Patent ID: 6374573
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
A crimper for manually crimping a projecting end of a coin wrapper containing a coin stack, the crimper comprising:a body having an opening for receiving a projecting end of a coin wrapper, the opening extending along an axis into the body from an open first end to a second end, the opening being surrounded by a circumferential wall configured to closely surround an outer surface of a projecting end of a wrapper; a projection extending into the opening from the second end of the opening to a free end located partway to the first end of the opening, the projection having an outer wall facing the opening wall, the outer wall and the opening wall defining an annular space between them; and a slide member extending radially from the circumferential wall opening to the projection, the slide member having a slide surface spaced axially from the free end of the projection and from the second end of the opening and defining a first linear direction of sliding, whereby when a projecting end of a coin wrapper is pressed against the slide member the projecting end of the coin wrapper slides in the first direction against the slide surface to the outer wall of the projection and slides axially against the outer wall towards the first end of the opening substantially transverse to the first direction of sliding to thereby form a rolled crimped end on the wrapper.