Automatic toll receiving apparatus

In a automatic toll receiving apparatus including a large hopper into which coins are thrown by a driver sitting on a seat in an automotive vehicle, coin selecting means for determining whether the thrown coins are true coins or false coins and discriminating means for discriminating different types of coins, counting means following said selecting means for counting a value of the coins which are determined as true coins by said selecting means, returning means for returning to the driver the coins which are determined as false coins by said coin selecting means and temporary coin holding means for temporarily holding the received coins, the improvement wherein;

• said temporary coin holding means comprises a first coin holding portion for a present vehicle and a second coin holding portion for a preceding vehicle, said second coin holding portion being located below said first coin holding means,
• the first coin holding portion and the second coin holding portion comprising an inclined passage, respectively, of which width and height are dimensioned equal to a thickness and a diameter of a largest coin among a number of coins passing therethrough,
• a side wall of said passage is made of transparent material so as to allow coins held in the passage to be visually confirmed from outside of said passage,
• the first coin holding portion includes a bottom which comprises a rod-shaped elongated partition adapted to be displaced in a direction transverse to the passage so that on displacement of said partition the coins in the first coin holding portion fall down into the second coin holding portion, and
• the second coin holding portion includes a bottom which comprises a rod-shaped elongated partition adapted to be displaced in the transverse direction of the passage so that on displacement of said partition the coins in the second coin holding portion fall down into a safe.