FR2648596A1 - CURRENCY SELECTOR WITH INCORPORATING REFERENCE DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

The coin selector 2 and the return device 3 of the latter form an integral unit. The selector 2 controls and properly distributes each of the coins, of a specific type or value, to the respective cylindrical receptacle 8, 9 and 10. The excess coins of these cylindrical receptacles 8, 9 and 10 and those of which the type or the value does not coincide with the currencies that are to be accumulated in them, are sent to a hutch.

Description

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  1 MONEY SELECTOR WITH INCORPORATING DEVICE

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

  This present invention consists of er. a selector with incorporated return device, these two elements constituting a compact assembly which is mainly useful in automatic vending machines and playing machines which give a price The coin selector comprises the return device constituted by three receptacles intended to receive the types of currencies to be returned, which

can be chosen at will.

  In this way it is the selector that controls the currencies that exist in each of the return receptacles by performing at each instar: the control of the number of

  currencies of each type present for their possible return.

ANTECEDENTS OF THE INVENTION

  All the automatic machines or all the existing devices on the coin-operated market by coin introduction are equipped with a coin selection device introduced, to perform their validation, and they must further comprise a device for returning coins. These two elements, the selector and the

  referral device are independent.

  So; in the first place, if the introduced currency has been validated by the selector and if it of the type to be returned, it is taken to the corresponding coin return receptacle, or if the return receptacle is full, it

is directed to the cash register.

  For this purpose, the return receptacles are constituted by cylindrical tubes in which the coins are stacked, these tubes being provided with micro-contacts at their upper part and at their lower part, the lower micro-contact being used to indicate when the number of currencies that exists is reduced and that it is necessary to perform the filling of the receptacle 1 while the upper microcontact indicates that the receptacle is full e: that currencies of this type must

  be sent to the final fund.

  On the other hand, in the specific case of priced playing machines which operate with two types of currencies (preferably 25 and 100 pesetas), they have two differentiated conduits for the introduction of currencies, and consequently , it is necessary that they are equipped with their corresponding selectors and return devices, so that there is a complex distribution in all the currency transport conduits, both to the return receptacles

currencies than towards the fund.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

  The selector with incorporated return device according to the invention consists mainly of the selector which accepts or rejects the introduced coins, while controlling, at any time, the number of currencies of each type or value which are in the receptacles.

of referral.

  The device is provided with several return receptacles (generally three in number) for the same type of currency or for another type, as the case may be. The number of coins present in each of the return receptacles is controlled, as mentioned above, by the selector and it is not necessary for these return receptacles to have micro-control contacts to indicate that the receptacle contains a small number of currencies or that it is filled with currencies and that these must be taken to another

  return or at the checkout, in the absence of the latter.

  The passage of the currency to the box is closed by two plates integral with the core of a coil, so that if the latter is not activated the money is led to the return receptacles, while if -3- 1 it is activated the currency is conducted to the cash These referral rises are also closed by corresponding plates integral with the core of respective coils so that is activated the coil which is intended to allow free passage to the return receptacle corresponding to the type or at the value of

the accepted currency.

  To complete the description that follows and in order to facilitate the understanding of its characteristics, is attached to this specification a drawing in the figures of which are represented, by way of illustration and without limitation, the details of

more significant of the invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

  Figure 1 shows a front elevational view of the selector with the incorporated return receptacle to form

a solidarity together.

  Figure 2 shows the selector with the incorporated return receptacle shown in the previous figure as a sectional view taken along the transverse axis II, in which the three return receptacles can be seen, as well as the recovery conduit of unaccepted currencies and the conduit that leads into

the box.

  DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

  In the figures discussed and in agreement with the numbering adopted, it can be observed that the selector with incorporated return device 1 is constituted by the selector 2 which validates the coins introduced into its inlet port 4 and by the return device 3 equipped with three return receptacles for the same type or for a

different type of currency.

  The selector 2 will validate the correct currencies by checking the value of each of them and by leading them to the return receptacle which corresponds to their value, in the case where it had one, or in the case where it exists. there would be no return receptacle for this type of

  monna: e, driving them to the cash register.

  Therefore, if the return receptacles 8, 9, and 10, respectively, are provided for three different types or values of currencies, for example 5, 25 and 100 pesetas, the currencies entered in the selector 2 which have one of these values, which have been validated, will pass to their corresponding forwarding receiver if it is not full. In the case where the return receptacle corresponding to a validated currency is full, the coin is directed by the conduit 6 to the box, and for this purpose the coil which actuates the plate 5 which closes the passage to the box

has been activated.

  The currencies that are rejected by the selector 2 pass through the conduit 7 to the recovery receptacle In this way, the selector with incorporated return device occupies a reduced space, and it is possible

  to return up to three different types of currencies.

  The return receptacles 8, 9 and 10 consist of cylindrical tubes interchangeable between them. These return containers may contain currencies of different values, or currencies of the same value in two or three of them, depending on the requirements of

the user.

  The selector will control at any time the number of currencies present in each of the return receptacles 8, 9 and 10 without it being necessary to install micro-contacts for the control of the currencies they

contain.

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Claims (1)

1 CLAIMS   Coin selector with incorporated return device, for use in automatic vending machines, and in gaming machines, essentially characterized in that the coin selector 2 and the return device 3 of the latter form an integral assembly in which the selector 2, properly speaking, controls and distributes each of the coins according to its type or value, and in the deflection device 3, constituted by cylindrical receptacles 8, 9 and 10 accumulate the coins of 'a certain type or value, while the surplus coins of the cylindrical receptacles of the return device and the currencies whose type or value do not coincide with the currencies which are to be   accumulated in the receptacles in question.