Abstract: A device for stacking and packaging coins. The coins are inserted into the top of a vertically oriented cylindrical housing that can be closed at its lower end by a swivel-mounted closure. The interior diameter of the housing corresponds to the diameter of the coins to be processed. The stacked coins are rotated around their axes by several guide rollers set parallel to the axis of the stack and at least as high as the stack. They are wrapped in paper fed into the machine tangentially to the stack and then passed through a cutting device. Two edging hooks, one located at the top, the other at the bottom of the stack fold the excess paper over. Timing of the different stages is automatically adjusted.

Abstract: When a selected loading platform bearing a roll of wrapping paper of a width corresponding to stack of a selected kind of coins to be wrapped is brought into a paper feeding station in a coin wrapping machine, a detection member is actuated in conformance with that paper width thereby to adjustably set the operational position of at least one of two crimping hooks in a device for fold crimping the outwardly projecting lateral edges of the paper after it has been wrapped around the coin stack.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in the automatic stacking and packaging of potato chips made by mixing potato chip flakes and water to create a dough, which dough is then rolled into a sheet and cut into dough chips. After frying, the dough chips are all of substantially the same size and shape such that the apparatus of the application may automatically stack those chips into stacks of identical quantities and wrap those stacks within individual flexible, impermeable wrappers.

Abstract: A coin wrapping device to assure the simple safe stacking and firm and secure wrapping of a roll of coins of selected common diameter having a housing incorporating an elongated cylindrical chamber including an arcuate trough of appropriate diameter and an arcuate hinged cover therefor, a manually rotatable shaft in the cover parallel with the chamber and a resilient friction roller on the shaft with part of its circumference projecting through an aperture in the cover into the chamber in spaced relation to said trough. The housing for the coin wrapping chamber is mounted on a base that provides also a flat work surface for preliminary folding of an end of a conventional paper wrapper prior to introducing the same to the wrapping chamber.

Abstract: In a coin packaging apparatus of the type comprising a stacking cylinder for stacking a prescribed number of coins of the same denomination, a cutter blade for severing a wrapper strip as the same is unwound from its roll, wrapping rolls for winding the severed piece of wrapper strip around the circumference of the stack of coins, and a pair of crimping hooks for crimping the opposite marginal edges of the wrapper strip over both ends of the coin stack, several wrapper rolls of different widths are used interchangeably in accordance with the denomination of coins to be packaged, and each time a new wrapper roll is installed in position on the apparatus, its width is sensed by a wrapper width sensing member which correspondingly actuates a mechanism for adjustably moving one of the crimping hooks in the direction of the other hook and a mechanism for adjustably changing the position of the cutter blade in the transverse direction of the wrapper strip which will extend therepast from its roll.

Abstract: For packaging a preselected number of coins of the same denomination in the form of a neat stack, there is provided apparatus which broadly includes an infeed mechanism, coin stacking mechanism, coin wrapping mechanism, coin guide mechanism, wrapper feed mechanism, and adjusting mechanism. Each preselected number of coins of the same denomination to be enclosed in a single package is fed from the infeed mechanism into a stacking cylinder of the coin stacking mechanism, where the coins are rearranged into a neat stack. The coin guide mechanism includes a guide rod movable up and down for transporting the stack of coins from within the stacking cylinder down to a prescribed position between a plurality of wrapping rolls of the coin wrapping mechanism. A strip of wrapper is then delivered from the wrapper feed mechanism to the coin wrapping mechanism and is wound around the circumference of the stack of coins as the same is caused frictionally to rotate in circumferential contact with the wrapping rolls.