MARK WRITING DEVICE AND PAPER LEAF PROCESSING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mark writing device and a paper leaf processing device enabling to write a mark with the mark writing device on a rejected ticket that is discriminated as a counterfeit ticket by a paper leaf discriminating device, to pile up rejected tickets, such as tickets with faulty medium into a reject piling up part without writing the mark, and to enable viewing of the mark. SOLUTION: If the front edge of the counterfeit ticket Pr is detected by a paper leaf-detecting sensor 701, a protective member 704b is removed from a marker 702, and the position for writing mark is set up to contact the penpoint of the marker 702 with the counterfeit ticket, to start writing the mark, and then to end writing the mark, if the mark grows to the length of writing. Next, the protective member 704b is mounted on the marker 702. The counterfeit tickets Pc, piled up in the reject pile up part 54, is excited by an ultraviolet lamp 81, thereby emitting a visible light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT