Patent ID: 9530267
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G07D

Claim Text:
1. A coin hopper, comprising a hopper body and a rotating wheel, wherein: said hopper body comprises a housing, said housing comprising a funnel-shaped coin box, an accommodation chamber defined in said funnel-shaped coin box for accommodating coins to be dispensed and a coin outlet disposed in communication with said accommodation chamber for guiding said coins out of said accommodation chamber individually, and a power drive adapted for rotating said rotating wheel to push said coins out of said accommodation chambers into said coin outlet individually; said rotating wheel comprises a wheel base pivotally mounted in said housing, a plurality of coin-pushing blades radially and equiangularly extended from said wheel base and a coin-receiving space defined between each two adjacent said coin-pushing blades for receiving one said coin, said coin-pushing blades being curved blades curving in a counter-clockwise direction and having a width gradually reducing in direction away from said wheel base, each said coin-pushing blade comprising an abutment edge extending along one lateral side thereof for stopping one said coin in one said coin-receiving space and a pushing edge extending along an opposite lateral side thereof for pushing one said coin out of one said coin-receiving space into said coin outlet during rotation of said rotating wheel; and each said coin-pushing blade of said rotating wheel comprises a coin-dispensing strip perpendicularly extended from a distal end thereof remote from said wheel base, said coin-dispensing strip comprising an inwardly reduced bevel guide edge adapted for pushing one of each two overlapped said coins backwardly out of said coin outlet.