Patent ID: 6913130

Claim:
A currency evaluation device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly evaluating all the bills in the stack, the device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of bills to be evaluated; exactly two output receptacles adapted to receive the bills after the bills have been evaluated; 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 denominate the bills, the discriminating unit including a detector positioned along the transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacles; a processor programmed to determine whether the bills meet or fail to meet a non-piece count related criterion, the processor being programmed to cause the transport mechanism to halt in response to a determination that a bill meets or fails to meet the criterion, a bill meeting or failing to meet the criterion being termed a flagged bill, the processor being adapted to cause the transport mechanism to halt with a flagged bill being positioned as the last bill in one of the output receptacles; and wherein bills whose denomination are determined by the discriminating unit are delivered to a first output receptacle and wherein bills whose denominations are not determined by the discriminating unit are directed to the other output receptacle, bills whose denomination are not determined by the discriminating unit being termed no call bills.