EP0289672A1 - Coin exchanging machine - Google Patents
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- G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
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- G07D1/04—Coin dispensers giving change dispensing change equal to a sum deposited
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- This invention relates to a coin exchanging machine for exchanging money such as bank notes for coins as money or token coins for game machines.
- coin exchanging machines are used for exchanging bank notes for coins corresponding to the value of the bank notes.
- a coin exchanging machine for exchanging money such as bank notes for coins as money or token coins for game machines, which comprises: (a) casing means; (b) money inlet means through which money is inserted into the machine, disposed on a front face of the casing; (c) coin tray means for discharging coins bundles one by one, disposed at a lower portion of a coin accommodating space for piling up vertically a plurality of coin bundles in a state wherein each bundle is laid horizontally; (d) coin case means disposed detachably at the bottom of the casing means for accommodating a plurality of coin bundles in a state wherein each bundle is laid horizontally with the axis of each bundle extending laterally; (e) coin pushing means for pushing a row of coin bundles laterally at one time by pushing the side ends of rows of coin bundles paid up in the coin case means, and (f) coin transferring means for receiving a row of coin bundles pushed by the coin pushing means to transfer
- a coin exchanging machine M used in a bank or game house has a casing 1 at the upper part of which a front panel 2 is provided and at the lower part of which an openable lower cover 3 is provided.
- a bank note inlet 4 into which bank notes are inserted by a customer and a coin tray 5 into which coins corresponding to the value of the inserted bank notes are delivered.
- a bank note discriminating portion 6 for distinguishing between false and genuine bank notes under which a bank note accommodating box 7 is provided.
- the coin tray 5 is located at the bottom of a coin accommodating space 8 for piling up a plurality of bundles of coins in a vertical row.
- a coin case 9 for piling up a large number of bundles of coins therein in a state wherein each bundle b is laid down in the horizontal direction.
- a coin pushing mechanism 10 for pushing a plurality of coin bundles b located at the uppermost position of the piles of coin bundles b in the horizontal (lateral) direction while on the left side of the coin case 9 as viewed in Fig. 3 is provided a coin transferring mechanism 11 for receiving a row of coin bundles b pushed by the coin pushing mechanism 10 to transfer the coin bundles b toward the coin accommodating space 8.
- the coin case 9 has a U-shape in which two U-shaped frames 12, 12 are disposed on the opposite sides of the coin case 9 as shown in Fig. 4.
- the front, rear and bottom faces of the coin case 9 are closed with three front, rear and bottom plates, 12a, 12b, 12c, respectively.
- the opposite side faces of the coin case 9 are open so that each row of coin bundles b can be pushed in the lateral direction.
- a conveyor 13 On one side of the two open side faces is disposed a conveyor 13 forming a part of the coin transferring mechanism 11, which can receive a row of coin bundles.
- a large number of coin bundles b are accommodated.
- four bundles are disposed in an aligned manner in the lateral direction to form one column.
- a large number of combined columns are piled up in the vertical and horizontal directions.
- Each bundle has forty coins therein wrapped with a sheet of wrapping paper.
- the coin case 9 is carried by a carriage 17 with four casters 18.
- the carriage 17 has a bundle frame 19, a bottom frame 20 and two side plates 21, 21. These side plates 21 close the two open side faces of the coin case 9 in order to prevent the coin bundles b from dropping from the opposite sides of the coin case 9 during transferring the coin case 9.
- a stopper 22 with a chain 23 is detachably provided on the front frame of the bottom frame 20 in order to prevent the coin case 9 from sliding down from the carriage 17.
- the coin pushing mechanism 10 has a box-like frame 24 comprising a front frame 24a, two side frames 24b, 24b and a rear frame 24c.
- the rear frame 24c has two guide frames 24d, 24d at its opposite lateral ends.
- Each guide frame 24d has four guide rollers r, r, ...r which are rotable along a guide rail 25 and the box-like frame 24 is moved vertically by a drive motor 26 located at the bottom of the casing 1 through a chain 27 fixed to the rear frame 24c at its ends.
- Each guide rail 25 has a pulley 26a at its upper end (Fig. 3).
- a sensing piece 28 On the side face of one of guide frames is provided a sensing piece 28 which is adapted to intercept light of a photo-sensor 29 when the box-like frame 24 reaches its lowermost limit.
- a drive motor (not shown).
- Each screw bar 30 has a guide member 31 moved on the bar 30 in response to the rotation of the bar 30 and a pushing plate 32 is bridged between the two guide members 31 so that its front end pushes laterally the tail end of the rearmost row of coin bundles b.
