Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including specific check passageway – And movable check diverter
Patent
1992-05-18
1994-10-04
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including specific check passageway
And movable check diverter
221 84, 453 56, G07D 100
Patent
active
053517997
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an automatic machine coin store, i.e., a store for machines capable upon insertion of a number of coins of providing a product or service, such store being able to house such coins for the time being before ultimately sending the same to the machine's collector box, or returning the same to the user depending on whether or not the machine supplies the product or service at issue.
Modern automatic machines are in addition to an electronic coin selector provided with a programme capable of counting the inserted coins to establish a user "credit" in order to determine refund or change required upon provision of the product or service by the machine, and as appropriate in order to return the full sum of money inserted in the machine in the event that the latter is unable, having run out of the product or otherwise, to suitably meet the request being made to it.
In such events, for instance when the product runs out, the money is returned by the refunders provided for change, wherein the coins worth most are not retained inasmuch as these need never be returned, and thus after a longer or shorter time interval in this position, the machine shall be unable to return any monies unless the product is first restocked or the relevant fault is put right.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The temporary coin store, subject of the invention, fully solves these problems, inasmuch as in any of the above events it refunds to each user exactly the same coins inserted by the latter, and thus the faulty position can be endlessly maintained without this meaning that the users risk losing their money.
More specifically, and in order to achieve the above objects, the store is made up of a gear-tooth belt, disposed between two end cogwheels, a driving cogwheel and a return cogwheel, attached to the belt including a number of blades, whose width varies according to the maximum diameter of the coins to be inserted, the whole set being disposed within a vertically elongate housing wherein the cogwheels are in a vertical alignment. A window is provided at the upper end of the housing for access of the coins, which drop one by one upon the dihedral constituted by the pair of blades which occupy the upper end position within the device at that time.
The driving cogwheel or block is fitted with a motor-reducer mounted on the outside of the housing, the motor-reducer being an impulse motor such that in each of its impulses, a blade moves forward in regard to the upper window for coin insertion, the motor being capable of turning in either direction.
Finally, and to supplement the above structure, the lower end of the housing has two opposite outlet windows in order that when the belt turns in a given direction, the coins held between the blades will drop outside the housing through one of such windows and through the other when they turn in the opposite direction.
Naturally, with this structure the device can gradually store all the coins inserted by the one user and in the event of the machine providing the product or service requested, will subsequently turn to empty the coins towards the collector box, whilst in the event of the machine being unable to meet the request made, for any reason, the belt will turn in the opposite direction and evacuation will be through the window connected to the coin return set.
The number of blades in the belt will obviously suffice for the maximum number of coins that could foreseeably be inserted to be housed for the time being.
In another more simplified embodiment of the invention, the gear-tooth belt together with the number of blades attached thereto is replaced by a simple rotatory partition attached to the output shaft of the motor-reducer, acting as a platform to collect the group of coins and which will unload toward either outlet window depending on the direction of rotation of the motor, specifically depending upon whether the coins are to be sent to the machine's collector box or to be returned to the user.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE D
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Azkoyen Industrial S.A.
Bartuska F. J.
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