JP2019220064A - Bill processing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a bill processing machine whose machine body can be reduced in size.SOLUTION: The bill processing machine includes: a temporary storage unit 57 that temporarily stores bills delivered from a deposit unit 20 in deposit processing and identified in an identification unit 31 as being acceptable in a manner that can be delivered with denominations being mixed; and a plurality of storage units 48 that store bills delivered from the temporary storage unit 57 in storage processing on the basis of an identification result obtained by the identification unit 31. A temporary storage region part 47 having a bottom part 43 that can be opened/closed for temporarily storing a bill in a manner that can be delivered is provided above each of the plurality of storage units 48. The plurality of storage units 48 each accept and store a bill via the temporary storage region part 47 whose bottom part 43 provided above is in an opened state. The temporary storage unit 57 has a bottom 53 that can be opened/closed. A storage region part 58 that accepts and stores a bill via the temporary storage unit 57 whose bottom part 53 is in an opened state is provided below the bottom part 53.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a banknote handling machine.

  After the banknote inserted into the transaction port is identified by the identification unit, the banknote that has been identified as normal is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit by denomination mixture, and then the instruction input by the operator to confirm the payment is input to the operation unit. There is a banknote processing machine that performs a storage process of identifying a banknote in a temporary storage unit by an identification unit, classifying the banknote into a plurality of storage units, and storing the banknote (for example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent No. 5866171

  By the way, the banknote handling machine includes a banknote with a denomination that cannot be denominated, which is generated in a storage process of moving the banknote that has been controlled by confirming the deposit, and a double feed, a skewed or near banknote. There is a device having a dedicated storage unit for storing a rejected banknote including a banknote having a conveyance error such as a feed while keeping the banknote under management. In such a banknote handling machine, downsizing of the body is required.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote handling machine capable of reducing the size of a machine body.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention provides a deposit unit in which bills are inserted from outside the machine at the time of deposit processing, and an accepting unit that is fed out of the deposit unit during deposit processing and is identified as acceptable. A banknote having a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing banknotes that can be paid out by a denomination mixture, and a plurality of storage units for storing banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit during storage processing based on the identification result of the identification unit. In the processing machine, above each of the plurality of storage units, a temporary storage area unit is provided for temporarily storing the bill so that the bottom is openable and can be fed out, the plurality of storage units, In each case, bills will be received and stored through the temporary storage area portion in which the upper bottom is open, and the temporary storage portion has a bottom that can be opened and closed. Open bottom Wherein the housing area portion for accommodating accept bills through the temporary holding portion is provided.

  According to the first aspect, a bill inserted into the depositing unit from outside the machine during the depositing process is fed from the depositing unit and is identified by the identifying unit. Then, the banknotes identified as acceptable by the identification unit are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit by denomination mixture. At the time of subsequent storage processing, the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit are stored in the plurality of storage units based on the identification result of the identification unit. As described above, at the time of deposit processing, the bottom portion of the temporary storage portion for temporarily storing bills so as to be able to be fed out with a denomination mixture can be opened and closed, and below the bottom portion, the bills are received and stored with the bottom portion opened. A storage area is provided. Therefore, the size of the body can be reduced as compared with the case where the storage area is provided at a separate position.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, during the storing process, among the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit, the banknotes identified by the identification unit as unacceptable in the plurality of storage units are stored. And temporarily storing the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage section in the temporary storage area where the bottom portion above the predetermined storage section of the plurality of storage sections is closed, and the banknotes in the temporary storage section are exhausted. And returns the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area to the temporary storage unit, and among the banknotes returned to the temporary storage unit, the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage unit. On the other hand, the banknotes identified as non-storable in the plurality of storage units are temporarily stored in a predetermined temporary storage area where a bottom portion above the storage unit other than the predetermined storage unit is closed, and thereafter, Temporarily stored in the specified temporary storage area The banknotes are, characterized in that housed in the housing area portion bottom of the temporary holding unit as an open state.

  According to the second aspect, at the time of the storing process, the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit are sorted to a plurality of storage units based on the identification result of the identification unit. At this time, the banknotes are fed from the temporary storage unit. Of the banknotes that have been discarded, the banknotes identified by the identification unit as being unreceivable in the plurality of storage units are placed in a temporary storage area where the bottom is closed above a predetermined storage unit among the plurality of storage units. The paper money is temporarily stored together with the bills to be stored in a predetermined storage unit. When the banknotes in the temporary storage section are exhausted, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area are returned to the temporary storage section, and among the banknotes returned to the temporary storage section, the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage section. Is temporarily stored in the predetermined storage area while the bottom of the storage section other than the predetermined storage section is closed in a predetermined temporary storage area where the bottom of the storage section other than the predetermined storage section is closed. I do. Thereafter, the banknotes temporarily stored in the predetermined temporary storage area are stored in the storage area below the temporary storage with the bottom open, via the temporary storage. In this way, among the banknotes fed out of the temporary storage unit during the storing process, the banknotes identified by the identification unit as non-storable in the plurality of storage units can be stored in the storage area unit. Therefore, of the bills fed from the temporary storage unit during the storing process, the size of the machine can be reduced as compared with a case where a part for storing the banknotes identified as being unable to be stored in the plurality of storage units by the identification unit is provided at a separate position. It becomes possible.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned second aspect, the predetermined storage unit is determined from an identification result of the identification unit at the time of deposit processing, and the amount of bills conveyed for storage at the time of storage processing. Is the smallest storage section.

  According to the third aspect, the predetermined storage unit is the storage unit that is determined from the identification result of the identification unit at the time of deposit processing and that has the least amount of bills conveyed for storage during storage processing. At the time of the storing process, the banknotes identified as being unable to be stored in the plurality of storing units by the identifying unit, above the storing unit where the amount of banknotes conveyed for storing is the smallest, in the temporary storage area unit with the bottom closed, The banknotes are temporarily stored together with the bills with the smallest transport amount to be stored in the predetermined storage section. Then, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area are returned to the temporary storage unit, and among the banknotes returned to the temporary storage unit, the banknote with the smallest transport amount to be stored in the predetermined storage unit is the predetermined banknote. While storing the banknotes in the storage sections, the banknotes that are identified as not being stored in the plurality of storage sections are temporarily stored in a predetermined temporary storage area where the bottom above the storage sections other than the predetermined storage section is closed. Therefore, the time required for this operation can be reduced.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the second or the third aspect, at the time of the storing process, the portion for storing the banknotes identified as non-storable in the plurality of storing portions is other than the storing region portion. It is not provided.

  According to the fourth aspect, at the time of the storing process, a portion for storing the banknotes identified as non-storable in the plurality of storing units is not provided except for the storing area, so that the body can be downsized.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to fourth aspects, of the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit during the storing process, the banknotes cannot be stored in the plurality of storage units by the identification unit. And temporarily storing the banknotes identified with the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage section in the temporary storage area where the bottom portion above the predetermined storage section of the plurality of storage sections is closed. The banknotes temporarily stored in the storage area are returned to the temporary storage, fed out from the temporary storage again, and identified by the identification unit.

  According to the fifth aspect, at the time of the storing process, the banknotes identified as being unable to be stored in the plurality of storing units are temporarily stored in the temporary storing area where the bottom portion above the predetermined storing unit is closed. The banknotes are temporarily stored together with the banknotes to be stored in the storage section. The banknotes are fed out from the temporary storage area section, returned to the temporary storage section, fed out of the temporary storage section again, and identified by the identification section. In this way, the banknote once identified as being unable to be stored in the plurality of storage units can be identified again by the identification unit when the banknote is fed again from the temporary storage unit.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the banknote processing machine which can reduce a machine body can be provided.

It is a side sectional view showing roughly the bill processor of one embodiment concerning the present invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of a payment process is shown by a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of the 1st process of a storage process with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of the 2nd processing of a storage process with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of the 3rd processing of a storage process is shown by a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of the 3rd processing of a storage process is shown by a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of the 3rd processing of a storage process is shown by a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows schematically the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of the 4th process of a storage process with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of a 2nd full elimination process is shown with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of a 2nd full elimination process is shown with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of a 2nd full elimination process is shown with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of a 2nd full elimination process is shown with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The banknote conveyance route of a 2nd full elimination process is shown with a thick line. It is a side sectional view showing roughly the bill processor of one embodiment concerning the present invention, and shows a bill conveyance route of return processing with a thick line. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a sectional side view which shows schematically the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of a loose banknote dispensing process with a thick line. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a sectional side view which shows schematically the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of a bundle banknote dispensing process with a thick line. It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of a local rearranging process with a thick line. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is sectional drawing which shows schematically the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of a collection process with a thick line. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is sectional drawing which shows schematically the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, and shows the banknote conveyance route of a collection process with a thick line. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a sectional side view which shows roughly the banknote processing machine of one Embodiment which concerns on this invention, Comprising: The outbound route of a scrutiny process is shown by a thick line.

  A banknote handling machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The banknote handling machine 11 of the present embodiment performs a deposit / withdrawal process for a banknote. Hereinafter, loose banknotes are simply referred to as banknotes, and banknotes obtained by binding banknotes in a predetermined unity number (100) are referred to as bundled banknotes.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the banknote handling machine 11 of the present embodiment is provided with a deposit unit 20 and a withdrawal return unit 21 at an upper portion on the front side of the machine body 10. The payment return unit 21 is provided above the payment unit 20.

  The depositing section 20 has a shutter (not shown) that can be opened and closed. The shutter is opened, a bill is inserted from outside the machine, and then the shutter is closed to feed the bill into the machine. Banknotes are stacked and placed on the depositing unit 20 in a posture extending in the left-right direction in the longitudinal direction when viewed from the front side of the machine body, and are stacked on the depositing unit 20 at the lower part. There is provided a deposit pay-out unit 24 that separates the bills from the lower end one by one and feeds them into the machine at predetermined intervals. The banknote is transported in the banknote handling machine 11 in a posture in which the short side direction is basically along the transport direction.

  The depositing and dispensing section 24 for dispensing banknotes from the depositing section 20 abuts against the middle portion of the lowermost banknotes of the banknotes accumulated in the depositing section 20 in the short direction, and kicks out this to the inside of the machine. A roller 24a, a feeding roller 24b for feeding the bill kicked out by the kicking roller 24a into the machine, and a separation roller for separating the banknotes fed into the machine by the feeding roller 24b by stopping against the feeding roller 24b. 24c. Immediately after the depositing and dispensing section 24, the banknotes fed from the depositing and dispensing section 24 are overlapped with a plurality of bills, skewed in an oblique posture with respect to the transport direction, or a transport interval between adjacent bills. An entrance sensor 25 is provided for optically detecting whether there is a transport abnormality such as a near feed with a narrow width, and whether there is a shape abnormality such as a stub.

  The withdrawal return unit 21 has a shutter (not shown) that can be opened and closed, the shutter is closed, a bill for dispensing is fed out from the inside of the machine, and then the shutter is opened so that the bill is outside the machine. Is taken out. In other words, the withdrawal return unit 21 enables the bill to be taken out of the machine. In the withdrawal return unit 21, bills fed from the inside of the machine are stacked and placed from bottom to top in a posture along the longitudinal direction in the left-right direction when viewed from the front side of the machine body. The withdrawal return unit 21 can store bills in a state where the shutter is closed, and can feed out the stored bills into the machine.

  At the rear of the banknote handling machine 11, an identification unit 31 for identifying the authenticity of the banknotes fed from the depositing unit 20, the denomination of the true banknotes, and the presence / absence of transport abnormality such as double feeding, skew or near feed. Is provided. The identification unit 31 also identifies the front and back, top and bottom (top and bottom), and left and right of the bill.

  Behind the depositing section 20 and the withdrawal returning section 21, there are provided a plurality of, specifically, two aligning sections 35 and 36 for aligning the banknotes and accumulating them by a predetermined unity unit number. In addition, an elevating / lowering transporting section 37 is provided behind these aligning sections 35 and 36 for transporting the unitary number of banknotes stacked in the aligning sections 35 and 36 upward. Above the aligning units 35 and 36, a binding unit 38 is provided, in which a binding tape is wound around a unitary number of banknotes collected by the aligning units 35 and 36 and transported by the elevating transport unit 37 to form a bundled banknote. Has been. A bundle dispensing unit 39 is provided at the front side of the binding unit 38 to pay out the bundled bills created by the binding unit 38 so as to be able to be taken out of the machine. The bundle dispensing unit 39 also has a shutter (not shown) that can be opened and closed, the shutter is closed, the bundled banknotes are paid out from the inside of the machine, and then the bundled banknotes are taken out of the machine by opening the shutter. . A bundle storage unit (not shown) for storing the bundled banknotes bound by the binding unit 38 is provided on the side of the binding unit 38.

  At the lower part of the banknote handling machine 11, a plurality of storage boxes 41 having a similar structure, specifically, four storage boxes 41 are arranged in front and rear with their upper, lower, left and right positions aligned. These storages 41 can temporarily store bills, can pay out temporarily stored bills, can store bills, and can pay out stored bills. These storage boxes 41 cannot be removed from the machine body 10 and can be integrally pulled out from the machine body 10.

