Patent ID: 6771180
Filing Date: 2004-08-03
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
A bill receiving and processing machine, whichseparately feeds bills of transactions, placed on a hopper, one by one to a denomination discriminating and counting means, discriminates and counts the bills with said denomination discriminating and counting means, and sorts the bills, discriminated by said denomination discriminating and counting means, to a plurality of stackers through feed passages according to the denomination of said bills, said machine having no temporary reserving section for temporarily separating the bills from the plurality of stackers when the bills are received in the stackers for each denomination, said bill receiving and processing machine comprising: a fault detection means for detecting a fault during a processing of a money receipt transaction B, said money receipt transaction B occurring subsequent to at least one or more money receipt transactions A; an alarm means for producing an alarm when said fault is detected by said fault detection means; and a fault recovery processing section adapted to monitor the number of bills of each denomination associated with each said money receipt transaction and storing data relating to said number of bills, said fault recovery processing section, upon said alarm means producing said alarm, being configured to retrieve from the plurality of stackers, by bill denomination, the bills appertaining to said money receipt transaction B, together with the bills appertaining to money receipt transactions A, approved prior to the commencement of the processing of money receipt transaction B, said hopper being configured to receive said approved bills appertaining to money receipt transactions A and B, said fault recovery processing section being configured to differentiate the bills appertaining to money receipt transaction B from the bills of money receipt transactions A, which occurred prior to the processing of money receipt transaction B, received in said hopper, by utilizing the data of the bills of the money receipt transaction B and the data of the bills of money receipt transactions A, approved prior to the processing of money receipt transaction B.