US3416291A

US3416291A - Coin counting and wrapping machine

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Publication number: US3416291A
Application number: US591743A
Authority: US
Inventors: Isamu Uchida
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1966-11-03
Filing date: 1966-11-03
Publication date: 1968-12-17
Anticipated expiration: 1985-12-17
Also published as: DE1574168B2; GB1133699A; DE1574168A1; DE1574168C3

Description

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10 Sheetsshat 9 1968 ISAMU UCHIDA COIN COUNTING AND WRAPPING MACHINE 1o Sheets-Sheet '10 Filed NOV- 5, 1966 3,416,291 COIN COUNTING AND WRAPPING MACHINE Isamu Uchida, No. 10-1, 4-chome, Daito, Daito-ku, Tokyo, Japan Filed Nov. 3, 1966, Ser. No. 591,743 12 Claims. (Cl. 53-78) The present invention relates to a coin counting and wrapping machine and more particularly to a device by means of which each mechanism in the machine is set in starting position by a single operation.

Recently, coin counting and wrapping machines have been widely used for counting and wrapping coins in such facilities as, for example, banks and stores, Where coins are handled in a large quantity. In such machines wherein coins are counted in predetermined numbers, e.g. fifty, stacked into a cylindrical shape and wrapped with a wrapping material, odd sums of coins remain in the machine without being wrapped when the machine is stopped. In order to start another cycle of coin counting and wrapping operation, therefore, it is necessary to remove the odd sum of coins from the machine and set each mechanism in starting position.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a device for coin counting and wrapping machines of the type described, by means of which a fraction of coins remaining in the machine is removed therefrom and each mechanism of the machine is set in starting position by a single operation.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a coin counting and wrapping machine, with a cover removed, in which the present invention is embodied;

FIGURE 2 is a plan view of a portion of the coin selecting section and the coin counting section of the machine shown in FIG. 1;

FIGURE 3 is a front view of the coin counting mechamsm;

FIGURE 4 is a side view of an important portion of the coin counting mechanism;

FIGURE 5 is a plan view taken on line VV of FIG. 4 and as viewed at right angles to the view of FIG. 4 so as to show the arrangement in the same direction;

FIGURE 6 is a bottom view taken on line VI-VI of FIG. 4;

FIGURE 7 is a plan view in enlargement of a fragment of the mechanism shown in FIG. 5;

FIGURE 8 is a view taken on line VIIIVIII of FIG. 3;

FIGURE 9 is a view taken on line IXIX of FIG. 3;

FIGURE 10 is a view taken on line XX of FIG. 3; and

FIGURE 11 is a plan view of a coin accumulating cylinder clearing mechanism in the coin wrapping section.

Referring now to FIG. 1, the illustrated coin counting and wrapping machine includes a coin selecting section A, a coin counting section B and a coin wrapping section C, said coin counting section B being arranged adjacent to an exit of the coin selecting section A, said coin Wrapping section C being arranged below the coin counting section B and both said coin counting section B and said coin wrapping section C communicating with each other through a substantially vertical coin passage D.

The coin selecting section A includes a rotary disc 1 and an exit 2 for said coin selecting section A is formed adjacent to the outer periphery of said rotary disc 1. At the exit 2 is disposed a movable adjusting member 3 having an arcuate inner peripheral edge which is arranged United States Patent 0 in adjacent relation to the outer peripheral edge of said disc 1 so as to form a slot therebetween through which coins of smaller diameters are dropped. The width of said slot is adjusted according to the diameter of the coins to be screened and coins of smaller diameters having dropped through said slot are discharged through a discharge opening not shown. The terminal edge of the movable member 3 defines an outlet channel between it and a fixed member of the coin selecting section A, the width of said outlet channel corresponding to the diameter of the coins to be screened. Thus, coins of larger diameters are prevented from passing through said outlet channel. With the arrangement described, when the disc 1 is rotated at an appropriate rotational frequency, the coins supplied on the disc 1 are moved radially outwardly due to centrifugal force to be screened by said slot and outlet channel and coins of a desired kind only are discharged through the outlet channel. Since the coin selecting mechanism of the type described above is already known and does not constitute the essential part of the present invention, no further explanation will be given thereon.

