Classifications

• • 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
  • G07D3/02—Sorting coins by means of graded apertures
• • 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
  • G07D1/02—Coin dispensers giving change
• • 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
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F5/00—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
  • G07F5/24—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks with change-giving

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device according to the O-term of claim 1.
• Coin accepting machines contain a cache to be able to issue change.
• the cache is also required to reset a payment transaction
• Buffers that return the same coins are usually drum-shaped or disk-shaped and become rotated for receiving and dispensing coins in opposite directions, as shown for example in DE 43 21 859 C2. Buffers that issue other coins that match only in terms of size have tubes or hoppers for receiving the coins. For tubes, the coins are entered at the top and issued below; with hoppers, the coins are picked up randomly and are issued indiscriminately.
• 1 is a sectional view through a device with drum-shaped magazine for the intermediate storage of coins
• FIG. 4 shows the device according to FIG. 3 in several sectional views
• 5 a coin transport carriage in plan view
• 6 is a sectional view of the additional storage space without filling function of the buffer
• FIG. 8 shows a sectional view of the additional storage space without filling function of the intermediate store when superimposed impellers of a magazine with filling function are used
• FIG. 9 shows a sectional view through a device with concentric vanes for the temporary storage of coins of different sizes in a magazine with filling function
• FIG. 11 shows two sectional views of the storage wheel according to FIG. 10.
• the buffer is formed in the apparatus of FIG. 1 from a plurality of perpendicular to the plane of successive magazine bodies 1.
• Each magazine body 1 serves to receive coins of the same value, the coins to be received in the various magazine bodies 1 usually having a different size.
• Coin validator 2 from which coins recognized as good fall a step angle 3 and roll on this in a trolley 4.
• the trolley 4 is moved with a coin by a drive 5 along a guide shaft 6 perpendicular to the drawing plane, so that the respective coins can be transported to the magazine body provided for them.
• the coins roll in the initial position of the trolley 4 initially against a pivotable between two positions and normally located in the clockwise pivoted position locking lever 7 and then, when they are moved out of the range of the locking lever 7, on the one hand to a support bracket 8 and On the other hand are held by the step angle 3 against falling through a gap 9 formed between them.
• the transport carriage 4 shown in its top position in plan view in FIG. 5 contains two parallel walls 10, between which the input
• Coin is held loose and form a funnel-like extension on the inlet side of the coin.
• the step angle 3 is, as the plan view of FIG. 3 shows stepped from the initial position (O position) of the trolley 4 from extended, the extension corresponds to the size differences of the coins to be stored.
• the respective coin may fall through the gap 9 at the location where the width of the gap 9 exceeds the diameter of the coin.
• Fig. 3 shows a smallest diameter coin 11 and a large diameter coin 12.
• the locking lever 7 prevents in its shown in Fig. 1 position that in the starting position of the trolley 4 even the smallest coin 11 can fall through the gap 9.
• the step angle 3 is formed so that the gap 9 in the middle of the route of the trolley 4 is the narrowest. From this center, the gap 9 widens unevenly on both sides, such that the extensions on one side allow for the passage of the second smallest, fourth smallest, ... and on the other side for the passage of the third-smallest, fifth-smallest, ... Coin are intended.
• the drive 5 receives from the coin validator 2 the command in which direction the trolley 4 is to move.
• the arrangement of the starting position of the trolley 4 in the middle of the route, the routes of the trolley 4 are compared with the arrangement shortened at one end of the route, so that the coin input process can be performed correspondingly faster.
• the step angle 3, the trolley 4, the drive 5, the guide shaft 6, the locking lever 7 and the support bracket 8 form a sorting device thirteenth
• each magazine body 1 has a coin entry slot 14 through which the size-sized coin falls.
• Each magazine body 1 contains an impeller with a cylindrical inner ring 15 on which driving webs 16 are arranged projecting radially outwards in circumferentially equal distances. The distance between two adjacent carrier webs 16 is dimensioned such that a coin of the size assigned to the respective impeller can be received between them.
• the height of the Mitauerstege 16 corresponds to about half of the
• Diameter of a recorded coin Diameter of a recorded coin.
• the inner ring 15 with the driver webs 16 is rotatable about an axis 19 by means of a motor 17 and via a gear 18. Between the Mit supportivestegen 16 located coins are taken.
