Coin dispensing device with aligned hoppers
AssigneeAsahi Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Abe, Motoharu Kurosawa
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Abstract
A coin dispensing device provides a housing frame that can be mounted within a predetermined space within a machine that requires dispensing coins in more than one denomination. A plurality of coin hoppers for respectively different denominations of coins can be stacked in vertical alignment within the housing frame for dispensing the coins. A cover member can provide a common passageway connected to the coin hoppers. The coin hoppers can be slid out of the housing frame for servicing and slid back into the housing frame for engagement with a transmission assembly to permit selective driving of a coin hopper dispensing unit from a power source such as a single motor.
Claims20
A coin dispensing device comprising:
- at least a pair of coin hoppers, a coin dispensing unit in each coin hopper for dispensing a coin through an aperture;
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- a dispensing passageway that is operatively connected with each coin dispensing unit aperture to provide a common passageway for dispensed coins, the pair of coin hoppers are aligned in a lateral direction to provide a compact configuration with the respective aperture dispensing coins into the common passageway.
A coin dispensing device comprising:
- a housing member;
- a first coin hopper mounted in the housing member for a coin of a first denomination;
- a second coin hopper mounted in the housing member for a coin of a second denomination, the second coin hopper is aligned below the first coin hopper;
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- a dispensing passageway operatively connected to the first and second coin hopper for dispensing coins of both a first denomination and a second denomination and movable from the first and second hoppers to provide access.
A coin dispensing device for mounting within a machine that requires dispensing coins of more than one denomination to a user, comprising:
- a plurality of coin hoppers, each coin hopper having a rotary disc and structured to store coins in bulk and dispense a different denomination of coin;
- a housing frame for mounting the plurality of coin hoppers including a mounting member for each coin hopper that permits a sliding movement of each coin hopper out of the housing frame for servicing the respective coin hopper, wherein at least two of the plurality of coin hoppers are stacked in the housing frame in vertical alignment to conserve space;
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- a single driving assembly to selectively drive each rotary disc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.