Apparatus for handling bills

An apparatus for handling bills which includes a plurality of bill boxes each of which contains different denominations of bills, a circuit for withdrawing bills one by one from each bill box and a bill pool for temporarily storing the bills fed from the bill boxes. A circuit for discharging the bills stored in the bill pool through a discharge portion, is provided. A circuit for reading a memory medium introduced into the apparatus by a user, a circuit for inputting a desired amount to be withdrawn, a circuit for rejecting discharge of the bills placed in the bill pool and guiding them to a rejected bill receiving portion within the apparatus and, a circuit for issuing a receipt, are also provided. The bill boxes are disposed vertically one above the other, and a common conveyor route is provided for conveying bills from each bill box to the bill pool. The end portion of the uppermost bill box is used as a rejected bill receiving portion. The receipt issuing circuit is disposed below the lowest bill box and connected to the common conveyor route so that the receipt is transported to the bill pool through the common conveyor route and discharged from the discharge portion together with the bills.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
(1) Field of the Invention 
The present invention relates to an apparatus for dealing with bills, such 
as an automatic machine for withdrawing money from a bank or a bill 
counter. 
(2) Prior Art 
An automatic machine for withdrawing money from the bank is known, in which 
the user inserts a treated card (memory medium) into the machine, inputs 
the amount of money to be withdrawn by pushing the buttons of the keyboard 
of the machine, and then receives the requested amount of money from the 
machine. Machines of this kind usually comprise: means for reading data 
magnetically or electrically recorded in the memory medium, such as a card 
reader; means for displaying the input data input by the user and teaching 
the user the next procedure for operating the machine; means for inputting 
the amount of money required and the indentification code of the user, 
such as a keyboard; a bill dispenser comprising bill boxes housing bills 
and a bill counter for counting bills withdrawn from the bill boxes; and a 
means for issuing a receipt on which accounting items such as the data, 
amount withdrawn, and the amount remaining in the account are printed. 
The level of the keyboard and the discharge box in which bills to be 
withdrawn are placed is limited to a range wherein users can easily 
operate the machine. The bill dispenser includes the bill boxes and is 
large and heavy. Therefore, in conventional automatic machines of this 
kind, only the bill dispenser is disposed below the discharge box or 
keyboard while the other equipment such as the card reader and the receipt 
issuing means are disposed above those units. Such a construction makes 
the machine overlarge and of an unwieldly height. Also, since the receipt 
is desirably discharged simultaneously with the bills from the discharge 
box, the receipt must be placed on the bills within the machine. 
Therefore, the arrangement of the discharge routes of the receipt and the 
bills is complicated, which also makes the construction of the machine 
overlarge. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for dealing 
with bills having a compact construction by obviating the above-mentioned 
problems. 
Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for 
dealing with bills comprising a bill dispenser compactly and operationally 
combined with a receipt issuing means. 
A further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for 
dealing with bills in which the receipt and bills are conveniently made 
available to the user. 
An apparatus for dealing with bills in accordance with the present 
invention comprises: a plurality of bill boxes containing different 
denominations of bills; means for withdrawing bills one by one from each 
bill box; a bill pool for temporarily storing the bills fed from the bill 
boxes; means for discharging bills stored in the bill pool out of the 
apparatus through a discharge portion; means for reading a memory medium 
introduced into the apparatus by a user; means for inputting a desired 
withdrawal amount; means for rejecting discharge of the bills placed in 
the bill pool and retaining the rejected bills within the apparatus; and 
means for issuing a receipt. Features of the apparatus of the present 
invention include: a plurality of bill boxes disposed vertically, one 
above the other; a common conveyor route provided for conveying bills from 
each bill box to the bill pool; the uppermost bill box communicating with 
the rejecting means and receiving the rejected bills within the end 
portion thereof; the receipt issuing means being disposed below the lowest 
bill box and connected to the common conveyor route so that the receipt is 
transported to the bill pool through the common conveyor route and 
discharged from the discharge portion together with the bills.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described 
hereinafter with reference to the drawings. An explanation of the 
essential principle of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 1. 
