Patents by Inventor Kenkichi Watanabe
Kenkichi Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 5155978Abstract: A coin wrapping machine having a pair of stacking drums rotatable in opposite directions, spiral coin support guides formed on the pair of stacking drums for supporting coins by their upper faces and stacking coins and a plurality of wrapping rollers for wrapping the thus stacked coins, the coin wrapping machine further including a plurality of pressurized air blowers which are disposed in such a manner that a blowing opening of each pressurized air blower faces a portion between the wrapping rollers and are adapted to blow pressurized air toward a leading edge of a wrapping paper. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made considerably compact.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 5142847Abstract: A coin wrapping machine having a pair of stacking drums rotatable in opposite directions, spiral coin support guides formed on the pair of stacking drums for supporting coins by their upper faces and stacking coins and a pair of wrapping rollers for wrapping the thus stacked coins, the coin wrapping machine being constituted so that the stacking drums are hollow and one of the wrapping rollers is disposed in each stacking drum in such a manner that a part thereof projects from an opening formed on a periphery of the stacking drum and that when coins are being wrapped, the coins can be held by the wrapping rollers and a driven roller disposed upstream of the pair of wrapping rollers with respect to the coin transportation direction. The thus constituted coin wrapping machine can be made considerably compact.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1991Date of Patent: September 1, 1992Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Hideshi Sentoku
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Patent number: 5135433Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for separating one specified kind of coins from a plurality of coins including various kinds of coins.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1991Date of Patent: August 4, 1992Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Hideshi Sentoku
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Patent number: 5002516Abstract: A coin wrapping machine which discriminates genuineness, denomination, etc. of coins, counts the monetary amount of the coins, sorts them out by denomination and wraps them in a desired order in separate denominations.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1989Date of Patent: March 26, 1991Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Hideshi Sentoku, Takayoshi Asaoka
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Patent number: 4509542Abstract: A coin counting and packaging machine performs a counting operation for counting selected coins and accommodating the coins thus counted into a bag and a packaging operation for packaging selected and counted coins with a paper. These operations are selectively performed separately or individually. When the counting operation is carried out in a state that the bag is prepared, coins are scattered in the machine. To avoid this, a detecter is provided for detecting the presence or absence of the bag and a control circuit is provided for control the start of the machine in response to the signal from the detector. The control circuit also make the switching of a counting chute and a packaging chute.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1982Date of Patent: April 9, 1985Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katusuke Furuya
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Patent number: 4457321Abstract: Herein disclosed is a coin handling apparatus such as a coin packaging apparatus which is free from any trouble that would be caused when the power supply service is interrupted or when the power supply circuit is carelessly broken. The coin handling apparatus includes a rotary solenoid which can rotate back and forth at a predetermined angle thereby to control the opening and closing operations of the guide passage by a rotary pin. Further inclusive is a power source detecting circuit which is made operative to detect the existence of the power supply to the coin handling apparatus thereby to generate output signals respectively corresponding to the existence and nonexistence of the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1981Date of Patent: July 3, 1984Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katsuke Furuya, Toyoki Kimoto
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Patent number: 4412550Abstract: A coin accumulator assembly for use in a coin wrapping machine is provided. The coin accumulator assembly comprises a coin accumulator tube, a shutter movably inserted into the coin accumulator tube for supporting coins stacked in the tube until a predetermined number of coins is accumulated and for opening to pass coins for a further treatment when the predetermined number of coins is accumulated in the tube, and a system for stepwisely lowering the shutter during the coin counting and accumulating operation. The system for effecting stepwise lowering of the shutter includes a support member for supporting the shutter and having a threaded hole, a screw shaft thrusting through said threaded hole of the support member, a reversible motor for rotating the screw shaft, and a guide rod to be slidably engaged with the support member for preventing the support member from being rotated but for guiding the same in the downward or upward direction when the screw shaft is rotated.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1981Date of Patent: November 1, 1983Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Setsuo Hata
