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WO2010032055A1
WO2010032055A1 PCT/GB2009/051212 GB2009051212W WO2010032055A1 WO 2010032055 A1 WO2010032055 A1 WO 2010032055A1 GB 2009051212 W GB2009051212 W GB 2009051212W WO 2010032055 A1 WO2010032055 A1 WO 2010032055A1
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coin
coins
bagging
handling apparatus
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George Pilch
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Scan Coin Industries Ab
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Priority claimed from GB0819919A external-priority patent/GB0819919D0/en
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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
    • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass

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  • the present invention relates to coin handling apparatus of the kind in which a customer can dispense a collection of mixed coins and the apparatus is arranged to sort the coins according to their denominations and to provide the customer with an indication of the value of the coins.
  • Patent Specification No. WO 2008/041907 discloses an example of a machine of that type. In that machine the sorted coins are fed to different bulk coin-collection bags according to their denomination (although it is possible to provide a bag of mixed denomination coins if required) .
  • Retail outlets generally accumulate a quantity of loose mixed coins which generally have to be taken to the bank, or collected by a security service and taken to a cash centre. Often the retail outlet will also require quantities of bagged, sorted coins which they will obtain from the bank or cash centre. Cash centres often also supply coins in rolls.
  • a coin handling apparatus comprises a coin intake into which a batch of mixed coins can be deposited, (and optionally a note intake for deposit of notes) , a coin sorter arranged to sort coins received from the coin intake into different denominations, a coin router arranged to feed the different coin denominations to respective coin hoppers that have been assigned to the different denominations, a coin feeder assembly arranged to feed coins from said coin hoppers to a coin bagging assembly, a customer display which displays the total value of the coins (and optionally notes) inserted into the apparatus and/or the total number of coins of different denominations inserted, a customer operable selection device arranged to enable the customer to select amounts of coins of different denominations that are to be bagged by the bagging assembly for dispensing to the customer, and a bagging assembly control apparatus arranged to co- ordinate the supply of a predetermined number of coins of a particular
  • the coin inlet and note inlet may be combined, suitable means being provided to separate the coins from the notes.
  • the coin handling apparatus could be used as a coin recycling unit whereby a customer' s coins are deposited in the apparatus and a bag or bags of coin denominations selected by the customer are produced.
  • the coin handling apparatus could be used as a bagged coin dispenser whereby a batch of mixed coins deposited in the apparatus are dispensed in a bag or bags of coin denominations selected by the customer.
  • the bagging assembly control apparatus may be configured to enable the customer to obtain a bag of coins of a selected mix of denominations.
  • the bagging assembly comprises a form-fill-seal unit, preferably a vertical form-fill-seal unit.
  • the form-fill-seal unit is preferably arranged to seal the bags produced by the bagging assembly by cold-sealing of cold-seal strips provided on the web of sheet material supplied to the form-fill-seal unit.
  • the web could be of paper, the web is preferably a film of transparent plastics material.
  • the use of cold-sealing in a form-fill-seal unit assists in enabling the bagging assembly to be used in a retail or bank situation accessible by the customer. This avoids the fumes that can be emitted in a plastics hot-sealing process and which would require special measures to handle.
  • the control systems for the coin handling apparatus in one embodiment is arranged to permit only the dispensing of a bag or series of bags of coins that total in value an amount which is equal to or less than the value of the batch of mixed coins inserted into the apparatus.
  • This embodiment would suit the needs of many small retailers who have a large batch of mixed coins to deposit into the machine, yet require sorted amounts of a lesser number of coins, to replenish a till for example.
  • coin hoppers that hold the different denominations of coins need not be large since they generally only need to be capable of supplying modest amounts of coins to the bagging apparatus.
  • Coin hoppers of the horizontal inclined disc types, and of compact horizontal dimensions, are suitable for this purpose.
  • the outfeed from a coin hopper containing a single denomination of coins will generally be as a single file of coins individually counted out, so that when a demand for a batch of coins is to be met, time is taken to dispense the coins serially to the bagging assembly.
  • the coin feed assembly from the coin hoppers may comprise one or more feeder assembly escrows which can be replenished with coins from one or more of the coin hoppers whilst a preceding batch of coins supplied by the coin feeder assembly to the bagging apparatus is being bagged. This enables a complete change of coins for a bag to be released by the feeder assembly escrow, under the supervision of the bagging assembly control apparatus, when a further bag of coins is to be created.
  • An excess coin storage receptacle may be provided to receive excess coins that are not required by the individual coin hoppers. Alternatively, or in addition, it may be arranged that at least some excess coins are bagged, and the bagged excess coins are stored.
  • the coin sorter, coin hoppers and bagging apparatus may be housed in a single housing, but preferably the bagging apparatus is mounted on a trolley and suitable connecting passageways are provided in said housing for the coins, for coins to be fed to the bagging apparatus, and for the bags of coins to be fed from the bagging apparatus to a bag outlet in the front of the housing.
  • the coin assembly is preferably arranged to project through an aperture in a surrounding wall (hole in a wall machine) , and the bagging apparatus is preferably readily accessible for maintenance from the rear side of the wall and, for replacement of a reel of bag film, for example.
