Cash drawer coin counter

A cash drawer coin counter comprising:

• a frame having opposite side walls for being positioned on opposite sides of a cash drawer, and a body fixed between the side walls for being positioned above the cash drawer;
• each side wall having rail means below said body;
• a release platform slidably engaged to said rail means and moveable between a first position at least partially covering a lower surface of the body, and a second position exposing the lower surface of the body;
• the body including a plurality of spaced, vertically extending open ended cylindrical chambers each for being aligned with a different coin compartment of the cash drawer and each having a front access slot through a front wall of said body, each chamber being of a diameter for receiving one denomination of coins to be stacked above the platform with the platform in its first position, a vertical scale adjacent each slot of each chamber for indicating a currency total of coins stacked in each chamber, each chamber having an upper open end extending through an upper surface of said body and ending in a flared funnel converging into the upper open end of each chamber for facilitating loading of each chamber with coins;
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• each side wall having a lower portion extending below said rail means with a vertical dimension sufficient to maintain the body and the platform above cash compartments in the cash drawer.

A method of loading coin compartments of a cash drawer, the coin compartments being spaced across a width of the cash drawer, comprising:

• positioning a frame over the coin compartments, the frame having opposite side walls on opposite sides of the cash drawer and a body fixed between the side walls and spanning the width of the cash drawer with a vertically extending open ended cylindrical coin chamber positioned in alignment above each coin compartment, each for receiving a stack of coins for deposition into a respective coin compartment, the frame including a slidable release platform slidably mounted between the side walls, and moveable between a first position covering lower open ends of the coin chambers and a second position exposing lower open ends of the coin chambers to allow coins in the coin chambers to drop into the coin compartments;
• filling each coin compartment with coins of a selected denomination to a selected height in each coin compartment;
• reading an amount of coins in each coin compartment from markings on a surface of said body, adjacent a vertically extending slot in each body communicating with each coin chamber respectively;
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• once coins of selected denomination are loaded into each chamber to a selected amount, pulling the release platform from its first position to its second position to deposit the coins into their respective coin compartments.