Abstract: A coin apparatus (100) includes a central housing (102) with a coin holding interior (104). An upper funnel/distributor section (114) facilitates removal of excess coins when said interior is being filled with a predetermined number of coins. The coin apparatus (100) also includes coinage selectors (121), each having an allocation slot (122). Extending inwardly towards the center of the allocation slot (122) is a resilient arm (124) having a button (126) at the end thereof. Each button (126) has an inner edge (127) which is capable of securely abutting edges (128) of one or more of the coins (126) when forces are exerted by the user.

Abstract: Provided is a parallelogram counter for counting pills swiftly and conveniently in a drugstore. The parallelogram counter includes: a parallelogram counting plate on which a transverse flange, a first longitudinal flange, and a second longitudinal flange are protrudingly formed; a slidable transverse flange which is formed in parallel with the transverse flange, and movably fixed up and down; a reference point; a reference line which is formed by connecting the reference point with the outer side of a last pill among a reference number of pills which are arranged along the side surface of the first longitudinal flange; and a recollector outlet.

Abstract: A size-changeable coin bank for counting coins comprises a main body having a cylinder with a coin slot and a funnel with a coin slot, the funnel screw-jointed to the cylinder, a counting cylinder inserted into the funnel and moved up and down, the counting cylinder having an open bottom, a scale marked on the outer surface and a metal lid attached to the top surface, wherein coins are inserted into the counting cylinder through the metal lid, and an ornament attached to the metal lid screw-jointed to the counting cylinder and having a metal coin. Herein the size of the coin bank is changeable by moving the counting cylinder up and down. The main body and/or the counting cylinders are polygonal. The cylinder, the funnel and the counting cylinders are made of a transparent material, and an advertisement paper or film is inserted into the inner or attached to the outer of the cylinder, the funnel and the counting cylinders. The coin bank further comprises a sensor or an IC chip for making a sound and lighting.

Abstract: An adjustable coin acceptor gate for use in accepting coins or tokens of all sizes from the United States coin or equivalent to the large gaming token or chip in use today in the gaming industry. The adjustable coin acceptor gate can be manually adjusted or electronically adjusted to accept the size or denomination or the coin or token in use for the particular game or vending machine in use and left open for multiple coin and token wagers.

Abstract: A size-changeable coin bank for counting coins comprises a main body having a cylinder with a coin slot and a funnel with a coin slot, the funnel screw-jointed to the cylinder, a counting cylinder inserted into the funnel and moved up and down, the counting cylinder having an open bottom, a scale marked on the outer surface and a metal lid attached to the top surface, wherein coins are inserted into the counting cylinder through the metal lid, and an ornament attached to the metal lid screw-jointed to the counting cylinder and having a metal coin. Herein the size of the coin bank is changeable by moving the counting cylinder up and down. The main body and/or the counting cylinders are polygonal. The cylinder, the funnel and the counting cylinders are made of a transparent material, and an advertisement paper or film is inserted into the inner or attached to the outer of the cylinder, the funnel and the counting cylinders. The coin bank further comprises a sensor or an IC chip for making a sound and lighting.

Abstract: A coin stacking device is used to refill a coin cassette of a coin dispenser. The coin stacking device includes a cylindrical structure having an inner diameter approximately the same as a diameter of the coins. The cylindrical structure has one open end and one closed end The coins enter the open end and form a coin stack within the cylindrical structure To refill a coin cassette, the open end of the filled coin stacking device is aligned with a coin receptacle in the coin cassette that is in need of coins The coin stack is then transferred from the coin stacking device to the coin receptacle of the coin cassette The coin stacking device can easily filled by an automated coin processing machine, such as a coin sorting machine or a coin counting machine.

Abstract: A coin and currency wrapper are provided wherein the coin and currency wrappers include a graduated scale and/or a machine readable code to simplify usage of the same. In addition, a money bag or envelope is also provided having a machine readable code. Further, the wrappers may include a perforated tear line for assisting removal of the wrapper to access the money. A system and method are further provided for managing inventory of money placed into and removed from, for example, a cash register. The system and method accurately track and manage inventory of money that is typically and often times exchanged within a device.

Abstract: A combination chip counter and swizzle stick apparatus for enabling a player in a casino environment to quickly measure the monetary value of stacked gambling chips and to mix beverages, comprising an axially elongated member having at least one graduated surface extending along the axial elongation thereof, the elongated member being sized and arranged for mixing beverages, the at least one graduated surface containing indicia identifying a progressive monetary amount proportional to the height of a stack of gambling chips when said apparatus is placed next to the stack to enable the player to read the value from the surface of the elongated member, the apparatus further including color coded surfaces corresponding to the colors of chips of different denominations to enable the player to quickly select the proper graduated surface for the chips to be counted.

