Bill receiving and dispensing machine

Claim 1

A bill receiving and dispensing machine capable of receiving bills of a plurality of denominations and dispensing bills of at least one denomination among the denominations of the received bills and comprising a plurality of stacker means for storing the received bills and feed-out roller means for taking out bills stored in said plurality of stacker means one by one from said plurality of stacker means by frictional force between the feed-out roller means and the lower face of the lowermost bills, said feed-out roller means being positioned at a lower portion of said plurality of stacker means, one of said plurality of stacker means comprising pool means for temporarily storing the received bills of a denomination of less frequent use compared to the other denominations of the received bills and the received bills which cannot be received in other stacker means, bill holding plate means for receiving bills from said pool means and holding them on the upper face thereof, said bill holding plate means being movable in the vertical direction while being held horizontally, and bottom plate means for holding bills of the denomination of less frequent use compared to the other denominations of the received bills and are exclusively used to be dispensed on the upper face thereof, said bottom plate means being disposed at a bottom portion of said one of the plurality of stacker means, said bill receiving and dispensing machine further including elevating means for moving and positioning said bill holding plate means at an upper position close to said pool means when receiving the received bills from said pool mean and moving and positioning said bill holding plate means at a lower position where said bill holding plate means can press the bills held on said bottom plate means when feeding out the bills held on said bottom plate means from said one of the plurality of stacker means.