Patent ID: 8210336
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A coin depositing and dispensing machine comprising: a coin acceptance port, accepting coins from an outside of a machine body; a coin ejection port, from which coins are ejected to the outside of the machine body; a conveying device, having a coin passage which is common to conveying coins accepted in the coin acceptance port and to conveying coins to be ejected to the coin ejection port, and conveying, one by one, coins in the common coin passage; an identifying unit, identifying types of coins conveyed by the conveying device; and a plurality of accommodating and ejecting units, having a rotating disk, rotatable in a tilted orientation in which an upper portion is tilted toward a back face direction, a hopper, accommodating coins at a top face side of the rotating disk, and a coin outlet, through which coins are sent out from an upper circumferential region of the rotating disk to the common coin passage of the conveying device, and the accommodating and ejecting units accepting, in accordance with identification results of the identifying unit, coins accepted in the coin acceptance port from the outside of the machine body, accommodating the accepted coins in a non-aligned state according to type, and ejecting the accommodated coins, one by one, from the coin outlet.