  • the coin router may be an active router but it may simply comprise different passages leading from different outlets of the coin sorter which is then arranged to deliver the different denominations of coins into the different passages.
  • An advantage of using a vertical form-fill-seal unit, as opposed to a horizontal form-fill-seal unit, is that the bagging assembly can more easily be accommodated within a machine of smaller 'footprint' .
  • the use of a vertical unit requires the coin feeder assembly to feed the coins at a relatively higher level in the apparatus.
  • the coin hoppers are provided with respective coin elevators generally of the kind exemplified by Patent specification No's
  • escalators comprise an elongated duct in which a channel receives coins in single edge-to-edge file fed by a coin feeder disc. They are commonly used in slot machines or gaming devices to deliver coins being paid out by the machine to a payout cup positioned in the front of the machine at a convenient height for customers.
  • the coin hoppers that receive coins of different denomination are each in the form of an escalator hopper, and the coin feeder assembly is arranged to direct or convey the coins issued by the upper ends of the escalators to the upper end of said product tube.
  • the coin feeder assembly may comprise an inclined tray onto which coins are dispensed by the upper ends of the escalators.
  • the coin feeder assembly comprises a driven horizontal conveyor, and the upper ends of the escalators feed coins onto the conveyor which carries them towards the product tube.
  • the upper ends of the escalators are preferably each provided with a respective escalator output escrow that has a sufficient capacity to hold a single bag-charge of coins for supplying the bagging apparatus. As previously discussed, such escrows can reduce the overall cycle time of the bagging assembly.
  • the hopper escalator units preferably each have an oblong-rectangular footprint which enables them to be arranged in one or more rows of side- by-side hopper escalators, which thereby provides a particularly compact arrangement of the hoppers to help minimise their overall 'footprint' .
  • a typical hopper escalator is the Asahi Seiko SCH-700/U1.
  • the upper end of the escalator is provided with a coin detector that is operated as a coin is dispensed from the escalator and thereby provides a feedback signal to control dispense of a required number of coins.
  • escalator hoppers has the particular advantage that the relatively bulky part of such a unit, the hopper itself, can be accommodated at a level in the machine that does not need to be occupied by other equipment, whereas the escalators themselves can more easily be accommodated in higher regions of the machine because of their slim profile. This helps considerably to facilitate a compact apparatus.
  • an escalator conveyor is provided as the bag dispenser to carry bags from the bag outlet of the bagging unit to a bag payout bowl positioned in the front of the machine cabinet at a convenient height for customers.
  • the reel of bag film on one side is preferably provided along opposite margins with strips of suitable cold-seal adhesive, and at spaced-apart intervals the film is provided with transverse strips of cold-seal adhesive.
  • the positions of the transverse strips is indicated by some reference indicia printed onto the film material at positions having a fixed phase in relation to the transverse strips.
  • the reference indicia comprise printed opaque transverse bands which are in substantial register with the transverse strips provided on the opposite face of the film.
  • the bands are detected optically by the bagging unit, to provide a timing signal for the operation of the bagging unit.
  • a pair of opposed rollers may be used to urge the marginal strips of cold-seal adhesive together, so as to form the elongate fin of the bag.
  • Suitable jaws crimp together the opposed adhesive transverse strips of the folded bag material, to seal the upper and lower ends of the bag containing the coins deposited into the product tube.
  • the filled bags of coins may be used by a supermarket to replenish the tills.
  • machines exist for replenishing till drawers a problem is that supermarkets often have tills of different types, so that a dedicated till drawer filling machine cannot be used with all the tills.
  • the bag dimensions and contents may be arranged to comply with the APACS specification in UK.
  • Figures IA & IB are intended to be connected together to show a block diagram of the components and control system of the apparatus
  • Figure 2 is a flow chart of the machine operation
  • Figure 3 is a schematic end view of the apparatus, with the cabinet end wall omitted
  • Figure 4 is a schematic horizontal cross-section of the apparatus at the mid height of the machine, on the line 4-4 of Figure 3
  • Figure 5 is a schematic partial vertical cross-section on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.
  • the coin sorter, customer display and key pad can be generally as described in our Patent specification No. WO2008/041907A1 at page 5 lines 5 to 32.
  • coins are deposited in a coin intake 210.
  • the coins are transported via coin hopper feeder 220, to a coin discriminator 230.
  • the coin discriminator 230 is operatively connected to a control unit 232 in the form of a microprocessor (CPU) or the like, which in turn is operatively connected to a memory 234, such as a RAM, ROM, EPPROM, flash memory, hard disk, or any combination thereof.
  • a memory 234 such as a RAM, ROM, EPPROM, flash memory, hard disk, or any combination thereof.
  • At least parts of the memory 234 can be implemented by internal memory in the control unit 232.
  • the control unit 232 is in charge of the overall mode of operation of the apparatus 100, including controlling a display 236 and a key pad 238, which form a user interface.
  • the configuration date relating to the apparatus which the device is intended to update is stored in the memory 234.
  • a configuration device 239 allows new or modified configuration data to be received by the control unit 232 to be stored in the memory 234.
