Abstract: An automatic coin wrapping machine has a coin dispenser which forms coins into a single file and moves them along a track past a counting star wheel to a downwardly curved discharged chute. Coins leaving the discharge chute enter a stacking tube where they are formed into a stack. The bottom of the tube is closed by a movable gate which is vibrated to assist stacking. The formation of a proper stack is sensed by an optical sensor that checks the height of the stack. When a proper stack is formed, the gate is removed and the stack of coins is lowered on a rod to a wrapping section in which three wrapping rollers engage a web of paper and wrap the paper about the stack. Crimping hooks fold over the extending ends of the wrapper and the completed roll is discharged.The width of the track and discharge chute are adjustable for different denominations of coins. One side of the adjustable track and chute is formed on a plate which is pivotally mounted at the rear of the frame of the machine.

Abstract: A given number of sheets are set to a supply section and, after being bundled, supplied from the supply section. The bundled portion of the bundled sheets is read out by a reading-out unit and a sorting card is prepared by a sorting card preparing unit on the basis of read-out data. The thus set sheets are taken out sheet by sheet by a take-out unit and sorted by an inspection unit and sorting unit into normal sheets, soiled sheets and reject sheets. The reject sheets are collected, together with the sorting card, at a reject sheet sorting/collecting unit.

Abstract: Unit sheet-stacks each as a stack of a given number of sheets are successively transferred to a bundling device for bundling the unit sheet-stacks. The bundling device includes a unit sheet-stack transfer mechanism, a mechanism for previously forming a bundling loop, and a mechanism for bundling the unit sheet-stack. The transfer mechanism receives the unit sheet-stack in a state that each sheet is postured substantially horizontally and transfers the unit sheet-stack in a state that each sheet is postured substantially vertically to a given position. The bundling loop forming mechanism previously forms a bundling loop by winding the free end portion of a tape by a given number of turns.

Abstract: An apparatus for stacking each preassigned number of coins and packaging the coin stack with a wrapper strip. A selector plate is pivotally mounted at one of two exit openings of a discharge chute for the selective discharge of the proper coin packages and stray coins that may be produced during the transportation of each coin stack from stacking station to packaging station and during the subsequent packaging operation. The selector plate is pivotable between a first position for the discharge of the proper packages into one receptacle under one of the chute exit openings and a second position for the discharge of the stray coins into another receptacle under the other exit opening. The pivotal motion of the selector plate is electrically controlled in such a way that the selector plate is held in the second position at least during the time from the completion of each stacking operation to the completion of the packaging of the coin stack.

Abstract: Labels with and without final item identification mark are put on the individual items in a label collocation station located upstream an item wrapping station followed by a film sealing and cutting station, a heating tunnel and a stacker. Reading means associated to the label collocation station read any identification marks on the labels and control feeding of recognition tabs onto the wrapped items from tab feeding means arranged between the sealing and cutting station and the heating tunnel. Tab detecting means arranged between the heating tunnel and the stacker control the stacker to terminate the formation of a batch of items when a tab on a wrapped item is detected.

Abstract: There is provided a coin packaging machine of the type in which one packaging operation is controlled by one revolution of a cam driving shaft. The coin packaging machine is provided with an apparatus for processing irregularly stacked coins.

Abstract: An automatic optoelectronic inspection device is located at a position downstream from a cigarette making machine and upstream from cigarette packaging machinery, and cigarettes are conveyed in groups to the inspection device where each group is inspected. The inspection device includes a plurality of photodetectors arranged so that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the position of a photodetector and the position occupied by each cigarette in a normally formed group. Each photodetector includes a light-emitting source for illuminating the end portion of a cigarette and a photoelectric transducer for sensing light reflected from the end portion of a cigarette in registration with the photodetector. The power to the light-emitting sources is controlled in such a way that the intensity of the light emanating from each light-emitting source is modulated at a high frequency.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Assemblies of collated film sections and related prints, each belonging to a customer, are fed seriatim into a tray at the right-hand side of a horizontal table in front of a seated attendant so that the attendant can remove an assembly with the right hand while the left-hand opens the corresponding customer pocket which is held in a position of readiness at the left-hand side of the table. The attendant can observe the collating operation by inspecting successive film frames while the frames move above an illuminated window below and in front of the web of photographic paper with exposed and developed prints thereon. The pockets are removed seriatim from a magazine and are transported to the left-hand side of the table where the rear panel of an oncoming pocket is held by suction to facilitate the task of opening the pocket by pulling the front panel away from the rear panel.

