JP3354323B2 - Coin aligner - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coin arranging device which randomly inserts a large number of coins such as game coins, admission ticket coins, and coins and continuously discharges them one by one.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional coin aligner is provided with a slot above a cylinder, a rotary bottom plate below the cylinder, and a discharge port through which one coin can pass through the lower edge of the side of the cylinder. In this method, coins are randomly inserted from a slot above the cylinder, the rotating bottom plate is rotated, and coins on the rotating bottom plate are discharged one by one from a discharge port at the lower end of the side surface of the cylinder. In this conventional alignment device, the inserted coins or foreign substances gather in the narrow discharge port at the lower end, causing clogging at the discharge port, and the coins are not discharged smoothly one by one. In some cases, the entire flow of coins was stopped. Further, even when it is desired to immediately discharge all the coins inside the coin aligning apparatus, the coins can only be discharged one by one and it takes a long time. Furthermore,
Since the clogging of coins or foreign matter at the discharge port could not be automatically eliminated, and was manually eliminated by the operator, it was troublesome.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve these problems of the prior art, and to mechanically eliminate the clogging at the discharge port for feeding one coin. It is another object of the present invention to provide an excellent coin arranging device that can quickly discharge the entire amount and remaining amount of inserted coins and can avoid stopping the entire coin system.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems The structure of the present invention which has solved the above problems is as follows: 1) A rotary disk having an outer diameter substantially equal to the inner diameter of the cylindrical body is freely lifted and lowered inside a cylindrical body having a coin insertion slot above. A discharge slit for discharging one coin in a horizontal state is opened in the middle side surface of the cylindrical body, and a large discharge opening capable of simultaneously discharging a plurality of coins is opened in a side surface of the cylindrical body below the discharge slit. A rotating means for rotating the rotating disk and a rotating means for raising and lowering the rotating disk.
A position that is the height of the discharge slit and a position below the discharge port.
A coin aligning device characterized in that the turntable is moved up and down with respect to the height of the edge 2) An auxiliary disc is disposed below the rotatable turntable as a rotating means and a vertical moving means. In addition, an annular ridge is provided on the upper surface of the auxiliary disc, and a plurality of upper horizontal portions and lower horizontal portions having different heights of upper end surfaces are formed on the ridge, and the upper horizontal portion and the lower horizontal portion are formed. Are continued on an inclined surface, and stoppers are provided at the end of the upper horizontal portion and the end of the lower horizontal portion, and a plurality of rollers running along the upper end surface of the ridge are vertically provided on the bottom surface of the turntable to form an auxiliary circle. The coin arranging apparatus according to the above 1), wherein a rotating shaft vertically provided on a bottom surface of the plate is driven by a motor capable of rotating forward and reverse. The rotating means and the up-and-down moving means of the present invention are not limited to those having the structure described in claim 2, and a lifting cylinder for the rotating shaft and a rotary driving device may be separately provided.

[0005]

