Patent Publication Number: US-8991584-B2

Title: Coin depositing and dispensing machine

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO PRIOR APPLICATION 
     This is the U.S. National Phase Application under 35 U.S.C. §371 of International Patent Application No. PCT/JP2007/073578 filed Dec. 6, 2007, which claims the benefit of Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-331302 filed Dec. 8, 2006, both of them are incorporated by reference herein. The International Application was published in Japanese on Jun. 19, 2008 as WO2008/072544 al under pct article 21(2). 
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present invention relates to a coin depositing and dispensing machine for depositing and dispensing coins. 
     BACKGROUND ART 
     Coin depositing and dispensing machines have been developed which are electrically connected with casher equipment including electronic cash registers and teller management machines for automatically depositing and dispensing coins upon receiving electric signals from the casher equipment, whereby the transport of cash transactions with customers at the teller&#39;s window in a financial institution, for example, can be carried out accurately and rapidly. 
     A conventional coin depositing and dispensing machine includes a transport mechanism in the depositing system where the coins fed one by one from the coin input port into which the coins have been input for the depositing action are transported, subjected to the identifying action when being transported, sorted into denominations when having been qualified, and accommodated in their respective denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions and another transport mechanism in the dispensing system where the coins ejected one by one from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion are accepted and transported to the coin output port. The transport mechanism in the depositing system is located at an upper part of the machine because the coins are input from the upper side of the machine and the coins sorted at the transport mechanism in the depositing system are dropped downwardly and are accommodated in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion. In response, the transport mechanism in the dispensing system is located at a lower part of the machine. Accordingly, the two transport mechanisms in the depositing system and the dispensing system are generally arranged one over the other (See Patent Documents 1 and 2 for example). 
     Patent Document 1: JP 3549784 B1 (pages 6-7, FIG. 1). 
     Patent Document 2: JP 3266436 B1 (pages 3-5, FIGS. 1 and 2). 
     DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION 
     Problems to be Solved by the Invention 
     However, the conventional coin depositing and dispensing machine is disadvantageous that the two transport mechanisms for transporting the coins are provided in both the depositing system and the dispensing system and their arrangement becomes intricate and large in the size. As the result, the coin depositing and dispensing machine will be increased in the overall dimensions and its production cost will increase because the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions are limited only to a smaller coin accommodating capacity. 
     Also, since the two transport mechanisms in the depositing system and the dispensing system are arranged one over the other, their assembly and maintenance will be troublesome. For example, when the coins are jammed in the transport mechanism of the dispensing system, their jammed condition may hardly be viewed because the other transport mechanism of the depositing system is mounted over the transport mechanism of the dispensing system. Therefore, the jammed coins in the transport mechanism of the dispensing system should be removed by opening the other transport mechanism of the depositing system. 
     Moreover, the dispensing system includes no identifying portion while the depositing system is equipped with the identifying portion. If the coins of different denominations are mixed and stored in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, their denominations may not be checked but dispensed directly thus declining the reliability of the coin accounting task. 
     The present invention has been developed in view of the above described drawbacks and its object is to provide a coin depositing and dispensing machine where a single transport mechanism is provided for common use between the depositing system and the dispensing system and its arrangement is simplified and downsized, whereby the downsizing of its arrangement can increase the capacity for accommodating the coins to be dispensed while the installation layout can permit the dispensing coins to be subjected to the identifying action, hence improving the reliability of the coin accounting task. 
     Means for Solving the Problems 
     As set forth in claim  1 , a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to the present invention includes a single annular transporting body, a supporting body for supporting the transporting body rotatably in a circular direction, and a transporting unit for receiving and transporting deposited coins and dispensed coins which are carried on the transporting body. 
     As set forth in claim  2 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  1 , the transporting unit drives the transporting body to travel in one direction for transporting the deposited coins and the dispensed coins. 
     As set forth in claim  3 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  1  or  2 , the transporting unit has a deposited coin sorting and transporting zone for sorting the deposited coins and a dispensed coin receiving and transporting zone for receiving the dispensing the coins, both of which are located in different regions in the transporting unit. 
     As set forth in claim  4 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to any one of claims  1  to  3 , the transporting unit has a plurality of projections provided thereon for pushing and transporting the coins respectively. 
     As set forth in claim  5 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to any one of claims  1  to  4 , the transporting unit is connected with a coin input port for receiving the deposited coins, a coin output port for dispensing the dispensing coins, an identifying portion for identifying the coins, an escrow portion for temporarily storing the coins, and an accommodating and ejecting portions for accommodating the coins therein as well as for ejecting the accommodated coins therefrom. 
     As set forth in claim  6 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to any one of claims  1  to  4 , at least one or more of functional units include a coin input port for receiving the deposited coins, an input feeding portion for feeding the deposited coins one by one, a coin output portion for discharging the coins to be dispensed, an identifying portion for identifying the coins, a denomination-specific escrow portion for temporarily storing the coins for each denomination, a bulk escrow portion for temporarily storing the coins in bulk, a denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion for accommodating the coins in the accommodating and dispensing portion for each denomination as well as for ejecting the stored coins therefrom, a bulk escrow accommodating and ejecting portion for temporarily storing the coins in bulk and ejecting the stored coins, a reject box for accommodating the rejected coins, a recovery cassette for accommodating the recovered coins, a replenish cassette for accommodating the replenished coins, and a diverting gate for diverting the coins from the transporting unit. 
     As set forth in claim  7 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the transporting unit is connected with the functional units. 
     As set forth in claim  8 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  5 , the coins input into the coin input portion in a non-aligned state are fed one by one to the transporting unit, transported one by one by the transporting unit, and temporarily stored in the escrow portion when the coins have been identified as normal coins by the identifying portion. 
     As set forth in claim  9 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  5 , the coins accommodated at non-aligned state in the accommodating and dispensing portion are fed one by one to the transporting unit, transported one by one by the transporting unit, and dispensed to the coin output portion. 
     As set forth in claim  10 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  5 , the coins accommodated at non-aligned state in the accommodating and dispensing portion are fed one by one to the transporting unit, transported one by one along the transporting unit, and discharged to the coin output portion when the coins have been identified as normal coins by the identifying portion. 
     As set forth in claim  11 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the input feeding portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion are at least provided and all located at the inner side of the transporting unit of an annular form. 
     As set forth in claim  12 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the input feeding portion, the coin output portion, the identifying portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion are at least provided, the input feeding portion and the coin output portion being located at the front side of the machine while the input feeding portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the identifying portion are located in a succession from the front side to the rear side. 
     As set forth in claim  13 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  12 , the coins fed from the input feeding portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, and the bulk escrow portion are transported in one direction along the transporting passage of the transporting unit and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion. 
     As set forth in claim  14 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , each of the denomination-specific escrow portion, the bulk escrow portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, and the bulk escrow accommodating and ejecting portion is arranged for receiving the coins in a non-aligned state and includes a belt mounted between rollers supported pivotably by horizontally extending axes for traveling at an angle upwardly from the upstream side to the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction, a reverse roller disposed above the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction for rotating in a reverse direction of the movement of the belt thus to eject the coins, which have been at the non-aligned state, in a single row at a single layer on the belt, and a delivery portion for delivering the coins one by one to the transporting body in the transporting unit. 
     As set forth in claim  15 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the input feeding portion is arranged for receiving the coins in a non-aligned state and includes a belt mounted between rollers supported pivotably by horizontally extending axes for traveling at an angle upwardly from the upstream side to the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction, a reverse roller disposed above the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction for rotating in a reverse direction of the movement in the transporting direction of the belt thus to feed the coins, which have been at the non-aligned state, in a single row at a single layer on the belt, a delivering portion for delivering the coins one by one to the transporting body of the transporting unit, and an input port for receiving the coins one by one transported by the transporting unit. 
     As set forth in claim  16 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , a coin input port and the input feeding portion are provided, the coin input port being located at the upper side of the input feeding portion and arranged to serve as the replenish input port for replenishing the machine with the coins. 
