Coin wrapping machine

Abstract

A coin wrapping machine includes a coin stacking device for stacking coins. A coin support post receives the stacked coins at a post waiting position immediately below the coin stacking device and supports them on a upper surface thereof. A coin wrapping device includes a plurality of wrapping rollers for winding a wrapping film around the stacked coins and produces a wrapped coin roll. A support post moving mechanism moves the coin support post between the post waiting position, a post wrapping position where the supported coins can be wrapped by the coin wrapping device, and a post retracted position where the coin support post is retracted from between the wrapping rollers. A mode selector selects a counting mode which causes the coin wrapping machine to only count coins or a wrapping mode which causes it to count and wrap coins. When the mode selector is used to select the wrapping mode, the support post moving mechanism lowers the coin support post by a distance substantially corresponding to the thickness of one coin each time the coin support post receives a coin during the period between the time that the coin stacking device stacks coins in a number that is smaller than a predetermined number to be wrapped in one wrapped coin roll and the time that the coin support post receives the predetermined number of coins. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made compact and can prevent coin jamming with a mechanism of simple structure and can wrap coins in a desired manner.