Abstract: An automatically actuated cover for the exit from a currency counter responds to activation of a counting cycle to cover the exit and responds to completion or termination of a counting cycle to open or uncover the exit.

Abstract: A coin sorter and counter comprising a sloped combination of a pick-up plate and a selecting plate rotating in unison and forming a sandwich with a separator, such separator having a window therein for permitting coins to pass, one-at-a-time, from the pick-up plate, through the separator, into one of a series of coin entrances along the periphery of the selecting plate, each such coin entrance leading into a boomerang-shaped, angulated coin selecting slot or guide which is tapered downwardly in size from its entrance to its terminus, the selecting plate passing over a selecting base in which there is a series of openings spaced angularly about the axis of rotation of the selecting plate, such openings being graduated in size to correspond to the diameter of coins to be sorted, the smaller the opening, the shorter the radial distance of that opening from the axis of rotation of the selecting plate, the direction of angulation of the coin-selecting slots being in the direction of rotation of the selecting plate