US 12,462,631 B2
Coin handling device and a coin handling machine comprising the same
Victor Wallman-Carlsson, Malmö (SE)
Assigned to SCAN COIN AB, Malmö (SE)
Appl. No. 17/783,187
Filed by SCAN COIN AB, Malmö (SE)
PCT Filed Dec. 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/085078
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/116105, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19215021 (EP), filed on Dec. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0008036 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G07D 11/10 (2019.01); G07D 3/12 (2006.01); G07D 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC G07D 11/10 (2019.01) [G07D 3/128 (2013.01); G07D 9/008 (2013.01); G07D 2201/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coin handling device for a coin handling machine comprising:
a coin container configured to hold a mass of coins input thereto, wherein the coin container comprises a coin output arrangement arranged at a lower end thereof, said coin output arrangement being configured to output one or more coins of the mass of coins from the coin container;
wherein the coin output arrangement comprises a rotatable disk located at a bottom of the coin container, wherein the rotatable disk includes one or more coin engaging elements defined on the rotatable disk on a coin facing surface (S) thereof, each of the one or more coin engaging elements being configured to engage an individual coin of the mass of coins to allow said individual coin to be output from the coin container;
wherein the coin handling device further comprises a coin jam preventing arrangement including a coin jam preventing element and a flexible link consisting of one or more elements, said flexible link having a free end and a fixed end, wherein the coin jam preventing element is suspended in a predefined volume of the coin container facing the coin facing surface (S) of the rotatable disk at the free end of the flexible link such that the coin jam preventing element is configured to, as a result from gravity, strive to move towards a predetermined rest position within the predefined volume of the coin container while facing the coin facing surface (S) of the rotatable disk, and such that the coin jam preventing element is configured to, freely, move away from the predetermined rest position around within at least a portion of the predefined volume of the coin container at least at the lower end of the coin container while facing the coin facing surface (S) of the rotatable disk to physically interact with coins of the mass of coins present in the predefined volume of the coin container while striving to move back towards the predetermined rest position so as to thereby prevent coin jams from being formed or to break coin jams in the coin container.