Automatic toll collector

Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including value accumulator for plural checks

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194344, 194346, 194352, 194901, 232 7, G07F 104, G07F 908

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049601962

ABSTRACT:
An automatic toll collector of a throw-in type is installed in toll roads, parking places and other tollgates so that a driver can pay a toll while the driver sits on a driver's seat. The toll collector includes a large hopper for easily receiving coins thrown by a user, a distinction sensor for distinguishing counterfeit coins and genuine coins from coins thrown in the hopper and identifying kinds of the coins, a counting device for counting coins thrown in the hopper to calculate an amount of the coins when the genuine coins are distinguished by the distinction sensor, a counterfeit coin discharging device for discharging the counterfeit coins to return to the user when the counterfeit coins are distinguished by the distinction sensor, a temporary holding device for temporarily holding the coins thrown in the hopper in a state where the user can visually confirm the coins from a front side of the collector until a procedure of at least a next automobile is finished, and a device for moving down a holding portion of the temporary holding device stepwise to drop the coins held in a lowermost holding portion into a cashbox so that the procedure of the next automobile can be made when an amount of coins counted by the counting device exceeds a set value.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2136891 (1938-11-01), Rockola
patent: 3930512 (1976-01-01), Woodland
patent: 4475564 (1984-10-01), Koester et al.

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