Abstract: A device for counting, storing and stacking coins for filling standard coin wrappers is disclosed. A plurality of coin tubes is clustered in a parallel relationship. Each coin tube is a hollow cylindrical tube and receives and holds coins of a given denomination in a stack. Each tube has a bottom support surface and an open top. Each tube also includes a transverse slot perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the coin tube. The transverse slot has a transverse bottom edge positioned so that a stack of coins between the bottom support surface of the tube and the transverse bottom edge of the transverse slot fills a standard coin wrapper for that denomination of coin. The transverse slot is dimensioned to allow extra coins stacked above the transverse bottom edge to slide out of the tube through the transverse slot. A plurality of coin keeper clips is insertable within the transverse slots to prevent coins from sliding out of the transverse slots.

Abstract: A cash drawer coin counter is in combination with a cash drawer and has a width and a plurality of individual coin compartments spaced along the width. A frame of the counter has opposite side walls for being positioned on opposite sides of the cash drawer, and a body fixed between the side walls for being positioned above the cash drawer. Each side wall has a rail below the body, and a release platform is slidably engaged to the rail and moveable between a first position at least partially covering a lower surface of the body, and a second position exposing the lower surface of the body. The body including a plurality of spaced, open-ending cylindrical chambers each aligned with one of the coin compartments and each having a front access slot through a front wall of the body. Each chamber is of a diameter for receiving one denomination of coins to be stacked above the platform with the platform in its first position.

Abstract: Coin management devices having a transparent tubular device for receiving and aligning coins flat surface to flat surface and a tray into which aligned coins are arranged and the accumulated value of such coins ascertained. The tubular device has a tube of a diameter greater than a coin, with a mouth arranged midway its length communicating therewith. The tray has a channel into which aligned coins may be placed and indicia associated with the channel for ascertaining the value of coins accumulated therein. The tray may also have legs for elevating one end. A coin management method is also taught which utilizes the coin management devices, and includes the step of rocking and jiggling the tubular device to align coins into a column of a given denomination.

Abstract: A device for counting coins, organizing standard bank rolls, and aiding in the wrapping of coins having an upper surface presenting a depression having a cross-section adapted to receive coins, the depression having a first abutment at one end thereof and a second abutment at the other end thereof, marking scale adjacent to the depression located on the upper surface, and a rail projecting upwardly from the upper surface and along the upper surface, merging with the second abutment whereby coins may be measured when bearing against the rail inside or outside of the depression, by viewing the marking scale.

Abstract: A coin counter comprises a longitudinal tubular member or a cylinder of a semicircular cross section and has a large longitudinal slot directed from the top opening to a closed bottom surface. The cylindrical member has graduations on the side thereof indicative of the height of various stacks of coins. One uses the member to scoop up similar coins and to capture the same inside the confines of the member whereby the graduations on the surface of the member define the exact height of a stack of coins and therefore the exact amount of a stack of coins. The device can further be used to assist in wrapping coins of the same denominations after being gathered by the coin counter.

Abstract: A coin count verifier having an elongated body with an abutment disposed at one end and a coin receiving trough extending longitudinally along one surface of the body, the coin receiving trough declines from the other end of the body towards the abutment, the abutment spans across and is integral with the coin receiving trough. The abutment is disposed an obtuse angle relative to the coin receiving trough and extends beyond the coin receiving trough.

Abstract: A coin counter and wrapper loading device comprising multiple, inclined, semicircular coin-holding troughs connected by trough separator members, and attached to a trough holding frame. The troughs have a closed lower end, and an open upper end, a hollow ring guide being positioned at the latter end having flexible speculum fingers extending therefrom, outwardly from said troughs and parallel thereto. If desired, the guide rings may be detachably connected with the device, as for example, by insertion into a collar member attached to said troughs, or to the frame holding them.

Abstract: A coin dispenser for coins, tokens and the like comprises a tube with a loading scoop at one end and a dispensing slot at the other with the floor of the tube becoming planar and inclining downwardly from adjacent the other end of the tube towards the dispensing slot. The top of the tubular portion over the planar floor is open so that individual coins on the floor can be engaged by the thumb of the user grasping the tube and urged out through the dispensing slot one at a time facilitated by the angle of inclination of the floor. These coins can be fitted directly into slot machines or any coin operated device, one at a time, with the operator ejecting the coins from the slot of the dispenser as desired.