Patent ID: 6978926

Claim:
A circulating type bank note depositing and dispensing machine, in which deposited bank notes are used for dispensing bank notes, comprising: an upper structure unit and a lower structure unit provided on a machine body configured so as to be drawable out from the front side of said machine body; in said upper structure unit, a bank note dispensing portion through which bank notes are dispensed from a front side thereof and a bank note depositing portion into which bank notes are deposited disposed on the upper front side of said machine body; an occupancy instructing portion for instructing at which of a left or right side a process is taking place in an installation area of the bank note dispensing portion and bank note depositing portion; a temporary storage portion for collectively storing deposited bank notes disposed at the front side area of said machine body; a device which receives deposited bank notes sheet by sheet in the temporary storage portion and dispenses temporarily deposited bank notes sheet by sheet when a deposit is approved; an openable and closable front side door through which a customer of the circulating bank note depositing and dispensing machine can remove temporarily stored bank notes from the front side of said temporary storage portion if the deposit of the temporarily stored bank notes is not approved is disposed at the front side of the temporary storage portion; and an upper structure unit side bank note conveying portion which conveys bank notes by connecting the bank note dispensing portion, bank note depositing portion and temporary storage portion; a bank note identifying portion which identifies bank notes is disposed at bank note conveying portion of the upper structure unit; in the lower structure unit, a reject box which accommodates rejected bank notes disposed at the front side area of said machine body; denominated bank note storage portions which accommodate bank notes per denomination disposed in front and rear directions in a rear area of said reject box; a bank note receiving and taking out portion which receives bank notes and dispenses the bank notes sheet by sheet disposed in respective denominated bank note storage portion portions; and a bank note conveying portion which conveys bank notes by connecting the bank note receiving and taking-out portions; and in said machine body or said lower structure unit, a covering member which covers up the lower structure unit when the lower structure unit accommodated in said machine body is closed, a first connection passage which connects bank note conveying portion of said upper structure unit and bank note conveying portion of said lower structure unit, and a second connection passage which connects bank note conveying portion of said upper structure unit and said reject box are respectively disposed; and a first opening for said first connection passage and a second opening for said second connection passage are provided in said covering member.