Coin payout device
US5679070A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 27, 1995 |
| Grant date | Oct 21, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 27, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07D1/00
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A coin payout device that has been improved such that a coin jam will be automatically dislodged in the event that a coin jam occurs, and there will be no problem of overpayment. When coin payout is performed by the forward rotation of a coin payout motor (40), a coin payout controller (80) detects the occurrence of a coin jam from the operational circumstances of a carrier switch (60) up to the time when a first timer (81) runs out, and determines whether the reverse rotation of the coin payout motor (40) would cause a problem based on the current state of the carrier switch (60), so that the coin payout motor (40) is reversed and the coin jam dislodged only when no problem will be caused.
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