US 11,721,154 B2
Coin payout apparatus
Robert James Blythin, Shropshire (GB); and Graham Richard Jones, Lancashire (GB)
Assigned to Crane Payment Innovations, Inc., Malvern, PA (US)
Appl. No. 16/621,847
Filed by Crane Payment Innovations, Inc., Malvern, PA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 10, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/055282
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 12, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/075111, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/570,253, filed on Oct. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0090370 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G07D 9/06 (2006.01); G07D 1/02 (2006.01); G07F 5/24 (2006.01)
CPC G07D 9/06 (2013.01) [G07D 1/02 (2013.01); G07F 5/24 (2013.01); G07D 2201/00 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coin payout apparatus comprising:
a coin canister including:
a tube for storing coins, wherein the tube is operable to move within the coin canister to a payout position,
a coin ejector operable to move with the tube when the tube moves within the coin canister and operable to eject a coin from the tube when at the payout position, and
a hopping disc operable to rotate and engage the coin ejector to eject the coin from the tube when the tube and the coin ejector are moved into the payout position over the hopping disc.