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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yukichi Hayashi, Sakado, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Coinco Co., Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
194 / ; 194D / ; 194D / ; 133 / ; 133 / ;
Abstract
A control system for a vending machine of a type capable of vending plural pieces of an article continuously in which an upper limit number of coins to be accepted is set for every denomination of coin and, if the number of inserted coins has reached the set upper limit, a subsequently inserted coin of the particular denomination is returned without being accepted. The control system according to the invention includes a counting device provided for each denomination of coin and a circuit for comparing the counting output of each counting device with a predetermined upper limit coin number for the corresponding denomination.