Bill boxes 1A and 1B, which contain different denominations of bills 3a 
and 3b, respectively, are stacked vertically one above the other. A 
withdrawal means (not shown) withdraws a single bill from each of the bill 
boxes 1A and 1B. The withdrawn bill from each bill box 1A or 1B is 
conveyed along a feeding route 5a or 5b to a common conveyor route 5, as 
shown by arrows, by conveyor belts (not shown). A detection means 6 for 
checking whether or not the correct bill has been withdrawn and is 
disposed on the common conveyor route 5. The checked bill is transported 
to a bill pool 7 where the bill is temporarily stored. If the detection 
means 6 detects that an incorrect bill has been transported or that two 
single bills are superimposed and transported simultaneously, the bill or 
bills are guided to a rejected bill receiver portion 10 located at the 
rear end of the upper bill box 1A, together with bills which were stored 
in the bill pool 7, through a reject route 9. 
A receipt box 2 which contains receipts 4 having a size similar to the 
bills is disposed below the lower bill box 1B. A single receipt 4 is 
withdrawn from the receipt box 2 by a withdrawing means (not shown) and 
conveyed through a receipt route 14 to the common conveyor route 5. A 
printer unit 11 for printing the receipt 4 is disposed along the receipt 
route 14. A signal S, signifying the amount withdrawn and the 
identification number of the magnetic card of the user is input to a 
control circuit 12 by a keyboard (not shown). The result of the detection 
by the detection means 6, including the total obtained by counting the 
bills, is input to the control circuit 12, where the input signal S and 
the total obtained by counting are checked. If the total obtained by 
counting agrees with the input signal S, the control circuit 12 actuates a 
drive circuit 13 so that the amcunt withdrawn, the amount remaining in the 
account, the data, the card number, etc., are printed on the receipt by 
the printer unit 11. The printed receipt 4 is conveyed to the bill pool 7 
through the common conveyor route 5, temporarily stored there with the 
bills, and discharged through the outlet 8 together with the bills. 
FIG. 2 is a constructional view of an embodiment of the present invention. 
Bills 22 of one denomination are contained within a first upper bill box 
21. Bills 24 of another denomination are contained within a second lower 
bill box 23. A bill withdrawing means 25, comprising rollers, withdraws 
the bills 22 one by one from the upper bill box 21. The bills 22 are 
conveyed to a bill pool 28 by conveyor means 27 comprising rollers and 
belts. Bills 24 in the lower bill box 23 are withdrawn from the bill box 
23 by a withdrawing means 26 and are also conveyed to the bill pool 28. 
The withdrawing means 25 and 26 and the conveyor means 27 are driven by a 
motor M.sub.2 (29) through clutch means (not shown). A stopper 28a is 
disposed on the conveyor route 27a above the bill pool 28. The stopper 28a 
can be taken out of the conveyor route 27a, as illustrated by a dashed 
line, by a motor M.sub.3 (30), to allow unhindered passage of the bills 
from the bill pool 28 to a discharge portion 35, along the conveyor route 
27a. 
A double feed detector 36 is disposed on the conveyor route defined by the 
conveyor means 27 so as to detect the simultaneous conveyance of two 
superimposed bills. 
A transfer gate 31 is disposed on the conveyor route 27a to guide the bills 
into the rear end portion of the upper bill box 21, through a reject route 
33, when an error is detected during the conveyance of the bills. 
The conveyor means along the route 27a from the bill pool 28 to the 
discharge portion 35 and the reject route 33 are driven by a motor M.sub.4 
(32), through clutch means (not shown). The bills to be delivered to the 
user are stopped at a waiting portion 34 for a final confirmation of the 
amount to be withdrawn by the user, before being discharged from the 
apparatus through the discharge portion 35. 