     As set forth in claim  17 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  5 , the coins identified as abnormal coins by the identifying portion are circulated along the transporting unit and subjected again to the identifying action of the identifying portion. 
     As set forth in claim  18 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the input feeding portion, the identifying portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the diverting gates are at least provided so that the coins delivered from the input feeding portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the bulk escrow portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the bulk escrow portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and returned by the diverting gate corresponding to the returning of the coins. 
     As set forth in claim  19 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the input feeding portion, the identifying portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the diverting gates are at least provided so that the coins delivered from the input feeding portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the bulk escrow portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the bulk escrow portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and sent back to the input feeding portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the input feeding portion from which the abnormal coins are fed to the transporting unit and subjected once again to the identifying action of the identifying portion. 
     As set forth in claim  20 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  18  or  19 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion is provided so that the coins fed from the bulk escrow portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and returned by the diverting gate corresponding to the returning of the coins. 
     As set forth in claim  21 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  18  or  19 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion is provided so that the coins fed from the bulk escrow portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and sent back to the input feeding portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the input feeder gate from which the coin are fed to the transporting unit and subjected once again to the identifying action of the identifying portion. 
     As set forth in claim  22 , in the coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6 , the coin output port, the identifying portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, and the diverting gate are at least provided and, in addition, a controller is provided for directing the coins of a denomination, demanded from the outside, to be ejected from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion to the transporting unit and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted and discharged by one of the two diverting gates which are corresponding to as located above their respective coin output ports disposed at both, left and right, ends of the front side of the machine while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and returned back to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion and simultaneously directing a number of the coins equal to the number of the abnormal coins to be ejected once again from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion and fed to the transporting unit. 
     Effects of the Invention 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  1  of the present invention is featured that the deposited coins and the dispensing coins are transported by the single annular transporting body supported in the circular form for the circular movement in the transporting direction. Accordingly, the transport mechanism is used for common use between the depositing system and the dispensing system and its arrangement is simplified and downsized, whereby the downsizing of its arrangement can increase the stock size of the coins to be dispensed while its installation layout can permit the dispensing coins to be subjected to the identifying action, hence improving the reliability of the coin accounting task. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  2  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  1  that the depositing coins and the dispensing coins are transported by the transporting unit which runs in one direction along its circular movement in the transporting direction, whereby the movement of the coins remains in one direction during both the depositing action and the dispensing action and the overall mechanism and control can be simplified. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  3  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  1  or  2  that the deposited coin sorting and transporting zone for sorting the deposited coins and the dispensing coin receiving and transporting zone are located in different regions in the transporting unit, whereby the action of depositing the coins and the action of dispensing the coins can be carried out with certainty even when the transport mechanism is designed for common use between the depositing system and the dispensing system. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  4  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in any of claims  1  to  3  that, while the transporting unit has a plurality of the projections provided thereon, each of the coins is accepted between any adjacent two of the projections, whereby the coins can certainly be transported as pushed one by one by their respective projections. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  5  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in any of claims  1  to  4  that the transporting unit is connected with the coin input port, the coin output port, the identifying portion, the escrow portion, and the accommodating and ejecting portions, whereby the depositing action and the dispensing action can be carried out using the common transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  6  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in any of claims  1  to  4  that at least one or more of the functional units is provided including a coin input port, an input feeding portion, a coin output port, an identifying portion, a denomination-specific escrow portion, a bulk escrow portion, a denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, a bulk accommodating and ejecting portion, a reject box, a recovery cassette, a replenish cassette, and a diverting unit, whereby the depositing action and the dispensing action can be carried out with certainty. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  7  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the transporting unit is connected with the functional units for a specific layout, whereby the depositing action and the dispensing action can be carried out using the common transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  8  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  5  that the coins accepted in a non-aligned state by the coin input port are delivered one by one to the transporting unit, transported one by one along the transporting unit, and temporarily stored in the escrow storage portion when the coins have been identified as normal coins by the identifying portion, whereby the depositing system can be implemented in layout by virtue of the transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machine according to claim  9  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  5  that the coins accepted in a non-aligned state by the accommodating and ejecting portion are fed one by one to the transporting unit, transported one by one along the transporting unit, and discharged to the coin output port, whereby the dispensing system can be implemented in layout by virtue of the transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  10  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  5  that the coins accepted in a non-aligned state by the accommodating and ejecting portion are fed one by one to the transporting unit, transported one by one along the transporting unit, and discharged to the coin output port when the coins have been identified as normal coins by the identifying portion, whereby the dispensing system can be implemented in layout by virtue of the transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  11  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the input feeding portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion are all located at the inner side of the transporting unit of a circular form, whereby the dispensing system can readily be implemented in layout by virtue of the transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  12  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the input feeding portion and the coin output port are located at the front side of the machine while the input feeding portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, the bulk escrow portion, and the identifying portion are located in a succession from the front side to the rear side, whereby the dispensing system can readily be implemented in layout by virtue of the transporting unit. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  13  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  12  that the coins fed from the input feeding portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, and the bulk escrow portion are transported in one direction along the transporting passage of the transporting unit and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion, whereby the reliability of the coin accounting task can be improved particularly through the action of identifying the coin. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  14  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that each of the denomination-specific escrow portion, the bulk escrow portion, the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion, and the escrow accommodating and ejecting portion is arranged for receiving the coins in a non-aligned state on its belt, whereby the storage of the coins can be increased. Also, at the delivering action, the coins which have been at the non-aligned state can be carried in a single row at a single layer on the belt by a combination of the movement in the transporting direction of the belt and the reverse rotating action of the reverse roller and then delivered one by one by the delivering portion to the transporting body in the transporting unit with certainty. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  15  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the input feeding portion is arranged for receiving the coins at its input from the transporting unit and carrying the coins in a non-aligned state on the belt, whereby the storage of the coins can be increased. Also, at the delivering action, the coins which have been at the non-aligned state can be carried in a single row at a single layer on the belt by a combination of the movement in the transporting direction of the belt and the reverse rotating action of the reverse roller and then delivered one by one by the delivering portion to the transporting body in the transporting unit with certainty. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  16  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the coin input port serve as the replenish input port for replenishing the machine with the coins. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  17  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  5  that the coins identified as abnormal coins by the identifying portion are circulated along the transporting unit and subjected again to the identifying action of the identifying portion, whereby the coins identified as normal coins by the identifying portion can be prevented from being handled as abnormal coins. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  18  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the coins delivered from the input feeding portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the bulk escrow portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the bulk escrow portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and returned by the diverting gate corresponding to the returning of the coins, whereby the overall operation can be speeded up. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  19  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the coins delivered from the input feeding portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the bulk escrow portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the bulk escrow portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and sent back to the input feeding portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the input feeding portion from which the abnormal coins are delivered to the transporting unit and subjected once again to the identifying action of the identifying portion, whereby the coins identified as normal coins can be prevented from being handled as abnormal coins. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  20  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  18  or  19  that the coins delivered from the bulk escrow portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and returned by the diverting gate corresponding to the returning of the coins, whereby the overall operation can be speeded up. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  21  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  18  or  19  that the coins delivered from the bulk escrow portion are transported along the transporting unit at the time of counting the coins before the approval of the deposited coins and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and sent back to the input feeding portion by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the input feeder gate from which the coin are delivered to the transporting unit and subjected once again to the identifying action of the identifying portion, whereby the coins identified as normal coins by the identifying portion can be prevented from being handled as abnormal coins. 
