MACHINE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND COUNTING PAPER SHEETS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small and compact machine and its method that process identifying and counting of paper sheets such as paper money at high speed. SOLUTION: The paper sheet identifying and counting machine 10 carries the paper sheets along a carrying path 48 at high speed and processes identifying and counting of paper sheets by means of a paper sheet identifying and counting unit 63 provided in the middle of the path 48. The machine 10 has a hopper 15 to be supplied with the paper sheets, a paper sheet carrying device for feeding out the supplied paper sheets to the path 48 to carry them along the path 48 at high speed, a paper sheet identifying unit 63 provided in the middle of the path 48 for identifying and counting the paper sheets and a stacker 21 for stacking the paper sheets fed out from the path 48. The path has a U-shaped curved carrying path 48b in the middle of itself and has a reject carrying path 48d communicated with a pocket 20 from a downstream side carrying path 48c following the path 48b. The machine identifies at least 1200 paper sheets per a minute, being provided with a stacker 21 and a pocket 20.