Patent ID: 6311819
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
A currency evaluation device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly evaluating all the bills in the stack, said device comprising:an input receptacle for receiving a stack of bills to be evaluated;a plurality of output receptacles for receiving said bills after said bills have been evaluated;a transport mechanism for transporting said bills, one at a time, from said input receptacle to said output receptacles along a transport path;a discriminating unit for evaluating said bills, said discriminating unit including a detector positioned along said transport path between said input receptacle and said output receptacles, said discriminating unit counting and determining the denomination of said bills;a processor which flags a bill meeting or failing to meet one or more criteria, said processor causing said transport mechanism to halt in response to the detection of a bill meeting or failing to meet said one or more criteria; anda routing interface, said routing interface comprising a data retrieval device, said data retrieval device receiving information from a user of said evaluation device specifying a set of one or more output receptacles to which bills that are flagged by said processor are to be directed.