• Each magazine body 1 further includes a fixed outer ring 20 having on its inside a helical groove.
• a helical Münzleitsteg 21 is used, which thus extends in the circumferential direction over several full revolutions of the impeller.
• the pitch of the helix formed by Münzleitsteg 21 is such that in one revolution, a distance in the direction of the axis 19 is obtained, which corresponds to the thickness of a coin and a small game, so that a recorded coin through the rear in the direction of rotation Mitauersteg 16 can be performed without jamming over several revolutions along the spiral Münzleitsteg 21 formed Münzleitbahn.
• the inner ring 15 is a distance corresponding to the distance between two adjacent driving webs 16 in the filling direction, ie in FIG. 1 turned counterclockwise.
• the respective rotational position of the impeller can be accurately adjusted. In this way, the magazine can be filled.
• the impeller in the return direction, i. rotated opposite to the filling direction, whereby the last entered coin (s) fall into a return chute 25 (fall).
• the impeller performs as many steps as coins are to be issued.
• FIG. 1 shows the corresponding design for a small coin 11, a middle coin 26 and a large coin 12, these different magazine bodies 1 being assigned to one another.
• FIG. 6 shows the interior of the intermediate cash module 28 from a viewing direction which is opposite to the viewing direction in FIG. 1.
• the intermediate cash module 28 contains a coin entry shaft 29 which opens into an opening below the gap 9. With the locking lever 7 pivoted back, i. in the event of a malfunction, all coins of any size recognized by the coin validator 2 fall from the step angle 3 through the trolley in the initial position directly into the coin entry shaft 29 and onto a sorting rocker 30 of a coin storage space 31. Thus, there is no sorting of the coins entered their value.
• the sorting rocker 30 is pivotable about an axis 32 located in its center and is located at the coin input in its middle position in which it closes the coin storage space 31 on the bottom side.
• the sorting rocker 30 is pivoted by a servomotor 33 via a push rod fields 34 either clockwise or counterclockwise.
• the sorting rocker 30 is pivoted in each case after completion of a completed payment operation in the clockwise direction of FIG. 6, so that the coin storage space 31 is opened on the right side of the sorting rocker 30 and the coins entered during the previous payment process are resorted to a tail-cash slot 35 and fall therefrom into the underlying end-wall 24.
• the servomotor 33 is actuated so that it pivots the sorting rocker 30 in the counterclockwise direction according to FIG.
• the coin storage space 31 is thus opened on the left side of the sorting rocker 30 and the coins entered during the aborted payment process slip from the sorting rocker 30 into a return shaft 36, from which they can enter a return tray and be removed therefrom.
• the sorting rocker 30 is returned to its middle position.
• Fig. 7 shows a particular embodiment of the magazine, in which a magazine body 37 contains two impellers arranged to accommodate different sized coins one above the other.
• This magazine body 37 has an upper coin inlet shaft 38 for the upper impeller and a separate lower coin inlet shaft 39 for the lower impeller.
• a common return chute provided with an upper outlet opening 41 for the upper impeller and a lower outlet opening 42 for the lower impeller is connected, and a common Endkassenschacht 43, which is connected to an upper overflow opening of the upper impeller and with a lower overflow opening of the lower impeller provided.
• an inter-cash module 44 as shown in Fig. 8 may be used.
• the coin storage space 45 here consists of semi-circular segments, which are arranged one above the other. After passage of the pivoted-back locking lever 7, the coins are unsorted into the coin storage space 45 through the transport carriage 4 located in the starting position.
• the depth of the coin storage space 45 i. the dimension perpendicular to the plane in Fig. 8, is chosen so that the coins in this direction can not be behind each other, but only one above the other.
• each of the semicircular boundaries of the coin storage space 45 to approximately to the longitudinal axis reaching projections are formed, on which the coins can be supported.
• the sorting lever 46 has the same function as the sorting rocker 30. In its drawn out In position A, it prevents the escape of coins from the coin storage space 45.
• the sorting lever 46 can be pivoted counterclockwise to the position B or clockwise to the position C. The pivoting to the position B takes place after completion of a payment process, so that the coins entered into the Münz Profrauin 45 during the payment process in a final cash slot 48. If, on the other hand, a payment process is aborted before its completion, the sorting lever 46 is pivoted into position C and the coins are guided into a return chute 49.
