Patent ID: 6980684

Claim:
A currency counting and discrimination device for receiving a stack of currency bills, rapidly counting and discriminating the bills in the stack, and then re-stacking the bills comprising: an input receptacle for receiving a stack of currency bills to be discriminated, each bill having a denomination associated therewith, the denomination of a bill being indicative of a value of the bill; a discriminating unit for discriminating the denomination of said currency bills; one or more output receptacles for receiving said currency bills after being discriminated by said discriminating unit; a transport mechanism for transporting said currency bills, one at a time, from said input receptacle past a sensor of said discriminating unit and to said one or more output receptacles; one or more counters keeping track of the value of bills discriminated; and value indicating means for an operator of said device to indicate the value of any bills whose denomination are not determined by said discriminating unit, said bills whose denomination are not determined by said discriminating unit being no call bills, said means appropriately effecting said one or more counters.