  In the banknote handling machine 11, the storage 41 (A) arranged at the farthest side, the storage 41 (B) arranged at the second from the back, and the storage 41 (C) arranged at the third from the back are In any case, the banknotes are stored so that the banknotes of a predetermined single denomination without being stained can be fed out in a state of being stacked from bottom to top. The storage box 41 (D) arranged fourth from the back stores predetermined other banknotes so that they can be fed out in a state of being stacked from bottom to top.

  The storage box 41 (A) stores a predetermined first kind of banknotes (for example, normal banknotes with no contamination of the current 10,000-yen banknote) among the acceptable banknotes that can be accepted by the banknote processing machine 11, and stores them in the storage box 41 (B). Is a predetermined second type of banknote (for example, a normal 5,000-yen note without any fouling), and the storage 41 (C) is a predetermined third type of banknote (for example, a current 5,000-yen note without any fouling). The storage 41 (D) stores the fourth type of banknotes other than the first to third type (for example, all 2,000-yen bills, stained banknotes with the current 10,000-yen bill, all old bills). Ten thousand yen notes, stained banknotes of the current 5,000 yen note, all old 5,000 yen notes, stained banknotes of the current 1,000 yen note, and all old 1,000 yen notes) are stored in such a manner that they can be dispensed. I do. That is, the banknote handling machine 11 has a plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) for normal banknotes of a single denomination that do not have any contamination for each denomination. It is sufficient that a plurality of storage boxes 41 are provided so that banknotes can be sorted and stored, and the storage pattern is not limited to the above.

  At the upper part of each of the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (D), bills are taken into each of them and are accumulated from bottom to top, and the inside bills are separated one by one from the top one at a predetermined interval. A take-out / feed-out unit 42 is provided for feeding the food. Each of the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (D) is provided with a separator 43 (bottom) that can vertically move and open and close an internal space for accommodating bills and an elevator 44 that moves up and down in the internal space. Has been.

  The take-in / feed-out unit 42 contacts the middle portion of the banknotes at the uppermost position in the lateral direction of the banknotes stacked on the separator 43 or the elevator 44 and kicks the banknotes out of the storage box 41. A roller 42a, a feeding roller 42b that feeds the bill kicked out by the kicking roller 42a out of the storage 41, and a banknote that the feeding roller 42b feeds out of the storage 41 by stopping with respect to the feeding roller 42b. And a separation roller 42c that separates each roller. The payout roller 42b rotates in the opposite direction to the time of the payout, so that the bill is held between the separation roller 42c that rotates and the paper money and is taken into the storage 41.

  The separator 43 has a pair of vertically supporting shafts 43a horizontally arranged at the same height, and a pair of plate-shaped separator bodies 43b. One separator main body 43b is supported by one lifting support shaft 43a, and is rotatable about the lifting support shaft 43a. The other separator body 43b is supported by the other lifting support shaft 43a, and is rotatable about the lifting support shaft 43a. When the separator 43 is in the closed state, one separator main body 43b extends horizontally from one elevating support shaft 43a toward the other elevating support shaft 43a, and the other separator main body 43b extends from the other elevating support shaft 43a. It extends horizontally toward one lifting shaft 43a.

  When the separator 43 is in the open state, the one separator main body 43b rotates 90 degrees with respect to the closed state and extends vertically downward from the one lifting / lowering support shaft 43a, and the other separator main body 43b is closed. It rotates 90 degrees with respect to the state and extends vertically downward from the other lifting shaft 43a. In the separator 43, the pair of lifting shafts 43a always moves up and down while adjusting the height, and the pair of separator bodies 43b opens and synchronizes in synchronization. Each of the separators 43 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is driven by an individual drive mechanism, and the lifting and lowering and opening and closing are controlled independently.

  When the separator 43 is in the closed state, the storage 41 in which the separator 43 is provided is moved from the separator 43 including the separator 43 to a temporary storage area 47 (temporary storage area) above the separator 43 and a storage area below the separator 43. Section 48 (storage section). In other words, the storage 41 is divided by the separator 43 into a temporary storage area 47 which is a temporary storage area and a storage area 48 which is a storage area immediately below.

  When the separator 43 is in the closed state, the separator 43 forms the bottom of the temporary storage area 47, and the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42 are placed and stacked from bottom to top. At that time, the separator 43 descends according to the amount of bills taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42. Further, the separator 43 raises the uppermost banknote of the placed banknotes and makes the banknotes abut against the ejection roller 42 a of the take-in / feed-out section 42. In this state, the take-in / pay-out section 42 separates banknotes one by one and feeds them out of the temporary storage area section 47. At that time, the separator 43 rises according to the amount of bills fed by the take-in / feed-out unit 42.

  When the separator 43 is in the open state, the temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48 of the storage 41 in which the separator 43 is provided are continuous. In this state, the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42 are placed by the elevator 44 and accumulated from bottom to top. At that time, the elevator 44 temporarily raises the bills taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 42 to a receiving position for receiving the bills thereon or on the bills thereon, and then increases the amount of the bills taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 42. Descends accordingly.

  Therefore, when the separator 43 is in the open state, the storage box 41 (A) stores the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42 into the continuous temporary storage area section 47 and the storage area section 48 in the temporary storage area section 47. And is collected on the elevator 44. Thereafter, when the separator 43 is closed after the elevator 44 is lowered and the bills on the elevator 44 reach the storage area 48, the storage 41 (A) is in a state where the storage area 48 stores the banknotes.

  Similarly, when the separator 43 is in the open state, the storage box 41 (B) stores the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42 into the continuous temporary storage area section 47 and the storage area section 48 in the temporary storage area section 48. It is received at 47 and collected on the elevator 44. Thereafter, when the separator 43 is closed after the elevator 44 descends and the banknotes on the elevator 44 reach the storage area 48, the storage 41 (B) is in a state where the storage area 48 stores the banknotes.

  Similarly, when the separator 43 is in the open state, the storage box 41 (C) stores the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42 into the continuous temporary storage area section 47 and the storage area section 48 in the temporary storage area section 48. It is received at 47 and collected on the elevator 44. Thereafter, when the separator 43 is closed after the elevator 44 is lowered and the banknotes on the elevator 44 reach the storage area 48, the storage 41 (C) is in a state where the storage area 48 stores the banknotes.

  Similarly, when the separator 43 is in the open state, the storage box 41 (D) stores the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 42 into the continuous temporary storage area section 47 and the storage area section 48 in the temporary storage area section 48. It is received at 47 and collected on the elevator 44. Thereafter, when the separator 43 is closed after the elevator 44 is lowered and the banknotes on the elevator 44 reach the storage area 48, the storage 41 (D) is in a state where the storage area 48 stores banknotes.

  When the separator 43 is in an open state and the temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48 of the storage 41 in which the separator 43 is provided are continuous with each other, the elevator 44 of the storage area 48 is raised. The elevator 44 makes the uppermost banknote of the mounted banknotes abut on the ejection roller 42 a of the take-in / feed-out unit 42. In this state, the take-in / feed-out unit 42 separates banknotes one by one and feeds out the bills from the continuous temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48 in the temporary storage area 47. At that time, the elevator 44 rises according to the amount of bills fed from the take-in / feed-out section 42. Each of the elevators 44 in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is driven by an individual drive mechanism, and the elevation is controlled independently.

  The storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) respectively position the elevator 44 at the lowermost standby position, position the banknotes on the elevator 44 below the separator 43, close the separator 43, and The standby state is a state in which the banknote 43 is positioned at the upper predetermined standby position, and the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 42 can be accumulated on the separator 43. Therefore, when the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are in the standby state, respectively, the temporary storage area 47 is empty. The standby state of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is a storage receiving state for receiving the stored banknotes in the temporary storage area 47.

  Further, the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) respectively position the elevator 44 at the lowest standby position, close the separator 43, and take in the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 43, and take out and feed the bill 42. Is in a state where the banknotes are fed out of the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 when the banknotes are brought into contact with the ejection roller 42a.

  Further, the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) respectively open the separator 43, and on the elevator 44 or on the uppermost banknote on the elevator 44, the banknote taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 42. Is a direct storage receiving state for receiving bills in the continuous temporary storage area 47 and the storage area 48. Each of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) receives the bills on the elevator 44 with the separator 43 in the open state, and then lowers the elevator 44 so that all the bills on the elevator 44 are in the open state. When the separator 43 is positioned below the separator 43, the separator 43 is closed. In this state, the bill is stored in the storage area 48. Each of the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) receives and stores banknotes via the temporary storage area 47 with the separator 43 opened above.

  In addition, the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) respectively store bills that have been stored on the separator 43 in the temporary storage area 47 and that are dropped by opening the separator 43 on the elevator 44. Alternatively, the state in which the bills can be accumulated on the uppermost banknotes on the elevator 44 is a storage storage receiving state in which the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 are received on the elevator 44 of the storage area 48. It has become.

  Further, the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) open the separator 43, respectively, and bring the uppermost banknote on the elevator 44 into contact with the ejection roller 42 a of the take-in / feed-out unit 42. In this state, the banknotes stored in the storage area 48 are fed out through the temporary storage area 47.

  As described above, a temporary storage area in which the separator 43 serving as a bottom is openable and closable and temporarily stores bills so as to be able to be fed out above the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). A part 47 is provided. In addition, each of the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) receives and stores banknotes via the temporary storage area 47 above the separator 43 in the open state. Become. In other words, each of the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) receives bills via the temporary storage area 47 in the state where the upper separator 43 is opened. Will be stored.

  The storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) can be integrally pulled out from the body 10 to the side, and the temporary storage area 47 can be opened and closed in a state of being integrally pulled out from the body 10. In the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 can be taken out by opening the temporary storage area 47. Note that the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are stored in the storage area 48 below the separator 43 if the separator 43 is closed even if the temporary storage area 47 is opened. The stored banknotes cannot be taken out from the temporary storage area 47 side.

  In the lower part of the banknote handling machine 11, a cassette 51 as a collective temporary storage unit for temporarily storing acceptable banknotes that can be accepted by the banknote handling machine 11 at the time of deposit processing by mixing denominations is provided in front of the storage box 41 (D). Is provided. The cassette 51 is detachable from the machine body 10, takes in and stores the banknotes fed from the storage area 48 of the denomination at the time of collection processing, and replenishes banknotes at the time of replenishment processing. Pay out the bills. The cassettes 51 are lined up and down with the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) of the respective denominations so as to be aligned vertically and horizontally. The cassette 51 has a larger storage capacity for bills than the storage capacities of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

  The cassette 51 temporarily stores the banknotes in a state where the banknotes are stacked from bottom to top by mixing denominations, and stores the temporarily stored banknotes so that the banknotes can be fed out later. There is provided a take-out / feed-out section 52 for taking in the bills and separating the inside bills one by one from the uppermost one and feeding them at predetermined intervals. The cassette 51 is provided with a separator 53 (bottom) that can vertically move and open and close, and that vertically divides an internal space for accommodating bills, and an elevator 54 that moves up and down in the internal space.

  The take-in / feed-out section 52 abuts on the middle portion in the short direction of the highest banknote among the banknotes stacked on the separator 53 or the elevator 54, and kicks this out of the cassette 51. A roller 52a, a feeding roller 52b that feeds the bill kicked out by the kicking roller 52a out of the cassette 51, and a banknote that the feeding roller 52b feeds out of the cassette 51 by stopping against the feeding roller 52b. And a separation roller 52c for separation. The feeding roller 52b rotates in a direction opposite to the direction at the time of feeding, so that the bill is held between the separation roller 52c that rotates with the feeding and is taken into the cassette 51.

  The separator 53 has a pair of lifting shafts 53a horizontally arranged at the same height, and a pair of plate-shaped separator bodies 53b. One separator main body 53b is supported by one elevating support shaft 53a, and is rotatable about the elevating support shaft 53a. The other separator main body 53b is supported by the other lifting support shaft 53a, and is rotatable about the lifting support shaft 53a. When the separator 53 is in the closed state, one separator main body 53b extends horizontally from one elevating shaft 53a toward the other elevating shaft 53a, and the other separator main body 53b extends from the other elevating shaft 53a. It extends horizontally toward one elevating shaft 53a.

  When the separator 53 is in the open state, one of the separator main bodies 53b rotates 90 degrees with respect to the closed state and extends vertically downward from one of the elevating shafts 53a, and the other separator main body 53b is closed. It rotates 90 degrees with respect to the state and extends vertically downward from the other elevating shaft 53a. In the separator 53, the pair of elevating shafts 53a always move up and down while adjusting the height, and the pair of separator bodies 53b open and operate in synchronization. The separator 53 of the cassette 51 is driven by a different drive mechanism from the separators 43 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and the lifting and lowering and opening and closing are controlled independently.

  When the separator 53 is in the closed state, the cassette 51 is moved from the separator 53 including the separator 53 to a temporary storage area 57 (temporary storage section) above the separator 53 and a storage area 58 (storage area section) below the separator 53. ). In other words, the cassette 51 is divided by the separator 53 into a temporary storage area 57 that is a temporary storage area and a storage area 58 that is a storage area immediately below the temporary storage area 57.

