Coin handling – Assorter – Smallest first
Patent
1991-05-15
1992-11-17
Bartuska, F. J.
Coin handling
Assorter
Smallest first
G07D 300
Patent
active
051638673
ABSTRACT:
A coin sorter which includes a rotatable disc, a drive motor for rotating the disc, and a stationary sorting head having a lower surface parallel to the upper surface of the rotatable disc and spaced slightly therefrom, the lower surface of the sorting head forming a channel for receiving coins passing beneath the inner edge of the sorting head and guiding those coins as the coins are carried along the lower surface of the sorting head by the rotating disc. The channel has an outer wall which extends outwardly away from the center of rotation of the disc, and then returns inwardly toward the center of rotation for a short distance before terminating, and an inner wall which converges toward the outer wall in the region where the outer wall returns toward the center of rotation. In preferred embodiments, the radius of the inner wall from the center of rotation increases in the direction of coin movement, and then remains constant to merge with the returning portion of the outer wall; the inner wall is beveled to allow coins to be forced under that wall; the region adjacent the inner wall in the region where the inner and outer walls converge is relieved to receive the inner portions of coins having a diameter greater than the distance between the inner and outer walls; and/or the inner and outer walls converge to a minimum radial spacing that is substantially equal to the diameter of the smallest-diameter coin having a thickness greater than the vertical distance between the disc and the ceiling of the channel.
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Bartuska F. J.
Cummins-Allison Corp.
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