Patent ID: 7934601
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A bill discriminating and counting apparatus comprising: a hopper for receiving bills to be processed; a feeding/carrying section for feeding the bills received by the hopper one by one to a transport path to carry; a discriminating/counting section disposed on a downstream side of the feeding/carrying section for performing denomination discrimination and counting of the carried bills; a stacker disposed on a downstream side of the discriminating/counting section for accumulating the bills, which are judged and discriminated to be normal by the discriminating/counting section; bill characteristics information memorizing means in which characteristics information about the bills of a plurality of currency systems is memorized in sets for each currency system; a plurality of specific keys for feeding and carrying the bills; currency system selection/setting means for assigning the currency system of the bills to be processed to any of the specific keys when the currency system is selected; and control means for feeding and carrying the bills in response to pressing of the any of specific keys, comparing the bills with the characteristics information of the bills corresponding to the currency system, which is assigned to the specific key, and performing the discrimination and the counting of the bills.