DEVICE FOR RECEIVING COINS

• US 20120231719A1
• Filed: 03/09/2012
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf Systems GmbH (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Inventors: Starke, Christian, Neumann, Thorsten, Grimm, Axel, Goepel, Stig
• Granted Patent: US 8,986,084 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 453/3
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/008 Feeding coins from bulk

Abstract

Device for receiving coins improved in such a way that large amounts of coins can be received as well as separated reliably and quickly and such that the adverse influence of foreign matters introduced along with the coins on the coin separating function and/or on the performance of the coin separating unit may be reduced. The device includes an aperture for charging coins, a unit for separating coins and a feed unit for feeding coins which is provided with a guide face giving support to the coins during the feeding process and which is an active type feeder having a feed module (5) that is operable with the aid of an actuator means to feed coins toward the coin separating unit and that is designed such that the coins are transported toward the coin separating unit along said guide face.

Claims

1. A device for receiving coins with an aperture for charging coins, a unit for separating coins entered into the charge aperture and a feed unit for feeding coins entered to the coin separating unit which is provided with a guide face giving support to the coins during the feeding process, wherein the feed unit (4) is an active type feeder having a feed module (5) that is operable with the aid of an actuator means to feed coins toward the coin separating unit (3) and that is designed such that the coins are transported toward the coin separating unit (3) along said guide face.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the feed module (5) of the feed unit (4) is of vibratory type wherein the guide face (6) is induced to generate vibrations.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the guide face (6) has a plurality of recesses (9) which are so dimensioned that coins carried along said guide face (6) cannot slip through any of these recesses (9).

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein a collecting bin (10) is arranged on a side of the guide face (6) opposite to the charge aperture (2) to collect foreign matters dropped through said recesses (9).

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the feed unit (4) has a transfer module (7) to restrict a feed rate of said feed unit (4) wherein a blocking element (11) of said transfer module (7) is arranged such a distance away from the guide face (6) of the feed module (5) that individual coins or small coin volumes can be moved through a passage (12) between blocking element (11) and guide face (6) freely while larger coin volumes are in part retained by said blocking element (11).

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the blocking element (11) is movable in relation to the feed module (5).

7. The device according to any claim 1, wherein the actuator means coacting with the transfer module (5) of the feed unit (6) comprises a motor driven eccentric (13).

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the guide face (6) is inclined toward the coin separating unit (3).

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the feed unit (4) is provided with a detector module to detect a coin load acting on the coin separating unit (3) which is due to coins fed to, but not separated by said unit (3) which detector module coacts with the actuator means of the feed module (5) such that a feed rate will be varied dependent on a prevailing coin load.