Abstract: The device is conventionally associated to a cigarette packaging machine and comprises a hopper for successively distributing individual layers of adjacently disposed cigarettes into transferring means which successively transfer each layer into compartments intermittently moved in front of said transferring means. A plurality of layers are superimposed in each compartment to form a bundle to be fed to the wrapping means of the packaging machine. During the transferring, the layers are compelled to pass through a passage delimited by side guiding members and by an upper and a lower light-transparent guiding plate, said passage having a width substantially equal to the width of a layer and a height substantially equal to the diameter of a cigarette. The upper plate has a slot in the direction of the transverse dimension of the passage and this slot is subjected to the light rays generated by a light source transversely disposed relative to said passage and above said slot.

Abstract: There is disclosed a coin wrapper discharge assembly for use with a coin wrapping apparatus that momentarily stops a coin roll to change its direction, and senses the presence of loose coins. The assembly includes a chute disposed beneath a coin wrapping apparatus that accepts coin rolls falling downwardly after being wrapped. The chute directs a coin roll laterally from its original downward direction into a V-shaped trap. The trap is formed by an inclined floor and a swingable door. A solenoid is provided to hold the door in its normally closed position until actuated by a paper feed mechanism in the coin wrapping apparatus. When actuated, the solenoid releases the door to allow a trapped coin roll to fall onto a conveyor for removal to a packaging point. In addition, the door is electrically insulated from the floor and chute to provide a pair of electrical contacts that are bridged by loose coins to complete an electric circuit that disables the coin wrapping apparatus.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an apparatus for removing an irregular stack of coins for use in a coin packaging machine in which a packaging paper is wrapped around the peripheral face of a columnar stack of a predetermined number of accumulated coins and both the upper and lower ends of the packaging paper are inwardly bent to package the coins. In this irregular stack of coins removing apparatus, an electromagnet for operating a gate disposed on a discharge opening of a guiding spout for guiding coins to a packaged coin store box is actuated synchronously with discharge opening of a shutter device of an accumulating cylinder for accumulating a predetermined number of coins, which shutter device actuated in response to a detection signal emitted from a detector device disposed on the accumulating cylinder or a clear signal indicating the shortage of the number of coins, whereby irregular stacks of coins are not discharged into the coin store box.

Abstract: Webs of customer films and webs of related prints are transported in synchronism vertically downwardly toward a severing unit which subdivides the films into sections each of which includes several film frames and which simultaneously subdivides the web of prints into discrete prints. The film sections and the related discrete prints are gathered in separate magazines immediately below the severing unit and are automatically transferred into neighboring compartments of a pocket below the magazines when one of the magazines collects all sections of a customer film and the other magazine collects all related prints. Two closely adjacent windows are provided above the severing unit side-by-side to allow for simultaneous observation of film frames and related prints.

Abstract: A cup packaging device for seriately receiving, counting and loosely nesting into a group on a first conveyor segment a preset number of cups, nesting the cups into a more tightly nested stack on a subsequent conveyor segment, conveying the tightly nested group of cups at an accelerated speed past a verifying device to determine if the number of cups in the group matches the previously counted number, laterally offloading to a holding tray a stack of cups in response to a count mismatch signal or a downstream component malfunction signal, advancing an acceptable stack into a bagging device, conveying the bagged stack longitudinally out of the bagging device and then transferring the stack laterally into a collection bin. The conveyor system comprises separately driven conveyor segments which are operated at speeds that vary from one another and are also changed during each cycle.

Abstract: A device to check and discard lengths of wrapping paper (foil) intended to form the wrapper on packets of cigarettes in a very high speed packet cigarette packer; comprises at least one turning wheel in continuous motion on an axis parallel to the vertical feed plane for the lengths of wrapping paper and disposed opposite the front side of the stop check for the single lengths. Apparatus having idlers is placed, in respect to the feed plane, on the opposite side of the turning wheel in continuous motion mounted on an axis parallel to the axis of the wheel and spaced therefrom. An electromagnetic command controls the check for missing or faulty bundles of cigarettes.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a pair of pushers synchronously moved at a frequency equal to 1/n of the frequency of pile forming means. The first pusher feeds individual piles into a rejecting and replenishment device, and the second pusher removes individual piles from the same rejecting and replenishment device, and feeds them to an exiting channel wherein individual groups of piles are formed and delivered to the parcelling or cartoning machine.

Abstract: A coin packaging machine for packaging a predetermined number of coins has a denomination selecting section for selecting a denomination of coins, a packaging section for packaging stacked coins in a paper wrapper, a conveyor for conveying coins to the packaging section, and a counting section for counting the number of coins conveyed. Upon selection of a new denomination, the coins of the previously selected denomination left in the packaging section are removed, and packaging of coins of the newly selected denomination is automatically started.

