US3920112A - Apparatus for preventing fraudulent operation of parking meters - Google Patents

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US3920112A
US3920112A US414359A US41435973A US3920112A US 3920112 A US3920112 A US 3920112A US 414359 A US414359 A US 414359A US 41435973 A US41435973 A US 41435973A US 3920112 A US3920112 A US 3920112A
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/02—Testing the dimensions, e.g. thickness, diameter; Testing the deformation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/04—Coin chutes
    • G07F1/048—Coin chutes with means for damping coin motion
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/24—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for parking meters

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  • the coin operated type having means for preventing:
  • the present invention is 'an improvement over the construction disclosed in my earlier patent, in that I have been able to eliminate the lever which moves relative to the coin receiving slot, and have instead replaced it with structure which bodily removes the fraudulent coin itself, while providing an anti-fraud parking meter that has no more parts than a parking meter that has no anti-fraud arrangement.
  • the present invention is in the field of those parking meters which have one or more fixed coin slots for the reception of a coin or coins of the proper denomination, in register with a slotted coin receiving block which is rotated by an external handle that also winds the timing device of the parking meter, rotation of the block with a coin of the proper denomination therein serving to actuate the meter and/or to discharge the coin from the block.
  • Such meters operate, as can the present meter, by any of the well-known conventional means, such as switch operation upon contact with the coin rotated conjointly with the rotatable block, or switch operation by a coin discharged from the rotated block, or mechanical latch release by a coin in the slot to permit rotation of the block, or other well-known arrangements.
  • Another object of the present invention is the provisimple and inexpensive, to manufacture, easy to operate, maintain and repain'and rugged and durable in Broadly, the objects of the present'invention are achieved by providing in such a parking-meter, a block rotatable about a horizontal axis and having one ormore coin slots therein which are vertical in the initial or receiving position of the block. At least one of the slots terminates downwardly in at least one laterally extending shoulder and continues downwardly in a slot of reduced width sufficient to pass a relatively thin fraudulent coin such as a penny; but of'insufficient width to the following description, takin in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view'of the rotatable block of the parking meter according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is anelevational view thereof, in the direction of the axis of rotation of the block, partly in cross section and containing an intended coin;
  • FIG. 3 is a fragment of FIG. 2, showing a fraudulent coin-being eliminated from the block;
  • FIG. 4 is a front elevational view, with the coverremoved, of a parking meter embodying the present invention
  • FIG. 5 is a top plan with the, cover in place I
  • a parking meter according to the present invention whose construction apart from what is illustrated in the drawing can be entirely conventional and so need not be disclosed in detail, comprising a slotted block I mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and having conventional rotating means (not shown) to perform the functions above described, including setting the timing device (not shown) of the meter.
  • Block 1 is provided with a plurality of conventional coin receiving slots 2, and a modified coin receiving vsion of such a parking meter, which will be relatively slot 3 according to the present invention.
  • the upper part of slot 3 is of a width sufficient to receive an intended coin such as a nickel.
  • Slot 3 has a downwardly extending portion that extends through the bottom of block 1 in the coin receiving position, this downwardly extending portion comprising a relatively narrow slot 4 which is separated by a horizontal shoulder 5 from the wider portion of slot 3.
  • shoulder 5 be relatively sharply defined, and preferably horizontal, in the coin receiving position of block 1, in contrast to a gradual or steeply inclined shoulder which would merely cause coins of the proper denomination to wedge at the entry to slot 4.
  • FIG. 2 a coin C of the intended denomination, such as a nickel, is shown retained in slot 3 by shoulder 5: slot '4 is too narrow to receive it. But in FIG. 3, a fraudulent coin F, for example a penny, is shown falling through slot 4 which is wide enough to receive it. The penny then drops into a return slot or the like (not shown) and is thus' gravity rejectecd.
  • the intended denomination such as a nickel
  • intended coin C is gravity discharged to a receptor (not shown), in the conventional manner.
  • FIGS. 1-3 that the patentable novelty of the invention is fully shown in FIGS. 1-3.

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US5507378A (en) * 1994-11-03 1996-04-16 Tricom Corporation Coin box receptacle
USD523482S1 (en) * 2005-01-21 2006-06-20 Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. Document validator

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US772960A (en) * 1903-06-04 1904-10-25 Pulver Chocolate And Chicle Mfg Company Vending-machine.
US2547272A (en) * 1946-08-03 1951-04-03 Turret Meter Sales Company Parking meter
US3262540A (en) * 1964-11-03 1966-07-26 Duncan Parking Meter Corp Slug detector for parking meters
US3498438A (en) * 1968-02-21 1970-03-03 Traffic Equipment Service Co Spurious coin detector
US3536177A (en) * 1968-03-18 1970-10-27 Northern Electric Co Device for determining the existence of peripheral edges of coins
US3701600A (en) * 1970-01-23 1972-10-31 Francis Jacques Guillot Coin size tester preventing fraudulent operation of parking meters

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GB284052A (en) * 1926-11-27 1928-01-26 London Electric Railway Compan Improvements in or relating to devices for diverting improper coins in automatic vending machines
FR747443A (fr) * 1932-12-12 1933-06-17 Elektrozeit Ag Canal de monnaie à calibres sélecteurs pour distributeurs automatiques

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US772960A (en) * 1903-06-04 1904-10-25 Pulver Chocolate And Chicle Mfg Company Vending-machine.
US2547272A (en) * 1946-08-03 1951-04-03 Turret Meter Sales Company Parking meter
US3262540A (en) * 1964-11-03 1966-07-26 Duncan Parking Meter Corp Slug detector for parking meters
US3498438A (en) * 1968-02-21 1970-03-03 Traffic Equipment Service Co Spurious coin detector
US3536177A (en) * 1968-03-18 1970-10-27 Northern Electric Co Device for determining the existence of peripheral edges of coins
US3701600A (en) * 1970-01-23 1972-10-31 Francis Jacques Guillot Coin size tester preventing fraudulent operation of parking meters

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5507378A (en) * 1994-11-03 1996-04-16 Tricom Corporation Coin box receptacle
USD523482S1 (en) * 2005-01-21 2006-06-20 Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. Document validator

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