Patents by Inventor Dieter Wenskus

Dieter Wenskus has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8007350
    Abstract: An apparatus for the payout of coins from a pair of neighbouring coin tubes, in which one stack of coins at a time is supported on the bottom of a coin tube, with a payout disc below the coin tubes, which is rotatably mounted around an axis parallel to the axis of the coin tubes and which has a payout element on the side facing the coin tubes, which is moved along a curved slit in the bottom of the respective coin tube in an angular rotation of the payout disc, in order to capture the respective lowermost coin and to push it out, with an electric drive motor for the payout disc and a control device, which triggers the drive motor such that departing from a rest position, the payout disc is rotated at option about a limited rotational angle up to a final position, and is consecutively turned back into the rest position, wherein the payout disc has an extension in the rotational direction by which the stack of coins rests on the payout element in the final position of the payout disc, characterised in that on t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: National Rejectors, Inc. GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Wenskus, Torsten Schneider
  • Publication number: 20090017739
    Abstract: An apparatus for the payout of coins from a pair of neighbouring coin tubes, in which one stack of coins at a time is supported on the bottom of a coin tube, with a payout disc below the coin tubes, which is rotatably mounted around an axis parallel to the axis of the coin tubes and which has a payout element on the side facing the coin tubes, which is moved along a curved slit in the bottom of the respective coin tube in an angular rotation of the payout disc, in order to capture the respective lowermost coin and to push it out, with an electric drive motor for the payout disc and a control device, which triggers the drive motor such that departing from a rest position, the payout disc is rotated at option about a limited rotational angle up to a final position, and is consecutively turned back into the rest position, wherein the payout disc has an extension in the rotational direction by which the stack of coins rests on the payout element in the final position of the payout disc, characterised in that on t
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: National Rejectors, Inc. GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Wenskus, Torsten Schneider
  • Patent number: 5595535
    Abstract: A device for paying off coins from two adjacent coin collecting tubes. A rotor is located below the tubes, the rotational axis of the rotor extending substantially in parallel to an axis of the tubes. An electric motor drives the rotor to rotate the rotor in either direction of rotation about the rotational axis. A pin-like ejecting element is mounted on the rotor for ejecting a lowest coin in the coin collecting tubes, the element having an idle position which does not engage the lowest coin when the rotor is rotated by the motor and having an ejecting position which engages the lowest coin when the rotor is rotated by the motor. The element is biased in the ejecting position and has a member, the rotor having a first neutral position in which the element is in its ejecting position for discharging the lowest coin and having a second neutral position in which the element is in its idle position. A motor control controls the electric motor to rotate the rotor between the first and second neutral positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: National Rejectors, Inc.
    Inventor: Dieter Wenskus