A receipt box 37 is disposed below the lower bill box 23. The receipt box 
37 contains receipts (not shown) having a shape and size similar to the 
bills 22 and 24. Receipts are taken out of the receipt box 37 one by one 
by a withdrawing means 38 and conveyed to the lower portions of a printer 
41, which prints the prescribed items on the upper surface of the receipt. 
The printed receipt is then conveyed, first backward as shown by an arrow 
A, then forward to the aforementioned conveyor means 27 as shown by an 
arrow B, so that the printed surface of the receipt is disposed at the 
upperside when the receipt arrives at the bill pool 28 and is placed on 
top of the bills stacked therein. The receipt is then conveyed 
sumultaneously with the bills from bill pool 28 to the discharge portion 
35. 
Sensors S.sub.1 to S.sub.13 are disposed on the conveyor route for the 
receipt and the bills. The function of each sensor is as follows. Sensor 
S.sub.1 detects the feed motion of the receipt and controls the function 
of the clutch associated with the withdrawing means 38. Sensor S.sub.2 
detects the arrival of the receipt at the printing position below the 
printer 41. Sensor S.sub.3 detects the arrival of the printed receipt at 
the turning point of the switchback route. Sensor S.sub.4 is disposed on 
the printer side and detects the transfer of the receipt from the printer 
unit to the bill dispenser unit. Sensor S.sub.5 is disposed on the bill 
dispenser side and detects the transfer of the receipt. 
Sensor S.sub.6 detects the feed motion of the bills from the upper bill box 
21 by the withdrawing means 25. Sensor S.sub.7 detects the feed motion of 
the bills from the lower bill box 23 by the withdrawing means 26. Sensors 
S.sub.8 and S.sub.9 detect bills in the bill pool 28. Sensor S.sub.10 
detects the withdrawal of the receipt and the bills from the machine. 
Sensor S.sub.11 detects the passage of the bills through the reject route 
33. Sensor S.sub.12 detects the entrance of the bills into the rejected 
bill receiver portion (not shown) of the upper bill box 21. Sensor 
S.sub.13 detects bills at the waiting portion 34. Thus transportation of 
the receipt and the bills by the conveyor means proceeds subsequent to the 
detection of the normal status of the receipt and the bills by each of the 
sensors 1 to 13. 
The bill dispensor unit of the present invention is further described with 
reference to FIG. 3. The bill box 21 (enclosed by a dash-two-dot line in 
the Figure) can be withdrawn from the unit together with the withdrawing 
means 25. The withdrawing means 25 comprise a kick roller 25a, a feed 
roller 25b, and a separate roller 25c. The kick roller 25a comprises a 
kicking projection (not shown) which comes in contact with a bill (not 
shown) located at the righthand end and feeds the bill downward by the 
rotation of the roller. The feed roller 25b comprises a rubber portion 
(not shown) on the outer surface thereof for frictional contact with the 
bill and is synchronized with the kick roller 25a so that the rubber 
portion of the feed roller 25b faces the bill fed by the kick roller 25a. 
The outer surface of the separate roller 25c is made of a high-friction 
material to avoid a double feed of the bills. The withdrawing means 25 is 
connected to the motor M.sub.2 through a clutch CL1. When the bill box 21 
is withdrawn from the unit, the withdrawing means 25 is disengaged from 
the drive means and locked to prevent rotation of the withdrawing means 25 
and thereby avoid accidental withdrawal of the bills contained in the bill 
box 21. 
The bills are urged forward (toward the right) by a pusher 22a connected to 
a spring 63 disposed under the intermediate floor 21a of the bill box 21. 
A near switch RSW 11 detects when the pusher 22a is close to the end 
position and the remaining bills are less than a predetermined amount. 
Another near end switch RSW 12 detects when the pusher 22a becomes closer 
to the end position. 
