JPH10218397A - Bank note delivering device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform ordinary delivery even when an amount of bank note contained in a containing part is extremely high. SOLUTION: This bank note delivering device is constituted such that a kicker roller 41 is provided with a friction part 41a arranged at the lower part of a containing part 25 and formed at a part of a peripheral surface and kicking a lowermost bank note toward the delivery port 25a side, a feed roller 42 arranged closer to the delivery port 25a side than the kicker roller 41 and delivering a lowermost bank note by a friction part 42a formed at a part of peripheral surface through the delivery port 25a, the outer peripheral length of the feed roller is longer than the length in a delivery direction of the bank note, the kicker roller and the feed roller have the same diameter, the position of the kicker roller 41 in a bank note delivery direction is disposed approximately in the central position in a delivery direction of the contained bank notes contained in the containing part 25, the feed roller 42 is disposed in a tip position in a delivery direction of the contained bank note, the two rollers are arranged in different positions, where the rollers are prevented from interference with each other in the direction of width, and the weight of the contained bank notes is exerted on the two rollers 41 and 42.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is applied to a banknote handling machine used in a financial institution such as a bank, and is particularly suitable for feeding out a banknote from a lower portion of a storage section storing a large number of banknotes in a stacked state. Related to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a banknote handling machine, a bill feeding device of the type in which bills are stored in a storage portion in a stacking state and fed out from a lower portion thereof can store the bills in a stacking state and feed the bills to one lower side. A storage portion having an open mouth, a kicker roller for kicking a lowermost bill toward the payout opening side by a friction portion provided at a lower portion of the storage portion and formed on a part of the peripheral surface, and A feed roller that feeds the lowest bill from the pay-out port by a friction portion formed on a part of the peripheral surface provided on the pay-out port side, and an overlap between the fed bills that are disposed facing the peripheral surface of the feed roller and fed. It is common to have a gate roller to regulate,
There are two types of the feeding principle, as shown in FIGS.

One of them is that, as shown in FIG. 7 (A), a kicker roller 2 provided at the lower portion of a storage section 1 for storing banknotes P in a stacked state is disposed at a substantially central position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes P. The feed roller 3 is displaced from the position immediately below the banknote P and is disposed below the feed port 4, and the rollers 2 and 3 have the same diameter and both have a circumferential length greater than the length of the banknote P in the feeding direction. Then, at the time of feeding, first, the friction portion 2a on the peripheral surface of the kicker roller 2 comes into contact with the lowest bill P and kicks the banknote P toward the feeding port 4, and then the friction portion 3a on the peripheral surface of the feed roller 3. Is the above-removed banknote P
Is fed to a gate formed by a gap with the gate roller 5 to be separated into one sheet and fed out.

According to this, since the feed roller 3 is provided on the side of the feeding port 4 deviated from the position immediately below the storage banknote P, a gate portion composed of the feed roller 3 and the gate roller 5 attached thereto is provided. Can be set at a relatively high position on the peripheral surface of the feed roller 3, so that the fed banknotes P are sent from the storage state to the gate portion substantially straight as indicated by the arrow A, This is an advantageous configuration in that it is possible to smoothly enter the gate section.

As another example, as shown in FIG. 7 (C), a feed roller 6 having a peripheral length larger than the length of the banknote P in the feeding direction is disposed at a position directly below the leading end side of the stored banknote P in the feeding direction. And a kicker roller 7 having a circumferential length considerably smaller than the length of the banknote P in the feeding direction is disposed at a substantially central position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes P. P, and the leading end of the bill P is fed to the gate between the gate roller 5 and 1
It is a feed roller-driven type that is separated and fed out into sheets.

According to this, since the kicker roller 7 has a smaller diameter than the feed roller 6, the peripheral speed of the kicker roller 7 rotates at a considerably lower speed than the feed roller 6 when rotating synchronously with the feed roller 6. The friction portion 7a merely presses the banknote P being fed out from behind in an auxiliary manner. Therefore, in this type, since the bills P are pulled out from the leading end side in the payout direction and fed, there is an advantage that the bills can be fed without any trouble even if the storage amount of the bills is large and the frictional force between the bills increases.

