Patent ID: 6915893

Claim:
A U.S. currency evaluation device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly processing all the bills in the stack, said device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of U.S. currency bills to be processed; a single output receptacle adapted to receive said bills after said bills have been processed; a transport mechanism adapted to transport said bills, one at a time, from said input receptacle to said output receptacle along a transport path; a discriminating unit comprising two detectors positioned along said transport path between said input receptacle and said output receptacle, said detectors being disposed on opposite sides of said transport path so as to be disposed adjacent to first and second opposing surfaces of said bills, said discriminating unit counting and determining the denomination of said bills, wherein the discriminating unit is adapted to determine the denomination of U.S. currency bills; and means for flagging a bill when the denomination of said bill is not determined by said discriminating unit.