Patent ID: 6659260
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: B65H,G07D,Y10S

Abstract:
A bank note processing apparatus comprising:an insert port into which plural sheets of rectangular shaped bank notes having the front/back and top/bottom extending along the longitudinal direction are inserted collectively; a take-out portion which takes the bank notes inserted into the insert port one by one with the top or bottom laid ahead; a conveying path which conveys the bank notes taken out of the take-out portion with the top or bottom laid ahead; a detector which detects information relative to the front/back and top/bottom of the bank notes being conveyed on the conveying path; a front/back reversing portion which selectively reverses the front/back of the bank notes being conveyed on the conveying path based on the result of detection by the detector; first and second stackers which stack the bank notes of which front/back were selectively reversed in the front/back reversing portion; a sorting portion which sorts the bank notes being conveyed into the first or the second stacker based on the result of detection by the detector; first and second banding portions which band the bank notes stacked in the first and the second stackers for a prescribe number of sheets at the same position one-sided to their longitudinal direction; and a controller which controls the front/back-reversing portion and the sorting portion so as to stack the bank notes in one of the first and second stackers in the state with the front/back and top/bottom arranged uniformly and the front turned upward and in the other stacker with the front/back arranged uniformly and the back turned upward.