Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shiro Nakai

Hirokuni Matono

Minoru Nakamura

Takao Baba

Kazuto Asami

Masatoshi Ushio

Masaru Itoda

Yoshio Nishikawa

In a coin disposing apparatus, a mechanism is disclosed for aligning a random supply of coins preparatory to further processing. Included is a rotary disc for receiving thereon the coins to be processed from an overhead belt conveyor and for centrifugally sending the coins toward the disc periphery. A coin runway extends from a peripheral position on the rotary disc to a subsequent processing station for aligned delivery of the coins. An endless belt makes frictional contact with the periphery of the rotary disc, except at least where the entrance of the coin runway is located, for simultaneous rotation therewith. Thus, on being centrifugally forced into peripheral contact with the endless belt on the rotary disc, the coins do not revolve about their own axes, unlike the case where the disc rotates inside a fixed annular wall, and so is smoothly and noiselessly fed into the runway one by one. The invention also features a fixed annular wall arranged over the endless belt rotary wall. When coins piled up on the rotary disc contact the fixed wall, a conduction sensor electrically senses an oversupply of coins and sets the overhead conveyor out of operation.

Coin feeding apparatus for a coin disposing machine

In a coin processing apparatus, the flow rate of coins fed into a coin passageway from a rotary disk is detected so as to change the rotation of the rotary disk according to the flow rate thus detected thereby keeping the flow rate of the coins in the coin passageway constant at all times.

Constant coin flow rate coin processing apparatus

A coin wrapping device incorporated in a coin wrapping apparatus has a main guide member and an auxiliary guide member provided between each pair of adjacently disposed wrapping rolls, so that these members are movable in synchronism with the movements of the wrapping rolls in accordance with the setting thereof for the denomination of coins being wrapped, and the inner surfaces of the end portions of the members define a cylindrical space between the wrapping rolls.

Coin wrapping device in wrapping apparatus

A coin stack supporting device has a closing disk for closing the bottom of a cylindrical space into which coins are received and stacked, a coin stack supporting member including a coin stack supporting cylinder, and a coin stack supporting center rod for raising the coin stack for wrapping and fold crimping operations, and an operating mechanism including cams and other parts for variously positioning the upper end of the coin stack supporting member and to withdraw the closing disk and the coin stack supporting member from the cylindrical space to retracted positions.

Coin stack supporting device in coin wrapping machine

A coin stacking cylinder is assembled from three wall members and has a coin stacking space of a substantially circular cross section and variable diameter defined by a substantially semicylindrical concave surface formed by contiguously joined, arcuately recessed surfaces respectively of first and second, mutually displaceable wall members and defining a cavity and by an arcuately recessed surface of a third wall member, which is adjustably moved toward or away from the cavity to vary the diameter of the stacking space to suit any selected one of a plurality of different kinds of coins.

Coin stacking device

In a coin packaging apparatus of the type comprising a stacking cylinder for stacking a prescribed number of coins of the same denomination, a cutter blade for severing a wrapper strip as the same is unwound from its roll, wrapping rolls for winding the severed piece of wrapper strip around the circumference of the stack of coins, and a pair of crimping hooks for crimping the opposite marginal edges of the wrapper strip over both ends of the coin stack, several wrapper rolls of different widths are used interchangeably in accordance with the denomination of coins to be packaged, and each time a new wrapper roll is installed in position on the apparatus, its width is sensed by a wrapper width sensing member which correspondingly actuates a mechanism for adjustably moving one of the crimping hooks in the direction of the other hook and a mechanism for adjustably changing the position of the cutter blade in the transverse direction of the wrapper strip which will extend therepast from its roll.

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Himeji, Japan

Shiro Nakai