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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Yukio Ito, Saitama, JP;
Yasuyuki Kodama, Sakado, JP;
Noboru Yamagishi, Tsurugashima, JP;
Tadashi Hatamachi, Sakado, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bank-note processing device ( ), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever ( ) that includes, at least, a first lever ( ) turnably supported through a first shaft ( ) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter ( ) of a bank-note guide drum ( ), a first urging device ( ) for constantly urging the first lever ( ) toward a bank-note transfer passage ( ), a first stop ( ) for preventing the first lever ( ) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever ( ) turnably supported on the front end ( ) of the first lever ( ) through a second shaft ( ), a second stop ( ) for preventing the second lever ( ) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging device ( ) for constantly urging the second lever ( ) toward the bank-note transfer passage ( ).