  When in the closed state, the separator 53 constitutes the bottom of the temporary storage area 57, and the banknotes taken in by the take-in / pay-out section 52 are placed and stacked from bottom to top. At that time, the separator 53 descends according to the amount of bills taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 52. Further, the separator 53 raises the uppermost banknotes of the mounted banknotes and makes the banknotes abut against the ejection roller 52 a of the take-in / feed-out unit 52. In this state, the take-in / pay-out section 52 separates banknotes one by one and feeds them out of the temporary storage area section 57. At that time, the separator 53 rises according to the amount of bills fed by the take-in / feed-out unit 52.

  When the separator 53 is in the open state, the temporary storage area 57 and the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 are in a continuous state. In this state, the elevator 54 places the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 52 and stacks the banknotes from below to above. At that time, the elevator 54 temporarily raises the bills taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 52 to a receiving position on which the bills are taken or on the bills thereon, and according to the amount of the bills taken by the take-in / feed-out unit 52. Descend.

  When the separator 53 is in the open state, the cassette 51 receives the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 52 into the continuous temporary storage area section 57 and the storage area section 58 in the temporary storage area section 57 and receives the bills on the elevator 44. To accumulate. Thereafter, when the elevator 53 is lowered and the bills on the elevator 54 reach the storage area 58 and then the separator 53 is closed, the cassette 51 enters a state in which the storage area 58 stores bills.

  When the separator 53 is in the open state and the temporary storage area 57 and the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 are continuous with each other and the elevator 54 of the storage area 58 is raised, the elevator 54 The uppermost banknote is brought into contact with the ejection roller 52a of the take-in / feed-out section 52. In this state, the take-in / feed-out unit 52 separates the banknotes one by one and feeds the banknotes from the continuous temporary storage area 57 and storage area 58 in the temporary storage area 57. At that time, the elevator 54 rises according to the amount of bills fed from the take-in / feed-out unit 52. The elevator 54 of the cassette 51 is driven by a drive mechanism different from the elevator 44 of each of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and the elevation is controlled independently.

  The cassette 51 positions the elevator 54 at the lowermost standby position, positions the banknotes on the elevator 54 below the separator 53, closes the separator 53, and positions the separator 53 at the upper predetermined standby position. Thus, the state in which the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 52 can be started to be accumulated on the separator 53 is a standby state. Therefore, when the cassette 51 is in the standby state, the temporary storage area 57 is empty. The standby state of the cassette 51 is a storage receiving state in which stored banknotes are received in the temporary storage area 57.

  Further, the cassette 51 temporarily positions the elevator 54 at the lowermost standby position, closes the separator 53, and abuts the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 53 against the ejection roller 52a of the take-in / feed-out unit 52. It is in a stored banknote payout state in which the banknotes placed on the separator 53 of the storage area section 57 are fed out.

  Further, the cassette 51 opens the separator 53, and the state in which the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out section 52 are accumulated on the elevator 54 or on the topmost banknote on the elevator 54 is a continuous temporary storage area section 57. The storage area 58 is in a state of directly storing and receiving bills in the temporary storage area 57. The cassette 51 receives the banknotes on the elevator 54 with the separator 53 in the open state, and then lowers the elevator 54 until all the banknotes on the elevator 54 are located below the open separator 53. Close. In this state, the bill is stored in the storage area 58. Therefore, the storage area 58 receives and stores banknotes through the temporary storage area 57 in a state where the upper separator 53 is opened.

  The cassette 51 opens the separator 53, and the state in which the uppermost banknote on the elevator 54 is brought into contact with the ejection roller 42 a of the take-out / feed-out section 42 is a state where the banknote stored in the storage area 58 is temporarily stored. The stored banknotes are fed out through the area 57.

  As described above, above the storage area 58 of the cassette 51, the temporary storage area 57 is provided, which is capable of opening and closing the bottom separator 53 and temporarily storing bills so as to be able to be fed out. In addition, the cassette 51 stores the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 52 into the storage area 58 below the separator 53 via the temporary storage area 57 with the separator 53 in the open state. In other words, below the separator 53 which is the bottom of the temporary storage area 57, a storage area 58 for receiving and storing bills is provided through the temporary storage area 57 with the separator 53 opened. .

  Inside the banknote handling machine 11, a transport unit 61 that transports the banknotes including the banknotes fed from the depositing unit 20 by the depositing / dispensing unit 24 is provided so as to appropriately connect the respective units. The transport unit 61 basically moves the banknote in a posture in which the short side direction is along the transport direction.

  The transport unit 61 transports the banknote of the depositing unit 20 provided at the front part of the machine body 10 toward the identification unit 31 provided at the rear part of the machine body 10, and further, the cassette 51 provided at the front part of the machine body 10. And a transport path 61A that transports the paper toward the. The transport path 61A extends rearward from the depositing / delivery section 24 of the deposit section 20 to a portion between a transport path 61J and a transport path 61M, which will be described later, and then extends downward, and then extends rearward to identify the identification section 31. , It is folded forward at the lower side, extends forward, extends downward from the front end of the banknote handling machine 11, and is connected to the take-in / feed-out section 52 of the cassette 51.

  In addition, the transporting section 61 branches downward from a position between the connecting position of the transporting path 61A to the cassette 51 and the identification section 31 and is connected to a transporting path 61C that is connected to the take-out / feed-out section 42 of the storage box 41 (A). A transport path 61D that branches downward from a position between the connection point to the cassette 51 in the path 61A and a branch position of the transport path 61C and is connected to the take-out / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (B), and a cassette 51 in the transport path 61A. Path 61E, which branches downward from between the connection position to the transfer path 61B and the branch position of the transfer path 61D and is connected to the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (C), and the connection position to the cassette 51 in the transfer path 61A. There is a transport path 61F that branches downward from between the branch position of the transport path 61E and is connected to the take-out / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (D).

  In addition, the transport unit 61 branches to the uppermost position from the cassette 51 side in the transport path 61A, then extends rearward, and is connected to a lower portion of a portion that extends downward from the deposit unit 20 of the transport path 61A toward the identification unit 31. A transport path 61G, a transport path 61H that branches upward from a position between a branch position of the transport path 61F and a branch position of the transport path 61G in the transport path 61A, and is connected to an intermediate position of the transport path 61G, and a transport in the transport path 61G. A transfer path 61J that branches upward from a position between the connection position of the path 61H and the connection position to the transfer path 61A at the rear and is connected between the connection position of the rear part of the transfer path 61G in the transfer path 61A and the entrance sensor 25. have.

  In addition, the transfer section 61 branches backward from between the connection position of the transfer path 61J in the transfer path 61A and the connection position of the rear portion of the transfer path 61G, and then extends upward, and then extends forward to pay out. It has a transport path 61L connected to the return unit 21.

  In addition, the transport unit 61 includes a transport path 61M that branches upward from between a connection position of a rear part of the transport path 61G in the transport path 61A and the identification unit 31 and is connected to an intermediate position of the transport path 61L, and a transport path 61A. And a transport path 61N that branches off from between the branch position of the transport path 61M and the identification unit 31 and is connected to an intermediate position of the transport path 61M. The transport path 61N is provided with a front / back reversing unit 63 for reversing the front / back of a bill.

  In addition, the transport unit 61 includes a transport path 61P that branches backward from the withdrawal return unit 21 in the transport path 61L and the confluence position of the transport path 61M and is connected to the alignment unit 35, and a transport path 61P in the transport path 61L. There is a transport path 61 </ b> Q that branches backward from between the branch position and the junction of the transport path 61 </ b> M and is connected to the alignment unit 36.

  The identification unit 31 identifies the bills transported by the transport unit 61, and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the cassette 51 identify the bills identified by the identification unit 31 by the identification unit 31. Based on the result, it is stored so that it can be extended.

  The banknote handling machine 11 includes an operation display unit 70 that performs an operation input by the operator and displays the information to the operator, and a control unit 71 that controls the entire banknote handling machine 11.

  Next, each process of the banknote handling machine 11 of the present embodiment will be described.

  When in the standby state, all of the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (D) have the temporary storage area 47 empty, and the storage area 48 normally stores banknotes. Further, when in the standby state, the separators 43 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are located at the standby position where the banknotes can be received and the stacking can be started in the closed state, and the elevator 44 is at the lowest standby position. Position. When the cassette 51 is in the standby state, the cassette 51 has the temporary storage area 57 empty, and the storage area 58 stores bills in some cases. Further, when in the standby state, the separator 53 of the cassette 51 is located at the upper standby position where the banknote can be received and the stacking can be started in the closed state, and the elevator 54 is located at the lowermost standby position.

[Payment processing]
The bold line in FIG. 2 indicates a banknote transport route of a banknote depositing process in which banknotes input from outside the machine to the depositing unit 20 are identified, counted, and temporarily stored while being transported. That is, when a banknote is inserted into the depositing unit 20 and a selection operation of the depositing process is performed on the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 starts the depositing process, and the depositing unit 24, the transporting unit 61, It drives the loading / unloading section 52 of the cassette 51 in the standby state. Then, the deposit feeding unit 24 kicks out the banknotes inserted into the depositing unit 20 in order from the bottom one by the kicking roller 24a and separates the banknotes one by one by the feeding roller 24b and the separation roller 24c, and sets a predetermined interval. The bills are fed out after being opened, and the fed bills are conveyed by the conveyance path 61A. Immediately after the bill fed from the depositing / delivery section 24, the entrance sensor 25 detects the presence / absence of a transport abnormality and the presence / absence of a shape abnormality.

  As for the rejected banknotes detected by the entrance sensor 25 as having a transport abnormality or a shape abnormality, the control unit 71 determines whether the transport reject banknotes are on the side of the transport path 61A on the deposit unit 20 side, as shown by the thick solid line to the thick dashed line in FIG. The portion is conveyed to the withdrawal return section 21 through the portions and the conveyance paths 61M and 61L. That is, the rejected banknotes detected as having a transport abnormality or a shape abnormality by the entrance sensor 25 are branched from the transport path 61A from the deposit section 20 to the identification section 31, and cross the transport path 61A after the branch. Are transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 without being transported to the identification unit 31 on the transport paths 61M and 61L where there is not.

  On the other hand, the banknote in which neither the conveyance abnormality nor the shape abnormality is detected by the entrance sensor 25 is conveyed to the identification section 31 through the conveyance path 61A as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Then, during this conveyance, the identification unit 31 identifies and counts the banknotes, and the control unit 71 recognizes the banknotes that are recognized as acceptable by the identification unit 31, that is, deposits the banknotes that are normally conveyed with genuine bills of denominations that can be handled. The normal banknote is conveyed to the cassette 51 in the standby state on the conveyance path 61A, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. As a result, the cassette 51 accumulates banknotes by denomination mixture on the separator 53 at the standby position in the closed state of the temporary storage area section 57 by the take-in / feed-out section 52. That is, the deposited normal banknotes identified as acceptable are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. At that time, the control unit 71 monitors the amount of stored banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and lowers the separator 53 by an amount corresponding to the stored amount of banknotes with the separator 53 closed.

  On the other hand, among the banknotes fed from the depositing section 20 by the depositing and paying-out section 24, the control section 71 discriminates between the banknotes recognized as unacceptable by the identification section 31, that is, the banknotes with denomination deficit that cannot be denominated, and multi-feed, As shown in FIG. 2 by a thick solid line, a thick dashed line, and a dashed-dotted line, a banknote with a conveyance abnormality such as skew or near feed is diverted from the cassette 51 side of the conveyance path 61A to the conveyance path 61H. The sheet is conveyed to the withdrawal return unit 21 on the conveyance path 61H, the conveyance path 61G, the conveyance path 61A, the conveyance path 61M, and the conveyance path 61L.

  Note that, at this time, the banknote that goes out of the deposit unit 20 and travels on the transport path 61A toward the identification unit 31 and the banknote that travels from the transport paths 61H and 61G through the transport path 61A toward the transport path 61M are one of the transport paths 61A. Since the parts will be used in common, there is a possibility of intersection at this part. For this reason, when the discrimination unit 31 determines that the bill cannot be accepted, the control unit 71 stops the depositing and dispensing unit 24 and suspends the dispensing of the bill from the depositing unit 20 at the timing of the intersection with the bill. I do. That is, at the time when the deposit reject banknote determined to be unacceptable by the identification unit 31 enters the transport path 61A from the transport path 61G at the latest, the banknote is present on the deposit unit 20 side of the branch position of the transport path 61M of the transport path 61A. The depositing / delivery unit 24 is stopped so as not to perform the operation. When the deposit reject banknote determined to be unacceptable by the identification unit 31 subsequently enters the transport path 61M from the transport path 61A, the control unit 71 restarts the driving of the deposit delivery unit 24.

  By performing the above-described operation of the deposit processing, the bills in the deposit section 20 are exhausted, and all the bills fed out from the deposit section 20 are transported to either the temporary storage area section 57 of the cassette 51 or the withdrawal return section 21. Then, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the withdrawal return unit 21 so that the banknote can be taken out from the withdrawal return unit 21, determines that the bill can be accepted by the identification unit 31, and temporarily stores the banknote in the cassette 51. The operation display unit 70 displays the number, the total amount, and the like of the denominations of the banknotes temporarily stored in 57. Then, the control unit 71 enters a state of waiting for an input of one of the payment confirmation operation and the payment cancellation operation on the operation display unit 70, and ends the payment processing.

