Abstract: A chute provides a passageway for coins discharged by a slot machine. The passageway extends from a coin discharge opening of the slot machine, over a coin holding tray of the slot machine to the mouth of a cup or a container or any other desired coin collecting unit.

Abstract: A medal distribution system placed in a slot machine island (100) for distributing medals to a plurality of sections in the island. The distribution system comprises a conveyance line (130) being disposed along a row of slot machines for transporting medals in a row direction of the slot machines and a distribution mechanism (200) for extracting medals transported on the conveyance line from the conveyance line. The distribution mechanism (200) has a frame (4) having a plurality of discharge openings being formed on a side face of the conveyance line for extracting medals transported on the conveyance line from the line to the side, a plurality of guide mechanisms (3) being attached to the frame for leading medals on the line to an outside through the discharge openings, and a plurality of supply passages (9) for guiding medals discharged through the discharge openings to target sections.

Abstract: The ending side of one coin conveying endless belt is made higher than the starting side of another adjacent coin conveying endless belt. Between the ending side of the one coin conveying belt and the starting side of the another coin conveying belt, there is provided a coin slide to let the coins, which have reached the ending side of the one coin conveying belt, slide down to the starting side of the another coin conveying belt. By using the coin slide, the transference of coins from the one coin conveying belt to the another coin conveying belt can be ensured.

Abstract: An escalator avoids jamming by preventing the edges of coins 5 from colliding with a path plate 4 in a curved portion 2 of the escalator, and prevents the deformation of the escalator by increasing the strength of the curved portion. The path plate, at the curved portion of the escalator, has a strengthening recess or trough 6 that extends along the direction in which coins pass, such that the upper ends of coins passing through the curved portion do not collide with the path plate.

Abstract: A coin conveyor for successively transporting coins comprises an elongated back plate and a plurality of tapered guide rollers arranged at respective opposite side edge portions of the back plate so as to guide and retain coins transported on the back plate.

Abstract: A guide for a stack of disk-shaped elements, especially sheet metal can lids has an extruded bar formed unitarily with a hollow longitudinal guide segment having a cylindrical inner guide surface enclosing a channel in which the stack is guided and a hollow longitudinal supporting and connecting segment of box-shaped cross section connected to the guide segment and extending along the guide segment to support the guide segment.

Abstract: A modular coin bank permits construction of a variety of different geometric patterns of coin guideways for feeding coins from a receiving member to a coin storage base. The base has at least two coin receiving slots in it, and different geometric shapes of hollow guideway members are releasably interconnected together to form intricate pathways from a single coin receiving slot to the coin entry slots in the base. A coin dropped in the coin receiving slot takes one or another of the various pathways to the base. The various members are made of transparent material to permit observation of the path taken by a coin in its fall from the opening in the coin receiving member to the coin storage base of the bank.

Abstract: A coin handling apparatus contains a standard reference coin and a coin validation circuit that compares an inserted coin or slug with the reference coin as it passes through a chute toward a coin gate. The coin gate deflects the coin into a first path if the inserted coin is undersized and otherwise into a second path. The validation circuit produces a "valid coin" signal that indicates a match between the inserted coin and the reference coin, a "coin present" signal if any coin is being compared with the reference coin, and a photodetector output signal, all of which are applied as inputs to a surveillance circuit that analyzes those three signals and generates an output indicative of whether the inserted coin is being "strung", an output indicative of whether the inserted coin is a slug, and an "alert" signal that indicates whether either the coin is being strung or the inserted coin is a slug.

Abstract: A coin counting device for simultaneously counting a number of coins, all of which are of a selected denomination. The device includes a hopper, an inclined planar member to receive coins from the hopper, members mounted to prevent coins from rolling down the planar member and to prevent coins from sliding down the planar member atop one another. The device also includes an array of pin members to disperse the coins transversely across the surface of the planar member. Gate means are mounted at the bottom edge of the inclined planar member to count coins as they slide passed.

Abstract: A coin switch for coin operated vending machines, especially juke boxes, in which a coin, after it has been successfully passed by a slug rejector, drops through a chute according to its denomination and interrupts a light beam falling on a photo-sensitive device, specifically a photo transistor. Different chutes or passageways are provided for coins of different denomination, and the chutes are so configured as to limit the speed of passage of a coin whereby to insure production of a modulated signal of recognized character of usable width. Such signal is conveniently a D.C. pulse.