EP0676729A1 - Appareil pour manier des pièces de monnaie - Google Patents

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EP0676729A1
EP0676729A1 EP95104924A EP95104924A EP0676729A1 EP 0676729 A1 EP0676729 A1 EP 0676729A1 EP 95104924 A EP95104924 A EP 95104924A EP 95104924 A EP95104924 A EP 95104924A EP 0676729 A1 EP0676729 A1 EP 0676729A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/02—Sorting coins by means of graded apertures
    • G07D3/06—Sorting coins by means of graded apertures arranged along a circular path
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/14—Apparatus driven under control of coin-sensing elements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G07D9/008—Feeding coins from bulk

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  • the present invention relates to a device for handling, in particular for counting and / or sorting coins or similar disc-shaped objects, the coins being fed to a horizontal loading plate and being passed from here one after the other to a circular sorting path equipped with separating means and a sorting disc.
  • Devices of the generic type have been known for a long time (see DE-OS 21 36 657) and are intended to sort coins (or comparable disc-shaped objects such as tokens) from a mixture of different coins according to their specific diameter and count them at the same time.
  • the performance and functional reliability of these known coin sorting and counting machines is fundamentally dependent on the speed at which the coins are fed in by the horizontal loading plate and from there are fed one by one to the sorting line with the sorting disc. The distance between the individual coins is uncontrollable and the individual coins may even be touched one after the other.
  • two counter-rotating turntables are provided, one of which (the loading plate) rotates under the storage container and thus presses the coins to the edge by centrifugal force, from where they are fed via a transfer channel to the second turntable with diameter-specific sorting openings.
  • slightly overlapping turntables are provided (compare WO 93/18488) and the coins are removed one after the other from the loading plate (virtually piece by piece) via elastic, radial "fingers" arranged on the sorting disc. With this latter device, too, the coins are transferred from the loading plate to the sorting line at an uncontrolled distance.
  • a particular problem with the known devices is that the sorting and exact counting of predetermined quantities of coins in connection with their bagging (packaging or packaging) is more than problematic is.
  • the problem is that when the last (nth) coin of the specified amount of coins to be sacked is recognized or counted, the sorting disc must be stopped at the sorting opening, and that in certain sequence constellations the (n + 1) th coin does not stop can be.
  • the known devices have proven to be problematic if the coins are carried out by the sorting disc due to frictional entrainment. If, for example, a thick and a thin coin follow one after the other, this may result in too little pressure on the thin coin and this can lead to faults; naturally this affects the accuracy and capacity of the facility as a whole.
  • the object on which the present invention is based is to eliminate the above-mentioned problems and thus to provide a device of the generic type which reliably recognizes, counts and separates coins of any type, and which operates optimally with regard to the mentioned bagging problem and the slip problem guaranteed with coins of different thickness.
  • control section which engages in the loading plate and opens into the sorting section is provided between the loading plate and the sorting section, and in that devices for detecting, deflecting and stopping the coins fed one after the other are arranged in the entrance area of the control section are.
  • the essence of the present invention is that the coins are successively transferred to a control path along which a central coin recognition device is arranged.
  • This coin recognition device can be equipped with sensors of different specifications, so that the coins to be sorted (and counted) can also be examined with regard to the thickness of the coins, their alloy, as well as their coinage (i.e. their coin image) and, if necessary, their knurling.
  • the identification criteria mentioned it is possible to count the coins centrally before the transfer to the sorting disc and, for example, to generate control or derivation signals that accompany the path of a coin insofar as they are already out before being inserted into the sorting line can be sorted out from the coin stream (as counterfeit coins, for example) or can be safely separated along the sorting route from coins of the same diameter (of different values).
  • a safe and clear stop mechanism can also be implemented in order to be able to bag or pack a predetermined amount of the same coins.
  • control section downstream of the loading plate can be seen in particular in the fact that, due to the separating devices known in connection with coin sorting devices, the withdrawal of the coins from the loading plate takes place in an orderly and defined manner via a difference between the feed and the withdrawal speed at the transfer station of the loading plate .
  • a very special embodiment can be seen in the fact that the (aggregate) consisting of the loading plate and the sorting disc for coin separation and coin sorting is assigned a (so-called) return path with the control section that functionally connects the functional units mentioned, via which - at the end of a sorting process and thus at the end the sorting line - coins can be returned to the loading plate.
  • the return path mentioned is integrated in connection with the generic coin sorting and counting device in particular when each coin is clearly identified via a control path at the transition between the loading plate and the sorting disc and when the sorting process along the sorting path of the sorting disc is not solely based on the coin diameter, ie solely by mechanical criteria, - it is assumed that the coin sorting process itself is not the focus of the application, but the coin sorting and counting device is to be used as an output device for the output of very specific coin collectives which can be specified via the central coin recognition device.
  • predetermined coin mixes can be put together and individual coin values can be sorted out from any coin mix, and separate coin values can be put together in a very specific ratio to one another.
  • a loading plate 1 is shown, to which coins or the like disk-shaped objects are fed via a storage container (not shown in the drawing).
  • the coins are brought one after the other onto a control section 3 with the aid of a transport belt 2.
  • This control section 3 is assigned a coin detection device 4 with a sensor field behind the outlet area of the loading plate 1, via which each coin is scanned for itself and which generates a specific signal for each coin.
  • a stop device 5 and a separating or deflecting device 6 for separating foreign and counterfeit coins are arranged along the control path 3.
  • the coins guided by the loading plate 1 via the conveyor belt 2 along the control section 3 are then fed to a circular sorting section 8, to which the coins are transferred by the conveyor belt 2.
  • the coins are then frictionally carried by means of a sorting disc 7, ie positively moved along a leading edge F of the sorting path 8.
  • eight separation stations or deflection devices (sorting stations) 8.i are provided, each of which can be activated in a coin-specific manner. It is conceivable to design the separating stations or deflection devices 8.i as diameter-dependent sorting openings - in this case, the coins with the smallest diameter are sorted in the separating device 8.1 closest to the control section 3 and the coins with the largest diameter in the most distant 8.8.
  • separation stations or deflection devices 8.1 are also conceivable, in which coins are deflected laterally from the sorting path 8 on the basis of non-mechanical differentiation criteria - for example, the largest coins in the deflection device 8.1 and the smallest coins in the remote deflection device 8.8.
  • control section 3 runs essentially parallel to the connecting section of the drive axles of the loading plate 1 and the sorting disc 7. In principle, it is also possible to arrange or assign the control section in such a way that it crosses the above-mentioned connecting section.
  • the coin detection and sorting device shown and described with reference to the drawing is supplemented to the extent that a so-called return path 10 is arranged at the end of the sorting path 8 approximately parallel to the control path 3.
  • a return path 10 is arranged at the end of the sorting path 8 approximately parallel to the control path 3.
  • coins that are not sorted out are returned to the feed plate 1.

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EP95104924A 1994-04-08 1995-04-03 Appareil pour manier des pièces de monnaie Expired - Lifetime EP0676729B1 (fr)

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DE4412092A DE4412092C2 (de) 1994-04-08 1994-04-08 Einrichtung zum Handhaben von Münzen
DE4412092 1994-04-08

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FR2542475A1 (fr) * 1983-03-09 1984-09-14 Signaux Entr Electriques Controleur de pieces metalliques, en particulier de pieces de monnaie
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EP0676729B1 (fr) 1998-09-30
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