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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1994
Yoshio Oikawa, Okegawa, JP;
Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A coin wrapping apparatus includes a coin discriminating and counting section which discriminates deposited coins as to whether or not they are genuine and their denomination agrees with a predetermined one while counting the number of coins, a coin stacking section which stacks a predetermined number of coins of predetermined denomination to be wrapped, wrapping rollers which wind a wrapping film whose width is wider than a height of coins stacked in the coin stacking section around the stacked coins so that there remain crimp regions above and below the stacked coins, upper crimp claw and lower crimp claw, movable in the vertical direction toward each other so that the stacked coins are held therebetween, for crimping the crimp regions to generate rolls of wrapped coins, discrepancy detecting device for detecting as to whether or not the predetermined number of stacked coins are wrapped after the wrapping film is wrapped around the stacked coins by the wrapping roller, rolls of wrapped coins collecting box for collecting the rolls of wrapped coins, cutter which cuts the wrapping film when it is detected that the number of stacked coins wrapped with the wrapping film is less than or more than the predetermined number of coins, coin collecting box for collecting the coins whose wrapping film is cut by the cutter, and gate for selectively delivering the coins to the rolls of wrapped coins collecting box or the coin collecting box in accordance with the detected result by the detecting device for detecting discrepancy in number of coins.