Patents Assigned to PREMA GmbH
  • Patent number: 4228812
    Abstract: A coin-sorting machine designed to separate non-standard coins, e.g., foreign currency, from standard coins of the national currency to be sorted, and to collect these non-standard coins in a special tray, comprises a plurality of feeler levers, each disposed adjacent to respective detectors intended to sort the standard coins and each controlling an associated thrust member. The standard coins are deflected into respective sorting receptacles, while each non-standard coin is struck in the middle by one of the thrust members and flung over the mouths of the sorting receptacles into the special tray. Each thrust member associated with a feeler lever may be made in one piece with an ejector associated with the preceding detector and take the form of an ejecting nose contiguous with a deflector surface of that ejector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: PREMA GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Marti