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US 10,580,248 B2Granted
Coin handling apparatus
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorsKazuma Sugahara, Masato Takeuchi
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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.
Claims15
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;
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- 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.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.