EP3559918A1 - Münzlift - Google Patents
MünzliftInfo
- Publication number
- EP3559918A1 EP3559918A1 EP16836206.9A EP16836206A EP3559918A1 EP 3559918 A1 EP3559918 A1 EP 3559918A1 EP 16836206 A EP16836206 A EP 16836206A EP 3559918 A1 EP3559918 A1 EP 3559918A1
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- Prior art keywords
- coin
- conveyor loop
- coins
- objects
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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
- G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
- G07D9/008—Feeding coins from bulk
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- 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
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a coin lift for transporting coins and / or coin-like objects, and more particularly to a modular coin lift for transporting coins and / or coin-like objects in a steeply ascending direction.
- Coin lifts are commonly used in coin operated devices such as vending machines, ticket vending machines, amusement gaming machines, etc.
- the coin lifters of the prior art usually have an endless conveyor loop which entrains the coins and transports them in an upward direction by either utilizing the stiction occurring between the coins and a surface of the conveyor loop or on the surface of the conveyor loop approximately transverse to the transport direction.
- the static friction is not sufficient to reliably transport the coins in a vertically rising direction. This is particularly problematic with used coins, which can have even lower static friction values due to soiling than new coins. Even with the use of on the surface of the conveyor loop approximately transversely to the transport direction attached lips can it come with a vertical transport of the coins that coins slip off the lips and fall down.
- Transport belt which must be completely replaced to adjust the height difference that must overcome the coins, and / or the drive mechanism for the conveyor loop and the housing are only consuming adaptable to different heights.
- the present invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a coin lift of the type mentioned, by which the disadvantages of the prior art avoided and the latter is further developed in an advantageous manner.
- a coin lift is to be provided, which is constructed to save space and can also reliably transport used and possibly soiled coins.
- the Münzlift should be low-maintenance and easily adaptable in its height.
- Coins for example, but also tokens, tokens, medals or other coin-like objects understood.
- a coin lift of the type mentioned which is an endless conveyor loop for a transport of coins and / or coin-like objects from a first position to one opposite the first
- the first section and the second section of the conveyor loop are rectilinear and parallel to each other whereby the first and second sections of the conveyor loop can be closely juxtaposed, and in particularly preferred embodiments, the conveyor loop extends vertically in the first section ascending direction and in the second section in a vertical descending direction, which allows a particularly space-saving design of a Münzlifts invention.
- the conveying loop extends in a third portion from the descending direction of the second portion in the ascending direction of the first portion and in a fourth portion from the ascending direction of the first portion in the descending direction of the second portion. That is, outside of the first and second sections, in which the conveyor loop is preferably rectilinear and most preferably in a vertically ascending or descending direction, the conveyor loop in the third and fourth sections has predominantly curved areas. Thus, for example, the conveyor loop can run in the form of a semicircular arc in the entire third and fourth section. As described below with reference to the description of
- Conveyor loop preferably one beyond that of a semicircle
- a coin lift according to the invention has a drive for selectively driving the conveyor loop in a circulating movement.
- the drive is arranged such that the conveyor loop in the third section or the fourth section, but not in the first and second sections, is driven by the drive.
- the first and second sections of the conveyor loop run outside the drive and are thus easily accessible for an adaptation of the overall height of an inventive
- a coin lift according to the invention has a pressure element for pressing the coins and / or coin-like objects transported by the conveyor loop onto the conveyor loop. It is preferred that the pressure element in the direction of the orbital motion of the conveyor loop at its installation essentially remains and the coins and / or coin-like objects from the conveyor loop on the
- Pressure element are passed.
- the pressure element can also move in a section of the conveyor loop with it, so that between the conveyor loop and the pressure element no relative movement in the direction of
- a pressure element for example, be formed of a plurality of hingedly interconnected segments which circulate comparable to a chain on a track which extends at least in said section substantially along the conveyor loop.
- a pressure element has the advantage over the known from the prior art course of the conveyor loop in a simple shaft that thereby very different thicknesses coins and / or coin-like objects can be reliably transported with the conveyor loop. Namely, a shaft would have to be dimensioned such that it can still transport the thickest coin and / or the thickest coin-like object on the conveyor loop.
- this can result in the thinnest coins and / or coin-like items having so much space in the slot that they can become wedged in the slot.