     The coin depositing and dispensing machines according to claim  22  is featured in addition to the advantage of the coin depositing and dispensing machine defined in claim  6  that the coins of a denomination, demanded from the outside, are ejected from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion of interest to the transporting unit and subjected to the identifying action of the identifying portion and then the coins identified as normal coins are diverted and discharged by one of the two diverting gates which are corresponding to as located above their respective coin output ports disposed at both, left and right, ends of the front side of the machine while the coins identified as abnormal coins are diverted and returned back to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion of interest by the diverting gate corresponding to the input of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion and simultaneously a number of the coins equal to the number of the abnormal coins are ejected once again from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion to the transporting unit, whereby the reliability of the coin accounting task can be improved. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a plan view of a coin handling apparatus showing one embodiment of the coin depositing and dispensing machine of the present invention; 
         FIG. 2  is a perspective view of the coin handling apparatus; 
         FIG. 3  is a cross sectional view of the coin handling apparatus; 
         FIG. 4  illustrates a coin passage in the coin handling apparatus,  FIG. 4(   a ) being a cross sectional view taken along the line a-a of  FIG. 1 ,  FIG. 4(   b ) being a cross sectional view taken along the line b-b of  FIG. 1 ,  FIG. 4(   c ) being a cross sectional view taken along the line c-c of  FIG. 1 ,  FIG. 4(   d ) being a cross sectional view taken along the line d-d of  FIG. 1 ,  FIG. 4(   e ) being a cross sectional view taken along the line e-e of  FIG. 1 , and  FIG. 4(   f ) being a cross sectional view taken along the line f-f of  FIG. 1 ; 
         FIG. 5  illustrates an input feeding portion in the coin handling apparatus,  FIG. 5(   a ) being a cross sectional view and  FIG. 5(   b ) being a plan view; 
         FIG. 6  illustrates a denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion for small-diameter type coins in the coin handling apparatus,  FIG. 6(   a ) being a cross sectional view and (b) being a plan view; 
         FIG. 7  illustrates the movement of large-diameter type coins at a delivering portion in the coin handling apparatus,  FIGS. 7(   a ) to  7 ( h ) being explanatory plan views of the movement in a succession; 
         FIG. 8  illustrates the movement of small-diameter type coins at the delivering portion in the coin handling apparatus,  FIGS. 8(   a ) to  8 ( h ) being explanatory plan views of the movement in a succession; and 
         FIG. 9  is a perspective view of the coin handling apparatus with the coin depositing and dispensing machine. 
     
    
    
     REFERENCE NUMERALS 
     
         
           15 ,  16 : coin outlet as coin output port 
           17 ,  18 : coin box as coin output port 
           33 : transporting unit 
           34 : input feeding portion as coin input port 
           35 : denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion as accommodating and ejecting portion 
           36 : bulk escrow portion as temporal bulk storage 
           39 : receiving and transporting zone as dispensing coin receiving and transporting region 
           41 : sorting and transporting zone as deposited coin sorting and transporting region 
           43 : transporting belt as transporting body 
           44 : pulley as supporting body 
           46 : projection 
           58 : identifying portion 
           78 : flat belt as belt 
           79 : reverse roller 
           81 : delivering portion 
           82 ,  83 : rollers 
           82   a ,  83   a : axes 
           90 : coin inlet 
           131 : controller 
         C: coin. 
       
    
     BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION 
     One embodiment of the present invention will be described referring to the relevant drawings. 
       FIG. 9  is a perspective view of a money handling apparatus including a coin depositing and dispensing machine. The money handling apparatus is a combination of a coin depositing and dispensing machine and a bank note depositing and dispensing machine, where a coin handling apparatus  11  which acts as the coin depositing and dispensing machine for receiving and paying out money in coin is disposed at the upper part of a housing  10  while a bank note handling apparatus, not shown, provided for receiving and paying out money in bank notes. The money note handling apparatus is generally installed between two, left and right, tellers at the teller windows of a banking office and connected to two cashing terminals corresponding to the two tellers for common use with the two tellers. 
     The housing  10  is built in an upright construction having a smaller dimension along the width or the leftward and rightward directions and a longer dimension along the frontward and rearward directions of the housing  10 . There are provided a coin input port  12  at substantially the center along the widthwise direction of the upper front side of the housing  10 , a bank note input port  13  at the front side of the coin input port  12 , and a pair of left coin output port  15  and right coin output port  16  at both the left and right sides of the bank note output port  14  respectively acting as dispensing outlets. The coin output ports  15 ,  16  are detachably accompanied with coin boxes  17 ,  18  respectively for receiving and storing coins dispensed from the housing  10 . 
     A pair of left operation unit  19  and right operation unit  20  including arrays of keys and displays are provided at both sides of the coin input port  12  and the bank note input port  13  on the upper side of the housing  10 . 
     A front door  21  is openably provided on the lower front of the housing  10  and equipped with a door key  22  for locking and unlocking the housing  10  with the front door  21  closed. Also, a withdraw cassette, not shown, is detachably provided in the housing  10  closed with the front door  21  for storing the coins withdrawn from the coin handling apparatus  11 . 
       FIG. 1  is a plan view of the coin handling apparatus and  FIG. 2  is a perspective view of the same. The coin handling apparatus  11  has a four-sided frame  31  extended along the frontward and rearward directions and arranged drawable in the frontward direction of the housing  10 . The frame  31  has an annular coin passage  32  arranged of substantially a four-sided shape which extends along the four, left, rear, right, and front, sides of the frame  31  and a transporting unit  33  for transporting coins along the coin passage  32  in a transporting or clockwise direction as shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2 . 
     A series of functional units are disposed in a row from the front side to the rear side at the inner side of the coin passage  32  and the transporting unit  33 , which include an input feeding portion  34  acting as a coin receiver for receiving the coins from the coin input port  12  and feeding one by one the coins to the coin passage  32 , denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  acting as denomination-specific coin storages for storing the coins for each denomination and ejecting one by one the coins to the coin passage  32 , and a bulk escrow portion  36  acting as a temporal coin storage for temporarily storing the coins in bulk after accepted and sorted into denominations and ejecting one by one the coins to the coin passage  32 . The input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36  are substantially identical in the fundamental construction which is designed for serving as a coin storage and ejecting unit or a coin storage and ejecting apparatus to feed the coins one by one in a non-aligned state. 
     The coin passage  32  and the transporting unit  33  are combined to form a transporting region for transporting the coins. Provided in a region extending from the front to the rear along the left side, one of the four sides, of the frame  31  is a receiving and transporting zone  39  where the coins are accepted one by one from the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36  and transported in a succession. Provided in a region extending from the left to the right along the rear side of the frame  31  is an identifying and transporting zone  40  where the coins are identified while being transported. Provided in a region extending from the rear to the front along the other or right side of the frame  31  is a sorting and transporting zone  41  where the coins are sorted while being transported. Provided in a region extending from the right to the left along the front side of the frame  31  is a dispensing and transporting zone  42  where the coins are transported before delivered to the coin output port  15  at the left side. The receiving and transporting zone  39  forms a dispensed coins receiving and transporting region while the sorting and transporting zone  41  forms a accepted coins sorting and transporting region. 
     The transporting unit  33  includes a transporting belt  43  provided as a single annular conveyor and pulleys  44  provided as supports for rotatably supporting the transporting belt  43  throughout the coin passage  32 . Each of the pulleys  44  is pivotably supported by a vertically extending axis for rotation in the horizontal direction as located at the inner side of the corner of the four-sided shape of the coin passage  32 . The transporting belt  43  is mounted along the coin passage  32  in a four-sided form between the pulleys  44 . An other pulley  45  is disposed close to one at the left front corner of the pulleys  44  for guiding the transporting belt  43  at the outer side. 
     The transporting belt  43  is a timing belt having a multiplicity of teeth provided on the inner side thereof while the pulleys  44  are timing pulleys having a multiplicity of teeth provided on the outer side thereof. When one of the pulleys  44  is driven by a driver or namely a motor, not shown, for rotation, it advances the transporting belt  43  in the transporting direction. The transporting belt  43  has a groove provided in the inner side thereof for engagement with a rib portion which is provided on the outer side of each of the pulleys  44 , whereby the position along the vertical direction of the transporting belt  43  can be controlled so that the distance between the transporting belt  43  and the transporting side of the coin passage  32  remains greater than the thickness of a thickest type of the coins to be transported. 