- a sensing plate 33 At the bottom of the box-like frame 24 is provided a sensing plate 33 for detecting the existence of coin bundles b.
- the sensing plate 33 is large enough to cover an area which the coin bundles b are piled up in the coin case 9.
- the sensing plate 33 is suspended, at its lateral ends, from the side frames 24b through two parallel links 34 so as to be movable vertically.
- the parallel links 34 are connected to each other by two lateral connecting bars 35, 35.
- the two front ends of each parallel link 34 are slidably engaged with two elongated openings 36, 36 in which the front ends of the link 34 can move horizontally when the link 34 expands and shrinks.
- the sensing plate 33 has a projecting plate 33a at its rear portion.
- the projecting plate 33a comprises an inclined portion 33b and a horizontal portion 33c on which a vertical plate 37 is erected for cooperating with a photo-sensor 38 as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
- the pushing plate 32 has a roller 39 which lifts the sensing plate 33 for separating the lower surface of the plate 33 from the upper surfaces of the coin bundles when the pushing plate 33 is located under the main portion 33d of the sensing plate 33 in order to enable the pushing plate 32 to push the coin bundles smoothly.
- the sensing plate 33 is permitted to be lowered until the sensing plate 33 contacts the upper surfaces of the coin bundles.
- the vertical plate 37 still intercept the light of the photo-sensor 38. That is, in this condition, the sensor 38 is detecting the existence of the coin bundles b.
- the sensing plate 33 is lowered to a position where the vertical plate 37 comes out of the photo-sensor 38 because of no coin bundles at the height position. At this time, the sensor 38 outputs a signal for driving the drive motor 26 so that the box-like frame 24 is moved downward.
- the sensing plate 33 is lowered until it contacts the upper surfaces of the coin bundles b located at the next lower height position, the vertical plate 37 is inserted into the sensor 38 thereby to stop the drive motor 26. At this time, the pushing plate 32 is ready for pushing the coin bundles located at the next lower height position.
- One of the guide members 31 moved along the screw bars 30 has a vertical plate 40 for cooperating with a plurality of photo-sensors 41, 41, ...41 which are fixed to the inner surface of one of the side frames 24b at a certain interval corresponding to the length of each coin bundle.
- the vertical plate 40 reaches each sensor 41 to stop the rotation of the screw bars 30.
- the pushing plate 32 is returned to the above initial position.
- Each sensor 41 controls these movements of the pushing plate 32.
- a swingable plate 42 is provided for detecting whether or not a row of coin bundles b are transferred from the inside of the coin case 9 onto the conveyor 13 as shown in Figs 6, 11, 12 and 23.
- a feeding roller 43 At the lower portion of the front frame 24a is rotatably provided a feeding roller 43 for helping transfer the coin bundles b onto the conveyor 13.
- the feeding roller 43 has a pulley 44 at its one end, which is connected to a drive motor 45 through an endless belt 46.
- a photo-sensor 47 is fixed to the lateral end of the front frame 24a on the same side as the drive motor 45. The photo-sensor 47 cooperates with a vertical plate 48 erected on the rear end of the conveyor frame 53 as shown in Figs. 6, 10, 11 and 12.
- the sensor 47 outputs a signal for moving the pushing plate 32 and rotating the feeding roller 43 in order to transfer the coin bundles b onto the conveyor 13.
- the bundles b swing the swingable plate 42 upward thereby to swing a plate 49 connected to the swingable plate 42 so as to come out of the inside of the photo-sensor 50 as shown in Fig. 23.
- the plate 49 is normally located in the sensor 50 by the provision of a spring 51.
- the sensor 50 outputs a signal for stopping rotating the feeding roller 43 and moving the conveyor 13 upward.
- a stopper means 42 for preventing the foremost coin bundle of a row of bundles placed on the conveyor from dropping forword.
- the stopper means 52 has a swinging lever 52a, a link 52b and an actuating lever 52c.
- the swinging lever 52a is urged inward by a spring (not shown) and the actuating lever 52c rotates to swing the swinging lever 52a outward through the link 52b when the lower end of the conveyor frame 53 contacts the actuating lever 52c.
- the conveyor frame 53 is connected, at its lateral opposite ends, to two guide frames 54 with guide rollers r, r, ...r, moving upward and downward along two guide rails 55.
- the guide frames are connected to a drive motor 56 through a chain 57 running between the upper gear 58 and the lower drive gear 59.
- a bracket 60 swingable about an axis 61 and the bracket 60 supports a coin cover plate 61 as shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13.
- the coin cover plate 61 is for preventing the coin bundles b from dropping from the conveyor 13 when the conveyor 13 is located in a position higher than the coin pushing mechanism 10.
