicated by the solid line as shown in FIG. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 6, the conveyance width in the stacking unit 22 is W1, and the banknotes 19 stacked in the stacking unit 22 are stacked within the range of the transport width W1. Here, W1 = J. J is the width of the side guides 16a and 16b of the pool section 12 shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a front view showing the operation of the stacking unit, and FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the operation of the stacking unit.

  In FIG. 3, when a banknote is first inserted from the banknote deposit / withdrawal port 6, the inserted banknote is stored in the pool unit 12. The pool section 12 has an opening facing upward when the bill is inserted, and after the insertion, the opening rotates 90 degrees and the opening faces the customer separation section 13 side. In this state, the customer service separation unit 13 is driven by a drive system (not shown), and banknotes in the pool unit 12 are fed into the apparatus one by one.

  The banknotes are conveyed in the direction of arrow A and sent to the banknote discriminating section 9 to discriminate denomination and authenticity one by one. The banknotes determined to be normal by the banknote discriminating unit 9 are conveyed in the direction of arrow B and accumulated in the temporary storage unit 10. Moreover, the banknote discriminated as abnormal by the banknote discriminating section 9 is transported in the direction of arrow C, and transported to the stacking section 22 of the customer service section 8 to be stacked. At this time, as described above, the bills 19 are stacked within the range of the transport width W1.

  When all the feeding operations of the inserted banknotes are completed, the lower belt unit 24 of the stacking unit 22 is rotated in the direction of arrow E as shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a side view showing the operation of the lower belt unit. As a result, the accumulated banknotes 19 are sandwiched between the transport belts 26 and 27 of the upper belt unit 23 and the transport belts 29 and 30 of the lower belt unit 24 and can be transported.

  As the lower belt unit 24 rotates upward (in the direction of arrow E), the protrusions 28e and 28f of the conveyance guide 28 of the lower belt unit 24 rise from the tapered portions 40 and 41 of the side guides 37 and 38, It contacts the flat portions 37a and 38a. At this time, as shown in FIG. 8, the side guides 37 and 38 move from the position indicated by the dotted line to the position indicated by the solid line. As a result, the conveyance width in the stacking unit 22 is W2, as shown in FIG. Here, W2 = K> W1. 8 is a front view showing the operation of the stacking unit, and FIG. 9 is a plan view showing the operation of the stacking unit.

  Next, the banknotes 19 accumulated in the accumulation unit 22 are collectively sent to the pool unit 12. That is, in FIG. 9, the stacked banknotes 19 are stacked within the range of W1. From this state, the belt is sandwiched between the transport belts 26 and 27 of the upper belt unit 23 and the transport belts 29 and 30 of the lower belt unit 24 and is transported to the pool section 12. At this time, since the banknotes 19 are accumulated in the range of W1, when they are conveyed, they are conveyed into the pool part 12 without hitting the tapered parts 16aa, 16ba of the side guides 16a, 16b of the pool part 12. . Thereafter, the pool unit 12 is rotated 90 degrees so that the opening is directed upward, and the banknotes therein are returned to the customer.

  Next, the withdrawal processing operation will be described. A withdrawal instruction is issued from a control unit (not shown). In the withdrawal processing mode, the lower belt unit 24 of the stacking unit 22 is rotated in the direction of arrow E shown in FIG. 2 by a control unit (not shown), and the upper belt unit 23 and the lower belt unit 24 are in contact with each other over the entire length. It will be in the state.

  Further, as the lower belt unit 24 pivots upward, the protrusions 28e and 28f of the conveyance guide 28 of the lower belt unit 24 are removed from the tapered portions 40 and 41 of the side guides 37 and 38 as described in FIG. It rises and contacts the flat portions 37a and 38a. At this time, the side guides 37 and 38 move from the position indicated by the dotted line to the position indicated by the solid line, and the conveyance width in the stacking unit 22 is W2.

  A banknote of a specified amount is paid out from any of the banknote stackers 11a, 11b, and 11c shown in FIG. 3, conveyed in the direction of arrow D, and sent to the banknote discrimination unit 9. After being discriminated by the bill discriminating unit 9, it is conveyed in the direction of arrow C and conveyed to the accumulating unit 22. In this case, banknotes are not stacked on the stacking unit 22, and banknotes are stacked one by one through the stacking unit 22 and stacked on the pool unit 12. When all banknotes are accumulated in the pool section 12, the pool section 12 is rotated 90 degrees so that the opening is directed upward, and the banknotes therein are paid out to the customer.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the side guides 37 and 38 of the stacking unit 22 can be moved in the transport width direction, and during the deposit processing operation, that is, when the stacking unit 22 is used as a stacking place, When the stacking unit 22 is narrowed and the stacking unit 22 is used as a transport unit, the width of the stacking unit 22 is widened. Therefore, when the stacked banknotes are transported to the downstream pool unit 12, the side guides 16a and 16b are used. It can be conveyed without hitting it, and skew etc. can be prevented.

  Further, since the movement of the side guides 37 and 38 of the stacking unit 22 is moved in conjunction with the rotation of the lower belt unit 24, it is necessary to provide a mechanism for moving the stacking unit 22 in particular. The width of the stacking unit 22 can be set with a simple configuration.