- the height of the lips normal to the surface of the conveyor loop must be less than the common thickness of two superimposed thinnest coins and / or or coin-like objects, since otherwise the upper coin or the upper coin-like object can not slip off of the underlying coin or underlying coin-like object and it does not come to a separation of the coins and / or coin-like objects.
- the pressure element extends substantially along the first portion of the conveyor loop, since there due to the preferably vertically rising course of the conveyor loop slipping of the coins and / or coin-like
- the pressure element may also extend in portions of the conveyor loop adjacent to the first section. This is
- the pressure element expediently curved and / or rounded ends or in the alternative case described above, a corresponding trajectory of the chain link-like segments. Furthermore, it is advantageous if the pressure element along the conveyor loop, that is in the direction of the course of the conveyor loop and thus in the longitudinal direction of the
- Conveyor loop can be pressed. Otherwise, it may happen that the pressure element is held away from the conveyor loop by a thick coin or a thick coin-like object so far that an immediately following or preceding thinner coin or an immediately following or
- the pressure element is formed of an elastic plastic and / or the pressure element in its longitudinal direction a plurality of juxtaposed segments having in a to the surface the conveyor loop vertical direction in
- the pressure element with respect to its vertical distance from the surface of the conveyor loop also variably positionable along its longitudinal axis. To achieve this along the conveyor loop advantageous variability of the distance between the pressure element and the
- Conveyor loop it may also be sufficient to form the pressure element substantially rigid and the pressure element at one or more bearings against the action of one or more spring elements movable, in particular in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the conveyor loop to store.
- a groove or the like extends through the lips, so that a comb or web of the pressure element through the groove and thus through the lips can, whereby the pressure element can also safely press coins and / or coin-like objects on the conveyor loop whose thickness is smaller than the height of the lips perpendicular to the surface of the conveyor loop. Otherwise, the lip can hold the pressure element away from a narrower coin or a narrower coin-like object, so that the pressure element does not place the coin or the coin-like object flat on the lip
- Press the surface of the conveyor loop and the coin or the coin-like object, for example, between the conveyor loop and the pressure element can jam.
- Preferred embodiments of a coin lift according to the invention further comprise a device for deriving an electrostatic charge of the coins and / or
- a device for deriving an electrostatic Charges comprise one or more grounded metal plates over which the coins and / or coin-like objects pass at one or more positions along their path through the coin elevator.
- a coin lift according to the invention further comprise a housing which comprises an exchangeable first housing part, in which the first section and the second section of the conveyor loop extend substantially next to each other.
- the housing further comprises a second housing part and a third housing part, wherein the third portion of the conveyor loop extends in the second housing part and the fourth portion of the conveyor loop in the third housing part.
- the first housing part connects the second housing part separable or non-separable with the third housing part, so that the height of a Münzlifts invention can be varied by using different long first housing parts.
- a coin lift according to the invention has a compact design and is easy in its height and thus in the height difference that can overcome the coins and / or coin-like objects customizable. This adaptability of the height is further increased when in preferred embodiments of a coin lift according to the invention the
- an inventive coin lift also ensures at a vertically rising course of the conveyor loop in the first section reliable transport of the coins and / or coin-like objects by slipping of the coins and / or coin-like objects is prevented by the conveyor loop by the inventive arrangement of a pressure element for pressing the coins transported by the conveyor loop and / or coin-like items on the conveyor loop. Even if a coin lift according to the invention is installed in a money-operated device such that the first section of the conveyor loop is inclined with respect to the vertical direction, so that the coins and / or
- a Münzlift invention can be operated reliably.
- a Münzlift invention also saves even with an oblique installation in a money-operated device still place in the money-operated device by its inventive arrangement of the second section of the conveyor loop immediately adjacent to the first section of the conveyor loop in a common first housing part, the first and second sections of Enclosing loop tightly encloses.
- Figure 1 an embodiment of a Münzlifts according to the invention in
- FIG. 2 is a side view of the embodiment according to FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3a shows a front view of the embodiment according to FIG. 1, a side view of the sectional plane AA through the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 3a
- FIG. Figure 4a a front view of a further embodiment
- FIG. 4b shows a side view of the sectional plane A-A through the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 4a
- FIG. 5 shows a perspective illustration of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1, in which one half is shown without a housing, and FIG. 6 shows an enlarged partial section of an exemplary embodiment of FIG
- FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of a coin lift according to the invention.
