Method of sorting documents of value
AssigneeDe La Rue International Limited
InventorDirk Theodorus Lubbers
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Abstract
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, and sorting all first separators to a separator output station.
Claims35
A method of sorting documents of value, the method comprising:
- 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, and sorting all first separators to a separator output station.
A method of sorting documents of value, the method comprising:
- 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 are fed, and sorting all separators associated with batches having no rejected documents to a separator output station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.