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Coin transfer apparatus

US4474197A · kind A · utility

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13Claims
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Filing dateNov 29, 1982
Grant dateOct 2, 1984
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Expiry dateNov 29, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07D9/008
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An improved apparatus for transferring coins to a coin counting system, a coin selecting system or the like by way of a coin passage under centrifugal force caused by rotation of a rotary disc is disclosed. The improvement consists in that the rotary disc includes a first surface portion constituting an inside part thereof from which coins are displaced onto the coin passage one after another with a single line of arrangement maintained, a circular boundary wall defining the outer periphery of the first surface portion and having a height appreciably less than the thickness of the smallest coins to be transferred and a second surface portion extending outward of the circular boundary wall in the radial direction. A coin guiding member is disposed so as to allow the coins on the second surface portion to be displaced back onto the first surface portion while the rotary disc rotates.

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