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Patent number: 4400928Abstract: A packing paper supply apparatus for use with a coin packing machine which packs several kinds of coins with packing paper supplied from the supply apparatus. This supply apparatus includes a carriage which is accommodated in the machine body and which is charged with several kinds of the packing paper for the kinds of coins to be packed. A corresponding number of stoppers such as pins or recesses are provided in the outer periphery of the carriage and are arranged to correspond to the kinds of the packing paper. Drive means including an electric motor and a power train of belt and pulley type is used to drive the carriage so that it may rotate. An actuating member such as a bail having its extending end provided with a hook or roller is resiliently biased into abutment contact with one of the stoppers and can be brought into and out of engagement with the selected stopper in a manual manner so that the packing paper selected may be held in its supply position.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1980Date of Patent: August 30, 1983Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4370990Abstract: For a coin handling machine, there is provided a coin counting and stopping apparatus wherein coins which are transferred in a coin path are counted one after another and stopped when the number of the counted coins reaches a preset number. The apparatus includes at least one detecter or preferably two detecters disposed in the coin path for detecting the passage of the coins to generate signals. An electric circuit which receives signals generated by one or two detecters performs a counting operation for the number of the coins which have passed by the detecters. A stopper is provided downstream of the detecters. When the number of the counted coins reaches a preset number, the stopper is rotated to stop the subsequent coins.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1980Date of Patent: February 1, 1983Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4369800Abstract: Herein disclosed is a coin handling apparatus which is free from having its coin guide passage from being jammed with coins when the supply of any more coins is to be stopped. The coin handling apparatus is of the type including, as customary, a rotary disc, a guide passage, a conveyor belt and a coin stacking cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1981Date of Patent: January 25, 1983Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katusuke Furuya, Toyoki Kimoto
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Patent number: 4362176Abstract: There is provided an improved device for adjusting a coin passage of a coin handling machine, wherein two coin selection guides defining the coin passage are moved relative to each other. The device comprises two sliders connected respectively to the two coin selection guides, a link pivoted at the point substantially centrally of the longitudinal extension thereof and having ends connected to the sliders for resiliently urging the ends of the link to engage members respectively fixed to the sliders and a cam abutting directly or indirectly against one of the ends of the link for moving the same by a pre-set distance in response to the change in diameter of the coins to be passed through the coin passage. By the use of the device according to the invention, said sliders are moved in the directions reverse to each other by the same distance so as to move the associated coin selection guides to increase or decrease the width of the coin passage without changing the longitudinal center line of the passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1980Date of Patent: December 7, 1982Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4333296Abstract: A coin wrapping machine in which kinds of coins are wrapped with wrapping papers at a wrapping section is provided. Coin kind cams for setting initial positions of various operational portions of the machine are shaped to accommodate to all kinds of coins issued in a country. A support for detachably mounting paper units to supply wrapping paper to the wrapping section of the machine is adapted to preload a specific number of paper units for supporting wrapping paper suitable for the specific number of kinds of coins highly circulated in the country less than the number of all kinds of coins issued in the country. A motor for driving the support is separately provided from another motor for driving some of the coin kind cams. Therefore, when the kind of coins to be wrapped does not correspond to one kind of coins highly circulated in the country, another paper unit is substituted for one of the preloaded paper units.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1980Date of Patent: June 8, 1982Assignee: TokyoInventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4270557Abstract: Herein disclosed is an incorrectness detecting device for detecting the coin piling condition in a piling cylinder of a coin packaging machine. The detecting device includes a sensor which is made coactive with a coin kind selecting dial so that its height may be varied in accordance with the height corresponding to a preset number of coins piled. Further inclusive is a detecting element which is to be brought downwardly into contact with the upper side of the uppermost one of the piled coins, when the preset number of coins are piled in the piling cylinder, so that an electric circuit may be made through the piled coins. Further inclusive is a sensor element which is made coactive with the detecting element while corresponding to the sensor. As a result, the coil piling condition can be detected in response to both the signals, which are generated by the interaction between the sensor and its element, and the signals which are generated by the electric circuit made through the coins.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1979Date of Patent: June 2, 1981Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4254787Abstract: There is provided a coin packaging machine which comprises a coin denomination selection handle provided with a rotary operation plate. A coin denomination side switch is opened or closed by the operation plate. A coin accumulation side switch is opened or closed by mounting or dismounting an accumulation cylinder. A changeover switch is provided and an electric circuit including the coin denomination switch, the coin accumulation side switch and the changeover switch is constructed so that the machine cannot be started unless accumulation cylinders are dismounted and then re-mounted.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1979Date of Patent: March 10, 1981Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katusuke Furuya