- a side view of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 is shown in FIG. 2 and a front view in FIG. 3a.
- FIG. 3b shows a side view of the sectional plane A-A whose position is reproduced in the front view according to FIG. 3a.
- FIG. 4b shows a side view of the sectional plane A-A whose position shows the front view according to FIG. 4a. Except for an outlet channel 25, the embodiment of Figures 4a and 4b corresponds to that of Figures 1, 2, 3a and 3b.
- the conveyor loop 3 consists of a plurality of segments 30 which are aligned transversely to the course of the conveyor loop 3 aligned, that is perpendicular to the drawing plane of Figures 3b and 4b axes are hinged together and to form an endless loop.
- the segments 30 are separable from each other, preferably at the hingedly interconnecting axes. This allows, by removing or inserting one or more segments 30 to adjust the length of the conveyor loop 3, for example, for different heights of the coin lift 1.
- the conveyor loop also consist of one piece, for example in the form of a Transport belt.
- the conveyor loop 3 runs in a vertically ascending direction when coins and / or coin-like objects are transported in a first section 31, reverses direction in a fourth section 34 in a vertically descending direction in a second section 32, and then in a third section 33 again in the vertically rising direction of the first section 31 to come back.
- the course of the conveyor loop 3 in the third section 33 and the fourth section 34 is preferably selected such that the first section 31 and the second section 32 of the conveyor loop 3 run as close together as possible to minimize the volume occupied by the coin lift 1 to keep.
- both the third section 33 and the fourth section 34 each have an approximately S-shaped profile at their end adjoining the second section 32.
- the conveyor loop 3 comprises an inner side, that is to say a surface on which the coins and / or coin-like objects are transported, and an outer side which faces the housing 2.
- the segments 30 have on each of its two longitudinal sides a laterally projecting guide pin 301. By means of this guide pin 301, the segments 30 and thus the entire conveyor loop 3 are guided in each case a groove of the two opposite side walls of the housing 2.
- the housing 2 of the coin lift 1 has a second housing part 22, which encloses the third section 33 of the conveyor loop 3, a third housing part 23, which encloses the fourth section 34 of the conveyor loop 3, and a first housing part 21, which in the figures 4a and 4b not shown on.
- the first housing part 21 connects the second housing part 22 separable or non-separable with the third housing part 23. In a separable
- Connection has the coin lift 1 a modular design that allows subsequent adjustment of the height of the coin lift 1 by means of an exchange of the old first
- the first housing part 21 is preferably designed such that it surrounds the first portion 31 and the second portion 32 of the conveyor loop 3 as closely as possible, so that from the Münzlift 1 occupied volume is as small as possible.
- a drive 4 for selectively driving the conveyor loop 3 is arranged in or on the third housing part 23.
- the drive 4 preferably has an electric motor and a gear 41. With appropriate controllability of the electric motor, a transmission can be omitted.
- the driving of the conveyor loop 3 is advantageously carried out by a directly or indirectly driven by the electric motor gear whose teeth in
- the teeth 303 are the Conveyor loop 3 advantageously on the outer, that is arranged on the housing 2 side facing the conveyor loop 3 and not on the inner side, which is provided for the transport of coins and / or coin-like objects.
- the driving belt is driven by a pulley. Since the drive 4 is arranged completely in or on the third housing part 23 and thus limited to a maximum of the fourth section 34 of the conveyor loop 3, the first section 31 and the second section 32 of the conveyor loop 3 run outside of the drive 4 and are thus easily accessible for an adjustment of the height of the coin lift 1, which also conveys the modular design of the coin lift 1.
- the conveyor loop 3 transports coins and / or coin-like items from a first position 71 to a second position 72 higher than the first position 71.
- the first position 71 is formed by a tray into which the coins and / or coin-like items fall and / or slip due to gravity acting on it after the coins and / or coin-like items have been inserted through one of the entry slots 24 into the coin lift 1.
- the conveyor loop 3 forms the bottom of the drip tray 71.
- the second position 72 forms a location of the conveyor loop 3, which is located next to an access opening of an exit channel 25 through which the coins and / or coin-like objects leave the coin lift 1 again.
