National Rejectors, Inc. Gmbh

Crane Payment Solutions Gmbh

Dieter Wenskus

Torsten Schneider

An apparatus for the payout of coins from a pair of neighbouring coin tubes, in which one stack of coins at a time is supported on the bottom of a coin tube, with a payout disc below the coin tubes, which is rotatably mounted around an axis parallel to the axis of the coin tubes and which has a payout element on the side facing the coin tubes, which is moved along a curved slit in the bottom of the respective coin tube in an angular rotation of the payout disc, in order to capture the respective lowermost coin and to push it out, with an electric drive motor for the payout disc and a control device, which triggers the drive motor such that departing from a rest position, the payout disc is rotated at option about a limited rotational angle up to a final position, and is consecutively turned back into the rest position, wherein the payout disc has an extension in the rotational direction by which the stack of coins rests on the payout element in the final position of the payout disc, characterised in that on the lower side of the payout disc a stopper element is provided, which co-operates near the final positions with one dead stop at a time, the payout disc has a first mark on the side opposite to the stopper element which is detectable by two sensors arranged side by side, the payout disc has further one second mark at a time at both sides of the stopper element which is detectable by a sensor, wherein the second marks are situated in the region of the sensor when the payout disc is in one of the final positions, and the sensors are connected to the control device and the control device reduces the speed of the drive motor when one of the second marks reaches the sensor which is the first one in the rotational direction and reverses its rotational direction when it reaches the second sensor.

Apparatus for the payout of coins from a pair of neighbouring coin tubes

A device for paying off coins from two adjacent coin collecting tubes. A rotor is located below the tubes, the rotational axis of the rotor extending substantially in parallel to an axis of the tubes. An electric motor drives the rotor to rotate the rotor in either direction of rotation about the rotational axis. A pin-like ejecting element is mounted on the rotor for ejecting a lowest coin in the coin collecting tubes, the element having an idle position which does not engage the lowest coin when the rotor is rotated by the motor and having an ejecting position which engages the lowest coin when the rotor is rotated by the motor. The element is biased in the ejecting position and has a member, the rotor having a first neutral position in which the element is in its ejecting position for discharging the lowest coin and having a second neutral position in which the element is in its idle position. A motor control controls the electric motor to rotate the rotor between the first and second neutral positions. A stationary control supported adjacent the rotor selectively engages the member of the element, the stationary control including a ramp-like portion for engaging the member of the element such that, as the rotor is rotated in either direction from the second neutral position to the first neutral position, the ramp-like portion engages the member of the element to move the element to its idle position.

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Beckdorf, Germany

Dieter Wenskus