Disk feeding device
AssigneeAsahi Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasayoshi Umeda
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Abstract
Provided are a holding body that holds a guide roller and locking position changing means for changing a locking position of the holding body with respect to a base body along a track in a circumferential direction centered on a rotation axis of a rotary disk, the locking position changing means including a first tooth row and a second tooth row, and the like that mesh with each other. In the configuration, since a feeding roller with which a coin collides is smoothly moved in a forward movement direction regardless of a distance between the feeding roller and a guide roller (regardless of a size of the coin), occurrence of the coin jam due to a movement failure of the feeding roller can be suppressed.
Claims7
A disk feeding device including:
- a base body;
- a hopper head that stores a disk;
- a rotary disk that is disposed in the base body and is rotatable;
- a feeding passage that is provided in the base body and through which the disk fed toward an outside of the disk feeding device passes;
- and
- a guide roller and a feeding member that face each other via the feeding passage,
- the rotary disk including a circular through hole that penetrates in a rotation axis direction and a push protrusion that pushes the disk in a rotation direction to move the disk, and moving the disk that is sent to the rotary disk from the hopper head and passes through the through hole with the push protrusion in the rotation direction,
- the guide roller guiding the disk moved to a predetermined position of the rotation direction toward the feeding passage,
- the feeding member being capable of reciprocating in a direction in which a distance from the guide roller is changed, and feeding the disk pinched between the feeding member and the guide roller by a biasing force of a biasing member while being biased toward the guide roller by the biasing member, the disk feeding device comprising:
- a holder that holds the guide roller;
- a first lock for changing a locking position of the holder with respect to the base body along a track in a circumferential direction centered on the rotation axis;
- regulation pins that guide the disk toward the feeding passage in a radial direction while coming into contact with the disk pushed by the push protrusion and moved in the rotation direction to regulate a movement of the disk in the rotation direction;
- a pin bracket that holds the regulation pins;
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- a second lock for changing a locking position of the pin bracket with respect to the base body along a track in a circumferential direction centered on the rotation axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.