Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Coin handling equipment
- Patent Title (中): 硬币处理设备
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Application No.: US11531889Application Date: 2006-09-14
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Publication No.: US07658668B2Publication Date: 2010-02-09
- Inventor: Timothy William Hill
- Applicant: Timothy William Hill
- Applicant Address: SE Malmö
- Assignee: Scan Coin AB
- Current Assignee: Scan Coin AB
- Current Assignee Address: SE Malmö
- Agency: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
- Priority: GB0519039.2 20050917; GB0604289.9 20060303; GB0604432.5 20060306
- Main IPC: G07D1/00
- IPC: G07D1/00

Abstract:
A hopper coin feeder (1) comprises upper and lower hopper discs (18, 25). A flexible hopper wall (17) of diabolo shape cooperates with the upper disc (18) to control the feeding of coins by a coin pushing member (35) to the outer margin of the disc (18) where they are gripped between an annular band (33) and the disc (18) to be conveyed past a coin discriminator (61). Any coins or debris that drop from the edge of upper disc (18) are caught on the lower disc (25) and pass to a reject chute (132) and coin payout cup (12). An active coin delivery chute and diverter (80), FIG. 10, comprises a reciprocable plate (81) having a finger (82) which controls whether a coin fed from the upper disc (18) passes down the chute or is rejected onto the lower disc (25). Coins that pass down the chute enter a bowl (89) of a double-disc coin conveying assembly (5) that conveys a coin from the bowl (89) to a LIFO coin stacks (3) of a coin storage unit (1). Oversize coins that enter the chute can be directed through the bowl (89), and through aligned apertures (8) in the coin conveying discs, to pass into a coin outlet (10) also leading to the payout cup (12).
Public/Granted literature
- US20070062783A1 COIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT Public/Granted day:2007-03-22
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