EP0261838A2 - Distributeur de pièces de monnaie - Google Patents

Distributeur de pièces de monnaie Download PDF

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EP0261838A2
EP0261838A2 EP87307994A EP87307994A EP0261838A2 EP 0261838 A2 EP0261838 A2 EP 0261838A2 EP 87307994 A EP87307994 A EP 87307994A EP 87307994 A EP87307994 A EP 87307994A EP 0261838 A2 EP0261838 A2 EP 0261838A2
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coins
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EP0261838A3 (fr
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John Raymond Astle
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Bell Fruit Manufacturing Co Ltd
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Bell Fruit Manufacturing Co Ltd
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D1/00—Coin dispensers

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  • This invention relates to the dispensing of coins, and within the term coin we include also tokens.
  • Coins are dispensed as prizes in gaming and amusement machines and also as change in vending machines and change-giving machines.
  • a stack tube which is usually vertical, the coins are stacked one above the other with their major faces horizontal and a horizontally reciprocating solenoid-operated payout slide pushes the coins singly, or sometimes two or more at a time, from the bottom of the stack.
  • the tube is replenished from the top, usually by coins paid in to operate the machine, and when the tube is full the surplus coins fall down an overflow channel to a cash box.
  • stack tubes take up a significant amount of space in the machine.
  • gaming and amusement machines such as those known colloquially as fruit machines they take up valuable space in the very region which is needed for the reel mechanism and the display, as it is undesirable for the payout hopper, from which the player picks up his winnings, to be lower than necessary.
  • the aim of the invention is to overcome these drawbacks and offer a payout system which is light to operate and can conveniently be incorporated into a machine in the minimum of space.
  • the stack tube of coin-dispensing apparatus is so constructed and arranged that the coins to be dispensed are stacked not flat, but on edge, one above the other with their flat faces in the same, substantially vertical planes.
  • the coins may be dispensed, as in the known arrangement, from the bottom of the stack by a horizontally reciprocating payout slide.
  • the slide moves in a horizontal or substantially horizontal direction parallel to the flat faces of the coins, although it would be possible to arrange it to move parallel to the axis of the coin to be dispensed, making for a very short stroke.
  • the stack tubes can be formed of the material of the wall itself with no separate lining, and it is only necessary to close off the inner face of the groove with a flat sheet, for example of plastics, preferably transparent, in order to form the tube at negligible cost.
  • a tube 1 is formed as a shallow groove 2 machined in the side wall 3 of an amusement machine, closed by a flat transparent plastics strip 4 attached to the side wall 3.
  • the upper part of the tube 1 is inclined and is joined by an overflow channel 5, similarly formed, into which coins are directed when the tube is full.
  • the lower part of the tube is vertical and terminates in a slide 6 displaceable horizontally relative to a stationary guide 7 by a solenoid 8 against the action of a spring 9. It will be seen that only a short travel is necessary, around half the diameter of a coin, in order to align the bottom coin 10 with an ejection chute 11 leading to a payout hopper (not shown).
  • a conventional coin validator handles successive coins on edge and so coins can pass direct from the validator into the upper end of the tube 1 without having to turn and lie flat as in conventional stack tubes. This gives an added security against jamming or other problems.
  • each coin in one of the columns preferably has a flat face in contact with the flat face of an adjacent coin in an adjacent column.

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  • Control Of Vending Devices And Auxiliary Devices For Vending Devices (AREA)
  • Slot Machines And Peripheral Devices (AREA)
EP87307994A 1986-09-25 1987-09-10 Distributeur de pièces de monnaie Withdrawn EP0261838A3 (fr)

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GB868623054A GB8623054D0 (en) 1986-09-25 1986-09-25 Dispensing coins
GB8623054 1986-09-25

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EP0261838A2 true EP0261838A2 (fr) 1988-03-30
EP0261838A3 EP0261838A3 (fr) 1988-07-27

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Cited By (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3725768A1 (de) * 1986-12-31 1988-07-14 Coin Controls Magnetspulenbetaetigte ausgabevorrichtung fuer muenzen oder dergleichen
EP0432996A1 (fr) * 1989-12-14 1991-06-19 Maygay Machines Limited Dispositif pour la vérification de la délivrance de pièces de monnaie
WO1991010974A1 (fr) * 1990-01-12 1991-07-25 Jpm (Automatic Machines) Limited Ameliorations apportees a un appareil distributeur de pieces de monnaie
FR2804528A1 (fr) * 2000-01-27 2001-08-03 Tomy Co Ltd Dispositif de comptage de pieces

Citations (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB413986A (fr) * 1900-01-01
US2083928A (en) * 1936-06-09 1937-06-15 Steiner Louis Coin controlled device
DE2503938A1 (de) * 1975-01-31 1976-08-05 Fawn Eng Corp Extrudierte muenzenschlitzvorrichtung
DE2945127A1 (de) * 1978-11-17 1980-05-22 Laurel Bank Machine Co Vorrichtung zur ausgabe von gegenstaenden
DE3317656A1 (de) * 1983-05-14 1984-11-15 VCW Video-Componenten Weissenfels, 7500 Karlsruhe Sicherungsvorrichtung fuer einen muenzautomaten

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB413986A (fr) * 1900-01-01
US2083928A (en) * 1936-06-09 1937-06-15 Steiner Louis Coin controlled device
DE2503938A1 (de) * 1975-01-31 1976-08-05 Fawn Eng Corp Extrudierte muenzenschlitzvorrichtung
DE2945127A1 (de) * 1978-11-17 1980-05-22 Laurel Bank Machine Co Vorrichtung zur ausgabe von gegenstaenden
DE3317656A1 (de) * 1983-05-14 1984-11-15 VCW Video-Componenten Weissenfels, 7500 Karlsruhe Sicherungsvorrichtung fuer einen muenzautomaten

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3725768A1 (de) * 1986-12-31 1988-07-14 Coin Controls Magnetspulenbetaetigte ausgabevorrichtung fuer muenzen oder dergleichen
EP0432996A1 (fr) * 1989-12-14 1991-06-19 Maygay Machines Limited Dispositif pour la vérification de la délivrance de pièces de monnaie
WO1991010974A1 (fr) * 1990-01-12 1991-07-25 Jpm (Automatic Machines) Limited Ameliorations apportees a un appareil distributeur de pieces de monnaie
FR2804528A1 (fr) * 2000-01-27 2001-08-03 Tomy Co Ltd Dispositif de comptage de pieces
US6547056B2 (en) 2000-01-27 2003-04-15 Tomy Company, Ltd. Coin counting device

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EP0261838A3 (fr) 1988-07-27

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