Switches SSW 11 to 16 are provided on the bill dispenser side to detect the 
denomination of the bills contained within the bill box 21. Actuators (not 
shown) are provided on the bill box 21 at the side corresponding to the 
switches SSW 11 to 16. One of these actuators is pushed out by an 
operator, to correspond with the denomination of the bills, when the bill 
boxes 21 and 23 are outside the bill dispenser unit, for example, when 
supplementing the bills. The actuator will actuate one of switches SSW 11 
to 16 when the bill boxes 21 and 23 are inserted into the bill dispenser 
unit. 
The rear end portion of the upper bill box 21, i.e., behind the pusher 22a, 
is used as a rejected bill receiver (reject box). A cover 62 for the 
opening for receiving the rejected bills is provided on the bill box 21. 
The cover 62 is automatically closed and locked when the bill box 21 is 
withdrawn from the bill dispenser unit by an appropriate locking means 
(not shown). The cover 62 is opened when the bill box 21 is inserted into 
the bill dispenser unit by an appropriate lock release mechanism provided 
on the bill dispenser unit. The cover 62 is hinged to the bill box 21 in 
such a manner that it opens upward. When the bill box 21 is withdrawn from 
the bill dispenser unit, and if part of a bill is projecting out of the 
bill box through the opening, the cover 62 pushes the bill into the bill 
box when it closes the opening. 
The double feed detector 36 (FIG. 2) comprises two rollers with a gap 
between, which corresponds to the thickness of a bill. A single bill can 
pass smoothly through the gap without causing the rollers to rotate. 
However, if two bills pass through the gap simultaneously, the rollers are 
forced to rotate by the passing bills, since the frictional force between 
the bill and the rollers is increased. Sensor means PH1 and PH2 detect the 
rotation of one of the rollers and thereby detect a double feed of the 
bills. When the sensor means PH1 and PH2 detect the double feed of the 
bills, the clutch CL3 is cut off to stop the operation of the conveyor 
means, and also the motor M.sub.2 is stopped to stop any subsequent feed 
of the bills. The bills received in the bill pool 28 which include the 
double fed bills are conveyed to the reject box. 
The floor 60 of the bill pool 28 is vertically movable. A stopper 61 is 
disposed on the conveyor route above the bill pool 28. The receipt and 
bills conveyed along the conveyor route abut against the stopper 61 and 
drop into the bill pool 28. When the receipt and the predetermined amount 
of bills are transported into the bill pool 28, the floor 60 moves upward, 
as illustrated by the dashed line, urging the receipt and bills against 
the conveyor belt. The stopper 61 rotates, as illustrated by the dashed 
line, in cooperation with the upward movement of the floor 60, to open the 
conveyor route passage toward the discharge portion. The upper bill box 21 
and the lower bill box 23 are exchangeable, and can be used in either 
position. 
The structure of the receipt printer unit is explained in detail with 
reference to FIG. 4. Receipts 65 contained in the receipt box 37 are urged 
forward (toward the right) by a pusher 66 which is forced forward by a 
spring (not shown). The receipt box 37 can be withdrawn from the printer 
unit together with the withdrawing means 38 for withdrawing the receipt 
from the receipt box 37 (as for withdrawing bills from the billboxes 21 
and 23 of the bill dispenser unit, and for supplementing the receipts. A 
switch S'1 detects the installation of the receipt box 37. A first switch 
S'11 and a second near end switch S'12 detect when the pusher 66 is close 
to the end position. A single receipt is withdrawn from the receipt box 37 
by the withdrawing means 38, which has a similar structure to that of the 
withdrawing means 25 of the bill box 21, and is conveyed to the printing 
position below the printer 41. The receipt can be shifted in a direction 
perpendicular to FIG. 4, to change the printing line, by a motor M.sub.5 
(64). Sensors S'7 to 5'9 detect the positioning of the receipt to be 
printed. 
An outer view of the apparatus for dealing with bills in accordance with 
the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 5. A display window 43 is 
provided on the front face of the machine body 42 for displaying the 
operational status of the machine. Numeral 44 designates a card inlet. 