- the cover plate 61 has a bracket 62 at its center in its longitudinal direction in order to open and close the cover plate 61.
- the bracket 62 has a roller 63 at its lower end.
- the roller 63 contacts the upper surface of the front frame 24a of the box-like frame 24 to open the coin cover plate 61 as shown in Fig. 12.
- the conveyor 13 is moved upward.
- the coin cover plate 61 is closed to prevent the coin bundles placed on the conveyor 13 from dropping outward during its upward movement. This state is shown in Fig. 11.
- a coin stopper 64 engaging with the upper round surface of the foremost coin bundle b as shown in Fig 14.
- the coin stopper 64 is urged by a spring (not shown) in the counter-clockwise direction as viewed in Fig. 14.
- the conveyor 13 has two pulleys 65, 65 at its longitudinal opposite ends as shown in Figs. 10 and 17.
- One of the pulleys 65 is rotated by a motor 70.
- On the conveyor 13 are provided two front and rear restriction plates 66, 67 between which a row of coin bundles b are placed.
- the rear restriction plate 67 is higher than the front plates 66 because the rearmost coin bundle b cannot be moved over the rear plate 67 when the conveyor 13 runs for transferring the coin bundles placed on the conveyor 13 into the coin accommodating space 8.
- the rear plate 67 abuts against a limit switch 68 in Fig. 17 and, at this time, the conveyor 13 is ready for receiving the coin bundles b.
- the front plate 66 actuates a limit switch 69 located under the conveyor 13 as shown in Fig. 21 so as to move the conveyor 13 downward to receive coin bundles b placed in the coin case 9.
- the space 8 defined by a front wall 70 with a vertical opening, a back plate 71 and two guide rails 72, 72.
- the back plate 71 is moved vertically along the vertical guide rails 72 via two rollers 73, 73 provided on the side portions of the back plate 71 so as to be rotatable in each rail 72.
- the back plate 71 has, at its upper portions, two brackets 74 for supporting a pusher 75 which abuts against the uppermost coin bundle b in the accommodating space 8 when the back plate 71 is lowered.
- the back plate 71 has, near the brackets 74, a feeding window 76 for feeding coin bundles b on the conveyor 13 into the coin accommodating space 8.
- a group of windows through which light emitted from a group of light emitting sources 1 as sensor means 77 passes in order to detecting the existence of the coin bundles b.
- the light emitting sources 1 are disposed in a vertically dotted manner through a length corresponding to an approximate height including two coin bundles piled up vertically.
- the sensor 77 normally detects the existence of the coin bundles located opposite to its lower part. While the sensor 77 detects any coin bundles, the motor 70 (Fig. 10) for moving the conveyor 13 is stopped. That is, a space S opposite to the upper part of the sensor 77 (Figs. 15 and 17) is normally formed as a preliminary space for one bundle.
- a support projection 78 extending backward for engaging with the upper end of a bracket 79 (Figs. 9, 11 and 17) which is provided at the front portion of the conveyor frame 53.
- the bracket 79 has a switch 80 for detecting the engagement of the upper end of the bracket 79 and the support projection 78.
- the switch 80 detects the engagement of the two members, the motor 56 for moving the conveyor 13 is stopped. At this time, the front end of the conveyor 13 is opposed to the window 76 of the back plate 71.
- a coin discharge part 81 At a lower portion of the coin accommodating space 8 is provided a coin discharge part 81, as shown in Figs. 9 and 16, which discharges coin bundles b one by one in response to a signal of the bank note discriminating portion 6.
- the coin discharge part 81 comprises a coin discharge plate 82 in which two coin receiving openings 82, 82 are disposed symmetrically with respect to an axis 83 rotated by a motor 84 (Fig. 16).
- the motor 84 is fixed to the one end of the axis 83 and a locating plate 85 is fixed to the other end of the axis 83.
- the locating plate 85 has a cut away portion 86 for receiving a projection 87 of a solenoid 88.
- a photo-sensor 89 is disposed opposite to the periphery of the locating plate 85.
- the solenoid 88 retracts its projection 87 from the cut away portion 86 so as to permit the coin discharge plate 82 to rotate.
- the sensor 89 detects the rotation of the locating plate 85 thereby to stop the motor 84. In that manner, the coin discharging plate 82 is rotated according to the value of the bank notes inserted into the inlet 4.
- Two photo-sensors 90, 90 are disposed opposite to the side faces of the two coin bundles b in the coin discharge portion 81, in order to detect the existence of the coin bundles in the coin discharge portion 81.
