Method and apparatus for discriminating and off-sorting currency by series
First Claim
1. A method of off-sorting currency of a specific series using a device capable of discriminating the denomination and series of currency bills comprising:
- receiving a stack of bills in an input receptacle;
transporting the bills, one at a time, past a denomination and series discriminating unit to an output receptacle;
discriminating the denomination and series of each bill;
determining whether the series of a current bill is a specified series; and
either(1) halting operation of the device when the current bill does have the specified series and an immediately preceding bill does not have the specified series;
(2) halting operation of the device when the current bill does not have the specified series and the immediately preceding bill does have the specified series;
or(3) continuing operation of the device.
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Abstract
A method and device for off-sorting documents of a specific series-type using a device capable of discriminating among different series-types of documents. A stack of documents are received in an input receptacle and transported, one at a time, past a document type discriminating unit to an output receptacle where the series-type of each document is discriminated. Next it is determined whether the series-type of a current document is a specified series-type. Depending on the series-type of the current document either (1) operation of the device is halted when the current document does have the specified series-type and the immediately preceding document does not have the specified series-type; (2) operation of the device is halted when the current document does not have the specified series-type and the immediately preceding document does have the specified series-type; or (3) operation of the device is continued.
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44 Claims
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1. A method of off-sorting currency of a specific series using a device capable of discriminating the denomination and series of currency bills comprising:
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receiving a stack of bills in an input receptacle; transporting the bills, one at a time, past a denomination and series discriminating unit to an output receptacle; discriminating the denomination and series of each bill; determining whether the series of a current bill is a specified series; and
either(1) halting operation of the device when the current bill does have the specified series and an immediately preceding bill does not have the specified series; (2) halting operation of the device when the current bill does not have the specified series and the immediately preceding bill does have the specified series;
or(3) continuing operation of the device.
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2. A currency discriminating apparatus comprising:
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an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of currency bills, each of the bills having a denomination and series associated therewith; a discriminating unit adapted to determine the series of the currency bills, the discriminating unit comprising a processor and a detector; a single output receptacle; and a transport mechanism adapted to transport the bills, one at a time, past the detector of the discriminating unit to the single output receptacle. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of sorting currency of a specific series using a device capable of discriminating the denomination and series of currency bills comprising
receiving a stack of currency bills in an input receptacle, each bill having a denomination and series associated therewith; -
transporting the bills, one at a time, past a series discriminating unit to a single output receptacle; discriminating the series of each bill; and sorting the bills according to their series.
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8. A currency discriminating apparatus comprising:
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an input receptacle for receiving a stack of currency bills, each of the bills having a denomination and series associated therewith; a discriminating unit comprising a processor and a detector; one or more output receptacles; and a transport mechanism adapted to transport the bills, one at a time, past the detector of the discriminating unit to the one or more output receptacles; wherein the discriminating unit is adapted to determine the series of the currency bills and compare the determined series of each of the currency bills to a target series, the discriminating unit being adapted to communicate with the transport mechanism if the determined series of a bill matches the target series and thereby cause the transport mechanism to halt operation. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A currency discriminating apparatus comprising:
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an input receptacle for receiving a stack of currency bills, each of said bills having a denomination and series associated therewith; a transport mechanism for transporting said bills, one at a time, past a discriminating unit to one or more output receptacles; said discriminating unit determining the series of said currency bills, said discriminating unit comparing the determined series of each of said currency bills to a target series, said discriminating unit communicating with said transport mechanism if the determined series of a bill does not match said target series and thereby causes said transport mechanism to halt operation. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A currency discriminating apparatus comprising:
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an input receptacle for receiving a stack of currency bills, each of said bills having a denomination and series associated therewith; a discriminating unit comprising a processor and a detector; a single output receptacle; and a transport mechanism adapted to transport the bills, one at a time, past the detector of the discriminating unit to the single output receptacle; wherein the discriminating unit is adapted to determine the series of the currency bills and compare the determined series of each of the currency bills to a target series, the comparison indicating each bill to be a matched-series type or unmatched-series type bill, the matched-series type bills defining bills having a determined series which matches the target series, the unmatched-series type bills defining bills having a determined series which does not match the target series, the discriminating unit being adapted to identify either one of the matched-series and unmatched-series type bills as a flagged bill. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A currency discriminating apparatus comprising:
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an input receptacle for receiving a stack of currency bills, each of said bills having a denomination and series associated therewith; a transport mechanism for transporting said bills, one at a time, past a discriminating unit to a first and second output receptacle; said discriminating unit determining the series of the currency bills and comparing the determined series of each of the currency bills to a first target series, the comparison indicating each bill to be a series matching type or series non-matching type bill, the series matching type bills defining bills having a determined series which matches the first target series, the series non-matching type bills defining bills having a determined series which does not match the first target series, the discriminating unit causing said transport mechanism to deliver any series matching type bills to the first output receptacle and any series non-matching type bills to the second output receptacle. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of sorting currency of a specific series using a device capable of discriminating the denomination and series of currency bills comprising:
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receiving a stack of currency bills in an input receptacle, each bill having a denomination and series associated therewith; transporting the bills, one at a time, past a series discriminating unit to one or more output receptacles; determining the series of each bill; comparing the determined series of each bill to a target series to identify each bill as a matched-series type or unmatched-series type bill, the matched-series type bills defining bills having a determined series which matches the target series, the unmatched-series type bills defining bills having a determined series which does not match the target series; and identifying either one of the matched-series and unmatched-series type bills as a flagged bill. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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