Numeral 45 designates a keyboard for inputting the card number and the 
amount of money to be withdrawn. The input information is displayed on a 
CRT display 46. After the accounting operation is completed, the receipt 
and the bills are delivered to the user through the discharge portion 47. 
The bill dispenser unit 74 and the receipt printer unit 75 are, as 
illustrated in FIGS. 7 and 8, enclosed by a safe 77 disposed on a safe 
floor 78. The front side of the safe 77 is constructed as a door, to allow 
the withdrawal of the bill boxes of the bill dispenser unit 74 and the 
receipt box of the receipt printer unit 75 from the safe 77. An opening 79 
is formed on the front upper face of the safe 77 for delivering bills to 
the user. Numeral 76 designates a fan unit. Numeral 80 designates a cover 
for covering the display unit 46 and the keyboard 45. A maintenance panel 
68 is disposed adjacent to the display unit 46. Numeral 70 designates a 
card reader, and numeral 69 designates a journal printer for printing and 
recording the result of the accounting operation. A local loader 71 houses 
floppy discs (not shown) which memorize the control program of the 
machine. Numeral 72 designates a controller and numeral 73 designates a 
power supply. 
The flow chart of the function of the automatic machine for the withdrawal 
of bills is briefly illustrated in FIG. 9. When the user's card is 
inserted into the machine, the accounting operation starts. The central 
processing unit sends a bill counting order signal and a receipt feeding 
order signal to the machine in accordance with the information input by 
the user. The bill dispenser unit discharges the ordered amount of bills. 
If an error, such as the double feed of bills or a difference occurs in 
the amount of bills requested by the accounting order and the detected 
amount or between the amount detected by the detectors of the bill box and 
that detected by the detectors of the bill pool, the bills are returned to 
the reject box and more bills are withdrawn from the bill dispenser unit. 
The machine repeats the operation until the correct amount of bills is 
conveyed to the bill pool. The correct amount of bills and the receipt are 
then delivered to the user, and the accounting operation is completed. 
A block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in 
FIG. 10. A main processor assembly 48 is connected to a central processing 
unit (not shown) by a cable line. An I/O controller 49 controls the 
mechanical means 53, such as the bill dispenser unit, through various 
drivers 52. The mechanical means 53 is controlled in response to the 
status of the mechanical means detected by the various sensors 54. The I/O 
controller 49 comprises a processor for controlling the mechanical means 
53. Another I/O controller is provided for each of the input and output 
means such as the card reader, the journal printer, and the display. A 
counting order from the main processor assembly 48 is stored in a group of 
registers 50, which comprises storing regions 21a and 23a corresponding to 
the bill boxes 21 and 23, respectively. A group of counters 51 counts up 
the bills in accordance with a signal from the sensor for counting bills 
among the sensors 54. The group of counters 51 comprise bill counters 21b 
and 23b corresponding to the storing regions 21a and 23a of the group of 
registers 50, respectively. The I/O controller 49 forwards count signals 
to the main processor assembly 48 in response to the output signal from 
the bill counters 21b and 23b. 
The main processor assembly 48, shown in FIG. 11, comprises a main 
processor 480, a main memory 482, and a line controller 481. The main 
memory 482 memorizes programs with which the main processor 480 controls 
the machine operation. The programs are loaded by a memory medium such as 
a floppy device 485 through a program loader such as a floppy device 
controller 484. A serial interface 483 is disposed for communication 
between the main processor 480 and the various I/O devices. 
