Patent ID: 6945864
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A coin sorting apparatus comprising: a stationary member provided with a central coin-feed opening; and a rotary disk supported for rotation and disposed under said stationary member contiguously with a lower surface of said stationary member, such that coins fed into said central coin-feed opening of said stationary member slide along said lower surface of said stationary member as said rotary disk rotates, wherein said stationary member includes a guide structure for selectively guiding coins sliding along said lower surface thereof; according to diameters of the coins, said guide structure having wherein said coin passage has, at least in a section corresponding to said radial inner edge portion thereof, a recessed-profile configured to accommodate a convex side of a deformed coin, when the deformed coin is received within said coin passage with the convex side thereof facing said stationary member, so as to ensure engagement of an outer edge of the deformed coin with said radial inner edge portion.