US3841341A - Coin dispensing device - Google Patents

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US3841341A
US3841341A US00262062A US26206272A US3841341A US 3841341 A US3841341 A US 3841341A US 00262062 A US00262062 A US 00262062A US 26206272 A US26206272 A US 26206272A US 3841341 A US3841341 A US 3841341A
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  • the change dispenser is designed so that manufacturing can be made uniform, i.e., the change dispensers should be designed in such a way that the same base units can be produced, and modifications, such as adaption to a various countrys monetary system, can be made by using additional elements or special detachable parts.
  • a thin coin having a thickness of 1mm, for instance, and having rounded edges is to be dispensed by an arm at least 50 percent or preferably 70 percent of the thickness of the coin, i.e., 0.5 mm, must be contacted by the vertical edge of the dispensing arm in order that the edge shall not slide below the coin and thereby not dispense it.
  • all the vertical edges of all arms are made 70 percent of the tiickness of the thinest coin for instance, i.e., 0.7 mm
  • a coin having a thickness of 2 mm for instance will be hit by a 0.7 mm edge which means that only 35 percent of the thickness of the coin will be hit. This is not enough in order to obtain the dispensing of a worn coin with rounded edges.
  • the adaptation of the vertical edge of the coin dispensing arms is made within the change dispenser, i.e., within the part of the dispenser which can be regarded as a base unit where modification for the different monetary systems for different countries are not normally needed.
  • the adaptation of coin tubes which is necessary, both as to diameter and number, is made in a special easily detachable cassette or magazine.
  • the device according to the present invention eliminates the disadvantages of prior art devices. All adaptations and modifications take place in the coin cassett, i.e., the lengths of the vertical edges on the dispensing arms are adjusted and the diameters of the coin tubes are varied within the cassette without the necessity of modifying or adjusting the base unit.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of the coin cassette of a change dispenser according to the invention with a part of its front wall cut away;
  • FIG. 2 is a view in section along line II-II in FIG. 1 showing coi'n dispensing means and base plate for thick coins;
  • FIG. 3 is a view in section along line IIIIII in FIG. 1 showing coin dispensing means and base plate for thin coins.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a cassette in a coin dispensing device, also called change giver, this device being intended to be electrically connected to a counting business machine, such as a cash register, and which in dependence of the information entered into the machine and/or information counted by the machine, dispenses coins during certain modes of operation.
  • a coin dispensing device also called change giver
  • the cassette of the change giver which has the reference symbol 2 in FIG. 1, comprises two side walls 4 and 6, a back wall 7 and a front wall 8, the front wall being i in the form of a cover, which can be turned forwardupward in the figure around shaft 10 to uncover the front part of the unit limited by said four walls within which all means in the change giver cassette are arranged.
  • Cassette 2 consists of a separate unit, which by means of a simple turn of the hand can be moved downwardly in a box-like part of the change giver and can easily be taken out from that part.
  • the change giver contains all the necessary means for its function, i.e., electric motor, coin dispensing mechanisms, etc.
  • This box which is conventional and therefore not shown on the drawings, can receive a cassette which is to be used for any countrys monetary system and thus has a design which is independent of the system chosen, which means that the change giver, without the cassette, can be manufactured without any consideration as to which countrys monetary system it is intended to be used.
  • the adaptation necessary is exclusively made in the cassette. This will be described in more detail below.
  • Eight coin tubes 14-24 are arranged in a row in the forward part of the change giver and are accessible, for instance, for refilling coins by turning cover 8 upwards.
  • Eight coin tubes are the number of tubes which are necessary in order to be able to dispense the necessary number and denomination of coins in the American monetary system. The number of coin tubes is thus dependent on the monetary system used and can easily be varied within the scope of the present invention.
  • Coin tubes 14-24 are manufactured from any suitable plastic material, and it has been possible to manufacture them with the same length due to variation of the thickness of the base plate, which will be further described below.
  • Each coin tube 14-24 is mounted (not shown) in the back wall 7 and contains a number of coins of a certain denomination.
  • Coin tubes 14-24 are cylindrical and each one is, in its front part, provided with a wide vertical slot through which a number of coins is visible.
  • FIG. 2 there is shown a detailed vertical section of coin tube 12 which is situated to the far left in FIG. 1.
  • a base plate 26 which is manufactured in one piece, preferably from steel, and which forms the support for the coins in all the coin tubes.
  • Base plate 26 which is mounted to side walls 4 and 6 is provided with a horizontal slot 30 within the area below each coin tube.
  • a horizontal reciprocably moveable coin dispensing arm (such as arm 28 in FIG. 2) runs in a horizontal slot 30. Arm 28 is not placed within the cassette but in the base unit (not shown).
