EP0219280A2 - Méthode et appareil pour former et envelopper un rouleau de pièces de monnaie - Google Patents

Méthode et appareil pour former et envelopper un rouleau de pièces de monnaie Download PDF

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EP0219280A2
EP0219280A2 EP86307636A EP86307636A EP0219280A2 EP 0219280 A2 EP0219280 A2 EP 0219280A2 EP 86307636 A EP86307636 A EP 86307636A EP 86307636 A EP86307636 A EP 86307636A EP 0219280 A2 EP0219280 A2 EP 0219280A2
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Victor G. Ristvedt
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D65/00—Wrappers or flexible covers; Packaging materials of special type or form
    • B65D65/02—Wrappers or flexible covers
    • B65D65/14—Wrappers or flexible covers with areas coated with adhesive
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/0085—Packaging elements adhered to the articles, e.g. a carton sheet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/58—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for ball bearings, washers, buttons or like spherical or disc-shaped articles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G07D9/06—Devices for stacking or otherwise arranging coins on a support, e.g. apertured plate for use in counting coins
    • G07D9/065—Devices for wrapping coins

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  • the present invention relates generally to wrapped coin rolls and methods of forming the same.
  • Another important object is to provide an improved wrapped coin roll which does not require crimping of the wrapping material at the ends of the coin roll.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide an improved wrapped coin roll which can be easily opened.
  • a wrapped roll of coins comprising a roll of coins having a length and a circumference; and a wrapper comprising (i) a flexible substrate having a substrate length and a substrate width, the substrate width being greater than the circumference of the roll, and the substrate length being at least as great as the length of the roll; along the length of the substrate an inside edge which contacts the length of the roll and, at the opposite end of the substrate, an outside edge; along the width of the substrate a pair of side edges, an inner surface which faces radially toward the roll; and an outer surface which faces radially away from the roll; and (ii) on the inner surface of the flexible substrate proximate the side edge, a coin-supporting amount of an effective clean-­releasing pressure-sensitive adhesive, wherein the adhesive securely retains the coins within the wrapper and the coins can be selectively cleanly released from the wrapper without tearing the wrapper, whereby the wrapper can be reused.
  • a method for selectively holding a roll of coins having a circumference, a length, two ends and two opposite circular sides comprising (a) arranging coins to form the roll of coins; (b) selecting a flexible substrate having a substrate length and a substrate width, the substrate width being greater than the circumference of the roll, and the substrate length being at least as great as the length of the roll; along the length of the substrate an inside edge which is suitable for contacting the length of the roll and, at the opposite end of the substrate, an outside edge; along the width of the substrate a pair of side edges; an inner surface suitable for contacting the roll of coins; and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, wherein on the inner surface proximate the side edges is a coin-supporting amount of an effective clean-releasing pressure-sensitive adhesive; (c) contacting the length of the roll with the inside edge of the flexible substrate such that the ends of the coin roll are in contact with the adhesive; (d) wrapping the roll in the flexible substrate, wherein the inner surface
  • a coin wrapping mechanism for wrapping rolls of coins, said mechanism comprising coin stacking means for forming a coin stack containing a predetermined number of coins, means for supporting the coin stack for rotation about its axis, means for rotating the coin stack about its axis while pressing a wrapping material against the coin stack, said wrapping material having a coating of a pressure-sensitive, releasable adhesive on the side facing the coin stack so that the adhesive adheres to, and is wound around, the coin stack,and means for removing the coin stack from the rotating means after the desired length of wrapping material has been wound around the coins.
  • Figs. 1, 2 and 3 illustrate a coin roll wrapping mechanism in three successive stages of operation.
  • a coin stack 10 having a known length and circumference (with two ends and two opposite circular sides) is loaded from a buffer tube 11 into a wrapping chamber C formed by a housing 12.
  • the buffer tube 11 is pivotally supported in the upper portion of the housing 12 by a pair of diametrically opposed pins 13 and 14 fitting into recesses in the outside wall of the tube 11, so that the lower end of the tube can be pivoted between (1) a "load buffer" position (illustrated in Figs.
  • the coin stack 10 which contains a prescribed number of coins of a given denomination, may be formed by any of a variety of different coin counting and stacking mechanisms, such as the one described in Nakamura et al. US Patent No. 4,515,172. Such stacking mechanisms typically have a shutter which opens each time it is desired to load a new coin stack into the wrapping mechanism. When the shutter opens, the coin stack 10 drops into the buffer tube 11. Alternatively, the desired number of coins can be loaded into the buffer tube 11 by hand.
  • a rotatable cam 16 with a smoothly rounded leading edge 17 engages the outside wall of the tube 11 near the lower end thereof and pushes the lower end of the tube to its retracted position (as shown in Fig. 1 and 2). The outer edge of the cam 16 then maintains the tube 11 in its retracted position throughout the wrapping of the coin stack in the wrapping chamber.
  • a spring 19 pivots the tube to its advanced or "load buffer” position (illustrated in Fig. 3). The relationship of the rotational movement of the cam 16 and the wrapping mechanism will be apparent from the ensuing description.
