Machine for sorting, packaging and dispensing of coins
OwnerChristian J. Duplessyinventor
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Abstract
A coin counter, dispenser and packaging device in which the coins pass downwardly along a ramp whose holes are of gradually increasing diameter downwardly and are defined by plates whose portions remote from a wall of a ramp are set back slightly more than the diameter of the coins adapted to pass through the holes so that the coins ride along this wall. Below the tubes in which the coins are collected beneath the ramp the support bars are provided which can be actuated to drop stacks of coins into sleeves with transparent sacks for packaging the coins. When the dispensing tray is fixed in place, these support bars are pressed back and the stacks are freed to rest upon the dispensing tray and ejector bars can be operated to discharge the coins one by one.
Claims7
A coin-sorting, packaging and dispensing machine, comprising:
- a support;
- a downwardly inclined ramp on said support having an outer edge and an inner edge;
- means including a plurality of sorting plates secured on said ramp at spaced-apart locations therealong defining respective holes of successively increasing diameter and positioned so that an edge of a hole remote from said outer wall is slightly greater than the diameter of a coin adapted to pass through said hole;
- means for feeding coins to said ramp at an upper end thereof whereby said coins slide down said ramp along said wall and tumble through respective holes;
- respective downwardly open collecting tubes registering with said holes below said ramp for accumulating stacks of coins of the size corresponding to the size of the respective hole;
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- a U-section channel having a front flange and a rear flange, said bar having a downwardly extending finger enabling the displacement thereon rearwardly through openings provided in said flanges and an upstanding lug, said support being formed with a respective seat beneath each tube for receiving a guide sleeve over which a transparent foil sack is drawn, said sleeve, upon being positioned below the respective stack, pressing a respective finger and support bar back to free a respective stack of coins whereby said sleeve guides said coins into the respective sack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.