Patent ID: 8196916

Claim:
A banknote depositing unit, comprising: a first conveying section conveying one or more banknotes deposited in a temporary holding section, which holds the one or more banknotes as a bundle of banknotes from an inlet through a first route; a second conveying section conveying each banknote from the bundle of banknotes held in the temporary holding section to a return outlet through a second route; and a third conveying section conveying each bundle of banknotes held in the temporary holding section to a cassette section where the banknotes are to be stored in each bundle through a third route, wherein: in the first route and the second route, the first conveying section and the second conveying section convey banknotes within a dimension orthogonal to the longitudinal dimension of the banknotes in a width dimension and a vertical dimension of the depositing unit; and in the third route, after the bundle of banknotes is conveyed by the third conveying section within the longitudinal dimension of the bundle toward a front or a back in a depth dimension of the depositing unit, the bundle is conveyed within the longitudinal dimension of the bundle downward in the unit and with the longitudinal dimension of the banknotes set as the vertical dimension toward the front or the back of the depth dimension of the cassette section.