Patent ID: 8328176

Claim:
A paper-sheet-loading device comprising: a tray that has a loading face on which a bound booklet or unbound paper sheets or the like are loaded; an elevation unit for moving the tray up and down along a direction in which the booklet or the paper sheets or the like are loaded; an outlet that has an opening along the elevation direction of the tray in a front side of a body of the device; a tray guide member that slidably supports the tray between a loading position where the booklet or paper sheets or the like are loaded and a take-out position where it is pulled out from the outlet and the loaded booklet or paper sheets or the like are taken out; an auxiliary loading member that is exposed to a rear side of the tray pulled out to the take-out position and that has a shape after a shape of the loading face of the tray; and a loading guide face having a guide groove formed along the elevation direction of the tray, wherein the tray is provided with: a fall prevention member that projects toward a direction of the loading guide face to enter the guide groove and moves along the guide groove accompanied with the elevation of the tray, the fall prevention member being provided on a side of a lower end of the loading face inclined in a direction in which its side on which a binding part which binds the loaded booklet is mounted goes down; and a retreating unit for allowing the fall prevention member to retreat from the guide groove by an operation to pulling out the tray from the loading position to the take-out position, and for placing back the fall prevention member into the guide groove by an operation to return the tray from the take-out position to the loading position.