Patent ID: 8727130
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: B07C,B65H,G07D

Abstract:
1. A banknotes processing system comprising: a loading portion for loading a first and a second banknote group in a state in which the first and second banknote groups are piled up against each other, the first separator card is positioned at either a leading end or a trailing end of the first banknote pile group along the piling direction, and the second separator card is positioned at either a leading end or a trailing end of the second banknote pile group along the piling direction, and the first and the second separator cards contain discrimination information associated with the first and second banknote pile groups, respectively; a take-in portion for taking in the first separator card, the first banknote pile group, the second separator card, and the second banknote pile group in order from either the leading end or the trailing end of the pile of sheets and cards along the piling direction; a conveyor for conveying the first separator card, the first banknote pile group, the second separator card, and the second banknote pile group taken in by the take-in portion; a processor configured to individually count the banknotes in the first and second banknote pile groups conveyed by the conveyor and to generate counting data for distinguishing between types of banknotes and for discriminating as to whether any of the banknote should be rejected; a reader for reading the discrimination information of the first and second separator cards conveyed by the conveyor; a reject area for accumulating the first and second separator cards read by the reader and for accumulating the banknotes discriminated as being rejected by the processor; a database server communicatively coupled to the reader, which, in use, receives the discrimination information of the first and second separator cards from the reader and stores the received discrimination information in association with counting data of an associated one of the banknote pile groups; a counting value calculator for receiving counting value data of the first and second banknote groups respectively counted by the processor; and a bundling portion for bundling the banknotes conveyed conveyed by the conveyor, the bundling portion including at least a first stacker and a second stacker for sorting and stacking the banknotes conveyed by the conveyor and distinguished by the processor based on banknote type, wherein the first stacker and the second stacker of the bundling portion are configured to alternately receive a predetermined number of banknotes, and when the banknotes stacked in the first stacker has reached the predetermined number, the first stacker banknotes are conveyed to the bundling portion and bundled, while at that time the second stacker starts to receive subsequent banknotes conveyed by the conveyor, and wherein, to reconcile a count of the rejected banknotes, the rejected banknotes are further processed by: