| 摘要 |
<p>A document sorting apparatus 1, suitable for banknotes, which comprises a detector part having one or more detectors for determining a type of a document received at the detector part 10 and a plurality of document handling modules 20, 30, 40 each document handling module comprising a stacking area 25 into which documents are diverted in dependence on their type as determined by the detector part. Each document handling module comprises one or more holding areas 27 into which the documents held in the stacking area or another holding area of the document handling module are moved when the stacking area is either full or completed. As a result, documents can be removed from the holding areas while new documents continue to be stacked up in the stacking areas, meaning that there is no need to pause the operation of the document sorting apparatus while documents are being removed. The document sorting apparatus may also include the ability for each output stacking bin to have its document type dynamically allocated so that each document handling module is capable of handling different document types so it is possible to have fewer document handling modules than document types.</p> |
