Coin diverter
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorsMasato Takeuchi, Eisei Nishida
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Abstract
There is provided a coin diverter that allows increase in the number of coin diversion directions and reduction in the size of a coin handling apparatus. The coin diverter includes a diverter member that diverts a coin from a transport path and a driver that changes the state of the diverter member to any of a first state in which the diverter member leads the coin toward the downstream side of the transport path, a second state in which the diverter member leads the coin in a first direction in which the coin drops from the transport path, and a third state in which the diverter member leads the coin in a second direction different from the direction toward the downstream side of the transport path and the first direction.
Claims7
A coin diverter that diverts a coin transport direction, comprising:
- a first member that pivots and forms a bottom surface and a first side surface of a transport path, the first member being provided to guide a coin in contact with the bottom surface to a downstream direction of the transport path;
- a second member that pivots and forms a second side surface, facing to the first side surface, of the transport path;
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- a driver that diverts the coin transport direction in a total of three or more directions, including the downstream direction and at least two directions different from the downstream direction, by moving the first member and the second member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.