The coin counting section B, which is arranged adjacent to the exit 2 of the coin selecting section A, includes a star-shaped counting wheel 4 with a plurality of arcuate recesses 4a formed peripherally thereof. This wheel is secured to a vertical rotary shaft 5 which is journalled in a fixed portion of the machine. The shaft 5 has a bevel gear 6 fixed to the top end thereof as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, which bevel gear meshes with another bevel gear 7 secured to one end of a horizontal shaft 8. The other end of the horizontal shaft 8 is connected to an integrating counter 9. Fixed to the lower end of the vertical rotary shaft 5 is a gear 10 which is provided with a number of teeth corresponding to the number of recesses 4a formed in the wheel 4. This gear 10 meshes with an idler gear 11 which in turn meshes with a first counting gear 12 free to rotate about a vertical shaft. Also disposed at the exit 2 of the coin selecting section A in adjacent relation to the star-shaped counting wheel 4 is a coin delivery rubber roller 13, which is secured to one end of a horizontal shaft 14. This horizontal shaft 14 is driven from an appropriate power source by way of a pulley mounted on the other end thereof. This roller assembly is supported on a fixed frame of the machine by means of a pivot 16. The roller 13 which is retained in the position shown in FIG. 3 may be displaced upwardly as required by rotating the roller assembly about the pivot 16 clockwise. For this purpose an electromagnetic solenoid (not shown) is provided.

The roller 13 is driven in the position shown in FIG. 3 to deliver coins which are indicated by imaginary lines in FIG. 2. Each coin while being delivered fits in the recess 4a in the wheel 4 and turns said wheel by one tooth. It will be appreciated therefore that the gear 10 and therefore gear 12 are rotated clockwise by the number of teeth corresponding to the number of coins delivered.

The gear 12 is formed with a slot 17 extending from the undersurface to the upper surface thereof and a pin 18 is provided in proximity to said slot, projecting downwardly from the undersurface of said gear 12. A generally L-shaped lever 19 having a hook 19a at one end is pivotally connected to the machine frame by means of a pin 20 in such position that the end extremity of the hook 19a is engageable with the slot 17 in the gear 12 and is biased to rotate clockwise by a spring 21 which is connected to the other end of said lever 19. Due to such arrangement, the end extremity of the hook 19a of lever 19 is urged against the undersurface of the gear 12 by the bias of said spring 21. Between the undersurface of the gear 12 and the hook 19a there is disposed a swing plate 22 in order to prevent wearing of 3 the tip end of the hook 19a due to friction between it and the undersurface of gear 12. This swing plate 22 engages the hook 19a to prevent movement of said hook towards the gear 12 beyond said swing plate. The swing plate 22 has one end secured to the machine frame by a pin 25, with the other end connected to a spring 24 which biases said swing plate to rotate counterclockwise and retains it in the position shown. The swing plate 22 is formed in its mid portion with a bent portion 22a which, when the swing plate 22 is in its normal position as shown in the figure, engages the hook 19a of the lever 19, thereby preventing movement of said lever. It will be understood that, when the swing plate 22 is in the position shown, the hook 19 of the lever 19 does not come in contact with the undersurface of the gear 12 but when the slot 17 reaches a point close to the hook 19a upon rotation of the gear 12, the pin 18 abuts against the bent portion 22a of the lever 22 causing said lever to turn clockwise against the bias of the spring 24. The hook 19a, therefore, is released from engagement with the lever 22 and pressed against the undersurface of the gear 12 under the action of spring 21. When the slot 17 has reached the position of the hook 19a upon further rotation of the gear 12, the hook comes into engagement with the slot 17 and thereby rotation of the gear 12 and therefore of the star-shaped counting wheel 4 is stopped. The engagement of the hook 19:: with the slot 17 is released by means of a solenoid 23. This solenoid 23 is arranged such that its plunger pushes the end of the lever 19 opposite to the hook 19a. Upon excitation of the solenoid, the plunger 23a projects outwardly to cause the lever 19 to swing counterclockwise and thus the hook 19a is released from engagement with the slot 17. As soon as the hook 19a is cleared from the gear 12, the swing plate 22 is returned to its normal position shown in the figure under the action of spring 24 and thus the hook 19a is prevented from contacting the undersurface of the gear 12. As will be appreciated from the foregoing description, the solenoid 23 is required to be excited only for a very short period. In this embodiment, since the gear 12 has fifty teeth, the hook 19:: comes in engagement with the slot 17 every time 50 coins have been counted.

