Coin supplying apparatus of a coin separator
AssigneeRoyal Sovereign Corp.
InventorTakwan Lim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus to prevent malfunctions or sorting errors when supplying coins to coin separation holes in a coin separator. The coin separator includes a coin carrier vessel with a coin supply control vessel that can successively supply a small quantity of coins, and an automatic coin release mechanism that causes the above coin carrier vessel to rotate in the reverse direction instantaneously to prevent malfunction and then rotate in the normal direction again resume normal coin separation operations. The automatic coin release mechanism operates in response to any coin that gets caught in the coin carrier vessel during the operation of coin separation that causes the operation to come to a stop.
Claims9
A coin supply apparatus of a coin separator, said coin separator including a base having a drive means, a rotatable shaft connected to said drive means, and a plurality of coin separation holes of varying sizes at a radial distance from said shaft, wherein said coin supply apparatus comprises:
- a carrier vessel mounted for rotation on said shaft;
- a gear mounted on said shaft, said gear including a plurality of rounded teeth;
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- a stopper resiliently mounted adjacent said gear and shaped so as to interact with said teeth to allow rotation in an operation direction and limit rotation in a direction opposite of said operation direction,
- wherein said drive means is auto-reversing so as to reverse a rotation direction of said shaft in response to rotational interference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.