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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1980
Isamu Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An improved coin accumulator assembly is provided, which comprises a main accumulator tube adapted to receive and accumulate therein a pre-set number of coins and a subsidiary accumulator tube disposed upstream of the main accumulator tube and adapted to receive and accumulate temporarily the coins counted during the early stage of counting operation when the main accumulator tube is involved in the coin delivery operation and hence cannot receive any coins. The coins temporarily accumulated in the subsidiary accumulator tube are collectively passed to the main accumulator tube when the latter is released from the coin delivery operation and restored to its normal coin receiving condition. By the use of the coin accumulator assembly of the invention, the time period used for counting the coins included in one cycle operation of the coin wrapping machine can be increased to improve the efficiency or the coin feeding rate may be lowered to make it possible to control the coin counting operation more precisely and more reliably.