FR2526188A1 - CURRENCY STORE FOR PAYMENT SYSTEM, WITH CASH AND RENDERING OF CURRENCY - Google Patents

Abstract

STORE CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT CONSISTS OF A SUITE OF PINS OF PIECES ARRANGED SIDE BY SIDE FOLLOWING AN INCLINED DOWNWARD FROM THE ADMISSION CORRIDOR 3 LEADING TO THE FIRST OF THE SAID PINS, EACH OF THEM BEING PROVIDED OF A LOWER RETAINING BODY 5 OF THE PARTS AND INCLUDING A MOUNTED SHUTTER SWIVELING LATERALLY ON ONE SIDE OF THE ALVEOLE AND HAVING A PART LATERAL ON ONE SIDE OF THE ALVEOLE AND HAVING A LOWER CONTROL PART 12A, 12B, 12C NORMALLY PROJECTING INTO THE ALVEOLE ABOVE SAID RETAINER 5 AND AN UPPER PART 12TH EXTENDING NORMALLY OUTSIDE THE ALVEOLE AND INTENDED TO FORM THE ALVEOLE ACCESS CLOSURE IN RESPONSE TO THE TILTING OF THE PART LOWER OF THE SHUTTER BY A PIECE FALLING INTO THE ALVEOLE, THE UPPER PART FORMING 12TH RETAINING BODY CONSTITUTING AN INCLINED PLANE ELEMENT OF A CORRIDOR FOR THE CIRCULATION OF PARTS ABOVE ALVEOLES ALREADY OCCUPIED, DRIVING TOO MUCH THEREIN. N IS FULL, AND THE SAID PARTS RETAINERS 5 IN THE CELLS BEING INDIVIDUALLY SUBJECT TO AN ERASE COMMAND IN RELATION TO THE CELL ENSURING THE SELECTIVE DISCHARGE OF THE PARTS IN A LOWER EXIT CORRIDOR FOR THE PURPOSES OF ENCLOSURE OR RETURN OF COIN.

Description

Coin magazine for payment system, with

collection and return of change.

  The invention relates to automated systems or machines.

  ticks for payment in coins and which are able to collect and return money according to a service or the requested product delivered Advanced systems of this kind include a coin store which must

  be managed to track payment (intro coins

  picks can be of several types defined, tested and determined in value at entry) and to then proceed to the collection and return of money according to the cost of the service or product provided Such management is now easily programmable at using a microprocessor processing input and value information for parts, store status, cost of service or product, and determination

  coins to collect and those to be returned as accurately as possible.

  The realization of a store receiving pieces of more

  sieurs types to circulate without changing plan, to be iden-

  tified in value and position and which can then be evacuated selectively for the purpose of collecting or returning change, is difficult to ensure in a way that is both simple and reliable. The object of the present invention is to satisfy

first these two conditions.

  Its main purpose for this purpose is a store

  of coins for payment system, with cash

  ment and change of currency, comprising a selector for entering and identifying coins of several types supplying the store by an inlet corridor one by one

  identified parts, said store comprising means for evacuating

  selective disposal of parts outside the store for collection purposes

  sement or change, and being characterized in that it consists of a series of cells of coins arranged side by side in a downward inclined path from the intake corridor leading to the first of the cells , each of them being provided with a lower part retaining member and comprising a flap mounted pivoting laterally on one side of the cell and having a lower control part normally protruding into the cell above said member retainer and an upper part normally extending out of the cell and intended to form an access closure member of the cell in response to the tilting of the lower part of the flap by a part falling into the cell, said upper part forming a retaining member

  constituting an inclined plane element of a circulation corridor

  tion of the parts above the already occupied cells,

  when the store is full, and said

  parts retaining members in the cells being individual

  dual subject to an erase command with respect to the cell ensuring the selective evacuation of the coins in an -15 exit corridor for the purpose of collecting or returning change. This solution also lends itself very well to work

  with low energy, which can in particular in the appli-

  appropriate cation of the invention to pay telephones, borrowing its energy from the telephone line Preferably then, the erasure control of each retaining member is ensured by means of an electromagnet with pulse control and maintenance by remanence at the erasure of said member, and by demagnetization by impulse in the opposite direction for the return of said member to the retaining position held by spring, the energy necessary for the operation of the store

  being only a matter of gravity.

  Such an embodiment also lends itself very well to making visible the store and the parts which are already present there and moreover well maintained in their cells according to the possible return of money expected, without it being necessary

a display of the stock in store.

