Automatic bank note transaction apparatus

An automatic bank note transaction apparatus provided with a housing having a money inlet slot through which bank notes for deposit are to be inserted in said apparatus, comprising:

• a bank note receiving chamber for the bank notes inserted through said money inlet slot, disposed in said housing correspondingly to said money inlet slot;
• introduction-transfer means for taking out the bank notes collected in said receiving chamber and transferring the bank notes through an introduction-transfer path;
• discriminating means disposed in said introduction-transfer path to discriminate fit sheets from unfit ones among the introduced bank notes;
• distributing means disposed in said introduction-transfer path so as to distribute the fit and unfit sheets in accordance with the result of the discrimination by said discriminating means;
• a temporary collecting section for the unfit sheets distributed by said distributing means;
• at least one storage section for the fit sheets distributed by said distributing means;
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• return transfer means for taking out the unfit sheets collected in said temporary collecting section and transferring the unfit sheets through a return path, one end portion of said return path being connected with said temporary collecting section, and the other end portion of said return path being connected with said receiving chamber so that the unfit sheets transferred through said return path may be returned to said receiving chamber.