According to the present invention, the rotating disk is normally rotated at the position of the discharge slit, and coins are inserted in a random posture from the insertion port above the cylindrical body. The inserted coin rotates inside the cylindrical body while being moved outward by the centrifugal force of the turntable. The coin pushed to the side wall of the cylindrical body finally enters into the ejection slit of one coin opening while being rotated, and is ejected to the outside through the ejection slit. Thus, coins are continuously discharged one by one from the discharge slit. When coins or foreign matter are clogged in the ejection slit, when the flow of coins stops in the coin processing device after ejection from the ejection slit, or when you want to eject the coin without immediately aligning the total amount and remaining amount, The rotating means is lowered by the moving means until the upper surface of the rotating disk is positioned at the lower edge of the outlet. When the turntable is rotated at this position, the coins on the turntable move outward due to centrifugal force and are ejected in a random orientation from a large outlet of the cylindrical body. If the vertical movement means and the rotation means are structured as described in claim 2, when the motor is rotated forward, the auxiliary disk is rotated, and the annular ridge of the auxiliary disk is rotated, and is placed on the upper end surface of this projection. The roller relatively moves to the upper end surface of the upper horizontal portion, and the turntable rises until its upper surface is at the position of the discharge slit. The roller comes into contact with a stopper provided at the end of the upper horizontal portion, and the upper rotating disk also rotates at the raised position with the rotation of the auxiliary disk, and coins on the rotating disk are discharged one by one from the discharge slit. Next, when the motor is rotated in the reverse direction, the auxiliary disk rotates in the reverse direction, and the roller changes its position relatively from the upper horizontal portion of the ridge to the lower horizontal portion via the inclined surface, and is locked by the stopper at the end of the lower horizontal portion. I do. In this process, the upper surface of the rotating disk descends from the position of the discharge slit to the position of the lower edge of the discharge port. In this state, if the motor continues to rotate in the reverse direction, the upper rotating disk rotates together with the auxiliary disk, and the coins on the rotating disk are ejected from the outlet by centrifugal force and rotational force.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the embodiment, FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a state of discharging coins from an outlet of the embodiment, FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view showing a main part of the embodiment, FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the cylindrical body of the embodiment, FIG.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a horizontal groove of the embodiment.

FIGS. 1 to 9 are drawings showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 denotes a cylinder formed by connecting bolts to an upper and lower divided cylinder as shown in FIG. 8, 2 denotes a coin slot above the cylinder, and 3 denotes a rotary disk. Reference numeral 4 denotes a rotation axis of the rotary disk, 5 denotes a discharge slit provided on the intermediate side surface of the cylindrical body, 6 denotes a horizontal groove provided on the side of the cylindrical body at the height of the discharge slit, and 7 denotes a lower part of the cylindrical body 4. A discharge port provided, 8 is a discharge passage for guiding coins outward from the discharge slit 5, 9 is an auxiliary disk, 10 is an annular ridge provided on the upper surface of the auxiliary disk, and 10a is a horizontal line above the ridge. Part, 10b is a lower horizontal part, 10c is an inclined surface, 10d is an upper horizontal part 10.
a stopper at the end of a, 10e a stopper at the end of the lower horizontal portion 10b, 11 a rotating shaft suspended from the bottom surface of the auxiliary disc 9, 12 two rollers mounted on the bottom surface of the rotating disk 3, 1
Reference numeral 3 denotes a pulley mounted on the rotating shaft 11, reference numeral 14 denotes a motor capable of normal and reverse rotation, reference numeral 15 denotes a pulley belt for transmitting rotation of the motor to the rotating shaft 11, and reference numeral 16 denotes a game coin.

In this embodiment, coins 16 are randomly inserted from the insertion slot 2. When coins 16 are aligned and discharged, the motor 14 is rotated forward, the rotation shaft 11 and the auxiliary disc 9 are rotated forward via the pulley belt 15 and the pulley 13, and the roller 12 is rotated by the upper horizontal portion 10 a of the annular ridge 10. The roller 12 is moved to rest on the upper end surface of the
d. If the motor 14 further rotates forward in this state, the turntable 3 rotates forward together with the auxiliary disk 9. In this state, the upper surface of the turntable 3 is lifted upward,
It is at the height of the discharge slit 5 (see FIGS. 2 and 7B). When the turntable 3 is rotated in this state, the coin 16 on this also rotates, is pushed toward the side surface of the cylindrical body 1 by centrifugal force, enters the horizontal groove 6, and enters the coin 1 in the horizontal groove 6.
Numeral 6 is inserted into the horizontal groove 6 in the direction of the deep groove and rotates in the direction of the deep groove with the rotation of the turntable 3, and is finally discharged from the discharge slit 5 and continuously discharged one by one from the discharge passage 8 (see FIGS. 3 and 3). 9).

