Patent ID: 7883090

Claim:
A bill processing device comprising: a hopping part for receiving a placed bill, a carrying part for carrying a bill received by the hopping part, a plurality of stacking parts for stacking a bill carried by the carrying part, an identifying part for identifying a bill received from the hopping part, a placing and running out part which accommodates a bill received from the hopping part and which is configured to send out the bill into the carrying part, and a controlling part which controls the hopping part, the carrying part, the plurality of stacking parts, the identifying part and the placing and running out part, wherein the controlling part controls them to carry a bill into a destination stacking part determined from the plurality of stacking parts according to an identification result of the identifying part, when the destination stacking part is ready to receive the bill to be stacked therein, the controlling part controls them to carry a bill into the placing and running out part when the destination stacking part is not ready to receive the bill to be stacked therein, and the controlling part controls them to carry the bill that has been accommodated in the placing and running out part to the destination stacking part when the destination stacking part is made ready to receive the bill again.