- a limit switch 91 contacting the upper face of the bracket 74 of the back plate 71 for stopping the upward movement of the conveyor 13.
- the conveyor 13 is located at the uppermost position with a certain number of coin bundles placed between the two restriction plates 66, 67.
- the sensor 77 detects the uppermost coin bundle b. With this state, if some coin bundles b are discharged from the coin discharge part 81 into the tray 5, the uppermost coin bundle b is lowered as shown in Fig. 18. As a result, the sensor 77 detects that there is no coin in a position opposite to the sensor 77 thereby to drive the motor 56 for the conveyor 13 so as to lower the conveyor 13 together with the back plate 71.
- the switch 80 When the back plate 71 is lowered to a certain distance and the coin pusher 75 supported by the bracket 74 abuts against the uppermost coin bundle, the switch 80 is slightly separated from the projection 78 thereby to stop the conveyor 13 and move it upward (Fig. 19). When the switch 80 contacts the projection 78 again, the upward movement of the conveyor 13 is stopped. Thereafter, the conveyor 13 is moved upward to a position where the sensor 77 detects non-existence of coin bundles b as shown in Fig. 20 and the conveyor motor 70 (Fig. 10) is driven to feed the foremost coin on the conveyor 13 into the space 8 through the window 76 of the back plate 71.
- the conveyor 13 is moved upward again and then the next coin bundle b is fed into the space 8. In this manner, the coin bundles b are piled up one by one in the space 8 until the conveyor 13 reaches its uppermost position as shown in Fig. 9.
- the front restriction plate 66 actuates the switch 69 thereby to move the conveyor 13 downward to receive a row of coin bundles from the coin case 9 (Fig. 21).
- the two restriction plates 66, 67 are returned to the initial position.
- the sensor 47 detects the vertical plate 48 to start rotating the feeding roller 43 and moving the pushing plate 32 forward (laterally with respect to the casing 1) by the length of each corn bundle b as shown in Figs.
- the pushing plate 32 When the pushing plate 32 is moved forward, the foremost row of coin bundles swings the swingable plate 42 to actuate the sensor 50. Then, after the foremost row of coin bundles b is placed completely on the conveyor 13, the pushing plate 13 is stopped by the function of the each sensor 41. At the same time, the feeding roller 43 is stopped and the conveyor 13 is then moved upward until the sensor 80 fixed to the conveyor frame 53 contacts the projection 78 of the back plate 71. After this, the conveyor 13 feeds the coin bundles b one by one into the coin accommodating space 8 in the above manner until the conveyor 13 reaches the uppermost position.
- the machine can stand steadily. Further, as this machine can deal with a large number of coin bundles, the number of coin supplying operations can be remarkably decreased.
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- This invention relates to a coin exchanging machine for exchanging money such as bank notes for coins as money or token coins for game machines.
- In general, in a bank or game house, coin exchanging machines are used for exchanging bank notes for coins corresponding to the value of the bank notes.
- In these conventional coin exchanging machines, a large number of coins are stacked one by one in a coin accommodating cylinder, the coins are delivered by a coin delivery device one by one from the bottom of the cylinder into a coin outlet when a customer feeds some bank notes into a coin exchanging machine.
- These conventional coin exchanging machines have a defect that the number of coins to be stacked is restricted because each coin is stacked separately without being wrapped in the accommodating cylinder. Accordingly, in a bank or game house where customers use the coin exchanging machines frequently, the coins must be often supplied into the machines. This work is troublesome and needs extra persons.
- It is an object of this invention to provide a coin exchanging machine in which a large number of coins can be accommodated to decrease the number of coin supplying operation for supplying coin into the machine and which has a compact construction.
- According to this invention, there is provided a coin exchanging machine for exchanging money such as bank notes for coins as money or token coins for game machines, which comprises: (a) casing means; (b) money inlet means through which money is inserted into the machine, disposed on a front face of the casing; (c) coin tray means for discharging coins bundles one by one, disposed at a lower portion of a coin accommodating space for piling up vertically a plurality of coin bundles in a state wherein each bundle is laid horizontally; (d) coin case means disposed detachably at the bottom of the casing means for accommodating a plurality of coin bundles in a state wherein each bundle is laid horizontally with the axis of each bundle extending laterally; (e) coin pushing means for pushing a row of coin bundles laterally at one time by pushing the side ends of rows of coin bundles paid up in the coin case means, and (f) coin transferring means for receiving a row of coin bundles pushed by the coin pushing means to transfer the coin bundles into the coin accommodating space located at a position higher than the coin case means, the coin-transferring means being movable vertically in a state wherein a conveyor is extended in the direction perpendicular to the axis of each coin bundle in the coin case means, a row of coin bundles being received by the conveyor in a position where the conveyor is located along one side face of the coin case means, the conveyor feeding coin bundles into the coin accommmodation space one by one in response to consumption of the coin bundles.
