Patent ID: 7536046

Claim:
A currency processing device for receiving a stack of U.S. currency bills and rapidly processing all the bills in the stack, the device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of U.S. currency bills of a plurality of denominations, the currency bills having a wide dimension and a narrow dimension; a transport mechanism positioned to transport the bills, one at a time, in a transport direction from the input receptacle along a transport path at a rate of at least about 800 bills per minute with the narrow dimension of the bills parallel to the transport direction; a denomination discriminating unit for determining the denominations of and totaling the bills, the discriminating unit including a detector positioned along the transport path; a single denominated bill output receptacle positioned to receive bills whose denomination have been determined and totaled by the discriminating unit including bills of a plurality of U.S. denominations; a separate stacker bin, the stacker bin being separate from the denominated bill output receptacle; and a diverter positioned along the transport path to route bills whose denomination cannot be determined to the separate stacker bin.