EP2230646A1 - Münzausgabegerät - Google Patents

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EP2230646A1
EP2230646A1 EP10156565A EP10156565A EP2230646A1 EP 2230646 A1 EP2230646 A1 EP 2230646A1 EP 10156565 A EP10156565 A EP 10156565A EP 10156565 A EP10156565 A EP 10156565A EP 2230646 A1 EP2230646 A1 EP 2230646A1
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coin
hopper
outlet
container
conveyor
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Fabrizio Alberici
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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
    • G07D3/125—Sorting coins by means of stepped deflectors arranged on inclined paths the coins being deflected off rails by moving deflectors

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  • the present invention refers to the technical field of coin handling machines and it refers to a coin dispenser device fit for dispensing coins, tokens or the like, from an apparatus for example an exchange machine from banknote to coins or dispenser machine for giving out the remaining coin amount from a payment.
  • hopper having a coin container and a disc element or a chain element for taking the coins one by one from this container and for supplying such coins.
  • a drawback of these known devices consists in that in order to provide a minimum amount and any other amount which is multiple of the minimum amount, such devices must be filled with only the coins equal to the required minimum amount.
  • a drawback of these known devices consists in that they are expensive and bulky, and that they require frequent fillings of selected and separated coins.
  • dispensers for supplying variable amounts with different values of coins, but they have the drawback that they require anywhere the repetitive fillings with selected and separated coins having at least one minimum amount.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a coin dispenser device which, during its operation, can be filled with all kind of coins without selection.
  • Another object is to provide a dispenser having two outlets suitable also to carry out the device.
  • the device comprises a dispenser with two outlets including a first hopper with motorized outlet for a coin one by one; the outlet is equipped with a coin value detector and downstream it is provided with a deviator having two outlets, one of them is directed towards to the user and the other one is directed towards to a dispenser having one outlet comprising a second hopper whose outlet flows directly towards the user. All the devices are connected to a control electronic to receive from it the commands, for example commands for activating the deviator and/or to send detected signals, for instance signals concerning the value of the coin coming out from the first hopper.
  • the first hopper of the dispenser having two outlets is periodically manually filled with different amounts of coins whose value is equal to or higher than a certain minimum value.
  • the second hopper of the dispenser having one outlet is manually filled only at the beginning with the coins of the above-mentioned minimum value.
  • the maintenance of the stock of the minimum value coins of the second hopper is carried out automatically with the corresponding coins of the first hopper; every time when the first hopper takes a minimum value coin which is not the last to reach the amount that the first hopper can provide to the user without risking to supply exceed amount, the electronics directs this minimum value coin towards the second hopper to refill it.
  • numeral 2 indicates the coin hopper having two outlets object of the present invention.
  • Said hopper having two outlets comprises a coin container 20 and a coin conveyor 21, for example power-operated rotating disk type equipped with a housing crown to collect the coins from the container 20 and to release them one by one, to an outlet 22 of the container 20.
  • This two outlets coin hopper 2 comprises a coin selector 4 having a respective inlet 41 which receives the coin from the outlet 22 of the container 20 and it provides the coin, through a first channel 43, to a deflector means 44.
  • Said deflector means 44 is operated by a actuator means 45, for example of solenoid type, to route the coin towards a rear first outlet 46 of the coin selector 4 or towards a lower second outlet 47 of the coin selector 4, through respective first duct 48 and second duct 49.
  • a actuator means 45 for example of solenoid type
  • the coin selector 4 is fixed to the coin container 20 in a detachable manner, for example by means of detachable joins and/or screws.
  • the coin hopper or the tow outlet hopper comprises a coin sensor positioned between the coin conveyor 21 and the outlet 22 of the container 20and whose output port is fit to provide signals concerning the value of the coin passing through it.
  • Said coin sensor recognizes the value for example by measuring the diameter and/or the mass of the coin.
  • the coin conveyor 21 comprises an input port to receive an electric operative command for taking and releasing a coin.
