EP1343122A2 - Machine trieuse de pièces de monnaie - Google Patents

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EP1343122A2
EP1343122A2 EP03002814A EP03002814A EP1343122A2 EP 1343122 A2 EP1343122 A2 EP 1343122A2 EP 03002814 A EP03002814 A EP 03002814A EP 03002814 A EP03002814 A EP 03002814A EP 1343122 A2 EP1343122 A2 EP 1343122A2
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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
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/12—Sorting coins by means of stepped deflectors
    • G07D3/121—Sorting coins by means of stepped deflectors arranged on inclined paths
    • G07D3/123—Sorting coins by means of stepped deflectors arranged on inclined paths the coins being deflected off rails
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/16—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations in combination with coin-counting

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  • the present invention concerns a device to select and separate coins having different diameters, for example the eight different euro coins and relative sub-multiples.
  • the different coins are introduced manually, also loose, into a suitable little hopper of the static device according to the present invention, which is able to intercept all the coins that descend on a suitable inclined channel, or track, to distribute them into a plurality of vertical collecting tubes.
  • the device according to the invention is not limited thereto, and can also be applied to separate tokens or other types of disc-shaped elements, with a different diameter. Therefore, in this description, including the claims, the term coin shall be taken to include also tokens or other disc-shaped elements.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to resolve the aforesaid shortcomings, and others not cited here.
  • Another very important purpose that the present invention has set itself is to achieve a device able to simultaneously select a plurality of different coins, for example eight, and to separate them according to type into the appropriate collecting spaces, without using moving mechanical parts.
  • Another important purpose that the present invention has set itself is to achieve a coin-selection device which costs very little and that occupies very little space so that it can be accessible for all public premises.
  • a further purpose that the present invention has set itself is to be able to channel the selected coins into appropriate cylindrical containers, one for each type of coin, each one equipped downstream with a manual drawer-type extractor in order to facilitate the operator when giving change to customers.
  • Yet another very important purpose that the present invention has set itself is to be able to achieve, according to a variant, a second static device also able to count all the coins introduced, simply by electrically connecting a plurality of electric/electronic pulse counters to the metallic diversion means and to the guide track, which is also metallic. In this way, the intercepted coins themselves will go to close, on each occasion, the respective electric counting circuits.
  • the device to separate coins according to the present invention is set forth and characterized in the main claim, while the dependent claims describe other innovative characteristics of the present invention.
  • a device which is of the static type and is able to separate and also, if desired, to count, all the coins, for example the euro and its sub-multiples, which are introduced loosely into an appropriate small hopper arranged in the upper part of the device.
  • the invention provides a completely static device, made with conveyor and discharge channels to convey and discharge the coins, which exploit only the force of gravity.
  • the positioning of the rigid structures which make up every part of the conveyor channels, the materials used and the size thereof, and also their shape, have been calculated to a thousandth of a millimeter so as to be able to obtain perfect synchrony of a progressive and natural separation of the coins introduced.
  • the device comprises a bearing structure, on which an apparatus is mounted arranged inclined, for the separation of the coins.
  • the apparatus comprises a hopper to facilitate the manual introduction of the coins, a lead-in channel to distance the coins introduced from each other, a guide track, a plurality of diversion elements able to divert the coins during the obligatory descent.
  • a plurality of tubes are arranged, transparent and possible graded, for the differentiated collection, in piles, of the coins.
  • Downstream of the collecting tubes a plurality of extractors are arranged, able to be driven by corresponding levers, for the manual extraction of the coins.
  • the device according to the invention also comprises a plurality of pulse counters, a low-tension transformer and a switch.
  • the aforesaid guide track is inclined by about 15-20° with respect to a horizontal plane, is made advantageously of metal, and is about 3 mm wide and about 250 mm long.
  • the supporting wall for the coins is made of an insulating material with a low friction coefficient, for example plastic material, and is bent backwards, by about 5°-10°, with respect to the vertical plane. This inclination is sufficient to guarantee the sliding contact of the coins that roll on the guide track.
  • the base of the track on which the coins are able to slide is substantially perpendicular to the supporting wall.
  • pointed elements For example, in the case of euro coins, including sub-multiples, there are eight pointed elements, because there are eight different coins.
  • the pointed elements protrude into the space above the base of the track and are distanced from each other by a value greater than the diameter of the biggest coin; they are also distanced, in a scale, from the base of the track by values proportionate to the diameters of the different coins to be separated.
  • each pointed element is distanced from the base of the track by a value a little less than the diameter of the coin to be intercepted, but more than the diameter of a coin with a diameter just a little larger.
  • Each coin as it descends along the inclined track, passes under the pointed elements that do not have to intercept it, and is able to be intercepted only by the corresponding pointed element and laterally diverted by said pointed element.
  • the diverted coin exits from the track and, due to gravity, finishes in the collecting tube below.
  • the biggest coin is intercepted and then, in a scale, the other coins, so that all of them fall, due to gravity, into their own collecting tube, possibly transparent, arranging themselves one on top of the other to form a pile.
  • the device is characterized in that it comprises first guide means inclined with respect to the horizontal plane and second guide means inclined with respect to the vertical plane and associated with the first guide means to accompany in their descent all the coins to be selected, so that the coins can slide downwards along said first guide means, with a face that slides on the second guide means; it is also characterized in that diversion means are associated with said first and second guide means in order to selectively divert and discharge the coins into corresponding collecting elements.