     As shown in  FIGS. 3 ,  4 ,  7 , and  8 , a row of projections  46  are mounted at equal intervals along the lengthwise direction on the transporting belt  43  as extended downwardly from the lower side of the transporting belt  43  for pushing and transporting the coins one by one along the coin passage  32 . The interval between the projections  46  is determined so that each coin is readily accepted and transported between any two adjacent projections  46  along the transporting direction. Also, a small gap which is smaller than the thickness of a thinnest type of the coins to be transported is provided between the lower side of the projection  46  and the upper side of the coin passage  32 . The coins are denoted by C throughout the drawings. 
     The receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32  includes, as shown in  FIGS. 4(   a ),  4 ( b ), and  4 ( c ), an inclined passage surface  49  which is inclined in the widthwise direction of the coin passage  32  so that the inner side where the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36  are installed is lower in the elevation and the outer or opposite side is higher in the elevation, in response to the fact that the coins are upwardly dispensed one by one in an inclined state from the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36 . The width wisely inclined passage surface  49  is defined by an inner guide  50  and an outer guide  50  arranged to guide the outer edge of each coin from both, inner and outer, sides and its width between the inner guide  50  and the outer guide  51  is greater than the diameter of the coin of a largest diameter type to be transported and smaller than two times the diameter of the coin of a smallest diameter type. The inclined passage surface  49  has a grooved clearance  52  provided in the center thereof for remaining not in direct contact with and clearing the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43 . 
     At the end of the downstream side of the receiving and transporting zone  39 , the transporting belt  43  has a shifting passage surface  53  provided at the downstream side of the coin output location of the bulk escrow portion  36  for shifting the coin from its inclined position on the inclined passage surface  49  to a horizontal position. As shown in  FIGS. 4(   d ),  4 ( e ), and  4 ( f ), the shifting passage surface  53  is arranged to turn to finally a horizontal passage surface  54  along the transporting direction towards the downstream side by lifting up the inner side of the inclined passage surface  49  from its lower elevation and lowering the outer side of the inclined passage  49  from its higher elevation. More particularly, the transporting passage  32  is shifted from the inclined passage surface  49  at the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the horizontal passage surface  54  at the identifying and transporting zone  40  and the sorting and transporting zone  41 , and the dispensing and transporting zone  42  which are located at the downstream side of the receiving and transporting zone  39 . 
     Also as shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , the horizontal passage surface  54  of the coin passage  32  at the identifying and transporting zone  40  extending continuously from the receiving and transporting zone  39  is defined at the upper surface  55  between an inner guide  56  and an outer guide  57 . An identifying portion  58  is disposed at the inner guide  56  at the inner side of the coin passage  32  and the transporting unit  33  for identifying the denomination of the coins being transported through detecting their material and diameter. At the other side or outer side of the coin passage  32  and the transporting-unit  33 , a deflecting member  59  is disposed opposite to the identifying portion  58  for pushing the coins being transported in the identifying and transporting zone  40  towards the inner guide  56  or the identifying portion  58  side. The deflecting member  59  may be made of a resin material which is pivotably mounted at the proximal end on a vertical axis for pivoting towards the outer guide  57  and remains urged towards the inner side by a spring so that its distal end projecting into the coin passage  32 . 
     At the sorting and transporting zone  41  extending continuously from the identifying and transporting zone  40 , the horizontal passage surface  54  of the coin passage  32  is defined at the upper surface  60  between an inner guide  61  and an outer guide  62 . Sorting units  63  are disposed at the sorting and transporting zone  41  for sorting and selectively directing the coins being transported to the bulk escrow portion  36 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , the input feeding portion  34 , and the right coin output port  16 . Each of the sorting portion  63  has a switching opening  64  provided therein to face the passage surface  60  and accept the coins dropping down from the passage surface  60  and a diverting gate  65  located beneath the switching opening  64  for selectively directing the coins. The diverting gate  65  is arranged for standing separately at both sides of the transporting belt  43  for permitting no direct contact with the transporting belt  43  and pivotably mounted at the downstream side of the transporting direction on a horizontally extending pivot axis  66 . More particularly, the diverting gate  65  is driven by a solenoid  67  acting as the sorting portion driver for moving between two positions, the closing position where the diverting gate  65  is set horizontal to shut up the switching opening  64  and the opening position where the distal end at the upstream side of the transporting direction of the diverting gate  65  is lifted up to open the switching opening  64 . When the diverting gate  65  is at the closing position, the coins being transported by the transporting belt  43  are passed through the switching opening  64  and the diverting gate  65 . When the diverting gate  65  is at the opening position, the coins being transported by the transporting belt  43  drop down into the switching opening  64  as being forcibly guided by the diverting gate  65 . 
     A shifting means, not shown, is disposed beneath the switching opening  16  at the diverting gate  63  on the right for guiding and directing the coins selected by the action of the diverting gate  63  to the right coin output port  16  or a recovery cassette located beneath the housing  10 . 
     At the dispensing and transporting zone  42  of the coin passage  32  extending continuously from the sorting and transporting zone  41 , the horizontal passage surface  54  of the coin passage  32  is defined at the upper surface  68  between an inner guide  69  and an outer guide  70 . A sorting portion  71  is disposed at the end of the downstream side of the dispensing and transporting zone  42  for selectively directing the coins to the left coin output port  15 . The sorting portion  71  has a switching opening  72  provided therein to face the passage surface  68  and accept the coins dropping down from the passage surface  68  and a diverting gate  73  disposed at its stationary location for directing the coins into the switching opening  72 . 
     Also, a set of sensors are disposed over the coin passage  32  for detecting the position of each of the coins being transported on the transporting belt  43 . 
     As shown in  FIGS. 1 ,  2 ,  3 , and  5 , the receiving and ejecting unit  34  includes a storage frame  77  for receiving the coins in a non-aligned state from the coin input port  12  through which the coins are input into or from the coin passage  32 , a flat, endless belt  78  disposed on the bottom of the storage frame  77  along the widthwise direction from left to right of the coil handling apparatus  11 , a reverse roller  79  disposed above the flat belt  78  at the downstream side of the movement in the feeding direction of the flat belt  78  for rotating in a reverse direction of the movement in the feeding direction of the flat belt  78  to align in a single row at a single layer and deliver the coins which have been accepted at non-aligned state, a feeder passage  80  for feeding the coins passed under the reverse roller  79  to the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 , and a delivering portion  81  for feeding the coins one by one from the feeder passage  80  to the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43 . 
     The flat belt  78  is mounted between a roller  82  at the upstream side of the movement in the feeding direction and a roller  83  at the downstream side of the movement in the feeding direction which are pivotably mounted on two horizontally extending axes  82   a ,  82   b  respectively so that its inclined transporting surface  84  extends linearly and upwardly from the upstream side to the downstream side of the movement in the feeding direction. The width of the flat belt  78  is arranged greater than the diameter of the coin and smaller than two times the diameter of the coin. 
     The roller  83  at the downstream side of the movement in the feeding direction of the flat belt  78  is located in the proximity of the innermost end of the inclined passage surface  49  of the coin passage  32  in the receiving and ejecting zone  39 . The inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  and the inclined passage surface  49  of the coin passage  32  extend at the same angle, whereby the coins fed at their inclined state from the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  can be accepted at the inclined state by the inclined passage surface  49  of the coin passage  32 . 
     In addition, a group of rollers  85  and a driving roller  86  are disposed beneath the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  for supporting and driving the flat belt  78 . One of the rollers  85  of the group, denoted by  85   a , is located at the downstream side and the lower side of the roller  83  at the downstream side of the movement in the feeding direction while the flat belt  78  is downwardly inclined from the roller  83  to the roller  85   a . The driving roller  86  is driven by a motor  87  which serves as a common driving unit for conducting the rotating actions of the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36 . This allows the motor  87  to rotate the flat belt  78  for the movement in feeding direction. 
     The storage frame  77  includes a pair of lateral sides  88  located at both sides along the widthwise direction of the flat belt  78  and an end side  89  located at the upstream side of the movement in the feeding direction. The sorting portion  63  at the sorting and transporting zone  41  of the coin passage  32  is located above the storage frame  77  at the upstream side of the movement in the feeding direction. The storage frame  77  thus has a coin inlet  90  provided at the coin receiving location thereof for receiving the coins selectively directed by the sorting portion  63 . 
