Patent ID: 7708192

Claim:
A bill depositing/withdrawing apparatus which is provided in an ATM having a cash slot for charging/discharging a bill or bills, comprising: a bill storage section including a moveable portion that supports at least a portion of a bill or bills and is provided inwardly of the cash slot; a posture changing portion that changes the bill storage section between: a money depositing/withdrawing posture in which a bill or bills are received from, or paid to, a user through the cash slot, and a feeding/stacking posture in which a bill or bills are fed into the apparatus and stacked in the bill storage section; wherein during a money charging operation, the posture changing portion changes the bill storage section to the money depositing/withdrawing posture, and receives the charged bill or charged bills from the user, wherein, during receiving of the charged bill or bills, the bill storage section clamps the charged bill or bills with the clamping portion such that a part of the clamping portion and upper ends of the charged bill or changed bills placed in the bill storage section project outwardly from the cash slot toward the user, and the bill storage section takes the charged bill or charged bills into the bill storage section; and wherein, during a money discharging operation, the posture changing portion changes the bill storage section to the money depositing/withdrawing posture, and then the bill storage section clamps the bill or bills to be discharged with the clamping portion such that a part of the clamping portion and upper ends of the bill or bills to be discharged project from the cash slot toward the user.