Sheets processing apparatus and sheets processing method

• US 20060081509A1
• Filed: 08/22/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Otsuka, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 7,980,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 209/534
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/34 Sorting according to other particular properties material testing per se G01N; quality control G07C3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 43/04 detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles B65H43/08 takes precedence; diverting faulty articles from main streams B65H29/62
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/14 Inlet or outlet ports
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/165 Picking
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/20 Controlling or monitoring the operation of devices; Data handling
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/30 Tracking or tracing valuable papers or cassettes
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/36 Auditing of activities
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/50 Sorting or counting valuable papers

Abstract

A sheet processing apparatus including a table to be loaded a first and a second banknote group partitioned by a header card recording the bar code number in the piling direction of the banknotes, a take-in portion to take in the banknotes of the first and second banknote groups loaded on the table and the header card, a discrimination portion to count the banknotes taken in by the take-in portion and discriminate the kind thereof, a plurality of stackers to sort and stack the banknotes discriminated by the discrimination portion on the basis of the kink thereof, and a sensor to detect the header card taken in by the take-in portion. The sheet processing apparatus additionally includes a controller to control so as to stop the taking-in of the second banknote group on the basis of detection of the header card by the sensor and after a lapse of a predetermined time, to start the taking-in of the second banknote group.

Claims

1. A sheets processing apparatus comprising:

a loading portion to be loaded a first and a second piled sheet groups partitioned by a separator card recording discrimination information in a piling direction of the sheets;

take-in means for taking in the sheets of the first and second piled sheet groups loaded on the loading portion and the separator card;

conveying means for conveying the sheets taken in by the take-in means;

processing means for discriminating a kind of the sheets conveyed by the conveying means;

a plurality of stackers to sort and stack the sheets discriminated by the processing means on the basis of the kind;

detecting means for detecting the separator card taken in by the take-in means; and

control means for controlling so as to stop taking-in of the second sheet group on the basis of detection of the separator card by the detecting means and after a lapse of a predetermined time, to start taking-in of the second sheet group.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

reading means for reading discrimination information of the separator card,

wherein the piled sheet group to which the sheets taken in by the take-in portion belong is discriminated on the basis of the read information read by the reading means.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second sheet group is taken in after the sheets of the first sheet group are all stacked on the stackers.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second sheet group is taken in after the sheets of the first sheet group are all stacked on the stackers, and the stacked sheets are preserved physically, or a counting process thereof is completed.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conveying means branches in different directions in a middle thereof, and the second sheet group is started to be taken in after a time longer than a difference in an arrival time of the banknotes between from the take-in means provided in one direction to a farthest stacker and from the take-in means provided in another direction to a nearest stacker elapses.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the take-in operation is started when an interval between a last sheet of the first sheet group and a first sheet of the second sheet group becomes larger than a predetermined interval.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second sheet group is started to be taken in when the sheets of the first sheet group are all counted.

8. A sheets processing method comprising:

loading a first and a second piled sheet groups partitioned by a separator card recording discrimination information in a loading portion in a piling direction of the sheets;

taking in the sheets of the first and second piled sheet groups loaded on the loading portion and the separator card;

conveying the sheets taken in;

discriminating a kind of the sheets conveyed;

sorting and stacking the sheets discriminated on the basis of the kind;

detecting the separator card taken in; and

stopping the take-in of the second sheet group on the basis of detection of the separator card and starting the take-in of the second sheet group after a lapse of a predetermined time.

9. The method according to claim 8 further comprising:

reading discrimination information of the separator card,

wherein the piled sheet group to which the sheets taken in belong is discriminated on the basis of the read information.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second sheet group is taken in after the sheets of the first sheet group are all sorted and stacked.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second sheet group is taken in after the sheets of the first sheet group are all sorted and stacked, and the sorted and stacked sheets are preserved physically, or a counting process thereof is completed.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the take-in operation is started when an interval between a last sheet of the first sheet group and a first sheet of the second sheet group becomes larger than a predetermined interval.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second sheet group is started to be taken in when the sheets of the first sheet group are all counted.