     A guide member  91  is disposed in the storage frame  77  for guiding the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  while acting as a part of the storage frame  77 . The guide member  91  has a flat supporting surface  92  for supportingly holding the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  at a desired level and a pair of guide portions  93  extended along both sides of the flat belt  78  respectively. Each of the guide portions  93  has a guide surface  95  extended upwardly from its guide side edge  94 , which faces one side of the flat belt  78 , to the outer side end opposite to the flat belt  78  side. The guide surface  95  is consisted mainly of a flat surface  95   a  extended from the guide side edge  94  in parallel with the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  and a tilted surface  95   b  extended upwardly at an angle from the flat surface  95   a  to the outer side end. 
     The height of the guide side edge  94  of the guide portion  93  is sized lower than the inclined transporting surface  84  at the upper side of the flat belt  78  and higher than the lower side of the flat belt  78  or falls within the thickness of the flat belt  78  throughout the area A 1  of the flat belt  78  which extends substantially between the upstream side of the reverse roller  79  and the downstream side of the location just beneath the coin inlet  90  along the movement in the feeding direction. Meanwhile, throughout the area A 2  which extends beneath the coin inlet  90  in the upstream side of the movement in the feeding direction and throughout the area A 3  where the reverse roller  79  is located in the downstream side of the movement in the feeding direction, the height of the guide side edge  94  is sized higher than the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78 . 
     Also, the reverse roller  79  is spaced from the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  at the coin output region of the storage frame  77  so that one coin at the thickness placed on the inclined transporting surface  84  can pass through between the reverse roller  79  and the flat belt  78 . The reverse roller  79  is driven by the motor  87 , which commonly conducts the actions of the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36 , for rotation in a reverse of the movement in the feeding direction of the flat belt  78 , whereby the coins at non-aligned state can be aligned in a single row at a single layer and carried outwardly on the flat belt  78 . 
     The feeder passage  80  extends in the downstream side along the movement in the feeding direction of the reverse roller  79  over the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  and a passage plate  96  which is disposed at one end of the flat belt  78 . The passage plate  96  is arranged flush with the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  and inclined at the same angle. A pair of guide members  97 ,  98  are disposed at both sides of the feeder passage  80  for guiding the outer edge of the coins. The guide members  97 ,  98  are positioned diagonally for biasing the movement of the coins towards one side to align with the transporting direction of the coin passage  32 . 
     In the feeder passage  80 , a debris removing opening  99  is provided at the downstream side along the feeding direction of the guide member  97 , which biases the movement of the coin towards one side, for removing downwardly any debris transported together with the coins by the flat belt  78 . The debris removing aperture  99  is located between the guide member  97 , the downwardly sloping portion of the flat belt  78  extending from the roller  83  to the roller  85   a , and the starting end at the inclined passage surface  49  of the coin passage  32 . A debris recovery box is disposed beneath the debris removing aperture  99  for recovering and storing removed debris. 
     The inner guide  50  is not present at the junction between the coin passage  32  and the coin feeder output end  80   a  of the feeder passage  80  so that the coins fed out from the coin feeder output end  80   a  of the feeder passage  80  can be accepted by the inclined passage surface  49  of the coin passage  32 . 
     The delivering portion  81  has a cam  102  of a round shape pivotably mounted on an axis  101 , which is arranged vertical to the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78 , for rotating motion along the horizontal direction as located at the guide member  97  side of the feeder passage  80  and at the output end of the feeder passage  80  communicating with the downstream side of the transporting direction of the coin passage  32 . The cam  102  is driven by a pulse motor  103  acting as the feeder driver for rotating motion in the direction of coin feeding (in the clockwise direction in the drawing). 
     The cam  102  has, as shown in  FIGS. 7 and 8 , a pair of downwardly projected portions  104  provided at symmetry relationship along the circumferential edge thereof and a recessed portion  105  provided between the projected portions  104 . The projections  104  are spaced from the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  thus to allow no entering of the coins between the projections  104  and the inclined transporting surface  84 . The distance between the recessed portion  105  and the inclined transporting surface  84  and the width of the recessed portion  105  between the two projected portions  104  of the cam  102  are so sized as to accept and seize each of the coins. 
     Each of the projected portions  104  acts as a pushing portion  106  at one end, which faces the direction of rotation, for pushing the coin seized by the recessed portion  105  to the corresponding projection  46  of the transporting belt  43  and also as a stopper portion  107  at the other end, which faces a reverse of the direction of rotation, and the other outer edge for interrupting the movement of the succeeding coin until the timing of feeding the succeeding coin comes after the feeding of the preceding coin. Accordingly, the delivering portion  81  functions as a stopper means for interrupting the feeding of the coins from the input feeding portion  34 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 7(   a ) or  8 ( b ), the cam  102  is controlled to turn 180 degrees from its start position where one coin has moved into one half of the recessed portion  105  and remains interrupted direction by one of the stopper portions  107  as is timed with the action of feeding the preceding coin to a corresponding one of the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43 . The cam  102  thus comes to a stop position or another start position where the succeeding coin has moved into the other half of the recessed portion  105  and remains interrupted direction by the other stopper portion  107  and stands by for starting the succeeding action of feeding. The start position of the cam  102  is detected by a start position detecting means or namely an optical sensor  109  measuring the transmission of light through one of two notches provided in the circumferential edge of a detection disk  108  which is mounted on the axis  101 . 
     Also, another optical sensor  110  is disposed at one side of the flat belt  78  in the feeder passage  80  for detecting the moving in of the coin into the recessed portion  105  of the cam  102 . Correspondingly, the cam  102  has a notch  111  provided therein for allowing the sensor  110  to detect the presence of the coin at the start position. 
     As shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36  are fundamentally identical in the construction to the input feeding portion  34  and include storage frames  77 , flat belts  78 , reverse rollers  79 , feeder passages  80 , and delivering portions  81 . This allows the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36  to eject the coins one by one to the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32  while enabling to accept and store the coins which have been selectively sorted by the sorting portions  63  disposed in the sorting and transporting zone  41  of the coin passage  32 . Therefore, the construction will be explained in no more detail while the description of different points follows. 
     Three of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  having the storage frames  77 , the flat belts  78 , and the reverse rollers  79  are assembled to a single unit. A total of two units are provided in the coin handling apparatus  11 . The rollers  86  for driving the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36  are joined together by couplings not shown while the reverse rollers  79  are joined together by couplings  121 . This allows the common motor  87  to drive the flat belts  78  and the reverse rollers  79  at once in the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36 . 
     As the primary region of the input feeding portion  34  is illustrated in  FIG. 5 , its arrangement is equal to those in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  for large-diameter type coins and the bulk escrow portion  36 .  FIG. 6  illustrates the primary region of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  for small-diameter type coins, where the width of the flat belt  78  is equal, the width of the storage frame  77  is smaller, and the flat surface  95   a  of the guide portion  93  is shorter or not provided as compared with the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  for large-diameter type coins. For example, the coins of Japanese currency are classified into a five-yen coin, a ten-yen coin, a hundred-yen coin, and a five-hundred-yen coin as the large-diameter type coins and a one-yen coin and a fifty-yen coin as the small-diameter type coins. 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7 and 8 , a guide lever  122  acting as a guiding member is disposed at the coin feeder output end  80   a  of the feeder passage  80 , along which the coins are fed out to the coin passage  32  from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36 , for opening and closing the coin feeder output end  80   a  in synchronization with the movement of the coins. The guide lever  122  is arranged for pivotal movement about an axis  123 , which is disposed at the upstream side along the feeding direction of the coin passage  32 , between the position of closing the coin feeder output end  80   a  and the opening position with its distal end extending into the coin passage  32  and remains urged by a spring, not shown, in a direction for closing the coin feeder output end  80   a . The guide lever  122  when remains at the position of closing the coin feeder output end  80   a  directs the coins to be transported from the upstream side to the downstream side along the coin passage  32 . When the guide lever  122  is pushed by the coin being fed outwardly from the coin feeder output end  80   a , it extends into the coin passage  32  as resisting against the urging force of the spring, thus permitting the coin to feed from the coin feeder output end  80   a  to the coin passage  32 . 