A link 26 has one end connected to the lower portion of the lever 19, with the other end connected to a second link 27 for actuating a microswitch 28. When the lever 19 is rocked for the engagement of the hook 19a with the slot 17, an actuating arm for the microswitch is moved by way of the

links

26 and 27. When the microswitch 28 is actuated upon engagement of the hook 19a with the slot 17, the coin delivery roller 13 is stopped and, at the same time, a wrapping mechanism as will be described later is actuated to Wrap the coins which have already been counted and formed into a stack. Upon completion of the coin wrapping operation, the solenoid 23 is excited, whereupon the plunger is projected outward to the position indicated by the chain lines in FIG. 4, moving the lower end of the lever 19 to the right as viewed in the figure and thereby causing said lever to swing counterclockwise. In this manner, the hook 19a is released from engagement with the slot 17.

A second counting gear 30 is rotatably mounted on a shaft 31 above and overlap-ping the gear 12 and a pin provided on the gear 12, offset from the center thereof, engages the teeth of the gear 30 to advance said gear by one tooth each time the gear 12 rotates. The gear 30 is biased to rotate clockwise as viewed in FIG. 5 by a torsion spring 34 which is arranged to act between a protruding tab 33 fixed to or formed integrally with the shaft 31 and the gear 30, and is retained in a predetermined position by a second protruding tab 35, also fixed to or formed integrally with the shaft 31 of the gear 30 below said gear, and a pin 36 arranged for engagement with said protruding tab 35. The stopping position of the gear 30 may be determined optionally by operating a knob 37 which is provided at the top end of the shaft 31. A bifurcated lever 38 is connected to the machine frame by a pin 39 and the free end of one of the arms 40 thereof is connected to a spring 41, so that the other arm 42 of the lever 38 is elastically urged against the gear 30. The arm 42 of the lever 38 and the gear are arranged such that the arm 42 being in engagement with the gear 30 under the influence of the spring 41 prevents the clockwise rotation of said gear 30 but does not interfere with the counterclockwise rotation of the same.

A fan-shaped cam 43 is rotatably secured by means of a pin 45 for operative engagement with the arm of lever 38 and a generally L-shaped lever 44 is provided for movement integrally with said cam 43. One of the arms 44a of the lever 44 extends above the gear 30, while the other arm 44b thereof extends above the lever 19 to engage with a projection 1% formed in the upper portion of said lever 19 so as to prevent further clockwise rotation of said lever after the swing plate 22 is retracted. The gear 30 carries a pin 46 projecting from the upper surface thereof at a point slightly radially inwardly of its outer peripheral edge. This pin 46 comes in contact with the arm 44a of the lever 44, when the gear 30 is rotated counterclockwise as viewed in FIGS. 5 and 7, to cause the lever 44--cam 45 assembly to rotate clockwise. Upon rotation of the assembly clockwise, the arm 44b of the lever 44 is disengaged from the projection 19b of the lever 19 first, permitting the lever 19 to rotate counterclockwise under the action of the spring 21. The hook 19a is, therefore, pressed against the undersurface of the gear 12 and thereafter the hook 19a is brought in engagement with the slot 17 when the slot is moved to the position of said hook. Here, it is important that the location of the pin 46 is determined such that the arm 44b is released from engagement with the projection 19]) when the plate 22 is moved inwardly by the pin 18. At the same time, the cam 43 acts on the arm 40 of the lever 38 to rotate said lever clockwise. The rotation of the lever 38 results in disengagement of the arm 42 from the teeth of gear 30, so that the gear 30 is rotated clockwise under the action of, the torsion spring 34 until the pin 36 abuts against the tab 35 mounted on the shaft 31.

-"As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, one end of a link 72 is connected to the free end of the arm 44b of L-shaped lever 44, while the other end thereof is connected to one end of the transverse arm of the T -shaped link 74 which is-pivotally secured at 73, the other end 77 of said transverse arm being arranged for abutment against the backside of a movable hollow member within the passage D. A link 75 has one end connected to the end of the leg of link 74 and is urged to rotate clockwise by the bias of a tension spring 76 mounted thereon. The movable member 55, upon movement, causes a counterclockwise swinging movement of the T-shaped link 74 by pushing it at one end but this swinging movement of the link 74 is' not directly concerned with the present invention and therefore will not be described in further detail.

