Patent ID: 8092284

Claim:
A hopper coin feeder of the horizontal disc type comprising an upper horizontal rotatable disc and a lower horizontal rotatable disc, the upper and lower discs being mounted about a common axis of rotation, a hopper wall defining with the upper disc a hopper space for receiving coins and providing the principal coin holding zone of the hopper feeder, a resilient band closely adjacent to the margin of an upper face of the upper disc, a coin pushing member for feeding coins from the hopper space and to push the coins being fed in turn beneath the resilient band so that they are carried round by the upper disc, gripped between the band and the upper disc and projecting radially outwards of the band, past a coin discriminator, the arrangement being such that any coins that should fall from the edge of the upper disc are directed onto the lower disc, a first coin take-off for removing coins from the upper disc and a second coin take-off for removing coins from the lower disc, a coin diverter assembly for receiving coins from the first coin take-off and arranged to feed accepted coins to a first coin outlet, and to divert rejected coins onto the lower disc, according to the measurements made by the coin discriminator, whereby rejected coins and coins that have fallen from the upper disc are directed to a second, reject coin outlet.