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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1977
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1976
John C Mellinger, Newton, IA (US);
The Maytag Company, Newton, IA (US);
Abstract
A coin slide apparatus which includes a housing for mounting the apparatus to a machine, a coin slide assembly, and a guideway in the housing for the coin slide assembly to operate within. The coin slide assembly is reciprocally operable in the guideway from an extended coin receiving position through coin measuring and coin ejection positions to a position for initiating operation of the machine. The movable slide assembly comprises two main members: an upper slide plate and a center slide plate. The upper slide plate is formed to include the operating handle at one end and has coin receiving slots of a predetermined size tandemly aligned one behind the other. The center slide plate has downwardly projecting fingerlike members defining between them coin pockets also tandemly aligned for supporting coins on edge and further defining coin pushers. The center slide plate also serves as a storage area for blanking members which are used to convert the apparatus from one combination of coins to another. Proper coins are vertically supported and are advanced one behind another from the coin receiving position, through the coin measuring position to the coin ejecting position. The first coin measured is not ejected until the second coin has been verified.