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Patent number: 4235061Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for detecting irregular arrangement of accumulated coins for use in a coin packaging machine wherein a predetermined number of accumulated coins are delivered from an accumulating cylinder to a packaging zone by a pair of delivery arms and packaging them in the packaging zone. The pair of delivery arms, an upper delivery arm and a lower delivery arm, is constructed so that it is rotatable between a coin accumulating zone and a coin packaging zone and vertically slidable to engage with and disengage with the accumulated coins in the coin accumulating zone. The delivery arms are insulated from each other. A detection circuit is provided for detecting the irregular arrangement of the accumulated coins by sensing the height of the upper delivery arm indicating at the irregular arrangement of the accumulated coins.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1978Date of Patent: November 25, 1980Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katusuke Furuya, Hitoshi Kamada
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Patent number: 4234002Abstract: A money handling machine such as a coin or bill counting, sorting or wrapping machine having an improved adjusting arrangement to switch from one type coin or bill to another. The adjusting arrangement has a manually operated section with a plurality of first and second switches, at least one manually operated switch actuating member having a plurality of money selecting positions and a member for actuating predetermined ones of the first switches in accordance with the position of the actuating member.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1977Date of Patent: November 18, 1980Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isamu Uchida, Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4232690Abstract: Herein disclosed is a coin kind and number setting and adjusting device for use with a coin packaging machine including a dial for setting the kind of coins and a second dial for setting the number of the coins, which is suitable for the set kind. The device comprises a gate for detecting the coincidence between the signals indicative of the kind of the coins, which is set by the first-named dial, and the signals indicative of the number of the coins, which is set by the second-named dial, so that it may operate the coin packaging machine only when preset conditions are satisfied. The coin packaging machine can be left inoperative if the setting of the coin number is so bad as to fail to coincide with that which is set for the set kind of the coins. Moreover, the number of the coins can be automatically set for the set coin kind.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1978Date of Patent: November 11, 1980Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katusuke Furuya
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Patent number: 4228632Abstract: A coin guide chute device for use with a coin packaging machine winds packaging paper upon the circumferences of a preset number of accumulated coins and inwardly folds both ends of the wound paper, thereby preparing a package of coins. The coin guide chute device includes a guide chute which has a discharge opening so that the coin package may be guided therethrough to the outside, and a gate of an insulating material including an electrode portion which is hinged to the guide chute so as to close the discharge opening. The electric conduction between the guide chute and the electrode portion of the gate is detected through a loose coin, if any, thereby blocking the discharge opening by action of the gate.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1978Date of Patent: October 21, 1980Assignee: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenkichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4219985Abstract: A coin packaging machine in which different kinds of coins are packaged is provided. The coin packaging machine is provided with a mechanism for supplying coins, a mechanism for transporting the supplied coins while selecting a kind of coins out during transportation, a mechanism for accumulating transported coins, a delivery mechanism for receiving accumulated coins and delivering the coins from receiving position to packaging position, a mechanism for supplying a web of paper within packaging zone and a mechanism for clamping the packaged coins. The coin packaging machine may further include a mechanism for making adjustments of various kinds of the above mechanisms in accordance with the thickness and the width of the coins to be packaged.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1978Date of Patent: September 2, 1980Assignees: Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd., Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isamu Uchida, Kenkichi Watanabe, Yorizo Miyazaki
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Patent number: 4216788Abstract: A coin processing machine for counting coins processes the counted coins by bringing the coins, which are guided into their path, into contact one by one with a counting gear, thereby to turn the counting gear. The coin processing machine includes pulse generating means which is connected to the shaft of rotation of the counting gear for generating two kinds of pulse signals having different phases. Also included is a rotational direction discriminating circuit which is made responsive to the pulse signals of the pulse generating means so that it may generate adding pulses when the shaft of the counting gear rotates in the forward direction, and subtracting pulses when the same rotates in the backward direction. A reversible counter is also included for counting either adding or subtracting pulses. Thus, the coin counting operations can always be accomplished correctly while ensuring normal processing of the coins.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1978Date of Patent: August 12, 1980Inventors: Kenkichi Watanabe, Katusuke Furuya