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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2001
Tadashi Satou, Chiyoda, JP;
Yasunari Niioka, Seto, JP;
Riichi Katou, Nagoya, JP;
Kazushi Yoshida, Chiyoda, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bill-receiving/discharging device for storing bills in their shorter-side direction by using one small-width tape has a problem that a corner of a bill is highly lifted due to folds of the bill when discharged, because a distance from a tape-holding point to a bill end is large in the axial direction, and the bill corner causes edge folding that the bill is folded like a triangle, and the bill cannot normally discharged to the outside of the device. The invention solves the above problem by the structure that comprises a wheel for winding a tape together with bills at the central portion of a transfer route for carrying the bills, a reel for winding the tape let out from the wheel, and a guide unit for guiding front ends of the bills discharged from the wheel together with the tape, which extends from an end in the width direction of the tape toward a width direction of the bill transfer route.