Patent ID: 7347310

Claim:
Apparatus for validating and paying out coins, comprising: a coin inspecting section for validating coins dropped into a coin slot, a coin sorting section for guiding the dropped coins either to a current coin channel or to a fake coin channel on the basis of determination of said coin inspecting section as to whether the dropped coins are current coins or fake coins, a coin container section for receiving coins categorized in their denominations so as to store the categorized coin for each denomination, and a coin pay-out mechanism for paying out, as required, coins as change from the coins stored in said coin container section; wherein a driving motor for driving said coin pay-out mechanism is located above said coin pay-out mechanism, one or more guidepaths is mounted at a slant so as to guide extraneous objects onto the surface of said driving motor from a range in which a magnetic field induced by a permanent magnet substantially has no effect, and said guided extraneous objects are attracted to said surface of said driving motor by magnetic field induced by the permanent magnet in said driving motor.