- The nature, utility, and further features of this invention will be more clearly apparent from the following detailed description with respect to preferred embodiments of the invention when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings briefly described below.
- In the accompanying drawing:
- Fig. 1 is a front view of a coin exchanging machine according to this invention;
- Fig. 2 is a side view of the coin exchanging machine;
- Fig. 3 is a front view of the inside of the coin exchanging machine;
- Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a coin case for piling up a large number of coin bundles;
- Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a coin carriage in which the coin case is placed;
- Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a coin pushing mechanism;
- Fig. 7 is a longitudinally sectional view of a coin sensing plate;
- Fig. 8 is a perspective view showing a mechanism for stopping a pushing plate at a predetermined position;
- Fig. 9 is a vertically sectional view of a coin accommodating space;
- Fig. 10 is a perspective view showing a structure for feeding coin bundles into the coin accommodating space;
- Fig. 11 is a front view showing a state wherein a conveyor with coin bundles thereon is moved toward the coin accommodating space;
- Fig. 12 is a front view showing a state wherein the conveyor receives coin bundles from the inside of the coin case;
- Fig. 13 is a partially perspective view of the coin transferring mechanism;
- Fig. 14 is a sectional view of the front portion of a cover plate of the coin transferring mechanism;
- Fig. 15 is a perspective view of a back plate of the coin accommodating space;
- Fig. 16 is a perspective view showing a coin discharge portion;
- Fig. 17 is a side view showing a positional relationship the conveyor and the back plate;
- Figs. 18 to 21 are views showing coin feeder operation in which coin bundles are fed into the coin accommodating space, respectively; and
- Figs. 22 and 23 are views showing coin pushing operation by a pushing plate, respectively.
- In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a coin exchanging machine M used in a bank or game house, has a
casing 1 at the upper part of which afront panel 2 is provided and at the lower part of which an openablelower cover 3 is provided. In thefront panel 2 is provided abank note inlet 4 into which bank notes are inserted by a customer and acoin tray 5 into which coins corresponding to the value of the inserted bank notes are delivered. - Ajacent to the
bank note inlet 4 is provided a bank notediscriminating portion 6 for distinguishing between false and genuine bank notes under which a bank note accommodating box 7 is provided. The coin tray 5 is located at the bottom of a coin accommodating space 8 for piling up a plurality of bundles of coins in a vertical row. - At the lower part of the
casing 1 is provided acoin case 9 for piling up a large number of bundles of coins therein in a state wherein each bundle b is laid down in the horizontal direction. Above thecoin case 9 is provided acoin pushing mechanism 10 for pushing a plurality of coin bundles b located at the uppermost position of the piles of coin bundles b in the horizontal (lateral) direction while on the left side of thecoin case 9 as viewed in Fig. 3 is provided a coin transferring mechanism 11 for receiving a row of coin bundles b pushed by thecoin pushing mechanism 10 to transfer the coin bundles b toward the coin accommodating space 8. - The
coin case 9 has a U-shape in which twoU-shaped frames coin case 9 as shown in Fig. 4. The front, rear and bottom faces of thecoin case 9 are closed with three front, rear and bottom plates, 12a, 12b, 12c, respectively. However, the opposite side faces of thecoin case 9 are open so that each row of coin bundles b can be pushed in the lateral direction. - On one side of the two open side faces is disposed a
conveyor 13 forming a part of the coin transferring mechanism 11, which can receive a row of coin bundles. - In the
coin case 9, a large number of coin bundles b are accommodated. For example, four bundles are disposed in an aligned manner in the lateral direction to form one column. A large number of combined columns are piled up in the vertical and horizontal directions. Each bundle has forty coins therein wrapped with a sheet of wrapping paper. - The
coin case 9 is carried by acarriage 17 with fourcasters 18. Thecarriage 17 has abundle frame 19, abottom frame 20 and twoside plates side plates 21 close the two open side faces of thecoin case 9 in order to prevent the coin bundles b from dropping from the opposite sides of thecoin case 9 during transferring thecoin case 9. Astopper 22 with achain 23 is detachably provided on the front frame of thebottom frame 20 in order to prevent thecoin case 9 from sliding down from thecarriage 17. - The