  As described above, the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 temporarily stores the banknotes fed out of the depositing unit 20 and identified as acceptable by the identification unit 31 during the depositing process so that the banknotes can be fed out by mixing denominations.

[Storage processing]
The storing process is a process to be performed when the depositing operation is input to the operation display unit 70 after the depositing process, and is a series of processes with the immediately preceding depositing process. After the deposit processing, when a deposit confirmation operation is input to the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 enters a state in which the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are managed by the bill processing machine 11. . When a deposit confirmation operation is input, the control unit 71 determines the number of various kinds of deposited banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area unit 57 of the cassette 51 in the deposit processing and the number of storage bins 41 (A) to 41 (D). Based on the number of banknotes already stored in each of the storage areas 48, when a deposited banknote is stored, a full state occurs in the storage areas 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). It is determined whether there is something. When a full state occurs in one of the storage areas 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), a bundle storage process described later is performed before performing the storage process, and the storage in which the full state occurs is performed. The storage process is performed after the number of stored banknotes in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 is reduced in advance to an amount that does not cause a full state even when the storage process is performed.

  The thick lines in FIGS. 3 to 7 indicate the banknote transport route of the storing process. After the deposit processing, when a deposit confirmation operation is input to the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 determines the deposit and puts the deposited bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 under management, Perform storage processing. In the storage process, first, the deposited banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 are distributed to the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) as indicated by the thick line in FIG. 3 based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 again. A first process is performed.

  At the start of the first process, the control unit 71 sets the storage areas 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), which are the storage destinations of the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. The temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 including one of the predetermined storage areas 48 is set as a temporary storage destination for storage reject banknotes composed of banknotes with denomination deficit and abnormal banknotes.

  Specifically, from the breakdown of the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 determined from the identification result of the identification unit 31 in the storage processing and a series of deposit processing executed immediately before the storage processing. The temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 including the storage area 48 where the amount of bills conveyed for storage in the storage processing is the smallest is set as the temporary storage destination of the storage reject bill. The stored reject banknote is a reject banknote managed under the control of the denomination of the denomination or the transport abnormality that occurs during the movement under the control of the banknote processing machine 11. Here, as an example, the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) that stores the fourth type of banknotes other than the first to third types has the largest amount of banknotes conveyed for storage during this storage process. A case where the number of storage areas 48 is small will be described as an example. In this case, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), which is the same as the storage area 48, is set as a temporary storage destination of the storage reject bill.

  Then, the control section 71 raises the separator 53 at the bottom of the temporary storage area section 57 of the cassette 51 so that the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 53 comes into contact with the ejection roller 52 a of the take-in / feed-out section 52. It is in a bill feeding state. Further, among the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the control unit 71 sets the storage 41 (D) in which the temporary storage area 47 is set as the temporary storage destination of the storage-rejected banknote in the standby state. The separators 43 are opened for all of the remaining storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) among the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and the elevator 44 is set to the banknotes on the elevator 44. In accordance with the storage amount, the banknotes received by the take-out / feed-out section 42 are raised to a position where they can be stacked and brought into a direct storage receiving state. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the take-in / feed-out unit 52, the transport unit 61, and the take-in / feed-out unit 42 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

  Then, the kick-out roller 52a kicks out the banknotes placed on the separator 53 of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 from the uppermost one, and separates the banknotes one by one by the feed-out feeding roller 52b and the separation roller 52c, and separates the bills one by one. , And the fed banknotes are conveyed to the identification section 31 through the transport paths 61A, 61G, and 61A, and are identified by the identification section 31, as indicated by thick solid lines in FIG. Then, the control unit 71 uses the transport path 61A and the corresponding one of the transport paths 61C to 61F, based on the identification result, for the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 as stored normal banknotes other than the stored reject banknotes. It is transported to the corresponding one of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). A normally stored banknote is a banknote having neither a denomination defect nor a transport abnormality.

  Thereby, among the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the normal stored banknotes identified as normal by the identification unit 31 after being fed out from the temporary storage area 57 are stored in the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (A). As for the storage area 41 of the storage area 41 (C), the corresponding storage areas of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are accumulated on the elevator 44.

  On the other hand, among the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) indicates the storage destination based on the identification result of the identification section 31 after being fed from the temporary storage area 57. Is stored temporarily in the temporary storage area 47 where the separator 43 of the storage box 41 (D) is closed. Further, of the banknotes temporarily stored in the cassette 51, after being fed from the temporary storage area 57, the storage reject banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 as having a conveyance abnormality or a denomination identification defect are stored in the storage box 41 (D). The separator 43 is temporarily stored in the closed temporary storage area 47. That is, in the first process, in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), the normal storage banknotes in which the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) is stored, and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). The storage reject banknotes that cannot be stored in the storage area section 48 of (D) are mixed.

  In other words, among the bills fed from the cassette 51 during the storing process, the storage reject banknote is determined by the identification unit 31 to be not stored in the storage area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). It becomes the identified bill. Therefore, at the time of the storing process, the storage reject bill is first stored in the storage 41 (D), which is one of the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) in the first processing. Is temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 above the storage area 48 with the separator 43 closed, together with the bills to be stored in the storage area 48 of the predetermined storage 41 (D).

  Specifically, the control unit 71 stores the banknote when the banknote fed out from the temporary storage area unit 57 of the cassette 51 is a normal storage banknote of the first type (for example, a banknote that is not stained with the current 10,000-yen banknote). When the banknotes to be collected on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A) are normal stored banknotes of the second kind (for example, banknotes without contamination of the current 5,000 yen note) fed out from the temporary storage area 57. The banknotes are accumulated on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (B). In addition, when the banknote fed out from the temporary storage area unit 57 is a normally stored banknote of a third type (for example, a banknote that does not have the current 1,000-yen bill stained), the control unit 71 stores the banknote in the storage 41 (C). Will be integrated on the elevator 44.

  In addition, the control unit 71 determines that the banknotes fed from the temporary storage area unit 57 are of the fourth type (for example, all 2,000-yen bills, banknotes with the current 10,000-yen bill, all old million-yen bills, If the banknote is a 5,000-yen banknote that has been damaged, all old 5,000-yen banknotes, the current 1,000-yen banknote that has been damaged, and all old 1,000-yen banknotes), these normal banknotes are stored. The storage is temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D). In addition, the control unit 71 determines whether the banknotes fed from the temporary storage area unit 57 cannot be stored in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) other than the normally stored banknotes, and indicates a transport abnormality or denomination. In the case of a storage reject banknote identified as defective, the banknote is temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D).

  At this time, the control unit 71 lowers each elevator 44 according to the amount of bills transported to each of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C), and transports the elevators 44 to the storage 41 (D). The separator 43 of the storage 41 (D) is lowered according to the amount of bills to be performed.

  In this way, the banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are depleted, and all the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 are stored in any of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C). When the control unit 71 returns the cassette 51 to the standby state after the accumulation on the elevator 44 in the area 48 or the temporary storage in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), the first process is completed. At the same time, based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 in the first process, the control unit 71 determines that the banknote transported to the temporary storage area unit 47 of the storage box 41 (D) as a temporary storage location of the storage-rejected banknote must be present. For example, after lowering all the elevators 54 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) to the lowest standby position, all the separators 43 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are set to the standby position. As the return closed state, the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are set to the standby state. Thereby, the banknotes on the elevators 44 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are stored in the respective storage area portions 48.

  Therefore, at the time of the storing process, the storing areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) store the bills fed from the temporary storing area 57 of the cassette 51 based on the identification result of the identifying unit 31. Will do. At this time, the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are respectively connected via the temporary storage areas 47 in the state where the upper separator 43 constituting the same storage 41 is opened. To accept and store bills.

  On the other hand, after the end of the first process, the control unit 71 determines from the breakdown of the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 in the first process that there is a banknote transported to the temporary storage area unit 47 of the storage 41 (D). In the same manner as described above, the banknotes on the elevators 44 in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are stored in the respective storage areas 48, and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are on standby. In parallel with the state, according to the breakdown of the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D), which are determined from the identification result of the identification section 31 in the first processing. The following second and third processes are performed.

  When the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) do not include the storage reject banknotes and are only the banknotes to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D). In other words, if only the fourth type of normal banknotes are stored, the second process is performed. In the second process, the control unit 71 raises the elevator 44 to a position where the elevator 44 can receive bills from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) and accumulate the banknotes, and store the storage. With the separator 43 in the receiving state and the separator 43 in the open state, the banknotes on the separator 43, that is, the fourth type of normally stored banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) are shown in FIG. As shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 4, they are accumulated on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (D). Thereafter, the banknotes on the elevator 44 of the storage box 41 (D) are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) by returning the storage box 41 (D) to the standby state. The storage processing including the processing is terminated.

  Therefore, at the time of the storing process, the storing area 48 of the storing box 41 (D) also stores the banknotes fed from the temporary storing area 57 of the cassette 51 based on the identification result of the identifying unit 31. At this time, the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) also receives bills via the temporary storage area 47 in the state where the separator 43 is opened, which constitutes the same storage 41 (D). Will be stored.

  When the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) include the storage reject banknotes, a third process of storing the storage reject banknotes in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 is performed. In the third process, the control unit 71 first raises the separator 43 in the storage 41 (D) while keeping the cassette 51 in the standby state in which the separator 53 is in the closed state and in the standby position. The uppermost banknote is brought into contact with the ejection roller 42a of the take-in / feed-out section 42 to bring the stored banknote into a fed state. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 to drive the take-out / feed-out unit 42 of the storage case 41 (D) and the feed-in / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51.

  Then, the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (D) causes the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) to be ejected from the uppermost position by the kick-out roller 42a. The paper is fed out at predetermined intervals while being separated one by one by the kick-out feeding roller 42b and the separation roller 42c, and the fed-out banknotes are transported as shown by thick solid lines in FIG. , 61A to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. As a result, the cassette 51 causes the take-in / feed-out section 52 to accumulate bills on the separator 53 at the standby position with the temporary storage area section 57 closed. At this time, the control unit 71 monitors the amount of stored banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and lowers the amount according to the stored amount of banknotes while keeping the separator 53 in the closed state.

  In this way, the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) are exhausted, and all the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. Then, the control unit 71 then temporarily stores any one of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) other than the storage 41 (D) among the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). The storage area unit 47 is set as a temporary storage destination of the storage reject bill. Here, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) that can transport the banknotes fed from the cassette 51 at the shortest transport distance is set as the temporary storage destination of the storage reject banknotes.

  Then, the control unit 71 raises the separator 53 of the cassette 51 and brings the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 53 into contact with the ejection roller 52a of the take-in / feed-out unit 52 to bring the stored banknote into a fed state. In the storage 41 (D), the separator 43 is opened, and the elevator 44 is raised to a position where the banknotes received by the take-in / feed-out unit 42 can be received and accumulated, to be in a direct storage / received state. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 to drive the take-out / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51 and the take-out / feed-out unit 42 of the storages 41 (A) and 41 (D).

  Then, the take-in / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51 kicks out the banknotes placed on the separator 53 in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 from the uppermost position with the pick-up roller 52a and the feed-out roller 52b and the separation roller. The bills are fed out at predetermined intervals while being separated one by one at 52 c, and the bills to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) among the bills based on the identification result of the identification unit 31. Is transported to the storage 41 (D) by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, 61F as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Thus, the storage 41 (D) causes the banknotes to be accumulated on the elevator 44 by the take-in / feed-out section 42. At this time, the control unit 71 monitors the bill amount in the storage 41 (D), and lowers the elevator 44 by an amount corresponding to the bill amount.

  On the other hand, as shown by the thick solid line to the thick broken line in FIG. 6, the storage reject banknotes of the banknotes are transported to the storage 41 (A) in the standby state by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, and 61C. Thus, the storage box 41 (A) causes the take-in / feed-out section 42 to accumulate bills on the separator 43 in the closed state of the temporary storage area section 47. At this time, the controller 71 monitors the amount of stored banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A), and lowers the separator 43 by an amount corresponding to the stored amount of banknotes.

  In addition, the storage reject banknote at this time is stored in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) by the identification of the identification unit 31 in the third processing, which is the identification again after the identification in the first processing. Banknotes identified as the first to third types of normal banknotes to be stored are also included. In other words, the abnormal transported banknote once identified as the storage rejected banknote in the first process may be normally transported in the third process and identified by the identification unit 31, but may be identified by the storage unit 41 of the storage 41 (D). The banknotes other than the normal banknotes to be stored in the storage 48 are temporarily stored as storage reject banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A).

  Here, in feeding out the banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the storages 41 (B) and 41 (C) are each set to a direct storage receiving state where the banknotes can be stacked on the elevator 44, and The banknote identified as the second kind of normal storage banknote to be stored in the storage 41 (B) by the identification of the identification unit 31 in the processing is stored in the storage 41 (C) on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (B). The banknotes identified as the third kind of normal storage banknotes to be stored in the storage boxes 41 (C) are respectively accumulated on the elevator 44 of the storage box 41 (C), and the storage area portions 48 of the storage boxes 41 (B) and 41 (C). It may be stored in

  In the third process, the bills on the separator 53 in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are exhausted, and all the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 are stored in the storage box 41 (D) or the storage box 41 ( When transported to (A), the control unit 71 stores the banknotes on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (D) in the storage area 48 by returning the storage 41 (D) to the standby state.

