Patent ID: 7299978

Claim:
A bill deposit and withdrawal apparatus including a deposit/withdrawal unit, the deposit/withdrawal unit having a bill-receiving space, a separator for dispatching a bill from the bill-receiving space, and a stacker for stacking a bill in the bill-receiving space, the apparatus comprising: a shutter for opening and closing the bill-receiving space; a first plate for forming a front wall of the bill-receiving space and guiding transfer of a bill into the bill-receiving space; a second plate spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the first plate to define the bill-receiving space; a third plate provided between the first and second plates to partition the bill-receiving space into two spaces; and a fourth plate configured to be raised to the same level as a bottom surface of the bill-receiving space, and lowered to above the separator to transfer the bill stacked in the bill-receiving space toward the separator.