Bank note processing device

Claim 1

A bank note processing device, comprising: a money access opening in the upper part of the bank note processing device for accepting incoming bank notes and releasing outgoing bank notes; a bank note stacking unit below the money access opening for stacking up the incoming bank notes supplied from the money access opening, sending them out from an internal lower part of a stack of bank notes, stacking up the outgoing bank notes which are sent from an internal upper part of the stack, and supplying the outgoing bank notes to the money access opening; a conveying attitude aligning unit, connected to to the bank note stacking unit by a bank note conveying means, for conveying the bank notes sent out from the lower part of the bank note stacking unit to a sending out position located thereabove, and aligning the conveying attitude of the bank note which is sorted in the sending in position and conveyed therefrom; a bank note identifying unit below this conveying attitude aligning unit for identifying the genuineness and the denomination of the bank note conveyed from the conveying attitude aligning unit; an unidentified bank note temporary storage unit in front of the bank note identifying unit and below the bank note stacking unit for sorting the bank note conveyed from the bank note identifying unit, temporarily storing this bank note, letting the bank note which does not require storage freely through this unit and conveying the bank note to be stored and freely passed bank note to a sending out side of the lower part of the bank note stacking unit; a face aligning unit below the unidentified bank note temporary storage unit and the bank note identifying unit for sorting the bank note conveyed from the bank note identifying unit so that all the bank notes face the same side up; a conveying passage, to the rear of the conveying attitude aligning unit and the face aligning unit, which can convey the bank notes from the face aligning unit to the conveying attitude aligning unit; and, along this conveying passage, an incoming bank note temporary pooling unit which takes in the incoming bank notes from this conveying passage for temporarily pooling and sending out the pooled bank notes to the conveying passage, a plurality of bank note storage units each of which takes in and stores the incoming bank notes of a corresponding denomination from the conveying passage and is associated with the denomination of the outgoing bank notes which are to be sent out to the conveying passage for dispensation, and a bank note recovery unit for taking in the bank notes to be recovered from the conveying passage, in that order from above to below.