Coin dispenser

• US 4,810,230 A
• Filed: 11/13/1987
• Issued: 03/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Original Assignee: Universal Company Limited
• Inventors: Shirasawa, Masaharu
• Primary Examiner(s): BARTUSKA, FRANCIS JOHN
• Application Number:
  US07/120,142
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 453/6, 453/10, 453/12, 453/57, 221/203
• US Class Current: 453/57
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/008 Feeding coins from bulk

Abstract

A coin dispenser which includes a coin accommodating bucket having an opening formed at the bottom, a rotary disc disposed under the bucket so as to be rotated substantially horizontally for moving coins, which are supplied from the bucket through the opening, outside by a centrifugal force, a guide for receiving the fringes of the coins moved outside due to the rotation of the rotary disc and for inducing the coins to an outlet, a regulating board for receiving the coins in the bucket above the opening, and an elastic stirring member having a non-circular cross section which is rotated together with the rotary disc in the opening of the bottom of the bucket. The elastic member collides with the coins and flips them so that the coins are stirred, thus preventing the clogging of coins.

Claims

1. A coin dispenser comprising:

a coin accommodating bucket having a bottom and an opening formed at the bottom,

a rotatable disc disposed under said bucket and being substantially horizontally oriented for moving coins supplied from said bucket through said opening outwardly by centrifugal force,

a guide surrounding the disc for guiding the coins moved outwardly due to centrifugal force and having an outlet to which the coins are guided,

a shaft having a distal end portion and being mounted concentrically with said disc and extending upwardly through the opening at the bottom of the bucket into the bucket,

a regulating board mounted on the distal end portion of the shaft for receiving the coins in said bucket over the opening, and

an elastic stirring member having a non-circular cross section and being mounted on said shaft and rotatable together with said disc in the opening of the bottom of said bucket, and extending upwardly to a point near the regulating board.

2. A coin dispenser according to claim 1, wherein said elastic stirring member has a polygonal cross section.

3. A coin dispenser according to claim 2, wherein said elastic stirring member has a hexagonal cross section.