[0007]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, when the amount of the banknotes P stored in the storage unit 1 is small, the kicker roller driven type shown in FIG. However, in this type, as the amount of stored bills increases, the load W applied to the lowest bill P increases, the kicking force Fa by the kicker roller 2 increases, and the friction between the bills and the As shown in FIG. 7 (B), the frictional resistance with the bottom plate or the like increases, and as shown in FIG. 7 (B), the rear part of the banknote P is pressed by a strong force Fa, and the front part generates a large resistance. There is a problem that it is not possible to succumb to bend out.

[0008] Therefore, in a device in which the amount of stored bills is large, the feed roller driven type shown in FIG. 7C is advantageous, but when the stored amount of bills is extremely large (15).
(00 sheets or more), the tensile force Fb by the feed roller 6
Also, the kicking force Fc of the kicker roller 7 becomes extremely strong, and the peripheral speed of the kicker roller 7 is considerably slower than the peripheral speed of the feed roller 6. It becomes faster than the feeding speed, and as a result, as shown in FIG. 7 (D), it acts as a resistance Fd (brake) in the direction opposite to the feeding direction. In this case, there is a problem that the banknotes P are torn torn apart or the payout timing is delayed, so that normal payout cannot be performed.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to enable normal feeding even when the amount of banknotes stored in a storage unit is extremely large. As a means for solving the problem, the present invention provides a kicker roller and a feed roller whose outer peripheral length is a roller having the same diameter larger than the length in the bill feeding direction, and the position of the kicker roller in the bill feeding direction is stored in the storage portion. The feed rollers are disposed at substantially the center position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes, and the feed rollers are disposed at the leading end positions in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes, and the two rollers are located at different positions so as not to interfere with each other in the width direction. This is because the storage banknotes are formed so as to be loaded with weight.

In order to prevent the feed roller and the kicker roller from interfering with each other, the feed roller has a widthwise direction.
It is preferable that the kicker roller is provided at a location between the feed rollers and at a position outside the feed roller so that the two rollers do not interfere with each other in the width direction.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine as an example of a banknote processing machine provided with a banknote storage unit to which the banknote feeding device according to the present invention is applied. At the upper part of the machine body 10, there is provided a deposit port 11 for setting a bill P to be deposited in a standing posture.
1 is provided with a feeding unit 15 including a kicker roller 12, a feed roller 13, a gate roller 14, and the like for feeding the frontmost banknotes P one by one, and a pressing member 16 for pressing behind the banknotes P. As a result, the leading banknote P is brought into contact with the feeding means 15 with a predetermined pressing force.

An identification section 17 for determining the authenticity, denomination, validity, etc. of the banknote P is provided in a take-in transport path for transporting the banknotes fed by the feeding section 15.
A transport path 19 for feeding a banknote identified as a rejected banknote to a reject port 18 provided at a position behind the deposit port 11 is branched downstream of the transfer port 11, and the front and back are turned downstream from the branch point. A part 20 is provided.

A dispensing port 21 is provided above the terminal position of the transport path, and a dispensing reject box 22 for storing a dispensing reject bill P 'is provided below the dispensing port 21. ing. As is well known, a bill to be dispensed is fed to the dispensing port 21 by a transport path 23, and the dispensed bill is pushed out to the near side with respect to the paper surface by pushing means (not shown). In the case of rejection, a pair of left and right bottom plates 24, 24 forming the bottom of the outlet 21.
Are opened downward and taken into the dispensing reject box 22.

The above components are disposed in the upper region of the machine body 10. A temporary storage portion for temporarily storing banknotes is provided in an intermediate region below the upper region, and a banknote storage device is provided in a lower region below the upper portion. The lower region is arranged so as to be able to be withdrawn from the body 1 at a time. In the lower area, storage units 25, 25, 25 for a 10,000-yen bill, a 5,000-yen bill, and a 1,000-yen bill as a fixed safe are provided in the same configuration, and bills in the machine body 10 are stored. A collection cassette 26 for collecting and transporting to another place at the time of processing such as settlement is detachably stored.

