Money-collecting device

A money-collecting device comprising in combination:

• a box structure having an interior serving as a currency bill receiving chamber and a ceiling panel provided therethrough with a slot for insertion therethrough of money and the like from outside into said interior;
• an insertion plate for thrusting from above a currency bill which has been laid transversely across the top of said slot downward in folded state through the slot and into the interior;
• two guide members having respective lower end parts closely confronting each other and aligned below and parallelly to the slot at a height position above the upwardly directed two ends of the bill after the bill has been thus thrust downward between and completely past said lower end parts by said insertion plate inserted to the lowermost position thereof, said guide members further having respective guiding parts flaring substantially symmetrically upward from said lower end parts and outward;
• a receiving platform supported horizontally in a manner permitting ascent and descent thereof within said interior and functioning to support bills thus inserted in succession;
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• lifting means for continually applying a force urging said platform to ascent toward said lower end parts,
• whereby the insertion plate, after thrusting the bill in folded state downward between and past said lower end parts, presses the receiving platform downward against the counter force of said lifting means until said upwardly directed ends of the bill have slipped past and clear of said lower end parts, and then, when the insertion plate is withdrawn upward from said lowermost position, the receiving platform and the bill ascend in a following manner, said ends of the bill thereby being forced apart by said guiding parts in unfolding movement until the bill is lying in flat state and pressed against said lower end parts by the receiving platform, succeeding bills similarly inserted thereby being deposited in a neat stack thereof on said receiving platform.