FIGS. 12A, 12B, and 12C are block diagrams of the I/O controller of the 
bill dispenser unit of FIG. 3. The controller comprises an interface 
assembly 491, a processor assembly 490, sensor means 492, 493, and 494, 
and a driver means 495. The interface assembly 491 includes a serial 
interface and an interface controller. The processor assembly 490 includes 
an I/O processor and interface means for communication with the sensor 
means 492 to 494 and the driver means 495. The outputs of the sensor means 
492 are comprised of sensors D0, D3 to D10, each sensor comprising a light 
emitting diode and a light receiving diode, are introduced to a common bus 
through an amplifier. Each output of the photosensor PH1 and PH2 is 
introduced to a double feed detector through an amplifier. Each of 
photosensors PH5 and PH6 detects whether the shutter of the bill discharge 
portion of the machine is open or closed and introduces the output signal 
to the common bus through a Schmitt circuit. Microswitches MSW 2 to 4 
detect the level of the floor plate of the bill pool and introduce the 
output signal to the common bus through a Schmitt circuit. The sensor 
means 493 and 494 are arranged for detecting various states of the upper 
and lower bill boxes 21 and 23, respectively. In the sensor means 493, the 
output of each of the sensors L11A and L11B, which are disposed at the 
bill feed portion, is selected through a gate circuit and introduced to 
the processor. Switches RSW 11 and 12 detect the state of the near end of 
the amount of bills within the bill boxes 21 and 23. The microswitch MSW 
11 detects when the bill boxes 21 and 23 are set in the bill dispenser. 
Switches SSW 11 to 16 generate decode signals in accordance with the 
denomination of the bills contained in the bill boxes 21 and 23 set in the 
bill dispenser. The processor selectively picks up the output signals of 
these switches through the gates and Schmitt circuits. The driver means 
495 comprises a clutch driver for driving clutches CL 1 to CL 4, a motor 
driver for driving motors M.sub.2 to M.sub.4, and a solenoid driver for 
driving a solenoid which actuates the reject gate 31 (FIG. 2). These 
drivers are operated by a drive signal from the processor through the 
common bus. 
FIG. 13 represents a block diagram of the receipt printer unit of FIG. 4. 
The circuit includes an I/O processor 500 connected to the main processor 
through an interface assembly 501. The interface assembly 501 includes an 
interface controller 501 and a serial interface 511. The I/O processor 500 
receives output signals from sensors S'1 to S'12 of the receipt printer 
unit through an I/O port 502. Also, the I/O processor 500 forwards drive 
signals to the printer 505 and mctors M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 through an I/O 
port 503. The sensor S'1 detects when the receipt box is installed within 
the receipt printer unit. The optical sensors S'2 to S'10 are disposed on 
the receipt conveyor route, detect the conveyance status of the receipts 
and introduce the output signals to the I/O processor 500. The 
microswitches S'11 and S'12 detect the state of the near end of the amount 
of receipts in the receipt box. The printer 505 comprises a seven pin dot 
printer. The head driver 504 actuates each dot pin of the printer in 
accordance with the character pattern to be printed. The motor drivers 506 
and 507 drive the motors M.sub.1 and M.sub.5 in accordance with the order 
signal from the processor 500. 
The function of the apparatus for dealing with bills according to the 
present invention is further represented in FIGS. 14 to 17. FIG. 14 is a 
flow chart of the overall function of the apparatus from the insertion of 
the user's magnetic card to the withdrawal of the bills together with the 
receipt by the user. FIGS. 15A, 15B, and 16 are flow charts of the 
operation of the bill dispenser unit of the present invention. When the 
user inserts the card into the apparatus, the CPU orders the bill 
dispenser unit to start the accounting operation. In the first steps, the 
function of each sensor is checked, the clutch of the withdrawing means 25 
of the upper bill box 21 is actuated so that bills 22 are fed from the 
bill box 21 one by one, and the sensor S.sub.6 counts the bills. Also, 
each bill is checked by the double feed detector 36. If the double feed 
detector 36 detects that two bills are superimposed and conveyed 
simultaneously, the clutch is turned off and the motor M.sub.2 is stopped 
so that the subsequent operation of withdrawing bills from the bill box is 
stopped. Next, the motors M.sub.3 and M.sub.4 are driven so that all bills 
already conveyed to the bill pool are transported to the reject box. Then, 
a new feed operation of bills from the upper bill 21 is started. When the 
predetermined number of bills is conveyed and received in the bill pool, 
then bills 24 of another denomination are withdrawn from the lower bill 
box 23 and conveyed to and received in the bill pool in the same way as 
the bills 22. Sensors S.sub.8 and S.sub.9 check the bills received in the 
bill pool, and the motor M.sub.3 is then driven so that the stopper 28a 
(FIG. 2) is shifted to the position shown by a dashed line in FIG. 2, to 
convey the bills stacked in the bill pool toward the discharge portion. 
