Banknote deposit transaction apparatus and banknote deposit transaction method

A banknote handling apparatus comprising a sorted-banknote stacking device that sorts and stacks banknotes per denomination and a bundling device that bundles the banknotes, wherein

• the sorted-banknote stacking device includes:
• a hopper unit for depositing a banknote into the banknote handling apparatus;
• a feeding unit that feeds the banknote deposited into the hopper unit one by one;
• a transporting unit that transports the banknote fed by the feeding unit;
• a denomination recognizing unit that recognizes the denomination of the banknote transported by the transporting unit;
• a plurality of stackers in which the banknote transported by the transporting unit is sorted and stacked based on a recognition result obtained by the denomination recognizing unit, and
• a rejecting unit that discharges a rejected banknote and
• the bundling device includes:
• a bundling-object-banknote stacking unit that sorts and stacks banknotes of a specific denomination transported by the transporting unit of the sorted-banknote stacking unit;
• and
• a banknote bundling unit that bundles the banknotes sorted and stacked in the bundling-object-banknote stacking unit when the number of the banknotes reaches a predetermined number, wherein
• the sorted-banknote stacking device that is used by installing at a higher level than a floor surface, and the bundling device that is used by installing on the floor surface are connected to each other by the transporting unit.