SLIP CLASSIFYING SYSTEM

PURPOSE:To provide possibility of classifying without restriction of the sorts of slips by furnishing a means to take out slips from a hopper, a means to judge the sort of slip taken out, and a means to accommodate the judged slip in a specified stacker, and by installing a fourth means for control of these three means. CONSTITUTION:Stacker in which a judged slip 3 is to be accommodated is not specified in advance, but every time a slip 3 of different sort from the already judged slip 3 is judged, an unused stacker is allocated and accommodation is made. This allows classification of even newly issued slips 3, and in case there is no more stacker which can accept allocation, the slips 3 are accommodated in bulk in a bulk accommodation stacker 8 followed by classification in the next stage. This procedure is repeated until classification of all slips 3 is completed. Eventually unjudgeable slips 3 are exhausted onto a reject stacker 9 to prevent mixing up with the already classified slips 3.