AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the braking force to be applied to the bills, to avoid the malfunction that the pushdown force of a brake pad is applied in a bill feeding direction, and eliminate the wasted lowering stroke of the brake pad as much as possible to prevent a timing lag of the brake in a bill brake mechanism for preventing the double-feeding of the bills. SOLUTION: This automatic teller machine 1 is provided with a stage 407 for elevating the piled-up bills P, a belt carrying body 303 for carrying the bills P piled-up on the stage 407 one by one in order from the upper thereof for delivery, and the bill brake mechanism 307 for regulating the double-feeding of the bills due to a contact with the bill P of a lower layer when the bill P is delivered to the predetermined position by the belt carrying body 303. The brake pad 307a to be brought in contact with the bill P of the lower layer is arranged to be overlapped with a folding position of the bills P.