Apparatus for the payout of coins from a pair of neighbouring coin tubes

US8007350B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• National Rejectors, Inc. GmbH · US

Inventors

• Dieter Wenskus · Beckdorf, DE
• Torsten Schneider · Buxtehude, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 2, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2011
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07D1/00
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus for the payout of coins from a pair of neighbouring coin tubes, in which one stack of coins at a time is supported on the bottom of a coin tube, with a payout disc below the coin tubes, which is rotatably mounted around an axis parallel to the axis of the coin tubes and which has a payout element on the side facing the coin tubes, which is moved along a curved slit in the bottom of the respective coin tube in an angular rotation of the payout disc, in order to capture the respective lowermost coin and to push it out, with an electric drive motor for the payout disc and a control device, which triggers the drive motor such that departing from a rest position, the payout disc is rotated at option about a limited rotational angle up to a final position, and is consecutively turned back into the rest position, wherein the payout disc has an extension in the rotational direction by which the stack of coins rests on the payout element in the final position of the payout disc, characterised in that on the lower side of the payout disc a stopper element is provided, which co-operates near the final positions with one dead stop at a time, the payout disc has a first mark on the…