COIN SLOPE

• US 20090127066A1
• Filed: 11/17/2008
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: KANEKO, Toshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,172,068 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 194/344
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 1/02 giving change coin-actuated mechanisms in general G07F
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/02 Change trays
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 1/048 with means for damping coin motion
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 5/24 with change-giving
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0018 Constructional details, e.g. of drawer, printing means, input means
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 193/01 Coin chute
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A sloping surface slopes downward. Longwise ribs are provided to be adjacent to each other on the sloping surface. The longwise ribs extend from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface. A diagonal rib diagonally crosses a direction orthogonal to a direction of a gravitational force on the sloping surface. The diagonal rib is not taller than the longwise rib.

Claims

1. A coin slope, comprising:

a sloping surface which slopes downward;

longwise ribs which are provided to be adjacent to each other on the sloping surface, and which extend from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface; and

a diagonal rib which diagonally crosses a direction orthogonal to a direction of a gravitational force on the sloping surface, and which is not taller than the longwise ribs.

2. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the diagonal ribs are provided to be adjacent to each other along the direction of the gravitational force on the sloping surface.

3. The coin slope according to claim 2, wherein each of the diagonal ribs forms an arrow pointing to the lower area of the sloping surface.

4. The coin slope according to claim 2, wherein the longwise ribs and the diagonal ribs are the same height.

5. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein the diagonal rib forms an arrow pointing to the lower area of the sloping surface.

6. The coin slope according to claim 5, wherein the longwise ribs and the diagonal rib are the same height.

7. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein the longwise ribs and the diagonal rib are the same height.

8. A coin slope, comprising:

a sloping surface which slopes downward;

longwise ribs which are provided to be adjacent to each other on the sloping surface, and which extend from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface; and

an interference member which is not taller than the longwise ribs and which comprises a slope connected to two adjacent longwise ribs.

9. A method comprising:

installing a coin ejecting machine which comprises a coin outlet through which a coin is ejected; and

installing a coin slope in a position to which a coin ejected through the coin outlet falls down, wherein the coin slope comprises;

a sloping surface which slopes downward;

longwise ribs which are provided to be adjacent to each other on the sloping surface, and which extend from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface; and

a diagonal rib which diagonally crosses a direction orthogonal to a direction of a gravitational force on the sloping surface, and which is not taller than the longwise ribs.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein a plurality of the diagonal ribs are provided to be adjacent to each other along the direction of the gravitational force on the sloping surface.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein each of the diagonal ribs forms an arrow pointing to the lower area of the sloping surface.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the longwise ribs and the diagonal ribs are the same height.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the diagonal rib forms an arrow pointing to the lower area of the sloping surface.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the longwise ribs and the diagonal rib are the same height.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the longwise ribs and the diagonal rib are the same height.

16. A method comprising:

installing a coin ejecting machine which comprises a coin outlet through which a coin is ejected; and

installing a coin slope in a position to which a coin ejected through the coin outlet falls down,

wherein the coin slope comprises;

a sloping surface which slopes downward;

longwise ribs which are provided to be adjacent to each other on the sloping surface, and which extend from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface; and

an interference member which is not taller than the longwise ribs and which comprises a slope connected to two adjacent longwise ribs.