Patent ID: 6519921
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: B65B,G07D

Abstract:
A coin wrapping machine comprising denomination setting means for setting a denomination of coins to be wrapped, a rotatable disk for feeding coins toward a coin passage by centrifugal force produced by the rotation thereof, rotatable disk driving means for rotating the rotatable disk, transporting belt means for transporting the coins fed into the coin passage by the rotatable disk along the coin passage, transporting belt driving means for driving the transporting belt means, counting means disposed in the coin passage for counting the number of coins having the denomination set by the denomination setting means, and coin stacking means for stacking a predetermined number of coins whose number has been counted, said coin wrapping machine further comprising coin wrapping means comprising a plurality of wrapping rollers for holding the coins stacked by the coin stacking means therebetween and rotating them around their longitudinal axis to wind a wrapping material around a circumferential surface of the coins stacked by the coin stacking means, wrapping roller driving means for driving the wrapping rollers, a pair of crimp claw means for approaching the coins stacked by the coin stacking means and around which the wrapping material is wound from upper and lower locations and crimping upper and lower edge portions of the wrapping material, crimp claw means driving means for moving the pair of crimp claw means, and driving speed control means for controlling the rotatable disk driving means, the transporting belt driving means, the wrapping roller driving means and the crimp claw means driving means based on the denomination of the coins set by the denomination setting means, thereby controlling the rotating speed of the rotatable disk, the driving speed of the transporting belt means, the rotating speed of the wrapping rollers and the moving speed of the crimp claw means driving means.