  • Each dispensing arm, such as arm 28 and an arm 32 (FIG. 3) for the coins within tube 22, receives its reciprocal movement by means of a mechanism within the change giver.
  • the mechanism is solenoid actuated but as it has nothing to do with the present invention it is not shown or further described.
  • the dispensing arms 28, 32 which during a cycle of operation will dispense coins from associated tubes, first receive a movement to the left in FIGS. 2 and 3 to dispense the coins on the-base plate 26, i.e., the coins which lie on the plate. If it is now assumed that arm 28 shall dispense a coin, a pin 34 on arm 28 will move to the left in a horizontal guiding groove 36, the width of which is somewhat greater than the length of the pin, while pin 34 is depressed upwards against the upper surface of the groove by means of a spring 38 fastened to am 28. The other end of spring 38 is fastened to the change giver. Pin 34 extends horizontally in FIG. 2 and has a length which is somewhat greater than the width of slot 30.
  • an upper vertical edge 28a on arm 28 will contact the periphery of the coin lying on plate 26 and push it forward until it glides from the plate and falls down in a channel (not shown) for further movement to a coin collecting cup, for instance.
  • the coin lying over the last mentioned coin is prevented from moving depending on the bottom edge of the coin tube.
  • arm 28 is pulled backwards to the right to the home position shown in FIG. 2 in which it will rest until a new operation cycle for dispensing coins is initiated.
  • the height of edge 28a and 320 must be adapted to the particular coins within each coin tube. This is accomplished according to the invention by varying the thickness of the base plate 26 on the spot where the different coins are lying.
  • the thickness of the base plate i.e., the distance between the plane on which the undermost coin is resting and the top surface of the guiding groove (the surface against which pin 34 is springed biased) is equal to the distance a, which means that the edge 28a hitting the coin, which in the present example has a thickness of 2.31 mm, has a height of b 70 percent of 2.31 mm 1.62 mm.
  • each coin is piled up, each one having a thickness which differs from the thickness of the coins in FIG. 2.
  • the thickness of each coin is 1.47 mm and the coin resting on plate 26 thus is to be hit by edge 32a with a height of b 70 percent of 1.47 mm 1.03 mm.
  • each coin tube 12 and 22 in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 is situated to such a height, in relation to base plate 26, that it prevents more than one coin from being dispensed during each machine cycle.
  • the forward lower edge of coin tubes 18, 20 and 24 do not prevent the two coins nearest to base plate 26 but prevent the coins above these two coins from being dispensed.
  • the vertical edge 28a and 32a on dispensing arm 28 and 32 must bepositioned to such a height that it covers the thickness of one coin plus 70 percent of this thickness. The adjustment to said height is done as previously described by using a particular thickness of base plate 26, below the associated coin tube.
  • base plate 26 being manufactured in one piece
  • an individual plate under each coin tube can be used, the thickness of which is adapted to the coin thickness and the number of coins which are to be dispensed during a machine cycle from this tube.
  • the individual plates can be mounted to the bottom plate of the cassette or to any other suitable part in the cassette.
  • a coin dispensing device comprising:
  • said flat member consists of a plate extending below all of said coin tubes.
  • said coin dispensing means includes a first member which cooperates with the side of said flat member which is opposite the coin tube, and wherein the thickness of said flat member within the coin tube area determines the height of the portion of the coin dispensing means that contacts the coin or coins to be dispensed.
  • said first member includes a pin
  • said flat member has a guiding means therein in which said pin is guided
  • said coin dispensing means further includes a spring means in operative association to each of said coin tubes for forcing said coin dispensing means against said coin or coins within the plurality of coin tubes.

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US4582222A (en) * 1982-09-30 1986-04-15 Johnson Robert E Bingo card dispenser
US7424960B1 (en) 2006-02-16 2008-09-16 Vokac Thomas J Chip dispenser
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US3989146A (en) * 1975-02-10 1976-11-02 Weyerhaeuser Company Feed and alignment system for panels
EP0015724A3 (en) * 1979-03-01 1981-02-18 Mars Incorporated Coin dispenser
US4367760A (en) * 1979-03-01 1983-01-11 Kim Thomas Coin dispenser made with adjustable height structure
US4582222A (en) * 1982-09-30 1986-04-15 Johnson Robert E Bingo card dispenser
US7424960B1 (en) 2006-02-16 2008-09-16 Vokac Thomas J Chip dispenser
US20160307386A1 (en) * 2013-12-05 2016-10-20 Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd. Coin processing device
KR20160094379A (ko) * 2013-12-05 2016-08-09 가부시끼가이샤 닛본 콘럭스 경화 처리 장치
CN106062831A (zh) * 2013-12-05 2016-10-26 日本功勒克斯股份有限公司 硬币处理装置
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