Abstract: A banknote processor for judging whether a banknote inserted into a banknote insertion port is authentic or false, storing the inserted banknote in the interior of a processor body when judging that the banknote is authentic and returning the inserted banknote to the banknote insertion port when judging that the banknote is false. In the banknote processor, a fluid collector for collecting fluid dropping from a bottom of the processor body is disposed at a lower side of the bottom of the processor body, and a fluid guiding member is communicatingly connected to the fluid collector for guiding the collected fluid externally of the processor body.

Abstract: A coin processor which includes a coin selecting section for discriminating whether inserted coins are genuine or false and denominations of genuine coins, and guiding false coins to a predetermined coin passageway and the genuine coins to respective predetermined coin passageways in accordance with their denominations, a coin accommodating section for accommodating the genuine coins in accordance with their denominations, a coin payment section for paying out from the coin accommodating section coins of denominations corresponding to an amount of change, a detection section for detecting a quantity of coins stored in the coin accommodating section and, a time control section for controlling an interval of time for payment of the stored coins in accordance with the stored quantity of coins detected by the detection section.

Abstract: In a device for validating and accumulating bills and coins for fixed and movable chute mechanisms forming therebetween a bill passage and magnetic heads provided above the bill passage for validating bills passing thereby, and head pressing rollers for pressing bills against the magnetic heads from the opposite side of the bill passage. A feature of this device is that, when a counterfeit bill is to be returned by reversing the travel of a bill conveying belt constituting one part of a fixed chute mechanism, a mechanism automatically operates to move each head pressing roller clear of the bill passage thereby to prevent jamming of the bill. Another feature is that the driving shafts respectively of the bill conveying belt and of a coin conveying belt are coaxially coupled by way of a one-way clutch, whereby when the bill conveying belt is driven in reverse dirction for rejection and return of a bill, the coin conveying belt is stopped thereby to prevent reverse conveying coins.

Abstract: The coin separator includes a first coin passage having an inclined rail on which two coins having larger and smaller diameters are transferred. A first inclined wall is formed sidewise of the inclined rail. An upper end of the first inclined wall is inclined at a predetermined angle toward the outside of the first coin passage and the height of the first inclined wall is generally larger than the diameter of a large diameter coin. A second inclined wall is formed upstream of the first inclined wall. An upper end of the second inclined wall is inclined at a predetermined angle toward the outside of the first coined passage. The predetermined angle of the second inclined wall is greater than that of the first inclined wall and the height of the second inclined wall is generally larger than the diameter of a small diameter coin. A wall projects from a position located opposite to the second inclined wall to the inside of the first coin passage.

Abstract: A coin separator includes first and second coin passages separated and defined in part by a plate having an elongated hole disposed lengthwise in the downward direction of coin movement. The diameter of the elongated hole is less than large diameter coins and greater than smaller diameter coins which are to be sorted. The plate is attachable to and detachable from the casing for cleaning and repair purposes, and a lower portion of the elongated hole has arcuate cutouts on both sides of a lower portion of the plate which projects upwardly in opposite relationship to downward coin movement. The peripheries of the arcuate cutouts and the upwardly projecting plate portion are tapered upwardly in cross-section which in conjunction with a tongue having a lower end movable into and out of the elongated hole assure that bent and/or deflected coins of small diameter pass through the appropriate coin passage.

Abstract: A coin tube cassette is detachably mounted in a coin dispensing apparatus and has a plurality of coin tubes for storing coins in the direction of thickness thereof and coin shoots in units of denominations of coins stored in the radial direction thereof. The coins are automatically replenished by coin selector gates in the coin tubes or the coin shoots until they become full. A selected coin is discharged from the coin tube or the coin shoot in response to a code set by a code setter in accordance with the type of the tube cassette and the denominations of coins stored in the coin tubes. Coin dispensing is performed by a rotary disk having grooves for receiving coins and a coin selection plates having slits. The coin tube or the coin shoot is selected by a single solenoid.