Coin kind and number setting and adjusting device for coin packaging machine

• US 4,232,690 A
• Filed: 08/25/1978
• Issued: 11/11/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Company Limited
• Inventors: Furuya, Katusuke, Watanabe, Kenkichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wacyra, Edward M.
• Application Number:
  US05/936,787
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 133/1 R, 133/1 A, 133/8 R, 133/8 A, 133/8 C, 53/212, 53/501, 53/77
• US Class Current: 453/35
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/00 Counting coins in combination with coin-sorting G07D3/16; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass

Abstract

Herein disclosed is a coin kind and number setting and adjusting device for use with a coin packaging machine including a dial for setting the kind of coins and a second dial for setting the number of the coins, which is suitable for the set kind. The device comprises a gate for detecting the coincidence between the signals indicative of the kind of the coins, which is set by the first-named dial, and the signals indicative of the number of the coins, which is set by the second-named dial, so that it may operate the coin packaging machine only when preset conditions are satisfied. The coin packaging machine can be left inoperative if the setting of the coin number is so bad as to fail to coincide with that which is set for the set kind of the coins. Moreover, the number of the coins can be automatically set for the set coin kind.

Claims

1. A coin packaging machine having a packaging mode, wherein a specific kind of coins is selected, a relatively small packaging number of coins being determined in accordance with the specific kind of coins and the determined number of coins being packaged, said machine having a counting mode, wherein a relatively large number of coins is counted, comprising:

coin kind setting dial means for setting a kind of coins in the packaging mode,

coin kind setting switches actuated by said coin kind setting dial means,

first means operatively connected to said coin kind setting switches for determining the packaging number of the coins of the set kind,

coin number setting dial means for setting the counting number of coins in the counting mode,

coin number setting switches actuated by said coin number setting dial means,

second means operatively connected to said coin number setting switches for determining the counting number of coins,

a cam provided on said coin number setting dial,

switch means actuated by said cam for selectively supplying electric power to either said coin kind setting switches or said coin number setting switches so as to select either the packaging mode or the counting mode,

packaging chute means driven by said cam for receiving coins to be packaged, and

counting chute means driven by said cam for receiving coins to be counted.