1. A street tree guard comprising:
an inner supporting member which is configured to be installed on a ground around a street tree;
an outer supporting member which is configured to be disposed while being spaced apart from the inner supporting member outward;
a covering member which configured to be disposed between the inner supporting member and the outer supporting member,
wherein each of the inner supporting member and the outer supporting member includes a plurality of base members configured to be disposed at equal intervals and a plurality of connecting members configured to connect two facing ends of the base members to each other.
2. The street tree guard of claim 1, wherein at lest one of the inner supporting member and the outer supporting member is provided in a polygonal shape, and the base member is bent to form a predetermined inside angle to be disposed at each angular point of the polygonal shape.
3. The street tree guard of claim 1, wherein at least one of the inner supporting member and the outer supporting member is provided in a circular shape.
4. The street tree guard of claim 1, wherein one of the base member and the connecting member has a protrusion part protruding from one side of the one of the base member and the connecting member in a predetermined length, and
the other of the base member and the connecting member has an accommodating part recessed inward from one side of the one of the base member and the connecting member, facing the protrusion part, in a predetermined length to accommodate the protrusion part.
5. The street tree guard of claim 1, wherein the inner supporting member includes a first stepped portion which is formed around an outer circumference of the inner supporting member at a predetermined height from a bottom surface of the inner supporting member, and
the outer supporting member includes a second stepped portion which is formed around an inner circumference of the outer supporting member at a predetermined height from a bottom surface of the outer supporting member while facing the first stepped portion,
wherein the covering member is provided in a plate shape and has a first end mounted on the first stepped portion and a second end mounted on the second stepped portion.
6. The street tree guard of claim 5, wherein the covering member includes a plurality of unit covering parts.
7. The street tree guard of claim 1, wherein at least one of the base member and the connecting member includes at least one light emitting device.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A banknote feeding apparatus adapted for feeding a plurality of banknotes stored in a banknote storage unit, one by one, through a feed opening of the banknote storage unit, the banknote feeding apparatus comprising:
a feed roller provided in the vicinity of the feed opening of the banknote storage unit and adapted for feeding out the banknotes, one by one, successively, through the feed opening toward the exterior of the banknote storage unit;
a gate unit provided to be opposed to the feed roller, thereby forming a gate part between the gate unit and the feed roller;
a first kicker roller configured to be in contact with a surface of one banknote of the plurality of banknotes stored in the banknote storage unit and adapted for kicking the one contacted banknote toward the gate part, the first kicker roller being further configured to be continuously rotated and having an outer-circumferential length set greater than a length in a feed direction of the banknote having the largest size of the banknotes to be fed out by the banknote feeding apparatus, and further having a high friction unit adapted for kicking each banknote and partly provided in the outer circumference of the first kicker roller; and
a second kicker roller provided upstream relative to the first kicker roller in the feed direction of the banknotes, the second kicker roller being configured to be continuously rotated, at approximately the same peripheral velocity as that of the first kicker roller, and having a low friction unit having a coefficient of friction lower than the coefficient of friction of the high friction unit of the first kicker roller and provided over the whole outer circumference of the second kicker roller.
2. The banknote feeding apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the diameter of the first kicker roller is approximately the same as the diameter of the second kicker roller, and
wherein the first kicker roller and second kicker roller are arranged, respectively, in positions such that the first kicker roller can be partly and alternately overlapped with the second kicker roller, when seen in an axial direction of the first kicker roller, without any interference between the first kicker roller and the second kicker roller in the axial direction of the first kicker roller.
3. The banknote feeding apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the first kicker roller is provided in a plural number along a common shaft, and
wherein the positions, in which the plurality of first kicker rollers are arranged, are set, respectively, such that, when assuming that the banknote having the smallest size of the banknotes to be fed out by the banknote feeding apparatus is divided into a pair of left and right regions, with respect to an imaginary central line defined along the feed direction of the banknotes, such a pair of left and right regions of the banknote having the smallest size and stored in any given position of the banknote storage unit can be kicked out by the first kicker rollers, respectively.
4. The banknote feeding apparatus according to claim 3,
wherein three first kicker rollers are provided,
wherein one of the three first kicker rollers is located corresponding to a central position of the banknote storage unit in a direction along the shaft of the first kicker rollers, and
wherein the other two of the three first kicker rollers are respectively located in positions that are symmetrical about the first kicker roller located corresponding to the central position of the banknote storage unit.
5. The banknote feeding apparatus according to claim 4,
wherein two second kicker rollers are arranged along a common shaft, while each second kicker roller is located between each adjacent pair of the first kicker rollers, and
wherein the first kicker rollers and second kicker rollers are arranged, respectively, in positions such that each first kicker roller can be partly and alternately overlapped with each second kicker roller, when seen in the axial direction of the first kicker roller.