| 摘要 |
An improved automatic toll receiving apparatus of the throwing-in type installed so as to allow a driver sitting in an automotive vehicle to pay a specified rate of toll, which apparatus includes a large hopper into which the driver can easily throw coins, a determining mechanism for determining whether the received coins are true coins or false coins and discriminating the kind of coins, a counting unit for counting a value of the coins which are determined as true coins, a returning unit for returning to the driver the coins which are determined as false coins, a temporary coin holder for temporarily holding the coins at shortest for a period of time until a processing for the preceding vehicle is completed, so as to allow him to visually confirm the coins through a transparent side wall of the temporary coin holder by the driver while they are arranged side by side, and an actuator for rotating the partition of the temporary coil holder at the bottom thereof 45 degrees as to enable a processing for the next vehicle when it is confirmed by the counting unit that a value of the received coins matches with a specified rate of toll. By rotating the partition in that way, the coins in the temporary coin holder are displaced to another temporary coin holder and then they are discharged from the latter into a safe when a processing for the preceding vehicle is completed, the temporary coin holder being inclined downward and sideward so as to allow the coins to be slidably displaced therein. |
