Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including value accumulator for plural checks – Having solid state circuitry
Patent
1994-10-21
1997-01-21
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including value accumulator for plural checks
Having solid state circuitry
G07D 106
Patent
active
055952771
ABSTRACT:
A device and method for controlling change payout from a plurality of coin tubes of a vending machine, each of which plurality of coin tubes has a particular coin type stored therein, including a processor for processing data and controlling vend operations and counters for maintaining a count of the coins in each of the plurality of coin tubes, the processor programmed to determine the amount of change payback and whether a particular coin type available for payout is desired to be saved and the identity of such coin type, and further programmed to generate a payout array in which the number of coins of the coin type desired to be saved has been reduced from the number that would otherwise be specified and the number of coins of other coin types are adjusted accordingly.
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Hoormann Ronald A.
Petty Douglas M.
Bartuska F. J.
Coin Acceptors, Inc.
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