  • the coin selector 4 comprises a coin detector 42 to detect the passage of the coin through the first duct 48 or through the second duct 49 and whose output port is assigned to provide signals concerning this passage.
  • Said coin detector 42 can comprises an emitter and a detector of light at a certain frequency, for example optical or infrared; the luminous course therebetween crosses the first duct 48 and second duct 49 in a manner that it can be interrupted every time when a coin comes out from the selector 4.
  • the emitter and the receiver can be positioned side by side and the forward and return course between them can be refracted by a prism as shown in figure 7 .
  • the operation of the two outlets coin hopper 2 provides that, following to respective commands, it takes one of the coins collected in the container and the coin is routed towards a predetermined first outlet 46 or second outlet 47.
  • the coin dispenser device of the present invention and schematically shown in the figure 1 comprises:
  • Said single outlet coin hopper 6 is equipped with a respective coin conveyor assigned to take one of the coins from the container 61 of the single outlet coin hopper 6 and to release said coin at the single outlet 62 of this latter.
  • said coin conveyor of the single outlet coin hopper 6 comprises an input port to receive a operative command to take and release a coin.
  • Each coin pipe 11, 12, 13 consists in a straight tube or preferably in a curve shaped tube, whose transversal section is elongated rectangle shaped or elongated oval shaped and in which each coin is free to slide, due to the gravity effect, by its inlet to its outlet.
  • one or more coin pipes 11, 12, 13 can consist in a vertical labyrinth like course, which is also gravity operated, in a chain or belt or pusher conveyor or the like, or simply by the nude vertical fall trajectory of the coin.
  • the coin container 20, the respective outlet 22 and the coin conveyor 21 of the two outlets coin hopper 2 are almost equal to, and interchangeable with, the corresponding elements of the single outlet coin hopper 6.
  • the two outlets coin hopper 2 can consists of a hopper, identical to the single outlet coin hopper 6, to which is fixed the coin selector 4.
  • the device furthermore comprises control means, for example programmable microprocessor type known but not shown, whose input ports are connected at least to the output ports of the coin sensor and of the coin detector 42 and whose output ports are connected at least to the input port of the coin conveyor 21 of the two outlets coin hopper 2, to an input port of the actuator means 45 of the deflector means 44 and to the input port of the coin conveyor of the container 61 of the single outlet coin hopper 6 to operate the device 1.
  • control means for example programmable microprocessor type known but not shown, whose input ports are connected at least to the output ports of the coin sensor and of the coin detector 42 and whose output ports are connected at least to the input port of the coin conveyor 21 of the two outlets coin hopper 2, to an input port of the actuator means 45 of the deflector means 44 and to the input port of the coin conveyor of the container 61 of the single outlet coin hopper 6 to operate the device 1.
  • the operation provides that, to dispense a certain amount by means of coins, the control means commands the device taking coins from the container of the two outlets coin hopper 2. If a coin has the minimum value, it is routed towards the single outlet coin hopper 6, otherwise, it is routed towards the withdraw tray 8 until reaching said amount or an amount equal to the sum minus the value of one of the coins except that of bigger value. The eventual missing amount to reach the certain amount will be dispensed from the single outlet coin hopper 6.
  • the device can be reloaded with coins by filling all valued coins mixed together the container 20 of the two outlets coin hopper 2, the insertion of selected minimum value coins into the container 61 of the single outlet coin hopper 6 is required only at the first start up of the device.
  • An advantage of the present invention is to provide a coin dispenser device, which, during the its operation, can be filled out with all values of coins mixed together.

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EP10156565A 2009-03-17 2010-03-15 Münzausgabegerät Withdrawn EP2230646A1 (de)

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IT000157A ITBO20090157A1 (it) 2009-03-17 2009-03-17 Dispositivo erogatore di monete

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ES2737499A1 (es) * 2018-07-06 2020-01-14 Ezio Panzeri Separador de monedas

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WO1998000813A2 (en) * 1996-06-28 1998-01-08 Coinstar, Inc. Coin discrimination apparatus and method

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WO1998000813A2 (en) * 1996-06-28 1998-01-08 Coinstar, Inc. Coin discrimination apparatus and method

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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ES2737499A1 (es) * 2018-07-06 2020-01-14 Ezio Panzeri Separador de monedas

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