Laurel Bank Machines Company, Ltd.

Shigeru Yonetani

Akio Funato

Takao Akioka

Yuji Takarada

Hiroyuki Ikeda

A bill discriminating apparatus for a bill handling machine including an ultraviolet ray lamp for emitting ultraviolet rays toward bills, a light detector for photoelectrically detecting visible light emitted from phosphor materials contained in bills upon being irradiated with ultraviolet rays and producing visible light detection signals, a visible light detection signal amplifier for amplifying the visible light detection signals produced by the light detector, an ultraviolet ray detector for photoelectrically detecting ultraviolet rays emitted from the ultraviolet ray lamp and producing ultraviolet ray detection signals, a CPU for receiving the visible light detection signals amplified by the visible light detection signal amplifier and the ultraviolet ray detection signals produced by the ultraviolet ray detector and discriminating bills, the CPU adjusting an amplifying factor of the visible light detection signal amplifier in accordance with levels of ultraviolet ray detection signals input from the ultraviolet ray detector. According to this bill discriminating apparatus for a bill handling machine, it is possible to discriminate a denomination of a bill and whether or not a bill is acceptable with high accuracy.

Bill discriminating apparatus for bill handling machine

A sheet counting machine including a sheet depositing portion into which sheets are deposited, an endless belt for taking out sheets deposited in the sheet depositing portion one by one and feeding them to the inside, a counter for counting the number of sheets fed from the endless belt, a stacker for stacking sheets counted by the sheet counter, an operating portion operated by the operator and a display for displaying various kinds of information, the sheet counting machine further including a first lid member capable of being opened and closed and a second lid member capable of being opened and closed, the operating portion and the display being formed on an inner surface of the first lid member so that the operating portion and the display are not exposed to the outside when the first lid member is closed, the sheet depositing portion being formed so as to be located below the operating portion and the display when the first lid member is opened, the stacker being formed inside of the second lid member when the second lid member is opened in a predetermined manner and being accommodated in the second lid member so as not to be exposed to the outside when the second lid member is closed, and further including control means for controlling the endless belt so as to be driven only when the second lid member is opened in the predetermined manner so that the stacker is formed. The thus constituted sheet counting means can be made considerably compact and freely portable, can .stack sheets in the stacker in a desired manner and can prevent bill jamming.

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Yamatotakada, Japan

Shigeru Yonetani