Patent ID: 7380784

Claim:
A paper sheet accumulating/feeding apparatus including an accumulating unit that accumulates a paper sheet or sheets, and an accumulating/feeding unit arranged between a paper sheet conveyance path outside the apparatus and the accumulating unit to perform a storage processing and a feeding processing on a paper sheet or sheets, the accumulating/feeding unit comprising: a rotating member including one or more pieces, which spread radially from an axis thereof and are made of a member, at least a part of which is flexible, as the rotating member rotates at the time of accumulating processing, the rotating member slapping the paper sheet in a direction, in which the paper sheet is accumulated in the accumulating unit, to accumulate the paper sheet a guide member that guides the one or more pieces to suppress radial spread of the one or more pieces at the time of feeding processing, and a movable holding unit that movably holds the guide member in relation to the rotating member.