Currency sorter

Abstract

A currency sorter has: take-in means () for taking currency notes in sorter one by one; discriminating means () for discriminating the currency notes; stacking means (to) for stacking the currency notes according to the discrimination result obtained by said discriminating means; bundling means () for bundling a predetermined number of the currency notes; a money returning unit at which an odd currency note which is a fraction of the predetermined number of the currency notes is returned, first conveyer means for conveying the predetermined number of the currency notes from all deposited in said stacking means with grabbing them to the bundling means; and second conveyer means for conveying the odd currency notes left in the stacking means with grabbing them to said money returning unit. The sorter may further have printing means () for imprinting predetermined information on a band supplied to said bundling means; and print control means () for controlling said printing means imprint information indicating one of stacking means from which the currency notes are derived, whether stacked currency notes are mixture of the new and old versions or discriminatively stacked new or old version or whether the currency notes are mixture of the fit and unfit conditions or discriminatively stacked fit and unfit condition.