Coin assorter
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
InventorsKenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi
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Abstract
A coin assorter (1), wherein a particular coin route (32) having a coin retaining mechanism (100) disposed therein is formed, meanderingly generally in S-shape, on the upstream side of the coin retaining mechanism (100) to set longer the route length of the particular coin route (32) having the coin retaining mechanism (100) disposed therein in order to increase the number of coins (C) temporarily retained in the route length.
Claims4
A coin assorter comprising coin discrimination means for determining whether inserted coins are genuine or false and denomination of genuine coins;
- a plurality of denomination distributing means for distributing by denomination coins determined as genuine into respective coin routes;
- and coin retaining means provided at downstream in the respective coin routes, for temporarily retaining the coins within the respective coin routes into which the coins are distributed, characterised in that:
- said respective coin routes to which said coin retaining means is provided is curved substantially in an S-shape upstream from said coin retaining means, whereby the length of said respective coin routes to which said coin retaining means is provided is set to be long, so that a large number of coins can be temporarily retained therein.
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