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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2008
Eisei Nishida, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuhiro Koumoto, Hyogo, JP;
Eisei Nishida, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuhiro Koumoto, Hyogo, JP;
GLORY LTD., Himeji-Shi, Hyogo-Ken, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a coin handling machinewhich can handle a large amount of coins, has a transportation structure which can be simplified, reduced in size and cost, and can reduce the occurrence of trouble such as coin jams. The coin handling machineincludes a depositing and dispensing unitwhich processes depositing and dispensing of coins, and a replenishing and collecting unitwhich replenishes coins to the depositing and dispensing unitand collects coins from the depositing and dispensing unit. The depositing and dispensing unitincludes a depositing and dispensing transport path, a depositing and feeding unit, a plurality of storing and feeding units, and an escrow unit. Each of the depositing and feeding unitand the plurality of storing and feeding unitsincludes a rotary diskwhich rotates at a position inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the horizontal direction, and a hopper which stores coins in an unaligned state on the surface side of the rotary disk. The replenishing and collecting unitincludes an overflow stacking unitand a coin cassette, and includes a replenishment transport pathwhich transports coins fed out from the overflow stacking unitand the coin cassetteto the depositing and dispensing unit