In addition, temporary storage sections 27, 27, 27, 28 are respectively disposed in the intermediate areas immediately above the storage sections 25, 25,... And the collection cassette 26, and these storage sections 25, 25,. At the upper position of the holding sections 27, 27,..., A transport path 30 for transporting the denomination banknotes corresponding to the respective storage sections through the branch path 29 in order to feed the denominated banknotes based on the identification result, Are disposed, and a pair of bottom plates 32, 32 which can be moved up and down, which are opened when the temporarily stored banknotes P are collectively stored in the storage units 25, 25,. It is designed to be stored at the time of payment approval. When the temporarily stored banknotes P are returned due to storage rejection, the door on the front of the machine body 10 is unlocked and opened, and the banknotes P are manually removed therefrom. In addition, the temporary holding unit 28 of the collection cassette 26 includes a feeding unit 34 in addition to the feeding unit 33, and the banknotes stored in the collection cassette 26 can also be fed by raising the mounting plate 35, At that time, the bottom plates 36 are slid left and right to be opened and closed.

A feeding device 40 according to the present invention is provided at the bottom of the storage sections 25, 25, 25 so as to feed out the bills one by one.
Reference numerals 7 and 38 are connected to the transfer path 23 to the dispensing port 21, and a transfer identification section 39 is provided in the middle of the transfer path 37.

Therefore, the flow of bills at the time of deposit is shown in FIG.
The banknotes P to be deposited in the depositing port 11 are set in a standing position, and are driven one by one by the driving of the retrieving means 15. When passing through the identification unit 17, the denomination, damage, front and back, and the like are determined. The banknotes that need to be turned over are sent to the temporary holding unit of each denomination through the front / back inverting unit 20, and the damaged bills are sent to the temporary holding unit 28 above the collection cassette 26. The reject bill is returned to the reject port 18.

In the case of withdrawal, a storage unit 2 for a denomination to be withdrawn
Are fed out from the lower portion of 5, 25... And fed to the dispensing port 21 through the transport path 37, the dispensing identification section 39, and the transport paths 38 and 23, and the dispensing reject bill is sent to the dispensing reject box 22.

As shown in FIG. 2, the feeding device 40 is provided with a kicker roller 41 at a lower portion of the storage portion 25 and at a substantially central position in the feeding direction of the banknotes P stored in the storage portion 25. Is disposed, and a feed roller 42 is disposed at the leading end position of the bill P in the feeding direction. The kicker roller 41 and the feed roller 42
And the rollers 41 and 42 have the same outer diameter. Further, a gate roller 43 (reverse rotation roller) is provided opposite to the feed roller 42, and a gap 44 between the two rollers 42, 43 forms a gate portion 44 that allows only one banknote P to pass therethrough.

The kicker roller 41 and the feed roller 4
2 are provided at different positions so as not to interfere with each other in the axial direction.
A part of 1, 42 is wrapped.

The friction portion 41a of the kicker roller 41 and the friction portion 42a of the feed roller 42 are
2 have the same phase.

3 to 5 show details of a specific embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a plan view of the feeding device 40, and FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. And FIG. 5 shows the outer surface.

Storage section 25 in which banknotes P are stored in a stacked state
A box-shaped machine frame 45 is provided at the lower part of the machine frame 4.
5, the kicker roller 41 and the feed roller 42
Shafts 46, 47 are attached to side frames 45 a, 45 of machine frame 45.
a are rotatably supported by bearings 48, 48 and 49, 49 provided on the roller a, and the stacked bills P are placed on these rollers 41, 42, and the bills P are fed out in the direction in which the bills P are fed out. ) Is supported by the kicker roller 41, and the leading end position in the feeding direction of the banknote P is supported by the feed roller 42.

In the example shown in the figure, the kicker rollers 41 are formed of three pieces so as to correspond to three places near the center in the longitudinal direction of the banknote P and near both ends, and the feed roller 42 is formed of the three kicker rollers 41, 41. , 41 so as to be located between each of them, and are configured so that some of them are not intermingled with each other and do not interfere with each other. These rollers are slightly protruded upward from holes formed in a bottom plate 50 provided to be inclined downward in the direction of the feeding port 25a.

The friction portion 41a of the kicker roller 41
Is composed of a friction member such as rubber whose peripheral surface has a tooth shape,
A space 41b is provided on the rear surface of the peripheral surface to suppress a kick force when a high load is applied.

