Money handling apparatus and money handling method

A banknote handling apparatus, comprising:

• an inlet through which a banknote is fed from outside of the banknote handling apparatus into inside of the banknote handling apparatus;
• a transport to transport the banknote;
• an outlet through which banknotes are fed out from inside of the banknote handling apparatus to outside of the banknote handling apparatus;
• a plurality of storages, each storage of the plurality of storages storing banknotes;
• an upper assembly including the inlet and the outlet;
• and
• a lower assembly below the upper assembly, the lower assembly including the plurality of storages, wherein
• a storage of the plurality of storages has two drums,
• the banknote is wound on each drum with a pair of tapes sandwiching the banknote therebetween as each drum rotates,
• the banknote sandwiched between the pair of tapes is fed out to the transport as each drum rotates in a direction opposite to the winding direction of the tapes,
• the banknote is fed out to the transport in a first direction, and
• centers of the two drums are arranged along a second direction which is angled with respect to the first direction.