COIN SLOPE

• US 20120255831A1
• Filed: 04/09/2012
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: KANEKO, Toshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,505,709 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 on the sloping surface, the longwise ribs being adjacent to each other and extending from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface; and

a pair of diagonal ribs which are provided on the sloping surface, each of the diagonal ribs being extended from each of side parts of the sloping surface to a center part of the sloping surface and connected to each other at the center part, the diagonal ribs obliquely crossing the longwise ribs to form an arrow pointing to the lower area of the sloping surface, the longwise ribs and the diagonal ribs being the same height in a direction normal to the sloping surface.

2. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein, on the sloping surface, a position at the center part where the diagonal ribs are connected to each other is lower than positions at the side parts from where the diagonal ribs are extended.

3. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of pairs of diagonal ribs are provided on the sloping surface at a predetermined interval therebetween along a direction of a gravitational force on the sloping surface.

4. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein the sloping surface is slanted with respect to a horizontal surface.

5. The coin slope according to claim 1, wherein the longwise ribs are parallel with respect to each other.

6. 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 on the sloping surface, the longwise ribs being adjacent to each other and extending from an upper area of the sloping surface to a lower area of the sloping surface; and

a pair of diagonal ribs which are provided on the sloping surface, each of the diagonal ribs being extended from each of side parts of the sloping surface to a center part of the sloping surface and connected to each other at the center part, the diagonal ribs obliquely crossing the longwise ribs to form an arrow pointing to the lower area of the sloping surface, the longwise ribs and the diagonal ribs being the same height in a direction normal to the sloping surface.