At the left shoulder position of the feed rollers 42, 42 in FIG. 4 (the position immediately adjacent to the feeding port 25a), a long hole 51 (FIG. 5, FIG. 5) is formed in the side frames 45a, 45a.
As shown in the figure, gate rollers 43, 43 on a shaft 53, both ends of which are supported by bearings 52, 52 which are fitted and supported so as to be finely movable up and down, are located, and two rollers formed in the circumferential direction of the feed rollers 42, 42. The gate rollers 43, 43 are provided in the grooves 42b, 42b.
The flanges 43a, 43a on both sides in the axial direction are fitted and partly overlapped with each other to form a gate gap.

Pulleys 54 and 55 are fixed to one end of the shafts 46 and 47 of the kicker roller 41 and the feed roller 42 located in the machine frame 45, and a belt 56 is wound between the pulleys 54 and 55. Rolled both rollers 4
1, 42 rotate synchronously in one circumferential direction.
A pulley 57 for receiving rotation from a motor (not shown) through a belt is attached via a clutch 58 to an end of the feed roller 42 protruding outside the machine frame 45 of the shaft 47.

At the end of the shaft 46 of the kicker roller 41, there is provided a brake device 59 which operates when the feeding is stopped. The clutch 58 is set so that feeding starts when the clutch is turned on and stops feeding when the clutch is turned off. An auxiliary roller 60 is rotatably provided by a shaft 61 between the side frames 45a and 45a of the machine frame 45 at a position rearward of the kicker roller 41 with respect to the bill feeding direction, to assist a rear portion of the stacked banknotes P. It is made to support.

At both ends of the auxiliary roller 60, plates 62 for preventing the entry of curled banknotes are provided. Each of the plates 62, 62 is a narrow plate having a spring property, and its base end is attached to the machine frame 45. The front end of the plate 62 is always raised by elasticity, and the number of stored bills is small. In some cases, the auxiliary roller 60 is positioned higher than the upper surface of the auxiliary roller 60, and is formed so as to prevent the curled end from entering between the auxiliary roller 60 and the machine frame 45 when the curled bill is stored. .

The feeding port 25a of the storage section 25 is connected to a passage 63 which is curved downward so as to extend along the peripheral surface of the feed roller 42, and cooperates with the feed roller 41 at an intermediate portion of the passage 63. A transport roller 64 for transporting the banknote P is provided.

The gate rollers 43 perform intermittent reverse rotation and stop. As shown in FIG. 6 as viewed from the direction of arrows BB in FIG.
A relatively long arm 66 is fixed to an end of the shaft 53 of the feed roller 42 via a one-way clutch 65, and a relatively short arm 67 is fixed to an end of the shaft 47 of the feed roller 42. Are linked by a link 68, and one rotation of the shaft 47 of the feed roller 42 causes the shaft 53 of the gate roller 43 to reciprocate within a predetermined rotation angle (α) through the arm 67, the link 68, and the arm 66. It is being moved. The one-way clutch 65 operates and rotates only when the gate roller 43 rotates in the same direction as the feed roller 42 (the direction opposite to the feeding direction), and when returning, the one-way clutch 65 becomes free and the gate rollers 43, 43 Are stopped, whereby the peripheral surfaces of the gate rollers 43, 43 are uniformly used for forming a gate gap, thereby preventing uneven wear of the gate rollers 43, 43.

In the illustrated embodiment, the kicker roller 4
1 and the bill P fed by the feed roller 42 is fed in an inclined state due to the difference in the passage resistance of the bill P from the difference between the left and right gate gaps in the gap passing through the gate portion 44, and the wake is generated. In order to prevent skew on the side, a gate gap adjusting mechanism 70 is provided that automatically adjusts the gate gap by grasping the status of the fed bill P.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, the gate gap adjusting mechanism 70 is provided on the left and right side frames 45 of the machine frame 45.
Gate gap adjusting plates 71, 71 made of a thin plate material are provided along the outer surfaces of the a and 45a. This adjustment plate 71
When one of them is representatively described, elongated holes 72, 72 inclined at approximately 45 ° are formed near both ends thereof, and pins 73 fixed to the side frame 45a are formed in the elongated holes 72, 72. , 73 are inserted, and the adjustment plate 71 is tilted in the oblique direction (CC direction in FIG. 5) using the pins 73, 73 as guides.
It is supported to be able to move up and down.

