Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.

Laurel Bank Machines Company, Ltd.

Tokyo Corporation

Kenkichi Watanabe

Katusuke Furuya

Isamu Uchida

Hideshi Sentoku

Toyoki Kimoto

Yorizo Miyazaki

Kyoichi Ohsako

Takayoshi Asaoka

Setsuo Hata

Katsuke Furuya

Hitoshi Kamada

A coin wrapping machine having a pair of stacking drums rotatable in opposite directions, spiral coin support guides formed on the pair of stacking drums for supporting coins by their upper faces and stacking coins and a plurality of wrapping rollers for wrapping the thus stacked coins, the coin wrapping machine further including a plurality of pressurized air blowers which are disposed in such a manner that a blowing opening of each pressurized air blower faces a portion between the wrapping rollers and are adapted to blow pressurized air toward a leading edge of a wrapping paper. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made considerably compact.

Coin wrapping machine

A coin wrapping machine having a pair of stacking drums rotatable in opposite directions, spiral coin support guides formed on the pair of stacking drums for supporting coins by their upper faces and stacking coins and a pair of wrapping rollers for wrapping the thus stacked coins, the coin wrapping machine being constituted so that the stacking drums are hollow and one of the wrapping rollers is disposed in each stacking drum in such a manner that a part thereof projects from an opening formed on a periphery of the stacking drum and that when coins are being wrapped, the coins can be held by the wrapping rollers and a driven roller disposed upstream of the pair of wrapping rollers with respect to the coin transportation direction. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made considerably compact.

The invention provides an apparatus for separating one specified kind of coins from a plurality of coins including various kinds of coins. To this end, a coin sorting apparatus in accordance with the invention is characterized by a sort-out opening formed on a surface of a coin guideway downstream with respect to a coin identifying device; a rotor having an axis about which the rotor is rotatable, which rotor having a larger diameter portion having elevation equal to or slightly higher than the coin guideway and a smaller diameter portion having elevation lower than the coin guideway, the axis lying substantially beneath the center of the sort-out opening and under the coin guideway, the axis parallel to the coin guideway and normal to the coin feeding direction; and a controller for controlling the rotation of the rotor so that the larger diameter portion of the rotor aligns with the coin guideway when coins belonging to a first group are fed to the sort-out opening and the smaller diameter portion of the rotor forms a gap between the rotor and the coin guideway when coins belonging to a second group are fed to the sort-out opening.

Coin sorting apparatus

A coin wrapping machine which discriminates genuineness, denomination, etc. of coins, counts the monetary amount of the coins, sorts them out by denomination and wraps them in a desired order in separate denominations.

A coin counting and packaging machine performs a counting operation for counting selected coins and accommodating the coins thus counted into a bag and a packaging operation for packaging selected and counted coins with a paper. These operations are selectively performed separately or individually. When the counting operation is carried out in a state that the bag is prepared, coins are scattered in the machine. To avoid this, a detecter is provided for detecting the presence or absence of the bag and a control circuit is provided for control the start of the machine in response to the signal from the detector. The control circuit also make the switching of a counting chute and a packaging chute.

Coin counting and packaging machine

Herein disclosed is a coin handling apparatus such as a coin packaging apparatus which is free from any trouble that would be caused when the power supply service is interrupted or when the power supply circuit is carelessly broken. The coin handling apparatus includes a rotary solenoid which can rotate back and forth at a predetermined angle thereby to control the opening and closing operations of the guide passage by a rotary pin. Further inclusive is a power source detecting circuit which is made operative to detect the existence of the power supply to the coin handling apparatus thereby to generate output signals respectively corresponding to the existence and nonexistence of the power supply. A drive circuit is further included and made responsive to the output signals of the power source detecting circuit thereby to drive the rotary solenoid so that the rotary pin may open the guide passage in response to the output signal corresponding to the existence of the power supply, until the number of the coins conveyed to a coin accumulating cylinder reaches a predetermined value, and may close the guide passage in response to the output signal corresponding to the nonexistence of the power supply.

Coin handling apparatus

A coin accumulator assembly for use in a coin wrapping machine is provided. The coin accumulator assembly comprises a coin accumulator tube, a shutter movably inserted into the coin accumulator tube for supporting coins stacked in the tube until a predetermined number of coins is accumulated and for opening to pass coins for a further treatment when the predetermined number of coins is accumulated in the tube, and a system for stepwisely lowering the shutter during the coin counting and accumulating operation. The system for effecting stepwise lowering of the shutter includes a support member for supporting the shutter and having a threaded hole, a screw shaft thrusting through said threaded hole of the support member, a reversible motor for rotating the screw shaft, and a guide rod to be slidably engaged with the support member for preventing the support member from being rotated but for guiding the same in the downward or upward direction when the screw shaft is rotated. A modified system including a rack-and-pinion unit may be used in place of the aforementioned system. A further modified system including a swingable arm for lowering or raising the support member is also disclosed herein. Further disclosed are the control systems for controlling the coin accumulator assembly in accordance with the pre-set control sequence.

Coin accumulator assembly

A packing paper supply apparatus for use with a coin packing machine which packs several kinds of coins with packing paper supplied from the supply apparatus. This supply apparatus includes a carriage which is accommodated in the machine body and which is charged with several kinds of the packing paper for the kinds of coins to be packed. A corresponding number of stoppers such as pins or recesses are provided in the outer periphery of the carriage and are arranged to correspond to the kinds of the packing paper. Drive means including an electric motor and a power train of belt and pulley type is used to drive the carriage so that it may rotate. An actuating member such as a bail having its extending end provided with a hook or roller is resiliently biased into abutment contact with one of the stoppers and can be brought into and out of engagement with the selected stopper in a manual manner so that the packing paper selected may be held in its supply position. Electric control means is used to control the driving operation of the electric motor of the drive means so that the electric motor may be abruptly stopped to hold the selected packing paper in the supply position.

