Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including specific check passageway
Patent
1996-11-26
1999-06-15
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including specific check passageway
194352, G07F 104, G07F 1144
Patent
active
059112999
ABSTRACT:
An aerobatic coin vending machine where the coin travels an aerobatic path under the influence of gravity after being fed into the coin feed mechanism. The coin first drops into a pre-chute with a relatively wide mouth for catching the coin. The pre-chute then drops the coin into the mouth of a main chute having a pair of first and second track portions. The coin rolls down the first track portion in one axial direction of the coin and then drops into the second track portion, down which it rolls in the other axial direction of the coin. The coin then drops out of the coin outlet of the main chute and onto a trackless and endless structure or vortex structure where the coin rolls in a spiral. Finally, the coin falls into a coin container. The main chute and vortex structure are disposed in the vending machine behind a transparent sidewall of the vending machine so that the coin aerobatics may be observed. An opaque inclined piece between the outlet of the vortex and the coin container prevents the interior of the coin container from being viewed through the transparent sidewall. The vortex structure is formed of a clear material and a design or color is applied to a surface of the vortex structure opposite of the surface on which the coin rolls such that the aesthetic surface is spared the effects of the dirty, cutting effects of a fluted coin such as a quarter. A method of collecting coins includes rolling a coin down track and trackless portions and rolling the coin in opposite axial directions of the coin.
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Aspnes Ronald W.
Blundy Russell W.
Bartuska F. J.
GGB Tech., Inc.
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