Patent ID: 7252185

Claim:
A bill receiving and paying apparatus for receiving and paying out of a bill comprising: a cash slot for paying out or receiving the bill; a bill validator validating the bill; a temporary storing portion temporarily storing the bill; a plurality of recycle cassettes per money kinds receiving or discharging the bill; a replenishment/retract cassette replenishing the bill to the recycle cassette or retracting the bill from the recycle cassette; a reject cassette receiving the bill which is impossible to be validated by the bill validator; and a carrying path carrying the bill, wherein the recycle cassette have a vertically arranged structure accumulating the bill in a horizontal attitude, wherein the replenishment/retract cassette has a horizontally arranged structure accumulating the bill in an erected position attitude, wherein the recycle cassette and the reject cassette are arranged in parallel in a depth direction from a front face of the apparatus, and wherein the replenishment/retract cassette is arranged in an upper portion of the recycle cassettes and the reject cassette and in a lower portion of the validator.