Patent ID: 8496099

Claim:
A medium processing apparatus comprising: a reception part having a deposit and withdrawal port for a bill; a discrimination part that performs discrimination relating to the bill; a temporary holding part that holds the bill; a switching blade that switches a conveyance direction of the bill that is discriminated at the discrimination part; a switching timing sensor that detects a switching timing of the switching blade; a denomination cassette that accommodates the bill; and a conveyance passage connecting from the discrimination part to the reception part, wherein an arc-shaped conveyance passage, formed in an arc shape, which includes a cylindrical drive roller that rotates about a rotational shaft and a plurality of pressure rollers that press an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical drive roller such that a bill conveyed path along which a bill is conveyed is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical drive roller and the plurality of pressure rollers, is formed in the conveyance passage, wherein the switching blade is disposed at a branch part of the arc-shaped conveyance passage and a branch conveyance passage connected to the temporary holding part, wherein a first unit including the reception part and a pressure roller at a reception part side of the arc-shaped conveyance passage is configured to be rotatable about a rotational fulcrum of the first unit, and a second unit including the temporary holding part, a pressure roller immediately near the branch part and the switching blade is configured to be rotatable about a rotatable fulcrum of the second unit, and a portion of the bill conveyed portion of the arc-shaped conveyance passage is exposed by rotating the first unit such that the pressure roller at the reception part side is apart from the drive roller, and another portion of the bill conveyed portion of the arc-shaped conveyance passage is exposed by rotating the second unit such that the pressure roller immediately near the branch part is apart from the drive roller.