Coin assorter and coin inputting device

A coin receiving system for sorting coins of at least three denominations and executing a money receiving management for the coins, the coin receiving system comprising:

• presorting means for broadly sorting the coins by size into those of at least two groups;
• coin identifying means for identifying the coins of each of the groups formed by broadly sorting the coins by the presorting means;
• rejecting means for rejecting coins that could not be identified by the coin identifying means;
• main sorting means for sorting, by denomination, the coins of the respective groups identified by the coin identifying means;
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• money receiving means for counting the amount of money represented by the coins identified by the coin identifying means, to receive the money.

A coin sorting apparatus comprising:

• a stationary member provided with a central coin-feed opening;
• and
• a rotary disk supported for rotation, disposed under the stationary member and being closely adjacent to the lower surface of the stationary member;
• the coin sorting apparatus being constructed such that coins fed into the coin-feed opening of the stationary member slide along the lower surface of the stationary member as the rotary disk rotates,
• wherein the stationary member is provided with guide structures for selectively guiding coins sliding along the lower surface thereof, according to the diameters of the coins, and
• the guide structures has a coin passage formed in the lower surface of the stationary member and having a radial inner edge portion configured to engage outer edges of all the coins, and at least one coin-sorting guide,
• the coin-sorting guide having:
• a step formed such that a peripheral part of each of coins having diameters greater than a reference diameter run up onto the step, with the outer edge thereof engaging the radial inner edge portion of the coin passage;
• and
• an ejecting passage for guiding the coin that has run up onto the step and ejecting the same coin outside the stationary member.

A coin sorting apparatus comprising:

• a stationary member provided with a central coin-feed opening;
• and
• a rotary disk supported for rotation, disposed under the stationary member closely adjacent to the lower surface of the stationary member, and having a disk body and a resilient member attached to an upper surface of the disk body;
• the coin sorting apparatus being constructed such that coins fed into the coin-feed opening of the stationary member slide along the lower surface of the stationary member as the rotary disk rotates,
• wherein the stationary member is provided with guide structures for selectively guiding coins sliding along the lower surface thereof, according to their diameters, and
• the resilient member of the rotary disk has a urethane rubber layer having a surface provided with a plurality of radial grooves.

A coin sorting apparatus comprising:

• a passage member having a substantially horizontal passage surface and provided with an ejecting hole;
• a guide member extended on the passage surface of the passage member to guide coins along the passage surface from the upstream side toward the downstream side of the passage member;
• a conveyor belt extended so as to hold coins together with the passage surface of the passage member to convey coins along the guide member from an upstream side toward a downstream side of the passage member;
• and
• a support roller disposed under the ejecting hole opposite to the conveyor belt;
• wherein the ejecting hole of the passage member is contiguous with the guide member and has a guiding side wall extending obliquely away from the guide member toward the downstream side of the passage member, and
• the support roller is adapted to be turned between a coin-passing position where the upper end thereof is at a level not lower than that of the upper edge of the guiding side wall, and a coin-ejecting position where the upper end thereof is at a level lower than that of the upper edge of the guiding side wall.

A coin receiving system comprising:

• coin feed means for feeding mixed coins including new coins of a new currency unit and old coins of an old currency unit one by one;
• coin identifying means for identifying the coins fed by the coin feed means by denomination;
• a new coin holding unit for temporarily holding the new coins;
• an old coin holding unit for temporarily holding old coins;
• a sorting means for sorting the new coins from the old coins and delivering the new coins to the new coin holding unit and the old coins to the old coin holding unit;
• a new coin storing unit for storing the new coins received from the new coin holding unit;
• an old coin storing unit for storing the old coins received from the old coin holding unit;
• counting means for counting a total amount of money in the new currency unit and a total amount of money in the old currency unit, on the basis of results of identification by the coin identifying means;
• arithmetic means for converting the total amount of money in the old currency unit into a converted amount of money as a corresponding total amount of money in the new currency unit, by using a predetermined exchange rate, and calculating a sum total amount of money in the new currency unit by adding the total amount of money in the new currency unit and the converted amount of money together;
• display means for displaying information of the total amount of money in the new currency unit, the total amount of money in the old currency unit, the converted amount of money, and the sum total amount of money in the new currency unit;
• accepting-instruction means for giving an accepting instruction to receive money according to the information displayed by the display means;
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• money receiving means for storing the new and old coins that have been temporarily reserved in the new and old coin holding units, in the new and old coin storing units, respectively, in response to the accepting instruction provided by the accepting-instruction means, and receiving money for the sum total amount of money in the new currency unit.