Patent ID: 8783435

Claim:
A bill discriminating and counting apparatus comprising: a hopper which receives bills to be processed; a feeding and carrying section which feeds the bills received by said hopper one by one to a transport path and carries the bill; a discriminating and counting section which discriminates denominations of the carried bills and counts the bills; a stacker which collects the bills in which normality is confirmed; two independent process instruction buttons, each capable of starting and stopping the discriminating and counting section; two independent approval buttons, each capable of approving counting results from the discriminating and counting section; and a storage which is divided into two independent storage areas for storing the counting results; wherein the counting results are stored in a corresponding storage area of the two independent storage areas and each of the two independent storage areas is associated with a corresponding process instruction button of the two independent process instruction buttons and a corresponding approval button of the two independent approval buttons, wherein the counting results of a first process instruction button of the two independent process instruction buttons is stored in a first independent storage area of the two independent storage areas independent of the counting results of a second process instruction button of the two independent process instruction buttons which is stored in a second independent storage area of the two independent storage areas, wherein a first process instruction button of the two independent process instruction buttons corresponds to a first operator and a second process instruction button of the two independent process instruction buttons corresponds to a second operator, and wherein in a default operation state, an LED corresponding to the first process instruction button is lit, and when the second process instruction button is pressed, an operation state of the bill discriminating and counting apparatus is switched to correspond to the second process instruction button and an LED corresponding to the second process instruction button is lit.