     The coin teller machine also includes a controller unit  131  for controlling the actions of the coin handling apparatus  11  which include the foregoing action of handling the coins. 
     The actions of the coin handling apparatus  11  will be described in more detail. 
     The description starts with the action of depositing the coins. 
     When commanded by one of the two, left and right, tellers operating its terminal for starting the action of depositing the coins, the coins are input into the coin input port  12  and accepted by the input feeding portion  34 . As the deposition of the coins to the input feeding portion  34  is detected by a sensor, not shown, detecting the presence of the coins in the input feeding portion  34 , the action of handling the coins starts. 
     In the input feeding portion  34 , the flat belt  78  starts moving in the feeding direction and simultaneously the reverse roller  79  rotates in a reverse direction in the feeding direction. The coins accepted in a non-aligned state are aligned in a single row at a single layer on the flat belt  78  and transported to the feeder passage  80 . By the action of the delivering portion  81 , the coins are delivered one by one from the feeder passage  80  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which is driven along the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  39 . 
     Since the debris removing aperture  99  is provided at the downstream side along the feeding direction in the guide member  97  side of the feeder passage  80  towards which the coins are moved aside, any debris carried together with the coins on the flat belt  78  along the feeder passage  80  can be removed downwardly through the debris removing aperture  99 . Accordingly, the coin passage  32  can favorably be prevented from receiving any debris, thus avoiding undesired malfunctions which result from the presence of debris. 
     The coins are then transported by the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  of the coin passage  32  where their quality is examined by the identifying portion  58  at the identifying and transporting zone  40 . Since the coins being transported in different positions along the widthwise direction of the coin passage as pushed by the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  are dislocated towards the identifying portion  58  by the action of the deflecting member  59 , their quality can accurately be identified with the identifying portion  58 . Moreover, as the deflecting member  59  is made of a resin material, it will hardly interrupt the identifying action of the identifying portion  58  which may generally employ a magnetic sensor. 
     When having been qualified by the identifying portion  58 , the coins are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the bulk escrow portion  36  and stored in the bulk escrow portion  36 . 
     At the time, as the delivering portions  81  in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36  remain inactivated for feeding the coins, they allow no coins to be fed even if the flat belts  78  or the reverse rollers  79  are turned on. 
     When the coins are disqualified and identified as rejected coins by the identifying portion  58  and the action of repeating the identifying action for rejected coins has been preset, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  and sent back to the input feeding portion  34  by the action of the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the bulk escrow portion  36 . This allows the coins to be fed from the input feeding portion  34  to the coin passage  32  and examined once again by the identifying portion  58 . The action of repeating the identifying action will hence minimize the number of the normal coins to be identified unfavorably as rejected coins. 
     Such rejected coins will be removed when they only are present in the input feeding portion  34  and the coin passage  32  and their presence is detected more than a predetermined number of times by the identifying portion  58  or the action of repeating the identifying action has been not preset. More particularly, when the rejected coins are to be handled by the teller at the right side and have been transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 , they are picked up by the sorting portion  63  disposed at the end of the downstream side and corresponding to the right coin output port  16  and discharged to the right coin output port  16 . On the other hand, when the rejected coins are to be handled by the teller at the left side, they are transported from the sorting and transporting zone  41  to the dispensing and transporting zone  42  and picked up by the sorting portion  71  corresponding to the left coin output port  15  and discharged to the left coin output port  15 . The rejected coins discharged to the two coin output ports  15 ,  16  are then recovered in the output boxes  17 ,  18  which are then withdrawn from the housing  10  for removal of the rejected coins. 
     When all the coins have been fed from the input feeding portion  34 , the presence of no coins has been detected with the sensor, and the identifying portion  58  has failed to detect the presence of the coins for a specific length of time, the judgment of completing the action of counting the number of the coins to be handled is issued and the action of the transporting belt  43 , the flat belts  78 , and the reverse rollers  79  are canceled. 
     This is followed by approving the number of the coins and, if the replenishing with coins is commanded, filling the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions with the coins of required denominations. The coins are also fed one by one from the bulk escrow portion  36  by the same action as of the input feeding portion  34  and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . 
     The coins pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  are transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  of the coin passage  32  where they are identified by the identifying portion  58 . 
     When the coins have been qualified by the identifying portion  58 , they are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are sorted and selectively picked up by the sorting portions  63  corresponding to their respective denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  for storage in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 . 
     When the coins have been identified as rejected coins by the identifying portion  58 , e.g., the denomination of coins has hardly been identified, and the action of repeating the identifying action has been preset, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the input feeding portion  34  and returned to the input feeding portion  34 . This allows the rejected coins to be fed from the input feeding portion  34  to the coin passage  32  and examined once again by the identifying portion  58 . The action of repeating the identifying action will hence minimize the number of the normal coins to be identified unfavorably as rejected coins. 
     The rejected coins will be removed when they only are present through the input feeding portion  34  and the coin passage  32  and their presence is detected more than a predetermined number of times by the identifying portion  58  or the action of repeating the identifying action has been not preset. More particularly, when the rejected coins are to be handled by the teller at the right side, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 , picked up by the sorting portion  63  disposed at the end of the downstream side and corresponding to the right coin output port  16 , and discharged to the right coin output port  16 . On the other hand, when the rejected coins are to be handled by the teller at the left side, they are further transported from the sorting and transporting zone  41  to the dispensing and transporting zone  42 , picked up by the sorting portion  71  corresponding to the left coin output port  15 , and discharged to the left coin output port  15 . The rejected coins discharged to the two coin output ports  15 ,  16  are then recovered in the output boxes  17 ,  18  which are then withdrawn from the housing  10  for removal of the rejected coins. 
     If the number of the coins counted is not approved and their returning is commanded, the coins are returned back to the bulk escrow portion  36 . The returned coins are then fed one by one from the bulk escrow portion  36  by the same action as that of the input feeding portion  34  and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . 
     The returned coins are pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  and transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  of the coin passage  32  where they are identified once again by the identifying portion  58 . 
     The returned coins subjected to the identifying portion action are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 . When the returned coins are to be handled by the teller at the right side, they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  disposed at the end of the downstream side and corresponding to the right coin output port  16  and discharged to the right coin output port  16 . On the other hand, when the returned coins is to be handled by the teller at the left side, they are transported from the sorting and transporting zone  41  to the dispensing and transporting zone  42  and selectively picked up by the sorting portion  71  corresponding to the left coin output port  15  and discharged to the left coin output port  15 . The returned coins discharged to the two coin output ports  15 ,  16  are then recovered in the output boxes  17 ,  18  which are then withdrawn from the housing  10  for recovery of the returned coins. 
     Then, the action of dispensing the coins will be described. 
     When demanded by one of the two, left and right, tellers operating its terminal for entering the amount, the denomination, and the number of coins to be dispensed, the action of dispensing the coins is commenced. 
     The coins of the demanded denomination are fed one by one from the corresponding denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest by the same action as of the input feeding portion  34  described previously and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to their respective projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . The other denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of no interest and the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest which has been exhausted after all the coins stored were fed are inactivated with their delivering portions  81  canceling the action of feeding the coins even when the flat belts  78  and the reverse rollers  79  are continuously rotated. 
     The coins to be dispensed are then pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  and transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  of the coin passage  32  where they are identified by the identifying portion  58  at the identifying and transporting zone  40 . 
     The coins which have been qualified as normal coins by the identifying portion  58  are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 . When the coins are to be demanded by the teller at the right side, they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  disposed at the end of the downstream side and corresponding to the right coin output port  16  and discharged to the right coin output port  16 . Similarly, when the coins is to be demanded by the teller at the left side, they are transported from the sorting and transporting zone  41  to the dispensing and transporting zone  42  and selectively picked up by the sorting portion  71  corresponding to the left coin output port  15  and discharged to the left coin output port  15 . The coins discharged to the two coin output ports  15 ,  16  are then collected in the output boxes  17 ,  18 . 
