Patent ID: 6460705
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: B65H,G07D

Abstract:
A method of creating identifiable smaller stacks of currency bills within a larger stack of currency bills using a currency evaluation device, the method comprising:(a) receiving a stack of currency bills in an input receptacle; (b) transporting the bills from the input receptacle, one at a time, past an evaluating unit to at least one output receptacle; (c) identifying the face orientation of each of the bills with the evaluating unit; and either (1) maintaining the orientation of a bill when the orientation of the bill matches a target orientation; or (2) reversing the orientation of a bill when the orientation of the bill does not match the target orientation; (d) stacking a predetermined number of bills in the at least one output receptacle, the predetermined number of bills having a common face orientation; (e) redefining the target orientation to be the other of the two face orientations after the predetermined number of bills have been transported to the at least one output receptacle; and (f) repeating (b), (c), (d), and (e), until each of the bills are transported from the input receptacle.