The upper surface of one end of the adjusting plate 71 is in contact with the lower end of the bearing 52 for supporting the shaft 53 of the gate rollers 43, 43, and this bearing 52 is attached by a compression spring 74 provided on the upper part. The adjustment plate 71 is constantly pressed against the upper surface of the end portion by the force.

The other end of the adjustment plate 71 is a vertical slide surface 75, on which a worm 77 on a drive shaft 76 of an adjustment motor M _L (the opposite motor is M _R ). The tip end of a screw shaft 79 integral with the worm gear 78 that rotates by fitting into the shaft is slidably abutted,
The screw shaft 79 is screwed into a nut member 80 fixed to the machine frame 45 side, and the rotation of the worm gear 78 causes the screw shaft 79 to move forward and backward in FIG.
9, the adjusting plate 71 is pushed obliquely upward and leftward by the forward movement (leftward in FIG. 5), and the adjusting plate 71 is biased by its own weight and the compression spring 74 by the backward movement (rightward in FIG. 5). This moves diagonally to the lower right.

The above structure is shown in FIG.
The left and right gate rollers 43 are moved independently of each other to adjust the gate gap.

The drive shaft 7 of the adjusting motors M _L , M _R
Disk-shaped pulse detection plates 82, 82 having detection holes 81, 81,... Arranged concentrically are fixed to 6, 76, respectively.
The detection holes 81 and 8 of the pulse detection plate 82 are provided on the machine frame 45 side.
Sensors S ₁ , S ₁ (photo sensor) that count 1 ...
Is provided.

Sensors S _L and S _R (photo sensors) are provided at the left and right positions of the exit end of the passage 63 connected to the delivery port 25a of the storage section 25 to detect the leading end of the bill P that is delivered and passes. When the sensors S _L and S _R simultaneously detect the leading end of the bill P, it is determined that the bill is not skewed. One of the motors M _L , M _R is rotated by a predetermined number of pulses to raise and lower the adjusting plates 71, 71, and finely adjust the height position of the shaft 53 of the gate rollers 43, 43 to perform normal feeding. Is adjusted as follows.

[0040] Note 3, reference numeral 83 is a feeding timing detection plate 4 has a substantially semicircular shape, is secured to the shaft 47 of the feed rollers 42 and 42, the sensor _{S 2} for detecting the detection plate 83 Attached to the feed roller 4
2, 42 and the friction portion 41 of the kicker rollers 41, 41
a, 42a is intended to detect the timing of contacting to the bill, and the moment the sensor S ₂ is blocked in this embodiment is set such friction portion 41a, the center position of 42a is in contact with the banknote I have. Therefore, if the sensors S _L and S _R detect the leading end of the bill substantially simultaneously at a predetermined time after the light is blocked by the sensor S ₂ , normal feeding is performed, and conversely, the sensors S _L and S _R are substantially moved. At the same time after the light-shielding of the sensor S ₂ also detects the leading edge of the bill, would not by a successful payout if shorter than or stood more than a predetermined time, or a predetermined time.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

Banknotes P stored in the storage section 25 in a stacked state
Are located at substantially the center positions in the feeding direction.
1 and 41, the position near the leading end in the feeding direction is received by the upper surfaces of the feed rollers 42 and 42, and the weight of all the banknotes P is shared and received by each of the rollers.

When a motor (not shown) is driven based on the feeding command, the feed roller 4
The shafts 47 of the kicker rollers 41, 41, 41 rotate through the belt 56.
6 so that the lowermost banknote P is fed to each of the friction portions 42a, 4a of the feed roller 42 and the kicker roller 41.
The sheet is fed out by the friction with the roller 1a, and is separated into one sheet and sent to the passage 63 from the feed port 25a when passing through the gate gap between the feed roller 42 and the gate roller 43.