• the magazine body 50 includes a plurality of concentric impellers for latching coins 11, 26 and 12 of different sizes, the outer impeller carrying large coins 12, the middle impeller carrying central coins 26 and the inner impeller carrying small coins 11. brass. From the coin validator 2 as well judged coins go over the step angle 3 and after being transported by the trolley 4 from the area of the locking lever 7 out through the gap 9 in the coin entry chute 14. As poorly judged coins are the Münzprüfer 2 directly into a Return shaft 51 headed.
• the inner ring 15 of the outer impeller contains slot-like passages 52 between the driving ridges 16, which are dimensioned such that they pass through the small and medium coins 11 and 26, but prevent the passage of the large coins 12.
• the inner ring 15 of the central impeller between the driving webs 16 contains slot-like passages 53, which are dimensioned such that they allow small coins 11 to pass through. however, let the middle coin 26 be prevented. In this way, in the manner described with reference to FIG. 1, the large coins 12 enter the outer impeller, the middle coins 26 into the middle impeller and the small coins 11 into the inner
• Impeller to be cached in each case.
• a device provided for example for coins with six different values preferably consists of two magazine bodies 50, between which the intermediate cash module 44 is arranged.
• a corresponding arrangement is also expedient when using the magazine bodies 37 according to FIG. 7, but in which only coins with four different values can be temporarily stored.
• the 10 shows an inter-cash module 54, which is arranged between the magazine bodies 1 for receiving coins, each with a specific significance, directly below the blocking lever 7.
• the intermediate cash module 54 has the same outer dimensions as the magazine body 1, so that the device can be made very compact.
• the intermediate cash module 54 includes one about the axis
• the pockets 56 are so large that they can hold the largest coin to be stored.
• the storage wheel 55 can be rotated stepwise as well as the vanes.
• the storage wheel 55 consists of two parallel plates
• the disk 59 forms a circular partition wall 60.
• the pockets 56 in FIGS. 11 a and 11 b, are arranged on both sides of the partition wall 60.
• the formed on the other side of the partition wall 60 pockets 56 are arranged in the same way, but offset by half a pocket distance from the pockets 56 on the opposite side.
• the pocket 56 shown at the bottom right in FIG. 10 is located behind the dividing wall 60 and can be identified as belonging to the pockets 56 arranged in front of the dividing wall 60 in FIG.
• the pockets 56 on both sides of the partition wall 60 thus overlap one another in the U ⁇ ifangsoplasty, but are not interconnected.
• the disk 59 forms a sliding bevel 62 to guide supplied coins safely into the respective pocket 56.
• the Swissssenmodul 54 includes three openings, namely a leading to the coin inlet slot 14 opening 63, an opening leading to the end opening 64 and a return shaft leading to the opening 65.
• a Guide bar 66 leads through the opening 63 coins entered to a located in a certain angular position of the storage wheel 55 bag 56th
• the locking lever 7 is pivoted back, fall all accepted by the coin validator 2 coins through the opening 63 in the Eisenkassenmodul 54 and pass over the Leitsteg 66 in the pocket 56, which is in a certain rotational position of the storage wheel 55 , After such a coin is received in the storage wheel 55, it is rotated in Fig. 10 in the clockwise direction by one step, which corresponds to half the distance between two adjacent pockets 56 on the same side of the partition 60 (half step). Thus, the storage wheel 55 is free to receive the next coin in the overlapping pocket 56 on the other side of the dividing wall 60.
• the pockets 56 on each Side of the partition 60 are filled with one coin at a time until the respective pocket 56 reaches a position in which it opposes the opening 64, so that the corresponding coin can fall into the terminal.
• the bag 56 is then at
• the storage wheel 55 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction, the first step taking place over a complete distance between two adjacent pockets on the same side of the dividing wall 60 (full step ), so that the last bene coin facing the opening 65 and can fall through this in the return shaft. Thereafter, as many half-steps counterclockwise are made as coins must be returned in addition to the last coin. After completion of the return process, a full step is again in the clockwise direction, so that again an empty pocket 56 is in the input position.
• the inter-cash module 54 allows a compact device to be formed, has a large storage capacity by providing pockets 56 on either side of the divider 60, and does not require a rocker or lever to carry the coins to either the end-of-line or the return chute. It therefore has a low susceptibility to interference.

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