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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1981
Filed:
May. 11, 1979
James T Schuller, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Harry C Haeusser, High Ridge, MO (US);
UMC Industries, Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
For use in a vendor for handling acceptable coins and rejecting unacceptable items (slugs, unacceptable coins) inserted in the coin slot of the vendor and for making change: coin apparatus for handling coins of various denominations (e.g., U.S. nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars), having change tubes for change coins of different denominations (e.g., nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar coins), in which coins of each of said change coin denominations inserted in the coin slot of the vendor are delivered to the respective change tube as long as the latter is not filled to a predetermined level, in which coins of each change coin denomination inserted in the coin slot of the vendor are delivered to the money box of the vendor when the tube for coins of that denomination is filled to the respective predetermined level, and in which unacceptable items are rejected.