Abstract

An automatic money depositing apparatus includes a customer access panel having a receiver slot for receiving moneys deposited by a customer and a return slot for returning moneys deposited by the customer; a separator/feeder for separating and feeding the moneys one by one which have been received through the receiver slot; a discriminator for checking whether the moneys fed by the separator/feeder are true or false and identifying the demoninations of the moneys; wherein the separator/feeder and the discriminator are disposed behind the customer access panel. A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing true and false moneys separately is located adjacent to the return slot. A money container stores the true moneys delivered from the temporary storage unit. Input keys are operated by the customer to indicate approval or nonapproval of a money deposit made by the customer through the receiver slot. A control unit is responsive to operation of the input keys indicative of a nonapproval of the money deposit for opening the return slot to allow the customer to remove the moneys directly from the temporary storage unit. When trouble occurs prior to operation of the input keys, the receiver and return slots are opened to give the customer access to the moneys in the apparatus. The return slot is openable to different degrees dependent on whether only the false moneys or all of the deposited moneys are to be removed from the temporary storage unit.