US3795297A - Token or coin inlet mechanisms for prior-payment machines - Google Patents

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US3795297A
US3795297A US00324929A US3795297DA US3795297A US 3795297 A US3795297 A US 3795297A US 00324929 A US00324929 A US 00324929A US 3795297D A US3795297D A US 3795297DA US 3795297 A US3795297 A US 3795297A
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A Duc
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/02—Coin slots

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  • a guide means for guiding a coin along a trajectory comprised in the plane of the coin
  • a rotating gate disposed in said trajectory and capable of being rotated by a force exerted through said coin
  • control means comprising a detector operatively disposed on a lateral part of the area swept by the coin in said guide means for allowing simultaneous contact of the coin withsaid gate and said detector,
  • the gate must also allow locking in the closed position when a token has just been introduced, and this long enough to permit a suitable sensing device to perform theregistering corresponding to the value represented by this token, any attempt to introduce an additional token, and any fraudulent attempt to introduce any object, then being made impossible.
  • the locking of the gate once the registering operation is over will then allow the introduction of another token.
  • the present invention aims to overcome this drawback by providing a mechanism ensuringthe normal introduction of tokens, and more generally of circular pieces, while"opposing the introduction of various objects such as wires, keys, matches, paperclips and, more generally, any objects of various forms whose section is smaller than that of the opening'in the machine.
  • a gate-type mechanism for the introduction of tokens or coins of various kinds in aprior-payment machine such as a parking meter, comprising an inlet opening consisting of a slot delimited by the lateral walls of an ear-shaped receptacle, a rocker forming a gate pivoting, within the said slot, around an axis passing through the said walls, a shutter integral with the said rocker and pivoting with the latter around the said. axis, the shutter-rocker assembly being loaded against a roller by a spring, the said mechanism further including a locking piece having a flat general form and mounted pivotingly around an axis parallel to the plane of the said shutter, the said piece being equipped, on
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of the'mechanism operated normally by the introduction of a token
  • FIG. 2 is a top view, under the conditions of the precedings figure
  • FIG. 3 is a front view of the mechanism blocked at the moment of a fraudulent attempt to introduce a paper clip or a match.
  • FIG. 4 is a top view, under the conditions of the preceding figure.
  • the figures show the ear-shaped receptacle 1 whose lateral walls delimit a slot forming an inlet opening.
  • a gate consisting of a rocker 9, in the form ofa flat elbow, pivoting around the horizontal axis 10 which passes through the walls of the receptacle l.
  • the rocker 9 is rigidly connected to a shutter 8 parallel to the said rocker and arranged outside of the slot.
  • the shutter 8 also pivots around the axis 10.
  • the assembly consisting of the shutter 8 and the rocker 9 is brought back, in the rest position, against the roller 5 by a spring 6 anchored on the shutter 8.
  • a locking piece 7, having a flat general form, is mounted pivotingly around a vertical axis consisting of the pivots 2 and 3 integral with the receptacle 1.
  • the said piece is arranged, in the rest position, parallel to and next to the shutter 8.
  • the piece 7 has a finger 4 going through the walls of the receptacle 1 so as to be in the path of any token introduced into the inlet opening. It also has, on its end, a stop 12 which, in the rest position of the piece .7, opposes the pivoting of the shutter 8 and, consequently, of the rocker 9
  • a spring 13, integral with the receptacle 1, keeps the locking piece 7 in the rest position with the shoulder 11 of the stop 12 bearing against the shutter 8.
  • a guide means for guiding a coin along a trajectory comprised in the plane of the coin
  • a rotating gate disposed in said trajectory and capable of being rotated by a coin engaging said gate a locking means associated with said gate, and control means associated with said locking means for unlocking the gate by insertion of a coin
  • control means comprising a detector operatively disposed on a lateral part of the area swept by the coin in said guide means for allowing simultaneous contact of the coin with said gate and said detector.
  • said guide means comprises two parallel plates, said gate being formed by a third plate placed between said parallel plates, said gate being mounted on a shaft perpendicular to said plates.
  • Coin accepting machine further comprising a third parallel plate mounted on a portion of the shaft, bearing said gate, extending through one of said parallel plates, said locking means is formed by a plate rotatably mounted on a second shaft parallel to said plates and having a locking finger extending through said one of the parallel plates in the path of said gate.
  • said detector comprises a finger operatively connected with said locking means for pivoting the latter around its shaft.
  • a gate-type mechanism for the introduction of tokens or coins of various kinds in a prior-payment machine such as a parking meter comprising an inlet opening consisting of a slot delimited by the lateral walls of an ear-shaped receptacle, a rocker forming a gate pivoting, within the said slot, around an axis passing through the said walls, a shutter integral with the said rocker and pivoting with the latter around the said axis, the shutter-rocker assembly being loaded against a roller by a spring, the said mechanism further including a locking piece having a flat general form and mounted pivotingly around, an axis parallel to the plane of the said shutter, the said piece being equipped, on the one hand, with a finger going through the lateral walls of the receptacle so as to be in the path of a token and, on the other, with a stop arranged so as to oppose the pivoting of the shutter, the shoulder of the said stop maintaining the locking piece on the shutter under the action of a spring.

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US890046A (en) * 1906-07-16 1908-06-09 Frank W Green Needle-vending machine.
US2503323A (en) * 1946-10-07 1950-04-11 Henry L Collins Auto ventilating device

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US890046A (en) * 1906-07-16 1908-06-09 Frank W Green Needle-vending machine.
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