Abstract: A photographic print sorting, conveying and packing mechanism includes a main conveyor line and a plurality of branch conveyor lines with an initial feeding device which receives individual cut prints from a print cutter and feeds the prints into the main conveyor line which defines a main flow path. All of the conveyor lines include a plurality of driver rollers spaced apart less than the length of each cut photograph so that one roller will always be in contact with the prints to maintain positive driving contact with the prints at all times during their successive travel along the conveyor lines. The conveyor lines also include deflecting elements ahead of each roller to flatten momentarily the curl in each print and insure proper driving engagement between the rollers and the print.

Abstract: A counting and filling apparatus for tablets, dragees, or similar elements comprises a plurality of counting bars arranged parallel and closely adjacent each other and each formed with a plurality of cutouts therethrough, spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the bars. The bars are connected in the region of opposite ends by chains or the like to form an endless receiving and transporting unit, which is guided over front and rear reversing rolls, at least one of which is driven so that the unit moves along an endless path having an upper and a lower run. The elements are filled in the region of the upper run into the cutouts of the counting bars and prevented from falling out of the same by a boundary means extending along the upper run and the front reversing roll.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling a multiplicity of like bodies such as pills or tablets has a drum rotatable in a housing about a horizontal axis and formed with a multiplicity of throughgoing holes constituting body-receiving pockets. A pair of axially spaced end walls axially close the drum and a pair of inner and outer shields insure that except for an inner input location and an outer retrieval location bodies in the apertures of the drum will not fall out as the drum rotates. A pair of transparent end walls are rigidly mounted together by way of axially extending bolts and carry feed plates, a separating comb, and a separating disc. These end plates and the elements carried on them are slidable axially into and out of the drum. The separating comb is formed of a plurality of axially spaced and parallel elements that define slits that are aligned with the rows of apertures in the drum and between which fit elastomeric discs carried on the separating roller.

Abstract: A machine for opening and inspecting a folding carton to break improper glue spots and to demonstrate that the carton opens properly. Vacuum cups engage opposite side panels of the carton as the carton advances through an inspection section. The vacuum cups advance with the carton and diverge from the path of the carton to separate the panels. As the carton reaches an inspection station, photocell devices inspect the carton to determine if the carton is properly opened. The carton is advanced to the inspection station by a conveyor which picks up the carton from an accelerator device. The accelerator device in turn picks up the carton from the bottom of a stack and accelerates the carton to conveyor speed. Before the accelerator device initiates advance of the carton in conveyor direction, a carton releasing device engages a side of the carton and advances the carton transversely of the direction of conveyor advance to free the carton from other cartons in the stack.

Abstract: A machine for packaging a predetermined number of coins has a coin feeding device, a coin counting device for counting coins, a coin packaging device for stacking and packaging coins fed by the coin feeding device, a control system for controlling the above described devices, a detecting device for detecting whether the stacking or packaging of the coins is acceptable or not and for producing a detection signal when unacceptable packaging is detected, a rejecting device for rejecting a package of coins detected as unacceptable from the coin packaging device, and a restart commanding system for applying a restart command signal to the control system when the production of the detection signal ceases after the coins are rejected, whereby the next packaging operation is started.

Abstract: A paper sheets processing apparatus is provided with a draw-out and conveyance section for drawing out one by one a paper sheet from the paper sheets arranged in a laminated state and conveying said paper sheet, a detection section for detecting each of the paper sheets conveyed thereto to discriminate whether or not it is a normal sheet, or is a soiled sheet, and a reception and pile-up section for receiving and piling up each of the paper sheets thus discriminated in accordance with the detected results of the detection section. The apparatus is further provided with a means for separating normal sheets in units of a prescribed number of sheets to pile up them, a means for supplying a bundling member for bundling each unit of the normal sheets piled up in units of said prescribed number of sheets, and a means for bundling this normal sheet unit by said bundling number.

Abstract: Piles of sheets printed with numbered banknotes are cut into bundles, and the bundles are stacked in magazines of a rotary-drum bundle collector to form packets in which the notes are sequentially numbered, these packets being wrapped and then arranged in a serial ordinator. During delivery to the collector, bundles containing previously marked spoil notes are detected and deviated. The spoil notes are replaced at a substitution station and the bundles remade. Dummy bundles are inserted in gaps left in the delivery line, so as to maintain the correct sequence in the collector, and are removed at the collector output and replaced by the respective remade bundles.