Patent ID: 8720665
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A coin feeding machine comprising: a rotary disk which is rotated at an inclined posture; a cover which forms a storing unit which stores coins between the cover and the surface of the rotary disk; a feeding unit which protrudes from the surface of the rotary disk, supports the coins in the storing unit one by one upon rotation of the rotary disk, and moves the coins to an upper region of the rotary disk; a feeding guide which feeds out of the rotary disk, the coins whose outer diameter is within a handling target range among the coins moved to the upper region of the rotary disk by the feeding unit upon the rotation of the rotary disk; and a removal section which removes from the feeding unit the coins whose outer diameter is out of the handling target range among the coins moved to the upper region of the rotary disk by the feeding unit upon the rotation of the rotary disk, and drops the coins into the storing unit, wherein the removal section has a small-diameter removal unit which protrudes from the surface position of the rotary disk so as not to be in contact with the coins whose outer diameter is within the handling target range, the coins being moved to the upper region of the rotary disk by the feeding unit upon the rotation of the rotary disk, but so as to contact with only the coins whose outer diameter is smaller than the handling target range, and removes the coins whose outer diameter is smaller than the handling target range from the feeding unit by contact with the coins.