- the coin lift 1 can also have entry slots arranged further up in the region of the first housing part 21 and / or the third housing part 23. These can be used, for example, for the occurrence of counterfeits which have been recognized as such by a money-checking device.
- the Falsifikate fall and / or then slide down the housing 2 until they also come to rest in the drip tray 71.
- each segment 30 has on its surface an approximately transversely to the transport direction arranged lip 302.
- the height of the lip 302 perpendicular to the surface of the segment 30 is dimensioned to be less than the combined thickness of two superimposed thinnest coins and / or coin-like objects, such that an upper coin or an upper coin-like Slips the object from a lower coin or a lower coin-like object and thus it to a separation of the coins and / or coin-like
- Objects comes as soon as the segment 30 is moved in an ascending direction and the lip 302 as a ridge for the (lower) coin or the (lower)
- the third section 33 of the conveyor loop 3 to the drip tray 71 that is, in the figures 3b and 4b right of the
- Collecting bowl 71 a region in which the conveyor loop 3 moves obliquely upward, preferably at an angle of about 65 ° relative to the horizontal.
- the conveyor loop is formed by a transport belt, the
- the area of the conveyor loop 3 for the separation of the coins and / or coin-like objects is followed by a region of the conveyor loop 3, in which a pressure element 5 for pressing the coins transported by the conveyor loop 3 and / or
- the pressure element 5 has a strip element 50, which is in
- the strip member 50 is light in its longitudinal direction, that is, limited bendable and otherwise in
- Substantially rigid for example as a molded part made of a plastic.
- the strip element 50 shown in FIGS. 3b and 4b is in four places, which in FIG.
- each of these bearing points has a spring element 52, by means of which the bearing points of the first portion 31 in Figures 3b and 4b can be seen.
- the spring elements 52 preferably consist of two elastic plastic parts 521 and 522, which are respectively arranged opposite to the two longitudinal sides of the strip element 50 and are supported in receptacles in the housing 2, so that the
- Strip element 50 presses on the surface of the conveyor loop 3.
- the receptacles for the spring elements 52 are not shown as the entire first housing part 21 in Figure 4b.
- the elastic plastic parts 521 and 522 are molded onto the strip element 50 in the case of a strip element 50 made of plastic.
- other known from the prior art spring elements such as coil springs made of metal can be used.
- the number and / or position of the bearings may also vary in order to optimally vary the pressure element 5 with respect to its vertical distance from the surface of the conveyor loop 3 by a combination of slight bending of the strip element 50 in its longitudinal direction and different deflections at the individual bearing points
- the strip element 50 is preferably designed in three parts with a central part 501 and two end parts 502 and 503, wherein the central part 501 corresponds in its length and arrangement with the first portion 31 of the conveyor loop 3, so that the pressure element 5 to a modified height of Münzlifts 1 can be adjusted by replacing the middle part 501.
- the middle component 501 and the two end portions 502 and 503 may be joined together, for example, by a respective releasable snap connection and / or plug connection.
- the pressure element 5 and the end portion 502 has a bent and / or rounded end 51.
- FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1, wherein in FIG. 5 the left half of the housing 2 of the coin lift 1 is not shown.
- the connections 212 and 213 preferably have snap connections and / or
- FIG. 6 shows a partial section of the coin lift 1 according to FIG. 1 in the region of the first section 31 and of the second section 32 of the conveyor loop 3 in an enlarged perspective view. It can be seen in particular from FIG. 6 how the coins 6 and / or coin-like objects 6 stand on the lips 302 and of which
- each of the bearing points of the strip element 50 and consequently of the pressure element 5 each have a spring element 52 consisting of two elastic plastic parts 521 and 522, wherein each of the elastic plastic parts 521 and 522 is arranged in a receptacle in the housing 2 and is supported in the receptacle , so that the spring elements 52 press the pressure element 5 against the surface of the conveyor loop 3.
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| PCT/IB2016/057990 WO2018115944A1 (de) | 2016-12-23 | 2016-12-23 | Münzlift |
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| EP3559918A1 true EP3559918A1 (de) | 2019-10-30 |
| EP3559918C0 EP3559918C0 (de) | 2023-06-07 |
| EP3559918B1 EP3559918B1 (de) | 2023-06-07 |
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