WO2009013465A1 - Procédé de tri de documents de valeur - Google Patents

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WO2009013465A1
WO2009013465A1 PCT/GB2008/002449 GB2008002449W WO2009013465A1 WO 2009013465 A1 WO2009013465 A1 WO 2009013465A1 GB 2008002449 W GB2008002449 W GB 2008002449W WO 2009013465 A1 WO2009013465 A1 WO 2009013465A1
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Dirk Theodorus Antonius Maria Lubbers
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De La Rue International Limited
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Priority to EP08775979A priority Critical patent/EP2181436A1/fr
Priority to JP2010516574A priority patent/JP5215392B2/ja
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
    • G07D11/50—Sorting or counting valuable papers

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  • the invention relates to methods of sorting documents of value, particularly banknotes and the like.
  • Highly automated, high-volume processing systems for documents of value are used in a variety of applications for which currency processing is particularly important.
  • Several designs of high-volume processing machines are available in the prior art and used by such varied interests as national central banks, independent currency transporting companies, currency printing facilities, and individual banks.
  • a stack of banknotes is fed through a sorting machine past various detectors which detect certain characteristics of each document and then the documents are transported to at least one output station of which one may be a reject station depending upon the outcome of the detection process.
  • a currency processing machine can perform the simple tasks of processing a stack of currency in order to ensure that it is all of one denomination with proper fitness characteristics while simultaneously counting the stack to confirm a previous accounting.
  • a slightly more complex task of separating a stack of currency into individual denominations while simultaneously counting the currency can be accomplished as well.
  • the stack of sheets In order to achieve accountability, it is common practice to form the stack of sheets to be sorted from a sequence of batches of documents, each batch being sandwiched between separators defining respective header and trailer documents, the header document typically identifying the source of the documents of value in the batch or the like.
  • the stacked batches are then fed sequentially through the sorting machine with rejected documents, for example failing a denomination, fitness or authenticity test, being fed to a reject station while accepted documents are fed to one or more output stations.
  • the header and trailer documents are also fed to the reject station so that any rejected documents remain sandwiched between the associated header and trailer.
  • a method of sorting documents of value comprises: a) forming a stack of documents of value, the stack including two or more batches of documents of value, each batch of documents of value being provided with first and second separators to separate the batch from an adjacent batch; and, b) sequentially feeding all the documents in the stack through a sorting machine to inspect the documents and to sort the documents into one or more output stations in dependence upon the results of the inspection, sorting all first separators to a separator output station, and feeding all documents defined to be rejects, and only those second separators associated with rejects, to a reject station.
  • step b) all first separators are sorted to a separator output station and effectively off-sorted.
  • an output station when configured as a "separator output station" it only receives separators. This substantially reduces the number of items that need to be handled, typically manually, from output stations that receive second separators following the sorting process.
  • the first separators are fed to a different, separator output station, so as not to be mixed in with the rejected documents.
  • the number of second separators in the reject output station is confined to only those associated with rejected documents.
  • step b) comprises feeding all documents defined to be rejects together with all second separators to a reject station.
  • the first and second separators are identical. This is particularly convenient when constructing a stack of documents although for processing, the sorting machine will need to be provided with information relating to each batch in the stack in the order in which it appears in the stack so that the processing of each batch can be properly monitored.
  • the identifier is common i.e. non-unique, to all second separators and simply identifies the item as a second separator.
  • the sorting machine can identify each batch if it has been preloaded with the order of batches and corresponding batch identifying information.
  • each second separator is distinguishable from each other second separator and again this may be achieved by virtue of one or more of their shape, thickness and indicia carried thereon.
  • each second separator may be provided with data defining an identifier that is unique to each second separator. In this case other information about the batch can be stored electronically in or accessible to the sorting machine with reference to the identifier.
  • the second separator carries that data.
  • the data may provide one or more of an identification of the source of the documents of value in the associated batch, batch document denomination(s), piece count(s), user who prepared batch, machine that prepared batch and time at which batch was prepared.
  • certain data may be stored electronically and other data be provided on the second separator.
  • the data is machine readable and may be provided by optically and/or magnetically readable indicia.
  • the second separators are used in different ways to provide more information about batches while the first separators are not. This is preferred because the second separators are not off- sorted to the separator output station. However, it is also possible that the first separators are provided with this additional information since the sorting machine can track the processing of batches, as explained above.
  • each batch is associated with first and second separators. This is advantageous because it makes it much less likely that mis-sorting of documents will occur as there will be two separators (a first separator from one batch and a second separator from another batch) adjacent one another for each pair of adjacent batches.
