Paper sheet transport system and restoration method

A paper sheet transport system comprising:

• an air flow generating device, an air blowing tube that forms therein a flow path of an air flow generated by the air flow generating device, a switching unit that controls switching of directions of an air flow in the air blowing tube, a controlling unit that controls the air flow generating device and the switching unit;
• a moving body that travels inside the air blowing tube while receiving an air flow flowing within the air blowing tube;
• a transport body route having at least a portion arranged along the air blowing tube to be adjacent to the air blowing tube;
• and
• a transport body configured to be able to retain paper sheets and traveling inside the transport body route, wherein
• the moving body includes a moving body magnetic material, and the transport body includes a transport body magnetic material,
• a configuration to move the transport body in conjunction with movement of the moving body due to repulsion based on a magnetic force applied between the moving body magnetic material and the transport body magnetic material when the moving body magnetic material and the transport body magnetic material are in a close location relation is included, and
• when the moving body moves ahead and separates from a range of the close location relation due to halfway stop of the transport body in a process of the moving body moving the transport body in the close location relation in a predetermined direction, the controlling unit causes the moving body to move the transport body in an opposite direction to an original travel direction to stop the transport body at a predetermined end portion stop position, subsequently causes only the moving body to travel in a direction further away from the transport body to temporarily stop the moving body, and then returns the moving body into the range of the close location relation by causing the moving body to travel toward the transport body at a speed resistible against a repelling force.