Patent ID: 7040476

Claim:
A bank note and barcoded ticket sorting and stacking apparatus for sorting bank notes and barcoded tickets placed on an insertion receptacle into the bank notes and barcoded tickets, comprising: the insertion receptacle on which the bank notes and the barcoded tickets can be placed in a mixed state; conveying means having a conveying path for separately drawing out the bank notes or the barcoded tickets placed on the insertion receptacle one by one and conveying them along the conveying path; an identification unit disposed midway in the conveying path for identifying that whether the bank notes and the barcoded tickets passing through the positions where the identification unit is disposed are any of the bank notes and the barcoded tickets; a plurality of stacker units disposed downstream of the identification unit for stacking the bank notes or the barcoded tickets; and sorting means interposed between the identification unit and the plurality of stacker units for sorting the bank notes and the barcoded tickets into any of the plurality of stacker units according to a result of identification executed by the identification unit; wherein the identification unit comprises a first identification sub-unit for identifying the bank notes and a second identification sub-unit for identifying the barcoded tickets.