Patent ID: 6283324
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: B65G,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
In a coin dispensing apparatus hiving a plurality of magazines arranged one above another for storing rolls of coins, each magazine having a coin roll outlet at one end and an opposite rear end, said apparatus having a lifting conveyor having a plurality of hods which interact with the outlet of the magazine to receive coin rolls therefrom, said apparatus having a plurality of shelves for supporting the magazines in position with a spacing between them the same as the spacing of the hods along the lifting conveyor, each said shelf having an underside with a bracket attached thereto, each said shelf having an end nearest to the lifting conveyor, said apparatus having a dispensing outlet adapted to receive and dispense coin rolls transported thereto by the lifting conveyor, a lever attached to each shelf, said lever being geometrically arranged to automatically interrelate with a coin roll about to be fed from a magazine into an empty hod position, a coin roll waiting to be fed from the magazine immediately above and adjacent to this position, and a coin roll being transported in the hod between adjacent magazine levels, said lever comprising:a proximal end and a distal end, the lever proximal end being pivotally attached to the bracket attached to the underside of the shelf near to the shelf end nearest to the lifting conveyor, said lever distal end being unattached and terminating in a T-shaped element with a lower connecting element, said lower connecting element having an extension element connected thereto.