Article dispensing – Plural sources – stacks or compartments – With discharge means for each source
Patent
1996-03-22
1998-03-03
Bartuska, F. J.
Article dispensing
Plural sources, stacks or compartments
With discharge means for each source
221266, G07F 1152
Patent
active
057225648
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an automatic bank machine used for distributing rolls of coins. This has the form of a kiosk having a built-in cash dispenser.
It has on its forward surface which is accessible to the public, means permitting the transaction such as a keyboard, a display screen or the like.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The prior art provides apparatus of this type for the dispensing of bills or foreign currency, etc.
The document FR-A-2.333.305 relates to automatic bank note dispensers. The device of the invention comprises a computer associated with a memory and connected by a telecommunication line to a remote terminal comprising a bank note dispenser. To improve security of the transactions, the device is designed so as to avoid any transmission over the data line whose detection might lead to fraudulent use of the dispenser.
The document FR-A-2.589.606 provides a self-service bank device comprising a cash dispenser. It comprises a kiosk enclosing a cash dispenser having a keyboard suitable for users, disposed in a forward wall of the kiosk. The cash dispenser comprises a safe enclosing a cash dispenser and a money deposit device when the bank is closed. The kiosk comprises a movable portion which can pivot 90.degree. so as to open the door of the safe as well as apparatus for dispensing and deposit. The kiosk comprises a closed and safe enclosure for a worker who has opened the door of the safe to provide maintenance or cash resupply operations.
At present, the dispensers for rolls of coins are generally produced in the form of a hopper which contains said rolls of coins. The essential problem with this type of structure arises by jamming between adjacent rolls falling by gravity, which can take place. This renders the dispensers rapidly unusable.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,469,245 discloses a bank machine which distributes rolls of coins. These rolls are disposed in bulk in a container, the rolls are moved toward the outlet of the dispenser by rolling means. These rolling means are provided with chains, clutches, inclined planes.
This distributor is out of use when there is jamming of the rolls. It has all the drawbacks which the present invention seeks to overcome.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,036,732 discloses a dispenser of small light objects such as pens. These pens are disposed in one of several vertical wheels. The movement of the wheels is insured by the action of the user on a rotatable knob. The vertical wheels are disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of the front of the dispenser so as to have an attractive appearance, the front panel being transparent.
All these devices are used for dispensing paper money, and their conversion would not be obvious for money in the form of rolls of coins. The present invention provides a distributor for rolls of coins which is very compact in that the rolls to be dispensed are stored in a minimum space, similar to what is easily provided for currency dispensers.
Moreover, the loading and unloading of the bank machine takes place quite simply.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To this end, the present invention provides a bank machine for dispensing rolls of coins, in the form of a kiosk, including an automatic teller, the kiosk having on its forward surface accessible to the public, means permitting the transaction such as a control keyboard, a visualization screen, openings for insertion of a payment means (bank card, bill or the like), outlet receptacles (distributed coin rolls, receipt recording the transaction conducted, coin changer) or the like which is characterized by the fact that it comprises one of several vertical wheels which serve as a dispensing drum for the coin rolls, said rolls being disposed in radiating recesses disposed about its axis of rotation; each wheel is comprised in a circular cage which comprises in its upper portion a window for loading said coin rolls and in the lower portion a window for the gravity dispensing of the coin rolls, said lower dispensing window coacts with control means of a shutter which permit
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