Patent ID: 8267398

Claim:
A medium storing and feeding-out apparatus storing and feeding out a medium, comprising: a conveyance channel conveying the medium; a discharge slot discharging the medium, a conveyor belt receiving the medium conveyed on said conveyance channel to convey the medium toward said discharge slot; a guide arranged to face said conveyor belt along the entire length of the conveyor belt and having a mountain-like portion that has a mountain-like shape to convey said medium toward said discharge slot by pinching said medium between said conveyor belt and said guide over the entire mountain-like portion, wherein said guide has a summit at a position corresponding to a middle of said conveyor belt, a portion of the mountain-like shape intersecting with said conveyor belt, and said guide being arranged so as to avoid touching said conveyor belt; a feed roller arranged between said conveyance channel and said conveyor belt for delivering the medium conveyed on said conveyance channel to said conveyor belt; and a tongue piece roller arranged coaxially with said feed roller and having an outer circumference on which a plurality of tongue pieces are arranged so as to have a portion superimposed on a rear end of the medium delivered from said feed roller to said conveyor belt, the tongue piece roller rotating so that said tongue pieces slap the rear end of the medium delivered from said conveyance channel to said conveyor belt to orient the rear end downward, the downward-oriented rear end being superimposed with a front end of a following medium to be conveyed.