Paper processing apparatus

• US 20070000819A1
• Filed: 03/17/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yui, Akihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,807,347 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 209/534
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/16 of discharge in bins, stacking, collating or gathering
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1912 Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 29/62 diverting faulty articles from the main streams control devices detecting faulty articles B65H43/04
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 43/00 Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable

Abstract

A paper processing apparatus includes a setting section which sets a piece of paper, a feeding device which takes in the piece of paper set at this setting section, a transport device which transports the piece of paper took in by the feeding device, a judging section (detector) which discriminates whether or not the piece of paper transported by the transport device is a damaged note and discriminates types of damage and dirt of the piece of paper discriminated to be the damaged note, and a plurality of stacking boxes which carry out sorting and collection according to the types of damage and dirt discriminated by the judging section (detector).

Claims

1. A paper processing apparatus comprising:

a setting section which sets pieces of paper;

a feeding device which takes in the piece of paper set at this setting section;

a transport device which transports the piece of paper took in by the feeding device;

a judging device (detector) which discriminates whether or not the piece of paper transported by the transport device is a damaged note and discriminates types of damage and dirt of the piece of paper discriminated to be the damaged note; and

a plurality of stacking boxes which carry out sorting and collection according to the types of damage and dirt discriminated by the judging device (detector).

2. The paper processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the types of damage of the piece of paper include a taped note, a corner folded note, an end face curled note, a broken note, a punched note, and a wrinkled note or the like.

3. The paper processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the types of dirt of the piece of paper include a wholly dirty note and a partially dirty and/or stained note or the like.

5. The paper processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the levels of damage of the piece of paper include a length of a corner fold, a length of an end face curl, a length of a breakage, a size of a punch or the like.

6. The paper processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the levels of dirt of the piece of paper include a size of a scribing and a size of a partial dirt and/or stain diameter or the like.

4. A paper processing apparatus comprising:

a setting section which sets a piece of paper;

a feeding device which takes in the piece of paper set at this setting section;

a transport device which transports the piece of paper took in by the feeding device;

a judging device (detector) which discriminates whether or not the piece of paper transported by the transport device is a damaged note and discriminates levels of damage and dirt of the piece of paper discriminated to be the damaged note; and

a plurality of stacking boxes which carry out sorting and collection according to the levels of damage and dirt discriminated by the judging device.

7. A paper processing apparatus comprising:

a setting section which sets a piece of paper;

a feeding device which takes in the piece of paper set at this setting section;

a transport device which transports the piece of paper took in by the feeding device;

a judging device (detector) which discriminates whether or not the piece of paper transported by the transport device is a damaged note and discriminates types and levels of damage and dirt of the piece of paper discriminated to be the damaged note; and

a plurality of stacking boxes which carry out sorting and collection according to the types and the levels of damage and dirt discriminated by the judging device.

8. A paper processing apparatus comprising:

a setting section which sets a piece of paper;

a feeding device which takes in the piece of paper set at this setting section;

a transport device which transports the piece of paper took in by the feeding device;

a judging device which discriminates whether the piece of paper transported by the transport device is a fit note or a damaged note and discriminates type of the piece of paper discriminated to be the fit note and types and levels of damage and dirt of the piece of paper discriminated to be the damaged note; and

a plurality of stacking boxes which carry out sorting and collection according to the type of the piece of paper and the types and the levels of damage and dirt discriminated by the judging device (detector).

9. The paper processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the judging device (detector) discriminates levels of damage and dirt of damaged notes at a plurality of levels, and the plurality of stacking boxes sort and collect the damaged notes according to the quality and condition and level (degree).

10. The paper processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the judging device discriminates fit notes at a plurality of levels, and the plurality of stacking sections sort damaged notes according to the plurality of levels, and at the same time, sort and collect the fit notes at the plurality of levels as well.

11. A paper processing apparatus comprising:

a setting section which sets a piece of paper;

a feeding device which takes in the piece of paper set at this setting section;

a transport device which transports the piece of paper took in by the feeding device;

a judging device (detector) which discriminates whether or not the piece of paper transported by the transport device has been damaged, skewed or fed in plurality; and

a first stacking box which collects a piece of paper discriminated to be a damaged note by the judging device (detector) and a second stacking box which collects pieces of paper discriminated to be skewed or multiple fed by the judging device (detector).