  Next, a second embodiment will be described. FIG. 10 is a schematic perspective view showing the main part of the stacking unit of the second embodiment. In FIG. 10, the accumulation unit 60 of the modified example is provided with side guides 61 and 62 movably provided, and a screw shaft 63 is rotatably attached to both the side guides 61 and 62. A gear 64 is attached to the screw shaft 63, and the gear 64 meshes with a gear 66 of the motor 65. By rotating the motor 65, the screw shaft 63 rotates, and accordingly, the side guides 61 and 62 move in the arrow GH direction. When the screw shaft 63 rotates in one direction, the side guides 61 and 62 move in directions toward each other, and when rotated in the other direction, the side guides 61 and 62 move in directions away from each other. The side guides 61 and 62 are configured not to contact the upper belt unit and the lower belt unit even at positions close to each other. Other mechanical configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  FIG. 11 is a control block diagram of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 11, the control unit 70 controls the entire operation of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine. A customer operation unit 71 and a motor drive unit 72 are connected to the control unit 70, and a motor 65 is connected to the motor drive unit 72. ing. The customer operation unit 71 selects and inputs a transaction type by a customer operation. Here, the customer operation unit 71 selects and inputs a deposit transaction and a withdrawal transaction. The motor driving unit 72 drives a motor 65 for moving the side guides 61 and 62 of the stacking unit 60.

  Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described. Here, the movement operation of the side guides 61 and 62 of the stacking unit 60 will be mainly described. When the control unit 70 detects that the deposit transaction is selected by the customer control unit 71, the motor 65 is driven via the motor driving unit 72 and the side guides 61 and 62 are moved in a direction in which they approach each other. At this time, the lower belt unit (not shown) is rotated downward so that bills can be stacked between the upper belt unit and the lower belt unit. The distance between the side guides 61 and 62 after movement is set to W1 shown in FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. In this state, reject banknotes are stacked on the stacking unit 60.

  When the control unit 70 detects that all rejected banknotes have been accumulated in the accumulation unit 60, the control unit 70 rotates the motor 65 in the opposite direction to the previous direction via the motor drive unit 72, thereby causing the side guides 61 and 62 to move to each other. Move it away. At this time, a lower belt unit (not shown) is rotated upward, and the upper belt unit and the lower belt unit are brought into contact with each other so that bills can be conveyed. The distance between the wide side guides 61 and 62 is set to W2 shown in FIG. 9 as in the first embodiment. The banknotes accumulated in this state are conveyed to the pool part on the downstream side.

  When the control unit 70 detects that the withdrawal transaction is selected by the customer control unit 71, the motor 65 is driven via the motor driving unit 72 to move the side guides 61 and 62 away from each other. The distance between the side guides 61 and 62 after movement is set to W1 shown in FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. In this state, the withdrawal banknote is conveyed through the stacking unit 60. Note that the stacking operation and the transporting operation in the stacking unit 60 are performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, the side guides 61 and 62 of the stacking unit 60 are moved by the motor 65, and when the banknotes are stacked, the widths of the side guides 61 and 62 are reduced to transport the banknotes. Since the widths of the side guides 61 and 62 are sometimes widened, it is possible to prevent banknote skew when the banknotes stacked on the stacking section 22 are transported to the pool section downstream in the transport direction.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made. For example, in each of the embodiments described above, the reject banknote stacking unit has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to the above site as long as the stacking and transporting are both performed. In each of the above-described embodiments, an example in which a conveying unit using a conveying belt is used as the conveying unit for the upper unit and the lower unit has been described. However, a conveying unit using a conveying roller can be applied to the upper and lower units. It is.

It is a schematic perspective view which shows the stacking part of the banknote handling apparatus of embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows a lower belt unit. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of this Embodiment. It is a side view which shows operation | movement of a lower belt unit. It is a front view which shows operation | movement of a stacking part. It is a top view which shows operation | movement of an integration | stacking part. It is a side view which shows operation | movement of a lower belt unit. It is a front view which shows operation | movement of a stacking part. It is a top view which shows operation | movement of an integration | stacking part. It is a schematic perspective view which shows the principal part of the accumulation | storage part of 2nd Embodiment. It is a control block diagram of the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of 2nd Embodiment. It is a partially broken perspective view which shows an automatic transaction apparatus. It is a block diagram which shows the outline of the internal structure of a banknote depositing / withdrawing machine. It is a top view which shows an accumulation part and a pool part. It is a top view which shows the conventional problem.

Explanation of symbols

19 bills 22, 60 stacking unit 23 upper belt unit 24 lower belt unit 25, 28 transport guides 28e, 28f protrusions 37, 38, 61, 62 side guide

Claims (3)

In the banknote handling apparatus having a stacking and conveying unit that sequentially stacks the banknotes transported from the upstream side and transports the stacked banknotes to the downstream side,
The width of the stacking and conveying unit is variable,
When stacking banknotes transported from the upstream side, the width of the stacking and transporting section is narrowed,
A banknote handling apparatus characterized in that when the stacked banknotes are transported further downstream, the width of the stacking and conveying section is made wider than in the case of stacking.   The banknote handling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the banknotes are transported from the upstream side to the downstream side of the stacking and transporting section without being stacked, the width of the stacking and transporting section is made wider than when stacking banknotes. The accumulation transport unit includes an upper transport unit and a lower transport unit,
The upper conveying means and the lower conveying means can be rotated so that the upstream side opens the conveying means,
When stacking banknotes conveyed from the upstream side, the one conveying means is rotated so that the upstream side opens, and by the rotation, the width of the accumulation conveying unit is narrowed,
The banknote handling according to claim 1 or 2, wherein when the stacked banknotes are further transported downstream, the one transporting means is rotated so that the upstream side is closed, and the width of the stacking and transporting section is widened by the rotation. apparatus.

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