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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2000
Stuart M. Jenkins, Bogner Regis, WEst Sussex P021 2NY, GB;
Derek Haynes, Marco Isl., FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
In a coin dispensing apparatus having a plurality of magazines arranged one above another for storing rolls of coins, each magazine having a coin roll outlet at one end and an opposite rear end, said apparatus having a lifting conveyor having a plurality of hods which interact with the outlet of the magazine to receive coin rolls therefrom, said apparatus having a plurality of shelves for supporting the magazines in position with a spacing between them the same as the spacing of the hods along the lifting conveyor, each said shelf having an underside with a bracket attached thereto, each said shelf having an end nearest to the lifting conveyor, said apparatus having a dispensing outlet adapted to receive and dispense coin rolls transported thereto by the lifting conveyor, a lever attached to each shelf, said lever being geometrically arranged to automatically interrelate with a coin roll about to be fed from a magazine into an empty hod position, a coin roll waiting to be fed from the magazine immediately above and adjacent to this position, and a coin roll being transported in the hod between adjacent magazine levels.