Patents Assigned to Hopper S.r.L.
  • Patent number: 7341508
    Abstract: A configurable coin dispenser includes a box-like structure, which has a storage container, situated thereinside for storing coins of a certain value, and which has a coin outlet passage leading to a chamber, open toward a front wall, so as to dispense the coins. The dispenser includes a first additional coin outlet slot, situated on a first lateral wall of the box-like structure and facing the chamber. Coin conveying means can be situated removably inside the chamber to join the outlet passage to the first additional slot, so as to guide the coins leaving the outlet passage to the first additional slot, in order to dispense the coins from the first lateral wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Hopper S.r.L.
    Inventor: Fabrizio Rigo
  • Publication number: 20060105693
    Abstract: A coin and/or token dispenser for automatic distributors or paying devices, has a chamber for receiving and storing coins and/or tokens. A rotating disc is mounted on a first inner wall of the chamber and is connected to a motor situated outside the chamber. The disc has a plurality of rows of protruding teeth, situated on a surface of the disc turned to the inside of the chamber, for moving the coins and/or tokens along a circular path. A coin deflecting member is cantilevered to a second inner wall of the chamber above a circular section of the disc and has a plurality of circular recesses which can house freely the protruding teeth and make them translate thereinside. An elastic member is situated external to the rotating disc, on the same first inner wall, near the deflecting member, and receives the deflected coins and/or tokens and sends them to an outlet slot order to deliver them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: HOPPER S.R.L.
    Inventor: Fabrizio Rigo
  • Publication number: 20050277379
    Abstract: A configurable coin dispenser includes a box-like structure, which has a storage container, situated thereinside for storing coins of a certain value, and which has a coin outlet passage leading to a chamber, open toward a front wall, so as to dispense the coins. The dispenser includes a first additional coin outlet slot, situated on a first lateral wall of the box-like structure and facing the chamber. Coin conveying means can be situated removably inside the chamber to join the outlet passage to the first additional slot, so as to guide the coins leaving the outlet passage to the first additional slot, in order to dispense the coins from the first lateral wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: Hopper S.r.l.
    Inventor: Fabrizio Rigo