     When the coins have been identified as abnormal coins by the identifying portion  58 , e.g., the denomination of coins has hardly been identified, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the input feeding portion  34  and returned to the input feeding portion  34 . The loss of the coins is then compensated by the coins being ejected again the coins from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest and delivered to the coin passage  32 . 
     As the total amount of the coins to be dispensed have been discharged to the coin output ports  15 ,  16 , the coin boxes  17 ,  18  are drawn out from the housing  10  for completing the action of dispensing the coins. 
     The action of replenishing with the coins will be described. 
     For replenishing the machine, the coins to be re-deposited are input through the coin input port  12 , which acts as a replenish inlet, into the input feeding portion  34 . The coins are then fed one by one from the input feeding portion  34  by the same action as described previously and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . 
     The coins are pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  and further transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  of the coin passage  32  where their quality is examined by the identifying portion  58  at the identifying and transporting zone  40 . 
     When the coins have been identified as normal coins by the identifying action of the identifying portion  58 , they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  for the denominations to be re-supplied and stored in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  depending on the denominations of the coins. 
     When the coins have been identified as abnormal coins by the identifying portion  58 , e.g., the denomination type of coins has hardly been identified, and the action of repeating the identifying action has been preset, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the input feeding portion  34  and returned to the input feeding portion  34 . This allows the abnormal coins to be fed from the input feeding portion  34  to the coin passage  32  and examined once again by the identifying portion  58 . The action of repeating the identifying action will hence minimize the number of the normal coins to be identified unfavorably as abnormal coins. 
     The abnormal coins will be removed when they only are present in the input feeding portion  34  and the coin passage  32  and the presence of a disqualified is detected more than a predetermined number of times by the identifying portion  58 , or the action of repeating the identifying action has been not preset. More particularly, when the abnormal coins are to be handled by the teller at the right side, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 , picked up by the sorting portion  63  disposed at the end of the downstream side and corresponding to the right coin output port  16 , and discharged to the right coin output port  16 . On the other hand, when the abnormal coins are to be handled by the teller at the left side, they are further transported from the sorting and transporting zone  41  to the dispensing and transporting zone  42 , picked up by the sorting portion  71  corresponding to the left coin output port  15 , and discharged to the left coin output port  15 . The abnormal coins discharged to the two coin output ports  15 ,  16  are then recovered in the output boxes  17 ,  18  which are then withdrawn from the housing  10  for removal of the abnormal coins. 
     The action of recovering the coins will be described. 
     For recovering the coins, the coins to be recovered are fed one by one by denomination from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest. More specifically, the coins to be recovered are ejected one by one from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest by the same action as of the input feeding portion  34  described previously and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . 
     The coins to be recovered are pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  and transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  where their quality is examined by the identifying portion  58  at the identifying and transporting zone  40 . 
     When the coins are identified as normal coins by the identifying action of the identifying portion  58 , they are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 , picked up by the sorting portion  63  disposed at the end of the downstream side and corresponding to the right coin output port  16 , discharged to the right coin output port  16 , and recovered through the action of a diverting portion to a recovery cassette disposed in the lower end of the interior of the housing  10 . 
     When the coins to be recovered have been identified as abnormal coins by the identifying portion  58 , e.g., the denomination of coins has hardly been identified, and the action of repeating the identifying action has been preset, they are transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41  where they are selectively picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest and returned to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35 . This allows the abnormal coins to be fed from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest to the coin passage  32  and examined once again by the identifying portion  58 . The action of repeating the identifying action will hence minimize the number of the normal coins to be identified unfavorably as abnormal coins. 
     The abnormal coins are discharged to the coin output ports  15 ,  16  for removal when they only are present in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  and the coin passage  32  and their presence is detected more than a predetermined number of times, which has been preset, by the identifying portion  58  or the action of repeating the identifying action. 
     When the action of recovering the coins from all the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  of interest has been completed, the front door  21  of the housing  10  is opened up for drawing the recovery cassette out. 
     The action of inspecting the coins will be described. 
     The action of inspecting the coins is provided for precisely checking the stock of the coins in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 . 
     The coins to be inspected are ejected from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest by the same action as that of the input feeding portion  34  described previously and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . The coins are then pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  and transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  where their quality is examined by the identifying portion  58  at the identifying and transporting zone  40 . The coins subjected to the identifying action are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 , picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the bulk escrow portion  36 , and delivered to the bulk escrow portion  36  for temporal storage. 
     When the coins dispensed from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest have been subjected to the identifying action and fed into the bulk escrow portion  36 , they are fed one by one from the bulk escrow portion  36  by the same action as that of the input feeding portion  34  described previously and delivered by the delivering portion  81  to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  which runs through the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . The coins to be inspected are then pushed by the projections  46  of the transporting belt  43  and transported from the receiving and transporting zone  39  to the identifying and transporting zone  40  where their quality is examined by the identifying portion  58  at the identifying and transporting zone  40 . The coins subjected to the identifying action are further transported from the identifying and transporting zone  40  to the sorting and transporting zone  41 , picked up by the sorting portion  63  corresponding to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest, and returned back to the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest. 
     This allows the coins to be passed two times through the identifying portion  58  and subjected two times to the identifying action through a single inspecting action, thus increasing the accuracy of the inspecting action. Since the coins are circulated through the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest, the bulk escrow portion  36 , and the coin passage  32 , their transporting route for inspecting can be minimized. 
     This action of inspecting the coins is then repeated for the other denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 . 
     As described, the coin handling apparatus  11  conducts the actions of depositing, dispensing, replenishing, recovering, and inspecting the coins with the transporting belt  43  of an annular form running throughout the annular coin passage  32  for transporting the coins, whereby its transport mechanism including the depositing system and the dispensing system can be simplified in the arrangement and minimized in the overall dimensions as is constructed for common use. 
     While the coins are identified by the single identifying portion  58  disposed across the coin passage  32  during all the depositing, dispensing, replenishing, recovering, and inspecting actions, their identification is reliable particularly for the dispensing action and their accounting task can hence be improved in the accuracy. 
     Since the coins fed from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  of interest are identified by the identifying portion  58 , their examination at the outlet of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  is not required thus allowing the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  to be common at the output side arrangement to each other. Also, the output side arrangement of the bulk escrow portion  36  can be designed equal to those of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 . Moreover, the sorting portions  63  can be identical in the arrangement, hence allowing the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36  to be located at desired positions. 
     Since the coins deposited and the coins to be dispensed are transported along the transporting direction of the annular transporting belt  43 , their handling at different stations for the actions including the depositing action and the dispensing action can be carried out in one direction and their corresponding mechanisms and controls can be simplified. 
     Since the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32  where the coins to be dispensed are accepted is located different from the sorting and transporting zone  41  of the coin passage  32  where the coins deposited are sorted, the depositing action and the dispensing action can separately be carried out at consistency with the depositing system and the dispensing system provided in the common arrangement. 
     Since the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36  are located at the inner side of both the coin passage  32  and the transporting belt  43 , their maintenance can easily be conducted without opening up the other mechanisms. 
     Since the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , the bulk escrow portion  36 , and the identifying portion  58  are laid out in a row from the front side to the rear side and the bulk escrow portion  36  and the identifying portion  58  are located close to each other, the distance from the identifying station to the temporal storage station for transporting the deposited coins as well as the distance from the identifying station to the storage station for transporting the coins to be temporarily stored are can be shortened thus decreasing the overall handling time and minimizing the possibility of the coins jammed during the transporting action. 
     Since the input feeding portion  34 , the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35 , and the bulk escrow portion  36  permit the coins to be accepted in a non-aligned state on the flat belts  78 , the stock of the coins can be increased in the quantity. Also, during the delivering action, the coins in a non-aligned state can be aligned in a single row at a single layer on the flat belts  78  by a combination of the motion along the transporting direction of the flat belts  78  and the motion in a reverse direction of the reverse rollers  79  while the delivering portions  81  are operated to deliver the coins one by one to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43 . 
