Package making – Selective or alternate supply of plural covers and/or plural...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-30
2002-05-14
Kim, Eugene (Department: 3721)
Package making
Selective or alternate supply of plural covers and/or plural...
C053S211000, C053S212000, C053S052000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06385944
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a coin packaging apparatus configured to package a stack of coins by winding packaging paper onto its side surface, and more particularly to a coin packaging apparatus using different kinds of packaging paper depending upon the sort or number of coins to be packaged.
FIG. 9
is a perspective view showing an outline of a conventional coin packaging apparatus.
The conventional coin packaging apparatus
100
shown in
FIG. 9
includes a coin insertion hopper
103
which opens to the top portion of a machine unit
102
. A first coin supply rotating plate
104
is driven to rotate to receive and supply coins inserted into the coin insertion hopper
103
. A second coin supply rotating plate
105
is driven to rotate to supply coins delivered from the first coin supply rotating plate
104
to have them sequentially processed one by one. A coin passage
106
extends substantially tangential to the second coin supply rotating plate
105
to perform separation, counting and other processing of coins supplied from the second coin supply rotating plate
105
. A coin stacking portion
107
is located at one end of the coin passage
106
to stack a predetermined number of coins into the form of a rod. Three packaging rollers
109
are located under the coin stacking portion
107
to receive a rod of stacked coins from the coin stacking portion
107
and to wind packaging paper
108
wider than the length of the rod of stacked coins onto the side surface of the rod of stacked coins. A paper feeding roller
112
supplies the packaging paper
108
. A cutter cuts the packaging paper
108
into a desired length. Folding heads
114
are located near the top and the bottom of the packaging roller
109
to fold and tightly press upper end lower ends of packaging paper
108
wound onto the side surface of the rod of stacked coins to make a packaged rod of coins. A packaged coin outlet
111
is located under part of the machine unit
102
to discharge packed rods of coins. Three packing rollers
109
and the folding heads
114
form a coin packaging portion
110
.
As apparent from the structure explained above, the conventional coin packaging apparatus
100
is configured to package each rod of stacked coins by activating three packing rollers
109
to wind the packaging paper
108
wider than the length of the rod of stacked coins onto the side surface of the rod of stacked coins, and by activating the folding heads
114
to fold and tightly press upper and lower ends of the packaging paper
108
. If the thickness of coins to be packaged varies among different kinds of coins, or the number of coins to be packaged as a single rod varies, the packing paper
108
is changed from a wrong one to a correct one having a width meeting the kind and number of coins undergoing the packaging process.
An invention of a coin packaging apparatus, intended to confirm whether predetermined packaging paper with a suitable width was not or was set upon replacement of packing paper, is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 113216-1996.
The coin packaging apparatus according to the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 1132161996 includes a packaging paper width detecting mechanism mounted for vertical movement near a packaging paper table supporting a roll of packaging paper thereon and having a packaging paper height detecting lever which can be put on the top surface of the packaging paper roll on the packaging paper table. A fold-and-press mechanism has a pair of fold-and-press heads vertically movable toward and away from each other between pause positions and fold-and-press positions to fold and press upper and lower ends of the packaging paper wound on stacked coins when they are moved to the fold-and-press positions. A coupling shaft is located between the packaging paper width detecting mechanism and the fold-and-press mechanism to vertically shift the pause position of the upper fold-and-press head in accordance with the height of the packaging paper height detecting lever. This coin packaging apparatus further includes a detector device provided in the fold-and-press machine to detect the relative distance between the fold-and-press heads and thereby detect the paper width of the packaging paper roll on the packaging paper table. An operational device is provided through which the type of coins corresponding to the packaging paper roll on the packaging paper table can be input. A memory stores a plurality of paper widths of packaging rolls for different types of coins as reference paper widths. An identify/control device identifies whether a particular packaging paper roll on the packaging paper table corresponds to the type of coins selected through the operational device by comparing the paper width of the packing paper roll detected by the detector device with one of the reference paper width in the memory intended for the selected type of coins. The identify/control device is configured to output an alarm when the paper width of the packaging paper roll detected by the detector device does not meet the reference paper width in the memory for the type of coins selected through the operational device. That is, the coin packaging apparatus according to the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 113216-1996 is configured to detect the paper width of the packaging paper, confirm whether the packaging paper corresponds to the selected type of coins, and output an alarm when the packaging paper does not meet the selected type of coins.
Coin packaging apparatuses of this type, however, are usually configured to simply output an alarm when any of various abnormal matters occur. Therefore, even when an alarm was output, an operator could not locate which type of abnormality was meant by the alarm. As a result, the operator was compelled to refer to operation manuals or check various points of the coin packaging apparatuses, and it took him much time to replace the packaging paper with predetermined packaging paper of a correct paper width and to actually package the coins.
Even in packaging apparatuses designed to indicate that the alarm means that the wrong packaging paper is set, there still remained the problem that operators had to locate the correct packaging paper, and often set another wrong packaging paper.
Moreover, when the packaging paper is not the correct one for the selected type of coins, the packaging paper should be immediately replaced. However, since the packaging paper was gripped by the packaging paper supply rollers, the packaging paper had to be forcibly pulled out to remove it, thus the apparatus was inconvenient for replacement of the packaging paper.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a coin packaging apparatus having a structure which makes it easy to recognize that the wrong packaging paper is set, if so, and to know the correct packaging paper, and also makes it easy to replace the packaging paper.
According to this invention, there is provided a coin packaging apparatus comprising: a setting device permitting an operation to set conditions of a packaging operation including a coin type and a unit number of coins per package, and to enter a command to start the packaging operation. A memory stores information including coin types and unit numbers of coins per package and recommended paper widths of packaging paper. A coin stacking device stacks coins of the set type and the set unit number of coins per package in the form of a rod. A paper supply device supplies packaging paper to be used for packaging the rod of coins stacked by the coin stacking device. A coin packaging device winds the packaging paper around the side surface of the rod of stacked coins and folds and presses upper and lower ends of said packaging paper to package the rod of stacked coins. A paper width detecting device detects the paper width of the packaging paper set on the paper supply device. A comparator compares the value of the detected paper wi
Kibihara Fumio
Sugahara Kazuma
Suzuki Masa-aki
Taniguchi Masanori
Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Kim Eugene
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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