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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
May. 22, 2002
Magnus Svensson, Lund, SE;
Scan Coin Industries AB, Malmö, SE;
Abstract
A coin processing apparatus has an opening for receiving a plurality of coins of different types, a coin sensor adapted to determine a respective type of individual coins among the plurality of coins, a controller operatively coupled to the coin sensor, a coin separator operatively coupled to the controller and capable of separating the individual coins from the plurality of coins under control of the controller. Moreover, the apparatus has a coin packaging device comprising a coin inlet, a supply of packaging material and a packaging mechanism capable of producing a plurality of coin bags from the supply, so that at least two different coin types are packaged in the coin bags in a continuous operation.