Patent ID: 8783436

Claim:
A money handling system comprising: a money change machine including: a housing, an inlet for putting a paper sheet from the outside of the housing to the inside thereof, a transport unit disposed inside the housing and configured to transport the paper sheet having been put into the housing through the inlet, a first recognition unit disposed on the transport unit and configured to recognize the paper sheet having been put into the housing through the inlet, a change storing and feeding unit disposed inside the housing and configured to store, as a change, a banknote of a specific denomination among the paper sheet having been recognized by the first recognition unit, and to feed out the stored banknote to the transport unit, and an outlet connected to the transport unit, for dispensing a paper sheet from the inside of the housing to the outside thereof; a pneumatic tube configured to transport a storing member for the pneumatic tube; a recognition machine provided separately from the money change machine and connected to the pneumatic tube, the recognition machine including: a second recognition unit configured to recognize a paper sheet having been put into the recognition machine, and a storing mechanism configured to store the paper sheet having been recognized by the second recognition unit, into the storing member for pneumatic tube to be transported by the pneumatic tube; and a control unit to which information relating to the paper sheet stored in the change storing and feeding unit of the money change machine and information relating to a paper-sheet recognition result by the second recognition unit of the recognition machine are respectively transmitted, the control unit being configured to calculate a deposit amount of the paper sheet by adding up the former information and the latter information.