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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1993
Richard A Mazur, Naperville, IL (US);
Gary Watts, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Donald E Raterman, Deerfield, IL (US);
Robert J Crawford, Palatine, IL (US);
Cummins-Allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Abstract
A coin sorter for sorting mixed coins by denomination includes a rotatable disc, a drive motor for rotating the disc, and a stationary sorting head having a lower surface generally parallel to the upper surface of the rotatable disc and spaced slightly therefrom. The lower surface of the sorting head forms a plurality of exit channels for guiding coins of different denominations to different discharge stations around the periphery of the disc. A plurality of coin sensor/discriminators are mounted in the stationary sorting head over the rotatable disc for discriminating between valid and invalid coins guided by said stationary sorting head. At least one coin sensor/discriminator is mounted in each of the plurality of exit channels.