Coin wrapping machine

• US 5,002,516 A
• Filed: 08/31/1989
• Issued: 03/26/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Company Limited
• Inventors: Asaoka, Takayoshi, Sentoku, Hideshi, Watanabe, Kenkichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bartuska, F. J.
• Application Number:
  US07/400,946
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 453/5, 453/7, 453/11, 453/30, 453/31, 453/32, 453/56, 453/57, 53/532, 53/212
• US Class Current: 453/7
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 9/065 Devices for wrapping coins

Abstract

A coin wrapping machine which discriminates genuineness, denomination, etc. of coins, counts the monetary amount of the coins, sorts them out by denomination and wraps them in a desired order in separate denominations.

Claims

1. A coin wrapping machine comprising

upper hopper means for depositing of coins,

a first coin sorting passage for carrying the coins that have been deposited through said upper hopper means,

sensor means provided on said first coin sorting passage for detecting the genuineness and the denomination of the coins as well as for counting the coins in separate denomination groups,

coin rejecting gate means for passage of coins rejected by said sensor means on said first coin sorting passage,

a guide member connected downstream of said first coin sorting passage, said guide member being equipped with a larger diameter coin collecting means for collecting coins of a diameter larger than a diameter of the coins to be wrapped,

a second coin sorting passage connected downstream of said guide member for carrying the coins in a direction different from that of said first coin sorting passage and said second coin sorting passage being equipped with a smaller diameter coin collecting means for collecting coins of a diameter smaller than the diameter of said coins to be wrapped,

counter means provided on said second coin sorting passage downstream of said smaller diameter coin collecting means for counting the number of coins sent through said second coin sorting passage,

coin stacking means provided downstream of said second coin sorting passage and said coin stacking means being equipped with a pair of stack drums for stacking the coins from said second coin sorting passage,

coin wrapping means for receiving stacked coins from said coin stacking means and for wrapping the stacked coins in a predetermined number in the form of a roll,

wrapped coin housing means for housing the rolls of wrapped coins wrapped by said coin wrapping means,

collecting box means for communicating with said larger diameter coin collecting means and said smaller diameter coin collecting means,

an open/close gate located at a bottom of said collecting box means,

lower hopper means located below said collecting box means and said coin wrapping means for communicating with said collecting box means by opening said open/close gate and for communicating with said coin wrapping means,

conveyor means for conveying the coins in said lower hopper means to said upper hopper means,

fractional coin collecting means provided below said coin wrapping means for collecting coins of a number less than said predetermined number,

first gate means provided between said coin wrapping means and said fractional coin collecting means,

second gate means provided between said first gate means and said fractional coin collecting means,

coin feed detection means for detecting coins being fed to said coin stacking means,

rotation detection means for detecting the number of revolutions of said pair of stack drums, and

control means for receiving detecting and counting signals from said sensor means, counting signals from said counter means, coin feed signals from said coin feed detection means and rotation detection signals from said rotation detection means to count at least one of the monetary amount and the number of received coins in separate denomination groups, maintains said first gate means at a position not communicable with said coin wrapping means and said second gate means for a predetermined time after said coin wrapping means has received stacked coins from said coin stacking means, and when the control means judges based input signals that coins are jammed in one of said first coin sorting passage and said second coin sorting passage as the number of coins of the denomination to be wrapped which is detected by said sensor means exceeds the number of the coins of said denomination which is detected by said counter means, or when the control means judges the number of revolutions of said pair of stack drums detected by said rotation detection means exceeds, by a margin larger than a predetermined number, the number of revolutions corresponding to the number of coins of said denomination fed to said coin stacking means which is detected by said coin feed detection means, then the control means does not actuate said coin wrapping means but maintains said first gate means at the position not communicable with said coin wrapping means and said second gate means so as to guide the coins stacked by said coin stacking means to said lower hopper means.

2. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first coin sorting passage is provided with a pair of guide rail means, said guide member is connected to a terminal end of one of said pair of guide rail means and is provided with a guide surface for guiding the coins of the diameter smaller than said coins to be wrapped, and with a sloped surface gradually elevated toward an advancing direction of said first coin passage, said larger diameter coin collecting means comprises an opening positioned at the terminal end of said sloped surface, and space setting means is provided setting the space between the guide surface of said guide member and the other guide rail means opposed thereto.

3. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second coin sorting passage is equipped with a pair of guide rail means adjustable in space therebetween, said smaller diameter coin collecting means comprises an opening formed between said pair of guide rail means, and space setting means is further provided for setting the space between said pair of guide rail means.

4. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein said second coin sorting passage is equipped with a pair of guide rail means adjustable in space therebetween, said smaller diameter coin collecting means comprises an opening formed between said pair of guide rail means, and a second space setting means is further provided for setting the space between said pair of guide rail means.

5. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein a vibration detection means is further provided for detecting the vibration on said first gate means and outputting vibration detection signals to said control means, and when said control means judges that the number of coins to be wrapped detected by said sensor means exceeds the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped detected by said counter means, or that coins are jammed in one of said first coin sorting passage and the second coin sorting passage, or when the control means judges that the number of revolutions of said pair of stack drums detected by said rotation detection means exceeds by a predetermined number the number of revolutions corresponding to the number of coins of said denomination fed to said coin wrapping means detected by said coin feed detection means, or when the control means maintains said first gate means at the position not communicable with said coin wrapping means and said second gate means instead of actuating said coin wrapping means to guide the coins stacked by said coin stacking means to said lower hopper means, or when the control means judges that said first gate means vibrates more than a predetermined level based on the vibration detection signals inputted from said vibration detection means, then the control means subtracts at least one of the amount and the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped fed to said coin stacking means, based on the counting signals inputted from said counting means, from at least one of the amount and the number of received coins counted in separate denomination groups based on the detection signals inputted from said sensor means.

6. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein a vibration detection means is further provided for detecting the vibration on said first gate means and outputting vibration detection signals to said control means, and when said control means judges that the number of coins to be wrapped detected by said sensor means exceeds the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped detected by said counter means, or that coins are jammed in one of said first coin sorting passage and the second coin sorting passage, or when the control means judges that the number of revolutions of said pair of stack drums detected by said rotation detection means exceeds, by a predetermined number, the number of revolutions corresponding to the number of coins of said denomination fed to said coin wrapping means detected by said coin feed detection means, or when the control means maintains said first gate means at the position not communicable with said coin wrapping means and said second gate means instead of actuating said coin wrapping means to guide the coins stacked by said coin stacking means to said lower hopper means, or when the control means judges that said first gate means vibrates more than a predetermined level based on the vibration detection signals inputted from said vibration detection means, then the control means subtracts at least one of the amount and the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped fed to said coin stacking means, based on the counting signals inputted from said counting means, from at least one of the amount and the number of received coins counted in separate denomination groups based on the detection signals inputted from said sensor means.

7. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein vibration detection means is further provided for detecting the vibration on said first gate means and outputting vibration detection signals to said control means, and when said control means judges that the number of coins to be wrapped detected by said sensor means exceeds the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped detected by said counter means, or that coins are jammed in one of said first coin sorting passage and the second coin sorting passage, or when the control means judges that the number of revolutions of said pair of stack drums detected by said rotation detection means exceeds, by a predetermined number, the number of revolutions corresponding to the number of coins of said denomination fed to said coin wrapping means detected by said coin feed detection means, or when the control means maintains said first gate means at the position not communicable with said coin wrapping means and said second gate means instead of actuating said coin wrapping means to guide the coins stacked by said coin stacking means to said lower hopper means, or when the control means judges that said first gate means vibrates more than a predetermined level based on the vibration detection signals inputted from said vibration detection means, then the control means subtracts at least one of the amount and the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped which have been fed to said coin stacking means, based on the counting signals inputted from said counting means, from at least one of the amount and the number of received coins counted in separate denomination groups based on the detection signals inputted from said sensor means.

8. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein vibration detection means is further provided for detecting the vibration on said first gate means and outputting vibration detection signals to said control means, and when said control means judges that the number of coins to be wrapped detected by said sensor means exceeds the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped detected by said counter means, or that coins are jammed in one of said first coin sorting passage and the second coin sorting passage, or when the control means judges that the number of revolutions of said pair of stack drums detected by said rotation detection means exceeds, by a predetermined number, the number of revolutions corresponding to the number of coins of said denomination fed to said coin wrapping means detected by said coin feed detection means, or when the control means maintains said first gate means at the position not communicable with said coin wrapping means and said second gate means instead of actuating said coin wrapping means to guide the coins stacked by said coin stacking means to said lower hopper means, or when the control means judges that said first gate means vibrates more than a predetermined level based on the vibration detection signals inputted from said vibration detection means, then the control means subtracts at least one of the amount and the number of coins of said denomination to be wrapped which have been fed to said coin stacking means, based on the counting signals inputted from said counting means, from at least one of the amount and the number of received coins counted in separate denomination groups based on the detection signals inputted from said sensor means.

9. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein manipulation means is further provided for inputting to said control means the order of setting the spaces between said guide surface of the guide member and the other guide rail of said pair of guide rails and between said pair of guide rails by said first space setting means and said second space setting means.

10. The coin wrapping machine as claimed in claim 8, wherein manipulation means is further provided for inputting to said control means the order of setting the spaces between said guide surface of the guide member and the other guide rail of said pair of guide rails and between said pair of guide rails by said first space setting means and said second space setting means.