At this time, the lowermost banknote P to be dispensed has a kicker roller 41 and a feed roller 4 which rotate at the same peripheral speed at two positions, that is, a substantially central position and a leading end position in the dispensing direction.
Since the banknote P is fed by the same conveying force as 2, the banknote P is fed without any buckling or brake action.

When a small number of banknotes P are stored in the storage section 25, the rear end of the banknotes is supported while the curl banknote prevention plates 62, 62 are kept at the raised position by elasticity. Even if the rear end curls downward, a curl portion does not enter between the auxiliary roller 60 and the machine frame 45.

If the fed banknote P is skewed or the feeding timing is shifted, the feeding timing detecting plate 83 shields the sensor S ₂ from light and then passes the passage 63.
Provided by which the left and right sensors S _L, is shifted in time until S _R detects the left and right leading end of the paper money P occur, adjustment motor M _L, or when the required correction to the data to which the deviation is predetermined drives the M _R by number of pulses required for the correction, the worm 77 by its drive, worm gear 78
To move the adjusting plate 71 by moving the screw shaft 79 forward and backward,
The gate gap is corrected by vertically moving one of the bearings 52, 52 of the shaft 53 of the gate rollers 43, 43. As a result, a feeding abnormality such as skew feeding or empty feeding is automatically eliminated.

[0047]

As described above, according to the present invention, the outer peripheral length of the kicker roller and the feed roller is a roller having the same diameter larger than the length in the bill feeding direction, and the kicker roller in the bill feeding direction is stored in the storage section. Since the feed rollers are disposed at substantially the center position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes to be fed and the feed rollers are disposed at the leading end position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes and the two rollers are at different positions so as not to interfere with each other in the width direction, Even if a high load is applied to each of the rollers while a sheet of paper money is stored, the rollers are shared and supported by both rollers, and at the time of feeding, the kicker roller and the feed roller are supported at two front and rear positions to feed the banknote at the same peripheral speed. Also does not cause buckling of the banknote, does not cause unnecessary pulling force on the banknote, and Can be reliably payout because send in Idorora.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a banknote pay-in / pay-out machine as an application example of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view corresponding to the view taken along the line AA in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a front view showing the gate gap adjusting mechanism of FIG. 3;

6 is a view taken in the direction of arrows BB in FIG. 3;

FIGS. 7A to 7D are explanatory diagrams of a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1,25 storage section 2,7,41 kicker roller 3,6,42 feed roller 4,25a feeding port 5,43 gate roller 11 receiving port 15 loading means 17 identifying section 21 payment port 26 collection cassette 40 according to the present invention Feeding device 44 Gate unit 45 Machine frame 58 Clutch 59 Brake device 60 Auxiliary roller 62 Curl bill entry prevention plate 63 Passage 64 Transport roller 65 One-way clutch 66, 67 Arm 68 Link 70 Gate gap adjusting mechanism 71 Gate gap adjusting plate 72 Slope Slot 73 Pin 74 Compression spring 75 Slide surface 79 Screw shaft 80 Nut member 82 Pulse detection plate 83 Feeding timing detection plate

Claims (2)

[Claims] A storage portion capable of storing banknotes in a stacked state and having a feeding port opened at one lower side and a friction portion provided at a lower portion of the storage portion and formed on a part of a peripheral surface. A kicker roller that kicks out lower-order bills toward the payout opening side,
A feed roller that feeds the lowest bill from the pay-out port by a friction portion formed on a part of the circumferential surface provided on the pay-out port side from the kicker roller, and is disposed facing the circumferential surface of the feed roller and fed. And a gate roller for regulating the overlap of bills, the kicker roller and the feed roller are rollers having the same diameter as the outer circumferential length of the biller in the bill feeding direction, and the kicker roller in the bill feeding direction. The position is arranged at a substantially central position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes stored in the storage unit, the feed roller is disposed at the leading end position in the feeding direction of the stored banknotes, and both rollers are different from each other so as not to interfere with each other in the width direction. Wherein the weight of the stored banknote is loaded on both rollers. 2. The feed roller is disposed at two locations in the width direction, and the kicker roller is disposed between the feed rollers and at a position outside the feed rollers so that the two rollers do not interfere with each other in the width direction. The bill feeding device according to claim 1.