Money handling apparatus

Abstract

A money handling apparatus (1) includes a money inlet (3), an identification unit (5) to identify the kinds of the money deposited from the hopper (3), a plurality of repositories (9) to reposit the money identified by the identification unit (5), and a setting means (40) to make at least one of the repositories (9) functional as a temporary holding section for temporarily holding the specific kinds of money.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a money handling device that handles money such as banknotes and coins. Background technique [0002] For example, in a money handling apparatus that handles deposits and withdrawals of banknotes, banknotes loaded from a deposit port are conveyed to an escrow unit for storage (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2 below). [0003] In Patent Document 1, the banknotes retained in the temporary storage are stored in the storage provided in the money handling apparatus by performing operations such as confirming the deposit. [0004] Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-105776 [0005] Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-102669 [0006] However, since the number of banknotes that can be accommodated in the temporary storage is limited, when a large amount of banknotes are loaded at once, the temporary storage is fully occupied. Also, when a large amount of banknotes are l...

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[0008] It is also considered that there is a method of increasing the amount of banknotes that can be kept at one time by increasing the capacity of the temporary storage unit, but the banknote handling device becomes larger in size.

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