PAPER SHEET HANDLING MECHANISM AND PAPER SHEET HANDLING METHOD

摘要

A loop-shaped part is provided in a middle part of a transport path 11c provided in a paper sheet handling mechanism 10. This loop-shaped part can serve to hold a paper sheet (or paper sheets) W1 by circulating the paper sheet W1 thereon. Once the paper sheet W2 present on the upstream side relative to the loop-shaped part along the transport path 11c is fed to the loop-shaped part, the paper sheet W2 present on the upstream side relative to the loop-shaped part and the one paper sheet or the batch of paper sheets W1 present on the loop-shaped part are respectively moved, such that the paper sheet W2 can be stacked with the paper sheet (or paper sheets) W1 circulated along the loop-shaped part. A paper sheet length detector detects whether or not the length in the transport direction of the paper sheet W2 fed to the loop-shaped part from the upstream side relative to the loop-shaped part along the transport path 11c is longer than a predetermined length. If the length in the transport direction of the paper sheet W2 is longer than the predetermined length, this paper sheet W2 will be ejected from the loop-shaped part.