Patent ID: 6695119
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
A bill counting machine comprising a bill setting section where bills to be counted are set, a bill take-out means for taking out bills set in the bill setting section one by one into a main body of the bill counting machine, bill conveying means for conveying the bills taken out into the main body of the bill counting machine in a bill conveying passage, a sensor device for detecting optical properties and/or magnetic properties of each bill and producing detection data of the bill, reference data storing means for storing reference data of bills, discriminating and counting means for comparing the detection data of the bill produced by the sensor device with the reference data of bills, thereby discriminating whether or not the bill is acceptable, the denomination of the bill and whether bills are being conveyed by the bill conveying means one by one and counting bills to be counted, and a bill stacking section, the bill counting machine further comprising a stopper locatable at a projecting position in the bill conveying passage downstream of the sensor device, the discriminating and counting means being constituted so as not to count a bill discriminated as unacceptable and a following bill or not to count two or more bills discriminated to be simultaneously conveyed and a following bill when it discriminates that the bill is unacceptable or that two or more bills are being simultaneously conveyed and to locate the stopper in the projecting position, the stopper located at the projecting position being accessible from outside of the main body of the bill counting machine.