Patent ID: 9105140
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A coin hopper comprising: a storing chamber for storing coins in bulk and including a bottom hole; a sorting board having a circular through hole, which is arranged in the bottom hole of the storing chamber, the sorting board being configured to cause the coins to drop from an upper side of the sorting board to a lower side of the sorting board through the through hole by rotation of the sorting board; a pusher that pushes the coins one by one outward in an outer circumferential direction of the sorting board to a specified position at a back side of the sorting board; a coin holding plate having a diameter that is approximately equal to a diameter of the sorting board, the coin holding plate being arranged to be concentric with and provided below the sorting board at a specified interval to define a coin holding space; and a circumferential-direction passage that is provided in the coin holding space at the back side of the sorting board, extends in a circumferential direction of the sorting board, and includes a front side guide positioned in a front position in a forward-rotation direction of the sorting board and a rear side guide positioned at a rear position thereof, wherein the pusher is movable at a specified timing upon forward rotation of the sorting board between a pushing position where the pusher is positioned in the coin holding space immediately below the through hole on the back side of the sorting board and a standby position where the pusher is positioned in a rotating axis side of the sorting board at a side of the through hole hidden below the sorting board, and when the pusher is gradually moved from the standby position to the pushing position, reaches the pushing position at a position corresponding to the specified position, and is gradually moved back to the standby position after reaching the pushing position, the coin is moved in the circumferential direction of the sorting board through the circumferential-direction passage from the through hole.