Coin handling apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10580248-B2
Application number	US-201815988203-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2018
Priority date	May 24, 2017
Publication date	Mar 3, 2020
Grant date	Mar 3, 2020

Abstract

There is provided a coin handling apparatus capable of reducing the occurrence of failure caused by a foreign material. A coin handling apparatus includes a coin inlet unit into which coins are put, a coin receiving unit that receives the coins put into the coin inlet unit, a coin discharge unit to which the coins are discharged, and a foreign material discharge chute which is connected to the coin inlet unit and the coin discharge unit and along which a foreign material put into the coin inlet unit is discharged to the coin discharge unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A coin handling apparatus, comprising:
a coin inlet unit into which coins are put;
a coin receiving unit that receives the coins put into the coin inlet unit;
a coin discharge unit to which the coins are discharged; and
a foreign material discharge chute which is connected to the coin inlet unit and the coin discharge unit and along which a foreign material is discharged to the coin discharge unit, the foreign material having been put into the coin inlet unit,
wherein the coin receiving unit includes a discharge port through which the foreign material having entered the coin receiving unit is discharged, and
the foreign material discharged through the discharge port of the coin receiving unit is discharged to the coin discharge unit.

2. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the coin inlet unit includes one or more foreign material discharge holes each of which causes the foreign material to drop into the foreign material discharge chute.

3. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the foreign material discharge chute is at least partly inclined.

4. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the foreign material discharge chute has a curved shape.

5. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the foreign material discharge chute has a shape at least a part of which is folded back.

6. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein at least one of the foreign material discharge holes is provided above the coin receiving unit so as to overlap with the coin receiving unit in a plan view, and
at least a part of the foreign material discharge chute has a shape that inclines along the coin receiving unit.

7. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein at least one of the foreign material discharge holes does not overlap with the coin receiving unit in a plan view.

8. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the one or more foreign material discharge holes are formed so as not to allow a smallest coin handled by the apparatus to pass through.

9. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the one or more foreign material discharge holes are formed on an upstream side of a coin inlet through which the coins are taken into the apparatus.

10. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the foreign material discharge chute has a structure that causes the foreign material to vertically drop from the coin inlet unit to the coin discharge unit.

11. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the coin receiving unit includes a feeding disk that feeds the coins received via the coin inlet unit, and
the feeding disk is an inclining disk that is rotatable about an axis that is inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal direction.

12. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the coin receiving unit includes:
a feeding disk that feeds the coins accepted via the coin inlet unit,
a classification transport path that sorts and transports the coins fed by the feeding disk, and
a transport member that transports the coins along the classification transport path.

13. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 12 ,
wherein the classification transport path is formed in a circular shape, and
the feeding disk is disposed inside the classification transport path.

14. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the coin receiving unit includes an auxiliary chute along which the foreign material discharged through the discharge port is discharged to the coin discharge unit.

15. The coin handling apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the foreign material discharge chute includes a blocking member that blocks the foreign material.

Assignees

• Glory Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Sugahara Kazuma
• Takeuchi Masato

Classifications

• G07D1/00

  Coin dispensers (devices delivering paper currency G07D11/00) · CPC title

• G07F1/041 Primary

  with means, other than for testing currency, for dealing with inserted foreign matter, e.g. "stuffing", "stringing" or "salting" · CPC title

• G07D1/02

  giving change {(coin-actuated mechanisms in general G07F)} · CPC title

• G07D9/008

  Feeding coins from bulk · CPC title

• G07D2201/00

  Coin dispensers · CPC title