Patent ID: 7708275

Claim:
A paper materials sorting apparatus, comprising: note denomination discriminating means for taking out paper materials from a feeder and for discriminating the paper materials based on note denominations of each of the paper materials; cassette assignment means for assigning each of a plurality of wrapping devices and/or storage devices a note denomination, such that each of the wrapping devices and/or storage devices handles paper materials of the assigned note denomination; sorting means for sorting the paper materials in accordance with their note denomination as discriminated by the note denomination discriminating means and for directing the sorted paper materials, on a note denomination basis, to the corresponding assigned wrapping devices and/or storage devices, wherein, the sorting means comprises: counting means for counting throughput of the sorted paper materials into each of the assigned wrapping devices and/or storage devices, comparison means for comparing the throughput of each of the assigned wrapping devices and/or storage devices based on a result of the counting means, comparison result display means for displaying a result of the comparison means; and operation display means for displaying a recommended operation to reassign the note denominations of the wrapping devices and/or storage devices into which the sorted paper materials are directed in order to balance the sorting load among the wrapping devices and/or storage device, based on a result of the comparison means.