Money receiving and disbursing machine

Claim 1

A money receiving and disbursing machine comprising a plurality of money case means for storing bills so that each money case means stores bills of different denomination from each other, money receiving and disbursing box means for receiving and storing bills irrespective of their denominations, said money receiving and disbursing box means being adapted for storing bills so that the bills can be taken out therefrom one by one, distributing means for distributing bills received by the money receiving and disbursing machine to the plurality of money case means and the money receiving and disbursing box means, disbursing means for disbursing bills stored in the money case means and the money receiving and disbursing box means through transaction window means and transfer means for transferring bills stored in the money receiving and disbursing box means to the money case means in accordance with their denominations, switch means for initiating a counting and adjusting operation of the money receiving and disbursing machine, said disbursing means includes first pick-out means for taking out bills stored in the plurality of money case means in the case where the number of bills is more than a predetermined value in at least one money case means after the switch means was turned on, first discriminating means for discriminating the bills taken out from the money case means, said disbursing means further includes second pick-out means for taking out bills stored in the money receiving and disbursing box means in the case where the number of bills is not more than the predetermined value in any money case after the switch means is turned on, second discriminating means for discriminating the bills taken out from the money receiving and disbursing box means, said disbursing means conveying genuine bills taken out from the money case means to the transaction window means and counterfeit bills taken out from the money case means to reject means based upon a discrimination result of the first discriminating means, said transfer means conveying genuine bills taken out from the money receiving and disbursing box means to the money case means in accordance with their denomination and counterfeit bills to the reject means based upon a discrimination result of the second discriminating means, and control means for enabling said first pick-out means to take out bills from the money case means in the case where it judges that the switch means was turned on and the number of bills is more than the predetermined value in at least one money case means, for enabling said second pick-out means to take out bills from said money receiving and disbursing box means in the case where it judges that the switch means was turned on and the number of bills is not more than the predetermined value in any money case means, for counting the genuine bills conveyed by said disbursing means to enable the first pick-out means to stop taking out bills from the money case means when it judges that the number of bills conveyed by the disbursing means to the transaction window means becomes equal to a preset number of bills to be collected as a set from the money receiving and disbursing machine and counting the number of bills transferred from said money receiving and disbursing box means to the money case means to enable the second pick-out means to stop taking out bills from the money receiving and disbursing box means when it judges that the number of bills transferred from the money receiving and disbursing box means to one of said plurality of money case means becomes equal to said number of bills of predetermined value.