Device for conveying separate objects, especially coins

A method for conveying objects in a horizontal and/or a vertical and/or an oblique direction, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a guideway;
• providing a conveying arm with a support surface spaced from said guideway and having an angled portion at a coin intake area and a transport portion;
• using a conveyor transport belt running on said conveying arm with a transport region defined by said transport portion of said support surface providing a distance between a strand of said transport belt facing the guideway and said guideway that is smaller than the smallest height of the objects above said guideway and with an angled region defined by an angled portion of the guideway extending from an intake to said transport portion with said angled portion at said intake defining an intake distance from the conveyor transport belt to said guideway that is greater than a smallest height of the objects above said guideway and said angle portion defining a continuously decreasing distance from said intake distance to said transportation distance between said intake and said transport portion, said step of using the conveyor including
• grasping the objects with the strand facing said guideway and conveying the objects on said guideway,
• providing that the static friction and/or sliding friction forces between the objects and the strand are greater than the static friction and/or sliding friction forces between the objects and the guideway,
• providing said transport belt as a lamella belt with said strand of said lamella belt facing said guideway,
• guiding said lamella belt over an entire longitudinal extension of said conveying arm with said lamella tips pointing toward said guideway spaced a lamella tip distance from said guideway which is smaller than the smallest height of an object above said guideway.

A device for conveying separate disk-shaped objects, the device comprising:

• a guideway;
• a conveying arm with a support surface spaced from said guideway and having an angled portion at a coin intake area and a transport portion;
• a conveyor lamella belt running on said conveying arm, static friction and/or sliding friction forces between the disk-shaped objects and a strand of said lamella belt facing said guideway being greater than static friction and/or sliding friction forces between the disk-shaped objects and the guideway, said strand of said lamella belt facing said guideway being guided over said conveying arm and having lamella with lamella tips pointing toward said guideway and with the position of said support surface relative to said guideway at said transport portion defining a transportation distance from said lamella tips to said guideway which is smaller than a smallest height of the disk-shaped objects above said guideway wherein the disk-shaped objects can be grasped by said strand facing said guideway and can be conveyed on said guideway and with said angled portion extending from an intake to said transport portion with said angled portion at said intake defining an intake distance from said lamella tips to said guideway that is greater than a smallest height of the disk-shaped objects above said guideway and said angle portion defining a continuously decreasing distance from said intake distance to said transportation distance between said intake and said transport portion.