coin pushing mechanism 10 has a box-like frame 24 comprising afront frame 24a, twoside frames rear frame 24c. Therear frame 24c has twoguide frames guide frame 24d has four guide rollers r, r, ...r which are rotable along aguide rail 25 and the box-like frame 24 is moved vertically by adrive motor 26 located at the bottom of thecasing 1 through achain 27 fixed to therear frame 24c at its ends. Eachguide rail 25 has apulley 26a at its upper end (Fig. 3). - On the side face of one of guide frames is provided a
sensing piece 28 which is adapted to intercept light of a photo-sensor 29 when the box-like frame 24 reaches its lowermost limit. Along the twoside frames screw bars screw bar 30 has aguide member 31 moved on thebar 30 in response to the rotation of thebar 30 and a pushingplate 32 is bridged between the twoguide members 31 so that its front end pushes laterally the tail end of the rearmost row of coin bundles b. At the bottom of the box-like frame 24 is provided asensing plate 33 for detecting the existence of coin bundles b. Thesensing plate 33 is large enough to cover an area which the coin bundles b are piled up in thecoin case 9. Thesensing plate 33 is suspended, at its lateral ends, from theside frames 24b through twoparallel links 34 so as to be movable vertically. Theparallel links 34 are connected to each other by two lateral connectingbars parallel link 34 are slidably engaged with twoelongated openings link 34 can move horizontally when thelink 34 expands and shrinks. Thesensing plate 33 has a projectingplate 33a at its rear portion. Theprojecting plate 33a comprises aninclined portion 33b and a horizontal portion 33c on which avertical plate 37 is erected for cooperating with a photo-sensor 38 as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. - The pushing
plate 32 has aroller 39 which lifts thesensing plate 33 for separating the lower surface of theplate 33 from the upper surfaces of the coin bundles when the pushingplate 33 is located under themain portion 33d of thesensing plate 33 in order to enable the pushingplate 32 to push the coin bundles smoothly. When the pushingplate 32 is located under the horizontal portion 33c of the projectingplate 33a, thesensing plate 33 is permitted to be lowered until thesensing plate 33 contacts the upper surfaces of the coin bundles. At this time thevertical plate 37 still intercept the light of the photo-sensor 38. That is, in this condition, thesensor 38 is detecting the existence of the coin bundles b. If all coin bundles b at a height position are pushed and if the pushingplate 32 is returned to an initial position, that is, a position under the projectingplate 33a, thesensing plate 33 is lowered to a position where thevertical plate 37 comes out of the photo-sensor 38 because of no coin bundles at the height position. At this time, thesensor 38 outputs a signal for driving thedrive motor 26 so that the box-like frame 24 is moved downward. When thesensing plate 33 is lowered until it contacts the upper surfaces of the coin bundles b located at the next lower height position, thevertical plate 37 is inserted into thesensor 38 thereby to stop thedrive motor 26. At this time, the pushingplate 32 is ready for pushing the coin bundles located at the next lower height position. - One of the
guide members 31 moved along the screw bars 30 has avertical plate 40 for cooperating with a plurality of photo-sensors plate 32 pushes rows of coin bundles b toward theconveyor 13, thevertical plate 40 reaches eachsensor 41 to stop the rotation of the screw bars 30. After the pushingplate 32 has finished pushing the last row of coin bundles at a height position, the pushingplate 32 is returned to the above initial position. Eachsensor 41 controls these movements of the pushingplate 32. - In the
front frame 24a, aswingable plate 42 is provided for detecting whether or not a row of coin bundles b are transferred from the inside of thecoin case 9 onto theconveyor 13 as shown in Figs 6, 11, 12 and 23. At the lower portion of thefront frame 24a is rotatably provided afeeding roller 43 for helping transfer the coin bundles b onto theconveyor 13. The feedingroller 43 has apulley 44 at its one end, which is connected to adrive motor 45 through anendless belt 46. A photo-sensor 47 is fixed to the lateral end of thefront frame 24a on the same side as thedrive motor 45. The photo-sensor 47 cooperates with avertical plate 48 erected on the rear end of theconveyor frame 53 as shown in Figs. 6, 10, 11 and 12. That is, when the upper end of thevertical plate 48 is inserted into thesensor 47, the vertical movement of theconveyor 13 is stopped in almost the same height position as the feedingroller 43 as shown in Fig. 12. At the same time, thesensor 47 outputs a signal for moving the pushingplate 32 and rotating the feedingroller 43 in order to transfer the coin bundles b onto theconveyor 13. When the front row of coin bundles are pushed toward theconveyor 13, the bundles b swing theswingable plate 42 upward thereby to swing aplate 49 connected to theswingable plate 42 so as to come out of the inside of the photo-sensor 50 as shown in Fig. 23. Theplate 49 is normally located in thesensor 50 by the provision of aspring 51. Thesensor 50 outputs a signal for stopping rotating the feedingroller 43 and moving theconveyor 13 upward. - In the