  Other aspects of the invention will also appear

  again in the following description of an embodiment

  of such a store, here given by way of example only, and with reference to the attached drawing in which: FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of four successive cells of a coin store according to the invention ; Fig 2 is a detail view along IIII of Fig 1; FIG. 3 is a side view of a part cell with a partial median cross-section of a flap and the adjacent wall, the flap and retaining member being in the waiting position for receiving a part; FIG. 4 is a back elevation view of a part cell, according to arrow IV of FIG. 3; Fig 5 is a view similar to Fig 3 but with a coin in the cell; fig 6 is a view similar to the previous one of the state

  of the system during the evacuation of the part.

  1, The coin store shown in the drawing is

  made up of two parallel plates l and 2, assembled

  wired and kept spaced from each other using various spacers, so as to leave between them more than the thickness of the thickest coin 2 o intended to enter the store Platinum 1, made of transparent material, is intended to face a window of the device fitted to such a store The plate 2 is an opaque plate, serving as a support on its rear face to the active members of the store, as well as to a power supply and electrical control circuit as we will see

further.

  The entrance to the store is constituted by a corridor 3 for admission one by one of the various pieces introduced into

  the device This corridor is supplied by the output of a selector

  prior identification of the parts providing information of rejection or of recognized value of each part, this selector being able to be of any known type not entering

  in the context of the present invention.

  Corridor 3 is here delimited by two sensitive spacers

  vertical 3 a, 3 b connected to the output of said selector

  tor not shown and spaced to let the room pass

  larger diameter allowed.

  The store proper consists of a series of cells formed between the two plates 1 and 2, following a downwardly inclined path from the first cell located in desso | fet at the exit of the corridor 3, these cells being partitioned by spacers 4 here provided with lateral pins 4 a, 4 b, 4 c, 4 d engaged in corresponding holes of the plates These spacers are spaced to be able to receive the admitted part of the largest planned diameter, such as that P which occupies the first cell located under corridor 3 at the

fig 1.

  For each cell is provided a lower retaining member

  of the stored part, consisting of two fingers 5 penetrating between the plates through an opening 6 of

  the plate 2 These two fingers 5 are formed by the ends

  curved mites of a fork 7 secured to the frame 8a

  an electromagnet 8, fixed on a support ramp in

  bracket 9 common to all the electromagnets of the cells of the store and fixed by screws at 10 to the plate 2 The frame 8 a is normally stressed by a tension spring 1 i in a position for which the retaining fingers 5 abut against plate 1, that is to say that they are

  normally in the retaining position of any part having penetrated

  very in the cell considered, this state of waiting for a part

being illustrated in fig 3.

  The access of each cell is controlled using a

  tilting flap designated by 12 as a whole, pivotally mounted

  both laterally on the back of the plate 2, on an axis 13 engaged in corresponding holes of the lugs 4 d of the spacers 4, this axis being here common to all the flaps 12 of the cells of the

  magazine Each section has a lower part than

  various branches 12 a, 12 b, 12 c which normally project between the plates, through the opening 6 of the plate 2, in an inclined position towards the plate 1 and pressing against it, above the fingers 5 Each section has a part

  upper 12 b with a tuck-in rim 12 e facing the plates

  tines, and normally extending out of the cell (see fig. 3) but intended to form an access closure member of

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  the alveolus entering between the plates through a corresponding opening 14 of the plate 2, when a part P caused to fall into the alveolus has tilted the lower part of the flap 12 as illustrated in FIG. 5 On note that the rest and waiting position of the flap 12 illustrated in fig 3 is ensured by means of a support blade 12 f cut from the flap to urge it, as a result of its pressing on the plate 2 and d '' an initial recall effort,

  in the rest position of fig 3 maintained by the weighing

  preponderant part of the upper part of the flap compared to

  port at its lower part The ratio of the lever arms of the lower and upper parts of the flap is such that for a part of the smallest admitted thickness, such as that shown in fig 5, the re-entrant flange 12 e comes to close against the plate 1 access to the cell The branches

  12 a, 12 b, 12 c from the lower part of the flap have preferably

  Enables flexibility allowing the thicker parts to come to rest also in the stop position on the fingers

  retainer 5 in the closed access position of the cell.

  It will already be understood that the store is automatically filled in the order of the free cells at the arrival of each piece, the flange returning 12 th of the flap of each cell containing a coin serving as an inclined rolling plane or sliding towards the 'next cell When all the cells are occupied by a room, the re-entrant edges 12 e of their flaps together form an inclined return path (arrow 15) from any excess room towards an overflow corridor not shown, communicating with a bowl restitution to the user The latter also visually perceives the state of partial filling of the cells resulting from the management of the store before it begins to supply it with coins for the

service he desires.