  • a method of sorting documents of value comprises: a) forming a stack of documents of value, the stack including two or more batches of documents of value, each batch of documents of value being provided with a separator to separate the batch from an adjacent batch; and, b) sequentially feeding all the documents in the stack through a sorting machine to inspect the documents and to sort the documents into one or more output stations in dependence upon the results of the inspection, wherein one of the output stations comprises a reject station to which documents identified by the sorting machine as rejects and separators associated with the rejected documents are fed, and sorting all separators associated with batches having no rejected documents to a separator output station.
  • the designation of the output stations may be changed between the passes to accommodate different types of sorting process, for example if only a limited number of output stations are available and one or more has to be used for different purposes in different passes.
  • the sorting process will typically be based on one or more of authenticity, fitness and denomination although other sorting conditions could also be used.
  • issuer country or issuing bank
  • issue series
  • authenticity broken down for example between genuine/not recognised/suspected (probable) counterfeit, requiring manual confirmation.
  • the sorting machine can take any conventional form.
  • the same separator output station can be used for off-sorting both first and second separators or separate separator output stations could be provided.
  • one of the output stations used for receiving documents could also be used as the separator output station. For example, where documents are sorted according to condition then all documents having a satisfactory condition together with off-sorted separators could be fed to the same output station.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a currency sorting machine loaded with a stack of currency and separators
  • Figure 3A is a plan view of the front of a "second separator” or batch process document
  • Figure 3B is a perspective view of the back of a "second separator” or batch process document
  • Figure 4 is a flow chart of a method for processing currency
  • Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 2 but illustrating a stack of currency divided by single separators; and, Figure 6 is a flow chart illustrating a method of processing the stack of documents shown in Figure 5.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates part of a typical stack of banknotes formed by a sequence of individual batches.
  • a batch 24 is followed by a batch 20 which is followed by a batch 16.
  • a "first" separator document 19,21 ,23 is provided at the downstream side of each batch 16,20,24 respectively while each batch is provided with an associated "second" separator or batch process document 26,22,18 respectively positioned on the upstream side of the batch with respect to a processing direction indicated by an arrow 27.
  • each first separator document 19,21 ,23 acts as a trailer and each second separator document 26,22,18 acts as a header.
  • Accounting data on an individual batch of currency can be identified to a specific bar code number encoded on the bar code 36 of the batch process document 18.
  • each second separator will have a unique bar code which can be used to address a table in the processor of the machine 10 to enable accounting data prestored by the processor to be accessed.
  • Alternatives to magnetic strips include RFID chips, OCR codes and the like.
  • Examples of accounting data include one or more of an identification of the source of the documents of value in the associated batch, batch document denomination(s), piece count(s), user who prepared batch, machine that prepared batch and time at which batch was prepared.
  • any of the second separators which are detected and which are associated with batches without any rejected banknotes are also fed to the same separator outsort bin as the first separators. Alternatively, they could be fed to a second separator output bin (step 54).
  • each batch of documents 16,20,24 is associated with first and second separator documents. This minimises the risk of the sorting machine overlooking a separator document since there will always be two such documents in sequence between successive batches. However, it is not essential to provide two separators to a batch and in other examples, a single separator per batch could be provided. This is illustrated in Figure 5 where it will be seen that the previous "first " separator documents 19,21 ,23 have been omitted.
  • second separators will now be described with reference to Figure 6.
  • a stack of batches is formed as shown in Figure 6 (step 40) and then in a first pass 42, the documents in the stack are sorted so that acceptable documents are fed to corresponding output bins (step 44) while rejected documents and all separators are fed to a reject bin (step 46).
  • the first pass process is similar to that described in Figure 4.
  • the contents of the reject bin are then re-fed through the sorting machine in a second pass 48.
  • acceptable documents are fed to corresponding output bins for example according to their denomination (step 50) while separators associated with batches without rejected banknotes are fed to a separator output or outsort bin (step 70) and rejected documents and associated separators are fed to the reject bin (step 72).
  • the batches in Figure 5 could be separated by identical "first" separators, the sorting machine keeping track of the batches simply from prior knowledge of the order of batches in the stack.
  • the banknotes are processed in two passes with the action of the machine being different on the second pass from the first pass. It is therefore necessary to ensure that the machine knows that it is to operate in accordance with the "second pass” and there are various ways in which this could be achieved.
  • the simplest approach is for the operator to indicate directly to the control system, for example by depressing a control button or the like, that the second pass is to be commenced.

Abstract

L'invention porte sur un procédé de tri de documents de valeur. Ce procédé comprend: a) la formation (40-46) d'un empilement (12) de documents de valeur, l'empilement comprenant deux ou plusieurs lots (16, 20, 24) de documents de valeur, chaque lot de documents de valeur comportant des premier et deuxième séparateurs (18, 19; 22, 21; 26, 23) pour séparer le lot d'un lot adjacent; et b) la délivrance séquentielle de tous les documents dans l'empilement à travers une machine de tri pour inspecter les documents et trier (50) les documents dans une ou plusieurs stations de sortie en fonction de résultats de l'inspection, et le tri (52) de tous les premiers séparateurs vers une station de sortie de séparateur.
PCT/GB2008/002449 2007-07-20 2008-07-17 Procédé de tri de documents de valeur WO2009013465A1 (fr)

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