EP0062972A2 - Dispositif pour accepter des pièces de monnaie - Google Patents

Dispositif pour accepter des pièces de monnaie Download PDF

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EP0062972A2
EP0062972A2 EP19820301358 EP82301358A EP0062972A2 EP 0062972 A2 EP0062972 A2 EP 0062972A2 EP 19820301358 EP19820301358 EP 19820301358 EP 82301358 A EP82301358 A EP 82301358A EP 0062972 A2 EP0062972 A2 EP 0062972A2
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coin
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Michael David Harcourt
Beng Yean Ooi
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General Electric Co PLC
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/04—Coin chutes
    • G07F1/041—Coin chutes with means, other than for testing currency, for dealing with inserted foreign matter, e.g. "stuffing", "stringing" or "salting"
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/04—Coin chutes
    • G07F1/047—Coin chutes with means for temporarily storing coins

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  • the present invention relates to coin handling mechanisms and in particular but not exclusively to such mechanisms for use with coin collecting telephone apparatus.
  • a coin handling mechanism includes a coin storage chute having planar front and back members arranged when in use to maintain an inserted coin in an approximately vertical plane said coin storage chute also having a base member upon which the edge of an inserted coin may rest, said base member being inclined to the horizontal such that an inserted coin will tend to move from the entry of the coin storage chute towards an exit thereof, means adjacent the exit of the chute to prevent an inserted coin from leaving the chute so that a plurality of inserted coins may be held therein in escrow, control means responsive to an electrical signal to cause electromechanically operable means to release each coin (if any) held in escrow in turn, and steering means to cause each coin so released to take a selected one of a plurality of paths.
  • One of the plurality of paths may be to a refund path of the mechanism.
  • a further chute is preferably provided said further chute having its entry adjacent the entry of the storage chute and having its exit adjacent the refund path, selection means adjacent the entries of the chutes operable to determine which of the chutes an inserted coin enters.
  • the storage chute and further coin chute may be preceded by a single coin chute having coin validation means associated therewith arranged to forward signals to the control meanso
  • the selection means may be arranged when the apparatus is unpowered to direct all inserted coins to the further coin chute.
  • the storage chute may be arranged to hold a plurality of coins in escrow with eech coin in contact with respective adjacent coins (if any), said mechanism also including means between the exit of the storage chute and an exit of the mechanism arranged to separate a coin nearest to the exit of the mechanism from the immediately following coin (if any).
  • Said means to separate may be in the form of a _turnstile having a plurality of fingers and said turnstile may be free to rotate under the influence of gravity on the weight of a coin entering the turnstile.
  • Electromechanically operable stop means may be included to prevent rotation of the turnstile until a coin already between a predetermined two of the plurality of fingers of the turnstile has been released from the mechanism.
  • Said stop means may be a pin arranged to co-operate with any one of the plurality of fingers of the turnstile.
  • the pin may be arranged to respond to control means which also control coin releasing means at the exit of the mechanism.
  • the means to separate may be a pin electromechanically operable to prevent the immediately following coin moving towards the exit.
  • the deflection means is preferably an electro mechanically operable ramp member which may be arranged when operated to cause an inserted coin to pass over the edge of a ledge along which coins entering the second coin chute would otherwise travel.
  • the electromechanically operable ramp member may be arranged to be substantially parallel with the back member in either the operated or the non-operated position such that an inserted coin may be arranged to enter either the second or the third coin chute when the mechanism is unpowered.
  • a coin storage chute having a back member, a coin guideway which is mounted on the back member and which is capable of holding a plurality of coins, said guideway being positioned such that an inserted coin will tend to move from an entry of the guideway towards an exit thereof, a ledge which is located in or adjacent the guideway and which is arranged such that the edge of an inserted coin may rest to prevent the coin leaving the exit of the guideway, releasing means arranged to release the coin (if any) nearest said exit, and said releasing means comprises an electromechanically operable lever arranged such that in the non-operated position, the front of said lever is behind the plane of the back member and, in the operated position, the front of the lever is forward of the plane of the back member, said lever also being arranged such that in transition from the non-operated position to the operated position the lever causes the edge of an inserted coin (if any) nearest the ledge to move over the edge of the ledge such that the coin (if any) leaves the storage chute.
  • the lever is preferably mounted closer to the ledge than half the diameter of the smallest coin for which the storage chute is intended so that only the edge adjacent the ledge of an inserted coin is pushed forward off the ledge.
  • the coin storage chute has a plurality of exits each having a respective ledge and each ledge having a respective lever associated therewith, the ledges being positioned such that an inserted coin rests with its edge against each of the ledges, said levers being arranged such that any one of the levers in transition from the non-operated position to the operated position causes the edge of an inserted coin to move over the edge of the ledge associated with that lever so that the coin leaves the storage chute by a selected exit.
  • ledges mutually at right angles to each other and the levers are arranged to cause a coin resting against the ledges to leave the mechanism either to enter a coin collection chute or to enter a coin refund chute.
  • a coin handling mechanism includes a coin path having a planar back member arranged to support a face of an inserted coin, and a coin guide member which is attached to the back member in at least two places and which is spaced apart from said back member, the width of said coin guide member being less than or substantially equal to the width of the edge of the largest coin for which the path is intended, said back member including an aperture substantially parallel with said guide member, said aperture being arranged such that items other than coins exceeding a preset minimum diameter will fall so that such items do not enter subsequent apparatus to which the coin path may be connected.
  • the coin guide member is preferably of thin strip material held to the back member in tension.
