Patent ID: 8734208
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A coin-separating apparatus and feeding device where, after coins are sorted individually by holding the coins in sorting recesses opened on an upper side and a peripheral edge side thereof on an upper face of a rotating disk arranged in an inclination state, the coins are fed out to a coin discriminating device, comprising: each of the sorting recesses has a peripheral opening and an upper face opening formed by a sorting recess groove extending radially outward relative to a center of the rotating disk toward an outer peripheral edge thereof; a mover member is disposed, so as to reciprocate linearly between a sorting position on a bottom portion of the sorting recess groove and a pushing-out position on the peripheral edge side of the rotating disk, within the sorting recess groove, the mover member has a pushing edge facing the peripheral opening, and forms a holding recess surrounded by a left side wall and a right side wall of the sorting recess, and an arc-shaped restrictor surrounding an outer periphery of the rotating disk; and a driving device comprises a ring-like plate-shaped cam fixedly arranged on the rotating disk, and a pair of cam followers positioned inside and outside the plate-shaped cam integrally with the mover member, wherein the holding recess is formed such that when the mover member is positioned at the sorting position, only one largest coin can be positioned in the holding recess but two smallest coins cannot be positioned therein in a parallel fashion, wherein, after the mover member is moved linearly toward the pushing-out position on the peripheral edge side in a predetermined phase of the rotating disk and subsequently after the mover member stays at the pushing-out position for a predetermined period of time, the mover member is driven by the driving device for moving the mover member to the sorting position linearly.