The link 75, as shown in PEG. 5, is formed at the other end with a slot 75a in which a vertical cam shaft is received. The cam shaft 90 has a first cam 91 fixed thereto below the link 75 and a cam follower roller 92 mounted on the link 75 rolls on the cam surface of said cam 91 in contact therewith.

The cam shaft 90 has fixed to the top end thereof a gear 93 which meshes with a gear 94 driven by a motor 95 through a reduction mechanism 96. On the upper surface of the gear 94 is formed a cam 97 having a cam surface 97a and a roller mounted on a cam follower lever 99 is arranged to roll on said cam surface 97a, said cam follower lever 99 being connected to the free end of a resetting lever 98 by means of which the scale of the counter 9 is reset to zero. Such being the arrangement, when the cam 97 is rotated with the roller 100 on the ridge of the cam surface 97a, the lever 99 is rotated counterclockwise along with the shaft 101, thereby resetting the scale of the counter 9 to zero.

The cam shaft also has fixed thereto below the cam 91 a second cam 103 (FIG. 10) for cooperation with a cam follower 104 (FIG. 9) carried on a lever 105 which is in engagement with said cam shaft with the latter extending through a slot 105a formed therein. The lever 105 has one end connected to a link 107 arranged for pivotal movement about a pivot 106 The link 107 car- -ries a roller 108 abutting against the side edge of a lever at a point in proximity of one end thereof, said lever 110 being supported by a pivot 109 and carrying the aforementioned idler gear 11 at the other end. In order to insure positive contact between the lever 110 and the roller 108, a spring 111 is disposed between the lever 105 and lever 110. There is also provided a spring 112 for biasing the lever 105 to the right as viewed in FIGS. 3 and 9. When the roller gets on the ridge of the cam 103 upon rotation of said cam, the lever 105 is pulled to the left against the bias of the spring 112, with the result that the lever 110 is rotated clockwise, releasing the engagement between the gears 10' and 11.

At the bottom end of the cam shaft 90 there is disposed a third cam 113 (FIG. 10), which, upon rotation, operates an arm 116 (FIG. 8) to thereby bring

switches

114 and 115 into their closed positions. The switch 114 is a self-retaining switch for the operating circuit of the motor 95 and when this switch is in the closed position, the motor will not stop its operation even after the pressure is removed from a motor starting button (not shown). On the other hand, the switch 115 is provided to conduct current through the circuit of the wrapping section C in preparation for wrapping operation. The cam 113 carries thereon a roller 117 at a point offset from the axis of rotation thereof, so that when the cam 113 rotates, the roller 117 abuts against an end of a lever 119 pivotally mounted on a pin 118, causing said lever 119 to make a swinging movement.

Also pivotally mounted on the pin 118 is a lever 120 which is connected to the lever 119 by a spring 121 so as to maintain said

levers

119 and 120 in predetermined relative positions. The shaft 12a supporting the gear 12 is extended downward with an egg-shaped cam 122 fixed to the lower end thereof in substantially the same plane as that of the cam 113. The lever 120 is disposed such that an end thereof is engageable with the cam 122, and the side edge of the lever 120 facing the cam 122 is formed with two successive

arcuate notches

123 and 124. When the

levers

119 and 120 are rotated by the roller 117 clockwise as viewed in FIG. 8, the projection defined by said two

arcuate notches

123 and 124 or the corner portion 126 defined by the arcuate notch 123 and an end of the lever 120 is brought into contact with the side face of the cam 122, thus rotating said cam clockwise or counterclockwise to the position indicated by the chain line 122a. Such rotation of the cam 122 takes place under the action of said

portion

125 or 126 even when the cam 122 is not in the position indicated by the solid line in FIG. 8 but is, for example, in the position indicated by the chain line 12% or 1220. When the cam 122 is posi tioned as indicated by the chain line 122a, the arcuate notch 123 of the lever 120 is brought into contact with the shaft 12a on the side opposite to the cam 122 and thereby prevents the subsequent rotation of the cam 122. In this position of the lever 120, the hook 19a of the lever 19 is engageable with the slot 17 in the gear 12.