  • the mechanism comprises a coin slot 1 capable of accepting coinage of any denomination suitable for the apparatus, a rubbish rejection mechanism 2 as hereinafter described arranged to cause such items as small sticks to leave the mechanism by way of a rubbish chute 3 which is connected to a refund cup 4 and coin validation chute 5, coin reject chute 6 and coin storage chute 7.
  • the coin validation chute 5 has a plurality of coin value and validity checking mechanisms (not shown) which provide signals indicating the value and validity of inserted coins to a control circuit card 8.
  • the coin validation chute 5 and control circuit card 8 are commercially available items and may be of the kind known as an "in line validator" available from Mars Money Systems Ltd.
  • All of the items 1 to 8 may conveniently be mounted on a fixed back plate 9 which may be fitted into a case (not shown).
  • the control circuit 8 determines from the information received whether an inserted coin is acceptable to the mechanism. If an inserted coin is not acceptable to the mechanism it passes, without intervention of the control circuit 8 from the coin validation chute 5 to the reject chute 6 and is deposited in the refund cup 4.
  • control circuit 8 causes an electromechanically operable ramp 10 to move from the flat (unoperated) position shown in Figure 2A to the ramped (operated) position indicated by chain dot lines.
  • an inserted coin on reaching the junction of the validation chute 5 and the reject chute 6 does not fall from the chute 5 to the chute 6 but passes over the face of the ramp 10 into the coin storage chute 7.
  • the back plate 9 Since the back plate 9 is approximately vertically mounted inserted coins will travel towards the exit of the storage chute 7. The first inserted coin held in the storage chute 7 will rest with one edge against a ledge 11 and another edge against a second ledge 12. Subsequently inserted coins will be stored in tandem with each coin in contact with the immediately preceding coin.
  • the depth of the chute i.e. from the front face to the backplate 9) is such that coins are prevented from double stacking in a face-to-face manner.
  • the pins 13, 14 extend through respective apertures in the backplate 9 and are electromechanically operable such that in the non-operated condition each is flush with or behind the front face of the backplate 9. In operation the pins 13, 14 extend forward of the front face of the backplate 9 by a.sufficient distance to cause the respective edge of the first coin to pass over the respective ledge 11, 12. Thus, if the collect pin 13 is operated, the edge of the first stored coin passes over the ledge 11 and by way of a further coin chute 15 to a collection box (not shown). Similarly, if the refund pin 14 is operated, the respective edge of the first stored coin passes over theledge 12 so that the inserted coin falls into the refund cup 4. Subsequently stored coins may be similarly handled.
  • chutes 5, 6, 7 and 15 may be integrally formed from a plastics material by injection moulding for example and may subsequently be attached to the backplate 9.
  • a single coin release pin 17 is provided to release coins from the storage chute ? by causing the edge of the first coin held in the store to pass over the ledge 16.
  • a second ramp mechanism 18 responsive to the control signals previously referred to is arranged to direct a coin so released either to the refund cup 4 or by way of the chute 15 to the collection box (not shown).
  • the coin storage chute ? terminates at a turnstile 19 having segment separating members or fingers 20 shown with its coverplate removed.
  • the turnstile 19 is rotatable on a spindle 21 when a stop pin 22 is released.
  • the stop pin 22 may be linked electrically or mechanically to the refund pin 14 and the collect pin 13.
  • a less costly implementation of coin separation may be achieved by providing a coin stop pin 25 (Figure 1) which is arranged to be forward of the backplate 9 when both of the release pins 13, 14 are flush with the blackplate 9 thus preventing any tandem-stored coins from reaching the exit of the storage chute 7.
  • the coin stop pin 25 may be arranged to retract by electrical or mechanical linking so that the next coin if any may pass to the exit point and rest against the ledges 11 & 12.
  • the ramp mechanism comprises an electromechanical relay 26 having anener- gizable coil 27 surrounding a soft iron core 30, a yoke 28 and an armature 29 pivotally moveable on the yoke 28.
  • a mounting bracket 31 is attached at one end to the yoke 28 and at the opposed end to the rear of the backplate 9 of the coin handling mechanism of Figure 1 or Figure 2.
  • An operating member 32 of resilient material is attached to the armature 29 and is arranged such that when current flows in the coil 27 to provide a magnetic field which causes the armature 29 to tend to move towards the face of the iron core 30 the operating member 32 moves towards the base of the ramp plate 10 and towards the backplate 9 against the resilience of the material of the operating member 32.
  • the ramp member 10 being pivoted on a pin 33 which is attached to the back plate 9 moves in response to the movement of the operating member 32.
  • the ramp member 10 is required to be in the ramped position when the relay 26 is unpowered then the operating member 32 is extended to act on the opposed side of the pivot 33, the ramp member 10 being suitably extended above the pivot.
  • the relay 26 may be for example of the kind often referred to as a Post Office '3000' type relay.
  • the relay 26 functions in a similar manner to that of Figure 5.
  • the operating arm 32 is replaced by an actuating lever 34 whose spring action at the section attached to the yoke 28 and the armature 29 is similar.When the armature 29 is attracted towards the face of the iron core 30 the pin of the actuating lever 34 extends through an aperture 35 provided in the backplate 9.
  • the coin entry chute 2 of the apparatus of Figures 1 and 3 is arranged to prevent items such as match sticks entering the coin validation chute 5.
  • the coin entry chute comprises a coin runway 35 along which inserted coins may travel and which is attached to a mounting plate 36 by rivets 37.
  • the coin runway 35 is a narrow strip of material and is spaced apart from the mounting plate 36 by the depth of washers 38.
  • the lower section of the coin entry chute consists of a collecting funnel 39 arranged to gather any article which falls from the runway 35 and cause it to pass by way of the rubbish chute 3 to the refund cup 4.
  • the coin entry chute is mounted such that any coin inserted in the coin slot 1 has its face supported by the mounting plate 36 and will roll towards an exit aperture 40. Coins or washers which have a diameter less than a dimension determined by an aperture 41 will tend to fall through that aperture and be gathered by the collecting funnel 39 and thence to the rubbish chute 3.
  • a second check on their diameter may be arranged at the exit aperture 40 such that oversize coins do not pass through but fall over the end of the runway 35 into the collecting funnel 39.
  • the mounting plate 39 may be provided with a chamfered edge 42 at the entry side of the exit aperture 40 such that coins on the runway 35 which are supported by the mounting plate 39 pass through the aperture 40 more readily.