Packing paper supply apparatus for coin packing machine

For a coin handling machine, there is provided a coin counting and stopping apparatus wherein coins which are transferred in a coin path are counted one after another and stopped when the number of the counted coins reaches a preset number. The apparatus includes at least one detecter or preferably two detecters disposed in the coin path for detecting the passage of the coins to generate signals. An electric circuit which receives signals generated by one or two detecters performs a counting operation for the number of the coins which have passed by the detecters. A stopper is provided downstream of the detecters. When the number of the counted coins reaches a preset number, the stopper is rotated to stop the subsequent coins.

Coin counting and stopping apparatus for use in a coin handling machine

Herein disclosed is a coin handling apparatus which is free from having its coin guide passage from being jammed with coins when the supply of any more coins is to be stopped. The coin handling apparatus is of the type including, as customary, a rotary disc, a guide passage, a conveyor belt and a coin stacking cylinder. The coin handling apparatus is improved to include a rotary stop pin disposed in the guide passage for normally opening the guide passage and for closing the same thereby to block the succeeding coins, a rotary solenoid for controlling the opening and closing operations of the stop pin, a detecting device for detecting the coin, which is to pass therethrough in the guide passage, thereby to generate two outputs, a coin stop control unit for operating a controlled stop signal in accordance with both the outputs of the detecting device and a stop signal, and a drive circuit for driving the rotary solenoid in accordance with the controlled stop signal thereby to effect the closing operation of the rotary stop pin. The detecting device has a pair of photo-sensors for optically detecting the position of the coin just passing therethrough, and a coin detecting unit connected with the photo-sensors for converting the position of the coin into a binary logic level.

Coin handling apparatus having a signal operated blocker

There is provided an improved device for adjusting a coin passage of a coin handling machine, wherein two coin selection guides defining the coin passage are moved relative to each other. The device comprises two sliders connected respectively to the two coin selection guides, a link pivoted at the point substantially centrally of the longitudinal extension thereof and having ends connected to the sliders for resiliently urging the ends of the link to engage members respectively fixed to the sliders and a cam abutting directly or indirectly against one of the ends of the link for moving the same by a pre-set distance in response to the change in diameter of the coins to be passed through the coin passage. By the use of the device according to the invention, said sliders are moved in the directions reverse to each other by the same distance so as to move the associated coin selection guides to increase or decrease the width of the coin passage without changing the longitudinal center line of the passage. Malfunction of the machine including jamming and false stacking of the coins caused by the misalignment of the center axes of the coin passage and the coin receiving accumulator tube can be advantageously precluded by the use of the device of the invention.

Device for adjusting coin passage of coin handling machine

A coin wrapping machine in which kinds of coins are wrapped with wrapping papers at a wrapping section is provided. Coin kind cams for setting initial positions of various operational portions of the machine are shaped to accommodate to all kinds of coins issued in a country. A support for detachably mounting paper units to supply wrapping paper to the wrapping section of the machine is adapted to preload a specific number of paper units for supporting wrapping paper suitable for the specific number of kinds of coins highly circulated in the country less than the number of all kinds of coins issued in the country. A motor for driving the support is separately provided from another motor for driving some of the coin kind cams. Therefore, when the kind of coins to be wrapped does not correspond to one kind of coins highly circulated in the country, another paper unit is substituted for one of the preloaded paper units.

Herein disclosed is an incorrectness detecting device for detecting the coin piling condition in a piling cylinder of a coin packaging machine. The detecting device includes a sensor which is made coactive with a coin kind selecting dial so that its height may be varied in accordance with the height corresponding to a preset number of coins piled. Further inclusive is a detecting element which is to be brought downwardly into contact with the upper side of the uppermost one of the piled coins, when the preset number of coins are piled in the piling cylinder, so that an electric circuit may be made through the piled coins. Further inclusive is a sensor element which is made coactive with the detecting element while corresponding to the sensor. As a result, the coil piling condition can be detected in response to both the signals, which are generated by the interaction between the sensor and its element, and the signals which are generated by the electric circuit made through the coins.

Incorrectness detecting device for detecting coin piling condition in

There is provided a coin packaging machine which comprises a coin denomination selection handle provided with a rotary operation plate. A coin denomination side switch is opened or closed by the operation plate. A coin accumulation side switch is opened or closed by mounting or dismounting an accumulation cylinder. A changeover switch is provided and an electric circuit including the coin denomination switch, the coin accumulation side switch and the changeover switch is constructed so that the machine cannot be started unless accumulation cylinders are dismounted and then re-mounted.

Coin accumulation cylinder changeover alarm

There is provided an apparatus for detecting irregular arrangement of accumulated coins for use in a coin packaging machine wherein a predetermined number of accumulated coins are delivered from an accumulating cylinder to a packaging zone by a pair of delivery arms and packaging them in the packaging zone. The pair of delivery arms, an upper delivery arm and a lower delivery arm, is constructed so that it is rotatable between a coin accumulating zone and a coin packaging zone and vertically slidable to engage with and disengage with the accumulated coins in the coin accumulating zone. The delivery arms are insulated from each other. A detection circuit is provided for detecting the irregular arrangement of the accumulated coins by sensing the height of the upper delivery arm indicating at the irregular arrangement of the accumulated coins.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenkichi Watanabe