  As described above, among the banknotes returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 in the third processing after the first processing, the normal storage banknotes to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) are stored. The storage reject banknotes that are stored in the storage unit 41 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) in the first process while being stored in the storage unit 41 (D) are stored in the storage unit 41 (D). The separator 43 is temporarily stored in the closed temporary storage area 47 above the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (A) other than the area 48. The storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) receives and stores banknotes through the temporary storage area 47 with the separator 43 opened above.

  Next, the control unit 71 raises the separator 43 at the bottom of the temporary storage area 47 for the storage box 41 (A), takes in the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 43, and ejects the bill at the top of the separator 43. The stored banknotes are brought out of contact with 42a. Further, with respect to the cassette 51, the separator 53 at the bottom of the temporary storage area 57 is opened, and the elevator 54 at the bottom of the storage area 58 is moved by the take-in / feed-out section 52 according to the amount of banknotes stored on the elevator 54. The received banknotes are received and raised to a position where they can be stacked, and a direct storage receiving state is set. At the same time, the control section 71 drives the transport section 61 to drive the taking-in / out section 52 of the cassette 51 and the taking-in / out section 42 of the storage case 41 (A).

  Then, the take-in / feed-out part 42 of the storage case 41 (A) kicks out the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the storage case 41 (A) from the uppermost position with the kick-out roller 42a and the feed-out roller 42b and The paper is fed out at a predetermined interval while being separated one by one by the separation roller 42c, and the fed storage reject banknotes are fed through the transport paths 61C, 61A, 61G, and 61A as shown by thick solid lines in FIG. To the cassette 51. Thus, the cassette 51 causes the take-in / feed-out section 52 to accumulate bills on the elevator 54 via the temporary storage area 57 where the separator 53 is open. At that time, the controller 71 monitors the bill amount of the cassette 51, and lowers the elevator 54 by an amount corresponding to the bill amount.

  In this manner, the bills on the separator 43 in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (A) are exhausted, and all the storage reject banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 are transported to the cassette 51. The control unit 71 returns the storage 41 (A) and the cassette 51 to the standby state. Thereby, the storage reject banknotes on the elevator 54 are stored in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51, and the storing process including the first and third processes is completed.

  As described above, in the third process, after the first process, of the bills returned from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the storage of the storage 41 (D) is performed. After storing the normally stored banknotes to be stored in the area section 48 in the storage area section 48 of the storage box 41 (D), the storage reject banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area section 47 of the storage box 41 (A). The cassette 53 is stored in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 via the temporary storage area 57 in the open state. The storage area 58 of the cassette 51 receives and stores banknotes via the temporary storage area 57 with the separator 53 opened above.

  The banknote handling machine 11 is configured such that a portion for storing a storage reject banknote that has been identified as non-storable in the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) at the time of the storage process is a part other than the storage area 58 at the lower part of the cassette 51. Not provided.

  At the end of the first process, the bills conveyed to the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) should be stored in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 from the breakdown of the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31. When only the reject banknotes are stored, the following fourth processing may be performed instead of the third processing.

  In the fourth process, the control unit 71 opens the separator 53 of the cassette 51, and then raises the elevator 54 to a position where the banknotes received by the take-in / feed-out unit 52 can be received and stacked so as to be directly stored. In the receiving state, the separator 43 in the temporary storage area 47 is raised in the storage 41 (D), and the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 43 is brought into contact with the ejection roller 42 a of the take-out / feed-out section 42. The stored banknotes are to be fed out. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 to drive the take-out / feed-out unit 42 of the storage case 41 (D) and the feed-in / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51.

  Then, the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (D) separates the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) one by one from the topmost one. The banknotes are fed at predetermined intervals while the banknotes are fed, and the fed banknotes are conveyed to the cassette 51 through the conveying paths 61F, 61A, 61G, and 61A as indicated by thick solid lines in FIG. Thus, the cassette 51 causes the banknotes to be accumulated on the elevator 54 by the take-in / feed-out section 52. At this time, the controller 71 monitors the bill amount of the cassette 51, and lowers the elevator 54 by an amount corresponding to the bill amount.

  In this way, when the bills in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) are exhausted, and all the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 are accumulated on the elevator 54 of the cassette 51, The control unit 71 stores the bills on the elevator 54 of the cassette 51 in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 by returning the storage 41 (D) and the cassette 51 to the standby state, and performs the first and fourth processing. Is terminated.

  In addition, during the above-described first processing of the storage processing, the storage 41 set as the temporary storage destination of the storage reject banknotes, specifically, the storage 41 (of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D)). When the temporary storage area 47 in D) becomes full, the control section 71 temporarily stops the feeding of bills from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. Then, based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 up to that time, it is determined whether the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area unit 47 of the storage box 41 (D) include the storage reject banknotes.

  If the storage reject banknote is not included, the second processing is performed, and the fourth kind of banknote that is fully stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) is performed as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. The normally stored banknotes are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D). That is, in the storage 41 (D), the elevator 44 is raised to a position where the banknotes from the temporary storage area 47 can be received, and the storage is received, and the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 is in this state. open. Thus, the storage 41 (D) accumulates the fourth type of normal banknotes stored on the separator 43 in the temporary storage area 47 on the elevator 44. Thereafter, by returning the storage 41 (D) to the standby state, the banknotes on the elevator 44 are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), and the first process is restarted.

  On the other hand, if the rejected banknotes are included in the full banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D), the first full elimination process is selected via the operation display unit 70. Then, the control unit 71 performs the following control.

  The control unit 71 returns the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) to the standby state at the start of the first fullness clearing process, and then displays the temporary storage area of the storage 41 (D) on the operation display unit 70. A display urging the removal of the bill 47 is displayed. Upon seeing this, the operator performs an unlocking operation of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), pulls out the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) integrally from the machine body 10, and the storages 41 (D). ), The temporary storage area 47 is opened to take out the banknotes, and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are integrally pushed into the machine body 10. The banknotes taken out by the operator consist of a fourth type of normally stored banknote and a stored reject banknote. When a sensor (not shown) detects that there is no bill in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) pushed into the machine body 10, the control section 71 controls the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (C). The first processing is restarted with the direct storage receiving state in which bills can be accumulated on the elevator 44 and the storage 41 (D) in a standby state in which bills can be accumulated on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 57.

  When the first processing resumed after the removal of the banknotes from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) is completed, the breakdown of the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) after the removal is completed. If there is a banknote in the temporary storage area 47, the second process is performed if the storage reject banknote is not included therein, and the third process is performed if the storage reject banknote is included therein. Do.

  At the end of the restarted first processing, when there is no banknote in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), the storage 41 (D) is executed by the second processing or the third processing executed after the restarted first processing. Regarding the case where the banknotes are exhausted in the temporary storage area 47 of (D), the control unit 71 removes the fourth type of banknotes taken out from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) in the first full solution processing. Is displayed on the operation display unit 70, and the shutter of the depositing unit 20 is opened.

  Then, when detecting that a banknote has been inserted into the depositing unit 20, the control unit 71 drives the depositing and dispensing unit 24, the receiving and dispensing unit 42 of the storage 41 (D), and the transporting unit 61. As a result, the banknotes in the depositing section 20 are separated and fed out one by one by the depositing / paying section 24, and the transport paths 61A and 61F are transported to the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) in the standby state. . When all the banknotes in the depositing unit 20 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), the temporary storage in the storage 41 (D) is performed based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 at that time. If the storage reject banknote is not included in the banknotes temporarily stored in the area 47, the second processing is performed to store the fourth type of normal banknote in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D). The first full elimination process is completed, and if the stored reject banknote is included, the third process is performed, the stored reject banknote is stored in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51, and the fourth type of normally stored banknote is stored in the storage 41 ( D) and the first full elimination process ends.

  In the first fullness clearing process as well, the banknote once identified as a stored reject banknote and taken out to the outside is transported from the depositing section 20 to the temporary storage area section 47 of the storage box 41 (D). Although there is a possibility that the banknote is recognized as a normal storage banknote at 31, the storage bin 41 (D) is a storage reject banknote other than the fourth type of normal storage banknote to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage bin 41 (D). Is temporarily stored in the temporary storage area part 47 of FIG. Of course, when paying out the banknotes in the depositing section 20, the storages 41 (A), 41 (B), 41 (C) are each set to a direct storage receiving state where the banknotes can be stacked on the elevator 44, and the identification section 31 is provided. Based on the identification result, the first type normal storage banknotes are stored on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A), and the second type normal storage banknotes are stored on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (B). The normal stored banknotes are accumulated on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (C), and stored in the storage area 48 of the storages 41 (A), 41 (B), 41 (C). good.

  When the stored reject banknotes are included in the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) that is full during the first process, the second fullness clearing process is performed via the operation display unit 70. Is selected, the control unit 71 performs the following control.

  At the start of the second full elimination process, the control unit 71 sets the closed state of the separator 53 of the cassette 51 to a height that can accept the banknotes taken in by the take-in / feed-out unit 52 and returns the cassette 53 to the standby state. 41 (A) to 41 (C) are also returned to the standby state. Thereafter, with respect to the storage 41 (D), the closed separator 43 is raised to bring the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 43 into contact with the ejection roller 42 a of the take-in / feed-out section 42, thereby setting the stored banknote payout state. . At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 to drive the take-out / feed-out unit 42 of the storage case 41 (D) and the feed-in / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51.

  Then, the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (D) separates the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) one by one from the topmost one. The banknotes are fed at predetermined intervals while being transported, and the fed banknotes are transported to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 by the transport paths 61F, 61A, 61G, and 61A as shown by the thick solid lines in FIG. . As a result, the cassette 51 causes the take-in / feed-out section 52 to accumulate bills on the separator 53 in the closed state of the temporary storage area section 57. At this time, the control unit 71 monitors the amount of stored banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and lowers the amount according to the stored amount of banknotes while keeping the separator 53 in the closed state.

  In this way, all the banknotes, including the storage reject banknotes, which have been filled in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), are transported to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. Here, when the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) becomes full, the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 has temporarily stopped feeding of the banknotes temporarily stored in the deposit processing. As a result, the banknotes temporarily stored in the deposit processing before being fed out in the first processing remain in the temporary storage area 57 in a denomination mixed state. Therefore, the bill including the storage reject banknote, which has filled the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), is returned to the temporary storage area 57 above the banknote before being fed out in the first process. It is accumulated.

  Next, the control unit 71 opens the separator 43 in the storage 41 (D), raises the elevator 44 to a position where the banknotes received by the take-in / feed-out unit 42 can be received and stacked, and directly stores and receives the banknotes. In addition to the state, the cassette 53 of the cassette 51 is raised so that the separator 53 in the temporary storage area 57 is raised, and the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 53 is brought into contact with the kick-out roller 52 a of the take-in / feed-out section 52 so as to be in the stored banknote feeding state. . Then, the control unit 71 drives the take-in / feed-out unit 52, the transport unit 61, and the take-in / feed-out unit 42 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

  Then, the taking-in / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51 feeds out the banknotes placed on the separator 53 of the temporary storage area unit 57 at predetermined intervals while separating the banknotes one by one from the topmost one. Then, the fed banknote is conveyed to the identification unit 31 by the conveyance paths 61A, 61G, and 61A as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Then, based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, the control unit 71 transfers the fourth type of normal banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) to the transport path as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. By 61A and 61F, it conveys to storage 41 (D). As a result, the fourth type of normally stored banknotes contained in the banknotes returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are accumulated on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (D).

  In addition, the control unit 71 conveys the banknote identified as the storage-rejected banknote by the identification unit 31 to the storage case 41 (A) through the conveyance paths 61A and 61C as indicated by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. . Thereby, the storage reject banknotes contained in the banknotes returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are accumulated on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (A).

  Here, when the temporary storage area 47 on the separator 43 of the storage box 41 (A) becomes full, the control unit 71 then displays the banknotes identified as stored reject banknotes by the identification unit 31 in FIG. As indicated by the bold solid line to the bold dashed line, the sheet is transported to the storage 41 (B) by the transport paths 61A and 61D. Thus, after the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) is full, storage reject bills are accumulated on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (B). .

  In addition, the control unit 71 determines, by the identification unit 31, the banknotes identified as the first to third types of normal stored banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C). As shown by the thick solid line to the two-dot chain line in FIG. 10, the sheet is transported to the storage 41 (C) by the transport paths 61A and 61E. As a result, the first to third types of normally stored banknotes are accumulated on the separator 43 in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (C).

  At this time, the first to third types of normally stored banknotes are once identified as stored reject banknotes that cannot be stored in the storage area 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) in the first processing of the storage processing. After the banknotes stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) are returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the bills are fed out of the temporary storage area 57 again, and again in the identification section 31. At the time of identification, it includes a banknote identified as a normally stored banknote.

  That is, the bill processing machine 11 uses the identification unit 31 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) among the bills fed from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 during the first processing of the storage processing. The banknotes identified as being unable to be stored in the storage area 48 are stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) with the separator 43 above the storage area 48 of the predetermined storage 41 (D) closed. The banknotes are temporarily stored together with the banknotes to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D), and the banknotes are fed out from the temporary storage area section 47 of the storage box 41 (D) and returned to the temporary storage area section 57 of the cassette 51. Then, it is fed out again from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 and is identified by the identification unit 31.

