Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus for intermittently feeding sheets one by one into printing equipment. The apparatus comprises a sheet pickup roller fixed to a rotatable drive shaft, a pair of cylindrical rollers rotatably and coaxially coupled to the drive shaft and disposed at both sides of the sheet pickup roller, and a pad biased by a spring to be pressed against the sheet pickup roller and the cylindrical rollers. The sheet pickup roller has a cross section comprising an arc portion and a chord portion to substantially form a semicylindrical configuration. Also included in the apparatus is a projection provided at the chord portion of the sheet pickup roller. The projection is arranged to come into contact with the sheet over a range from a contact point between the sheet pickup roller and the pad to one end portion of the arc portion which acts as a leading portion at which the sheet pickup roller initially comes into contact with the sheet when rotating in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for taking out bundled bills includes an elevator arranged in front of the containing boxes for containing the bundled bills, a sliding block arranged between the elevator and the containing boxes and driven up and down by a belt, a discharging block mounted on a swing shaft which is swingably mounted on the sliding block, a discharging block regulating roller for regulating the rotation of the swing block in contact with the elevator, and, having a supporting block for receiving the bundled bills having fallen and slowly guiding the bundled bills into the elevator.

Abstract: Storage boxes are provided in a bundle-and-bar money paying machine and arranged to be stacked one on another. Some of the storage boxes store bill bundles as stacked in a horizontal direction. An elevator is provided for moving vertically. Slide blocks are movably provided on slide guide shafts positioned between the elevator and the storage boxes. Each slide block is constructed so that bill bundles are discharged into the elevator in cooperation with the elevator.