Coin handling – Assorter
Patent
1994-06-27
1996-07-23
Bartuska, F. J.
Coin handling
Assorter
453 21, G07D 314
Patent
active
055384692
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a coin treatment apparatus, used in various apparatuses operated by coins, such as automatic vending machines and public telephones. More particularly the coin treatment apparatus of the present invention selects various coins on the basis of their currency units with different diameters, transfers them into a receiving space, and discharges those stored in the receiving space into a coin receiving box. This receiving box serves as another receiving space when a user finishes use of the apparatus.
2. Description of Related Art
Generally, a coin treatment apparatus sorts out the coins into each currency unit, selects them on the basis of the sorted information, and transfers them into a coin receiving space. At the bottom of the coin receiving space, a discharge plate for discharging a change and a path with a larger diameter than that of the coin to be received into the coin receiving space are formed. Therefore, the coins received in the receiving space are discharged through the path according to the linear movement of the discharge plate.
However, such conventional coin treatment apparatuses have complicated constructions because the mechanisms for selecting the coins on the basis of their currency units, sorting the correct coins from the incorrect coins, and transferring the selected coins to the receiving space, are installed and operate independently of each other. Therefore, the disadvantages with these conventional coin treatment apparatuses is that they frequently malfunction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a coin treatment apparatus, which selects coins on the basis of each currency unit, transfers the coins to the corresponding receiving space, and collects the coins stored in the receiving space into another receiving box at the same time, in order to .easily collect the coins.
For achieving the above objective, various gates are installed, as many as the number of currency units, the gates are changed in the vertical or horizontal direction to select the coins by each currency unit according to the coin discrimination information and to transfer the coins to the corresponding receiving space, and paths through which the coins are moved are formed on one side of an arbitrary gate among the gates. Therefore, the coins of the smaller diameter among the coins passing through the paths fall down to the corresponding receiving space of each currency unit so that the remaining coins are selected again.
Moreover, a removing plate which moves in the opposite direction to that of a discharge plate discharging the coins is installed at the bottom of the discharge plate. Therefore, all the coins stored in various receiving spaces are removed at the same time and fall down to another receiving box.
According to the present invention, since the selection and transfer of the coins can simultaneously be performed, the coin treatment apparatus can be simplified so that the breakdown of the apparatus and the occurrence of the malfunction is reduced. Additionally, since the removing plate performs linear reciprocating motion, all the coins stored in the receiving containers are simultaneously removed to another receiving box so that the collection of the coins is easily made.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
For fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a totally exploded perspective view of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a front view of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a selection box of FIG. 1,
FIG. 4A is a front view of the selection box illustrating a selection procedure for a coin,
FIG. 4B is a detailed perspective view of part "A" of FIG. 4A,
FIG. 4C is a sectional view taken along line B--B of FIG. 4A,
FIG. 5A is a front view of the selection box illustrating a selection procedure for another coin
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Jin Byung W.
Joo Woon Y.
Kim Eun H.
Kwon Soon H.
Bartuska F. J.
Korea Telecommunication Authority
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