Patent ID: 6053807
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing coins or similar disk-like objects, comprising:a coin hopper;a coin tray including an exit leading to a coin counting or sorting section;an inclined conveyor disposed between said hopper and said tray and positioned such that coins emptying from said hopper can be received onto a surface of said conveyor and fed by said conveyor in a feed direction, the tilt of said conveyor causing larger foreign objects to slide down said conveyor in a direction opposite to the feed direction of said conveyor;a coin singularizing stripper disposed near a delivery end of said conveyor in close proximity to said surface of said conveyor; anda chute extending between the coin delivery end of said conveyor and said coin tray whereby coins from said conveyor are fed to said coin tray, said chute including a separator to separate coins from smaller foreign objects, wherein said chute, in an area near its delivery end, comprises at least one inclined V-shaped duct having oblong slots smaller than the diameter of the smallest coin to be processed, thereby allowing smaller foreign objects to drop through the slots, and wherein said duct has a sidewall sufficiently low to permit coins to topple thereover due to gravity yet sufficiently high to contain foreign objects as they slide down said duct.