  Here, based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 during the first processing of the storage processing, the control unit 71 transmits the cassette 51 from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) that is full during the first processing. All the fourth type banknotes included in the banknotes returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are fed out from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D). Until it is stored in the cassette 51, the banknotes placed on the separator 53 of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are fed out, and the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C). ) To the respective temporary storage areas 47. Thereby, the fourth type of banknotes that were in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) that was full during the first processing of the storage is stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D). can do.

  Then, the control unit 71 raises the respective separators 43 in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) to bring the stored banknotes into the fed state, and stores the banknotes stored in the respective temporary storage area units 47 in FIG. As shown by a bold solid line, all of the cassettes 51 are temporarily stored by the respective take-in / feed-out sections 42, the transport paths 61C, 61D, 61E, 61A, 61G, 61A and the take-in / feed-out sections 52 of the cassette 51. It returns to the area | region part 57, and is integrated on the separator 53.

  At this time, first, the banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) are returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and then the banknotes of the storage 41 (B) are stored. The banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 are returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and finally placed on the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (C). The inserted bill is returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. Thereafter, the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) are placed in a direct storage receiving state in which bills are received on the respective elevators 44 and can be accumulated, and the storages 41 (D) are received on the separators 43 to receive bills. The state is returned to the standby state in which accumulation is possible, the second full elimination process ends, and the first process is restarted.

  At the time of resumption of the first processing, the banknotes that have filled the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) at the time of starting the second full elimination processing are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D). Since the fourth kind of normal banknotes to be stored are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) and reduced, and the remaining banknotes are returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. The temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) does not become full immediately after the restart of the first process. In addition, some of the stored reject banknotes are fed out of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 by the resumption of the first processing and are identified again by the identification unit 31 to be identified as normal stored banknotes. Therefore, also from this point, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) does not become full immediately after the restart of the first processing.

  The above-mentioned second full elimination process is performed by pulling out the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) from the machine body 10, taking out the banknotes, pushing the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and depositing the taken out banknotes. It is easier to clear the fullness than in the first fullness clearing process that requires input to the section 20 or the like. In addition, since it is not necessary to take out the bill outside the machine, security is also preferable.

  Here, in the second full elimination process, as described above, the temporary storage of the storage 41 (D) that is full during the first process is determined based on the identification result of the identification unit 31 of the first process. The identification unit 31 identifies and counts all the fourth kind of normally stored banknotes included in the banknotes returned from the area unit 47 to the temporary storage area unit 57 of the cassette 51, and stores them in the storage box 41 (D). The bills placed on the separator 53 of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are stored in the storage area 48 and the storage 41 (A) of the storage 41 (D) until they are stored in the storage area 48 of the cassette 51). .. 41 (C). At that time, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (C) becomes full, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (B) becomes full, or the storage 41 (D) is stored. The region 48 may become full. This is because the capacities of the respective temporary storage areas 47 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are different depending on the amount of banknotes stored in the respective storage areas 48.

  When the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (C) for storing the first to third types of normally stored banknotes becomes full, the control unit 71 causes the banknote to be fed from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51. The storage is stopped, and it is determined whether or not the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) is full. If the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) is full, it is determined that there are many stored reject banknotes, and the separator 53 of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 is set in a state capable of accepting banknotes. As for the storage 41 (C), the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 is set to a stored banknote dispensing state in which the banknote can be fed, and as shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 12, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (C). The first to third types of normally stored banknotes on the separator 43 are transported to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 via the transport paths 61E, 61A, 61G, and 61A. Are stacked on bills that have not been fed from the cassette 51 in the first process.

  Then, after the storage box 41 (D) is returned to the standby state, the operation display unit 70 displays a message prompting the user to take out the banknote from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage boxes 41 (A) and 41 (B). The operator who saw this performs the unlocking operation of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), pulls out the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) from the body 10 integrally, and ), The storage reject banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of 41 (B) are taken out, and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are pushed into the machine body 10. When a sensor (not shown) detects that there is no bill in the temporary storage area 47 of the storages 41 (A) and 41 (B), the control unit 71 selects one of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Since there is no bill in the temporary storage area 47, the first process is restarted.

  On the other hand, if the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) is not full, the control unit 71 determines that the storage reject bill is small because the storage (B) is empty. In this case, the control unit 71 returns the storage 41 (D) to the standby state, sets the separator 53 of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 to a state in which bills can be accepted, and stores the storages 41 (A) to 41 ( 13C, the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 is set to the stored banknote payout state in which the banknote can be fed, and first, as shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 13, the separator 43 is located in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A). All the rejected banknotes are transported to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 via the transport paths 61C, 61A, 61G, and 61A, and are accumulated on the separator 53.

  Next, as shown by the bold broken line to the bold solid line in FIG. 13, all the stored normal banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (C) are transferred through the transport paths 61E, 61A, 61G, and 61A. The sheet is conveyed to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 and accumulated on the separator 53. Then, in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the banknotes that have not been unwound from the cassette 51 in the first process are returned from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) onto the separator 53. The stored rejected banknotes, from which the first to third types of normally stored banknotes returned from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (C) are stacked. Accordingly, there is no banknote in any of the temporary storage areas 47 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), and the first process is restarted.

  Further, during the second full elimination process, when the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (B) is full, that is, when both the storages 41 (A) and 41 (B) are full, the control unit. 71 determines that there are many stored reject bills, sets the separator 53 of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 to a state in which bills can be received, and sets the separator 43 of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (C) to banknotes. As shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 12, all stored normal banknotes of the first to third types stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (C) are transported as a stored banknote payout state in which the banknotes can be fed out. The paper is conveyed to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 via the paths 61E, 61A, 61G, and 61A, and is accumulated on the separator 53.

  Then, after the storage box 41 (D) is returned to the standby state, the operation display unit 70 displays a message prompting the user to take out the banknote from the temporary storage area 47 of the storage boxes 41 (A) and 41 (B). The operator who saw this performs the unlocking operation of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), pulls out the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) from the body 10 integrally, and ), The storage reject banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of 41 (B) are taken out, and the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are pushed into the machine body 10. When a sensor (not shown) detects that there is no bill in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage boxes 41 (A) and 41 (B), the control section 71 selects one of the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (D). Since there is no bill in the temporary storage area 47, the first process is restarted.

  In addition, when the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) becomes full during the second full elimination process, the control unit 71 stops feeding of the banknote from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, The banknotes in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) are displayed on the operation display unit 70 so as to perform a collection process described below for collecting and replacing the current cassette 51 with an empty cassette 51. invite. After the banknotes in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) are collected in the replaced cassette 51 and the exchange to the original cassette 51 is confirmed, the first processing is restarted.

[Return process]
After the deposit processing, when the deposit cancel operation is input to the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 does not determine the deposit, that is, temporarily stores the deposit in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 in the deposit processing. A return process is performed in which the banknotes are left out of management and all the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 are fed to the withdrawal return unit 21. The bold line in FIG. 14 indicates the banknote transport route of this return processing.

  In the return process, the control unit 71 raises the separator 53 at the bottom of the temporary storage area unit 57 and takes the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 53 against the kick-out roller 52a of the take-in / feed-out unit 52. Contact to bring the stored banknotes out. At the same time, the control section 71 drives the transport section 61 and drives the take-in / out section 52 of the cassette 51.

  Then, the take-in / feed-out section 52 of the cassette 51 separates the banknotes placed on the separator 53 of the temporary storage area section 57 of the cassette 51 from the topmost one at a predetermined interval while separating them. The fed banknote is conveyed to the withdrawal return section 21 through the conveyance paths 61A and 61L as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. At the end of the return process, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the withdrawal return unit 21 so that the banknote can be taken out from the withdrawal return unit 21. As a result, of the banknotes input to the deposit unit 20 in the return process and the series of deposit processes, all the banknotes other than the banknotes fed to the deposit return unit 21 in the deposit process are returned in the return process. It is fed out to the unit 21.

[Loose banknote withdrawal processing]
The thick line in FIG. 15 indicates a loose banknote that dispenses banknotes from the designated denominations in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the loose banknote dispensing operation input to the operation display unit 70. The bill conveyance route of payment processing is shown.

  In the loose banknote dispensing process, the control unit 71 opens the separator 53 of the cassette 51, and then raises the elevator 54 of the cassette 51 to a position where the banknotes from the take-in / feed-out unit 52 can be received and stacked. It will be in the direct storage receiving state. Then, the control unit 71 drives the take-in / feed-out unit 52 and drives the transport unit 61. At the same time, when paying out the first kind of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (A) based on the input number of payments of the denomination, the separator 43 is stored in the storage 41 (A). Is opened, the elevator 44 of the storage box 41 (A) is raised, and the banknote at the highest position on the elevator 44 is hit against the ejection roller 42a of the take-out / feed-out section 42 of the storage box 41 (A). The stored bills are fed out. At the same time, the take-out / feed-out unit 42 is driven to feed out the bills placed in the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A) at predetermined intervals while separating the bills one by one from the topmost one.

  As a result, the banknotes fed from the storage 41 (A) are conveyed to the identification unit 31 through the conveyance paths 61C and 61A in the opposite direction to the deposit processing, as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. Based on the identification result of the unit 31, among the normal banknotes of the first type having no denomination discrimination and having no abnormal transport, normal banknotes that do not need to be turned over are transferred directly to the transport paths 61A and 61L. The dispensing return section 21 reverses a normal dispensing banknote that requires reversal from the transport path 61A to the reverse path 63 via the transport path 61N, and then dispenses the return banknote 21 on the transport paths 61M and 61L. , Respectively. As a result, the first type normal withdrawal banknote based on the loose banknote dispensing operation is paid out while collecting the front and back sides in the withdrawal return unit 21.

  In addition, as for the dispensing reject banknotes other than the normal dispensing banknotes, the abnormally conveyed banknotes and the banknotes other than the first type including the denomination identification failure, as shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. The sheet is conveyed to the cassette 51 by the conveying paths 61A, 61G, and 61A. As a result, the cassette 51 causes the rejection bills to be accumulated on the elevator 54 by the take-in / feed-out section 52. At this time, the controller 71 monitors the amount of stored bills in the cassette 51, and lowers the elevator 54 by an amount corresponding to the amount of stored bills. The dispensing reject banknote is also a managed reject banknote generated when the banknote processing machine 11 moves under the control.

  Also, in the bulk dispensing process, when the second kind of banknote stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (B) is paid out, the control unit 71 similarly performs the following operations on the storage box 41 (B). After the separator 43 is opened, the elevator 44 is raised to a stored banknote payout state, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are fed by the take-up / feed-out section 42 in order from the topmost one, and the transport paths 61D, At 61A, the bills are conveyed to the identification unit 31. Based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, the second-type normal withdrawal banknotes are transported on the transport paths 61A and 61L or the transport paths 61A, 61N, 61M, and 61L. The bills are conveyed to the withdrawal return unit 21 while being collected, and the withdrawal reject bills are accumulated on the elevator 54 of the cassette 51 by the conveyance paths 61A, 61G, and 61A.

  Further, in the case of dispensing the third type of banknote stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (C) in the bulk dispensing process, the control unit 71 similarly performs the following operations on the storage 41 (C). After the separator 43 is opened, the elevator 44 is raised to a stored banknote payout state, and the banknotes placed on the elevator 44 are fed out by the take-in / feed-out section 42 in order from the topmost one, and the transport paths 61E, At 61A, the bill is conveyed to the identification unit 31. Based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, the third kind of normal dispensed banknote is transported on the transport path 61A, 61L or the transport path 61A, 61N, 61M, 61L. The bills are conveyed to the withdrawal return unit 21 while being collected, and the withdrawal reject bills are accumulated on the elevator 54 of the cassette 51 by the conveyance paths 61A, 61G, and 61A.

  In the dispensing process, the banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) are not fed to the payment return unit 21.

  As described above, the withdrawal normal banknotes of the input number of payments of the denomination are fed out to the withdrawal return section 21 while collecting the front and back sides of the denomination. At the end of the loose banknote dispensing process, the control unit 71 returns the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) and the cassette 51 to the standby state, and deletes the bills in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). The bills of the cassette 51 are stored in the respective storage areas 48 and the banknotes of the cassette 51 are stored in the storage areas 58. That is, also in this case, the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 receives and stores banknotes via the temporary storage area 57 in the state where the separator 53 is open at the top. After that, the control unit 71 opens the shutter of the withdrawal return unit 21 to enable the withdrawal normal bill to be taken out from the withdrawal return unit 21. At this time, the control unit 71 removes the bill fed to the withdrawal return unit 21 from the management.

  In the banknote handling machine 11, a portion for storing a withdrawal reject banknote that is determined to be dispensable in the dispensing return section 21 at the time of the bulk dispensing process is not provided other than the storage area portion 58 at the lower part of the cassette 51. .

[Bundled banknote dispensing process]
The bold line in FIG. 16 indicates that the banknotes are bundled from the designated denominations in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) based on the bundled banknote dispensing operation input to the operation display unit 70 and dispensed. 3 shows a banknote transport route for a bundled banknote dispensing process.

