Patent ID: 7112130

Claim:
A coin change dispenser comprising: an input hopper for receiving plural types of coins; a sorter for sorting coins extracted from the input hopper into their coin types; a storage device for storing the coins sorted by the sorter on a coin type by type basis, the storage device including: a plurality of coin storage grooves provided respectively to the plural coin types and disposed parallel to each other, each of the coin storage grooves having a width dimension slightly greater than the diameter of a corresponding one of the types of coins and extending approximately horizontally; a carrier belt disposed along a region of the base of each of the coin storage grooves to extend in the longitudinal direction of the coin storage grooves; and an ejector adapted to be moved between an operation position of allowing one or more of the coins to be ejected from the downstream end of each of the coin storage grooves, and a non-operation position of allowing the coins to be stacked on each other.