The rejection magnet is energized and the transfer gate 31 opens the 
conveyor route toward the discharge portion. The motor M.sub.4 is then 
driven so that the bills within the bill pool are conveyed, with the 
receipt placed on top of the bills, toward the waiting portion 34. When 
the sensor S.sub.13 detects the receipt and the bills at the waiting 
portion 34, the motor M.sub.4 is stopped. At this point, the card is 
withdrawn from the apparatus by the user, the motor M.sub.4 is then driven 
again, and the bills and the receipt are conveyed to the discharge portion 
35. The user takes the bills and the receipt from the discharge portion 
and the accounting operation is then completed. If the bills and the 
receipt are not withdrawn from the apparatus for a period longer than a 
predetermined time, the motor M.sub.4 is driven in the reverse direction 
and the bills and the receipt are returned to the waiting portion 34. The 
apparatus then displays a notice informing the user that the money is 
waiting and has not been withdrawn. 
The function of the receipt printer unit is illustrated in the flow chart 
of FIG. 17. When the accounting operation starts, the CPU orders the unit 
to drive the motor M.sub.1 to feed a receipt. The clutch is operated to 
drive the receipt withdrawing means 38, enabling a single receipt to be 
withdrawn from the receipt box. When the sensor S.sub.1 (FIG. 2) detects 
that the receipt is withdrawn from the receipt box, the clutch is 
de-energized and the withdrawing means stops functioning. The receipt is 
conveyed to the printing position under the printer 41 by the motor 
M.sub.1. The sensor S.sub.2 detects when the receipt is at the printing 
position. Then, the motor M.sub.1 is stopped and the predetermined items 
are printed on the receipt. After the receipt is printed, the motor 
M.sub.1 is driven in the reverse direction so that the receipt is conveyed 
back along the switch back route, as shown by an arrow A, to arrange the 
receipt in the bill pool so that the printed surface is oriented upward. 
When the sensor S.sub.3 detects the receipt at the turning point of the 
switch back route, the motor M.sub.1 is stopped to stop the receipt. The 
receipt remains at that point until the predetermined amount of bills are 
conveyed to the bill pool. After that, the CPU orders the printer unit to 
deliver the receipt. In accordance with the receipt delivering order, the 
motor M.sub.1 is driven again to convey the receipt in the direction of an 
arrow B toward the outlet of the printer unit, where the sensor S.sub.4 is 
disposed. Upon detection of the receipt by the sensor S.sub.4, the motor 
M.sub.1 is stopped. The receipt is transferred to the conveyor route of 
the bill dispensor unit and conveyed to the bill pool by the conveyor 
means 27. The receipt is then placed on the top of the bills stacked on 
the floor plate of the bill pool and conveyed together with the bills to 
the discharge portion 35, through which the user withdraws the bills and 
the receipt from the apparatus. 
As mentioned above, in the apparatus of the present invention, each receipt 
has a shape and a size similar to those of the bills, so that the bill 
conveyor route can be commonly used as a conveyor route for conveying the 
receipt, which makes it possible to realize a small automatic machine for 
dealing with bills. Also, features wherein the rear portion of the bill 
box of the bill dispenser unit is used as a reject box for receiving 
rejected bills and the receipt printer unit is disposed below the bill 
dispenser unit make the apparatus small and compact. Further, the user 
will always be supplied with a receipt since the receipt is delivered to 
the user together with the bills.