Coin jamming detecting device in coin sorting machine

• US 4,167,949 A
• Filed: 08/12/1977
• Issued: 09/18/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Tokunori, Hashimoto, Kouichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Rolla, Joseph J.
• Application Number:
  US05/824,301
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 133/3 R, 133/3 A, 133/3 B, 133/3 C, 133/3 D, 133/3 E, 133/3 F, 133/3 G, 133/3 H, 133/8 R, 209/74 R, 209/74 M
• US Class Current: 453/12
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 3/16 in combination with coin-counting

Abstract

A plurality of coin detecting switches are provided in the coin passages in a coin sorting machine so that jammed coins are located according to the following principle; when one coin detecting switch detects coins, and the succeeding coin detecting switch detects no coins, it is determined that coins are jammed therebetween.

Claims

1. An improved coin jam detecting device in a coin sorting machine having a main coin supplying mechanism for supplying coins, a plurality of successive coin sorting sections for sorting coins supplied from said main coin supplying mechanism according to their denominations, a plurality of sorted coin delivery mechanisms connected to corresponding ones of said coin sorting sections for delivery of sorted coins from said corresponding coin sorting section, a plurality of coin counting mechanisms connected to corresponding ones of said sorted coin delivery mechanisms for counting coins delivered by said corresponding sorted coin delivery mechanism, and a plurality of coin containers connected to corresponding ones of said coin counting mechanisms for storing therein coins counted by said corresponding coin counting mechanism, said improved coin jam detecting device comprising:

(a) a coin supply detecting means connected to said main coin supplying mechanism for detecting coins in the main coin supplying mechanism;

(b) a plurality of intermediate coin detecting means connected to corresponding ones of said coin sorting sections for detecting coins in said corresponding coin sorting section;

(c) a plurality of sorted coin detecting means connected to corresponding ones of said sorted coin delivery mechanisms for detecting coins delivered by said corresponding sorted coin delivery mechanism;

(d) a plurality of counted coin detecting means connected to corresponding ones of said coin counting mechanisms for detecting coins counted by said corresponding coin counting mechanism; and

(e) a control circuit and indication means connected to said coin supply detecting means, said intermediate coin detecting means, said sorted coin detecting means, and said counted coin detecting means (1) for indicating a coin jam in said main coin supplying mechanism when said coin supply detecting means detects coins for longer than a predetermined period and neither said intermediate coin detecting means nor said sorted coin detecting means has detected coins during said predetermined period, (2) for indicating a coin jam in one of said coin counting mechanisms when either said corresponding sorted coin detecting means or said corresponding counted coin detecting means but not both said detecting means detects coins for a predetermined period, and (3) for indicating a coin jam in one of said coin sorting sections when said corresponding intermediate coin detecting means detects coins for a predetermined period and neither the intermediate coin detecting means corresponding to the next succeeding coin sorting section nor the counted coin detecting means corresponding to the next succeeding coin sorting section has detected coins during said predetermined period.