  • the stack of coins loaded into the wrapping chamber C rests on a disc 20 extending radially outwardly from the bottom of a wrapping roller 21 adjacent the wrapping chamber.
  • Lateral support for the coin stack 10 is provided by a pair of idler rollers 21 a and 21 b recessed in the walls of the wrapping chamber C , a spring-­loaded exit gate 22, and the wrapping roller 21.
  • the coin stack 10 is free to rotate about its longitudinal axis while supported in this manner within the wrapping chamber.
  • the cam 16 is mounted on the top of the wrapping roller 21, which extends slightly above the top of the coin stack 10.
  • This sheet of wrapping material 30 forms a flexible substrate having a width W greater than the circumference of the roll and a length L at least as great as the length of the roll.
  • One side of this wrapping material 30, namely the side facing the coin stack 10 is coated with a pressure-sensitive, releasable adhesive 31, such as No. 4351 film tape available from Can-Do Inc., Nashville, Tennessee.
  • a pressure-sensitive, releasable adhesive 31 such as No. 4351 film tape available from Can-Do Inc., Arlington, Tennessee.
  • Other suitable adhesives are those disclosed in US Patent No. 4,418,120 as having good tack and shear properties but low peel adhesion to stainless steel.
  • the adhesive should adhere quickly to the outer surface of a stack of coins and have sufficient shear strength to securely retain the coins within the wrapper during handling, and yet had a peel adhesion low enough to be effectively clean-releasing, permitting and wrapping material to be readily peeled off the coil roll without leaving any substantial residue of adhesive on the coins and without tearing the wrapping material.
  • the wrapper can be re-used.
  • the adhesive coating 31 is preferably continuous along the full length and across the full width of the material 30.
  • a resilient rubber or foamed-polymer pad 23 is bonded to the outer surface of the wrapping roller 21. It will be noted that the resilient pad 23 does not extend all the way around the circumference of the wrapping roller 21, thereby forming an "open" angle a within which a new sheet of wrapping material 30 can be inserted into the throat between the roller 21 and the coin stack 10 in each revolution of the roller. Then when the leading edge of the resilient pad 23 engages the new sheet of wrapping material, the pad 23 presses the leading edge 32 of the wrapping material 30 against the coin stack. Because of the adhesive coating on the side of the wrapping material 30 facing the coin stack, the wrapping material adheres to the coin stack.
  • the circumferential length of the pad 23 is only slightly longer than the circumference of the coin stack, so that only one layer of the wrapping material is wound around the major portion of the stack with only the trailing edge 33 of the wrapping material overlapping and adhered to the first layer of wrapping material. It will be recognised, however, that the diameter of the roller 21 and/or the circumferential length of the pad 23 can be increased to wrap two or more layers of wrapping material around the stack of coins. If desired, the pad 23 can extend around the entire circumference of the roller 21, with the roller being retracted away from the coin stack during a portion of each revolution to allow a new sheet of wrapping material 30 to be fed into the wrapping mechanism.
  • the height of the resilient pad 23 is slightly greater than the height of the coin stack 10 to ensure that the last coin at both ends of the stack is secured by the adhesive 31 adjacent the side edges 34 and 35 of the wrapping material. If desired, a small extra length of wrapping material can be folded over the ends of the coin stack, but there is no need for the crimping operation required by present coin wrapping machines, because the coins are retained within the wrapper by the adhesive coating on the wrapping material.
  • a pair of ejector pins 40 and 41 project laterally from the wrapping roller 21 a short distance behind the trailing edge of the resilient pad 23. As these ejector pins 40 and 41 come into engagement with the wrapped coin roll, they push the coin roll against the spring-loaded exit gate 22, thereby pushing the gate open against its spring bias and ejecting the wrapped coin roll through the opened gate.
  • a shoulder 42 and the support disc 20 also engages the wrapped coin roll and assists in ejecting the coin roll from the wrapping mechanism.
  • the spring load on the gate returns the gate to its closed position.
  • the roller 21 is fastened to a drive shaft 50 journaled in a support plates 51 cantilevered from the bottom of the housing 12.
  • the drive shaft 50 in turn carries a drive pinion 52 which can be driven by any suitable drive means, such as a toothed belt driven by an electric motor. If desired, the drive shaft 50 could be driven directly by an electric motor.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates a partially wrapped coin roll, with the adhesive-coated inner surface of the leading edge 32 of the wrapping material 30 contacting the coin stack 10 along the lengths of the coin stack and the wrapping material.
  • the surface of the wrapping material 30 which faces radially toward the coin roll is referred to here as the “inner” surface, while the surface which faces radially away from the coin roll is referred to as the “outer” surface).
  • the trailing edge 33 of the adhesive-­coated inside surface of the wrapping material 30 overlaps the outside surface of the leading edge 32 and is adhered thereto by the adhesive 31.
  • the adhesive coating along the side edges 34 and 35 of the wrapping material adheres to the coins at the ends of the roll to securely retain those coins in the roll; thus, the adhesive coating proximate the side edges 34 and 35 must contain a coin-supporting amount of the adhesive 31. Because the adhesive 31 is clean-releasing, the coins are selectively held in the wrapper and can be selectively cleanly released from the wrapper by removing the wrapper by merely peeling off the wrapper, whereby the roll of coins is cleanly released.

