Patent ID: 6074081
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: B07C,G07D,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing sheet material such as bank notes havinga singler unit for singling the sheet material from a stack sheet for sheet,a transport unit for transporting the singled sheets through the apparatus,a plurality of sensor units each having a measuring unit and an evaluation unit for determining measuring results for each sheet,a central evaluation unit for assigning a certain destination unit to each sheet using the measuring results from the sensor units,a plurality of destination units in which sheets are stacked or destroyed,a control unit for controlling and/or logging the processing operation on the sheets, anda connection for data exchange between the units, characterized in thatat least one sensor unit (20.n) is provided with a memory in which at least one data record is managed,said data record being provided with at least one area (ED) in which data from at least one other sensor unit can be stored.