Patent ID: 7377846

Claim:
A coin receiving and disbursing apparatus comprising: an alignment device that aligns coins inserted through a coin receiving port; a received money conveying device that causes the aligned coins to travel along a received money conveying path; a sorting part sorting the coins conveyed by the received money conveying device by denomination; a plurality of hoppers arranged in a first hopper array and a second hopper array for reserving the coins sorted by the sorting part by denomination in bulk condition, each of the plurality of hoppers including a rotary disc and a releasing unit that is spring biased to propel coins in a trajectory upward and away from the rotary disc; a disbursing money conveying device disposed between the first hopper array and the second hopper array, the first hopper array and the second hopper array arranged symmetrically at predetermined intervals along the disbursing money conveying device; a base member positioned above the disbursing money conveying device within the trajectory of the propelled coins from the releasing unit wherein each rotary disc having an upper end and a lower end positioned so that its lower end is laterally farther from the disbursing money conveying device than its upper end, and wherein the releasing unit flicks out a coin upward towards both the disbursing money conveying device and the base member, and the coin contacts the base member to be guidingly dropped on the disbursing money conveying device; and a money discharging port for releasing the flicked coins conveyed by the disbursing money conveying device, the disbursing money conveying device disposed between the upper end and the lower end of the rotary discs and positioned parallel with the first and second hopper arrays.