Coin stacking and wrapping apparatus

Abstract

Each unit number of coins to be stacked and wrapped are centrifugally aligned on a rimmed turntable and fed in a row along a horizontal coin guideway to a stacking position, where the successive coins are stacked by a toothed stacking wheel capable of placing each new coin under the preceding one. Thus the coins are stacked on, rather than under, the plane of the coin guideway with a view to the reduction of the vertical dimension of the machine to a minimum. Disposed around the stack of coins thus formed are a set of parallel wrapping rolls at least one of which is displaceable for rotatably engaging the coin stack between itself and the other wrapping rolls. With the forced rotation of the wrapping rolls together with the coin stack, a piece of wrapper strip is wound around the latter, and the side edges of the wrapper strip are folded against the opposite ends of the stack. The wrapped stack of coins is ejected downwardly.