Next, when it is desired to discharge the entire amount and the remaining amount of the coin 16 in the cylindrical body 1 immediately, when the discharge slit 5 is clogged with the coin 16 or foreign matter, or when the flow of the coin after the discharge passage 8 is stopped. If so, the motor 14 is reversed. When the motor 14 rotates in the reverse direction, the auxiliary disk 9 also rotates in the reverse direction, and the roller 12 changes its position from the upper horizontal portion 10a to the lower horizontal portion 10b via the light slope 10c, contacts the stopper 10e, and reverses the turntable 3. In this state, the turntable 3 changes from the upper horizontal portion 10a to the lower horizontal portion 10b at a lower position, and is located at the lower edge of the lower outlet 7 (see the dotted line in FIG. 1, FIG. 4, and FIG. 7A). ). If the turntable 3 rotates in this state, the coin 16 is quickly discharged to the outside from the large opening of the discharge port 7 (see FIG. 5). As described above, in the present embodiment, by switching between the normal and reverse rotations of the motor 14, it is possible to alternate between the aligned discharge of one coin and the random discharge of coins. Most of the clogging of the coin 16 in the discharge slit 5 is caused by the falling of the rotating disk 3 and the coin 16 falling.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, coins inserted at random can be continuously discharged one by one in a state where the coins are reliably and quickly arranged. The coins in the cylindrical body can be discharged quickly and reliably even in a random state, and a more practical coin aligning device can be obtained. In addition, the clogging of the coin by the discharge slit of the foreign matter can be considerably solved, and the coin can be bypassed without stopping the flow of the coin by discharging the coin from the discharge port, so that the entire flow of the coin can be prevented. . Furthermore, in the configuration using the forward / reverse motor, auxiliary disc, annular ridge, roller, and stopper, it is possible to switch between normal single-row feed and full / remaining discharge only by forward / reverse of one motor. Control becomes simple.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a discharge state from a discharge port of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which coins are discharged from a discharge port of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view showing a main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing elevating and lowering of the turntable of the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of the cylindrical body of the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing a horizontal groove according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cylindrical body 2 Input port 3 Rotating disk 4 Rotating shaft 5 Discharge slit 6 Horizontal groove 7 Discharge port 8 Discharge passage 9 Auxiliary disk 10 Annular ridge 10a Upper horizontal portion 10b Lower horizontal portion 10c Inclined surface 10d Stopper 10e Stopper 11 Rotary shaft 12 roller 13 pulley 14 motor 15 pulley belt 16 coin

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A rotary disk having an outer diameter substantially the same as the inner diameter of a cylindrical body is provided inside a cylindrical body having a coin insertion slot at the upper side so as to be able to move up and down, and one coin is horizontally placed on a side surface at an intermediate position of the cylindrical body. A discharge slit that discharges in the state is opened, a large discharge port that can simultaneously discharge a plurality of coins is opened on the side surface of the cylindrical body below the discharge slit, a rotating means for rotating the rotating disk, and an up and down for raising and lowering the rotating disk Moving means, and the vertical moving means
A position where the upper surface of the turntable is at the height of the discharge slit,
Turn the turntable up and down between the height of the lower edge of the outlet.
A coin aligning device characterized in that the coin is aligned. 2. An auxiliary disk is disposed below a rotatable rotating plate as a rotating means and a vertical moving means, and an annular ridge is provided on an upper surface of the auxiliary disk, and an upper end surface is provided on the ridge. Are formed with a plurality of upper horizontal portions and lower horizontal portions having different heights, and the upper horizontal portion and the lower horizontal portion are continuous on an inclined surface, and stoppers are provided at the ends of the upper horizontal portion and the lower horizontal portion. A plurality of rollers running along the upper end surface of the ridge are provided on the bottom surface of the rotating disk, and a rotating shaft provided on the bottom surface of the auxiliary disk is driven by a motor capable of rotating forward and backward. 2. The coin alignment device according to 1.