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EP0343967A2 (fr) * 1988-05-26 1989-11-29 Mars Incorporated Dispositif d'aiguillage pour machines actionnées par pièces de monnaie
WO1998012672A1 (fr) * 1996-09-23 1998-03-26 Quadrum Telecommunications, Inc. Appareil et procede d'antibourrage de retour de monnaie
US5887053A (en) * 1997-09-20 1999-03-23 Quadrum Telecommunications, Inc. Coin return anti-stuffing apparatus and method
FR2786296A1 (fr) * 1998-11-23 2000-05-26 R D Tech Appareil declenche par pieces de monnaie, par exemple, de distributeurs automatiques de produits tels que, notamment, des boissons, ou autres

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EP0343967A2 (fr) * 1988-05-26 1989-11-29 Mars Incorporated Dispositif d'aiguillage pour machines actionnées par pièces de monnaie
WO1989011705A1 (fr) * 1988-05-26 1989-11-30 Mars Incorporated Appareil compact avec porte de faible puissance pour machines fonctionnant par l'introduction de pieces de monnaie
US4953681A (en) * 1988-05-26 1990-09-04 Mars Incorporated Compact, low power gate apparatus for coin operated machines
EP0343967A3 (en) * 1988-05-26 1990-10-24 Mars Incorporated Compact, low power gate apparatus for coin operated machines
WO1998012672A1 (fr) * 1996-09-23 1998-03-26 Quadrum Telecommunications, Inc. Appareil et procede d'antibourrage de retour de monnaie
US5887053A (en) * 1997-09-20 1999-03-23 Quadrum Telecommunications, Inc. Coin return anti-stuffing apparatus and method
FR2786296A1 (fr) * 1998-11-23 2000-05-26 R D Tech Appareil declenche par pieces de monnaie, par exemple, de distributeurs automatiques de produits tels que, notamment, des boissons, ou autres
WO2000031697A1 (fr) * 1998-11-23 2000-06-02 R.D. Tech Appareil declenche par pieces de monnaie, par exemple, de distributeurs automatiques de produits tels que, notamment, des boissons, ou autres

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