  That is, in the bundled banknote dispensing process, the control unit 71 opens the separator 53 of the cassette 51, then raises the elevator 54 of the cassette 51 to make it a direct storage receiving state, and loads the cassette 51 onto the elevator 54. The banknotes from the feeding section 52 are set in a state where they can be received. At the same time, the take-in / feed-out section 52 and the transport section 61 are driven. Then, based on the input number of withdrawal bundles of the denominations, when the first kind of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (A) are bundled and paid out, the storage 41 (A) is used. ), After opening the separator 43, the elevator 44 of the storage box 41 (A) is raised to bring the stored banknotes into the fed state, and among the banknotes placed on the elevator 44, the banknote at the highest position is stored. It is brought into contact with the ejection roller 42a of the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (A). At the same time, the take-out / feed-out unit 42 is driven to feed out the banknotes placed in the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A) at predetermined intervals while separating the banknotes one by one from the topmost one. become.

  Then, the fed banknote is conveyed to the identification unit 31 through the conveyance paths 61C and 61A as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. For banknotes that have no binding abnormality and that do not need to be turned over, those that do not need to be turned over are arranged in the alignment section 35 by the transport paths 61A, 61L, and 61P, and those that are turned over are transported from the transport path 61A through the transport path 61N. After being turned upside down by the front / back reversing section 63, the sheet is conveyed to the alignment section 35 by the conveyance paths 61M, 61L, 61P. As a result, the designated first type normal binding banknotes are fed out to the aligning unit 35 by the unit number of binding units.

  In addition, as for the binding reject bill composed of the abnormally-conveyed banknote other than the normal binding banknote and the banknote other than the binding target type including the denomination identification failure, as shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. The sheet is conveyed to the cassette 51 by 61A, 61G and 61A. As a result, the cassette 51 causes the take-out / feed-out section 52 to accumulate the bundled reject bills on the elevator 54. At this time, the controller 71 monitors the amount of stored bills in the cassette 51, and lowers the elevator 54 by an amount corresponding to the amount of stored bills. Then, the designated first type of unity unit banknotes are transported from the alignment unit 35 by the elevating / lowering transport unit 37, bound by the binding unit 38, and fed to the bundle dispensing unit 39. At this time, the control unit 71 removes the banknotes fed out to the bundle dispensing unit 39 as bundled banknotes from the management. The binding reject bill is also a managed reject bill generated at the time of movement under the control of the bill processing machine 11.

  Here, when the designated first-type normal withdrawal banknotes are fed out to the alignment unit 35 by the unity number of bundles, if the number of withdrawal bundles of this denomination is plural, the storage of the storage 41 (A) is continued. The banknotes are fed out from the area 48, and the normal binding banknotes that do not need to be reversed are arranged on the alignment unit 36 by the transport paths 61A, 61L, and 61Q, and the normal binding banknotes that need to be reversed are transported from the transport path 61A to the transport path 61N. Then, the bundled reject banknotes are transported to the alignment unit 36 by the transport paths 61M, 61L, and 61Q, and to the storage area 58 by the transport paths 61A, 61G, and 61A. As a result, the designated first kind of normal binding banknotes is fed out to the aligning unit 36 by the unity number of bindings, bound in the binding unit 38 and delivered to the bundle payout unit 39 in the same manner as described above. As described above, in the bundled banknote dispensing process, when a single denomination is dispensed in a plurality of bundles, the banknotes are alternately stacked on the alignment units 35 and 36 by the unity unit number.

  In the bundled banknote dispensing process, the above processing is performed for the designated number of bundles for each designated denomination, and the bundle of the designated total number of bundles is designated for each of the designated denominations. The bill is fed to the bundle dispensing section 39. Then, the control unit 71 returns the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C) and the cassette 51 to the standby state. That is, also in this case, the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 receives and stores banknotes via the temporary storage area 57 in the state where the separator 53 is open at the top. After that, the shutter of the bundle dispensing section 39 is opened, and the bundled banknotes can be taken out from the bundle dispensing section 39.

  The banknote handling machine 11 is provided with no portion other than the storage area 58 at the lower portion of the cassette 51 for storing the bundled reject banknotes that have been identified as unstackable in the alignment sections 35 and 36 during the dispensing process.

[Bundle storage processing]
In the same manner as the above-described bundled banknote dispensing process, the binding is performed at the binding unit 38, but the bound bundled banknote is stored in a bundle storage unit (not shown) without being fed to the bundle dispensing unit 39.

[Local organization processing]
The bold line in FIG. 17 indicates a banknote transport route of a local rearranging process in which banknotes input from outside the machine into the depositing unit 20 are identified, counted, and bound while being transported. That is, when a selection operation of the local organizing process is performed on the operation display unit 70, the control unit 71 starts the local organizing process and drives the depositing / delivery unit 24 and the transport unit 61. Then, the deposit feeding unit 24 separates the bills inserted into the depositing unit 20 from the bottom one at a predetermined interval while separating the bills one by one, and feeds the fed bills along the transport path 61A. , 61J, 61G, 61H, and 61A, are conveyed to the identification unit 31, and are identified by the identification unit 31.

  Then, based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, a normal binding banknote without a transport abnormality and a denomination identification failure of the binding target species is transferred to the alignment unit 35 by the transport paths 61A, 61L, and 61P for those that do not need to be reversed. Those that need to be turned over are turned over from the transport path 61A via the transport path 61N by the reverse section 63, and then transported to the alignment section 35 via the transport paths 61M, 61L, 61P. As a result, the united normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are fed out to the alignment unit 35 by the unit number of unity. In addition, from the identification result of the identification unit 31, as to the banknotes of abnormal transport and the banknotes other than the binding target type including the denomination identification failure, as a binding reject banknote, as shown by a thick solid line to a thick broken line in FIG. 17, It is fed to the withdrawal return unit 21 by the transport paths 61A and 61L. The united normal banknotes of the specified unitary denomination are transported from the alignment unit 35 by the lifting / lowering transport unit 37, bound by the binding unit 38, and fed to the bundle dispensing unit 39. The denomination specified as a binding target is manually input during the selection operation of the local rearranging process, or automatically set to the denomination first identified by the identification unit 31 in the execution of the local rearranging process. is there.

  When the united normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are fed out to the aligning unit 35 by the unity number of bundles, if the specified number of dispensed bundles is plural, the banknotes will be continuously fed out from the depositing unit 20 and inverted. Normally bound banknotes that do not need to be turned over to the aligning section 36 in the transport paths 61A, 61L, and 61Q, and normal bound banknotes that need to be turned over are turned upside down in the front and back inverting section 63 from the transport path 61A through the transport path 61N. Thereafter, the sheet is conveyed to the alignment section 36 by the conveyance paths 61M, 61L, and 61Q. As a result, the united normal banknotes of the designated single denomination are paid out to the aligning unit 36 by the unity number of bundles, bound in the binding unit 38 in the same manner as described above, and delivered to the bundle payout unit 39. As described above, even in the local rearranging process, when dispensing a plurality of bundles of a single denomination, the united normal banknotes are alternately stacked in the aligning units 35 and 36 by unity unit number. At the end of the local rearranging process, the control unit 71 opens the shutters of the bundle dispensing unit 39 and the dispensing return unit 21 so that the bundled banknote and the binding reject banknote can be taken out from the bundle dispensing unit 39 and the dispensing return unit 21. I do.

[Recovery processing]
The thick line in FIG. 18 indicates a bill conveyance route of the collection process of collecting bills from designated storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the collection operation input to the operation display unit 70. I have. In other words, in the collection process, when collecting the first kind of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (A), the control unit 71 has to confirm that the banknotes have been replaced with the empty cassette 51. After the separator 43 at the standby position is opened for the storage box 41 (A), the elevator 44 of the storage box 41 (A) is raised, and the highest position among the banknotes placed in the elevator 44 is set. Is brought into contact with the ejection roller 42a of the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (A). After the separator 53 of the cassette 51 is opened, the elevator 54 is raised to bring the cassette 44 into a direct storage receiving state in which bills can be received.

  At the same time, the transport unit 61, the take-in / feed-out unit 42, and the take-in / feed-out unit 52 are driven so that the bills placed in the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A) are sorted one by one from the topmost one. 18 and is transported to the identification unit 31 through the transport paths 61C and 61A as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. 18, and based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, the transport abnormality and the denomination The recovered normal banknotes having no incorrect identification are transported to the cassette 51 through the transport paths 61A, 61G, and 61A. In addition, as for the rejected banknotes other than the normal recovered banknotes, which have been identified as transport abnormalities by the identification unit 31 or the denomination identification failure, as shown by thick solid lines to thick broken lines in FIG. It is transported to the withdrawal return unit 21 and temporarily stored in the withdrawal return unit 21. The collected rejected banknote is also a managed rejected banknote generated when the banknote handling machine 11 moves under the control.

  In the collection process, when collecting the second kind of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (B), the control unit 71 similarly stores the storage box 41 (B) in the storage banknotes. In the dispensing state, the bills placed in the elevator 44 of the storage box 41 (B) are fed out in order from the topmost banknote in the take-in / feed-out section 42, and the recovered normal bills among them are transported by the transport paths 61D, 61A, At 61G and 61A, the sheet is conveyed to the cassette 51 in the directly stored and received state.

  Further, in the collection process, when collecting the third kind of banknote stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (C), the control unit 71 similarly stores the storage box 41 (C) in the storage banknote. In the dispensing state, the bills placed in the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (C) are to be fed out by the take-in / feed-out section 42 in order from the topmost banknote, and the collected normal bills are transported by the transport paths 61E, 61A, At 61G and 61A, the sheet is conveyed to the cassette 51 in the directly stored and received state.

  In the collection process, when collecting the fourth kind of banknotes stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D), the control unit 71 similarly stores the storage box 41 (D) in the storage banknotes. In the dispensing state, the bills placed in the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (D) are to be fed out by the take-in / feed-out unit 42 in order from the topmost banknote, and the recovered normal bills among them are transported by the transport paths 61F, 61A, At 61G and 61A, the sheet is conveyed to the cassette 51 in the directly stored and received state.

  In the collection process, the above process is performed for one or a plurality of designated types, whereby only the banknotes identified and counted by the identification unit 31 are stored in the cassette 51. The cassette 51 that stores the banknotes to be collected in a state where the banknotes are present and the banknotes are recognized is removed from the body 10 and transported. The rejected banknote temporarily stored in the withdrawal return section 21 is, for example, opened by a permitted administrator and taken out. When the use of the banknote handling machine 11 is to be continued without taking out the collected reject banknotes outside the machine, the managed reject banknotes generated when the banknote handling machine 11 moves under the management are stored in the storage area 58. Under the condition that the replacement with the cassette 51 has been confirmed, the separator 53 of the cassette 51 is opened, the elevator 54 is raised, and the cassette 51 is placed in the direct storage receiving state. As shown by a thick solid line in FIG. The rejected banknotes temporarily stored in the return unit 21 are accumulated on the elevator 54 via the transport paths 61L and 61A. Thereafter, the cassette 51 is set in a standby state.

[Replenishment process]
The banknotes in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 set in the machine 10 with the replenishment banknotes loaded outside the machine are stored in the respective storage areas 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). In the replenishment process, the control unit 71 puts the cassette 51 in the bill delivery state, and pays out the bills in the storage area 58 by the take-in / feed-out unit 52. In the same manner as the above-described storing process, the first to third types of replenished normal banknotes having no abnormal transport and no denomination identification are stored in the storage bin in the direct storage receiving state, in the same manner as the above-described storing process. 41 (A) to 41 (C), the rejected reject banknote and the fourth normal replenishment banknote that have been identified as a conveyance error or a denomination identification defect are temporarily stored in a storage area 41 (D). Store temporarily in 47. In this way, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) are returned to the temporary storage area section 57 of the cassette 51, and the fourth kind of normal replenished banknotes is stored in the storage box 41 (D) in the direct storage receiving state. ), And replenished reject banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) in the standby state. The rejected banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (A) in this manner are stored in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51 in the directly stored and received state. Replenishment reject banknotes are also managed reject banknotes generated when the banknote handling machine 11 moves under the control.

[Scrutiny processing]
The scrutiny process is a process for determining the value of the banknotes stored in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). The scrutiny process is performed individually for each of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Here, as an example, a scrutiny process in which the scrutiny target is the first type storage 41 (A) and the amount of bills in the storage 41 (A) is determined will be described. The bold line in FIG. 20 indicates the outward route of the scrutiny process for determining the banknote amount in the storage 41 (A) based on the scrutiny operation input to the operation display unit 70.

  In the scrutiny process, the control unit 71 first opens the separator 43 and raises the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A) to be scrutinized, while keeping the separator 53 of the cassette 51 in a standby state, and raises the elevator 44. The uppermost banknote is brought into contact with the kick-out roller 42a of the take-in / feed-out section 42 to bring the stored banknote into a fed state. At the same time, the control section 71 drives the transport section 61 to drive the take-out / feed-out section 42 of the storage case 41 (A) and the take-in / feed-out section 52 of the cassette 51.