  • the control unit is normally arranged in the coin deposit device, although it is possible to provide the control by use of an externally connected control unit such as an external control computer.
  • Discriminator 230 identifies any invalid items, such as foreign coins or tokens, and is configured to direct these items to a coin return 240.
  • the coin return unit 240 preferably returns non-accepted coins through an external opening in the coin handling apparatus 100. It is the coin discriminator 230 that, in this context, determines if a coin is to be accepted or not by detecting different physical parameters, which are used to determine the type, denomination, currency, identity, authenticity or the like of the coin. Examples of physical parameters are conductivity, permeability, thickness, diameter or weight.
  • the accepted coins are then fed to the coin router 250.
  • the apparatus 100 shown in Figures 3 to 5 comprises a machine cabinet 101 which houses a coin sorter 102 which feeds sorted coins from mixed coins inserted into the machine, to two banks of eight escalator hoppers 103-110, each hopper being fitted with hopper extensions 111 to increase its capacity.
  • the coins are supplied to the appropriate inlet 112 to 119 of a bank of eight adjacent coin feeder ducts, such as 120 and 121 in Figures 4 and 5.
  • alternate ducts in the bank of ducts are long and short, such as the long duct 120 and the short duct 121.
  • the short ducts such as duct 121 , connect the inlets 112, 114, 116, 118 respectively with the hoppers 103, 104, 105 and 106 in one row of hoppers to handle £1 , Ip, 1Op and 5Op coins respectively.
  • the long ducts, such as duct 120 connect inlets 113, 115, 117, 119 with the hoppers 107, 108, 109 and 110 respectively, which handle 2Op, 5p, 2p and Ip coins respectively.
  • Each of the hoppers 103 to 110 is provided with a respective escalatorl03 ' to 110' of hockey stick shape, as viewed in side profile in Figure 5.
  • the long feeder ducts, such as duct 120 as viewed in plan are sufficiently slim to be able to be accommodated between the escalators 103 ' , 104' , 105 ' , and 106' in order to reach to that bank of hoppers 107, 108, 109, 110 that is remote from the row of coin inlets 112 to 119.
  • This factor facilitates the escalators being arranged in two compact rows or banks, with the tops of the escalator feeding, as shown in Figure 5 onto opposite sides of a horizontal conveyor 130.
  • each of the escalators 103 ' to 110' is provided with an escrow, indicated schematically in Figure 5 as 106e, 11 Oe, the escrows being capable of holding a coin bag charge of coins of appropriate denomination.
  • the conveyor 130 can be driven in a forwards direction to feed batches of coins dispensed by the escrows, such as 106e and 11Oe, to the product tube of a coin bagging assembly 150.
  • the facility may be provided to drive the conveyor 130 in the reverse direction to direct coins on the conveyor to a collection bin for excess coins, when it has been determined that one or more of the hoppers 103 to 110 is full.

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Monnayeur comportant un récepteur (210) de pièces dans lequel peut être déposé un lot de pièces mélangées (et éventuellement un récepteur de billets servant à déposer des billets), un trieur (102) de pièces agencé de façon à trier des pièces reçues en provenance du récepteur de pièces en différentes valeurs faciales, un répartiteur (250) de pièces agencé de façon à envoyer les pièces de différentes valeurs faciales vers des trémies (103-110) à pièces respectivement affectées aux différentes valeurs faciales et un ensemble alimentateur (220) de pièces agencé de façon à alimenter un ensemble ensacheur de pièces à partir desdites trémies à pièces. L’appareil comprend un affichage (236) pour clients qui affiche la valeur totale des pièces (et éventuellement des billets) insérées dans l’appareil et / ou le nombre total de pièces de différentes valeurs faciales insérées. Un dispositif de sélection à actionner par le client est agencé de façon à permettre au client de sélectionner des quantités de pièces de différentes valeurs faciales à ensacher par l’ensemble ensacheur afin de les distribuer au client et un appareil (100) de commande de l’ensemble ensacheur agencé de façon à coordonner l’amenée d’un nombre prédéterminé de pièces d’une valeur faciale particulière par l’alimentateur (220) de pièces de l’une desdites trémies (103-110) à pièces à l’ensemble ensacheur avec le fonctionnement de l’ensemble ensacheur afin de créer un sac de pièces, puis, en fonction des quantités demandées par le client, à amener un nombre prédéterminé de pièces de la même ou d’une autre valeur faciale, respectivement de la même trémie ou d’une autre desdites trémies à pièces à l’ensemble ensacheur pour créer un autre sac de pièces, et de produire encore d’autres sacs de pièces, si nécessaire, pour satisfaire la demande du client. Un distributeur de sacs de pièces est prévu pour distribuer au client le ou les sacs de pièces produits par l’ensemble ensacheur.
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GB0817130.8 2008-09-18
GB0817130A GB0817130D0 (en) 2008-09-18 2008-09-18 Coin handling apparatus
GB0819919.2 2008-10-30
GB0819919A GB0819919D0 (en) 2008-10-30 2008-10-30 Coin handling apparatus
US11285608P 2008-11-10 2008-11-10
US61/112,856 2008-11-10

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