Patent ID: 7497339

Claim:
A bill handling machine comprising: a money input and output port inputting and outputting a bill; a shutter opening and closing said money input and output port; a judging portion judging the bill; a money kind box accommodating the bill per money kinds; and a control portion, wherein a bill accommodating space closer to an inner side than said shutter is divided into a first bill accommodating portion of the input bill put in from said money input and output port, a third bill accommodating portion temporarily storing the input bill fed from said first bill accommodating portion and judged as an acceptable bill by said judging portion, and a second bill accommodating portion provided between said first bill accommodating portion and said third bill accommodating portion and accommodating a rejected bill fed from said first bill accommodating portion and judged as an unacceptable bill by said judging portion, wherein said first bill accommodating portion, said second bill accommodating portion and said third bill accommodating portion are comparted by movable plate, and sizes and positions of the accommodating spaces of said first bill accommodating portion, said second bill accommodating portion and said third bill accommodating portion are regulated by moving said plate, and wherein said control portion: controls so as to feed the bill input to said first bill accommodating portion so as to feed to said judging portion at a time of inputting the bill, controls so as to feed the input bill judged as the acceptable bill by said judging portion to said third bill accommodating portion, controls so as to feed the reject bill judged as the unacceptable bill by said judging portion to said second bill accommodating portion, controls the movement of said plate so as to make of the accommodating spaces of said first bill accommodating portion, said second bill accommodating portion and said third bill accommodating oppose to the position of said money input and output, thereby controlling so as to open said shutter, and controls so as to feed the input bill temporarily store in said third bill accommodating portion and feed to said money kind box.