Currency processing system with fitness detection

US8559694B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cummins-Allison Corp. · US

Inventors

• Charles P. Jenrick · Chicago, US
• Douglas U. Mennie · Barrington, US
• John R. Blake · McLeansboro, US
• Matthew L. Anderson · Salem, US
• Gary P. Watts · Buffalo Grove, US
• Curtis W. Hallowell · Palatine, US
• Robert J. Klein · Chicago, US
• Jeffrey G. Knoll · Carol Stream, US
• Tomasz M. Jagielinski · Carlsbad, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 27, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07D11/50
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In one aspect, a method of processing currency in a currency processing machine includes the act of retrieving, from a plurality of input currency bills, characteristic information from each of the bills, the characteristic information itself including at least a first characteristic information relating to fitness. The method also includes the act of assigning to each currency bill one of a plurality of fitness types and fitness levels relating to the first characteristic information of the bill, at least one of the fitness types and the fitness levels being defined by a user. The method also includes the act of outputting each currency bill along one of a plurality of output paths designated by the user to receive currency bills, the output path having a fitness type and/or fitness level assigned to the currency bill.