     Then, the movement of the coins fed from the input feeding portion  34  will be described. This movement is identical to the movement of the coins ejected from the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36  which are equal in the construction to the input feeding portion  34 . 
     As shown in  FIGS. 5 and 6 , the height of the guide side surfaces  94  of the two guide portions  93  of the guide member  91  sandwiching the flat belt  78  is set lower than the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  and higher than the bottom surface of the flat belt  78 . Accordingly, the coins can be shaken up on the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  as the coins at the downstream side along the transporting direction are pushed at angles against both the guide portions  93  by the coins at the upstream side along the transporting direction during the rotating motion of the flat belt  78 . 
     Since the coins are shaken and advanced to the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction on the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78 , their quantity to be stored can be increased. As no specific mechanism is needed for shaking the coins, the overall construction can be simplified. 
     Since the width of the flat belt  78  is set greater than the diameter of the coin and smaller than two times the diameter of the coin, the coins can be carried in a zigzag form on the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  thus allowing the coins at the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction to be effectively pushed at angles against both the guide portions  93  by the coins at the upstream side of the movement in the transporting direction throughout the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  and increasing the effect of shaking the coins. 
     As shown in  FIG. 3 , the height of the guide side edge  94  of the guide portion  93  is sized lower than the inclined transporting surface  84  at the upper side of the flat belt  78  and higher than the lower side of the flat belt  78  or falls within the thickness of the flat belt  78  throughout the area A 1  of the flat belt  78  which extends substantially between the upstream side of the reverse roller  79  and the downstream side of the location just beneath the coin inlet  90  along the movement in the transporting direction. This ensures the ease of shaking the coins. 
     Meanwhile, throughout the area A 2  which extends beneath the coin inlet  90  in the upstream side of the movement in the transporting direction, the height of the guide side edge  94  is sized higher than the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78 . This allows the coins to be contained on the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  between both the guide side edges  94  of the guide portions  93 , hence ensuring the efficiency of delivering the coins towards the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction. Similarly, throughout the area A 3  where the reverse roller  79  is located in the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction, the height of the guide side edge  94  is sized higher than the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78 . This allows the coins to be contained on the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  between both the guide side edges  94  of the guide portions  93 , hence permitting the coins to be securely carried in a single row at a single layer. 
     Also as shown in  FIG. 3 , the flat belt  78  in the input feeding portion  34  is arranged with its inclined transporting surface  84  extending at an angle upwardly from the upstream side of the movement in the transporting direction to the downstream side of the movement in the transporting direction while the coin passage  32  is arranged with its inclined passage surface  49  extending at the same angle as of the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78 . This allows the coins from the inclined transporting surface  84  of the flat belt  78  to be directly accepted and transported by the inclined passage surface  49  in their inclined state. Accordingly, as its flat belt needs not to have such a bent as in the conventional art at the intermediate location for making the downstream side of the transporting movement horizontal, the input feeding portion  34  can be simplified in the construction, thus preventing the coins from being jammed during the transporting movement as resulting from the shape of the bent. 
     Since the flat belt  78  includes no bent at the intermediate location, its downstream side of the transporting movement is elevated higher than that with the bent. Accordingly, the coin passage  32  remains higher and its location for receiving the coins from the input feeding portion  32  is elevated by a moderate margin which thus contributes to the increase of the number of the coins to be saved in the input feeding portion  34 . 
     Since the coins transported on the inclined passage surface  49  along the coin passage  32  are shifted from their inclined position to their horizontal position by the action of the shifting passage surface  53  and further transported on the horizontal passage surface  54 , they can certainly be subjected along the horizontal passage surface  54  to the identifying action in the identifying and transporting zone  40  and the sorting action in the sorting and transporting zone  41  of the coin passage  32 . 
     Since the grooved clearance  52  is provided in the inclined passage surface  49  of the coin passage  32  for spacing from the projection  46  of the transporting belt  43 , the collision between the projection  46  and the inclined passage surface  49  can be avoided thus allowing the coins to be transported one by one at consistency as pushed by their respective projections  46 . 
     The movement of the coins delivered from the delivering portion  81  will be described referring to  FIGS. 7 and 8 .  FIG. 7  illustrates the action of ejecting the large-diameter coins and  FIG. 8  illustrates the action of ejecting the small-diameter coins. While the action of the delivering portion  81  with the guide lever  122  at the coin output end  80   a  is shown in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion  35  and the bulk escrow portion  36  respectively, it is equal to that in the input feeding portion  34 . 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7(   a ) and  8 ( a ), with the cam  102  located at the start position in the delivering portion  81 , the coin moves into one of the recessed portions  105  while being carried directly along the guide member  97  at one side by the flat belt  78  and stops upon coming into direct contact with the stopper portion  107  of the projected portion  104 . 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7(   b ) and  8 ( b ), the succeeding coin following the coin interrupted by the cam  102  then strikes the coin interrupted by the cam  102  and stops its movement. 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7(   c ) and  8 ( c ), when the sensor  110  detects the coin interrupted by the cam  102 , the cam  102  is turned in the transporting direction at the timing for delivering the coin to the corresponding projection  46  of the transporting belt  43  in response to the location of the projections  46 . 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7(   d ),  7 ( e ),  7 ( f ), and  FIGS. 8(   d ),  8 ( e ),  8 ( f ), when the cam  102  is turned, the projected portion  104  at the other side moves in between the preceding coin and the succeeding coin while pressing the preceding coin with its pushing portion  106  towards the coin passage  32  thus to interrupt the movement of the succeeding coin with the stopper portion  107  at the outer side thereof. 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7(   g ) and  8 ( g ), the coin to be delivered is pushed forward by the pushing portion  106  of the projected portion  104  at the other side to the location in the coin passage  32  where it is accepted by the projection  46  of the transporting belt  43 . 
     As shown in  FIGS. 7(   h ) and  8 ( h ), the coin pushed into the coin passage  32  is then held and transported by the projection  46  of the transporting belt  43 . The cam  102  then turns 180 degrees and stops at its start position. As the succeeding coin moves into the recessed portion  105  at the other side and its presence is detected by the sensor  110 , the cam  102  is turned in the transporting direction at a pre-determined timing for delivering the succeeding coin to the corresponding projection  46  of the transporting belt  43  in response to the location of the projections  46 . 
     As described, the cam  102  when having pushed and delivered the preceding coin with its pushing portion  106  to the corresponding projection  46  of the transporting belt  43  holds the succeeding coin with its stopper portion  107  before the next delivering motion, whereby the coins can certainly be delivered one by one to the corresponding projections  46  of the transporting belt  43 . 
     Alternatively, the coin passage  32  may be arranged of an annular shape by joining the trailing end of the dispensing and transporting zone  42  to the leading end of the receiving and transporting zone  39  of the coin passage  32 . 
     The transporting body is not limited to the transporting belt  43  but may be implemented by, for example, wires or chains. In the latter case, the rotating member is not limited to the roller but may be a sprocket. 
     The number of the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  is not limited to six. 
     The denominations of coins to be stored in the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions  35  may arbitrarily be determined. For example, the denomination of coins not to be used for the dispensing action and the denomination of coins to be accommodated at full stock may be stored in a combination. 
     The functional units joined with the transporting unit  33  may be selected from a denomination-specific escrow portion for temporarily storing the coins of one denomination, a bulk accommodating and dispensing portion for storing and dispensing the coins in bulk, a reject box for storing rejected coins, a recovery cassette for storing the coins recovered, a replenish cassette for storing the coins to be replenished, and so on. 
     INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY 
     The present invention is applicable to a coin depositing and dispensing apparatus for depositing and dispensing money in coins or a money handling apparatus which is a combination of a coin depositing and dispensing machine for depositing and dispensing coins and a bank note depositing and dispensing machine for depositing and dispensing bank notes.