Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including means to test validity of check – By testing material composition
Patent
1998-07-01
2000-05-09
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including means to test validity of check
By testing material composition
G07D 500
Patent
active
060590890
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
As expressed in the title of the present specification, the following invention consists of a coin discriminating system, being of the type of systems that are built in the coin selectors to validate the coins upon the same passing through a rolling channel, accepting the validated coins as good ones and rejecting the counterfeit coins, in such a way that by means of the proposed discriminating system, discrimination of all the counterfeit coins in terms of the material and dimensions with which they have been made is sought.
Hence, the coin discriminating system is based on inclusion of the same in the through channel for all the coins through the selector, made in such a way that all the coins inserted are subjected to the system so that in terms of the material and dimensions in which they are made they are accepted or rejected, in accordance with a comparison with the parameters obtained with those stored in the memory of the electronic device that it includes, just as it is conventionally carried out.
In this way, just as it conventionally happens in the measurement of the different parameters, with other validation systems, the data obtained are compared with those stored in the memory of the system, in such a way that if the obtained parameters coincide with any of the stored ones, the coin is accepted and on the contrary, the coin is rejected.
Hence, there are different systems by means of which different parameters of the coins inserted in the selector for their validation, such as diameter, section, weight and alloy, are obtained.
FIELD OF APPLICATION
The coin discriminating system that is presented, is useful for inclusion in all types of coin selectors used in the validation of coins and that are assembled in all types of automatic vending machines, that operate by inserting coins, in recreational prize machines, and in public telephones, as well as in all those apparatus or machines that may be temporarily operated by a certain amount of money.
Hence, the coin discriminating system may be built in selectors that are particularly assembled in tobacco vending machines, in cold drink and hot drink vending machines, vending machines in general, recreational prize machines and in selectors coupled, for example, to television sets so that they operate temporarily in terms of the inserted coins.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Given that progressively there are more and more machines and apparatus that operate automatically by means of inserting coins, there is a large number of devices and systems used to recognize inserted coins in order to prevent acceptance of counterfeit ones.
Hence, the selection or validation of coins is done by means of a selector that is assembled in relation to the coin slot. It may have other elements such as coin deposits and coin returns, in such a way that the validation of the coins is as reliable as possible, but it also happens that the way to make "counterfeit coins" is inexpensive and more and more sophisticated and therefore, validating systems must be continuously improved in order to fight against the new forms of counterfeiting.
Among the existing mechanisms for selecting and validating coins, we can cite Patent of Invention P8602773, Utility Models 283634, 291035 and 291036, as well as Patent of Invention P9002145 and its Certificate of Addition P9200624, wherein different coin selecting mechanisms are presented and described.
Patent of Invention P8602773 claims an "electronic coin selector", which is useful in those automatic vending machines, which are coin-operated, in such a way that the same is provided with a solenoid without a ferromagnetic core, creating the magnetic field in vacuo and through whose core the coins to be validated pass, disturbing the built-in oscillator, said disturbance being detected by computer means and these disturbances being different in each coin, which collaborates with the sensor to determine the alloy, being able to cover a larger number of coins selected according to their alloy.
Utility Model no.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4577744 (1986-03-01), Doucet
Bartuska F. J.
Inversiones Taconera, S.L.
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