  • a device is essentially composed of a fixed bearing structure 11, which is made for example from a single metal sheet, cut and/or molded and then bent. At least an upper part 12 of the structure 11 is bent backwards by an angle ⁇ of about 5°-10° with respect to a vertical plane V (fig. 11). Said upper part 12 (fig. 1) serves to support an inclined apparatus 13, substantially consisting of four parts 30, 31, 33 and 35, which will be described in more detail later and which are indispensable for the transport and systematic natural division of coins 14 introduced into a small hopper 15 of the apparatus 13.
  • Each coin 14 is immediately channeled downwards and will be intercepted by a corresponding wedge-shaped element, or pointed element 16, and will then fall into a corresponding vertical tube 18.
  • a corresponding wedge-shaped element or pointed element 16
  • Fig. 3 shows a lever 19 displaced completely to the left, that is, towards the front part of the device 10, and a coin 14 having exited completely from the slit 23, while the other levers 19 are in an inactive position, retained by the corresponding springs 22.
  • the spring 22 immediately provides to restore the drawer-type leaf after the operator releases the lever 19.
  • a second coin 14 of the same type will be extracted.
  • Fig. 2 shows eight different coins 14 (from 14a to 14h) arranged in a row. Each coin 14 is different from the other both in value and in diameter, and each of them is able to be intercepted by the corresponding pointed element 16.
  • the first pointed element 16a intercepts the biggest coin 14a, which for example corresponds to the 2 euro coin
  • the second pointed element 16b intercepts the 50 cent coin 14b, which has an immediately smaller diameter than that of the 2 euro coin
  • the third pointed element 16c intercepts the 1 euro coin 14c
  • the fourth pointed element 16d intercepts the 20 cent coin 14d
  • the fifth pointed element 16e the 5 cent coin 14e
  • the sixth pointed element 16f the 10 cent coin 14f
  • the seventh pointed element 16g the 2 cent coin 14g and finally the eighth pointed element 16h intercepts the smallest coin 14h, the 1 cent coin.
  • Fig. 4 shows the inclined structure in an exploded view.
  • the supporting wall 31 can be seen with the hopper 15 made in the wall 31.
  • the pointed elements 16a-16h shaped as goose quills, are ready to be inserted into corresponding slits, which are positioned in a scale in the supporting wall 31 and distanced from the base of the track 30 by a value proportionate to the diameter of the corresponding eight coins 14a-14h.
  • the conveyor channel defined by the track 30 (figs. 11 and 12) is about 3 mm, to ensure that all the coins 14 slide one after the other, and do not overtake or leapfrog each other as they descend.
  • the frame 33 can be seen, which is equipped with the eight conveyor dividers 32a-32h which serve to stop the different coins 14a-14h diverted by the pointed elements 16a-16h and to channel them into correspondence with the mouths of the tubes 18 below.
  • a cover 35 possibly able to be opened (fig. 12) to inspect the inside of the apparatus 13, serves to complete the closure of the conveyor dividers 32a-32h, transforming them into proper conveyor channels, and to prevent the coins 14 from jumping out.
  • Fig. 6 shows the frame 33, with the conveyor dividers 32a-32h assembled to the track 30.
  • the same coins 14e and 14g as shown in fig. 5 can also be seen; in particular, it can be seen that the coin 14e knocks against the corresponding divider 32e after meeting the pointed element 16e, which, being cut like a goose quill, causes the coin 14e to become detached from the supporting wall 31, and makes it protrude just enough to meet the divider 32e.
  • Figs. 7 and 8 show a coin 14e that is changing direction because of the pointed element 16e. It can also be seen that an electric charge S is symbolized on the coin 14e, to show that at that point the electric current can pass from the track 30 to the pointed element 16e through the coin 14e itself, which is metallic.
  • the track 30 and all the pointed elements 16a-16h are made of metal material, while the wall 31, the frame 33 and the cover 35 are made of material which does not conduct electric current, for example plastic.
  • an appropriate electric/electronic pulse counter which can be zeroed, of a conventional type and not shown in the drawings, provides to progressively count the coins 14 intercepted of the same value.
  • eight pulse counters or a single display with an electronic card, can register the eight counts and also add up the value of all the coins 14 (known electronic systems) diverted into each tube 18.
  • Fig. 8 gives a better view of the coin 14e which, inclined, knocks against the divider 32e.
  • the coin 14g has not yet met its own pointed element 16g and therefore continues its descent with one face sliding against the supporting wall 31.
  • the coins 14 descend from the hopper 15 accompanied by the track 30, which has an inclined lead-in channel for the coins 14 that have just been introduced manually. Said lead-in channel serves to prevent the coins 14 from chasing each other as they descend, and from getting attached to each other.
  • the descending coins 14 must be slightly distanced from each other so as not to be drawn down into the wrong tube 18 by the preceding coin 14, at the moment when the latter is intercepted by the corresponding pointed element 16 and also during the time, almost instantaneous, when it knocks against the conveyor divider 32.
  • Each coin 14 of a different diameter will go to meet the corresponding pointed element 16 and the corresponding divider 32, falling immediately into the corresponding tube 18.
  • the coins 14 introduced into the hopper 15 descend along the inclined channel 30 with a speed proportionate to the inclination of the channel 30.
  • One face of the coin 14 remains constantly in sliding contact with the supporting wall 31, which is bent backwards by an angle ⁇ of about 5-10°.
  • the pointed elements 16 discharge the kinetic energy of the coins 14 onto the coins 14 themselves, knocking them against the dividers 32.
  • the coins 14 are thus destabilized and fall due to gravity, onto the corresponding tubes 18.
  • the static device according to the present invention to separate, count and position coins in piles for example the euro and its sub-multiples
  • the static device according to the present invention to separate, count and position coins in piles, for example the euro and its sub-multiples
  • the static device according to the present invention is particularly useful for all those who have to manage money every day, in both the public and private sector, for example: tobacconists, shop keepers, cashiers in service stations, bars, banks, post offices, newsagents, railway stations and suchlike.
  • an electric/electronic system may be provided to count the coins, using the coins themselves to close the electric circuit between the pointed element and the track; in this way, it is possible to obtain the necessary electric pulse for the pulse counting instruments.
  • the device according to the present invention can also be associated with any cash register and automatically provide the change for any transaction.
  • attraction means of a conventional type for example of the electromagnetic type, can be associated with the levers 19 and cause one or more coins 14 to protrude from the respective slits 23, according to the value of each coin 14 and the overall value of the change to be given.