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EP86307636A 1985-10-07 1986-10-03 Méthode et appareil pour former et envelopper un rouleau de pièces de monnaie Expired - Lifetime EP0219280B1 (fr)

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US78534285A 1985-10-07 1985-10-07
US785342 1985-10-07
US06/785,343 US4718218A (en) 1985-10-07 1985-10-07 Coin wrapping mechanism
US785343 1985-10-07

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US3619978A (en) * 1970-02-16 1971-11-16 George C Graham Coin card loading machine
US3906964A (en) * 1973-01-12 1975-09-23 Glory Kogyo Kk Coin wrapping apparatus
CH598080A5 (en) * 1975-07-18 1978-04-28 Weber Jean Pierre Thermally insulated packaging material
CH602428A5 (en) * 1976-06-01 1978-07-31 Nawrot Kg Hermann Packaging film with self adhesive latex coating
US4402398A (en) * 1981-11-25 1983-09-06 Smoczynski Frank E Coin carrying plastic card
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EP0116808A1 (fr) * 1983-02-17 1984-08-29 F. Zimmermann & Co. Procédé pour emballer des pièces de monnaie en rouleaux et papier d'emballage pour former ces rouleaux
US4515172A (en) * 1981-10-28 1985-05-07 Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Coin stacking apparatus for a coin packaging machine or the like
US4546875A (en) * 1983-07-06 1985-10-15 Pauline C. Zweber Coin wrapper
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AT68560B (de) * 1912-09-19 1915-04-26 Sapal Plieuses Automatiques Maschine zum Einwickeln von runden scheibenförmigen und von zylindrischen Körpern.
US2165539A (en) * 1937-05-26 1939-07-11 Teletype Corp Package
US2371985A (en) * 1943-02-08 1945-03-20 Louis D Freiberg Wrapped article and method of wrapping the same
US2985295A (en) * 1957-05-24 1961-05-23 Waldes Kohinoor Inc Staples of retaining rings
US3410717A (en) * 1963-12-09 1968-11-12 Canadian Technical Tape Ltd Corrosion inhibiting composition and packaging material
US3420717A (en) * 1966-03-28 1969-01-07 Ibm Metal softening process and product thereof
US3619978A (en) * 1970-02-16 1971-11-16 George C Graham Coin card loading machine
US3906964A (en) * 1973-01-12 1975-09-23 Glory Kogyo Kk Coin wrapping apparatus
CH598080A5 (en) * 1975-07-18 1978-04-28 Weber Jean Pierre Thermally insulated packaging material
CH602428A5 (en) * 1976-06-01 1978-07-31 Nawrot Kg Hermann Packaging film with self adhesive latex coating
US4515172A (en) * 1981-10-28 1985-05-07 Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Coin stacking apparatus for a coin packaging machine or the like
US4402398A (en) * 1981-11-25 1983-09-06 Smoczynski Frank E Coin carrying plastic card
US4418120A (en) * 1982-07-19 1983-11-29 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Co. Tackified crosslinked acrylic adhesives
EP0116808A1 (fr) * 1983-02-17 1984-08-29 F. Zimmermann & Co. Procédé pour emballer des pièces de monnaie en rouleaux et papier d'emballage pour former ces rouleaux
US4546875A (en) * 1983-07-06 1985-10-15 Pauline C. Zweber Coin wrapper
EP0215647A2 (fr) * 1985-09-20 1987-03-25 Cummins-Allison Corporation Mécanisme pour encartoucher des pièces de monnaie

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DE3689504D1 (de) 1994-02-17
JPS62168815A (ja) 1987-07-25
DE3689504T2 (de) 1994-04-28
AU593020B2 (en) 1990-02-01
AU6346086A (en) 1987-04-09
CA1271167A (fr) 1990-07-03

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