Device for verifying the conformity of and for routing objects inserted in a dispenser
AssigneeSchlumberger Industries
InventorJean-Pascal Delay
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Abstract
A device for verifying the conformity of objects, in the nature of coins inserted as payment in a dispenser of products or services through an opening, and for directing the objects toward means for processing the same. The device is of the type comprising a positioning member with a receptacle adapted to receive the object, wherein the member is movable between a first position in which the receptacle communicates with the opening, access to the processing means then being blocked, and a second position in which the receptacle communicates with the processing means, the opening then being blocked.
Claims12
A device for verifying the conformity of objects inserted through an opening as payment in a dispenser that dispenses at least one of a product and a service, and for directing the objects toward means for processing the objects, the device comprising:
- means for verifying the conformity of objects before being directed to the processing means;
- directing means, responsive to the verifying means, and including a positioning member with a receptacle adapted to receive the objects, said member being movable between a first position in which said receptacle communicates with said opening, access to the processing means then being blocked, and a second position in which said receptacle communicates with said processing means, the opening then being blocked;
- means for ejecting non-conforming objects;
- wherein said member is movable to put said receptacle in communicates with either said processing means or with said means for ejecting non-conforming objects;
- and
- wherein the directing means is adapted to feed said objects toward said processing means substantially without loss of height.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.