Counter Or Indicator Patents (Class 453/58)
  • Patent number: 4923430
    Abstract: A coin payout apparatus in a gaming device. The apparatus includes a coin hopper and a coin guide connected to the hopper for successively delivering coins in edge-to-edge relationship. A rotary arm is pivotally provided at the coin guide and has one end rotatably providing a coin ejector roller. The rotary arm is normally biased toward the coin in the coin guide by a biasing member. A supplemental coin ejecting member is provided at a position confronting the ejector roller. When the maximum diameter portion of the coin passes through the space defined between ejector roller and the supplemental coin ejecting member, the coin is urgedly discharged by the biasing force of the biasing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma
    Inventor: Kouichi Iimura
  • Patent number: 4921463
    Abstract: A coin sorter having a rotatable disc includes a brake mechanism for stopping rotation of the disc in response to a predetermined number of counted coins. The disc is driven through a gear train by an electric motor. The brake mechanism includes an electromagnetic actuating assembly and an armature mounted on the shaft of a motor. Upon energization of the actuating assembly, the armature is drawn into contact with the actuating assembly to provide a braking pressure which halts rotation of the motor and the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Cummins-Allison Corporation
    Inventors: Richard D. Primdahl, Donald E. Raterman
  • Patent number: 4832654
    Abstract: The disk shaped articles or coins to be sorted are conveyed by an entrainment belt on a base plate in conveying direction along a guide rail. Dependent on their diameter, the coins are separated out of the conveying path at respectively one of the sorting stations. The outward transfer ensues by a high-speed sorting belt into whose sphere of influence the coins respective proceed when, as a consequence of their diameter, they are lifted off from the base plate at one side due to their inherent motion in conveying direction, being lifted off by means of a wedge-shaped deflection element. The sorting belt then withdraws the coin to be transferred out of the conveying path under high acceleration, so that it proceeds into a collecting shaft. Such as apparatus functioning with an exclusively mechanical arrangement allows a high sorting speed given a compact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Inventor: Rudole Stoeckli
  • Patent number: 4822318
    Abstract: A coin dispenser for discharging coins stored in a bucket in an automatic vending machine, a money exchanging machine, a coin-operated amusement machine such as a slot machine and the like, comprising a bucket for storing a number of coins therein which has an opening at its bottom, a rotary disk driven by a motor for receiving thereon coins supplied from the bucket through the opening, the rotary disk being adapted to rotate in a substantially horizontal plane and causing the coins placed thereon to slide outwardly with centrifugal force; and a guide wall adapted to guide the coins impelled by centrifugal force along the periphery of the rotary disk and formed with an opening for discharging the coins. The rotary disk comprises a rotary pedestal including a hub fixed to an output shaft of a motor and a plurality of frames projecting in the radial direction from the hub, and a thin disk fixed to the rotary pedestal and adapted to bear the coins thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Universal
    Inventor: Kazuo Okada
  • Patent number: 4798558
    Abstract: Coin dispensing apparatus comprises a rotary disc 25 mounted on a baseplate 22 so as to rotate through coins in a hopper 1. Individual coins pass through holes 25 into coin receptacles between projections 8. The disc is rotated by a motor 4 through a reduction gear 6 and a drive gear 5. Coins 27, 28 in the receptacles are swept into engagement with a spring loaded finger 10 against the spring bias until they become aligned with an outlet 14. The spring bias then urges the coins outwardly through the outlet. The apparatus has particular application to amusement machines with payout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Coin Controls Limited
    Inventor: Robert D. Bellis
  • Patent number: 4741720
    Abstract: Three simply constructed plastic tubes form a time saving coin wrapping system. The first component is a clear plastic base used for holding a stack of similar coins. The second component is a transfer tube made of a resilient split plastic rolled sheet. This transfer tube is inserted down around the coins while in the base. Finally, a third component, a resilient plastic casing which holds a paper coin wrapper, is inserted in the top of the transfer tube. The entire assembly is inverted. The coins can now be removed neatly wrapped in the paper coin wrapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Inventor: Steve P. Vargo
  • Patent number: 4667689
    Abstract: A display device which can mechanically and cumulatively count and display the amount of money for coins. The use of coins having a random relation between nominal values and diameters is possible by the provision of operation members. The operation members include carry operation members, each of the operation members has a corresponding digit display wheel which shows the cumulative amount of money. A coin inlet and guide member has pushing members for pushing a suitable operation member without pushing other operation members. To this end, the operation member other than the carry operation member each has at least one groove with a reception surface to which the pushing member abuts for pushing the operation member and an idle groove which is not actuated by another of the pushing members if it is guided into the idle groove. The idle groove serves as eliminating the problem of the random relation between nominal values and diameters of the coins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Nishihara Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Narahisa Kohashi