FIG. 11 shows the clearing mechanism for the coin accumulating cylinder 50. The coin accumulating cylinder is arranged below the passage D and consists of a pair of members 50a and 50b, each of which has a concave surface so as to define a cylindrical coin accumulating hollow 130 when they are put together. Both members 50a and 50b are hingably connected to each other by means of a hinge pin 131, so that they are opened by an appropriate opening mechanism (not shown) from the closed position indicated by the solid lines, provided for removal of the stack of coins having accumulated in said hollow transversely thereof.

A pair of levers, one of which only is designated by the numeral 133 and which are adapted to remove the stack of coins in the coin accumulating cylinder 50, have one end swingably supported by a pin 134 and are [provided at the other end with a pair of gripping pins, one of which only is designated by the numeral 132, for clamping the stack of coins therebetween and transferring it to the coin wrapping mechanism. The coin wrapping mechanism may be of any of the known types, one of which is disclosed, for example, in United States Patent No. 3,037,336.

According to the present invention, a fan-shaped coin support plate 135 is disposed below the coin accumulating hollow 130. This coin support plate 135 is pivotally connected to the bottom of the member 50b at its corner and .a link 136 is disposed below the support plate 135, which link has one end connected to the underside of said support plate, with the other end connected to a movable arm 138 which is free to swing about a pin 137. The arm 138 is connected to a plunger 141 of a solenoid 140 at an intermediate portion thereof by way of a link 139. Thus, it will be understood that, when the solenoid 140 is excited, the plunger 141 is retracted causing the lever 138 to swing clockwise as viewed in FIG. 11, with the result that the support plate 135 is displaced to the position indicated by the chain lines in the figure, permitting the coins in the accumulating hollow 130 to drop to be removed from the machine.

This support plate 135 will not interfere with the coin wrapping operation because of the arrangement such that, during the normal coin wrapping operation, the support plate 135 is cleared away from the bottom of the coin accumulating cylinder 50 by the pins 132 as said pins are brought below the coin accumulating cylinder by the swinging movement of the levers 133.

The coin counting and wrapping machine of the invention operates in the manner described below.

During the normal coin wrapping operation, the passage D is positioned above the position indicated in FIG. 5 by the broken lines and the link 74 rotates counterclockwise from the position shown in the figure. The cam 43 is rotated clockwise by the member 55 by way of the

links

74, 72 and lever 44 as mentioned previously to act on the lever 38 and thus the arm 42 of said lever is released from engagement with the gear 30. Under this condition, the gear 30 is returnable to its original position under the action of the spring 34 immediately after it is rotated by the pin 32 on the gear 12 counterclockwise. Simultaneously, the arm 44b of lever 44 is dislodged from the projection 19b of the lever 19, permitting said lever 19 to be in contact with the undersurface of the gear 12 immediately after the swing plate 22 is moved inwardly.

When the machine is operated under the condition set out above, coins are delivered by the delivery roller 13, while rotating the star-shaped counting wheel 4. Thus, the gear 12 is turned by the number of teeth corresponding to the number of coins having been delivered, through the gears 10 and 11, and completes its one full turn when a predetermined number, which is fifty in this embodiment, of coins have been delivered. The gear 12 starts to be rotated from a point at which the slot 17 is in engagement with the hook 19a. and, when the gear 12 has made one full turn, the slot 17 is again brought to a point where it is engageable with the hook 19a. The swing plate 22 which prevents the hook 19a from contacting the gear 12 is retracted immediately before the slot 17 is brought to the engaging point, so that the rotation of the gear 12 is stopped by the hook 19a when the slot 17 has reached the aforementioned engaging point.

The coins which have been delivered during this coin counting process are sent through the passage D to the coin wrapping section C where they are stacked in the coin accumulating cylinder. Upon engagement of the hook 190! with the slot, 17 the microswitch 28 is closed by the lever 19, whereupon the wrapping machine is set in operation, removing the stack of coins from the coin accumulating cylinder and wrapping the same with a wrapping paper. The wrapping machine may be of any conventional type, e.g. of the type disclosed by United States Patent No. 3,037,336. It should be noted, however, that the present invention is not restricted to the use of only such wrapping machine but mechanisms of other types may also be employed.

Coincidently with the closure of the microswitch 28, the solenoid for the delivery roller 13 is excited, whereupon said roller is lifted from its operative position and the delivery of coins is stopped.

When the coin wrapping process has proceeded to a certain degree or has been completed, the solenoid 23 is excited causing the plunger 23a: to project outwardly to the position indicated by the chain lines in FIG. 4. As a result, the hook 19a is released from engagement with the slot 17 and at the same time the roller 13 is returned to its operative position, commencing another cycle of the coin counting process.

Supposing now that the machine has stopped its operation with an odd sum of coins (in a number less than in this embodiment) in the coin accumulating cylinder 50, it is necessary to rid said cylinder of the coins and also to set all mechanisms in their starting positions respectively before another cycle of operation is started.

According to the present invention, this can be achieved merely by pressing a push-button switch (not shown). Namely, when the push-button switch is pressed, the circuit of the motor 95 is closed to put said motor into operation. The driving force of the motor 95 is transmitted to the cam shaft through the

gears

94 and 93. The rotation of the cam shaft 90 causes the cam 113 to rotate, bringing the switch 114 into the closed position. Thereafter, the motor 95 continues its operation even after the pressure is removed from the push-button switch.

Upon rotation of the gear 94 and therefore the cam 97, the roller rides on the ridge of the cam surface 970 causing a rocking motion of the lever 98 and thereby the scale of the counter is set to zero. Simultaneously the cam shaft 90 is rotated through the gear 93. Therefore, the link 75 is pushed by the cam 91 to the right as viewed in FIG. 5, causing the link 74 to rotate counterclockwise about the pin 73. This movement of the link 74 is transmitted to the L-shaped lever 44 through the link 72 cansing it to rotate clockwise. As a result, the arm 44b of lever 44 is disengaged from the projection 19b of lever 19 and thus the hook 19b of lever 19 is brought into contact with the undersurface of the gear 12 soon after said hook is retracted from the plate 22.

By the rotation of the shaft 90, the second cam 103 is rotated to pull the lever 105 to the left as viewed in FIG. 9. This movement of the lever 105 releases the lever to rotate clockwise and thereby the engagement between the gears 10 and 11 is terminated. In this case, since the engagement of the arm 42 of lever 38 with the gear 30 is released by the aforementioned clockwise rotation of the lever 44, the disengagement of the gear 10 from the gear 11 sets the gear 12 free to rotate either clockwise or counterclockwise.

At the same time, the

levers

119 and 120 are moved clockwise by the roller 117 on the cam 113, whereupon the portions and 126 of the lever 120 are brought in contact with the cam 122, causing said cam to rotate to the position shown by the chain line 122a in FIG. 8. In this position of the cam 122, the slot 17 in the gear 12 is engageable with the hook 190 of the lever 19, namely the gear 12 is placed in the starting position. When the gear 94 has completed one full turn, the circuit connected to the motor 95 is broken.

On the other hand, when the push-button switch is pressed as mentioned previously, the circuit including the solenoid 140 is closed, whereupon the plunger 141 is retracted causing the coin support plate 135 to move away from below the coin accumulating hollow of the coin accumulating cylinder 50 to the position indicated by the chain lines in FIG. 11 and thus the odd sum of coins in said acumulating hollow 130 drops down to be moved to the outside of the machine. In the manner described, all sections of the machine are set in their starting positions respectively.

The gear 39 and the mechanism related thereto, shown in FIG. 5, will not be detailed herein since they are not directly concerned with the present invention.

The details of the structure may be modified substantially without departing from the spirit of the invention and exclusive use of such modifications as come within the scope of appended claims is contemp ated.

What is claimed is:

1. Apparatus comprising coin counting means, coin wrapping means, said coin counting means including control means to count coins delivered from said coin counting means to said coin wrapping means and to interrupt the delivery of coins when a predetermined number of coins have been delivered, said coin wrapping means in cluding a coin accumulating cylinder for receiving coins from said coin counting means and accumulating coins as a stack therein and a coin wrapping mechanism for removing said stack of coins from said coin accumulating cylinder and wrapping the stack with a wrapping material, and further control means to reset said coin counting means and simultaneously discharge any partial stack of coins remaining in said coin accumulating cylinder.

2. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said wrapping means comprises a displaceable coin support plate below said cylinder to retain coins therein and said contronl means includes a solenoid and a linkage means between said solenoid and plate whereby the solenoid controls and displacement of said plate and thereby the discharge of coins from the cylinder.

3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the counting means includes a gear provided with an opening, means to rotate said gear in proportion to the number of coins delivered to said cylinder, registration means to register with said opening at the beginning and ending of the formation of a stack of said predetermined number of coins and, in registration, to activate the control means of said counting means and wherein said further control means includes manually actuatable supplemental control means including displacement means to rotate said gear to bring said opening into registration with said registration means to actuate the control means of said counting means.

4. Apparatus as claimed in claim 3 wherein the counting means includes a gear arrangement to drive said gear, means to drive said gear arrangement in proportion to said delivery of coins and support means pivotally supporting said arrangement for selective engagement with said gear and wherein said manually actuatable means includes displacement means to displace said support means to disengage the gear arrangement and gear.

5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 3 comprising zeroizable intergrating counter means, said manually actuatable control means including zeroizing means coupled to and adapted to zeroize said inegrating counter means when operated to register said opening and registration means.

6. Apparatus as claimed in claim 5 wherein the counting means includes a gear arrangement to drive said gear, means to drive said gear arrangement in proportion to said delivery of coins, and support means pivotally supporting said arrangement for selective engagement with said gear and wherein said manually actuatable means includes displacement means to displace said support means to disengage the gear arrangement and gear.

7. Apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein said wrapping means comprises a displaceable coin support plate below said cylinder to retain coins therein and said control means includes a solenoid and a linkage means between said solenoid and plate whereby the solenoid controls the displacement of said plate and thereby the discharge of coins from the cylinder, said apparatus comprising means for the simultaneous operation of said solenoid and manually actuatable control means.

8. Apparatus as claimed in claim 7 wherein said manually actuatable control means includes a motor and a shaft driven by said motor and said displacement and zeroizing means include cams on said shaft.

9. Apparatus as claimed in claim 8 wherein said zeroizing means includes a cam follower and wherein the corresponding cam includes an axially disposed ridge displacing said follower, said zeroizing means including a linkage between said follower and integrating counter means.

10. Apparatus as claimed in claim 9 wherein the first said displacement means includes a further egg-shaped cam coupled to said gear to rotate the latter, a shaft, two levers mounted on said shaft for concomitant pivotal movement, one of said two levers being engaged by the first said cam of the first said displacement means, the other of said levers including a cam-shaped end to engage and rotate said egg-shaped cam.

11. Apparatus as claimed in claim 10 wherein the second said displacement means includes a lever displaced by the corresponding cam, spring means coupling the latter said lever to said support means, and means intermediate sai d lever and support means to transfer displacement of said lever to said support means.

12. Apparatus as claimed in claim 11 comprising a further cam on the shaft driven by said motor, a further lever operated by said further cam and a linkage system coupling the latter said lever to said counting means for orientation of the latter to a starting position.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 7/1958 Schoenwolf 5378 X 3/1961 Buchholz et a1. 1338 U.S. Cl. X.R. 133-8

Claims

1. APPARATUS COMPRISING COIN COUNTING MEANS, COIN WRAPING MEANS, SAID COIN COUNTING MEANS INCLUDING CONTROL MEANS TO COUNT COINS DELIVERED FROM SAID COIN COUNTING MEANS TO SAID COIN WRAPPING MEANS AND TO INTERRUPT THE DELIVERY OF COINS WHEN A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF COINS HAVE BEEN DELIVERED, SAID COIN WRAPPING MEANS INCLUDING A COIN ACCUMULATING CYLINDER FOR RECEIVING COINS FROM SAID COIN COUNTING MEANS AND ACCUMULATING COINS AS A STACK THEREIN AND A COIN WRAPPING MECHANISM FOR REMOVING SAID STACK OF COINS FROM SAID COIN ACCUMULATING CYLINDER AND WRAPPING THE STACK WITH A WRAPPING MATERIAL, AND FURTHER CONTROL MEANS TO RESET SAID COUN COUNTING MEANS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY DISCHARGE ANY PARTIAL STACK OF COINS REMAINING IN SAID COIN ACCUMULATING CYLINDER.