Patent ID: 7232024

Claim:
A currency processing device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly processing all the bills in the stack, the device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of bills to be processed; at least two output receptacles adapted to receive the bills after the bills have been processed, the two output receptacles being a first output receptacle and a second output receptacle; a transport mechanism adapted to transport the bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to the output receptacles along a transport path; a discriminating unit adapted to count and determine the denomination of the bills, the discriminating unit including a detector positioned along the transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacles, the detector being adapted to generate a signal based on information detected from passing bills, the discriminating unit further comprising a processor programmed to determine the denomination of bills of a plurality of denominations using information detected from passing bills; and a processor programmed to control the operation of the device, the processor being programmed in a mode of operation to (a) route bills having a target denomination to the first output receptacle, (b) route bills having any other of the plurality of denominations to the second output receptacle, and (c) present no call bills in one of the output receptacles.