TWIN HOPPER TYPE MEDAL PAY-OUT DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the smooth medal conveyance of a twin hopper type medal pay-out device by surely controlling a normally rotating/inversely rotating disc. SOLUTION: This twin hopper type metal pay-out device is provided with: a disc 150 formed as an almost disc-shaped body arranged along the internal face of the bottom part of a medal sink where medals 100 are accumulated and stored, and equipped with a plurality of medal holding parts (151) around a central axis for guiding/holding the medals accumulated at the upper part to the metal holding part while rotating, and for rotationally conveying the medals clockwise and anti-clockwise in a circumferential direction; two guides butted to the rotationally conveyed medals from the opposite side of the rotating direction for guiding the medals to two exits arranged outside the dimensional direction of the disc; and an actuator (142) for rotating the disc clockwise and anti-clockwise. This twin hopper type medal pay-out device is configured to guide the medals rotationally conveyed clockwise by the first guide to the first exit, and to guide the medals rotationally conveyed anti-clockwise by the second guide to the second exit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT