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Method for document processing

  • US 6,959,800 B1
  • Filed: 01/17/2001
  • Issued: 11/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of evaluating a stack of currency bills using a currency evaluation device comprising the acts of:

  • receiving a stack of bills in an input receptacle of the evaluation device;

    transporting the bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to one of two or more output receptacles of the currency evaluation device;

    counting and determining the denomination of the bills utilizing a detector positioned along a transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacles;

    determining whether the bills meet or fail to meet a non-piece count related criterion;

    halting the transporting when a bill meets or fails to meet the criterion, a bill meeting or failing to meet the criterion being termed a flagged bill;

    wherein the halting is performed such that the flagged bill is positioned as the last bill in one of the output receptacles; and

    wherein bills whose denomination are determined are delivered to a first set of one or more of the output receptacles and wherein bills whose denomination are not determined are directed to a second set of one or more of the output receptacles, a bill whose denomination is not determined being termed a no call bill, the output receptacles of the second set being different from the output receptacles of the first set.

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