front frame 24 on the opposite side of thesensor 47 is provided a stopper means 42 (Fig. 16) for preventing the foremost coin bundle of a row of bundles placed on the conveyor from dropping forword. The stopper means 52 has a swinginglever 52a, alink 52b and anactuating lever 52c. The swinginglever 52a is urged inward by a spring (not shown) and theactuating lever 52c rotates to swing the swinginglever 52a outward through thelink 52b when the lower end of theconveyor frame 53 contacts theactuating lever 52c. - The
conveyor frame 53 is connected, at its lateral opposite ends, to two guide frames 54 with guide rollers r, r, ...r, moving upward and downward along twoguide rails 55. The guide frames are connected to adrive motor 56 through achain 57 running between theupper gear 58 and thelower drive gear 59. Between the twoguide rails 55 is provided abracket 60 swingable about anaxis 61 and thebracket 60 supports acoin cover plate 61 as shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13. Thecoin cover plate 61 is for preventing the coin bundles b from dropping from theconveyor 13 when theconveyor 13 is located in a position higher than thecoin pushing mechanism 10. Thecover plate 61 has abracket 62 at its center in its longitudinal direction in order to open and close thecover plate 61. Thebracket 62 has aroller 63 at its lower end. When theconveyor 13 is lowered to a position where a row of coin bundles b are fed onto theconveyor 13 by the pushingmechanism 10, theroller 63 contacts the upper surface of thefront frame 24a of the box-like frame 24 to open thecoin cover plate 61 as shown in Fig. 12. After the coin bundles b are fed onto theconveyor 13, theconveyor 13 is moved upward. At this time, thecoin cover plate 61 is closed to prevent the coin bundles placed on theconveyor 13 from dropping outward during its upward movement. This state is shown in Fig. 11. At the front end of thecoin cover plate 61 is swingably provided acoin stopper 64 engaging with the upper round surface of the foremost coin bundle b as shown in Fig 14. Thecoin stopper 64 is urged by a spring (not shown) in the counter-clockwise direction as viewed in Fig. 14. - The
conveyor 13 has twopulleys pulleys 65 is rotated by amotor 70. On theconveyor 13 are provided two front andrear restriction plates rear restriction plate 67 is higher than thefront plates 66 because the rearmost coin bundle b cannot be moved over therear plate 67 when theconveyor 13 runs for transferring the coin bundles placed on theconveyor 13 into the coin accommodating space 8. Therear plate 67 abuts against alimit switch 68 in Fig. 17 and, at this time, theconveyor 13 is ready for receiving the coin bundles b. When all coin bundles b on theconveyor 13 are fed into the coin accommodating space 8, thefront plate 66 actuates alimit switch 69 located under theconveyor 13 as shown in Fig. 21 so as to move theconveyor 13 downward to receive coin bundles b placed in thecoin case 9. - The structure of the coin accommodating space 8 will now be explained with respect to Figs. 9 and 15.
- The space 8 defined by a
front wall 70 with a vertical opening, aback plate 71 and twoguide rails back plate 71 is moved vertically along thevertical guide rails 72 via tworollers back plate 71 so as to be rotatable in eachrail 72. Theback plate 71 has, at its upper portions, twobrackets 74 for supporting apusher 75 which abuts against the uppermost coin bundle b in the accommodating space 8 when theback plate 71 is lowered. Theback plate 71 has, near thebrackets 74, a feedingwindow 76 for feeding coin bundles b on theconveyor 13 into the coin accommodating space 8. On the lower side of thewindow 76 is provided a group of windows through which light emitted from a group of light emittingsources 1 as sensor means 77 passes in order to detecting the existence of the coin bundles b. Thelight emitting sources 1 are disposed in a vertically dotted manner through a length corresponding to an approximate height including two coin bundles piled up vertically. Thesensor 77 normally detects the existence of the coin bundles located opposite to its lower part. While thesensor 77 detects any coin bundles, the motor 70 (Fig. 10) for moving theconveyor 13 is stopped. That is, a space S opposite to the upper part of the sensor 77 (Figs. 15 and 17) is normally formed as a preliminary space for one bundle. - On the other lateral opposite side of the
