Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100112923A1/en
Timestamp: 2019-06-20 16:41:27
Document Index: 738305260

Matched Legal Cases: ['application no. 0519039', 'application no. 0604289', 'application no. 0604432', 'application No. 60', 'application No. 60', 'application No. 60']

US20100112923A1 - Coin handling equipment - Google Patents
US20100112923A1
US20100112923A1 US12/686,521 US68652110A US2010112923A1 US 20100112923 A1 US20100112923 A1 US 20100112923A1 US 68652110 A US68652110 A US 68652110A US 2010112923 A1 US2010112923 A1 US 2010112923A1
US12/686,521
US8092284B2 (en
2005-09-17 Priority to GB0519039A priority Critical patent/GB0519039D0/en
2005-09-17 Priority to GB0519039.2 priority
2005-09-27 Priority to US72097405P priority
2006-03-03 Priority to GB0604289.9 priority
2006-03-03 Priority to GB0604289A priority patent/GB0604289D0/en
2006-03-06 Priority to GB0604432A priority patent/GB0604432D0/en
2006-03-06 Priority to GB0604432.5 priority
2006-03-24 Priority to US78545006P priority
2006-03-24 Priority to US78569706P priority
2006-09-14 Priority to US11/531,889 priority patent/US7658668B2/en
2010-01-13 Priority to US12/686,521 priority patent/US8092284B2/en
2010-01-13 Application filed by Scan Coin AB filed Critical Scan Coin AB
2010-05-06 Publication of US20100112923A1 publication Critical patent/US20100112923A1/en
2010-06-15 Assigned to SCAN COIN INDUSTRIES AB reassignment SCAN COIN INDUSTRIES AB ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: HILL, TIMOTHY WILLIAM
2010-06-15 Assigned to SCAN COIN AB reassignment SCAN COIN AB CHANGE OF NAME (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: SCAN COIN INDUSTRIES AB
2012-01-10 Publication of US8092284B2 publication Critical patent/US8092284B2/en
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/531,889, filed on Sep. 14, 2006, which application claims the benefit of British patent application no. 0519039.2, filed on Sep. 17, 2005; British patent application no. 0604289.9, filed on Mar. 3, 2006; British patent application no. 0604432.5, filed on Mar. 6, 2006; U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/785,697, filed on Mar. 24, 2006; U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/785,450, filed on Mar. 24, 2006; and U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/720,974, filed on Sep. 27, 2005.
According to a seventh aspect of the invention we provide a combination of a hopper coin feeder and a coin storage unit, the hopper coin feeder being of the horizontal disc type and being adapted to feed coins inserted into the hopper in single file towards a coin outlet, a coin chute leading from said coin outlet to a bowl, the coin storage unit comprising a plurality of LIFO (last in, first out) coin stack tubes fed by a double disc coin feeder assembly which comprises upper and lower superimposed adjacent discs each provided with a respective coin—receiving opening, the discs being independently rotatable and capable of being brought into a relative orientation in which the coin-receiving openings in the upper and lower discs are in register to permit transfer of a coin from one opening to the other opening, the base of said bowl being open to an exposed portion of the upper surface of the upper disc, the upper disc being capable of being rotated to a coin receiving position in which the opening in the upper disc is exposed to the bowl for receiving a coin from the chute, and a control system for the hopper coin feeder and the coin storage unit so arranged as to hold the disc with a coin on the disc just in advance of said coin feeder outlet, and in response to a coin demand signal from the coin storage unit, to drive the hopper disc to dispense the coin into the coin chute for delivery to the bowl.
According to an eighth aspect of the invention we provide the combination of a coin feeder and a coin storage unit, the coin feeder being adapted to feed coins to a bowl, the coin storage unit comprising a plurality of LIFO (last in, first out) coin stack tubes fed by a double disc coin conveying assembly which comprises upper and lower superimposed adjacent discs each provided with a respective coin—receiving opening, the discs being independently rotatable and capable of being brought into a relative orientation in which the coin—receiving openings in the upper and lower discs are in register to permit transfer of a coin from one opening to the other opening, the base of said bowl being open to an exposed portion of the upper surface of the upper disc, the upper disc being capable of being rotated to a coin receiving position in which the opening in the upper disc is exposed to the bowl for receiving a coin from the coin feeder, and then being rotated to convey the coin to one of the stack tubes, a coin outlet from the coin storage unit extending from beneath the bowl thereby enabling an unwanted coin coming from the coin feeder to pass from the bowl, through the aligned openings in the double disc coin conveying assembly, when said upper and lower discs are positioned with their respective openings in register with said bowl, to pass into the coin outlet.
As seen in FIGS. 3 and 7 and 13, frame plate 121 is provided with a substantially circular through-aperture defined by part-circular edge 126, apart from the presence of said arm 124, in which the lower disc 25 rotates with slight clearance, and the upper surface of the frame plate 121 is chamfered to provide a sloping border 127. The sloping border 127 performs the function of directing all coins or debris that fall from the edge of the upper disc 18 onto the lower disc 25. As can be discerned from FIG. 4, the sloping border 127 essentially extends circumferentially about the disc 25 from the region of the tail 38 1 of the arcuate guide block 38 to the active chute 80, that is circumferentially in FIG. 13 from the arm 124 to the point 127 in that Figure. The arm 124 is also provided with a chamfered trailing edge 128, FIG. 3, for the same reason. Since all gripped coins that have been carried round with the upper disc 18 and have traveled as far as the active chute 80 will either be diverted by the active chute downwards onto the lower disc 25, or be directed into the chute, and in view of the presence of the arcuate guide block 38, there is no possibility of coins leaving the edge of the upper disc 18 in the arcuate region between the active chute 80 and the arm 124.
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Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:HILL, TIMOTHY WILLIAM;REEL/FRAME:024535/0965
Free format text: CHANGE OF NAME;ASSIGNOR:SCAN COIN INDUSTRIES AB;REEL/FRAME:024536/0110