Abstract: A paper money discriminator for identifying the type of a bank note by detecting colors thereof from reflected or transmitted light obtained by irradiating the bank note. The paper money discriminator is provided with optical fiber bundles disposed so as to respectively face a light source and color detecting sensors, and color filters disposed in positions adjacent to the color detecting sensors. The top ends of the optical fiber bundles face an inspection point on the bank note. The paper money discriminator is provided with identifying systems each of which is composed of a detecting unit, a calculating unit and a money type identifying unit and is adapted for detecting reflected or transmitted light in the form of two separated color components issuing from a type of bank note, obtaining the ratio of these components, and comparing a signal representing a calculated pattern with the reference pattern signals, thereby identifying the money type.

Abstract: A bill discriminating device which is able to carry out a bill discriminating operation at high speed and precision based on a reduced amount of processing data for bill-type discrimination by extracting and reading only characteristic regions of the bill. According to the present invention, bill discrimination can be carried out by: reading the picture image data output from an image sensor; roughly discriminating the type of bill from the length of the picture image data (corresponding to the width of the bill); reading position data and reference patterns of the characteristic regions corresponding to the type of bill; extracting picture image data (a characteristic pattern) corresponding to the characteristic regions from the position data; and, finally discriminating the type of bill by comparing the characteristic patterns with the reference patterns.

Abstract: A device for adjusting optical sensors in which light from a light emitting element is detected by a light receiving element to determine whether the output level of said light receiving element exceeds a certain threshold. The present device is used for adjusting the optical sensors used, for example, in an automatic cash receiving and dispensing machine and the like and enables accurate operation the bill and/or coin handling machines to continue to operate reliably despite changes with the time of the optical sensors and the deposit of dust on the sensors, by constantly comparing the light reception level with a predetermined threshold and utilizing the optimum threshold.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a reception control system for use with a paper counting machine, which is intended to prevent the excessive reception of the sheets of paper due to the delay in the reception control timing.

Abstract: A magnetic detection device for use in a bank note discriminating apparatus is proposed. A magnetic pattern which has been already formed on each bank note by applying the magnetizable printing ink thereon is detected by a magnetic detecting head of the device. The device further includes a conveyer driven at a conveying speed of V.sub.1, and a positioning roller rotated at a circumferential speed of V.sub.2. According to this invention, the speed V.sub.2 is adjusted to be approximately equal to or only slightly higher than the speed V.sub.1. According to another feature of this invention, the detection face of the magnetic head is spaced from the opposing peripheral face of the positioning roller by a gap D which is greater than the thickness T of the bank notes to be handled.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a sheet binding apparatus wherein sheets such as bank notes are wound by tape and bound into a bundle of sheets by fusing and cutting the tape. The apparatus is provided with a pair of holding plates, each formed with a notch groove through which the tape is passed. The holding plates which hold the sheets therebetween are horizontally moved to a binding section while a tape is passed through one of the notch groove of one holding plate. At the binding section, a tape push-down member pushes down the tape through the other notch groove of the other holding plate to wind the sheets. The tape push-down member is formed at the lower end thereof with a forked portion for providing a recess. A heating member having a convex surface for engaging with the tape is disposed below the recess of the tape push-down member. The tape is heated and cut off while it is sandwiched between the tape push-down member and the heating member.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for processing sheets. The apparatus comprises a feeding zone, a discriminating zone, a sorting zone and a stacking zone. The feeding zone includes rollers and guides for taking out sheets one at a time from a group of sheets in the stacked state and feeding them into a conveyor path. The discriminating zone includes a plurality of sensors for detecting positions, a magnetic pattern and a photo-pattern to discriminate the sheets. The sorting zone includes angularly rotatable forks for sorting the sheets according to their kinds in response to the signals from the discriminating zone. The stacking zone includes containers for stacking the sheets sorted by the sorting zone.