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Angled currency processing system

  • US 20080006505A1
  • Filed: 06/01/2007
  • Published: 01/10/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A currency document processing system for processing a stack of currency documents including currency bills, each bill having a respective denomination, the system comprising:

  • a currency handling device having an input receptacle adapted to receive currency documents including bills to be processed, an evaluation unit comprising one or more detectors adapted to retrieve information from a passing bill which is used to denominate the passing bill, a plurality of output receptacles adapted to receive at least some of the bills processed by the evaluating unit, and a transport mechanism defining a transport path between the input receptacle, past the evaluating unit, and the plurality of output receptacles, the transport mechanism being adapted to transport each bill individually along the transport path, the transport mechanism being adapted to route the bills into the plurality of output receptacles or to transport the bills out of the handling device based on the denomination of the bills as determined from the information obtained from the one or more detectors so that an individual one of the output receptacles contains bills having the same denomination;

    a first currency document receiving unit adapted to receive at least some bills processed by the evaluating unit; and

    a first angular transport unit, the angular transport unit adapted to receive bills from the currency handling device and transport bills to the first currency document receiving unit, the angular transport unit having a transport mechanism adapted to rotate bills from approximately forty five degrees (45°

    ) to approximately one hundred thirty-five degrees (135°

    ) about a vertical axis as the bills are transported through the angular transport unit.

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