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CN107146319A (zh) * 2017-05-11 2017-09-08 东北大学 一种滑轨式硬币分离装置
CN108230532A (zh) * 2017-12-20 2018-06-29 上海海事大学 一种硬币分类装置
CN114937326A (zh) * 2022-06-10 2022-08-23 苏州日宝科技有限责任公司 一种筛分机构可更换的硬币清分机

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DE430251C (de) * 1924-12-16 1926-06-18 Anders Werner Svenson Muenzenfuehrung an Geldsortierapparaten
GB1565119A (en) * 1976-10-06 1980-04-16 Zschaeck H K Combined coin sorting and distributing devices
AU594571B2 (en) * 1987-06-16 1990-03-08 Automatic Currency Equipment Pty. Ltd. Improvements in coin counting and sorting machines

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GB1565119A (en) * 1976-10-06 1980-04-16 Zschaeck H K Combined coin sorting and distributing devices
AU594571B2 (en) * 1987-06-16 1990-03-08 Automatic Currency Equipment Pty. Ltd. Improvements in coin counting and sorting machines

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CN106251463A (zh) * 2016-06-17 2016-12-21 辽宁工业大学 多滑道阻式硬币分拣装置
CN107146319A (zh) * 2017-05-11 2017-09-08 东北大学 一种滑轨式硬币分离装置
CN107146319B (zh) * 2017-05-11 2019-04-16 东北大学 一种滑轨式硬币分离装置
CN108230532A (zh) * 2017-12-20 2018-06-29 上海海事大学 一种硬币分类装置
CN114937326A (zh) * 2022-06-10 2022-08-23 苏州日宝科技有限责任公司 一种筛分机构可更换的硬币清分机
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