Disc-type coin sorter with movable bearing surface

Details Disc-type coin sorter with movable bearing surface Disc-type coin sorter with movable bearing surface

1991-06-21

1993-03-30

Bartuska, F. J.

Coin handling

Assorter

Smallest first

453 57, G07D 300

Patent

active

051979195

ABSTRACT:
A disc-type coin sorter for sorting coin mixtures which include at least one coin denomination made of a soft metal such as aluminum, the sorter has a rotatable disc having a resilient top surface, a motor for rotating the disc, a stationary sorting head having a lower surface positioned over and closely adjacent to the upper surface of the disc and having an opening in the central region thereof for feeding coins between the opposed surfaces of the disc and sorting head, the lower surface of the sorting head being contoured to align the coins in a single file and single layer of coins, and then sorting the coins according to their respective sizes, the contoured lower surface having at least one region for pressing the soft-metal coins into the resilient pad, and at least one rotatable bearing member mounted in the pressing region of the sorting head for engaging soft-metal coins passing thereunder so as to provide a rotatable bearing surface which eliminates or reduces galling of the soft metal of the coin on that region of the sorting head.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3757805 (1973-09-01), Puhahn et al.
patent: 4564036 (1986-01-01), Ristvedt

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