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Device for testing the flatness, size and shape of coin-tokens

US4014424A · kind A · utility

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7References
19Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 9, 1975
Grant dateMar 29, 1977
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 9, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07D5/02
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A coin testing device includes one or more coin-receptive slots of specific depth, height and width for testing the flatness, thickness and diameter of like, "on-edge" coin-tokens which pass therethrough, and a rearwardly declining deck projecting from the slots for receiving and advancing acceptable coin-tokens, wherein a guide member is disposed upwardly from and substantially parallel to the deck for engaging the peripheral edge adjacent face of acceptable coin-tokens for testing the peripheral configuration thereof, wherein ultimately accepted coin-tokens are advanced across the deck and are guided by the guide member into coin-receptive discharge apertures which are disposed at substantially right angles to the slots.

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