sensor 77 in theback plate 71 is formed asupport projection 78 extending backward for engaging with the upper end of a bracket 79 (Figs. 9, 11 and 17) which is provided at the front portion of theconveyor frame 53. Thebracket 79 has aswitch 80 for detecting the engagement of the upper end of thebracket 79 and thesupport projection 78. When theswitch 80 detects the engagement of the two members, themotor 56 for moving theconveyor 13 is stopped. At this time, the front end of theconveyor 13 is opposed to thewindow 76 of theback plate 71. - At a lower portion of the coin accommodating space 8 is provided a
coin discharge part 81, as shown in Figs. 9 and 16, which discharges coin bundles b one by one in response to a signal of the banknote discriminating portion 6. Thecoin discharge part 81 comprises acoin discharge plate 82 in which twocoin receiving openings axis 83 rotated by a motor 84 (Fig. 16). The motor 84 is fixed to the one end of theaxis 83 and a locatingplate 85 is fixed to the other end of theaxis 83. The locatingplate 85 has a cut awayportion 86 for receiving aprojection 87 of asolenoid 88. A photo-sensor 89 is disposed opposite to the periphery of the locatingplate 85. When some bank notes are inserted into theinlet 4, thesolenoid 88 retracts itsprojection 87 from the cut awayportion 86 so as to permit thecoin discharge plate 82 to rotate. When thecoin discharge plate 82 is rotated through 180 degrees from an initial position, thesensor 89 detects the rotation of the locatingplate 85 thereby to stop the motor 84. In that manner, thecoin discharging plate 82 is rotated according to the value of the bank notes inserted into theinlet 4. Two photo-sensors coin discharge portion 81, in order to detect the existence of the coin bundles in thecoin discharge portion 81. At the uppermost position of the coin accommodating space 8 is provided alimit switch 91 contacting the upper face of thebracket 74 of theback plate 71 for stopping the upward movement of theconveyor 13. - The operation of this machine will now be explained.
- In Fig. 17, the
conveyor 13 is located at the uppermost position with a certain number of coin bundles placed between the tworestriction plates sensor 77 detects the uppermost coin bundle b. With this state, if some coin bundles b are discharged from thecoin discharge part 81 into thetray 5, the uppermost coin bundle b is lowered as shown in Fig. 18. As a result, thesensor 77 detects that there is no coin in a position opposite to thesensor 77 thereby to drive themotor 56 for theconveyor 13 so as to lower theconveyor 13 together with theback plate 71. When theback plate 71 is lowered to a certain distance and thecoin pusher 75 supported by thebracket 74 abuts against the uppermost coin bundle, theswitch 80 is slightly separated from theprojection 78 thereby to stop theconveyor 13 and move it upward (Fig. 19). When theswitch 80 contacts theprojection 78 again, the upward movement of theconveyor 13 is stopped. Thereafter, theconveyor 13 is moved upward to a position where thesensor 77 detects non-existence of coin bundles b as shown in Fig. 20 and the conveyor motor 70 (Fig. 10) is driven to feed the foremost coin on theconveyor 13 into the space 8 through thewindow 76 of theback plate 71. At this time, as thesensor 77 detects the new coin bundle b, theconveyor 13 is moved upward again and then the next coin bundle b is fed into the space 8. In this manner, the coin bundles b are piled up one by one in the space 8 until theconveyor 13 reaches its uppermost position as shown in Fig. 9. - If all coin bundles b are fed from the
conveyor 13 into the space 8, thefront restriction plate 66 actuates theswitch 69 thereby to move theconveyor 13 downward to receive a row of coin bundles from the coin case 9 (Fig. 21). During the downward movement of theconveyor 13, the tworestriction plates conveyor 13 is located in the position shown in Fig. 12, the foremost row of coin bundles in the direction where the coin bundles were pushed is transferred from the inside of thecoin case 9 onto theconveyor 13. That is, in this condition, thesensor 47 detects thevertical plate 48 to start rotating the feedingroller 43 and moving the pushingplate 32 forward (laterally with respect to the casing 1) by the length of each corn bundle b as shown in Figs. 22 and 23. When the pushingplate 32 is moved forward, the foremost row of coin bundles swings theswingable plate 42 to actuate thesensor 50. Then, after the foremost row of coin bundles b is placed completely on theconveyor 13, the pushingplate 13 is stopped by the function of the eachsensor 41. At the same time, the feedingroller 43 is stopped and theconveyor 13 is then moved upward until thesensor 80 fixed to theconveyor frame 53 contacts theprojection 78 of theback plate 71. After this, theconveyor 13 feeds the coin bundles b one by one into the coin accommodating space 8 in the above manner until theconveyor 13 reaches the uppermost position. - According to this invention, as the
coin case 9 is placed at the bottom of thecasing 1, the machine can stand steadily. Further, as this machine can deal with a large number of coin bundles, the number of coin supplying operations can be remarkably decreased.
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