  Then, the take-in / feed-out section 42 of the storage 41 (A) feeds out the banknotes on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (A) at predetermined intervals while separating the banknotes one by one from the topmost one. Then, the fed banknotes are transported to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 by the transport paths 61C, 61A, 61G, and 61A as shown by the thick solid line in FIG. As a result, the cassette 51 causes the take-in / feed-out section 52 to accumulate bills on the separator 53 at the standby position with the temporary storage area section 57 closed. At this time, the control unit 71 monitors the amount of stored banknotes in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and lowers the amount according to the stored amount of banknotes while keeping the separator 53 in the closed state.

  In this manner, when the bills in the storage box 41 (A) are exhausted and all the bills stored in the storage area section 48 of the storage box 41 (A) are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area section 57 of the cassette 51. Similarly to the storage processing, the control unit 71 performs the first processing as the first processing, out of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D), the storages 41 (B) other than the storage 41 (A) to be inspected. 41 (D) is set as a temporary storage destination of a close reject banknote identified as a transport abnormality or a denomination identification defect. The close rejected banknote is also a managed rejected banknote generated when the banknote handling machine 11 moves under the control. Here, similarly to the above, the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) is set as a temporary storage destination of the close rejection bill. Regarding the storage 41 (D) set as a temporary storage destination of the close reject banknotes, the banknotes fed from the take-in / feed-out unit 42 are kept in a standby state in which they can be received on the separator 43 in the closed state, and the remaining storage As for the warehouses 41 (A) to 41 (C), the separator 43 is opened, and the elevator 44 is positioned on the elevator 44 at a position where the bills fed from the take-in / feed-out section 42 can be received and accumulated.

  Then, the control unit 71 raises the separator 53 of the cassette 51 to bring the banknote at the uppermost position on the separator 53 into contact with the ejection roller 52a of the take-in / feed-out unit 52, so that the stored banknotes are fed. At the same time, the control unit 71 drives the transport unit 61 to drive the take-out / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51 and the take-out / feed-out unit 42 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D).

  Then, the take-in / feed-out unit 52 of the cassette 51 feeds out the banknotes placed on the separator 53 of the cassette 51 at a predetermined interval while separating the banknotes one by one from the topmost one, and FIG. As indicated by the thick solid line, the paper is conveyed to the identification unit 31 through the conveyance paths 61A, 61G, and 61A, and based on the identification result of the identification unit 31, there is no conveyance abnormality or denomination identification defect other than the close rejection bill. Among the normally inspected banknotes, the first kind of normally inspected normal banknotes is transported to the storage 41 (A) via the transport paths 61A and 61C. Thus, the storage 41 (A) causes the banknotes to be accumulated on the elevator 44 by the take-in / feed-out section 42.

  In addition, the second type normally inspected normal banknotes are transported to the storage 41 (B) by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, and 61D, and are accumulated on the elevator 44. Further, the third type of normally inspected normal banknotes is transported to the storage 41 (C) via the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, and 61E, and is accumulated on the elevator 44. In addition, the fourth type normally inspected banknotes other than the first to third types are transported to the storage 41 (D) by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, and 61F, and the temporary storage area 47 is closed. It will be accumulated on the separator 43. In addition, the scrutiny reject banknotes other than the first to fourth types of scrutinized normal banknotes are transported to the storage 41 (D) by the transport paths 61A, 61G, 61A, and 61F, and the temporary storage area 47 is in the closed state. On the separator 43, the banknotes are mixed and stacked with the fourth kind of normally inspected banknotes.

  At the time of the above, the control unit 71 monitors the storage amount of each banknote in the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C), and lowers each elevator 44 by an amount corresponding to the storage amount of the banknote. become. In addition, the storage amount of the banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) is monitored, and the separator 43 is lowered by an amount corresponding to the storage amount of the banknotes.

  In this way, the bills in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are depleted, and all the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 are stored in the storage areas 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (C). Alternatively, when the cassette 51 is transported to the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D), the control unit 71 returns the cassette 51 to the standby state. At the same time, from the breakdown of the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31, if there is no banknote transported to the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D), the control unit 71 stores the storage boxes 41 (A) to 41 (C). ) Is set to the standby state, and the close inspection processing for the storage 41 (A) is terminated.

  On the other hand, if there is a banknote transported to the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) from the breakdown of the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31, the control unit 71 proceeds to the storage 41 (A) to the storage 41 (A). In parallel with the return of the banknote 41 (C) to the standby state, according to the breakdown of the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D), the same as the storing process if there is no close rejection banknote Is performed, the fourth type of normally inspected banknotes is accumulated on the elevator 44 of the storage 41 (D), and if there is a closely rejected banknote, the third process similar to the storing process is performed, and Are collected on the elevator 44 in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), and the rejected banknotes are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (B), for example. The accuracy of the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (B) The rejected bill, will be integrated on the elevator 54 of the housing area 58 of the cassette 51. Also in this case, when the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (D) are only the close reject banknotes to be stored in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51, the same as the storage processing is performed. By performing the four processes, it is possible to accumulate the rejection banknotes in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) on the elevator 54 in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51.

  Here, there is a low possibility that other second to fourth banknotes are mixed in the storage 41 (A) for the first type of storage to be scrutinized before the scrutiny processing. Very scrutinized normal banknotes other than the scrutinized target are rarely transported to B) to 41 (D). For this reason, with respect to all banknotes other than the first type of normally inspected normal banknotes to be scrutinized, all banknotes other than the storage bin 41 (A) to be scrutinized, for example, the storage bin 41 (B) having the shortest transport distance to the cassette 51 are used. The temporary storage area 47 may be stored on the closed separator 43. In this case, for the banknotes other than the first type of normally inspected banknotes placed on the separator 43 of the storage box 41 (B) in this manner, the fourth process similar to the storing process is performed, and They are accumulated on the elevator 54 and stored in the storage area 58.

  According to the above-described embodiment, a bill inserted into the depositing unit 20 from outside the machine at the time of the depositing process is fed from the depositing unit 20 and identified by the identifying unit 31. Then, the banknotes identified as acceptable by the identification unit 31 are temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 by mixing denominations. At the time of the subsequent storage processing, the bills fed from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are stored in the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the identification result of the identification unit 31. Will be.

  In this way, the bottom of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 that temporarily stores banknotes so that the banknotes can be paid out by mixing denominations at the time of deposit processing is a separator 53 that can be opened and closed. In the opened state, a storage area 58 for receiving and storing bills through the temporary storage area 57 is provided. Therefore, the size of the body 10 can be reduced as compared with the case where the storage area 58 is provided at a separate position.

  Here, at the time of the storing process, the bills fed from the temporary storing area 57 of the cassette 51 are sorted to the storing area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) based on the identification result of the identifying unit 31. That is, at this time, of the bills fed from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the banknotes cannot be stored in the storage area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) by the identification unit 31. The banknote identified as above is stored in the separator 43 above the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), which is a predetermined one of the storage areas 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Are temporarily stored together with the banknotes to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D) in the temporary storage area 47 in the closed state. Then, when the bills in the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 are exhausted, the bills temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage 41 (D) are returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and Of the banknotes returned to the temporary storage area 57, banknotes to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) are stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), while a plurality of storages are stored. The storage areas 48 of the predetermined storage 41 (A) other than the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D) store the banknotes identified as not being stored in the storage areas 48 of 41 (A) to 41 (D). Is temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 in the closed state. Thereafter, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 of the storage box 41 (A) are stored in the storage area 58 below the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 via the temporary storage area 57 with the separator 53 opened.

  In this manner, in the storage area 58 of the cassette 51, among the banknotes fed from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 during the storage processing, the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are recognized by the identification unit 31. Can be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage area. Therefore, at the time of storing processing, a part for storing the banknotes identified as non-storable in the storage area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) by the identification unit 31 is provided at a separate position. Thus, the size of the body 10 can be reduced. In other words, a storage area 58 is provided below the separator 53 at the bottom of the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51 by partitioning the storage area 58 with the separator 53, and the storage area 58 is subjected to storage processing, dispensing processing, scrutiny processing, and the like. The area below the temporary storage area 57 can be used for storing the rejected banknote under management generated in the above.

  In addition, at the time of the storing process, the lower part of the temporary storage area 47 of the predetermined storage 41 for temporarily storing the banknotes identified as being unstorable in the storage area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). The storage area 48 is determined from the identification result of the identification unit 31 during the series of deposit processing, and the amount of bills conveyed for storage during the storage processing is the smallest, for example, the storage area of the storage 41 (D). 48. For this reason, at the time of the storing process, the amount of the bills transported for storage of the banknotes identified by the identification unit 31 as being unstorable in the storage area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is the smallest. In the temporary storage area 47 where the separator 43 is closed, above the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), together with the banknote with the smallest transport amount to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D). Store temporarily. Then, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 are returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and among the banknotes returned to the temporary storage area 57, the storage area of the storage box 41 (D) is stored. While the banknote with the smallest transport amount to be stored in the storage unit 48 is stored in the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), it cannot be stored in the storage area 48 of the storages 41 (A) to 41 (D). Is temporarily stored in the temporary storage area 47 above the storage area 48 other than the storage area 48 of the storage 41 (D), for example, in the closed state of the separator 43 of the storage 41 (A). . The time required for this operation can be reduced.

  Further, at the time of the storing process, a portion for storing the banknotes identified as non-storable in the storing region portions 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is provided other than the storing region portion 58 of the cassette 51. Therefore, the body 10 can be downsized.

  At the time of the storing process, the banknotes identified as not being stored in the storage areas 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) are temporarily stored in the storage area 48 of the predetermined storage 41 (D). The upper separator 43 is temporarily stored in the closed temporary storage area 47 together with the bills to be stored in the storage area 48 of the storage box 41 (D). The bill is fed from the temporary storage area 47 in the closed state, returned to the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, again fed from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, and identified by the identification unit 31. As described above, when the banknote once identified as being unstorable in the storage area 48 of the plurality of storages 41 (A) to 41 (D) is fed out from the temporary storage area 57 of the cassette 51, the identification unit 31 , Can be identified again.

  In the embodiment, the configuration in which the banknote handling machine 11 has the bundle dispensing unit 39 has been described. However, instead of the bundle dispensing unit 39, the banknote handling machine 11 is arranged side by side (specifically, on the right side). A horizontal transport unit that transports horizontally to a bundled banknote pay-in / pay-out device (not shown) installed in a horizontal position may be provided. In this case, the bundled banknotes created by the binding unit 38 of the banknote handling machine 11 are transported to a bundled banknote depositing / dispensing machine (not shown) by the horizontal transport unit of the banknote handling machine 11, and are provided on the bundled banknote depositing / dispensing machine side. The bundled banknote pay-in / pay-out device can be taken out of the machine via the bundled banknote pay-in / pay-out device (not shown), and can be stored in a bundle storage portion (not shown) provided on the bundled banknote pay-in / pay-out device side.

11 banknote processing machine 20 deposit unit 31 identification unit 43, 53 separator (bottom)
47 Temporary storage area 48 Storage area (storage)
57 Temporary storage area (temporary storage section)
58 Storage area

Claims (5)

A depositing unit into which bills are inserted from outside the machine during the depositing process,
A temporary storage unit that temporarily stores the banknotes that are fed out of the depositing unit during the depositing process and that are identified as acceptable by the identification unit so that the banknotes can be fed out with a denomination mixture.
A plurality of storage units that store the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit during the storing process based on the identification result of the identification unit,
Above each of the plurality of storage units, a temporary storage area unit is provided, the bottom of which is openable and closable, and temporarily stores banknotes so as to be able to be fed out.
The plurality of storage units will each receive and store banknotes through the temporary storage area in a state where the upper bottom is open,
The temporary storage unit has a bottom that can be opened and closed,
A bill processing machine, characterized in that a storage area for receiving and storing bills through the temporary storage section with the bottom opened is provided below the bottom. During storage processing,
Of the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit, the banknotes identified as being unreceivable in the plurality of storage units by the identification unit are closed at the bottom above a predetermined storage unit of the plurality of storage units. Temporarily store together with the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage section in the temporary storage area section,
When the banknotes in the temporary storage section are exhausted, the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area section are returned to the temporary storage section,
Of the banknotes returned to the temporary storage unit, the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage unit are stored in the predetermined storage unit, and the banknotes identified as not stored in the plurality of storage units are stored in the predetermined storage unit. The upper part of the storage part other than the storage part is temporarily stored in a predetermined temporary storage area part in a closed state,
The bill processing machine according to claim 1, wherein the banknotes temporarily stored in the predetermined temporary storage area are stored in the storage area while the bottom of the temporary storage is opened.   3. The storage unit according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined storage unit is a storage unit which is determined from an identification result of the identification unit at the time of deposit processing and has a smallest amount of bills conveyed for storage during storage processing. Banknote processing machine.   The banknote processing machine according to claim 2, wherein a portion for storing the banknotes identified as being unstorable in the plurality of storage units during the storage process is not provided in any part other than the storage area unit. During storage processing,
Of the banknotes fed from the temporary storage unit, the banknotes identified as being unreceivable in the plurality of storage units by the identification unit are closed at the bottom above a predetermined storage unit of the plurality of storage units. Temporarily store together with the banknotes to be stored in the predetermined storage section in the temporary storage area section,
Return the banknotes temporarily stored in the temporary storage area to the temporary storage,
The banknote processing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the banknote is further fed out of the temporary storage unit and identified by the identification unit.

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