Patent ID: 8297428

Claim:
A currency document processing system for processing a stack of currency documents including currency bills, each bill having a respective denomination, the system comprising: a currency handling device having an input receptacle configured to receive currency documents including bills to be processed, an evaluating unit comprising one or more detectors configured to retrieve information from a passing bill which is used to denominate the passing bill, a plurality of output receptacles configured to receive at least some of the bills processed by the evaluating unit, and a transport mechanism defining a transport path between the input receptacle, past the evaluating unit, and the plurality of output receptacles, the transport mechanism being configured to transport each bill individually along the transport path, the currency handling device being configured to route bills into the plurality of output receptacles or to transport bills out of the handling device based on the denomination of the bills as determined from the information obtained from the one or more detectors so that an individual one of the output receptacles contains bills having the same denomination; a first currency document receiving unit configured to receive at least some bills processed by the evaluating unit, the first currency document receiving unit having a flat top lying in a first generally horizontal plane; and a first angular transport unit, the angular transport unit configured to receive bills from the currency handling device and transport bills individually to the first currency document receiving unit, the angular transport unit having a transport mechanism configured to rotate bills from approximately forty five degrees (45°) to approximately one hundred thirty-five degrees (135°) about a vertical axis as the bills are transported individually through the angular transport unit, the first angular transport unit having a flat top lying in the first generally horizontal plane.