  Each part identified by the selector then admitted into

  a cell in the store is subject to a locality check

  sation and presence, here ensured by the way of an electrical contact being established between each blade 12 f and a patch 16 forming part of a printed circuit on the plate 2, which includes for this purpose an individual track Pl per patch 16 and a track C1 with which is welded in electrical contact the lug 4 d of a cell spacer which constitutes a common to all the flaps 12, by their electrical contact with the axis 13 which they have in common L '' selective evacuation from the store, for collection or return of money at the end of service, is here ensured by temporary excitation of the electromagnet (s) of the cells concerned, which has the effect

  for each to bring its frame in a state of bonding and eff-

  facer the retaining fingers 5 at the base of the cell, so that the part concerned may fall by gravity It then encounters in its fall an inclined rolling or sliding path 17 directing it (arrow 123 towards the exit of the store,

  followed by a usual switch, not shown, intended for the orient-

  ter in a corridor leading to its collection or a corridor leading to the currency return bin, depending on whether it is a collection or return transaction

change after service.

  It will be noted that for the sake of energy saving, an afterglow electromagnet is advantageously used here, having to be excited on call only temporarily and therefore being maintained by remanence in the state shown in FIG. 6, during the part evacuation phase It will also be noted that the fork 7 with fingers 5 cooperates during the excitation of the electromagnet with a rear bar 12 g of the lower part of the flap, in order to impose withdrawal of the latter out of the cell as illustrated in fig 6, to ensure that the coin present in the cell is well

  evacuated without any influence of the shutter on it.

  After the evacuation phase, the active organs of each cell concerned are brought back to their initial state illustrated

  by fig 3, by demagnetization of the corresponding electromagnet

  laying, by sending it a pulse of opposite polarity to that of the aforementioned excitation.

  electromagnets is ensured here as seen for the al-

  véole of fig 4, by the way of an individual electric track

  dual El printed on the plate and another printed track

  mée C 2 common to all the electromagnets, leading to connection points on the plate 2 to which are directly soldered the supply conductors 19, 20 of the two terminals of the winding of the electromagnet The use of plate 2 as a printed circuit support greatly reduces any wiring on the back of the magazine and practically eliminates any risk of interference between the active organs of the magazine and the electrical conductors used for controlling and

management control of this store.

  Of course many variations can be imagined

  born without departing from the scope of the invention.

Claims (5)

  1 Coin magazine for payment system, with collection and return of coins, comprising an input selector and identification of coins of several types supplying the magazine by an admission corridor one by one of the coins identified , said magazine comprising means for the selective removal of coins from the magazine for the purpose of collecting or returning change, characterized in that this magazine consists of a series of cells of coins arranged side by side along a path inclined downward from said inlet passage (3) leading to the first of said cells, each of them being provided with a lower retaining member (5) for the parts and comprising a flap (12) mounted to pivot laterally d '' one side of the cell and having a lower control part (12 a, 12 b, 12 c) normally projecting into the cell above said member   retainer (5) and an upper part (12 e) extending normal-   ment out of the cell - and intended to form a closing member -   access to the cell in response to the tilting of the   lower part of the shutter by a part falling into the   véole, said upper part forming a retaining member (12 e) constituting an inclined plane element of a circulation corridor for the parts above the already occupied cells leading to an overflow when the magazine is full, and said retaining members (5) parts in the cells being individually subjected to an erase command (8, 8 a) relative to the cell ensuring the selective evacuation   rooms in a lower exit corridor for the purpose of cash or change.   2 Store according to claim 1, characterized in that the erasing control of each retaining member (5) is provided by means of an electromagnet (8, 8 a) with pulse control and retention by remanence to the erasure of said member and to demagnetization by impulse in the opposite direction for the return of said member to its maintained retaining position by spring.   3 Store according to any one of claims 1 or   2, characterized in that said retaining member cooperates uni-   directionally with the lower part of the shutter to force the erasure of the latter at the same time as its own erasure in response to the command to evacuate a room.   4 Store according to any one of claims 1 to   3, characterized in that the upper part of each flap   forms a leaf spring bearing on the side wall of the   corresponding vole, urging it into a tilting position   the opening and opening of the cell normally now naked by gravity.   Store according to any one of claims 1 to   4, characterized in that it comprises a lateral plate   common to the alveoli constituted in the form of a printed circuit   mé comprising for each component a portion of circuit to   closing electrical contact with the latter in its posi-   closing, acting as presence contact for piece in the socket.   6 Store according to claim 5, characterized in that   that the printed circuit also includes supply tracks   individual and common electromagnets intended for   be electrically connected to the terminals of the latter.